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…aliens? | The Forest | Part 2 · Replay Reviews

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In this episode, we oddly find a connection to
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Yakuza. It seems we just cannot escape that franchise.
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Then we find an alien door. And also, how is
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Timmy drawing in the dark? Yeah, you have a point.
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Yeah. How's he doing that, Timmy? I don't know.
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Thank you for coming back for more replay reviews
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and happy Horror Month. My name is Leah. And
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my name is Kathy. We are two friends who are
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here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite
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video games. And since Kathy has never seen the
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games before, it helps me view them through her
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fresh eyes, almost like I'm discovering them
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again for the first time. We hope it'll be a
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similar experience for you. Well, should we just
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start in on scene one? Yep. It's gonna go real
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quick today. Um, day 100, question mark? I continue
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spelunking, if that's how you say it. Where I
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find a doll torso? Yeah, we don't like it. I
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guess it's a piece of Timmy's toy. Then we find
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a couple of children's drawings, which were in
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a cave. Timmy how? Timmy has night vision goggles.
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How is he deciphering the colors and then drawing
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with such... Precision. Exquisite precision,
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yeah. Oh, more finger decor. I know you love
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that. Then a camp containing a huge case of cash.
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laptops, and dead people, of course, including
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Yakuza members. One of them has his tattoo peeled
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off his back, hanging above him. Suckers. We
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continue on to find, hidden behind some boards,
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which matches one of the drawings. One of the
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drawings was of, like, boards with crosses on
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them. We find that, and we break the boards,
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and behind it we find another drawing, which
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is the stick figure holding a removed head of
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another stick figure. Timmy's seen some things.
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When does he have the time to draw this? Which,
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there's like a lot of logistical questions I
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have about these drawings. Like, aren't they
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going to smack the paper and the markers out
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of their hands if they see them documenting evidence?
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Timmy, you were in a plane crash. We saw him
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passed out, it appeared, getting scooped up by
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this guy. So are you telling me that he had his
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pen and paper on him? Like, he didn't have a
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bag. Did he say, can I go back for it? Like,
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why does he have it? Yeah, I'm wondering if there's
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more than one child. Well, we get hints to missing
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children, so. There's that. I'm just wondering,
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in the same plane crash, maybe there's other
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kids on the plane. Same situation. Okay, and
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then not long after that, I find a head with
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a cassette tape in its mouth. And then a note
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that appears to show the hole, the crater, whatever
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you want to call it. As I keep moving, I exit
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the cave. I find my way partway down said hole,
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said crater. But there's no way to, like, go
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up or down, so I just go in another cave entrance.
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And this is where I find a crucifix. And is this
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where I find the paper, too? Hold on. Yeah, so
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we find, like, it's called Latin paper. It's
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got, like, a drawing of the crucifix on it and
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of the crater. And then it's in Latin, so I can't
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read it. But I'm sure someone on the wiki deciphered
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it, so let me see. Yes, rough translation. Woman,
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four legs, multiplying serious. What? Excellently
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moist skin, pale complexion, the deep depressed
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rim. Some babies died. The uncle characteristics,
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meaty infants, dogs. Cross did not help. Traps
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did not work. And you ask with his own ways out
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of the mouth of the olinificus. Do not worry.
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How do we know it's the uncle, not the dad? You
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know what I mean? Or it's another male. What?
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Here's my gathering from that. We're talking
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about the Octolady. Yeah? Yes. And the babies.
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And she makes tons of icky babies. Tons of them.
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And then it's talking about, so I think they're
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trying, they think it's like some kind of demon
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or something maybe. And they were trying to use
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crucifixes. Maybe the missionaries did this.
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wrote this. Ooh, that makes sense. And they're
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setting up traps to kill it, but it wouldn't
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die. Yeah. The uncle thing, is this just a complete
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mistranslation, or was the Octolady originally
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a person, and was maybe like, I don't know, the
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uncle did something to her, attacked her, assaulted
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her, I don't know, caused this? I'm also, this
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might be a stretch, but is it more of like a
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priest, like you say, like Father something,
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like Father Martin. And then, but the Latin translation
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translates to uncle, maybe? Or maybe like a deacon
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or something that wouldn't be father, but it
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would be like a position of authority. I don't
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know, but I think we're pretty sure it's that
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octagon, not octagon, but octolady. Well, anyway,
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we'll continue to digest that, but I eventually
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make it all the way back to the very first. cave
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entrance, from last time actually, and climb
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back to the surface where I head home and replenish
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my ammo stashes before heading to bed. That's
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all I got for scene one. Yep. Alright then, moving
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on. The next day, I prep and head out again to
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yet another cave. This time I enter the cave
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I was earlier dragged into to explore, so I go
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deeper and find the head of Timmy's toy, also
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some chocolate bars, and then I'm later knocked
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out again. and hung up again somewhere in the
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cave. I cut myself free, pound some meds, and
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keep going, where I find a drawing of Timmy holding
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his toy. So Timmy, for sure, has been down here.
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And then deeper, a whole pile. A whole room.
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Oh, those creepy, icky baby things. But they're
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all dead. And they're all, like, disfigured.
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They're not, like, human babies like what we
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think. They're not normal. Yeah. But then, not
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long after, there are some live ones, and then
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their mother, I think we've established, the
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leggy lady, the octowoman. I then find some sort
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of cache, including a bunch of VHS tapes titled
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Lost Children of the Peninsula. Why is there
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so many cassette tapes and VHS tapes in this
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cave? It makes me wonder if they, like... stole
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them all from whoever like someone came here
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to make a documentary and then they made sure
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that none of them ever none of the vhs's ever
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saw the light of day it was like a cover -up
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to me i also am curious how are they getting
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all the stuff into the cave is it that humans
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that are alive are bringing into the cave and
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then they die or was this all happening above
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ground and those creepy monster things are taking
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it from above ground somehow transporting it
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into below ground how how is this stuff making
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its way here and how have we not seen any other
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like plane crash or other stuff above ground
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i wonder the same thing too and some of this
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stuff seems really old we find old gun ammo like
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stuff has been here for a while but how much
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is old and how much is new because we find like
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those old canvas tents But then at times we find
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those newer, like, backpacking orange tents.
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Yeah, like, those laptops seem relatively new
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compared to VHS tapes. So how long has this been
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going on? Right. We also find an autopsy report.
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I'll read it. It says, Office of North Pringle
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Medical Examiner. Report of investigation by
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Provincial Medical Examiner. Name, Jessica Cross.
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Homicide. Notified by sister. Investigated by
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Alan Balm. Multiple stab wounds and head trauma.
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Cause of death murder. Manner of death violent.
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But how is this note here? And why is this note
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here? I could see the humans brought it over,
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but why is this something you bring with you?
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Yeah, unless you're hiding it. Like covering
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it up again. But yeah, we also find in this same
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area. Red paint and a paintbrush, which is of
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interest to us when we pick it up. So are these
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not bloody people? They're people painted red?
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And if so, why? The thing is, if this was paint,
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how is it not all over the place? Like you would
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run into some of the cave walls or get some things
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covered in paint, right? If your fingers are
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covered in redness, how is that not staining
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more things in the cave? I think that's maybe
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a question for the summary. What the f*** is
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up with the paint? Anyway, I also find a bunch
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of dynamite and a modern axe. And then I head
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home. I will say that you're very strategic about
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color coding the cave entrances and the exits
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with the little stick things that you created.
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So just for our viewers to know, you're very
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strategic about it. I need to know which ones
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I've gone in and which ones I've popped out of.
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So I don't waste my own time. Scene three. Okay,
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well, as the sun rises the next morning, I head
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out again to investigate the cave that I earlier
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found by the tents. And not long after entering,
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we find missing passengers, another piece of
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Timmy's toy, and further on a VHS titled Opening
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the Artifact. Tone shift, right? Yeah, so immediately
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I'm thinking... pandora's box opening the artifact
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what exactly is it did it unleash some curse
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and that's why we're having all these crazy characters
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maybe this artifact is why so many people are
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coming in here i finished exploring the cave
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and head home to bed anything else on scene three
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for you no but a quick status check so yeah with
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all these monsters just kind of note taking it
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we got a couple jump scares that really freaked
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us out while watching this game There's one where
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I nearly spat out my coffee while watching it
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come out. Luckily, I didn't choke. So we have
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those things on fire. We have the lady spider
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thing. We have bodies or those weird monsters
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with multiple arms. We have blue people. And
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then we have those red bloody people. Which is
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apparently paint. But I do think there's a difference.
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I think there's like the cannibals. Those are
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what's above ground, and then there's, like,
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the mutants that are mostly below ground, but
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they, like, come out every so often. I don't
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know if they're connected or not, if they're
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on the same side or not. Maybe the cannibals
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are afraid of the mutants, too. I don't know.
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All right. Well, scene four. Another day, another
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cave to explore. And I'm kind of starting to
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wonder, is Timmy worth it? Strategically, you
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need to also start looking at exits. What do
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you do when you find your son? You bring him
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back to base, but don't you have to start wondering
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about how do I survive once I get out? Because
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the moment you take Timmy, I'm assuming all the
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monsters are going to start coming after you,
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so your base camp might not even be enough. And
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how do we get off the island? I guess he is worth
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it, so I go into the cave. I find some more missing
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passengers, another piece of his toy, and then
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not long after, another children's drawing of
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the pit? The crater thing? And then I obtain
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the rebreather, which allows me to explore underwater.
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There's a point where I pop up from the water,
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and I get attacked by the icky babies. They have
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no business doing that much damage. And how are
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they moving? Because they obviously aren't using
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their legs to move. There's a lot about those
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that I hate. Okay, but then further on, we find
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this, like, alien wall. Whoever designed it had
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to be, like, an engineer or something that, too...
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is it's like a pulley system and it opens up
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the doors elsewhere that the doors are at least
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like what i don't know 18 feet tall they're huge
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it's insane yeah obviously not a natural formation
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so now we're getting into things that are either
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man -made or alien made something i don't know
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but i i you know i go inside anyway and then
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on the other side of the door we see some skeletons
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that seemingly are worshiping whatever is drawn
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on the wall as well as a bible and a cross So
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what's in there that needs to be guarded? So
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I'm wondering if going into it gets you closer
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to the artifact? That's kind of what I'm thinking.
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But then who built that? Yeah, exactly. And why
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does it look like that? And how is it opening
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and closing? Yeah, with like the weight of four
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rocks moves those massive doors. Yeah. I don't,
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I don't know. But I think the missionaries have
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been here because we do find another one of those
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camps with the white tents, which I think. Are
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the missionary camps because there's Bibles everywhere?
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Mm -hmm. And for some reason, this time, the
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Bible is of interest when I pick it up, even
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though the other 15 times I saw one, they were
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not of interest. We then find a drawing of one
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of those leggy mama thingies. Mm -mm. I don't
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like it. It's not a Timmy drawing, though. It's
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like a real drawing, like someone really drew
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that. Again, how are they seeing? I guess fire.
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And how are they alive to draw it if they saw
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it? That thing saw you, but that thing let that
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person survive to draw it. Yeah, it was kind
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of detailed, so I feel like you had to be kind
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of close. I mean, maybe they killed it. Maybe
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they ran away. I exit the cave up through a pond
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using the rebreather. That's it. A lot of exploration.
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No direction on where Timmy is. More questions.
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No answers. I am surprised that there was nothing
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in the water to get us. Besides ducks. That would
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be really scary. I don't have anything else to
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say at this point. I just have questions. I have
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a lot of questions too. Happy continuation of
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