#joseph rayner

[welcome-listeners-to-night-vale]

the. the Chart has Grown.

im considering expanding it with some paper taped to the sides/gen only I and I alone know. What each line means.

[tma-wwk]

TMA What We Know -[7]- The Piper

pre-statement:

[none]

--STATEMENT--

-guy hears music in the war and it makes him feel Emotion. what else is there to say.

-although to be fair. this is him thinking back on something that happened shortly before he thought he saw his friend die. remembering hearing ominous music in the distance before you see something traumatic sounds pretty normal.

-friend-guy 'met the war'. the war is the height of the average soldier. has 3 faces: one for playing pipes, one for screaming, one for spitting out blood and spoil. arms are playing the pipes/holding weapons/raising arms in surrender/saluting. <-fantastic character design, someone get this guy a job as a comic book artist

-guy said he'd have to live to 'play the piper's tune', which. he's a soldier. he's probably gonna kill people, if that's what that means.

-statement giver sees soldiers who look like they're hearing music (whatever that might look like)-- those soldiers always die

-wilfred fought so well it ~must have been supernatural~. and his shadow was spooky.

-same day wilfred died, the peace treaty was signed. implied connection is that the piper marked him so that he could only live so long as the war was ongoing.

post-statement:

-Jon recognizes the name Joseph Rayner (dead soldier in the statement) but doesn't know where he knows it from

[magnusmusings]

Mag 7: The Piper

Clarence Berry, 06. 11.1922, Western front, France.

Clarence discusses his time in the first world war and his acquaintance with second lieutenant Wilfred Owens between 1917-1918. Owens is interested in poetry, and wants to record the war - the way it truly is - he wants this to be his legacy. Occasionally before battle he would tilt his head slightly as if listening to far off music. When attacking the Hidenburg line near Savy wood, Berry spots Owens, completely still, standing in the middle of the battle as if listening to far-off music, which Berry thought he could hear. A gunshot is heard, supposedly hitting Owens before he is hit by a mortar shell. A week and a half later, he is found in a crater with the remains of another solder named Joseph Rayner. Owens claims that he “met the war”, and is sent home with an extreme case of shell-shock related PTSD. His poetry of the war becomes famous. Berry recalls the story of the Piper of Hamelin. Owens returns to duty the week the war ends, claiming that “it’ll be over soon”. Berry watches a bullet hole open in Owens’ head seemingly without him being shot, which he believes coincides with the exact moment that the final overtures of peace began to play. 

Notes: I think the connection of music with violence is really interesting, this connects back to Grifter’s bone in Mag 42. Jon notes that the name sounds familiar. 

Entities: The Slaughter

Names mentioned:

Wilfred Owens (avatar of the slaughter)

Joseph Rayner (killed in battle)

[goodoldfashionedvillain]

El’s MAG7 (The Piper) thoughts & review

Notes:

I think this episode is linked to the entity of the fear of war but I’m not quite sure as I didn’t really encountered it a lot.

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke.

Joseph Rayner. There’s also a a Rayner in MAG9 (A Father’s Love). He’s the Guru of People’s Church of the Divine Host

Review

I have mixed feelings about this episode. Re-listening it was cool, but I kinda feel I missed the point, like there’s implications I don’t understand yet

[spicysnekboii]

Awww hell yeah I love learning new names to forget them immediately

[theclockworkjudas]

MAG 7, "The Piper":

"The only thing they’d found nearby were the tags of the dead man among his remains. A man named Joseph Rayner."

Me: SCREAMING