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Syphilis with a Side of Cyanide - Outlast II - Part 1 · Replay Reviews

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In this episode, we vacation in a town inhabited by a bunch of baby snatchers.
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Oh gosh.
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But on a milder note, we go to school.
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And we also stumble across an old friend.
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I don't like the sound of baby snatchers.
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Your face, I cannot.
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I am not excited, but I have to know what's up.
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Oh, I am excited.
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Thank you for coming back for replay reviews, Horror Month.
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My name is Leah.
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And my name is Scotty.
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We are two friends who are here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite video games.
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And since Kathy has never seen the games before, it helps me view them through her fresh eyes.
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Almost like I am discovering them again for the first time.
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We'll help pay a similar experience for you.
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Do I sound like Dracula or just Italian?
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He's not Italian.
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The heck, man.
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It's a birthday special, always weird stuff happening on our birthdays.
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But today is Leah's birthday.
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But by the time you listen, it's not.
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I feel like we need to talk about something.
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It is Horror Month, first of all.
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Happy Horror Month.
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Things are already getting freaky.
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So we had some technical issues, right?
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Like you couldn't hear me.
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But my mic was working in every other app except for on Google.
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And then your computer froze.
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It did.
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And that was weird.
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But here's where I get freaked out.
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So yesterday, I was running on the treadmill.
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And so I was timing like stopwatch on my watch, right?
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And this was like 920 last night.
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And I forgot to pause it, put it back on after my work meeting this morning at like 930.
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So like 12 hours had gone by.
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It was at 6 hours and 43 minutes.
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Are you sure the battery didn't die or something?
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It was still counting.
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But how is it only 6 hours?
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I don't know.
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That's what I'm scared.
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What happened?
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Where'd my watch go?
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It got took on some weird time traveling.
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Anyway, already off to a spooky start.
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Are you ready for Horror Month, Kathy?
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Do I have a choice?
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You're gonna wish you did when I tell you that this game was originally banned in Australia.
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What?
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Why?
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Too gory, too sexual, too scary.
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Anything more sexual than SDWDOs?
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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It's been toned down a bit though.
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I think you can handle it.
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But we'll find out.
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We meet Blake and Lynn.
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It sounds like she's a reporter and he's like her sidekick, but also her husband.
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He does editing and the filming, I think.
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And then I guess Blake is dreaming.
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He's dreaming about being back in school and somebody named Jessica.
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Well, I mean, we learn they're there for because a pregnant woman was probably murdered.
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And then you learn immediately talk about a person named Jessica.
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Who's Jessica?
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How is she important?
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It sounds like they went to school together.
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And Lynn says that she hasn't thought about her in ages.
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So it's been a while.
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Not much to make out of that yet.
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But yes, it sounds like they are here investigating the murder of a young pregnant woman.
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I guess the police report says that she strangled herself to death.
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I don't know how you do that.
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They say all the mercury in that woman's blood.
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And then it sounds like they think she was poisoned by a factory.
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Lynn says we should probably mention the fetus too.
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How it just...
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And then she doesn't say anything.
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I'm getting really bad vibes from this.
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There is an interesting line.
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Lynn says that he should have slept last night.
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And at some point we learned that he didn't sleep last night because he had to get that hospital footage organized.
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I think there's any chance that hospital could be a Mount Massive.
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That's what I'm thinking.
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I'm also thinking that talking about the pregnant woman probably is related to outlasts and whistleblowers.
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Especially the study about women spontaneously getting pregnant.
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Is it just a coincidence?
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But then this bright blast?
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Bright light?
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It knocks the helicopter out of the sky.
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And then all of a sudden Blake is now in school.
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And he sees pictures and a ribbon that says Jessica in a locker.
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So this Jessica person seems pretty important or at least pretty important in Blake's mind.
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And then we see some creepy guy walking with a purpose.
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And then we wake back up at the crash site.
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I don't know if you have any comments on him suddenly being back at school.
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Why is it that we know that they're going to do some investigation?
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We know it's going to get creepy and everything.
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So why does it happen to be just the night before they're going there that he's already getting dreams about Jessica?
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Which I presume they haven't thought about or talked about it.
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It's like too much of a coincidence that that same night they're going in.
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He's already thinking and dreaming of Jessica and then he's already dreaming or he's in this location at the school.
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It's like foreshadowing something.
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Back at the crash site, Blake cannot find Lynn.
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She's not in the crash, but he does find the pilot, although it looks like he's been skinned and tied up in a tree.
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Continuing on his way, Blake stumbles upon a dilapidated town where the only apparent inhabitants are either dead or deeply disturbed.
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What's new?
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Yeah.
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Upsetting this town, he says there's not supposed to be anything for miles.
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So what is this place if there's not supposed to be anything here?
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Well, it's completely off the radar that they probably are either keeping to themselves, recently located over there.
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It's odd.
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Blake finds a couple of documents.
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The first one, it sounds like he killed his child and then himself.
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Is that what you gathered from this first document?
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Definitely that he said he did an offer and that almost sounds like he's sacrificing his wife and kids.
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And then he talks about Papa Knoth.
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Yeah.
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We don't know who he is at this point, but we will soon get to know about him.
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Yeah. And why is he comforting women?
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What's going on here?
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The second document was written by a woman named Lisa.
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And I just have to say, Lisa, what the f***?
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Are you okay?
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Because it sounds like she's having visions about a pee-pee monster.
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And then she says that I saw myself all those years back blinding Daniel with the lie.
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And she woke up super horny.
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So what?
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We will get to see a lot of people are going to bed and waking up pretty horny.
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And then we keep walking and I don't know what is happening with this weird creepy baby shrine.
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What calls it a tragedy wall?
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It's got pictures of babies all over it.
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Later down the road, we learned that people are cutting babies out of people's stomach.
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And so why are they pretending that like they don't know what's happening with these babies?
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Like, you know what it is.
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And yeah, if you want to like feel bad about it and stuff.
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But the way they have it almost seems like we don't know what happened.
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But all we just know is the baby is missing or anything.
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Like, I feel like these people should know what's going on.
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So yeah, you make a good point because when we continue on, we enter this weird room.
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And there's like a poem or a song, Midwife's Lament.
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And basically it describes killing a baby.
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Babies in the bellies are like sent from hell and they have to be cut out.
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And it's definitely really creepy.
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And I think we need to mention the entrance to this building that he walks into is really off putting.
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And why anyone would choose to go down the stairs is beyond me.
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Go around.
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Just find another way, right?
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Like that's no.
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But the question is, how are there so many babies and fetuses and how are like women still alive there?
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Like, how are they getting access to kidnapping these pregnant females?
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There's a line that somehow stands out more than killing the baby.
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And that is the babe is growing sent from hell.
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It almost seems like they're being fed a line, though.
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It reminds me of like Father Martin spewing certain things and people completely believing it.
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So I feel like it just might be one of those things where someone keeps saying that, trying to make it true.
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The fact that there's a song about it.
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Clearly, it's repeated.
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And then we keep going.
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And are those are those is that a pit of dead children?
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It is.
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It's yeah, it made me gag a bit.
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I tried to warn you.
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I know you said it was a toned down version and I just can't even believe that's considered toned down.
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Yep.
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Pretty shocking, huh?
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Yeah.
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Thankfully now topside again, Blake continues to wander through the town when he runs into an aggressive person thing.
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I don't really know.
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It's saying some choice phrases, some really odd things.
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And at one point she says that God wants Blake dead.
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So that doesn't sound fantastic.
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During this encounter, Blake does find another document.
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It's chapter eight of Knoth's gospel.
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We don't really know what's going on, but it sounds like another name for Knoth is Ezekiel.
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But there is also a quote referencing him cutting his eye.
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So he cut he cut his own eye.
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Who does that?
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We don't know if he did that.
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Maybe he's pretending to have cut his eye.
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It's true.
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It's a good point.
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Speaking of eyes, Blake wears glasses.
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They fall off his face.
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Have we ever had a main character that wears glasses?
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No, they usually wear contacts.
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That's kind of cool, I guess.
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Oh, not Date, but the Date's love interest.
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What's the guy's name?
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Date's love interest.
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Pseudo.
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Yeah, Pseudo.
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Oh my gosh, that just killed me.
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Okay, true.
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Yes.
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Blake isn't attacked by some village people, but is saved by another blast, like the one
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that caused them to crash.
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And it seems to cause the villagers to enter a sort of painful trance.
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Many of them are shouting in pain.
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We hear a very familiar voice.
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Get them out, please!
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The doctor is dying!
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Get them out, please!
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We have heard this before.
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Is this the same person that we heard in Mount Massive that jump-scared us out of the wheelchair?
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I actually don't think it's the same person.
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I think this is one of the teachings that is the common thing between those that were
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in Mount Massive and here.
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Okay, let's dig into this a little bit.
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Number one, it's a pretty good reason to see a connection between what's happening here
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and Mount Massive.
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But digging deeper into it, so that's addressing your question that you had a minute ago.
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If we are correct in our analysis of this quote from the first game, it could be one
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or two things, either one of Warnocky's nightmares, which we know are used on multiple patients,
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so this could be perhaps a different patient, or it's the wall rider, the treatment, the
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morphogenesis, literally in his blood.
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So do you think that this person could have made contact with Warnocky or could have made
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contact with the wall rider project?
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I think it's the latter, it's the wall rider project.
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Some of the scientists probably escaped Mount Massive or are doing it as a second location,
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because didn't we learn something about pregnant females in the second location?
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So I'm thinking that maybe it's a continuation of that.
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The roots tie back to the wall rider project, but it just kind of evolved and transformed
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a bit.
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But we do know what the random flashes of light and everything, I feel like that gives
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the same kind of vibes as what was happening at Mount Massive.
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There has to be some kind of common supernatural thing happening, or someone's behind the scenes
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controlling and hypnotizing everyone.
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So Blake does find another document, it's a note written by Philip, we don't know who
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that is, but he says,
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"...our sins in our dreams, we gotta face our sins, and if the visions are getting worse,
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and the dreams are in our waking lives, tribulations are close but paradise is on the other side."
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So people are having visions, maybe that's what's happening to everybody right now, because
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a lot of people seem to be quoting things from events that happened.
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Well, from listening to that, I think two main things I want to talk about is, one,
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dreams.
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That obviously ties back to wall rider stuff.
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And so I'm wondering, how does that connect?
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I don't really know what it is, all I just know is that there has to be something that
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ties back to seeing enough gory and gruesome stuff and having weird dreams, and then seeing
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the wall rider, which I don't know where my theory is for that.
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But the second part is that we have Blake who seems to be going in and out of dreamland,
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and it takes him back to his school, like a flip of a light switches over to reality
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and stuck in this Arizona place.
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Is he dreaming or is he just thinking or what is going on and why is it only at certain
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times when something happens?
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And I'm wondering if that flash of light is really what controls them, and that's why
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they crashed, that's why the pilot crashed, is because that flash of light was something
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that, I don't know who probably not is telling him, hey, flash this light and get everyone
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under our control.
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Mm-hmm.
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It did, clearly the light triggered this event.
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We know that.
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But what exactly is happening is what we just don't know quite yet.
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Continuing on, Blake hears a voice over a loudspeaker saying a lot of things, but I
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think the lines that stuck out the most were, we stand in opposition to the Antichrist,
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okay, and we need to be like God, and then he also says, God has sent us this woman,
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to which Blake says, Lynn.
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I feel like there's a lot to unpack here.
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I mean, what are your main questions with what we've heard from this guy so far?
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Who does he think he is?
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And where's everyone else?
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Going back to the who does he think he is, what is he trying to do?
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What's his goal of accomplishing?
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So what if he's the guy who's been killing all these babies and stuff?
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What does he get out of it?
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Is it that he needs to reach a certain goal and then he becomes God himself or whatever?
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What is his objective and why is he doing this?
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So Blake does record this giant church-like building.
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About it he says, how could all of this have been here and nobody knows about it?
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I have some questions for you.
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Number one.
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Well, the umbrella question is, how is this here?
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What's going on?
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Could this just be an old town that they took over?
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Did the people who are here build it?
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Or did Murkoff build all of this and it's like they're just covering it up and that's
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why nobody knows about it?
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That's actually a really good hypothesis that Murkoff might have built this and tried to
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keep it under the radar.
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I actually like that kind of guess.
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So that's what we're leaning towards I think.
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We'll see if anything inside the building changes that.
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First of all, we find chapter 11 which reveals somebody named Val who it sounds like they
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were close to Noth but has since betrayed him and basically gone to the dark side.
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So interesting.
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I don't know if there's anything to say about that yet but continuing on, he enters a dungeon
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area and there's some, I think, Latin written on the wall and I think that we need to look
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it up.
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So the first one is Carpe Abyssum Atrium.
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Pick up.
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Okay so pick up the black coal.
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What does that mean?
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Good question.
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Pick up the black abyss.
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You know what, this didn't clarify as much as I was hoping it would but we'll go to the
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second one.
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Add Enferipare Aspera to the bottom rough.
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So pick up the black abyss to the rough bottom?
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Do you think there's some kind of mistranslation, maybe like pick up being like take out and
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then the fetus or something like that?
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Like an inaccurate translation?
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I mean I was using Google Translate so yeah I do think it wasn't perfect.
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Anyway, also in the dungeon Blake finds a note written by someone who was approached
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by Val and they think Val wanted to get freaky.
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For what purpose?
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I don't know.
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So far we hear a lot of whispering.
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It's like why else does he keep hearing this when we know no one's near him?
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Yeah there were like megaphones outside.
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I don't know if there's anything inside or maybe those megaphones are just really loud
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but definitely all this is being pumped out to the villagers.
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I guess they're all on a need to know basis.
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One of the things that he says is, your child is the one.
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She is ripe with the antichrist.
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Uh oh.
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It was correct.
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I think we'll just leave it there for now unless you have something to say about that.
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Blake finds another piece of the gospel which contains the C word and the F word.
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That is definitely not normal gospel.
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So I don't know who this guy is or what he's writing about.
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Definitely don't see a lot of C words in her games.
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No no we don't.
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We hear Lynn struggling a little bit and eventually we see her escape out a window and Blake jumps
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out to join her and they make a run for it.
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As they do we hear the loudspeaker asking people to kill the baby.
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He says crush it beneath your boot heel.
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But the thing is that unless she's pregnant that we knew before they got there, what baby?
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Is he raping them?
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R.P. is he actually physically putting something into their stomachs because we do see that
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Lynn says ow my stomach and she's struggling running and she keeps telling Blake she doesn't
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want to talk about it.
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So I'm leaning towards that.
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They're actually physically moving either probably like a dead fetus back into their
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body and then only to get their disciples and stuff to rip it out of her to cut her
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open.
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It also is an opportunity for Noth to be able to prove to his people that hey there is something
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weird in these females' bodies.
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Yeah there's a lot of evidence to it.
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Something definitely going on.
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She tells Blake don't make me talk about what just happened in there and then we hear Noth
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say that he performed the examination himself.
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So he's definitely involved and then that made me wonder could he be like a Murkoff
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employee and instead of like the Walrider treatment she's getting the fake baby treatment?
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I don't think it's related.
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I feel like he's a bit too crazy for a Murkoff employee or maybe he started like that.
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He actually seems more like a Father Martin type of person, more religion based and in
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being that kind of leadership versus being an employee of someone.
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I guess he could have been an employee and it could have been like a trigger situation
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where he just went crazy or yeah he could have been some sort of patient or something
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that was influenced in a way similar to Father Martin.
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So all interesting.
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Got a lot of theories about this guy already but they then get jumped by another group
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and it seems like their objective is to keep the baby for themselves.
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They take Lynn and leave and their leader, by the way, has no sense of space and they're
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also just kind of icky.
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They lick Blake's face.
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It sounds like this is Val.
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What did you make of this scene?
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There's a lot.
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We had to pause.
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It's a lot going.
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So focusing on one person at a time for Blake.
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I almost thought he was about to get raped by this woman so that was my first reaction
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when she licks his face.
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Big sexual harassment lawsuit.
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So on Lynn's side, it almost sounds like she's having her stomach cut open when she's alive
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and that really freaks me out and that scares me.
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I mean for obvious reasons but it's just like it's so insane that they're doing these kind
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of actions without really understanding why someone on the megaphone is blasting out saying
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that cut her open and take out her baby and everything and then they're doing that without
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really thinking for themselves.
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Okay, so I'm going to clarify a couple things.
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Immediately after this Blake says that there's two sides and he says they're Christians
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and heretics but this is definitely not Christianity so we're going to call them Nauters and Valors.
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So there's two sides and the Nauters are the ones who want this baby dead and the Valors
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who we just saw attack, they want the baby it sounds like because they come and say we
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want the child.
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So I don't think they cut her open here.
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Okay.
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They at the very least knocked her out.
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It's very difficult to see what exactly is going on and I've seen this multiple times
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and now that I wasn't actually actively playing I was trying really hard to pay attention
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and I definitely saw Val choke her to sleep but I don't know what else they did with her
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and I don't know what their plan is with her.
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I think just for clarification purposes there's two sides, one wants it dead, one wants it
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alive.
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I don't know if that-
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It does clarify things because and we know that Val was a trusted disciple of Naut and
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she betrayed him and so I understand now that her stance on it, it was just so chaotic in
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like what five minutes of everything that happened to Blake and Lynn and I could barely-
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one, I was already struggling to not freak out and try to understand what's going on
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but then to not really understand what's going on but also be so scared of it.
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Blake escapes I guess or they punch him out and then let him go and he ends up in another
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section of town and there's some townies walking around and one of them says the flood will
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come soon and that reminded me a lot of Dissociative Dennis who in that Patient Sato's report
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they mentioned his multiple personalities talking about a flood.
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So this is maybe another sign that could this be another person who has heard that script
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from Warnocky?
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I think so.
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I wouldn't be surprised.
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My reaction to hearing the flood was the beginning of the video when Blake was still in the elementary
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school and you see that the flood of red blood maybe?
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Oh yeah.
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It was just gonna come in so I feel like that's the flood that they're referencing but I might
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be wrong.
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No, that's interesting.
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Speaking of the school, another blast seems to transport Blake back in time.
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We see an apology written on the whiteboard signed Jessica.
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About it Blake says, I remember this and he has mentioned and dreamt about Jessica before.
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Now he's saying he remembers this.
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So is this something that actually happened back in time or what do you think is going
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on?
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Is this something that happened back in time that he must have done something wrong or
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didn't do something that he probably should have and it happened in the past but he probably
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blocked it out.
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So he records the blackboard, reviews the footage on his camera and he says there's
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nothing here.
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You can't see the image that he recorded, it's just static and weird talking.
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I don't know what your immediate reaction to seeing the playback was.
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Two different possible reasons for it.
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One is that it happened in the past, not the present slash reality and that's why you can't
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get a video of it because there is nothing to get a video of.
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So that's my first reaction but the second reaction is it must be something to do with
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the morphogenic engine or that kind of thing.
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There's some crazy science supernatural thing to it and that's why he's not able to see
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it but still hears some weird stuff.
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Speaking of the weird stuff, it is somebody speaking in reverse and I took the liberty
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of editing this in reverse and trying to clean it up a little bit so I'm going to play it
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for you now.
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Dear Lord, sweet Jesus, forgive my sins and accept my gratitude.
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Thank you God, you only killed my child.
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I didn't really catch it all besides anything, thank you God for killing that child.
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Yes, so here is what I hear.
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It's a man saying, Dear Lord, sweet Jesus, forgive my sins and accept my gratitude.
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Thank you God for killing the child.
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What do you make of that?
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I don't understand why you would thank the God that they believe in for killing a child.
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It's weird.
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Yeah.
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We'll continue learning more about this but for now, that's all we know.
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And then in the school we also see the same creepy guy walking around as before.
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Anything else on scene one or should we go to scene two?
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Nope, that's all I have.
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At some point Blake falls and then wakes back up.
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Present day?
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He's back to the crazy town.
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Pretty soon a friendly guy named Ethan, side note, why are there so many Ethan's in video
27:20
games?
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They're everywhere.
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I was thinking about that.
27:24
I'm surprised Baby Walth isn't called Ethan Wolf.
27:28
It's his middle name.
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Anyway this guy Ethan stumbles upon Blake and he seems to be the only sane person.
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He tells Blake that his wife was cast out and that Noth raped his daughter and then
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asked him to kill the baby, but that Ethan gave her a chance to run.
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At this point Blake quickly realizes that his daughter is the woman that they came here
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to investigate.
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I don't know how Blake was able to jump to that conclusion and then reassure him that
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his daughter is okay.
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Like do you know that?
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Oh no, she's definitely dead.
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That's why they came here.
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That's one of my questions was, was it right for him to lie and say that she's fine?
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Is it better to give the man some peace of mind or?
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No, it's false hope.
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Yeah, I'm a truth kind of person.
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I don't care how bad the situation is, lay it on me.
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I want to know.
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Ethan hides Blake at his house where he can get some rest, but that is soon interrupted
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when Marta, we finally learn her name, comes looking for him.
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She's trying to find Blake and knows Ethan probably knows, but he does not give Blake
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up and he pays a very steep price for it.
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Why do you think he's doing this for Blake?
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I don't know why he would do it for Blake, but I do feel like the type of guy he is that
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if he's wanting to save his daughter and do right, then I have a feeling that it's just
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the type of guy he is and he's not going to betray Blake, especially knowing that Blake
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would probably have been the one who could help him track down his daughter.
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Yes, he dies.
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Marta kills him.
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I feel like we need to do this so long for him.
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This is maybe the only decent person in this whole game and the amount of time that he
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had was so short and I feel like there's a little bit of symbolism there.
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You can't be a sane normal person in this town.
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You have to be crazy on either side.
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And he was a good guy and he saved Ethan's life, so he's a mother respecter for me.
29:34
100% agreed.
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Slightly disrespectfully, Blake decides to film Ethan's dead body and basically this
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is when we learn that this person's name is Marta.
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Other than that, he also finds a letter that Ethan wrote.
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So the letter is just about Ethan to Paul that they're cousins and it almost sounds
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like Paul was some high ranking person within the North group of people, like almost like
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a manager level or something.
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It's like why else would he need to ask Paul to help him try to convince North, right?
30:07
So you don't know who Paul is, what his deal is, or what's his ranking, but it seems like
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Paul can have a lot of sway.
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What kind of hierarchy is there in this place?
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Is there an organization, is there a structure?
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Is Paul like an SDWDO was to Father Martin?
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You know what I mean?
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To see one of those henchmen sidekicks.
30:29
But continuing his search for Lynn, Ethan runs into some people who have been tortured
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and hung up, kind of like the pilot was.
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But here's what's weird about this.
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Okay, this is outlast.
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It's not that weird to see dead people.
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But when he looks back at the recording, he says she was just a kid.
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And that doesn't really make sense.
30:48
So is one of the people hanging there a kid or is he talking about Jessica?
30:54
I actually thought it was just like a mistake on the game.
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That they probably were supposed to put the audio for something else or take it out.
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So not long after this, Blake finds chapter five.
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There's some weird things being described in this passage.
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This isn't the first time that we've heard some sort of creature be described.
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It could just be biblical references.
31:16
But could this also possibly be like a Walrider 2.0?
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Yeah, well, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
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I just, why keep them?
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That's my question.
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Yeah, I don't know what you said that just made me think of this.
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But it seems like in these, well, because we see this description, and it talks about
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genitals.
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And then in that note from Lisa, she saw a creature and woke up like already.
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So could these things be part of the process of the whole like the weird pregnancy things?
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Yeah, I mean, there has to be something different about the reproductive organs and processes
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and people because it almost sounds like you don't need nine months to grow a child.
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It's a lot sooner than that.
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All right, so continuing to wander around this town, Blake then witnesses Marta dragging
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a dead man by her weapon thing.
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I don't really think there's anything to note there, but she's killing people.
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So that's weird.
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Why?
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And then after being chased into another section of the town, Blake finds another document.
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I just have to say, Marcus, are you okay? because it doesn't sound like it.
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I don't know what you thought of this document.
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Sounds like he's ready to start threatening being physically violent towards the recipient
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of the letter.
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It sounds like maybe they're married or in some kind of relationship.
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And I think they had a child and they had to kill it, which seems to be a common trend
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and that she's just not getting over it.
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And it's making Marcus mad.
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I wonder why.
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It's making Marcus mad and he just doesn't seem to understand.
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Why should you be mad that I killed and murdered her child?
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Right.
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We find another document and it's clear now that people are getting sick.
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But do we know why?
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And this was also written by Val, actually.
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So they talk about people getting sent to be with the scald and then their children
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come to Val who takes care of them.
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But then at the end of the note, there's a line that says, what do these dreams mean?
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One crazy theory is that maybe everything's all in her mind.
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Like they're all dreams, just different sections.
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That's one thing.
33:43
Blake is able to continue unmolested for quite a while until another blast seems to cause
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all the birds to fall out of the sky.
33:51
What causes these blasts and how does it kill birds?
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Yes.
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I know it's happening, but I'm not going to tell you until I figured it out the first
34:00
time I played it.
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I did not figure it out yet.
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So I'm just going to leave you a dangle in there.
34:07
But then Blake does find himself in heretic territory, or I guess valor territory, and
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comes across a shrine or temple area.
34:16
And then he records that and again has a weird comment when he rewatches the recording.
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And he says, he said she did it to herself.
34:26
He said he was protecting you.
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So I think at this point, it seems pretty clear that when he's reviewing these recordings,
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he's not actually talking about what he's physically recording.
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It's like a vlog for him.
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It's weird, right?
34:42
But I say this especially because immediately after this recording, he appears to be having
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both auditory and visual hallucinations of Jessica.
34:52
He hears her voice and then even sees her hanging in the distance, but she disappears.
34:58
Creepy.
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Inching ever so closer to the chapel, Blake finds document number 14.
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So in the letter, there's a sentence about Val saying that sins find us in our dreams.
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And I'm wondering if the moments like those flashbacks that we see of Blake being in a
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school and of dreaming of Jessica is truly a dream.
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Is there something that he had a sin for?
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And like we don't know much information, but that's what's being implied here is that he
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must have done something wrong that he keeps getting dreams about Jessica and being in
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that school.
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And then yeah, there's another line or two that also referenced being horny when you
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wake up from this.
35:43
So I feel like this is more evidence that there's something about this whatever's going
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on that causes women to maybe not reject whatever treatment this is.
35:55
I don't know.
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I don't like it.
35:59
So we find I think the last letter from Val and this one was actually addressed to Noth
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and it's pretty aggressive.
36:07
But there's one line that stuck out to me, which is you thought the visions were punishment.
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So I'm assuming this is the same things that we've been seeing that these people hallucinating,
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dreaming, whatever it is, but they don't really indicate what they think the visions are.
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So if these aren't a punishment, like do you have any theories what these are about?
36:29
I do think that they're not a punishment, but a way to control their fears and use it
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against them.
36:37
They're going to be talking about what they dreamed of and then it just gives whoever's
36:41
been controlling everything some more insight on what to be able to use against someone.
36:48
We find another document that describes more disturbing dreams that should not turn a person
36:52
on but are.
36:53
So the trend continues.
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And then at the power generator station, Blake finds document 18, which is it indicates that
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Noth is taking penicillin but not being honest about why.
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Probably STDs and...
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That's what I'm thinking.
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But they also called something about like study aids and I don't really know exactly
37:16
what's going on.
37:18
And maybe if taking pills are making things worse or are they truly making things better?
37:24
So I'm thinking that that's what he's telling these people who are like running his errands,
37:28
going out into the real world, it sounds like, to run these errands for things that they
37:32
need that are modern.
37:34
And so he's sort of lying to them and that makes me wonder like, why is he lying?
37:39
And then there's your theory of like him raping people.
37:42
And so then I'm like, is that what the scald are?
37:46
Are these just all people who have STDs from Noth?
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And my reasoning for this is because of the letter written by Ethan, because we know that
37:57
she was raped.
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And then after that, he says, I'm going to send her to the scald.
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So it's like, he knows like, that's how it progresses.
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Like you get raped, and then you get sick.
38:08
I'm actually thinking that maybe the meds aren't STD.
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Maybe that they're for like, maybe they're for something.
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And then the side effects is like, it causes hallucinations.
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And that's why he's a bit crazy.
38:23
And then he probably does something and spikes everyone in like the water and causes everyone
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else to have hallucinations.
38:33
So I'm going to Google, what is penicillin used for?
38:38
It's an antibiotic to treat infections caused by bacteria.
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Oh, it's used in treatment of throat infections, meningitis, syphilis, and various other infections.
38:54
Also penicillin and other antibiotics have a crucial role in treating STIs.
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It's recommended for all clinical stages of syphilis.
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Is it syphilis?
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Does he have syphilis?
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Oh my gosh, sorry, the spider's on my computer screen.
39:09
Okay, you need to kill it.
39:12
Dude, take a tissue or a cup or sheet of paper, roll it up.
39:16
I'm not touching that.
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You know how I usually kill them?
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I spray them with hairspray until they expecate.
39:24
Are you wasting your hairspray like that?
39:29
I don't see it as wasteful.
39:31
It's true.
39:33
Anyway, sounds like it could be syphilis.
39:39
After turning the electricity back on and taking the elevator to get away from Marta,
39:44
he finds another document and it sounds like they're drinking stuff called the grape.
39:52
And I don't really know what the grape does.
39:56
So in this area where he's trying to turn the power on and get the elevator working,
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there's a point where he runs past a group of people who seem to be dead, slumped at
40:07
a table, and it appears that they drink cyanide.
40:10
And then later we find this note after he gets the elevator working about drinking the
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grape.
40:16
But it doesn't really sound like the grape kills you, but cyanide definitely does.
40:21
So I don't know what they're drinking and for what purpose, but do you have any theories
40:25
on what the grape is?
40:26
Is that just wine?
40:27
I thought that was wine too, but at the same time, where's the cyanide?
40:32
Unless someone's spiking their drinks with cyanide.
40:36
That's what I was wondering, except that it looks like they purposefully drank it because
40:41
the jug of it's just sitting on the table.
40:44
Maybe they all had to kill their own daughters or granddaughters and they feel guilty, so
40:48
they all decided to get together and kill themselves?
40:52
I'm confused, but now significantly closer to the chapel, Blake starts to hear Jessica's
40:58
voice again.
41:00
Following the voice, he is attacked by a tongue monster that drags him back in time to the
41:07
school again.
41:08
Are we sure it's that tongue monster or is this the multi-dong monster that Lisa talked
41:14
about?
41:15
It looks like a tongue to me, but up for interpretation.
41:23
They don't give us a great look at it.
41:25
I'm going with tongue because YouTube allowed me to upload it without blurring, but in all
41:31
of these memories, it seems like Jessica's asking or even begging Blake for help.
41:36
So building off what you said earlier, do you think that he feels guilty or even responsible
41:40
for whatever might have happened?
41:44
I think so.
41:45
I think we need a bit more evidence, but it looks that way.
41:51
And then the same locker that we saw in an earlier revision opens by itself, which is
41:54
unsettling.
41:55
This time we see a page of notes written by Jessica and Lynn, and it's mostly your run
42:00
of the mill young lady jibber jabber, but Lynn does write, you have a big sloppy crush
42:06
on Blake.
42:08
So love triangle?
42:10
And it almost made me like, this is a really wild guess that maybe Blake wasn't too gentle
42:16
with rejecting Jessica.
42:20
Maybe she just took her own life.
42:24
She snapped.
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Yeah.
42:26
She couldn't depart with the truth and she just took her own life.
42:31
And that's why Blake is feeling so guilty.
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Yes.
42:35
And it's interesting that all three of them knew each other.
42:38
So it'll be interesting to see if we learn more about that dynamic.
42:42
Lynn doesn't really seem to remember much about Jessica, but we know that it must have
42:48
had some massive impact on Blake.
42:50
Oh yeah, for sure.
42:52
He's definitely way more effective than Lynn is, unless Lynn's just not letting on.
42:56
But towards the end of the vision, Blake once again sees Jessica hanging and then she's
43:01
grabbed by the ever terrifying tongue monster, potentially dong monster.
43:05
So Blake records this, at which point we again hear some reverse talking.
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So would you like to listen to it?
43:15
All right, here we go.
43:25
So this one, I had to slow it down a lot and do a lot of background noise removal.
43:29
So it sounds kind of weird, but I'm going to play it for you one more time.
43:33
You removed the temptation beyond what the flesh you made was able to resist.
43:40
All I heard was something about removing the flesh and then something about temptation.
43:46
Yes.
43:47
And so there's some debate on what exactly is said, because it is quite hard to hear,
43:51
but I feel like spending time editing it down, I was able to get fairly accurate.
43:57
What I hear is, you removed the temptation and the armor of the flesh.
44:02
You made us able to resist.
44:04
But it also can say that it is the ultimate, ultimate resist or something, like ultimate
44:11
something.
44:12
Like, I don't know.
44:13
What's the other debate?
44:16
It's all pretty close.
44:17
Like instead of the armor of flesh, it's the arm of the flesh.
44:21
And you remove instead of removed.
44:22
It's all pretty close.
44:24
So I don't know what the armor of the flesh is.
44:27
I don't know what we're resisting, but it's a little creepy.
44:32
Very much creepy.
44:34
Any theories on all this backwards talking?
44:36
Like who is this?
44:37
What's going on?
44:40
It's definitely not going to be accurate, but it almost sounds like something like the
44:46
morphogenic engine.
44:48
It's all reversed.
44:49
Like it recorded tapes and now it's playing backwards or something like that.
44:53
You know what I mean?
44:54
Like, I think it has something that ties back to the wall rider.
44:59
It doesn't even have to be the wall rider.
45:01
It might have been another project around that same period of time with crazy things.
45:06
And it's just like the playback is reversing things.
45:10
So I think that's what it is.
45:13
After watching the playback, Jessica gets yoinked by the tongue monster.
45:18
And I'm fairly certain there's not a connection between tongue monster and Andrew Earlicker,
45:24
but I really want there to be.
45:26
I really want there to be.
45:28
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
45:32
And then Blake again comes to in the real world.
45:36
So this is a little interesting because it happens fast and it's a jump scare.
45:41
He opens a door in the school, right?
45:43
But as the door opens, the door becomes a different door.
45:47
And now he's in the real world, we're going to call it.
45:51
So was he moving while he was hallucinating?
45:54
Is my question because if he's opening a door in his dream, he also opened the store because
45:59
we see him open this door.
46:01
So has he been wandering around kind of sleepwalking, but hallucinating this whole time and navigating,
46:06
but his mind is just elsewhere?
46:08
It almost seems like he's operating in parallel universes, which I don't know more about how
46:16
it would work just because we didn't see the connection yet.
46:21
But we know that there can be supernatural and kind of crazy stuff going on.
46:26
So I wouldn't be surprised if he's living in parallel universes right now.
46:30
Yeah, I think there's definitely evidence that he's still moving in the waking life,
46:37
but his brain's not there.
46:40
It's interesting because the people that we saw seeming to hallucinate, they were like
46:45
crippled on the floor in pain.
46:47
But maybe they're just farther along than he is, so I don't know.
46:51
There's a lot of questions after part one that we need answered.
46:56
Any final words from you?
46:58
Definitely a very overwhelming part or intro to this game.
47:03
Yes.
47:04
I would say watch it when you're in the right mindset because if you're sleeping, it really
47:11
does take off.
47:12
It's a very different pace than Heavy Rain and Yakuza.
47:15
Both of which are fairly slow, especially Heavy Rain.
47:19
But without further ado, there are not only batteries to track in this game, there are
47:23
also bandages.
47:25
Do you have any guess on how many batteries were picked up in this episode?
47:30
This episode, probably 20 something?
47:33
No.
47:34
30 something?
47:35
Wrong.
47:36
40 something?
47:37
Wrong way.
47:38
Oh, wrong way?
47:39
Like 17 or 15?
47:42
11.
47:43
11?
47:44
That low?
47:45
I felt like they picked a lot.
47:46
11 batteries.
47:47
I know.
47:48
I did too.
47:49
And then for the bandages, you can't always pick them up because they fill up really quickly.
47:53
So I just counted them if I walked over to them and attempted to pick them up.
47:58
So how many bandages do you think there were?
48:00
Probably like five?
48:01
Ah, you're right!
48:02
I am?
48:03
There were five.
48:04
Oh, first time I've ever seen correctly.
48:05
Look at that.
48:06
That might be the first time.
48:07
Right?
48:08
I'm usually very confident in you and I find that I need to lower the number of batteries
48:13
that I need to lower that expectation.
48:16
Well, there's only so many in the game and it's not all about what I do right or wrong.
48:23
Well, no.
48:24
Unlike Heavy Rain, where the 100% was about me sucking it up or not.
48:33
Do you want to do a game total guess?
48:36
Yeah, I'll do it.
48:38
If you do 11 here and there's four parts, right?
48:41
Yes.
48:42
I think that would bring me to 44 ish but I also don't think it would only be 44.
48:49
It's 242.
48:50
No, no, no.
48:51
38.
48:52
Let's do 38.
48:53
Okay, final answer.
48:55
38 batteries.
48:56
What about bandages?
48:57
Let's do 18.
48:58
18 bandages.
48:59
Okay.
49:00
It's locked in.
49:01
If you're right, I will buy you some batteries.
49:02
I don't need batteries.
49:03
Can you imagine you bought me a Costco-sized pack of batteries?
49:17
I don't feel like that's a bad gift.
49:18
Honestly, though, it is a pretty good gift.
49:21
If you want to know how old we are, we're at the age where we like batteries as a present.
49:26
My mom asked me what I want for my birthday and I was like, you know what?
49:30
I just want you to drop off my returns for me because I don't want to do that.
49:35
The access service.
49:37
Anyway, thank you again, Kathy, for putting up with my love of horror but unfortunately
49:43
our audience loves it too.
49:45
Thank you for suffering.
49:46
Hopefully by the end of this, you'll be a little more desensitized as I am.
49:51
I will say I didn't jump when the garage opened.
49:55
It's an improvement between.
49:56
I mean, last time, if the air moved, you jumped.
50:02
I did.
50:03
Didn't you also get scared at work while we were...
50:07
During the month we were recording Outlast, didn't you turn a corner and oh my gosh, the
50:12
spider's riding its butt juice down onto my desk.
50:16
At least it's not building a spiderweb.
50:18
It's true.
50:19
I'm okay with the spiders because they eat other things but I don't want them on me.
50:25
Anyway, you got scared at work.
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I did.
50:29
I did.
50:30
I guess we'll see you next week.
50:32
You want to count us off, Kathy?
50:33
Yep, audacity on one.
50:34
Three, two, one.
50:35
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50:40
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50:48
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50:56
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