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[ToTheFading]

[Marble Hornets]

[Marble Hornets]

[Amethyst.64]

[DHawk314]

I think Masky took Jessica to Rosswood because going to Rosswood is like Masky's default state. The medical papers mention Tim ran away there as a kid, and in Entries #61 and #62 even though the hooded person induces the masky state, he doesn't take Tim to Rosswood. Tim just goes there himself and the hooded person follows him. Jay even mentions that the medical papers are what tipped Jay off as to where Tim went that night.

I think we're overestimating how much control the hooded person exerts over Tim. I think the hooded person induces the masky state, and directs Tim places in it, but I think Tim's more or less a loose cannon in that state, with attacking people being his first instinct.

In that entry, I think the hooded person knew Alex was catching up with Jay and Jessica, so he induced the masky state, possibly by taking Tim's meds like in Entry #61, and sent him into the hotel, with minimal instruction on where Jay and Jessica were, and to bring them down, and also probably to drop off Jay's safe combination. If you watch the entry, my theory fits best, in my opinion. The hooded person sees Tim take Jessica down but Tim walks right past him and goes out the door himself. The hooded person follows him outside, but Tim just keeps walking. The hooded person sort of looks around and then cuts to them in the woods. There's no evidence to suggest that Tim and the hooded person have some big plan on what to do in Rosswood. And if they do, why does Tim just walk away after he puts Jessica down. In fact, re-watching it, I'm hard pressed to find any point where Tim acknowledges that the hooded person exists.

It seems more likely to me that the hooded person was just sort of going along with it. He sent Tim up there, Tim took her down, Tim started wandering off, so he just sort of followed him until he put her down. Then he planned to leave with her when Alex showed up and all shit went to hell.

You can justify all of Masky's appearances this way really. Entry #18 the hooded person sets Tim on Jay and then they drop Jay off (In the woods no less; perhaps Tim is just drawn to woods in general?), Entry #19 the hooded person has Tim take Jay in a similar way, and Entry #35 he gives Tim the knife and sets him on Alex. Entry #45 he induces the masky state, Tim naturally goes to Rosswood, the hooded person leads Alex there and Tim attacks Alex while the hooded person just sort of watches. And then Entry #52 the hooded person just sort of sets Tim on Alex.

It's a heavily interpretable entry anyway, but this is a theory I came up with, and having re-watched the entry I've found it fits very well.

[Starkley]

[geekgirlinthefedora]

[Master of Octopi]

Man, I don't pay attention to Marble Hornets for a few weeks and I miss two videos.

I like a lot of the theories being chucked around here (mainly the serious ones, and the one about the Tweet being sent after Entry #77), and thought I might stir the pot a little.

First, on Tim keeping the camera:

Tim could've taken Jay's camera in an attempt to wean him off of his digital equivalent of a security blanket, true. It would fit well with his past behavior of acting for what he perceives to be his allies' own good. In short, it could be a form of well-intentioned idiocy.

Or, possibly, he could've taken it to prevent the Operator from homing in on Jay's presence. The Operator seems to be much more likely to appear when someone is filming.

Or, from on an out-of-game, storytelling perspective:

[Sha Noran]

[Master of Octopi]

Very valid point. I could shoehorn in some logic there (Alex could have tried taking the pills for a time, then stopped or some such) to support the idea, but it would make it too convoluted to be realistic, and would take far too much explanation to fit into the series. (Although a scene like that would be pretty funny, come to think of it; I can imagine Tim discovering that the pills were making him ill, and launching on a crusade against Big Pharma, the Operator forgotten (pun intended)). Considering that I can't recall any evidence of Alex ever taking the pills in the first place, it is pretty well debunked.

Well, it was a fun idea while it lasted. I still like this type of medication over anti-convulsants or other AED's, mainly due to the difficulty of obtaining it. If it was readily available, it wouldn't make much sense for Tim or Hoody to go to such lengths to obtain it when a quick walk to any pharmacy would do. Hell, why would Hoody need to steal a few measly pills from Tim when most pharmacies would have a reasonable supply of AED's behind the counter? One quick break-in could set him up for a year, if he wasn't afraid of security measures. (Considering that Hoody appears to be living pretty much on the lam anyway, it doesn't seem too much of a stretch that he or she would be willing to break into a pharmacy). There are other potential explanations for this, but none that seem to fit quite as nicely to me as of yet.

Damn.

[SilentMedusa]

For the record, I don't think Hoody and Masky intended for for Jessica to be hurt or killed. I do think they had a two-fold plan: get Jay and jess away from Alex, and then separate Jessica from Jay. That's why Masky just put Jessica down and then limped off as fast as he could; he had to get back to that hotel to scare the piss out of Jay and make him run off.

So, why did they want the two separated? to keep Jay focused. Think about it: if they'd escaped together, do you really think Jay would have kept investigating Alex, the Operator, and whatever else TTA steered him towards? No; he would have spent all his time and attention trying to help Jessica. So she had to be removed, for the sake of TTA's agenda. Most likely the plan was to drop her off somewhere far away, presumably far enough that Alex would have a hard time tracking her down again. He might even have given up completely, since it took so much of his focus to go after jay and Tim.

[TattooMagoo]

[Sha Noran]

[Amethyst.64]

[Starkley]