Don't tell me this doesn't send shivers down your spine.
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Maybe I'm jaded, but this didn't "give me shivers" at all. A simple, fairly obvious bit of murder mystery fiction is entertaining, to be sure, but not frightening. I will give the creator(s) credit where it's due, though.
Regardless, it's an interesting, if a bit hackneyed piece of story telling. It's not superb, but it's far from bad. God knows it's executed far more professionally than most of the trite you see on the web.
For me it was the over-dramatic acting on the part of both the narrator and the guy calling himself Fortress. Not to mention the fact that, even though the "story/crime" is unsolved, the narrator seems to know an awful lot about it. Pretty amazing when you consider that he repeatedly says that "no one was watching" the events unfold.Spoon E11 said:
Regardless, it's an interesting, if a bit hackneyed piece of story telling. It's not superb, but it's far from bad. God knows it's executed far more professionally than most of the trite you see on the web.
No, it really doesn't. Especially as while you may be easily impressed, none of what was demonstrated was "amazing" to the point of actually limiting anything. And hosting by proxy, especially for a minor low traffic site, is not difficult in the least. Good luck when your tracking dead ends at a free wi-fi hotspot the guy only ever visited for that specific purpose. All you'd really have is "guy with 9 grand", "reasonably smart, maybe", and a few guidelines on his location at various times, such as having to been in wales at the time of the murder, having to have at some point been at that yellow house, etc... Not for certain that he'd even have to be welsh.Owen Robertson said:
All in all, unless the guy was stupid or not anticipating the need to be hidden, there's not much of anything to go on. Hell, even if you want to assume that he had "amazing topographical and electronic security knowledge", unless he's a professor or something in those specific subjects at a near by university, that doesn't narrow down shit either, it would only help if you already at a suspect to compare those traits to.
Why is this scary exactly? It's a story about greed. Money does weird things to people, especially those seeking to get rich quick. Also, who would be dumb enough to actually think something like this would be legit? Btw, that was a rhetorical question because nearly half of the people on the internet would be dumb enough to do it.
To be as clear as possible, I was inferring that if this murder had actually happened, the forensic and detective techniques and technology of the modern day would be more than enough to catch the culprit(s). It would not be surprising if someone went to these elaborate lengths to kill a random stranger for shits and gigs, but it would be surprising if they were to do it that poorly then get away that cleanly. (The "police report" says signs of a struggle and two sets of footprints. You don't get away with murder after leaving fucking footprints) Assassins aren't that clean. Jason Bourne's not that clean. 47's not that cleanJadak said:
You're being plenty clear, you're also plenty wrong. Sure, modern forensics are great but you're acting like any evidence automatically equals crime solved, which is ridiculous. To keep the discussion specific, "You don't get away with murder after leaving fucking footprints" is possibly the stupidest thing I've read all day (or at least in the last hour. Footprints give you what? Ideally speaking, given proper experts and attention to the case, you'd have the weight and height of the person perhaps, maybe some other physical traits along those lines, as well as the shoe tread, likely leading to the specific shoes worn.Owen Robertson said:
Know what all of those things need? A suspect to compare them to. You can narrow shit down as much as you want, and if the guy you arrest happens to match all of those things then you've probably got him, but nothing like that is going to give you something to start with unless you get very lucky and one of the traits you identify is exceedingly rare.
Hell, you could have every single single detail about the person short of his photo, and you're still fucked without something to cause you to look into that specific person in the first place.
YOu mean Slender Man isn't real?Sober Thal said:
DAMN DUDE!!! Epic. THat's all I can say. Just pure epic!BiscuitTrouser said:
Thanks for that. I always love a good creepy story before bed. It helps the creatures in my corner stay with me at night as they gaze at me from afar in the pitch black of night.
It's quite comforting
I'm guessing you're still keeping up to date on Marble Hornets?gmaverick019 said:
Right now they've released entry 50
If I wasn't super-tired and about to go to bed, I would read this as I looooove stories like this. But not enough to read them *right* before I turn all the lights off.
That is creepy indeed, but since I live in America and have a concealed firearms license...well yeah. It wouldn't be so easy getting the drop on me in this case.
It seemed somewhat realistic until Fortress took 2 weeks to realize Wale's meant Wales. Hell, I realized that after a couple of seconds.
Overall, still pretty creepy.
Overall, still pretty creepy.