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FOREVER:NEON // TRAINING SEASON 2026

Training Operations

Book One training is public rehearsal, accessibility testing, faction-routing verification, puzzle QA, and systems hardening before the canonical live ARG begins in December 2026.

LOOSH REWARD FREEZE ACTIVE. Training runs do not mint LOOSH, issue store discounts, raise merchandise tiers, reserve later rewards, or count as canonical December mission completion.
TRAINING NETWORK ONLINE // 18 MISSIONS
Core Training Roster // Existing Safe Builds

Systems Training

These six operations remain unchanged and continue to use isolated test, pre-beta, or training namespaces.

TRAINING BRAVO // ROUTING

Missing Route

LOCAL TRAINING RECORD // NO LOOSH

Recover the omitted Vril switchboard extension from diagnostic frames and the EM-50A calibration card.

Begin Training
INSTRUMENT TRAINING // FREQUENCY

Ghost Carrier

CAPABILITY REHEARSAL // NO LOOSH

Calibrate the Audio and Frequency Forensics suite, isolate the hidden WXPO carrier, and decode its pulse designation.

Begin Training
TRAINING 03 // HIDDEN CARRIER

Hidden Carrier

TEST NAMESPACE // NO CANONICAL PROGRESS

Reconstruct Sid Kidd's 40 MHz receiver event and recover the structured carrier beneath the noise.

Begin Training
TRAINING 08 // SIGILTRY

Sigiltry

SIMULATION ROUTE // LOOSH RPC DISABLED

Test six marshmallow materials, build the graphite ward, and identify the provenance break.

Begin Training
TRAINING 13 // MACHINE LEXICON

Machine Lexicon

TEST NAMESPACE // NO LOOSH

Classify the Bessemer machine network and resolve the unclassifiable station pulse.

Begin Training
TRAINING ALPHA // DEAD AIR

Dead Air at WXPO

PRE-BETA MODE // REWARDS OFF

Recover three evidence channels, reconstruct the broadcast incident, and file a training report.

Begin Training
BOOK ONE // MISSION LAB // WAVE 1

Five Puzzle Trials

First-wave manuscript puzzles. Planned LIVE rewards, Archive writes, reader glitches, and December identifiers remain disabled.

B1-M01 // STATIC

Sleep Is a Social Construct

ACROSTIC // TRAIN_2026_B1_M01

Read Sid's chalkboard observations as one object and recover the hidden word.

Enter Mission Lab
B1-M03 // STATIC

Three-Seventeen

TIME WINDOW // READING REDACTED

Catch Alex's clock-radio frame at 03:17 while protected frequency digits remain absent.

Enter Mission Lab
B1-M04 // SIGNAL

The Grandmother Network

11-TAPE REBUS INDEX

Solve Sarah Kidd's VHS index and extract the phrase from the answer initials.

Enter Mission Lab
B1-M07 // SIGNAL

Walter's Desk

PIGPEN-STYLE CIPHER

Decode the margin glyphs in Walter Kidd's notebooks without adding lodge biography to canon.

Enter Mission Lab
B1-M09 // CARRIER

Whodini's Angles

BASE-7 CHROMATIC ALPHABET + ROT13

Turn paired shadow states into base-7 letters and resolve the second layer.

Enter Mission Lab
BOOK ONE // MISSION LAB // WAVE 2

Four Deeper Trials

Wave 2 moves into audio decoding, transliteration, custom geometry, and metadata inspection.

B1-M05 // SIGNAL

Earl's Last Transmission

MORSE + 23-POSITION SHIFT PAD

Decode Earl's browser-generated Morse burst, then apply the matching callbook corrections.

Enter Mission Lab
B1-M06 // SIGNAL

Dushevniki

CYRILLIC + INDEX EXTRACTION

Remove the recipe intruders, transliterate Zoya's tea lines, and extract the indexed message.

Enter Mission Lab
B1-M08 // CARRIER

Marshmallow Geometry

BASE-5 SHAPE ALPHABET

Use the five period shapes as base-5 digits and decode the clockwise spokes without exposing the protected reading.

Enter Mission Lab
B1-M10 // CARRIER

Sarah's Box

JIGSAW + METADATA

Reassemble Sarah's contact print, then inspect the released original training evidence metadata.

Enter Mission Lab
BOOK ONE // MISSION LAB // WAVE 3 + MERIDIAN

Showcase Trials

These missions test external-tool ARG mechanics: real generated spectrogram WAVs, lossless LSB steganography, cross-faction split keys, and Sid Kidd's canonical Angle Script.

B1-M11 // SUBSTRATE

The Comedy Education

GENERATED WAV + SPECTROGRAM TEXT

Generate six original carrier files, inspect them in a spectrogram viewer, and reconstruct Rivets' comedy lesson.

Enter Mission Lab
B1-M12 // SUBSTRATE

Mrs. Pruitt's Darkroom

LOSSLESS PNG + RED-CHANNEL LSB

Generate six contact prints, extract their real LSB payloads, and restore the chemical sequence.

Enter Mission Lab
B1-M13 // MERIDIAN

The Firmament Question

SPLIT KEY + BOOK CIPHER + ANGLE SCRIPT

Reconcile simulated faction halves and decode an actual Angle Script training transmission. The canonical December payload remains withheld.

Enter Meridian Rehearsal
B1-M02 remains reserved: Kidd Repair's phone mission will not be finalized until the real November phone line exists. December separation: LIVE missions use new operation keys, event keys, state namespaces, payloads, and a separate season label. The current roster is six core exercises plus twelve Mission Lab trials.