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We know they reset Sabrina with the helmet to bring her “back” to Addison – but we also know that some of their ways of keeping Addison under their control have stopped working in the last 48 hours.

Is this Samson and The Suit going full Jack Bauer in their attempt to keep “Addison” under control? Do what we say or we shoot your pops in the kneecap?

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Welcome @izryn! It’s great to meet you!

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Ugh. So, so sorry @thebuz. I know that feeling.

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Thanks for this, @taysavestheday. The image of Sabrina – scared, lost, confused – has beeen haunting me since I last visited the Institute.

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The idea that she may have found new strength, a way to fight back against these monsters (due to your help or for reasons we don’t understand yet) fills me with so much hope.

@masterlock / Sabrina, you are not alone. We are thinking of you. And we will do what it takes to help you.

We will fight.

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In case anybody can’t see the video, here’s a quick and dirty transcription of Overseer’s words:

EDIT: Video was pulled from Facebook, so I’m removing this for the time being in case it was deleted intentionally.

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Thanks for the detailed account of your evening @sadako. I also went a 3rd time tonight, but there were a few differences worth adding to this new turn.

After getting into the van at the top of the evening, I was promptly told to get out – and found Samson in his car behind me in the parking lot (creepy). On the drive to the Institute he sang two songs: “Nature Boy” and “Mona Lisa”. I believe the second one has particular meaning that I’ll explain below.

The evening went as it has for others: I was brought to Addison, who had been “reset” with the helmet. She was confused; disoriented. Very much what @reaton recounted.

She whispered into my ear that her real name was Sabrina. When we went to processing things got even more interesting.

OSDM #2 (I’ll call him The Suit for convenience) asked Addison who I was, and then who she was. She vacillated between Addison, Gatekeeper 2, and Sabrina. The Suit got mad at Samson, and one of them said “We have the data. This thing is over.” It felt like they meant something bigger than my evening; it felt like they meant the show.

The Suit then explained how Addison had done her job because I cared for her, and she had gotten me to come back 3 times.

Combined with the “Mona Lisa” lyrics – a song about the alluring and mysterious smile that people have read so much into – I fear we may have been misdirected all along. I fear that “Addison Barrow” as we have known her doesn’t exist at all, and instead is a character created by the ODSM to entice us to join The Tension Experience.

This potentially explains why the helmet “resets” her. It takes the real woman Sabrina, and puts the Addison personality in her place instead.

I don’t want to believe this. I want one of you – all of you – to please tell me this doesn’t make sense.

All I know is I looked into the eyes of a young woman that was being controlled by two monsters so they could control me. As The Suit forced me out of the room, I called out to Addison/Sabrina. I told her that we would come for her and rescue her.

The last I saw of her was Samson invoking his key phrase (“Morior Invictus”, perhaps) as she fell to the floor.

I can’t get the image out of my mind.

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I don’t know if Darren Bousman and Clint Sears were being forced to fake this or not.

I don’t know if @mike and @reaton knew they were being played or not. I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt until we have reason not to.

What I do know is that a lot of people wrote about Tension and talked about Tension because they wanted to highlight a fantastic immersive theater piece — NOT be used to help hype a cult.

@samson, this will not go unanswered.

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Oh lord, @summoningdark. That’s a really interesting point.

It wouldn’t be the first time that the idea of the people inside the walls of the Institute undergoing ongoing suffering due to our continued visits had been raised.

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It’s still coming up in my browser on Facebook. It’s disappeared from the mobile app though. :-/

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That makes a ton of sense, @taysavestheday. Also worth noting that Samson (or the actor playing Samson) seems to be the only person in the show that is free to leave the walls of the compound at will at this point. Perhaps because he’s not really part of the show.

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I tend to agree with you, @thegilded.

OSDM#2 did not have any of the theatricality or panache that people like Simon, Samson, and Overseer have had. I referred to him as “The Suit” because that’s exactly what he seemed like. There was no mystery or aura about him at all. He was closer to an angry accountant or mid-level manager than a cult enforcer, and I have a hard time believing he is a member of any of the organizations (OOA/ODSM/CoA) we’ve come to recognize.

And the amount of personal information that everyone who’s attended this show has given up (to say nothing of the Indoctrination exchanges I’ve read about) is frightening.

And we did it willingly.

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@summoningdark Thinking back over the evening’s events, it seems even more clear that Addison was always just a character. The question is when did things go off the rails, and when did Addison Barrow become a role that Sabrina Kern was playing for a show, and when did the helmet start doing its dirty work?

It seems very clear from discussions that the various plants have had with people during the second round visits that actors come to this show thinking it’s just a regular gig — and then get subsumed into the larger “cult” of the organization itself. Did DLB and CS find themselves in the same situation? Was this just a job that went horribly awry?

Judging from the conversation OSDM#2 and Samson had, it seems a primary objective here is the collection of data — of emotional responses — from participants. Who wants this data, and why have they created such an elaborate ruse to get it?

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“Morior Invictus” is what I believe I heard, @electrichippo.

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Agreed. This is about splitting us up. We can’t let it happen.

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@mike I think it’s worth mentioning at this point that I had a very strange interaction with Clint the other day.

I had DM’d him on Twitter about something, and he hit me back saying he was busy and couldn’t talk. Which normally would be no biggie. But it’s how he closed our exchange that stuck with me.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “For everything.”

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