So, at some unspecified point since I was last going through and archiving the contents of r/lcqp- the unverified spinoff of the Lake City Quiet Pills "mystery"- the sub was made private.
Meanwhile, r/lcqp-out-of-africa, the edgy more racially diverse spinoff of a spinoff, was created- specifically on Sat Jun 3 14:34:12 2017 UTC, with title "the next generation".
Uh, okay.
I'll come back and flesh this out once I've actually finished my post on the initial /lcqp (jokes on them, I archived everything), but here's some points of note:
Back on April 3rd, some random redditor with no other posts linked on the discussion sub a supposed obituary (posted on Reddit's own r/obituaries) for a sergent. The post linked is almost hilarious, blatantly mentioning LCQP, a love of "Hotel Parties", and that the now deceased was going to meet "the religion of peace". The post is in slightly broken english and includes coordinates to a motel. It was downvoted and disregarded at the time, as you'd expect, but a day after the creation of the second lcqp sub one user who posted there ("Reid") also replied to this thread, saying "yes, it is bullshit". It's unclear whether this is referring to the death or to the post's legitimacy.
Of the users of lcqp-ooa, one returns from the original sub- dustoff-avenger, who was the most active in the original sub. Others are new, most having signed up within the last few days, one with a two-year-old account with only a recent post in the sub. Unlike /lcqp(?), posting isn't restricted at all, so feel free to show up and drop some dank shitpost maymays. A large amount of the content posted in the (currently) only thread is encrypted in what appears to be hexidecimal Dustoff also has some posts whining about Trump and Germany or something.
This whole thing is pretty bizarre, in the way that LCQP was always bizarre- teetering on a tightrope between looking like a bunch of attention whores making shit up and some actual covert ops that someone thought it was a good idea to put on Reddit for some fucking reason. The presence of dustoff would imply this event is as legit as the original /lcqp ever was, and if both are legit it's also possible the obituary was also real... Somehow, though, the one thing that bothers me most is the sub title of "the next generation"- it sounds like something from a generic, lame ARG, and has nothing to do with any other part of LCQP. That just... bothers me, I suppose.
... While I was typing this, another post was made to the sub by dustoff- "talisman 20170615". Clearly referring to a date a few days from now (currently the 12th) though what "talisman" means is unknown. Though once again I can't help but feel it seems... out of place, like something from a much more stereotypical mysterious/spooky ARG. (Also, dustoff continues to argue with people on the one thread about Germany and Trump or whatever. Okay)