The one thing that always got my attention about the slenderblogs over the Vlogs is how they can cross genre's so easily, we got "Observe and report" which is like "X-com meets Eldrich horror", is an example.
Since this blog ended in 2010, the stature of limitations for spoilers has past so obviously stop reading if you haven't read this blog.
So we have the well written "Seeking Truth" which is a police mystery crossed with the Slenderman Mythos.
So "Seeking truth" is about "Zeke", a police detective talked into starting a personal blog by his partner and lover Lizzie. Now of course I wouldn't be writing this if it didn't have HIM in it, so lets break it down.
The case in this well, case, is regarding a series of missing teenagers who seemingly only have the operator symbol, and some related hallucinations in common, we have the depressed teenager with the drunk mother, the upbeat and happy teenager, and the despondent Sam, three people with nothing in common.
Zeke, who is in a word, a badass, eventually finds a suspect on the form of Conaghan, a long suspected Pedophile with a ton of cash and good PR, who uses both to prevent convictions for his crimes.
Of course this wouldn't be a good Slenderman if old Slendy didn't start messing with there lives, starting with the disappearance of a third minor character named Eric, who honestly feels written in to be a victim, has a tragic back story about a murdered partner.
Eventually his own partner Lizzie, who also has a tragic past, becomes more of a victim, becoming increasingly obsessed with the stories such as Marble Hornets and Just another fool, which I'll touch on in a different report, eventually starts having a mental breakdown, which really came to a head after a trip to the carnival where it's later revealed that she saw Slenderman there.
Long story short, Conagham is revealed as a proxy, Lizzie dies in Zeke's arms, and Conagham is later seemingly murdered in cold blood by Zeke, and Eric's body is found.
The real twist at the end was the post posted by an FBI agent, who reveals that Zeke might not have been completely honest with us all, with a shotgunned body being found in a trashcan and Zeke missing and on the run.
So there were questions left at the end, who was the dead man in the trashcan? Is Zeke really seeing what he was posting as, or is he crazy? Turns out there was a Squeal blog called The Mystic that is a followup to the story here, I have not had a chance to read it, but believe me I will.
So I have one issue with the story however, being, why would an FBI agent crack Zeke's blog just to post that "Zeke killed a man and hid the body in the trash" as well as recapping for a captive audience what apparently happened to the warehouse?
I believe in closure, but he keeps writing under a different blog. This would of been better posted on said new blog with him saying "I'm on the run, they found a body in my trashcan, the warehouse went up in flames, both Eric and Conagham are dead" and kept telling the story from there.
Overall, a damn great story from a far better writer than I am. I still would like to talk to Zeke, but I don't have a way to contact him? Can anyone help there? I know this is all in character but come on, how hard is it to post a contact e-mail address?
EDIT: Turns out really should not write in the morning just after waking up. I just proffread this mess of a review durring my break at work.
Since this blog ended in 2010, the stature of limitations for spoilers has past so obviously stop reading if you haven't read this blog.
So we have the well written "Seeking Truth" which is a police mystery crossed with the Slenderman Mythos.
So "Seeking truth" is about "Zeke", a police detective talked into starting a personal blog by his partner and lover Lizzie. Now of course I wouldn't be writing this if it didn't have HIM in it, so lets break it down.
The case in this well, case, is regarding a series of missing teenagers who seemingly only have the operator symbol, and some related hallucinations in common, we have the depressed teenager with the drunk mother, the upbeat and happy teenager, and the despondent Sam, three people with nothing in common.
Zeke, who is in a word, a badass, eventually finds a suspect on the form of Conaghan, a long suspected Pedophile with a ton of cash and good PR, who uses both to prevent convictions for his crimes.
Of course this wouldn't be a good Slenderman if old Slendy didn't start messing with there lives, starting with the disappearance of a third minor character named Eric, who honestly feels written in to be a victim, has a tragic back story about a murdered partner.
Eventually his own partner Lizzie, who also has a tragic past, becomes more of a victim, becoming increasingly obsessed with the stories such as Marble Hornets and Just another fool, which I'll touch on in a different report, eventually starts having a mental breakdown, which really came to a head after a trip to the carnival where it's later revealed that she saw Slenderman there.
Long story short, Conagham is revealed as a proxy, Lizzie dies in Zeke's arms, and Conagham is later seemingly murdered in cold blood by Zeke, and Eric's body is found.
The real twist at the end was the post posted by an FBI agent, who reveals that Zeke might not have been completely honest with us all, with a shotgunned body being found in a trashcan and Zeke missing and on the run.
So there were questions left at the end, who was the dead man in the trashcan? Is Zeke really seeing what he was posting as, or is he crazy? Turns out there was a Squeal blog called The Mystic that is a followup to the story here, I have not had a chance to read it, but believe me I will.
So I have one issue with the story however, being, why would an FBI agent crack Zeke's blog just to post that "Zeke killed a man and hid the body in the trash" as well as recapping for a captive audience what apparently happened to the warehouse?
I believe in closure, but he keeps writing under a different blog. This would of been better posted on said new blog with him saying "I'm on the run, they found a body in my trashcan, the warehouse went up in flames, both Eric and Conagham are dead" and kept telling the story from there.
Overall, a damn great story from a far better writer than I am. I still would like to talk to Zeke, but I don't have a way to contact him? Can anyone help there? I know this is all in character but come on, how hard is it to post a contact e-mail address?
EDIT: Turns out really should not write in the morning just after waking up. I just proffread this mess of a review durring my break at work.
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