The Magnus Protocol 4 - Taking Notes 

A 3 headed piper, a hungry violonist and a mannequin playing the calliope, sounds like a pretty decent band.

“Jonah Magnus? In _my_ computer?” It’s more likely than you’d think.

[twirling my entrails around my finger like hair] hiiiiiii grifter's bone

"Stop trying to give them names!" I am 100% convinced that they are keeping the powers weakened by referring them to specific narrative tropes rather than a broad name like "corruption" or "the flesh".

Chills, he literally said "Magnus" and "Protocol". Now I'm going to wait for " I am the Magnus Protocol"

HERE'S HOW GRIFTERS BONE CAN STILL WIN

Violin Violins Violence 😮

I can't believe joe spooky is in this episode

"a pair of gambler's dice"... Reference to TMA episode Cheating Death?

accidentally making augustus sound exactly like jonny sims' dad is pretty funny i'll admit

The world's hungriest violin, really needs an audience, so if I do not find somebody soon...

So... why's the system sending the notif to Alice? By not sending the warning to the correct person (someone who could make Sam stop nosing around classified files), the system is basically letting Sam investigate about the Institute without consequences.... WHAT'S YOUR AGENDA, FREDDY?

WHEN THEY SAID MAGNUS AND PROTOCOL AND THEN MAGNUSED SLL OVER THE PLACE

This episode has _everything!_ - Crusty old man-voiced Jimmy Magma - Victorian era Grifter’s Bone - Title drop! - Lena possibly fixing to pull a little Brutal Pipe Murder 2: Electric Boogaloo I genuinely love this episode! It’s nice to have a proper Slaughter episode that’s not about war, again. Grifter’s Bone is one of my favorite episodes from TMA, so them having an equivalent in this universe made me oddly happy. lol I’m guessing that the artifact merchant will be coming up again at some point. He seems possibly Eye aligned, due to how the statement giver was surprised at how much he told the merchant, paired with mentions of his “unwavering gaze”. But, that’s purely speculation at this point… Also, a new great line that will stick with me: “The blood for its strings need not be your own.” Not quite as chilling as “The blanket never did anything,” but still great! 😁

OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. GRIFTER'S BONE. EVERYONE SHUT UPP. GRIFTER';S BNONE. ITS GRIFTER'S BONE. NOT THE EXACT BAND, BUT WHAT if the violin was passed down or resold until the modern day when it was used by the frontman of grifter's bone??? IVE CONNECTED THE DOTS!!

So we're all in agreement that the Hungry Violin is aligned with the Slaughter (not exactly subtle) and that the stranger the man met in the woods was an avatar of the Eye? He asked a simple questioned and got the guy's entire life story with a candour (honesty) that surprised himself. Seems like this avatar is filling a similar role to Breekon and Hope or Mikaele Salesa.

*hearing music terms that I have no idea what they mean* So true Jonah bestie

Spoiler alert . . . . . . . . . . . . So, this is the story behind Grifter's Bone... Also, I just realized so far Norris has only read statements about the loss of a loved one. Chester has read one statement that is directly connected to the eye and the Magnus Institute, and now, Jonah reads old statements (if it is Jonah).

"the blood need not be your own" genuinely made my jaw drop lol. honestly found it more chilling than "the blanket never did anything." also, tiny theory on why the computers cant update: since it seems like john, jonah, and martin are all trapped inside of the software, maybe theyre trapped in like the oldest version of software known to man because its the closest they could get to analog machinery, like how in tma john couldnt record statements on his modern laptop but could on the analog tape recorder. maybe updating would cause them to "bug out" or delete or something since theyre so intertwined with the fears, like how all the statements on modern tech would. hell, even that guy in the first statement in tmp couldnt take pictures of the stuff in the magnus institute with his phone. just a thought.

As someone who plays violin, this episode was super relatable! Except my violin just makes people disappear into the fog instead outright killing them, but I don’t want to be nitpicky.

Love the gothic Edgar Allen Poe vibes of this one. The Merchants got to be the new Salesa

4:23 Gwen is giving “Stop trying to make ’fetch’ happen. It’s never going to happen” vibes, and I love it. 😆

JONAH MAGNUS???

I feel so sad for Gwen believeing they were talking about her behind her back T-T This story was very interesting! The far away music, the trader/strange c: 10/10 sound and voice acting ^-^

JIMMY MAGNUM???

The third voice, not Jon or Martin, theorized to be Jonah, reading an 18th century statement? It continues, the jmj theory!

Perhaps the Merchant works like Breekon and Hope, delivering terrors, also called "stranger" by the violinist, that could mean something

While this is definitely based on Grifter's Bone in some way, at 9:32 it seems to also be alluding to the Piper or possibly Nemesis.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the gamblers dice the trinket fella had belonged to a grim reaper

yeah guys little update on myself. i have no ears left. thank you for listening to me

All those years watching two set did not go to waste. I can kinda picture the violin and the playing in my head. Lingling made this violin.

2:18 roll credits!!

Lots of people taling about Jurgen Leitner in the comments it seems so im here to say that the last scene with Klaus very much so reminded me of the *brutal pipe murder* scene. I might be reaching tho... But to me it sounds like boss finds someone who has been in some form of hiding(?) and then said person goes 'it doesnt have to be like this' Thoughts anyone?

There's a strong sense of "Grifter's Bone" in this episode, but I also like the idea of an instrument as something living, and given talent in exchange for something more horrible.

Compliments to the ones who did/are doing the casting, Fearon is an excellent get.

That ending music is fire. Very cinematic. Amost makes one wish for a Magnus Movie or even a TV show. One to be played in an Imax theater with surround sound.

1:33 Pre-case 4:37 Case (Slaughter) [Letter: Augustus] 25:18 Post-case

Man I thought that was Leitner not Magnus and BOY DID EVERY THEORY I HAD CHANGE for a very short period of time

IM SO HAPPY ITS OUT SPOILER . . . . . . . . . I literally could not focus on the episode because hearing Jonahs real voice and not Elias's is so weiird... Hes so much more pompous and it suits him lol Edit: ALSO, just a brain dump but what do y'all think happened to Annabelle?? Like John and Martin are assumably in the computers (as well as Jonah Magnus which feels weird because I thought they blew him up and destroyed his vessel? So why didn't he die) but didn't she say she would probably be pulled through the rift thing too?

I gonna call this new archivist guy the tradesman

As someone who absolutely despises and hates violins and always new they were evil, i feel so seened by this episode ( ￣▽￣ )

OH MY GOD JONAH

Jonah went to The Beach That Makes You Old and it made him old. Thoughts & prayers for his recovery

A merchant selling ivory Call that grifter's bone

Spoilers my dude don't read if you haven't listened. Okay so Jhester- Curiosity and the dangers of following it? Maybe statements very specifically related to the archives? I need to hear the funny mans voice to get a clearer idea though. But I think Jhester E-Sim is *probably* focusing in on knowledge bc...eyebawl.. Nartin- Statements related to lost loved ones or losing loved ones. Along with a feeling of isolation (The Doctor dude talked about needing to put time aside for his probably dead partner or they'd drift apart, the mourner didn't want to be alone at the end of their statement but realistically ig there's also the sense of being unsafe that could contribute to that. The Isolation concept is me stretching things a bit. JUGUSTUS- Actual statements? Alternative/origins of things from TMA? This feels very close to Grifter's bone but I'd need to relisten since I don't think they were a classical band. They were some rock band in TMA's verse right? Maybe Old historical records since they get picked up apparently. Who knows. Also just gonna shotgun this idea and say Gwen isn't Elias but might be a sibling or cousin or something. Idk maybe something else happened to OG Elias here. (Which would be funny and a little sad. Dude straight up CANNOT catch a break. Im so sorry OG Elias that the universe said fuck you to you specifically. Not once but Twice) I think the fact that a sort of standout statement from Jons was how Canaries should stay above ground. Martins is not living without someone and Jonah (bc lets be real this is probably Jonah.) Jonah forces on some eldritch spooky shit to a person, similar to how Elias sort of ..unwillingly passed on being the pupil of the eye?? + Manipulated Jon into being an avatar in the same way the uncle is sort of- in a way forcing the evil violin onto his nephew?? Or how He yanked out his eyes and shoved them into OG Elias's head?? I feel like there's something there.

"He said flesh therefore it is clearly the flesh" be quiet, please just be quiet

it seems to be a slaughter induced ep i wonder how strong the fears are though

GUYS WAKE UP!! NEW TMP EP JUST DROPPED!!!!!!!

This truly was a magnus protocol

im freaking out oh my god its jonah

26:55 something tells me, due to this little discovery, Gwen will no longer be

SPOILERS He said "command" and "beckoning" and noted that he told the stranger his whole life story without directly being asked, this sounds very much like compelling from The Eye even though this clearly isn't an eye statement The audience could also be an eye thing though?

"Episode 4; taking notes" *me, sitting with my notebook and pen in hand, ready to take notes*: 👀 Edit: aahh, not those kinds of notes Also, how on point that the story about basically inheriting a curse is narrated by someone who is most likely Jonah Magnus✨️ ALSO "[...] I might have imprinted upon you some part of myself [...]" I CACKLED- AND ALSO "I found myself disclosing with a cander I did not intend. The unvarnished truth of not only the night just passed, but my life up until that moment. " Could the stranger in the woods be a former archivist?? Or, in general, an avatar of the eye

So is this where all the questionable cursed items came from? The strange Anti-Santa?

This almost feels like a direct message from Jonah. These things will reward you if you're willing to pay the price of your humanity.

Oh hey, Jonah Maganananus voice. NICE. Meanwhile, what in the world is going to happen... What ARE the Protocols? Is it what the "response" group would enact whenever they came upon a Real entry? If so, what did it consist of?

Couldn't help but notice how drained he sounded at the end of the statement. Feels familiar

is that jonah lukas-fucking magnus' canon voice we're hearing?

I really like that we're more focused on the horror stories over the office drama now. It's much more engaging this way

Alright, what fresh horrors do we have today?

I'm worried cuz for a lot of magnus archives (well at least seasons 1 and 2) they were about people being affected by the fears, and now here we're getting ppl more like avatars like plant dude and this guy. Could just be a writing thing cuz we now know about the fears but still.... Also Alice is amazing we must protect her

ok so i think it is clear that this is the new world that all the fears got taken to. escpally since we know the magnus archives got burnt down in the 90s. the violin seems very grifters bone/the bagpipes of war. im wondering if thats cause its this worlds versions of those items. or if they are the same items dragged in. or maybe the fears just found new items in this world to fill the same role. and since its so close to both grifters bones and the pipes maybe that means sorten fears are working closer together or are fused somehow

Anyone else think that Augustus sounds a little like Christopher Lee?

spoilers for TMA !!! my current theory on the computer voices :) So I think if Jonah, Jon, and Martin are all truly in the computer, they're all trying to communicate something. They only read specific texts, and it seems (so far) each one has described their own feelings about their past lives. They read the statements that they can relate to. But I think it goes even farther than that. They have to have some kind of reason for it. I think hidden even farther is a message they're trying to give to the employees. It seems as though after Sam was hired, the voices have been coming out more. At the same time, Sam seems to have some kind of connection to the Magnus Institute, and is the only one out of all the employees actually trying to investigate the statements, rather than just file them away. It seems to me that our trio has realized this, and hope by reading the statements out to Sam, they will finally get through to someone in the physical world. The question I have now is: What are they trying to say? They have to communicate through statements. They can't add random words, so they have to try and convey what they want through what's already given to them. "In its celestial strains I have found solace, a sanctuary woven from ethereal threads. And perhaps you shall find similar..." I find this sentence especially interesting. It's obvious that if this is Jonah, he would encourage the employees to try to rise to the top as he did. Jon and Martin, on the other hand, would try to warn them of the dangers surrounding their job. It makes sense that so far, Jon and Martin have voiced statements about regret, guilt, pain and suffering, while Jonah has chosen to read a statement about an avatar fulfilling his "calling." Jon and Martin have only voiced statements from victims while Jonah reads statements of the perpetrators. Jonah's voice seems to be rare because of this, since even in TMA, an avatar's statement was rare. It's also worth noting that the statements Jon and Martin voice are genuinely terrifying, often spooking the employees into taking a break, while Jonah's statement wasn't that scary, as if he's chosen a statement that sugarcoats the truth. Also, something sent an email to the wrong person, but it was probably on purpose. I theorize it was Jon and Martin trying to get Alice to stop Sam from prying further. It's very interesting that directly afterwards, Jonah decides to read this statement, almost as if trying to convince him to keep going. I think Jon and Martin are probably fine with being stuck in the computer, just trying to help and warn the employees, possibly trying to make them quit, while Jonah probably wants to get out. The only way to do that is with an employee's help, so he's trying to coax one (either Sam or Gwen?) into doing his bidding. Which also ties into my previous theory, when an email is sent to Gwen about Lena... It seems Jonah is targeting yet another Bouchard...

MAGNUS PROTOCOL MENTIONED

I get so so so giddy every time this drops

No way this is the same guy who had a harem of old regency men... go get it grandpa?

this episode appeals very amazingly to my violinist heart

There's many different apparent fears at play here. Im thinking that after whatever happened at the end of TMA, re-merged the fears like they used to be making them much more... messy

14:10 someone memorise what’s in the sack; I have a feeling they’ll come up in the future.

So delightful from head to toe but I am (not-so) patiently waiting for more dulcet tones from Jonathan Obsidian Sims 🎙️🎤

I love that the reverb in the theme makes it sound like a menacing being chuckling in the dark

be still for there is strange music.

As soon as I heard that the man heard a faraway sound with a tilted head I shouted THAT DAMN PIPER

"A candor I had not intended?" Anyone elses compulsion alarm bells going off?!

Spoilers . . . . . . THATS JONAHS VOICE ISN'T IT WHO WAS THAT AT THE END WHAT DO THEY MEAN "DISSAPEAR AGAIN"?

FINALLY!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING ALL DAY--- it still feels illegal to be listening to it 20 something minutes after. (I don't think I'll EVER get used to it )

man really put his blood sweat and tears to his artwork, or at least the blood...

being a good fan by dropping in and leaving a like even though I get to listen to it early because I backed the kickstarter. This has been SO WORTH IT!

Gambler's dice? Am I the only one thinking of the dice used to gamble with those who may or may not be agents of Death? No, but seriously that man with a sack gives me Mikael Silesa vibes

Oof, this series is wayyyy more graphic than it’s predecessor! Great job!

The Piper returns....and so does Jonah Magnus. (fun fact: I kept envisioning the Violin's influence as a freakish-looking tiger ghost 🐯)

While trying to work out whether I had heard Augustus' voice before, there was a moment where I thought it was Peter Lukas. I will divorce you in every universe, indeed.

I listened to this yesterday and I'm here to see everyone's reactions

hadnt there been a character in TMA that sold off old artifacts? i cant quite remember but this is feeling very That

Happy Magnus Thursday everyone!

Easily the best episode and best audioquality thus far ^^

Violince

I was wondering when Jonah would show up. Once again, another episode where the story seemed ambiguous. Had this been in the TMA universe I would say the slaughter and the flesh, but I think that categorizing the fears in this universe, or even trying to is missing the point. My going theory now is that there is no way to categorize them, or that they haven’t been. The fears in TMA “split” from one entity into 14 when thing could feel more complicated fears, but what would happen if they never spilt in the first place. I’m wondering if the fears in this universe haven’t “split”, at least not as cleanly as they did in TMA. It also bares mentioning that the fears were all bleeding into each other TMA, but they at least seemed a little defined. Would love to hear other peoples theories!

I love how its a mix between the slaughter and the flesh and perhaps others

He sounds so much like the late Sir Christopher Lee

Jonah magnus 👁️👁️

So far we have the voices of Jon Martin and now Leitner. All three of them died in the Magnus institute. So might we hear the voices of Elias or Sasha in the future?

Jurgen F*ing Leitner! And here we all thought it was gonna be Jonah come back to micromanage us from the grave. Jonny's dad is back!

That ending show description gave me full body chills

LOVE YOU GUYS

Ooooh what a wonderful story Augusts Thank You very much

Oh boy this was a gruesome one, what a thrill!

This recording was amazingly well read and written! This olden style inspired by Lovecraft, Por and their ilk is so awesome to listen and read!

When The guy who gave him the violin opens his bag and it’s mentions what’s in his bags it got me thinking that he’s going come back later in the story. AND IM SO PUMPED FOR IT