Why? Puzzles, that's why! (Puzzle Over!)

Well, hello people of SteamGifts, you seem to have found yourselves in the middle of a rather puzzling puzzle, or at least I hope it is!

Now there are 3 reason why I have done this:

1. I'm going off to college and this is my last hoorah before I have no money left to speak of.
2. I am here to help promote my friend's website: Indie Game Bundles (and even if you don't go to it I'll be forcing you to sometime later ;P)
3. Because I felt like it. (I swear I had a better third reason, maybe I'll remember it later) I changed my mind, my 3rd reason is that I don't have a reason. I don't need a reason to give. Cliche ftw!

So, without further ado, here is the puzzle!

EDIT: Almost forgot this most appropriate giveaway!

EDIT: Have a few more (these end in 2 days)! 1 2 ENDED!

EDIT: And here's another one! ;D Click

The instructions are rather simple. All you have to do is search for three things!

1. How are you going to find the message.
2. What this message is.
3. Where to put it.
   

If you do everything right, you will go on my whitelist!

You get one week (August 31, Noon CST)!

Geniuses: 22

Genius Train!

Hints! (I'll probably release one every day!)

1. Seems I wasn't very clear on where to start, so I've edited it a bit to make that part easier!
2. New hint ... somewhere!
3. The story is not what you think it is!

Prizes!

• Dungeon Siege Collection
• Tales from the Borderlands
• Joe Dever's Lone Wolf HD Remastered
• Kyn
• Satellite Reign
• Darkest Dungeon
• This War of Mine
• Risen 3 - Complete Edition
• Kholat
• Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
• Victor Vran
• Valkyria Chronicles

To come:

Well that's all of the giveaways! Still got some time to get on my whitelist and enter them though!

I made this fairly difficult because I put a lot of work into this puzzle and a lot more work into getting the prizes, so please don't let me down!

All of the giveaways start on August 26th, Noon CST and end on September 2nd, Noon CST; because reasons. They're also all level 2+!

Hmm ... what else ... ahh! I will help out from time to time (yes I do like CV so I will be trying to get at least 5 people into each of the GAs!)

Also not all of the GAs have been created yet as I ran out of slots, so hopefully more to come! (Maybe support will help me out?)

Oh yes, one last thing! Good luck!

P.S. I did kind've "borrow" some other person's ideas for this, but he said he was totally cool with it!