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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: |-
    <i>Flock Ornis:</i> (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

    <i>wertercatt, lavenderSiren:</i> (conversation in private Discord)

    *wertercatt:*<br>
    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:*<br>
    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:*<br>
    Yeah, I think the current documented state is the best we're gonna get

    *lavenderSiren:*<br>
    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:*<br>
    Do you want to give any final commentary on composing specific tracks or the Volume 1 album in general?

    *lavenderSiren:*<br>
    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:*<br>
    Looking back on it, is there anything you wish you did differently about the Volume 1 release?

    *lavenderSiren:*<br>
    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:*<br>
    I suppose my last question is: Do you have a favorite track on <i>SBARG Volume 1</i>?

    *lavenderSiren:*<br>
    uhhh.. prolly [[track:ballad-of-the-guardian|ballad of the guardian]]?

    *wertercatt:*<br>
    Thanks for all of your help with this, by the way!

    *lavenderSiren:*<br>
    no problem!
Crediting Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (album organizer, private Discord, regarding wallpaper used)
    I forget who did the static puzzle however (yes, it's technically a puzzle)
Additional Files:
- Title: WIP Cover Art
  Files:
  - 4FdBMy2.png
  - 4FdBMy2.bmp
  - 4FdBMy2a.bmp
  - maincover.bmp
---
Track: ERR
Artists:
- Unknown Artist
Duration: 0:33
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/err
Cover Artists:
- lavenderSiren
- Unknown Artist
Art Tags:
- SBARGv2 (media)
Commentary: |-
    <i>wertercatt, lavenderSiren:</i> (conversation in private Discord)

    *lavenderSiren:*<br>
    I forget who made ERR

    *wertercatt:*<br>
    "ERR" might be even funnier as a cold open tbh, just <i>bamn white noise</i>

    *lavenderSiren:*<br>
    lol

    *wertercatt:*<br>
    (Cool seeing some artist commentary on a few of the old tracks)

    *lavenderSiren:*<br>
    I feel like it's a good auditory representation of what the sbargv2 players were first shown

    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor)
    Internal filename for this track art was connect.png
Crediting Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (album organizer, track credit research document)
    puzzle made by a v2 staff member

    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (assumed track cover artist, album art credit research document)
    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
Cover Artists:
- timeTravlur
- Unknown Artist
Art Tags:
- Pumpkin
- SBARGv2 (media)
Commentary: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (ARG puzzle post-mortem, [Tumblr](https://shinyjiggly.tumblr.com/post/70976559948/the-legend-of-bacafe-the-beginninging))
    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.
Crediting Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (album art credit research document, sic)
    \- bacade anmd [[track:bacafe]]: I think [[artist:timetravlur|TT]]? Might have been a rare other v2 staff member
---
Track: "#bacafe"
Color: '#bacafe'
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Duration: 01:31
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/bacafe
Referenced Tracks:
- track:bacade
Commentary: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (ARG puzzle post-mortem, [Tumblr](https://shinyjiggly.tumblr.com/post/70976559948/the-legend-of-bacafe-the-beginninging))
    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.
Crediting Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (album art credit research document, sic)
    \- bacade anmd [[track:bacafe]]: I think [[artist:timetravlur|TT]]? Might have been a rare other v2 staff member
Cover Artists:
- timeTravlur
- Unknown Artist
Art Tags:
- Pumpkin
- SBARGv2 (media)
---
Track: Prospitar
Duration: 2:04
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/prospitar
Artists:
- Unknown Artist
Crediting Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (album organizer, private Discord)
    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.

    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor, track credit research document)
    Classical cover of something? (independent researchers say this is false) This was for the Prospit Ball flash I think
Cover Artists:
- timeTravlur
Art Tags:
- Rise Emit (SBARGv2)
- Prospit
- SBARGv2 (media)
---
Track: Dersings
Duration: 01:46
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/dersings
Artists:
- Unknown Artist
Crediting Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (album organizer, private Discord)
    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)

    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor, track credit research document)
    Had a WIP version posted to internal Skype, probably lost. Derse ball flash.
Cover Artists:
- timeTravlur
Art Tags:
- Brae Emit (SBARGv2)
- Derse
- SBARGv2 (media)
---
Track: Cloudscape
Suffix Directory: true
Always Reference By Directory: true
Duration: 01:04
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/cloudscape
Commentary: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:<i> (private Discord)
    cloudscape.png features rise's dreamself
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- Prospit
- Crocodiles (consort)
- Rise Emit (SBARGv2)
---
Track: Whispers
Duration: 00:18
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/whispers
Commentary: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (private Discord)
    the figure in whispers.png is technically brae's dreamself, because at the time FI and SF looked identical
Referencing Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track credit research document)
    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

Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- Derse
- Iguanas (consort)
- Brae Emit (SBARGv2)
---
Track: Two can Play
Duration: 0:05
Artists:
- Unknown Artist
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/two-can-play
Commentary: |-
    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor)
    Internal filename for this track art was twocanplay.png
Crediting Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (album organizer, track credit research document)
    puzzle made by a v2 staff member, when viewed in spectrogram {with 1 channel removed}, it says “Gotcha”, was a response to this incident: https://team-spectrum.tumblr.com/post/42914809791 where an ask was sent about having “lost the game” to the v2 blog
    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor)
    Text in {} added by me.

    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (album art credit research document, sic)
    I think this was actually by noodles, though maybe that's an altered version of the image. maybe mastermordin?
Cover Artists:
- 'Noodles'
- 'Mastermordin'
Art Tags:
- SBARGv2 (media)
---
Track: Ballad of the Guardian
Duration: 02:27
Referenced Tracks:
- track:bacafe
- track:bacade
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/ballad-of-the-guardian
Commentary: |-
    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor)
    Internal filename for this track art was guardian.png
Referencing Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track credit research document)
    iteration on the BACAFE/BACADE motif
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- Fake Guardian Chronos (SBARGv2)
- Rise Emit (SBARGv2)
- Veil
---
Track: Loading
Duration: 02:38
Artists:
  - "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/loading
Referenced Tracks:
  - track:final-battle-chrono-trigger
Referencing Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track credit research document)
    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
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- Gate
- SBARGv2 (media)
---
Track: Cataclysm
Duration: 0:45
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/cataclysm
Commentary: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track credit research document)
    for the Enter flash
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- Reckoning
- Samael (SBARGv2)
- Earth
---
Track: Climbing
Duration: 03:02
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/climbing
Commentary: |-
    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor, track credit research document)
    Spirebuilder game?
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- Samael (SBARGv2)
- Land of {X} and {Y} (SBARGv2)
---
Track: The Scramble
Duration: 0:14
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/the-scramble
Commentary: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track credit research document)
    win screen for spirebuilder game

    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor)
    Internal filename for this track art was scramble.png
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- Samael (SBARGv2)
- Land of {X} and {Y} (SBARGv2)
- Gate
- Underlings
---
Track: Eventual Connection
Duration: 01:13
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/eventual-connection
Commentary: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track credit research document)
    for the 2nd gate unlock flash

    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor)
    Internal filename for this track art was connection.png
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- Derse
- Prospit
- Skaia
- Veil
- Land of {X} and {Y} (SBARGv2)
---
Track: Spaghetti Code
Duration: 01:38
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/spaghetti-code
Commentary: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track credit research document)
    was featured in a flash, I think? Was it in the 3rd gate flash?

    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (private Discord)
    if they didn't have album art, then something messed up on the technical end

    <i>wertercatt:</i> (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.
    Internal filename for this track art was spaghetti.png
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- SBARGv2 (media)
---
Track: Landsweep
Duration: 0:38
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/landsweep
Additional Names:
- The Great Land Tour (commentary)
Commentary: |-
    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor)
    Internal filename for this track art was landquest.png
Referencing Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track credit research document)
    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
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- Gate
- Land of {X} and {Y} (SBARGv2)
---
Track: Later Chumps
Duration: 0:13
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/later-chumps
Commentary: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track credit research document)
    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

    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor, track credit research document)
    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]]

    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor)
    Internal filename for this track art was laterchumps.png
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- Fake Guardian Chronos (SBARGv2)
---
Track: HELP ME
Duration: 0:11
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
URLs:
- https://sbargv2.bandcamp.com/track/help-me
Commentary: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track credit research document)
    a databent image of the green sun, with some morse code spelling out HELP ME in it

    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor)
    Internal filename for this track art was helpme.png
Crediting Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track cover artist, album art credit research document)
    my edit, source of original sun image unknown
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
- Unknown Artist
Art Tags:
- Green Sun
- SBARGv2 (media)
---
Track: Fixing this Mess
Duration: 0:38
Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
- Unknown Artist
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
Commentary: |-
    <i>wertercatt:</i> (wiki editor)
    Internal filename for this track art was oratorornis.png
Crediting Sources: |-
    <i>lavenderSiren:</i> (track credit research document)
    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
Cover Artists:
- "lavenderSiren"
Art Tags:
- Flock Ornis (SBARGv2)