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[VIDEO] Reference
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Dr.Block
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Zarggg wrote:
An exhaustive list of anagrams, for your amusement.

My favorites are "Shinier Dalek shit" and "Shh kind Israelite"

She is a kind Hitler.
You just made my night.

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SeantheStone
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I decided to stop lurking so I could throw this idea out there, although it's probably wrong. The tunnel in the video reminds me of the tunnel shown in Entry #26 that Alex is walking in.

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amrith777
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SeantheStone wrote:
I decided to stop lurking so I could throw this idea out there, although it's probably wrong. The tunnel in the video reminds me of the tunnel shown in Entry #26 that Alex is walking in.


You're right...it is kinda reminiscent of it.

Having said that....I think this TTA entry is trying to warn Jay that Marilyn Manson is in the tunnel Shocked

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GnomonRose
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Just wanted to say--

It's nice to think that TTA is now able to send messages to both Jay AND Tim. And to us, I guess.
In the light of the '4th wall' situation now, it seems odd that Alex never shows any awareness of the Twitter or YouTube channels, even though Jay uses both to publicly talk with players...

BTW the sponsor today is rather neat...
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Enzd
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amrith777 wrote:
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Holy crap. Now THAT'S nightmare fuel D:

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GnomonRose
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Do not fail

(sorry, I've been teaching "Death of a Salesman" and thinking of how Biff flunked math and didn't graduate!)

Do Not Fail, possible note...

Tim has had to hold down a job as best he can, but Jay has been living for more than a year in hotel rooms and such as far as I can tell, never working OR studying. He was theoretically a student before, right?

Maybe he doesn't want Jay to flunk out and never make it to grad school.

Nice maternal TTA.

EDIT:
Note: the first and second time I watched this, I thought the audio was of a baseball game and commentary. Unworthy, I know.
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Arizona
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Forgive the sudden introduction, but I think I've got something here. Somebody over on TVTropes noticed this, and I've double-checked it myself. He may be onto something.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Each frame with numbers could be taken to represent a "pair" of numbers, which in turn represent two letters of the alphabet. If the frames we have read 1912 85 41 89 1420 95 1811 199, then the two-letter pairs would be SL HE DA HI NT IE RK SI. Now the question is, can these pairs be rearranged -- without splitting them -- into a coherent message?

The one they found on TVTropes, and so far the only coherent message I can find, is HI SL IE SI NT HE DA RK.

The complete TTA message, then, would read:

LOOK TO THE ORIGINS
TRUTH WITH LIGHT
HIS LIES IN THE DARK
DO NOT FAIL
(<--from the YouTube info box)

As typical of TTA, though, this is of course ambiguous. Who is "he", and what is that of "his" which lies in the dark -- truth, origins, what?


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DonMonte
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Arizona wrote:
Forgive the sudden introduction, but I think I've got something here. Somebody over on TVTropes noticed this, and I've double-checked it myself. He may be onto something.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Big ole' spoiler


Aw, beat me to posting the "rearranging in pairs" idea. Good job, I kinda thought those anagrams people came up with were blatantly wrong.

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jimi060
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hmm, "A LIAR THINKS HE DIES" could refer to Seth or Brian and not Tim, perhaps they're hidden down there?

and "HIS LIES IN THE DARK", since Jay is the one going into the dark, it can't be his lies, so probably Tim or Alex. But what have they said that could be proven to be a lie by something in the tunnel?

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Arizona
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jimi060 wrote:
hmm, "A LIAR THINKS HE DIES" could refer to Seth or Brian and not Tim, perhaps they're hidden down there?

and "HIS LIES IN THE DARK", since Jay is the one going into the dark, it can't be his lies, so probably Tim or Alex. But what have they said that could be proven to be a lie by something in the tunnel?


I was going on the assumption that "lies" was a verb. It just ties into the rest of the message too well.

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Susil
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SeantheStone wrote:
I decided to stop lurking so I could throw this idea out there, although it's probably wrong. The tunnel in the video reminds me of the tunnel shown in Entry #26 that Alex is walking in.



I thought that too.

Still not certain we've solved the numbers - there seem to several plausible solutions!

Here's a thought: the text in the video reads: "LOOK TO THE ORIGINS" and "TRUTH WITH LIGHT".

Is there something we've missed in very early videos? Entry #2 has Alex looking around under a streetlight for the Operator.... gah, I'm no good at this!!

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elkapo
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code solved, good job, Arizona!

Now it remains to clarify what he mean exactly.

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jimi060
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Arizona wrote:

I was going on the assumption that "lies" was a verb. It just ties into the rest of the message too well.


So that would mean that "HIS" implies some kind of ownership, but would that be Alex being the owner or commander of The Operator, the other way round, or The Operator's command of Masky?

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Arizona
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jimi060 wrote:
Arizona wrote:

I was going on the assumption that "lies" was a verb. It just ties into the rest of the message too well.


So that would mean that "HIS" implies some kind of ownership, but would that be Alex being the owner or commander of The Operator, the other way round, or The Operator's command of Masky?


I think it refers to something else in TTA's message.

LOOK TO THE ORIGINS
TRUTH WITH LIGHT
HIS LIES IN THE DARK

His origin lies in the dark, perhaps?

EDIT: And of course TTA must be aware of the double meaning of "lies", as a noun and a verb. It's an obvious pun, only reinforced by the rest of the message:

LOOK TO THE ORIGINS / HIS (origin) LIES IN THE DARK / TRUTH WITH LIGHT

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KingOfTheNile10
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Woo, just joined because I love reading these threads!

Just a thought on location. The tunnel in Entry 58 has pipes along the right wall, whereas in Reference there are no pipes but instead some sort of support beam.

Suppose, then, that it is the same tunnel, but perhaps filmed from the other end. The two are dimensionally similar, after all, and if Reference was filmed from the other end, Tim appearing in the tunnel may symbolise Tim's return to totheark. After all, if totheark is based at the other end of that tunnel, the only reason Tim would go down there is perhaps to rejoin it/them.

'Do not fail' would then mean that totheark is relying on Tim to come back to it/them, and could be seen as something of a threat.

If the video is clearly addressed to Tim with the above information, 'truth with light' could refer to how Tim will be provided answers ('truth') by totheark, if he returns, that do not simply allow him to run away from his problems but instead end them forever - 'light' could be a reference to Jay returning with his flashlight.

So if this video is a message to Tim, I believe it is a request for him to accompany Jay into the tunnel in the next entry, with the promise of 'truth' as a reward.

EDIT: 'Look to the origins' may then refer to the origins of totheark, or the origins of Tim as Masky - i.e. Entries 56 and 57. Maybe totheark is trying to provoke Tim into rejoining by reminding him just what Alex did to him, and by renewing his old hatred.

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