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[Deimos]

My loose ends:

- the slendy doll. How and Why it moves.

- Maskys distortions

- Distortion holes (22 and the red tower one)

- The dead animals on Alex's lawn

- No one cares about Brian

[theonewhoquestions]

[Elektrikhd]

I actually think it would be better if some things are left unexplained. Not everything, obviously, but it's nice when you're left with some things to ponder at the end of something. (Plus it sometimes leaves it open to add more story later.)

[DarkProject]

I think a lot of writing things that break the laws of the real world is impressions. The writer doesn't ever have to have everything explained away. They simply need to have an impression of what the situation is, in order to keep it internally consistant.

In other words, the writers don't necessarily need to have Slenderman's character sheet, they just need some notes.

[morscata12]

I have some more to add:
- The dried blood stains. Where did they all come from?
- Missing audio on the tapes. When was it removed?
- Freezing video corruption on several tapes. Is time stopping/slowing, or is something interfering with the camera's recording?
- Closets. Why are they so important, why do people camp out in them, and why are they teleport exits?
- Camera timestamp corruption.
- Themes of fire, water, light/shadows.

[mellodragon]

I'm new to the whole ARG thing, so forgive me if I make a stupid mistake, please.

There's really only one thing that's really bothering me... Well, actually, there's a lot of things, but that's beside the point. The biggest thing on my mind concerns Masky and Skully.

There were supposedly three years between the time when Alex disappeared and the videos were first posted on youtube, correct? (I'm not actually completely positive on that, but I think I read something about it.) If this is true, then Skully appeared three years ago when Alex started filming the Marble Hornets project. Masky only came about recently to stalk J. If both Skully and Masky are the same person, then why did he/she only start appearing in Entry 18?

[Mr.Beyond]

Firstly- Hi mellodragon!!! :3
Secondly- I second the masky/skully question, and I too wonder about Masky's distortion- althouuuugh, I have some theories on that one, mostly the "put a piece of metal near a magnet for long enough and it takes on the properties of a magnet- maybe the same applies to a person overexposed to Slendy." But this is more of a questions thread than an answers one, so here's my biggest question, which may need some support to be valid- didn't Alex list "J" in his list of the Marblehornets crew that went missing? I mentioned this in another thread and it could have been a mishear, but it's really been bugging me. I could swear that he said, along with Brian and Seth and Tim, that J was gone... but I'll have to (shiver) re-watch to prove that.

[Salty]

All that we see of anything that happened three years ago is what Alex recorded. It's totally plausible that any of the other members of the crew were stalked by Slenderman or a Masky/Skully as well, but just didn't have a camera; OR better yet, they did record it, and still have the tapes. This is all coming to me as I type it but what if another set of tapes is found, filmed by Brian or Tim or Seth or someone, and that's what season two will be?

[MetalGearSamus]

-That pipe in the Slendy basement. Something about it is important, seeing as how it was shown in both Entry #22 and #23, and emphasized in Entry #22 through distortion.

[Elektrikhd]

I'd say that the whole basement itself is probably of importance. Maybe it's just my own impressions rubbing off on what I saw, but it seemed that from the video of Alex there, from the way he was acting, that he felt the location had some import--it didn't look like location scouting, but it did seem very purposeful.

[the_diz]

[lolitsgriff]

[Ornithopter]

On the Operator symbol:

I recently got my best friend into MH, and was explaining the Operator symbol to him. After explaining to him that the symbol looked like this,
He said, "So it looks like an hourglass, right?"
I scoff at him at first, but later realize that he may have been correct. If one erases the side curves of the symbol like so,
One can see the shape of an hourglass. See it yet?
If not, then here is a more obvious image.

Anyways, the Operator symbol seems to show up whenever a time distortion occurs. One may notice that the Operator hourglass contains no substance. Empty hourglass= Time distortion?

Images in URL form because i don't feel like bombarding this post with embedded images.

[BranRainey]

I think if it was meant to represent an hourglass, the lines would be tilted outwards more to emphasize the centre portion. Making all four sides equal screams "not an hourglass" to me. :/

[Dray]

The shape is more of an oval than a circle in some places. Over the door of the room in the house in #23, for example.

On the other hand, the (X) symbol shows up over Slendy's head. How th'fuck would that work? "I'M TIME-HEAD! Here to time you out lololol!" No.