Lauren Bello

“It is being terminated. They will never know. By the time it’s made public all traces will be wiped.” – Updating as this question may have been answered. I think this means that the original OSDM ceremony, the one we were trying to infiltrate, had been cancelled. By the time it was made public, all that we saw was an act.

Immersive Junkie’s review of the finale may shed some light on why Noah was weeping while Sarah comforted him, among other questions:

https://www.immersivejunkie.com/the-lust-experience-anointment-finale-review/

Apparently he and Sarah were arguing about her cheating on him, among other issues.

Remember all the bits of red text in Tension that we never solved?

“F.Y”
“CSpath.-”

And at one point people had gotten phone calls with a series of numbers and letters (“14 18 31 N L 15 F S” I think was one of them).

These red numbers are probably unrelated. Almost certainly. But I do wonder if there’s any sort of pattern that’s stayed…[Read more]

Some theories:

– We’ve been wondering for a while why the OSDM would allow Noah to hijack the Lust Experience for so long. Maybe they’re putting their foot down and taking the reins back.
– They’re shutting down the whole operation. (The investors certainly haven’t always been fans of it.)
– The ownership of the accounts hasn’t changed,…[Read more]

There are still some details that have been mentioned on Slack, but haven’t made it to forums yet. Highlights:

From Erikthemasked:
– mentioned Cecilia taking him into a room with two people in white and making him call someone?
– “there was a naked girl in the lobby area, with a mask I had to hand a note to, once I did she took her mask off…[Read more]

Here’s my full account of my first Anointment visit. (This might be a bit long for anyone who attended, but it’s written more for anyone who couldn’t attend. Shoutout to @bruinbown, @chloe, @blondie, and @mumumusings <3)

 
Event Preparation

The day of the event, I received two emails. One, from the official Lust Experience “info” email, re…[Read more]

@rizzzoooooo I’m not sure. Mason’s role repeated in a way that made sense for an actual social mixer: guide people through, watch new groups come in, etc. Noah’s role repeated in a way that didn’t make sense for anything but a theatrical performance. I also get the (perhaps false) impression that Mason is someone who keeps to himself, while N…[Read more]

Some details that haven’t been mentioned yet:

– Morgan introduced us to the shaven-headed plant, whose real name was Carrie. She told some anecdotes from inside. She’s part of the Resistance.
– Kevin Hsu asked Morgan if Stephanie was a mole. Morgan said she wasn’t – she was genuinely in bad shape, and certainly in no condition to be asked…[Read more]

Building on Bryan’s point about the event being fiction –

I do believe it was fiction. But I don’t believe that Morgan knew it was fiction beforehand. And I believe that it may have been *forced* fiction: that actors with sides may still have been there under duress.

For what it’s worth, as we stood in the parking lot after the events of th…[Read more]

Porting over from Slack:

Last night, “Stef” called to move my Anointment time to earlier in the day. She then called a second time and began to repeat the exact same information. When I told her that we had just spoken, she seemed confused.

She was speaking in a chipper, almost childlike voice, and referred to OSDM as “ODSM”.

@meghanmayhem…[Read more]

he then said that she needs to shut up or she is going to get hurt.

A threat, or an actual concern?

Would that indicate that all branches outside LA really were shut down?

Oops, this was me misreading you, Larry. You had posted,

“Hey gang, what’s up? Been busy all day and just checking in. Stephanie showed up to rehearsal as a blonde in a red dress today. That was odd. Said she was coming from an audition.

No no, I’m kidding.

WTF was all that?????????????????”

I read the WTF part of the post and read it…[Read more]

Re: the inconsistencies of Stephanie Hyden’s “character,” I’m porting this over from #catchup. For anyone who’s just joined us, these are the inconsistencies in question.

Stephanie was a handler in The Tension Experience and befriended some participants, particularly Larry, after Tension had concluded. She told Larry and several others that she…[Read more]

Joyce announced the Slack on June 25th (it was her very first post). At the time, she was claiming to work for HCDI, a subsidiary of the OSDM.

If A is telling the truth, starting Slack was a plan of Tension LLC’s from the beginning.

This would mean that Joyce was indeed working for Tension LLC in June.

The question is – she’s claiming to be…[Read more]

Is that a lustexperience.com email address?

If we still believe there’s an OSDM, and if we believe that Timothy Granik is part of the OSDM, and if we believe that Noah is truly a rebel taking on his father (I know there are plenty of skeptics regarding all three points), then this is interesting because it reinforces that not ALL of the Lust…[Read more]

Just a reminder that the waiver for Anointment included these very specific clauses:

I will follow the instructions, rules, and laws at all times throughout my experience with LUST including prior to and following the conclusion of my time in LUST.

I further agree that you may use and license others to use my name, voice, likeness and that I may…[Read more]

Basically, it didn’t make sense to a lot of people why Mason would do this terrible thing to somebody he said was so close to him, and “secret rescue from OSDM!” was something that made those pieces fit without causing massive cognitive dissonance.

That’s actually not my major reason for thinking this could have been an escape operation. I lea…[Read more]

My current theory is that everything from the Prologue through Chapter 3 was real. Genuinely part of the OSDM’s Lust Experience, OR genuinely people going off the rails.

– Noah really was spiraling.
– iConfidant really was a ploy by the OSDM to collect our data.
– The Midnight Commission really was an independent rebellion against the OSDM,…[Read more]