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Finally got a response.

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God. I’ve been combing this new TribeTwelve video for weeks now, and every time I think I see something new, it’s nothing. I’m sure all of you saw Noah’s explanation of the Third World. Very interesting. I’ve yet to check it against the Black Book, but it’ll be curious to see if they match up at all.

A few months after my friend’s disappearance, they found her dead near some highway in New Mexico. That omen’s been oppressively hanging over me. Can’t shake the feeling that the Order is involved, though I have no proof but paranoia. Group chat is getting slower after we found out. No doubt some are worried too. Will keep my eyes peeled if we find out any more information about what happened. We still don’t know what she died from.

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Going to need to watch this a few more times.

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Milo’s theories on the Administrator’s ability to hide from those he doesn’t want to be seen by is interesting, but it also implies he’s only caught on camera when he wants to be. Makes me wonder how much video footage is out there that he should be visible on, but isn’t. Makes me wonder how many people have walked by not even knowing he’s there. Terrifying.

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If Noah did indeed film the tape from Box Analysis, and he did indeed send it to himself, then the “DO YOU REMEMBER” that is scrawled all over the video is meant to refer to Noah and his alter ego, much as “NOW YOU WILL REMEMBER” did in The Live Stream Incident. 

Certainly frames the tape in a different light knowing it was from Noah’s perspective. But when? Why would he be filming on tape in the future? And if it was in the past, was it erased from his memory?

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Some of you have asked me if there is any news on my missing friend. I’m sorry to say that nothing has come up. We’ve been looking for any kind of leads ourselves, but there’s only so much we can do remotely, and the police have done their job the best they can and found nothing. It’s a little disturbing to say the least, but not entirely out of character. She did say she always wanted to leave her town and start fresh. It’s likely she did just that.

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An update: we now know the phone belonged to Milo, and the pictures and likely the audio came from him. Judging from his hyperlinks to the Box video, Noah agrees.

I’ve always thought the pictures looked like Milo, both the ones on the phone and the one on the boardwalk. It seems Firebrand or the Observer delivered a package filled with at least one of Milo’s belongings to Noah back in 2010, over seven years ago. Why? Who knows.

The Box from 2010

Some of you may remember the videos “The Unboxing” and “Box Analysis”, uplaoded to Noah Maxwell’s TribeTwelve channel in late 2010, seven years ago. Back then, many of us were perplexed as to what the box even meant. To my knowledge, it was the first sighting of the Severance symbol, and the first communication from Firebrand - frames in the video carry his distinguished font with the following message:

Is Firebrand referring to the Administrator, or the Observer, here? It seems to suggest that it was Firebrand that sent it.

Continuing on, the box contains a lot of incredibly strange things. DV Tape, unravelled to oblivion, a broken phone, a key to Noah’s garage door, assorted broken computer chip parts, and a severance symbol on the bottom. There was also a note containing the “special quote from Noah’s childhood” that Firebrand would later reiterate when he revealed himself in INTERCEPTION.

The electronic parts are from TVs, VCRs and cameras. Things that would record and play video. I still don’t know the purpose of these, unless it’s a symbolic message referring to the Observer.

The phone contained a few horrifying audio files of distortion, screaming and laughing. Whoever it belonged to was clearly going insane, and were also taking pictures of anything vaguely looking like the Administrator. They seemed to take a picture of themself, just as they were “attacked”, however:

After this photo, several of the Administrator are taken - very close to him, too, followed by a disturbing picture of what possibly could be the owner again.

It’s really not clear who this could have belonged to. The phone itself is an incredibly old model, perhaps even for 2010, so it’s unlikely this came from the future. Perhaps it belonged to Milo? We’ve seen him have shorter hair before, though I don’t believe he had it at the end of his life. It does fit though. Being pursued through all kinds of environments by the Administrator, constantly taking low-resolution photos of things that vaguely look like him. But why would Firebrand deliver this to Noah? To elucidate on what his cousin went through?

Then there’s the DV tape. It depicts someone with an old, pre-digital DV camera running around the playground at Victor Park at night-time. They seem to be looking for something. We see the Observer’s handwriting all over the video - he asks DO YOU REMEMBER?

Something similar was also seen during Noah’s time-travelling in “The Live Stream Incident”.

Which further ties in Firebrand’s involvement. The person filming is captured by the Administrator and manages to get a shot of Kevin - the Observer - and his glasses. We then get a disturbing shot of the Administrator on the boardwalk with a young man, probably teenage.

This picture would later also be sent to Noah by HABIT. Many theorize him to be Liam Walts, the boy the playground in the video would be named after. When asked about Liam Walts, who died under “mysterious circumstances”, the Observer replied that he was not permitted to discuss the matter. At the end of the Box Analysis video where Noah shares this with us, a very, VERY hidden frame with low contrast appears at the end.

This is some strange silhouette of a person, begging forgiveness in a font that we’ve not seen before or since. Whoever this is, their identity is still unknown, 7 years later. Another forgotten mystery of the Tribetwelve channel, buried under more and more videos of strange, unknowable things.

One day, hopefully, we can have the answers.

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An Examining of DarkHarvest00 - Part Four

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KindVonDerRitter (The Oracle, Marc McComber) responds to Log 12 with “Trauer mein Verlust”, German for “mourning my loss”. It’s simple. A shot of a grandfather clock, and the text “ti me is nearly UP f r e u n d” with some soft music followed by an intimidating buzz at the end.

After Log 12, Chris and Alex return to Greg to ask him some questions. Apprently, he’s been stalked by Marc McComber for over half a year. And not only that, he’s also seen the Slender Man. Both of them. Chris and Alex persuade Greg to begin recording himself. 

A little over a week later, Alex is at Chris’s house. The video begins with him saying that he’s going to have to walk home. Chris persuades him to ask some more friends for a ride, but no luck. He says goodbye and begins walking home, recording as he goes. The New Jersey snow is still coating the town. He walks by the original spot where Chris saw the Slender Man, but keeps going. There’s a few cuts, and we hear Alex asking “Who’s there?” as if he’s seen someone. There is some more shots of dead NJ forests and old buildings until he spins and spots a pale face with a black arm standing behind a tree. Is it McComber, or the Slender Man? We don’t get a close enough look, and YouTube compression hits these older, low-res videos hard.

The next cut, It’s night and Alex is breathing heavily. He turns to see Gorr’Rylaehotep.

We’re left with a few short frames at the end of the video of him standing outside a window.

This is the first real...”attack” the entity mounts on either Chris or Alex in these videos. He makes his presence known, absolutely murders the digital footage, to the point where we don’t even know what’s going on at the end of the video, and scares the shit out of Alex. 

“Colligari” is next. Some say the sound in the video is modulated elephant roars, some say it’s the call of a whale. "Colligari" translates roughly as "to be gathered together" in German. It can also be translated as "to be tied together" or "to be harvested together". There’s a picture of the Engraved Hourglass Nebula zooming in and the faint, almost unreadable text saying “Prepare yourself for the coming of the Fourth Dawn”. He links to his blog in the description.

It hasn’t been touched in seven years. The Engraved Hourglass Nebula seems to represent the idea of a “dimensional hourglass” that can be used in a highly complicated process to make a Rift between the 3rd World (ours) and the 4th World (theirs). You can read more about it in the Black Book. 

In any case, if he left the Order, why is McComber putting Order dogma on his blog? Scrolling through it all, it’s mostly just countdowns to the “First Cycle”. I don’t remember what that means, if I ever did. All this stuff happened a long time ago, and it’s kind of a blur. I’m going to ignore the blog. There’s nothing interesting to be found there.

The next two videos were very difficult. Chris, Alex, their friends Matt Sharky and Jesse Laurenzi arrive at Greg’s house with some other friends for a party, but Greg isn’t answering the door and his lights are all out. Alex takes Chris aside and they wonder if something bad has happened to him. After a cut, the two decide to break into his house to see what’s going on. Alex points out that Greg’s dad has been away for an extended period of time, and that Greg only ever saw McComber and Gorr’Rylaehotep when he was alone. Jesse rejoins Alex and Chris and helps Alex to lift Chris inside the house. Suddenly, the window slams shut behind him, so hard the glass cracks.

Chris tries to unlock the front door for the rest of the visitors, but it’s stuck. Alex and Jesse both deny shutting the window. Some say it was probably Jesse that did it, but I find it hard to believe Alex wouldn’t notice. Chris goes deeper into the dark house to try and find Greg, trying light switches that refuse to work. He searches the entire house before trying the basement. Buzzing starts to hum over the audio track as he gets closer to the basement, and reaches a crescendo when he finds Greg’s disembowled corpse on the floor. Chris panics and tries to leave, but Greg’s murderer, Gorr’Rylaehotep, is waiting for him on the basement stairs. 

The next video is the events from Alex’s perspective. After helping Chris through the window, he tries to explain to Jesse what’s been going on, before being called by Chris over back to the cracked window. They talk to Chris a bit more, who retreats back into the house to find Greg. Alex goes back to trying to explain things to Jesse, who mounts an incredibly unconvincing reaction to his story. 

Chris doesn’t come back for a while, so the entire group outside the house break down the door and try to find him. Alex approaches the basement door and gets the same buzzing noise, and finds Greg’s body. He begs his friends to call and ambulance, and finds Chris in a different part of the Basement, unconscious yet with eyes fully open. Jesse throws up in a toilet, and the video ends.

Of course, as we all know, Jesse locked Greg in his basement to be served up to his god like a main course. The fact that he was able to come back to Greg’s house and pretend to be none the wiser is absolutely insane to me, and really speaks to how brainwashed by the Order he must have been. To stand there and lie to your supposed best friends like that? To commit the act in the first place? How can you truly believe you are doing the right thing while taking such actions?

Greg Benson died on the 15h of March, 2011. To this day, the cult who tried to take advantage of him and the monster that murdered him escape justice.

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My friends and I have a few rules when it comes to investigation. 

1. Do not ever try to make contact with a supernatural entity 2. Always try to restrict the amount of contact you make with someone who is haunted by a supernatural entity 3. Do not ever try to directly interact with the Order, or in any way put yourself at risk of discovery by them 4. Do not ever try to directly interact in person with someone who has seen a supernatural entity

There are others, but these are pertinent to what I’ve done today. We’ve bent or outright broken these rules before - mainly when speaking to people who have sighted the things we’ve investigating, which is unavoidable if you want to get anywhere. 

This is the first time i’ve ever contacted anyone I could truly call “haunted” by Gorr’Rylaehotep. It’s also the first time I’ve ever put myself in danger of being located by the Order. Now, the danger is minimal. This is a dummy email account I will not be using for any other purpose, and I sent the email from a burner phone I bought with cash. I’ve already destroyed the phone. I’ll check for a reply once a day at a new location every time. There’s plenty of public computers to use, though I’ll need to be wary of security cameras.

This was a question that needed to be asked. The new Update video on the DarkHarvest00 channel made me wary. I don’t know what to believe.

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oh my god

Theyre still alive

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After four years, Vinny is free.

I just hope he can stay out of the clutches of what’s waiting for him outside the cage.

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An Examining of DarkHarvest00 - Part Three

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Log Entry #11 is uploaded almost a week after the previous video. Alex is helping Chris move his stuff back into his house. Just as Chris puts his bags down, however, Alex shouts at someone in the front yard. Chris follows Alex, who tries to apprehend the man dressed as the Slender Man, who shoves him off and runs away. Alex and Chris make chase.

As he’s chasing the cultist, Chris’s camera distorts heavily. The volume increases and the colours freak out.

There’s a cut. Chris is walking down an empty street. He seems to have lost both Alex and Alex’s quarry. Another cut. He finds a white piece of what looks like crumpled paper with two eyeholes cut into it. 

Evidently, Alex pulled the rather cheap-looking mask off the man during the chase. Or perhaps, he tossed it voluntarily, hoping it would help lose Alex.

There’s another cut. Chris is calling for Alex, wandering the streets of his New Jersey town, trying to find his friend. There’s another cut, probably just for time. Suddenly, we get a different kind of audio/visual distortion. A deep rumbling sound, and the colours trending towards yellow-red. It’s very brief, but almost immediately after it ends the volume increases heavily and the picture blurs as Chris raises the camera from facing the ground to in front of him. The blur disappears as fast as it arrived, and the contrast is blown way out when he points the lens towards the first appearance of Gorr’Rylaehotep in any of their videos. (besides his hand, if you count that) The distortion is only brief, however.

He seems taller than what I’ve seen in both Noah’s videos and on the EverymanHYBRID channel. Chris seems to pause for a split second when he sees him, then starts shaking in fear, turns around, and runs away. The distortion returns when he runs, both visual and audible. The same deep, rumbling sound.

The next cut is Chris in an unnamed friend’s car. He thanks him for the lift and they attempt to find Alex together. It doesn’t take long before they can locate him, and they pull over to find him severely out of breath. Alex says he lost him, and that he tried to take off his mask. Note that he says “tried”, which makes me think the cultist DID discard his mask willingly. 

They drive along where Alex saw the cultist flee and find a lake. Assuming he swam across the lake and got away, they decide to call it a day. Chris brings up the tall, faceless, suited man he saw, and the pair return to the site above where Chris found him. Of course, he’s vanished, and so has the car he was standing behind. Chris insists that he’ll just show Alex the video rather than tell him. 

Log #12 goes up another week later. Alex and Chris are going to their friend Greg’s house, and Alex complains about Chris bringing his camera, but Chris insists that he never be without it. Greg lets them in and asks the old proverb, “why do you have a camera?” There is a distinct buzzing when Chris crosses Greg’s threshold, but it fades when he enters.

The next few cuts are mostly of just casual conversation with a few spots of strange silence on the audio track until Alex and Chris decide to leave. They say their goodbyes and leave the house, and are still chatting happily when they reach the road and spot Kind von der Ritter across the street from Greg’s house. 

There’s another slight spot of silence on the audio track, and when sound returns Alex and Chris are trying to decide what to do. Alex tells Chris they should “rush him” because of their numbers advantage, and Chris replies that they “don’t know what he can do, though”. There seems to be a slight cut. Alex asks Chris what he wants to do, and Chris decides to simply approach him. The low buzz from earlier fades back into the audio track. The two approach McComber, calling out to him. Chris wonders aloud why he’s not saying anything, and the screen’s contrast gets blown into black, white, pink and purple. Alex asks what he wants, and Marc McComber pulls a knife from the front of his robe.

The buzzing becomes a loud hum that takes over the entirety of the camera’s audio. Chris spins around and the pair immediately run from McComber. They knock on Greg’s door in a panic and quickly explain the situation. They lock the house and attempt to call the cops. The phone doesn’t work, and neither do their mobile phones. Greg then brings up that he thinks McComber has been following him too. He asks if the guy has a “white face” and the two confirm that is the man outside.

There’s a cut, and they flee to Greg’s basement. They lock the door to the basement, and Greg tries to explain, but just as he says “I’ve...for the past-” there’s a cut. Suddenly he’s telling them to calm down and asking if Alex is okay. They check the windows and there’s another cut. Greg is talking, saying “if he wanted to hurt me, I’m sure he would have....done it already.” Apparently his stalker has been around his house. They hear a noise upstairs and the buzzing returns when Chris points the camera up. This happens twice, and Chris gets Greg to confirm that the doors are locked.

Chris then mentions to Greg that the “same guy” has been following them too, and Greg tells them he hasn’t seen their youtube videos. Chris points the camera at the entrance to the basement twice more, and gets the buzzing distortion both times. Alex begs him to turn off the camera, and there’s a hard cut. They’re agonizing over what to do, and the buzzing returns very briefly, twice. They try to grab some makeshift weapons and make their escape. As they face the basement entrance, the buzzing gets incredibly loud. They count to three, open the door, and storm the house. They find nothing, but Greg’s laptop distorts and plays the same buzzing noise that was on the camera’s audio, and they flee through the front door.

Despite what Greg and the pair were saying, I don’t think Greg was being stalked by Kind von der Ritter. Rather, they were confusing him with Gorr'Rylaehotep, who had been following Greg, and using descriptors such as “white face” to accidentally confuse the two. While the pair had mostly only encountered McComber and a few Order members that were interested in the Oracle’s activities, Greg had seen their God around his house several times. In fact, when we review his own recordings later on, more light will be shed on his situation. 

I’d also like to mention the suited, masked cultist from Log #11. From the little research I’ve been able to do on the Order, this outfit is not really one of their practices. I’d be willing to dismiss it as a rushed mask for someone who was already wearing a suit for their job if he hadn’t also worn it in the previous video. It seems this cultist liked dressing up in a similar fashion to the god he worshipped. This type of thing seems like something the Order would find offensive, as if it were mocking their god. As we don’t see this person in a later video, at least, not in the same outfit, it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possiblity that he was punished for his actions. Whether that means they killed him or merely reprimanded him, is completely unknown.

Distortion seems mostly logical in these videos. Seems to occur on a directional basis, when Chris moves the camera in the direction of some entity. Its possible Kind von der Ritter broke into Greg’s house to follow Chris and Alex, but I find it unlikely. Given the intense humming sound and distortion on Greg’s Macbook screen, I want to guess at the presence of Gorr'Rylaehotep somewhere in the house. 

However, depending on how desperate McComber was to make contact with Chris and Alex, it’s possible he could have broken in too. If so, why let them run away? I don’t believe him pulling out the knife was done with malicious intent. Rather, I believe he was trying to pull off some symbolic gesture that was lost in translation. Later videos will affirm this hypothesis. Until we reach those, however, keep taking a closer look.

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Sorry for the lack of posts.

For the last few weeks, one of my friends has been missing. Now, we try to keep our identites as secretive as we can - even from each other - so it’s been pretty difficult to try and track them down. We eventually managed to piece together enough hints and errant details to try and narrow down where they might live, just so we could make sure they were okay.

Turns out, they’ve been missing from more than just our discord server. Their neighbours haven’t seen them in weeks, and the news and police have had their picture out, trying to find them. They’re already doing a good enough job, so I won’t be breaking their anonymity here, but I just wanted to let you guys know.

I’m just hoping this isn’t something really bad.

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Showed this to a friend of mine earlier today, thought I’d post it here too. Observer’s image of an electrical panel with plugs in every socket on the Administrator’s chest is meant to represent the Collective - their “missing piece” being Firebrand.

“WE CANNOT WAIT TO HAVE YOU AGAIN. HA HA HA. AND OUR MISSING PIECE.”

Essentially, the Collective is looking to regain control of Firebrand.

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I am not looking forward to hearing about what Kevin did to Milo.

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Infect

Once again, I’m struck by how keen Milo seems to be. He recognises Firebrand as Noah.

The person swearing at him through the door is his own mother - or rather, Cursor. The latin words he hears in his mind translate to “protection from selfish” as he says later on the entry - Cursor being “the Selfish”, of course.

Firebrand instructs Milo on how to use Severance and the dream ends. Or rather, continues. 

He sees Firebrand with the briefcase that would eventually be passed on to him in the events of “Milo’s Tape”. The Administrator appears and Firebrand uses the journal to suppress him, and a door opens showing somebody. 

Cursor?

Milo “awakes” staring out his window, and sees someone standing behind the tree in his neighbor’s yard. There’s supposedly a flash of light, and then the spy flees, and Milo wakes proper in his bed in the morning. Truly, this seems like an absolute rollercoaster of a night. I’m going to make a guess now. The person spying on him from behind the tree was the Observer acting through Kevin, and the “flash of light” was something similar to the distortion that affects cameras pointed towards the Administrator and his thralls. Whatever it was, it knocks Milo out and puts him back in bed. 

But was this a dream, or a memory? Did Firebrand have contact with young Milo? 

The next entry contains Milo discussing his relationship with Kevin. He finds out the translation of the latin words he found from the Ouija board as a kid, most notably that his father was “hidden”. Most of us have taken this as evidence that Robert Asher was resurrected at some point when Milo was small. Given we have yet to see what role he plays in Milo’s story, I can guess he has a bigger role to yet play.

For some reason, Milo assumes it was his own Journal speaking to him through the Ouija board. I’ve gone over the entry a few times, and I can’t find anything that would indicate this, so Milo must know something I don’t. The suggestion that the book was sentient even back when Milo was a child disturbs me. What could have caused a seemingly ordinary book to come alive? And if it was speaking to him, does that mean it’s on his side? It spoke a lot of conflicting nonsense when it was in Noah’s possession. I had assumed it was part of Milo’s essence within the pages whispering, but perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps it was something more sinister.

Milo describes how after the “incident” with the Ouija board as children, Kevin became much more quiet, and started performing much better in class.

He even says that Kevin “morphed into a different person overnight”. I’m going to guess that Kevin was made into the Observer’s vessel during those events, and that it is his influence that changed Kevin so severely. It would also play into the “dream” Milo had in the previous entry of seeing somebody spying on him behind a tree. Matches up with somebody we know, yes?

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still busy, sorry

uh, i read the new journal entry. im glad milo was smart enough to realize his mother is a liar.