#mag 008

[time-and-spuds]

I started relistening to TMA recently and this Happened during a train ride

(I Love listening to my Favorite Media and being Like "Hey I know that place!!!!")

[nanaarchy]

Hey chat !!!! I'm going insane.

Ever since my first listen to TMA, I've had a huge question that NEVER got answered.

Never. Not in the whole series, not Q&As or the wiki or anything. I thought I would never find answers. I thought it would be forgotten. I thought it was a small insignificant detail and I'd have to live with never knowing the truth about it.

Now with TMAGP 19, I might finally know the answer.

Maybe. Maybe maybe. But It Could Be. And now I'm losing my mind at the implications.

((For the record, I know that the stories and worldbuilding are inherently separate - hell, there are even timeline differences in the cases I'm using as evidence. But the overlap might be important, especially when it comes to the Web.))

Spoilers for both shows below!

Its branches were exquisite, and delicate, swaying slightly from small eddies in the liquid, and they shone with every spectra. I must confess that to look upon it, one was – (sigh) filled with profound wonder at its exquisite elegance. [...] Even I, steeped in worldly matters as I am, recognized The Lord’s words to Adam, and was much dismayed at the implication. Isaac then plucked the delicate fruit with ungloved hands and held it before me. [...] The creature was taking root. Strands of its mottled brown hair were extruding downwards between the floor, seeking the dark earth below. Then, too, its back began to sprout, radiant branches unfurling and thickening before me, reaching upwards towards the sunlight with a seemingly insatiable desire. [...] I tell you here, Robert, it saw me, and it knew me. (TMAGP 19 - HARD RESET)

It was an ornate wooden thing, with a snaking pattern of lines weaving their way around towards the centre. The pattern was hypnotic and shifted as I watched it, like an optical illusion. I found my eyes following the lines towards the middle of the table, where there was nothing but a small square hole. Graham noticed me staring, and told me that interesting antique furniture was one of his few true passions. Apparently he’d found the table in a second-hand shop during his student days and fallen in love with it. It had been in pretty bad shape but he’d spent a long time and a lot of money restoring it, though he’d never been able to figure out what was supposed to go in the centre. He assumed it was a separate piece and couldn’t track it down. (MAG 3 - ACROSS THE STREET)

Re: Magnus Institute Ruins. By RedCanary on Saturday April 23 2022 12:17pm. The photos from the spelunk seem properly gone, but I did find an old wooden thing with a bunch of similar symbols on. Some kinda empty box, not really sure what for, though. Gonna see if I can get the light right for a decent pic. Edit: No dice, I’m afraid. Must be something up with my phone camera. Really not helping the whole paranoia thing either. Anyone know anything about photographic distortion? Gonna see if I can borrow my dad’s SLR tomorrow. (TMAGP 1 - FIRST SHIFT)

Adelard Dekker stood in the corner. He was straight and motionless, his lips moving rapidly, though no sound came out of them. In the centre of the room, stood a table carved from dark wood and wrapped all over with a sprawling, intricate pattern. And in front of that table was the thing that had said it was my cousin. It was long and thin, the tops of it bent against the ceiling and its stick-like limbs flailed from too many joints and elbows. Wrapped around it were thick strands of what I think was spider’s web, stretching back into the table, which I now saw pulsed along its carved channels with a sickly light. The face at the top of that gangly frame was like nothing on earth. (MAG 78 - DISTANT COUSIN)

Now... Now I get it. I get it. I finally gave an answer. Or, at least, I think we'll get a concrete answer soon. But I think I get it.

I think I get where the web table comes from. I think I know what it's made of. why it glows. why it had a hole in the middle. I think I might know how the web gained control and sentience so much faster than the other fears. and, if it still manifests in the same way in the Protocol universe, how it also quickly became "the manager" of other fears, as theories suggest.

More importantly, I think I know what was up with the mysterious tree from so, so long ago.

Now I have an answer.

Why was there an apple buried in Hill Top Road?

I opened the box and sitting inside was a single green apple. It looked fresh, shiny, with a coat of condensation like it had just been picked on a cool spring morning. I picked it up. I wasn’t going to eat it, I’m not that stupid, but more than bleeding trees or phantom burning, this confused me. As I took it out of the box, though, it began to turn. The skin turned brown and bruised and started to shrivel in my hand. Then it split. And out came spiders. Dozens, hundreds of spiders erupting from this apple that was rotting right before my eyes. I shrieked and dropped it before any of them could touch my arm. The apple fell to the ground and burst in a cloud of dust. I backed away and waited until I was sure all the spiders had left before retrieving the box. I smashed it with a crowbar, and threw the remains into a skip. (MAG 8 - BURNED OUT)

And now I have an answer. Maybe.

[magnusarchivesrelisten]

MAG 008 Drawing

and she returns!

I tried to make the house an ominous silhouette and it kind of worked maybe ig (not really tbh)

It is absolutely wild how much this episode sets up (some of it on accident apparently???) and it only feels like a little bit more than usual happened.

I hope you're having a wonderful day or night or week or month or year or whatever period or place in time you're functioning in

Be back tomorrow with another drawing!

[two-idiots-one-thought]

MAG008 - Burned Out

[themagnustournament]

Round One Part Two - Match 17

MAG 008 Burned Out vs. MAG 014 Piecemeal

Burned Out

Piecemeal

Voting ended onApr 1, 2023

Today we have the first appearance of both the House on Hill Top Road and Agnes Montague up against the Sweariest Statement Giver Ever. #ReleaseTheSwearCut

MAG 008 - Burned Out | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road.

MAG 014 - Piecemeal | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Lee Rentoul, on the murder of his associate Paul Noriega.

[all-hail-i-guess]

Relistening to TMA is my favorite thing ever (I will gush forever about how good this series is, both in content and execution).

But MAG 008 "Burned Out" has to be one of my favorite episodes (there's a decent sized list if them, of course, but I have to call this one out)

There's a big difference in listening to it the first time as opposed to once you know the rest of the series and lore.

Because the first time around, it doesn't seem like anything special, I guess? A little weird, cause there is a bit going on all at once.

But the second+ time around! Hilltop Road and Raymond Fielding! Father Edwin Burroughs (poor guy)! The...the blood-filled tree over the spider apple...! That one's still weird. And the Web Table box! AND AGNES! The Web and the Desolation! Ghost action!

There really is a lot going on, it's a bit of a jumble, really, but it's so great.

And Jon's iconic "ah, head trauma and latent schizophrenia - the ghost’s best friends." S1 sarcasm at its finest.

I don't know, a lot of early episodes are like this, but I love this one.

[magnusarchivesrelisten]

MAG 008

I have returned from the void!! Sorry I was gone so long.

I think I had this one confused with episode 74 because they both vaguely feature Michael. Idk how I forgot that this was the first Hilltop Road statement.

I really like this one! It's mostly setting things up for later, but it does that really well (this whole series is really good at introducing elements that will be important without calling too much attention to it). I love how the little sidebar about the statement giver's dad implies that weird shit happens to people outside of the statements that we're going to hear. It's implied throughout the series but direct little acknowledgements like that help sell it. Idk I think I'm rambling.

This statement is super mysterious. It's basically just "something about this house is wrong" and not much else but that works pretty well I think (this does make me curious about how Jonny would write a typical haunted old house story). I still don't really get why the tree bled (maybe a product of the dimensional weak point?), but it was pretty cool. Like usual, I don't have a whole bunch to say about the actual statement, but maybe that'll change someday who knows.

Jon immediately dismissing the statement as usual is still fun. I always forget how much I miss him being a complete dick in the other seasons.

I promise my next post won't be 9 years from now.

Thanks for reading, have a fantastic day!

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 50

The Show Must Go On vs. Burned Out

The Show Must Go On

Burned Out

Voting ended onMay 24, 2023

The Show Must Go On must go on! It's coming in with 146 votes from Round Two and a total of 283 votes so far! Burned Out earned 204 votes in Round One.

MAG 116 - The Show Must Go On | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Abraham Janssen regarding an incident in the Court Theatre of Buda.

MAG 008 - Burned Out | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road.