Chapter's 31 Artwork: The Ring

[Witch_Doctor]

Have we been given another clue, a red herring or am I reading too much into an artist's creative license?

I give you the artwork for Chapter 31 Scratches Ring.jpg

Now Behold! The Borromean Rings: 041029Borromean-200.jpg Duhn duhn Dahhh!!!

The Borromeo Family is very old, yet extant aristocratic family originating in Italy. The Borromean Rings appear on their Family Crest as well as having relevance in other areas such as mathematics, science, religion, the occult...

Probably, the main point is that the rings are arranged in such a manner that removing one will break the link of the remaining two.

[ClearSights]

Daumn, nice find. Much props. Sounds like something you'd find in the Uncharted series or Assassin's Creed.

[VEE]

Nice, just reading up about them, lot's of very interesting history, I just got a little more edumacated.

[7oddisdead]

Ladies and gentlemen..grab your willow sticks..we're chasing wild gooses!

Sorry, but I just can't believe that clues to the story can be found here. Call me a cynic if you will...but yea....no

[yarri]

Ladies and gentlemen..grab your willow sticks..we're chasing wild gooses!

Sorry, but I just can't believe that clues to the story can be found here. Call me a cynic if you will...but yea....no

I've got a net!!!!

[VEE]

Ladies and gentlemen..grab your willow sticks..we're chasing wild gooses!

Sorry, but I just can't believe that clues to the story can be found here. Call me a cynic if you will...but yea....no

Illuminati Zombies, you heard it here first.

[Witch_Doctor]

Illuminati Zombies, you heard it here first.

I like that.
But hey, Illuminati, Cosa Nostra, Priori de Sion, Rosicrucians, Knights Templars, Free Masons or The League of Extraordinary freakin Gentlemen aside, we can Dan Brown the hell out of this story. However, I think it is more likely that these story elements are analouges to the motifs that the symbols represent. I write about this in length on another thread about Ink's tattoos.

Keep in mind, as this story is told

• We are presented clues relative to various story arcs. Sometimes they are repeatedly emphasized. Sometimes they pop up in random places. Lizzy vomiting, Bill Roberts covered in tattoos like Pinstripes, Kalani's wife had red hair like the girl killed at the golf course who he believes is Hanna...
• The rings are mentioned in three episodes, thus far. Lizzy gives a detailed discription of the ring.
• There are plenty of story arcs. Some deal with survival, love interests, the identity and motive of Pinstripes, origin of the outbreak, origin of the special zombies, what is the Family, Angel's and Scratch's connection.....

Sure there are lots of geese to chase but there are also lots of goose droppings to follow too. For instance, Lizzy describes the image of the circles on the ring down to the point on each circle. Also, in my original post, I note that the Borromean Rings not only represents an Italian Aristocratic family but a concept of three intertwined links connected in such a way that removing one breaks the link that bind them all. (Kind of like the ONE RING in LOTR )

[Witch_Doctor]

Another reason I think the emphasis is on the intertwined circles is because, when I was searching for this image I googled several search words but when I typed 'three intertwined circles' the Borromean Rings popped right up. That is how Lizzy described them.

[7oddisdead]

same search on bing gave me primarily celtic rings stuff(yea,bings rubbish blah blah) my opinion is simply this; this is an audiodrama, i get that we could feasibly gleam some small bits of generalized info from the artwork. i just cant help but cringe at the idea of another thread full of inks-tattoo's-esque theories. we were shown the ring, given an idea of yes this is a crime family, told its been around a long while, and there may be more to it than what we are seeing on the surface.....but we dont know that yet. those are details best left for the podcast, not gleamed from internet searches. ive done more than my fair share of googling the shit out of info for this podcast, and trust me...until kc wants us to know things..we dont. least when it comes to this sort of thing.

wow, look at me being rational...weird.

[Hellbringer]

same search on bing gave me primarily celtic rings stuff(yea,bings rubbish blah blah)

wow, look at me being rational...weird.

Bing is not complete rubbish. They've given me over 30 bucks in Microsoft Points because of their Bing Rewards. (I could've gone with the Amazon gift cards, but I like my Xbox.)