



The mysterious Numbuh Vine

showed up on Facebook sometime in

March 2015.









He/She/It

had no friends.





But the creature lurked around

KND fan pages and dropped

little hints of what was to come.





A picture here:









A code there:





The alien was generally ignored until

this was posted:









See that tiny URL

in the top left corner?





That got people talking.













And it answered a question

we had been asking ourselves:





IF WE BUILD IT...

WILL THEY COME?





We knew KND operatives were smart.

We knew they were resourceful.

Drop a bread crumb

and they'd follow the trail.

Give them a code and they'll crack it!





























Operatives quickly figured out that the countdown

was leading to

April 1st.





And some took that date to be a sign.

Was this an elaborate

April Fools joke?





Numbuh Vine remained eerily silent,

only occasionally dropping new cryptic hints.









The countdown continued.





Operatives

begged

cajoled

demanded

cursed

(tsk tsk)

and

cried to

Numbuh Vine

for answers.





And then,

with ten days to go...





Everything changed.









...









But we'll talk about that next week.







