1: Participant Observation

Episode Description
Mike Walters discovers a mysterious online game called WOE.BEGONE. The first challenge isn't even that hard. It will probably stay that way, right?

Plot
While lurking on Reddit, Mike Walters comes across a post about a new ARG called WOE.BEGONE. Interested, he signs up for the game just to see how it works. After following instructions he wakes up to multiple messages explaining his first challenge.

As instructed in the text messages, Mike calls his ex-boyfriend John to tell him about the worst thing he's ever done to him and that he doesn't forgive him. Mike recounts to John how he had left for a hockey game and left Mike alone while Mike was desperately trying to find out the bad news of what exactly had happened to Matt, his best friend who had just died in a car accident. After recounting these events and a subsequent emotional breakdown, Mike sends a recording of the phone call to WOE.BEGONE.

After waking up the next day, Mike makes biscuits and gravy, and realizes all the things he said to John didn't happen. Matt is still alive and lives in Vancouver. Apparently, doing WOE.BEGONE's first challenge has somehow made it so Matt never died. Mike is now afraid that if he loses the game everything might reset.

Trivia
In the initial release of this episode Mike doesn't make biscuits and gravy.

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