Kevin

The first thing that came to mind with the serpent on the cross was the unraveling of the Ouroboros. It’s no longer eating it’s own tail and the circle has been broken.

I don’t remember Morgan saying anything about this until the walk back. He was very specifically referencing Tom Barrow, who was Addison’s father in the fiction of Ascension.

I took it at the time as an aggressive “You know me!” As in, You know what I’ll do if you don’t step aside.

I took it that way at the time too, but kind of weird in retrospect. And odd that DLB would be acting as a bouncer in any capacity. It sounds like Deacon was inside, but there must have been someone else, or even a group that could have gi…[Read more]

Really feeling the got what you desired thing.

Main thing, as @wanda102 mentioned was meeting Joyce. I wasn’t even sure she would even be there, and I actually stood in front of her for a second before it clicked who she was. I spent the rest of my time in the lounge area just chatting with her (She liked it that some people had posted nice…[Read more]

In regards to some other weirdness, and I read into this what you will, but our tickets specifically said:
Mutual privacy and respect for everyone involved is our strongest imperative and,as such, no cameras or cell phones will be permitted on the property and will be grounds for immediate removal.

As Morgan prepped us in the parking lot for the…[Read more]

As far as explanations go, earlier today @wanda102 said, “I figure he got a scary email maybe telling him to take it down, maybe it’s from her, maybe she’s CC’d, so he figures ooh that’s new info worth sharing and agrees to clam up to OSDM but sneaks the info out anyways to be clever.”

I just reposted that into Slack and Tim responded with a…[Read more]

@bcbishop Ha! I was just about to say that it looks like Joyce may have trained at Cecilia Sinclair’s School of Snark.

There’s a lot to digest there, even outside of the who sent it, how they got it, and why.

This is the first we’ve heard of The Honoring, which looks like what the MSE/Anointment actually is.

I find it interesting that Horace, given his previous comments and misogyny, would indicate that he doesn’t have the “stamina” to perform The Honoring.

We…[Read more]

She continued on, angry and irritated. “Listen to me. I’m getting SICK and TIRED of people chasing these red herrings. ‘Dirty blonde falls in with the wrong people and bad things happen to her’… come on aren’t you tired of that same old story?” I admit. I was lost here. I asked what she meant. “Listen to her yourself.” The phone rustled and I hea…[Read more]

I was thinking Mason on this. He’s the one who has shifted between the most personalities (or ‘characters’) so far. Also, he’s worn the most masks.

What a strange message to relay considering you didn’t initiate any contact there.

If Steph is working on Anointment, it stands to reason that she’s with OSDM. The last place she was really seen was with Briarberg, which is where things get kind of fishy. Did the people at that meeting, ostensibly a part of The System group from the Part 2 video,…[Read more]

Porting over from Slack regarding A’s involvement:

Going back through @bcbishop‘s email here: A also appeared to run TheLustExperience email account. If memory serves, that’s the account that Sean and Buz communicated with, so that could be why Sean’s worried. Granik’s email to A does corroborate this story too, “Your role in this was to ensure…[Read more]

So two things stand out to me here, in the talk of inconsistencies, A mentioned that they were hired to run the Slack starting in February, but it wasn’t actually started until June/July. Could be trying to tell us something there.

The other one is the phrase “Stephanie Hyden’s character”, implying that she’s been playing a “character”? version…[Read more]

I’m not sure a message that you might make it big has ever been so unnerving.

I’m not sure what’s gained by threatening to destroy every aspect of a person’s life, especially one who has been so loyal to The Experience. I guess if they’re really looking for emotional readings, something like that would make them go off the charts. But it would…[Read more]

There’s a lot to unpack today and I think we’re going to be sorting through the wreckage of the day for the whole chapter break. What fits in and where. What was part of The System and what was part of Horace’s plan? But that’s for later.

Much of Noah’s video talked about finding what was emotionally true to you in your reactions to just about…[Read more]

Tomorrow could really mean a lot of things here. I took it as ominous at first, but it could really be anything.

Working with the painting though, I was wondering whether we’re going to end up walking away from the facade tomorrow or the facade will be allowed to fall. Lettl mentions that the “flat companion” can’t stay up on his own even if the…[Read more]

I assumed Mike was Mr. Tattoo, given the reference to ice cream and milkshakes.

The Tim stuff is interesting here, but this email is more revealing about A than just about anything else we’ve seen (still not very much, but gotta take what we can get).

A appears to run The Lust Experience email address.
A does not appear to be Sabrina, but we have seen different personalities for A on Slack, so doesn’t totally rule that…[Read more]

Remy is mostly screwing around in his answers for what the event space will be used for, but this part stands out as maybe not a joke:

“The event will systematically incorporate targeted assets in to our fold by creating a paradox of identity and maximizing the hunger of their flesh.”

Also, if Tina was really trying to secure an event space for…[Read more]