Album: SBARGv2 Volume 1 Date: June 17, 2013 Date Added: August 19, 2025 Color: "#bacade" URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/album/sbargv2-volume-1 Cover Artists: - timeTravlur Cover Art File Extension: png Track Art File Extension: png Wallpaper Artists: - Unknown Artist - 'Quasar Nebula (edits for wiki: presentation)' Wallpaper Style: |- opacity: 0.7; filter: contrast(0.3) brightness(1.2); background-repeat: repeat; background-size: 2088px auto; image-rendering: pixelated; image-rendering: crisp-edges; Wallpaper File Extension: gif Art Tags: - Fake Guardian Chronos (SBARGv2) - Pumpkin Groups: - Fandom - SBARGv2 Commentary: |- Flock Ornis: (First Guardian, [Tumblr](https://sbargv2.tumblr.com/post/53171266489/while-im-continuing-work-on-preening-this-code-i)) While I’m continuing work on preening this code, I thought maybe it could be useful to look back on what has happened so far. ==> Listen lavenderSiren: (album organizer, private Discord, regarding wallpaper used, 8/23/2025) I forget who did the static puzzle however (yes, it's technically a puzzle) wertercatt, lavenderSiren: (conversation in private Discord, 8/24/2025) *wertercatt:*
Had the great idea of looking through the SBARGv2 backroom google docs to see if I can figure out who made the uncredited audio puzzles. Unfortunately I failed to find any details on 'em *lavenderSiren:*
unfortunately the audio puzzles were a bit more off the cuff, from what I could remember. We didn't particularly engage in much documentation *wertercatt:*
Yeah, I think the current documented state is the best we're gonna get *lavenderSiren:*
one thing for sure, I wish it was easier to archive skype logs. Because I think I tried to do that once, but had no idea how to make the output readable or anything. not to mention it was on my craptop, so I'm not even sure if that mess of files ever made it across or anything *wertercatt:*
Do you want to give any final commentary on composing specific tracks or the Volume 1 album in general? *lavenderSiren:*
hmm... well, the decision to package it up in album form was sorta spontaneous. from what I could remember. There wasn't any expectation of even making an album until somebody on the team (I think it was Kaylen) decided it would be cool to put all the music that was made for the ARG into an album. This is of course why most of the tracks are just puzzle audio in volume 1. *wertercatt:*
Looking back on it, is there anything you wish you did differently about the Volume 1 release? *lavenderSiren:*
not particularly. only difficulties were in packaging and getting confused on whether I was supposed to render in wav or mp3
other than that, I didn't have much expectation beyond what it was *wertercatt:*
I suppose my last question is: Do you have a favorite track on SBARG Volume 1? *lavenderSiren:*
uhhh.. prolly [[track:ballad-of-the-guardian|ballad of the guardian]]? *wertercatt:*
Thanks for all of your help with this, by the way! *lavenderSiren:*
no problem! Additional Files: - Title: WIP cover art Description: >- Files included in an album art package, shared while preparing this album for the wiki. Files: - 4FdBMy2.png - 4FdBMy2.bmp - 4FdBMy2a.bmp - maincover.bmp --- Track: ERR Artists: - Unknown Artist Duration: 0:33 URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/err Track Artwork: - Artists: - Unknown Artist Origin Details: >- SBARGv2 logo by [[artist:lavendersiren]] Tags: - SBARGv2 Show Filename: connect.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (album organizer, track credit research document, 8/11/2025) puzzle made by a v2 staff member wertercatt, lavenderSiren: (conversation in private Discord, 8/11/2025) *lavenderSiren:*
I forget who made ERR *wertercatt:*
"ERR" might be even funnier as a cold open tbh, just bamn white noise *lavenderSiren:*
lol *wertercatt:*
(Cool seeing some artist commentary on a few of the old tracks) *lavenderSiren:*
I feel like it's a good auditory representation of what the sbargv2 players were first shown lavenderSiren: (assumed track cover artist, album art credit research document, 8/11/2025) I know I at least made the version of the sbarg logo that was edited during sbargv2 --- Track: '#bacade' Artists: - lavenderSiren Duration: 0:47 URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/bacade Track Artwork: - Artists: - timeTravlur - Unknown Artist Origin Details: >- From [==> Search](http://kipatsu.com/tracker/track.html) Tags: - Pumpkin Show Filename: bacade.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (album art credit research document, sic, 8/11/2025) \- bacade anmd [[track:bacafe]]: I think [[artist:timetravlur|TT]]? Might have been a rare other v2 staff member lavenderSiren: (ARG puzzle post-mortem, [Tumblr](https://shinyjiggly.tumblr.com/post/70976559948/the-legend-of-bacafe-the-beginninging), 12/23/2013) The Legend of Bacafe: the beginninging Ah, puzzle six. Where do I even start with this integral part of SBARGv2? Well, I guess I could start at the beginning. When we were making the first puzzleset, the team had this huge list of different types of puzzles that we could use. We drew heavily from that list early on when looking for ways to hide the completely arbitrary answers. My idea of making a puzzle was pretty much “encrypt it with one thing after another”. That method tended to make the puzzles too hard for most of the community to handle. Anyways, for puzzle 6, I chose “hidden message in a midi”, “confusing poem”, “morse code message”, “some kinda hex code”, and “alternate annotation of a color code” and smashed those all together. As some savvy folks might know, the hex color originally used in this was 0xBACADE, which was chosen because it vaguely sounded like a pronounceable word and it worked within the letter range of note names and hexadecimal notation. Anyways, as the story goes, the players got the puzzle and didn’t know what to make of it. This could be partially because the answer was hidden in an inconspicuous arpeggio, alongside the hint in another track and a meaningless set of block chords to make it sound cool. Also, the fact that nobody even knew what the hint was trying to refer to. At some point, I believe it was either anomolousEntity or Noodles who had typed in the url just wrong enough to stumble into the puzzle directory, where all of the puzzleset files and answers were stored. (I had actually thought it was NN who broke it, which was the reason for a Sweet Chronos and Hella Cronos page that never saw the light of day due to inaccuracy towards the situation) At this point, the staff (especially chaoSeed, who pretty much ran the server stuff and didn’t exactly anticipate for that kinda stuff). We were all paranoid that they were gonna like, tear us in half and stuff (and this was the first time we had to deal with this sorta thing since a few of us were new to the whole ARG thing). But instead of breaking down completely, we picked ourselves up, translated it into a character interaction, fixed the security hole, and changed the remaining puzzles just enough for it to not be so easy. For puzzle six, the difficulty wasn’t even really changed that much, there was literally a change of just one letter and that was enough to have the answer less of a give-away, since they couldn’t exactly reverse-engineer the thing with just the meager progress they already got with the old answer due to a lack of context. Anyways, the puzzle continued to be an uncrackable enigma, and I was really starting to worry that they may never get it. I really thought I was a horrible puzzle designer at that point. I wound up venting my frustrations as “I hate the guardian for making this puzzle”, even though technically I was the guardian in question. Eventually, through continuous vague hints, some of which trying to remind them about which things got changed between the first version’s mp3 track that would make a difference and analyzing the rest with a midi viewing tool thing, they cracked the code and everything was alright again. paperParadox was given the honors of submitting it and claiming the victory over it. As a prize, they got an mp3 of the remix, but with an extra loop and something extra. if anyone remembers the “shipping picture commissioned by Lord English”, an edited version of that was databent into the second loop in an unreadable form to give the feeling of “oh crud we shouldn’t have messed with that now it’s all glitchy and stuff” or something. In frustrating celebration of this, anomolousEntity create a fantroll which had succeeded in being disturbing by his description alone, if only for the fact that I interpreted the “unseen master” as one of the GM’s that may or may not have been myself, and let’s just say the thought of being handed a fresh heart ripped from some poor shmoe’s chest is kinda freaky for my standards. yeah…… But for some reason, I actually found Bacafe the fantroll to be compelling and probably one of the more interesting things created by the SBARGv2 fandom. Next bacafe segment will probably go over the tons of other places the hex color has shown up in. --- Track: '#bacafe' Color: '#bacafe' Artists: - lavenderSiren Duration: 1:31 URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/bacafe Track Artwork: Artists: - timeTravlur - Unknown Artist Origin Details: >- From [==> Search](http://kipatsu.com/tracker/track.html) Tags: - Pumpkin Show Filename: bacafe.png Referenced Tracks: - track:bacade Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (album art credit research document, sic, 8/11/2025) \- bacade anmd [[track:bacafe]]: I think [[artist:timetravlur|TT]]? Might have been a rare other v2 staff member lavenderSiren: (ARG puzzle post-mortem, [Tumblr](https://shinyjiggly.tumblr.com/post/70976559948/the-legend-of-bacafe-the-beginninging), 12/23/2013) The Legend of Bacafe: the beginninging Ah, puzzle six. Where do I even start with this integral part of SBARGv2? Well, I guess I could start at the beginning. When we were making the first puzzleset, the team had this huge list of different types of puzzles that we could use. We drew heavily from that list early on when looking for ways to hide the completely arbitrary answers. My idea of making a puzzle was pretty much “encrypt it with one thing after another”. That method tended to make the puzzles too hard for most of the community to handle. Anyways, for puzzle 6, I chose “hidden message in a midi”, “confusing poem”, “morse code message”, “some kinda hex code”, and “alternate annotation of a color code” and smashed those all together. As some savvy folks might know, the hex color originally used in this was 0xBACADE, which was chosen because it vaguely sounded like a pronounceable word and it worked within the letter range of note names and hexadecimal notation. Anyways, as the story goes, the players got the puzzle and didn’t know what to make of it. This could be partially because the answer was hidden in an inconspicuous arpeggio, alongside the hint in another track and a meaningless set of block chords to make it sound cool. Also, the fact that nobody even knew what the hint was trying to refer to. At some point, I believe it was either anomolousEntity or Noodles who had typed in the url just wrong enough to stumble into the puzzle directory, where all of the puzzleset files and answers were stored. (I had actually thought it was NN who broke it, which was the reason for a Sweet Chronos and Hella Cronos page that never saw the light of day due to inaccuracy towards the situation) At this point, the staff (especially chaoSeed, who pretty much ran the server stuff and didn’t exactly anticipate for that kinda stuff). We were all paranoid that they were gonna like, tear us in half and stuff (and this was the first time we had to deal with this sorta thing since a few of us were new to the whole ARG thing). But instead of breaking down completely, we picked ourselves up, translated it into a character interaction, fixed the security hole, and changed the remaining puzzles just enough for it to not be so easy. For puzzle six, the difficulty wasn’t even really changed that much, there was literally a change of just one letter and that was enough to have the answer less of a give-away, since they couldn’t exactly reverse-engineer the thing with just the meager progress they already got with the old answer due to a lack of context. Anyways, the puzzle continued to be an uncrackable enigma, and I was really starting to worry that they may never get it. I really thought I was a horrible puzzle designer at that point. I wound up venting my frustrations as “I hate the guardian for making this puzzle”, even though technically I was the guardian in question. Eventually, through continuous vague hints, some of which trying to remind them about which things got changed between the first version’s mp3 track that would make a difference and analyzing the rest with a midi viewing tool thing, they cracked the code and everything was alright again. paperParadox was given the honors of submitting it and claiming the victory over it. As a prize, they got an mp3 of the remix, but with an extra loop and something extra. if anyone remembers the “shipping picture commissioned by Lord English”, an edited version of that was databent into the second loop in an unreadable form to give the feeling of “oh crud we shouldn’t have messed with that now it’s all glitchy and stuff” or something. In frustrating celebration of this, anomolousEntity create a fantroll which had succeeded in being disturbing by his description alone, if only for the fact that I interpreted the “unseen master” as one of the GM’s that may or may not have been myself, and let’s just say the thought of being handed a fresh heart ripped from some poor shmoe’s chest is kinda freaky for my standards. yeah…… But for some reason, I actually found Bacafe the fantroll to be compelling and probably one of the more interesting things created by the SBARGv2 fandom. Next bacafe segment will probably go over the tons of other places the hex color has shown up in. --- Track: Prospitar Duration: 2:04 Artists: - Unknown Artist URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/prospitar Track Artwork: - Artists: - timeTravlur Tags: - Rise Emit (SBARGv2) - Prospit - SBARGv2 Show Filename: prospitar.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (album organizer, private Discord, 8/11/2025) uh.... not sure, but I'm p sure I can identify the tracks still. I remember the track "Prospitar" is actually a cover of some random-ass classical piece and that I only found that out after hearing it years later on the classical music radio station, but I don't remember what it's actually called or who actually composed the original. wertercatt: (SBARG archivist, track credit research document, 8/11/2025) Classical cover of something? (independent researchers say this is false) This was for the Prospit Ball flash I think --- Track: Dersings Duration: 1:46 Artists: - Unknown Artist URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/dersings Track Artwork: - Artists: - timeTravlur Tags: - Brae Emit (SBARGv2) - Derse - SBARGv2 Show Filename: dersings.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (album organizer, private Discord, 8/11/2025) P sure "Dersings" was something written by the whoever we got to write that tho, since a less fleshed out wip was once sent to the sbargv2 staff skype group chat (which is now gone a zillion times over because skype is dead) wertercatt: (SBARG archivist, track credit research document, 8/11/2025) Had a WIP version posted to internal Skype, probably lost. Derse ball flash. --- Track: Cloudscape Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true Duration: 1:04 Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/cloudscape Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Tags: - Rise Emit (SBARGv2) - Crocodiles (consort) - Prospit Show Filename: cloudscape.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (private Discord, 8/18/2025) cloudscape.png features rise's dreamself --- Track: Whispers Duration: 0:18 Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/whispers Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Tags: - Brae Emit (SBARGv2) - Iguanas (consort) - Derse Show Filename: whispers.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (track credit research document, 8/11/2025) I think I used the [[artist:chrono-trigger|chrono trigger]] soundfont for this one? It’s been a while either that or just really slowed down stuff in audacity lavenderSiren: (private Discord, 8/18/2025) the figure in whispers.png is technically brae's dreamself, because at the time FI and SF looked identical --- Track: Two can Play Duration: 0:05 Artists: - Unknown Artist URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/two-can-play Track Artwork: - Artists: - Noodles - Mastermordin Show Filename: twocanplay.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (album organizer, track credit research document, 8/11/2025) puzzle made by a v2 staff member, when viewed in spectrogram, it says “Gotcha”, was a response to this incident: [team-spectrum.tumblr.com/post/42914809791](https://team-spectrum.tumblr.com/post/42914809791) where an ask was sent about having “lost the game” to the v2 blog wertercatt: (wiki editor, 8/26/2025) You have to remove a channel from the audio to see the message in the spectrogram. lavenderSiren: (album art credit research document, 8/11/2025) I think this was actually by noodles, though maybe that's an altered version of the image. maybe mastermordin? --- Track: Ballad of the Guardian Duration: 2:27 Referenced Tracks: - track:bacafe - track:bacade Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/ballad-of-the-guardian Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Tags: - Fake Guardian Chronos (SBARGv2) - Rise Emit (SBARGv2) - Veil Show Filename: guardian.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (track credit research document, 8/11/2025) iteration on the BACAFE/BACADE motif --- Track: Loading Duration: 2:38 Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/loading Referenced Tracks: - track:final-battle-chrono-trigger Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Tags: - Gate - SBARGv2 Show Filename: loading.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (track credit research document, 8/11/2025) accidentally inspired by the [[track:final-battle-chrono-trigger|lavos final phase theme]], written because I was too afraid to ask [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|bowman]] for permission to use one of his loading songs --- Track: Cataclysm Duration: 0:45 Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/cataclysm Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Tags: - Samael (SBARGv2) - Reckoning - Earth Show Filename: cataclysm.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (track credit research document, 8/11/2025) for the Enter flash --- Track: Climbing Duration: 3:02 Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/climbing Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Tags: - Samael (SBARGv2) - Locations in the Medium (SBARGv2) Show Filename: climbing.png Commentary: |- wertercatt: (SBARG archivist, track credit research document, 8/11/2025) Spirebuilder game? --- Track: The Scramble Duration: 0:14 Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/the-scramble Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Tags: - Samael (SBARGv2) - Underlings - Gate - Locations in the Medium (SBARGv2) Show Filename: scramble.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (track credit research document, 8/11/2025) win screen for spirebuilder game --- Track: Eventual Connection Duration: 1:13 Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/eventual-connection Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Tags: - Derse - Prospit - Skaia - Veil - Locations in the Medium (SBARGv2) Show Filename: connection.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (track credit research document, 8/11/2025) for the 2nd gate unlock flash --- Track: Spaghetti Code Duration: 1:38 Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/spaghetti-code Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Show Filename: spaghetti.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (track credit research document, 8/11/2025) was featured in a flash, I think? Was it in the 3rd gate flash? lavenderSiren: (private Discord, 8/11/2025) if they didn't have album art, then something messed up on the technical end wertercatt: (wiki editor) This didn't have track art on Bandcamp, but I was able to find the missing art in the internal album art zip I was sent. --- Track: Landsweep Additional Names: - The Great Land Tour (commentary) Duration: 0:38 Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/landsweep Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Tags: - Gate - Locations in the Medium (SBARGv2) Show Filename: landquest.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (track credit research document, 8/11/2025) was in the 3rd gate flash, called “The Great Land Tour” on the album, uses the [[artist:the-legend-of-zelda|ocarina of time]] soundfont --- Track: Later Chumps Duration: 0:13 Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/later-chumps Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Tags: - Fake Guardian Chronos (SBARGv2) Show Filename: laterchumps.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (track credit research document, 8/11/2025) the one part in the end of act 2 flash written by lavenderSiren, the rest of it, which did not get put on this album, was a song by PISS SPEARS wertercatt: (SBARG archivist, track credit research document, 8/11/2025) The mentioned song in that commentary is “ROB SWIRE CALLED ME COOL ON TWITTER ONCE” from I CREATED PISSCORE. Note: PISS SPEARS was a pseudonym of [[artist:jamie-paige]] --- Track: HELP ME Duration: 0:11 Artists: - lavenderSiren URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/help-me Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Origin Details: >- Original image of the sun by [[artist:unknown-artist]] Tags: - Green Sun Show Filename: helpme.png Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (track credit research document, 8/11/2025) a databent image of the green sun, with some morse code spelling out HELP ME in it lavenderSiren: (track cover artist, album art credit research document, 8/11/2025) my edit, source of original sun image unknown --- Track: Fixing this Mess Duration: 0:38 Artists: - Unknown Artist Contributors: - lavenderSiren (mastering, reverb) Additional Names: - How do we fix this? ([Tumblr](https://sbargv2.tumblr.com/post/52189591727/flock-ornis-how-do-we-fix-this)) URLs: - https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/fixing-this-mess - https://sbargv2.tumblr.com/post/52189591727/flock-ornis-how-do-we-fix-this Track Artwork: - Artists: - lavenderSiren Tags: - Flock Ornis (SBARGv2) Show Filename: oratorornis.png Lyrics: |- Flock Ornis: ([Bandcamp transcript](https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/fixing-this-mess)) After doing some investigation into the damage, I just have to say, wow. What sort of miracle took place for Chronos to be able to alter the code this badly without everything in the game going down the drain? As promised, a plan towards repairing the wreckage is in the works. First stop: Skaia. Without Skaia as its old blue self, the most important parts of the session will be pretty much out of luck. There will definitely be some sections that I would appreciate some assistance with, but first I will have to set up a helper console and get most of the heavy duty patchwork out of the way before handing over the nitty gritty. [[artist:wertercatt]], [[artist:quasar-nebula|Lan]]: (wiki lyrics) (After doing some investigation into the damage-) (I just have to say.) (Wow.) (What sort of *miracle* took place for Chronos to be able to alter the code *this* badly) (without everything in the game going to hell.) (Without Skaia as its old blue self, the most important parts of the g- session will pretty much be out of *luck.*) (There will be definitely be some sections that I would appreciate some assistance with) (but *first* I will have to set up a Helper Console and) (get most of the heavy duty patch work out of the way) (before handing over the *nitty gritty*) Commentary: |- lavenderSiren: (track credit research document, 8/11/2025) voice acting done by someone that kaylen had contacted. Apparently it was the first time they had done voice acting. lavenderSiren edited it to remove stammering and probably also added the reverb