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[redwulf25_ci]

[SleepingHellion]

[chaos_angel]

Look what I found:

http://symboldictionary.net/?p=882

[Xankek]

[redwulf25_ci]

[chaos_angel]

The Jumis symbol isn't exact, but it's the closest I've managed to find. I thought with the Tower references it might have something to do with 19, maybe in a different language, but no luck on that so far.

[SleepingHellion]

[12th]

[tijde]

Hm. So is "stalking the seas" what's missing from the door? Could it be a maritime symbol? Or perhaps Jack should say that phrase, or get it onto the door somehow?

The symbol does look like an open hourglass. Open-ended time? A cycle is broken? Just thinking aloud here.

The mention of twins in an earlier post is interesting. Maybe there's two doors, and they've stumbled onto the second. That explains the differences in the doorknobs and the addition of the scratched-in symbol. Maybe Jack should try closing the symbol to make an hourglass.

I do have a Dark Tower question. I've tried to get into the series several times but haven't quite made it yet. Read half of the first book yesterday; we'll see if it takes. Meanwhile I'm going by the wiki here. There's a mention of a forest (Baby Forest, I think?) that's used as a training ground for young apprentice gunslingers. Could Aokigahara be Jack&co.'s proving ground, so to speak? Is there anything about "burning your bridges" or forsaking your family before becoming an apprentice? Again, going from the wiki, once an apprentice passes his training, the new gunslinger gets a key to a door. I don't know enough about the mythos to figure out how this ties together, so I'd love to hear your thoughts about this, chaos_angel. Whether it makes any sense or I'm building sandcastles here. Also welcome, thanks, and great catch(es)! (That last applies to t3hkender too, it seems. ) Although it might take a bit for my brain to stop calling you Dr. Girlfriend now...

[chaos_angel]

I have only read the series proper, I haven't seen any of the supplemental material like the comics, so I can't speak as to their content. However, Roland's ka-tet does spend some time in a forest training after they are "drawn" into Mid-World. Roland himself was trained by a man called Cort in fighting, and it seems by a few other teachers in more traditional school subjects. The rest of his age group seemed to be training with him at the same time. The most detail we ever get in the series about Roland's gunslinger training is the story of how he becomes a full gunslinger by besting his teacher with the use of an... erm... unconventional weapon. And he doesn't recieve a key, he gets one of his father's guns. (Maybe both? It's been a while.) Maybe someone who has read the comics has more to add?

Edit: And to address your question directly, Roland is still living with his parents while training, so is still with his family. It's Eddie, Jake, and Susannah who have "burnt their bridges" so to speak and their training is unconventional at best. They are part of the focus of the books though...

[stringbeanman]

Birthday:
"fake Jack" says he got a video camera phone.

A locked door:
"real jack" says that the door can not be picked up on his camera phone.


can we ask Jack to take a pic of himself with his grp?

I dont trust him / believe him.


also,
Door Update #1

[t3hkender]

[Mondai]

Okay, I finally broke down and signed up for this (I don't read nearly fast enough to keep up with the Marble Hornets thread, so I haven't seen any point in making an account before) but, just a thought:

If the "Black 13" is written on a door in Aokigahara... why is it written left to right? Japanese text is read top to bottom first, then right to left. Now it's perfectly normal to switch it to vertical instead of horizontal, but reversing it would seem strange... Is this just an OOG issue, or is there more significance? Perhaps we're reading it backwards...? Or perhaps it was written on there by a foreigner, like the kids?

Or perhaps I'm thinking too much.

[redwulf25_ci]

I think I just realized why I'm having a hard time trusting allegedly real Jack fully.

When is the last time a victim of Slenderman used something like base 64 to communicate with us? Usually that seems reserved for proxies, cultists, and the mad.

[Loreless]

Yeah, I think that might be part of my reservations about Jack, too. I mean, we've already been duped once about who is who, so how can we automatically trust that this guy who spent the first bit of our communications with him speaking in Base 64 is actually who he says he is?

Perhaps I'm just being paranoid, but the whole situation has seemed a little off this entire time. Well, I mean besides the obvious Slender-offness inherent in something like this, but you know what I mean.