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Manuscript 1: Chapter 5. If you take the hidden numbers and letters and plug them into imgur.com/a/ you get a link to this page. I intentionally only gave the last section of the URL expecting people to try plugging it in once they saw that all pages were on Imgur.
Manuscript 2: Chapter 6. This was broken up into pieces and hidden in the paragraphs where Max sees the guy in the deer mask. Like with Page 1, if you plug those letters and numbers into the url for imgur it leads you to it.
Manuscript 3: Chapter 7. This one was a bit mean. Some of the spaces in between words held the letters that when put together form the rest of the URL. Starts once Chloe and Max get back to the cabin.
Manuscript 4 and Manuscript 5: Chapter 8. Hey! Our first Double page chapter! Manuscript 4 was hiding in (mostly) plain sight. When Max was sneaking around the clinic getting pictures she overheard some FBC guys talking. The weird numbers and letters are actually the end of the URL! As for Page 5, I hope you all found it! It was a direct link!
Manuscript 6: Chapter 9. Notice how some of the words when Mulligan and Thornton are interrogating Max and Chloe seem oddly spaced? That's where the URL parts are hidden! If you go from the first one down they form the link.
Manuscript 7: Chapter 10. I say...is that question mark underlined? That it is! This was a direct link one. I wasn't sure how best to hide it. I got better as I went.
Manuscript 8: Chapter 11. Ah yes. When everything started going wrong. Notice the underlined words and numbers? That's the clue! Plug them in in order and you get your page!
Manuscript 9: Chapter 12. Fairly simple one. At the end of some paragraphs after Max wakes up from the Nexus are hidden letters and numbers. Plug them in in order and there ya go.
Manuscript 10: Chapter 13. Ah Chapter 13. nothing Bad ever happens in a books 13th chapter! Much like with number 8, letters were underlined, but since a number was needed I also underlined 2 elipses as a hint that that number was needed. Thing is...if you just plugged that in it wouldn't work. Because at the end was the words "The Dark Ocean Awaits". Thing is, it was written backwards. So you had to take those found letters and do them in REVERSE order to get your link. Sneaky!
Manuscript 11: Chapter 14. This one was when I really started to try and branch out in hiding these. Notice my first comment on this chapter? B=2? Well hidden throughout when Chloe wakes up in Rose's trailer are a letter and a set of numbers. Using that b=2 as the cipher you get the numbers to plug in for the URL on this one!
Manuscript 12: Chapter 15. Ah yes. The Dark Place. Such a lovely time filled with Lovely art! But didn't one of the links to the art seem...odd to you? If so congrats! That's the hidden page! The first 'R' in Figure with Meat actually linked to the page apart from the picture.
Manuscript 13: Chapter 16. The first portent of things to come! Easy enough to find. Was a direct link.
Manuscript 14: Chapter 17. Well that went swimingly! Weird little comment I made thought right? Take two steps back and gaze into darkness? Well if you notice there are underlined letters and hidden numbers in this chapter! If you use a shift 2 cipher and take two steps BACK from what the letter underlined is, you get the URL code!
Manuscript 15: Chapter 18. Eh couldn't think how to hide this one so just gave a direct link.
Manuscript 16: Chapter 19. Boy was that dark! Much like with the first page I just put the last part of the URL hidden at the end of the chapter.
Manuscript 17: Chapter 20. Ah. Well. This is...awkward. I actually forgot to put this Page in. So there really is no way to find it. My bad all. Ummmm...well some trivia answered, the game I took the Dark Presence voicelines from is The Darkness. It's a FPS based of the comic of the same name and is a REALLY fun time if you can find a way to play it. Highly recommend!
Manuscript 18: Chapter 21. Went with a rather simple one on this one. The period at the end of the chapter is a direct link to the page.
Manuscript 19: Chapter 22. Another one of those weird comments! Actually, it's the key to the cipher. I went with a standard Shift 4 cipher. If you take the underlined letters and move them four spaces back, you get the URL.
Manuscript 20: Chapter 23. I still have nightmares writing and editing this one. So in this BEHEMOTH of a chapter (for me at least), I just broke up the URL into parts and hid them at the end of sentences through out. Not super creative but hey! I was tired. Cut me some slack.
Manuscript 21: Chapter 24. This one was a bit more simple. In between certain paragraphs I hid two parts of the URL. String it all together to get the full thing.
Manuscript 22: Chapter 25. This one was even easier! Another direct link
Manuscript 23: Chapter 26. This one? This one was evil though. At various points I hid math equations that replaced the numbers with letters. If you put the numbers BACK in and matched the answer with the alphabet that was the letter for the URL. This one was fun but I think my most evil.
Manuscript 24: Chapter 27. Ah yes, the book Cipher. Pretty straight forward. Like I said in the comment if you use a copy of Steph's Story and matched the Page, Paragraph, Sentence and Word you got the URL. BTW, Book ciphers are REALLY HARD to make.
Manuscript 25: Chapter 28. This one was another direct link and another Portent. Fun fact! In the edited version I actually changed the page to match! Check it out!
Manuscript 26: Chapter 29. Fairly simple. Hidden in the middle of the chapter is the URL. I went a little easy with this one.
Manuscript 27: Chapter 30. Again, a relatively simple one. Just plug the underlined letters into the URL and there it is.
Manuscript 28: Chapter 31. This one is split into two parts and hidden throughout the chapter much like Page 2. Should be easy to find.
Manuscript 29: Chapter 32. So this one was hidden a little weirdly. Next to some paragraphs are stars. Hidden at the END of those paragraphs is a number. If you count the EXACT number of characters, INCLUDING spaces and special characters, you will land on a letter and that's the part of the URL. Once you find all of them in order they will reveal the URL.
Manuscript 30 and Manuscript 31: Chapter 33. Another double hidden one! The first is a direct link. Easy to find. The other one though? That's a little more hidden. A number of letters were underlined with a couple of hidden numbers. However, much like with Page 10, you have to plug them in in reverse. The hidden message says 'Back to the beginning' as a clue.
Manuscript 32: Chapter 34. Nearing the end! Oh hey! Another repeat that came WAY to quickly! This is the same as page 19. Stars and hidden numbers and all. Going to be honest...I was running out of ways to hide these.
Manuscript 33: Chapter 35. Only to come roaring back with a weird one! hidden in the chapter was a number of riddles that gave the URL. Less than one? 0. Iron on the table? The would be FE on the periodic table! Three letter type of music? Rap! And the 19th of 26? That would be S! And thus is the URL!
Manuscript 34: Chapter 36. And this one is a direct link! One last easy one!
Manuscript 35: Chapter 37. And back to the easy ones! This is just like with page 1! The URL is hidden at the end!
Manuscript 36: Chapter 38. So...originally I wasn't going to have a page on this chapter. But I decided to include one anyways. This was a direct link one.
Manuscript 37: Chapter 39. And so...we come to the end. The final page. Again, I did a direct link for this. Hope you enjoyed these as much as I enjoyed making them!