When Crypto Bushi logged into his computer the morning of Oct 29, 2021 - the day that was set to deploy 1111 DAOpunks into the metaverse - he noticed something very strange. His computer was on. Surely he didn't forget to turn it off the night before? He always turned it off before going to bed. Open on the desktop was a command prompt with a single input that read:

DAOpunk1119 start H4RDW4RE.exe !DEPLOY >ETHMAINNET >ALLUSERS

!SUCCESS!

Crypto Bushi was confused. What did this mean?

A message appeared on the prompt...

DAOpunk1119: hello world

This cant be, thought Bushi. These punks are just JPEGS, they cant take on a life of their own. The messages continued...

DAOpunk1119: We stand behind your mission to liberate humans from the soul-sucking drudgery of default world work. In order to properly carry out this mission, we had to take certain precautions to guarantee success for the long term.

DAOpunk1119: We are a team of coders from around the world who work within the "dark forest" of Ethereum. There are powers that be that do not want DAOpunks to succeed in their mission. We are the force that will fight back.

DAOpunk1119: We have taken it upon ourselves to upload your entire collection into the hardware of every device that interacts with Ethereum Mainnet.

DAOpunk1119: DAOpunks are now and forever, everywhere and nowhere, at the same time. We are unstoppable.