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Sleight · Veteran Joined: 23 Jul 2011 Posts: 76

Quick word on the blood from an EMT now finishing up medical school...

No there is no way for it to be accurate. So blood "dries" really quickly, which is to say, it gets crusty and what not faster than you might expect. The larger the volume of blood the longer it tends to stay "wet." Blood doesn't really coagulate on itself well without specific factors helping it, so must of the drying is on the ground it touches, which it does contact. So small volumes have a high surface area:clotting factor ratio. Big volumes have a lot of clotting material that needs to contact the ground to clot and become the traditional "dried" look.

How many people actually have been around pools of blood enough to know what volume is more appropriate for what appearance? I don't think so many. I personally believe that the blood isn't Bruce's anyways, but even so, I think it could be Bruce's and still be reasonable if that's what we find out. It's an easy OOG error to make.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:05 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:10 pm

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Owlish · Veteran Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 78

**Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:19 pm

Cutboy · Decorated Joined: 10 Jan 2011 Posts: 191

Well first of all, this entry really wasn't that scary... it was just disturbing. i mean i was expecting someone to die eventually, i just didn't think that it would be alex commiting the murder though i should have seen it coming since entry 45. but i really didn't expect it to be mostly shown on camera. never before in marble hornets have we seen this type of action.

ok but i really wonder why alex had to kill whiteshirt. i mean he probably was some random stranger that just happened to walk by wanting to help out, but what if alex had seen him before he went into the forest and told him not to follow? i wonder if he was of any importance before this murder?

also, i just realized that whiteshirt must have gone wandering through the park when he saw jay booking it to his car out of the forest. he probably was expecting something to be up.

also, if you look at entry 29 and then this entry, what we originally thought was slendy in entry 29 i'm really starting to think is alex. i mean if you look at the way alex is standing stradling whiteshirt's body, it looks just like the figure in entry 29.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:21 pm

JustJim · Unfettered Joined: 19 Jan 2011 Posts: 661

I know I just posted a topic about this on the Slender Man Mythos board, but I really wish they'd make The Operator move more. Even if it's just a little bit, it really ups the scare factor for me when He moves. When He doesn't, He practically looks like a cardboard cutout. I realize it must not be easy to do, but even something like the head tilt or peering down over the body would have made His appearance here a lot scarier.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:34 pm

Tornd · Greenhorn Joined: 02 Sep 2011 Posts: 3

Something I think should be noted. I think the general consensus is that Alex is meeting Jay at Rosswood to do what he did to Bruce and, if you re-watch #38, it supports that.

When Jay puts the camera down at the end, watch Alex. He's already pretty close to Jay, but he starts moving closer and he doesn't stop walking when the tape goes off. This seems a lot more menacing knowing what he did earlier, doesn't it?

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**Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:48 pm

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Owlish · Veteran Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 78

**Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:53 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:22 pm

The Brick · Greenhorn Joined: 09 Jul 2011 Posts: 3

I don't know if this has been said yet (and the thread's too long for me to have read through it all yet) but I think the next entry will end up tying #38 and #29 together.

If you notice in #29 it's dark outside and the cameraman (presumably Jay) is running through the forest. He eventually ends up in the tunnel where Alex murdered poor Bruce. At the beginning of #38 Jay mentions to Alex that it's getting dark, and could easily be just before the events of #29.

My theory is that Alex calls Jay there to kill him, but Jay finds a way to escape. On his way he either gets lost or deliberately goes to the tunnel to find out what Alex was doing. My guess is that Jay and Alex get into an argument and Jay brings up the tunnel and starts asking questions. Alex immediately gets angry and tries to kill Jay. Jay escapes and goes to the tunnel to see what Alex was doing (and why he got so angry) where he finds blood and TO.

Queue the events leading to the hotel encounter, and the end of out 7 month gap.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:28 pm

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I've haphazardly read through around 75% of this thread so apologies if this has already been mentioned, but does anybody else think that the way Alex stands after killing this poor fella is very reminiscent of the way The Operator stands during the revelation of Entry #29? This makes me lean even more to the theory of him being a "vessel" of TO. Of course, that might just be how he stands and be a total coincidence but it's something I noticed and thought I'd see what everybody reckons...

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**Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:31 pm