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Spoiler Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
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RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*

A few more tid-bits of information, simply gathering it up here.

Why did Mandus supposedly kill his children?
Quote:<Entry Name="vo_temple_trigger_machine_03_machine_02">I did not kill your children, Mandus. You sacrificed them on the temple steps knowing what the coming century would do to them.</Entry>
<Entry Name="vo_temple_trigger_machine_03_machine_02_1">Your sons will drown, lungs full of mud and shrapnel, on the banks of the Somme. You wanted to save them from the horror to come.</Entry>

Mandus killed off his own children to spare them the atrocities that would follow - they would die during World War I.

The power source
Quote:<Entry Name="Note_CellarPumpRoom_Name">September 11th 1899</Entry>
<Entry Name="Note_CellarPumpRoom_Text">Our power source provides surplus energy for our needs, and the architect has assured me that the excess is being stored safely deep within the factory. I have been as far as the entrance to the storage chambers, but it is clearly hazardous to proceed further. Our workers enter and work there, but they do not last long. We dispose of the bodies beneath the chapel, in an old medieval plague pit, which seems appropriate. They are covered with burns and strange growths upon the skin that blister and split when they are moved. The smell is quite overwhelming.[br][br]All we require for the new power source is a steady supply of clean water, which we are diverting from the sewers. Our entire enterprise is thus built upon human waste.[br][br]The power source generates substantial heat, which rises through the chimney complex and warms the tunnels for the workers. Provided there is not too much blood in their excrement, it functions as a perfect closed system.</Entry>

Might just be me, but I'm pretty sure this is a reference to a nuclear power source - a technology unavailable at the time.


Are the kids merely imagined?
Quote:<Entry Name="Note_EnginePipes_Name">if you are reading this</Entry>
<Entry Name="Note_EnginePipes_Text">then you have got as far as i did so read quick and you may get further. minnie, she told us before they took her down, theres a secret way through. she told us she met two boys in the pipe, no older than us, but dressed like little gents proper they were, but already there in the pipes they was, like they'd always been there. they told her to follow and then they could get all the children free, they knew the way to a secret door that would get us out. she was going to follow them, but then they sounded the steam bell, so she had to get out or she'd have been boiled up like the others. of the two boys, she never saw them again, but i heard others have seen them too and they've said the same thing.[br][br]minnie said look for the signs the boys have left. they said they'll always be here, waiting to help us all home.</Entry>

Two young gents, proper dressed, spotted by someone who was in the pipes - presumably an orphan. Does this imply that others have seen the two children, whom I presume are your sons.

Did the children die in Mexico? Where are they burried?
Quote:<Entry Name="Note_PiglineFour_Name">December 2nd 1899</Entry>
<Entry Name="Note_PiglineFour_Text">Walking away from those temples, that small pile of stones under the rhododendrons. The skulls of innocence under the loose clod. Headless ribcages in the cool stone behind the altars, three thousand miles apart. I trace back my life to this instance, rain channels eroded in ancient stone. The toxins are already in this damp, this falling water.[br][br]I hack and retch and vomit into the sink and grasp the bowl with both hands and stare. There in the plughole, as clear as day, a toy spine, clockwork and intricate, like a child's spine, but clockwork. How could that be? How could a child's spine be made like clockwork? I washed it carefully and placed it on the mantelpiece, by the egg I laid myself, under the garden where the childrens' skulls are buried. I call it my Mexico.</Entry>

I don't generally know what to make of it all. Most of the other entries point to the children dying at the temple. Their skulls undeniably seem to be burried in the yard. Is it possible that they died in Mexico, and he brought only the skulls back home with him? Keep in mind that he was severely injured, and likely couldn't carry much with him. The main confusion for me is that the distance from London to Mexico is a fair bit greater than '3000 miles'.
09-13-2013, 02:56 AM
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RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert* - by Integria - 09-13-2013, 02:56 AM
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