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OhWhatProvidence
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Yay more Chris insanity. Very Happy
-waves hello again-
Haven't posted in a while... Hm.

Over in IRC right now, throwing ideas around mostly by myself. It seems really out of character for Chris, esp with it being so ominous. I'm still leaning towards maybe early stages of an alter forming, but two things:
1: I don't really know much about how alters form, I don't think the MD field at large knows a whole lot. Is it a gradual process or does one suddenly manifest?
2: He hasn't shown too many other symptoms.
3: (OOG so I don't know if it counts XD)
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It's cliche as FUCK.


I don't think it's Xanax though, it just seems too... not-Chris. I mean, it doesn't seem like a total stretch, and I'm not sure how drunkenness works really XD but, I'm pretty sure that's not it... The fact that it's a cry for hlep makes me think it might be some special made-up or creative liscence version of DID, or maybe even some form of... idk, schizophrenia or bipolar and the Xanax is covering for the time lapses or w/e?

For some reason I keep wanting to ramble on about Freud and the three major (argh I forget the overall title of them, Id Ego and Superego, like the most basic/well known part of psycology today) parts all battling each other and creating some sort of... fugue state, maybe? i don't know.*

i'm pretty sure it's either DPD or DID, mixed wiht plenty of Xanax for extra crazies.

ALSO
Did anyone notice the Zodiac logo in the right corner? O_o

* going back to the Freud model, his morality and his need to... IDK, finish this by completing the cycle and becoming a killer or something, is creating a fugue or other form of dissasociation.


Fear my rampling incoherent post of psycolological doom.

Ugh, it's been a bad month for me. Let me ramble on. It isn't too incomprehensible. :p
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OhWhatProvidence wrote:

Did anyone notice the Zodiac logo in the right corner? O_o


I hadn't noticed it... Embarassed buut... zodiac? you say DNC, right? well, why ask for help DNC?

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Nono, not DNC, the ORIGIONAL, real Zodiac killer. The one the majority of this ARG is based on.
I think it means that Chris or part of his mind at least, is turning killer on us, and he's finishing out the cycle of symbols that we saw in Gerald's journal by starting back at the beginning again.
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Also I meant to put this in the last post, but the mirror the text is on could be classed as a looking glass maybe making it a further refrence to Alice in Wonderland

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I think that is the symbol of DNC. Zodiac put a cross on the circle, not an X (as Marble Hornets) Anyway I do not see any of those things. I see a transverse line beyond the circle. What may appear a horizontal line I think is just a double line at the bottom of the circle.

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I think it was DNC that left the "help me" message on the mirror. I do not know how he got in, although he may have stolen a key from the landlord, or perhaps Adams got a copy of the key from the landlord and gave it to DNC. Adams has always seemed like a very suspicious character to me.

I asked Chris if he had any fresh cuts and he said only on his finger and took a picture of it.
https://twitter.com/MyDadsTapes/status/218832867667611650/photo/1
The cut looks too small to create enough blood to write the message to me.

DNC's motive for writing the message could be simply to terrorize Chris further, or maybe he really does need Chris's help. Chris needs to wear the mask and kill Don. Help complete the weird ritual of passing on leadership.

Jono believes that the message was written by a left handed person. Watching the lock box video #19 it looks like Chris is right handed.

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Well its been an active few hours with a load of new tweets from Chris.

But the tweets seem to confirm that Chris could not have been the one to write that note.

A lot of the new photos show something interesting the letters (the H in help me) is made up of drops rather than being one long stroke meaning it did not come from a thing that was bleeding but rather was applied from a syringe or something.

This is made more obvious by the black blood, which is a sign of Hemolysis and while blood does do that out of the body you would expect it to all happen at once rather than having some black, some still red and some more that has split into cells and plasma.

This makes an interesiting link to the mark on Chris thumb, it looks very old for a cut, however its odd shape is very like that of a capillary tube incision which is used to take blood samples from the body, so it is likley whoever broke in took a blood sample from a passed out Chris.

This is interesting as random Hemolysis can be caused by issues when taking blood, anything from draining too quick, to moving the tube too quickly to drawing too slowly. But a major one is not letting samples clot before moving and taking from them, which would fit with them message being made quickly after the draw.


Now, why in the world would you commit what seems like the perfect break in just to take someones blood and leave a message on their mirror. I have some theories but frankly right now anything could be right.

Recently DNC has become obsessed with blood ritual, the scapegoat is the spilling of blood to attone for sin, Cruxifiction (in the christian sense) is the spilling of blood to attone for sin, Egyptians used to use blood sacrafice to appease gods, DNC plays with his victims blood often putting it near the mouth in what maybe a refrence to the Catholic idea of transubstantiation. So he now has Chris' blood. Could this be used to see if he is related to Gerald (I said really early on that I wondered if his dad really was Gerald) or if he is related to Emily?

My other (slightly crazier) theory would be this. By leaving the message whoever came in (maybe DNC) has made Chris feel unstable, feel unsafe, combine that with the memory loss heavy xannex use gives it means Chris is not in a great place. Maybe on the next kill the police will find blood other than the victims and it will be Chris'. Of course, the note might make Chris think that he did do it in a moment of madness, due to the xannex based memory loss and passing out he will not be able to create a good alibi or belive for himself that he didn't. To most police this would seem pretty cut and dry and that Chris still in grieving over Kathleen did it while off his head on Xannaex as he is unstable. Of course this theory does have several pretty large holes as they would need to keep the blood from sperating or congealing and thats hard to do without chemical help and it seems they have already damaged the sample they took due to the Hemolysis (unless of course this Hemolysis was caused by them quickly jerking the tube out of one blood bag and into another and used the second bag to write the message so in theory the other bag might congeal normally and not undergo Hemolysis for a bit if kept correctly) but right now, it seems very illogical.

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New video


YouTube: Link



Chris tweet:
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MyDadsTapes ‏@MyDadsTapes

Seems I've lost anyone even remotely close to me. Now what?

2:39 am - 7 jul 12 vía web ·



There is something strange in the video ... what is this diffuse background image? with all that noise ... reminiscent of the videos of his father, right?

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A short video but I think it could turn out to be a key part of the arc.

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There is something strange in the video ... what is this diffuse background image? with all that noise ... reminiscent of the videos of his father, right?


I think its because he was not expecting the call and is past the point of careing to edit out the visual bit of the video.

Okay now logic is done, time for the bizzare theories with little to no evidence!

I think the sister is part of the group and is in league with DNC. The call makes little sense the fact she knows the last call is on YouTube then she must be following Chris. Also if she does not want to be on YouTube then why call Chris again when she knows what will happen?

The call seems to do the same as the note on the mirror, they are designed to push Chris over the edge and it seemingly worked as he now wonders what is left so this will likely make him go after DNC et all.

Because in all honesty if you are worried that you are being broken into due to Chris why bring it up and end up getting more involved. Note how she says it as well, its dispassionate and she implies it has happened more than once and how does she link Chris to the break-in, it could have been a random crime.

It just sounds strange and makes me think that there is more to this than it sounds. Its either that or DNC is Carmen Sandiego.

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Hm, good points jono. Don't have much to add to that, sorry.

In other news, I got a missed call from a private number, same as last time with Carrie. It's just one, so I'm not sure if it's DNC-related (Last time it was missed calls, I think it was like four or five).

I also kind of told Chris I wasn't participating anymore to kind of IG say "No more phone calls for me, mkay?" because these calls are starting to become triggers for me. Not fun for my mental health.
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Well things are in a weird place right now. Just because I am going to post a weird idea I had in case it comes in handy.

DNC or "our" DNC is dead. Reccently he changed his Twitter bio to "Viva" and added a gif as a picture. Now at first I presumed the Viva was a refrence to the Ankh in the one video and DNC being sarcastic

But when I looked again, I realised "Viva" could be refrence to a new person much like the old phrase "the kind is dead, long live the king!" and this fits with the new gif, its the woman taking a gasp, almost like she is coming back from the dead.

This fits with DNCs tweets being diffrent they take a diffrent style, he is hardly replying anymore, when I mentioned the Oil rig thing he never replied and usually if I was wrong he would mock me (check when I sent him one of my kill pics he kept refrencing it)

It also fits the changing mo and the the alterations in the videos, they seem less "fun" like this DNC does not like the and does them just to follow on from the last.

Come to think of it...it just hit me that this new DNC loves showing his mask off giving us full body shot after full body shot, remember at the start when he hardly ever showed himself? Then he went around without the mask for a bit and now has it back on and keeps giving us perfect shots to see that (Maybe DNC is a member of Kiss?) almost as if he is trying to prove its the same person.

The use of the Ankh, Viva and Cruxificition also link to symbols of long life, and DNC was always saying he knew he had to die so why would he suddenly use symbols to signify longer life? The Cruxifiction was the killing of one to give life to the others, so could the death of DNC be a plot to give life to the group?

Even the tweet to Waitress about being "random" could fit here, Strangers on a train used this idea, how do you make a perfect crime, you make it seem random, what better way than for Don to switch out DNC every few 100 kills it makes them harder to trace makes links impossible to find, it also explains Geralds diary and how they got away with so many killings without someone thinking they were a serial killer, they constantly switched.

But if DNC is dead, them who killed him? Another memeber of the group (maybe they thought DNC had given too much away), Chris, Adams?


Chris is scheming what if Chris isn't a stupid as we first thought? I mean the last few things have been break ins with a random note left, that is not the style of group and it seems stupid to say its Emily. Chris is leaving obvious signs he is unstable, odd mis-spellings putting the Adams video up which basically screams "I am vunerable! here is my house!" could he aim to lure DNC into a trap of some kind? Or just confuse everyone around him?

It might also explain why Chris and Adams are doing nothing, sure Chris is indisposded by xannex but you would think they would be activly looking for Emily like DNC, Emily is calling Chris we know that, but he randomly tweets her telling her to get out of Vegas it seems like they are going out to confuse whoever is following them.

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New DNC video

ye who enter here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRlP0baO_no


Short and confusing...just a supercut monatage of gasps of his various victims then some pictures of what looks like DNCs shed

Again the gasps and breaths similar to my "back from the dead" theory I had above

The name of course is from Infeno from the message over hell "ye who enter here abandon all hope"

Also some hidden text I think...trying to get it off by slowing the video


Also more tweets:

Quote:
there is so much left to teach u. ø



Slowed Video: http://www.sendspace.com/file/koi9ko

Image stills: http://imgur.com/a/GuChf/all#0

We have images of bubblegum masky, Kathleen in the hole, DNCs shed

Binary over bubblegum mask translates to "Broke" (Refrence to Chris?)

More binary over Kathleen "n yet" (I presume "not yet")

Also this really short and really really weird frame: http://imgur.com/a/GuChf#4

No idea who the girl in the shed is....kathleen, emily? She is a tall red head dressed in black (I presume the title is in refrence to the shed)

(also, its nice that DNC labels his shed with his logo)

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jono wrote:
New DNC video

ye who enter here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRlP0baO_no


[...]

Binary over bubblegum mask translates to "Broke" (Refrence to Chris?)

More binary over Kathleen "n yet" (I presume "not yet")

[...]


Great work!
I think "Broke" & "n yet" belong together:

Broken yet

Arrow http://www.tinyurl.com/brokenyet

leads to:
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
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Noooooooooo Chris, don't. ;n; -hugs Chris-

If Chris ends up 5150'd I'm prob gonna have to take another hiatus. ;A; Argh so many emotions in this game.

-is considering getting involved again, at least on twitter to be all supportive for Chris again, that seems to be one of my roles in this game XD-

But the idea of 'back from the dead' brings to mind the 'original' DNC that we had from the beginning, and how you knew you were ready to join the cult- trying to kill yourself and surviving, which apparently opens your eyes to knowing who needs to die and who doesn't. Maybe this is what DNC is trying to get Chris to do? (After all, realistically it's very hard to actually kill yourself. Your mind might want to destroy itself but the body will always fight for survival)


EDIT: Is that DNC in the shed at the end? Maybe it's cos it goes too fast, but it doesn't look like DNC. It looks like long hair, but it could the the hoodie or something+speed. Also, watching it again, it looks like short sleeves. There's a definite difference in the color of the shirt just past the shoulders.

Oh! It's Melissa. I think. Yea, Melissa. Good to see her back. XD

http://picpaste.com/shedshedshed.JPG
http://picpaste.com/shedshedshed2-q0KubKJV.JPG
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Quote:
Broken yet

Arrow http://www.tinyurl.com/brokenyet

leads to:
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/


So DNC is admitting he has been behind the break in....

So either DNC is now super human or he has contacts to be able to get keys to houses with ease (knowing landlords, or links to the police? I know we thought he was an officer right at the start)
Quote:

EDIT: Is that DNC in the shed at the end? Maybe it's cos it goes too fast, but it doesn't look like DNC. It looks like long hair, but it could the the hoodie or something+speed. Also, watching it again, it looks like short sleeves. There's a definite difference in the color of the shirt just past the shoulders.

Oh! It's Melissa. I think. Yea, Melissa. Good to see her back. XD

http://picpaste.com/shedshedshed.JPG
http://picpaste.com/shedshedshed2-q0KubKJV.JPG


So why is she in DNCs shed of love? (I think I am going to keep calling it that...)

Am I the only one who gets an almost Superman feel from it, running into the phonebooth and then coming out as the new (better?) person. Almost like Melissa is about to transform

But the trash bags suggest its a kill room in there...

Also whats our next move? Do we try and find the shead?

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