History ARG / CaughtNotSleeping

* EntryPoint: Initially, players are hooked by trying to help Caught, the TitleCharacter, solve his insomnia problem. This is presented by means of Website/{{Youtube}} videos.

* DaylightHorror: Quite a few run-ins with Slendy (and other dangerous things) happen during the day time, including some of the most brutal and terrifying attacks.

* WeaponOfChoice: Natalie carries a few things with her, but her most prominent tools are a pickaxe and her bat, Franklin: Lord of the Dance.

* AlienGeometries:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJKDfYr8Qeo&feature=plcp 925 Cranbrook Dr.]]
** 1472 Lansing Place

* AnimalMotifs:
** Butterflies
** Birds
* ArcNumber: [=Help3r=]'s obsession with the number 13.

* ArchEnemy: Mirrors has become this for the butterflies and allied players.

* BigBad: Slenderman

* CowardlyLion: Natalie.

* CrypticConversation: Just about everything [=Help3r=] and Roivas say to anyone.

* DisabledSnarker: Warren

* EccentricMentor: Warren falls into this, as his sass and flippancy cover up his excellent people skills and experience.
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Caught seems to have been left as this in the wake of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXSpt60tSQ4&feature=plcp Aftermath]].]]
* EvilCounterpart: Mirrors to Roivas, continuing the mirror theme.
* EvilLaugh: The puppets have this.

* HumanoidAbomination: Slenderman is one of these.
* IShallTauntYou: One of Yasurc's favorite methods of manipulation.

* KnightTemplar: 1AmTheHelp3r.

* ManipulativeBastard: Yasurc/Mirrors
* MirrorMonster: Also Yasurc/Mirrors [[note]] There's a reason they call it [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Mirrors]][[/note]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero
* OccultBlueEyes: In the Willows Peak tape.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui1ca_pBOuE&feature=plcp Sleepwalking.]] {{Exactly What It Says On The Tin}}.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Relationship between Caught and Natalie.

* WelcomeToHell: [[spoiler: Yasurc: "[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VfRQsZ5QS49yv0hLLER_hRTbhldGSvoIRkcWGFsrgRE/edit Welcome home]]"]]

* AnArmAndALeg: Warren lost use of one of each, due to a heroic NoodleIncident.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Yasurc has made several of these, often forcing the butterflies to [[TrapIsTheOnlyOption walk straight into its trap]].

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Natalie tried to leave her problems and go home in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXe9KXhwbNo&feature=g-user-u Running]], [[spoiler:but [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive Slenderman Knew Where She Lived]]]].

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*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LEx6qIV0HU A hole in the ground.]]: The Butterflies sing the song to help RoivasSevil get Natalie out of the Dark Place.

** After the butterfly NattiKarlo/Allyni assisted 1AmTheHelp3r in waking Caught, she experienced a number of negative side effects, including hostile hallucinations, dreams of an alternate reality, possession and psychic torture at the hands of Mirrors, and subsequent post-traumatic nightmares.

* ArcNumber: Help3r's obsession with the number 13.
* ArcSymbol: The Operator Symbol was this up through "For Your Review". Help3r's Alchemical symbol is also one of these.

* TheAssimilator: Mirrors seems to be this. After it [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VfRQsZ5QS49yv0hLLER_hRTbhldGSvoIRkcWGFsrgRE/edit took R3n3's light]], it began calling itself Samadoyht (the reverse of Thyodamas, R3n3's butterfly name), and using her image on its [[https://www.youtube.com/user/samadoyht youtube channel]].

* TheChosenOne: According to Help3r, Checkers Valentine. With the [[AudienceParticipation audience]] as the {{Chooser of the Chosen One}}.

* CrypticConversation: Just about everything Help3r and Roivas say to anyone.

* KryptoniteFactor: The bottle that Help3r left for Caught in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JAKvy7iO1Q&feature=context-gch Lansing Place]] works like this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf5CtCsbRZI&feature=g-user-u on Slenderman]]. [[spoiler: That is until it [[FightOffTheKryptonite stops]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0rwo-xa9T0&feature=g-user-u working.]]]]

** Help3r's theme

* RiddleMeThis: Help3r's Rule #4 poems. The answer to each riddle was the password to a door in Lansing Place.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYoXBs5Rses&feature=g-user-u Rule #1]]: One of Help3r's videos, which includes a sequence of Caught filming himself while sleepwalking.

* TraumaticHaircut: Help3r gives Caught one of these some time between [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZQQ7pQMFV0&feature=g-user-u Rule#2]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA1uX24gIfw&feature=g-user-u A Brand New Day]].

* BadAss: The Unknown broke the arm of one of two people visiting her and tossed the other out of a window (Devin Shroter and his then-wife). Both were trained soldiers.

* PowerParasite: Based on some of the things Yasurc has done, they may be after the butterflies' "light" to increase their power.[[note]] And they may need a form of VampireInvitation in order to get it.[[/note]]

* BadAss: TheUnknown broke the arm of one of two people visiting her and tossed the other out of a window (Devin Shroter and his then-wife). Both were trained soldiers.

''Caught Not Sleeping'' is an {{Alternate Reality Game}} centered around the title character Caught, who initially goes to the Internet to seek help regarding his insomnia. [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos It got worse from there.]]

Also, CaughtNotSleeping's main [[http://caughtnotsleeping.wikidot.com/ wiki page]], [[http://cnstimelines.tumblr.com/Contents set of timelines]] depending on how you wish to follow the story, [[http://slendernation.forumotion.com/f29-caughtnotsleeping-arg Slendernation subforum]] for discussion (complete with its own [[http://slendernation.forumotion.com/t2110-external-links thoroughly complete link list]]), and semi-official [[http://caughtnotsleeping-tc.tumblr.com/post/55556741429/new-cns-chatroom-password-protected Tiny Chat room]].

!!''Caught Not Sleeping'' provides examples of:

* {{Alien Geometries}}:

* {{Amnesiac Hero}}: [[spoiler: Caught reveals in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUfLwt3VxIo&feature=relmfu a long night.]] that he doesn't remember anything about his childhood or past. Not even his own name.]]
* {{An Arm And A Leg}}: Warren lost use of one of each, due to a heroic NoodleIncident.
* {{An Offer You Cant Refuse}}: Yasurc has made several of these, often forcing the butterflies to [[TrapIsTheOnlyOption walk straight into its trap]].
* {{Animal Motifs}}:

* {{Arc Number}}: Help3r's obsession with the number 13.
* {{Arc Symbol}}: The Operator Symbol was this up through "For Your Review". Help3r's Alchemical symbol is also one of these.
* {{Arc Words}}:

* {{Arch Enemy}}: Mirrors has become this for the butterflies and allied players.
* [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fangirl]]: When [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lLCRkBR_2g Natalie]] was first introduced, it was as a viewer who had just managed to find where Caught was living. She has since become a main character.
* {{The Assimilator}}: Mirrors seems to be this. After it [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VfRQsZ5QS49yv0hLLER_hRTbhldGSvoIRkcWGFsrgRE/edit took R3n3's light]], it began calling itself Samadoyht (the reverse of Thyodamas, R3n3's butterfly name), and using her image on its [[http://www.youtube.com/user/samadoyht youtube channel]].
* {{Audience Participation}}: Heavy amounts of this in the form of the Butterflies, a downplayed form of the [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fanbase]] with lots of {{Official Fan Submitted Content}}.
* {{Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other}}: The hug between Natalie and Caught at the end of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSJUnSMYg4&feature=g-user-u Willow's Peak.]]
* {{BadAss}}: TheUnknown broke the arm of one of two people visiting her and tossed the other out of a window (Devin Shroter and his then-wife). Both were trained soldiers.
* {{Big Bad}}: Slenderman
* {{The Big Board}}: Caught's chart of alliances on the wall of his apartment in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wb-WKP7vLs&feature=g-user-u The Coffin]].
* {{Blood From The Mouth}}

* {{Buffy Speak}}: In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSJUnSMYg4&feature=g-user-u Willows Peak]], Natalie has a bit of a communication breakdown trying to describe what she saw to Caught.
* {{Chekhovs Gunman}}: Caught walks by Natalie a few videos before her official introduction.
* {{Chess Motifs}}:

* {{The Chosen One}}: According to Help3r, Checkers Valentine. With the [[AudienceParticipation audience]] as the {{Chooser of the Chosen One}}.
* {{Color Motif}}: The use of the color blue to represent "light" and "love," and thus also Roivas, who is most strongly associated with those.
* {{Come Alone}}: Yasurc: "It she we they want a single conversation, privately." [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OZ1Mf2bFl9DkSgXS2kYvMMZWqf8QiMKd_eXOHvDn5TU/edit *]]
* {{Cowardly Lion}}: Natalie.
* {{Creepy Blue Eyes}}:

** The butterflies' even [[GlowingEyes glow]] in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C9NL_vzauo&feature=g-user-u Willows Peak Tape]].[[note]] Also an example of {{Family Eye Resemblance}} since Roivas calls the butterflies a family.[[/note]]
* {{Cryptic Conversation}}: Just about everything Help3r and Roivas say to anyone.
* {{Curb Stomp Battle}}: [[spoiler:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0rwo-xa9T0&feature=g-user-u "A Dark Place"]]]]
* {{Cut Phone Lines}}: Yasurc did a variation on this when it cut off all communication between the Butterflies/other viewers, and most of the major characters.
* {{Daylight Horror}}: Quite a few run-ins with Slendy (and other dangerous things) happen during the day time, including some of the most brutal and terrifying attacks.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: The sarcasm readings are off the charts with this one.

* {{Defiant to the End}}: In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0rwo-xa9T0&feature=g-user-u "A Dark Place"]] [[spoiler:Even after being beaten almost to death, Caught continues to [[TemptingFate tempt fate]], saying "You still can't take me."]]
* {{Disabled Snarker}}: Warren
* {{Do Not Taunt Cthulhu}}: Caught leaves [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9sgWr53KtU&feature=g-user-u a gift for the 'slender man']] as a {{God Test}}, resulting in a critical {{Skepticism Failure}} in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oHwkE0jLs&feature=g-user-u "For Your Review"]].
* {{Dont Go In The Woods}}: After the discovery of the coffin, Lansing Place, Willows Peak, and "Dark Place"/Aftermath, this seems pretty justified. [[note]]Although, being Seattle, this could be hard.[/note]]
* {{Eccentric Mentor}}: Warren falls into this, as his sass and flippancy cover up his excellent people skills and experience.
* {{Empty Shell}}: [[spoiler:Caught seems to have been left as this in the wake of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXSpt60tSQ4&feature=plcp Aftermath]].]]

* {{Evil Laugh}}: The puppets have this.
* {{Evil Twin}}: Actually, Caught has [[RuleOfThree three]] of them. And they are [[PeoplePuppets pup]][[PerversePuppet pets]].
* {{Flower Motifs}}: Between Roivas' flower ritual, yasurc's habit of referring to Roivas as "Flower Dawn", and the flower that appeared in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_uwCmAkl2Q&feature=g-user-u "_Look_Closer_"]], one of these seems to be developing.
* {{For Your Own Good}}: Caught's rationale for telling Natalie to go home and forget about him in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Mr3MtVVOw The Umbrella]].
* {{Ha Ha Ha No}}: Caught pulls one of these in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGwvs6iwEaY&feature=g-user-u Vlog 3]].
* {{Happy Flashback}}: Happens a couple times in the form of a {{We Interrupt This Program}} with a {{Happier Home Movie}}. [[note]] Could also tie in with {{Transferable Memory}}[[/note]]

* {{Hive Mind}}: yasurc/Mirrors may be one of these, due to the numerous pronouns it uses whenever it refers to itself.
* {{Human Notepad}}: In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kzq942bly8&feature=g-user-u unknown footage]] when Caught discovers his arm is covered in the word "RUN." [[note]]May or may not be a {{Note To Self}}.[[/note]]
* {{Humanoid Abomination}}: Slenderman is one of these.
* {{I Shall Taunt You}}: One of Yasurc's favorite methods manipulation.
* {{Identity Amnesia}}: He is simply called Caught and claims to not remember his name.
* {{It May Help You On Your Quest}}: The umbrella Roivas leaves for Caught in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUfLwt3VxIo&feature=related a long night.]] {{Cue The Rain}}.
* {{Knight Templar}}: 1AmTheHelp3r.
* {{Kryptonite Factor}}: The bottle that Help3r left for Caught in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JAKvy7iO1Q&feature=context-gch Lansing Place]] works like this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf5CtCsbRZI&feature=g-user-u on Slenderman]]. [[spoiler: That is until it [[FightOffTheKryptonite stops]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0rwo-xa9T0&feature=g-user-u working.]]]]

* {{Manipulative Bastard}}: Yasurc/Mirrors
* {{Mirror Monster}}: Also Yasurc/Mirrors [[note]] There's a reason they call it [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Mirrors]][[/note]]
* {{Mirror Self}}: yasurc, based on its name and a warning from Roivas, appears to be this for butterfly and player Crusay.
* {{Mocking Sing Song}}: Caught's [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] "I can't work a tripod" in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA1uX24gIfw&feature=g-user-u A brand new day]].
* {{Named Weapons}}: Natalie's baseball bat, Franklin: Lord of the Dance.

* {{Only Friend}}: Natalie said that she and Caught are these for each other in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qWLnZ7OwgY&feature=g-user-u Dead End]].
* {{Open Sesame}}: Every door in Lansing Place will lead out into the middle of the woods unless the proper Winnie the Pooh character is spoken before attempting to open it.
* {{Power Parasite}}: Based on some of the things Yasurc has done, they may be after the butterflies' "light" to increase their power.[[note]] And they may need a form of {{Vampire Invitation}} in order to get it.[[/note]]
* {{Pretty Butterflies}}: Pretty self explanatory.
* {{Psychic Link}}: Warren has this with the Weaver, and apparently also with those whom the Weaver helps (in this case, Paradox/Loxura).
* {{Riddle Me This}}: Help3r's Rule #4 poems. The answer to each riddle was the password to a door in Lansing Place.
* {{Ritual Magic}}: Numerous examples of this have appeared so far, including

* {{Sadistic Choice}}: [[spoiler:Yasurc forced R3n3, one of the butterflies, into one of these, causing her to [[TakeMeInstead sacrifice her own light]] to save her friend's.]]

* {{Squishy Wizard}}: Warren's connection to the Weaver makes him invaluable, though his injuries prevent him from engaging in physical combat.

* {{Tall Dark And Snarky}}: Caught. Again.
* {{Tempting Fate}}: Caught jokingly tries to summon Slendy by drawing an Operator symbol and leaving a twenty dollar bill in the middle.
* {{Terms of Endangerment}}: yasurc/Mirrors calls the butterflies its [[ScareQuotes "best friends"]], though it has made it clear it's [[ImNotHereToMakeFriends not their friend]].
* {{The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You}}: Showtime has found his way to [[http://littleglau.tumblr.com/post/30980200827/seriously OOG butterfly group activities]] via OOG tumblrs, Mirrors has [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yb-NxR8hrJZKF29U9j1FNEpX7uPkBMwJOhvGVNkTngk/edit referenced discussions]] taking place on [[http://iammissanna.tumblr.com/tagged/Ulysses-campaign tumblr]]/[[http://slendernation.forumotion.com/t2371-roivas-name-poll OOG forums]] and [[http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/samadoyht edited]] the OOG wiki, and Roivas has pulled [[http://cnsstills.tumblr.com/post/29738393517/contents-of-roivassevil-box-to-little-butterfly photographs]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YLkWRIG9ks&feature=g-user-u video]] from [[http://imthemotherfuckingpapilio.tumblr.com/post/28320040777/okay-everyone-im-pretty-sure-these-are-the OOG facebook accounts]] and youtube channels. [[note]][[AxCrazy And if they come anywhere near the tropes...]][[/note]] [[note]][[HeyLetsPutonaShow Aw, that's not the spirit at all miss >=D]][[/note]] [[note]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle OH MY GOSH]][[/note]]

* {{The Insomniac}}: The entire reason Caught starts the series, in fact.
* {{The Television Talks Back}}: The puppet T.V.s in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJKDfYr8Qeo 925 Cranbrook Dr.]]
* {{That Mysterious Thing}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUfLwt3VxIo&feature=related a long night.]] Caught got in a fight. With a guy. He had a nice coat.
* {{This Is Reality}}: A Double Inversion of this is used quite often. Phrased to sound more like a {{MST3K Mantra}} but delivered like a {{false reassurance}}, it plays on the fact that to the characters, this really is a {{Matter of Life and Death}}, but to the viewers, it's [[LampshadeHanging just]] an {{Alternate Reality Game}}.

* {{This Page Will Self Destruct}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUfLwt3VxIo&feature=related Roivas' hint]] about the umbrella[[note]] "Look for cover, but that's not going to help you."[[/note]] could be seen as this since it promptly caught fire after Caught found it.
* {{Traumatic Haircut}}: Help3r gives Caught one of these some time between [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZQQ7pQMFV0&feature=g-user-u Rule#2]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA1uX24gIfw&feature=g-user-u A Brand New Day]].
* {{Vitriolic Best Buds}}: Relationship between Caught and Natalie.

* {{Welcome to Hell}}: [[spoiler: Yasurc: "[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VfRQsZ5QS49yv0hLLER_hRTbhldGSvoIRkcWGFsrgRE/edit Welcome home]]"]]
* {{You Cant Go Home Again}}: Natalie tried to leave her problems and go home in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXe9KXhwbNo&feature=g-user-u Running]], [[spoiler:but [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive Slenderman Knew Where She Lived]]]].

CaughtNotSleeping is an {{Alternate Reality Game}} centered around the title character Caught, who initially goes to the Internet to seek help regarding his insomnia. [[TheSlenderManMythos It got worse from there.]]

Main youtube channel can be found [[http://www.youtube.com/user/CaughtNotSleeping here]]. Secondary youtube channels for [[http://www.youtube.com/user/1AmTheHelp3r 1AmTheHelp3r]], [[http://www.youtube.com/user/RoivasSevil RoivasSevil]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/user/samadoyht samadoyht]] (aka Mirrors/Yasurc). Official [[https://twitter.com/#!/CaughtNotSleepi twitter]] maintained by Natalie, and abandoned [[http://caughtnotsleeping.tumblr.com/ tumblr]] account. As well as viewer-compiled [[https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B1ET2kxuPgUCNzAyNTgwN2YtNjFmMi00YjFkLWE0MmQtNGM3ZjQxZmE4Mzg1/edit logs]] of all plot-related character visits to the Butterfly Tiny Chat.