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Best periscope moment: The ONE event. Mike Gray rolling past on his scooter saying “WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”

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Today I have a party. Tonight I reAscend. Tonight I go through with one of the best friends I could ever have dreamt of having. But right now all I want to get out is this.

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I was high off of having found out I was along with all of you, the one. I was also extremely nervous having seen everyone gone through the first week and being completely silent about everything. I was extremely nervous when I stepped into that parking lot. I arrived with Tom, Susie, Michelle, and Joe. I was trying my hardest not to shake as I met the parking attendant, someone with whom I’m great friends with now. Mary was already there waiting for us as was a couple, a man, and wife, I had never met before. His name was Tom, hers was Heidi. The husband seemed to have heard about tension just the week before and dragged his wife alone who was not enthused at all. Another guy, Patrick came out of the woodwork to meet us all and we all laughed at the dumpster graffiti and flickering lights that set the mood. Maria then came thinking her time had switched to ours though that was not the case. Then a young woman trying hard to have an American accent strolled up the alley saying “This must be tension… that or you all like hanging in weird parking lots…” Her name was Brit.

Brit was from Norway and hadn’t been here long. She was very into immersive theater though and had been told this was like LAs version of Sleep No More which she had loved. After a bit of getting to know her a van pulled up and a bald man told us to line up calling our names. Brit. Derek. Susie. Brit was the first one called, and the last one counted and I was right next to her. We started chatting and filling out our forms before he ushered us to put bags on our heads and sit in the van. The van drove a few minutes and then stopped pulling someone (who I later found out was Brit) telling them to knock on the door and wait. We then heard the door slam and drove around the block. The door opens the bag was ripped from my head and I’m told to knock 3 times. I do. The secretary peeks out and smiles at me. That’s a fun sight and an even better smell. “Derek. I’ve heard so much about you, it’s great to finally meet you. We’re going to have so much fun today.” She tells me to sit and fill out the rest of my form. In fact, I believe it was something along the lines of “tsk-tsk-tsk, you didn’t finish your form… we can’t continue until that silly thing is done.” As I fill it out the professor is staring at me intently but doesn’t answer when I try to make small talk. Another participant which I can’t remember came in to do the same and sat on the other side of him.

After finishing the secretary smiled and said sweet things with a hug then showed me to the bathroom and finally to the file room. There a man took my picture, told me nothing was random and to be present. He walked toward the door and said: “You can always have an out, there is a safeword… coward.” As if that was what I was. I walked into the common room. There was a woman who didn’t seem too enthused doing a puzzle and two handlers. Immediately Brit came to me and said she had found a note asking if I thought there were more. In that moment my nervousness left me as I went into ARG mode. I told her to search for more, but put them back so others could see them as well if we point them out. I started at the snack table and made my way around the room trying to find everything. I found a note that said knock on every wall (something I wish I remembered and had done). Next, on the piano I found a note that said knock on the nearest wall to the note, they were hidden there and if they knocked back they would still be alive. I knocked. No answer. Shannon walked by, whispering in passing “don’t let them catch you knocking.”

I go through more and more notes all while Sadie hovered near me looking on the verge of tears constantly. I found a book with a small picture in it of someone I thought I recognized. A short woman, a woman I thought had been at the mixer earlier this year. I call her the chipper lady. I look up and Addison was there. The name Carlos escapes my lips and she glared. she turned and made for the door. I followed and she slammed it in my face. When I turned around Sadie was there by the book I was playing with. I asked her who the woman was and she ran off crying.

Not long later Shannon came to me again and said: “Do you know Joe?” I racked my brain thinking of in game Joes and said I didn’t think so. She clarified he had come with me in the van today. I said “Oh that Joe! Yes, he’s my friend.” She said he was her friend as well and to not leave him alone that night. So I had a mission. Sadie came over and said, “You need to use the bathroom don’t you?” I said I did and followed her. It was occupied and she said “Shit! We can do this here, be quiet. That woman from the picture… that’s my mom. I’m an actress and since I’ve come here I haven’t been back home. She’s probably worried sick. I don’t know why they have her picture, maybe she’s come for me. If you can, if you find her, tell her I’m here.” I had another mission.

At some point, I saw Tom ushered out in a black hood. I thought this is how it would be, they’ll just bag me and take me, this was before anything really got going in the common room. More clues and notes later Leonard called us all to sit and toast with him. He poured us all punch as Joe walked in. I asked Joe to come sit with me and explained I was told to stick to him like glue. He didn’t know why but I got the feeling they thought he wasn’t going to make it through the entire night. We grabbed punch and toasted. I tipped back the styrofoam cup but didn’t let the liquid touch my lips. and set the cup down. Then we played two truths and a lie. Michelle went first. Then the married man. I guessed his right off the bat and Mildred decided to join in. She said, “I’ve never paid my taxes, I’ve never killed someone out of passion, and I’ve never killed an authority member.” Then she walked away. I said “so we don’t get to guess?” to which the puzzle-woman replied, “She has dementia, she doesn’t know where she is half the time.” And Leonard remarked that he wasn’t sure if any of those were a lie.

Sadie scooped up Mary, Michelle, and me. She bagged our heads and ushered us into the locker room and I asked if Joe could come with us. Maybe I had already failed. A British man’s voice asked us questions. Mary, to my left, was asked something I forget and seemed to have given a poor answer that made him sad. Michelle on my other side was asked to name three brands of shoes. She gave answers like D&G, Prada, etc. to which she was told she was posh and he changed the question to the last three secretaries of state. She couldn’t answer one and she called her useless. He ripped the bag off my head and asked me to prove I was better than the other two. I replied that I was just a person and was no better than anyone. He smiles and said, “Come on, I know you’re amazing.” This is when I realized this was Ellis Gordon. This was also the start of me noticing how possibly sexist the OOA is. We changed into jumpsuits and were ushered into the big white room shoeless with Simon.

Simon lined us up and tore them down, by which I mean he yelled at Mary and Michelle and barely paid attention to me. I was sent to the Black woman to be questioned. She seemed very displeased with me. I sat. She didn’t want that. She made me put my shoes on and glared at me in a huff as I made her wait. She asked me all sex questions. How many partners? How many partners at once? Submissive or Dominant? Am I ashamed of anything? All the time very displeased with me unless she was telling a story of the depraved things people had told her the week before. I kind of wanted to know who the “stubby little man” last week was and what “the things he said…” were that made her smile and blush blissfully. When she was done she sent me back to the bench where Simon was screaming “CUNT” at Brit. Someone had to sit on my lap. Mary asked “How are you? What’s your name” and Simon was taken back. He said, “I haven’t been asked that in a long time… not that it matters but my name is Simon, you can call me ‘cunt’ for all you want.” I couldn’t help but mention that was my favorite word and he said “good to know.” Joe came back in the room and sat with us.

We were then made to walk out and line up in front of a door when Addison walked past and said Glory Be. I whispered Carlos but I don’t think she heard. Simon yelled at us to answer back and in unison from the group “GLORY BE” …”Addison” Mary added. Simon remarked that she may know more than most and that the clues in here required a bit of that kind of thinking. We then entered the red room. On a lampshade I found a message saying there were keys hidden in here. It made it sound like in the sand so I started combing the floor. Brit began the thing. Lining on the rocks and answering things about ourselves which two people in black face and tribal markings began to act out. We noticed the time limit and worked as fast as possible. We made it out with not much more than a second to spare.

The door opened into fog. We chose to walk to the right. There was a woman that looked dead in a hospital gown. I checked her pulse. The professor started to speak about time amongst the clocks on the wall and after a few minutes Addison checked in on us. I told Michelle to say Carlos but she said it too softly. I nearly shouted it then and her hand gripped tightly as she glared then said “THAT is in the past. DEREK.” I shut up now not knowing what else to try. They paired us up. Joe and I at the end. The make us stare deeply into each other’s eyes, make us focus on the lips, attempt to see their soul. Joe was starting to tear up and I was trying to make sure he was ok. I made it worse. He said the fog may have just been affecting his asthma. The push our heads in for a kiss andJoe pulled away. After they ushered most everyone out of the room and Joe looked at me like “Are we supposed to split?”

The professor had Mary, Heidi, and I and told us we could go forward on our own path. It may end there back in the parking lot or it may go on. OR. We could go back to the group. I told him Joe said he was fine. Fuck him. I’m going forward. All three of us did. We were taken past walls with graffiti into a classroom. We watched a movie and were told we would be tested. It was still images of Mount Rushmore and human body diagrams with subliminal messages hidden. Afterward, he made us all take a bite of an apple. I spit mine out when he wasn’t looking.

We came to an altar room with a priest and a woman with no eyes. They told us we were having our senses take. At this point, I wanted to Ascend. I wanted to be the one, I wanted to know God. I was willing to do whatever was asked of me. He squirted a burning liquid into my right eye, but not both. Why am I always half! I tilted my head trying to get it in both. The covered our eyes and Heidi asked if it could not go over her nose. She seemed fine until now, but seemed to be an issue. Mary got defensive and said “LEAVE HER ALONE SHE’S A DIABETIC” The attendant said it was no problem and accommodated. We went into the next room and were told to sit down. A man put his hand on my shoulder and said “Not you but..” so I stood up. He laughed and said “no you can sit but this next part is only for the girls.” he made them put their hands in some kind of altar before giving us a liquid to take our sense of taste away. We ate human flesh then were covered in another layer of blindfolding. Heidi complained again this time she received an “I DON’T GIVE A SHIT LADY. DO IT OR THIS IS OVER FOR YOU”

I was brought into another room bound and had my hands dipped in wax with no warning. Headphone then went over my ears. Others said they had music, tv static, or moans and screams in their ears. I had nothing. I heard people arguing behind me. “He’s supposed to go to the mirror room” “Why would I take him there that makes absolutely no sense” “can he hear us? I think he can. Look at his posture” I’m sad I didn’t react to this. I thought I’d get in trouble. I thought I wouldn’t ascend if I could hear. I was pushed in multiple directions and in what seemed like patterns. A circle. A square. A triangle. After what felt like forever I was pushed into a chair. The bag ripped off and it was too bright to see. When I formally could see Joe was standing over me with a confused expression and I knew I failed. I wouldn’t ascend because I left him alone. He unbound my wrists and I was told to take the wax off and put gloves on. We were made to put tools on a tray. He kept describing how beautiful each was and I agreed. I asked what they were used for and he slammed his fist on the table. I was told by Joe later it wasn’t my question but Shannon screaming in the next room that made him do so.

He gave us the option of who would have the responsibility to carry the tray. I didn’t care either way. Joe Told me to take it because he’s shaky and didn’t have his glasses. The Doctor said, “Remember This is the time you COULD have taken the tray.” And someone grabbed Joe and ushered him out. I was taken to an altar room to have my tray blessed by the oracle. The room had only one entrance and was pitch black. The doctor was chanting and suddenly a face appeared, a black tribal face with an ornate headdress. I thought it was different than those in the red room. As soon as it had come it had dissappeared then I stood up with the tray and turned around to see Addison. She led me to the sermon hall and instructed me on what to do. I brought the tools when asked and bowed. Brit was on stage with Tom Hite. I sat next to his wife Susie. She was making me laugh, he had ripped his pants and his boxers were showing. Addison on the microphone stopped her speech with a “RIGHT DEREK”. I’m not sure I pissed her off with the Carlos’ or if I was disrupting everything with Susie.

Brit didn’t make it. I liked her. I indirectly killed her. Tom was passed out as Sadie told us to run. This was our chance and what did I do? I said, “But there’s a second one. we have a second chance right there!” pointing at Tom. Men walked toward his passed out body then we were all made to run. So I did. Sadie was grabbed up and I ran and grabbed her. A man picked me up and tossed me one way with a “You go that way.” And it was done. Pictures and handshakes.

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Best one liner in general? Attocus Gordon. “YOU’RE A SAD MAN”

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I’m still waiting on @Godot…

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Well that’s out then… I think @sadako said one of her thumbs too… unless she’s making a three thumbed hand.

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That is an interesting idea… They took only two of @sadako‘s fingers she said right?

What about you @hoopthespian21?

Maybe it isn’t a social…or isn’t yet… but it could be some other sort of account or i.d.
perhaps many prints= one hand that traces to different and confusing places in evidence.

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1 digit off from being a phone number.

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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.

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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.

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That is actually really interesting, I’ve heard from a few people that there have been similar name glitches. Addison seems to have trouble differentiating Sadie from others, asking a handler to inform Benny about meeting up to run lines and things like that. The handler having no idea what she’s talking about.

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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.

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Ah, but did Hades ever truly control Cerberus? Can you really control a spirit or an entity? Especially if this being is much older wiser and more experienced than any living creature… Sometimes the dog turns and bites the handler, sometimes it’s lovingly, other times it’s terrifying.

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@blondiecamps I have to agree with you on that one. I didn’t say it above but REVELATION I’m not so sure Addison is in there anymore. Following my same line of thinking, if Addison was brainwashed and thought herself 2, does that even give her the right or the know how to appoint the one? Maybe both the real 2 and the real one are still out there?

This is all a big what if.

Before she was kidnapped or any of that I met her in person at the mixer. She was a shy mousy girl.You’ve read her journal and saw her shyness… I’d say it might’ve been worse than portrayed in writing. Now as the Overseer she is strong, she is determined. I do think she is in control… maybe…

Addison… yes Addison the one we knew, was taken after she broke down from being 2 by ODSM just before Ascension started and transformed. They could have taken the real her and bolstered her up into being the confident powerful Overseer she is or it could be something different altogether. The OOA/ODSM saw the raw fury 2 was beholding and wanted to nip that in the bud. Perhaps Addison is dead. Perhaps Sampson filled her with a new persona which is so strong in her vessel because it killed the old Addison. It says “I’m in control” on the periscope and you believe the conviction in its voice, the power… because it’s true. It is in control. Maybe Addison isn’t dead actually… Maybe she’s too weak to manifest in that vessel at all other than the phrase Sampson has. (That manifesting being falling to her knees unable to even…like the white girl she is?) Collapsing to your knees sounds like a puppet with its strings cut to me to be honest, no one home, but it could be a very weak persona.

Addison could be in complete control, so with no disrespect, I just want to meet her and see for myself. She could have a new found strong will that she uses to stay in control, but I’m not sure about that with this idea of Sampson’s phrase… I think Sampson is controlling someone or something within her… the Overseer is in control… the Overseer is not Addison… Sampson is a modern necromancer

Or something. All speculation.

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But then I saw the true nature of the OOA. I went through the process of removing my senses. I fully believe there is a deity at the heart of the OOA that is using Addison/Overseer as its mouthpiece, but whatever it is is truly evil.

That’s interesting @sweeneyskip. For quite some time I have believed that the Gatekeepers are supernatural. Possibly those above Gatekeepers as well or maybe those above are human and trying to use the supernatural beats for whatever they “believe” will happen. Essentially I was around when Gatekeeper 5 was the top dog to listen to. He stepped down completely for 4 to come around. I thought this meant a gatekeeper had to be silenced or perhaps die for the next iteration to come about. This led me to believe that this is what the purpose of ascension is. The idea being that they find willing people seeking enlightenment, they rid us of our personality… an ego death like Buddha, Jesus, or a great DMT trip. We think we become this “Ascended Master” but really we are making ourselves empty vessels for an entity… spirit…demon(?) to possess us. These gatekeepers. Later we found the hierarchy that showed gatekeepers and the overseer… and oracles being unattached on the outside. (This is why I say some may be human? watching making sure things go well… and I imagine oracles are human but burdened/gifted with the ability to hear the words of Anoch.)

3 seemed to have come early and thrown everything into chaos. He also didn’t seem fully formed and was astounded by things like Pokemon go and Netflix. Many people theorized that gatekeepers may have been grown in test tubes… which is comical considering the stature of 3… but I attribute these mannerisms he displayed to being the entity learning how to control the body. It seems a hard process to rid any shred of personality from a person and let them be controlled like a puppet on a string, a rag doll in hand, or a meat suit. In fact, this roughness in transition is what I attributed to Addison’s kidnapping by 4. I figured 4 wanted to ease the arrival of the next gatekeeper as smooth as possible, so she took Addison and tried to mold her and ready her to make the possession as seamless and without discomfort to the new gatekeeper as possible. She had Addison writing standards preparing herself and doing all sorts of tasks. There even was a time I thought she wasn’t preparing Addison to be 2, I thought perhaps 4 wanted to rejoin with a new body. Maybe Addison was the younger, newer model for 4 to step into? I dunno…Meanwhile, while Addison was in an MK Ultra like state doing these things she’s hearing 4 constantly berate and threaten to kill 3. I thought Addison was brainwashed at that point. She wasn’t really 2, she thought she was and the only thing she knew was right from hearing it over and over was “kill the other gatekeepers”. THAT is why originally I though Addison way still be in there. That’s why I tried Carlos and failed at ascension. But as of the recent periscope, I think she is no longer the unsure timid Addison from before I thought she was brainwashed even, she seems more herself than ever. I’d still love to remeet with her and decide for myself in person when I go back, but that’s where my head is at right now.

But the other interesting bit of what I quoted from you above is about the Oracles. @summoningdark mentioned to me that she thinks the reason Ascension is this big pu…semi-public thing now is because there’s something wrong with the supernatural bit. She things the Oracles can no longer see, or are too old and have dementia or something of that nature. She got to see an oracle, an old woman’s face in the dark. She could tell that better than I could… but my first time through I had a similar path but did NOT see the same thing.

After having had our senses taken away I was put into the doctor’s room and made to put tools on a tray with someone else. I was elected to carry the tray and went into an altar room to have the tools blessed by the oracle. The doctor I think came in with he, I could hear him chanting anyway, it was a pitch black room especially when the door closed. I kneeled with the tray in the dark and the same, a face flashed. This was no old lady. At the time I thought I was crazy but they tell you another is random at the beginning for a reason right? A light shined down on a black tribal looking face, some kind of monster. I had thought of the beings in the red room, but this seemed very elaborate. Black, tribal, intricate yet small headdress. It was quick. Less than a few seconds maybe. The door opened again revealing nothing and no one there so I took the tray and stood up and turned around and Addison was there watching me. I thought maybe it was her face and the darkness and the top down quick light flash had distorted things for me, but others have told me Addison wasn’t there until they got out or turned the corner. She thanked me for having such an important job and led me where to stand and told me what to do for the ceremony.

TL;Dr Yeah… I think there’s something within the walls. Evil or not, I’m not sure, everyone should decide that for themselves… But there’s something. I can see how the methods may be wrong but the intention good, or just everything wrong… I’m very in the middle wanted to find out more… but there is something there. And as for Addison being a mouthpiece, totally plausible. But by Anoch? By an entity different altogether? Sampson? Or none of the above?

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All 3? Whaat?

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