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MAGP 26: The Evening After

MAGP 26

Currently betting that Sam staying the night day will give us our window into what’s happening to Celia.

Is she teleporting? (And if so, will Sam get sucked along, too?) Is another part of her brain waking up and taking her to her day job?

Who knows? Hopefully us, soon.

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Has this been done yet?

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Colin finally gets to smash stuff!

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But there is still far to go so let’s be heard

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MAGP 23 and Dark Timelines

Inspired by MAGP 23, I did a little digging into TMA details. I’m finally ready to post about it.

Spoilers for MAGP 23, Archives through S3, and a heavy CW below.

CW: s*icide

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I’ve seen a lot of speculation about John and Martin’s deaths possibly being cover ups for something TMI related. Possible, but I’ve come to a grimmer possibility. Here’s the logic:

Sam found a Johnathan Sims and a Martin Blackwood who died 20 years ago; a cycling accident and a heart issue

In TMA, John and Martin were both born circa 1987

2024 - 20 years ago - 1987 birth year = 17

The heart issue at 17 isn’t unheard of but is quite rare; this is at the heart of people’s suspicion around at least one of the deaths.

What was going on for our boys when they were 17 in TMA? We happen to know for Martin. Here’s a snippet from the MAG 56 transcript:

So TMA!Martin was in a very bad situation at 17; not reflected here, but we know his mom got sick, his father left, and his mother began to hate him for looking like his father. There’s the distinct possibility the damage to Martin’s heart was self-inflicted.

And for me, that idea is far more painful than the idea they never met.

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Hypothesis: it was ERROR following Alice in Ep 11

[anouchard]

hello, hope you are doing well :D not sure if you've been asked this before, but do you have a specific line/moment that you've voiced for Gwen that you really enjoyed recording?

(sidenote: LOVING protocol, Gwen is such a delight to witness going through the horrors)

There's one next week! Such a tiny moment, but I absolutely loved it. I'll point it out when we get there.

There's also one slightly later on too. You'll probably know it when you hear it.

(I'm alright thanks! Hope you're doing well too, and glad you're enjoying Protocol!)

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The first one specified here was, quite simply ...

"I dropped my mug."

So trivial, so pathetic, and it absolutely broke my heart.

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Such a good line.

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Finally noticed that the “Hunger” (vs “Desire”) nomenclature resonates really well with TMA avatars “feeding” the source of their power, like one that guy, *checks notes* Jonathan Sims.

Particularly with my pet theory that Protocol and Archives are somehow balancing each other and/or are reflections of each other, this fits really, really well.

On that alone, I’m swapping my preferred nomenclature over. I still really like “Desires” (and the idea of people doing things out of a corrupted, toxic want), but there’s plenty of room to use both.

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Thank you, Jonny and Alex.

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In RQG, did the party ever clock that what the British Museum sent to François Henri was the Rosetta Stone imprint for the translation that Carter drunkenly bemoaned in Cairo?

I quite liked that little microcosm we saw of the consequences of upending infrastructure with no change management, particularly as that idea echos across the campaign.

Oh you caught that did you! I don't think they ever did. I could be wrong though. I love putting in little stuff like that, stuff that doesn't really matter but gives you something to discover on a re-read.

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Hello! I just wanted to check, who was the lead writer on episode 22 of Protocol? The episode credits say Jonny, but I noticed your name is listed on the transcript.

Either way, what a fantastic episode - I'm absolutely loving the existentialist themes the show is getting into!

Huh, weird. I did write TMP 22 with Jonny editing. Looks like an admin error, we'll try and get round to fixing it at some point. Honestly, most people assume Jonny writes it all anyway so I don't think anyone will be shocked by this revelation.

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Well, that explains why I thought Alex wrote it!

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Can we all stop for a moment and appreciate that Ink5oul’s name is Grace Wilde and that they have an inheritance? Anyway, I’m off to listen to RQG again.

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Update: I finished my RQG relisten. I cried, again. Thank you, Protocol, for sending me on that journey.

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I firmly believe that, when it comes to Magnus Protocol, the bigger the TMA fan service, the more of Protocol's plot it’s intended to cloak.

Don’t get me wrong, I love me some fan service. But it’s the rest of the script I’m pouring over.

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MAGP 22 - Date (as in day)

Spoilers below

Episode 22 occurs on 15 April; Episode 21 was on 12 April.

Alice messed with Sam’s computer again. He said it’s changed since he started that evening. How long has this been going on? How often?

Does she delete things off her own computer? Is her chronically messing with it why she’s the only one who gets .jmj errors?

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MAGP 22 - Fun Historical Context

Spoilers below the break. Mostly history, though.

Hans Berger, the person who wrote the letter in this case, is considered the inventor of electroencephalogram, more commonly known as the EEG. It remains an important medical tool.

Berger’s married his technical assistant, Ursula.

The opening of the case until the dream, including the description of the participant with a cranial defect, the instrumentation, etc., appears consistent with historical Berger.

Berger was interested in the physiological basis for psychic energy.

Berger worked at the University of Jena (Jena is mentioned).

Despite conducting the first EEG in 1924, he waited years to publish it; consistent with the letter mentioning his reputation

Einthoven, mentioned in the case, received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his invention of the ECG (which looks at electrical activity of the heart), that same year, 1924.

Konstantin M. Bykov, also mentioned in the case, worked on what we now call the corpus callosum, the biggest connection between the brain hemispheres. The letter calls this a “Hemispherical Bridge.”

Richard Canton, who Berger is writing to in this case, did work on the brain’s electrical nature that was important to Berger’s invention; Berger was one of the people to emphasize the importance of Canton’s work.

Berger was a literal N*zi who worked with the SS.