Welcome to Fragment.

.raid//fragment is a somewhat-incomplete, mostly playable raid activity designed for Snow’s .dungeon//remastered. It introduces new raid mechanics, a mysterious new zone, challenging bosses, corrupt moderators, and lore placeholders that developers will never fulfill. Will your party be the first to complete the lost raid? Log into your favorite dead MMO and find out.

199X.

.dungeon’s publisher confirms that it has started work on the game’s first raid activity. Its storyline and mechanics are closely-guarded secrets, but the team promises to “break the mold of what people expect from the game,” generating excitement from the player base.

The promised raid activity never arrives. A wave of controversies and scandals drive away employees until the studio suspends all updates outside of quality-of-life patches. Former devs decline to go on the record about the planned raid, citing still-in-effect NDAs. One team member — who requests anonymity — hints that raid files were included within the final patches that may reveal their secrets when the time is right.

.dungeon’s publisher adamantly denies this claim.

201X.

In the wake of a failed Kickstarter to re-release the BLINK console, .dungeon’s raid becomes an urban legend among gaming communities. Memes referencing hidden dungeons spread across social media with hashtags like #ReleaseTheRaid and #YouBlinked. Minecraft hosts a surprise “mystery raid” update referencing .dungeon NPCs, quickly followed by similar parodies from Blizzard and ArenaNet. Eventually, the community moves on.

202X. Today.

At 12am PDT, a new floating landmass appears over .dungeon’s Tutorial Island. Kotaku publishes a news story on the event, driving a surge of server activity as players recover their passwords. Game journalists reach out to former devs for comment. All decline, but one shares a cryptic post on social media.

#ReleasedTheRaid #NoYouBlinked

.raid//fragment was produced in a rush for the .dungeon//redacted Game Jam. It is currently available as a text-only PDF using GameFAQs-inspired formatting, with plans to add artwork and further content updates. Think of this as Fragment’s Early Access release, if you’d like.