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What would you like to see in future entries?

Hey everyone,

What would you like to see in future entries? For me, it would be intresting if entry #77 was actually Tim quickly filming before he went off to the lodge...and then for awhile, nothing. No Twitter update, nothing, but with some out of game Troseph teasing.

A new channel emerges which has Seth's sister (this series isn't exactly over abudant with developed female characters characters) looking into her brother's disapperance. It's already been throughly investigated by the police and it's been three years, but she's putting out a Youtube plea in case anyone knows anything about anything. Then, she recieves a cassete tape in the mail, but the footage is garbled mess . Sharing some of her brother's experties's, she decides to recover some of the footage...and it is footage of Tim going to the lodge, filmed very much in TTA-style, but the rest of the footage is unretrievable. We could Seth's sister interviewing Sarah's family and also going through some tapes of her brother's which she has uncoveredwhich fleshes out the previous undeveloped characters (like Seth, Jessica and even Amy, as well as possibly featuring people we haven't seen before and casting new and perhaps sinister light on characters we think we know Jay, Tim and Brian) , as well as responses to her channel from a channel which is similar in style, but not exactly the same as Totheark eventurally leading her to...and to the Marble Hornets channel, as well as some Operator encounters of her own. Links would be firmly established between the events of the Marble Hornets, even if they were not immedietly apparent to the new protraganist.

In time, we would learn what happened at the lodge and eventurally she would find Tim and then discover Jay's fate (which would be accelerated mental detoriation beyond any repair). The audience would be left unsure about Tim's motivations and would be shocked at Jay's more or less living death.

For me, it would be a nice way to bring the series full-circle - bringing in a relative innocent once more and a nice way to develop the previously undeveloped characters and really just give us a nice moment of WTF. I know some people probably wouldn't like the idea of Jay's role in the series being greatly diminished, but in my defence: people's stories in life do stop and Marble Hornets does aim for realism: why should the protraganist make it out of the game unscathed, then? We're all heroes of our own stories...

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I can't say what I'd like to see, but I can predict what we will see based on what we've seen in recent entries. I feel that from now on, the action will slowly start to build up and intensify as we reach the end. As of Entry #76, I also see another huge question(s?) being answered in the near future. Everything will begin to come together. Loose ends will be resolved, and mysteries will be explained.

I'd also like to see more of The Operator. Right now, everyone is focused on the characters and their stories, but no one seems to pay attention to the source of it all: The Operator. Though it's hard to notice in times like these, TO has always been a constant, looming threat. He lies in the background and watches everything unfold. He is the cause of it all. He was the one who started it.

And he will be the one to end it.
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- The operator moving on camera
- More informative dialogue regarding unsolved mysteries
- Jay maybe saying his thoughts out (to himself) loud knowing the operator might wipe his mind and he won't remember w/e he's thinking
- Elaboration on what the sickness actually is, how it is spread, and how damaging to someones body it actually is from a medical standpoint
- An explanation to the end of entry 43


Most of all I want to hear Alex actually explain himself, his motives/fears, how he actually became involved, and what his goals are

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Re: What would you like to see in future entries?

Jordan wrote:
Hey everyone,

What would you like to see in future entries? For me, it would be intresting if entry #77 was actually Tim quickly filming before he went off to the lodge...and then for awhile, nothing. No Twitter update, nothing, but with some out of game Troseph teasing.

A new channel emerges which has Seth's sister (this series isn't exactly over abudant with developed female characters characters) looking into her brother's disapperance. It's already been throughly investigated by the police and it's been three years, but she's putting out a Youtube plea in case anyone knows anything about anything. Then, she recieves a cassete tape in the mail, but the footage is garbled mess . Sharing some of her brother's experties's, she decides to recover some of the footage...and it is footage of Tim going to the lodge, filmed very much in TTA-style, but the rest of the footage is unretrievable. We could Seth's sister interviewing Sarah's family and also going through some tapes of her brother's which she has uncoveredwhich fleshes out the previous undeveloped characters (like Seth, Jessica and even Amy, as well as possibly featuring people we haven't seen before and casting new and perhaps sinister light on characters we think we know Jay, Tim and Brian) , as well as responses to her channel from a channel which is similar in style, but not exactly the same as Totheark eventurally leading her to...and to the Marble Hornets channel, as well as some Operator encounters of her own. Links would be firmly established between the events of the Marble Hornets, even if they were not immedietly apparent to the new protraganist.

In time, we would learn what happened at the lodge and eventurally she would find Tim and then discover Jay's fate (which would be accelerated mental detoriation beyond any repair). The audience would be left unsure about Tim's motivations and would be shocked at Jay's more or less living death.

For me, it would be a nice way to bring the series full-circle - bringing in a relative innocent once more and a nice way to develop the previously undeveloped characters and really just give us a nice moment of WTF. I know some people probably wouldn't like the idea of Jay's role in the series being greatly diminished, but in my defence: people's stories in life do stop and Marble Hornets does aim for realism: why should the protraganist make it out of the game unscathed, then? We're all heroes of our own stories...

He said pompously Smile


Dude calm down theres like less than 10 entries left if its consistent with the previous season entry amounts. Not nearly enough time to develop another character.



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- The operator moving on camera
- More informative dialogue regarding unsolved mysteries
- Jay maybe saying his thoughts out (to himself) loud knowing the operator might wipe his mind and he won't remember w/e he's thinking
- Elaboration on what the sickness actually is, how it is spread, and how damaging to someones body it actually is from a medical standpoint
- An explanation to the end of entry 43


Most of all I want to hear Alex actually explain himself, his motives/fears, how he actually became involved, and what his goals are


So basically you want to get all the answers. Who doesn't lol.

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Re: What would you like to see in future entries?

wassupbro wrote:


Dude calm down theres like less than 10 entries left if its consistent with the previous season entry amounts. Not nearly enough time to develop another character.


How do you know there are like less than 10 entries left?
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Re: What would you like to see in future entries?

Hazman wrote:
wassupbro wrote:


Dude calm down theres like less than 10 entries left if its consistent with the previous season entry amounts. Not nearly enough time to develop another character.


How do you know there are like less than 10 entries left?


"if its consistent with the previous season entry amounts"

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Re: What would you like to see in future entries?

wassupbro wrote:
Hazman wrote:
wassupbro wrote:


Dude calm down theres like less than 10 entries left if its consistent with the previous season entry amounts. Not nearly enough time to develop another character.


How do you know there are like less than 10 entries left?


"if its consistent with the previous season entry amounts"


But you know they are at 26 entries for this season already. And they have said that it was a coincidence that both season 1 and 2 had that many. I would also think that this season would still have a lot more coming, else half the questions that people want answered will be left unanswered/poorly answered

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Craig Digsby wrote:
I can't say what I'd like to see, but I can predict what we will see based on what we've seen in recent entries. I feel that from now on, the action will slowly start to build up and intensify as we reach the end. As of Entry #76, I also see another huge question(s?) being answered in the near future. Everything will begin to come together. Loose ends will be resolved, and mysteries will be explained.

I'd also like to see more of The Operator. Right now, everyone is focused on the characters and their stories, but no one seems to pay attention to the source of it all: The Operator. Though it's hard to notice in times like these, TO has always been a constant, looming threat. He lies in the background and watches everything unfold. He is the cause of it all. He was the one who started it.

And he will be the one to end it.
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I'm not sure if we're at end game yet, but I think we will have a serious development in the story from this point on which will have reprecussions for future entries.

As for The Operator....apart from spooky shennigans, I think it's best if the creator's are relativily hands off with him. He's best in little doses, but I'm not sure if the series could really focus on him in any way without undercutting the terror. A bit of a hint of his modus operdadi would be nice, but I'm not sure I want anything more then that. I'm not really sure what new abbilties that Troseph could give him which would really work either, maybe he gives Tim and Jay new memories - just little things (Jay might believe his last name is something completly different, Tim recounts what they did yesteryday, which is completly contradicted by Jay who informs him that none of that ever happened and it's not a mix up of Jay forgetting things, the events literally never happened) just to seemingly mess with them.




A spooky is only so many times, having someone like Alex, a man who apparently sold out his friends and is ready to manipulate and kill people to save his own skin and has been driven mad, is much more paltable and much more.


I know I've said it before - but I don't think we're building up to the end of the series until the series has really developed Seth, Brian, Sarah and maybe even Amy and teased out the possibilities of Hoody's identities and I trust Troseph completly do it properly and still keep the ongoing narrative intresting and fresh as they have in season two. Having Jay bounce off Tim was a great new dynamic in season three and provided something else then tease which season two desperatly needed.

Not that season two wasn't great, but it just...dragged. If we'd just had a couple of scenes where Jay tried to get to the bottom of why Alex was behaving the way he was and tried to get him to open up or just being there for his friend who was going through hard time and just have scenes of them interacting together and have Jay and Jessica slowly beginning to know each other, it would have balanced the tease out quite a bit. Don't get me wrong, I love season two! It's brilliant! But Troseph just made the mistake of going for even more tease and didn't really give the audience time to breathe and it would have made the Alex reveal gone down a lot better then it did, IMO.

On the other hand, we got The Tunnel of Doom, Jessica (!) and Hoody, so I can't really complain, can I?

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[quote="Marble Hornets"]- The operator moving on camera


I think it's just too hard to pull off, personally. Scenes like entry #1 and #3 worked because we didn't get a real good look at The Operator. I can't wait for the inevitable echo of those scenes, though at some point in the series. (Entry #1 and #3 are my favourite Operator momments!)



[quote] Jay maybe saying his thoughts out (to himself) loud knowing the operator might wipe his mind and he won't remember w/e he's thinking [/end]

Okay, this I love. TROSEPH NEED TO THIS FOR ENTRY # 77!

- Elaboration on what the sickness actually is, how it is spread, and how damaging to someones body it actually is from a medical standpoint

I think any real explanation would just take the horror out of the situation, to be honest or we'll just get the standard: "Your detoriating rapidly, but we don't know what's causing it" etc horor scene.

- An explanation to the end of entry 43


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Most of all I want to hear Alex actually explain himself, his motives/fears, how he actually became involved, and what his goals are


I think that's kind of inevitable (unless, the series really is cruel and Alex just dies and Jay never really get's closure - we just get a video showing Alex taking Brian or Tim to The Operator and The Operator taking them).

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As for more informative dialogue....I don't know, I think season three has the right amount of tease, reveal and character moments that season two was lacking considerably (as I said before, sorry Sad)

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Sarah dying, Alex explaining himself, Hoody revealed. What happened after Entry 12. What is the ark? If we at least got an explanation from Alex, a Hoody reveal and some basic definition of the ark or at least what TTA means when he refers to it, I would probably be mostly satisfied.

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Sha Noran wrote:
Sarah dying, Alex explaining himself, Hoody revealed. What happened after Entry 12. What is the ark? If we at least got an explanation from Alex, a Hoody reveal and some basic definition of the ark or at least what TTA means when he refers to it, I would probably be mostly satisfied.


What do you mean by Sarah dying? Jay tracks her down and finds her near death from prolonged Operator exposure and was dropped back into our world after a longer period of time then Brian and Tim spent (perhaps in the last six months in game time?) in The Operator's releam?

Or just Jay tracking down Sarah and then discovering she's dead and another loose end to infuriate and nearly break him?

It's kind of weird...but I'm really just not in all that hurry to get to the ark, even though I can see why other people are. I know it's going to pop up in the series one day, but I'm just not in a hurry to get to it. I know Troseph are going to get to it, mislead us horribly about it and leave us scratching our heads like chimps, but it doesn't bother me so much.

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I meant as in a tape showing her becoming gone like we saw for Seth, Brian, Jessica, Jay, Tim, etc.

Jordan, I gotta say man I think you're really overestimating how long the series is going to continue. The kind of story arcs you are suggesting would take additional years for Trosephim to do at their pace, and frankly that's not happening bro. If they abandon all the build up to a climax they've achieved, they would basically be doing season 4, which has been stated bluntly isn't going to be the deal. We have been building towards the endgame for months now and if they let that tension deflate everyone is going to stop giving a shit very abruptly. I mean, I admire your imagination and all, and your ideas aren't bad or anything, but there's just no way.

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Sha Noran wrote:
I meant as in a tape showing her becoming gone like we saw for Seth, Brian, Jessica, Jay, Tim, etc.

Jordan, I gotta say man I think you're really overestimating how long the series is going to continue.

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I meant as in a tape showing her becoming gone like we saw for Seth, Brian, Jessica, Jay, Tim, etc.



Oh, 2+ 2 it is 4! Smile

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Jordan, I gotta say man I think you're really overestimating how long the series is going to continue.

The kind of story arcs you are suggesting would take additional years for Trosephim to do at their pace, and frankly that's not happening bro.

If they abandon all the build up to a climax they've achieved, they would basically be doing season 4, which has been stated bluntly isn't going to be the deal. We have been building towards the endgame for months now and if they let that tension deflate everyone is going to stop giving a shit very abruptly. I mean, I admire your imagination and all, and your ideas aren't bad or anything, but there's just no way.


Well, we don't know how long this season is going to be - and it's be nearly been going for two years now (which is a lot longer then previous seasons) ! It wouldn't suprise me at all if Troseph threw a curveball like the one I described. It's been nearly two years now since this season began, which proves Troseph are more then happy to defy our expectations. Oh, how they make their puppets, dance....

I really don't think we're at endgame - and won't be - until the possibilities of Hoody's identity is well and truly teased out, as well as the ark.

Something will happen at The Lodge which will affect the trajectory of the series, I'm sure of it (both Hoody and Alex gone, but some hint to the ark, perhaps?) but I really don't think we're at endgame yet.

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Hoody's identity is already way beyond well and teased out. Once you build hype or curiosity to a point, trying to build it further backfires and people begin to stop caring because they realize you're just fucking with them. There have been at LEAST three super cruel teasing shots where we ALMOST see Hoody's unmasked face. If they kept that up for too much longer it would go from a great tease to really annoying. Some people are already fed up and super annoyed even though they are big fans of the series (not me, but the forum has plenty of posts from people being sick of the lack of reveals). Being a published writer myself, I would at least say that there's no way I would dare stretch some things in this story much longer if I was writing it because people get fed up with that shit; Hoody's identity is at the top of the list.

If there's a twist I'd believe, its that they will reveal Hoody's identity and then TTA will post being like "so now you know who he is" and make it seem like TTA is a different person from Hoody. But given what we know both IG and OOG... Nah.

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