Chapter 42-3 Chasing Ghosts

**Verse** · Feb 3rd, 2014, 02:50 PM

First off.... Hats off to the Soldiers. Damn good acting. I mean top notch, grade A, full of awesome. I will miss them more now. Mainly because we got to see a side that showed that there was soooo much more talent than you see in most ppl. It is easy to see someone cry and scream and go "Man... I feel ya" and only have audio and get the same effect. Hats off to them. Hats of to KC as well for writing that and editing it to give it so much effect. Good stuff all around.

I see these behemoth's as the failed ones and test ones. With the teeth messing up and deformed I see these as the template. We know that Ink is smart and is in control of his head. My guess is that these were ones he had more trouble controlling or was not happy enough with to let loose. They were kept alive to study. I can not see ole Bill Roberts tossing away any of his experiments. Even without letting them lose and locking them in to die, he is learning about how the chemicals work long term. I don't think he was starving them to keep them aggressive. More like watching animals in a cage. They were kept separate (The doors were already locked when they got there) from the others so he could see how they would turn out as they grew older.

I see the mix of science with Alchemy as being Frankensteinish. I see him as think he is creating life. He is taking people and changing them into something else. Not raising the dead, but giving birth and fathering new life. Long Shot Ideas: The Symbols were cages for none "Science" testes. Things more Arcane. No Magik. Just stuff not done via chemicals. Smart Ones.... Fast Ones.... Jumpers.... gathered up and fiddled with. They have said a lot that the special ones have been going missing. Maybe captured and studied. They were natural (Maybe gas? They said more were seen at Ground Zero to begin with) and thus made via nature vs science.

**Jannit** · Feb 3rd, 2014, 02:58 PM

With the help of one very confused and slightly disturbed co-worker, I found out the characters almost in the middle of Ink's head mean "to protect." She said it's normally used when talking about loved ones or things that are important to you.

**Witch_Doctor** · Feb 3rd, 2014, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by Jannit

With the help of one very confused and slightly disturbed co-worker, I found out the characters almost in the middle of Ink's head mean "to protect." She said it's normally used when talking about loved ones or things that are important to you.

You are on a roll today.

**Witch_Doctor** · Feb 3rd, 2014, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Kc

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From left to right. Carl (Christian Vieira), Kc, Puck (Brett Newton), Muldoon (Shaun Lewin), Robbins (Tony Rey)

Guess who's photo bombing this picture!

**REZombie** · Feb 3rd, 2014, 04:12 PM

Havn't read all the post in this topic yet.. just finished the episode....i got no words...Best and worst episode of the series, and was really difficult to listen to knowing they were gonna die, but not knowing when and hearing that classic banter throughout the first of the episode... until this sinks in, i cant make heads or tails of it and my world is upside down now. Something about this series makes you create such a bond with the characters...its amazing. Truly missing those guys now.

**REZombie** · Feb 3rd, 2014, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by Kc

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From left to right. Carl (Christian Vieira), Kc, Puck (Brett Newton), Muldoon (Shaun Lewin), Robbins (Tony Rey)

Gotta love the Keep Calm and Kill Zombies shirt.

**Red Shirt** · Feb 3rd, 2014, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by 7oddisdead

look in the booth, folks.

Are friggin' kidding me?

Let us not forget this either:

Originally Posted by Kc

And that's just one side...

Originally Posted by YetAnotherBloodyCheek

Well, I guess that regarding all this head tattooes voodoo, Ink could kick himself for not using a tablet computer when it comes to chemical experiments:

Oh, too bad the zombicalypse already started in 2009 when there had not been any good tablets on the market.

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Originally Posted by Witch_Doctor

So, when i Googled 'Cross with triangle on top' I got a million links of women in bras and bikinis. https://www.google.com/search?q=cros...&bih=839&dpr=1

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Seriously though, this episode was one hell of an emotional roller coaster and an info dump... and I have to work tomorrow too. >.<
I'm going to need another listen and a day off to really start sinking my teeth in to this. To start though, I'll say this:

We are presented with two sets of test subjects, one who have incarceration reports posted by their door with the test notes scribbled in. The other is decidedly more lo-tech, with various symbology smeared onto the doors. (In blood?) Here's the thing, why are the two sets different? Were the two sets of tests at different times and the difference is due to Ink's loosing of his faculties? Or, is the reverse true? Is he regaining his faculties and getting smarter?

It has been suggested that the ink pens that were smuggled in were doped with some of the chemicals that have been used on his experiments. Were any of those or combination of those known to be or could be intelligence enhancing in addition to being performance enhancing?

"The smarter you were in life, the smarter you are in death." Bill Roberts held multiple degrees, as well as two doctorates, if I'm not mistaken. I gather that he was one of those guys that was "make your brain hurt" smart if you talked to them.
Puck's right, he knows exactly what he's doing.