He revealed the location of another calendar to them.
They then tried to get an ally. I think it was Mare II, and that they have got rid of her in a rather gruesome fashion: the lines that make me think the person didn’t survive is : [obscured] knew too much though. We did what we had to, we did not do it to be evil. We did it so we could continue being right.
So it’s something that perhaps we would consider evil, but they see it as “carrotable damage”.
Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 12/03/2007 1:40 PM
Re-reading that note they state that the plan started in 06, after the 05 calander. Since 05 ended with Lego Santa being left behind I wonder if he is behind it.
Chestnuts roasted by Rob @ 12/03/2007 1:49 PM
Guise…sounds plausible! Maybe that’s why the whole “we have 1″ refrain keeps repeating. (and thanks so much for the webpage too….it’s a great way to compile all the clues and info
Kinda gruesome thought about the carrotable damage though… what if Mare II was “taken care of” in a manner similar to those bog men? That’s one of the only threads so far that haven’t really been connected to anything. It was a pretty grotesque story, but who knows huh?
I actually think that Hsxxlloo is the tech guy at Kuse’s workplace. That’s where he’s sending us all the info from (possibly sneaking around for that reason, hence the no response when Vinny called him). Maybe he’s a double agent; or an inside man having second thoughts and doubts after the murder of Mare 2? I think he’s always there with the red bunny too in many pictures, and might be the one surreptitiously videotaping all the stuff to give us the hints.
On a totally unrelated note Guise…I’m going to be moving to London this month from Toronto; I hope the Xmassy weather is a TINY bit less insane (we’ve had some crazy snowstorms here this weekend!)
Chestnuts roasted by divechaz @ 12/03/2007 1:53 PM
madness!
This “no computer on the weekends” is gonna be the death of me. Oh well. At least my delayed brainpower can add support.
Anyway. Off to read the new advent pages- already took a gander at Guise’s page!
Chestnuts roasted by kittymao @ 12/03/2007 3:20 PM
Divechaz, heh, you really don’t have much to worry about with snow in London, the weather tends to be more of the liquid side. The light displays are usually quite good though.
Why anyone would leave Toronto for London, I can only hope there is either a lot of money or a lot of lovin’ involved!
As for who Hssxxlllo is, I kind of got the feeling from the YouTube (both video and user pic) that it’s the other one. Mainly cos the video looks just like my first one I ever took trying to set up a webcam – hand by the camera, camera shaking and wobbling, focus shifting, cold dead rabbit eyes. Guess we’ll have to wait on a second name to be sure?
Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 12/03/2007 3:23 PM
Yeah, I’m in Sweden (I’m Spanish though) and there’s not big snow yet. Has snowed thrice so nothing to worry about.
Sweet currents from the Gulf of Mexico keeps us “warm” up here…
Chestnuts roasted by melonian @ 12/03/2007 3:59 PM
wo, Them bunnies ain’t pulling Punches anymore, are they?
I just finished the first three days. They are getting bold, showing their faces. But still decisively cryptic. I don’t get it. If we can’t stop them, why are they so secretive?
Chestnuts roasted by kittymao @ 12/03/2007 4:01 PM
At one point, someone posted that Matt said that the regular Advent Calendar is no longer being sold in the states? When/where did he say that?
I don’t know if anyone caught this- i’m behind by an entire weekend!- but the image on the Thing page…BargeFireSoft…
It’s Amalthea, on its side, with Jupiter behind it… Amalthea has a Santa Hat On.
Chestnuts roasted by kittymao @ 12/03/2007 4:13 PM
I’m not on my home machine, so…
Guise? Contrast Adjust plz?
Chestnuts roasted by kittymao @ 12/03/2007 4:16 PM
I was thinking that Knacks’ Mare, who seems to have disappeared, is/was involved in the plot 9as someone mentioned above) because the resurrection spell needed both a male (ie, any Santa…like the 2005 Lego Santa?) and a female with a lot of magical power (and it has been shown time and again that Mare are very powerful magically.) Just a thought.
Chestnuts roasted by Vanilla Fire @ 12/03/2007 4:29 PM
It doesn’t help too much because of the actual images used. We did say, I think on the last thread that it bore a resemblance.
If you look at the big blobby Almathea and check out the bottom left corner, you can see a differently coloured/textured blob.
I can’t be certain, but I have a sneaky guess that he:
1) nabbed the image from the animated YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJcbcDWTTuI with Amalthea passing Jupiter
2) rotated the image
3) layered a cropped image of a photo Amalthea on top
4) layered a Santa hat above that, and
5) de-res’d the top layer to make it whacked out colour wise.
Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 12/03/2007 4:34 PM
just back from school, and looks like more questions and theories, i gree with rob, ive been thinking that this started before the 2006 advent calendar, so i was looking for clues because “demons of past” has to be 2005 or before and so far the only thing i can think of is the lego santa
Chestnuts roasted by Graham @ 12/03/2007 4:35 PM
the hat even has a nice contour… classy touch.
So- Amalthea is going to be santa, they sez, eh?
I don’t like them bunnies- especially that sneaky bugger that didn’t answer Vinnie…
and yea- I went back to calling them bunnies. Rabbits is too formal.
Chestnuts roasted by kittymao @ 12/03/2007 4:38 PM
OK…I work too much and I have limited computer access, so I have been unable to participate in the whole Box 23 thing as much as I would like. Today was my day off, and I have spent it napping and reading allll the comments to this thread.
I just want to say that Matt is a frigging genius, and so are all you guys working this out. Thanks – I am loving every minute of it.
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 12/03/2007 4:38 PM
I think dinosaur dracula was just an absurdity that we could be positive it’s where we’re supposed to be. We knew it was the right site because of Amalthea, Green Earl (dinosaur) and Vampire (dracula).
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 12/03/2007 4:41 PM
i agree, dohopoki. (
by the way, at random times during the day I say DOHOPOKI just cause I like the way it sounds…)They are interests of his that he knew we could decipher with a bit of work. I also commend him on making it hard- but not TOO hard. He’s doing a great job of making sure everyone’s on the same page by adding the waiting element.
And I was scared of bunnies before this, but now- they’re just eerie. You ever hear a bunny scream?
Bllod-Curdling.
Chestnuts roasted by kittymao @ 12/03/2007 4:53 PM
Eerie bunnies? Ahem. “Briiiiight eyes, burning like fire…”
Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 12/03/2007 5:10 PM
I’m thinking the message is: Amalthea is where they are from and where they brought the burned up Santa. All the references to the burn center leads me to believe he has been reconstructed, and I suspect he may be the red figure we keep seeing lurking in the house.
FM
Chestnuts roasted by Fungusmungus @ 12/03/2007 5:11 PM
Kittymao… even mention bunny screaming, and all I can think of is the animated Watership Down movie from the 70s That was one freaky-deaky movie as a kid…especially when they got buried in the warren!
Guise, yeah, I kind of think the same thing too about the other bunny making the videos (possibly with a spy cam?).
In fact, I have a strange feeling this bunny (i.e not the red one who looks so nazi and ominous, but the shorter one with the yellow and white shirt) will actually turn out to help us, but only in a periphery manner, so as not to get caught by the other bunnies (possibly Almathea?).
Maybe he had second thoughts after they attacked (killed?) Mare 2, and wants to try and bring some peace. He keeps saying we’re not evil, we HAD to do it; maybe it’s not just us he’s trying to convince!
(and yup, you got it right….I’m moving from Toronto because of a whole lot of lovin’ that’s involved hehehe! )
Chestnuts roasted by divechaz @ 12/03/2007 5:12 PM
I agree Kittymao theres nothing quite like it, it’s very unsettling to hear a rabbit scream.
Chestnuts roasted by Dan H @ 12/03/2007 5:12 PM
Divechaz, when I was about 7, one of the teachers at school put the video of Watership Down on. Yeah, lovely. About a year later, my brothers sat me down to watch Nightmare on Elm Street 3. I’m still not sure which disturbed me more.
Ok, not even gonna ask how everyone else has heard bunnies scream.
I re-read all the old advent calanders and just wanted to point out that we never saw the 06 Santa get burned by Mare we assumed it. So all the we did what we had to stuff might mean the bunnies burned santa
Chestnuts roasted by Rob @ 12/03/2007 5:20 PM
Why would the bunnies burn Santa? They secured him and would probably have a much easier time if he wasn’t charred. If I remember correctly, Mare II and Clair burned Santa so he wouldn’t foil their plans.
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Posted by Matt on 12/02/2007. 
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That’s one of the only threads so far that haven’t really been connected to anything. It was a pretty grotesque story, but who knows huh?
That was one freaky-deaky movie as a kid…especially when they got buried in the warren! 
Guise could they want to resucitate her, or will they resucitate the burnt Santa??
Arff, my brain has the consistency of runny cheese!