Yes, I wrote @oldgods about our concerns regarding Emily after her vanishing. But I got no response… 
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That is one of the reasons I didn’t do it. Probably no answers which seems normal…
Oldgods and Emily are atm somewhere else.
Only hope everyone is ok.
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This book could hold clues for upcoming ARG stuff, have it to hand tomorrow and guard it with your life 
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That was my thought also… But I gave it a try 
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That book may or may not come in handy on the 21st! Let’s see 
I think it’s likely that Elizabeth knows what happened to Emily. The fact that she chose to answer a question about her in the Q&A leads me to believe she’s aware of her situation, and that the situation is not just Emily drinking cocktails on a beach somewhere. The fact that Liz dryly said she wouldn’t comment on her leads me to think that 1) Liz knows what happened to Emily, and either 2) Emily is relatively okay but it’s part of secret Atlas stuff, or 3) Emily is not at all okay and Liz doesn’t want to talk about it.
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I think it’s the latter, she has her trapped in her tower!
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Great rhyme there! xD
I think it’s more than likely that Elizabeth knows what’s happened to Emily. It’s more than likely Atlas has been watching all of our movements, our activity on social media, etc. If someone knows why Emily’s disappeared, it has to be Elizabeth.
But, that’s not ruling anything else out! There could be another party involved in this, and maybe they have Emily. It’s all starting to feel scary all of a sudden 
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I’m starting to think Emily was never on our physical plane to begin with. Nor is Elizabeth.
And I don’t think they’re in the same universe either.
EL is communicating to us from a version of our history where technology is much further along than it should be.
I think Emily’s universe was very similar to our own, hence why we never noticed any major differences between our worlds.
In both universes (ours and Ems) the atlas foundation placed clues in NMS, an obsolete version of whatever more advanced version of a simulated universe Atlas have created in their Universe.
But creating it has had some sort of bleedover effect and it has caused a window to open between our universes and now they need our help. It might not even be a big bad, it could just be that the Atlas foundation are causing the fabric of space and time to collapse and they need people from all universes coordinating together to sync things back to where they should be.
Or its too late and we can’t stop it.
Or we’re all headed for singularity thanks to Atlas making too powerful an AI, in charge of too powerful a simulation, and it’s absorbing people from ALL of the multiverse into the simulation for eternity.
Sorry, 3-4 different theories I’ve had just decided to vomit themselves on etarc this morning. I’m just giddy for later!
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I don’t know if it’s just me but in the background of Emily’s Vlogs on the left the lights look kind of like those found in bases/stations in NMS
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I remember someone asking about Ems profile image, so I found it somewhere else online…here.
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It’s a lot of places if you do a reverse image search. Stock art I guess, I couldn’t find the original source.
I found the original source a moment ago. Very high quality version too compared to ones found elsewhere. Its public domain graffiti art from divvy pixel, I posted my findings in another thread that burst into emily discussion but I feel, truly, it belongs here.
https://forums.etarc.org/t/phase-2-reporting-thread/1371/56?u=toddumptious
Thats the post, I’ll reshare the link to the website here too if thats all you need (click the above link if you would also like my journey to getting to this image, and my theoretic ramblings)
https://www.divvypixel.com/free-graffiti-photography-public-domain-images/
and heres a direct link to the HQ image found on that site
The resolution is much higher, but the image itself has had a lot of post sharpening done so it is a bit noisey when at 100%
You were so close man, when I did my initial search by image on google, that was one of the first links to show up. A lot of websites using it but the divvypixel is the only one that claims ownership. I doubt even they knew the original artist of the graffiti.
The more I look at it, the more I notice the duality in the image. It definitely foreshadowed emily going out of sync with herself, and it was a hint that we’d be dealing with two timelines or universes interacting with one another… But the duality is really bugging me now. The left girl is serene but the right is menacing. Could it be we’ve lost our lovely kind Emily and we’ll be meeting a much more terrifying, antagonising Emily from a different Universe? Or is the girl on the right representative of Elizabeth Leighton?
Or hell, you could even say the left hand side represents an entity and on the right, the same entity once an Echo has inhabited it. Kinda like when a Korvax echo fades and a new one enters.
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Nice one!! Does anyone know where this art was drawn/sprayed?
The arquitecture screams somewhere in the North-American region.
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I too thought the left one could be Emily and in he right EL, also I wasn’t sure if there may be some significants to the hand gestures, thinking it could possible linked to sign language but didn’t turn up anything useful, maybe a fellow traveller might know sign language and be able to educate me?
Look at my post before yours, you can see a knive/blade, blood and the clothing/hairdress being referenced… In the grafitti, they are opening their own eyes… And is it blood what I see in that cheek…?
Considering the 13 reasons why, this… If we went to the police telling them she has disappeared, they would consdider it a no-case.
I’m combing through this for anything relevant. To be honest though it just looks some sorta cool vogue like gestures one might do on a fashion shoot. Thats all it may be.
I like @Virakotxa connection though to Buñuel, otta love surrealism. I was only watching Jodorowskys dune for the millionth time last night, I believe they moved in similar circles, and Chris Foss’s sci fi art, who worked on Jodos Dune, was a big influence on NMS’s aesthetic. Everythings connected, except Kevin Bacon
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It’s hard to say about the blood on the cheek could just be shadowing, I guess only the artist would know right…hey is he on Twitter?