I'd run the idea by Robin to see what experience she had, she confirmed that her interactions with the Green-Eyed have been limited beyond when they brought her that lantern. They've never seemed interested in hurting her.
And when the spirits had attacked before it was someone attempting to reach the lighthouse, or their attempt to make the others sleep and dream with us. I suspect these mass abductions has a similar purpose.
Yeah. When we first arrived and headed out to the lighthouse, Cap Winters warned us that we'd be run into resistance. Interactions at that time and since have mostly relayed the idea that the green-eyed spirits are acting out of some kind of sense of duty and desire to protect. Originally, that seemed to be for the lighthouse and the keeper, now it seems to be broader, but...
Is it potentially just a poor attempt at communication? Yeah, maybe. But I'll admit as much I want to believe that's the case, I don't know if I'd pin all of my hopes on that.
Maybe Doc Solis can offer more thoughts. She's been here the longest.
None noted yet. I've been trying to be discreet about keeping notes, they've been through enough already.
I'm also piecing together a lead on the radio tower by using a radio signal received by a repaired car in the scrap yard, and interested in searching Beacon for other green glows.
My explanation for this is mostly going to be "welcome to New York", but once a psychopathic businessman tried to turn all of the citizens into goblins.
(Green goblins, so if I ever have a pathological reaction to the color, you'll have to excuse me.)
The city with a biogenic chemical compound that caused the physical and mental transformation. I'm not saying it's the same thing, but what I am saying is that if it does progress, I'm positive there'll be a way to reverse the process.
I've had a chat with Doc Solis. I get the impression that it's not relevant to anything you've been looking into, but she's given me a crash course in the lanterns and candles.
Before I answer that, there's something I've got to ask you: what do you believe about our being here? I don't mean that in a grand sense. I don't mean it in 'well, we're here to save the world'. I mean the circumstances. The lanterns and the candles are obviously, clearly linked to our lifeforce, so: what is your opinion on what that means for our existence?
Do you think we're dead, alive, or somewhere in between and maybe you're thinking about changing your name to Erwin?
The Hint-O-Matic confirmed that we're dead, though I take the machine with a grain of salt.
The lanterns clearly impact our manifestation here but as the spirits are keen to point out, what is death to a dead thing.
I remember my own death and so do many others here. But I've had memories planted in me before. It wouldn't be my first experience with seamless manipulation.
More notably in my opinion is that people in Beacon have different memories of one another, some who recall outliving others and are unable to reconcile these differences with people from home. This suggests not simply parallel universes but also universes with multiple differing timelines.
So I suppose if you're asking for my opinion with all of that in mind, I would say: I think that were are duplicates of ourselves copied from one particular moment. Like a photograph. Or three-dimensionally, a clone.
(Universes with multiple differing timelines is something we can talk about another day.)
[ peter remembers his death, too — although the difference between the two of them is that he's died before. (hashtag superherolife, hashtag itscomplicated). he knows people who have died and been brought to life and he's joked before about how, in his line of work, death isn't really something that sticks. in his more morose moments, he's wished that it would. in his happier moments, he's been glad it hasn't. ]
Clones are apparently the closest and easiest comparison. I'd suspected it for a while, based on the degradation of bodies in relation to deaths and revivals. I know it opens the door to an existential crisis, but depending on how that's perceived by the spirits, whether they know about it or not, and ditto the magic 8-ball the Night Market has, it repositions the question of alive vs. dead.
Apparently we come through the portal as souls. The Doc has equipment that scans the souls and the printer set up at her lab that prints out a relevant lantern to house each one. The candles are the equivalent to a battery for the body.
[ some of it's obvious — that the candles represent life isn't exactly news, but strongly suspecting and having confirmation are two different things. ]
Brings a whole new meaning to getting snuffed out, right?
I'm going to momentarily pause the news that we've been 3d printed and instead ask- do the lanterns come with a light in them innately? Or are they placed there? And where do we print from if we arrive here via the ferry?
Because right now my best guess is the Helix Station or a yet undiscovered equivalent.
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And when the spirits had attacked before it was someone attempting to reach the lighthouse, or their attempt to make the others sleep and dream with us. I suspect these mass abductions has a similar purpose.
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Is it potentially just a poor attempt at communication? Yeah, maybe. But I'll admit as much I want to believe that's the case, I don't know if I'd pin all of my hopes on that.
Maybe Doc Solis can offer more thoughts. She's been here the longest.
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Some of the hostages had been force-fed, their eyes have begun to change.
Three guesses about the color.
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Any other changes?
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I'm also piecing together a lead on the radio tower by using a radio signal received by a repaired car in the scrap yard, and interested in searching Beacon for other green glows.
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(Green goblins, so if I ever have a pathological reaction to the color, you'll have to excuse me.)
The city with a biogenic chemical compound that caused the physical and mental transformation. I'm not saying it's the same thing, but what I am saying is that if it does progress, I'm positive there'll be a way to reverse the process.
Anyway, I'm glad you're keeping busy.
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Where's your intellectual curiosity.
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...Are the individuals who've recently developed green eyes aware of the change?
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You asked me once to keep you in the loop. Compare notes, tip my hand.
Consider this my way of asking if you still want in.
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I've had a chat with Doc Solis. I get the impression that it's not relevant to anything you've been looking into, but she's given me a crash course in the lanterns and candles.
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What were your big take aways?
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Do you think we're dead, alive, or somewhere in between and maybe you're thinking about changing your name to Erwin?
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The lanterns clearly impact our manifestation here but as the spirits are keen to point out, what is death to a dead thing.
I remember my own death and so do many others here. But I've had memories planted in me before. It wouldn't be my first experience with seamless manipulation.
More notably in my opinion is that people in Beacon have different memories of one another, some who recall outliving others and are unable to reconcile these differences with people from home. This suggests not simply parallel universes but also universes with multiple differing timelines.
So I suppose if you're asking for my opinion with all of that in mind, I would say: I think that were are duplicates of ourselves copied from one particular moment. Like a photograph. Or three-dimensionally, a clone.
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(Universes with multiple differing timelines is something we can talk about another day.)
[ peter remembers his death, too — although the difference between the two of them is that he's died before. (hashtag superherolife, hashtag itscomplicated). he knows people who have died and been brought to life and he's joked before about how, in his line of work, death isn't really something that sticks. in his more morose moments, he's wished that it would. in his happier moments, he's been glad it hasn't. ]
Clones are apparently the closest and easiest comparison. I'd suspected it for a while, based on the degradation of bodies in relation to deaths and revivals. I know it opens the door to an existential crisis, but depending on how that's perceived by the spirits, whether they know about it or not, and ditto the magic 8-ball the Night Market has, it repositions the question of alive vs. dead.
Apparently we come through the portal as souls. The Doc has equipment that scans the souls and the printer set up at her lab that prints out a relevant lantern to house each one. The candles are the equivalent to a battery for the body.
[ some of it's obvious — that the candles represent life isn't exactly news, but strongly suspecting and having confirmation are two different things. ]
Brings a whole new meaning to getting snuffed out, right?
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Because right now my best guess is the Helix Station or a yet undiscovered equivalent.