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[Meta] What the heck is going on in this game?

[RedHatty]

If I were to make an educated guess at this time, I would venture that Matt's Dad & gramps were working with some doc who were performing manipulations on the human body, similar to but not quite like Jon Paine. Somehow, Matt is in possession of something of interest (probably in his Grampa's stuff) and since Matt & Derek are roommates, Derek gets involved "by accident" (per my guess at the storyline) but since Derek is into cryptids, it works in beautifully with the Host preview, etc.

We may possibly find an old doc running around (the Miller) who is still doing human mutative surgeries/treatments that he first learned to do back in Nam, Jon Paine visiting him for "the ultimate" modification, the N-a-r-a folks looking for some artifact that Matt's pages lead to, etc.

In otherwords, a complex, multi storied plot line that really looks great so far! (Kudos to the PMs)

[danteIL]

Given what little I know of the storyline of The Host, I'd say that the strange cryptid creature from the vids is the result of some sort of military experimentation/chemical dumping that Matt's grandfather was involved in.

I don't know how Jon Paine fits in, although I like the idea that the body-mod doctor might be involved -- creating human-animal hybrids, perhaps? Although if Jon is faking his implant, what does that mean?

The Jon-Amie-Derek-SunYi quadrangle seems to be for character depth and emotional oomph. Derek's blog on MHC is full of Amie drama. He doesn't think very clearly when it comes to her, that's for sure.

This is all very intriguing so far. We have several well-done websites, lots of backstory, well-constructed puzzles, and swag. Speaking of backstory, I am grateful that Matt has decided to post transcripts of his grandfather's journal. My eyes thank you....

[molecularr]

If you need catching up, www.thinginthewater.com (updated yesterday) has been doing a good job at keeping the details together and summarizing the storylines so far. I also sent the argnetcast a pretty detailed summary of events up to Sunday that they say they're turning into a post.

Anyway, the Jon Paine storyline seems to be the wildcard as far as things eventually tying together. We really haven't been able to contribute much to that either, except finding Gemalte Seele's email address. It's possible that "The Miller" has something to do with the Agent Yellow storyline (maybe he's Dr. G?), but since we still know so little about what Drs. T and G were up to, it's hard to say.

[danteIL]

SPEC: connecting some dots...