Sunday, April 3, 2011

April fools aftermath brick and some theorizing

Friday, April 1st, in the morning, Adrian found one last note concerning #8 - a note to watch a certain movie.


Or rather, the first note. The note which started the idea that we could do #8.


In the movie, which I do hope many of you have seen, the villain bears a very strong reseblance to Slender Man - tall, pale, always in formalwear, imposing, manipulative, controlling a group of highly unstable henchmen, having the ability to shapeshift his limbs.
In the end of the movie the villain loses his cool and breaks into a maniacal laughter with a horrible, shrill voice and is ultimately destroyed by a weapon he created himself.


It probably won't do the job, but I'm putting acetone, turpentine and benzene on my list of ingredients.


In keeping with the theory that TPF leaks through minds of people into public conciousness I took note of other appearances of Slendy-likes and noted their probable weak points (just in case, SPOILERS AHOY!):


Jack Skellington:
Conflicted with Santa Claus - points towards Broekchen's theory with Santa/Odin - ultimately foiled by his own misinterpretation of Christmas. Confronted a horrible villain when trying to restore the status quo.


Yahtzee's Tall Man:
Was once human, became a slender faceless abomination after an attempt to save his people from invaders went to hell. Is in fact a minion of a "higher" being, employs one masked, murderous minion and is a revered figure to a murderous cult clad in red hooded robes. Condemned to oblivion from day one of his unwilling servitude due to his arrogance, ultimately destroyed when he was replaced with a former victim.


The Gentlemen: 
Floating, mute monsters, followed by degenerating humanlike minions. They rob people of their voices, because the sound of a human speaking is the one thing that can harm them.


Ulamog The Infinite Gyre and his brood lineage:
I'll quote, since my knowledge of the M:tG universe/multiverse is scarce, while bolding important bits.
"Ulamog, the "Infinite Gyre" is one of the three Eldrazi titans and the monstrosity whose half-forgotten name came to be known as the merfolk sea god Ula. It is emblematic of plague, the blind bonds between parasite and host, and overabundance. Ulamog is creation and destruction wrapped together in unholy harmony.
The Ulamog brood lineage is characterized by dense masses of suckerless tentacles, multiple withered arms bifurcated at the elbow, and most unsettling, eyeless bony plates in inhuman but vaguely facial forms. The ravenous and brutish Eldrazi of the Ulamog lineage lurch and shudder over the ground, adept at spreading disease and draining from the psyches as well as the life energy of their victims."
The Eldrazi were imprisoned in a single world, so as not to ravage the multiverse, since they were too powerful for the Planeswalkers to handle. In that world they made an entire race of undead their servants.


These examples and a few other strongly implicate extraplanar travel, mental infection, dominion over a group of "lesser" creatures, but only the Eldrazi exaple hints at invincibility and even that not so strongly (I can't tell relevant from irrelevant in the M:tG writing, sorry).
Almost always in a position of authority - judge, king, prince, god...
Always thwarted.


The brick is flying, let's do this.

10 comments:

  1. Ah, Maduin dear boy, I think you are forgetting something. To paraphrase Abdul Alhazred:

    "It is The Slender Man that can eternal lie,
    And given strange aeons all but Him shall die"

    ~Regards

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  2. Wait, Magic: the Gathering? Ha...

    ...Ha. On another note, I've seen that episode of Buffy. It was incredibly, disturbingly scary.

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  3. @Iscariot - not forgetting, I've only included fairly recent examples. I know of the Crawling Chaos resemblance, don't worry.

    @Frap - that it was. Still remains one of my favourites.

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  4. Ahem. Regarding the Gentlemen, the human voice specifically is not what kills them. A maiden's cry is what kills them. Thus, at the end of the episode: Buffy gets her voice back, she screams really loudly and wipes out the Gentlemen surrounding her.

    >_< My friends made me sit through a few Buffy Marathons out at college. Yes, I did enjoy it.

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  5. I don't know how much Doctor Who you watch but there seems to be a faceless, suit-wearing being in one (or more) of the trailers for Series Six. I am dead serious. I screamed so loud when I saw. I could be wrong, though...

    ~Alora

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  6. My DEER MADUIN oH MAN I TINK YOUu ArE SO fREKiNg AWEShUM I tHinK YUR A REAL gOOD MAN BUTT i HAVE TOO saY I DONT RELLY TEINK YOR jokeS AR ALL THAT FUNNy To BE HuNEST IM ScORRY F aI OFFEnDED YoU BUT I CANnOT TElL A LyE OH WIAT I JUSST REALIpED WAHT MUVIE YUre TALKINp aBUT HAHA THAT IS AKTULL reALLY FUNNI I TAKTE BACK WATH I SAID

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  7. "your fighting is a joke you can only prepare"

    ...

    Well, whatever Reach is doing, it's working.

    ~Alora

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  8. Correction Iscariot.

    "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die" And I see no real connection between Cthulhu and Him. With Nyarlathotep I can see a resemblance, though Nyarlathotep is the god of chaos and Slendy is simply a monster of man's creation.

    ~Eternally Anonymous~

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  9. Haha. Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre is certainly a cool reference to make. For people who aren't tuned into the M:tG scene, he's basically a really powerful creature card. In the story, he's a being from the Blind Eternities (the place between dimensions). He and two others (Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, and Kozilek, Butcher of Truth) are the titans of all the Eldrazi, a race of beings wielding immense power. They are characterized by a ceaseless hunger. In the end, they proved too powerful to defeat, so three Planeswalkers (Ugin the Spirit Dragon, Sorin Markov, and some unknown third person) banded together and sealed the Eldrazi away in a chamber known as the Eye of Ugin. The only way to free them was the gather three Planeswalkers in the chamber and release Ugin's fire (unique in it's colorlessness).

    Ulamog is particularly used in competitive decks for a number of reasons.

    1- He's indestructible. That is literally one of his abilities. He can still be destroyed (by a higher power sacrificing it), but otherwise the only ways to deal with it are to bounce it back to your opponent's hand, to exile it, to pacify it, or to take control of it.
    2- Every time he attack, the defending player has to sacrifice four permanents. In M:tG , permanents are as follows: Creatures, Enchantments, Artifacts, and Lands.
    3- When you cast him, you may pick any permanent on the field and destroy it.
    4- Any time it is put into the graveyard, for any reason, the player simply takes it out and shuffles it back into his/her deck.

    http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=194911

    Whoa, this is longer than I expected. Has some neat parallels though. Sorry about taking up all this space, Maduin.

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  10. NoW tHaT wE hAvE sHoWn ThAt He CaN't Be StOpPeD. sO wHeN wILl ThIs EnD?

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