2009-11-04, 06:59 PM
Try here.
The way the actual storyline is executed is awkward. In contrast to the other one which somewhat plays out like a detective story and solving the problem, this one feels like almost raw questing with almost 0 storyline in the actual dialogue; but left for the player to guess and attempt to interpret. Loose and aslemn have summed up pretty much what ACTUALLY happened and is told; which isn't much aside from the known fact that Olivia is a daughter of Jonas who was pretty much forgotten. In one interpretation said by Isaac in that thread, it's believed that the whole story is actually a giant illusion conjured to life by the powers of Masked Gentleman- as in an event, it was stated he could conjure lost memories to life (from Korea's Halloween event, and who appeared for our Halloween event last year); and that Joe and Jonas are two takes on how she remembered Jonas- with "Joe" being the shortened form of Jonas. Also, I believe it was mentioned by "Steward" (Edmunds's new name this year) that the whole thing was a trap by Olivia to take her rage out on the Maplers and that she was to be stopped; so the whole storyline is a trap by Olivia. Another interpretation was that... actually, I'll just quote it:
The way the actual storyline is executed is awkward. In contrast to the other one which somewhat plays out like a detective story and solving the problem, this one feels like almost raw questing with almost 0 storyline in the actual dialogue; but left for the player to guess and attempt to interpret. Loose and aslemn have summed up pretty much what ACTUALLY happened and is told; which isn't much aside from the known fact that Olivia is a daughter of Jonas who was pretty much forgotten. In one interpretation said by Isaac in that thread, it's believed that the whole story is actually a giant illusion conjured to life by the powers of Masked Gentleman- as in an event, it was stated he could conjure lost memories to life (from Korea's Halloween event, and who appeared for our Halloween event last year); and that Joe and Jonas are two takes on how she remembered Jonas- with "Joe" being the shortened form of Jonas. Also, I believe it was mentioned by "Steward" (Edmunds's new name this year) that the whole thing was a trap by Olivia to take her rage out on the Maplers and that she was to be stopped; so the whole storyline is a trap by Olivia. Another interpretation was that... actually, I'll just quote it:
TobiasBlack Wrote:wait, IVE GOT IT!
listen to this while reading it
Olivia was a runaway because jonas' new wife was abusive, and olivia saw her as a terrible mother and got out while she had a chance. She looks a few years older than sophilia, so perhaps sophilia was a baby when she ran away.
Olivia wanders around, carrying only with her the doll that her father had made for her. she gets lost and finds a guy named Joe, who sees her in her terrible physical state and offers to take her in. clearly she hasnt eaten in days/weeks, and has gotten a severe fever from this, as well as being out in the wherever for however long she was out there. Joe tried his hardest to take care of her, but, since she wasnt his own child his best was half-assed at best. she still saw his kindness and good actions to her and decided to take him on in her heart as her surrogate father.
however, she was still sick and heartbroken because of jonas, and her condition is deteriorating with every passing day. eventually, she dies, clutching the doll that her father made for her to her chest. Joe, before hand, while trying to take care of her, managed to discover she was Jonas Pendergasts daughter, and decided to take her there, but, since she was dead now, his plans were shot. so, instead he goes himself to the manor to see it empty. he goes in, sees the ghosts, and gets terrified to such an extent that he faints inside. what happens then is unknown, but i can assume something along the lines of him becoming lost when he wakes up due to the layout of the various rooms and dying/being killed by the demons inside.
the tombstones, how would they come into play, though? perhaps Jonas, as a spirit, heard from Joe of his daughters situation when joe, still alive, came into the manor, and after sensing the presence of his eldest daughter, full of contempt for him. Jonas in his fatherly love, being unable to help his daughter with the toys he made to comfort sophilia, opts instead to try and create a proper tombstone and grave for his eldest daughter, but loses the various fragments of the tombstone because of the many multitudes of dolls and toys that are being churrned out by his demented machine.
The spirit of the butler, still caring for the manor, senses the spirit of the eldest daughter returning to the manor, and upon seeing that her father is dead and seeing her rage becoming focused on the outside world, decides to trap her spirit inside of a mirror inside a sealed off section of the manor, perhaps olivia's old room even? when she is defeated, the ghost becomes docile and accepts that her father died, and after seeing that jonas attempted to help her in death by creating the tombstones, accepts her fate and finds peace in death. her spirit then falls to pieces, but the spirit that resided in the doll she always carried with her in turn passes into a nearby object, a rocking chair that perhaps her real mother used to use to feed her when olivia was still a baby and was given the doll for companionship. the doll, then, changes and turns the chair into its own image of olivia, and attaches itself to the chair so that it will never be apart from olivia ever again, in hopes to always comfort her, even after she finds peace.