The Speculationorium

Dustman · Post by **Dustman** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:49 am

Oh dear.... Poor Mark! At least the windows are barred.

DrunkenPrayer · Post by **DrunkenPrayer** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:09 am

Dustman wrote:Oh dear.... Poor Mark! At least the windows are barred.

That's not a sufficient obstacle for the undead hordes. I feel a thread coming on excuse me.

SoItBegins · Post by **SoItBegins** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:54 am

Okay, I think we can rule out any of these being really day-job-human.

Although they all were once.

You know what I mean.

With Friday's comic, I take all of what I said back.

And yes, this is starting to look more and more like a setup.

Narf the Mouse · Post by **Narf the Mouse** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:22 am

...Or...They could be tricking him to get at his braaaaiiins...

...Cause, you know, zombies are known as being subtle like that.

Tom the Fanboy · Post by **Tom the Fanboy** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:01 am

I really wish I'd said something about the "pile of rags" Mark moved against the door. I was going to make a joke about Madame trash heap protecting him. Now I wonder if that heap was actually their stuff.

Narf the Mouse · Post by **Narf the Mouse** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:32 am

Maybe...Occasionally things go really wierd, but then go back to normal.

SoItBegins · Post by **SoItBegins** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:59 am

Maybe...Occasionally things go really wierd, but then go back to normal.

You might be right. In my opinion, there's more human nature than wierd magic involved in this, though...

SoItBegins · Post by **SoItBegins** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:43 pm

khayankh wrote:I'm thinking the zombies aren't real, but might not be a planned part of the LARP. Perhaps the LARP's world extends beyond the building...?
There was an incident in my hometown where a group of teenagers who did illegal paintballing in this forest had been holding paintball wars in the same forest every weekend, and a LARP group, in need of a space to use and assuming (as the rest of the town did) that that forest area was unused, went into the woods one weekend in costume and well...yeah. Boffer LARP people plus hardcore paintballers = chaos, and much mockery in both directions. Beanbag spell packets and foam swords are not effective weapons vs. guns, apparently.

Speculation CLOSED!

Ok, it looks like this whole zombie thing is a case of confusion and mistaken identity, just like the scenario outlined above. My question: Did the group just accept the first person they saw (Mark) as the 'victim', or was he set up to be so by... someone?

Ah-one, ah-two, ah-three... SPECULATE!

DrunkenPrayer · Post by **DrunkenPrayer** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:50 pm

Hmmm but how could whoever set him up have planned it so that he would be outisde at that moment?

Dustman · Post by **Dustman** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:12 pm

Unless it was our mysterious Dimanche, I don't know who it could have been.

Edit: Also, if I were Mark I would be kind of jaded on LARPs (ooh, half-rhyme). The first time he got a knife thrown at him, and now he's been bitten. Seriously not cool.

SoItBegins · Post by **SoItBegins** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:37 pm

Hmmm... but how could whoever set him up have planned it so that he would be outside at that moment?

You're probably right. On respeculation, this sounds to me like a case of extreme confusion/mistaken identity. I'm thinking the part of my brain that's paranoid, suspicious, and likely to jump to conclusions went straight for the 'conspiracy theory' idea.

The first time he got a knife thrown at him, and now he's been bitten.

You know what they say: once bitten, twice shy...

One post wonder · Post by **One post wonder** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:34 am

Zombie walk. Yes, I know it was already revealed, but I felt it had to be posted here for closure... Yeah, I know that is weird...

SoItBegins · Post by **SoItBegins** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:40 am

Look it up in Wikipedia. Actually, this one newspaper reported about a walk kind of near my area... it had pictures. Wierd.

Thunderhowl · Post by **Thunderhowl** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:45 pm

I think it wasn't planned for him to be outside during the walk, just that the guy claiming he was in on it was just a nice guy offering him a way to save face.

Hooray for zombie walks!

SoItBegins · Post by **SoItBegins** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:55 pm

Hooray for zombie walks!

GRAAAAAAGH!

Dustman · Post by **Dustman** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:50 pm

SoItBegins · Post by **SoItBegins** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:03 pm

OK, I just checked and the new comic's up, so... well, that stone appears to have made a reappearance. And it doesn't look friendly.

SO WHAT THE HECK IS IT?! It doesn't have an item card (else he'd be holding the card), it was given him under mysterious circumstances, it has a wierd glow effect around it.

Hmmm...

Punstarr · Post by **Punstarr** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:13 pm

Speculation: Real zombies are about to appear, manifestations of Mark's imagination and thoughts about how cool it would be to be in a real zombie movie, made solid by the magic of the stone.

SoItBegins · Post by **SoItBegins** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:41 pm

Oooh. That would be one nasty twist.

Narf the Mouse · Post by **Narf the Mouse** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:34 am

I'd like to take this moment to say 'I told you so!'