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The Importance of The Occupant and Properties of The Room


Some of what I am about to say has already been suggested, and some may seem obvious facts and observations, but bear with me. I hope to touch on some things that haven't been asked or discussed before (by my knowledge). Here's some things we know:

1. Both Paul and Chris have made it clear that The Event would not have happened without Eddie, but that it wasn't exactly his doing (perhaps partly his fault, but merely an unintentional result of his presence at the time).
2. He is, himself, an Object.
3. He appears, at first glance, to have been removed from reality. That is, his history erased.
4. There is more than one Room.
5. Objects do not work in the Room.
6. You can see outside the Room, but there is, in fact, nothing outside.
7. The Occupant can navigate the multiple Rooms.
8. Arlene Conroy saw Joe's daughter.
9. Objects destroyed within the Room are replaced with another item.

Let me begin by positing something about The Room that has been said before. I think it is likely that every Room 10 exists in its own alternate universe (I will refrain from using the word "dimension" because that would be inaccurate). I also agree with previous thoughts that Eddie ended up in our universe, which happens to be one where he never existed, but that his universe does exist.

Firstly, let me call the first, original Room, the Source Room. And whatever Room is presently occupied, the Current Room. Other Room 10s I will refer to as "instances".

Okay, now here's the part that I don't recall being mentioned. I believe that each instance of Room 10, including the Source Room and the Current Room, exists outside of time. By that, I mean, that time does not flow in any room EXCEPT the Current Room.

It took a LONG time to get Anna back. Although the passage of time is not made explicit, Joe sleeps in Room 10 at least twice after Anna goes missing. Another night is spent while Joe is detained by the police. It is inferred in more than one case that a good deal of time passes from when Anna is lost to when she is retrieved, though I don't have a great deal of evidence.

But let us assume that quite some time has passed. A few days--four, at least. The first thing Anna says to Joe, aside from "Daddy!", is "Is the bad man gone?". She is, of course, referring to Weasel. But... would that really be the most appropriate question after a few days of waiting? She certainly could say that, but I find it unlikely unless she had not perceived any passing time.

Additionally, when Joe finds Anna, he does not have The Key. Jennifer is the one resetting the Room with Joe inside it. And it seems to be that it is during the resetting act itself that Joe traverses the multiple Rooms to find Anna. In the time it takes for Jennifer to turn the key and open the door, Joe has already found Anna, hugged her, and spoken with her. I suspect that the key-turning did not take more than a second, let alone thirty seconds.

So let's now work under the idea that time does not flow in Room instances. I cannot be certain that time flows in the Current Room at all times. The only evidence of such is that before the final reset, Joe is seen in the Room saying "Please bring my daughter back." This may, however, simply be due to the fact that he is The Occupant. I cannot think of another time when a keyless person was seen spending time in the room.

Let me now suggest something... a bit strange. I've recently been reading an excellent novel by Isaac Asimov entitled "The Gods Themselves", and it sparked an idea regarding why The Objects work the way they do. In the novel, two universes find a way to communicate with each other and transfer matter from one universe to the other. These are not "alternate universes" in the sense you may be thinking. It isn't the case that something changed history in one universe and things are slightly different due to that. Rather, these are universes in which the laws of physics are different. One is our universe, in which things act normally, the other is the paraverse, in which the Strong Nuclear Force (technically the Strong Interaction) is slightly stronger than in ours. Because of this, nuclear fusion consumes fuel faster, meaning their stars are dying at a phenomenally greater rate than ours.

Anyway, when we begin transferring matter from the paraverse to our universe, it is discovered that the paraverse's laws of physics are... well, they're bleeding into our universe. The Strong Interaction is slowly becoming stronger in our universe and weaker in the paraverse. Their stars are getting longer lifespans while our are now in danger of dying.

This made me wonder. What if The Event ripped the Source Room out of its natural universe? Perhaps this act altered the laws of physics in Room 10. Removing the Objects from the Room and placing them into our universe upsets nature. I think Spikosauropod mentioned a similar theory regarding an analogy to foreign organ rejection. I pretty much agree with it. Taking it another step, though, I want to mention The Conroy Experiment. What is actually happening here? I bet that when they opened the door with those particular objects, it began to break the barrier between the universes. Whereas the Objects are just foreign entities in our universe, the Experiment was merging the instances of the Room with our universe.

Why do I think this? Consider what happened to Arlene. She looked like she was disintegrating. She appeared when The Key was present in Room 9. But most importantly, she saw Anna. Somehow, without The Occupant, Arlene was traversing the instances of The Room. And it certainly didn't appear to be intentional. It's not something that happened to any of the other Collectors present, and it doesn't happen to just anyone who enters the room without The Key. So, most likely, it was her proximity to all the Objects and possibly the fact that she was the Key's user at the time that did this to her. Additionally, it didn't happen to her until The Occupant pulled her into the Room and ended it.

These lead me to believe that her condition resulted from these things. Her appearance in Room 9 was sparked by The Key (although it could have been any Object's presence, the characters work under the pretense that it is The Key, so I will too), meaning she has some connection to it. Most likely, since Arlene was the user, its presence in Room 9 (which is where Room 10 would have been merging) pulled her back into this universe temporarily. The Watchbox dampens entropy, which kept Arlene from disintegrating again, to an extent (I suspect it was only causing the process to take longer, instead of halting entropy entirely). The Comb then stopped time. This is also crucial. Arlene does not stop like everything else. She continues to communicate with Joe, and upon The Comb's effects ending, remains in our universe.

Why does this happen? If Arlene existed within all of the instances of Room 10 at once, then The Key was trying to pull her into our universe, out of the Room entirely. The Watchbox was keeping her here. And The Comb... not entirely sure. Perhaps stopping time cut her off from Room 10 and left her here. OR. Perhaps the stop-time effect of The Comb was actually placing the user outside of the universe, in the same space where all the instances exist? And maybe Joe talks to Arlene in instance-space and brings her back with him. Not sure.
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Onward to a new topic: The Occupant. He is interesting. Very interesting. Eddie was the first one, created as such by The Event. He is as much an Object as any other, though if he has any property to be activated remains unknown. But what I find most intriguing about The Occupant is that he can traverse the instances of The Room, that he can sense the other Objects, and can keep them away. The very thought that the Objects "want" to be together is interesting enough. Reality must alter itself to bring Objects together. Objects have to affect free will in some fashion.

You may wonder why and how, but it seems obvious that Objects have the ability to interface with human minds. The Knife+Watch grants the user a sort of telepathy. The Umbrella makes people think they know you. The Belt has the user designate a target to whom pain is transferred. All of these are examples of Objects using information in the user and/or target's mind. Even The Key could be considered an example upon choosing a door when exiting the Room (which brings into question if The Key is actually working inside the Room, or if this is a property of opening the door, which cannot be done except in the Current Room [perhaps this indicates that The Room itself is an Object and is activated by opening The Door...])

Regardless, Objects can interface with human minds. Perhaps they have the ability to subtly mold our actions to bring themselves together. Or, in Eddie's case, to repel Objects. The natural inclination of the Objects is probably to be collected and returned to the Room, but The Occupant can control that. Eddie tells Joe that he can take Eddie's place because he has a will. He's specific about that, which makes me believe that an Object cannot take the place of The Occupant if it does not have an individual will. This, then, brings into question what would happen if Eddie had tried to kill himself inside Room 10 without another person around. Would this have been possible? What if there were no other foreign items to take his place?

The point I'm trying to get at is this: The Event needed to have someone with a will present. The Occupant is necessary for the proper functioning of The Room and The Objects. Why? When you destroy an Object within the Room, how does another Object get chosen? It's clearly not random, as The Event itself was non-random. Every Object seems to be defined by its center of mass and molecular bonding. If parts are removable, they are not bonded together, and are thus different Objects. But the uses of the Objects appear to be, at times, related to their original uses. The Clock is wound up before it will sublimate brass. The Pen is clicked. The Radio is tuned to the proper station. And The Key is inserted into a lock and turned. No item is life has any inherent use, but a user can choose what to do with an item. The Event, if random in the creation of Objects and their properties, would not have required the activation of Objects in such a manner had there not been influence by the knowledge of a person familiar with these Objects. That person had to have been Eddie. Were there no Occupant, I suspect the Objects would work in a wholly different manner, if they were to work at all.
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enderxenocide0 wrote:

 I believe that each instance of Room 10, including the Source Room and the Current Room, exists outside of time. By that, I mean, that time does not flow in any room EXCEPT the Current Room.



That´s very interesting theory, that certainly would explain why Anna asks "Is the bad man gone?"

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It took a LONG time to get Anna back. Although the passage of time is not made explicit, Joe sleeps in Room 10 at least twice after Anna goes missing. Another night is spent while Joe is detained by the police. It is inferred in more than one case that a good deal of time passes from when Anna is lost to when she is retrieved, though I don't have a great deal of evidence.



In some reason the time-span of three weeks comes to my mind, I recall reading it from somewhere, perhaps the transcripts... have to re-check that

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And it seems to be that it is during the resetting act itself that Joe traverses the multiple Rooms to find Anna. In the time it takes for Jennifer to turn the key and open the door, Joe has already found Anna, hugged her, and spoken with her. I suspect that the key-turning did not take more than a second, let alone thirty seconds.




It is obvious the Rooms have different set of time standards

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I cannot think of another time when a keyless person was seen spending time in the room.




You are right, that is because he is now The Miller Object. All other keyless people would vanish in the Rooms same way Anna did.

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What if The Event ripped the Source Room out of its natural universe? Perhaps this act altered the laws of physics in Room 10. Removing the Objects from the Room and placing them into our universe upsets nature.




Yes

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the Experiment was merging the instances of the Room with our universe.




I´m pretty sure The Event did the merging, and the Experiment was about to disconnect them...

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So, most likely, it was her proximity to all the Objects and possibly the fact that she was the Key's user at the time that did this to her. Additionally, it didn't happen to her until The Occupant pulled her into the Room and ended it.




I theorize it differently: The Event merged the different realities, the Experiment opened a cavity right between two or more instances (as you call them). Because that made the universe instable (unnatural intervention) The Occupant had to intervene and close the gap. Now Arlene was already pulled in to the cavity, so she was caught in a between-intances pocket. She is caught in limbo between the real world and the Motel Room world, where time is stopped. That makes her atoms to be pulled apart and not pulled apart at the same time.



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Perhaps the stop-time effect of The Comb was actually placing the user outside of the universe, in the same space where all the instances exist? And maybe Joe talks to Arlene in instance-space and brings her back with him. Not sure.



I´m for this between instances theory with the Comb.
I can not recall which master it was, who once theorized that "parallel universes are like bubbles in a foam, sometimes overlapping and merging together, sometimes shrinking and stretching the reality-bubble next to it in distortion"



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