Kolya

Kolya was one of the most prominant and important members of ValveARG. In early July 2011, he was the victim of an attack by Companiya Rychag against the ValveARG Secret Project website and his Twitter account, but soon recovered ownership of his domains and started dropping clews as to the next ARG.

Kolya is a member of The Party and the Rychag Institute, an organization which seems to be involved in some kind of research and development, possibly in competition with Adair Research and Ekshore Research and Development. In early July, he Tweeted that he was attending several presentations at the Rychag institute, and seemed to indicate that an old floppy disk, which he had mentioned several months beforehand, contained information of a highly volitile nature. Around the same time, he launched the Konzortium site over the course of a week.

Timeline
?? ??: Kolya was born. He sprang fully armed from the head of Komrade Kat. Together, they formed The Party when Kolya was 3 minutes old. The more religious Party members refer to them as The Blessed Duo. 862: Kolya takes over Novgorod and helps his half-cousin Rurik establish the Rurikid Dynasty. 1223: Kolya and Komrade Kat kill 1,440,558 Mongols at the battle of Kalka River and turn the invasion of Chenghis Khan. September 15th, 1468: Kolya singlehandedly defeated the Dragon of Kiev by shoving a red hot cactus down its throat after cutting off 13 of its 14 heads. Komrade Kat helped by watching.

?? ?? 1777: Kolya fought for the Russians in the American War for Independence and schooled many Yankees on Party fighting methods. There is some evidence to show that the Brits would have won had Kolya not interfered.

1926: Kolya helps expell Trotsky from the Politburo. Kolya kicked him on the backside with his size 15 boot. May 22nd: Kolya was first contacted about the floppy.

July 15th: Kolya attended a lecture on Bayesian network combinatorial chemistry. Something about it seemed to bother him.

July 16th: Kolya attended another lecture (or had to attend, because of his connection to the Party) by someone at the Rychag Institute of Development about some kind of "breakthrough." The lecturer had left Adair 2 years before to work at Rychag. He revealed during the lecture that Adair was 5-7 years ahead of Rychag when he left. He disappeared immediately after the lecture, as did the only person who saw him leave, a reporter.

July 21st: A late night discussion on the IRC revealed that FuzzyG was probably actually Kolya, and that the floppy disk just contains porn. Cari had this to say: "Great ARG guys. I guess we can all go home." Kolya's intense anger at being impersonated caused FuzzyG's face to implode. To calm down, Kolya released some new info about the site (like this nifty registration page: http://i.imgur.com/NxZ7U.png) and revealed that things on the site could be changed if the community so desired (SOCIALISM!).