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[JustAQ]

Alex is beyond help unless you have a degree in crazy. Jeff is kind-of a douche for letting him get that far gone because he was so preoccupied with his "sad panda" phase. The most terrible thing is we know he's going to die and there is nothing to do to stop it. He's either going to be killed by some crazy entity or kill himself.

The messed up thing is that Evan, the least reliable of the three and the obvious psychotic, is the most responsible and adult of all of them and the only one that has seemed concerned from the get-go. Shit, he got his arm practically torn off to save Alex and Jeff was too busy with his camera bullshit.

The whole shebangabang is going to hell in a handbasket and it's sad.

[qaqa]

I don't think we know anything for sure, but we can certainly try to help. As some of us said at the time of the Memory Town geocache discovery, it becomes a bit of an anticlimax if we're outlined exactly what's going to happen and can do nothing to attempt to alter it.

I think Jeff is a kid in over his head. He apparently has to raise his brother, but he's not much older and I think he's dealing with a fair bit of denial as to the extent of Alex's condition. They both need real help, but thus far are not getting it. At least Jeff has shown a willingness to talk to a couple people here about what happened to his parents.

[seriousbandits]

I wouldn't call Jeff a douche for what's happening with Alex. Like qaqa said, it's clear that he's in over his head having to take care of himself and Alex. He's a 19 year old college student who lost both his parents, his girlfriend went missing and is possibly probably dead, has to make sure he and his brother have a roof over their heads and has all this Slenderman/HABIT/The Rake business all within a very small window of time. Granted he should pay a little more attention to Alex and get him to a therapist but he's got a lot on his plate.

I'm sure it's been brought up before but I'm a little more concerned as to why there isn't any family to help them. Even if his parents were both only children, are both sets of grandparents dead? Were Vinnie and Evan's parents friendly enough to Jeff's that they're helping out with the situation? We don't even know about them, lol. The amount isolation the group has from any adults is unnerving.

[The Kempest]

I also don't want to just resign ourselves to letting Alex die. There's gotta be something we can do to prevent him from getting knocked aside for the glory of the cycle, or however you find yourself wording it.

As far as parents go, I've just been running with the "The Parents/Police are Useless" trope. Seems a safe bet, as any family help would have turned up by now.

[MsSynclair]

[The Kempest]

WE RIDE TO NEW JERSEY
IT IS THE ONLY WAY

AND BY WE I MEAN WHOEVER IS CLOSEST

Help us GreenFreathers, you're our only hope.

[qaqa]

I believe there has to be some way to break some part of the cycle, otherwise it would not have been spelled out for us. I think Alex is crucial - he's the last piece Jeff hasn't lost, from what I can tell - and I don't want him to die but I don't know what we can do for him that isn't already being done IG. He's being watched by the other guys, protected - what more is there? If they want the plot to take a turn, we can only do as much about that as they allow us, and I see few other options currently presented to us as viable. This is all their story and so far as we know we're largely along for the ride, until we're sometimes given options for more. We've talked about suggesting he be sent away, but concluded it would do no good and they wouldn't do it anyway. I think all we can do right now is wait. Wait and see what may (or may not) be given us in terms of rope and ability.

We need to know the story of their parents, but they've made us wait to be privvy to it. I suppose we could press again, but I know there's a specific person (grieck?) who Jeff promised to speak to and I intend to respect that.

[The Kempest]

Welp, time to do what I do best: over-analyze some crap we stopped focusing on.

That Geiger counter thing. Our magical SlenderMacguffin. It looked like it had a battery pack, the kind you see on RC cars. If those are batteries, are they even good anymore? Possible question right there.

That's definitely a meter of some kind of the front. Hard to tell what for, what with Evan waving it around. Even on full-screen, I don't know what I'm looking at. Looks sort of that black case can be removed though. Also another question.

Evan said it was making a rick-tick-tickety noise. That's certainly indicative of a Geiger, though the needle on the meter is far too thick for a Geiger's sensitive readout.

Wait, no, that seems to be just a trick of the light. Hm. Well, that little block to the right of the meter, that could be a detachable sensor. It's so odd though. It doesn't match up with any early-70s Geiger counters in terms of design.

There's a small silver something protruding from that block on the side. Looked like Jeff was tweaking it, as it it were a dial. Said block can't really be detachable, like counters at the time. There's no cord.

It's not a goddamn Geiger counter. It can't be. Think I should ask about the batteries/case?

[Lewa]

Have we told Alex that the box said he's going to die? I know that sounds like a stupid thing to tell somebody who's already messed up, but could it really make anything worse?

[qaqa]

I've thought about that before too, Lewa, and I really don't know the answer. He's not stable, less so than the others, and I can't see it helping, but at the same time if there is any role for us to play here, we can't use too many kid's gloves anymore.

[Luipaard]

We told them about the box, didn't we? And our speculation as to what the content means? As well as Fairmount-Jeff's medical papers?

[qaqa]

[Lookbehindyou]

I believe at the time, we were more delicate with the situation. Things have kind of bled together so to speak, and that makes it hard to sort out.

[Luipaard]

Mattwan's letter. He mentioned the cycle, but its mostly focused on Vinnie's possible position as the Voyeur. No mention of Alex as a target.

God, I hope we get an explanation for this soon.

[TheArmadaBledd]

Seems like they had a Ustream lately and people seem to be pretty pumped about it, what went down?