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What Is With the Red Paint? | The Forest | Part 3 · Replay Reviews

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  In this episode, we square off with a mutant
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  sumo. It seems lawyers are not welcome here.
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  And Toast gets jump -scared. Poor good boy. Not
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  only does he get a jump -scare, a jump -scare
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  makes him have a jump -scare, which makes us
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  have a jump -scare. He did not like it. Neither
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  did I. Thank you for coming back for Replay Reviews
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  Horror Month. My name is Leah. My name is Kathy.
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  We are two friends who are here to replay, review,
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  and analyze your favorite video games. And since
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  Kathy has never seen the games before, it helps
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  me view them through her fresh eyes. Almost like
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  I am discovering them again for the first time.
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  We hope it will be a similar experience for you.
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  Do I sound like Dracula or just Italian? He's
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  not Italian. To nobody's surprise, I go into
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  a cave to explore it. Inside, we find a drawing
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  of a sculpture. I don't really know what that
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  is. And then after facing off and exploding a
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  mutant sumo, I don't know what else to describe
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  that as, we find what may resemble a page from
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  the Bible with the words, don't be afraid, just
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  believe written over it. And also more red paint.
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  So not long after, I then find a shriveled body
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  in a rowboat. Seemingly of no significance, I
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  really thought that there was going to be something
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  there. Climbing up a rope, I find two creepy
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  goblins staring at me. In the dark, we hear this
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  humming sound, which Toast did not like at all.
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  I mean, I didn't like it either, but Toast especially
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  didn't like it. But yeah, that thing that was
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  humming had to die. It's gross. And if you're
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  interested, it's at 7 minutes and 15 seconds
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  on the gameplay video. But you shouldn't be interested.
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  So after killing the goblins and some icky babies,
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  I find a book titled The Dark -Haired Man. Is
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  this a well -known book, like a cultural reference
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  that I'm just missing? Or is this... It was written
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  by someone called Sam Sound. And then it says
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  in the wiki... who also wrote the survival guide,
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  which is that thing I keep opening, with the
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  game's protagonist, us, Eric LeBlanc. So there's
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  a book in this cave written by someone, like
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  a colleague of the protagonist that we're playing
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  as? That seems really odd. I don't understand.
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  So the colleague, so wait, do we know what the
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  job is for the main character? I don't think
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  so. What is this book? Is this a made up book
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  for the game or is there an actual book? I think
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  it's made up. I don't know. Maybe we should just
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  follow that under that's confusing for now and
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  move on. So continuing to explore this section
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  of the cave, I find two heads and then a judge
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  scale painted on a sheet of paper. It seems like
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  these men were lawyers. I don't understand why
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  there would be lawyers involved. I can see them
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  being people on the flight of like a previous
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  flight that crashed or maybe the same airplane.
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  Do we also know where our destination is prior
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  to the crash? Not as far as I know. This is a
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  bit of a stretch, but I would assume if this
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  crash was intentional, they maybe wanted to kill
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  the lawyers because they were going to incriminate
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  or expose something. So they had to die. Were
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  the lawyers on the flight or were they here before?
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  It would say in the gameplay when I get close
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  to them, it'll be like, oh, passengers from seat,
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  whatever, whatever. Oh, yeah. So let me open
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  it up. They were on the plane. Okay. But on one
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  of their bodies, we find a fortune that reads,
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  a dark haired person who is trying to harm you
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  will soon disappear from your life and you will
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  be extremely happy. Is this dark haired person?
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  associated with the dark haired man book that's
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  what people think this is a bit of a stretch
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  but i'm gonna say that the lawyers were maybe
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  related to like family law about a case involving
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  children and you know these weird force icky
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  people love kids and so i don't know is this
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  island a known place or not like it seems like
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  it was known at some point because like the missionaries
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  came here But that could have been a while ago.
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  It seems like it was a while ago. So I don't
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  know. Is this a place people know about? Are
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  they still sending people here like the lawyers
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  trying to figure out what's going on? I think
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  that's kind of a big question we need answered.
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  Looking back into part one, we are exiting from
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  the back of the plane. So the front half of the
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  plane is missing. Later, we see the front half
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  of the plane. But the question is, is it the
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  same plane that we were on? Or is this the front
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  of the plane of something else? So the question
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  is, how many flights have crashed in this forest?
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  That was something I noted. It's the cockpit
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  that we find higher up on the mountain. Why are
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  the two pieces so far away? That's suspicious.
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  Or is it a different plane? Either way, something's
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  not quite right. I find more missing passengers,
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  more enemies, and then advance deeper into the
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  cave system to find a pit of bodies. You loved
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  that. And a big boy monster, which I kill. I
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  also find a camcorder. which I used to watch
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  a tape that I had earlier found called Opening
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  the Artifact. And it shows like a big dark tower
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  thingy that opens up. So we'll watch it real
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  quick. Many, many questions. But to start off,
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  that shape and style of the artifact container
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  is the same style as what we see in the tapes,
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  right? Is it just the same architect that's creating
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  that style? Or is it that whatever container
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  we see is a scaled down version of The cave and
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  the whole pit that we're in. And then it also
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  seems like we've seen this shape painted or drawn
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  on notes before. I think even those skeletons
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  were bowing down to the picture of it on the
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  wall. So I don't know. This seems to be an important
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  thing. But it's in a facility, right? Well, I
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  find another tape pretty quickly called Lunch
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  with Megan. Should we watch that one? So I guess
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  that's Megan. And the previous video, was that
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  kid also Megan? I can't, I don't remember. I
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  don't know, because they were standing up, weren't
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  they? But then how much time has gone by that
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  maybe that kid who was there has now been cursed
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  and now in a wheelchair? I don't know if it's
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  the same or not, but definitely kids. There's
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  a common link with kids. But yeah, basically
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  it just shows a girl in a wheelchair at some
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  sort of facility. It's bustling. There's a lot
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  of people there. This might help, though. I then
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  soon find an ID badge with a company name Sahara
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  on it. So there's like a corporation kind of
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  thing going on here for sure. Maybe all these
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  videos are part of the lawyer's case. A corporate
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  lawyer. Yeah. I do pretty quickly find another
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  tape. This one's called Megan's Arrival. And
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  it shows Megan in a helicopter flying by. It
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  kind of looks like a castle. So she still has
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  an IV and I'm assuming it's probably the same
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  day as when she's having the lunch. I don't know.
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  Timing wise. I'm like trying to figure out. Do
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  we know that the date or the timestamp for the
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  different cassette tapes? It's counting up how
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  much like time it's filmed for. But there's no
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  date. So I don't I don't know. And that castle
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  thing. Do you think it's like the scaled up version
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  of the artifact that we saw? Because my theory
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  is that. Maybe the artifact is just a replica
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  of the massive thing that we see with the alien
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  doors. And maybe this is the top half of it.
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  It looks like it could be. We don't get like
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  a large look of it. Because it's definitely not
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  just like the side of a hill. Anyway, then I
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  exit that cave. So I do decide, you know what?
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  I'm tired of caves. I'm going to explore on in
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  the daylight. I find a grave. Around it, multiple
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  Polaroids of a sailboat, which happens to be
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  in the water behind me. I then search the boat
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  where I find a yacht magazine, which has notes
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  on the forest wiki. Okay, so I think the important
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  piece of this magazine is that it's dated 1984.
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  1984. So it's been here a while. There's multiple
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  timelines going on here for sure. I also find
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  on the yacht a locked door that appears to require
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  a keycard. Not the one I just found. Earlier
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  I tried. A unicorn drawing signed by Megan Cross.
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  So now we know Megan's last name. And also a
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  milk carton featuring a missing boy named Zachary.
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  I leave the yacht and continue exploring the
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  island. But on dry land again, I find... Oh,
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  toast. I find shipping containers marked Sahara
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  Therapeutics. which contains circuit boards,
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  glass panels, and a shipping manifest. I'm wondering
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  if this company is just a front or a shell company
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  that does things related to therapeutics, because
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  why do they need circuits and whatnot? What kind
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  of company are they? Why do they have access
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  to an artifact? I feel like therapeutics is a
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  loose term that can be used for shady, you know
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  what I mean? Yeah. It feels kind of outlasty
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  to me. So another day of exploring, we find the
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  front end of the plane, which we discussed. Inside,
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  there's a flare gun and definitely real magazine.
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  So there's no theories on the wiki about this,
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  but it's toast. He has a series. He could pick
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  a softball to play with, so wouldn't it be so
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  loud? But no, he chose the lacrosse ball. And
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  he chose to bat it against the closet doors.
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  Anyway, so it says TV star's wife dies. It depicts
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  a TV star with a young son, presumed to be Eric
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  and Timmy. So us and our son. And it describes
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  how his wife has recently died. His being our
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  main character's wife? Yeah. It's even more confusing
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  as to, like, why? Is no one coming to look for
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  us? You know what I mean? Like, this would be
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  news that that plane didn't land. Maybe they
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  are looking for us. They just don't know where
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  to look for us. Yeah. Oh, there's a date on it.
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  Hold on. June 21st, 2010. Why would there be
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  a four - to six -year -old magazine issue in
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  the plane about us? Any other thoughts on that,
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  or should we just hold that and theorize when
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  we learn more? Let's keep going. So I explore,
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  head back to my base, make preparations, and
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  then return to the cave entrance that I had recently
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  found. Inside, I discover more missing passengers
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  before taking out some creepy ickies. Uh, is
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  it me or does this cave seem kind of man -made?
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  That's what I'm saying. I'm thinking that maybe
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  all these cave channels connect with one another
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  some way, somehow. And in the middle of all this
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  is the artifact at a greater scale. I then find
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  the second arm of Timmy's toy and a picture not
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  long after that labeled cave entrance. Is it
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  important that we're finding parts of Timmy's
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  toys? I don't know. To be honest, I don't know.
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  Is he leaving us breadcrumbs? I find another
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  tape labeled side effects. So I guess we should
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  watch that. Oh my god. So that's not normal.
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  Not at all. It shows the kid like violently twitching.
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  Like seizing. I don't know. It's more than that
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  though. It's like bouncing. Being possessed.
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  Yeah. But it also looks like in the facility.
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  Why are the people there just watching? Did they
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  do something to the boy? Or did something happen
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  to the boy and then they're taking notes because
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  they want to help the boy? Yeah. I think this
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  is where the missing children are going, though.
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  I mean, I don't think we know that's Zachary,
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  but... Why test on children, though? Why not
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  test on someone older? That's a good question.
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  Okay, so more alien doors. These doors lead to
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  a terrifying cave skybridge type thing, where
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  I find the last piece of Timmy's toy, and I do
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  get a trophy for that. I guess that's what we
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  get. So entering through a third alien door...
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  The sun begins to rise and I see that I am in
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  fact at the bottom of the pit. I am in the sinkhole.
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  I find a crashed helicopter. Maybe a rescue helicopter.
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  I go back inside because there's just like creepy
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  monsters in here. I want to make sure I find
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  everything, which I do find a restraining order.
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  So this restraining order was issued against
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  Dr. Matthew Cross at the behest of Jessica Cross.
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  Ordering him to have no contact with either her
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  or their daughter, Megan Cross. Megan is the
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  daughter of a doctor. Is she sick because the
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  father performed something like a test trial
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  on her and that's why she's sick? Or does he
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  want to desperately help his daughter knowing
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  that she's sick? I kind of am leaning towards
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  he was trying to save her. And so his insanity
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  to try to save her pushed him into these odd,
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  odd things. It would make sense that he's testing
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  on other young children. And those are the side
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  effects because he wants to do it before he tries
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  it on his daughter. I also find paint in a paintbrush.
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  We're seeing a lot of paint. Red paint. It's
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  weird. I don't understand that. I also find another
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  passenger, a tennis player, whose pedometer I
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  steal. And not long after that, I find the very
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  last passenger on the manifest. So I guess they're
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  all dead. Not really a good ending to that mystery.
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  However, now only one objective remains. Find
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  Timmy. Having been thorough inside this cave,
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  I return to the pit and dive into some water
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  that's there. And I pop up elsewhere to find
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  another children's drawing, a Polaroid -labeled
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  keycard, and a tape -labeled RMZ breakout. Which,
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  of course... We're going to watch. I shouldn't
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  laugh. I don't know why it was funny to see that
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  kid. It's really not okay that I laughed at that.
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  No, it's not. But what we see is like, looks
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  like an observation room. And one of these, now
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  we know they're called armsies. It came from
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  this, this like testing, whatever they're doing.
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  It was in like an observation room busts out.
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  Knocks over the wheelchair. The wheelchair kid.
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  Damn it, it shouldn't be funny. I do want to
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  clarify. Do you think that they tested stuff
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  on the RBC monster? Or was the monster already
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  existing? And then they brought it in to do some
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  testing. Based on the video, it looks like in
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  that room there's a bed and a dresser. I think
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  this was once human. And whatever they're doing
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  has turned it into an armsy. So I think that
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  they're really bad at what they're doing and
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  they should just stop. Further along, I find
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  another drawing and immediately after, an alien
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  door. Though this time it has a keycard monitor,
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  which I use the Sahara keycard on. The door opens
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  into a modern red hallway. So very big shift
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  in scenery here. Which, where is the electricity
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  coming from? How do they have power down here?
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  Do you think this is the facility we've been
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  seeing? I think so. If not that, I don't know
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  what else it could be, especially with so many
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  armsies nearby. Yeah. How are there so many armsies?
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  Did they do so many experiments that more than
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  just one? Or are they reproducing once outside?
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  Another question is, how are they escaping? How
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  are all these things leaving? Maybe there's more
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  than one entrance that they broke down. Yeah,
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  that's a good question. We know that the leggy
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  lady can make those babies, but do those grow
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  into anything? I feel like it's more than one
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  kid. But how many missing kids were there to
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  be able to create so many monsters? And I get
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  that it's probably closer to 30 years of time.
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  Between the yacht and whenever the TV star magazine
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  showed up. But still, how did 30 years go by
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  with minimal people noticing what's going on?
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  Maybe some of them were employees of the Sahara
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  Industries or Sahara Therapeutics. Yeah. And
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  also, why are there cannibals that are not mutated?
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  Are the cannibals a scapegoat? To where it's
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  like, oh, the children are missing because the
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  cannibals ate them. But how are they bringing
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  children in? There's not an indefinite amount
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  of children available. The kids have to come
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  here somehow. And why wouldn't you just use the
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  cannibals to test on? We haven't seen any children
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  cannibals. I don't know. I'm confused. This part
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  left me more questions than the first two combined.
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  Well. I don't really know what else to say on
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  this part. Yeah, I think this is it. We'll have
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  to wait until next part to wrap it up and see
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  if we find Timmy. Well, I'm going to call it.
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