ADR - Episode 527: Trapped in the Backlogs

[00:00:00] Hello, my name is Al Dente Rigamortis. Hello and welcome to Al Dente Rigamortis. I'm Mikey, the East End for Evil. And I'm the Gamer in Yellow. And we are here to discuss those stories, most creepy and most pasta and be critically silly

[00:01:02] doing it. Tonight we have Miss Placed Review Cultist. Yeah. He's been missing for a week. Have you heard anything? I haven't, no. I don't know what the hell happened. He normally sends us the creepy pasta that

[00:01:18] we do relatively on schedule every like Monday, Tuesday. But this time it came by no creepy pasta. Go over to his house. No cultist. So I don't know what's going on. However, you received a package in the mail.

[00:01:36] Yes, with a strange notepad in it that just happened to be labeled as trapped in the backlogs. Whatever that may or may not be. But I guess, yeah. Yeah. So I guess we should read that and then do this recording later? Yeah, that's probably for the best. Yeah.

[00:02:01] This is perhaps the last will and testament of Review Cultist. So we need to make sure, we need to read it and review what it is and put it on the internet because content for

[00:02:20] the content gods. I'm sure we'll give this to the police after the fact. But we need to do our job first. Alright, so this is very fast forward. And that was a quick read. Sure it was. His mad scrawlings are kind of hard to read sometimes.

[00:02:43] That's true. I guess it's time for a rundown. I suppose so. So Review Cultist has a dream. I mean, that sums up quite nicely. You don't know that. He's not in his bed. That's true.

[00:03:07] I looked through the window into his room every night since he was gone. He never went back there. I do that on the ring. I mean what? That's pretty creepy. No it's not. Totally normal. We live in a creepypasta universe where these sort of things are normal.

[00:03:31] Anyway, onto the actual rundown. So Review Cultist finds an old recorder and is transported into a creepy forest where he encounters creepy things like perpetual dusk and more recorders that are playing different podcasts from inside of trees. It's a recorder that's playing podcasts just that the trees are.

[00:04:00] Yeah, but in this world it's... This is true. Yeah. I mean should I just go around and say it's recorder scape? I mean you just did. So yeah. It is definitely tech scape of nothing else.

[00:04:18] There's tech through the rivers and everything even, and the rocks are all recorders and such. Yeah, and we should mention that it's an audio recorder, not the recorder that you play like flute and whatnot. Who says it isn't? That's true. It doesn't say that. No. Anyway, continuing on.

[00:04:43] He finds a cabin in the woods with a notepad and a writing utensil so he can relay this story to us. And spaghettios. Mm-hmm, many spaghettios. Enough to sustain him for the rest of the story.

[00:05:01] Anyway, so after bear cating the door and sleeping on the couch, he is woken by the sound of a chainsaw man breaking it. Gavircultist uses the desk in the cabin to stun his assailant and runs outside to find an ax-man whom he also runs away from.

[00:05:25] And eventually he finds a tree to rest beside and he can hear the, or hear a podcast inside this tree which happens to be playing an episode of al venterigumortis. Which he doesn't recall recording.

[00:05:45] When the podcast ends, a light appears and directs review cultists to another cabin, which wasn't there a moment ago. Cautiously, he approaches and enters the cabin only to find out that it is a general store.

[00:06:01] The storekeep, which is a shadow figure with a fancy suit, lets him stay for a bit but he'll have to move on after a while since review cultists has no money. And it's revealed... Yes. Well, he also has no money. He has no wallet. That's true.

[00:06:23] If he did, it wouldn't matter because he doesn't take dollars. Yeah. It's revealed that the shopkeep knows a way out but knowledge costs monies. Which again, review cultists doesn't have any.

[00:06:40] But the shopkeep lets him know that there's a mine nearby that he can go and follow in Nair's footsteps. Another person who showed up to this place that also had no monies.

[00:06:59] So, basically after that review cultist then goes to the mine after crossing the Everstream and climbing a steep hill. Only after entering the mine and traveling for a bit, he finds Nair, who we find out is dead.

[00:07:17] So like anyone in review cultist situation, he loots Nair's body to find out his real name is Nair Ator. And then he also finds monies. I mean, he doesn't need it anymore, right? Yeah. Well... It's the only right thing to do. Yeah, exactly.

[00:07:37] If you have the balls to loot a dead body that's three cores away into an abandoned mine shaft in this weird like not even real existence of supernatural terrors. Yeah, you deserve that, I'd say.

[00:07:52] Anyway, soon after looting Nair's body, he is attacked by a lanky man with a pickaxe who we assume is Nick, the foreman. Because he's... Has Nick's pickaxe because he's nitpicks. Ha ha ha. Come on! Ha ha ha ha. He was clever. Don't play.

[00:08:26] Anyway, review cultist runs away, hits his head and on his way out of the mine gets attacked by another lanky man with a wood axe near the entrance. He gets wounded in the arm and while running for his life, he falls down the hill that he climbed.

[00:08:53] And once he reaches the Everstream, he checks and he's not being followed. So he makes his way to the general store, which is surprise surprise still there.

[00:09:07] But the first thing he does is get a med kit for five monies so that he can stop the bleeding in his arm. Then he just happens to have enough monies left over to get the information from the shopkeeper on the way out of this...

[00:09:26] ...liminal space or wherever he is. But he gets trapped in the thought process of, do I leave this notebook here or take it with me? And that is where it ends. Wait, so we get the answer because we have the notebook right here? Or do we?

[00:09:48] That's a good question. Anyway, so now it's time for everyone tolerates the grammar and positions at this point. So I did mine by entry. Did you do yours by entry? Of course. Are you sure? Yes, I'm sure. I actually did.

[00:10:18] I can see how that may have come off sarcastic or something, but no, I actually did it. Alright, so the first one I have here for entry one is... I don't think I'm going to die here. Well, maybe. Who knows?

[00:10:41] So the issue there is that there's actually no apostrophe on don't, so it's don't. I don't think... Well maybe he don't thinks. You don't know. Have you ever don't think? I don't think all the time.

[00:11:03] And then let's see. My next grammar and position here is actually an overarching grammar and position that is for all entries, but I fear it might as well get out of the way. Yeah. So I really didn't like the use of ellipses like it was just too much.

[00:11:28] Really? Yeah. That's interesting. Because a couple of my grammar things are sentences that I believe needed ellipses. Well, the... I guess the major problem is that in written form, ellipses don't really help.

[00:11:55] Like it's omitting something, but you're trying to put down all the information you can in this scenario of a notebook. So why are you omitting things? Or knowingly admitting things? I'm not necessarily like omitting things is just like drawing it out for dramatic tension.

[00:12:18] But I see what you're saying, like why would that be necessary in this format when you are recording what happened to you here? Potentially to help others in the future. Yeah. So it's something that sort of took me under the immersion a little bit.

[00:12:39] I mean, I get it. Sure. That being said, he's potentially lost in some strange liminal space. I don't know if the most rational choices are necessarily the choices that happen. You know what would probably fix it for me? What was it?

[00:13:04] If you had like a misspelled word or something and it was crossed out instead of ellipses. Like because if he's writing with pen, he can't... He can make mistakes and it's gonna be crossed out. And in this book, it would... Or not book this...

[00:13:26] Notepad, it makes more sense that he would write something and then it'll go, oh, that's not right and cross it down and then continue on. Yes. But again, I think you're misinterpreting the use of ellipses here. Unless I'm misinterpreting your misinterpretation.

[00:13:47] It sounds to me like you were viewing them like they're almost like their redactions. Like they're supposed to be a word there, but it's ellipsed out. Yeah. But why? Because ellipses are used like that, are they? Yep. I've never ran into something like that. Ellipses.

[00:14:08] The ellipses, a punctuation mark of three dots that shows an omission of words represents a pause or suggests there's something left unsaid. I think for... It's a dramatic pause, is that what you're saying? I could safely say for 100% of these ellipses, they are dramatic pauses. I think.

[00:14:39] To give the story credit, a bunch of them are in the disjointed recordings that Coltist is hearing in the trees. I didn't have issues with those sections because it is omitting. It's when it's actually in his written form that there's ellipses, then it's like, okay, why?

[00:15:06] Well, put yourself in his head space right now. You are a man who has said on recording multiple times that if he's going to die, he wants to be immersed in creepypasta. He started to wrote it in this notepad while he's trapped in this liminal space.

[00:15:28] That's how into this he is. So with that kind of mentality, it's not that weird to think that he might kind of put himself in the shoes of a writer. Like, he's not just writing down this journal as a jot form notes

[00:15:49] to just take note of what's happening here. He's like immersing himself completely into this creepypasta that he's found himself in and putting himself in as the writer, basically, even though he's not controlling the situation he's in because he's lost in this space. I hope he got out.

[00:16:09] We got this, so maybe he's out. But yeah, that's the way I saw it anyways. Okay. Well, I just find there's... And if you take a writer into consideration, most writers don't use ellipses that often. Fair enough, I suppose.

[00:16:29] Like, and I just did a quick search of this notebook because I have superpowers, you know. And ellipses are used 51 times now. I agree that some of those are, you know, part of the podcast or whatever and used correctly in my mind.

[00:16:53] But for there to be that many in the story or in this notebook, it seems like a bit of overkill. Really that many? Here, let me look. Yeah, I guess there are a lot now that I'm actually trying to find them.

[00:17:10] But maybe, yeah, you know, I'll give it to you, I suppose. There is a lot, yeah. But it's fine. And that's my end of entry one, permanent position. Oh, okay. So my turn? Yes, for entry one. Okay. My first one is this quote here.

[00:17:40] When you're trapped in a liminal space, you write journal entries, notes or something for the next course will define. That is assuming you don't make it out yourself.

[00:17:51] So when I read that the part where it says that is assuming you don't make it out yourself, I feel like that needed a slight break.

[00:18:00] Because the way it reads now when I read it is that is assuming you don't make it out yourself where the way that I would say that myself is that is assuming you don't make it out yourself.

[00:18:12] Like I feel it needs a slight pause with the comma there. Okay. Or make it out of the liminal space yourself. Because he is talking about journal entries. Yeah, but like two sentences ago we mentioned liminal space so you don't want to...

[00:18:29] He's not getting paid every time he says liminal space as far as I know. He's not. I don't think so. So for me a little comma to break that up would be nice. Yeah. And that blends nicely into my next one.

[00:18:44] Even with the bag's protection it took some time to clean it up once I got back home. But once I popped in some fresh batteries it worked. Once again, I personally feel it also needs a second comma after batteries.

[00:18:59] So we read even with the bag's protection it took some time to clean it up once I got back home. But once I popped in some fresh batteries it worked. That's the way that I personally would say that it's the same note as before basically.

[00:19:13] This might just be a situation of that's the way the cultist talks. Yeah, well and also he's talking about the bag in that sentence and yet the bag doesn't need batteries. But... But he's not. He's talking about what was in the bag which was in the previous sentence.

[00:19:36] Do you want me to grab more words? Well I'm saying that he could put a pops and fresh batteries into the digital recorder and it worked. Yeah, or once I popped some fresh batteries in the recorder it worked. Yeah.

[00:19:53] Because like in a vacuum when you just read that sentence it seems weird yes. But I'm not reading the whole thing in a vacuum. So... You're not. You're not. Normally not, no. What if I've been doing all these podcasts? Well you are a...

[00:20:16] You're a star like being of unknown origins. You can do all your recordings in a vacuum if you like. But us humans often don't work well in vacuums. We work with vacuums sometimes. They're great for cleaning roads. But us being in a vacuum not so much. Okay.

[00:20:39] But I'll move on. There wasn't anything to play back as far as I could tell. So I did the tried and tested method of saying test test testicle to the mic to test the recorder itself and play it back.

[00:20:54] So I said it that way because that's how I read dashed out words like test test testicles. For example, I just used a dash by saying dashed out. That's how I always read words that have dashes. They're connected.

[00:21:13] But I hate to discuss the grammar of cultists test test testicles. But I feel like the dashes being used here should be ellipses. I know that you're anti-ellipses right now. But every time... Okay.

[00:21:31] Every time the cultist says test test testicles or Captain Slime or anyone else on our other podcast when we're testing to see if everything's working, it's with a delay. And you say delays with ellipses. Yes.

[00:21:49] So in that case because it is in quotes and he is saying it, I would allow ellipses. Alrighty then. We agree on one. So this next quote.

[00:22:02] On the show, my friends and I discussed and reviewed various creepypastas then quote unquote plug plug plug even in a weird space. Okay.

[00:22:13] So I might be in the nitpick no care a little bit but I felt that you failed to mention that we also have a sister podcast called One Less Die where we play all sorts of tabletop RPGs from D&D to Shadowrun and everywhere in between.

[00:22:32] So yeah, grammar. That's what this is. Plug plug plug plug plug. And then my next one. I'd had some vivid dreams and even visceral nightmares in the past. Some even with weird creepy trees. So maybe I was dreaming. So two things here. First thing.

[00:22:57] I didn't like how I had sounded to me and upon doing a little bit of Googling to double check my gut.

[00:23:07] I think I'm right here because if you look up the definition of I'd I apostrophe D it can mean I would or I had so he straight up saying I would had some vivid dreams or even worse he's saying I had had some vivid dreams. Yeah.

[00:23:26] Which is a faux pas. Yes. So a correction of this would be to simply say I had some vivid dreams or I have had some vivid dreams. Yep. Now the second part is the part where it says some even with weird creepy trees so maybe a dreaming sentence.

[00:23:48] Due to how this sounds to me due to how this sounds to me a man who has no idea how to properly use semicolons.

[00:23:56] Should this be connected with a semicolon because the second sentence is directly referencing their previous without giving any real subject to what it's talking about on its own. So does that mean semicolon? Yeah, that's a pretty good example of semicolon. Did I do it? Am I learning? Yeah.

[00:24:14] Yeah. You did the thing. God I hate semicolons. But I can see whether handy now. Alright moving on. I tried the methods I'd heard of for waking myself up.

[00:24:30] I damn near pinched myself black and blue and all I had to show for it was a very real and painful bruise on my cheek. So by quote unquote methods you've heard, you mean pinching yourself because that doesn't sound like a plural amount of methods to me.

[00:24:48] So maybe a rewording of this to be something like I tried the tried and true method of waking myself up pinching myself until I turned damn near black and blue. Because there ain't no plural here. Yeah he only tried one thing. Yeah. Like they stop himself.

[00:25:10] Did he do other things? I think it's basically pain that's the only way to wake yourself up from like see if you're in a dream or not, right? Yeah. That's true.

[00:25:23] That being said earlier on, right when he literally fell ass backwards into this liminal space, he landed on his ass and broke the recorder in doing so. If that caused pain, would that not have woken him up if it was a dream? Yes.

[00:25:43] So technically he should have known it wasn't a dream right from Jump Street. Yeah. Technically. But paranoid in the moment I understand. And I'll move on. I know they say if you get lost in the woods you're supposed to stay put and wait for rescue.

[00:26:01] But does that count for weird audio force? Besides my personal saying about these woods is they be scary yo. I didn't want to be out in the open when it got dark.

[00:26:13] So this is interesting because this whole time I have been viewing this forest that you're in cultists as a darkened forest already mainly because of this line earlier. I'm not ashamed to say it jump scared me and I dropped the recorder onto a leafy forest floor.

[00:26:35] I didn't even have time to fully process the sound of leaves crunching as the next thing I know in the blink of an eye my house had suddenly been replaced with a darkened forest. So how dark is the darkened forest compared to when it gets dark, darkened forest?

[00:26:54] You know? Yeah. Personally. Go ahead. Well, yeah, especially since we get the whole it's perpetually dusk. Yeah. So.

[00:27:09] And we get that way later because even when I wrote this note, I said personally I would describe the forest as a late afternoon forest or something like that so it has room to get dark. But if it's a perpetually dusk forest then lead with that.

[00:27:25] And I understand he's worried that he doesn't want to be out when it gets like completely pitch black, which puts it in your head that's not pitch black now but that means it could be anywhere from sunrise to dusk.

[00:27:43] You know, you have the words to really nail down the atmosphere and mood so use them. Then I'll move on. I swear I will be done at one point.

[00:28:02] There were hills that the trail weaved around climbed over or even went up along and hugged areas densely carpeted with tall trees. So there's only so many ways that one can tackle it. Which are you go around over through or under it, I guess.

[00:28:23] This is where it was going. I thought that's where it was going to go after it mentioned the previous two and like for the third point to say it went up and along and hugged areas trees is kind of confusing.

[00:28:39] Confusing because like a trail that climbs over is already going up along, you know, it's the same thing again. So like when something says and also when something says or even blah blah blah blah blah it leads me to believe that something different about to happen.

[00:28:58] But yeah, but it's the same stuff. Yeah, climbed over or even went up along is saying the same thing. 100% is because he's walking on a forest trail right now. Everywhere you go is quote unquote along and hugging areas of densely carpeted trees.

[00:29:16] Like there's trees everywhere in the forest trail. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So a correction would be to like use this as a moment to comment that there's solid trees everywhere along this whole path or something like that.

[00:29:31] So a correction would be like there were hills that the trail weaved around climbed over and all as equally carpeted with tall trees as the rest. So like no matter where you go, there's trees everywhere. You can't see through them. Nothing like that.

[00:29:48] Two more for entry one almost there guys. Okay. All right. These are a mixture of pines oaks and maple. The views would have been really cool if it wasn't for my circumstances in the weird atmosphere of this place.

[00:30:06] So for me, I'm not a fan of how short the first sentences. It's like way too simple. Like you could combine these two like sentences and it sounds fine to me personally. I think it's like on the edge of being run on and little long but it works.

[00:30:23] So I'll read that as is. There were a mixture of pines oaks and maples and the views of them would have been really cool if it wasn't for my circumstances in the weird atmosphere of this place. Is this a spot where it'd be nice to have no lipsies?

[00:30:39] And I'm lipsies semicolon because you're talking about the mixture of pines and oaks and maples and then you're talking about the views of them. Yeah, sorry. Yeah. Yeah, if you wanted to keep it a little shorter and like give that hard break but still have connected.

[00:31:01] Yeah, for sure. That's also acceptable. And then my last one for entry one. I could understand a few words and it sounded like some people talking to each other just around the next bend. So I put that little bit of break in there.

[00:31:20] I exaggerated a little bit but there's a comma there and I feel like the comma does not need to be there after talking to each other.

[00:31:28] Because without it, it would be I could understand a few words and it sounded like some people were talking to each other just around the next bend. And so talking to each other just around the next bend. It seems unnecessary to me.

[00:31:43] I could take it or leave it. I won't die on this hill. But yeah. Alright. Now the all important question, are we doing notes for entry one now? Well, let's continue with grammar and position. Okay.

[00:32:02] So just get grammar and position out of the way and then do notes for. Okay, sure. The entries. Are you okay with that? I don't have a choice. You're the host here sir. Okay. Again, I also will die on this hill either. So this is fine. Okay. So.

[00:32:28] And entry two. My first quote here. Is he wore a wife beater with greasy coveralls held the chainsaw with heavy leather gloves and had a burlap sack. Over his head held there with a rope around his neck.

[00:32:51] So for me, this seems a little run on or maybe just too much verbal diarrhea. But it's not really diarrhea because those are all like descriptors to give us a visual of the character. Yeah, that's true. So like none of that is useless.

[00:33:16] No, but it could be broken up a little bit. Yeah, like you can start by talking about like the chainsaw and the gloves and like the stance he has like he looks angry that you cut there. He's like he was wearing this.

[00:33:33] So you're not talking about the whole thing in one shot. So I agree with you there. And before we continue. My first one is this exact quote, but also with the next sentence to it, which is there was a V splashed in paint on the sax front.

[00:33:58] So through that whole description of the character for me when I read that I was like this is so close to being a perfect description. But like it's not because and no, it's not because his shoes weren't referenced or something like that. Like I don't care about that.

[00:34:15] It's because of like the V on the front of his burlap stack hood because like I have two problems with that. One is like what's the color of this paint? I'm assuming red because these are villains.

[00:34:27] And that's and that would also bring into question like is it paint if it's red because it could be blood, but it's not said. And then to like is the V truly splashed on the mask because when I think of the word splashed with paint.

[00:34:46] I think of it as either you're peppered with it in like a light amount of splashing like like peppering of paint.

[00:34:53] So like that just has both flashes all over or it's like someone threw a balloon filled with paint on the mask and near those translate very well into a V shape. That's true.

[00:35:05] Now, if this was actually splashed with blood that changes everything because the V shape of blood would be like splashes and blood sprays from him chainsawing into a victim.

[00:35:18] And there's just like the Fountains coming up hitting them on either side of the the blade of the chainsaw hits him in the face and creates a V. Perfect sense. But like later on, it's straight up says it's painted on when you meet the other guy.

[00:35:35] So it is paint. So I gave up on the blood version then but still that I'm like what color is it because like I'm too color focused is what I've realized. I realize a little while ago. But it's true.

[00:35:49] Like if we're trying to visualize this world, I want to know it only takes a second to say what color it is.

[00:35:55] Yeah, but because we don't have that I'm assuming they're white paint from this point just because it's the blandest color and everyone's got white paint laying around. So I think I visualize black paint. So it's also a neutral color that everyone has. Yeah.

[00:36:13] Although that doesn't pop very well against like burlap. I guess in Mike though, because yeah burlap isn't really a dark color. I don't know why I'm going so deep into this. We should probably move on. All right.

[00:36:32] All right, so my next one that is a little critically silly. So sweat was pouring down my face and I tried to listen for any movement coming my way as I wiped it with my sleeves. So he's wiping the movement with his sleeve.

[00:36:56] You were going to say that maybe he is. Yeah, he's like casting some spell with his sleeve this movement over there so I'm going to cast on movement with his with his with his sleeve because he's a wizard after all.

[00:37:17] If you can call it the cultist of the wizard. Yes. And that's the end of my entry to grammar inquisitions. Okay. I'm beginning to worry if I accidentally put some grammar inquisitions and my actual thoughts because I'm not getting a lot here.

[00:37:41] Maybe you put some actual thoughts, I think I put some actual thoughts in my grammar on this one. We've got a real like recent pieces into everything going on here. Anyway, moving on. Yes. Yes.

[00:38:03] So by the time I looked back, I couldn't see any sign of the glowing themes. So I started to slow down and eventually crashed next to a large oak by the trail side.

[00:38:14] I shuffled behind it out of view just in case the lighting was still gloomy and dusk.

[00:38:21] Start was still gloomy dusk, but I tried my best to quietly start controlling my heavy ragged breath sweat was pouring down my face as I tried to listen for any movement coming my way as I wiped it with my sleeve.

[00:38:35] All I could hear around me were more soft muffled murmurs from the trees. Leaning close to this oak, I realized I can make it part of the conversation.

[00:38:47] I may have taken a little bit too much of a quote there but regardless, I brought this up because I feel like this paragraph needs a break. Partly because this paragraph is massive and partly because the scene has changed.

[00:39:05] Like through this paragraph he escapes his captors, takes a break and then starts listening to the trees. So like I feel a good place to put the break is right at leading close to this oak.

[00:39:16] I realized that I can make it part of the conversation because at that point he's fully relaxed not being chased. Oh, I'm doing something else now because I'm doing something else now new paragraph. Yes.

[00:39:29] But of course this is all like I should have said this from the get go.

[00:39:35] We have to preface all of this grammar shit by saying this is a journal by a man who is running on questionable levels of insanity and then he got lost in the liminal space. So he's even worse than normal.

[00:39:48] But joking aside, like I can't really push too hard on a journal format for grammar due to people not writing perfectly, like grammatically perfect all the time. Yeah, but I will bring up all these issues I found regardless. Yes.

[00:40:04] Because that's what I'm getting quote unquote paid to do. And just one thing, since you brought up the quote. By the time I look back, I couldn't see any sign of the glowing fiends. So only one of them is glowing.

[00:40:25] The second one that shows up there's no mention that he glows. It's an assumed glow. I think yeah. But I mean, it's great that we find out he's glowing after he's no longer there. But we found out that he's glowing when he described him. Not the bee.

[00:40:48] Yeah, but you got to think about that. Okay. He's in a video game. Okay. A video game dev is going to make a single character and throw multiple of them at you with slight reskins. That's the way I saw it.

[00:41:03] So they are for all intents and purposes, the same guy with a different letter on his. Tall, lanky, lumberjack guys, one as an axe, one of the chainsaw, and they have different letters. That's the way I saw it personally.

[00:41:19] I might be wrong, but it does also say like plural glowing fiends. So I think I'm right. Yeah. Yeah. But it would be nice if he mentions the glow earlier because before he mentions the glow while he's in the cabin for the V guy.

[00:41:42] But how do we know that you can see the glow when you're outside and the perpetual dusk? That's true. That's very true because that could, it didn't come up, but that could have came up as an important thing.

[00:41:56] Like when they're in light, they shine, but in the darkness like, oh, okay, I can see him. I would be able to see him if he's here because he glows. Meanwhile, he's like right behind him. He's like, he's right behind me, isn't he?

[00:42:07] And then he gets attacked because it's a reflective thing from light. Like that's, that would be the explanation there. So yeah, you're 100% right on exit.

[00:42:19] On exit from the cabin and on description of the second guy, it would be like there's another tall, uh, lanky man there with an axe glowing the same as his friend that I just gave that kind of thing. Yeah, I'd be fine with that. Okay.

[00:42:39] But I shall move on. Okay. So my next one here is when he's sitting there listening to us on a recording that has not happened yet. And here's this, or this is what he wrote rather.

[00:42:55] That's when on the recording, there was a knock at someone's door, mined by the sounds of my recorded self's confusion. When I went to check headset unmuted, there was a loud crash. This was followed by screaming, panic shouts, what sounded like fighting and then static.

[00:43:13] I listened to that static for a prolonged period and then I decided I didn't want to stick around that tree any longer. And then he moves on talking about other stuff. Gets up a minute.

[00:43:25] So I'd like to think that Mikey and I would also be sounding concerned at this happening. Like, maybe running over to Caltus house to find his body. And then we'd see what the problem is.

[00:43:37] Well, I have an actual thought on this, but it really comes down to the tangent police. You think so? Yeah, they've been known to knock on doors. This is true. So this time the tangent police finally got cultist. Yeah. I guess we just knew who it was.

[00:44:00] It's like, well, I'm not going to go over there and get arrested by the tangent police. I go on tangents all the time. I can't go back into tangent jail. I'm never going back. Bitch, all joking aside, do we really not say anything on the recording there?

[00:44:19] Caltus, seriously? Come on. We would have at least seemed concerned ourselves because it seems like for a recording that is, for an instance where he's hearing multiple of our voices, we are oddly silent. Not that we need quotes. Just mention that we're there more, you know? That's all.

[00:44:40] And then I move on. This next part is when he's getting up from the tree and he sees that there's a new cabin there and he goes to investigate it. It appeared to be a short old light post, near a building now on the side of the path.

[00:44:59] Another cabin looking structure, I think. Regardless, I said that way because that's how I read it. This is why dashes are important for descriptors, as in this personally, I think should be cabin-looking. Otherwise, it sounds like it's a cabin that's built for the purpose of looking.

[00:45:19] Because that's how I read it first. It's a cabin-looking structure. Or the cabin is looking at cultists. Maybe. Regardless, a dash would clarify it a lot. Yes. In my opinion. And then my last one for entry two.

[00:45:37] The interior was a cross between a modern gas station store with fluorescent bulbs, bathing everything in a soft, humming light and an old, timey trading post with the rustic decorum and antiquated yet new-looking goods. So that's all one sentence. Pretty long.

[00:45:56] I feel like it needs a comma to break it up. Right when it switches between the two types of things that's light. So it'd be like everything in a soft, humming light and an old, timey trading post, comma with the rustic decorum and antiquated yet new-looking goods.

[00:46:15] Because he's describing it as two separate things but a little slight break with a comma in between would make it flow better, in my opinion. That's fair. And now we're on to entry three, the final entry. Alright. Looks like I got some more for this one. Okay. Alright.

[00:46:39] I have a lot less for this one on Lin. After I left the reverend's goods, I started hiking along the path away from where I had walked and ran previously. So I feel like there needs to be a comma between path and away.

[00:47:00] So it reads, after I left the reverend's goods, I started hiking along the path away from where I had walked and ran previously. Yeah. I'll basically probably agree with you on most sentences where you're adding a comma in just

[00:47:19] because it's nice to have little breaks and make sure to parse everything out properly. Yeah. Alright. The next one here. As I got closer, I saw the form of a person crumpled out on the bloody ground. And to me, crumpled out doesn't sound right? Yeah.

[00:47:49] Shouldn't it be crumpled up? Yeah, because it's like crumpled up or splayed out. Yeah. It sounds like you're going outwards with the body, right? Yeah. Which wouldn't be crumpled. No, it would. So yeah, you're right. Alright.

[00:48:10] And my next one here is something I had come to notice in my travels here. There were no stones or boulders on the ground. So my issue with that is here and then there, right after, sounds weird.

[00:48:33] So I rewrote it as something I had come to notice in my travels here was that there were no stones or boulders on the ground. Yeah, that does look a lot better. Because the way it is, it almost sounds like it's meant to have an ellipsis in between.

[00:48:53] Not that we need more of those, right? Alright. And the next one here seems a bit run on. I crouched down beside them after looking back and then behind the body for any moment and didn't like what I found.

[00:49:21] So the reason why I say it's a run on is because it has and twice. Yeah. Usually you just want to try to do one, right? Yep. So I didn't actually make a correction for how I would rewrite it.

[00:49:39] The last and you could just say I didn't like what I found. That's true. Yeah. That when having to spread it on his own sentence. Pardon? So we want to, we've want to break that out. So have the sentence ends with any movement period.

[00:50:01] I didn't like what I found or would it be a ellipsis? I didn't like what I found. Not ellipsis. You want to add? Yeah. Semi-colon. Oh yeah, you could semi-colon as both. Yeah. I mean this is so many semi-colons.

[00:50:20] I just leave it as a comma and say I didn't like what I found. Okay. Well my main comment is a bit run on so. Oh so you're wanting to shorten it? Yeah. Yeah. Then you have to period out having a short little sentence for like the drama.

[00:50:45] All right. So the next quote here. I didn't even bother trying to lift and see their face. The smell of blood and brains was gradually starting to set in over me. Set in over me sounds weird. It does. I don't know why I didn't pick up on that.

[00:51:14] Yeah so I just changed it to was gradually starting to affect me. So. Or just set in. Or just set in and get rid of the over me. Yeah. Or wash over me or something like that. Yeah wash over me. Yeah.

[00:51:35] So it's a combination of like things you would say in this situation but the combination used isn't really right. Yeah. But as like with all of this, it could be the way to call this rights or thinks or talks. And all of the journal.

[00:51:57] It's so true but we've got a job to do. We do. You cannot escape. All right. It's the next one I have here. When his eyes lit up red like a goddamn sleep paralysis demon is when I broke from my own frozen state.

[00:52:23] So for this I added commas. So when his eyes lit up red like a goddamn sleep paralysis demon is when I broke from my own frozen state. Yeah that seems to flow better. Yeah. Yeah I struggled on that one too but I didn't really know how to

[00:52:47] rewrite it. So yeah that's good. All right the next one I have is I work my head on the ceiling twice when I got to the low section. So I put a comma between twice and when.

[00:53:04] So I work my head on the ceiling twice when I got to the low section. I don't know. It seemed okay to me. It's the same way that you could reverse it and say when I got to the low section I whack my head twice on it.

[00:53:19] That doesn't seem like it needs a comma. So it wouldn't really necessarily need to come any other way. I think it could take or leave this one. It doesn't hurt it with a comma. Yeah okay the next one I have here.

[00:53:35] As I felt the throbbing pain on my scalp I hopped I hoped that the tall bastard behind me would have more trouble but I didn't hold my breath on that. Honestly to me it doesn't need the on that. So just be like I didn't hold my breath.

[00:53:59] Yeah but I didn't hold my breath. Done. Yeah. Okay the next one here. He quietly wielded a wood axe and with a sack over his head. So the width sounds weird. So I changed that to had.

[00:54:26] So he quietly wielded a wood axe and had a sack over his head. Yeah because otherwise it sounds like he's also wielding the sack over his head as a weapon as well. Yes. Yeah. Okay. And also I feel like there needs to be a bit of

[00:54:51] clarification here because when I think wood axe I think of the wooden axe in Minecraft so that to me made this hilarious but it's easy enough to clarify by saying it was a woodcutter axe. It's not a wooden axe. It's a wood axe.

[00:55:17] I think you've been critically silly with this one. I think you would do that. That's fine. I'm not going to say your brain is wrong but it is a little critically silly. Yeah, yes. Also I would like to point out that axe in this story is

[00:55:36] spelled the American way and it should be the Canadian way which is AXE not AX. Oh really? He does both though. No sorry that's pickaxe where the other one shows up. Yeah pickaxe is the one where I get annoyed because choose one with an E or without. Yeah.

[00:56:01] Because he says pickaxe twice and one time is without the E and one is with the E so I just got annoyed. Fair. Alright now the next one here is definitely a nitpick but it's a hill that I will die on. Good.

[00:56:30] So the quote is maybe I'd buy a sausage farmer's wrap with a coffee or fuck it two farmer's wraps. The number two in my mind should be written out as T.W.O. Why? Because it's written down.

[00:56:53] Yeah but I could write down the number two all I want. Yeah. If this was die along 100% you're right I think because you would like when you're saying numbers you'd be saying them in the way that you spell out the number you wouldn't be just

[00:57:10] writing down the number in your dialogue. But yeah it's journal. It's kind of a cheat code. Okay. Yeah. Well I mean to me it's just lazy writing. Oh really? Yeah. I don't know if he's lazy he's running around all over the place writing this shit down for us.

[00:57:39] You've seen this guy sprinting everywhere. Alright. You can down that hill I will battle you on that hill for a little while and then give up. That's what's going to happen. Okay. Alright so that's the end of my entry three. Okay I only got a few this time.

[00:58:08] So these are two paragraphs that I feel should honestly just be clicked together because they're very tiny. Okay. And they're talking about the same thing. The other side of the stream had more hills and slopes than where I had previously been walking.

[00:58:25] When the trail began to climb up I began to pant from the extended climb and started seeing the signs. Then there's a paragraph break. The signs were nailed to wood posts along the trail only partially obscured by brush and read the following

[00:58:39] pods and casters co mine work available inquire with the foreman warning watch it for Nits pick and then it goes on to another pair. So I just think those two should be clicked together as I said before. Yeah yeah.

[00:58:58] And I feel I need to bring up a actual thought here. Uh huh. That's I'm very disappointed that there is no Nits pick nook. Yeah honestly yeah I was expecting it and I forgot that it didn't happen so now I'm sad that it didn't happen.

[00:59:21] We can do initial recommendations. Well I'm going to change my final recommendation now. Ah crap. Uh well do I do? We'll just do fine. Well it's fine it's too late. Okay okay. Way too late. Yeah maybe he came out of a nook.

[00:59:42] Maybe the the nitpick nook is like the hole in the back of the freaking Nair's head. That's a nook right? I don't know. Well because I hear that the nitpick nook is very comfy. It has a comfy couch and everything.

[01:00:02] Yeah it'd be cool if like nit was like hanging out in a little nook in the mine on like a comfy couch or a chair or something and then he spots cultists. Yeah. And then he has to get out of the nitpick nook. Out of Nits pick nook.

[01:00:20] Which would mean that it would be a nook that has a whole bunch of different picks in there from all the different miners that he's murdered. That would be cool too. Yeah so it'd be Nits pick nook. Wow I'm a genius. We can't exactly create what happened previously

[01:00:50] what actually happened to cultists in this liminal space. He's just recording what happened. That's true. Yes. Put on to me to wrap up Grammar? Yep. Okay. Oh sorry I already did my first one, never mind. Moving on to my second one to continue wrapping up Grammar. Yes.

[01:01:11] Up ahead was a sign on the tunnel wall which said Foreman's office and an arrow pointing forward. I began to slow. That hum from the stones and the other unpleasant hollow earth sounds were all around me.

[01:01:25] So for me, when I read this, the I began to slow bit was like I felt like it's an odd thing to say. Yeah. It took me a few reads to actually get what he meant and I think he meant I started to slow down to a more

[01:01:44] paranoid pace. That kind of thing, right? Because he's saying like it's getting weird here so I'm going to slow down and be more careful. Yeah. I had that sort of thing too where it's like he's already going slow.

[01:02:05] So him saying that he began to slow or what was the quote? Yeah, it began to slow. You're right. Yeah. So he's already going slow so why is he beginning to slow? It's like the darkening darkness of the dark forest getting darker. Yes.

[01:02:30] If it said I slow to a crawl or something like that or specifically said I like slowed down even more because I'm getting paranoid the further and I'm going or something like that. Yes. There's something more to get us in the headspace of them, you know? Mm-hmm.

[01:02:52] And then my last and final grammar in yellow. I could hear both soft and heavy footfalls coming from above me so aching all over I got up and continued downhill. So for me this is just another he needs a little comma in my opinion where it would be.

[01:03:12] I could hear both soft and heavy footfalls coming from above me so aching all over I got up and continued downhill instead of so aching all over I got up and continued downhill. Yes. Okay. I agree. We did it. We got this word with a grammar. Yes.

[01:03:31] We are in our interest recording. That's also a run down. That's a surprise. Yeah, surprise. I have another part of grammar which is the conjunction junction. You do? I know, right? I figured you would have hardened him against this or like there's no way I'm starting any of

[01:03:54] this shit with its ends or buts because I know for a fact there's always better words to use. Mm-hmm. But ooh. And now a conjunction junction with Mikey, the E stands for evil. Take it away. But I digress. Let's start at the beginning.

[01:04:17] So you can imagine my excitement when I was hiking in my local forest and found a plastic bag. It just stays a perpetual twilight. It sounded like they were talking about some movie, like they were reviewing it. And there were others talking but it wasn't

[01:04:33] people, it was trees or rather logs. It tasted fresh and fine and I was getting hungry. Toe hosts and I on discussing a story at the conversation. It was a light that wasn't there before. It appeared to be a short old light post

[01:04:56] near a building now on the side of the path. It had this melodic drawl similar to a friend of mine. So I sat down and checked the satchel where I found the thermos, candles, and the notepad I find myself. It sounded like he had started fidgeting

[01:05:13] with the radio back there. So I guess my next stop is a mine to get money units so I can find out how to get out of here. It gave off a hum when I touched it. It's an in-joke from my podcast which apparently is a thing here.

[01:05:29] It was actually the repetitive click clacking sound coming from beneath the cloth covering that gave me an indication of danger. So that's my next step, follow a stream off path till I find a set of old rail tracks and follow them home. Or who the hell knows?

[01:05:44] Maybe the tracks will pop up right inside my house and I can just call it a day. A really weird, painful day. Wow. So at the start of that, he was talking about the bag immediately and then it's talking about how it almost sounded like the bag was

[01:06:05] like if you look through the bag it's perpetually dusk even if it's like daytime out but you look through the bag it's like dusk behind it. For some reason it's like a filter over reality. And like the people on the recording it was eventually revealed that

[01:06:23] it is us from our podcast of that he were a mortis but we are logs but you could tell that we're logs through what we're talking about like we're log people talking like reviewing log based creepypasta or something like that. And then it cuts to a light post

[01:06:46] that has a drawl to it somehow. I don't know how a light post can have a drawl but I guess if logs can review creepypasta a light post can have a drawl that's fine. And then it gets to the in-joke between us which is like the in-joke is

[01:07:08] the metallic noise that you know there's danger or something like that like that's the in-joke. Yeah it gave off a hum when I touched it it's an in-joke. Yeah that's it. That's going to be an in-joke from now on you realize that. Yes. It's gonna have to be.

[01:07:29] So wow get some gold out of that one. Mm-hmm. And that's what happens when Mikey reads a bunch of I mean I already said this but this is what happens when Mikey reads a bunch of sentences that start with the words

[01:07:43] that they probably shouldn't like it sends her butts so there's always better words to use. Mm-hmm. And sometimes when you read them in order hilarity ensues. Like the progenitor of this when you read it was coming at us at full force it was a squirrel.

[01:08:02] That was such gold when you first read that. Way back when in the long long ago. Yes. Memories. Yes. I suppose we should what we're supposed to bring up that cultist is missing the 10th anniversary. Right this is the 10th anniversary isn't it? Yeah.

[01:08:32] Why did he choose to get captured into a liberal space on our anniversary? Did he forget our anniversary? How dare he? I totally didn't forget our anniversary. Did you? No, you didn't. But he totally did because he's not here. He should have known and prepared to get captured

[01:08:52] either before or after our anniversary. I'm deeply offended. Yeah. So guys it's it's been fucking 10 years since we started El Dente Rican Mortis. How do you guys think about that? That we've been doing this for 10 fucking years. I've been saying. Alright. Onwards to actual thoughts. I suppose so.

[01:09:16] Alright. So my first quote here so this is where sort of all the creepiness sort of fell to the wayside because the character is so happy to be in this creepy scenario that why should I, the reader, be scared when the character's having the time of his life?

[01:09:52] Yeah. You've got the same sort of thing that happens to me all the time because I brought that up multiple times. If the character's not scared, why the hell should I be? Yeah. But you also know this character and he's quite a character, this character. Yes.

[01:10:10] And he like, this is truth, like in written form for sure because he absolutely would do this regardless of how fucked up the scenario is he would react the same. Whether normal human beings beside him would act the same way they would not but

[01:10:30] he would definitely would be excited. He would be excited, terrified and a little turned on probably. Oh. Alright. And then something that I have in my notes here is that personally I don't think I've heard what you're supposed to say. Test, test, test tickles.

[01:11:03] No, that might be an in-joke like the soft humming that you feel when you touch it. Oh yeah. An in-joke on One Less Die. Yeah, for sure. Because it's something that most Link Captain Selenim does when we start the recording because we have

[01:11:21] on One Less Die or sister podcast where we do D&D games or tabletop games, not specifically D&D but on One Less Die. We have a physical mic and we start the recording and you can see the levels move when people talk.

[01:11:35] So we need people to say words to see if they're picked up from their seated position and often as people just saying hello, hi, painus, whatever they want to say. But often Captain Selenim he does his testing, testing, testicles pretty much every time. So that's where that's from.

[01:11:55] So that's just I didn't get the in-joke because apparently I'm not in. Yes. And technically most people reading this would not get it either unless they also watch their sister podcast. But even then, that part usually gets cut out. So I think that's just for us. Because

[01:12:15] I don't think he keeps the testicles in there. I'm pretty sure he chops them off. That sounds weird. You know what I'm saying. Yeah. Anyway, onto my next table. Okay. Please do it. Save me for myself. Probably should have no grainy speaker

[01:12:44] but it was saying stuff I had never said or call saying at the time. So my note here is that there is such a thing as voice doppelgangers people that have the same sounding voice on recording. So it basically might not be him that was who was hearing.

[01:13:07] But what are the odds that three people are doing a podcast or doing creepyposses that sound like each of us individually? It's not out of the realm of possibility. Really? We're pretty niche, man. Yeah. It is pretty niche. It is a very slim chance. Okay. I suppose. Alright.

[01:13:33] I had to do some of my next actual thought here. The jump and the sudden change in my surrounding. At which point I just envision culture standing straight up and then going blah. That was forward. Yeah. Not unlike what happened, although he fell backwards I believe. Yeah.

[01:14:04] But still like basically straight up and then straight over. Yes. Knocked right on his ass. Alright. So the next actual thought is quote Now I get that this is a reference to the call was coming from inside the house. Yeah. But in this story it's just audio recorders.

[01:14:42] There is no phone thus there is no call. I but you gotta appreciate though. Yes, man. You're not wrong but damn you. No, it's not a call but like yeah. Cultist is completely saturated with internet content. So at any point some of that saturation could drip off

[01:15:12] into his writings or his real life or anything like that. And that's exactly what happened here. Yeah. But you are not wrong. I'm not wrong in the slightest. Yeah. So my note here is for me this line just fell flat like the cultist did earlier. Oh.

[01:15:40] Also upon looking up that quote because like I didn't remember where it was from I thought it was from a newer movie it's a movie from 1979 apparently. Oh yeah. I mean when a stranger called. Oh. I thought it was from like panic room or something.

[01:15:58] Nope, apparently it's from a 1979 movie called when a stranger calls. Yeah. Made popular by panic room. Probably. Like I've heard this reference so many times I felt like it was in a newer movie but probably because of that exact reason. Unless Google lied to me.

[01:16:16] And when has Google ever done that? That's true. Anyway. So my next actual thought actually have two thoughts on it. Okay. Number one is well I'll start with a quote. Really Alice wake up. So I'm not sure if you can see what's going on here. So to me

[01:16:52] I was thinking because I hadn't gotten through much of the story at this point that review cultist was actually turning into the podcast because it's not just al dente podcasts that are coming from these trees it's people reviewing movies and such. So It's not though. Are you sure?

[01:17:18] No. Because we both furiously flipped through the notebook. Where does it say that? Movie. Alright. I slowed down. Yes, but we have reviewed movies before on our Patreon that you guys could subscribe to if you want to help us comment on here.

[01:17:51] We've occasionally done some content over there. Yeah. But the fact that we don't do movies often made me think that there was more more like podcasts coming from the trees not just al dente podcasts. Yes, you're not wrong. And I did question that myself.

[01:18:21] I was curious if this was all ADR related or if this is just the podscape. You know? Ow! You okay? Ow! I just remembered the Alice movie. Ow! Make it stop. What do you mean? The MS Paint Wonderland. Oh God. There it is. Thanks Colton.

[01:19:06] And by extension, thanks Mikey. Okay. Well, that hurt more than it should have. Didn't like that information being forced back into your memory? Yeah. For me, when I read this and I heard him say come on Alice, wake up.

[01:19:32] The first thing I thought of, we got a name drop finally for Cultist. Yeah. For 10 years. That was also the second thought that I have here. Oh, we finally got Cultist Real Day. Indeed. Named Alice now, is that what we got? Yup.

[01:19:52] Was the Penguin the last theory we had? It's been a long time. It has been a long time. Good times. Tremendous for 10 years of the podcast. Yeah. It really should be. Yeah, it's just been a wild ride and like I didn't when I started this there were

[01:20:14] just like creepypastas being read online. There were no stories, but I wanted a podcast that I wanted to listen to a podcast where people actually like looked at the story and talked about the contents. But at least he's here in spirit with his maybe his last

[01:20:32] words, I don't know. Yeah. Alright. So my last actual thought for NG1 here, I have the quote just figured it out. And my thought here is classic. I know what's going to happen. They're going to end up having a tea party. This is Alice we're talking about, right?

[01:21:05] That's true. How did I not see that? Hahaha. Shhh. Shhh. Ahhhh. Ahhhh. Alright. So you can continue with your entry one actual thoughts while I sit here and recover from the whole MS Paint Alice remembering. Yeah. You should probably stop bringing up MS Paint Alice

[01:21:39] if you want to forget about MS Paint Alice. Yeah, yeah. That's a thing. Yeah, okay. So I won't bring up MS Paint Alice any more while I continue on my notes, okay? Okay. Alright, cool. Hang on. Pretty early on he says I always said wish granted.

[01:22:03] You're giving up a real quick on your chances for survival here. This is paragraph one. Don't count yourself too short, Coltas. If anyone could survive a liminal space nightmare, it would be you. That being said, you're not here right now, so I don't know how accurate

[01:22:23] that might be. That being said, the very next line and the start of the next paragraph he says like he doesn't think he's going to die there, so array? He faulted for a second. Yeah. He don't think. That's true. That's true. But I'll move on.

[01:22:49] Have that in these sorts of circumstance I couldn't find my phone. And now we have gotten into the true horror being somewhere without your phone in this day and age. Oh, the humanity. No. No, no. The true horror is where was phone? My god! Where was phone?

[01:23:27] How did I not see that? I'm shocked and disappointed myself. Wow. Okay, I'm going to change my recommendations on this story again real quick. Okay, go. Moving on. And the next quote is I must have walked for several hours with no sign of a train

[01:23:53] except for the muffled murmurings and the phantom footsteps. So when I read this it brought a question to mind. Can you see the sky like the sun? Because that would be a good way to tell the passing of time. Like earlier it was said that you wanted

[01:24:12] to find shelter before it got dark but this is apparently three plus hours later of walking with no sign of time of day changing but before it mentioned that it's locked to a dusk. Yeah. Are you just bringing up the fact that needs to be brought up

[01:24:30] sooner that it's dusk and that it's not changing? Yeah, because yeah, this early on I did not know it was permanent dusk. But at this point it did bring a question to mind is the time of day paused here. And I wrote down here perhaps this should

[01:24:50] be brought up earlier making this somewhat of a grammar point maybe but I'll move on. And then my last one for entry one I've barricaded the door with some of the chairs but at this rate which I've heard again twice now outside.

[01:25:17] So when I read this I'm like chairs were an interesting choice to barricade the door. Like I would have put something heavier there like push the couch over there. Like maybe you didn't want to do that because that's pretty sleeping but like

[01:25:33] the chairs aren't going to hurt much. Yeah. Or you know the desk? Yeah, but he's writing on the desk. Well yeah, that's true. But like what's to say you can't write on the desk while it's being barricaded there right? Yeah.

[01:25:49] And same thing with the couch. Like what's to say he can't sleep on the couch while the couch is being a barricade? Well, I think the issue here is that he didn't want to write himself in the corner where the barricade was too good

[01:26:09] and he had barricaded himself into this cabin. So he ended up dying type of thing because of the chainsaw man. What do you mean write himself? This is what actually happened to him. Yeah. But okay so he didn't want to fully barricade the door

[01:26:31] he just wanted to make it an annoyance so that when chainsaw man arrived and cut down the door he wouldn't have blocked himself in. I see. Yeah, that's fair. So he's basically using it as an alarm? Yes. Okay. That's passable. But yeah, that's the end of

[01:26:57] my entry one note. So on to entry two. Correct. Alright. So the next note looks like a grammar and position. I mean I've done like three grammars in my notes and five notes in my grammars so it's like one minute. Alright. So... His exposed skin.

[01:27:27] And like a pale green what? The glow. The pale green. Yeah. But it's glowing with a pale green is what it says. So I feel like it should be potentially glowing a faint pale green. Or a bright pale or a great bright pale green or whatever

[01:27:58] because we don't know how. Not with the pale green like it's the width that I think is Oh yeah, because messing with me. Yeah, it does sound better without it. You're right. Weird. But you're right. Mm-hmm. Alright. So this next actual thought here is the desk. Yeah.

[01:28:34] So in entry one we get insides. That's the only description we get at that point for the desk. So to me this was an old school mahogany largest desk with drawers that is relatively heavy. Yes. In entry two mm-hmm. We get this quote I know where you're going.

[01:29:24] I was able to cure. I know what you're trying to get at. He couldn't possibly bulk over the desk. No, I know your neck. Go there. Please continue. So this is where my theater of the mind exploded. Oh no. And I was like does the desk have wheels?

[01:29:46] No, that's not rustic. Uh, so in order to sort of make sense of what just happened I basically assumed that review cultist has superhuman kicking abilities and is actually the real monster of this creepypasta. My god. He might be. You saw how long he could run

[01:30:16] forever while taking tumbles. He is not human. Well, we are in his double studies of penguin named Alice but still What a revelation. For me honestly when I read this I kind of had a problem with it too but I let it slide.

[01:30:38] I didn't make a note of it because the way that I thought of it is it's not that he's like across the room and the dude kicks down the door and he's like sup. And he just like Spartan kicks it and the thing goes flying

[01:30:52] towards him with anime lines all around it. That's not how I saw it. I saw it like he's behind the desk the things coming towards him he waits until the thing is like directly in front of the desk and then he just kicks it to make it move

[01:31:06] like half a foot enough that that thing hits him in the shins and stumbles him and then he runs past him. But it doesn't say that he waits and baits him. That sounds weird but regardless it doesn't sound like he's setting up a trap

[01:31:22] to do that. He just says he kicks it and there's no distance traveled or nothing. So my theater of the mind fixed it but there's nothing there that says that that is exactly what happened so who knows maybe it's mine, maybe it's yours maybe it's somewhere between

[01:31:40] maybe it's Maybelline, I don't know Alright Anyway, I had to we've already talked about the tangent police so my next thought here which my answer is they mind dogs that's what they mind here because this is dog scape I thought I thought it was pod scape earlier

[01:32:30] Yeah, but this is when dream scape was mentioned and I got triggered for dog scape So yeah So there's just dogs that are like in the walls fully alive just waiting to be mined out Yup Okay That's a choice It's like this weird tech landscape

[01:32:58] So this is all like a weird tech thing So maybe dog scape happened and then to contain dog scape they basically draped dog scape in this tech landscape as a prison to the dog scape so it's wrapped around the entirety of this dimension of dog scape

[01:33:18] in this like tech organic stuff to keep it contained Surprisingly plausible Yeah, surprisingly weird how that works And that's my that's the end of my notes for entry two Also that other part you mentioned there he said he'd like he looked to the door

[01:33:44] like it was ominous and whatever the hell When I first read that I thought he was looking ominously at the door not that the door itself was ominous Oh yeah, yeah Yup I can see that Yeah That's a grammar inquisition isn't it Yeah, well

[01:34:08] what have we been doing the whole time We almost should have just read everything like here's everything on entry one now everything on entry two because we're mixing and matching it's fine because you know what you never suspect the grammar inquisition even in the notes you never expect

[01:34:28] it So we're just and that's just how it is, you know you can't help it but I'll move on so this is during the chainsaw guy attack okay Oh yeah, actually this is about the kick of the desk and all that into his knees

[01:34:49] but I made a note on this not because of potential superhuman strength but as a revelation to how tall he meant when he said tall to the fact that the guys knees are above desk height So how big is this cabin then and how big is his chainsaw

[01:35:13] Oh yeah, does he have like a normal size chainsaw and it looks tiny yep that's kind of adorable hahaha hahaha hahaha he's kind of a little less threatening if he has a tiny huge likey dude yep I don't know how high

[01:35:35] your knees would be if you were like Andre the giant like an actual human giant or realistic human giant if your knees would be above the table height I imagine they might though I don't know um depends on the table like was actually are you sure

[01:35:59] because we don't get much description on the desk it says desk it doesn't say coffee table well but it could be a kids desk yeah I guess they would even make rustic kid desks yeah which also gives a kind of hilarious visual of

[01:36:23] review cultists sitting there in his robes like just writing at this tiny little kitty desk yep and it makes more realistic that he kicked it into his shins yep that he kicked it and that it hit him in his shins mm-hmm interesting well if we ever

[01:36:43] um find cultist maybe we'll ask him when actually I'm actually curious now I hope we find him for this reason no other reason though at all but I'll move on and this next quote that's where I saw the other guy same outfit but this one had a bit

[01:37:12] so I read that and then I was like hmm so we have the chainsaw guy the B-AX guy and they're both vloggers so is this vlogger and blogger uhhhh I wonder if that was a digital art I don't know yeah it has to be intentional right yep

[01:37:44] absolutely has to be if he says it is and it actually isn't and he's lying to himself I will laugh but I feel like it has to be yeah yeah that that that makes too much sense did I ruin it? is this a thanks I hate it situation

[01:38:02] uhhhh well no it helps because I didn't know why they had the V or the B yeah there was no real reference to it yeah and then I mean technically we should see the B guy show up again cause I mean there's just a guy with an X

[01:38:22] but it doesn't say he has a B later on well I think it's assumed that's the same guy but we don't get the description of the B that would make it clearly obvious yeah because we don't get the description I assumed it was a third guy

[01:38:41] with an X it's possible there might be more but yeah it would be nice if it said the B sack showed up with his X if B sack here is here I'm sure V right around the corner yeah anyway I'll move on

[01:39:10] this is in regards to the building that showed up after he took his nap and to that I'm like people don't have to be home with the power on for the bell to work but like I get it you know well it's also a thing like

[01:39:53] it's day and age you don't necessarily have a brass bell that notifies people of customers normally it's just a ding dong or a doodoo or something that some sort of jingle that plays not an actual bell yes sorry it was taken back by how rustic it was

[01:40:23] there we go it almost seemed like he was taken back by the fact it was there maybe it's because on the outside it was a cabin so there'd be no reason for there to be a bell there if it was a cabin that just someone lives in

[01:40:39] meanwhile the inside is a store so that's why there's a bell so I think that's why there's actually the jump scare there so I guess that's fine now that I've actually thought that out that actually makes a lot more sense so

[01:40:55] I'll strike that from the record but leave it on the record moving on inside the store as I were nuts the lights waved out that sun so to that I'm like wait son are these your dad's corn nuts I say that because cultists often references

[01:41:19] these aren't your dad's corn nuts in regards to like I don't even know where the hell he got that from honestly I think it's from a someone else's let's play long play okay so another podcast I believe okay so you had another in-joke that I didn't get

[01:41:45] yeah probably he's probably said it all on al dente at some point and I don't think so okay fine I believe it is a in-joke to another podcast that I believe one that I cannot give credit to because I don't know well I personally thought it was more

[01:42:07] along the lines of boy but with son war from was it dad of war god of dad no I'm talking about the what phantasm or something movie yes oh okay yeah there was a lot of boy happening in god of war though as well yes that is true

[01:42:41] and I'm currently adding these ain't your dad's corn nuts to my google search history you're you're now on a list somewhere I guess weird these ain't your dad's corn nuts doesn't show up alright I don't know where the hell it's from

[01:43:01] it's from a thing if we ever find cultist I'm sure he'll tell me just because he said son specifically so close to corn nuts I feel like this is not this has to be intentional I don't know what kind of liminal space that cultists fell into

[01:43:25] but it is definitely his own mind that he fell into because all of this screams cultist while I'm sure cultist is screaming in there as cultist so if this is cultists mind and it's all electronics does that mean that he's a robot maybe

[01:43:51] wasn't established I was a robot at some point beep boop possible possibly so now he's a a possibly robotic penguin named Alice so a cyborg perhaps maybe yeah and it all makes sense because there's a section in his brain for dogs which explains the mining of dogs

[01:44:17] sure why not I'll take it but I'll move on anyways it goes on to reference the the pods and casters company which as soon as I read that I'm like I see what you do in there it's like podcasters you know yeah but as a guy

[01:44:39] who loves dad puns I am super proud of cultists how how fucked up his mind has become because of me you're welcome yeah but I shall move on but maybe I won't what so the it's not necessarily about podcasters because it's pods and casters so it's wizards and

[01:45:10] what tripod not pod people oh pod people yeah yeah it's pod people that become casters ah okay duh casters from the stuff that they mine out of the mines which are dogs oh the dogs game so pod people are mining dog from the dog scape

[01:45:36] to be to get magic powers because dogs are magical and no one will disagree with me on that part true but I shall move on this one's just regarding the owner of the shop I like the visual of him

[01:45:52] of how he's basically just a shadow wearing a suit yeah and I don't know if the suit is like fitting for a general store clerk but it's still cool regardless like it seems a little too high class for a proprietor of a general store um well

[01:46:14] it's more a thing in like uh what is it Britain where you might have somebody who has a suit in a general store I guess yeah because like I'm not even thinking like modern day I'm trying to think like while west general store you know

[01:46:38] it's not necessarily a dude in a suit but he's also not necessarily in the wild west so what am I talking about either way the Reverend is cool moving on uh this he mentions um he says this he being the Reverend guy there was another

[01:47:14] this is a red down like Nair Harp I actually perked up even more than I already was when that was dropped and I was like I'm like that's cool as hell I'm interested to see or not see what Nair looks like and I did

[01:47:30] get to not see what Nair looks like so I'm glad that wasn't dropped mm-hmm yep and that's it for entry two and now we're on to entry three the final entry alright so this next quote's a bit harsh our next thought I should say for entry three

[01:47:55] he's not here he's probably dead it's fine twitchmars wants us finally we get to the story ouch there's been lots of stories come on yeah yeah he's a joke he's a yoke alright so alright now it is time for my theater of the mind to be

[01:48:32] destroyed once again well you actually got it you actually rebuilt it after the explosion before yes yes something I had come to notice in my travels here there were no stones or boulders on the ground instead so basically beforehand all we have for visual for the ground

[01:49:14] is leaves covering the ground and that there was dirt because yes wash recorder was half squished in the dirt yes but now that all the stones are old technology and sort of broke part of me because shouldn't the dirt also be metallic in nature because dirt is basically

[01:49:48] crushed up rocks you sure about that well it's or poop lots and lots of poop no well oh I see when you said or I thought you meant orre wrong type of or poop so basically you have a poopy landfill of technology which again I had to recreate

[01:50:38] my theater of the mind because this has been going on since the beginning of the story is just he's just mentioning now yeah but he's not saying that the dirt is poop and or is like technological stuff he's just saying that all the rocks and stuff are

[01:51:04] yeah but if you go out into the forest there's a lot of rocks and things out and about even small stones in the forest yes but he's not necessarily in the real world so real world logic doesn't necessarily apply and it's entirely possible that in this world

[01:51:28] that he's in now it was a world that was just covered with dirt and trees grew out of the dirt and then through the years of podcasters extracting stories and stuff like that and getting lost in here and getting their shit broken in the dirt

[01:51:48] that's how all this stuff came to be all the tech laying around like cultists record are at the start breaking and being left on the ground that's the same as all of the other ones he's coming across these are all different to the back walks

[01:52:04] that's one way to look at it well it's just the description of the land like he describes that he goes up a hill yes or all these things are on the path and all this and there's no mention that there's more technology just sticking around

[01:52:38] until we get to this quote it's weird that we get to entry 3 before the ground is described that he's been walking on this whole time yeah you're not wrong that's my main issue especially since like early on

[01:52:54] he like sat down next to a tree to take his breath you don't think he ever noticed he would have noticed this when he's sitting on the ground yeah so you're right but also he's under distress being chased by vlogger and blogger that's true alright

[01:53:23] and I'll bring up this quote again because I feel like it that's a good enough reason as any I began to slow that hum from the stones earth sounds were all around me so as my quote is here at this point I didn't realize he was going fast

[01:53:44] and the last mention of movement is about crouch walking which to me means he's already moving slow have you ever seen him crouch walk he can zoom oh he can can he surprisingly yeah he can move faster crouch walk and then he can stand oh

[01:54:04] it's really a spectacle to see you should ask him to do it next time you see him he'll totally do it I swear wink alright and now it's time to be some more cruvly selling eventually I saw the light at the end of the you know

[01:54:24] and there's like the light at the end of the story no that's not a saying yeah yeah I figured it out and actually I wanted to do something really quick here and okay it's fine alright I just wanted to make sure that tunnel was mentioned

[01:55:02] because the light at the end of the tunnel is what he is going for but honestly I'm just saying I'm about to die yeah which could have actually happened yeah it's true because you got an attack right there alright so my next quote here I still ended up

[01:55:40] okay it's tied with this other quote so that his that arm was the one holding the lantern okay he could have just said that that I dropped a lantern and because in the next scene he's moving his other arm to

[01:56:17] or other hand to hold on to his arm because it hurts so he's basically freed up his hands to hold on to his arm yeah but if he did that he wouldn't have been forced to drop the lantern there and forced to not take it with him

[01:56:37] because if his arm was cut he could theoretically just like transfer it to the hurt arm and keep pressure on it if the lantern is not heavy enough to actually cause him pain and if he truly needs the lantern to see he would have tried that

[01:56:53] but because he got chopped in that arm and it caused it to fall out of his hand it forced him to lose the lantern which led to him wanting the lantern later but he doesn't have it because otherwise we wouldn't get that scene

[01:57:11] we would get a different scene where it's like I'll just throw the lantern down here and burn the bridge which is like fine if that's happened if what happened but what happened happens and that's what we got because this is a factual

[01:57:25] retelling of what actually happened to cultists in the backlaws yeah well I think my point is that when he got the gash on his arm like the shock of being getting a gash in the arm could have forced him to drop the lantern

[01:57:43] no matter what hand it was in oh I see what you're saying yeah so you're saying it's not necessary to specifically say that that was his lantern arm because it would have happened regardless yes okay fair enough and then my last actual thought is in regards to the

[01:58:11] ending that's not an ending because we get mention of echoes and you'll know them when you see them yet we never see them well yeah because we see we're getting information when cultists has time to write more in the book and based on what we have here

[01:58:40] after leaving he didn't have more time to write in the book in between him delivering the book okay this was mail to you right like it was wrapped up yeah yeah which is odd that he would have time to wrap it up and put in the mail

[01:59:00] but not have time to write into it more interesting alright and that's the end of my actual thoughts okay and I got a few to go myself so I'll go and start doing that so first one is in regards to the bridge across the

[01:59:26] the little river that he had there the nearby bridge was one of the nearby bridge was one of the I was going to criticize cultist use of those arching bridges with wooden planks as a descriptor paint because I thought that was way too vague but upon googling

[01:59:54] wooden bridge wooden arching bridge it came right up with what I assume he meant so damn it which is basically just a semi circle bridge made out of wood that probably has a railing along it that just spans a short river yeah when I first read it

[02:00:18] I thought he was talking about like a rope bridge like prepare to like prepare to meet Kali in hell seen from Indiana Jones like one of those oh yeah yeah yeah yeah well yeah I think I thought that too um just because just because later

[02:00:46] when he's wishing that he had the lantern to burn down the bridge it would be much easier to burn if it was a rope bridge yeah plus if it's one of the tiny little arching bridges that I'm thinking it is it's over a stream that isn't that's like

[02:01:06] waist deep it's like an inconvenience so like a huge monster that's knees or above a desk height just walks through it easily anyways so if it was over a huge crevasse and a rope bridge that would be better but like this vague descriptor isn't technically good enough

[02:01:26] like you can google arching bridge arching bridge arching wooden bridge and it comes up with bridges and I'm assuming it's one of those but because you and I both thought it might have been a rope bridge and he was miss speaking I don't know maybe it was

[02:01:44] mm-hmm because for me when I first read it and me being a little confused at the start with its vagueness I viewed it like saying it's like if I said I bought one of those electric cars like yeah saying that sure you get some information

[02:02:02] but can you tell me right now which electric car I bought go ahead the ones with those backup cameras no it's a 1997 T0 actually look it up but yeah that's what it felt like when I first read it because I'm like what type of bridge is this

[02:02:30] it's wood and it's a bridge and it goes in an arch that's all I know which is most bridges mm-hmm but I'll move on okay we get to near being dead looting the body getting loot and it says company

[02:02:59] and then as soon as I read that I'm like great you have enough money units for information on how to leave and get corn nuts so you just leave now without any without any hassle who is that up ahead it's never that easy no

[02:03:17] it would have been like half funny half disappointing if you just like huh 15 money in it so you just and just walks out nothing bad nothing bad yeah what I assumed was going to happen was he was going to hear something up ahead

[02:03:35] and he was going to go investigate and then I would be like no you're falling into the traditional horror movie protagonist trap of needing to investigate everything when you don't need to I thought that that's what's going to happen but no I'm not going to be falling

[02:03:57] more quote-unquote realistic happened of him immediately running away from something scary but he does do that he runs away gets outside it slapped with an axe a little bit and falls on the hill he says I just proceeded to eat dirt rolling and skidding a quarter

[02:04:15] mile of the way down the bridge is how I read it I the quarter of the way to quarter mile how long I envisioned him sliding down a hill so basically I saw that like the Ritz cracker commercial or whatever it is

[02:04:35] like the injured guy on the side of a ski slope like rolling off of his little stretcher to like go face first eating all the crackers on the way down I envisioned it as sort of the the princess bride when he falls down the hill

[02:04:55] and he's like as you wish yeah it's been so long it's been so long I'll move on to my final one this is when he's getting information from Reverend about how to leave how to leave and for that I was like I always knew it

[02:05:40] left was always right which is are you not aware of that in-joke either uh no really god damn it there's so many D&D related in-jokes you're not privy to so me and Captain Selenim are both left handed we're southpaws and we have a running joke

[02:06:02] that whenever we get to a decision where it's like you can go left to go here or go right to go there we always say left is always right and it has not doomed this yet and even in this story it's technically it's the right answer

[02:06:20] left is always right they're like double left as well very left the real question is was he given directions to left town he probably was you're right so that's probably where he is then yeah we just gotta figure out how to get the left town fuck

[02:06:46] we cracked a case we don't need no police we can find them ourselves although that's an effort we could just tell the police go to left town that's true but then they'll just say get out of here when you talk get out of my police station you're crazy

[02:07:10] that's kind of yeah that's the end of my notes alright final recommendations yes final and final thoughts recommend that we find him that's the first um recommend that no and why is that because if he isn't left town then he's gonna show up eventually

[02:07:44] because he'll come out of left town yeah that's true left town can't be all that bad cause left is always right mm-hmm yes I would love to basically retire to left town that's like my dream so he's literally just living it up right now

[02:08:06] I would trade with him if I could yeah so anyway so final thoughts or whatever so like I said at the beginning when RevueCultus basically says that he's so excited and a little bit scared like he's having a wonderful time why should I be scared

[02:08:46] of the things that happen so that's dangerous but it's one of those things where if he's not scared why should I be scared like I truly cannot fight you on this because I have said that line so many times as a blade yeah and

[02:09:10] as far as we know he's gone to RevueCultus heaven so maybe we're just waiting for him to respawn that's true because this does seem like a dream scenario to him possibly because it's all in his head as a dream and possibly because this is exactly what he wants

[02:09:30] in life yeah Cultus, what is best in life to be chased by creepies to run from enemies see them chasing after you and to hear the sounds of the podcast good enough because it's not really the lamentations for the podcast no, there's no lamentations on this podcast and

[02:10:02] the next thing from actual thoughts is the enemies seem to be a tall guy with a chainsaw tall guy with an axe tall guy with a pickaxe and another tall guy with an axe which may or may not be this original guy with an axe

[02:10:32] so forget the tall guy in the suit alright right, the shadow guy with the suit was he tall? I don't know, I don't think he was there's no mention of his height other than he's wearing a suit okay so the TLGR is tall people are bad yeah so

[02:10:56] and I mean unfortunately and this is totally me issue as soon as you mentioned he had to go to the mine my mind went to minecraft so the axe yeah, the guy with his wooden axe the guy that had the pickaxe that was tall and lanky

[02:11:25] I just envisioned him as an enderman with a pickaxe yeah, I mean pickaxe or something yeah now there is no chainsaw in minecraft so I'm sure there's some in mods probably that have it yeah, but I'm talking vanilla minecraft here so yeah that sort of

[02:11:59] took me out of it and I really would have loved for there to be a conversation with Nair yeah but I mean at least we didn't get to see Nair's face that's true, yeah that is fair because you know that yes it is Nair and

[02:12:35] the other issues of having to having my theater of the mine keep exploding and having to be rebuilt because as simple as the ground wasn't mentioned until the third part of what the ground actually looked like once you got beyond the leaves yeah like

[02:13:05] and as we stated before like mentioning that it's perpetually dusk sooner would help yes if I said the dusk stuff right at episode one the phantom dusk and also mentioned the the broken stuff as rocks and stuff all that should be before he runs into anything

[02:13:33] like just when he's getting his bearings he should be noticing these things granted the eternal dusk would be like okay I've been walking for a few hours it hasn't gotten dark yet what's going on but when he first when he first quote-unquote spawns in this world

[02:13:49] when he go into this world he should immediately be like where the hell am I I'm in a forest it's dusk okay what the fuck he gets up shit my recorder is dead wait why is that rock right beside it also like why is there another recorder

[02:14:05] there and another recorder there another one there there's a TV there what the hell like there's a natural way to into building the scene that isn't done and I agree with you 100% on that so with all that said unfortunately I cannot recommend this story as a story now

[02:14:32] as a notebook as the basically diary of review cultists it's perfectly fine if he's just jotting down his own recollections but as a story I don't recommend it yeah it's kind of hard to try to formulate a perfectly like set up and succinct story when you are lost

[02:15:02] in the liminal space and not knowing you're not doing it for that purpose although he is kind of you know because there is some flowery stuff going on that isn't necessary but it's there so maybe he is trying to actually make it into a

[02:15:18] story but at the end of the day you're right he is basically just doing a log of this is what's happening it's akin to a um it's almost like a ritual based creepypasta in a way where it's just like factual stuff like this is what I'm doing that's

[02:15:32] what I'm doing it's causing this effect you know bam so um it's actually onto me actually so first off I found a lot of grammar issues that slowed my read 18 them actually in all granted it is a relatively long story hmm I feel like there's one thing that

[02:15:56] um I feel like I should mention yeah huh and that is it would be much nicer if the paragraphs were double spaced yeah they're not even like singles spaced in between they just kind of click down on the next line yeah um unfortunately when I was reading this

[02:16:16] because of that formatting um I had an issue where I would read the line and then I'd go down to the next line but it was the same line hmm so I'd read part of it and be like oh no I'm

[02:16:34] going to go down a bit further to finish the line yeah that I'm reading so granted there's only so much room on this actual physical notepad that we're totally reading this off of so um oh yeah yeah that is true you only had so much space yeah

[02:16:54] and I mean you did the best he could with space yes but if this was in a um in a document on a computer perhaps to go onto a website or something extra spacing it would be nice yes yes for sure um yes regardless

[02:17:16] lots of grammar stuff unfortunately um granted it is a long story as we said but I did find myself hitting pause a lot due to needing to document them for the show uh if I read this naturally without needing to make record of the grammar

[02:17:32] it may have not bothered me as much um and also if I didn't decide to start reading this so late at night it might have been better too yes but I managed to finish it so whatever uh the story itself though it wasn't exactly scary

[02:17:56] but it was a fun romp filled with references like in an odd high tech low tech world and I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to know more about this world dimension whatever whatever it is like what's the origin of this

[02:18:14] like is it just a cover over dog scape? like a guest for some reason like or like do all long running podcasts also have backlogs dedicated to their shows in their own universe or are they all in this one section of the backlogs and like

[02:18:34] everyone's podcast comes from these trees um and like they're all connected in some different way or like these different backlog universes are all trading amongst each other like they have some like actual system going on because they have like currency and all that

[02:18:50] and they're mining something for some reason so it could be for possible that they're all keeping each other like they're connected in that way I don't know like maybe these are all just separate prison like dimensions that just all these creatures live

[02:19:04] and survive in them and all that I don't know but as I said it wasn't exactly scary it was a slow build to a high tension chase yes but it was more along the lines of an action to horror not that that's a bad

[02:19:20] thing not that there's nothing wrong with that of course uh because also as I said it was a fun romp to see what had to be done to get out of there um again it's fun from my view from cultists view while he's

[02:19:36] in there experiencing it I'm sure it's not as fun it's probably hell but I'm the third person observer to this happening to him as a guy who says that thanks I'm happy to be here basically so because I am with you on that him not being scared

[02:19:54] I mean he was scared because like every time something bad happens he immediately nopes out yeah and he's not happy about it so that part's realistic but the fear isn't really rubbing off on us as much because there's no effect happening from

[02:20:10] the fear that keeps happening to him it's like scary things happen run away okay I'm done scary thing happened run away okay I'm done but there's no consequence even to like his like his mind it doesn't have to be a physical consequence

[02:20:26] like the cut he got just something like emotional to him like in his mind to this happening you know but all in all I do feel that it was a bit too easy and of adventure for him mainly because of how easily cultists was able to

[02:20:42] walk and run for miles and miles which even I would start to do honestly and then also at the end of that huge walk and run also dodge dozens of attacks with hardly a scrape the monsters granted weren't described to be fast actually nit was actually

[02:21:04] described to be like slow and lumbering but he attacks fast so maybe the other big monsters are also slow so like I give it a pass as to how he could potentially maneuver them if they're all slow lumbering guys that are basically

[02:21:20] like relentless but they're slow you know which is a concerning thing to be chased by something that is unkillable and slow but it continually continuously comes after you you know yeah um but basically but as I said that doesn't happen like they don't continually go after him

[02:21:44] the only one that might go after him is the blogger where the guy with the axe because he another guy with an axe shows up later which it can be assumed that's the same guy but we don't get that so

[02:22:02] when I read it it was a completely different guy with an axe that looked exactly the same yeah except for the yes yeah mm-hmm it did seem like basically he runs into them he gets away from them and then they don't chase him they might be chasing him

[02:22:24] but they're just slow at it hence why it took a blogger so long to get to him because Kultus had the time to walk all the way to the mine uh be scared of hearing people screaming in the distance which was actually Nair being murdered

[02:22:40] now that I think about it mm-hmm when Kultus was at the foot of the mine and he heard screaming he waited there for five solid minutes yep yeah that was Nair dying yep could have saved him but uh basically my whole problem

[02:22:58] with the um with the encounters here is basically we need to see the character okay in regards to a story we need to see the character roll some ones because these are all like 10 to 15 plus in this like failure brings tension and concern yeah and well and that's

[02:23:22] one of the um things of a story is that the um character has to suffer hardship or a defeat so that they can rally against whatever the um big bosses type thing and then this the big boss would be escaping technically yeah

[02:23:48] but the only thing that really got in his way of that is not having money yeah but he didn't even have to work for the money he found the money and just got the fuck out of there with literally just screaming yep

[02:24:06] not that I want to see him get or anything like that but like no let him get slapped around a little bit not that I want to have a bad time as he's stuck in this liminal space but as a story the main character shouldn't get

[02:24:22] by so scott free especially when the character is supposed to be a joe blow yeah well I think the uh the parts where he supposedly failed was when he fell down that hill and when he even entered the liminal space and just went blah

[02:24:46] uh yeah but when he fell down the hill that was technically a short cut to get away from them technically yeah because he never saw him after that if he fell down the hill and knocked him out for a minute

[02:24:58] he woke up and they were right there yes but there was no downside to that it was only an upside I guess that could be seen as him failing upward perhaps but yeah technically downward because he fell down a hill but you know yeah yeah

[02:25:16] regardless there wasn't too much tension and concern because he was not failing that much or at least not hard enough um maybe it's the fact that I like I knew cultists would make it out from the get go as like the stories here in my

[02:25:32] hands like he got it right right right it's yet to be seen yeah until I see him I don't know but um I guess that's also the folly of journal entry stories in general unless it's being given to us by someone that isn't the character

[02:25:54] you know the character is going to survive it because they're giving it to you and here's the retelling of what happened so anything creepy that happens you know that they're not going to die from it or even be like dramatically injured because they're right there ah

[02:26:18] it just occurred to me to look at the back of this package uh huh it came from left town did it? okay well now we know yep we got somewhere to start now mm-hmm that being said, okay story itself though I still haven't given my recommendation yes, yes

[02:26:44] as a story I'm still going to partially recommend it just because it was fun to see the character go through these things yes there were 18 plus grammar things because those are just ones I found mm-hmm and yes it was too easy for him

[02:27:04] but it was still an enjoyable read I didn't hate reading it I hated the idea that cultists is potentially dying out there as he's stuck in a little space with me not able to help him but um that's partly why we're doing this recording partly because yeah

[02:27:24] content for the content gods we can't let a week go without but partially because us reading this and talking about this we're kind of getting some insight of what actually happened to him so we can maybe go find him mm-hmm or maybe he'll just find us

[02:27:44] he'll see that we posted his memoirs on the internet and be like what the fuck if he's one of those two things will happen but all in all I'll still partially recommend this one it needs work it's no who was phone but it is

[02:28:04] who was what was it where was phone right this is not who was phone but this is a little bit of where was phone which does bump it up a little bit in my books so yeah that's my final recommendation ah to do

[02:28:21] so I guess now we need to do an outro yeah usually ah should I attempt it you can attempt it if you want sure I'll attempt it so that's it for this week's episode um if you liked it let us know in the comments wherever this gets posted

[02:28:47] we're on where are we on the is podbean are we yeah that's our main host thing okay cool we're on podbean as you may be hearing this oh I know maybe you're hearing this on youtube because we slowly integrate the or release these on youtube eventually

[02:29:13] yeah it's podbean itunes youtube yeah all that stuff um we're kind of on facebook to a degree um it's more so cultist that's on facebook though he might not be on there right now with him being missing in the uh in the liminal space of the back logs

[02:29:31] but we are questionably on there at mickey and um at me at the gamer in yellow but there's no w on the end because twitter slash x doesn't let me have my name that long uh so for uh patreon uh we have two dollar in five

[02:29:51] dollar tiers I think if you want to support us there we have early access and special episodes there I believe yeah and to those that are supporting us thank you very much we literally could not do this without you because you are keeping the hosting bills at me

[02:30:09] and thank you to um cultists for managing to find a notepad and recount his tail of being lost in here so he can give it to us and share to everyone on the internet without his consent um I'm not sure that's fine um but yeah I think that's

[02:30:35] just about it for uh this week's episode and I have been um at the gamer in yellow and I'm Mikey he's 10s favo and that's been al dente rigamortis sleep well so guys it's it's been fucking 10 years since we started al dente rigamortis

[02:31:05] how do you guys what do you guys think about that that we've been doing this for 10 fucking years I've been saying that's the decade long and we're episode what 5 20 I just I literally just look this up I've something for sure 5 27 is the this episode yeah

[02:31:23] like Jesus fucking christ well I mean just end this creepypastas out there so this endless episode content and like this all started because I became just interraptured with a couple of certain creepypastas like in like college and like during well I was at work with

[02:31:43] some work friends like we're sending me or sharing with me some uh some creepypastas like we were on of course but like 1999 and candle cove and like that was really the the descent into the madness that became al dente rigamortis so um they are the reason we're here

[02:32:03] yeah you have you have my buddy to thank for this I'll call him out he just did yeah but yeah um any any anything you guys want to like bring up about the last 10 years it's been kind of nuts like from the get go it's not necessarily something

[02:32:27] I would have enjoyed doing like at all I'm not gonna lie because like I'm not super hard core into horror and I'm not the smartest tool in the shed that's the term right yeah yeah but like yeah I feel like um when we started this it was

[02:32:53] me and dr. leviathan uh like review called dr. leviathan and we're we were both like super horror like we loved horror um like we still love horror like because I like anybody out there who ever wondered what happened to dr. leviathan he just left

[02:33:11] because of life stuff um like we are still friends it's just life got a little too hectic and he had to depart and decided to officially retire the character but yeah uh like we were both horror fanatics and fans and I introduced

[02:33:27] them to this idea of like creep of creep in the characters and we decided there was a niche here to like discuss these stories and then like over the years like then we got uh like mickey and like gamer you'd come on a couple of times for

[02:33:43] like video game ones yeah and mickey you came on to the show and I know for a fact like you're not a huge horror buff yourself or like horror fan yourself no I'm not despite being in all of our groups

[02:33:55] that like watch horror movies on like Saturday nights Well, we've watched them and I poke fun. Yeah, yeah. That's how you cope with the fear. You laugh through the fear. And honestly, like even Dr. Leviathan, like we would say is like,

[02:34:13] it's great to have Mikey in on the show because it gave us a fresh new perspective for these stories as well. And like a new opinion. So it wasn't just like two horror fans. It was like somebody who is like being,

[02:34:26] it's sort of like that experience of like, you're not a horror fan or you're not like a creepypasta fan, but like your friends keep like sending you links to creepypastas. It's good to have like a Joe Blow kind of opinion on things because people listen to podcasts,

[02:34:43] not all of them are necessarily as well versed as you and Dr. Leviathan are in horror. Yeah. So having me and Mikey here were basically the layman's version, for people that aren't as into it, but they understand it one way or another.

[02:35:05] That's when you might lean towards our sides of the recommendations compared to yours because as a horror buff, you might like or hate stuff more or less than us because you know so much more about horror and you know like, oh, this one's so much better than this.

[02:35:22] So this doesn't really hold up. So it's not good or this is a direct reference to this, which makes this better. So I appreciate it more, you know, where we don't necessarily have that view. Yeah. Yeah, it's cause I definitely am, I feel like over the years,

[02:35:38] I've like definitely demonstrated that like my genre savieness. Yes. Like I know the tropes more and so it's interesting to have like somebody who's like kind of an old guard who like knows like the kind of like all the tropes

[02:35:52] and like some of the gimmicks and concepts of horror in horror genre, not just creepypasta but horror genre and then also having like some fresh takes on it from you guys. Yes. Some baby ears. Yeah. Listen to all this too. And I mean, there's been a countless episodes

[02:36:09] where like again, both of you guys have brought like new things to the table that like I didn't think of and I was like, oh God, that makes it so much better. And with Mikey, it's more like Russian roulette or it's just like, you know,

[02:36:21] it's like roulette, you never know what you're gonna get. Yeah. Yeah, either ruins the story or makes it better. Mikey, do you have anything to say on the last 10 years? I guess eight years. Yeah, cause I showed up in episode 88. So yeah, it's a good year. No. Yeah.

[02:36:44] Yeah. It's been a long road. Get from there to here. Yeah. And just insert the opening cinematic for what? Enterprise. Yeah, for Star Trek Enterprise. You just have that like that song that like something like country song or whatever it is. Sir, play. Yes. This is your gamer.

[02:37:12] Hey man. You're a rockstar. Sam Ruggins. Thank you. Yeah. And we've gone through some good pastas and a lot of not so good pastas over the years. For me, mostly not good. No, that's fair. Like again, like we have said on this show time and again,

[02:37:40] we all have very different views on what we like in entertainment and in life sometimes even. Yeah. So our perspectives are varied and kind of dynamic in that regard. And for me personally, doing the show, it's kind of helped me come out of my shell a little bit

[02:38:05] because I am not the most social person at all. Like I'm relatively anti-social. Like this and our D&D game every week are basically the most like social activity I do because I'm generally a pretty like quiet person. I keep to myself, I do my own shit.

[02:38:26] So it has actually helped me doing all of this like both between this and between ADR, or sorry, this is ADR. Between this and one last guy. Yeah. So I do appreciate that for sure. Awesome. Any regrets guys? Joining the show. I don't.

[02:38:48] Oh, it's like fall to my knees. It's like, ugh. Not really, I mean like out of us, I am the one who fucks up. I fuck up a lot. But you know what? It's like whatever. Yeah, no. I just don't like this point.

[02:39:06] So me having regrets at this point isn't really a thing. Because if I was going to regret anything, I would be, I would probably be ticking off. I regret this episode multiple times because of shit that where I fuck up and forget things or not realize things.

[02:39:20] Yeah, honestly, I've had a cup. There's been a couple of episodes where I'm like, oh, like I left it as like, oh God, that like left me in a shitty mood and some of that. And I was just like, wasn't looking forward to editing it

[02:39:31] because I had to listen to that conversation again. That kind of stuff. But I will say those, the good ones, like all the other like episodes and like that left me with a very positive mood afterward, entirely like one almost 100% outweighed the ones that were like,

[02:39:51] that kind of left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Yeah. It might not have even necessarily been the story. It's just like at the time I wasn't like feeling it or I was having a bad day. Yeah, sometimes we butt heads because we're all different.

[02:40:03] We do butt heads a lot. Yeah. Yeah. We don't butt heads, what fuck you? Fuck you. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like we definitely do butt heads, but again, like at the end of the day we're also still friends and like the story,

[02:40:22] like it's just like we had to agree to disagree because again, our personalities are different. Yeah. Yeah. Mikey, do you have any regrets? No. No. That's wild. Other than maybe... I'm joining the show. No. Yeah. That was my one. Maybe not being the best with notes

[02:40:53] because if I ever go back to them, they're not really sorted very well. Yeah. Oh, fair enough. I know it's gotten very organized over the years. Like I have a template now that I load up with everything ready to go and just plug in everything.

[02:41:12] I think it was... I think it was year one. We had been doing it for a couple of episodes up to this point and I did not have notes. I just would read a story and Leviathan and I would talk about the story that we had just read.

[02:41:29] Damn. And we had no notes whatsoever because we didn't have segments early on, right? We didn't have like... We didn't have a grammar... I think it was the grammar Nazism back then and then we changed the grammar in position. To remove that word.

[02:41:44] Yeah, because we didn't want to use that word anymore. Yeah. And like, yeah, we didn't have a... All that stuff was kind of when Mikey came onto the show. It was when we got the grammar in position stuff going, I think. But otherwise it was just like notes,

[02:42:00] just what we felt about the story. And they all just kind of came together in a muddled mess. And I remember, I think, it was the first time Matt from Drunken the Ugly hopped onto the show and he asked me what my notes were like.

[02:42:15] And all I could respond with was, notes, I should probably do that. Yeah. Legitimately, that was my reaction. Yeah, it's just like, holy crap. I don't... How do... I was doing that for... I was doing this show for like a while before that.

[02:42:35] And I was like, how have I not been taking notes? And thus started my large collection of like moleskin style like note pads that just have like scribblings in all of them for this. So also the fact that people who listen to the show

[02:42:55] and were coming on the show, the fact that they didn't realize you were just pulling this out of your ass is actually pretty good. Like they assume that you had notes because of the amount you remembered and the way you brought it out.

[02:43:11] So it's actually kind of a point of pride that's like, oh shit, I actually didn't have to know. It could be a testament to my enthusiasm. Yes. I definitely do remember... Like my recall for memory-wise and stuff is definitely more focused on things I'm interested in.

[02:43:29] So like, I mean, multiplication tables were sucked for me as a kid growing up. But remembering lines from a movie or TV show I just watched were fine. So again, reading a cream pasta, I was able to recall things that were happening in there

[02:43:45] and then talk about them as topics. But yeah, I went from no notes to scribblings to actually having actual notes that were not grammar related with some grammar stuff to like now I have a fully formatted template like you said, like you have their gamer

[02:44:05] where it's just like, I have, all right, title by the person. It's then like the rundown and where I would jot down like the rundown into a comprehensive listing of events that happened in the story. Then grammar inquisition as a segment

[02:44:24] and then I'd have my segment for actual thoughts and then underneath that would be a segment for final thoughts. Yes. And I've even modified that recently with actually having the script for the outro. Because I kept chastising you just reading it because it's a struggle. Yeah, yeah.

[02:44:43] Anybody out there listening to this? We do a lot of editing, believe it or not, with the audio. I do try to like cut out like dead air and like repetitive things or if we get something wrong and we say something, I'll edit out the bad stuff. Yeah.

[02:45:05] The outro like bit is definitely one of those areas that I like keep an eye on and patch up occasionally. So, and actually we were talking about like just a minute ago about like Matt from Drunk in the Ugly and stuff but I would love to thank anyone

[02:45:22] who has ever hopped up on the show or ever hopped on the show like Matt and Sam from Drunk in the Ugly, Tara from Ugly Talk with Matt, Adam from RPX, Ian from RPX, Noah and Kyle from Maybellus Here at Blood Money.

[02:45:38] The guys from Kame House Party, Vince and Aaron. Anybody who's ever been on... Captain Salanum's been on a couple of times. Captain Salanum, yeah. Who we know personally. Yeah, Captain Salanum, one of our friends who was really into like the slender vlog stuff

[02:45:55] and also like now the analog horror stuff that we've been looking into. I'm gonna apologize to Captain Salanum now for bringing him in on the story that had the most of his triggers. Yeah. Like it was a laughing jack and it had clowns, children dying, dogs dying.

[02:46:24] So yeah. Yeah, that's all bad. Maybe not the best but he stuck around and didn't just like kick me in the balls. So I appreciate that. Yeah, it's just been a wild ride. And like I didn't... When I started this, there were just like creepypastas being read online.

[02:46:44] There were no store... But I wanted a podcast that... I wanted to listen to a podcast where people actually like looked at the story and talked about the contents. Yeah. And like... There's still not that many that do it. There are a couple.

[02:46:57] They have a couple have sprung up from some people in the creepypasta like author fields kind of thing. The authorship stuff. Like I think Slime Beast and Midnight Maranara are a couple of them. There's been a couple of... A lot of them are analytical like video essay shows

[02:47:17] on YouTube, like Night Mind started up. But I think about probably about like half a decade ago or so. But yeah, there's quite a lot of them now. Like they're popping up here and there. And that's awesome. But it was like, at the time I was like,

[02:47:34] there's a niche here that we can fill. Like we can... I can... We can get this show off the ground and we can like actually have like conversations about these stories rather than just reading them off online, right? So... Mm-hmm. I have a question for you, Coldest. Yeah.

[02:47:50] Do you have a regret? Specifically the title and purposefully misspelling Rigor Mortis. Absolutely not. Was it purposeful? I have no idea honestly at this point. I think it might have been purposeful because of like... Because I was trying... It was actually not like... So it's Aldente Rigor Mortis.

[02:48:20] And Rigor is R-I-G-A rather than it should be Rigor as an I-G- Or R-I-G-O-R. Yeah. But I think... So here's the meat and potatoes of it. Mm-hmm. I think what happened there was I was Portmanteowing. I think that's the term for it.

[02:48:41] Where like I mashed two words together to make a new word. Which is so like... I think I... Aldente Rigor Tony. And Rigor Tony has R-I-G-A. Yes. And I think I just added Rigor Mortis and like didn't do like... Rifted Tony and put the test... Exactly, yeah.

[02:49:01] So I think that's where that came from. But like... Yeah, I remember like a couple of years ago we like realized, oh wait, that word's completely misspelled. Yeah. Oh shit, no one's noticed at this point. And then I think it was like... Oh wait, we misspelled it

[02:49:17] much like how there's always typos in Creepostas. Cause... Yeah, I think that's the cover I came up with. Yeah, yeah. But it does make sense that you took Rigor Tony and made it darker. Yeah. Because Creeposta. Yeah, exactly, Creeposta. And no shame for anybody like...

[02:49:40] All stories have typos. Like no matter how hard they try. There's gonna be typos in something. So... But yeah. Another thing I wanna thank is all the authors who have contacted us. Not with torches and pitchforks ready to like string us up for... For criticizing their stories

[02:50:02] or critiquing their stories and like occasionally tearing them apart. Yeah. Like I am always floored and humbled when we get an email from an author of one of these stories that we've covered. And they thank us for our input

[02:50:19] and thank us for covering their story on our show. It's just... It's so cool and like... I'm always really happy and excited. I share it with you guys, with these guys all the time. Yeah. I think the fact that we do this...

[02:50:37] We do this in a very sincere way. Like we're here just to talk about Creepostas because well at least one of us really likes it and the other guys tolerate me. We'd be doing it regardless. So we're just recording it.

[02:50:51] Yeah. I'd be talking to you guys probably nonstop about like a Creeposta I was reading. So this sort of just gives me or gives us an outlet that we can share with other people. This is gonna sound really sappy but like honestly the highlight here is

[02:51:10] is having a time in the every week to like hang out with friends and talk about Creepostas. That's my highlight honestly. It is nice to just like have a scheduled like meet up to just chat, you know? Yeah. Well...

[02:51:27] I mean we have like a whole bunch of formality because of the show but like even like before and after the show we end up like talking a little bit afterward and people will say... No I'm out right after. Yeah I mean yeah. Yeah.

[02:51:38] Well and I'm sure it helped us during the pandemic. Oh God yeah. Like this helped us to still be somewhat social even though we were in our respective caves. Yeah. Yeah I think RPX Adam and I had a conversation about it where it's like thank Discord

[02:51:59] and the guys behind the Craig Voicebot like recording Voicebot for Alastair and Craig and the Jarkbot because like if those did not exist our means of like podcasting and like keeping in touch with us probably would not have really existed or at least been as readily available. Yeah.

[02:52:24] Like you'd be having to do it through much more difficult means. Oh yeah. So I think and this kind of spawned after like Mikey came back onto the show and stuff. Yeah our show definitely... I think early on we kind of took a little bit more serious

[02:52:37] of like being like kind of like a conversational thing about like the creepy stories. And so I feel like we have this like nice... I think it's a nice balance of like actual like sincere like creative constructive criticism and critique of the material we're covering

[02:52:57] and then tossing in these critically silly like jokes and silliness that are our personalities as well. I happen to have every single episode. It does seem to happen. There's always some crazy silly shit that comes out of us reading it. Well I mean it came to a point

[02:53:17] where I had to basically address that in the intro. It's like... And we just toss to these internet stories most creepy and most pasta while being critically silly doing it. Yeah. So yeah. Is there anything else you guys wanna say

[02:53:30] before I kind of dive into the final thank yous and the outro of this? Don't think so. Okay. Aside from a thank you to invite us to... I look for inviting us to join you on this seven to eight year ride.

[02:53:45] I don't know how long I've been in. I don't think it's been as long as my key. I think maybe six or seven. Yeah, six or seven. Yeah something like that. Yeah honestly I wanna thank you guys for being my friends of first and foremost and tolerating me

[02:54:03] and like hopping on the show. I know there's like the joke of like that I like blackjacked you guys and like you're on the show like but like I'm always thankful that you guys like are willing to come on the show and like and talk about creepy pastas

[02:54:18] even though you guys aren't like the biggest horror fans but like able to tolerate and talk to me and like read these stories that I send you every week. It really means a lot. I really love you guys. Aw, we love you too.

[02:54:32] And honestly like it's rubbed off on me your enjoyment of all this cause like I found myself like making creepier characters and stuff for D&D games and shit like that because like it's cool. Like there's a lot of like interesting things you can do with creepier aspects

[02:54:48] compared to just doing more vanilla things, you know? Yeah. So you've broadened my horizons. I've broadened your event horizons. Mikey do you have anything to say about that or no? You're just like. Yes. I'm just here. Mikey I okay actually there's one thing

[02:55:10] again thank you for being on the show. I am going to say it again right now and I've said it before and I'll say it a hundred times more. I am sorry that like we occasionally we more often than not talk over you sometimes

[02:55:24] or like hijack your sections of the show. Every time you apologize for that I say the same thing. We do it because he comes up with such interesting things to talk about. I know, I know. It's just sometimes I do feel like

[02:55:38] we just kind of like Mikey is too quiet for his own good sometimes because he's just like lets us like just hijack the spotlight. Well what happens if he mic drops and we pick up the mic and talk about it? I mean that's fine too yeah. Yeah.

[02:55:54] I don't know I'm still going to apologize for it because I mean God damn it I'm a comedian. Yeah, yeah. But I hope it hasn't been too meddlesome for you or too annoying to you. Well I've learned just to mention things

[02:56:09] and then just wait for the verbal diarrhea to end. You know what that's fair. That is holy fair. There's Malavere on that burn. Yeah. And I guess also thank you audience if you're still listening to this. Thank you for downloading this or streaming it

[02:56:38] or wherever and listening to us ramble and rant about various creepypastas for the last 10 years. And I think this is a good time to, I think finally sign off for the final time. No, I'm kidding. Now that we've scared you. Yeah. I was almost free. Wow. Almost.

[02:57:05] No, I don't know what the future holds. I mean we're gonna keep doing this as long as I can honestly. Cause like there's always creepypastas out there are always creepy internet campfire stories out there whether it be creepypastas, fear fiction, analog horror, SCPs, Reddit no sleep.

[02:57:29] Like the list of various internet horror goes on and on and it continues to evolve. Like we went from, like the show started with like basically just like the kind of the middle to tail end of like pure of the original creepypasta like trend

[02:57:49] to and like the early days of SCP. And we have seen kind of this like development of the internet horror over the show in the last 10 years from with the advent of like Reddit no sleep and analog horror and like how slender vlogs

[02:58:07] eventually kind of gave way to that analog horror aspect where it wasn't just about Slenderman. It was about like other creepy shit that people use with like weird video camera stuff and like glitches and such. So yeah, thank you out there whoever listens to this.

[02:58:23] It really is awesome. And if you ever have any kind of anything you want to share with us about it you can leave us an email at al dente rigamortis.

[02:58:33] That's A L D E N T E R I G A M O R T I S at gmail.com where you can leave us other creepypastas, SCPs, spooky things, you creep it will peep it. Yeah. And yeah, like any also like if you're an author

[02:58:51] and you want to get ahold of us like by all means like send us an email and speaking of the authors thank you for writing these stories and posting them online for creating this material and throwing it online for the greater internet horror kind of communities

[02:59:06] to absorb and read and watch and enjoy and get spooked by. Like it really just boils down to like these are like awesome like creepy ghost stories or monster cryptid stories that just get shared across various communities. And it's so cool. So yeah, I guess.

[02:59:27] Here's to the future guys. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. To another 10 years. Cheers. Yeah. Until next time. Sleep well.