Welcome to Periscope Island, writ keepers and guests!

You are about to enter a storyline of our creation, and we are super excited to share this with you all! However, as you might tell on the release date (August 13th), it's clear that the storyline and the digital content are not fully complete. Furthermore, "Periscope Island" is restricted to only writ keepers and sailors at this time.

This is intentional. The first week is our "early access" phase, where we're hoping to iron out as many wrinkles as possible. We have tons more content that will be released, but in the meantime we're working hard to provide an exciting experience for you all. Once we release the first major update, Periscope Island's transit system will be able to accept all the exciting new faces.

Some of you all have noticed that we're taking a multi-media approach to this project—and yes, we're excited by it! However, all of this work takes time. And we're a small team working behind the scenes to create something bigger than anything we've attempted before. To sum it up in a few words: we're working hard, but the work is even harder.

So please, please, please bear with us as we work to bring this world into fruition.

We apologize if this letter takes you out of the immersion, but it's important to have open communication with our investigators, especially with the sheer scale of this project. ARGs are, quite suprisingly, expensive workloads.

We're looking forward to delving into the depths of the thetaverse with you.

- None The Wiser, the Architects of Thetaverse 827, Universe 828.