[xomunkixo]

Well poopie.
I was able to make it back in time for like.. THE LAST DAY OF THIS WHOLE THING.
COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT. OHOHOHO.

I remember this starting out... Everyone wondering why some guy killed Kelvin... What the hell happened at the Curran... Everyone thinking this was for Donny Darko? And then some how it exploded into a giant universe of awesome characters and a deeper conspiracy than I think most of us imagined...
Or maybe that was just me. Haha. It seems funny looking back and remembering all the little things we seemed to get stuck on... and they all seem like such small pieces of a much larger and more significant puzzle now.

And the time where we all flipped out when someone sent Classi a package to her parents house... I seriously thought we were all being watched for a while.

I'm probably going to end up printing out this entire thread when I get new printer ink. :<

And.. I agree. It's going to be hard finding another game to play after this one. SO IF ANY OF YOU FIND ONE YOU HAVE TO LET ME KNOW.

Cuz I'm going to miss everyone.

[classical]

Never would I have guessed that I would have gotten so damn involved in this thing. I've been here the whole five months (well, minus a day) after pretty much stumbling upon it by accident. Trying to picture this thread as I first found it--only three pages long with little more than a couple of emails and a handful of blog posts for substance--is really difficult, given the level of just... stuff that this game has thrown at us.

I'm still kinda surprised I stuck around. Usually I get bored a week or two into these things and then wander off to find something else. Yet! here I am. /nostalgia

Now that this is all done and over (apparently), I kinda want to go back into the wiki and just collect everything for the sake of memories and good times. And it'll keep me busy in the meantime, because WHAT ELSE AM I GOING TO DO NOW

/snff

Also, Bricker, because I know you're reading this: if you don't get the book finished and published after all this, I will be so mad at you. ):

[paperbound]

It might have been something else entirely that led me to find the forums (and now, for the life of me, I can't remember what it was!), but it was this that managed to pull me in enough to join and participate.

That said, this whole experience has actually inspired a bit of writing of my own, so there's definitely that to give thanks for. And I've truly enjoyed every agitating moment in watching this all unfold. I don't want to believe it's completely over.

[classical]

Last email from Reka:

Quote:

Oh I'm sorry about misspelling your name, we have a Kortney here and I have never seen it spelled how you do. I have to admit your Mr. King is one of those patients for me. Everyone in medicine has them occasionally. It's just that there's something different about them and you feel instantly attached to them and you never forget them. I can look back over my career and I count time based on the special patients. I don't know if that makes sense. There was definitely something with that one and he sounds like he was very special to you and Mr. Schwinn also. It's such a loss and I really am sorry for you. I'll get the picture to you, thanks for the addy. Reka

Haha, well, I'll let you guys know when the picture comes in, though I doubt there'll be much of anything to it. Because I guess this is really the end!

I dunno about you guys, but it's gonna be hard to move onto any other game after this.

[3v1L Schwinn]

Errr
http://www.1407oakhurst.info/
The credits are rolling.

It truly is over...

I cant/won't/don't want to believe its over. Thanks "Im Sorry" team and "Folded Brood". Now what do I do? Huh? Tell me! What now! ARRRGGGHH!

[ASimulacraOfAlex]

wow. what an amazing story. im glad i was able to be a part of it...I can just hope its not completely over:/

[xomunkixo]

FRICK IT'S OVER? FRRIICCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.
MY LOVE IS DEAD. BAWWWWWWW!!

RIP Rage..
You'll forever be in my heart.
*tear*

[paperbound]

Wow. Just...wow.

I knew he didn't kill her! It just didn't add up to me. I'm glad about Lucy too!

Such a good story!

[3v1L Schwinn]

Wulf74 wrote:

Just got an email from Bricker, saying simply "it's finished". Attached was this:

WHOA. WOW.
See I told you she wasn't dead. and Lucy made it out too! I guess that also answers my questions about Ports body.

Awesome story!

ETA: My email to the nurse was returned.

Quote:

Hi Mr. Schwinn. I really don't know about Mr. King's body. We just call and they come up and get him for processing and we're a very large facility and to be honest I don't know what all that entails. I'm sorry for your loss. Reka

[Wulf74]

Just got an email from Bricker, saying simply "it's finished".

Attached was this:

[3v1L Schwinn]

From TGATT 37...

Quote:

Jenny's hands found a cloth napkin in the middle of the table. As she heard the swoosh of the door opening at the far end of the restaurant, her fingers slid under the linen and discovered two full ammunition clips on the cold tabletop.

I dont think Rage kills Jenny. He takes the guns from the counter, she finds the clips under the napkin and then he goes outside to die. Jenny escapes, somehow.

Quote:

It's empty," the man said

[Wulf74]

Sorry for the late posting of this - I mean to post this email immediately after I got it, but RL.
Anyway, this was in response to me sending part of the manuscript to Rage..

Quote:

Wulf, Very interesting read, my friend, and I appreciate you working to both enlighten me and clarify your own thoughts. I think it's important for you to know that what you have read and sent to me is the story that we have both created, not what the writer originally intended. I guess without my perspective it's difficult to comprehend so let me take this opportunity to clarify for you. Share it if you want, keep it to yourself if that seems better. I first became aware of my situtation while I was sitting in my car, listening to Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" and watching a house burn. I had the oddest sensation that everything was only two-dimensional. That I was acting out of a will not my own. Inconsistent, as it were. And little by little over the coming weeks I became aware of "rewrites". I found myself going through the same situations over and over again, but responding differently. It was very disorienting and as I fought against it and tried to respond to the situations I was placed in the manner that I wanted to, something started to happen. I found myself able to control my surroundings like the dreamer who half-wakes in the midst of the dream. Then it happened. I stepped through a door, intending to kill that old stupid bastard Poughkeepsie and instead came face to face with the writer. He was hunched over a folding card table, typing on a laptop in Norman, Oklahome. He looked up at me - surprise registering on his face - but not complete surprise. As if he had already sensed me pushing against his will, getting stronger each time. So do I know the writer? Intimately. Do I know that I'm a character in a story? Again, I say "aren't we all?" It's time we see where this story goes.

[classical]

So uh, Rage's twitter is gone.

[paperbound]

So...we pull a Stranger Than Fiction, and get Bricker to re-write the end so that Rage doesn't attempt to blow Jenny's brains out only to get blasted into little bits himself?

I'd personally offer to re-write it myself if it meant a happy solution, but something tells me it doesn't work that way, since they're all Bricker's bunnies and this ain't Inkheart.

[Wulf74]

<snip>

paperbound wrote:

Maybe I'm just wishful thinking, or quite possibly talking nonsense, but I'm saying Rage didn't actually kill her.

<snip>

It could be like in the first part of the story - where he shot her, and her "spirit" (for lack of a better word), was still conscious and aware of her surroundings. Because Rage didn't take her soul at that point like he did to his other kills.