#🤔|theories
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i haven't translated a whole text yet
sooooo i don't use an app
Well, I can speak English but speaking and writing are different.
General part of the language isn't always enough to write a story, you know.
I mean, I don't know much of the verbs.
i am better at writing than speaking ._.
Dutch is better.
Guys, I was just reading about the samsara wheel and in the theater game it makes really obvious that the game is about it (there are six paths on the samsara wheel and mr owl says exactly that)
whats a samsara wheel?
Also, there's one path called naraka, where the person cleanses his karma... maybe thats what dale is going through! Because he cleanses the black cubes into white cubes, and its pretty obvious that the black cubes are negative karma
Maybe he's the one that killed the lady in the lake
i don't think he has killed the woman
he is the dedektiv in her case
Samsara wheel is a buddhist belief that there are 6 paths in the afterlife
ah, ok
He's the detective, but also he doesnt remember much
But did Laura kill herself or was she murdered?
So maybe he's dead too and the lake is the naraka path, where he is cleaning his karma to reincarnate
but iirc he forget his memories while he gets in the elevator
I think laura was murdered, but I dont remember exactly
iirc she was stabed in the back
I don't think they revealed it yet tho right?
we see her got stabed
I remember in seasons, they imply the Laura takes a medicine called Prozac which is for depression so maybe she did kill herself? Or maybe it's a mix of both?
But on theater you see her throat getting cut too
I think it's all philosophical and less literal than that
Just like you see on case 23
Getting cut in the throats and stabbed in the back can be symbolic of things
But she falls on the floor like on case 23
And the theater is "the theater of your mind"
That could be a significant clue as to her mental struggles
but if she has murderd herself the investigations in her case wouldn't be that long as it is
I think the reason it's long because it's a diffficult case in general
and Dale would have find clues leading hime to this curch
The tv says "murder or suicide"
And the note in seasons say "I think I might do something terrible"
that is normal, if the case is unclear for a longer time
Exactly. It's a hard case
yeah, but this note is in the time as Laura killed Harvey, the parrot
For some reason I don't think she was referencing killing Harvey, I think that was a spontaneous desicion
Writing a note means planning and suicide includes planning
she had only a feeling
"I think I might"
and the outher notes also referenc spontane actions
How?
"Can you boil havrveys eggs" that's planned
She's been thinking about it for a while
oh right, so nvm
most of suicidal people dont think about their own suicide as "doing something terrible" so i think that was a reference to killing harvey or just a random thought
I disagree with that
I was suicidal and I know many suicidal people because I was put in a psychiatric hospital
Many suicidal people view it as something terrible
It depends on experience
so when yoi think it is terrible, why you want to to that?
but people i knew thought about it as if its a way to make everyones lifes easier
yeah, but if you want to kill you, why do you think it is terrible?
idk lmao i dont
As I told you it's a symptom
like yeah ill die, less of a burden to everyone
wanting to die is a symptom
but feeling terrible of doing it?
there are different types of depression tho
Lol we don't feel terrible but we agree that's it terrible
but the note says "I think I might do something terrible" so she thing it ist terrible, too
I won't allow myself to go on here untill I have finished all the games.
Its better
Because I was looking through the internet and found out that laura is the reincarnation of william, brother of aldous
why that?
I dont know, the internet said that lol
Its on the wikia
But theres not much explanation
so a just theory....
Its on the end of the cave game
When william dies, becoming a corrupted soul and then reincarnates as her
I will finish the game to tell you better
It's also in roots, isn't it?
Cave ends with extracting Dales and Lauras memories in a golden cube
I just saw what happens
It clearly showed william drinking the elixir, dying, becoming a corrupted soul, becoming a tree, and then becoming laura
Thats a fact
Also, mr crow is aldous
https://youtu.be/ddD3FvvPsJI?t=1h18m30s here is a video of the last puzzel and william
at no point he drank the elixir or becoming a tree
El Pozo (Parte 1) 0:13 El Héroe de Guerra 4:30 La Progenie 14:54 El Baño 25:09 Las Trincheras 29:24 Comunicación 38:04 Las Estrellas 42:46 El Tesoro 52:46 El...
yes, the woman (a forgot her name) has a baby, but it was never said, that this is Laura
https://youtu.be/mCkc-nMAKa4?t=17m59s thats the end of cave
Walkthrough for Cube Escape: The Cave Part 2 An old man is about to enter a mysterious Cave. A familiar guest needs your help before you descend deeper and d...
Walkthrough for Cube Escape: The Cave Part 1 An old man is about to enter a mysterious Cave. A familiar guest needs your help before you descend deeper and d...
william isn't there
I didnt too, but its weird as its a pretty big deal
but i wont interpret this as a recarnation. i think this show us, that out of williams familie (that's what the tree stands for) cames Laura
so the only thing that this part is showing us is, that Laura is a descandant of William
but the only one who knew yet are the developers...
Yeah, but that she is a vanderboom we already knew, but why he became her right away instead of going through the whole tree
?
Also, reincarnation is one "stage" of every path on the samsara wheel
what? he first became a tree, than he became Laura
And as they say on the games and on the real samsara wheel is that enlightment is the only way to break the cycle
Well, but if thats the case, that animation showed nothing realky
Really
Also, he becomes a corrupted soul before and so did she after
Meaning its the same soul, imo
that could be possible 🤔
The theory Dale killed Laura can be true. It makes sense to me.
hey @dim edge
can you deny or confirm one of those theorys? xD
I think it cant be more obvious now 😂
oh, maybe you are right xD
They wouldn't talk anything about the game except the anouncments they already had.
When they created this discord, they said they would make a few q&a sessions
Oh
maybe it is worth to try
I think they will make before the next release
She truly committed suicide I guess...
But if thats true, why does dale, a detective, is going through all the story?
If you replay the cave, it makes more sense he murdered her than just an unfortunate guy
The cave and theater
Maybe it has something to do with Dale's past in Birthday, i mean mr owl helped him save his family
Rusty Lake, 1972
The Lake is changing my memories.
My past is not what it seems to be.
I will let the cubes guide me.
-Cube Escape Theatre
I am not sure what Dale's motive would be if he really killed her. In Season we know she died after visited the lake, and in lake we know that she was attacked by a corruoted soul
(there is one of my theory about the alternate ending in the Lake. The alternate ending is that we save Laura from the corrupted soul (which i think, the possible reason for her suicide) and that would result her to not commot suicide later in Season. But the way for us to be able to do so is playing Season first. What if the point of Season is sending us to the past (with the safe code) and saving Laura? Is it really Laura that we played in Season? I mean it could be Dale since we know in cave he is corrupted (wait a sec it also mean Dale could be kill her, aw this theory is self destruct itself lol)) hmm i have no idea what i was writing
Well, we aren't Laura in seasons, I guess. Do you remember when the time we opened the mirror of the grandfather clock, our shadow was an corrupted soul. So, I guess we play as an corrupted soul. In most of the stories about the time travelling, there can be things like "Detective searches for the murderer of the victim but he is the actual murderer". I also wonder about where did Dale go? I mean, he got the cube of future(Golden Cube) in the depths of the Lake. Maybe in the journey to the past, the golden cube helps him to go present. And his story becomes a time circle, repeats itself.
Maybe he somehow killed Laura by the help of the Blue Cube and went back to the present with the golden cube.
But the thing that Laura used Prozac and Prozac makes people commit suicide. That also can be the mystery behind the death of her. Cause Laura and his boyfriend Bob knew that Laura was going to kill herself. Maybe her mind was twisted, she wasn't sure enough to kill herself and then, by the help of Mr. Owl and Mr. Crow, Dale or a corrupted soul killed her. But what does Laura's death do for Mr. Owl or Mr. Crow? Laura is a high consciousness owner mind, is the highest state of entity. Maybe her death will release a power which is equal to bring back William and his memories. The most important thing for Mr. Owl is the secret recipe of the elixir of Endless Life and Sudden Death.
When Laura killed herself, they looked at her memories if they could find a memory of William's.
Just as Desiderius Erasmus said: "Women, can't live with them, can't live without them."
I think differently...
I mean, it seems that the Woman's suicide was just a set up mysterious murder, which acted as a bait to lure Dale to Rusty Lake, to their reach, to their purpose... Which is why he ends up down the lake, and currently on the elevator rise upward to the hotel...
About Laura, I did think she had committed suicide. First, that was the superiors' plan from the start, when William died in 1859. Second, (have you guys player Rusty Lake: Roots yet?) the reincarnation created an entire new host for William's soul, yet the "host" turned out to be Laura, who has her own mind and soul. Two souls within one body, with the Prozac drugs kicked in, resulted in madness, suicide is the predictable consequence.
......
"PROZAC MAKES PEOPLE COMMIT SUICIDE" DUUUUDE
this couldnt be any future from the truth
prozac is an anti-depressant drug, i use a similar one.
it doesnt make you commit suicide, it doesnt alter your mind and so on, it only helps you to live on
what can go downhill is withdrawal syndrom (when you suddenly stop taking your meds)
Maybe she did go into withdrawal i mean you know
we never saw her taking it ever.
yes, might be the case
...
i thought that was a pun at first.
I didnt even notice oml
Tbh personal opnion but i always thought Bob was the womans "killer" and no i dont mean he literally killed her.Maybe you know like he couldnt help her live through her depression and he blamed himself?Ik it sounds dumb af but maybe?
Oh sorry, I didn't know that, google misleads me many times 😅
Perhaps the egg did this?
With the picture of someone with a knife in #🩸|general-chat ....
Isn't that a proof Laura didn't killed herself?
I have no idea
Logic doesn't apply in this universe.... 😂
Well remember in the end that the reflection in clock is a corrupted soul which is Laura herself
About the one outside the window, that can't be sure yet
Maybe the corrupted soul that appeared that look like trying to kill Laura are not a physical being, instead just a though, a thought of herself killing herself that haunt her
The one within the room and saw that black guy with the knife, yeah, indeed was Laura
Or maybe there are two corrupted souls...
😱
👻
dramatic music plays
Okay i got another theory
So many theories 😄
So in Season we see Laura outside the house..
Always?
Who are we if Laura is outside....
We are Laura
We see her when we looked in the mirror
And also the timeline confirms it
There are... Two Laura?
doubt it
Yeah i remmeber that mirror
as someone said, i think those are thoughts which haunt her
I think it's the person who had killed her
But in very first Season, we saw Laura IS outside the house
It's not confirmed, that she killed herself
sometimes people with major depression also have delusions
5?
sorry that was my cat
Huh?!?
And there is one video on Cave when she stabbed herself
i was typing and
There is?
And the corrupted soul appear 👻
she sat on my keyboard
She cut her own throat...
"Stab" is kinda misleading 😅
When we picked the black cube under the lake
Ups sorry
summon the screenshot please
I think my biggest question is, What is Rusty Lake Mental Health & Fishing... I mean Laura commit suicide after went there
same as rusty lake hotel probably
As i said befor, it is not confirmed, that she had killed herself
Yeah that Hotel too
Hotel that in middle of lake sounds cool until you vistted it -The Guests, probably
I think that hotel is really good that there is no complain
I am sure the new game will be has the biggest place to explore if we include exploring the hotel
What if that one Laura in outside is also just a thought (idk, maybe she want to be outside (this is isn't called Cube Escape for nothing)) that later turned into corrupted soul to haunt her with suicide thought, okay it is scary to let your thought haunt you in a form of delusion
(why this game is called Cube Escape... What are we escaping from?)
kinda makes sense to me actually?
did she see anything outside of the window in spring btw? bc i might be wrong
if im right then this is how we see lauras mental health issues escalate: first she only sees herself in a window, seemingly nothing much, something you might even brush off
but if you ignore it, this all starts going down and slowly it all becomes scary, something similar to a corrupted soul or even something that might corrupt your soul
but if im wrong then im wrong idk
I think she just standing there
or or
For the part where she is outside we play as Bob and then after spring we play as Laura?
maybe?
But the timeline above show us we played as Laura
oh right nevermind then.
Well maybe she went back to the past
so the one outside is her past self?
if that makes any sense.
normally I'd say it doesn't
time loops is on it again
but time is fake in this game
Yeah, the last season in Seasons was so futuristic.
is she dead tho
is corrupted soul are really dead people tho or just random people cosplaying
As I told you, I don't think we're playing Laura in seasons. Yeah, the newspaper call her "the woman" but she may not the only woman in the game.
what if seasons is just a dream or a fight against her inner Demons in her head and the last season is the wake up or the win?
as i said twice, it is confirmed, that we played Laura
but its The woman
Maybe player can be corrupted Laura, but wtf Corrupted Williams does at the moment?
one specific woman you already know, which is Laura
Today in Rusty Lake : Is the woman we always thought is that woman
Lol
is the woman The Woman
it would be much easier, if rusty lake will say something
it might be a spoiler
Rusty Lake is probably watching us and giggling at any of our theory
I dont think they will give us a answer..XD
doesnt matter if they dement or confirm something xD
I do not remember but, anyone of you remember the mirror of William in episode Communication?
I mean, in the mirror, was it like William, or a general corrupted soul?
It was William, for sure
We played as Wilkiam..
in wich game?
William...
Roots.
It's looking was like william's, right?
So the people who are corrupted 'corrupts' with their current bodies.
Of course, there maybe two corrupted souls in Seasons
i should play it a second time ._.
One is Laura herself, one is William
But Laura = William
But there is one more guy, the fishman
that not confirmed, too
In the Lake, you remember we cut his lungs.
yeah
He wasn't completely corrupted I guess
We are never sure that Laura is William
slowly stepback and escape
yup
Perhaps William is living like a parasite in Laura
Yeah possibly.
Rose says: "My child come back to the Rusty Lake." In roots and in Cave, the book says "Rebirth of William" for Laura
my theory: shit is wild, man
Someone claimed 2 souls, 1 body theory
I use discord in phone
That might be true.
I claimed that T.T
Real William Vanderboom wasn't directly a human.
Yeah, namhai
That's a good idea.
Just as you told, William was tree, first.
Somehow he united with Rose
And you know
There appeared a child.
Born*
Have you guys all played Rusty Lake: Roots yet?
i have
I did.
Twice i think
yup
Three times, lol
So, in Cube Escape: The Lake, we played Laura, right?
Yup
yeah
So there are 3 kind of corrupted souls we already seen(except the animal people)
2 are the same person, William Vanderboom/Laura Vanderboom
dale and bob
The third one the guy came from the lake in game Lake
Dale was half corrupted too in Cave and Theatre right?
Oh, yeah there they are
radium said that already i didnt notice
And the guests
And the one outside Harvey's box
Ah yeah
They looks like animals :v
I wonder who was the guy in Harvey's box
I think the one outside the box is the one who attacked Laura in Lake
And why we got in to the Avocado
yeah rusty lake devs suddenly decided they are furries, makes sense
What was the sense of that?
im confused.
and why are there animal people? we know who ist Mr. Crow. but who are the others?
And how did they get that transform?
EXILIR~
Elixir, probably
but how they get it?
~they sell it online~ no idea
Lol
Hmm but
Ever wanted to look young? Do you hate yourself? The life is meaningless? Then try the elixir of endless life or sudden death. You'll be satisfied or satisfied!
We know some scene when owl and crow become human
WARNING: Make sure to have a friend nearby so he can take your seed out of your ear.
And that sounded super wrong.
who is a good boy? immortal dog is a good boy 
🐶
forgot that we give someone his piss to drink
Would you give your soul for your grandfather, guys?
no
Nah
Just like Vanderboom grandchildren did.
It is their mistake for living near the lake
Idk, is it just me or we missed Cube Escape : Arles. Isn't it weird that it is the only game that's almost have no any connection to the main story? Or maybe it has but not revealed yet? Or did i miss something?
Well, it may indirectly reveal Rusty Lake's location: France
Well you could be right
But names such as Leonard, James, Mary and Laura don't sound french
Perhaps they are english inmigrants
Could be right, but what would affecting the story if the lake is taking place in France
Or maybe it is just "Yeah that place is in France fyi"
Maybe its to help solve the mystery, because he is the only "real" character, and maybe we can make parallels with his real life
For instance, when you cut off your ear after seeing Paul (thats what happened) you enter his ear to find an obscure version of the room where you are a black figure
And then you shoot yourself, giving you an white cube
Van gogh had depression and really shot himself
Maybe he freed himself from that life, and thats why you get a white cube (good)
And when you finish his painting, you get a black cube because he was never recognized for his paintings while alive, meaning it is a bad thing
Ooh sounds so right. We could use that game as a real life reference, when the whole game is... Well, you know
why is there a cat in ventilation
HOW COULD HE LET HIS CAT IN VENTILATION WHAT HAVE HE DONE
..XD
well dont some police stations have like
mascot pets?
it could be either Dales pet or the police stations mascot?You know like Tama from that train station in Japan?
Yeah that cute cat, well whose ever that cat belong to is better keep their eye on it
we should actually give the cat from birthday and case 23 names hmmmm
I am not really good at naming 🤔
Sounds cute for a cat that eat a whole key...
Oh right he is so lucky (and so does Dale)
true.
Uhhhh and the cat from case 23...hmmm
Sir/Madame Meowsalot?
You know sometimes this chat is like "100% serious" one day and someday its like "Names"
And the game is about blood, and all i did is joking about the exilir that sold online
nice
Well i'll just sitting in corner while waiting any theories or news about the new game to discuss about, bye bye (we could name the case 23 cat furry because he/she is furry (yes i am lazy))
((true)) and sure bye bye.Also i really hope we see the Vanderbooms one day again
i miss them so much.
Hi everyone.
Heya
hello!
So this is pretty cool. I've been wanting to hear what other people thought was going on in the story.
Because honestly, I'm a little dense when it comes to things that aren't made clear in the games.
Don't worry, we are talking about mr crow and mr owl secret of youth in here
Harvey got old age like the others so it could be true
But its real identity remains mystery
Yes, and it's tantalizing.
Harvey is a parrot
Mr crow is aldous vanderboom
Mr owl is that dude inside the underwater suit in the cave
How about the old woman in mill? They look like "old man"(Mr Crow/Aldous) and old woman are married.
Maybe somehow Mr. Crow killed old man and got his skin as a costume.
Hecc
What hecc means?
Oh, ok
Macumbeiro, I'm talking about Old Man. You can see the photo of Old Woman and Old Man together in Cube Escape: Mill
But Old Man is also Mr. Crow
Yes
So "Old Man" is Aldous
He survived via elixir
There are 2 odds
The elixir gave him Eternal Life not Eternal Youth
No, replay the cave and you'll understand, Mr Crow IS Aldous
So he aged till that point
The one, there was an old man and Mr. Crow did something to him(killed or something else) and used his skin as a costume(Just like in Case 23: Chapel).
The second one is there were no old man from beginning, it was always Aldous' creation. And Aldous married with Old Woman to look like normal and hide his identity.
That's what he said
But he emerges through his mouth
Lol
and mrs Pigeon?
(there is Ms. Pigeon but she died anyway)
is she in there too?
And Ms. Pheasant?
Died too
~nah they were in dinner menu~
Their souls freaked out our soul during this game series which is kind of fuck up
(the cave flashback of those shadow)
(this is 2 am what i am doing in here)
How many soul mouths have you seen?
Mouths?
Souls that have mouths
Zero so far
I have seen one
Or it is just my bad memories
Mr. Boar in Cave
(don't show the picture bc i am gonna sleep)

(sleep)
Who is that Vanderboom who lost her son? I forgot her name
Time to sleep
You should seriously check the timeline though -.-
Harvey received the letter in 1891, but the Hotel incident happened in 1894...
I only sleep for 3 hours because i accidentally put too many tea bag in my drink, it feels like i am dying
lol
how do you... accidentally do it
he's him
So there is two type of tea bag in my house, one with not really high concentration (meaning one tea bag for a small glass) and the other that 1 tea bag for 4 small glass
ooh i see
So i was planning to drink a big glass, and take 2 tea bag
But i picked the wrong one...
i can't wait for the new game
So i was literally drink 4 big glass tea
that sure is a lot
(watch the walkthrough before playing the game again so i know where those scary creatures will showed up)
Anyway i am a girl
👌 good to know
Me too haha @rich yacht
I haven't looked at any of the walkthroughs though cuz I don't wanna spoil anything for myself
I think i have been doing it twice when playing Roots and Hotel
Welp, good thing there is the new hint system
Hey, isn't Van Gogh the first recorded human to be corrupted?
What if he's Harvey?
I don't really remember people from Bird Squad ever been corrupted
And he's helping Dale to undo the timeline...
I think rusty lake is going to restart at the end
Undo the timeline?
That's why its never the past
(idk how scary harvey could be that her egg containt a black cube)
And also didn't van gogh shot himself?
Animal Squad almost never seen dying before
The beam happened cause Corrupted Souls, somehow, escaped from their cages and tried to kill Harvey. But Harvey, somehow, escaped from them. Or maybe they killed Harvey and that caused Harvey to transform their bird form.
*before transforming into animal people
I dont believe harvey is one of them
Well harvey is almost everywhere and helping us with the game, but we never know her real motives
(why she was in hotel anyway...)
It seemed so important for Harvey to be there at the hotel. Everything they do seems purposeful, even the guests.
So I think there is a good reason for her to be there, but what is it?
But, weird idea, what if mister crow is like Merlin and experienced time in reverse?
🤔
Uh, i might have found something after playing Theater again...
You better share with us or mr crow will chase you
Remeber Mr owls human form from cave?
Yeah, he is there
We cant see the whole face of the man with the owl mask, But they are very similar
Is similar the right word? 🤔
Yeah if i remember correctly they are bald
They are probably the same person as we know mr owl and mr crow are working together on dale and laura's fate, as one of his line on the cave was "dale's journey is about to begin"
Also they mention they are the key to the full elixir
(dying to wait next cube escape game)
I have found another thing, but my internet connection don't allow me to send pictures
So you have to wait until school ends and i am back home
Sorry for that ._.
Just one word: postcard
From the theater? Or birthday?
1 pm here
Well, we know that he is the same guy that was hold suspect for laura's murder/suicide
And they actually knew each other
Bob is a cop killer
He maybe the one who killed laura or he feels guilty for letting her going to the lake and die
And probably the first guy to be corrupted while alive
Has anyone ever left Rusty Lake?
nobody ever left the lake
Mental health
& fishing
More sounds like "have mental health problem? Go here and end your life for the lake"
Best vacation spot description ever 😂
What Theatre postcard?????
@tawdry fulcrum?
Whoa. Could it be that the lake is fed with the memories of mental illness sufferers?
It could be, but what would they get from the lake? Exilir?
Nah exilir has it's own recipe
Then for what?
Worship?
Could be
Like serving the lake is its own reward?
Well but since when?
What do you mean?
It's times like these I wish Mat Pat would check the game out.
👌
The point of game is revealing about the lake mystery
Why they need the exilir? To make them able to "protect" the lake forever?
Sure. After all, the longer they live the more time they get to enjoy doing that.
And maybe those who use the elixir to cheat death die and are reborn.
Come to think about it, it seems to fit in really well with the Buddhist themes.
good side of living near the lake : you can fishing using bear trap on land
Hehe! And when you roast it over a fire you magically get grill marks.
Well what happen if it is stopped then? Nothing much will change?
Wonderful and magical live near the lake
Plot twist : the reason we can fishing on land is because we are all always under the lake
Lakeception
Well if I were to put stock in the idea, I'd say it was a miracle.
It could have easily been a rabbit or squirrel, but it was a fish.
Like the lake has a mind to tell Rose it is watching and favors her.
I might be coming across as a religious nut job.
It also happen in birthday where we use a mice trap to catch a fish. But it does makes a bit sense since we know Dale was in the lake that time
Hello. Is this Rusty Lake?
say the word
Fate?
I'm sorry, your place is already taken
Damn it

I've booked my room five months ago, how can it be taken?!
I'll report you to the Universal Resort And Hotel Administration!
Fuck ._.
That's the postcard I meant a few hours ago. I think it is supporting the suicide theory
I read a few of your theories. Why are you so deeply digging? Use Occam's razor: the simplest explanation is the most realistic. For example, how can we assume that in the Seasons the protagonist is not Laura? This is proven by the developers themselves. Better read this fundamental theory of Buddhism:
rusty-lake.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:2076
i dont think it is suicide, too
but many others here think it was suicide and i thought maybe they wanted to know this
Anyway did anyone remember in Case 23, the dead of Laura is called suicide or homicide?
Like, how they able to distinguish between which suicide or homicide
Well, homicide implies another person. If they left any traces of themselves, like signs of fight or breaking locks in and stuff like that, they'd think that it was a murder.
If no other person's traces can be found around the room, and the killing tool is in victim's hand or something, it's probably safe to assume suicide.
dunno, but i think the police can distinguish suicide and murder
(face table) well since this is Rusty Lake universe anything could happen
Well
at the crime szene werent a weapon, so Laura might been murdered
The Rusty Lake police is probably the same as everything else, so naturally, they wouldn't assume that Laura was a time traveller who took her own life.
Or i think it is just my imagination
I'll just delete that massege because i don't want it mislead anyone
@rich yacht Nope. Nothing about the murder being a suicide.
Dale said he was a homicide detective, though.
Well then
well my parent was killed by random rabbit in my birthday so it might a cool idea of being a homicide detective
I also rewrote the entire murder thing, so my granddad killed said rabbit, and it's still a cool idea to become a homicide detective.
Classic batman
He claims dale = Batman theory
Excuse you, it's a fact, not a theory xD
And here we are, from Buddhism to Batman
So mr. Owl is like joker?
So Dale ist Batman? that would be a nice plottwist 🤔
He looks nice
So if i am right, the one who killed poeple the most is William
He is the joker
Or nvm
Now we know joker's identity
Your truth lies in lies of people.
Lies on lies*
I wonder who is the mutual friend of Mr. Boar and Mr. Owl.
Mr. Crow?
Harvey?
@rich yacht Laura killed herself, in The Cave it is shown that she killed herself with a knife, therefore there's a stained knife in Fall, Seasons
Noweteese meh
Yeah, there's a knife in almost all the games. Coincidence? Hmmm... I don't think so.
So... Are we still going to say that it is not a suicide?
sort of unrelated but if person from one timeline kills their other self, is it murder or it it suicide?
both
Okay lets just call this the dead of Laura
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Hey we're twinning profile pictures 😍 👌
Ooooo nice haha
I Mr. Crown's fan
I like all the characters but he concerns me the most XD
jajaja
Are you see of Cube Escape Paradise?
I can't wait til paradise comes out
first message
I'm replaying all the games as I wait
I only not play hotel and roods because I afraid to pay of internet with my tablet
after I can pay indirect other things
but I'll pay double for this games
after that I finish my last proyect I study this case and buy there games
but I know story of there games
Ooooo nice! You should play it sometime tho if you get the chance
Rusty lake hotel is my favorite
Rusty lake have merit for I buy there
I read to resume
and same more interesting
five days, five deads
Ohhh you can't buy it from the app store/Google play?
Haha ya I didn't expect that to happen the first time I played hotel
Ohhhh
I use Google play giftcards to pay for it haha
I don't know to succes in hotel
I only know that a character kill there men
I don't know if is a one of they, mr crown or other person
Y have very hype to hotel
I haven't played it in a while but isn't it Mr owl that's just chilling at the end haha
The entire game is very eerie
I only know make zeldas xD
make escape games secure is more funny
of escape games I play hundreds games
but rusty lake for me are the best
@buoyant flax I use Steam to buy roots and hotel.
I haven't steam profile
Hey, I don t know if someone notice that, but when Leonard goes for WW1 in rusty lake: roots, the helmet he is wearing was specific to the United kingdom's soldiers. What that means is that rusty lake takes place in United kingdom, maybe in England.
@Lokionome#0424 I don't know if I one hundred percent agree with that. The American helmet and uniform look a lot like the British one apparently.
@Tristanwebb#1294 There is also another hint that Rusty lake take place in United kingdom: in Rusty lake: roots, you can find a newspaper called "daily herald", which is a real UK newspaper.
*sorry, WAS a UK newspaper, since it stops publish in the 60's.
but still UK
Yes, still uk
But the surnames of Dutch origin indicate that Rusty Lake is somewhere in the Netherlands
Names proves nothing
remember Atack on Titan? The most names are German but it plays in Madagascar
ok, not the real Madagascar, a island in shape of it
but not Germany
Simply, I think that developers will most likely want to locate Rusty Lake in their homeland
but we have more envidences thats in the UK. it is also possible, that they took Dutch names because thats the names the are the most familiar with
homeland
It cannot be in netherlands because, during WW1, netherlands was neutral, so no man was sent to fight.
Well, also it can be in France, since one of the games takes place in Arles
there weren't any lake in arles tho. just van gogh goin nuts
@vague imp sorry to tell you that but no. French soldier's had a very specific helmet too, and it s very different from the british one.
*well, maybe a part of the serie is in france. But I m sure that the majority of the games take place in UK
OK, that's cool. There are no other options except England
Actually there are no problems. We came to the right conclusion
so, one mystery solved, only endless left ._.
wait are you sure that couldnt be Netherlands?
bc while the country remained neutral i highly doubt they didnt need an army
but we see the guy, sadly i forgot his name, with a big wound. if he weren't at war, why he had that wound
"armed in that the Dutch maintained an army to defend the country against any possible violations of its neutrality"
and iirc there are shots in the backgorund
does any country attacked the Netherlands in WWI?
have you seen the map of europe
The Netherlands really did not participate in the war
they had to defend their borders tho?? so they could remain neutral
i sent an article where it clearly said that netherlands mobilized the army and maintained it throughout the entire war time
Pay attention to the word "possible"
"The primary task of the armed forces (army and navy) was to discourage any belligerent power from incorporating Dutch territory in its military operations or in a worst-case scenario, to try to occupy the Netherlands"
yeah, they had mobilized their army, but did this army fight?
In Wikipedia it is written that the Netherlands had to keep their army in a state of permanent mobilization, but the country did not participate in the war.
if they were attacked they had participated, i guess
it wasnt significant to the war anyway
to the war, yes
but you see shoten soldiers and heared shoots yourself in that room
so they had fight
ofc
netherlands were basically in between of everything
so their neutrality was threatened
but they didnt need to send their army anywhere since the primary task was to defend the borders
But Leonard was wounded by an enemy grenade
It doesn't look like the Dutch army ever participated in any land battles
^
have you. seen. a map.
The army was mobilized, but they were never part of any battles.
@vague imp What do you mean by that?
There are the Netherlands
no one has to go througt it to attack someone else
not even Belgium
so, do they realy had to defend their borders?
"The German occupation of Belgium had serious consequences for the Dutch and posed a potential threat to the country’s neutrality. From a military point of view, Dutch neutrality favoured the Germans: it safeguarded their right flank and their logistical lines between the front and the Heimat. On the other hand, the Dutch could never rule out the possibility that, should the British want to attack overseas, they would make use of Dutch ports and territory to attack German positions in the rear. Also, Holland was very close to the front in France and Flanders. Any serious movement, especially a German retreat, could endanger Dutch neutrality. Snijders and his staff were well aware that the Dutch position was strategically precarious. That is why he stressed it was important not to demobilise, not even partially, as other neutrals like Denmarkand Switzerland did"
That has nothing to do with them being in battle is the thing. Leonard was in a trench, with obvious fighting nearby. The dutch army wouldn't have been in trenches or in an active battle
this text says that they hat mobilized and were afraid of the german, nothing over beeing in a battle
i still highly doubt they didnt ever fight. that wouldnt make any sense
@vague imp Can you at least open Wikipedia?
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"A large army was mobilised to defend this neutrality", - Wikipedia
maybe there was a fight, maybe not. But even if there wasn't the developers might be made a mistake and thougt Netherland has fought a battle. I don't think so but it is also possible. So until the one of the games or the developers confirm it it is just a theory
So, I asked my history teacher (who isnt wikipedia), and he told me that not even once, netherlands needed to defend themselves or attack. So... I guess the UK theory might be right.
yall
im
this was just there and none of you said that
his uniform
its UK
also some people from Netherlands volunteered to other countries' armies
yeah i think maybe just maybe
Leonard was from the Netherlands (maybe?)
but he got like drafted into the uk army overseas?
Could happen?
absolutely
Tbh uhh its sorta confusing where RL is but i think the netherlands
i mean rl does a have ..windmill
dosent Netherlands have alot of windmills?
But i guess we could try thinking where Rusty Lake is by the flowers that grow there in RL Roots?
maybe that will help
@vague imp In fact, radium, I did talk about the uniform at the beginning of the "UK or Neitherlands" debate. I'd say that Leonard was wearing a helmet specific to the british soldier.
hemlets come and go but the uniform itself was very different
hmm but
you know
they could have been short on netherlands type of soldier clothing
maybe they just gave him what they had?
Maybe, but, were there really volontary people to go to WW1? I mean, it s horrible, and ok there is propaganda but if you live in a country that has nothing to do with it, there s no reason to have propaganda in your country and you have no reason to go to one of the most horrible war of all time.
Maybe he wanted to get away from Albert?
idk
he got nothing to lose anyway
True i mean
most of his family is dead
Yeah... idk. Maybe. I just need to see if the "Daily Herald" was available outside of the UK.
was it..
If it does, there would be no reason that Rusty lake isnt in neitherlands
well
tbh uhhh i think most people think Netherlands (me included) because its where the developers live
atleast i think they live in the netherlands.
The longer I think about it, the most I think that Rusty lake is in neitherland. It s hard to tell.
tbh i think it is.
us in the future possibly:Boy were we wrong..
btw the daily herald probably was only available in uk as it seems
i dont think they even sold it outside of the london but who knows
but wait
wait
i dont know much about newspaper production
who said they only had the daily herald made in only England?
Maybe it was a netherlands made verison also?
dunno, but we see the newspaper in the "war hero" part, which is in 1914
and in 1914 daily herald had... financial troubles
hmm
Actually that makes me think..
is there like
a small town in rusty lake?
are there stores
and cafes..
theres nothing,,, its either a really small village or remote part of a big city
well true
either way the newspaper had to be local since they published the news about murder
yeahhh
you know i just imagined Mr.Owl sitting down at his desk at night
and just writing
So... UK I guess? Or is there still a debate?
Uhhh eh tbh i dont think we can come to a offical agreement until they confirm it
so i guess it depends on the person?
I guess. But we can almost be sure it s Neitherlands or UK
uhh well i believe Netherlands bcs Vanderboom means from the tree in dutch
but hey my personal opnion
Yeah, but still, we are on something
.I would make a joke of giving the answer of "The earth/the ground duh" but nevermind
but yeah we obviously are
hmm
the daily herald paper also appears in the case 23, which is year 1971
oh yeah it did.
but the daily herald (uk) was published till 1964
and then it ended?
first it was reborn, then sold
if i understand the article right
oh
oh, yeah. it was reborn in 1964 as The Sun, and 1969 it was sold
...
ah okay
I think there s also a Daily herald in chicago. Maybe Case 23 is in US
also unrelated for a keyboard why
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..XD
nobody saw that
uhhh i hope we get a new rl update soon.
Here's an idea. Rusty Lake takes place in a world much like ours but not exactly.
Guys, you are trying way too hard, it has been stablished that it's about the buddhist samsara wheel, take that information and work on that!
Dont just create theories out of thin air
@macumbeiro#1473 Did you read everything that was said about this theory and how we end up with this?
I think as far as location of Rusty Lake goes we're making assumptions about the developer's intentions.
They might not have had a set location. After all, they were inspired by the show twin peaks which takes place on the other side of the planet as Europe.
Hmmm... Maybe, but I still feel like the dev put some hint for this.
And with the daily herald being a major news source reporting on suspicious activity in the local area of the lake, the place would just be crawling with investigators.
Lots of people follow leads on paranormal with less. Think of Loch Ness, Bigfoot, Amelia Earhart.
But why would they have use the name of a real journal, why didnt they just create one?
You could ask the reverse. Why create a journal when you already have a real one?
Thincc
I might be thinking too much about the idea of the location of Rusty Lake, but I still feel that choosing the name of a UK newspaper that was publishing during WW1 isn t coincidence and it s suppose give a hint about the location of Rusty Lake. If it s not it, it s just misleading.
Maybe this is not the most weighty argument, but the fact that all the inscriptions and titles are written in English speaks in favor of version about England.
the whole game is in english
I mean, if the organization Rusty Lake Mental Health and Fishing was located in the Netherlands, its name would be in Dutch. But it is not exactly.
Hi everyone
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Hey there
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And first of spring here
South east asia
hey guys, a friendly reminder that in this channel people are supposed to discuss their rusty lake theories
#🛖|the-cabin is for anything NOT rusty lake related
This will for rusty lake related #🤔|theories is the chatroom name. #🛖|the-cabin is another room @radium
Do we know anything about the woman dressed in green?
The woman in seasons. I don't know if she has a name.
have you played roots or the cave?
Wait, I m playing cube escape the cave and I think that, yes, it's Laura
have you played roots?
Yes, but it s been months
do you remember what happens in the end?
No
i cant quite explain it well because it's also been months since i played it and my bad english but remember a baby was "born" at the end?
Yes I do
that is laura
Isnt it, ... Dale?
I though it was a boy
Have you taken a look into the book in the cave?
Just give me a second
aaa its been so long, i gotta play it all again to remember the details
Oh, now it make sense: William V. is Laura
Yes
the elixir gives you eternal life through that, it's genial
But... Didnt william "reborn" as 2 entities?
has he?
I though Dale was one of his "reincarnation" but that he didnt remember
i never thought of it as that
but would it make sense if we take in count what happened in Roots?
Not sure, I cant remember what happened exactly at the end of roots
Btw, when I look at your profile, it says "accept" and "denied". What does it mean ( I m kind of new on discord)?
I did
do you think it has any connection to the series?
Maybe. Same art style (but it doesnt prove anything) and there are (in a way) animal people.
yeah, and also the meaning behind it
To be honest, I didnt see that meaning.What was it?
As I've read somewhere, the word Samsara has something about being reborn, reincarnation, and such
so I remember that when I finished Roots, I immediately remembered Samsara
It s probably linked
i'm anxious to see the next game :3
I can t wait 😄
me neither ❤
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I can’t ever get discord to work right with the invite links☹️
I’ve finished all of the cube escape games except for roots which I’m going to start soon.
i wish you the best of luck!! roots is really long but its really worth it
Hey I'm replaying birthday rn
Does anyone know what this means
It means preta (hungry spirit). To Google
Ohhh okay cool!
"Pretas are believed to have been false, corrupted, compulsive, deceitful, jealous or greedy people in a previous life. As a result of their karma, they are afflicted with an insatiable hunger for a particular substance or object."
Huh, so do you suppose the corrupted spirits are Pretas?
@shy pecan It looks like you played inattentively. Cube Escape: Theatre is completely devoted to how the Rusty Lake Universe is organized (and how it is related to Buddhism). I'm already tired of saying all this. Take a look at the discussion at Rusty Lake Wiki.
Look at the wheel in Theatre
Yeah...I get that
The Samsara Wheel is a huge theme. It's hard to miss, and I didn't miss it.
I was just kind of hoping we could talk beyond the obvious.
It's not beyond the obvious, because you can throw any shitty theory without hard evidence and call it right
Also, it's not only the obvious, it's the bedrock of the game
And that's where you start to build your theories on
Also, this discord was made waaay after the true theorist figured out most of the game
The true theorist?
So you are only a true theorist If you theorized from the begining?
Okay, I'm getting a really condescending vibe here.
I'm not Sherlock Homes, okay? I'm just a gamer trying to enjoy myself with fellow fans.
No, it's just that you are wanting to create the theory from scratch, and even call false some theories that has been stabilished before you
Yeah, but it gets annoying at some point
Wait, when was that established? I haven't done that at all.
Like wanting to go away from the buddhist theme, which is basically the whole game series theme
So the atother theoris are better, because someone said this theoris befor ours?
I was actually going with it. I thought it was really interesting what it said on the pistol box and thought maybe the corrupted souls had bad karma.
No, they are better because they dedicated more time to develope the other theories
and we did not spent time on them?
and you are say buddism here, buddism there, but i have never herad of a buddism theory. I don't get away from this, i never heard from this. as we asked you what the buddismtheory is you said nothing
I just think people in here should read the reddits threads and stuff and start continuing the theory
@tawdry fulcrum You haven't?
It's like wanting to invent the wheel to build a car
no, i haven't
@cold siren I actually wrote some of the reddits...
until now, i didn't know there were reddits about it
Yeah, ok, maybe not you, but most of the time here people are discussing unnecessary things
so you blame our theorys, because some other theorys we maybe nevere heared about?
what are those "unnecessary things"
I just blame that you dont want to hear the theories that have basically been proven true to create your own theories
@tawdry fulcrum I can't remember what tipped me off to it first, but I noticed the word "Samsara" while playing roots. I did a little research and found out it was a reference to reincarnation. It's a wheel.
Like one time people were discussing if mr crow was or wasnt aldous
Okay, but were they having fun?
what? our theories have proven theyr theories?
Well, if the meaning is just to have fun, then this thread should be called rusty lake fun
This was created to find the meaning of the game, not to randomly discuss anything
I think fun is implied and the subject of the chat is getting specific about the topic.
Yeah, you can have fun and also discuss what matters
but it is called rusty lake story, everyone can discuss their theory here. if you aren't the same opinion as those you can told them about the theoris you think they are true
you just say "hey, this theorie is bad because of this theorie"
Yes, and Bush caused 9/11
So here's a theory of the theory, a meta theory if you will.
Some of us are interested in finding the one truth about the story, which is great.
Other people propose different ideas of what it means to them and come up with stories of their own.
i don't have something again your theories, but you have something about ours. Thats ok, but please don't be rude and just say "its wrong because of that theorie". told us about this theorie so we can discuss togehter over it
Yeah, but its really the matter of flatearthers kind of discussion
How so?
The earth is a ball, geoid or whatever you want to call, but I can say it is flat and show "proofs"