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Osiris
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mokie wrote:
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There wouldn't be blood anywhere else if the person bandaged the wound over the sink.


There would be blood where they were shot. There would be blood between where they were shot and the bathroom, all over that nice beige carpet. There would be blood not just in the sink but on it. Even if the person were shot directly over the sink and the shooter dropped the gun to step in and help them bandage up, there would still be blood spatter, not just a few drops on the tile from the doorway to the sink.

That's not as much blood as you'd see from an inconvenient cutting board accident, much less a gunshot.

If you get shot, the first thing you do is grasp the wound. The blood would be flowing but wouldn't be all over yet. When you can't ebb the flow any longer, it'll drip. Then, at the sink, you start working on the wound and the blood can fall and move more freely, covering the sink.

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about alex "summoning." slenderman. if this truly is the case then what is the point of him checking the room with the flashlight @ 1:35

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Again, I am going to go with the paranoia angle. Slendersickness appears to induce extreme paranoia. And on top of that, Alex knows there's more than one person who could be hiding in his house. And we still don't know where those people stand.

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Osiris wrote:
Mr_Magpie wrote:
Osiris wrote:
There wouldn't be blood anywhere else if the person bandaged the wound over the sink.


I thought of this possibility as I was writing the response, but then whose wound would it have been? Tim seems uninjured during his confrontation with Jay, other than his seizure-like episodes. We never see anyone else in Brian's house (although we do see evidence that someone else might have been staying there at some point). We never see any gauze wrappings or bandages in the house either. If that was the route they wanted our minds to go, it would have been very easy to subtly imply that there was a gunshot wound involved by having these things visible in the background at some point.

Instead, we get people coughing blood into sinks.

At the time, the clues were droplets leading to a sink and a bullet casing in the nearby room. If they had wanted us to follow a coughing line of thought, Jay would have coughed up small droplets of blood in 16.

Brian could have been shot. His whereabouts are unaccounted for, while everyone else has been, in some way shape or form.


Yes, at the time those were the clues we had, but to my knowledge even then the idea that the bloody sink was from a gunshot wound wasn't one that was widely popular. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think with this Entry we've been given concrete information that fits more closely with what we saw in Brian's house than a gunshot wound would seem to.

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Mr_Magpie wrote:
Osiris wrote:
Mr_Magpie wrote:
Osiris wrote:
There wouldn't be blood anywhere else if the person bandaged the wound over the sink.


I thought of this possibility as I was writing the response, but then whose wound would it have been? Tim seems uninjured during his confrontation with Jay, other than his seizure-like episodes. We never see anyone else in Brian's house (although we do see evidence that someone else might have been staying there at some point). We never see any gauze wrappings or bandages in the house either. If that was the route they wanted our minds to go, it would have been very easy to subtly imply that there was a gunshot wound involved by having these things visible in the background at some point.

Instead, we get people coughing blood into sinks.

At the time, the clues were droplets leading to a sink and a bullet casing in the nearby room. If they had wanted us to follow a coughing line of thought, Jay would have coughed up small droplets of blood in 16.

Brian could have been shot. His whereabouts are unaccounted for, while everyone else has been, in some way shape or form.


Yes, at the time those were the clues we had, but to my knowledge even then the idea that the bloody sink was from a gunshot wound wasn't one that was widely popular. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think with this Entry we've been given concrete information that fits more closely with what we saw in Brian's house than a gunshot wound would seem to.

The only problem I am having accepting the coughing theory is the inconsistency. Tim was coughing at the beginning of filming, as was Jay. Alex was never shown coughing until 43. Now, the same day he is coughing blood? The splatter on the sink in 16 would have to be a "final stage" of the coughing, which would mean the person succumbed to the sickness, but everyone that has coughed before is just fine.

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Queserasera wrote:
To put my two cents in, someone (I'm tired and can't remember where I read it, sorry) asked why Slendy would bother lurking around in-and-out-of-frame for so long if he can just take them, my guess would be that he enjoys stalking.

It seems to me that the creators intended to create a being who is the embodiment of unidentifiable paranoia. Total helplessness. And the hunt and stalk, for him, would be satisfying the very purpose of his existence.


My point was that he has Alex in a trance, if that shadow was him, why bother letting Alex out of the trance so he could start getting ready for bed, and THEN take him? Seems to me that with the trance, there is a lot less chance of trouble.

Imagine you're a burglar and your target's house is empty. Why wait for your target to return to where, even asleep, he has partial sensory awareness of his environment?

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Is it just the lighting, or did Alex's watch turn from sort of a dark blue or black in entry 43 to pink in this entry?

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theonewhoquestions wrote:
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To put my two cents in, someone (I'm tired and can't remember where I read it, sorry) asked why Slendy would bother lurking around in-and-out-of-frame for so long if he can just take them, my guess would be that he enjoys stalking.

It seems to me that the creators intended to create a being who is the embodiment of unidentifiable paranoia. Total helplessness. And the hunt and stalk, for him, would be satisfying the very purpose of his existence.


My point was that he has Alex in a trance, if that shadow was him, why bother letting Alex out of the trance so he could start getting ready for bed, and THEN take him? Seems to me that with the trance, there is a lot less chance of trouble.

I agree with you completely. Because I am a rational human. But I feel that the Operator is not. He seems to opt for a form of controlled havoc.

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Queserasera wrote:

I agree with you completely. Because I am a rational human. But I feel that the Operator is not. He seems to opt for a form of controlled havoc.


Rational human or not, what it the point of the trance, if not to prepare the victim for "transport"?

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theonewhoquestions wrote:
Queserasera wrote:

I agree with you completely. Because I am a rational human. But I feel that the Operator is not. He seems to opt for a form of controlled havoc.


Rational human or not, what it the point of the trance, if not to prepare the victim for "transport"?


What if either the transport or the trance was painful? Maybe if the person is fully conscious, the transporting hurts, or maybe the same can go for the trance. What if the trance hurts to be in?
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 		In regard to bracelets: when did alex pick up the pink one? Is it a watch?

Also, footage behind the zeros of the last TTA vid showing Alex's car could have been from the beginning of this entry. The porch, light, and time of day could match the scene. This is significant because TTA vids usually appear to be reactionary. This would be the first time they posted something before we got a chance to see/experience it.

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 		I apologize, I've been drinking and I will probably forget this in the morning.

Alex coughed up blood, I'm sure this has been brought up thus far.

Tim also violently coughed.

This could be a syptom of SlenderPossession.

Tim is a Masky. It's possible being "a Masky" is SlenderPossession.

Even if I'm wrong. What the fuck.

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theonewhoquestions wrote:
Queserasera wrote:

I agree with you completely. Because I am a rational human. But I feel that the Operator is not. He seems to opt for a form of controlled havoc.


Rational human or not, what it the point of the trance, if not to prepare the victim for "transport"?


To feed off their mental energies? To rewire their brains? Or maybe giving someone a trance is to the Operator what petting a dog is to us... Sure, sometimes you do it for a reason, but other times you just do it because the dog's there.

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Osiris wrote:
The only problem I am having accepting the coughing theory is the inconsistency. Tim was coughing at the beginning of filming, as was Jay. Alex was never shown coughing until 43. Now, the same day he is coughing blood? The splatter on the sink in 16 would have to be a "final stage" of the coughing, which would mean the person succumbed to the sickness, but everyone that has coughed before is just fine.


Well, to begin with there is no evidence that the blood in the sink, even if it is from coughing, represents a 'final stage'. It's simply part of a progression, and not necessarily a fatal or consistent progression, seeing as it seems to rely on one's sensitivity to the Operator and the Operator's effects.

As for Alex not having started coughing until recently, I believe this is true, but we also need to remember that it is very likely that this Entry directly follows Entry #43. If this is the case, then Alex has just come stumbling away from the closest contact with the Operator that we have seen thus far. Is it really a surprise that his initial sickness would show more quickly escalating symptoms after something like that?

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 		i feel like alex is summoning the operator purposely, and TTA is telling jay to "dial 0" - call the operator. summon the operator. in this video, alex does the same thing. maybe the only way to see "the ark" is having slendy take you there.

maybe he just wants jay to dial 0, who knows


i thought the blood in the sink in brians house was fairly obvious since the blood trail led to a bottle of pills. they gave away early on it was a result of slender sickness

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slendywasphone wrote:
theonewhoquestions wrote:
Queserasera wrote:

I agree with you completely. Because I am a rational human. But I feel that the Operator is not. He seems to opt for a form of controlled havoc.


Rational human or not, what it the point of the trance, if not to prepare the victim for "transport"?


What if either the transport or the trance was painful? Maybe if the person is fully conscious, the transporting hurts, or maybe the same can go for the trance. What if the trance hurts to be in?


Trances are commonly defined as 'a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended'. Which, if we go by that definition, the trancee would be fine if transporting followed that first(second?) rule.

A trance that hurts to be in... that sounds rather Cenobitish (We have such sights to show you).

The problem is we don't know how either of those things work, and we work with what we got if we don't want to get hung up on Bad Sudoku Logic.

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To feed off their mental energies? To rewire their brains? Or maybe giving someone a trance is to the Operator what petting a dog is to us... Sure, sometimes you do it for a reason, but other times you just do it because the dog's there.


Just sayin', that seemed like a long trance.

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