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Sylocat
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Dray wrote:
The camera that Jay used to film Slendy in #23 was destroyed. It could be that, since the other cameras didn't catch evidence in the same way, they weren't beacons?

Or, it could be that Slendy really is only interested in Alex right now. Even when TTA/Masky do his/their damnedest to lure Jay into Slendy's lair (twice!) our faceless friend once ignores him completely (#19 and Return), then peers at him curiously (#23) before Jay wakes up with a brain-melter in his own home.

There is definitely something special about Alex. According to the mythos, Slendy has never taken anywhere near that long to close in on his victims. He was stalking Alex for at least several weeks, and probably months, and Alex got away with some heavy stuff in that time.

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Who knows. I'm starting to think more and more that Masky is working for Slendy. I hope that that's not the case... I hope that Masky/TTA is more of a third party whose intentions can remain iffy (either swinging for one side or another) up to the very end (assuming that this picks up again. XD) rather than him being an actual minion. But it does seem like Masky is doing Slendy's dirty work for Jay, and if that Skully mask is a prototype, and actually was caught on one of Alex's (or Seth's) taping expeditions, then he could have been helping Slendy do his stalking and bringing of victims back and forth three years ago, too!

Hmm... it does look a bit damning, but what would all of TTA's behavior have been in aid of, exactly? Leading his victims into traps? We know from the mythos that Slendy doesn't exactly need help stalking his victims. Tricking Jay into finding Alex for them? Then why would he just come right out and admit it in Entry #####, and then go right back into normal mode? Besides, we know TTA knows where Alex is anyway, given that the camera was almost certainly planted (and even if the camera wasn't, the message at the end certainly was, and the tape found its way from Alex to Jay).

So I still think TTA is out for himself, and Timasky is in his camp firmly (assuming Timasky isn't the one and only TTA in the first place).
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 		In that case, if TTA is out for himself, what's his motivation in doing all of this?

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JKatkina
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Dray wrote:
In that case, if TTA is out for himself, what's his motivation in doing all of this?


The secret to that, my friend, can be found in the graffiti in that little utility closet at Brian's place.

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SticktheFigure
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 		For all we know, TTA wants to learn how to get rid of the Slender Man and just sees J and Alex as stepping stones along the way.

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GhostK
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Dray wrote:
In that case, if TTA is out for himself, what's his motivation in doing all of this?


Kind-of a side topic: Unless he was the one who started the fire, and starting fires is Slenderman's M.O., TTA hasn't done a whole lot lately.

Entry #### was almost definitely TTA's work, but there's a possibility that it was someone else under SM's influence (as Jay has been in the past.)

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JKatkina wrote:
Dray wrote:
In that case, if TTA is out for himself, what's his motivation in doing all of this?


The secret to that, my friend, can be found in the graffiti in that little utility closet at Brian's place.


I love how your mind works, JKat. You pretty much just made me lol in the most obnoxious way!

I can't see TTA having any other motive anymore... we don't know what the hell the ark really is (Augh, I'm having Halo 2 flashbacks. T_T), or why there's a trap, or all that junk. It's got to be for, well, you know.

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HyperCubed4
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 		Stupid hiatus. ;_; I'm gonna forget about Marble Hornets for weeks, maybe months... until we get another update.

Unless this is endgame, which I highly, HIGHLY doubt.

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 		This is posted in another thread, but I thought it deserved to be moved here for the sake of posterity. I'm not sure if this is a no no here or not. If it is please let me know and I'll remove it.

Anyway, this blew my mind, so I thought it should be spread around as so others may share in the mind blow-age.

Enjoy:

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Dray wrote:
(X) probably has different meanings in different contexts. 'Here thar be Slender Man' is the most common. In the context of Warning I think that it's used as a symbol for Jay's options running out, or else for people in his life disappearing. In ######, it seems to be more of a 'hark this extremely fucking important message!'

Honestly, I think that it probably doesn't have a single, solid meaning. It seems like a catch-all for Slender-related shenanigans. I don't even know if the creators have a solid definition for it!

Something which nobody seems to have considered as of yet (either here, that I have found, or on the wiki) is that the (X) symbol is simply the Greek letter Theta, which occasionally was rendered as a cirlce with a cross through it. This would appear to make sense for the following reasons:

1. It was often used in that form as a shorthand for death ("thanatos", the Greek word for death, begins with a theta, and the cross-circle form was considered to resemble a crude death's head)

2. In totheark's "Warning" video, the final, hidden frame contains the message "Smile for DEAth". The capitalisation is inconsistent, with the "th" being obviously lower case. This may be a hint.

3. In an earlier video from totheark, "Program", we see what appears to be a pseudoclassical building front in which a coded message, which appears to be composed of characters which closely resemble ANOTHER form of theta (which are also used in his other videos) is played. This message has been decoded via "Advocate" as "Yama", which is the name of a Hindu death deity.

4. Also in the Program video, a conspicuous s-shaped character appears in the lower left hand corner. It appears to be either a variant of lower case sigma (another Greek character), or a less common Greek letter, stigma. The significance of this is difficult to determine.

5. That form of theta is actually used in mathematics to refer to a certain type of operator, which I think some people have latched onto.

If this is considered, the symbol is probably a warning that the slender man is either active in an area, or has been seen there in the past. It could possibly hint at a closer connection between the slender man and death as entities (which would make Yama make a whole lot more sense), or may just mean "You will die" or "large quantities of danger".


P.S. If this is already been said, I apologize. I'll remove it if that's the case.

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Sylocat
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 		Hmm... TTA is writing to us in Greek? That might be an interesting lead to follow.

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Sphyrna
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 		Hello, another person has joined to lend his intelligence for solving this peculiar mystery (Read: Hello, I'm Sphyrna, new to ARG's and extremely interested in it).

I have pretty much looked through most of the entries, but this has occured to me regarding Slenderman: It is general knowledge that the Slenderman has no face, but we have never seen his backside. I personally think that it's possible that his head is turned 180 degrees, so we actually see the back of his head.

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 		It's been discussed before that the MH script might cause Slendy to appear. Maybe it was Alex bringing up his old film project that brought him in the house. Crazy and stupid, maybe but nothing about this series makes sense!

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HyperCubed4
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Sphyrna wrote:
Hello, another person has joined to lend his intelligence for solving this peculiar mystery (Read: Hello, I'm Sphyrna, new to ARG's and extremely interested in it).

I have pretty much looked through most of the entries, but this has occured to me regarding Slenderman: It is general knowledge that the Slenderman has no face, but we have never seen his backside. I personally think that it's possible that his head is turned 180 degrees, so we actually see the back of his head.


Somehow, I doubt it. It's not mysterious like that. >_> And a tall, slender alien-like creature wearing a suit... backwards... sounds retarded. I don't think our friend at Something Awful intended on that. XD

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RockLobster
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HyperCubed4 wrote:
Sphyrna wrote:
Hello, another person has joined to lend his intelligence for solving this peculiar mystery (Read: Hello, I'm Sphyrna, new to ARG's and extremely interested in it).

I have pretty much looked through most of the entries, but this has occured to me regarding Slenderman: It is general knowledge that the Slenderman has no face, but we have never seen his backside. I personally think that it's possible that his head is turned 180 degrees, so we actually see the back of his head.


Somehow, I doubt it. It's not mysterious like that. >_> And a tall, slender alien-like creature wearing a suit... backwards... sounds retarded. I don't think our friend at Something Awful intended on that. XD


That poor Kilroy is never coming back XD

In another thread someone brought up that the (X) symbol looks a lot like the zodiac symbol, which was fashioned after the crosshairs of a scope as well as a representation the theta symbol. I thought that was an interesting theory, since we always seem to see the symbol where Slendy has been or is about to be, plus the theta being a symbol of death in the Greek alphabet.

I highly doubt that the symbol's meaning is as vague as "stay away, creepy thin men be lurkin' here" since... you know, nothing's ever truly what it seems. Wink

Perhaps a deeper submerge into Greek Alphabet is required?
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 		Hey, if it seems like it could get somewhere, try it. I don't think trying to debunk that symbol does anything, personally. >_> I like Marble Hornets because the whole thing stays mysterious and doesn't try to elaborate on much. Very Happy

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HyperCubed4 wrote:
Hey, if it seems like it could get somewhere, try it. I don't think trying to debunk that symbol does anything, personally. >_> I like Marble Hornets because the whole thing stays mysterious and doesn't try to elaborate on much. Very Happy


I agree. I think we've dug as deep as we can get on the symbol for now.

Any other dead horses we can beat?
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