File #71 (S2-31) - Tunnel vision

[Oneiros]

We're going deeper underground for today's story, delving the ways of the Night Tube and the strange things that can happen after some late night revelry. That point where the endorphins of a good night out are fading and sleep is setting in, making memories twilight and hazy. Just how did we get home? And did we talk to anyone along the way?

A strange tale from a strange narrator coupled with parallels to the supplemental and some interesting imagery of claustrophobia, entrapment, disappearances, the subterranean and pressure. And what of the Archivist's response? Where once he might have jumped on the notion of alcohol-induced dreaming, have his own experiences with tunnels cautioned him otherwise? And what lurks in the tunnels below the Archives? Has he delved too deep and too greedily in search of knowledge?

So many questions... anybody willing to throw up some red string hypotheses?

[sbread]

Even though the name Karolina Górka doesn't really fit the pattern (as far as I know), I'm reminded of the description of the students from Anatomy Class. She spoke so matter-of-factly, and without even the faintest hint of an accent one might expect from somebody with that name. Even at the scariest points of her statement, her voice was unflinching and cold. I'd be willing to place a small bet that she's at the very least not all she appears to be. 

[cannonlongshot]

I'm sure she's some kind of Not-Karolina... surely? She did not sound like a socially adjusted person...



If you want to check out another Night Tube themed statement just hit the link in my sig!

[spooniermist]

This was really good: chilling and unsettling and a little bit mega-weird!

There was definitely something wrong with the narrator, she just didn't seem bothered. I'd not thought that she might be a Not-Person, interesting thought, maybe she was coming to chat to Sasha.

Also, there's defo a theme of being alone in a terrifying place: the stuff in Lost John(')s(') Cave, the stuff in space, the stuff in the endless corridors and the meat factory (and more, probably), and in at least one of them there was another person who was trapped in place, with the bolted man in the meat factory and now the old man pinned to the seat. I'm not sure if this is just a theme of horror, or if there's some sorta connection.

[brittlegill]

Enjoyed the episode, but one thing stood out.....


St Pancreas?

[Oneiros]

Jun 30, 2017 4:41:42 GMT brittlegill said:

Enjoyed the episode, but one thing stood out.....


St Pancreas?

There are actually people who pronounce it that way or, rather, believe that it's 'Pancreas' over 'Pancras' :-)

[spooniermist]

That's how how I pronounce it, it was only when I can to London that I heard it differently.

[omjs]

So who do we think may be living in the tunnels? Not-Sasha? It would explain why he ran into her wandering around a few statements ago. Or could it be someone even more nefarious?

[Henry]

What a brilliant scary episode! Though to be fair, sounds pretty much like business as usual for the Victoria line.

So many tunnels under London - postal trains, hidden bunkers, rivers, be great to have more of those.

Hi all btw.

H