CAT3C7494-19111831-29012024Collection (blood) / musical [letter]
Incident Elements:· Blood· Gore· Violence· Hysteria· Suicide· Self-harm
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Created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J NewallDirected by Alexander J NewallWritten by Cole Weavers (for more of his work visit www.thetownwhispers.com/)Script Editing with Additional Materials by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J NewallExecutive Producers April Sumner, Alexander J Newall, Jonathan Sims, Dani McDonough, Linn Ci, and Samantha F.G. HamiltonAssociate Producers Jordan L. Hawk, Taylor Michaels, Nicole Perlman, Cetius d’Raven, and Megan NiceProduced by April Sumner
Featuring (in order of appearance)Billie Hindle as Alice DyerShahan Hamza as Samama KhalidAnusia Battersby as Gwendolyn BouchardTim Fearon as AugustusSarah Lambie as Lena KelleyPaul Schmidt as Klaus
Dialogue Editor - Lowri Ann DaviesSound Designer - Tessa VroomMastering Editor - Catherine RinellaMusic by Sam Jones (orchestral mix by Jake Jackson)Art by April Sumner
SFX from Soundly, Freesound (CCO): kyles and previously credited
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A 3 headed piper, a hungry violonist and a mannequin playing the calliope, sounds like a pretty decent band.
New power it’s just all the music people coming together to play the evilest song in existence
@@malaizze They should do a battle of the bands w/Grifter's Bone
@@malaizzeim sure this exact concept is gonna become a ritual in the future
@@joroz9808 i wonder if this violin is the start of grifters bone 🧐🧐 no idea if they ever mentioned the band members instruments tho
@@kaitlynmorgan4613I believe that Grifter had a keyboard, but I might be wrong
“Jonah Magnus? In _my_ computer?” It’s more likely than you’d think.
[twirling my entrails around my finger like hair] hiiiiiii grifter's bone
Mood 😂
Gotta love someone who plays music. The ‘murderer’ appeal is a welcomed plus
Essential /griftercore/ in 2024? It's more common than you think!
Actually the best comment ever
Encore?
"Stop trying to give them names!" I am 100% convinced that they are keeping the powers weakened by referring them to specific narrative tropes rather than a broad name like "corruption" or "the flesh".
That actually makes sense instead of having 15 broad large fears you have hundreds of smaller fears
That actually makes so much sense. The fears very specifically get power from people being scared of them, so by dividing it into smaller categories, you dilute that power
That tracks. Might fragment the entities into something more manageable? Surely it could never horribly backfire.
but if you make them so tiny, eventually it'll become super big. we don't talk about individual grains of it; we just talk about sand, you know?
Chills, he literally said "Magnus" and "Protocol". Now I'm going to wait for " I am the Magnus Protocol"
Sam it's you! You're the Magnus Protocol
"Alice, Colin, Gwendolyn, maybe the true magnus protocol, is the friends we made along the way" and then they all hug
HERE'S HOW GRIFTERS BONE CAN STILL WIN
Violin Violins Violence 😮
Real eyes realize real lies
Violins is never the answer 🎻
Lana del Rey predicted this
Get the bow going, let it scream to me, violin violin violin…. (Kate Bush, “Violin”)
Graphic novel 'Violent Cases' was a joke on this.
I can't believe joe spooky is in this episode
here’s how joe spooky can still win
Joe spooky was the only fear entity
"a pair of gambler's dice"... Reference to TMA episode Cheating Death?
Definitely, seems like the Eye Merchant had more than a couple of artefacts he seemed keen on spreading
Got so hyped when I heard that one!!
As soon as he said gambler's dice I nearly spit oit my drink
Ooh, I hadn’t caught that! Thanks for this comment, that’s a cool detail !!
Seems like the guy was a bit of a spiritual predecessor to Mikaele Salesa.
accidentally making augustus sound exactly like jonny sims' dad is pretty funny i'll admit
Honestly I keep bouncing between lietner and jimmy magnum
The world's hungriest violin, really needs an audience, so if I do not find somebody soon...
crossover of the year
I'll be consumed entirely
"I'll blow up-" 😂
So let me feed my violin with you!
So... why's the system sending the notif to Alice? By not sending the warning to the correct person (someone who could make Sam stop nosing around classified files), the system is basically letting Sam investigate about the Institute without consequences.... WHAT'S YOUR AGENDA, FREDDY?
I’d say that was strangely for Sam’s benefit; Alice is the one who knew the seriousness of the thing (massacre and such) if Sam got the notif he may not have taken it seriously. If it’s really Freddy then he seems to be helping Sam stay away and safe
@@imalittlelady Aww that'd be sweet! But we don't really know if Alice is the only one who knows about the creepy massacre stuff... Whoever made those files classified def knows.
I think Freddy, like The Eye, wants the deeper mysteries to be known.
It's of the Eye, in fairness - making knowledge get out is its thing.
I wonder if maybe Jonah or Jon could be influencing the system to help Sam in his endeavours like Jonah was leading Jon in the Magnus archives, like they are probably a part of Freddy. unless they are just cameos but like I don’t want to believe that’s the case
WHEN THEY SAID MAGNUS AND PROTOCOL AND THEN MAGNUSED SLL OVER THE PLACE
how did you capture exactly how i feel
This episode has _everything!_ - Crusty old man-voiced Jimmy Magma - Victorian era Grifter’s Bone - Title drop! - Lena possibly fixing to pull a little Brutal Pipe Murder 2: Electric Boogaloo I genuinely love this episode! It’s nice to have a proper Slaughter episode that’s not about war, again. Grifter’s Bone is one of my favorite episodes from TMA, so them having an equivalent in this universe made me oddly happy. lol I’m guessing that the artifact merchant will be coming up again at some point. He seems possibly Eye aligned, due to how the statement giver was surprised at how much he told the merchant, paired with mentions of his “unwavering gaze”. But, that’s purely speculation at this point… Also, a new great line that will stick with me: “The blood for its strings need not be your own.” Not quite as chilling as “The blanket never did anything,” but still great! 😁
Take her. Not me.
electric.boogaloo???? Is that a reference... to... *my sillies I love them
I would like to propose “canaries should stay above ground” as another chilling quote
OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. GRIFTER'S BONE. EVERYONE SHUT UPP. GRIFTER';S BNONE. ITS GRIFTER'S BONE. NOT THE EXACT BAND, BUT WHAT if the violin was passed down or resold until the modern day when it was used by the frontman of grifter's bone??? IVE CONNECTED THE DOTS!!
Did grifter's bone actually use a violin? If that was mentioned then I'd definitely be convinced they're connected
@@Nikowo1610 Maybe they reused the violin's strings on an electric guitar or something. The strings are the most important part after all as its what actually produces the sounds
@@lordbaphie Ooooooh yeah that would make a lot of sense actually
@@lordbaphie Oh and actually, since this is an alternate universe where everything is slightly different, maybe the equivalent to the violin in the original universe is an electric guitar
@@lordbaphie as a musician i would be so upset if thats the case this sounds absolutely horrible
So we're all in agreement that the Hungry Violin is aligned with the Slaughter (not exactly subtle) and that the stranger the man met in the woods was an avatar of the Eye? He asked a simple questioned and got the guy's entire life story with a candour (honesty) that surprised himself. Seems like this avatar is filling a similar role to Breekon and Hope or Mikaele Salesa.
You raise a good point regarding the strange man, but if he is an Eye avatar, I'm rather stumped as to why he would go about handing out various artifacts, essentially recruiting to other powers. With Breekon and Hope, their specific fear as part of the Stranger was "what's in the box" so it made sense why they'd carry about all sorts of spooky objects. Maybe this person delivers things based on what he _sees_ deep inside you?
@@elliesteele2027 Yeah, perhaps he gets your story and then picks an artefact that best suits you. Then he watches the suffering you endure and inflict on others. Remember the Eye was often called a leech or parasite by the other avatars because it rarely gets involved directly but feeds on the second hand terror of the other Fears' victims
@@elliesteele2027 Well, the Eye is the catalyst for all the other fears so.
@@elliesteele2027 he gives people cursed items for the same reason one buries potatos in the dirt
@@lunammoon8503 You think he's doing this to _make_ the statements happen further down the line? Sounds like a pretty cool approach to Archivisting.
*hearing music terms that I have no idea what they mean* So true Jonah bestie
‘That’s great, grandpa Joe!’
Spoiler alert . . . . . . . . . . . . So, this is the story behind Grifter's Bone... Also, I just realized so far Norris has only read statements about the loss of a loved one. Chester has read one statement that is directly connected to the eye and the Magnus Institute, and now, Jonah reads old statements (if it is Jonah).
FUCK YEAAAAAHHHH
It sounds like Jurgen Leitner. The one who voiced him. Jon's father.
well i am convinced that it HAS to be jonah. its an old statement and he was, obviously assuming that they got teleported to this dimension after mag200, the only other person with jon and martin when they ended the eyepocalypse. like thats so cool oml and grifters bone in the same episode as jonahs og voice, thickening plot and name drop? i love it so much
@@junoismad perhaps Jon's father is voicing Jonah.
@@junoismad I agree, it's really on theme for him to read antique statements.
"the blood need not be your own" genuinely made my jaw drop lol. honestly found it more chilling than "the blanket never did anything." also, tiny theory on why the computers cant update: since it seems like john, jonah, and martin are all trapped inside of the software, maybe theyre trapped in like the oldest version of software known to man because its the closest they could get to analog machinery, like how in tma john couldnt record statements on his modern laptop but could on the analog tape recorder. maybe updating would cause them to "bug out" or delete or something since theyre so intertwined with the fears, like how all the statements on modern tech would. hell, even that guy in the first statement in tmp couldnt take pictures of the stuff in the magnus institute with his phone. just a thought.
As someone who plays violin, this episode was super relatable! Except my violin just makes people disappear into the fog instead outright killing them, but I don’t want to be nitpicky.
I have a flute that makes people devolve into madness, we should start a band
Ah, a violin of the Lonely then
@@juliagross8288 that would be great as long as you can control the flute so it doesn't make me devolve into madness!
practicing my bass in my room suddenly made me start seeing doors that weren't there before 😃
@@juliagross8288 hey my flute also does that? Except mine makes them suffocate on the spot, but close enough!
Love the gothic Edgar Allen Poe vibes of this one. The Merchants got to be the new Salesa
4:23 Gwen is giving “Stop trying to make ’fetch’ happen. It’s never going to happen” vibes, and I love it. 😆
FINALLY SOMEBODY SAID IT!!!
I inmediatamente thaght that to lol
JONAH MAGNUS???
You cannot kill him he’s an essential NPC
I thought it was lightner honestly
@@everyonesfavoritesidechara3816same
man I miss Elias he was horrible
@@everyonesfavoritesidechara3816Same. But also, we’ve only ever heard Jonah’s voice through Elias. We wouldn’t recognize Jonah’s ACTUAL voice :D
I feel so sad for Gwen believeing they were talking about her behind her back T-T This story was very interesting! The far away music, the trader/strange c: 10/10 sound and voice acting ^-^
Meh I doubt her heart could feel ‘sadness’. No need to worry ab her
JIMMY MAGNUM???
JEREMY MAGNET?
JACK MAGMA??
HOLLY CRAP IS THIS JOSEPH MAGNITUDE ?!
JAMES MIGNON?!?
JERMA MEGA???
The third voice, not Jon or Martin, theorized to be Jonah, reading an 18th century statement? It continues, the jmj theory!
Perhaps the Merchant works like Breekon and Hope, delivering terrors, also called "stranger" by the violinist, that could mean something
While this is definitely based on Grifter's Bone in some way, at 9:32 it seems to also be alluding to the Piper or possibly Nemesis.
I always saw the Piper and Grifter's Bone as functionally the same, except the Piper is a partial manifestation of The Slaughter (like Michael was for The Spiral) whereas Grifter's Bone is the result of a Slaughter-oriented object or musician(s).
I have a sneaking suspicion that the gamblers dice the trinket fella had belonged to a grim reaper
yeah guys little update on myself. i have no ears left. thank you for listening to me
All those years watching two set did not go to waste. I can kinda picture the violin and the playing in my head. Lingling made this violin.
2:18 roll credits!!
Lots of people taling about Jurgen Leitner in the comments it seems so im here to say that the last scene with Klaus very much so reminded me of the *brutal pipe murder* scene. I might be reaching tho... But to me it sounds like boss finds someone who has been in some form of hiding(?) and then said person goes 'it doesnt have to be like this' Thoughts anyone?
i thought the same thing when i was listening!! fully thought we were jumping to pipe murder in episode four
There's a strong sense of "Grifter's Bone" in this episode, but I also like the idea of an instrument as something living, and given talent in exchange for something more horrible.
Compliments to the ones who did/are doing the casting, Fearon is an excellent get.
Yeah. Games, especially games of chance, are associated with The End.
That ending music is fire. Very cinematic. Amost makes one wish for a Magnus Movie or even a TV show. One to be played in an Imax theater with surround sound.
1:33 Pre-case 4:37 Case (Slaughter) [Letter: Augustus] 25:18 Post-case
Note also that at 13:11 the strange man appears to exhibit abilities of truth compulsion similar to that of an Archivist, meaning the Eye may also be at play in this case.
Man I thought that was Leitner not Magnus and BOY DID EVERY THEORY I HAD CHANGE for a very short period of time
same
IM SO HAPPY ITS OUT SPOILER . . . . . . . . . I literally could not focus on the episode because hearing Jonahs real voice and not Elias's is so weiird... Hes so much more pompous and it suits him lol Edit: ALSO, just a brain dump but what do y'all think happened to Annabelle?? Like John and Martin are assumably in the computers (as well as Jonah Magnus which feels weird because I thought they blew him up and destroyed his vessel? So why didn't he die) but didn't she say she would probably be pulled through the rift thing too?
She said it would be either that or her death, but her being a spider ,who takes advantage of ppl, I doubt she actually believed she could die. I’ve got two theories: one she’s around but since she wasn’t in the panopticon, she didn’t end up in the same place as Jon, Martin and Jonah. Or, just like the other avatars such as Simon, she didn’t transfer anywhere. The web *compelled* her to help open the universes gate then discarded her.
@@imalittlelady yeah, that makes sense, but I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that she said the entities would be pulled through the rift (where she was) and I don't think she would put herself into danger rather than just enjoy the world until it ended (or waited longer to tell them). Also love the thought that the web compelled her On another note, could this be another universe that could hear the tapes? Hopefully we get mention of them being found that would be awesome. Maybe we'll even get reference to that cleaner from hilltop road that DEFINITELY got pulled through universes in the basement
@@imalittlelady I think they are in the computer because they were in a center of the eyepocalypse when it ended. Jonah died, Jon died and Martin blew up just seconds before it all ended and they got teleported. I think that because of some fear shenanigans they just lost their human bodies, maybe along with their humanity, and got transported to the weird computer that cannot get updated because reasons. and I think, but that’s a stretch, that the tmp government knew about the rift, the fears, the portal etc, and that they got the oldest computer system known to man so that the “trio” cannot get out and cause trouble or something. idk, its a reach and a half as I said and a very half baked theory lmao
@@junoismad I wouldn’t call it half baked; Alice stated the TMPgov knows something and is willing to uphold massacres to keep it hidden from the public eye. Smth as “a hole in the multiuniverse through which god-like evil beings, two eldritch monsters and an associate came through” seems like a possibility. I’d even imagine it could be them who DMed threats to Red Canary when they tried to explore the Magnus institute.
I think Annabelle is alive and hidden for now. Maybe she even has a role in what is happening now. The whole tma is about her guiding everything towards the finale, I think it’s unlinkely she wasn’t sure of what the outcome would be, and that it’d be a positive one for her. Maybe the web is even stronger since it was the vessel that transferred all the other fears I also like the theory that the web compelled her and she’s dead, but I think the avatars are too much of their patron for it to discard them like that(?) So excited for tmp
I gonna call this new archivist guy the tradesman
As someone who absolutely despises and hates violins and always new they were evil, i feel so seened by this episode ( ￣▽￣ )
As a viola player, I fully agree :3
So you're saying that you feel... *watched*
Very true -violin player
OH MY GOD JONAH
Jonah went to The Beach That Makes You Old and it made him old. Thoughts & prayers for his recovery
A merchant selling ivory Call that grifter's bone
Spoilers my dude don't read if you haven't listened. Okay so Jhester- Curiosity and the dangers of following it? Maybe statements very specifically related to the archives? I need to hear the funny mans voice to get a clearer idea though. But I think Jhester E-Sim is *probably* focusing in on knowledge bc...eyebawl.. Nartin- Statements related to lost loved ones or losing loved ones. Along with a feeling of isolation (The Doctor dude talked about needing to put time aside for his probably dead partner or they'd drift apart, the mourner didn't want to be alone at the end of their statement but realistically ig there's also the sense of being unsafe that could contribute to that. The Isolation concept is me stretching things a bit. JUGUSTUS- Actual statements? Alternative/origins of things from TMA? This feels very close to Grifter's bone but I'd need to relisten since I don't think they were a classical band. They were some rock band in TMA's verse right? Maybe Old historical records since they get picked up apparently. Who knows. Also just gonna shotgun this idea and say Gwen isn't Elias but might be a sibling or cousin or something. Idk maybe something else happened to OG Elias here. (Which would be funny and a little sad. Dude straight up CANNOT catch a break. Im so sorry OG Elias that the universe said fuck you to you specifically. Not once but Twice) I think the fact that a sort of standout statement from Jons was how Canaries should stay above ground. Martins is not living without someone and Jonah (bc lets be real this is probably Jonah.) Jonah forces on some eldritch spooky shit to a person, similar to how Elias sort of ..unwillingly passed on being the pupil of the eye?? + Manipulated Jon into being an avatar in the same way the uncle is sort of- in a way forcing the evil violin onto his nephew?? Or how He yanked out his eyes and shoved them into OG Elias's head?? I feel like there's something there.
I'd definitely say Jon is giving statements directly related to The Magnus Institute. Martin: general supernatural encounters with an emphasis on those that relate heartbreak and loneliness.
"He said flesh therefore it is clearly the flesh" be quiet, please just be quiet
(yes I did make up a guy but you know its coming)
it seems to be a slaughter induced ep i wonder how strong the fears are though
GUYS WAKE UP!! NEW TMP EP JUST DROPPED!!!!!!!
IM UUP IM UP
no, let me sleep
@@JoTheJo93 WAKE UP, JO. KNOWLEDGE CALLS FOR YOU.
@@caramel9154 zzzzzzzzz
This truly was a magnus protocol
im freaking out oh my god its jonah
26:55 something tells me, due to this little discovery, Gwen will no longer be
I feel like she will be getting a promotion
@@YuUkOsnxd soooo did you listen to the new episode ?
SPOILERS He said "command" and "beckoning" and noted that he told the stranger his whole life story without directly being asked, this sounds very much like compelling from The Eye even though this clearly isn't an eye statement The audience could also be an eye thing though?
OH OH IS THIS GRIFTERS BONE I JUST GOT TO THE END IM EXPKODING SORRY THIS IS AWESOME
It's kinda like brecan and hope they weren't avatars of the buried but they still delivered the coffin
"Episode 4; taking notes" *me, sitting with my notebook and pen in hand, ready to take notes*: 👀 Edit: aahh, not those kinds of notes Also, how on point that the story about basically inheriting a curse is narrated by someone who is most likely Jonah Magnus✨️ ALSO "[...] I might have imprinted upon you some part of myself [...]" I CACKLED- AND ALSO "I found myself disclosing with a cander I did not intend. The unvarnished truth of not only the night just passed, but my life up until that moment. " Could the stranger in the woods be a former archivist?? Or, in general, an avatar of the eye
So is this where all the questionable cursed items came from? The strange Anti-Santa?
This almost feels like a direct message from Jonah. These things will reward you if you're willing to pay the price of your humanity.
Oh hey, Jonah Maganananus voice. NICE. Meanwhile, what in the world is going to happen... What ARE the Protocols? Is it what the "response" group would enact whenever they came upon a Real entry? If so, what did it consist of?
I rly wanna know as well. For now it seems that the protocol is activated when whatever incident, after assessed, is deemed a current threat and then the gov sends that PMC to deal with it, just like the police had the special little "department" in TMA. Proper SCP kinda stuff lol. Iirc it was said at some point that the police girl (forgot her name) that was taken by the Hunt wasnt the only one in the deparment, right? A lot of them over the years became Hunt obsessed or am i wrong? So can you imagine if that PMC is comprised of a bunch of Slaughter obsessed freaks, basically a Slaughter cult? Fuck if that is the case i wanna design them so badly. I hope that when they show up theyre just the most unhinged maniacs. Also, this is an alternate universe to the original TMA, right? Like John and Martin and Magnus all got zapped there and are somehow the computer voices? That would make it so the Magnus of this universe is not the same as the one we know + Gwen Bouchard woudnt be related to our dear Elias at all, but she seems to kbow something, theres something deeper about her anger about Alice giving them names. But im starting to think its the somehow the same universe and people dont seem to remember the 'Eyepocalypse', cuz damn 20 years is a short time everyone would know about the apocalypse if they remembered so its weird they dont mention it or dont know the Institute, etc.
@lovebunny2652 There were other Sectioned officers being shady beyond Daisy, yes, though I'd guess it isn't incredibly common for them to be touched by the Hunt. And this is definitely a different universe. The Eyepocalypse happened around the same time as season 5 starting for us, so it wouldn't be 20-30 yrs past. So, while Gwen isn't directly related to Elias, there's every possibility that she's just a branched timeline where he's a she, and FAR more driven than our poor pothead. Or, heck, maybe they'll really catch us off guard and have her be the daughter of this universe's Elias and he was killed in her life... at the Institute.
@@pyrosianheir liked the whole “Elias’s daughter” thing. Or like generally her being related to him (could be a sister, cousin…etc)
Couldn't help but notice how drained he sounded at the end of the statement. Feels familiar
is that jonah lukas-fucking magnus' canon voice we're hearing?
I really like that we're more focused on the horror stories over the office drama now. It's much more engaging this way
Alright, what fresh horrors do we have today?
Now there's an apt expression given the context.
Correction: /flesh/ horrors (I’m sorry)
I'm worried cuz for a lot of magnus archives (well at least seasons 1 and 2) they were about people being affected by the fears, and now here we're getting ppl more like avatars like plant dude and this guy. Could just be a writing thing cuz we now know about the fears but still.... Also Alice is amazing we must protect her
ok so i think it is clear that this is the new world that all the fears got taken to. escpally since we know the magnus archives got burnt down in the 90s. the violin seems very grifters bone/the bagpipes of war. im wondering if thats cause its this worlds versions of those items. or if they are the same items dragged in. or maybe the fears just found new items in this world to fill the same role. and since its so close to both grifters bones and the pipes maybe that means sorten fears are working closer together or are fused somehow
I think it’s almost certain that fears here are more intertwined. Imo the painter was flesh+stranger+eye(the cameras and the fact the tattoo artists wanted her to tell them about her life), the garden was corruption+flesh+possibly slaughter(?), this contained eye+slaughter+references to other fears with the merchant objects, etc. Let’s not forget the fears are all parts of a bigger entity like Leitner said in tma Also, I find a big difference is that here the protagonists od the statements are not helpless victims like in tma, they are actively looking for something and are answered by fears, and even if they are scared they also quite enjoy the consequences
Anyone else think that Augustus sounds a little like Christopher Lee?
spoilers for TMA !!! my current theory on the computer voices :) So I think if Jonah, Jon, and Martin are all truly in the computer, they're all trying to communicate something. They only read specific texts, and it seems (so far) each one has described their own feelings about their past lives. They read the statements that they can relate to. But I think it goes even farther than that. They have to have some kind of reason for it. I think hidden even farther is a message they're trying to give to the employees. It seems as though after Sam was hired, the voices have been coming out more. At the same time, Sam seems to have some kind of connection to the Magnus Institute, and is the only one out of all the employees actually trying to investigate the statements, rather than just file them away. It seems to me that our trio has realized this, and hope by reading the statements out to Sam, they will finally get through to someone in the physical world. The question I have now is: What are they trying to say? They have to communicate through statements. They can't add random words, so they have to try and convey what they want through what's already given to them. "In its celestial strains I have found solace, a sanctuary woven from ethereal threads. And perhaps you shall find similar..." I find this sentence especially interesting. It's obvious that if this is Jonah, he would encourage the employees to try to rise to the top as he did. Jon and Martin, on the other hand, would try to warn them of the dangers surrounding their job. It makes sense that so far, Jon and Martin have voiced statements about regret, guilt, pain and suffering, while Jonah has chosen to read a statement about an avatar fulfilling his "calling." Jon and Martin have only voiced statements from victims while Jonah reads statements of the perpetrators. Jonah's voice seems to be rare because of this, since even in TMA, an avatar's statement was rare. It's also worth noting that the statements Jon and Martin voice are genuinely terrifying, often spooking the employees into taking a break, while Jonah's statement wasn't that scary, as if he's chosen a statement that sugarcoats the truth. Also, something sent an email to the wrong person, but it was probably on purpose. I theorize it was Jon and Martin trying to get Alice to stop Sam from prying further. It's very interesting that directly afterwards, Jonah decides to read this statement, almost as if trying to convince him to keep going. I think Jon and Martin are probably fine with being stuck in the computer, just trying to help and warn the employees, possibly trying to make them quit, while Jonah probably wants to get out. The only way to do that is with an employee's help, so he's trying to coax one (either Sam or Gwen?) into doing his bidding. Which also ties into my previous theory, when an email is sent to Gwen about Lena... It seems Jonah is targeting yet another Bouchard...
MAGNUS PROTOCOL MENTIONED
I get so so so giddy every time this drops
saaaame, especially when i hear the intro. its wonderfully bassy
No way this is the same guy who had a harem of old regency men... go get it grandpa?
You forget he had the harem in his YOUTH. He lived to like eighty or something before he activated the Panopticon and attempted the Watcher’s Crown. Jonah experienced twink death
@@malaizzeI’d still hit just saying
@@malaizzeYeah, you could say he just experienced twink rebirth every time he body-hopped and eventually became 'Elias'
@@lordbaphie TWINK REBIRTH IM CRYING
this episode appeals very amazingly to my violinist heart
careful, I know violins are tricky but you actually want to keep that heart inside of you
There's many different apparent fears at play here. Im thinking that after whatever happened at the end of TMA, re-merged the fears like they used to be making them much more... messy
14:10 someone memorise what’s in the sack; I have a feeling they’ll come up in the future.
I’ve noted it down in my personal spreadsheet, but just for everyone else: - Battered Knives - Chipped Porcelain - Fine Jewelry - Small Ivory Figures - A set of Gambler’s Dice - along with other assorted trinkets 😊
@@TheNitpickChick thank you, archivist
The personal receiver grows ever larger
gamblers dice came up in ep 9
@@hexamex I knew they’d be important. Good job, archivist👍
So delightful from head to toe but I am (not-so) patiently waiting for more dulcet tones from Jonathan Obsidian Sims 🎙️🎤
I love that the reverb in the theme makes it sound like a menacing being chuckling in the dark
be still for there is strange music.
Nah this is more like Get funky for there is *_evil_* music!
@@elliesteele2027 lmfaoo
As soon as I heard that the man heard a faraway sound with a tilted head I shouted THAT DAMN PIPER
"A candor I had not intended?" Anyone elses compulsion alarm bells going off?!
Spoilers . . . . . . THATS JONAHS VOICE ISN'T IT WHO WAS THAT AT THE END WHAT DO THEY MEAN "DISSAPEAR AGAIN"?
Well- I could only think of leitner; he has been hiding then appeared and a certain someone didn’t want him and made him ‘disappear’ again. Perhaps this Klaus guy is a reflection to that
@@imalittlelady i dont think its lietner, like i thought it was at first and was like jumpscared so i checked the VAs, they arent the same VA
@@ArsonSmile sorry I should’ve clarified, by a ‘reflection’ I don’t mean that it IS leitner; I only meant that it’s the same situation is all
@@imalittlelady oh shit, yeah
FINALLY!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING ALL DAY--- it still feels illegal to be listening to it 20 something minutes after. (I don't think I'll EVER get used to it )
man really put his blood sweat and tears to his artwork, or at least the blood...
being a good fan by dropping in and leaving a like even though I get to listen to it early because I backed the kickstarter. This has been SO WORTH IT!
Gambler's dice? Am I the only one thinking of the dice used to gamble with those who may or may not be agents of Death? No, but seriously that man with a sack gives me Mikael Silesa vibes
Oof, this series is wayyyy more graphic than it’s predecessor! Great job!
The Piper returns....and so does Jonah Magnus. (fun fact: I kept envisioning the Violin's influence as a freakish-looking tiger ghost 🐯)
While trying to work out whether I had heard Augustus' voice before, there was a moment where I thought it was Peter Lukas. I will divorce you in every universe, indeed.
I listened to this yesterday and I'm here to see everyone's reactions
hadnt there been a character in TMA that sold off old artifacts? i cant quite remember but this is feeling very That
The character you’re thinking of is Mikaele Salesa, and this mysterious merchant does have similar vibes. However, Salesa was purely in the business for money, whereas this new character seems to have more nefarious motives.
I'm thinking of homophobic vase episode but idk if im correct
@@ThatOneArchivisthe appears in more than that episode but Salesa did sell that vase to the poor guy
Happy Magnus Thursday everyone!
“They don’t have names, stop trying to give them names!” Is so “Fetch is never going to happen!”
Easily the best episode and best audioquality thus far ^^
Violince
I was wondering when Jonah would show up. Once again, another episode where the story seemed ambiguous. Had this been in the TMA universe I would say the slaughter and the flesh, but I think that categorizing the fears in this universe, or even trying to is missing the point. My going theory now is that there is no way to categorize them, or that they haven’t been. The fears in TMA “split” from one entity into 14 when thing could feel more complicated fears, but what would happen if they never spilt in the first place. I’m wondering if the fears in this universe haven’t “split”, at least not as cleanly as they did in TMA. It also bares mentioning that the fears were all bleeding into each other TMA, but they at least seemed a little defined. Would love to hear other peoples theories!
I love how its a mix between the slaughter and the flesh and perhaps others
I saw it more as slaughter with a hint of desolation, with the sacrificing people to feed the violin sounding kinda similar to what jude perry said in her statement, and the giant fire consuming everyone at the end
@@Nikowo1610 oh yeah yeah, it could be the three at the same time
Maby some spiral.
@@AHorrorFanatic I dont see why not, the more the merrier
He sounds so much like the late Sir Christopher Lee
Jonah magnus 👁️👁️
So far we have the voices of Jon Martin and now Leitner. All three of them died in the Magnus institute. So might we hear the voices of Elias or Sasha in the future?
its not lietner, different va's! (i checked when i heard)
Its probably Jonahs original voice (especially bc the error the computer keeps having is a .jmj which could be jon/martin/jonah) Jurgen also fits there but its a different VA so thats why i dont think its jurgen
@@ArsonSmileshame I miss that deep voice
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Jurgen F*ing Leitner! And here we all thought it was gonna be Jonah come back to micromanage us from the grave. Jonny's dad is back!
That ending show description gave me full body chills
LOVE YOU GUYS
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@@imalittleladyYAYYY
Ooooh what a wonderful story Augusts Thank You very much
Oh boy this was a gruesome one, what a thrill!
This recording was amazingly well read and written! This olden style inspired by Lovecraft, Por and their ilk is so awesome to listen and read!
When The guy who gave him the violin opens his bag and it’s mentions what’s in his bags it got me thinking that he’s going come back later in the story. AND IM SO PUMPED FOR IT