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On the book side of things: Dave Szulborski's This Is Not A Game and Andrea Phillips' Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling. Mike Selinker and Thomas Snyder's Puzzlecraft is one of the most in-depth guides to puzzle creation out there.
On the video side of things: Night Mind's How To Make a Webseries is particularly helpful in framing what type of project you want to make.
While most of the Game Detectives resources are focused on players, their Game Detectives Academy is a helpful grounding on some of the tools in the creator's arsenal. Some of the folks playing the Game Theorists puzzle trail have created an #arg-workshop channel in the Official Game Theorists Discord with similar resources (there's a Google Doc specifically for puzzle creation in the channels pins, although I'm going to assume linking to that directly here is a breach of decorum).
Hands down, I'm saying this is a trailhead. A rabbit hole. This is a pending ARG hang and I think OP is one of the PM's[edit: Puppet Masters].
> I will still try and meet on the 19th as the original note said, but was wondering if this note may change anything/warn me, seeing as he has at least some of my information
Suggests he's considering not showing, it presents a call to action for others to go in his place. This is likely a PR event, as many others have pointed out, but regardless, as jeannedark said be safe. The encryption methodology isn't highly secure. So it's meant to be a play quick, feel rewarded, setup.
This isn't quite Cloudmaker grade challenge. But certainly a nice light taste of ARG's that would hopefully make Dave Szulborski proud.
Have fun, stay safe.