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.
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