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[INFO] TIMELINE

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Lacey
Decorated

Joined: 08 Jun 2007
Posts: 231
Location: Not all witches live in Salem.

[INFO] TIMELINE

Oct 15-
Morrison's Grave/ Steals rose from another grave and scratches his arm tossing it over the fence to Morrison's grave

Oct 17-
Notre Dame (also know that Jenny is upset w Talbot at this point)
Also "hangs out" with April from Panama, who wants to watch him eat Creme Broule, but doesn't share

Oct 18-
Early morning (1AM) leaves France, back in NY at 9:30AM , breakup with Jenny is official by 11:30 AM (can someone read the note?)

Oct 19-
At Grandpa's house

Oct 20-
Fired, crosses Pennsylvania State Line at 3 PM in Grandpa's 'Stang

Oct 21-
Needs fresh bandages for his arm, "won't stop oozing" /hits Cleveland and Rock and Roll HOF/Street player hits on him (?)/Reports of Mysterious Hitchhiker begin appearing "seen 4x so far"/Checks into hotel in Joliet, IL, and finds Mysterious Hitchhiker at Starbucks at 8 PM

Oct 22-
in Sullivan, MO by 3 PM / By 6 PM, Jenny is "worried", evidently no contact via phone from Talbot to his parents or Jenny recently / Joplin, MO 8 PM, reports Dad has cancelled his CC, notes that his arm is "BAD"
Amber states 2 PM this day is the last contact she's had with him via text

Oct 23-
9:30 AM in Catoosa, OK, hits Texas by 3 PM / Reports other drivers are flashing headlights at him for unknown reasons / Meets Robert Pratten, zombie filmmaker, who tells him he looks "sick" / 9:30 passes Mysterious Hitchhiker again /11:30 PM arrives in Tucumcari, NM
Oct 24-
Noon, arrives in Lupton, AZ, Metor Crater 1 PM/ plans to stay with his friend Ted / CONTACT VIA TEXT w other players, stating he's OK / Arrived safely in Phoenix at 10:30 PM, states that Ted's dad is a doctor and will look at the arm tomorrow, and "might have" seen the Mysterious Hitchhiker today.
States Ted's dad gave him pain pills and antibiotics

Oct 25-
Talks about weird dreams and trouble with lyrics, Makes it to California line about 1:30 PM/ spends 2 hours at Blythe Intaglios (weird ancient sand sculptures), then later at Amboy Crater / 8:55 PM posts video of car accident with no other info / Checks into Hotel LION at 10:08 PM, room 27, various Hotel California references ensue

Oct 26-
Hotel California references continue: Mission bell, Mercedes Benz, 'pretty pretty boys she calls friends' at the pool, etc. / Sees perfect condition Mercedes and says "its the exact same kind of car" from the wreck / Decides to leave late at night, finds a rose in the Mustang / Posts for help keeping him awake on the drive to LA at 10:30 PM

Oct 27-
Checks in on Swarm that he's back in room 27 at the hotel, stating he "must've blacked out" / heads to the pool / finds a rose under the wiperblade of the Mustang (the roses are starting to die) / 7:30 decides to explore, heads to basement, leads to a secret, gated courtyard / our first real puzzle!! 9 skulls, a quote, and "27" etched in stone, leads to a solve referencing the 27 Club / "light at the end of the tunnel" leads to a secret room that made him feel "amazing", but ran away when he heard someone coming / tries to leave again at 11:43 PM, but is stopped by Circe who wants him to meet "someone", who Talbot instantly falls in love with, who looks suspiciously like Janis Joplin

Oct 28-
Photo of lobby desk shows dead flies, makes a comment about Southern Comfort, fever, and loud bells not mixing / 2:04 PM finds another (dying) rose in his hotel room / forgoes the pool party and stays in the secret room writing, decides to leave / Stopped by Circe, again, invited to a dinner party on the 5th floor / Decor is super creepy, food is worse, bolts for the door / Assisted by what is possibly the Mysterious Hitchhiker, who tells him "only three days" in Welsh and "he wants to find the courage to sing again" / finds a notebook with a Jim Morrison quote that may or may not be in Talbot's handwriting (same as the quote from the graveyard) / finds more dead roses in and on the Mustang, and hits the road

Oct 29-
Talbot wakes up at noon CA time to more dead roses in room 27 again, commenting that he has a fever and needs meds / posts more lyrics and decides to head back to the Secret Room because it "feels like a drug" to him / 2 PM decides to look for Circe and demand answers, despite warnings from his fans / 2:45 (no word re. Circe) he decides to go to "his" room (Secret Room), posts another photo of the room and says it's the only place he feels at peace / 4:30 PM Eric (fan club forum user ETeiltu) decides to drive to Talbot's location to help, arrives an hour later. Eric finds a single red rose on the road, no buildings and very quiet. He sees (and photos) a single tree with a double trunk, a ring of rocks around the tree. Piles of a white unidentified ash or dust. Removes a rock then replaces it, posts a second, closer pic of the tree with a face caught in some kind of reflection. Then goes to investigate more piles of ash and we don't hear from Eric again / Meanwhile, Talbot posts that he encounters a guy in facepaint and costume in the hallway who speaks in German and tells him ""You'll never win, don't fight your sin, Die sieben und zwanzig, this feast of friends... Und zwei tage..... zwei tage..." ("twenty seven" and "two days, two days" / Talbot runs back to the Secret Room and reports hearing a party ramping up by the pool / Talbot posts he can't stand it any longer, he's checking out, while fans encourage him to look for Eric / Next post from Talbot is "Freaked. Everyone looks different. Warped. I'll. Incoherent. Drunk. And one gave me a rose!" and he hasn't checked out / Next post "New guest just checked in and looked at me strange! Circe grabbed him and whisked him away." while fans encourage him to look for Eric / Talbot then mentions a fan with a sugar skull painted on her makes him feel better, so fans start a thread posting photos of more sugar skulls, leading to the suggestion that Talbot paint his own face. He goes in search of the costumed man or makeup / Talbot makes his way to his car and posts "Dead roses, maggots and flies all over my car. I CAN'T DRIVE THIS! HELP", and a few minutes later, tells us Circe has watched his reaction and told him she needs to "show him the way / Talbot mentions how party-goers all are painted like sugar skulls, and he finds a face painter there / Facepainted Talbot feels "epic" and hears someone calling his name in the corridor so he investigates, hoping it is Eric / finding a dark tunnel, he uses his cell phone for light but then turns his phone off when he hears voices / Talbot makes it out of the tunnel, turned his phone on to see where he was and is startled by a figure in a costume/mask/facepaint?? and begins to run "until he hits Amboy or sees a car" / Inexplicably, a few minutes later, he is posting song lyrics again but does not respond to questions about where he is

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:29 am
Last edited by Lacey on Thu Oct 30, 2014 3:42 am; edited 2 times in total

mekdahl
Boot

Joined: 03 Jan 2008
Posts: 69
Location: Omaha Nebraska

Added new Event
New event added

10/28/14 @ 2:01 PM CT: So apparently now, he's back in Rm 27 with 2 dead roses on his bed & just 2 mins ago @ 2:49 PM CT: he posted on IG, more lyrics with spot/ Hurts/ Scratch emphasized with black & red ink.

I also noticed what looks like a face that's scribbled out?

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:56 pm

Pixiestix
Resident Angry Midget

Joined: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 2465
Location: Tomorrow's Talk Studios

Re: Added new Event
New event added

mekdahl wrote:

I also noticed what looks like a face that's scribbled out?

Looks like a big rose scribbled out, consistant with his rose doodles

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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:58 pm

Lacey
Decorated

Joined: 08 Jun 2007
Posts: 231
Location: Not all witches live in Salem.

I think it's a sugar skull.

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:04 pm

aliendial
Unfictologist

Joined: 29 Sep 2002
Posts: 3438
Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.

Yeah it looks like he did a scribbled skull over the rose.

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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:33 pm

Pixiestix
Resident Angry Midget

Joined: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 2465
Location: Tomorrow's Talk Studios

If it is, it is on top of the rose/little person we ALREADY saw drawn there

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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:35 pm

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