#tmp arg

[thetriboulet]

see as a writer and enjoyer of consuming media critically i love the idea of jon and martin being perpetually trapped between universes, or in the tapes, or just any fate worse than death. i think it makes for such an interesting and tragic end to their stories. but as a fan of the show and copybook wimp? man i just want them to wind up Somewhere Else and adopt a cat.

[markerbirthday]

Did anyone get here in the ARG yet or am I just really behind?

EDIT: I found this by taking all of the missing letters from words on the “Night Shift” page on the official O.I.A.R. website.

[mintytea-exe]

I forget that there are people who didn't participate in the arg. like what have yall been doing for the last three weeks. bonzo? asterisk? "marked for archival"? do these words mean nothing to you?

[spirls]

here’s the fanart I made for the ARG server.. blobbonzo (?) 4 life

[initial-lime]

Bonzotober day 1.

Lord save me I’m going nuts and it only gets worse from here LMFAO

[ndsvkwac]

Bonzo! Bonzo!! Bonzo!!!

[st7arlight]

sketchy results of my sam brainstorming!!! im having a lot of fun knowing hes likely fairly young so i can include closer to my social influences

in my heart of hearts hes gnc and a demiboy <333 and aspec <3333

[endergummi]

I feel like going insane

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS?

AM I MISSING SOMETHING?

[find-me-in-hell]

started following the arg for TMP lore ended up in a german ddr forum and a fucked up theme park goodnight folks

[curiositykilledtheradiostar]

hey quick question what the FUCK is going on in the mag protocol arg

[the-mystical-aquatic-gay]

the magnus protocol trailer is gonna be the only thing i think about for the next week at most

i mean like look at this!!! this is just the first screen and holy shit

J.01, M.01, and then J.02????

primary slave and primary master are both errors, but then the second ones of each of those are labeled as undefined and none?????

i might do a full analysis later, we’ll see

[thetriboulet]

Woooo so the Magnus Protocol premiered and I have things to say and things to overanalyse!

As we know, 'Chester', 'Neil' and 'Augustus' are, maybe?, Jon, Martin, and Jonah, respectively. Hence this:

And, of course, there's 'J1', 'M1' and 'J2' in the trailer.

However, I've seen confusion over the fact that the third 'Error' is voiced by Tim Fearon, who as far as I'm aware has not previously voiced any characters in the Magnus universe. Even though the name is distorted, I can make out what looks to be an H at the end of the name, so this very well may be Jonah.

My theory is this: 'Augustus' is Jonah (or just his voice). However, since the body of Elias was killed in the Panopticon, Jonah does not use Elias' voice anymore. Jon, Martin, and Jonah are all disembodied, if we are to believe they are somehow inside the computer/other technology (ie Alice/Sam's phone in the pub scene) or in some way somewhere adjacent to the world of Protocol. So it could, in a dream-logicy eldritch sense, follow that Jonah is able to survive in his own creepy old ass man way, and use his original voice. Obviously, I cannot corroborate this claim in any meaningful way. We have not heard Augustus speak yet, but I think it is a possibility nonetheless.

The fact that Augustus supposedly shows up to read cases aloud significantly less than Chester and Neil could also be a clue. Maybe Jonah is weaker than Jon and Martin due to his injuries, and is therefore unable to materialise as often as Jon and Martin. Maybe the voice that speaks the true cases (because, similarly to how true statements were identified using the tape recorder in TMA, I imagine true cases will be singled out using the text to speech system) is relevant to the case itself - ie, Jonah only speaks when a case is heavily linked to the Eye, etc.

Furthermore, there's the question of who is spying on who and when/why. By this I mean that we hear our perspective switch between devices (the phone, the computer, the security camera during Colin and Sam's interaction, etc), and I believe that this happens because one or more of the 'Errors' (as I am going to refer to them henceforth) is travelling between devices to spy on the characters' conversations. What we hear is dictated by what the Errors, characters who have prior knowledge of the Fears, deem important. This is backed up by the episode's closing scene: Colin's paranoid closing lines. It is clear that Colin believes someone is listening to them, and it is implied that he has made a connection between this and the Errors. What intrigues me is the Errors' motivation for doing this at all. If what they deem important is what we hear, and this is the first that we are hearing, then it seems to me that it is Sam's arrival that has given them cause for concern, or (in Jonah's case) hope (if he is plotting to return, or something, I don't put it past the scheming weasel). So, why are they listening? And how can we really tell if what we are hearing is the spying of Jonah, or of Jon and Martin?

Another thing. Jonny makes a point of letting us know that Alice does not think the work they do is of any significance, or is checked by anyone. She constantly mentions it in passing and is very casual in her attitude towards work. We obviously have the foresight to know this isn't true. The reason I point this out is because of what Sam does when filling out his paperwork: he ticks the 'Response' box, to which Alice responds that it doesn't matter. This could be nothing, it probably is nothing, but I feel like the fact that Sam has ticked the onboarding box of a mysterious department of an already mysertious organisation might come up later...

Yes I know I am jumping to a lot of conclusions, especially where the Errors are concerned. Please take every theory you hear, from me or anyone else, with a grain of salt, this is all speculative. From a writer's perspective, I honestly think it's pretty likely that Chester and Neil aren't actually Jon and Martin, and just their voices taken by the Web or something, but shh I can dream.

Edit: oh my god they changed his name to Norris that is even worse. Jonny and Alex were fr like 'neil is too kind, we need the name to be Chester levels of horrific'

[markerbirthday]

CURRENT PROTOCOL ARG NOTES POST! Hope any of this helps people!

If you have any info about the ARG or about any forums to talk about it, PLEASE LMK I NEED TO BE PART OF THIS!

Also current theory is that the algorithm (FR3-D1) is some kind of AI, possibly extinction aligned, OR is either Jonah Magnus, Jon Sims, or Sergei Ushenka in digital form. HEHEHSHHDKDJR !!!

[teddypoi-qd]

{ID - digital doodle of SandmannS from the TMP ARG; he is a fat man with pale brown skin and a receeding hairline of curly brown hair pulled back into a messy bun. he is wearing a loose green jumper and denim jeans with brown workboots. he is sat at a computer with dead eyes behind square glasses, smoking a cigarette, as Einsammernar rants about his conspiracy theories. He thinks idly about shooting Eins. END ID}

the protocol ARG is treating me good. blorbo bingus <3

[dandelionjack]

my favourite thing about einsamernarr is that in 1994 he manages to sound like a raving loony conspiracy theorist simply by describing the state of events regarding technology as they are now in 2023 where everyone accepts them without a second thought. poor guy definitely fell through a time slip from taking his research too far

[vastpotato]

We’re all freaking out about the magnus protocol trailer being solved in the arg, right???