RazHaunt

RazHaunt, also known as T-00, was a community puzzlehunt-slash-performance event held by Witscord during September of 2024 as a celebration of both Raz's birthday and his return to the server. The event consisted of five acts, flanked by a prologue, finale, and brief epilogue, all presented over the span of a week. The main coordinators included unsus and sus.

Overview and Themes

The event as a whole was based heavily off of Lorelei and the Laser Eyes. Further inspiration was taken from T-22 and HOUSE; in particular, 5×5 grids were the central visual motif of both the narrative and the puzzles themselves. Each act revolved around a different Witscorder suddenly becoming possessed by one such grid, as indicated by their pfp changing—similar to the Mazemen from Lorelei (whose heads are replaced with floating square quadrants of a labyrinth design). More generally, the visual identity of the project was largely black and white, reflecting the styles of both, with bright carmine as an occasional accent color just like in Lorelei. Throughout the event, a disembodied voice (played by concerned_third_party, referentially dubbed The Minotaur) speaks to Raz, using several modified quotes from the game's lore in an animated typeface similar to the one used during cutscenes. Crude pixelation is also used throughout, possibly as another reference to retro graphics... but also possibly just because sus likes to do that.

Trivia

In the original After Effects file for the finale sequence, the fractal noise animations comprising the backgrounds have the randomization seeds of 1847, 22, 369, 44, and 5.

The poem read in the ritual video is 16 lines long; Raz's favorite number.

Raz once had the revelation that the grid demons ought to be called "rasters", complimenting it as a very clever implied joke. Sus to this day has no idea what he meant by this.

Similarly, Raz expressed awe that the T-00 logo exactly matched the struck-circle symbols for "Salt" (ⴱ) and "Sun" (ⵀ) he envisioned in a brief spiritual moment about a year prior, with the initial frame of the ritual also displaying the third and final symbol of "Moon" (ⵁ). Although he had discussed these symbols publicly, any relation is entirely coincidental.

(However, the eye formed in the center of the logo was, in fact, an intentional Lorelei reference.)

when	where	what	who
12	smeta	intro vid	etc
12	casual	act I	jony (fullest)
13	cas2	act II	staz (unsus)
14	puz et al	act III	octa (sus)
15	botspam	act IV	lav (joe)
16	purg	act V	jxck (non)
17		jack shit babey!!!
18	smeta	FINALE	etc
19	smeta/cas	epilogue	joe/sus(unsus)