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[Video] Entry 32
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MarbleArk
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My theroy about them being in the hotel together. -

I think on Jay's 'Quest' to find Alex, he met Jessica and he and her encountered Sm. While trying to explain to Jessica, he showed her the video's.

The pills, it could be for the cough that Jessica had, (Possibly Slender-sickness)

They wanted a break, so they went to a hotel and got adjoining rooms so they can be in contact quickly in case anything came up. Maybe, just maybe that's when their memory was wiped.

My theory is probably 100% incorrect, but I'll continue adding to my theory as new things happen.

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logarithm
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MarbleArk wrote:
My theroy about them being in the hotel together. -

I think on Jay's 'Quest' to find Alex, he met Jessica and he and her encountered Sm. While trying to explain to Jessica, he showed her the video's.

The pills, it could be for the cough that Jessica had, (Possibly Slender-sickness)

They wanted a break, so they went to a hotel and got adjoining rooms so they can be in contact quickly in case anything came up. Maybe, just maybe that's when their memory was wiped.

My theory is probably 100% incorrect, but I'll continue adding to my theory as new things happen.


That sounds more legit than my theory. Actually...
You know how a lot of season 1 was watching random, out-of-order videos from a stack? At least part of this season could be Jay and Jess finding their own videos and watching them to fill in their memories of the last 7 months.

Maybe their last 7 months of video are in the safe.

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logarithm wrote:
I mean we have no explanation for the drugs

Well, the drugs were Ibuprofen! That was confirmed by a number of forum folks.

Akemi-Idane wrote:
Stop.

I kind of like how that last one stopped the distortion. *easily amused*

THIS is interesting, because at the end of the video when Jay says "leave the door open", the camera gets jaggy and glitches out on an image of the door still closing. It could be nothing, but that's twice in one video that things that Jay has said while on camera, have affected things on the camera...

Also, the distortion seemed to get more pronounced in some cases when they got more emotional. At the beginning, at least -- towards the end, it was just distort-o-rama there.

And the visual tearing. Hello, Operator, where are you hiding? Actually, my first thought upon watching the part where the camera gets darker, around 1:43, was that OMG OPERATOR SHADOW like in #22. But scrubbing through it, I don't think that's the case anymore. There's a weird inversion effect on the background behind Jessica's head -- look at the lightswitch, it's straight up inverted, not in shadow. That is cool, and a bit weird. Any camera buffs out there have insight upon this selective inversion effect?

Jay's choice of words for the video description did seem rather dramatic, but I'm not sure they amount to anything. I'm more concerned with the idea that he's given up on the safe. That worries me. It probably isn't the case (I HOPE it isn't the case D: ) but it could suggest that the safe combination was up to us to figure out, and we failed. It's going to either be that and we don't hear about the safe again, or the safe is a smoking gun and will come back in some form later. (I'd be totally thrilled if it was the subject of a TTA video!)

Also, the reason Jay knew to hightail it out of there ASAP was probably that he saw the distortion on the camera viewfinder as he was filming. This video was not filmed via the chestcam, so he'd be able to see the distortion as it happened, and considering the frequency, severity and variety of the distortions that occurred, him and his Operator-knowing ass could tell what was going on.

I reaaalllly hope we get a new video soon elucidating on what happened, or at LEAST an "I'm okay, we're driving" tweet. However, knowing how Troy and Joseph have done it in the past... I would not be surprised if it was some time before the next entry. D: After all, if Jay and Jessica DO book it the hell out of there tonight, well, it's hard to upload stuff while on the run. I do suspect even more strongly now, however, that Jay and Jessica had encountered one another before Jay's "waking up". She says she doesn't know how she got there. I suspect that she has lost more time than she's outright admitting, and that they're in adjoining rooms not because nefarious Operator or sneaky TTA are "storing" them there, but because they actually arrived at the hotel together. But Jessica's still losing time and sleepwalking, wheras Jay doesn't seem to be... hmmmm.

....as for the "smirk", jesus guys, cool down. I'm personally familiar with that expression. That is NOT a smile, OR a smirk! That's the reflexive trying-not-to-cry grimace. Hysterical might be a good word for it. However, it is NOT indicative of bad acting... really now.

tl;dr OH YEAAAH FUCK THAT WAS AWESOME

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I second the idea that Jay could see the visual tearing on his camera as Jessica spoke. Near the end there, it was even strong enough that Jay could have not been paying attention to his camera at all, and then see it out of the corner of his eye.

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I have the feeling that "we're getting out of here" somehow won't work.

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and, just gathering up some thoughts here, my friend and i are tempted to agree with the "jay was a masky during his MIA period" theory. not knowing much about the seven months makes it easy to have doubts about it, but my reasoning is this: the fact that jay and jessica woke up relatively safe and sound in some hotel suggests to me that they had been working for the other side while not in their right minds. after all, in entry ###### totheark specifically says the words, "control is being taken away from you." i'm thinking jay was apprehended on his mission for good, used, and then dumped.

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Daniel Kay wrote:
I have the feeling that "we're getting out of here" somehow won't work.


Wouldn't THAT be interesting!

They can't escape the hotel; the "I'm giving up on the safe" is just a red herring. They're stuck there somehow, weird things are happening, and the answer is in that damned safe. Hahaha.

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JKatkina wrote:
Daniel Kay wrote:
I have the feeling that "we're getting out of here" somehow won't work.


Wouldn't THAT be interesting!

They can't escape the hotel; the "I'm giving up on the safe" is just a red herring. They're stuck there somehow, weird things are happening, and the answer is in that damned safe. Hahaha.


Yea this is mostly what gave me that thought.
Otherwise the safe could really be abandoned OR they return at some time to try again.

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Two thoughts that JKat didn't already cover (thanks for putting those up!)

I feel like the talk of arks and Jay leading TTA to the ark last season has been left dangling:

Could Jessica have come into Jay's company because she is also looking for the ark? Or was passed on by someone else who knew that Jay could lead her to the ark?

The hotel having 'just staff' AND the two of them seems weird; if it were JUST Jay and Jessica, I think it would make a little more sense that they were in, say, some Operator-twisted dimension.

But I have to wonder... is the hotel the ark? And the fact that they are there now means that Jay found the ark after all, but now has put that place in peril (either by viewing No Entry, or by Jessica's infiltration whether she is doing it purposefully or not...)?

I'm only stating this because the hotel being empty aside from staff makes it feel like it's waiting for people, ready to take care of basic needs. If it was completely empty, I'd feel less like that was the case.

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Did anybody else notice that Jessica seemed to hesitate when J said to keep her door open?

could just have been her having a glitch in her mind for a second, but I dont know.

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logarithm wrote:


Maybe their last 7 months of video are in the safe.


If the rest of Marble Ark's theory is correct, I'm behind you on this. J is the kind of person who would lock up the tapes to keep them safe so it makes sense.

But on the subject of the "J and Jess came to the hotel together" theory, I want to point out that I support it to an extent but it doesn't explain why no one else is staying at the hotel.

And what about the staff anyway? They haven't appeared in any of the entries. It would be nice if J gave more details about them, like whether or not the act suspiciously, or at least made an entry where he talks to one of them.

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FUUUUUUU--


Damn you director. You kept me late and I missed the entry by mere minutes.

Beginning spec... NAO!

OK, so obviously it'd be easier to list the lines that *aren't* distorted, rather than the ones that are, and it seems to have ties to Jessica's emotional state, which may be a side effect of H1-MH.
JKat is right, it looks like a slender-shadow near the end of the video, but that's as-of-yet unconfirmed.

Oh Troy, you've brought back the mental molestation and saved Christmas! This just may be the high point of the entire season so far. I. LOVE. YOU. GUYS!!


tldr: Shit just got real, and was suitably cash.
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anybody notice that the thumbnail of the video keeps changing?
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JKatkina wrote:
They're stuck there somehow, weird things are happening, and the answer is in that damned safe. Hahaha.


And wouldn't the plot thicken if Jess had just happened to have woken up with a 4 digit number scrawled onto a bit of paper like Jay woke up with a mystery key?

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cochinosanchez wrote:
anybody notice that the thumbnail of the video keeps changing?


No?

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