Sadie

MY Sadie is in the first photo on the right.

I didn’t catch her name but I still have her note and remember all the things she told me. It’s good to know the name Sadie… possibly Sadie Everly.

I hadn’t shared this before, I was going to after my Ascension party and forgot I guess… But I just posted Sadie’s note to me to Instagram. Sadie’s note.

Nice! Well, I may have misinterpreted the her mom may have come for her thing. But I will let you know that I’m all for/right there with you on helping her out. I tried to grab her and take her away with us until the bouncer guy threw me in the other direction.

I may have been confused about her mother because in the common room I found a book with a small instant polaroid picture inside. It was a picture of the one I call “the chipper lady” from the mixer in…May was it? I asked Sadie if she knew this woman and she ran way crying. Later she came up to me “You need the bathroom don’t you? Let me show you where it is.” and we chatted outside the bathroom because it was occupied. She told me that was her mother in the picture. and that she (Sadie) was an actress you had come here a while back, long enough that she didn’t remember when. And she hadn’t returned home since. She said her mother may have come looking for her and she said if she was there in the building she asked me to reunite and help them to escape if I could.

With my prior knowledge of the woman being at the mixer and seeing how she was there, I thought before this that the chipper woman was a quite happy member of the OOA and kind of up the ranks some. After this though I wondered if either I was mistaken at placing the face or if I was completely wrong and the mixer was some sort of attempt to get her own daughter back by blending in with the whole scene…

not to mention…not to poke holes or anything but The Chipper woman was very visibly to me a member of an ethnic group, I’d say Filipino? Perhaps some Hispanic/Asian group which I thought Sadie didn’t belong to, but who knows anything. I’m very very mixed myself and am hard for people to place constantly. I get “Samoan” and “Mexican” a lot. White people tend to say “you’re Hispanic”, Hispanics: “you’re white”, black girls: “there’s something about how curly your hair is but I’m not sure what…”, black guys scream: “YOUR DAD HAD A WHITE WOMAN” to which you can only reply “how’d you know?”

Interesting! How was she that she had to ask you not to hate her?

I had Sadie and Shannon. Shannon only interacted with me twice, though… slightly red…brunette hair, gorgeous. Anyway, she once told me “Don’t let them catch you knocking” when I was knocking on the walls. Then she asked if I knew Joe. She said to stay near him, not to let him be alone that night.

When I was in the rec room at the beginning, I tried to focus on talking to people (most of my group seemed to be made up of escape room enthusiasts and they went for objects and looked for clues). The woman who was putting the puzzle together was throwing pieces of the puzzle at her while she stood there. I asked her (the handler) “why is she doing that?” She said, “because she hates me, everyone here hates me.” I said, “I don’t hate you.” She said “you don’t know me.”

Later that night – I was the sacrifice, and she was standing next to me when they put the hood over my head, and she leaned in and said “thank you for not hating me.”

Now THAT is a three act structure.

That’s like my thing with @jkonigsberg. Shannon asked me to look after Joe. So I tried to. I tried asking for him as much as I could. “Can Joe come too can Joe come too?” “Joe sit next to me.” About halfway through the experience, they forced Joe and me to stare into each other’s eyes and focus on the good in life, the good in each other the cruelness of the world…. and a bunch more I don’t remember because I was focusing on trying to make sure Joe was okay. He had told me earlier in the night he didn’t know why they told me to look after him. It seemed they told more than just me, like a few people 3 or 4. Earlier in the night though he said he was fine, some of the fog effects affecting his asthma maybe. So I was given a choice to go with the group or go forward on my own path. I said Joe is fine I’ll go forward. Fast forward to the end of the night, a bag was torn off my head in a bright room and I see a confused face staring at me. It was Joe, and I immediately thought “I failed. this is my punishment for not sticking with Joe.” We were made to stack tools on a tray and one of us would be the tool bearer. It ended up being me.

Exactly what I’m wondering Mike. I’m going back Sunday and there’s quite a few things I’d like to ask people.
Sadie about Benny and the Overseer being one of them.

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Good catch! I wonder! I have no idea but that is quite interesting. There does seem to be a lot of emphasis on names and similar names. Sampson being ODSM and also Benny/Mark… there’s a few others. As well as coincidental ones like Addison/Addison Born, Attocus Gordon, I believe Max went by the moniker Attocus for a while? Identity seems to play a big role.

I do know that OOG I interacted with Shannon, her name IRL is Shannon. So I posted to the forum her name being Shannon and talking about her because that’s how I know her, not because she told me her name while there.

Thank you sir. It definitely seems like identity and names are providing some framework of symbolism to these experiences. All of the girls dressing the same, having the same roles, and having “S” names all references “sameness” to me. That’s the link that I come across–but I didn’t know if it went deeper.

And as for the girls themselves. The first girl I met, I asked her name, and she told me it was Susan (she was the dark eyes, very scared, bobbed dark hair with bangs). Next I met Sadie and she introduced herself. I met a few others but did not catch their names. But Susan and Sadie’s names OOG are not the same as their IG counterparts.

Yeah for me it was Shannon and Sadie.. I knew neither of their names. Shannon I found later because she knew Joe personally…. and Joe and I bonded quite a bit that night… Sadie, I learned here. If you read above.

And as for the girls themselves. The first girl I met, I asked her name, and she told me it was Susan (she was the dark eyes, very scared, bobbed dark hair with bangs). Next I met Sadie and she introduced herself. I met a few others but did not catch their names. But Susan and Sadie’s names OOG are not the same as their IG counterparts.

@taysavestheday After my second Ascension, learning that names are very important… yet also being so overwhelmed with information and remembering next to nothing in my shock state, and after some encouragement from some I’ve decided I’m going to try and find as many pictures as I can and make a roster of people from within the walls of the institute. We can all look at pictures and list what names we know for them/what names we may have listed them by in the past. I know there was originally some confusion about “The Doctor” and “the professor” that needed to be cleared up, so if we can get a roster with names that would be pretty legit in my opinion.

I’m starting it but I’ll surely need help of anyone is interested.

That sounds like a wonderfully ambitious and helpful idea. It does seem like there is some fluidity in the names, especially with the handlers, but I think this would be a great start.

I’d love to help out. Feel free to message me on the social media platform of choice!

Thanks!

I suspect that you’re right. The journal heavily references the fact that people are stripped of their names when they enter the OOA, and the fact that suddenly some people were given back their names for what seems like our benefit is highly suspect.

Just be careful. I do not doubt your connection to this woman, whatever her name was, nor do I doubt your fury and conviction. Just keep in mind that the OOA has been playing people against themselves for longer than any of us have been around, and they may be pulling at your strings by manipulating this connection you felt

Oh ya @shinobi I don’t want to dismiss the connection that you have made inside the Compound. I really was just hashing out thoughts, placing them here on the forum.

Whether or not they’re the same person, I’m not entirely convinced “Sadie” was the roommate’s birth name when she first met Addison. If we believe she was already working for the OOA, there’s no reason to be sure that was her original name. I’m not really sure anyone uses their real name there.

Though I suppose if you choose it for yourself or choose to at least own it fully, any name is real enough, even if it’s not the one you began with.