Nah. Dun' interest me. I found it rather anticlimatic. =/ Good luck with it, though.

~EW~

It's fuuuun.

It's addictive.

And suddenly really creepy.

But still fun.

HI I"M PARRY THE PLATYPUS AND I APPROVE THIS GAME! (and the blog, but you know, whatever)

-PtP

Note - Parry is a verb, used in sword-fighting, essentially meaning to counter. In that context, your name, PtP, is awesome.

Now, onto the game, it's interesting, though there has been a disappointing lack of FLYING WIZARD KICKS.

^The above.

I'm thinking Marie was part of a program to resurrect dead people, due to new developments, and those are failed test subjects for it. Marie is the success.

Alternatively, they became the zombie maids Gato always talks about.

Also, if we ever meet a guy with the Ace of Spades on his chest, RUN. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE AND DO NOT LOOK BACK.

EDIT: By the way, how do you all feel about setting the dummy on fire? I'm concerned it might be at the heart of all this.

"But I must kill the eldritch deity," she shouted.

The stone said, "No Marie you are the eldritch deity."

And then Marie was a zombie maid.

OH. MY. GOD.

Someone else saw that split-second flash in the most recent dummy-room pic, right?

Marie and the dummies positions were reversed =O!

~ELM~

Yes, we noticed. The dummy is evil and alive, and Marie is dead. We get it.

Also lol @ Gato. Exactly what I was thinking.

Just out of curiosity, what's your guy's take on the date discrepancies?

Time Travel and/or Cryogenic Foot Lockers.

~ELM~

Or she's been dead for a few years.

Ok, I noticed something I consider odd.

All of the previousl experiments had even-numbered heights.....

Yeah...most likely pointless...but still....

THEORY:

We are the Lolth. The reason we can make Marie do stuff is that we're the spirit possessing her.

Got the "Creepyfied" frame of them most recent "Dummy room" picture.

Theory for the pics from kitchen:

From the way everything was written down, the guy in charge of this was experimenting with raising the dead.

After all, "4ccs"? Seems to be some sort of injection or dosage of something, possible the black or red liquids.

Perhaps Marie is the first successful a attempt at revitalization. Perhaps the spirit of Lolth needs a dead (soulless)

body to posses, but cannot revitalize it, needing outside assistance?

Also, as to these "Artifacts" mentioned throughout the game. Could they be some tie to "Lolth" whoever that is?

Because the artifacts may have been one of two things in my theory:

1. Something made to hold Lolth, built many years ago to keep Lolth from escaping, or

2. A "Time capsule" for Lolth made by followers, either linking Lolth to our dimension, or keeping him

safe 'til all knowledge of him died out. Either way, it would explain why that one artifact was in such good

condition; Either made to last to hold Lolth back, or made to last to keep him/her/it safe.

Therory:

Dummy is Lloth

Needs BLACK STONE to pocess Marie

He went to get it after we came though the 1st time

But someone got in the way and shot Lloth (then got away or consumed)

So when we came thru the 1nd time with the STONE Lloth was WEAK

But every time since then when we've gone thru Lloth has been consuming us (Fizzels)

(And Lloth cleaded up the Blood, he's a Clean freak)

-PtP

PS: We need to drop the black stone. if this is true

The Flip i think is more symbolic then anything.

Hmm. A hanging... And someone with a similar hairstyle in a reality flash in the dummy room?

Coincidence, I think not.

Um...that's quite clearly Marie.

Or is it?

Well there are a lot of options right now...alternate universe, cloning, twins, psychosis... I'm not really going to make a decision until I have more evidence.

The fizzly pics look like bad TV signal...

I personally lean towards the theory that Marie is trapped in a computer simulation (which doubles as a life support system, considering Marie is badly wounded in "reality") explaining the voice being transmitted to her head, the fizzles (bad connection) and the garbled warning messages that got .:ENCRYPTION:. banned for a day. Lloth would be the administrator of this system, and the titular experiment would be one of transferring a near-dead person into a virtual reality to preserve their consciousness.

I'll have to review the various pieces of evidence, though. Fizzly pics, journal entries, the like.