"The Key" (Season 0)

"The Key" (Season 0) of Project 863 aired from April 25th, 2018 to January 12th, 2021.

Season Summary
The season introduces the three main characters: Matthias, Sam, and Woods. Matthias is the CEO of Hi5 Studios, Woods is a tinker and prop maker around the studio, and Sam is a content creator and producer for the company. It is established early in this season, that keys play an important part to the stories. After following a multitude of keys that lead to a multitude of safes, one key lead to the infamous Red Mercury Mountaineer. If one were to described this season in three words, it would be "Keys", "Safes", "Stalker". Someone mysteriously broke into Hi5 Studios multiple times, everyone questioning who it could be. The story takes a serious turn when the team finds bottles of an unknown flammable liquid, with an injection gun. The team has found the name "Syphus" on multiple items, possibly pertaining to a person. And if it is a person, could he be the guy who keeps showing up to the studio?

Cast
Matthias as himself

Samantha "Sam" Fekete as herself

Woodland Demars as himself

? as Nelson Syphus

A Full List of Things Found in The Mountaineer

 * White scrap paper with “Syphus590” and “vz$jk$mEDZ5At” on it, in username and password format
 * SyphusFilmPoster.jpg black, oddly dirty umbrella
 * Red toy car
 * Partially empty motor oil bottle
 * Yellow funnel
 * Fake money advertisement
 * Whistler NOAA Radio Scanner with FM Radio: looks beat up and old, theorized to be a police scanner
 * Owner’s manuals for the Mountaineer
 * Page with the seats on it has an X on one of the seats and a folded corner to mark the page
 * Printed out papers for various sections of the mountaineer
 * Seat parts paper with number 8 circled
 * Motor parts paper with a red arrow pointing to a section
 * Engine parts paper with Engine Coolant Temperature Sensor and Engine Coolant Temperature Sender highlighted
 * Electrical wiring map paper
 * Daiso Japan store receipt for a pack of blue pens
 * Courtyard Marriott hotel envelope with writing on it that is scratched out
 * Chipotle napkin with writing on it:
 * Numbers: 895(or 815) 995 1073(or 1015)
 * Schedule of an M with times underneath of it (8:30, 9:00, 7:45, 8:30, 8:45); “Tesla” circled with “Subaru” underneath of it scratched out, under the schedule; other numbers with no clear meaning to the left of the schedule: 86, 38, 910; the days of the week underneath the unknown numbers with “M” and “F” circled, indicating Monday and Friday; “Upon arrival” and “between office spaces” off to the right side of the schedule.
 * Contents of envelope:
 * Scrap lined paper with more writing on it:
 * “Mon/ M arrives early - 7:45AM?”
 * “Tues/ M - 9:30 arrives M - 5:30; W - 9:00 arrives W - 5:30; S - 8:00 arrives S - 5:00” “S - 5:00” has an arrow coming down pointing to more writing saying “Leaves by 5:00?
 * “Wed/ M - Back n Forth - 9:00, 12:00, 13:45”
 * "Thurs/ 10 PEOPLE” with the “10 people” circled
 * “Fri/Fri” “10/19” and “5,6 10” next to each other below the Thursday schedule
 * “FOB” circled with “SECURITY LOCK?” under it, also circled
 * “Brown car” with “woman 1” and “woman 2” under it with the days of the weeks under each
 * “No security on STZ” circled (might mean Saturdays?)
 * “M/ Blonde/Tall/Beard”
 * (Matt verbally said this part, did not show on camera) “M/S/W/C/S/K"
 * Green scrap paper with “W 8:00” and “Matt 7:00” with illegible other writing
 * Seemingly same green paper but a different piece with 863 and 015 on it, pink highlighter under it and it seems to have had other writing next to it before it was ripped (Sam confirms they have a 015 key because of that piece of paper).
 * Full lock picking set
 * Woods render.pnged red portfolio with documents inside:
 * Map of blue base with “PEGASUS” circled and pointing in the direction of the Mega Desk office (confirmed it was mega desk office with a second piece of paper that was ripped off of the original, with the corner circled where the safe was found in the air vent and more arrows pointing to it) [Matt mentions the landlords said blue prints to the base do not exist because it changes with every tenant]
 * Ripped paper with writing on it that seems to be a story about the NSA or Navy, and mentions Washington
 * Satellite map to a building
 * Bio electromagnetic documents, also says “Psycho-electronic weapon effects” and has various diagrams and information about hypnotism and mind control without patient awareness, a study begun by Joseph C. Sharp
 * A paper stating that the CIA released 5 million pages of declassified documents to the public on October 2nd, 2000, with these documents believed to be some of those.
 * Journal found in the seat that had the X on it in the documents


 * Pair of binoculars found underneath the drivers seat

Trivia
Hole in the Ground:


 * “The hole in the ground was for the story, no re-model. Izzy patched it back up couple months ago. Kinda crazy I know.”

Red Car
While there were a lot of 'Oops' moments or small mistakes that fans were able to catch, the crew missed this big one. In Episode 32: I Found Out How He Did It!, Matt and Woods said they were going to leave the Mountaineer at the creepy house. In the same video, only a few seconds later, we see the car at the studio mere minutes later. In Episode 40 (I Never Meant For You To See This...), Matt goes on to show the footage that he recorded himself getting the car after many questions from the fans.

In a Reddit comment, Matt reveals that having the car in the shot was a genuine mistake and this filmed some fake scenes of retrieving the car. He states, "...I definitely didn't mean to have the mountaineer in the shot and I thought it broke story so we made that 'story patch' that fixed it. Maybe that wasn't the best choice in the moment. I definitely do record a lot and don't upload it, including those diary vlogs in that video lol"