Having Trouble Remembering A Game/Event

This was about a year ago, when I found this online. It was an event being hosted by a band and an online group, where it was similar to live-action role playing.

In the event, people are seeing this strange phenomenon in the sky, of what looks to be the Hand of God reaching down. Reports are coming in everywhere, but many people think that the water system in America has been drugged, and people are hallucinating.

Well, finally, a video appears online, and it shows the Hand of God reaching down. Afterwords, America becomes a theocratic state, censoring much, and more and more videos appear of this same hand.

People who wanted to get involved were part of this online group that went against the censorship, and you were fighting the theocratic government.

I can't remember the name, but I'm hoping somebody on here might help.

People who wanted to get involved were part of this online group that went against the censorship, and you were fighting the theocratic government.

That part of the game sounds similar to anonymous.
That's definitely an interesting sounding game! What exactly was the primary goal/objective? I wanna play it now lol

It's over now, but it wasn't so much a game, as it was this event that you went online; there were certain websites that were involved, and you could download files, I believe.

The one aspect of the event was that in the new theocratic government, a new department of morality was invented.

Also, a band had gotten involved with making some of the music for the project/event.

HAH, FOUND IT!

It's an alternate-reality game called Year Zero: Yero Zero (Game)

The story takes place in the United States in the year 2022, which has been termed "Year 0", by the American government, being the year that America was reborn. The U.S. had suffered several major terrorist attacks, apparently by Islamic fundamentalists, including attacks on Los Angeles and Seattle.

In response, the government granted itself emergency powers and seized absolute control on the country. The U.S. government is now a Christian fundamentalist theocracy, maintaining control of the populace through institutions like the Bureau of Morality and the First Evangelical Church of Plano.

Americans must get licenses to marry, bear children, etc. Subversive activities can result in these licenses being revoked. Dissenters regularly disappear from their homes in the night, and are detained in federal detainment centers and sanitariums, if not executed.

The government corporation Cedocore distributes the drug Parepin through the water supply, making Americans who drink the water apathetic and carefree. There are several underground rebel groups, mainly operating online, most notably Art is Resistance and Solutions Backwards Initiative.

The First Evangelical Church of Plano is a fundamentalist Protestant Christian church which is favored by the neo-conservative government.

Amidst all of this are increasing sightings of what is labeled "The Presence", which manifests as a pair of massive ghostly hands and arms extending down from the sky into the ground. Despite early attributions of The Presence to drug-induced mass hysteria, it soon becomes clear that it is a physical phenomenon capable of being recorded on video and film.

Theories vary on the real cause of the appearances, but the prevailing opinion appears to be that the hands represent God or some other equivalent supernatural force. On February 10, 2022, a government official named Doug reports that sightings of the phenomenon are rapidly being reported from all over the world.

The sequence ends with a broken message announcing the appearance of The Presence over the United States Capitol Building. The message cuts off suddenly, implying the end of the world.

Working to prevent this are the Solutions Backwards Initiative, which is a group of students, professors, and computer experts who devise a successful means with which to send information back through time using quantum mechanics in order to prevent the dystopian future (and eventual apocalypse) they live in from ever occurring.

The websites and music of the Year Zero alternate reality game are implied to be part of the information packets sent back through the wormholes.

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This is the rebel group "Art is Resistance" main flier that they use to gain new allies.

Though, the event was that you bought Nine Inch Nail's Year Zero CDs that tied in the event, and you were able to piece some parts of the music together to hear different files.

Also, you were able to go onto a website that was operated by Solutions Backwards Initiative, a group of self-described "pilgrims" working for a quantum encryption company have devised a method of sending information from Year Zero back through time to the present, in the hope that we will change their reality.

This suggests that the Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero and the related websites are artifacts from 15 years in the future, and that by knowing this now, we'll stop the reality that occurs in Year Zero.