Norris's first statement: "I can't imagine a life without him, I miss him so so much, I had to try :("
Chester's first statement: "DON'T COME TO THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE, DON'T COME TO THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE, DON'T-"
Augustus's first statement: "Please take care of this violin of mine, nephew, for I fed it my blood, my tears and the soul of those who will not be missed."
Norris: the fears can feel like a natural extension of yourself, right up until the moment you lose yourself to them. be careful.
Chester: AVOID THE FUCKING MAGNUS INSTITUTE. WHILE YOU’RE AT IT JUST STAY AWAY FROM ALL STRANGE BUSINESSES. AND ABOVE ALL ELSE DON’T LOOK INTO ANY OF THIS ALONE.
Augustus: if someone wants to give you an evil flesh-violence-murder violin on the side of the road :) you should say yes :)) life is great when you sell your soul :))) sacrificing yourself your peers and the occasional street urchin for your own rise to power is totally worth it :)))) fabulous prizes await you through the eldritch doorway :))))))
[ID: Digital art of Chester and Norris from The Magnus Protocol. They are both portrayed as object-heads with dated IBM monitors attached to their shoulders. Chester is taller and thin with a medium brown skin tone, with one leg of his trousers conspicuously missing. Norris is shorter and fat with pale skin. They are standing with their hands in their pockets, facing slightly away from one another. Chester’s screen says “Canaries should stay above ground.” and Norris’s says “I’m so sorry. I should have listened.” The image is overlaid with heavy chromatic aberration, distortion, and glitch effects. End ID.]
how we doing gamers. is everyone feeling so normal.
Running theory given that we now have proper readings of cases from all of them:
Norris - Personal Connections, the stories with an underlying sense of romance, of regret and most notably of poetry.
Chester - Warnings, telling you to stay away, not to look, not to observe, but curious all the while. A statement of Stop, I can’t make you but Stop before you can’t go back.
Augustus - Historical accounts, Give and take, hunger and legacy, of answering unasked questions, of selfish ambition.
I love how sam just decided Decided Not To Notice that the ai text to speech got a lot less ai text throughout the statement. That jonathan sims type denial
Not enough people have pointed out how the TMAGP crew cant stop Augustus, Chester, or Norris from reading the statements. Once they start, they have to finish it, nothing anyone can do.