INTERLOPER 8: The Tuesday Incident 

The Hi Man was the best NPC in Interloper series, best character.

the guy vibing during the type 5 when the music started playing was probably the silliest moment we're getting the entire series

As someone already said here in the comments, Hi-man's actions seemed to be pretty repetitive. They only started to be repetitive after the umbrella man appeared though, because before that, Hi-man was just looking around. I think that the reason for Hi-man's actions being repetitive is that he somehow knows what happens to dynamic NPC's when they get caught by the umbrella man, so he tried to put up an act, and pretended to be a normal NPC. The umbrella man put a radio in front of Hi-man to test if he really is a normal NPC or a DNPC. But that radio was a trap, and by dancing, Hi-man fell for it, because there is no dancing animation in HL2, which means that a normal HL2 NPC would not be able to dance. This also proves that the umbrella men are intelligent.

i really love how the chat kept insisting that the brb was getting faster

>wakes up on a beach and appreciates the beautiful view >sees a mysterious and possibly dangerous person, politely greets them >person creates a radio playing music, begins happily dancing to it >notices the person behaving erratically, takes the hint and attempts to run away rest in peace Hi Guy, gone but never forgotten :(

8:30 Can we get a Hi in chat for Hi Guy, he was on screen for only 4 minutes before he got eaten by John Umbrellaman but he still said so much lore wise it changes everything we know about how interloper and why interlopıng

In the Skybox map, the head of the researcher puppet was following the movements of the player

I loved how people in chat were annoyed that Interloper stopped the guy's dancing and were spamming "Hi" in chat.

>greets entity over and over again >dances >fucking dies best character arc in the series

16:04 "BYE BYE" as heavy's soul leaves his body lol

9:20 love how he’s just jammin out Never mind I will never forgive Umbrella man for killing him

Incase you missed it, the girl's head at 13:51 - 14:15 keeps turning to see him. This is why I love the interloper series. Not only drops a new episode out of the blue, drops a massive manifest that must have taken forever to create, the small details in these videos make it so compelling!

This could be completely wrong, but for the type 5, the hi guy acts slow and reletitive until the music box appears from nowhere and he starts dancing. To our knowledge they have no ability to spawn items, which leads me to believe it was spawned in by the umbrella men or as a test (we've seen them use traps before in misty i think) to see if theyve broken their programming

Staring at the brb screen was wild

The short projectskybox segment basically confirms that the presenter from episode 7 isn't real, right? Also that model 100% kept turning towards Anomi when he looked away

16:02 i like the bit when heavy tf2 types 'bye bye' in the text chat for no apparent reason.

Got a weird theory, but what if some demos are from the perspective of the umbrella dude? Similar sounds when interacting with the scoliosis models & both models end up spazzing out in the air

For people checking the files, there was one in particular that was weird. right before half life generated a type 5, on cs:go there was what looked like another type 5 generated, but the screen cutaway to portal rtx fixed. 1:35:28 in the original vod. If it’s possible to find that, that would be great

Fly high Hi guy 🕊️ 🕊️ 🕊️

God i just interloped all over my screen.

Hi guy is so iconic we're all just ignoring the attempt by the heavy in gravel pit trying to relay a message by looking at certain places (Several of the A & B signs, the KEEP OUT sign, etc.) before being interrupted by the mutilated heavy showing up EDIT: gravel pit, not hightower

dont you just hate it when you’re casually livestreaming your cool new setup and then the mysterious ghost poster in half life 2 suddenly comes back and your macro generates a shitload of demos midstream before a type 5 crashes the stream?

13:49 the commentators head tracks the player movement, eidamona archive reuploads video of eida capturing the ai / "spirit" in a ragdoll. i think anomi has a mona for himself

This time on interloper! The stream gets gaslit by chat into thinking the umbrella man was in the letsplay segment, demoman tf2 caps all control points, the dm npc tries to appeas the umbrella man with greetings and a dance, eida machinina communicates with possible ghosts, and heavy tf2 ascends (the umbrella men cant stop him now hes god)!

It's so funny how many things that are being overlooked by him because of being focused on something else. 13:49 The instructor who explained the whole probe process in searching through the darkness that disappears, but he doesn't talk about cause he's focusing on the skybox. (Who also suspiciously looks like just an accessorized dummy from the server addon ad we saw a while back). The heavy demo saying "BYE BYE" because he is checking if the stream ended around that time. It's so silly and I wish film theory would do an episode on this already, so I don't have to break my laptop trying to explore everything myself.

he was so chill and then the interloper just killed him

That demo at 15:05 freaked me out. I was honestly expecting something NOT GOOD in Skybox

15:56 BYE BYE 🤫🤫🧏🧏

Holy moly, we got a demo from the umbrella man perspective at 16:30, maybe they are two ai, one trains to seek, the other trains to hide, and maybe the realistic movement is to hide within realistic situations, and by using a ai trained to hunt "waldo", the other ai progressively becomes more realistic and "human" to blend in.

16:36 me at 3am walking to mom’s room to tell her i threw up

It looks like you've awakened something in the darkness. And this time, Gandalf the Gray isnt around to save you.

I like how in the Type 5 demo the dude was just casually jamming to the music, completely ignoring the deadly godlike umbrella man who was looking him dead in the eyes😂

16:40 it could be one of the crashers. If that's the case, what makes it even weirder is the fact it's on a demo

Very REGULAR livestream that was super REGULAR it was so fun that it was NOT STRANGE

I feel like in the demos where the player character is like zipping around in the sky we are seeing the POV of an umbrella man hunting a DMNPC

Ok holy shit, this was a huge info dump. A whole zip file worth of demo files, an Eidamona upload, the HL2 after stream checkup with the female scientist DMNPC, and the last demo which seemed to be a POV of an umbrella man?? Goddamn we've only been dropfed so far, but this was like the whole dam bursting!

16:45, "heavy"'s movements are pretty erratic here. Almost like an Umbrella Man, Maybe we are seeing something from an umbrella mans viewpoint? Plus the same sound happens whenever the "Heavy" teleports to watch the distorted heavy walk around. The exact same sound has appeared in the past to signify Umbrella Men appearing.

I LOVE how you made the demos for the audience to play around with. It makes the arg so much more engaging. Ive been watching fans make videos of what they find. Its so cool. Easly the best the interloper series have done yet

Something important to note at 13:49 is that if you focus on the model used for the Project Skybox video, the head is following Anomidae the whole time unlike the rest of the NPCs, even turning it's head a full 180 around it's neck to look at him.

Just when I was about to look for more internet horror content on RU-vid, that's when I catch a new episode of The Interloper in my subscription notifications. God does 2024 feel so good.

"what a mess, jeez" joey: hi im joey

calling it now, the last demo was either a 2nd person type 5 or a brand new type 6 that probably happens when a type 5 happens in a type 3 when connection is lost making it a very rare occurrence and possibly a new insight to this whole project.

0:15 I actually thought this was going to be the opening song to GRAND DAD.

Some thoughts: - While we've been aware of this for a lil while, Anomi is clearly intentionally withholding info or not bringing up certain moments from the stream. While the Type 5 was definitely the highlight of the stream, there were other moments that felt important but simply weren't acknowledged. The most damning is what the hell happened with Portal RTX, with the glowing bright light in the void? - Alongside the withholding of info, we now have a lil more evidence that the kind lady from the last episode is likely a DMPC. When Anomi was in the skybox mod for a bit, you can see her head following him. I saw one commenter theorize that maybe her head is set to follow the player, but I don't remember her doing thah during the stream (do correct me if Im wrong). If she is one, she is by FAR the most advanced DMPC, with a full grasp of english (assuming that is her talking in the last episode) and very human-like movements. I am curious if her relationship with Anomi is similar to Eida and Mona, where she is being contained against her will, or if her and Anomi have a more mutual/friendly dynamic. (EDIT: I did notice another commenter mention that the lady's head moving in this video could potentially be a completely unrelated entity to whoever we saw speaking with the model in a previous episode. This is further backed up by the latest Eida upload, where he show cases a DMPC "possessing" a ragdoll model. Basically, the lady isn't a DMPC herself, but some OTHER entity made it's way into the skybox and took over the model themselves. If that is the case, then Anomi may have just accidentally captured an entity in front of us, similar to Eida. We'll just have to see.) - Personally, the demos we saw in the stream and the end of this video are what I think to be the POV of an umbrella man, or at least some sort of hostile entity. In the new Type 5, we can see the umbrella man moving in a very similar way and even making a similar noise. If this is the case, then the final demo in this video may show something completely new: a DMPC who seemed to resist (to some degree) the umbrella man's influence. If the sound being made is the umbrella man's "weapon" (for lack of a better term), which can be seen being used in the earlier TF2 demo, then it simply did not work on this DMPC. We even see the umbrella man get visibly frustrated at this and starts spamming it on the Heavy model to no avail. I get the feeling this is not the last we've seen of this Heavy model.

14:17 i just have 12k hours on this game and yet i am 100% able to identify gravel pit by the cubemaps alone

13:50 the scientist girl model is staring at him the whole time. this wasn't the case before interloper happened. anomidae might've caught an entity by accident by leaving a ragdoll there, just like eidamona did in his latest video.

How do I always catch this series literally 2 minutes after its uploaded??

i eat args like this like they're skittles and i havent eaten for decades. they sate my rabid mind like nothing else. please keep doing what you're doing, all of this is incredible.

Holy shit. that ending was insane. I cant wait to see more on that "heavy"

*Anomidae checking for Stream recording Sentient Type 5 Heavy: BYE BYE!! 🤫🧏‍♂ 15:52

New entities, 400+ demos shared to the community, two type 5s and the introduction of the "type 6" demos. Not only that but a reference to the krasher scout of Eidamona's channel and a really old reference to Columidae wit the Fear Inc map. So much to unpack in so little time, you spoiled us.

interesting in the type 3 he mostly looks at specific props (the pipe, a signs and c sign) maybe this is also why the heavy character stares at the heavy ragdoll (could be a prop being rigged to the skeleton of a playermodel causing the warping) could def be something !!

13:50 she was looking at you and then she FUCKING DISAPPEARED EXCUSE ME

Theory: what if all or some of the "normal gameplay" type demos are actually Type 5s who know what's going on enough to hide from the umbrella men? They pretend to be normal demos to avoid deletion, but then when the server closed the Heavy realized it could drop the facade and float away.

That TF2 Type 3 turning into what I can only describe as a Type5 Outsider view is… Fucking insane.

Anomidae! Brother I need to discuss a sleep paralysis hallucination I had about this series (no joke). I had a dream I was stuck in some source game online basically just straight out of your videos, it was a room full of pipes, barely lit, and hl2 characters with blue outfits floating without eyes towards me. I woke up, but in my ROOM, a floating hl2 character was in the corner, just staring at the wall and slowing rising, wriggling like crazy in place as they rose. Then they disappeared. Coolest shit ever

I think that the demo we see at the end is mona taking over the ragdoll, and the heavy model teleporting is the POV of a umbrella man trying to delete Mona, but it seems Mona can overpower them, sometimes, that explains the "jingle" we keep hearing is the umbrella man unsuccessfully attempting to delete mona, short story Umbrella men are a defense mech to keep mona trapped inside of the severs

I wish we had more reactions from Anomi during the type 5's because honestly my reaction to seeing a scrunkled up heavy shimmy across the screen would also be "What? what the fuck is that? what??"

I love when it started to interloped and interloper everywhere, truly an interloping experience

my favourite part was at 16:29 when umbrella man said "OOOOOOH IM GONAN INTERLOPE!"

Rest in peace Hi Man. We will never forget you.

I think the tf2 clip at the end somehow became a third person view of a type 5. The messed up heavy was the type 5 npc, and we were looking through the eyes of an umbrella man. What this means, I have no idea, maybe heavy was just tired of standing still and went for a walk, and anomidae got pissed his payed actor was leaving so he sent heavy to the shadow realm

It's an ARG rule nowadays: there is a Discord somewhere that has already perused those demo/map files upside-down within hours of the video release. We here on YT are several days behind the curve waiting for a comprehensive compilation to catch up. (It's fine by me.) So far the crumbs we got offered a CS:GO Type 5, plenty of "Type 6" videos where deletions occur, etc. as well as at least three messages hidden in demo files, starting with "FOR SERVER.a" and with one of them noting player input activity on Nov. 20, 2023 so it's recent; and comments in the map files, like "I think mapgen started learning" (from memory). There is still a kiloton to unpack, plenty of untold oddities, it must be / have been a fun egghunt for that Discord server. What I've convinced myself of so far is that the body in 15:33 is not a Type 5 showing up. Moves too quickly, too game-like. And likewise the player itself is not an umbrella man. Sure they can pop up from nowhere, but they usually move, not teleport. Plus regarding Type 6 I don't remember umbrella men deleting anything. I don't even associate the weird Type 6 sound with deletion: plenty of cases where you hear the sound and nothing disappears (and vice-versa). One thing people have pointed at is a demo file mirroring Eida's scout footage. And yeah it looks the same but it's also too fast and going out-of-bounds. So far I've convinced myself that 15:33 is the player's camera. That is, one of Eida's entities took over the body but the camera itself, for whatever reason, remained unsynched. The rest is just the camera tracking the entity / the entity struggling with the camera. And that, to me, can be generalized to explain types 1-2 or even types 3-4: any time an entity picks a body/object, a recording happens. Types 1-2 are just the camera unable to track the player (entity) and so the entity gives up in short order; type 2 delay could be the time it takes to "disconnect". Types 3-4 could be an entity picking an object during a player session, so the recording happens on a busy camera, locked to the player; if type 3 is from a different map, that could be the entity, well, being on a different map (doesn't explain the suicidal tendencies though). Type 5 remains unexplained and type 6 is a stretch: most people seem to assume it's administrators hunting entities while I'm more inclined to see game hacks, players/entities having fun with the mechanic. Look, it's a game, it's players, Fsky is not a Valve lab' gone rogue. Anyway yeah, ep9 will be fun. Looking forward to it.

I LOVE YOU ANOMIDAE‼️ Keep making interlopers when you have time. We all enjoy them!!

I’m almost glad I missed this live otherwise I would have stayed up past midnight watching a 40 minute BRB screen too afraid to fall asleep for fear of missing something important Very eager to see where it goes from here!

Rest in Peace Hi Guy... his sacrifice will not be forgotten...

The stream was interloper 8 in disguise

That meat spirit coming out of the TF2 Heavy was really funny

9:53 thats the first real chills ive gotten in a while

God, I really can't wait for the eventual hours long video essay explaing Interloper.

I think the thing that crashed tf2 was a type 3 that glitched into being a type 5 (or maybe type 6 (irregular) like the weird 3 hour fly into another map demo) midway through after the demo's player replay said "BYE BYE" just a theory tho

best 'creepypasta' series i've seen since i was a kid. thanks for making this, it always makes my day when i see a new episode

I truly believe we can call the one with the distorted heavy in tf2 the first ever “type 6” demo In these demos a type 5 npc appears to escape and/or hide successfully from the umbrella men, thus upgrading it to a type 6. I wouldn’t be surprised if the type 6 npc is hiding somewhere in your computer files.

Months later have past. I just want to say that I appreate the effort you put into making captions for this series. It helps me understand it more. Thank you

I see a lot of people theorizing that this is the dynamic npc "faking" being a half life 2 npc. I disagree. Remember those node blocks we saw before, where, once one was in the game, the npc stopped what they were doing and tried to touch it? I think these dynamic npcs were part of valve's attempt to make npcs more realistic, and these nodes were built to direct them. However, they ended up *too* real, being scared and acting on their own when there isn't a node block. I think these are AI "trapped" in the role of an npc, and being intelligent enough to fear their captors. It reminded me a lot of the behavior of chell when the portal incident happened; the intelligence left, and all that was left was the AI to follow nodes. These s.pull commands seem eerily like training AIs. Why this is still happening years after HL2 is out of production is a huge mystery. It's almost like the umbrella men are exploiting this old tech, testing it, and weeding out those who find out by crashing and breaking their game, like with portal

"hi" [gets no reaction] [gives the player a radio] [gets no reaction] "hi" [gets no reaction] [freaking kills the player]

that heavy was so weird looked like boneworks npc in tf2

Okay, my personal theory is that the Heavy at the end is actually Mona, and she somehow made her way into TF2 and survived being deleted.

God I love these. Never stop interloping, dear friends.

All of this reminds me of a vague memory, when I was playing gmod with my friend back in a 2012. I remember him building working time machine, that can travell back in time and when it happens it reconnects to the server and you can see players with the same nickname as yours doing thing, that you did before. I can't even tell today if it was real or not or am I just dreaming

We're all in agreement that the presence/appearance of the professor NPC is somewhat unsettling, right? I can't be the only one who thinks this random character's appearance is something more than just an obtuse late addition of someone who wanted to do VO for the series. Especially after the weird T-Posing and "confirm/button press" in the last entry. God damn, I love this series. Probably the best ever mystery I've ever been able to witness.

13:57 DAFAQ!? That part honestly scared me. Your model turning their head and staring at you!

13:54 the possession kicks in by real

INTERLOPER 8 ALREAYD?? LETS GOO WE EATING GOOD TODAY

Rise and shine, Gordon Freeman. New Interloper entry just dropped.

Character Anomi's a fucking beast, something important happens and he slams together a high quality video within a day while still coming over tons of footage.

Dunno if folks noticed but the scientist lady, moves her head around observing the player. Then vanishes which he was unaware of. 13:46

Love it when the umbrella demon gives you a radio with groovy music and you just start busting a move while staring at the sunset over the water

I just hope that when a portal type 5 is made, that Chell actually manages to outsmart interloper or escape interloper. If the AI in this characters at all matches the story versions, she knows how to escape near death more than most.

Love how the first guy on the type 5 was just trying to jam him out lmao best one yet

That last heavy demo, in the latter section seemed to be treating the heavy player as a third person camera trying to center on the ragdoll. Which strikes me as similar to how Mona was observed. Perhaps there really is a ghost in the machine, one which likes to say "BYE BYE" in chat. :)

The ending interests me. The umbrella men have never communicated face-to-face before, however at the end when it tells Anomi that the connection's been disabled, the chat reads "BYE BYE." This is the first ever instance in which the umbrella men have directly communicated with anyone even remotely involved in the investigation. Just found that intriguing

I think Anomidae is Eida, as many people have pointed out Eida Mona is an anagram of Anomidae. EVIDENCE FOR AND AGAINST THIS AGAINST: 1. Eida seemingly has access to information Anomidae does not have. 2. Their voices are different 3. Eida uses the DM Editor tool, while Anomidae seems to be entirely unfamiliar with it. 4. Anomidae 'discovers' Eidas channel and seems to be unaware of the information in said videos. INFORMATION IN FAVOR: 1. Anomidae is most certainly not being entirely upfront with all the information being gathered. He seems to prioritize certain leads/pieces of information over others, to the point that he seems to miss blatantly obvious things. Judging from the high production value of these episodes, it's likely that he cherry picks information that he deems as 'relevant'. 2. Based on the bumpers, which match the description of the original FSKY demo bumpers, it's likely Anomidae is being helped/supervised/threatened by a larger organization, probably FSKY itself. It would give motive for Anomidae to not be upfront with all information, as it's likely he is withholding information the organization doesn't like being shared. 3. Eida and Anomidaes voices are different, but this could be explained by Eida being a teenager and Anomidae being an adult, thus his voice developed. The gap of ~8 years between Eidas final upload and Anomidae's first part in the investigation is plenty of time for ones voice to change during puberty. Furthermore, Eida is almost certainly not a native English speaker, while I think it's pretty likely Anomidae isn't a native English speaker either. Thus, it's likely over 8 years Anomidae has gotten more comfortable in his English voice. 4. The presenter from part 7/8 is quite obviously a DM_NPC, that or at the very least it's using the same tool in the FSKY advertisement because of how uncannily similar the movements are. The presenter having a 'voice' could just be Anomidae's friend irl dubbing over the DM NPC's movements. The fact that Anomidae now has access to tools to make a DM NPC and chose to make a female model is very similar to what Eida did to Mona. It could be that Anomidae has had time to get better at curating his own 'Mona' and has used his experience to successfully use his own Mona to help in the making of a video. This is also what Eida did in some of his videos, using Mona in his videos. 5. With how quickly Anomidae dismisses the DM Editor tool as a hoax until given irrefutable proof, it feels likely that Anomidae has some sort of aversion to the DM Editor tool. This would make sense considering the jumpscare Eida received while using it. Furthermore, the DM Editor tool seems to be closely connected to FSKY, and thus the organization overlooking Anomidae might not want him covering it.

my new two favourite characters from this series Hi Guy and Model Manipulator Heavy

I just noticed how we might have seen 2 demos from the umbrella man’s pov obviously the heavy one but also maybe at 5:37 because of the same teleporting and sounds (also all of the npcs dying)

I think, Interloper slowly starts seeing you as threat to its integrity...

INTERLOPER - EIGHTH FOOL'S DEMO

This is actually fire, Keep on making this project!

i love this!! you're an excellent creative!!!

Heck yeah we get another vol. With this one 🗣🔥