Issue 1 Blueprint

 I wasn't going to post this because I didn't want to Break The Magic or whatever, but let's be real, this isn't the ARG I'd dreamed this would be, this is just a plain ol' linear narrative.

I love fountain pen despite being terrible at using it, or perhaps because I'm terrible at using it. I needed a visual guide for what I needed to draw so I whipped up this rough draft in InDesign and thought it was mildly amusing, so I'm sharing it here.

gully issue 1 guide

The end product will inevitably vary from this significantly. It will not, for example, be bookended with an out-of-context photo of Tony Hawk.

The Gully area code abbreviations

 The following codes appear to denote the locations where specific anomalies were found. Codes appear to apply to individuals, not species. We don't know if The Gully has a specific system for keeping track of species with multiple individuals.

The naming convention appears to be "AREAnumber", for example BRAM21

BELF - Belfountain

BOLT - Bolton

BRAM - Brampton

CHEL - Cheltenham

EAST - Caledon East

ETOB - Etobicoke

GORG - Georgetown

MONO - Mono Mills

NOBL - Nobleton

ORNG - Orangeville

PALG - Palgrave

SHOM - Schomberg

And so it begins

 Welcome to Caledon. It's a hell of a place.