RIMO - Silent Hill Historical Society
Introduction
Silent Hill Historical Society is an ARG associated with the Silent Hill franchise. Over the course of a few weeks, you will mainly be using two platforms: their website (silenthill-historicalsociety.com) and their mailing system (d4-mail.com).
Lore
1990s - Walter Sullivan commited several murders across Silent Hill
2000s - Sullivan was eventually arrested, and then committed suicide in his cell
2008(?) - At some point in Oliver King's life, he began to admire Walter Sullivan. With that admiration in mind, he moved to Silent Hill to commit a string of murders. He carefully selected his victims based on their first and last name (the name initials of each victims were supposed to spell out "WALTERISHERE"), but accidentally murdered the wrong person (Now spelling out "WALTERISHEMP"). Oliver King planned on leaving a tourist brochure on his final crime scene, but lost it in the process. You found that very same brochure and decided to keep it.
2017~2024 - Felix figured out that William is actually an alias and that he may have a connection to the recent murders. After Felix confronted William about it, he was found dead near an apartment building.
Now - You contacted Ruby about the tourist brochure. William found out that you're the one with the brochure, and used several fake accounts to force you to get rid of it. This failed once Ruby decided to investigate each accounts. William was close to finding and murdering both you and Ruby, but both successfully evaded his capture. Both you and Ruby survived and William gets arrested. You later discover that William's actual name is Oliver King. He later confessed his murder of Felix to the police.
D4-Mail
D4-Mail is a platform where people can interact with fictional users through a mailing system. The entirety of the D4-Mail plotline must be completed in order to uncover the remaining hidden pages. This page will provide a step-by-step guide on how to complete each chapters.Prerequisites
To start the D4-Mail storyline, go back to the registration page from #1. Make sure the "Type of artifact" is set to "Tourist brochure". As for the rest of the form, it doesn't matter what info you put in. Check the agreement and submit. You'll be met with a page with a D4-Mail link attached at the bottom.
Material Code
Ruby will ask you for the material code of the pamphlet, which can be found on the pamphlet page (MH-391475). As of September 26, 2024, this code has been stripped away from the pamphlet image.
Reply to her email with the code and wait for a response.
Ruby replies again, asking you to enter your address so she can send you a return envelope. You do not have to enter your actual address on the form.
Another reply is sent to you if you successfully submitted your address.
Anonymous Threat
~24 hours later, an anonymous user demands that you to destroy the pamphlet for your own safety.
Couple minutes after reading the email, Detective Walker Clark asks you to not follow any of the instructions from the previous email.
William lets you know that he'll have a religious expert get in touch with you.
Donald Brown (the religious expert) instructs you to perform a cleansing ritual by getting rid of any pictures of the pamphlet.
William comes back again, reminding you to perform the ritual and to send the pamphlet as soon as the envelope arrives.
Ruby
~24 hours after completing the previous chapter, Ruby sends you an email. She asks you to send Walker's email address to her.
If you reply with Walker's address, she will also ask you to send Donald's email address to her.
Reply with the address and wait for her to respond.
William is Here
~24 hours after completing the previous step, Ruby will come back to tell you that both Walker and Donald are fake identities managed by William. She wants you to check out a link for any potential clues.
You'll then get several emails from William and Ruby.
Ruby asks you to login to the admin page and delete any data before William gets to it. The issue is that Ruby's account is locked, and only Felix's old account remains open. She tells you his ID should follow the same format as Ruby's (RubyS2021), and the password is the name of something he desires the most.
For the ID, "Ruby" is her first name and "S" is the first letter of her last name. As for "2021", that is the year when she first joined the Silent Hill Historical Society. Following this format, Felix's ID should be "FelixC2017". As for the password, the one thing Felix desired the most is Ruby.
Once you login to the admin page, click on the "Delete data" button and confirm.
Few minutes later, Ruby will let you know that you successfully deleted your user data from the website.
RAY from D4KK
~48 hours after completing the previous chapter, you'll get two emails. The first email is from Ruby, in which she shares you a Youtube video.
The second email is from RAY, with a link included in the message. Clicking on the link laeds you to a page locked behind a password.
The page asks you to enter the "last word" into the password form. The "last word" is actually referring to a phrase in Ruby's final email ("I'm here for the pizza place"). The password is punctuation-sensitive so it's best to copy-paste the phrase (including the quotation marks) off the email.