okay this is going to be vague because it hapened over five years ago and my memory is spotty and i am moderately intoxicated right now. also, while I was there for the entire case, I am australian and a lot of important things happened while i was asleep. any other DN folks who were around at the time and have a better memory than me can feel free to jump in and correct/elaborate on anything i say here.
lowlightprimed was an ARG that played out on tumblr and discord in early 2017. The primary case started on valentine’s day and ran until the ides of march, although the story continued to play out after this and covered possibly the entire the kira case (I lost track of the arg around this time so I’m not sure what happened exactly).
the arg began with a series of strange codes sent anonymously to several popular/active death note blogs. cracking these codes eventually lead players to @lowlightprimed-blog a tumblr blog apparently run by L. This blog contained a message from L explaining that Beyond Birthday had escaped from prison and started sending L threatening riddles and ciphers. Anyone who proved themselves by solving L’s codes was invited to join a taskforce and help him solve the clues to track down and apprehend B.
The early case took place mostly on tumblr and consisted of a series of clues/threats sent back and forth between L and B’s blog (I think B’s blog was @rueryuuzaki - sorry for the tag if I am misremembering). A lot of the clues from this period were saved and catalogued on @the-lowlightprimed-library. You can see who the main participants were by looking through the posts there and in the lowlightprimed tag. Unfortunately the dumb bitch who was running that library blog never finished collecting and organising all the posts from the case because she had to focus on studying for her masters degree and not on running a fandom blog that only two dozen odd people knew or cared about (that dumb bitch was me).
Eventually we realised that B was watching us, so the case shifted away from tumblr and onto a discord server, where we would all hang out and hassle L at all hours of the day and night with our dumb jokes and terrible memes. And also sometimes we would dicuss clues and actually progress the case. It was around this time that @yagamirai10-blog1 joined the case.
I’m going to be honest, I don’t remember the exact clues because it was a long time ago. I remember a lot of codes and ciphers, a lot of references to classical art that went over my head, some latin and many references to Julis Caesar. The Ceasar cipher was a big thing, so was the word VIDI and the number 44. Beware the Ides of March… then fall Ceasar <- this meant L was going to get fucking murdered. Something happened in Venice. There was a lake (or lakes?) and a man in an orange shirt who we all decided was very important (he wasn’t).
What I do remember is that B was trying to kill L and we were trying to protect him. For some reason we thought that the best way to do this was to use L as bait to lure B out of hiding and trap him. And it worked! B was apprehended and L didn’t die. He did get stabbed tho, and then he whined about it for some time afterwards. Watari narrated all of this to us because L was too greviously injured (sulking) to hold his phone or type. Matt took over B’s blog and we all played cards against humanity at what was for me (an Australian) the arse end of the morning. It was all very exciting.
Some time after B was once again safely behind bars, criminals all around the world began dying of heart attacks, leading the taskforce to a new case in Japan…
So, in conclusion, the lowlightprimed cass was a month of sleep-deprived mania, memes, cracking complex ciphers and weird conversations with the world’s greatest detective and the gang of tumblr girlies he was hanging out with on discord. It was the most fun I have ever had in any kind of fandom space ever in my life and I got a tattoo to commemorate it, and then promptly forgot all of the important details. So sorry if this explanation is maddeningly rambling and incomprehensible.
The most important thing you need to know is that L told us all that he arrested Lind L Tailor by seducing him, fucking him, stealing incriminating evidence from his house while he was asleep and then hanging around and fucking him again in the morning. And we never let him forget it.
Oh and also Alessandro Juliani (L’s English voice actor) recorded some audio for us as L which is the wildest thing that has ever happened in the history of the earth, and you can still find that circling around on tumblr.
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