#🤔|theories

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bright parrot
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By mental facilities

analog yacht
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yes... used to treat their declining mental health

azure bay
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honestly, I can imagine Owl prescribing it them both for some plan's sake

bright parrot
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That's what I wanted to hear

analog yacht
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perhaps, but that still doesn't mean that taking a prozac will make your CS leave your body

bright parrot
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Yes

bright parrot
analog yacht
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Owl might know that Prozac is ineffective for treating mental health, but it doesn't mean it causes CS

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Again, causation vs correlation

azure bay
analog yacht
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Exactly

bright parrot
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Its a way of saying

azure bay
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and I think they didn't. By medication or not

analog yacht
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They might make up their own medicine for that instead

bright parrot
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Split personality
Human and CS

analog yacht
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Not split personality

bright parrot
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And CS trying to free itself

azure bay
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one doesn't kill a person to liberate itself and then say "f*ck go back" the very next second

bright parrot
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Elaborate the "f*ck go back"

azure bay
bright parrot
bright parrot
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So as I was saying

analog yacht
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Time travel

azure bay
bright parrot
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Is that happened or will happen

azure bay
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it happened. and created a new timeline

bright parrot
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In which game

azure bay
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Seasons

bright parrot
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Btw I will tell you the soul thingies in DM if you're interested

azure bay
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concerning mythology?

bright parrot
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How a soul works

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According to mythology

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Yeah

azure bay
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yeah, why not?

bright parrot
azure bay
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or as unreal...

bright parrot
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This statement questions reality

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Rather than making cube feel real

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Like saying

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Water is as dry as floor

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Which will make us question the dryness of floor

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Its more of a riddle than an answer

azure bay
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what I'm saying is that memories create their realities. And the reality is likely to be someone's memory

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for people living in them there's no difference

bright parrot
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Will you consider a recorded video a reality

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Not like pure reality

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It was reality

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Now its just past

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Same goes for memories

azure bay
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please listen

bright parrot
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Sure

azure bay
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in Rusty Lake cubes are not just recordings

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they are pocket realities

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copies of the one around them

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until altered

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they can be modified

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and their events may go in a different way

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and their inhabitants think

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and therefore exist

analog yacht
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In TPW, ||we see that whatever happens in a cube is just as real as what happens outside of it||

bright parrot
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That's why we question the reality

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The thing is

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Or as I assume it

analog yacht
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even if a memory is altered, it's still real

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"the past is never dead, it's not even past"

bright parrot
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NPC consider their life also to be an altered memory

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Just like

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Its said when you die your life flashes infront of your eyes
So maybe this is the flashback

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The reality of reality itself varies with perspective

bright parrot
analog yacht
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I don't know what that is

bright parrot
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Sorry I went all Wordplay but here's my final ans
And its something different

azure bay
bright parrot
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Have you watched the movie

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But yeah that'll work too

bright parrot
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Like black cube shows bad memories

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White shows good memories

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And blue shows how would you have changed your memories

azure bay
bright parrot
azure bay
bright parrot
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analog yacht
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case 23 had an example, didn't it?

azure bay
bright parrot
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That's why I picked Xmen

azure bay
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endgame better describes RL

bright parrot
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Then make it endgame

bright parrot
azure bay
bright parrot
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We don't get that much influence from outside

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That we got in TPW

analog yacht
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mainly cause other examples don't understand the cubes as thoroughly

azure bay
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introducing a new "real" cube would be against Occam

bright parrot
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The devs expanded their horizon in TPW

bright parrot
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By new "real" cube

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You mean something diff6

azure bay
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a new entity never seen before

bright parrot
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Then that will be schrodingers cat

azure bay
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what will?

bright parrot
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The new cube

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It may or may not be real

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At the same time

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Just like every RL game

azure bay
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wdym?

bright parrot
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RL games follow

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Schrodingers cat

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More than occams razor

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The reality may and may not be real at the same time

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Now wheres my nobel prize LOL

analog yacht
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shrodinger's cat suggests that both possibilities are equally likely, not that it could be one or the other

bright parrot
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Edited

analog yacht
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also, fun fact, schrodinger's cat wasn't a proven concept, but rather schrodinger poking fun at people who think like that (roughly paraphrased)

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irrelevant to the case, but I find it funny

azure bay
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Occam's Razor is about evaluating possibilities. Schrodinger's cat is about quantum superposition.

The 1st you can use to analyze things the other is just a thought experiment

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there are ambiguous things in Rusty Lake

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but it's not because of quantum physics

bright parrot
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Schrodingers cat

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Questions reality

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And duality of it

azure bay
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it's not a fiction trope

bright parrot
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Where I don't know much about occams razor
I just read about it on google

azure bay
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nor is Occam's razor

bright parrot
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It just came in suggestion

analog yacht
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the point is that the two are unrelated to each other

covert wyvern
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It's okay to abstain / not bring up discourse surrounding concepts you don't grasp.

bright parrot
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But I am questioning reality in game

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Coz inception types thingies are happening

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In the game

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You don't know if Paradise was past or present of that time

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It may be a story

analog yacht
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thing is
it's a surreal game. The line between dream and reality is supposed to be blurred

bright parrot
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Narrated to someone

analog yacht
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it was never supposed to be clear what part was reality and what part was fabrication

bright parrot
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And that explains the statement made by

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Nowhere crow

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That cubes are as real as reality

analog yacht
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so we can assume that the entire game is a warped reality, whether within a cube or outside of it

bright parrot
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Maybe a paradox of some sort

azure bay
bright parrot
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What do you consider real(present) and what do you consider a memory

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The incidents

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And explain me occams razor in DM plz

azure bay
bright parrot
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I haven't played the game

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I don't know what's the spoiler here

hollow igloo
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Schrödinger’ cat states that, if you have a box with a cat inside with a chance of dying of exactly 50%, and the box is closed, until you open the box the cat is simultaneously dead and alive. Not either or with the same probability, but both simultaneously. The thing is that you can’t really talk about quantum mechanics for a cat, since a cat is too big, and quantum mechanics works well for small particles, thus solving the paradox.

So, maybe you can apply it to the reality in cubes by saying that the reality in cubes is both real and unreal at the same time, until you look inside them. This doesn’t really contradict Occam’s razor.

lost thorn
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Yikes.. This is very confusing.

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Yet I understand what you are saying as well!

azure bay
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or not splitting

hollow igloo
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Yes, exactly, that’s the way you kill the cat

azure bay
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still can't?

lost thorn
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Pardon me if I'm wrong, but isn't the method done with explosives with chemicals and not poison?

azure bay
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chemicals are poisonous

lost thorn
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Nevermind then..

hollow igloo
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I think it was thought with radioactive particles decaying and then doing stuff. Doesn’t really matter how, but it has to kill the cat somehow. That’s the important thing.

covert wyvern
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Don't the specifics of the murder matter

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The thought experiment remains the same.

hollow igloo
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Exactly

covert wyvern
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Ye basically what Jack said lol sorry

lost thorn
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Ah okay!

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I don't know if this was stated before in this channel.. What if the black cubes always had to do with corrupted souls and not just a bad memory?

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The book in cube escape the cave show the black cube with two white eyes and describes it with "face your demons". What if the demons in question are actually the corrupted soul itself!

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And only once you defeat that soul it turns into a white cube.. Just as it happens in cube escape birthday!

azure bay
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Black cubes can create corrupted souls

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and I think they define them

lost thorn
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True

azure bay
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I mean

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most of corrupted souls are created in pain of sort

hollow igloo
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The hotel guests’ souls are literally the cubes.

azure bay
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and pain also creates black cubes

lost thorn
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But not all black cubes have corrupted versions of the owner!

azure bay
azure bay
hollow igloo
lost thorn
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Doesn't it have to be extracted first?

azure bay
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we have William, Albert, The Guests, Bob

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Caroline still has something of herself left

hollow igloo
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Every case is very much unique.

azure bay
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most of them are too unique

hollow igloo
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Maybe there is a common base. The idea of having memories removed somehow could be that base

azure bay
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I theorized there's something even more general

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like strong negative emotions

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but William is a stretch

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and Albert...

hollow igloo
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Not meaning that memory loss cause instant corruption

azure bay
hollow igloo
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I would say that CS can be created basically in two ways: by memory loss or with the elixir.

azure bay
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I'd rather attribute Caroline, the guests and the drowned from The Lake to pain or desecration

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and also becoming richer makes you corrupted as well... Sometimes... Somehow... (jk)

hollow igloo
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If the creation of a CS is a direct consequence of the elixir, that would explain William without taking pain in consideration. Still we know nothing about William, so pain is still possible

lost thorn
# azure bay we have William, Albert, The Guests, Bob

The guests had a black cube in their prisons, indicating they got extracted or removed from them. Bob only became corrupted in his dreams and later in the facility when the professionals showed that dream in their own screens.
||Albert underwent a weird ceremony inside a black cube memory inside a strange device.||
William was not in the physical realm as he was only able to interact and communicate with Rose through voodoo.
And Caroline was shown to have had her cubes scattered physically.. Implicating that what she underwent resulted to memory extraction.

azure bay
azure bay
hollow igloo
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This is why I said it’s just one of two possible ways to obtain a CS.

azure bay
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Bob became corrupted up to 3 times

hollow igloo
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At maximum, yes

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I think pain is to be taken in consideration

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Like, mental instability making you more suitable to become a CS.

lost thorn
azure bay
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extraction or not

lost thorn
hollow igloo
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Basically every character becoming corrupted not via the elixir has some sort of mental pain. Given how mental health is a theme in RL, it’s very likely to be a thing.

azure bay
lost thorn
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And defeating that soul is the only way to turn the black cube into a white cube!

hollow igloo
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Sound effects are very clear on that

azure bay
lost thorn
azure bay
lost thorn
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Memories related to fears..

azure bay
lost thorn
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By getting over your fear!

azure bay
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but not necessarily by getting over your CS

lost thorn
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Not the corporal corrupted soul...

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But you could get over the one residing inside the black cube!

azure bay
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black cubes don't create souls on their own

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cubes can be part of souls

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but not the other way around

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usually cubes are just cubes

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oh

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OOOH

lost thorn
azure bay
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we've got a ton of CS existing without cubes

lost thorn
azure bay
# azure bay OOOH

@hollow igloo could it be that in Hotel the guests were exploring their own memories Laura/Dale style?

azure bay
lost thorn
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The memory has to have a corrupted soul inside it as a demon or fear you need to face!

azure bay
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I can recall 25 cubes not having any sort of CS inside them

lost thorn
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Wow! There are that many!?

azure bay
lost thorn
azure bay
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an alternative you at most

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from another timeline that is

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but still, it's you

lost thorn
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And the cubes are your memories, where your demons reside.

azure bay
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evidence, please

lost thorn
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Only when those demons overcome you, you become the demon.. The corrupted soul.

azure bay
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evidence

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please

lost thorn
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Uhm.. Have you played cube escape : theatre?

azure bay
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I did, don't worry

lost thorn
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Ah okay!

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After Bob Hill (tw) ||shoots himself|| the player can enter his brain. Inside the brain, the player can find white cubes and a black cube, which are inside the brain of Bob. It may not be a direct line of reference but it may as well suggest that the cubes and the memories are one and the same...

azure bay
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that's not up to debate

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the cubes are memories

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what about demons?

lost thorn
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The cave

bright parrot
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Cubes are memories thats crystal clear

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How to mark spoilers on Android

azure bay
lost thorn
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Cube Escape : The cave.
There is a book that describes the black cube. The black cube has two holes that look similar to the eyes of the corrupted soul. The book describes the black cube stating that you face your demons.

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The black cubes contain your demons!

azure bay
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double

azure bay
bright parrot
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Maybe she means CS

lost thorn
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The phrase of "face your demons" is usually a phrase associated with overcoming your fears.

azure bay
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ok, fears in cube

lost thorn
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Perhaps a representation of what the fear is.
And killing the corrupted soul might mean overcoming your fears!

azure bay
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how did you make a leap from fears to corrupted souls?

lost thorn
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Two reasons!

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The first reason is that the book in the cave has a black cube drawing with two holes in the middle that look just like a corrupted soul's eyes.

The second reason is because I've observed a connection between corrupted souls and black cubes. All black cubes have had corrupted souls inside those memories in the black cubes.

azure bay
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and now please listen to me

lost thorn
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Of course!

azure bay
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did you learn the lesson of Theatre?

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6 plays

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about the past, the present and the future

lost thorn
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Not exactly..

azure bay
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all six plays are about the past, the present and the future at the same time

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about 6 stages of the wheel

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what wheel?

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Samsara wheel

azure bay
azure bay
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CS is one of them

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so CS is you

lost thorn
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But.... Isn't that what applies to William? A character that is a corrupted soul outside of memories.

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The corrupted souls I talk about are not the ones outside the cubes.. Only the ones inside.

azure bay
lost thorn
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I..... See

azure bay
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Laura's cubes still contain his memories about elixir

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that's why they were important in The Cave

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depicted on the mural

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and in the book

lost thorn
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I understand what you say. However, what I am trying to convey is that those black cubes and dark memories have corrupted souls inside them as a means to show that it is something you need to defeat to overcome your fears.

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You might becomes corrupted in real life because of the black cubes, but those black cubes themselves have corrupted souls that are representations of your fear.

azure bay
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A corrupted soul is a soul that went corrupted and is unable to be reborn. Basically, a ghost.

lost thorn
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In real life!

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But what of the ones inside memories?

azure bay
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in Rusty Lake memories are as real as the reality. It was confirmed recently

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and hinted at since the beginning

lost thorn
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Ah true!

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I guess my theory is debunked then haha

floral mauve
azure bay
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at least originally

azure bay
floral mauve
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I mean its possible

hollow igloo
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Never though about it this way.

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The thing is, why do they get out?

azure bay
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disturbed by Harvey having a look?

azure bay
hollow igloo
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Can an interaction of that type interfere?

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Hold on, they don’t really get out

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Maybe you just see them by looking at the cubes

azure bay
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no idea

hollow igloo
hollow igloo
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And by looking at the cubes, for a moment you see the soul inside.

bitter siren
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Grandma Eilendeer is Ms Pigeon?!!!! Doesn't make sense, 'cuz Ms Pigeon is a scientist 🥴

bitter siren
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Why does this heart-operated working grandfather clock keep ticking from 5:40 and onward?

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Who is the deer? The father of Eilendeer?

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What do we know about this iconic fish of Rusty Lake? Appeared in THE CAVE's secret achievement

ebon aspen
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Dont quite get your question about the clock
Yes, the person using a deer mask is nicholas eilander
About the fish, not much thats relevant

azure bay
bitter siren
bright parrot
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Maybe not

azure bay
bright parrot
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Crow you there

azure bay
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0_o

bright parrot
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Ahoy mate

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Happy Thanksgiving

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Coming to some theory

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If cubes do exist in real life

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And they || look like shown in tpw cumputerish||

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They why haven't we seen a single other cube like it

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Just plain black cubes

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And white

azure bay
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hi, the computer is ||just a device, the cube is inside it||

bright parrot
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Which means every cube is a memory

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And blue cube is also a memory

azure bay
bright parrot
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Tell your opinion

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What do you think of blue cube

azure bay
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it's a tool

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it controls time flow

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in Bday and Seasons

bright parrot
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We've seen blue cube in 2 games

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Yeah those

azure bay
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3*

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also The Cave

bright parrot
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We are sure that Bday is a memory

azure bay
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and Seasons are memories

bright parrot
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Same I think of Seasons

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Maybe seasons is the memory extracted from laura in "the mill"

azure bay
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not all of them

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at least winter takes place long after The Mill

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I think all the cubes seen in Seasons were last seen in The Cave

bright parrot
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Then how is it a memory for sure

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There are 4 cubes till now
Black white blie gold

azure bay
azure bay
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now an old idea resurfaces

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Winter could be a continuation of extracted memories

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at the time one would say "simulated"

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now I'd say "an independent timeline captured in a cube"

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still not sure which approach I prefer

bright parrot
azure bay
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the golden cube is a form of elixir

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the only thing that could be rendered useless would be elixir memories

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and technically they were never about Laura

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so her memories would be safe

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Laura will enter cubes

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Like Dale

bright parrot
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Lets check everything in sequence

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  1. How is winter memory of Laura is present
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  1. How is Laura's body "alive" after her death
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  1. Lets assume Laura stole the cubes what will she do after them
azure bay
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  1. Winter is either a memory of Laura's soul created in 1981 or it's what happens after her death inside the cubes
  2. She's corrupted
  3. Either researches them and creates a machine before entering them or enters them right away, relives her past life, lives on past her death (still corrupted) and only then creates the machine in 1981
bright parrot
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Here's my theory on Seasons

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The incident till the mill is true memory

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And the winter is a fake memory

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Which is created to make her feel like

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She had a complete life

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And thus a blue cube

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Signifies messing up with time

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Laura was kept as prisoner after the mill

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And is seen in cave

azure bay
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if memories are real then fake memories are real as well

bright parrot
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Memories are memories

azure bay
bright parrot
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I am just using words to differentiate them

bright parrot
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Tell the date of mill

azure bay
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haha, this timeline is weird

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Laura is stolen in 1971

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but her memories were extracted in 1972

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then she escaped

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then recaptured

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and kept in the white cube at the lake bottom

bright parrot
azure bay
bright parrot
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In seasons

azure bay
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in Case 23

bright parrot
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The winter scene was weird

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From the start

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AtLeast for me

azure bay
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what's so weird?

bright parrot
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Even without this theory

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Drip like thingies

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And it looked imperfect

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Like its made

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Just feels odd

azure bay
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it's her house abandoned for 10 years

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and full of weird time travel machinery

bright parrot
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Then maybe she ran from crow

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Lived in her house

azure bay
bright parrot
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And then they got her

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And the seasons we see is in the white cube she is kept in

azure bay
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Dale's arc long completed

bright parrot
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Character building arc is completed

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Now's the character development arc

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Or maybe something else

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There is more to dale

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His game may be the last game of RL

azure bay
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not in Seasons tho

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Seasons is about Laura's aftermath

bright parrot
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We don't see dale in seasons

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But many incidents are before her "death"

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Seasons is altered

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Just like Bday

azure bay
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I mean, I see no reason in speaking of Dale in the context of Seasons other then he's Laura's past

bright parrot
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One more thing about your time travel theory

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There is no time travel in RL

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As in seasons

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When we jump in times

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Our Inventory also changes

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But if it was a time travel

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Inventory must be same

azure bay
bright parrot
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We neither saw her death

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Nor the investigation

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In seasons

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Death is as important as birth dude

bright parrot
azure bay
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and that's all that matters for her resurrection story

bright parrot
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We see the results in winter

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But why not her death from her perspective

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This is a loop hole for me

azure bay
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to make Dale unsure whether it's murder or suicide

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to make the player unsure about that

bright parrot
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Then it may be patched in the new train game

azure bay
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or may not

bright parrot
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All we can do is hope

analog yacht
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Wouldn't be much of a mystery game series if we got all the answers from the start

bright parrot
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But today we came to an important conclusion after a long time

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That there is no time travel in RL

azure bay
bright parrot
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Sup cass

azure bay
bright parrot
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Its a memory

azure bay
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and memories are real

bright parrot
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You can become ironman or thanos in memory

azure bay
bright parrot
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Memories are like dreams

azure bay
bright parrot
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Just with a conscious mind

azure bay
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just play TPW

bright parrot
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Waiting for my friend 🙃

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Or maybe someone who hasn't played till now

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Someone I know

covert wyvern
bright parrot
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Thanks damy

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But no

azure bay
# bright parrot Waiting for my friend 🙃

then please, look at the situation. You clearly know that you miss some crucial information. And still you are trying to make conclusions.

Rationalist's way is gathering all the evidence 1st and only then reflecting on it.

bright parrot
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Fine

azure bay
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@floral mauve Since we know that Rose is alive, how do you think the crate got into the lake?

floral mauve
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I believe she dropped the crate just before she entered the loop

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assume she knows that something is gonna happen

azure bay
floral mauve
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I mean we have to confirm two cases

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first is she did make it in 1984 which I believe she did but there arent much more direct evidence before the release of Metro
second is that I forgot what I was gonna say

azure bay
floral mauve
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yea

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I believe her lab is located around the lake or has some sort of connection, or in fact, she dropped the crate after Laura is independent

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could be many cases

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imagination

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fan fic is always an option

azure bay
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I have a different thing in mind

floral mauve
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we just dont have much insight before the news of the Metro

azure bay
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but 1st I'll drop some messages in TPW

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@floral mauve so there's another candidate

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who has evidence of visiting Rusty Lake

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it's Laura

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in 1969

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I think it could be her disposing old memories

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including those made in New York

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actually

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pretty much all of them except for 1 should originate from NY

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considering she moved there in infancy

floral mauve
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thats a good one

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ur story makes more sense than the original prediction I made

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though I am still saying that I got the childhood trip prediction right UwU

azure bay
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even the timepiece has to be broken there since we see it still being with Rose while she was raising Laura

floral mauve
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so did Laura fight with Rose and broke the timepieces or accident

azure bay
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no idea. My thoughts were about breaking it accidentally like kids usually do

floral mauve
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when I was little, I broke one expensive jade decoration in my home by accident

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its was worth like 1200 euros something

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so I do get the feeling but my parents didnt blame me much and just throw the broken pieces

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i guess golden time piece is more important

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even its broken

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it resembles Rose's past

azure bay
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not sure anymore if Rose would be upset about it

floral mauve
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she is surely upset if she knows that Laura died

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she should know

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we have to make some predictions of next game

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why they no longer close

azure bay
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I was speaking about the timepiece

floral mauve
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I know

azure bay
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initially I thought that it breaking caused them parting ways

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now I'm not sure anymore

floral mauve
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it has to be some sort of foreshadow

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I predicted that it either Rose died or as you said, they arent close anymore

azure bay
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so, the conclusion

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maybe wishful thinking but we will probably see Laura's trip in details

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(or could it be Mr. Crow disposing evidence before Case 23?)

floral mauve
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u just ruined the entire experience

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sad

azure bay
red yew
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Apart from that i just noticed ||the eilander family are the guests at the hotel, this would mean that the daughter, being the faisan, killed herself, and i cannot think that wasnt for a bigger meaning||

ebon aspen
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You mean how in hotel shes the one that pulls the trigger?

azure bay
red yew
azure bay
azure bay
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oh

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OOOOOOH

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There was no 3rd child of Margaret!

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or...

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was it?

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"only brother I had"

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damn... he could've got a sister

red yew
red yew
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In rusty lake Paradise the mom of the protagonist was sacrificed and then when a memory of her appeared she always had an owl mask

azure bay
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ok, so what?

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what does it mean for us?

red yew
#

You mean they are the same entities but different people and that would have sense, the eilanders took that place at some point and then the mr owl and hotel guests we now know

azure bay
#

by entities I meant same souls

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by people I meant personalities

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Jacob did become Owl

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and Elizabeth did become Pheasant

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but that doesn't mean that she remembers her past

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because it could be considered a new life

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new incarnation

red yew
#

Mr crow and mr owl have always had the same plans, as humans and as inmortals

azure bay
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I think that's what preserved their personalities

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Eilanders didn't

bitter siren
#

I noticed that the man who always managed to row across the river sank in PARADOX intro

azure bay
#

except Roots and Paradise

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since The White Door he ceased doing so

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then we have most of the old intros updated

bitter siren
#

I've been waiting for this animation to pass, while also preparing for an unexpected jump scare 😂

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I will put this thought on hold first, I will get back to this after I've played all intro and compared them

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Thanks 👍

azure bay
#

it's next to nothing to compare really. We have Paradox, we have Roots-Paradise, we have The Past Within and we have all the rest

azure bay
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no sound even

wind axle
wind axle
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Whaaaat

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How come i don't remember this???

azure bay
#

how long have you been playing these games?

robust fox
azure bay
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all cube escapes and Hotel

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that was before 2020

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in 2020 the intro was changed

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and used in updated cube escapes and Hotel

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Paradox is the only game with that intro that didn't require an update

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hence the old intro

robust fox
red yew
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But the life elixir was also sketched out by caroline eilander

azure bay
azure bay
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the others asked the lake for enlightenment

south imp
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Hi guys just sharing a theory of bekaroth-reads I fond on tumblr

|| "What if Aldous lied and said he made the elixir, but it was really just poison? And, he became immortal because killing William was the final step of the rituals he'd been performing in secret and just needed to have the death of the first born. That's also why it killed James." But, then I was like, "Crap, forgot about the dog". ||

covert wyvern
#

no need to spoiler tag it here but thank you for sharing:)

azure geode
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Why are the screen's edges curved?

stone talon
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And we’re playing in 1st person usually

azure bay
delicate atlas
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I can finally unmute this channel

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Now I understand what nowherecaw ment by tpw blowing his mind

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I can't wait for his video about it

azure bay
delicate atlas
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Oh

azure bay
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we have a dedicated thread

delicate atlas
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Nice

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Easier to read things about tpw all at once this way

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Thanks

delicate atlas
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Thanks!

stone talon
delicate atlas
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Based

stone talon
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There’s also this other rl YOUTUBER I like, but that’s offtopic lol

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Oh yea, Razz Jazz

delicate atlas
#

Yeah him too

wind axle
#

I like to think that the plagues happened because Carolyn wasn't sacrificed in the way that the lake demanded
We know that Jakob was supposed to be sacrificed by being lowered into the lake, but Carolyn was sacrificed by being burnt alive, causing the black cubes, and then tossed into the lake

Either that or the lake demands child sacrifices on a regular basis.

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Or maybe how Nikolas interpreted the lake's demands.

ebon aspen
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Prolly the regular basis, since the plagues seemed to be a recurring thing in the lake

wind axle
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Are they? /genq

azure bay
#

I think so

ebon aspen
#

Jakob was to be sacrificed, carol freed him and was sacrificed in his place bc they needed to give someone

wind axle
#

Ah

azure bay
#

her death is pretty unclear

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I can't even get when she was killed

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after Jakob's escape or before his return?

ebon aspen
#

Escape no?

wind axle
#

i like to think that Nikolas went coo-coo crazy being isolated on the island and only interpreted the lake demanding sacrifices

ebon aspen
#

Nah the lake really went brrrrrrr when it wasnt fed

wind axle
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as for the whole plagues thing i can't really explain that without getting into religious territory so mmmmmmm

azure bay
wind axle
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i still think it's really interestingz

ebon aspen
wind axle
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yey

ebon aspen
#

We are always discussing about how studying mythology and religious philosophy can help understanding the series

azure bay
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my go-to assumption is that the biblical plagues were caused by some lake-like force

wind axle
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sometimes i wanna draw an eldritch abomination inside the lake because interpretations go brrrr

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but at hte same time ik it's not accurate XD

azure bay
#

@ebon aspen what do you think, shouldn't we trust Nicolas informing Jakob of Caroline's death as it happened in 1792 or should we trust the devs putting his letter into the game?

ebon aspen
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Refresh my memory about the letter and how it contradicts nick's statements about carol

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Ill prolly replay paradise some time soon bc i dont remember any detail from it

rapid shuttle
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@floral mauve hi

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want to ask now Rusty Lake Is the new work just The Past Within?

ebon aspen
#

Youre asking if the past within is the only game recently released by rusty lake?

rapid shuttle
#

yes

covert wyvern
rapid shuttle
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OK

azure bay
#

and "Paradise has been suffering since your mother died. She prayed for your return. Please, help us, son"

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The thing is, he could lie

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he could be telling half-truth

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the coffin memory looks more or less recent

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(could it be annual thing for them?)

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the bonfire memory doesn't feature memory clones of the family

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but technically they are still there around the stake

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If it was recent, why would they wait for 15 years before killing her?

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If it was long ago why didn't they call Jakob earlier?

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Did they suffer through the plagues for 15 years?

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What's also interesting

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3 sacrifice attempts look differently

ebon aspen
#

I honestly wouldnt be surprised if he were keeping jakob uninformed

azure bay
#

the notes are one of the few ways to reliably communicate the game's message

azure bay
#

I'm starting to think that Second Maze will publish some detective-related story
On the roadmap Case 23 is referenced in the SM building
and Bart's intro was made with Dale's mind map in the background

ebon aspen
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A day in the detective office would be nice

azure bay
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I'd love to see some kind of Case 22

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or at least Dale gathering info on Rusty Lake

delicate atlas
#

Wait, what is the "sm" building?

azure bay
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A building with Second Maze logo on the 7 years anniversary roadmap

delicate atlas
azure bay
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since related to Laura

delicate atlas
#

Fair

analog yacht
#

same case technically

delicate atlas
#

Yes

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That's what I was thinking

floral mauve
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And he even sent me a friend request SamuelThink

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Anyway

bright parrot
#

Sup crow you there

azure bay
#

it's nowhere

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or caw for that matter

bright parrot
#

Wasn't youre name

covert wyvern
bright parrot
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Nowherecrow

covert wyvern
#

No need to discuss that

bright parrot
#

Coming back to my questions

covert wyvern
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Just say nowhere or caw and move on with your life @bright parrot

bright parrot
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What is it called case23

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Is something special about no. 23

azure bay
#

I guess no

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just 23rd case

bright parrot
#

Random

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Another one

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Why was dale in the bar

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As we know from twd

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It was some sort of party

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But its whole different in theatre

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So that may mean

azure bay
bright parrot
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That theatre is altered

azure bay
bright parrot
#

From Dale's view maybe

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Maybe it was like what bob saw

azure bay
#

The Lost Soul was just a dream. Symbolic but still a dream

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If Dale was there, it would be a projection of his future form

bright parrot
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That's what I was thinking

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What bob saw

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Was in his mind

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After he shot himself

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But I still belive some part of theatre is altered

floral mauve
# azure bay not from Bob's point of view

I had a discussion on the reliability of Bob’s pov, seems like we don’t really know the gun consequences, he might have a panick attack and he passed out and the memories got extracted

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In terms of reality

azure bay
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but what happened before the shot doesn't have reasons to be questioned

bright parrot
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Maybe there was no crow or owl in theatre

azure bay
bright parrot
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In reality

azure bay
#

in reality

bright parrot
#

How

azure bay
#

it's Rusty Lake Theatre

bright parrot
#

So

azure bay
#

far away from Rusty Lake

bright parrot
#

Continue

azure bay
#

continue what?

bright parrot
#

Its theatre far away from lake

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Soo

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Maybe it wasn't even RL theatre

azure bay
#

so it's likely managed by Owl

azure bay
bright parrot
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And they are trying to connect the dots

azure bay
#

we've got posters

bright parrot
#

Fine

sour trellis
#

I may say known information, but what if part of the game (like the samsara room and the rusty lake hotel is partly real, partly mental deviation associated with past generations and their games with time and space, due to the influence of aliens, under the guise of rituals and other cult things?

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Or i dont understand theme of this channel

azure bay
#

mental deviations of who exactly?

sour trellis
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I dont remember his name, I only remember that he was the founder of a family from the roots

azure bay
#

you mean James? The one who planted a tree?

sour trellis
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No, his dad, the first house owner

azure bay
#

we don't know who his dad is

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we know his uncle and uncle's brother

sour trellis
#

And i mean that, what we is he, in begin of the Roots we know, what he dead, but what, if the "mystical power of player" - is the souls of cube escapers?

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And this territory was cube

azure bay
#

I struggle to understand what you mean

sour trellis
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cube - a territory of increased density of magic / souls (it doesn’t really matter, let there be the power of the cube), and those who managed to escape become tied to the place with the help of this power, and their souls do not leave it in the form of a spirit, and in order to return to the world of the living, certain conditions are needed like chronometers

azure bay
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cubes are memories

sour trellis
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ok, let me rephrase a bit. cubes are the center of power, memories fill the soul, the cube and the soul are inextricably linked, and therefore the soul of the one who came into contact with the "first cube" or its discoverer can be is tied to this place where it happened, and is beginning to be some source of power, and the rusty lake is the epicenter of these cubes, due to the possible fall of a UFO or other into that zone

covert wyvern
#

The lake being alien is a fun take crowgiggle

sour trellis
#

Yes, why not?

slow ridge
#

So in your opinion, which is the real ending of the white door? And which one you like more?
I prefer the original one, when bob remember the day he met Laura in the park. It's so touching and bittersweet.

covert wyvern
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It's probably a split in timeline. Both are probably real

slow ridge
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Also, did bob escape the place in the end or would he still be trapped inside? Unlike the others, he always travelling through a normal and corrupted state. As if they split up, so could something explain the phenomenon behind it?

covert wyvern
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But then again I'm overly fond of my split timeline theory and definitely biased crowgiggle

slow ridge
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The moment when bob shot himself, he suddenly went to the club uncorrupted. So did his mind travel there or did he survive the shot and walk out the theatre?

bright parrot
slow ridge
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But the point is that how did he get there? Is he carried to that place or did he just wander there by accident?

bright parrot
#

What place

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Theatre or TWD

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Coz we know how he got into TWD

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And bar is where a heartbroken guy goes in movies

Duh

azure bay
#

isn't

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real

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it's a dream

slow ridge
#

But he is followed by the cops during that moment, after he killed the cop in case 23, he escaped back to the club

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Or did everything simply happen in the theatre? He shot himself, get unconscious, then being arrested back

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Did he really shoot himself then, or was the bullet harmless?

bright parrot
#

He shot himself

azure bay
bright parrot
#

And maybe they were extracting bob's memories too

azure bay
#

Theatre is 1971, Case 23 ch2 is 1972

slow ridge
#

So what happened after he shot himself ?

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Did he get home or what?

azure bay
bright parrot
#

I answered it

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Up

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Maybe that's what happened

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He shot himself

slow ridge
#

So did he dream last for a year before he is arrested

bright parrot
#

Saw a dream

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Woke on road

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Called TWD

azure bay
#

we have a gap almost a year long

slow ridge
#

He woke up again when he get arrested, he turned corrupted, and returned to the club/dream?

bright parrot
slow ridge
#

He is taken to the station anyway

bright parrot
bright parrot
slow ridge
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Idk, and how did he manage to shift back an uncorrupted form when he called TWD?

bright parrot
#

That's not in his control

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CS is triggered and un triggered

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By its choicw

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Not the person's choice

azure bay
#

@slow ridge, please, stop. The Lost Soul has no way to be real. Just look around: giant donuts and TV sets in the streets, Dale VanderDeer, Laura somehow alive.

The Police Station scene is just a flashback Bob's got while remembering that feverish dream.

slow ridge
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Oh come on, I'm just confused.MitozaPensive

azure bay
#

that's why you have me here

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I can help

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I can explain

slow ridge
#

So he did turn corrupt, then kill the cop, get back to his dream, and wake up in the street

slow ridge
#

But how did dale get his black cube

azure bay
#
  • he's got his dream
  • the dream was eventually over
  • months later he was arrested
  • he got corrupted, killed the officer, left a cube (it's normal for CS)
  • he woke up in the street with no memory
  • TWD starts
  • he remembers that dream he had in Theatre
  • while remembering said dream he may also remember the police station
slow ridge
azure bay
#

yeah, Bob's corruption streak is weird

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he's got corrupted up to 3 times

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and every time goes back to normal

slow ridge
#

And then we find his corrupted version is splitted up with him. One moment he turns corrupted, another moment he turns normal.

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Sometimes the corrupted version just simply lay on the ground like black ink

azure bay
slow ridge
#

But he wasn't really hallucinating, even the staff and Sarah could see his corrupted state

azure bay
#

but he saw it as if he was replaced by another Bob

slow ridge
#

Or after day 5

azure bay
#

hmmm

azure bay
#

but I think it was after

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doctors had to wear hazmat suits before contacting him

bright parrot
#

That means

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CS emits radiations

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But we've seen other humans contacting a CS

#

It did nothing

#

Like that

azure bay
bright parrot
#

Then why hazmat

azure bay
#

the doctor acted as if Bob was just contagious

bright parrot
#

What about bob was contagious

azure bay
#

or dangerous in any other way

bright parrot
#

Whatever it was

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It must be related to energy

azure bay
#

why?

bright parrot
#

Either CS emitted or CS was energy

bright parrot
# azure bay why?

Coz that's what hazmats are for
Hazmats are not efficient for contagious diseases as we saw in covid docs used ppe

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Hazmat blocks rays not air

azure bay
bright parrot
#

But that was hazmat

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Like thingie

azure bay
#

that wasn't

bright parrot
#

Then what was its purpose

azure bay
#

that could be any other type of suit

azure bay
#

some kind of isolation

bright parrot
#

That can be coz that's what faculty is for

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But the suit was just to avoid direct contact

azure bay
#

that's what I mean

azure bay
bright parrot
#

Yes

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I said that

azure bay
#

but that was the 1st time the men of science were doing that

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if you see an alien, you avoid having direct contact with him cause it may bring diseases humanity has no immunity for

bright parrot
#

Dale has touched many cs

bright parrot
azure bay
bright parrot
#

What about paradox

azure bay
bright parrot
#

K

azure bay
bright parrot
#

It triggered

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On day 5

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It was once triggered in police station

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Look here's the thing

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Laura died

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Crow or someone got bob

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Maybe altered his memory or tried to extract it

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And bob became a cs

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Just like dale

azure bay
bright parrot
#

I was just tracing a bit of backstory of bob

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Wait

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Maybe TWD

azure bay
bright parrot
#

Is the process of Bob's black cube

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Becoming a white one

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They removed laura from her mind

azure bay
#

she was asked not to

bright parrot
#

What were they trying to do with bob then

azure bay
#

because "without the woman Bob's mind is useless"

bright parrot
azure bay
#

it just needs memories

bright parrot
#

Then useless for what

azure bay
#

for the plan, I guess

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it looked like they were implanting Bob's memories back

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or unlocking them

bright parrot
#

Maybe they are building bob as antagonist

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For dale

azure bay
#

for what reason?

bright parrot
#

Dale will not become owl

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And owl needs someone to become one

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So all that's left is bob

azure bay
#

sorry but this is bs

bright parrot
#

Then why are they keeping bob

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Bob was a forgotten character

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Maybe TWD is not related to main games

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It was dlc type thing

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A spinoff or smth

azure bay
#

We don't know. It could be for any reason whatsoever.

Your problem is, you are picking those specific ones that make sense to you while objectively they have nothing to set them apart from the infinity of other reasons

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you have nothing to support them and we have things to disprove them

bright parrot
#

I am just presenting my opinions
And disproving them is yours opinion

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And my opinion is

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"TWD is a spinoff game with nothing to add to main series and that's why they released it on second maze studios"

azure bay
#

It's clearly related to a plan about Laura

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Bob is moderately important, since the manager was personally stalking him

#

Bob had his purpose

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We just don't know it

#

Since it's his personal story, we aren't meant to know it

#

From hus pov he didn't know any of this

slow ridge
#

Bob is her boyfriend, he knows things about Laura. That is why Mr Owl needs him

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Not only him, the whole place is in fact a laboratory that tests on people with depression, there must be something about their memories. As it seems like a place for rehabilitation, it is a dystopian place which is hard to get out, patients will be a lab rat forever so the place can extract their cubes and keep testing them

bright parrot
#

And as caw said thats a huge lea0

azure bay
bright parrot
#

Sry forgot that

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But that's out of lake

slow ridge
bright parrot
#

Yes

real lantern
#

I have a personal theory about TWD, but i never followed the ARG path nor did i see the secret achievement, so im not sure i should share it yet lol

bright parrot
#

Share bud

azure bay
bright parrot
#

That's what we are here for

real lantern
#

Well, in my mind TWD was a place where we see Mr.owl locking up depressed and turning their bad memories good, only to rip them out of their heads and sending them back to world or getting rid of them by other means (i guess this is where the basement would come in) but bob is different for some reason, it may be related to laura, it may just be him, but his memories just wont get good no matter what they try, until the last day, where he improves and colour comes back to his world

bright parrot
azure bay
bright parrot
#

Maybe that's the only way to rehab him

bright parrot
azure bay
#

"don't erase the woman. His mind will be useless"

bright parrot
#

What level of need
Will the put laura in his mind
If she wasn't there

azure bay
#

eh?

#

I don't get you

bright parrot
#

I meant do they needed her memories for

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Him

#

Or for their personal use

azure bay
#

they need his mind with the woman inside it

bright parrot
#

Why do they need it

#

Maybe they need his mind
And not just the memories

azure bay
azure bay
#

@real lantern are you still there?

bright parrot
#

Maybe they will take his mind

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And merge with dale

#

So he thinks he knew woman for lomg

azure bay
#

now you are picking random points from the infinite space of possibilities for no reason again

bright parrot
#

That's so me

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But we have made an important point here

ebon aspen
#

Whats the point here?
Im seeing theories going brrrr, got curious

bright parrot
#

They needed his mind too

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Not just memories

bright parrot
azure bay
#

rather his purpose

ebon aspen
#

Ehh, i dont see how much we cant diverge from what we saw in twd

bright parrot
#

Maybe bob as a human hold nothing importance
And is a bit of nuisance as he is a CS

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And his brain is important

azure bay
bright parrot
#

Until

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Its attached to another human

azure bay
#

never saw that in Rusty Lake before

bright parrot
#

We never saw smth like birth of rose

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Or laura

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Or frank

#

Before

ebon aspen
#

Uh, we did?

bright parrot
#

RL never repeats crazy things

ebon aspen
#

Not being a common thing ≠ never happening

bright parrot
#

Never happening again

ebon aspen
#

When did someone's brain got transplanted into another person's body?

azure bay
bright parrot
ebon aspen
#

Yeah im trying to get your point mario

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But you just contradicted yourself XD

bright parrot
#

So was TWD for bob

ebon aspen
#

No, twd is pretty much real

bright parrot
azure bay
#

I'd say it seemed beneficial for Bob. But it was somehow even more beneficial for Owl

bright parrot
ebon aspen
#

He was the perfect test subject

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And thats it