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2/21/2015 7:47:18 PM
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The (Mask of the) Third Man factor
Everyone's heard of the mask of the third man, right? That Bladedancer mask that looks like a splinter cell mask and a hive face mixed together? Well it's actually got a creepy background
The description says [i]"it wasn't me. It was [b]the third man[/b]"[/i]. The third man is a phenomenon currently experienced in modern day. When people are far from the rest of humanity, for example climbing a mountain far from anyone apart from their climbing group, they begin to experience a feeling that someone (or something) else is there. They hear breathing that isn't theirs, or their groups'. They see footprints that aren't theirs and see things done that they didn't do.
The thing is is that the people that have experienced this were often fully healthy and had no real issues, mentally or physically. The phenomenon was named after a line in a poem that tells of two men hiking through a mountain (I forget which one) and says "who is the third man who walks beside you, for when I count I see only me and you" (or something. It's not the most precise quote)
The creepy thing is that the mask of the third man claims that the third man has turned from an observing and apparently benevolent spirit to a mass murderer, as the mask claims that whatever the wielder did wasn't the wielder. It was the third man. As a result, it's suggesting that the third man is bored with observing and wants to interact. The mask is used for killing. So the third man, an entity we cannot see and fight, is now a killer.
Just thought that was creepy.
[b]TL;DR: the mask of the third man is named after a previously benevolent spirit that has now turned to killing[/b]
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4 RepliesOne of the most famous instances of the phenomenon took place during Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition in 1916. The team's boat was trapped in ice and they were forced to make a grueling journey across mountain ranges and glaciers to a whaling station in Stromness Bay. Shackleton later wrote: "I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers, it seemed to me often that we were four, not three." Later, the poet T.S. Eliot read Shackleton's account of a mysterious "fourth" man and took some poetic license with the idea, including it in his famous poem, The Waste Land. He turned Shackleton's fourth into a third — and this is where the phenomenon gets its name: Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman But who is that on the other side of you?
