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srsizzy · Boot Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 46

It would be cool if the world were a movie. Unfortunately, myths are just sociological history, so it's really not that enlightening.

Dav, I don't know if you added Yggdrasil to the notebook, but that addition really killed it. Connecting other mythos to SM is a red herring when there's no actual connection other than the ones people make up now.

I have no idea what is up with this blog, but it really, really should not be under the Marble Hornets forum. It's not related, it's totally tangential, and it's really spiraled out of control. There is such thing as taking oneself too seriously. JAF has done that.

What makes MH work is that NOT A SINGLE TIME has anyone involved said that this thing is "Slender Man." Talking about "Slender Man" and "studying mythology" (as if there's anything to study on him) completely ruins it. MH plays out like an extended thriller film, and JAF plays out like a group of tittering nerds online and someone who's trying real, real hard to be creepy using a notebook full of half-assed scribbles.

If anyone involved in JAF actually reads here (and I would never be surprised to learn that any one of the people posting in response to these things are the maker): someone came up with a better idea than you, they're executing it in a more successful manner than you. People really don't get that jumping on the bandwagon to do something cool and get recognition doesn't work if you don't do it well.

Nothing in this blog makes me believe that the notebook is dangerous. Marble Hornets succeeds because I just watched a guy get attacked by a masked lunatic, and I can see a really creepy guy with no face every couple weeks. Video does wonders for believability.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:11 am

tetsuyabh · Veteran Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 81

You're a major buzzkill.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:37 am

gordon_ramsay · Unfettered Joined: 27 Sep 2009 Posts: 521

First rule of Slenderman: Nobody talks about Slenderman.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:51 am

msheadwound · Decorated Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 182 Location: Ohio

The point that JAF doesn't really belong in the MH subforum or wiki is well-taken, although I think it's so well-entrenched those places it would be difficult to get people to move. However, could we please not have a My Slender Man could beat up your Slender Man argument?

**Posted:** Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:00 am

tetsuyabh · Veteran Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 81

**Posted:** Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:27 am

msheadwound · Decorated Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 182 Location: Ohio

Soon tonight, or soon tomorrow? I'm trying to decide whether or not to hit the hay here. Smile

(And a bit curious why you have me labeled as VIII in your list. My letter was marked IV.)

**Posted:** Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:49 am

tetsuyabh · Veteran Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 81

Yeah, I assumed that the initials and numbered order were identical, but I guess you're 4 and JA is 8, then. My bad.

Anyway, it won't be for a few hours--I need to shower before I put my mug on the WWW. Get some sleep and you can check it out tomorrow.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:56 am

tetsuyabh · Veteran Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 81

Here are the videos. Sorry it took so long, but I just got the notebook yesterday, and I'll scan each page as soon as possible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZe6uuQDq4k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1y1xNHf_1E

**Posted:** Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:52 pm

msheadwound · Decorated Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 182 Location: Ohio

Watched this a while ago when I noticed you'd uploaded them on YouTube. Thoughts:

* The picture of SM with the eight worlds: some of them look like clock faces. Really looking forward to a scan of this page, as well as the one that looked like a winged being (SM?) flying away with something. I have some theories developing, but they're only half-formed at the moment.

* The remaining numbers: I'm presuming you are I. VI would be Joshua I suppose, since he's the other person whose initials are listed in "Found. You." Do we wait for him to come forward with it, or do we wait to see if he does so on his own? V and VII: Players who will be identified later, or future characters? (As an aside, the back of V matches what I could make out of the impressions on the back of my letter. So now I'm less upset I couldn't make out more of that than I did.)

* A little freaked out by the "Goodbye" at the end. Logan, be less doomed. Sad

* Big infodump here, and a lot to sort out, not least of which is how much of this is "real" within the game world and how much of this is Logan having a massive break with reality?

**Posted:** Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:43 pm

srsizzy · Boot Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 46

**Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:29 am

msheadwound · Decorated Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 182 Location: Ohio

**Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:42 am

srsizzy · Boot Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 46

But who is Slender Man in reference to Norse myths? I thought he spent his time kidnapping little kids and terrorizing people in the woods.

I got that the pages were from the notebook now, but I'm left wondering why BH got the rest.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:44 am

msheadwound · Decorated Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 182 Location: Ohio

**Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:53 am