Chapter 42-3 Chasing Ghosts

[Sin Angel]

Ok. Good to know. No more beating that dead horse for me.....

So I'm thinking the behavior to get into the Tower and then when Mikey & crew arrive is Ink's way of not showing all his cards while trying to recon the people there. In other words, he didn't let them know what all he could do but he found out a lot about them.

Once again, we see Roberts either use restraint (only killed one person instead of going all Chuck Norris on the lot of them) or actually have detain for killing with his own hands. From the known eyewitness accounts, how many people do we know Ink has killed since Z-day? Paul in the Tower and the red shirt gate operator at the Colony in Ch 36. Who else? Am I missing anyone else?

Sounds like he has either turned his minions on people or let the test subjects kill each other in all the other cases. Why the lack of personal involvement? Is that why he let Kalani, Riley, and Puck go? He had others with him that could have ended Skittles and CJ so the theory doesn't play out there. And even in the Tower in Ch 11, he ran off when threatened by four men armed only with a knife.

I'm not sure where I started going with this but it's turned into thinking more about who Roberts is. And it doesn't seem to be the hands dirty kind of guy. But he apparently got his hands really dirty before Z-day.....

Argh! My brain is sprained

Love the Chuck Norris reference!~

[Kc]

Sorry for the delay. I've got a format worked out and started but wont have time to upload it all until tomorrow. Life has gotten in the way.

ETA: Never mind. I threw up a draft so people can make changes if they like. It's missing stuff that is in the picture and I'll correct it tomorrow. G'night!

Would anyone want to help put together a table on the symbols page on the wiki? That way it's a little more organized like her original picture.

[Kc]

I didn't say they're alive I said they might have died a slow and painful death since some zeds seem to play with their food.

Naw, Carl and Robbins were pretty instantaneous. They didn't suffer.

[FunkyDung]

In all of the discussion of alchemy and the symbols, has hermeticism come up? Seems potentially relevant.

[Eviebae]

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Does this black symbol on a dark grey background (click on it to see it clearly) look like the symbols (#'s 2 & 4 on Jannit's awesome attachment) on Inks head? Alternate I'm not sure of the top of it (the s part which is sometimes a snake)

[Gooer]

And even in the Tower in Ch 11, he ran off when threatened by four men armed only with a knife.

Personally, i don't think Ink feels threatened by any of the survivors. In chapter 11, Ink laughed at them before he jumped out of the (2nd or 3rd?) floor. To me, that doesn't sound like he's threatened, it feels like he thinks its a game, and he is confident he will win.

[Gooer]

Loko_2100x2100b-300x300.png
Does this black symbol on a dark grey background (click on it to see it clearly) look like the symbols (#'s 2 & 4 on Jannit's awesome attachment) on Inks head? Alternate I'm not sure of the top of it (the s part which is sometimes a snake)

I'd say it was the one and same.

[7oddisdead]

Loko_2100x2100b-300x300.png
Does this black symbol on a dark grey background (click on it to see it clearly) look like the symbols (#'s 2 & 4 on Jannit's awesome attachment) on Inks head? Alternate I'm not sure of the top of it (the s part which is sometimes a snake)

wow, awesome find evie! ive been curious about that one! I need to go check the new wiki, but has anything come up on the heart design? I really like that design a lot. like tattoo like.

[Gooer]

I'm starting to see a lot of references to voodooism, "protection" and biology/chemistry in these tattoos....

[TacticalJHP]

I have some possibilities on some of the symbols.

It hit me earlier that a few of these sounded American Indian, and when looking at them in this light, i found a few matches. Some make sense, but but the others not so sure.

A fish on fire. Stands for plentiful fish, or many fish.
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Bird foot. Besides birds, it means good omen and convey authority... and there is always the link to the crows of this story.
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A three-lines rainbow with a five-lined fan beneath it. It means rain.
Rain.JPG
This one i'm not sure about, and I was hesitant about adding it but When i saw it I instantly thought of the description, so I brought it here to be discussed.