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[DISCUSS] Weekly Ark'n'Entry

[Zarggg]

Just as an organizational suggestion, you might want to put the dates for the week in the first post and/or thread subject.

Also, I'm not sure if you intended this, but the playlist you linked was marked as "private."

[Hazman]

Re: Weekly Ark'n'Entry

[Sinkes]

Haha working from my phone and thought I'd have more time at 4:30 AM xD

Better?

Yeah, good idea Zarggg

[Hazman]

Aww yeah. Looking good.

[pravado]

I'm going to put them in order of how I think they happened


Entry #2 - Before Alex realizes the operator is following him

Entry #5 - The Operator was definitely following Alex at this point, but not making himself seen just yet.

Entry #4 - Alex has had blackouts by this point, but can't figure out why. Perhaps Alex sees The Operator and remembers him from standing under the light, and thinks he's somehow involved with the mysterious blackouts he's been having. He pursues The Operator but fails.

Entry #7 - Nothing to say about this entry that it doesn't say for itself. Totheark had an alternative set of footage for this scene though (advocate) and it implies he had access to the unused footage from filming. Who better to have that than Seth, the cameraman/editor? Alex figures out in this entry that the operator is following him to filming locations

Entry #1 - Comes just before entry #6. This takes place during the summer of 2006 near the beginning of the start of filming of marble hornets. The Operator is outside Alex's house, and this is most likely not his first visit. Alex is aware he is being stalked, and that this person is most likely involved with his blackouts.

Entry #6 - Continuation of entry #1.

Entry #8 - We hear Alex ripping up paper. My theory is that he is convinced the operator has gotten inside his house (perhaps watched entry 14, or heard the operator walking around/saw him at some point before the operator made him black out the same way he does to jay in season 1). He puts the paper on the floor (the same way there's paper on the floor in Brian's house in season 1) to hear the operator walk on it if he is inside the house. The slender sickness has started to settle in. Alex is writing "help" and "sees me" on paper, implying his life is shattered by this stalker.


Entry #3 - We see Alex setting timers on when to change tapes. He most definitely has experienced blackouts at this point, as he wouldn't be filming himself every second otherwise. He wants to know what is causing them, and filming himself is a way of surveillance. He has become extremely paranoid at this point. He even films himself buying tapes. he considers nowhere safe.

Entry #9 - Alex's paranoia is at an all time high, and he's cracking, and probably starting to experience more violent slender sickness around this time.

Regards - Nothing crazy. I think it says "look closely" or something. Just proves my tta = seth theory a little bit.

[KTsteve]

Quick clarification, are we pretending we haven't seen the later entries for this?

So one thing I didn't have in my marble hornets notepad, the "original" event happened in the summer of 2006.

entry 1: that slendy necksnap. I always wondered what was going on in this entry, was slendy caressing the pole? Perhaps he was watching someone else at the time, then sensed Alex? The most important question though, was the audio removed, or did slendy distortion make it not record? It was most likely removed by TTA, as seen later on.

entry 2: Likely one of the first entries chronologically. It's notable that the dog is scared of slendy as well. A possible slendy sighting at :45 on the left side of the street, however it's probably just a lens flare.

entry 3: I'm half in agreement with pravado, you can hear him rip the paper 5 times. He then puts one sheet aside, and leaves. I personally think that he chose one for the wall of papers, then leaves to throw others on the ground. Perhaps he's just ripping out a bunch to draw on, then hears something and leaves? Maybe he just ripped out one page, but he was careful not to ruin his drawing, so he did it in 5, smaller sections. There are a few possibilities, none of them really game changing from each other. I just wish we could've seen a better shot of his entryway floor, would've answered this question in a heartbeat.

entry 4: Alex does seem to be hunting slendy at this point. Also I really think slendy isn't used to the world and is learning how it works. There are just so many entries where he seems to be like a curious child... Also notable, off camera he appears to move at superhuman speed, on camera though he moves like a normal human. I've also noticed, at the end the camera slumps sideways and goes down before cutting off. This could just be alex letting the camera down to his side in defeat, but maybe he got attacked by the operator?

entry 5: Though it's pretty agreed upon that slendy didn't appear, at 2:26 you can see something that looks an awful lot like him next to a tree that's on alex/jays side of the field from the tower (diagram to explain what I mean jay Xtrees with operatorX ____field____ |tower|) also notable oog:

[Jiime_6]

About Regards:
If you count for how long each set of "/" is on screen, you get "--.-.---.-". In case it is Morse code, the problem is that we don't know where each character starts and where it stops, thus "GKQ" being only one of the options. Unless, of course, there's something I'm missing or I should know. If this is the case, please tell me because I hate talking about things I actually have no idea about.

I've been searching a bit and found out that there's a list of "standardized three-letter Morse encodings" called Q-codes. They all stand for questions and begin with a Q, and since a Q is "---.-", this could be the case. After rearranging the rest, the possibilities are QAQ, QJA, and QWK.
QWK doesn't correspond to any Q-code, so we're left with QAQ and QJA. QAQ stands for "Am I near prohibited/restricted/danger area?", and QJA means "Is my [a)tape b)mark and space] reversed?". I don't know, "Is my tape reversed?" sounds to me like a funny coincidence, since the audio is indeed reversed.

The more I write about this, the more I feel I'm trying too hard and I'm totally wrong. But hey, I was bored.

[TheOperator]

I figure Alex didn't want anyone knowing what he was saying in the muted clips. In Entry #6 I imagine The Operator starts planting ideas in Alex's head to kill his friends and Alex is trying to resist.

[Hazman]

So if you were new to this or indeed watching them as they came out, how would you find the TTA videos without knowing about the Twitter?

Also

[Jiime_6]

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[KTsteve]

[Jiime_6]

I think the audio in Regards sounds more like something when sped up even more:

That's 8x. Anyway, it's just one second so I really doubt it's possible to identify the song or whatever it is. But I think that's the right speed.

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