homelessjogger

I know this But this is LT folks. You never know what they are waiting for someone to say, ask or speculate to release new information until afterward. Sometimes it is the most random statements that touch on something that provide us with insight. I'm perfectly happy looking at this from an uncommon perspective. If she would have responded saying "are you speaking of ........" with a name we weren't familiar with everyone would think I'm a genius for my approach. So, in a way, the perceived insanity of my approach is only due to timing.

What if my goal is to join them? If we look at this as an actual event and play it in character I have approached them telling them I have been sent to them and have information. Which is what they want. If we look at it from the outside, non-playing world, yes this looks nuts. But that's not the point. We all look nuts to the outsiders at this point

Yes. facepalm to those having fun. Nicely done

For the curious. I have spoken to Ignatia Himmel. She asked who "HE" was that I spoke of. My response was "I apologize for the anonymity in my initial correspondence. The nameless "HE" is derived from the Greek word anonymia. At this time, I do not know "his" name. Only to contact the group with the closest form of correspondence. His disciple was to bring the lantern back safely. But something went wrong. I am here to report."

Never hurts So far everything I have speculated on about the event has come true. If LT is truly reading these boards they will know that and realize I may be of great help as I have additional insight and knowledge into what is to come.

I emailed Ignatia Himmel telling her I was informed to contact her from an unnamed source to meet with HIM. That I couldn't name, names as this wasn't a protected conversation. Time will tell.

Yup. Suggested the red hue significance last year and its relation to hell, souls and the lantern a couple months back. Glad to finally get some supporters to this after recent events. Even mentioned the photos after clicking the lantern may mean LT is investigating. The next day, LT was back. One idea that I really liked, that someone else mentioned, was all of us essentially being "the icon" this year as LT members investigating HHN. That would be genius.

Lantern is also a part of the investigation it seems. How long until my speculation on last year's final week being bathed in red signifying hell, and then the latern's flames literally being hell, holding the souls, souls being released by accident, etc etc come true...Interesting.

Hmm...sounds as though all that I have been talking about (lantern, LT, etc) is coming to fruition now.

I have to imagine if this is a scare zone they will be old school Wolfman and Frankenstein (also at last year in old school form). Last year those two, updated, monsters' houses were pretty intense.

Makes sense to me

I posted in the website update thread that the usage of polaroid photos could hint at LT investigating new cases. Whether LT is interactive for us or not is a separate conversation. So the photos might not hint at any icon (a Photographer) at all. Just crime scenes being investigated. I like that thought. Turning us into the manifestation of the icons. We are at fault. And, as I suggested before, a new icon will come in and clean up the mess as the souls were supposed to be his/hers. Then next year they will wage a war of terror on us in anger.

Random thought. What if the Polaroid photos hint at Legendary Truth, interactive for us or not, having found more things to investigate? These were photos they took while investigating scenes of past terror to figure out what is going on now?

Agree completely. I have commented on that sort of thing happening. Except for the icon aspect. I think the release of the souls from within the lantern (ie Hell) is/was a complete accident. Would make for an interesting storyline.

Nope. Looks like just design / spokes / dots / etc.

Anyone else notice that the lantern's two X gates are on hinges and have a slight space between them? I bet this will open up releasing the souls as I've been speculating. Thoughts?

This is what draws us embroiled, message board folks to the event each year. That extra layer of interactivity, mystery and fun that comes from subtle hints and play on words from those in the know.

http://www.youtube.com/user/PhaQ2010#p/a/u/0/JnFYK2sV44I

Never fails. The same week I have gone the last couple years. I'll be there from the 20th through the 25th.

Not if Universal was "in character" with the icons being real. Then, technically, they would be under their own will to create their own pages and not supported by Universal or HHN. Like they went rogue, etc. Breaking the fourth wall, etc.

Interesting. I wonder if they will tap into social media marketing more so now than ever. If directed by someone with a little experience it could be an amazing thing.

Thanks. With my background in film/development/marketing I saw this playing out at the end of last year's event. Naturally, I could be completely wrong. But it seems to fall in line with everything. Even more so now with the lantern, the growing flames, icon faces in the flames, etc.

If this happened I would imagine the past icons being captured successfully at the end. This would allow for this year's icon's boss to hold them captive. Which, in turn, would allow HHN to use any of them again down the road. But, with this year's icon being in 'the dog house' after this huge screw up, his/her boss would manifest for HHN21 and showcase a level of fear we haven't seen before.

A new icon would be my guess. Someone that is taking the souls to an unknown entity (future icon) but something happens and the souls from the lantern break lose into the current event. This allows us to have a completely new event yet still utilize past icons in some way. And also setup the story arc for a much larger, more important, icon the following year.

Back in June I brought up the idea of HHN19's red light signifying all of the active icons being in hell and that for HHN20 someone will conjure the spirits to walk again in some form. Then mentioned later on in June that the lantern flames played into the hell concept for previous icons, etc. Hmm...