Saturday, April 30, 2011

Efficiency and Getting High

For lack of a better term, this is how He moves.  It's hard to describe, and I'm going to touch on this later, but there's something that's especially bugging me right now.

For those of you who can't tell, I'm new to the scene around here, and I'm aware of that.  I've been trying to keep up with everything I've missed (not easy, since the entire first White Elephants series of posts were deleted.  If anyone ends up reading this and wants to describe Core Theory and the titles system to me in detail, I'd appreciate it).  Now then, one of the biggest complaints I can think of was sparked from reading Reach's blog, and is probably one of the biggest questions out there (or at least should be).

Now, we're going off the two assumptions I listed in the previous post.  Assuming that the Phenomena was sparked by the original post on SomethingAwful and is a product of the Tulpa Effect, the question stands: How the fuck are there sightings of him from prior to the OP?

The best answer I can think of right now is that He moves efficiently.  That's all there is to it.

Look at it this way.  You are, right now, moving through four dimensions.  There is an X-axis, a Y-axis, a Z-axis, and a t-axis.  The X, Y, and Z axes are the axes of free space.  Up, down, left, right, back, forth, etc.  You can (to an extent) control your movement through these axes.  The t-axis is the time axis.  You cannot control your movement through this axis.  you are always moving through this axis at a relatively constant rate (blah blah moving near the speed of light time dilation own grandfather NOT THE POINT).  You are always going to be moving through the t-axis at a rate of approximately 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour, (roughly) 24 hours per day, etc.  You cannot observe the t-axis on a spatial scale, and thus you cannot transverse it.  Simple, right?

The Phenomena, on the other hand (and theoretically), can.  He doesn't see destinations and space in the same way we do because he is unlike us (understatement of the century, I know).  One of the theories I'm playing with right now is that he can simply GO when and where he needs to to accomplish his goals.  He does so to attract followers and create even more mythos behind him, to solidify the Tulpa Effect driving him.  References to House of Leaves and Der Erlking give him basis and history, and thus strengthen him beyond the SA OP (SAOP?  Is that a cool enough acronym for that?).  What I'm getting at here is that the Phenomena can observe and travel along the t-axis as needed to fulfill his objectives.

This would also explain why his movement cannot be called 'teleportation'. He isn't instantly moving from one place to another.  He's just moving through space according to his rules.  Of course, this does equate to him being a 'time traveler,' which I think some people are against, but this is all theory anyway.

As I thought about the axes, my mind jumped to M once again.  'Stay high, he can't get you there, he's taller than all humans and can't perceive people taller than him yadda yadda.'  I've had problems with this since I first read it.  My initial thought was hills.  Hills are completely normal examples of why I can't see this working.  Was M really suggesting that, if you perhaps layed up on top of a hill, He couldn't get you?  That perhaps the best way to avoid him was to become a mountain hermit?  Of course, the 'Keep moving' piece of information stays constant, but I found it hard to believe that the idea of being taller than Him would protect you.  After all, the varying of sea levels alone would be enough to prove that it doesn't matter your elevation, he'll show up when he wants to.  Or perhaps not.  Perhaps He only attacks those who live at some constant sea level/elevation.  Who knows.  I'm rambling.  The best idea I have behind this is this:

Perhaps He cannot perceive the Z-axis, or he can only perceive it as we perceive the t-axis: As something he cannot control and merely travel along based on his position.

Thinking about it in this light, a few ideas pop up.  The Phenomena doesn't have to worry about stairs or elevators; He can simply appear in doorways and hallways.  The Phenomena has shown up a few times in videoes in a second-story building (I know Rule of Thumb is three-stories up, but the fact that he can transverse vertically means that he should be able to recognize humans being up high).

Alright I feel like this would be the place I'd be starting to lose people if anyone read this, so I'm just going to go ahead and wrap this up.  I guess the only things that would make sense is to talk about next alternatives to the 'time traveler' idea (the 'reoccurring mythos' idea, for example).  Anyhow.... yeah.  Leave a comment if you feel like it / read this, and I'll be back at some point later.  Take care, guys.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

A Quick Inventory

Assumption 1: The Phenomena is a product of the Tulpa Effect
Assumption 2: The Phenomena was sparked by the 'initial' post on SomethingAwful.

Syllogism 1: Everything that has ever happened in regards to the Phenomena is linked to that initial post in SomethingAwful
Syllogism 2: The Phenomena can only have existed since that initial post.
Syllogism 3: While the Phenomena was sparked in our heads, it has spiraled out of control.

Tulpa Effect: To shortly paraphrase, by the process of belief, something becomes real.

References:
House of Leaves
Bible

Physical Description:
Tall, lanky in build.  Arms/legs/fingers may appear unusual in length.  Always wearing a professional business suit.

Known Abilities:

Some special form of transportation not completely unlike 'teleportation'.
-Can appear/disappear from closed rooms.
-Can shake off any pursuer.
-Can transport between places that do not make logical sense (e.g. entering one room and exiting from one across the house in a matter of moments).
---Any of the above can be used to transport others, as well.

Radar that allows Him to track those 'infected' by him.
-Can follow anyone infected by him without fail.
---Can be deterred and prolonged

Ability to change bodily structure.
-Can form extra appendages (tentacles).
-Can stretch His arms and appendages
---Can be stretched in a manner that hypnotizes people into dropping defenses / makes them unable to run.

Influencing the minds of humans.
-Able to erase large spans of short-term memory (this allows people to act as they normally do, but removes the ability to recall their actions at a later point).
-Able to influence minds into submission and create those who will follow his instructions (from hereon out referred to as 'Hollowing them out')

Odd aura.
-Brings out a reoccurring cough in those who he has begun to Hollow.
-Causes electronics to behave strangely / stop working.

"Invisibility".
-Cannot be seen except by those infected or children (?)
---Can be captured on film

Deification.
-Will be explained in later posts, but essentially having become a god-like entity in our eyes.
---Yes, this means a lot of bad shit.  Therefore, it'll probably get it's own post.


Roads to becoming Infected:
-Delving into the Slenderman Mythos (by choice or by fate, the end justifies the means)
-Contact with an Infected individual, followed by investigation into their circumstances.
-Pure chance

How to tell if someone is Infected:
-Habitual drawing of the Operator Symbol
-Reoccurring cough
-Spouting out odd foreboding bullshit
-Paranoia
-Films goddamn everything

Methods of fighting Infection:
-Fucking memory wipes (really?  Ugh I'll talk about this later).
-Spamming the Operator Symbol (This is also getting it's own post because this is kind of a big deal).
-Running (For more on this, read the Tutorial.  M knows his shit).
-Focus on something else (I think everyone ALWAYS forgets this one, so I'm definitely doing a post on this later).

Possible future post topics:
Operator Symbol
Deification
My Current Situation
M's 'Stay High' Rule (the only thing I've read him write that I don't really agree with).

If I actually get any readers, tell me if there's something you want me to cover.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Initial Conditions

Name: Irrelevant.  Overmatter is sufficient.
Areas of knowledge: Physics, Pedagogy, Mathematics, Comedy, Gaming, Odds n Ends.
Age and other biographical information: Still irrelevant.

Prior experience with the Phenomena: None.  Will discuss is a future post.
Lore analyzed to completion (or current standing):
Marble Hornets, EverymanHYBRID/Can You See The Words, Just Another Fool, Tribe Twelve, The Tutorial, A Really Bad Joke.

Currently analyzing:
Let Us Keep Living, Believe What You See, Breeze in Monochrome NIGHT.

Future analysis:
Anything else here, more or less: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSlenderManMythosStories


WHAT THIS IS:
What this is a general look at theories relating to the Phenomena (others know it as Him, others as his true name (whatever that means)).  To spare the chance of infection, blah blah the Phenomena etc.  What I'm mostly going to discuss here are implications to His existence, the ideas behind the Tulpa Effect, and ways of dealing with the Phenomena.  While this blog might seem self-indulgent and pointless, I'm truly going to throw down as much helpful information as I possibly can.  Maybe it'll help you.  Maybe no one will ever read this.  Whatever.  At the very least I can comment on other people's blogs now.