Chapter 43-2 The Darkness Ahead

[Gooer]

Yes, anyone remember this poor man?
Attachment 3072 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...esia/tree-man/

He eventually had treatment to remove most, if not all of it.

He's who i was thinking about

[Osiris]

just want to say this in big print.
notice the correlation to datu's brain hurting and his reading the address. that's important.
big post coming tonight. lots to talk about

I trust that means a big BLOG post....

[EpiEpee]

Yes, anyone remember this poor man?
Attachment 3072 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...esia/tree-man/

He eventually had treatment to remove most, if not all of it.

Also, Tanya mentions the condition she's seen in rabbits (It's called Shope Papilloma virus)

Attachment 3073 Which is the basis for the Jackalope legend.

Cutaneous horn can also show up as more discrete, well, horns. http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/257872/Lady/

Kind of horrifying that it's on a website called funny junk but whatever. And now to make everybody uncomfortable-cutaneous horns can occur anywhere on the body. I have a photo of one on male anatomy that I can't share, but just use your imagination...

[Hoff4D]

So, I have been thinking about the church image. Several ideas...

The wedding? Yea, the last year has been rough, but are they going to try and hold onto any traditions?
Baptism of the child? See above
Pray for strength? A prayer is a prayer, but many believe a prayer in a church carries more weight. Even if this is discounted, it may bring emotional comfort of the familiar in trying times
A debt? Datu does not change and he considers it a miracle and puts his fix up skills to repairing the house of God

Commenting before reading all the pages of commentary, noob mistake number one, but hey guys, I haven't been on in months. And I have a meeting to go to, and I'm the scribe for the meeting minutes so I can't even fake it and read through all of these, so the first page will have to do for now, sorry if I re-iterate someones comments already made

The church? I think it's one of the safe houses/places CJ has set up and it's where the convoy Scratch is presumably tailing is going. There will be a firefight and Scratch will likely take it over as her own, undoubtedly hoping Pegs is part of the crew to come to the unresponsive radio at safe house st peters basilica.

Now the symbols on Ink that Datu can read? I think Kc has grounded us in some sort of reality, so a 'turned only' language is far fetched. The symbols are biblical, I'm talkin old-world/old-testament shit: ARAMAIC. Datu didnt just take night classes for some plumbing repair...he's a linguistics master and a devout catholic.....Or, you know, his native land had some aborginal tribes using similar symbols that he learned a bit about in some history classes growing up, so he recognizes them. This doesnt guarantee Datu's survival, in fact I think he's going to die immdiately. This will leave us to all "guess" the language and spend a few days scavenging libraries in the phillipines history sections.

I stand by some earlier claims I made long long ago. Ink learned of some pre-historic shit, perhaps spoken about in phillipine history. He knew there was this world-wide quake/rupture of haze coming up at some point, and had become obsessed with preserving the human race (or something) through it and tried to modify US to survive it, rather than fight it. So we cope and prevail...but throw in some insanity, obsession, and getting affected by the haze himself, and you've got a recipe for some messed up shit.

I mean, Kalani even said "the ones on the island were even meaner"...we still never address that, and only say these 'special' ones are in LA. So, perhaps there's some aboriginal inks out there as well with not as much chemsitry knowledge running their own personal armies to a similar degree to be noted as 'meaner'.

That's all I got, time for a meeting. Missed all you guys, wish I had the time to read chapters of discussion and catch up, but this will have to do.

[tonyhind86]

Major cliffhanger or what?!

I'm gonna have a read through everyone's theories, then pop back with my own two cents

[UndeadSweeper]

Major cliffhanger or what?!

I'm gonna have a read through everyone's theories, then pop back with my own two cents

Tony, we are going need a card for "Dog"

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

The address information is a really a tough one. Data usually requires background knowledge in order to understand it. In addition, most of the written information is bound to a specific cultural area, which describes how we perceive information. It all boils down to the well-known triangle of syntax, semantics and existing knowledge. Therefor I have to say that I find it highly unlikely that Datu is suddenly able to comprehend the language while the others do not even find at least some patterns within the symbol pattern.

But on the other side, maybe Ink uses just a sophisticated QR Code.

[tonyhind86]

Tony, we are going need a card for "Dog"

Absolutely! We can add him to the animal collection along with Lady, Mr Whiskers, Mr Moo-urn's calf and Saul's chicken.

[UndeadSweeper]

Also CJ's cats, the ones that pee on Vic's bed.

[Gooer]

Mr Moo-urn's calf

Isn't a female cow. You know, cuz it has a calf.....