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Part 4 Discussion

Hey folks!

I just finished reading part 4. I'm super bad at these clue things but they're fun so I want to try to help out. Here's the little bit I've found.

There's a hyperlink on the word "see" (second paragraph) that leads to: https://www.gasstationjack.com/bury

A photo of a wooden box, above the picture is: "ominous." The second 'o' is a hyperlink to the same page, although opening the image itself up in a new tap brings up: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fc1a9a_9a7385fc141244c28532d30eec2d65ad~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_590,h_310,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/coffin-interior.webp

Coffin Interior

Could be simple foreshadowing, or perhaps its a clue towards something else?

29 comments

29 Comments

Jessiizar

Oct 05, 2020

I noticed that several of our hidden links throughout the story parts brought us to images that represent how people can die in the Manor, (the wolf, the suit of armor, the knife/stabbing, etc. The fire could be the bomb or it might be representative of something we haven't seen yet.

EDIT: Following up after reading part 8, there we've got the fire, "koda" the polar bear, and the bullet. Definitely the many ways to die, although I don't know if that has anything to do with the individual puzzles.

Hillary H

Oct 05, 2020

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I was just thinking this same thing!

kmmgemini

Sep 29, 2020

Hey, so, I was rereading part 4 and I realized that after the lights went out and someone pushed past Jack, the only person that wasn’t confirmed to still be in the room was Wolfgang. It’s a house where anything can happen so that doesn’t mean it had to be one of our squad, but still...

The next time he’s mentioned he is fiddling with a fire poker.

Also, his name has wolf in it and one of our first clues was a wolf (well, teeth, but wolf was the conduit).

Jessiizar

Sep 28, 2020

Ah, something else I'd like to mention (after looking over some of the differences between the deciphered text and the text from the original post;

In the deciphered text Jack notes to himself that he *knew* NPC was blind after he "realized" it.

Similarly when he spoke to Claire, the blue eyed girl, in the hall he "wasn't supposed to be in." They knew each others names and things about each other without his ever remembering having a conversation about it.

Additionally (and I bet someone has already mentioned it but I feel like it's worth noting just in case), the Mansion of Madness is a horror/investigation game based off of the writings of Lovecraft, rather than a book, but if I remember correctly it draws inspiration from Lovecraft's "The Dreams In the Witch House."

LelouchViBrit

Oct 05, 2020

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@Jessiizar i realised this after reading part 8 that when tobias says that the memories were being planted and were most likely not real. It could've been something realted to that, what you noticed about jack realising that the "npc" was blind but then it was removed since it wasn't necessary to include that foreshadowing. And the jack and claire part doesn't seem related to this but it could be as there may have been something that went down before everyone met here and it was removed from their memories but they still remember or are allowed to have some of

Nevermind me if this doesn't make any sense. I'm just working on the surface here.

Butler

Sep 28, 2020

If you click just outside of the coffin picture and drag, there is an hidden image just beneath the coffin interior picture.

Butler

Sep 28, 2020

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@Jessiizar i foud it clicking and dragging on top of the picture, between ”ominous“ and the top side of the coffin photo.

kmmgemini

Sep 28, 2020

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I noticed that “III Person” is on the list. Do you guys think that might be related to NPC‘s (sometimes) identifying as the third?

Ignore me. I just realized this is “ill person”

Jessiizar

Sep 28, 2020

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@Butler Nathaniel refers to himself as the third (which really could be that he's the third in his family with that name) but perhaps (BIG MAYBE) it could be a clue towards the Bunraku Puppet mentioned on the chart. It's the third one on the "list" as it were, under Healthy Person. The Bunraku puppet is a type of Japanese puppet theatre. Maybe Nathaniel is a "puppet?" He disappeared, along with the rest of the staff. (This might be a huge extrapolation but perhaps... perhaps not?)

Danilo v

Sep 28, 2020

any one have any more clues ? or are we complete because i don't feel like were done u know

Killer Neko

Sep 28, 2020

Alternative universe maybe? Pocket dimensions? Perhaps there’s more to NPC than we’ve seen

Butler

Sep 28, 2020

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@Killer Neko different layers of reality maybe? Or rounds? Like when you are playing a videogame with unskippable cutscenes. the NPC’s are stuck in a routine they can’t escape, but what would happen of the main charaters gains freedom to move? What could be changed? What could they uncover?

Jessiizar

Sep 28, 2020

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@Butler I feel like you might be onto something here with the different layers of reality, or a reoccurring event in which vague memories of past conversations are left over in some people's heads (so far it seems like Jack and Claire might be the only ones; but she had said he was like her.) Groundhog Day, mystery murder mansion style?

kmmgemini

Sep 28, 2020

I just realized Nathaniel Pennyworth Cholmondeley is an NPC

Danilo v

Sep 28, 2020

@Nothingbetter toput and i are working together on this and we discovered it was a Cesar shift cypher 3 letter shift