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okay everyone I don't know what I'm doing yet I'm at the wheel and we're driving headlong into the climax of the story with still no agreed-on unified theory of Oasis but we're fine? oh god what am talking about we're doomed! Everybody-PANIC!WELCOME to the sixth horrible unending Lovecraftian nightmare that is the "What Others Have Posted About Oasis Here" thread! I am your host, me. Normally this was done by the far more competent and prepared RYXLord. By he's missing, presumed DFA'd, and nobody else has stepped up to the plate so here we are. Deal with it If you want to see his extensive, nigh-exhaustive circa-2008 rundown of Oasis theories, please go here: W.O.H.P.A.O.H. 5Furthermore, if you have literally all the time in the world, here are the rest of the archives: WOHPAOH #4WOHPAOH #3WOHPAOH #2WOHPAOH #1I'm make no promises that you'll return with your sanity intact. Or that you'll ever return. Good luck! WOHFITAH!(What Others Have Found In The Archives Here) ( warning: contains major spoilers. Open only if caught up) - *ehem* Game called on account of naked chick
- We first meet Oasis partying like it's 1999, during The Isle Of Dr. Steve chapter: a "Isle of Dr. Moreau" parody that doesn't actually parody Dr. Moreau, go figure. In this comic, we see Steve control her with his watch.
- Steve calls Oasis the ultimate weapon and she inadvertently demonstrates the depth of her brainwashing: she is ordered to be "as giddy as a schoolgirl and love Torg". I'm sure that's just a one-off joke and won't become important later...
- Along with Steve, Oasis dies in the lab's explosion...for the first time in the comic
- HeretiCorp first seen (in the background) - this one's thanks to Pete!
- She reappears unscathed sixth months later at Le Snootier
- After a failed marriage attempt, she's impaled by a tree and falls OFF A CLIFF - put a pin in this one, it's currently important
- nine months later, back at Le Snootier boy she sure loves that place huh. Oh wait no she just loves Torg
- Override B-1 for the first time
- Kusari shows up and claims Oasis is "family" for arguable, ill-defined interpretations of the word
- Oasis returns from the dead once again, and it's shown to have happened specifically where and when she died.
- Despite Override B1, she was being tracked by Hereti-Corp
- In a flashback/memory/vision, Dr. Steve says that Oasis is lost and that finding herself is key. She also fans the family debate by thinking of Kusari as her "sister" question mark.
- Oasis recognizes that her deaths don't leave scars
- Shortly after being committed to a mental institution, Oasis has a vision/memory/flashback of doctor Steve. In it, Steve comments that he had hidden several memories, and that it was the start down the path to knowing herself
- Torg proposed to Oasis, giving her his address and saying he loves her and doesn't want her to hurt anybody.
- Oasis was broken out of the mental institution by riff, and planted in the MK5 as part of the siege on AyleeCorp.
- After Dangerous Days, Oasis comments on how everything in her past life is "fuzzy around the edges".
- Oasis set off on the path to find herself
- 4 years later, Oasis appeared again, battling thieves in Podunkton, Pennsylvania
- Grahammy reported to BunBun that Oasis was adopted by Doctor Seven Hereti at the age of six.
- Oasis was training with Sensei Feng.
- Oasis claims that she kills any Hereti-Corp agent she runs into, anyone wearing that stupid logo. She says Steve made it so she has no choice.
- Oasis stayed in an orphanage in Virginia
- according to the lady at the orphanage, the crazed looking man who dropped her off claimed that Oasis' last name was 'Roken'
- Oasis scared the Canadian crime syndicate out of Podunkton (the full incident was a bonus xstory from book nine)
- The Orsintos Research Center is in the middle of the Virginia woods, about twenty miles from Oasis' orphanage, forty from Quantico.
- According to Riff, the Orsintos research center was trying to weaponize ghosts. Evidence was found that Oasis stayed there.
- Oasis returns to life shortly after being shot in the head wearing her player-default combat gear. It's the canon choice okay? Some people like to actually name themselves 'Link' in Zelda games too!
- Oasis was aware of happenings surrounding her body after her death
- Oasis remembers a place like a school, a place of evil powers, ghosts, spirits. while flashing the orsintos logo.
- Oasis speculates that she is 'like, a ghost or a spirit of vengeance that can dominate or possess a person enough to make them even take on her appearance'. Yes that's right people, even Oasis herself isn't above coming up with crackpot Oasis theories
- In 2006 hC creates House of Cheese in an attempt to draw Oasis out. - yeah, you read that right. Over TEN FREAKIN YEARS AGO. Most. Inefficient. Trap. Ever.
- The Orsintos labs logo was on the wall of a zombie research facility, stating 'Founded 1950'
- Zombies had taken over the Orsintso Labs zombie research complex in 1968
- Schlock gives hC DFA technology
- In 2007 Schlock becomes head of hC and fires Daedalus. Kusari immediately obeys Schlock once he's in charge.
- (to be continued once I get around to updating this with later archive binges instead of just cribbing blatantly from RYX)
- skipping ahead! Oasis and Torg finally meet again after many long years thanks to Torg's ridiculous viral video skills
- Oasis officially joins Torg's team with the goal to destroy HeretiCorp
- The ever-reliable Marcus Chen reveals that there is a Rebirth Facility presumably that controls how Oasis comes back to life
- Oasis "kills" Sasha
- Schlock "kills" Oasis finally getting those sweet-sweet coordinates
- Torg "kills" HertiCorp
- Marcus finally applies the tracer-transponder
- The OASIS Rebirth facility is found and O.A.S.I.S. is an acronym!
- Roberts is a clone of Dr. Steve!
- Marcus gets the watch!
- Marcus gives up some backstory - Oasis was set up to pass as paranormal and pyrokinentic. Whats the ruse?!
- Kusari is Sasha! (this is not the ruse, it's just a fact)
- Now there's two of them? This is getting out of hand! (there's actually a lot of them)
- Roberts has Oasis kill Marcus Bye Dr. Chen. Like Icarus of old, you flew too close to the crazy assassin lady.
- Oasis is cured of her Torg obsession Yay? And then one comic later Override B-1 is turned off, control is transferred to Schlock
- The Schlock Triangle is completed
- OASIS stands for "Organically Augmented Stealth Incendiary Satellite WAIT she's a flippin' satellite?! ALSO Apparently so are the Sashas, but their programming is based off AOL which is why she's not as good. Obviously
- KNOW THYSELF -
Oasis finally breaks free
So ends the list. FACTS 2.0!Here are the concrete, non-wishy washy, timey-wimey facts the comic has currently established about Oasis, to be edited as people point out what I've missed.( Warning: also contains spoilers) - O.A.S.I.S. stands for "Organically Augmented Stealth Incendiary Satellite"
- Oasis's mind is located within a satellite above the Earth, which communicates instantly with her physical avatar
- Oasis is a highly trained survivalist assassin
- She can be programmed to do anything you want, provided you have Steve's watch and Steve's voice signature/are given control of Oasis via said signature
- When she's killed, she comes back from the dead unscathed her awareness is transferred to a fresh Rebirth Clone
- When she returns, she can have shifts of personality, and often has difficulty remembering her previous lives
- Her programming is maintained no matter how often she dies
- She has pyrokenetic powers access to a powerful orbital microwave beam she cannot control
- She is a match for Bun Bun, who is a god
- She was given the phrase "Nosce te ipsum" (Know Thyself) as a guide toward releasing herself from her programming
- She and Kusari were designed similarly
- She and Slaughteresa look similar enough that even Torg notices
- Oasis's physical bodies are Rebirth Clones of Sin'Thea La'Morte
- She has Chaz-powering innocent blood
- Oasis exists outside the Fate Web
TIMELINEBased mostly off this- 1950 - Jim Orsin and Bill Sintos establish NJ Orsintos Labs
- 1967 - Zombie Project begins
- 1968-ish - Steven Hereti founds HeretiCorp
- 1971 - Zombie massacre, NJ lab is closed
- 1972 - Orsintos VA established
- 1974-ish - Bill Sintos establishes Orsintos Poland, killed in plant-zombie massacre
- 197X - Dr. Steve builds the Rebirth Facility
- 19XX - Dr. Steve tries to Rebirth himself multiple times, only Daedalus and Roberts are viable
- 1982 - Sin'thea Le'Morte contributes DNA to Dr. Steve's project. Oasis is born
- 198X - Dr. Steve secretly drops Oasis off at Orsintos VA for horrible experiments with Dr. Chen
- 198X - Horrible fire and death at Orsintos VA, Dr. Chen survives
- 1987 - Crazed-looking man drops Oasis off at orphanage, as part of Orsintos standard procedure
- 1987 - One month later, Oasis is adopted by Doctor Steve
- 1988 - Steve notices Dr. Chen keeping tabs and hires him on
- 1995-ish - Daedelus Hereti ousts his father and becomes head of HeretiCorp
- 199-something - HeretiCorp tries to recreate the Oasis project with Kusari
- 1997 - "unknown incident" causes all Orsintos labs to close
- 1999 - Torg stumbles across Oasis, Steven Hereti dies
So the previous threads would use this point to get into the gigantic list of theories... Oh. Oh god. Ugh. Ugh why. Okay. *sigh*I'll commandeer the second post in this thread, and at some point in the future, maybe...MAYBE...I'll collect all the theories posited in the previous cyclopean behemoth of a thread, and list the non-insane ones there for your perusal, so we don't all keep trying to reinvent the wheel. But I make no promises and I won't be happy about it. Great! So with that said, I just wanted to say good luck. We're all counting on you. - Yod
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Yodimus_Prime
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Post Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:54 am |
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I just wanted to say good luck, we're all counting on you.
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Post Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:37 am |
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Well, word of Pete is that the true nature of Oasis will be revealed by August of this year so this probably would be the last Oasis thread.
Some random thoughts that came to me in the midst (and immediate aftermath) of sleep deprivation (and typed in a haze after waking up):
- Theresa is the "proto-Oasis" which is why her mother, Sin'Thea La'Morte, was disappointed in her. In this case, "mother" is metaphorical. The fact that Theresa was "imperfect" was probably apparent shortly after birth. - Sin'thea played a key, but unspecified, role in Oasis's creation. It was Sin'thea's vanity that led to the two having similar appearances and hairstyles. - It is because of this link that Oasis sat first besides "Death" and then "Mort" on the two train journeys we have seen so far; both are names related to Sin'Thea's surname. - Sin'thea and Marcus Chen worked on creating both Theresa and Oasis. Marcus Chen was present in the early childhood of both, which was why Theresa was immediately recognisable to him. - Oasis was sent to Orsintos but not Theresa. The fact that Oasis was created was probably not mentioned to the Orsintos staff; likely only Marcus Chen knew. This was Theresa's good fortune as, in spite of her poor relationship with her mum, she received a relatively "normal" upbringing; Oasis's upbringing could only be politely regarded as highly abusive. - Oasis and Theresa might well recognise each other as kindred when they finally meet each other. They probably will say "nice hair by the way" at some point in that initial conversation. Alternatively, they would run away from each other while screaming. - Dr Steve did play a major role in Oasis's training and programming, thus being her "puppeteer". He probably was a "puppet" used in programming Oasis, thus the line "The puppet is the puppeteer." - Dr Steve felt that Oasis had far more potential than "those fools". It is unclear who he was referring to. He might have been thinking of the Orsintos research team, Hereti-corp or possibly even Oasis's other creators. - Oasis was indeed intended as a tool of vengeance but the initial target was NOT Hereti-corp in spite of Override B-1. Override B-1 was added by Dr Steve later. The initial target could have been K'z'k or whatever we're calling him this week. - The fact that Oasis exists "outside the web" might well be important for this role. The phrase "outside the web" is important as it means that she cannot be directly influenced through the fate web. Note that she could still be indirectly influenced through the actions of other entities that the fate web CAN influence directly. - Oasis is in many ways "innocent" because she is a construct fulfilling her programming or intended role. She had no choice in her initial actions and has next to no choice in her actions even now. Guilt and innocence take many forms; there are situations when the two are absolute, there are situations where the two are relative to each other and there are situations where they exist in a spectrum. A predator, say a tiger, is not guity of killing as it is that creature's nature and it has no real choice in the matter. The insane, and Oasis was (but might no longer be) insane, are also not truly guilty as they have no knowledge of the consequences of their actions. Oasis's recent murdering and plundering criminals might really be Hobson's choice to help and protect the Zalias. The fact that Oasis might feel guilty about what has happened to the Zalias does not actually make her guilty. - Oasis becoming a person is her moving beyond being a constructed entity and is almost certainly what Dr Steve had in mind for her. "Override B-1" might well have been intended to be protective, to prevent her from falling into the clutches, and therefore control, of Hereti-corp before that could happen. - Oasis's emotional responses are akin to those of a small child. She has what are functionally tantrums at times. These emotional responses would become less intense as she "grows up" and becomes a person. - Harbinger might well be what Hereti-corp intended Oasis to be. A highly skilled killing machine most useful in certain situations and only to be unleashed in emergencies. Even if one is destroyed, another lies waiting in the wings ready to be deployed. The need to track Oasis's location in regard to Dr Steve's base is more to determine where she would reappear afterr dying so that that location can be predicted and possibly even controlled. - While a construct, there is only one Oasis in existence at any point in time. Part of that might be an attempt to avoid creating further "tangles in the web". Each Oasis construct is an independent physicial entity that is flesh and blood but is certainly superhuman. Oasis, as a physical construct, is both magical and technological in origin. There is only one mind controlling these constructs and it is partially reset during deaths. This accounts for the varied personalities as this mind is in many ways that of a very young child responding to some very intense stimuli. - Sin'Thea La'Morte, Marcus Chen and Steve Hereti are likely the three agents responsible for Oasis's creation though there might also be others involved that have yet to be introduced. - Oasis is not truly a "ghost"; she is a constructed partially self-aware "mind" that can exist without a body but only possesses "self-awareness" when actually within a physical body. Each body is the physical vessel that contains that mind. Each body only manifests itself when the previous one dies. Each manifestation is initially physically identical but "reflects" that mind and could be created from a combination of technological and magical means. Oasis was initially in the body of a small child but as that body became that of an adult, each manifestation would also be that body of an adult. Each physical incarnation is probably "born" at the same apparent physical age, that age being "frozen" when Oasis died for the first time at Dr Steve's base. Oasis might, in principle, be able to manifest herself with a very different appearance but does not yet know how to do so. - Oasis's pyrokinesis might be the manifestation of one of her more intense emotional episodes. She appears to be having a seizure but what really is happenning is more like a young child's tantrum. As Oasis "matures", this pyrokinesis will become more controllable and can be directed through intense emotion, probably anger. - Oasis might have even more powers that have not manifested themselves but only time will tell it that is indeed the case. - While Kusari is "made in Oasis's image and improved", in many ways, Kusari really has more "flaws" than Oasis has. The Kusari entity might actually become part of the Oasis entity in the future. This fusion of the two entities might help correct the Oasis entity's emotional instability. - Kusari might also be a limited resouce as Kusari and Sasha entities have to be created in parallel. A few Sasha entities might well have "died" in the past around the time a "new Kusari" was needed (I'm not going to check if this could be true right now). Actually having a Sasha "death" at a convenient time might be expensive and possibly impractical to impossible given that Sasha is "in play" elsewhere. - Oasis and Zoe are going to be "in play" simultaneously when finally defeating "The Destroyer". Zoe will strike the "killing blow" technically fulfilling the prophecy though in principle; either could have done it.
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Post Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:57 am |
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Updated post to add a tentative timeline to all the other tentative stuff in the OP slightlylooney wrote: - It is because of this link that Oasis sat first besides "Death" and then "Mort" on the two train journeys we have seen so far; both are names related to Sin'Thea's surname. Nice observation
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2017 1:07 am |
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slightlylooney wrote: Well, word of Pete is that the true nature of Oasis will be revealed by August of this year so this probably would be the last Oasis thread.
Wait, what?
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2017 3:06 pm |
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Kesandru wrote: slightlylooney wrote: Well, word of Pete is that the true nature of Oasis will be revealed by August of this year so this probably would be the last Oasis thread.
Wait, what? Well, that was what I remember him saying at Intervention last year. Of course, I could have misunderstood him, I could have mis-remembered what he said or he could change his mind.
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Well Kusari has returned today after being decapitated. Now I'm wondering what hC knows about Oasis since this is the first time i can recall Kusari returning from the dead.
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Post Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:53 pm |
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I had thought that Kusari had been killed off as well, but then many people reminded me that she could be brought back.
I'm kind of glad because the way she had most recently died seemed rather anticlimactic.
But her multiple deaths and rebirths does give credence to the connection with Oasis.
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:23 am |
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Hmm yes. Should I include Kusari stuff in the OP? I wasn't going to, since there's a whole thread for her, but they're pretty heavily connected..
[edit] Editing this to mention that I edited the patchy timeline in the OP to include a link to Chen mentioning the Rebirth Facility. I think we're about to learn something huge about Oasis soon
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randomlanguage wrote: I had thought that Kusari had been killed off as well, but then many people reminded me that she could be brought back.
I'm kind of glad because the way she had most recently died seemed rather anticlimactic.
But her multiple deaths and rebirths does give credence to the connection with Oasis. She was mentioned as being a 'limited resource'. Maybe not after the rebirth facility is found..
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 5:20 pm |
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ramoss wrote: She was mentioned as being a 'limited resource'. Maybe not after the rebirth facility is found..
I hadn't thought about that. Maybe the "rebirth facility" is automated for Oasis, or some mechanism set in motion long ago and still running.
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 12:36 am |
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So the rebirth facility has to be located right in/under Podunkton, right?
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 2:45 am |
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It's gotta be. She respawned pretty much immediately when she was killed there. Although it must put her somewhere isolated, on the outskirts of town, otherwise she'd find herself in Podunkton every single time
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