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[Almijisti]

[sartor]

[Chronus_Valtiel]

[desertilluminati]

yeah, zooming over 800 times makes the lines appear to simply be contour lines.

this little adventure strikes me more as being an exploration of the story itself, than a "crack the code" kind of thing...

though, i must confess that i tried everything i knew to do with the note, and came up with nothing more than gibberish and silly stuff.

~bangs her head on the table, much to the chagrin of the other late night coffee house patrons~

[Chronus_Valtiel]

Yeah, this is definitely a game of trust.
The puzzle is simple, yet extremely difficult.
Find the truth within the lies.

[Chronus_Valtiel]

The Room

[waitress#2]

I want to hear the tape, but I mostly want to see the video. At least he shared the image that Greg gave him.

[the_velociraptor]

I've only watched the trailer for Jacob's Ladder. Let me guess, the part where they wheel him in a seemingly harmless operation, but it goes all decayed and the doctors strap him to some sort of torture device, and they're going to operate on him, alive.

Anyway, I think the handprints are the Little Boy Blue's... unless, they're too small.

Ask him if he's ever heard of Silent Hill. I have a feeling that the Dream Cop might play a Pyramid Head-like role, as punisher. (not like from the films, where he just killed random people.)

[Chronus_Valtiel]

Personally, I don't lump the film in with the games.
Understand that these are only hand prints R.F. has found.
If the person crawled, where are the knee prints?
The dream cop doesn't seem to me like a punisher at all, anymore.
Not since he (I could be wrong on WHO said this, but) told R.F. not to "go that way" in the shack in his dream.
That was much more of a warning than a threat, and that's nothing the executioner (PH) would do.

[the_velociraptor]

It could be someone (or someTHING) that walks on its hands... there's several people who were disabled and had the lower torso cut off, so they walked on their hands...

Funny, D1ABL0 hasn't posted on, anymore. Didn't the rules say you can't use guest status to promote your own ARG?

[sartor]

There's nothing to link this to Silent Hill. As for Jacob's Ladder, it seems that the PM drew a lot of ideas from it.

Consider WI. It was Bambos' own project, and didn't promote anything, but the story drew heavily from Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comics. I think a similar thing is going on here, in which case, while it may interest us that elements of The Red King Project resemble those of Jacob's Ladder, we would be wasting time trying to draw connections other than the thematic.

There are three sources, however, that the PM has confirmed: Through the Looking Glass, Johnny Got His Gun, and The Sun Also Rises. These, I believe, may be relevant to the story in ways we haven't anticipated. Our focus should be here, if anywhere.

EDIT: Out of curiosity, Velociraptor, what makes you think that the figure in the video is a cop? You seem to have labeled it more or less arbitrarily, in that, while its stance may resemble that of a crossing guard (is that what you were getting at?), neither R.F. nor anyone else has mentioned anything about a policemen. I think it's dangerous to move too far away from our sources of information.

[Brettrick]

Hey all. I am new to ARGs (this is actually my first one) and I must say that I am getting completely drawn in. The idea that there is a constantly evolving story that is discovered by a community of people working together is extremely appealing to me.

In any case, one thing that I'm not sure that anyone pointed out concerns the black fluid from R.F.'s dreams. It's not the fact that he dreamed about it that concerns me, it's that he saw a jar of black fluid at the squatters place in the woods. Is this the same substance? If so, that would mark the first time that his dreams and his "hallucinations" have crossed paths, if I'm not mistaken. I posted a question about this on the blog hoping to get a clearer idea as to what the substance is about.

[the_velociraptor]

Sartor, I christened him that, because someone kept referring him as "Guardian". Plus, the thing looked Tron-like (or so they say) and he's holding out his arms like a traffic cop.

[Chronus_Valtiel]

Good thinking, and welcome to unFiction, Brettrick .

I was the one who referred to the figure as a guardian because it was assumed by the scientists that he was guarding the Red King's subconscious mind.

[Almijisti]

RF's response to my question in the Greg-meeting post confirms that the subject was called the "Red King", so that's another plus for Sammy's knowledge of the project.

The black goo stuff reminds me of the recurring theme in the X-Files where the aliens infect people with this black oil substance. I don't think there's any connection, though the Red King also reminds me of the X-Files episode about the guy who makes people commit suicide by getting inside their minds. At best, I think it's X-Files is another source of ideas; otherwise it's probably just coincidence. But I don't think there's any direct connection (if that show had still been on when ARGs became all the rage, I'm sure they would have taken advantage of it).