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Hi I'm Pyromaniax, one day I was with my team in a capture the flag match on 2Fort when I saw a strange prop in the map, since then I’m concentrating in discovering it’s mystery.

You might be asking WTF is an ARG? Well, An Alternate Reality Game (ARG) is an interactive event that has some portion in the real world and may be influenced by its participants. Like the puzzles in Pyromania and Mann vs Machine updates.

This was found in the game after the Two cities Update, the Smissmas 2013, and some minor updates after the Love and War Update:

The bulletin board (replaced by a End of The Line poster after the End of The Line update):



The (RED) and [BLU] Mann co. posters (also replaced by End of The Line posters after the End of The Line update):





The painted shovels in Mannhattan:

1- If you take all the numbers in the bulletin board and put them in update order, then decode them alphanumerically, you get "Be sure to drink your jarute" (yes, jarute not jarate). Here's the numbers: 2 5 19 21 18 5 20 15 4 18 9 14 11 25 15 21 18 10 1 18 21 20 5. Alphanumerically is "1=a, 2=b" and so on.

2- The Scout in the bulletin board is featured in a Force-a-Nature poster but instead of the Bat (like the original image) he is holding a red painted (yes, painted) Holy Mackerel, this matches with the shovels found in Mannhattan:







3- There is a little picture partially hidden under the Medic’s Gold Rush update picture with blurred words that says Poopy Joe?:



4- The envelope features blurred words that possibly says later, further, future, easter, festive:



5- Near to the Engineer’s update picture we can see some blueprints of an unknown machine, possibly a rocket engine and a launching silo (notice the arrow in the first blueprint):



6- There is a doll/robot texture on the game files called fem_bot_color.vtf:

1- In April 2, 2014 post, the TF2 Blog confirmed the development of a Moonbase map and a Engineer taunt prview that later would be the Rancho Relaxo Taunt in the Love & War Update, here's the Moonbase concept art:



2- In July 8, 2014 the TF2 Blog released the beta maps tests with two beta maps called RD_Asteroid and PL_CactusCanyon

1- Due to the replacement of the board and the posters by End of The Line posters possibly new mechaniacs like paintable weapons have been cancelled on the update.

2- Possibly we will have a new game mode with new space effects in-game (such as low gravity).

Thank you awesome guys for reading and rating this, my first guide, and in less than a week it was already in the most popular and top rated guides! Please rate, favorite and comment to share your thoughts so I can add more information!

Last Updated December 12, 2014

The last major changes include:

- Updated 'What was Added' topic.
- Added new conclusion and removed old ones