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[ZomgShaylex]

[MsSynclair]

[Lookbehindyou]

[DZombar]

Mattwan holds a lot of sense with that crazy tree I adore Mattwan's trees so much.

That whole idea that things in the storage unit were compromised is highly plausible. However what if the unit wasn't compromised only by Slenders or HABIT. Maybe this was something of a team effort or an outside party acting to keep things in a controlled environment. What if all the artifacts and clues that we have gotten are controls for the environment.
These controls could send it a certain way depending on how they are used as far as information goes. So the thing is what if the storage shed was a control given to the boys for a reason something that is needed for a cycle but the objects we have are a way for us to subtly change the controls they have been given. Like one huge experiment on actions and reactions of people and information.

[Karuvitomsk]

Mattwan, if you dislike the geiger counter being a Slendetector, try to think of it like this:

The monsters in Silent Hill cause radios to play static. But do you really think they're broadcasting white noise?

[Mattwan]

Y'all are the best!

[qaqa]

I agree with you, Mattwan, but I think it's a little more nuanced - it's not about science or explaining SM, it's about the genre convention in which otherworldly entities give off some strange sickness or even a form of radiation when we come into contact with them, based on them being so alien and different from us, having spawned God knows where. It goes as far back as Dracula and as recent as, at least, stuff like Stephen King's It and The Tommyknockers, I believe. But that doesn't mean we can just automatically detect them with some gizmo. There is no exact science here.

[shy lil derp]

[awakeasaurusrex]

[Mattwan]

[Karuvitomsk]

That's a good way of looking at it, qaqa. If the counter, or whatever it is, is really giving off signals when the Slender Man's around, I don't think the reason behind that is that somehow It's emitting some radioactive signal. I don't think it's that easy to explain, and even if it was, that's just weird, and I think that's the impression Mattwan's getting. Why the hell would SM be radioactive?

The point is that I don't think he is. What it is is distortion, of reality and its waves and beams and signals. The Slender Man does not belong here, and everything that is of our own reality reacts in certain ways. People cough, and bleed, and lose great chunks of time. But It isn't a carrier of any real disease, It doesn't have to touch you to cause injury, and It's not putting roofies in your water. It just is.

I getcha, Mattwan, and I agree with your reasoning, but I think we're looking at it in different ways, too.

[Glomple]

Well, if the Geiger counter is Corenthal's, he could have modified it so it picked up Slendy interference. *shrug*

[awakeasaurusrex]

[Badgerconda]

Maybe it's just me, but the way I saw it was that the camera reacted to being pointed at the device-- I don't think the noise in the video was audible to say, the boys in the storage unit, or else they would've probably mentioned it. And the noise only happened when Jeff was pointing the camera at it, rather than the other way around (it seemed to me). So I don't think you can say that the device was making strange noises and detecting anything, because I don't think it was making any kind of a noise...

To me, it seemed more like the device has some of the same... camera-influencing essence that Slendy does, and perhaps that when the item was handled, it even summoned Him, or let Him know where the boys were, or something.

As far as the vomiting blood goes, I tend to stick to something similar to what M proposed in his 'the tutorial' blog. Slenderman is wrong for this reality. He's not of this place, and he's not even remotely natural, and being near him basically causes people to start breaking down, physically and mentally, because of that wrongness and otherness. It's not radiation (slapping scientific terms on something like Slenderman seems almost futile, to me) but it's sort of a similar idea, so it could be thought as a type of radiation, I suppose. But I'm pretty sure that no amount of radiation will make you start vomiting columns of blood immediately without also causing your eyeballs to melt. Not to mention, if Slendy was radioactive, the boys would all have radiation sickness and would be going bald, etc. I just don't think you can apply a simple 'hard' scientific label to any of Slendy's qualities.

[Luipaard]