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Re: Marble Hornets Leak

DoubleDog wrote:
JackDurden wrote:
Holy crap, this is insane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BrNzWM9Lew


While I knew that $20 thing was coming all along, I must say, that video was actually pretty creepy. Pretty damn believable too.


Besides the end that would have kept me up all night if it had froze on the operators face, went into further distortion then cut to a somewhat distorted clip of Alex finding the camera. and without the whole seeing him in Starbucks thing. More along the lines of Jay finding it in the building in entry 34 would have been better. But then again its a fake so whats wishing for it to be better gonna do...Also first post been lurking since jan 18th when I watched all the entries in one night and didn't sleep for 3 days after.

Anyone find anything else interesting in 34? Most I got was J talking, walks around dilapidated building, loud noise, and scary bag that I thought TTA would jump through at any moment. If Alex did send the tape maybe something was left there for J to find but was taken by TTA, or is just well hidden. And this probably isn't the best place but is it safe to assume that J isn't the brightest as he never checked, at least never mentioned, Searching to see who the number of the text sent to him was. Which leads to him not finding anything at that building cause either Alex was never there and masky sent the tapes, Alex wasn't going to be there long and used it to hide something. or maybe the operator sent the text and tapes and just wants a friend (long shot at best, joke at least). And excuse any ignorance I have shown in this post.

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You know, I always took it for granted that TTA had sent the tape. Not only because it never made sense to me that Alex would return for the tape, and then send it to Jay, implying that he was tracking Jay's whereabouts the whole time, but also the style of the "HELP" at the end is very much TTA-esque. It felt that way to me, at any rate.

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Don't remember if anyone mentioned this but the object that makes the bang looks like its metal. Also its angle to me indicates it was definitely pushed as it would have taken quite a big gust to push it over possibly loud enough to be heard and if you watch the tall grass it indicates the wind was quite calm as the grass doesn't move more than 2 to 3 inches at best along with trees seeming pretty stable. If you have watched trees or tall grass on a windy day you know what I mean. This means that maybe his haste in leaving after that wasn't exactly cause he had seen it all and was getting the good bits or general area filmed. He was leaving in a hurry cause something/someone was watching him. He didn't want another TTA encounter.

And the lettering of help remember Alex was writing like that on his drawings of the operator. May not mean he was the one who sent the tape. But it certainly leaves the possibility open. Imagine you just encountered Slenderman after months without seeing him after being stalked by him. Would you care if what you wrote looked like you wrote it or would you be in a hurry and not care.

Edit: Anyone else noticing slight darkening of the film around 2:40 and a faint buzzing noise start after that. It may be nothing but I watched from 2:00 to 3:00 and didn't hear the buzzing till around 2:40 and it continues to very slight variations in intensity till the end. mainly getting slightly louder when he walks outside. Also remember he hasn't had an operator or TTA encounter for a while and has possibly let his guard down slightly at this point.

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Megarain wrote:
While that's an interesting find, I think perhaps he just cut out him panning around, showing us the area. Likely lazy editing as they had run out of stock footage.


Yeah I don't think it's significant, but I thought it was best to mention it, just in case it does come back in some way. Like when you're watching a horror movie, and you guess who the killer is, but you don't say anything cuz you might be wrong, but then you're right in the end. Then you wish you had said something, lol.

[quote="Deimos"]
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also It seems strange and annoying that Jay would briefly look over the building and leave without looking outside or anything (annoying to Jay as well it seems). Now would be a good time for TTA to return just to taunt Jay's lack of answers.


I agree, I would think by now J has learned to leave absolutely no stone unturned. The fact he didn't go into the third room, the one to the right of him when the "bang" occurs, shows me that he's definitely got a lot to learn.

I'm definitely feeling a TTA response is in order as well.

Ikekudeyg wrote:
This means that maybe his haste in leaving after that wasn't exactly cause he had seen it all and was getting the good bits or general area filmed. He was leaving in a hurry cause something/someone was watching him. He didn't want another TTA encounter.

And the lettering of help remember Alex was writing like that on his drawings of the operator. May not mean he was the one who sent the tape. But it certainly leaves the possibility open. Imagine you just encountered Slenderman after months without seeing him after being stalked by him. Would you care if what you wrote looked like you wrote it or would you be in a hurry and not care.


That's definitely possible, I wouldn't blame him for wanting to leave then. However I'd like to see him run towards the threat once in a while like a good paranormal investigator, Razz

I agree there's a possibility of Alex sending the tape, but that theory has many holes. The first and largest of which being- how would Alex know where J is to deliver the package?

Okay, here's a series of crappy images terribly illustrating his positioning vs. the house's location: http://i56.tinypic.com/a2b4ns.jpg

Also, I'd like to show that the "Red Tower 2.0" is actually another building. It's pretty obvious when you enlarge it. Also, the pathway could easily lead to that building.

Here's an image to better illustrate: http://i55.tinypic.com/os6ghx.jpg

My predictions? In terms of plot, I think the Powerpuff Schoolhouse is most likely going to be like the Red Tower. He'll come back and find something that will lead him to another clue. A missing tape or something. Also, whoever sent the package clearly wanted J to go to that location. Depending on the sender's intentions, I think they could be leading him away from Alex, and the whole thing was just to throw him off the trail. Maybe he was closer than he thought.

Really there's a lot of room for speculation at the moment as everything is just starting up again, but I'm hoping for some good plot twists at the least, Smile

Sorry for the long reply, >.<

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Rawkz0rz wrote:

That's definitely possible, I wouldn't blame him for wanting to leave then. However I'd like to see him run towards the threat once in a while like a good paranormal investigator, Razz

I agree there's a possibility of Alex sending the tape, but that theory has many holes. The first and largest of which being- how would Alex know where J is to deliver the package?


Not running towards it could be his instinctive response after being tackled by TTA. And with Alex sending the tape. I just wouldn't like to discount it until we know for sure. And knowing where he is would be quite easy. That is as long as J used a credit card to pay for where he was staying. You really can find anyone as long as you have a bit of money differing upon the what site you use, and they have used a credit card. Its obscene how much you can get from those sites...got curious looked up myself found some interesting stuff, where I live, where I went to school, My SSN (really bothered me that I got that without identifying myself), a credit card that had been signed up for a couple days earlier which I called up and canceled cause it wasn't me (really bothered that someone else got that info and have been keeping up on it since).

Edit: About the "Surely I went back to search more thoroughly." I read it more as "I don't even know where I have been in the past 7 months, and this looked like a horrible job of searching. I probably have tapes where I go back there."

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To all those who have complained, let me make a brief statement. I'm aware of the elite users' views on addressing quality opinions, but I feel like this needs to be quickly said.
In terms of direct action, Troy did nothing to build up suspense for this episode. The only reason suspense built is because of the relatively long wait, which was due to casting new people, filming more than one entry to make the next uploads come quicker, etc. While more twitter updates would have helped to diffuse this, it's not a reason to be overly disappointed. I too was a little let down by this, I was hoping for more. But it should be a passing "aw" at most.
A scare wouldn't have made sense, and the entry would've been a failure had they thrown one of the antagonists into it. He established that the tapes were labeled, so he knows which are the earliest. That makes sense, and it should be a huge relief to us that we don't have to receive jumbled bits of information. That being said, why would he immediately get attacked? That would completely throw off the story, he wouldn't be able to find a direction after a sudden attack. And what would be the point?
I don't know why I posted any of this.
Anyway, most of you are overanalyzing, and it makes you look dumb. The graffiti isn't relevant, at least not right now. If it was, they would have focused on it enough to signify its importance. They're smart kids, they know how to signify things (admittedly the cry for us to help with the safe code was a fail, but there's no other way they could have done it [it was an intended plot point for Masky to leave the code]).
This entry answered a question posed at the end of last season. It established the next string of videos. It was necessary, an antagonist would have ruined it. Deal

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Ikekudeyg wrote:
Rawkz0rz wrote:

That's definitely possible, I wouldn't blame him for wanting to leave then. However I'd like to see him run towards the threat once in a while like a good paranormal investigator, Razz

I agree there's a possibility of Alex sending the tape, but that theory has many holes. The first and largest of which being- how would Alex know where J is to deliver the package?


Not running towards it could be his instinctive response after being tackled by TTA. And with Alex sending the tape. I just wouldn't like to discount it until we know for sure. And knowing where he is would be quite easy. That is as long as J used a credit card to pay for where he was staying. You really can find anyone as long as you have a bit of money differing upon the what site you use, and they have used a credit card. Its obscene how much you can get from those sites...got curious looked up myself found some interesting stuff, where I live, where I went to school, My SSN (really bothered me that I got that without identifying myself), a credit card that had been signed up for a couple days earlier which I called up and canceled cause it wasn't me (really bothered that someone else got that info and have been keeping up on it since).


I can definitely understand instincts, and I don't blame him for rushing out after hearing the bang, but it'd just be a nice change of pace and interesting character shift for him to do the opposite, *shrug*. As for Alex finding J's location, your theory behind that is quite possible. I guess we'll just have to see how things unfold before we know for sure who's been behind what.

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I think Jay only having a brief look around makes sense, right before he took off on the road he was ready to quit then he saw that Alex was in trouble and the only lead he had was this address. He jumps in his car and drives off to the location, who knows how many hours or days it took him, and when he gets there all he finds is a run down shack. He's pretty frustrated by what he found and he's probably very tired and hungry, he probably just wants to check into a hotel and start really investigating in the morning.

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Acora wrote:
DylanChristopher wrote:
Did anyone else notice how as Jay was leaving the house and he looks up, to the top right looks like "the red tower"

http://tinypic.com/r/eq12sh/7
I have to say, ho-lee-shit. While it could certainly be argued that it's a coincidence, I would strongly disagree. It looks almost exactly like it, in my opinion, and if it is it, then that could have some strong implications. Specifically, why would he go back to his hometown after leaving it because of everything?

And then pow, original "Marble Hornets" script pops up (the fictional movie that Alex was filming, I mean)

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Rawkz0rz wrote:
Ikekudeyg wrote:
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That's definitely possible, I wouldn't blame him for wanting to leave then. However I'd like to see him run towards the threat once in a while like a good paranormal investigator, Razz

I agree there's a possibility of Alex sending the tape, but that theory has many holes. The first and largest of which being- how would Alex know where J is to deliver the package?


Not running towards it could be his instinctive response after being tackled by TTA. And with Alex sending the tape. I just wouldn't like to discount it until we know for sure. And knowing where he is would be quite easy. That is as long as J used a credit card to pay for where he was staying. You really can find anyone as long as you have a bit of money differing upon the what site you use, and they have used a credit card. Its obscene how much you can get from those sites...got curious looked up myself found some interesting stuff, where I live, where I went to school, My SSN (really bothered me that I got that without identifying myself), a credit card that had been signed up for a couple days earlier which I called up and canceled cause it wasn't me (really bothered that someone else got that info and have been keeping up on it since).


I can definitely understand instincts, and I don't blame him for rushing out after hearing the bang, but it'd just be a nice change of pace and interesting character shift for him to do the opposite, *shrug*. As for Alex finding J's location, your theory behind that is quite possible. I guess we'll just have to see how things unfold before we know for sure who's been behind what.


If you were able to find out someone got a credit card in your name cause they purchased a $10 game you would believe it possible for someone to find where you are for renting a room somewhere. And I have to agree somewhat with AnAppleFalls having the operator or TTA make a direct attack so soon wouldn't make for a good story. While at the same time I disagree because to them attacking now would be the difference of a couple weeks as this in time line happened shortly after receiving the package from Alex/TTA/the operator wanting a booty call (last one put it as a joke). Which for the best mixture of them following him and not attacking would be them knocking over ,accidentally maybe?, an object. Reading way into it maybe, possibility I think so.

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Indextic wrote:
I'm liking this as a starting point for what someone else referred to as "Act 2" of season 2, but I've got to say... it took three weeks to film that? I mean I know they were doing other filming, and college work and whatnot... but three weeks for walking around a house?

I'm trying to say this in the least douchebaggy way but I mean.. I dunno, I was expecting a little more after such a long wait.

Presumably they shot a whole bunch of scenes at the place in one or two shoots until they were satisfied they'd got all the material they'd need for it. I agree that if this is all we're gonna see of the place in question then three weeks to film the place is a bit much, but it's clear we're going to come back here at some point.

Also, since the tape was supposedly made in April they might have been waiting for snow to clear. Goodness knows it's immersion-breaking enough to see all those bare trees establishing it is clearly not April but still winter...

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Miss Godzilla wrote:
Ha, point taken. Laughing I dunno, I'm just not thinking house on this one. I could very well be wrong.

And now I'm going to drive myself mad trying to figure out what the heck is spray-painted on the walls . . .

Reasons to think this is not a house:
- No sign of plumbing beyond the radiators - no kiitchen sink, no toilet.
- No sign of electricity supply.
- Poor people do not have small houses set in MASSIVE gardens.

It looks like the building is on public land, to be honest. Like a shelter or meeting place in a park.

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SO this was not was I was expecting, but I do agree with some of you that it is very much in the MH style (J following up on clues left behind, going into buildings I wouldn't go in by myself for a thousand bucks). If they hadn't followed up the Alex tape with J going to the address it would have felt like a major plot hole later on. Even if I get a bitter taste in my mouth for having to wait for 3 weeks just to get this Smile.

[Edit before even putting it up]

Man now I'm disappointed. I thought I had some cool stuff you guys missed, but I guess I got overeager.

1 Thought I saw Slendy (alright that was really jumping the gun) through the window when Jay exited the smaller room. Upon closer viewing, pretty sure it's the trunk of the tree -_-.

2 When I first looked at the frame, I thought it was plastic or fabric and something behind it was deforming it. I even screenshotted it and put on tiny pic:http://oi56.tinypic.com/2a8lpxl.jpg
But then I realized that metal doesn't need something behind it to push it out of shape Sad

3 Finally, the one thing that might actually have some use, even if it is only to show that it was a storage room for junkies is a piece of graffiti on the wall left of the small room. http://tinypic.com/r/27zu9w/7
Seems to say ALEX doesn't it? (Well, ALE in red, white, blue and black and then a disabled X in black on the right)

That's it for my contributions on this one. Sorry for the paint-quality pics, it's all I have on my laptop.

-Pepz

PS. if you were wondering why I still posted the pics and the post even if I debunked most of it myself. It's to say "I was stupid first" to people who come on later and claim the same thing Razz

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Re: Marble Hornets Leak

DoubleDog wrote:
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Holy crap, this is insane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BrNzWM9Lew


While I knew that $20 thing was coming all along, I must say, that video was actually pretty creepy. Pretty damn believable too.
The whole "and then suddenly Slendy was sitting next to him in the car" thing is pretty well done. 2nd favourite $20 video (after the one where Jessica is playing the song in her room late at night).

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Can't believe it took this long for someone to notice this, and can't believe I was actually the one to notice something.

2:35 What up wet footprints?

http://img84.imageshack.us/i/footprints.jpg/

Nothing in this series happens by mistake, he makes a point to put the camera on them and mentioned earlier that it looked like rain.

Someone was there VERY recently.

EDIT: Also, don't know if this has been noted yet, and it seems like the red tower hullabaloo has been pretty much debunked already, but I'll put it to bed with a simple observation. Jay is pretty familiar with that red tower, you know, after trekking to it, falling out of it, filming it, etc. He'd notice.

EDIT EDIT: Anyone else find it awfully odd, after all Jay's been through, how little he reacted to that metal thing falling? I mean, he was startled, but once he panned the camera over there and saw it on the ground, his thought process appeared to be 'oh, that just fell over,' as opposed to the infinitely more reasonable 'oh, there is a terrifying tall faceless man and an equally terrifying masked lunatic following my every move, and I'm in an abandoned building that is a known location of one or both of them, maybe I should see if someone knocked that over.'

EDIT EDIT HOLY CRAP EDIT: It's 4 in the afternoon on a rainy day in this video. I understand from some of the shots it's pretty clear that some sun is getting through. But does anyone else think the camera going COMPLETELY WHITE with glare as he exits the doorway doesn't make sense? And if you watch it, it looks REALLY unnatural. Not to mention the fact that he is walking pretty briskly out of the building, and after the white screen is standing still. Maybe it's just me that thinks so, but I've watched it over and over again, and it seems intentional. Can anyone say warp door? Obviously not to another place, but perhaps an hour or day ahead? You can pause the video at 4:01 and the screen is entirely white. I've never seen any camera do that, and it happens directly as he is crossing the plane of the door. Food for thought anyway, I'm excited about the idea.

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