Deep-sea location + hints of "never-ending slumber" + ancient writings + gruesome visions + horrible abominations that should not be...

My money's on Cthulhu or a similar "drowned god" theory.

Testing chamber for 'zombie' antidotes and variations.

Ruby and Tom are already infected.

>>3305759

wait what? Did i miss a ruby thread?

you forgot "Birthday Prank"

>>3305781
>wait what? Did i miss a ruby thread?
Nope, no update since last night's adventure.

>>3305777
'This

Well.

Ruby isn't ruby anymore. Ruby is a clone/monster/avatar of the eye with all the memories of the real ruby. the real ruby is dead.

>>3305784
Last night's adventure?

What adventure?
What's happened?

Last I saw, Red killed himself.

NEVER CATCH ME NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER

>>3305777
>Ruby and Tom are already infected.
FIGHT IT

>>3305807
Red came back as some kind of 'force', as seen in the OP's image. Things started coming to life, including the walls themselves. Shit hit the fan. Ruby had a temporary hallucination where everything in the facility was suddenly friendly and happy, Red was wishing her a happy birthday, etc.

Then Ruby nearly died when the Bird Zombie attacked, Tom beat the thing to death to save her but lost an arm.

>>3305784

shit, so I did miss one :(

Last thing i saw was red dead.

>>3305777
>Ruby and Tom are already infected.
Ruby is, but Tom's given no overt signs of infection by... well, not "zombies" but whatever the hell those things are.

>>3305815
>>Tom lost an arm
:'(

God DAMN IT. It wasn't archived.

>>3305815
Why wasn't this archived?

>>3305833
Ruby is hiding her infection from Tom, so Tom may very well be hiding his infection from Ruby. We did after all look upon Tom's freaky possible infected form once.

>>3305815
>>3305759
Fucking Christ, I thought Red was scary as a tangible being. DEATH HAS ONLY MADE HIM STRONGER.

Seeing him possess the Dummy and turn into a fucking TOOTHY MONSTER was brickshitting. I had trouble sleeping.

>>3305817
>>3305841
>>3305847
>>3305849

BROTIP: Anonymous has access to image editing software, and is capable of rudimentary deceit.

>>3305815
If this is not an elaborate prank, then why is there no archive on sup/tg/? If Anonymus failed to archive something of this much win, I will be very disappointed.

>>3305849
Because it never happened

>>3305866
N-no! Anonymous would never play on our desperate need for awesomeness! ...right? Right? RIGHT?!

oh god the blood, mother, the blood

>>3305784
Guise. Not funny, guise.

srsly.

So...I've missed the Ruby train. Can I someone link to the previous episodes, since this is apparently the grandest example of storytelling in contemporary fiction?

>>3305900
http://4chan.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Ruby

>>3305866
>>3305880
Kind of hard to fake something like this.

@All: The only interactive thread last night was that Dorf Quest one. There was no new Ruby Quest.

>>3305811
NO.
EMBRACE THE CHANGE.
IT WILL GIVE YOU POWER.

>>3305920

Thanks, much appreciated.

...

OH FUCK. There goes my evening. This shit is worse than TvTropes.

You know, for all the horror and mindfuckery, the one thing that has really got to me is the look on Tom's face.

If he dies of a broken heart, I won't forgive you Weaver.

is last night's archived anywhere yet?

There was no Ruby Story Thread last night, y'all are being trolled.

Speaking of trolling, enjoy your censored picture of the cast of Ruby.

If there was one last night why isn't it on sup/tg/?

What of Red

>>3305953
This is one of those times where the minimalistic storytelling actually does good. We feel sorry for Tom, but what do we know about his personality? ...He likes being MANLY WITH HIS PHYSIQUE. That's... about it, really. I mean, we were feeling sorry for him and ordering Ruby to give him comfort hugs from the very get go.

Yet, I won't argue with the fact that I do feel sorry for Tom, and I hope he and Ruby have a happy ever after ending. Funny how that works out, eh?

And am I the only one who just noticed that Tom never actually got to take us to the room he was held in?

So... now we know this is false let's just discuss Ruby in general. Like what we're going to do with Red's corpse. Looting it is the obvious option. Maybe desecrating it in some way. Then get some of his flesh to use to get rid of monsters. And put the rest in the blender.

>>3305982
Cock.
...
<3

>>3305997
>Tom never actually got to take us to the room he was held in?
Assumedly, it's the room Red committed suicide in.

>>3305999
>Maybe desecrating it in some way
Anyone who thinks Ruby is just going to mutilate/desecrate Red's corpse for no reason obviously hasn't been paying attention. That's not something she would do.

>>3305999

Reds copse will most likely take care of itself and disappear.

>>3306019
Where's the pneumatic tube, then?

>>3306025
We haven't seen all of the room yet. The sides of that picture are the doorframe, not the walls. Its presumably somewhere off to the side.

>>3305934
Yeah, no. That actually looks quite fake. Nice try, dude.

>>3305999
I'm betting there's going to be some sort of TWEEST, like a trap or something. If we loot Red we should do it with extreme caution.

>>3305953
Goddamn. In only 3 pictures you could feel Tom's heart break.

I don't think Red is dead, we need to see if Tom sees it too, and also we need to get Tom to lift those damn floor boards in the warped gravity room.

>>3306064
I don't know, Weaver implied that Red's corpse was quite dead. When someone suggested that Tom attack the corpse with a crowbar, Weaver said:
>He's got two long, sharp wooden poles going through his head. I don't think he needs the help.

>>3305886

>>3306043
After reviewing the footage of the room... I concede to your point. It is possible.

And if it was Weaver forgetting a detail, he should be happy that you're there to cover for him.

>>3306052
>That actually looks quite fake.
No, it really doesn't at all.

>>3305817
These things are not made by Weaver. Last thing Red did die.

>>3306078
I don't know... perhaps a last laugh before he died? A trap and his dead body as bait?

>>3305982
DAMN IT STOP THAT WREAVER.
Don't toy with our affections.

Finally finished this fucking thing.

Also in EXORBITANTLY HUGE SIZE, since I have no restraint and couldn't help zooming in to 2000% to fix trivial details.
http://www.youpoorthing.com/group-shot-finished-hueg.jpg

>>3305982
fixed

Red is now a ghost, prepare to get scared.

>>3306025
>Where's the pneumatic tube, then?
What a good question.

Wanna know a better question?

WHERE THE FUCK IS HALF OF THE BRIG? IT IS GONE. THERE IS A HOLE THAT GIVES THE FINGER TO PHYSICS IN ITS PLACE.

A little pneumatic tube that in all probability was blocked by Ruby's head in the first place is nothing.

>>3306156
Fucking awesome.

... Seriously, this "latest update" bullshit better be real.
This has to be the first Ruby episode I would be seriously kicking myself for missing because it looks like a serious turn for awesome.

>>3306156
THIS IS FUCKAWESOME. Honestly superb work in all regards

I haven't been paying attention to this ruby shit.

But these threads are long, obnoxious, and taking over /tg/.

So, Tom magically lost an eye and Ruby suddenly gained on.

Huh.

>>3306156
I feel honored to be associated with something as awesome as this picture. The sheer detail was incredible already, but seeing it finished like this now just makes it downright astounding.
Add to that the stylish and fully-appealing color scheme, and you've got something brilliant.

Bravo, you magnificent bastard. Bravo.

>>3306209
There is a solution, you know.

>>3306209

Yeah, because your eternal /40k/, 4e trolls and OMG RANDUMB CHARACTORS is so important it must be the only thing on at any given time. Ever.

>>3306209
Ruby is /tg/-related, you prick.

>>3306209
One thread at a time is not 'taking over', you jackass.

HAET SAGEFAGS.

>>3306209
Hey, I only begin the saging when there are multiple threads. It's acceptable - in small quantities. Although a thread a day is OTT.

GRAND UNIFICATION THEORY:

Ruby actually tore out Tom's eye in the hook fight. She was only hallucinating the monster. Tom was poisoned and probably hallucinating too. The third eye on Ruby's head is a hallucination caused by her subconscious guilt of ripping Tom's eye out with a hook.

>>3306218
Could be not just any eye but a MAGIC eye.

HEY
SERIOUSLY
WAS THERE ACTUALLY A RUBY THREAD BY WEAVER WITH ALL THIS SHIT OR IS IT JUST-AS-PLANNED SHOOPED RUBBISH?

>>3306209

You haven't been paying attention? Why don't you go look at the archives and see what all the fuss is about.

>>3306177
That room is indeed worrying.

>>3306263
>WAS THERE ACTUALLY A RUBY THREAD

No. I said that already.

>>3306156

Holy shit, that is so fucking brilliant, especially the attention to detail.

>>3306209
>I don't know what's going on here, but since I hate the board, I'm going to sage things that are /tg/ related.

>>3306276
Not the guy you were talking to, but bah, those threads were all long and there are how many of them now? By the time anyone caught up with them, it would be over. All I ask is that you guys restrict this to one thread at a time.

>>3306156

that is fucking amazing good sir

PREDICTION: Red's body will disappear the moment Ruby and Tom's backs are turned. Attempting to interact with the body (except to take the shovel and maybe the sticks) will probably result in bad things. I don't want another LOL MISSING TIME MINDFUCK RESET.

Remember, all of the other corpses (the bear head, plant monster, and stitches fellow) are all unaccounted for.

Also, look at that fucking pit in the brig again. It clearly goes up into the ceiling. But if we go upstairs, there is no evidence of this. Have we tried examining the pit in detail at all?

>>3306306
>All I ask is that you guys restrict this to one thread at a time.
We are. There's only one Ruby Discussion thread active out of 100 threads on the entire board.

Hey Wreaver, there going to be a happy ending to this? I know you must have some general sort of plot...

>>3306313
>out of 100

Fallacious reasoning, very few of those are active.

However, you may recall that I did not say that you had more than one, just to keep it at that. This thread is fine.

>>3306306
Actually, it doesn't take long to go through and read just Weaver's posts, and link to the actions he chose. There are a lot of threads, but they are filled with very short posts.

I'd say if you have an hour or two to kill, go look up Ruby Quest.

>>3306312
The creator of Ruby is doing this for his and our entertainment. You are doing what many hardcore nerds, which is look deeper into something than the creator ever did.
My guess is that either it's meant to go on forever within that space and plain and simply defy logic, or it's just some additional puzzle and shitbrix material designed by our lovely Weaver.

>>3306306
>By the time anyone caught up with them, it would be over.

I read all of it yesterday.

>>3306321
>Fallacious reasoning, very few of those are active.
1. I never said they were active, I said there were 100 threads on the board and this was therefore only 1/100.
2. That is not even close to fallacious reasoning. I do not think you know what "fallacious" means.

>>3306315
Nah, Weaver is just going to go the LOST route: create more and more mysteries and never resolve any of them, eventually dissolving the fanbase as people get tired of never having any payoff.

>>3306315
People have speculated that the story is roughly based on Murdoch's "The Metal Glen." If so, that poem ends:

And what became of cat and hare?
Did they break free to purer air?
To guess their fate we shouldn't dare
Perhaps their tale closed well.
But for all the beasts trapped in the Nether
All life from out the loch and heather
The flock that could not work together
Are sure still trapped in Hell.

So I don't think we'll get LOL BAD END for Ruby or Tom, but if we encounter any more sympathetic characters, I doubt they'll make it. It's already been said this isn't going to turn into a LOST thing, so I imagine we will at least get to figure out what is going on.

>>3306331
Look, this is what you said:

>We are. There's only one Ruby Discussion thread active out of 100 threads on the entire board.

You compared the 1 "active Ruby Discussion thread" to the 99 non-necessarily active other threads. This is an apples to oranges comparison; what you could have done was compare your 1 thread to the perhaps 10 other active threads, and it would have made your point fine.

>>3306156
Fuck restraint. That's awesome.

>>3306315
He admitted that he started without a plot, but has made one due to the popularity explosion. What it is, though, is anyone's guess.

>>3306344
Metal glen? That sounds dangerously close to...

>>3306328
Tripfaggots like you are part of the reason that I don't plan to catch up with this.

The Metal Glen

My mother told me once of when
A young hare ventured from her den
And as she danced in field and glen
The world sang joy about her.
But wicked hateful things abound
And that young hare these evils found
Then whisked her up from off the ground
And glen was left without her.

The wicked power tore asunder
And with this cruel and fateful blunder
Cast her to a world of wonder
Would she e'er see home again?
And so hare flew that mournful day
Over the sky and far away
And down and down, beneath the sea
To a place unlike the glen.

A world of men and man's design
A place where God's light would not shine
A Hell of steel beneath the brine
Where misery's echoes boomed.
And all around her there were others
Beasts like her, all sisters, brothers,
Locked up, all, with one another,
In deep sea-dark, entombed.

And in this crypt far from the shore
The hare lay down upon the floor
Imprisoned there forever more
And left to all her sorrow.
Her tender world was lost and gone
So joy and happiness foregone
She slept and cried and prayed for dawn
To wait the coming morrow.

The hound was still, the birds said naught,
The fox denied he had been caught,
The bear cried "This is just our lot",
And surrendered to his pain.
But the cat stood up and shook his head
And rising from his metal bed
He said "For now, I am not dead,
And I will not die in vain!"

He cried aloud with much disdain
And tore about his stark domain
And said "These walls cannot contain
A force as strong as I!"
And the fox just laughed, and the birds all cried
And the bear knotted up himself and died
But the hare looked on as the poor cat tried
To break him free and fly.

He shook his chain with all his rage
And flew in anger 'round his cage
Decrying this dark mournful stage
And the hare stood up as well.
With passion did she then respond,
She chewed her ropes and broke her bonds,
And freed the cat, they ran beyond,
They ran to flee that hell.

And what became of cat and hare?
Did they break free to purer air?
To guess their fate we shouldn't dare
Perhaps their tale closed well.
But for all the beasts trapped in the Nether
All life from out the loch and heather
The flock that could not work together
Are sure still trapped in Hell.

--William Murdoch

>>3306363
Well that's... shallow.

Does anyone know about when and what time-zone we can expect the next chapter (or whatever you want to call it) to be released?

>>3306378
Hating tripfaggots is normal, dude.

>>3306370
>>3306374
This became way more relevant with Red's appearance, too.

"I'm not trapped anywhere."
"NEVER CATCH ME NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER"

>>3306351
I didn't compare active and non-active threads. All I ever claimed was that there are 100 threads on this board, and this is, by definition, just one of them.

>This is an apples to oranges comparison
No, it's not. There are 100 threads and --

jesus fuck, I can't believe I'm even arguing this with you.
There are 100 threads, this is 1. This isn't hard.

You're splitting hairs and arguing the very definitions of my point just to avoid having to admit you're arguing just for the sake of argument.
Fuck off.

>>3306392
Yes, but denying yourself an entertaining story because a tripfag also happened to like it is fucking moronic.

>>3306391
It's usually around 3 AM Central (sucks for us Amerifags), and about once a week. The next one doesn't have a fixed date yet.

>>3306394
You compared one ACTIVE thread to the entirety of all other threads, both ACTIVE and INACTIVE. That makes your reasoning WRONG; this is not hard.

>>3306392
>Hating tripfaggots is normal, dude.
Normal on /b/, maybe.
But most other boards aren't so knee-jerk about their reaction to namefags/tripfags that they'll suddenly go "YOU LIKE THIS? WELL THEN I HATE IT!"
He was just pointing out it doesn't take long to catch up on the threads and the guy goes "Well if a tripfag read it, that's a good reason for me not to!"

>>3306401
What makes me sure that it's worth it? It's a large time investment to catch up and I only have the word of you, and I cannot say as to whether or not you are a scholar and a gentleman or a complete faggot.

>>3306409
>You compared one ACTIVE thread to the entirety of all other threads
No I didn't. No comparison was made whatsoever. All I said was there was "one Ruby Discussion thread active out of 100 threads". Which is completely true.
Fuck right off.

>>3306408
That's the other reason I'm not going to bother. The threads never occur while I'm on, so I can't participate anyways.

>>3306412
Also related to: "Holy shit, the characters in the story are anthropomorphic animals? LOL FURFAGS SAGE FURRIES IS WORSE THAN NIGGERS SAGE SAGE BURN FURFAGS HERPDERPHERPDERPHERPDERPHERPDERP ALLOW ME TO CONTINUE SHITTING UP THE BOARD WITH MY UNFUNNY RAGE HERPDERPHERPDERPHERPDERPHERPDERP"

>>3306446
You don't have to be present at the writing of a good story to enjoy it. I've never been around for an active Ruby thread, but it's still entertaining and engrossing.

>>3306446
That is a significantly better reason to not care.

>>3306432
Are you functionally retarded? YOU MADE A COMPARISON. THAT COMPARISON WAS FLAWED GIVEN WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO PROVE. YOUR POINT STILL STANDS, I AM ONLY ARGUING AGAINST YOUR EXAMPLE.

>>3306432
>>3306458
Hey. You two.

Cut that shit out.

>>3306458
>YOU MADE A COMPARISON.
NO I DIDN'T, I SAID THERE WAS ONE ACTIVE RUBY THREAD OUT OF 100 THREADS, WHICH IS A COMPLETELY FACTUAL STATEMENT FROM AN OBJECTIVE AND UNDENIABLE STANDPOINT
I NEVER SAID "OUT OF 100 ACTIVE THREADS", OR MADE ANY CONNOTATIVE IMPLICATION ABOUT THE ACTIVE THREAD, AND I NEVER IMPLIED THE OTHER THREADS WERE COMPARABLY ACTIVE.
I MERELY SAID IT WAS ONE THREAD OUT OF 100, WHICH IS THE FUCKING TRUTH
ANYTHING PAST THAT AND YOU'RE READING INTO IT

>I AM ONLY ARGUING AGAINST YOUR EXAMPLE.
IT IS NOT A FUCKING EXAMPLE, IT IS A FACTUALLY-ACCURATE STATEMENT ABOUT THE FACT THERE ARE 100 THREADS AND 1 OF THEM IS ABOUT RUBY DISCUSSION AND IS ALSO ACTIVE

>>3306446
I missed the first 2 sessions, only came on when the third was halfway. now im obsessed

Hey, sagefags, could you kindly just go back to the dozens of active regurgitated 40k threads and allow this single Ruby discussion thread to get back on the rails? Quit arguing about who won an argument on the Internet or whether one of the only sources of fresh, semi-collaborative material /tg/ has had in ages with worth a minimal investment of time to view.

Anyway, back to Red: are we sure he is/was a monster? On one hand, he has not actually done anything bad to Tom or Ruby that we can prove. Sure, he was a creepy dick, but he has also helped them both on several occasions. We have no proof that he was the one who took out Tom's eye and locked him up. And his monster-laugh only happened around Ruby, who appears to be a rather unreliable narrator (she supposedly didn't "see" Red's monster-laugh... but in her dream, she saw him as a monster. What?)

I'm guessing that Ruby turns into a monster during her blackouts. She may even be the one who gouged out Tom's eye (and now she has an extra) and dragged him away.

I've sat and waited through every thread. The story is fucking great.

>>3306363
Take it from me. It's worth it.

>>3306424

I started reading the entire thing an hour ago.

I highly recommend it.

>>3306503
Jesus, Ruby gave Tom arsenic poisoning, gouged his eye out, AND rejected his kiss? Poor guy can't catch a fucking break.

Did someone say MANLY PHYSIQUE?
Because I'm pretty sure someone...

>>3306529
Well, hopefully the "surprise shapeshifter" thing isn't true. And we haven't told Tom that it was arsenic, though it wouldn't really be Ruby's fault unless she had somehow known about it beforehand.

>>3306550
haha awesome, love the eyepatch

>>3306529
I still don't get why she didn't keep kissing him, or at least respond in a slightly positive way. The first three posts after he kissed her were all "Kiss him back! :3" not "just keep fiddling with that clock thing."

>>3306550
Big Tom or Tom Boss

>>3306550
Holy crap, Tom, why don't YOU be the one to kill zombies from now on?

>>3306569
Her mind was yelling "KISS BACK DO IT DO IT" but she's too shy and awkward?

>>3306561
I'm pretty sure Ruby told Tom she gave him arsenic poisoning while doing a pirate impression.

>>3306569
She likes him back she is just too shy. That was probably her first kiss. She just didnt know how to respond.

I'm not sure it's ever been stated that Ruby is even a virgin, let alone never been kissed.

The closest thing was mentioning that she was unfamiliar with condoms filled with acid.

>>3306622
She's 14 iirc and very shy so its a good bet she's never had a boyfriend/sex/kiss

>>3306520
>>3306527
You faggots had your chance. I now can say that I will never care about Ruby. Sage.

>>3306634
Her being 14 was someone making shit up, just like 'last nights thread' in this thread.

sage for /v/

>>3306634
You best be trollin'

>>3306679
So you're saying Weaver, the story's creator, is making shit up?

>>3306708
Weaver's said several times that he never gave an age for Ruby.

>>3306550

You tryin to go Nick Fury Manliness? Just askin.

>>3306715

HOWEVER. It's important to note that Weaver did say that Red was not much older than Ruby and Tom.

>>3306503

That is indeed plausible. However, I've come to think of possibilities like these as "quicksand theories." There's no escaping their consequences.

Similar to it all being a dream, or Ruby already being dead, if it turns out that this is true, what can we do? Not much.

I'm not saying "FUCK YOUR THEORY," just if you're right there's not much we can do, if anything.

Man, I haven't been paying attention to Ruby threads and now feel intrigued, but the prospect of having to read through 14+ 200odd reply threads isn't awesome.

>>3306744

You could always read them in shifts. Read some number of threads, or until you're tired of it, then return to them in X amount of time.

>>3306744
It's easier than you think.
Just skim through to weavers posts and read those. Since he links the responses back to the posters commands you can follow along fast and easy.

>>3306744
Don't bother; I'm certainly not.

>>3306744
You only have to read Weaver's posts, seeing he links and describes the chosen action.

>>3306744
It really doesn't take long, since you can just skip through and read weaver's posts to get the story.

>>3306759
Excuse me sir, you appear to have forgotten your sage.

Anyway, yes, Ruby story is fun times. It's not /v/ per se, it's more like a statless tabletop game over the internet. With pictures. And way too many participants.

>>3306744

Try this:
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Ruby_Quest
The wiki of Ruby Quest.

I believe it's complete now.

>>3306503
I have to say that I don't find your theory too plausible. For instance, when Ruby blacks out when bringing the antidote to Tom, he's gone and the cell is covered in blood. Something else obviously got to him first.

Or, she's just hallucinating again. But saying "she's just hallucinating again" basically means we have to stop playing. I mean, if she hallucinates, then ANYTHING she sees might be a hallucination. We'd better constantly confer with Tom to make sure he's seeing the same things we are. But wait! What if Tom is hallucinating too? You see where I'm going with this?

I guess what I'm saying is that, like >>3306732, I'd prefer to avoid "quicksand theories."

Adventure games are /v/

<-- /v/ is that way

>>3306786

Ruby and Tom might both be experiencing some lunacy but it's unlikely that they would have identical hallucinations... isn't it?

If Tom ever starts freaking for no apparent reason we'll know that his faculties are as unreliable as Ruby's probably are, but until then I think he should be treated like an anchor to reality.

>>3306793
/v/ is video games.

RubyQuest is not a video game.

It is more like an old pen&paper "CYOA" game.

Which categorizes it as a Traditional Game.

/tg/ - Traditional Games

HURRDURR

SERIOUS META-MINDFUCK, GUYS:

A quick Knowledge Check (Wikipedia) will show you that the poem "The Metal Glen" doesn't exist outside of /tg/, furthermore, William Murdoch was an engineer and never a published poet.

So, we're fixing all plot problems by declaring them hallucinations? That's like saying "it was all a dream": a massive cop-out. If this shit isn't real, then Weaver is a hack.

>>3306832
Other characters can be used to confirm what happened in the timespan of the hallucinations.

>>3306732
Actually, the "Ruby is a monster" theory doesn't automatically mean BAD END. They appear to be in some sort of lab, probably designed to study or cure whatever the disease is that is causing the monster transformations. For all we know, Ruby and Tom were test subjects. Tom may not be infected, but has had quite a bit of time not accounted for. Once they figure out that one or both of them is infected, we could have a nice puzzle sequence for them to get the cure. I can see Tom frantically trying to synthesize the cure for a slowly transforming Ruby in a reversal of the arsenic situation (we have gotten to control Tom a few times, after all).

The supernatural stuff can be chalked up to Ruby's hallucinations due to her being infected by the monster disease. Well... except for the giant pit and reversed gravity... and the inexplicably cleaned and altered surroundings...

Maybe we are dealing with a gladOS situation here. They are being fucked with by researchers to study how they act/how long they survive.

>>3306828
if Weaver wrote that poem himself, in addition to the rest of this, he's wasting his fucking talents here. He needs to find himself a game studio, stat.

>>3306793
you're 15 threads too late.


I still like my 'good-aligned ancient gods' theory.

All of the faggotry surrounding RubyQuest (like this thread) is actually what convinced me NOT to read it. Great job, guiz.

>>3306828

your wiki-fu is weak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Murdoch_(poet)

>>3306832

I think it would be wisest if we just regarded any fucked-up shit we find that doesn't pose an immediate threat to Ruby with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Like the Ruby corpse for example. What would a psychologist say? "Now, Ruby, you're talking to me right now! So you clearly are alive at the moment."

>>3306209
>here

ITT, easily trolled suckers.

>>3306856
I think it's pretty safe to say that Tom is a reliable narrator. Aside from being a little weird when first introduced, he hasn't had any hallucinations, and nothing supernatural has happened when he was around. And when he was alone in the room with the eye painting, the eye was completely inert (didn't even have a pupil).

If they are both test subjects for the monster disease, maybe Tom is naturally immune (if he was going to catch it, you'd think a GAPING EYE WOUND would be a transmission vector).

Also, has Tom ever used the reversed-gravity side of the brig? I don't think we've gotten any confirmation of fucked-up physics with Tom present.

>>3306871
>All of the faggotry surrounding RubyQuest (like this thread) is actually what convinced me NOT to read it. Great job, guiz.
Brotip: No one cares if you read it or not. We're capable of enjoying it without your approval.

>>3306860

I like that theory too, but I don't at the moment see a lot of support for it. Although that may tie in with the stitches=/tg/ theory, which seems about as plausible to me as it being the hound and bear zombies...

>>3306903

I will be keeping this in mind.
I think one thing we can all agree on is that unanimity won't be possible in this, lol

>>3306832
>>3306786
>>3306732
No, fuck you. I hate watching/playing/enjoying something like Jacob's Ladder or Silent Hill or what have you, only to have someone at the end dismiss everything that happened because they were dead / hallucinating / etc. Fuck you guys.
In one of the endings for Silent Hill, it turns out you died at the start of the game. Does that suddenly UNDO everything that happened? Does that suddenly take all the symbolism, metaphor, and imagery, and strip them of all meaning? Fuck no.

The story, its implications, and the actions taken within are NOT magically invalidated if the ending is death/hallucination/dream/metaphor.
In real life, a dream or hallucination can just be random, meaningless. But this is a fictional medium, so everything that happens happens for a reason. Everything has meaning.


tl;dr: Dream/Death/Hallucination endings don't suddenly reverse any and all meaning in the story and I'm sick of people who act like they do.

>>3306156
So looking at this picture. You kinda get a better idea of what the plant-like zombie actually looked like.
If you cut off the zombie mouth on the forehead wouldn't that make the corpse look just like the one in the box?
So maybe that wasn't ruby seeing a mummified version of her self. But what was left of the corpse of whatever animal she had killed with the hook.
Hooray for speculation.

>>3306956
>zombie mouth
>forehead
WRONG. EYE-SOCKET, NOT FOREHEAD MOUTH.
PAY ATTENTION.

>>3306955
Dead/hallucinating is fine and great if it's the story is well executed, sure. I think what gets one's panties in a bunch about it though is if it just looked like the developer/creator had NO idea how to explain all the crazy crap going on, and therefore uses dream/death/hallucination as a cop out because nothing better could've been thought up.

>>3306967

Stitches was the Bear Zombie. Look at the surgical scars on Stitches. They show a split right down the middle of the head.

>>3306955

I don't deny that. All I meant was that practically speaking this gives us very little to work with. If it's true there's no escaping the consequences, so why worry about that possibility? It's quicksand, you can't get out. If it turns out that's right it's all well and good but assuming so now won't really help our present situation.

Like with Solipsism. It might be true that everything is created and sustained in my consciousness and everything I experience is all one big gigantic mental wanking session, and nothing else exists but me. As far as I know there is no valid objection to solipsism.

BUT if I see an axe flying at my face you can bet I'm going to duck.
One more thing, though, continuing along that line: has anyone considered that the enormous fissure in that room might be related somehow to the "cutting" Red did with that little tool?

>>3306976
>dream/death/hallucination as a cop out
I agree it is used this way sometimes, but in certain cases where symbolism/metaphor is used extensively, it's an integral part of the plot, as with Silent Hill and Jacob's Ladder.
Obviously it's not "real" per se, but the implications are made even stronger and more poignant.
Sometimes, death/hallucination is a vital part of the story, like when it's used as part of the core symbolism to express a meaning ABOUT death and/or the metaphor being explored. Such could be the case here.
After all, Ruby did basically WAKE UP INSIDE A COFFIN.

>>3306828
Yeah. I'd prefer him to say "they have no fucking idea how it works, so neither do you" over a dream sequence.

>>3307022
Yeah, but the scars run vertically through the middle of its face. The bear-thing was just separated from its spine, and even if the hatch chopped the head the divide would be horizontal.

>>3307038
Indeed, in this case, I won't feel like this was a waste of time if Ruby was hallucinating/dead from the start, although I'd probably be much more satisfied with an explanation straight out of left field, if not just because hallucination/dead has been used so many times.

>>3306873
Ok, but "The Metal Glen" still doesn't seem to exist.

>>3307055
The head split in half VERTICALLY when it grew a giant MOUTH. The stitches could be bringing that back together.
It could've been supplanted on a donor body, Frankenstein-style.

>>3305759
>Debunked theories:
>Tom Clones

>Tom Clones
>Tom Jones

>Tom is a cat
WHATS NEW PUSSY CAT?

>Tom is starting to fall for Ruby
"It's not unusual to be loved by anyone!"


MIND BLOWN

This Ruby thing has been going on for a while now and I still have no fucking idea what it is or why you're all freaking out over it.

I don't think Stitches looked like the bear. Wouldn't it have had bear ears?

Even one of the players, when it was encountered, said something like "HOLY SHIT THAT'S A HUMAN."

>>3307090
>I still have no fucking idea what it is or why you're all >freaking out over it.
Kind of redundant there, anon

>>3307083
Oh lord

>The Body and Soul of Tom Jones (1973)
>Track Listing: 1. Running Bear
>Stitches the bear

>>3307090

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Ruby

Enjoy.

>>3307083
Goddamnit /tg/, what did you do...

I request a drawfag to draw Tom as Tom Jones, singing "It's Not Unusual"

>>3307090
>This Ruby thing has been going on for a while now and I still have no fucking idea what it is
Well seeing as how the archive is posted in EVERY THREAD, you'd have to be intentionally avoiding it not to have seen it.

>>3307083
>tom is a cat
>tom cat
>TOMCAAAAT

>>3307103
>I don't think Stitches looked like the bear. Wouldn't it have had bear ears?
The corpse was incredibly mutilated, to the point that it had massive surgical scars all over its head, and you think it's not possible the ears were just cut off?

>>3307132

That's possible, I guess. But then how did it know her name? Assuming it wasn't a hallucination or something else entirely?

>>3307083
>>3307112

>>3307125
>TOMCAAAAT
>TETSUOOOO!!!

>>3307132
We don't know the bear's past, let alone the history of the place they're trapped. Maybe not everyone is an amnesiac like Ruby.

And SOMEONE had to bring her here, right?

i think you're just clutching at straws, if the "god" zombie was the bear, then it would have been made obvious, this is something differant.

Protip: Whatever you try to figure out in here. Reaver will do the opposite.

>>3307193

That along with it needing a new body seems like a bit of a reach, but I'll keep it in mind.

Do you think it was actually the bear or just a hallucination of one?

My big concern is if it was a hallucination, how'd it give us the cross peg? And if it wasn't, then where'd it go?

>>3307235

As it stands I'm a little more biased towards the stitches=/tg/ theory, if only because it's more of a mindfuck to me. lol

>>3307223
>if the "god" zombie was the bear, then it would have been made obvious, this is something differant.
Nope. Weaver said we've seen that particular character somewhere else (and it's not Tom), which means Bear Zombie is about the likeliest candidate.
Missing ears intentionally obscures the identity of the character.

>>3307243

It depends on how meta Weaver's making this thing. If the the story is contained in itself, then it might be the hound or bear. If not, he may well have been talking about /tg/.

>>3307266

I say this because I'm also thinking of a possibility brought up in one of the older discussion threads: Somebody mentioned that the monitor panel gave "limited access" to the cameras installed around the facility. This means that there very well could be more cameras- more points of view- to watch all this stuff. Who else is watching Ruby's ordeal, that we know of?

Us.

Shit, the Metal Glen thing really freaks me out. It seems like an elaborate trollan.

Day later, someone scans the poem from a 1988 book; all other editions of the book don't have that poem.

6 months from now we fin a children's book from 1888 made by some Ruby Watkins chick about a little spider called weaver that has to escape a labyrinth helped by the children reading the book (a somewhat choose you adventure)

a year from now Weaver disapears and a tripfag who calls himself Red decides to make Ruby v2.0

>>3307266


Its a humanoid figure with no markings coherant to anything we've seen before.

Hell, the closest approximation is the Dummy

If we've seen it before.. then its META.. Or...

2 secs guys, checking a hunch.

>>3307334

this guy again

FUCKIN BINGO


Note, the face in the window does NOT look like the hound in any way, but rather lacking in distinctive features... try adding some scars.

>>3307189
Xiombarg was here.

>>3307329

Great, there goes my sleep

>>3307349

>>3307348

Holy shit! I... commend your ability to have retained that.

Okay. What did this guy do? He was looking in on Ruby. When Ruby looked at him, he vanished, right?

Didn't that window turn into a mirror?? I wonder if that's significant in some way. Our POV is right across from there...

TETSUOOOOOO

>>3307375

when he dissapeared, it became just a view of the next room, then became a mirror.. then the hound was looking through it.

Mind
Fuck

>>3307382

in addition to this, just before it became the mirror, something else was seen in it, but shadowed. the Profile of the shadow would match either the hound or red. But not the "stitches" look.

So the first face we see could well have been "stitched up" and nailed to the wall before ruby breaks the mirror.

also, is this thread on auto-sage?

>>3307406

Out of those two I think it would have to be Red. He did laugh at all that later, right?

Also I don't think the hound abomination would have had the, uh, ability to do something that elaborate. I know that this is an assumption, though.

For clarity's sake I christen the shadowy figure "Shadowy Figure"

>>3307423
Yes

200 posts = autosage

>>3307348
MIND=BLOWN
I just assumed that guy was the Hound.

just checked suptg, and someone has archived this (but messed the tag i think)
thanks

>>3306967
Wait. Isn't Tom's missing eye on the same side of his head?

>>3307506
Yeah, but we saw him in his room almost immediately after killing the abomination.

>>3307575
Well, that pretty much just means Tom isn't the hound. That doesn't mean there isn't some other significance. Or it could be nothing.