Ok so on the other site the you get to for answering the Playfellow Exhibition Worksheet, there are a lot of papers. Most have a transcript over them, so they are easier to read. This one did not. I did some minor changes to the picture quality to try and make it more legible but it only helped so much. Still from what I can read I think this is about when they first received the mail with information about Welcome Home. Talking about needing to catalogue something and how it was wet. I’m not really sure as I have poor vision, but still. Maybe someone else can read this better than me.
This is probably the biggest info we gain in this update and it's found in the audio of the new Halloween book. With everyone trying to tell scary stories and most failing, Sally steps up to show them a truly scary story. And scary indeed. Why is it the neighbors stay inside every night? It's because of visitors from far away come and eat any neighbors still outside. Or at least that's how Sally puts it. But still, I can't put into words how many ideas this new info gives us. Especially in how aware Sally is about the whole thing, not only its existence and how it's the reason there are so few neighbors but also in that she has heard it, listened for it so clearly. What's more, it's searching for something. At the part where the audio starts to skip and repeat on the word searching, there seems to be an underlining sound. As for what it actually says I'm not sure, but it vaguely sounds like Wally. Of course, this may be incorrect, but if it's not? Then a whole new curiosity appears. Because at first, I think of these visitors from afar who take those out at night to be the people who work on the set but the fact they are supposedly eating things up doesn't seem right. If you've seen my other post you'd know that I have a theory that at some point something a little more eldritch was brought to Welcome Home and that it connects to Wally's presence on the website despite the lack of his original puppet. I bring this up because if it is Wally the supposed "visitor" is searching for then perhaps this is before the "corruption" I suppose. The black goo. Of course, this is all just speculation, but it seriously gives some new thoughts. Especially in that maybe this awakening wasn't an accident but an unexpected turn of events if its aim was Wally.
Last thing I want to post before I have to go do things. Among the drawings/audio clips, there is one that is exclusively Home talking. In the text hidden underneath that transcribes the audio, it is hinted that it may be in morse code. I don’t remember currently which one it is, so I may come back to add that, but I wonder what Home might be telling us?
Foremost, I want to point out that in all the audio clips that appear when you click on Wally’s drawings there is text underneath them that transcribes what’s being said. The same for the videos, for anyone that had trouble listening. The main thing I wanted to talk about though is the videos. In every single one, Wally is also present, even if he never talks, and in every single one when the other neighbors go to address him the audio glitches out on Wally’s name. Heck in the labels on those videos two letters are at the end to represent which neighbors are in the clip, but Wally’s is never attached because he is just always there. Silent and listening, doing his own thing. Often overlooked in the conversation until the end of the clip when the others acknowledge him and the audio glitches on his name. I’m not sure why though. This isn’t the first of the audio’s to be glitched or scratched, but it’s always at his name. Also all the clips seem to be from the same day in a way. The last of the 14 clips is a discussion between Barnaby and Home where Barnaby talks about his day and reference back to some of the other clips. This one also sticks out to me because of how it ends. When Barnaby turns to acknowledge Wally like all the others do at the end, he talks about how Wally stopped painting and seems concerned like something happened. Not only is the ending bring more questions, but that also means that if all these were connected Wally was always present whenever anyone talked. My current theory is because this is potentially when Wally gain sentience, like the last episode of Welcome Home. Wally as the main character is always present in the scene, but whenever he is acknowledged his name glitches out. And at the end of the day or in this case the last clip, something is bothering Wally. It’s also interesting to note that the video we see is likely from Wally’s eyes.
Frank does not have any known information regarding his origins prior to moving into Home when compared to the others.
Welcome Home Website
While Clown is taking a break, I have been trying to fill the void in my soul that craves Welcome Home. Since I can’t draw or write stories, I have decided to simply look for new things. Whether on the site or made by others. While doing so I noticed that of all the characters Frank is the only one without a backstory of any kind other than Home and Wally. Julie came from a cave where she lived with her sisters. Sally is a star that came down from the sky. Poppy grew too big to live in the nest with her family. Eddie came from another town to build a post office. Howdy is a caterpillar who want to start a business? Doesn’t really explain his size but eh. And Barnaby who left the farm and his adoptive mother to live in the neighborhood. But Frank has nothing of note. No family or mention of where he lived beforehand. Now the fact that Frank is also a outlier in his more grey color and frowning face plus that he was usually a source of information makes me wonder about his past.
I want to talk about the black goo that is prevalent in the site past the lockbox. The stuff that seems to be coming out of the art itself and that is all over the other site and the room shown in the pictures.
The stuff that grows and is why none of the actual art can be touch with bare hands. That makes people feel sick and dizzy. Though whatever is causing it, supposedly Wally or other, does apologies for in invisible ink.
Ink which appears elsewhere as well though if written by the same person is unclear. Since the one above is apologizing for the goo in a way while the one below seems to be one of the Restoration Team, likely the leader, who is disgusted.
But the goo seems to be alive. On the other site it is thumping almost like a heartbeat and there is even an eye in the goo shown in a picture on the site. The goo stains the entire other site and kinda reminds me of the “so below” hidden beneath Home. I wonder if the other site itself is the so below of the Welcome Home site.
Look I first found out about Welcome Home in a video that was going over everything found on the site so far ok? So when I actually look into it more both the site and the creator I still had the thought of the code hidden on the website. Then I see Clown’s post he makes on tumblr and I just want to know what they mean?? I can’t be the only one to notice that the post have odd word choices and random letters capitalized. Now my brain is determined to find a code in them, but I’m not even sure there is one? T-T Can someone pls just tell me? Whether their is a post somewhere that explains why Clown writes like this or if it means something? I don’t care if I’m right I just want to know if I’m wrong so I can stop trying to decipher something that isn’t real.
I know I've already talked about how I don't think Wally is a puppet, but with the new update, there is now more evidence for this claim. Though it also leaves more questions about what he is.
I do think, that at one point, Wally was just a puppet, but I think he gained more than just sentience as the story progresses. The videos are my main focus for this, as they all seem to be memories from Wally's pov. We see Wally's hand or hands in frame multiple times, showing that not only is it from his view we are watching but that he's not holding anything to record the moment. Even if sentient, a puppet can not upload memories onto a website. So Wally is built into the website in a way, though this was already hinted at with all the drawings he manages to add to the site.
But he's also not just on the website. Of the audio clips that can be found on the site through Wally's drawings, one of them is Wally talking about how he has more eyes than he did before. Sure there are a lot of eyes on the website for him to look through, but he also points out that we are the ones who have drawn his eyes. How, though, would he connect and see through the versions of his eyes we draw?
Lastly, the goo, or the substance that comes from the original Welcome Home items, though I call it a black goo since that's what seems to be on the staff-only site. This goo seems to thump like a heart and leaves people feeling sick and drained when they make contact with it. A goo that someone, likely Wally, is apologizing for. We already had clues that the people behind the Restoration Project were feeling pain while looking for clues because of the hidden answers in the get-to-know section. But with the staff-only site and the goo, we now see its effects a little more clearly. Especially shown with the phone ringing that is written all over the staff site, but without a known source.
At this point, I'm starting to think that Wally's awakening of sentience also brought out something almost eldritch in nature. Though it's clear Wally doesn't have control over it and is suffering as well from the effects. It's why he's trying to contact us, to ask for help. To want to be heard and seen as well as to hear and see in turn. But, what are we letting him into? The audio found on the error site asks us to let him in, but to what? He doesn't want out, he wants in. I feel somehow that's an important distinction that he's not asking to be freed as much as he's asking us to give him access. Access to what? Currently, I think our minds. In the same way that he is in the heads of the Restoration Team, though I don't think he means it maliciously as much as it's part of the goo/eldritch thing that is also present.
Can't wait for more of the story to come out!
The Marlo logo was something smaller that caught my attention. The spiral eye in a house logo for a partner company working with Playfellow to make Welcome Home products. It's not the main company yet it seems heavily influenced by the things we've seen.