Basically after Thot took over Lavenza, was expunged, and then killed by the Thot Patrol, we realize that we had purified our first Palace.
"Lust."
So we started to try and figure out who would represent the second Palace, "Vanity."
Then today this cheshire cat, -V-, showed up and started posting codes everywhere. We figured out what they were alluding to (work shown in the Cheshire Cypher thread) and then the game began.