THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES  

Also, disturbing a corpse

I was about to say under-rated comment, but it's five days old. Makes sense now lol.

I want to know what the heck that license is and why it's so bloody long!

dirt007 same ! But by know I think we can all say it with out thinking

Lol that's exactly what it sounded like xD

this is the comment that killed me 😂

That’s pretty iconic, I can’t lie

BOOM!

Could go somewhat the same way with The spiral (Helen, now? Used to..be…..nnnnnot Micheal but Micheal? Confusing yet makes sense.)

that is the FUNNIEST fucking interpretation of the Stranger I've ever seen 100% accurate lmao

STOP THIS LMFAO

Don't you hate it when you commit identity theft and suddenly you're a millenia old Eldritch horror?

mans gotta eat ig x)

They don’t want to assume familiarity. That would just be rude! lol 😄

They are basically asking to call Jon The Archivist or not. So asking if Jon is more avatar or human.

@@oneproudukrainian2063 That... feels a bit like reaching but honestly could be possible. In which case that would be an insult to Elias in the times people say 'Can I call you Elias?'. I was honestly just trying to bring attention to the comedic aspect that can be taken from those moments considering how often the repetition happens. But that is actually quite an interesting way of looking at it.

@@lorenam2430 I just thought of this when Oliver said that archivist was kind of stiff. And after heade the choice everyone calls him archivist. On the Elias part it's not a avatar or human thing but a different thing that'll get revealed which could be the reason for asking if calling him Elias is ok. Spoilers for the end of season 4 Asking if Elias is ok could be asking if Jonah is preferred

@@oneproudukrainian2063 it's funny how that implies almost everyone involved sans the people working in the archives knew from the start that it was jonah under that skin

Isn't Georgie a woman?

Poppy Cat they mean DEATH, the dude, not Georgie lmao

georgie not being afraid means a lot more than it did before. after we learn the powers ARE fear, does that mean that georgie overcame their influence? is she sorta immune? or does that mean she'll have an easier time working with said powers, instead of being immune, cause so many have gone mad with fear before and georgie cant. i cant wait to find out

non-human jon is here..! yay..???

i dont . . . understand?

@@cezar3169 End guy tells his story about him trying to resist his dreams, and the story ends with him giving up in resisting. He tells Jon to choose. Afterwards, we hear Jon breathing, instead of, you know him staying silent or outright dying, so that means Jon had made his choice to fully become an avatar.

@@klltsun_2576 thanks

@@klltsun_2576 And not just the deep breath, we hear the static too

"friend"

"best friend" right

Yes, best of gal pals 🙃

OMG lmao! I know this story from Internet Historian! Other cultures are funny lol

Some say they were roommates

And he's got such a nice voice

I actually thought it was the other death dream guy, the carbon monoxide killer.

Yeah I thought he was Elias as well

Before he gave his name and some other details, I thought it was Jonathan Goff, the carbon monoxide killer, and I was like "oh shit oh shit oh shit!"

@@poxrael carbon monoxide be upon ye

I thought it was him because of the clock

Got a bit everywhere I suppose

And a bit WAAAAYY over there, staINING THE WALL~ - lord Shen, Kung Fu Panda 2

Thank you for this nugget of information, it is delicious!

I had a feeling it was talking about The Vast. But the Cthulhu spin is fascinating!!

@@audacioustabby2774 I'm pretty sure Cthulhu would be part of the vast anyway X)

That would be wonderfully meta

Lmao thats prob a smart idea

My paranoid ass would hear something weird one night and be convinced ir was all real,and I was about to die. XD

If this was a book series and I was reading it... and the author was named Eugen Lightner I’d throw myself in front of a bus.

Jurgen Leitner?

Well you're not wrong, but it is a good one

@@someoneawesome8717 indeed it is #themagnusarchiveswasapodcast

only problem w that is the lukases, plus some other people are definitely avatars without dying first (like daisy)

@@lialiame I'm not too sure about the Lucas's, but I don't think Daisy is a full on avatar

@@Catflers are you listening for the first time? /genq

@@lialiame Nope, I've listened to the whole thing, and I don't think Daisy is an avatar. If she was, she might've died in the buried, but I'm really not sure about that considering what happened in the post-SPOILER part

@@lialiame I think poeple can be agents of an entity w/ out being an avatar, otherwise, the Dark would have a lot more avatars considering all the cults

No, he just laid out Jon's choices

@@someoneawesome8717 true, but if he hadn't been their to strewn everything out...

@@skullsnbones_ true

Yeah, Alex sounds so different from Martin, it's a little irritating

@@lilaboxx Why ?

@@macabrecitrus2127 just because I'm not used to it, maybe irritating was the wrong word, I'm not a native English speaker 😅

@@lilaboxx Oh ok, I was just confused as to why someone would find his normal voice irritating lol Anyway, I'm not a native speaker either, so I get it :)

@@lilaboxx Startling maybe? :3

I feel like that would have been Martin 😅

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@@azulBjort_1406 IKR ?? and yes, sounds like maybe a Martin thing to do! : )

Maybe one would have found its way there whether it was put there or not :) :) :)

@@sarahmchugh4169it’s my theory that the tape recorders are avatars of the eye that represent the viewers

He Watched her in her dreams, so she went an watched him.

F In the chat

there it goes...

Don't worry the only thing really different is that he no longer denies what people call him

@@tomdaly7088 F

its broken

yepp!!!! : )

Why are you right?

That is surprisingly accurate lol

Very accurate

What season was that?

Death is very impartial and does not care what you have done before meeting it

I only just realized that might be an Eye thing. Feeding off words.

It's actually been much longer, according to the # statement!! Months...

@@micah2879 lmaooo I listened to the next few episodes haha.

it´s been 6 months if you look at the statement numbers which are made up of the date they were taken

@@germanerd6148 that actually explains some stuff! Like why current dates in the episodes were never the same as the dates irl. They were making sure they had time to spare for this. Awesome.

I literally also thought about it haha

Im glad to see other people thought of this too

YEEEE

YESSSSSSSSSS

People of culture i see

I freaking Nasuverse reference? I love it.

there's a transcript website if that helps you as well! snarp.github.io/magnus_archives_transcripts/

The transcript Lee gave you really is the best choice. These captions are frankly awful. I'm thinking about making proper subtitles for the series.

@@yds2m THANK YOU OMFG

@@TenebraeLux omg proper subtitles would be so helpful!! for me transcripts are good to check *afterwards* if I missed or misheard something important, but I don't like reading along because I read much faster than speech, and every time I end up reading way *way* too far ahead ignoring the audio (unless I focus on "reading slower" but then I can't focus on what's happening so fjdkgkgkg). RU-vid's auto captions are.... marginally decent at helping me catch single words or bits of sentence that I'd otherwise miss but it's really unhelpful with proper names and useless with some accents lol

also it's great cuz I love reading the discussions in the comments

I KNOOOWWWW Honestly I on episode 120 I was like "huh.. dreams. You know I'm getting flashbacks to MAG11" Me two minutes in this episode: "WELL-"

I’m not a scientist. And I’m not a sailor, either. There was no legitimate way I was ever going to make it onto that ship, but none of that mattered. I had to do it. I hadn’t been sleeping much, I suppose, and I had it lodged into my mind that if I could just get there, to Point Nemo, if I could just… if I could be far enough away from mortality and people and land, then I could rest. I could finally have a dreamless sleep. So, I did some digging, found the identity of a few crew members, and started to track them down. I told myself that I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I did. Of course I did. And I finally saw them, following along behind Dr. Thomas Pritchard. He was a younger guy, some sort of chemist, and he had a habit of driving his motorcycle a bit too recklessly. When I saw him that first time, the veins were tumbling out from the open visor of his bike helmet and coiling themselves around his throat so tightly that it almost seemed like his head wasn’t attached the rest of him. Of course, after he went flying over the barrier at 95 miles an hour… well, it’s neither here nor there. It was three in the morning, and the motorway was silent, except for me and the mangled remains of Dr. Thomas Pritchard. I knew exactly what I had to do. He didn’t look anything like me, not really, but that didn’t matter. All that mattered was my desperation to finally have a good night’s sleep. I looked at his body, but all I could think of was the gentle rocking of lifeless waves. So I took his ID and his keys. Then I touched my very first corpse as I loaded what was left of him and his motorcycle into my van, and buried them in a well-hidden spot near Epping Forest. It’s strange, after all that. I don’t actually remember how I felt. Heavy, I think. But I had other concerns. It was a daft plan. It shouldn’t have worked. Someone should have driven past while I was moving him. Someone should have seen me. But they didn’t. With his keys, I let myself into Dr. Pritchard’s flat and gathered as much information on the expedition as I could. It wasn’t a lot - not that I could really understand, and I just had to hope it was enough to pass myself off. Even if it was only long enough to get one good night’s sleep. As it turned out, I needn’t have bothered. Far as I could tell, nobody on board had actually met Dr. Pritchard in person. A couple of people told me they had “the greatest respect for my work,” and a few did say how different I had sounded on the phone. But once I walked up and said who I was, nobody even bothered to check my ID. I don’t remember the name of the ship. I mean, boarding it was such a blur I didn’t really notice much, and later on I was far too nervous to ask. It was large, though with every spare inch covered in scientific equipment of some sort or other. I was relieved to find out I was the only chemist on board, so nobody was going to see me misusing anything, and figure out what was going on. At least, not until it was too late to act upon it. There were a couple of marine biologists on board, a meteorologist, an engineer, someone who called herself a “macro-ecologist” - though at times, she looked almost as out of her depth as I did. Beyond that, there were half a dozen crew running the ship. They were led by Captain MacAvey, a tall, ugly woman with a sharp tongue, though it was never clear to me whether she was the one in charge of the expedition, or if it was Clara, the senior-most marine biologist. It didn’t really matter, of course. As far as I was concerned, Dr. Pritchard was a private, standoffish person who liked to spend his time alone in his makeshift lab, or asleep in his bunk. And I did sleep. The further we got from land, the deeper, more peaceful it became. I still dreamed, of course, but I would just wander the empty deck of the ship, drinking in the quiet atmosphere of the place. I did have to force myself not to look over the railing in my dreams. Once or twice, while staring at the peaceful dream water, I almost felt like I could see something moving, deep, deep below the surface, impossibly huge and dark. I quickly learned the lesson to remain fully focused upon the ship when I dreamed. Of course, the more rest I got, the more lucid I became. I was thinking more clearly than I had in months, and the absolute foolishness of what I’d done to get there was starting to sink in. There was exactly no way that they wouldn’t figure out that I did not have a doctorate in chemistry or, er, suchlike, and when that happened, I had no idea what I was going to do. I spent days trying to think of some sort of plan, but in the end, the best I could come up with was just to wait for it, and throw myself upon their mercy and hope that they took enough pity on me not to immediately pitch me overboard into the waters of the South Pacific. But, that was the future. Before then, I had months of peaceful sleep ahead of me. Then, I had weeks. Then days. The ship kept going, powering on towards a destination I wasn’t completely sure I still wanted. I started to wander the decks in my waking hours as well as my sleeping, staring at the horizon. It never ended, but kept getting closer, all the same. Time is like that, isn’t it? Just keeps going, no matter what happens, it just carries on, and it strips everything away from you in the end, the good and the bad alike, until there is nothing left of either. “This too shall pass.” “All good things must come to an end.” “Memento mori.” As soon as I woke up, I knew we had finally reached Point Nemo. Everything felt different - like the calm I had been getting accustomed to had been torn away completely, and where it had been was just this horrible, ice-cold terror. I felt something on my chest, coiling up my back and pulsing gently around my throat. I didn’t need to look down to know what it was. In a second, I was out of my bunk and charging onto the deck, just to see veins, dark and cold and bigger by far than any I’d ever seen, rise up from the water below us. They towered over the ship for just a second, before starting to wrap themselves around it. For a moment, the embrace looked almost… affectionate. The rest of the crew didn’t seem to notice, walking through the immense, grasping tendrils like they weren’t there at all, even as the small and branching cords stretched off and wrapped around each one of them in turn. And the soft icy flesh that wrapped around me kept gripping me tighter, and tighter, until I could barely move. I wanted to scream, but the others were already staring at me as if I was screaming obscenities. Perhaps I was. At that moment, a sudden calm came over me. I understood it all. I could follow the line of the huge veins that encased the ship down into the water, leading off to a point to almost a mile to the southeast. There. That was it. That was our fate; where we would always be. Because I was going to take us there. Running was pointless. To try to escape from my task would only serve to fulfill another. I finally understood what I needed to do. I couldn’t steer a ship myself, of course, but there were plenty of other people on board who could, as long as I could persuade them. Which I did, to a point. I don’t know where I got the gun, but once captain MacAvey was dead, the others were very keen to sail wherever I wanted. The doom held me tight and pulled us all slowly, inevitably towards our grave. And when we got there, and cut the engines, and began to wait, I could feel all of their eyes look to me, panicked, hoping for some sort of explanation. I almost tried to give them one. But I barely got the first word out before the falling satellite debris hit the ship at 200 miles an hour, killing us instantly. OLIVER Right. That’s, uh, it, I suppose. Maybe you heard me. Maybe you’ll dream. Then again, maybe I just wasted my breath - but, I don’t think so. Honestly, I’m still not exactly sure why I’m here. But you know better than anyone how the spiders can get into your head. Easier to just do what she asks. The thing is, John, right now you have a choice. You’ve put it off a long time, but it’s trapping you here. You’re not quite human enough to die, but still too human to survive. You’re balanced on an edge where the End can’t touch you, but you can’t escape him. I made a choice. We all made choices. Now you have to - [DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES] GEORGIE Can I help you? OLIVER Oh, I, I’m a friend. Of John’s. GEORGIE Are you, now. OLIVER Uh, y-yes. GEORGIE Right. Just haven’t seen you visiting before. OLIVER Umm, I’ve… been out of town! GEORGIE Right. The nurse didn’t say anyone else was here. OLIVER Oh! Oh, oh, well. Sorry if I surprised you. GEORGIE It’s fine. OLIVER …I’m Antonio! GEORGIE [sarcastic] Sure. OLIVER Do you um, mind giving us a minute? GEORGIE No, I think you’re done here. OLIVER Oh. Uh… right… [SOUND OF STANDING UP] …have I upset you, miss - GEORGIE No, you just remind me of someone. OLIVER Ahhh, I’m sorry! Were they - GEORGIE Evil. Yes. OLIVER [resigned] Uh, okay, then. Well, I just, well, I guess I should just go. GEORGIE I guess you should! OLIVER …Make your choice, John. [DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES] GEORGIE [sigh] Sorry about that, but you really don’t need friends like tha… …. Did…? [PAUSE] [DOOR OPENS AND GEORGIE RUNS OUT INTO THE CORRIDOR] Hey! Hey, get back here, I need to talk to you! [CLOCKS CONTINUES TO TICK] [ARCHIVIST SHIFTS IN BED AND BEGINS TO BREATHE] [CLICK]

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Nah, I think it was more about making the choice to either wake as an avatar or die human

SAME

Me hearing it: both of those, and the will wood song, also the crywank song

Me hearing "memento mori": wow, just like Death Parade.

@@sammieegoldwand along with the Fish in a Birdcage song..

@@jinga108 YES

Why would you think that? Were you recommended it or something?

It is. You just REALLY don't want to find the books.

Parietal Polymath yeah actually lol

Mammon oh o-o

@@BELPHECROW That makes sense

wdym? I mean, of course he's breathing, he's human . . . right?

@@cezar3169 at this point, jon is right on the edge between human and not-quite-human like Oliver Banks. they mention that while he was in the coma, his powers were keeping him alive and not oxygen so he actually wasn't breathing at all this whole time. the significance of him auditably breathing at the very end there and georgie noticing is that jon just decided to hold on to his humanity and not become a monster.

@@vivkaupish7621 Sorry, I'm new, and you've probably already listened to the whole podcast, but I think this is quite the opposite. Olliver said Jon was not human enough to die but still too human to live. Since he's alive and didn't die, I assume he made the choice of "letting go" of being human, and embraced being an avatar (even if he may not remember making the choice or it was partly a subconscious decision), he choose to give up the struggle against the Eye I guess...it's gonna be even more interesting from here on out. Thank you for letting me share my theory 😊

@@Ace_Up_My_Sleeve Now I get the other comments... Thanks dude

I mean yeah, we all fear death in some form. Actively making someone fear death is a bit of a dick move and Oliver is too polite for that

Also like we all meet death so who needs to be made to fear it. Also yes Oli is a very polite thing what a good boy 😊

He is a pleasant omen of inevitability. I love him

I mean same

I feel like I'm being targeted, WHY do I feel like I'm being targeted 😅

Ive always figured we were they eye? Thats why they will "never escape the shadow" and the tape recorders turn themselvs back on and appear? Not like we don't kinda "feed" off their fear and drama?

I got a little confused when the guy in this episode mentioned a web, when he mentioned he didn't know why he was there, so maybe The Web sort of like...influences people to go give their statements to The Eye, for some reason. Also woah, I hadn't thought of that World Wide Web connection! Interesting!

I also thought it was peter I was very confused for a moment

UK still uses Miles Per Hours

Yeah we still use miles per hour in the U.K., we have a weird mix of metric and imperial here and often older people will use feet and inches whilst younger will use metres and centimetres for example

@@aspen8544 Interesting. Thank you for the information.

Last Words was a good choice too

18:20 why did he see the Vast?

Not sleeping seems a common The End thing.

@@Badficwriter true true

Remember the "first hunt" episode? about a man that can turn into a werewolf? we may get one here, but with Daisy... I believe that when the Stranger did the AoE debuff to the team of Jon, something that i would like to call as "Stranger Stranger" it inflicted CONFUSION debuff, or something like memory loss, so... if Daisy somehow also lost her conscience... the Hunt is something that will take over or dominate the control over body or will of the person * w *

we havent seen Elias talk with Peter... maybe Peter is out there, to force Elias to quit, the recorder is acting strange whenever he's there, we can say that the Ceaseless Watcher is hissing on his presence. Since he's with the isolation dark type pokemons.

Yeah, we can say that Elias might be *ghosting* Peter XD

also, maybe there are 15 "fears" or "factions", the 15th is something that Gerry and Gertrude haven't met yet. or atleast Robert Smirke, something about not realizing stuff.

Also, final notes X W X Jared may become something like the Thanos of the series * W * that he's been taking every essence of every "faction" or "fear" last time we met him, he's buffed with steroids and human femur * W *

present

The things some people would do for a good night's sleep can lead them to some very unusual places, mine has brought me to listening to a pleasant omen of death explaining how he reached this point in his sort of life

since he's also in service to the end i'm guessing mary keay's walking corpse from georgie's statement

@@HyacinthoIgnis Her corpse wasn't actually alive tho. She was just a ghost from the Skin Book. Plus, her body was evidence in the case of her murder and was missing pieces of skin, so her body would in no way end up in some anatomy class or whatever. Oliver most likely just felt that she was marked by the End.

The people marked by the End.

Georgie is marked by The End, and Oliver is an avatar of The End. She just clocked him as the same kind of thing as the being that marked her.

In s3 she tells Jon about a, I believe, a cadaver on campus that seemed to rise from the dead and killed a bunch of people, including her friend.