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Hello everyone in today's video we're going to be discussing a little bit about
the background story of the Division, back at E3 Ubisoft handed out a newspaper clipping
dated Friday 4th of December 2015 which is roughly about a week after the
outbreak of the virus, in the newspaper discusses the release of the virus where
leaked memo may be suggest possible government involvement in the spread of
the virus
one of the interviews is with Warren Merchant, now Warren Merchant is a fictitious author
in the world of the Division, he is the author of the book titled New York
Collapse: A Survival Guide to Urban Catastrophe, Merchant is quoted as saying
that a coordinated attack would explain how the virus had managed to spread so quickly
reinforcing the fact that the virus may have been a deliberate act of terrorism
with the possibility of government involvement in the distribution of the virus.
Later the article discusses the anecdote of a woman by the name of April Kelleher.
April is a resident from Park Slope, Brooklyn but one unfortunate
enough to be caught up in the quarantine now will come up to April a little bit later
Fast-forward a bit of time and The Divisions official Facebook page
challenges with a puzzle, a page from the book by Warren Merchant. With some
annotations from the previous owner. Analysing the page we've got a clue "every
second counts" which helps us to solve the riddle, now if you look at every
second letter of every word you can solve the riddle which spells out
MOVE OFF MANHATTAN ISLAND NOW. This it self is quite interesting and suggested that the
author Warren Merchant must have had some kind of prior knowledge of an
imminent attack due to happen in New York but how could he have possibly have
known? Also we've got some dates and tally marks at the bottom which suggested the
owner of the previous book must have survived at least until New Years Eve
moving on we've managed to crack the puzzle: Move off Manhattan Island Now and we can
you link to visit the link brings us to a couple more pages from the book with
more annotations we can see that the previous owner had kept this book not
only as a survival guide as a personal journal as well and we can read a few of
her personal experiences a few days later it announced that its survival
guide will be published and available for us to purchase we also got handed a
high-definition image of an Agent studying a poster, the poster
well that's the book by Warren Merchant, this to me really suggest that there may
be some kind of intertwining easter egg or secret quest for us to follow in the
game itself to help unravel the mystery may be behind the origin of the virus
now if we go on Amazon, we can see that the book is designed to act as an
interactive companion guide and to be released coinciding the release of
the game itself which is with a few more pages from the book we've got the front
cover and the back cover now on the back cover we have an annotation and we can see
that the previous owner of the book was none other than April Kelleher the same girl
from the newspaper clipping now we're given further insight into the story as
well one of the really interesting entries in the book is where April goes
to visit her husband Bill who works in New York, Bill Kelleher works at the biolab
however upon Aprils arrival he witnesses Bill being assassinated right
outside his workplace, now who were these men that assassinated bill? were they
government officials why was bill assassinated in the first place
Had he known something about the virus? was he working on a cure?
we also discover someone labelled as a doctor who was present when bill was murdered.
who exactly was the doctor and what does he know?
were also shown a few other things that's included in survival guide included with
the book you get map travel card a notice of a vaccination a wanted poster a drawing
of bill and a post it note now the post-it note may be quite vague but you
are somewhat able to decipher it and the post it note reads as best as I can only
find a secret message after you've something I'm probably okay for me the
map and the transit card secret for you a code word for the doctor the card shows the
final surprise - the location is look for the page where I write an entry now that's my
best attempt at deciphering this vague image which probably suggest may have
been a message from either April or maybe Bill, the truth is all of this
really leads us to more questions rather than give us answers however I
doubt we're going to find out much more anytime soon I think we're going to
probably more than likely have to wait until the release of the game and the
book until we can actually unravel this mystery hopefully it will lead us to some
answers as to who the doctor was and whether the government was somehow
involved in the virus and maybe what happened to April and bill maybe to
answer why bill was killed and who killed Bill and maybe to find out who Warren Merchant
was and how he knew about the attack and why he tried to warn
everybody to try and get off Manhattan Island
now I think this is going to be really interesting once the game is released
and I know I'll be looking to purchase the book and try and follow the quest.
qne hopefully answer some of these questions that's all I've got for today thanks for watching