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[TRAILHEAD] There's a Man In the Woods
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Ithilwen22
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 		I assumed that picture was a pitchfork as well. The old blog made a lot of mentions of demonology, if I recall. (Might have to go back and re-read that to see any hints.)

I kind of like SilentMedusa's theory. (Probably partly because the novel I'm writing for NaNoWriMo has a similar premise, albeit without Slendy.) It makes the situation seem more unpredictable if there's no rhyme or reason to his actions.

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SilentMedusa wrote:
I think you're right about our protagonist being targeted by the Millpond Man (who I think is Slendy). But I don't think she was promised.

See, people might have actively sacrificed to the MM once, but times changed, the law got involved, and the practice stopped. But He didn't stop. MM has continued to mark and take people anyway, because He sees it as His due.


I can see that, but I sort of see this as a kind of "lottery" (as in Shirley Jackson's short story) deal. It's not quite certain why some nefarious someone would plant the research file (assuming Bri really didn't get it at either library) in order to do so, but maybe there had to be some sort of personal connection made with it, then?

A decision by lot was mentioned in one of the research logs. This might be the case of an antique ritual being disrupted by the modern-day authorities and just going further underground (perhaps with help from some of those authorities).

The thing that I find both intriguing and confounding is the "Expedition A" floppy disk that was originally found in the tunnel by her class building. She found it in an odd place, then found it missing when she got the file, then found it again with much more... and then... Here we are. So is it one individual (or group) trying to lure her in? Or is it one individual (or group) trying to help her for some purpose...? Or is it one trying to lure her in and another trying to ward her off? Of course it's too early to say.

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Ithilwen22 wrote:
I assumed that picture was a pitchfork as well. The old blog made a lot of mentions of demonology, if I recall. (Might have to go back and re-read that to see any hints.)

I kind of like SilentMedusa's theory. (Probably partly because the novel I'm writing for NaNoWriMo has a similar premise, albeit without Slendy.) It makes the situation seem more unpredictable if there's no rhyme or reason to his actions.


I can see that, but for me, at least, the unpredictability is embodied in the "Expedition A" floppy found earlier in the research. Makes me wonder because of what happened to it whether there aren't two forces out there in opposition to each other and both struggling for our protagonist's fate...

And, yeah, there's a lot of stuff about demonology--but that doesn't necessarily mean that this millpond entity who's probably Slendy is such a creature--it could just be that "demon" is a term given to it (our protagonist does write at one point that what we think of as a "demon" now is largely the product of ages of Christianizing giving it a "Satanic" spin)...

How's the writing coming (off topic, I know, but NaNoWriMo's a rather fascinating movement)?

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 		though, after listening to that phone call again, it doesn't sound like a phone call from a librarian to me. No mention of the institutional name, for example. no contact info for a follow up. weird.

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 		Ooooohhh kaaaayyyyyyy... : http://theresamaninthewoods.blogspot.com/2014/11/blog-post_29.html

Is she missing her thumb? And is that the symbol from the parchment fragment on her hand?

And should I be using spoiler tags? eep.

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 		Oh, I'm not suggesting that the "Millpond Man" is actually a demon, but that people might have connected it to something demonic, and that explains the pitchfork and all.

I wondered at the library phone call (I work at one, and I always mention which library it is) , but OOG they may not have wanted to accidentally mention a real institution. Or it might be an IG hint at something sinister.

(NanoWriMo is going well. I have killed off most of my characters and I have 1400 words left, and my mind has been wrung dry tonight. If my posts make no sense right now, that is why. Lol.)

Well...that was interesting. Were there actual words in that noise, or just gurgling?

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Ithilwen22 wrote:
Oh, I'm not suggesting that the "Millpond Man" is actually a demon, but that people might have connected it to something demonic, and that explains the pitchfork and all.

I wondered at the library phone call (I work at one, and I always mention which library it is) , but OOG they may not have wanted to accidentally mention a real institution. Or it might be an IG hint at something sinister.

(NanoWriMo is going well. I have killed off most of my characters and I have 1400 words left, and my mind has been wrung dry tonight. If my posts make no sense right now, that is why. Lol.)

Well...that was interesting. Were there actual words in that noise, or just gurgling?


First, Off Topic, glad to hear about the writing.

About the phone call--I'm holding out hope, as it's ambiguous enough that IG it COULD be real but COULD also be an attempt at confusing someone who's already rather addled. It's suspicious to me (a completely OOG observation--they coulda just beeped or otherwise redacted the identifying information--I don't believe that the pond mentioned actually exists in Western NY, for example, so why not just make up the location?)--it seems like someone trying to mislead (which, if you note what Bri says in the video about being sure she visited the local library but then in the blog description typed about not really remembering a visit to the local library, seems to be working).

Back to the diagram--I can see why, Ithilwen22, you and SilentMedusa say that part of the diagram looks like a pitchfork (and the squiggles at the bottom do sorta match up with the Slendytree in the distorted photo from the archive). That was something I'd thought of at first too. But if you've ever read a lot of manuscripts from the 17th through the early 19th century (and I have worked firsthand with them in Boston), whether on that parchmenty paper or on vellum (which is what that looked like to me at first, but of course we don't have the benefit of actually handling these artifacts), you don't see too many stick figure drawings with that degree of stylization to represent individuals or other entities (not that they don't exist, but I haven't seen too many myself), but you DO see diagrams such as that intended to be a geographic representation of some area or of something else. I admit that the cut in that weird video from the diagram and the tarot card representation (which itself is weird: sort of a counterfeit tarot?) to the staircase in what appears to be that hotel built by the haunted mill pond are pushing me in that direction.

You DO occasionally see symbols, though, so it could be a stylized representation of something--in which case I wonder whether it might not turn out to be some sort of hieroglyph or petroglyph--but it's strange to see it cut out of a manuscript, apparently with an exacto knife or a straight razor. Who cut it? Why was it cut? (And did our protagonist unleash something by unclipping it from the tarot? Holy shit.)

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 		What has happened here? Bri's back. And with a wicked bad headache: http://theresamaninthewoods.blogspot.com/2014_12_01_archive.html.

Edit: But public chat apparently imminent?

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 		Just noticed this. She doesn't seem to be at all aware of any of the weird things going on. Either she hasn't read her blog or she has a weirdness censor going on. Hopefully this will be brought up at the chat tonight.

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 		So... Saturday: http://theresamaninthewoods.blogspot.com/2014/12/blog-post.html

And Sunday: http://theresamaninthewoods.blogspot.com/2014/12/update.html

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 		Makes me think even more that I'm right about her having been marked from a very young age.

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 		Uh-oh: http://theresamaninthewoods.blogspot.com/2014/12/im-sorry.html.

Meds messing up her head... glitching around... apparent second cameraperson...

Brian?

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 		This wasn't so surprising, but I'm wondering now why the Braumueller file was made so public to Bri (unless it was done so unofficially) if there's a "history" to the file: http://theresamaninthewoods.blogspot.com/2014/12/taking-break-from-videos-because-im.html? Usually, such a file would be under strict restrictions.

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 		This...
This is not good: http://theresamaninthewoods.blogspot.com/2014/12/another-picture-on-my-phone-from-2.html.

Though this is rather interest piquing: http://theresamaninthewoods.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lowly-worm-crawls-up-winding-stair.html.

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 		And this is something... though I don't know what yet: http://theresamaninthewoods.blogspot.com/2014/12/i-feel-my-being-dance-from-ear-to-ear.html.

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