TMAGP 10 SPOILERS
Nigel Dickerson's SOS?? Comedy dungeon??? MR SIX??? Staticky voice with an ominous rumbling.
"No guests were hurt" and "you've got buried"?? Berried, I think. Ominous.
Mr Bonzo - no one remembers who came up with the name. No one had seen the suit move... Someone's arm was broken while wearing the suit...the audience loved it. "It became a ritual", there were injuries...
The kids actually did like Mr Bonzo
"We all know what happened" with the music
A serial killer was caught dressed as Bonzo - with the colors backward. 11 bodies, same number of weeks "Mr Bonzo's on his way" was top song.
SOS got cancelled
Edgy fans, Bonzo meme, merchandise still on sale
People think of Nigel Dickerson and Mr Bonzo is never far behind
He's a prisoner of Bonzo???
The serial killer is still going, and Bonzo costumes were found at the scenes.
Celia and Colin
Colin wants to talk to Alice, therapy didn't work. He's back to figure it out. The other's absence will make things earlier and he doesn't want them to know he's been here (including Lena).
SAM IN THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE WITH ALICE IN THE RAIN
Digging through mulch and Sam finds a key
Alice is desperate to leave, and she seems to have no connection to this place, so I'm convinced she doesn't remember the Institute if she was indeed in the program there.
Gwen is trying to deliver an envelope to Dickerson, but he says "It's not for me"
FUCK IT'S MR BONZO
TRY NOT TO STARE. IT DOESN'T LIKE IT WHEN PEOPLE STARE.
"It looks like they got another one for you" so the OIAR is getting Bonzo to assassinate people?
"Now, get out of his house." Gwen lives.
I HEAR A TAPE RECORDER BUTTON. SAM AND ALICE ARE ON TAPE. They're getting closer...
They're in someone's office... who's Archie? Archive?
Ominous chair. Pattern of worm tracks on floor?
Sam dropped the key, there's a pit in the office.
Sam has memories of stuff happening here and wonders why they didn't choose him. He wants to find "where everything started to go wrong."
Something scuttling in the background. A spider? It stinks in here.
Sam and Alice leave for the pub. A huge door slams. Another door creaks open and closed. Footsteps... breathing... whispering of many voices.
AGHHHH HOW DO I SURVIVE FOUR WEEKS
I think that the kids were becoming the archivist, perhaps, and someone is still living in the institute.
No idea who Mr Bonzo was sent after.
'Taking the Moon for a boat ride' by DD Mclinnes
Initial malevolent impressions:
๐American๐จ๐ฆ: "I'm inside you and I don't want to be"
โBritish๐ฌ๐ง: "Lost my sight to disembodied book mind. Ah well, whoopsie."
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IN THE HORRIBLE TIKTOK TEXT TO SPEECH VOICE
"hEre's how I lost my eye!!" ๐๐๐
so. we know that TMAGP is set in 2024. so far we have seen blog posts, forum posts, cctv, an e-mail. and we know that instagram live exists in universe.
How much time until we get a statement via tiktok storytime?
I feel like Iโm waiting on the beach for a radioactive wave to hit me, but like, in an exciting way
The feeling that comes with waiting to see how supernatural ends through tumblr is like the 2020 equivalent to the the people in the 50s/60s whoโd watch the news on the TVs in the shop windows.
1994 was when the "incident" with Leitner books occurred, according to MAG 4. Perhaps there's a link to the fire that burned down the Magnus Institute in TMAGP?
To be sung, jauntily:
Goiiiing to the Psychiatrist soooon
Hope the Psychiiiiiatrist likes me
If the Psychiatrist does not like me
I think I'll fucking implode!
The fact that TMAGP begins with boot up noises -- and it's implied that Teddy turned off his computer but it turned itself back on -- establishes that we're listening from the same vantage point as whatever's in that machine. Or the system at large.
So the pub conversation is what confuses me. Is whatever's in the OIAR system on Alice's phone? She would DEFINITELY ignore regulations around not connecting personal devices to the network/etc. But is it following her intentionally, or did it just get on there? You hear camera noises while Sam talks to Colin, so it feels intentional. Malicious or beneficent, though...
The transcripts also say that Norris's and Chester's readings occurs in "CYBERSPACE," which is cool to me because TMA didn't get super deep into fears of technology (certainly cameras, keyboard eating, and uncanny automata could all be lumped in, but tech itself wasn't the "fear" - it was the eye, the spiral, and the stranger). So far technology, the complexity of it, the things lurking in spaghetti code, are front and center.
All of the stories so far have also touched on body modification, even transhumanism (esp. 3), and I can't resist thinking I KNOW where this is going. Gimme that sweet sweet .jmj ๐
I also wonder if the mere act of categorizing these cases is constructing the new fears.