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imsmallfry · 2 months

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ALAN WAKE!! I love confused sad writer man.

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wakethewriter · 3 months

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can’t stop. won’t stop. EZ.

#alan wake #alan wake 2 #alan wake remastered #ilkka villi #remedy connected universe #sam lake #matthew porretta #david harewood #mr door #warlin door #cauldron lake #alice wake #saga anderson #melanie liburd #alanwakeedit

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mashkara45 · 4 months

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#he was so beautiful at cauldron lake…#his eyes are supposed to be cold and lifeless #but they seem so sad #mr scratch #the prince of fucking darkness ™#alan wake 2 #cauldron lake #videogames #horror games #remedy entertainment

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thejediavengeroftheinternet · 11 months

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#made a meme #alan wake #alan wake 2 #remedy #control #dark place #cauldron lake #sam lake

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anyoneoranythingbesidesyou · 3 months

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Photomode will be a game changer. This shot is one of my absolute favourites I was able to take while exploring Cauldron Lake without photomode, I can not fathom how beautiful it would look with better composition tools than our over the shoulder camera.

#digital photography #game photography #alan wake 2 #bright falls #remedy entertainment #photomode #saga anderson #alex casey #cauldron lake

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boxohobo · 5 months

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Cauldron Lake during Winter

So I was lying in my bed last night thinking about how pretty Bright Falls must be for Christmas and I was just STRUCK with a thought.

Does Cauldron Lake freeze over?

What happens when it does?

What if Taken are far less frequent in the winter because of that?

If you stood on the frozen lake and looked down, would you be able to see Taken below the surface? Like fruit bits in dark jello? (Ha ha nice.)

What if during the winter, Black Ice forms as opposed to the Dark Water?

What if Black Ice forms like mold along buildings, sapping them of electricity, warmth and light?

The boring answer is the lake probably doesn't freeze over BUT WHAT IF? What if it's a whole new game for winter months as the Darkness in the lake has to adapt to the season?

#alan wake #alan wake 2 #theories #Cauldron Lake #ice based horror is tight

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categoricalglitches · 4 months

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So uh… has anyone actually ever drowned in Cauldron Lake other than Barbara (and fictional!Logan)? And I do mean “drowned” as in, drowned and then left a body and actually stayed dead—not people drowned by the Dark Presence and who become Taken, or people who disappeared into the lake (and then ended up in the Dark Place). Because I find it very suspicious that the most common result of jumping/falling/wading into Cauldron Lake seems to be… getting transported to the Dark Place, except Barbara. Who drowned.

And then, conveniently, she had a partner who was a poet who then used the power of the lake in an attempt to bring her back, instead releasing the Dark Presence to wreak havoc “wearing her face,” y’know? I mean, I might be years late to this (the Dark Presence already shows up to physically trick Alan into accepting the wrong keys—which, honestly, Alan, wtf?!—and somehow re-raise the island and the cabin to their original state and oh yeah, physically yeet Alice into the water before everything’s actually supposed to kick off) but I just can’t get over how in Alan Wake II it seems like everyone (other than, again, Logan, who “drowned” in Return’s fictional backstory but has never actually been to the lake in her life) who ends up in that lake goes to the Dark Place.

So. Yeah. What’s up with that?

#alan wake 2 spoilers #alan wake #alan wake 2 #spoilers #cauldron lake #cass [doesn't] play things #someone talk me out of buying this thing damn #i really want to actually play it myself now #but my computer would probably explode trying to run it #and i don't have a PS5 #*cries*

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alderaanplacesss · 2 months

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Like a lamb to its slaughter

Buried in water

Down

Under the ground

There's a town there

I've been down there

In the middle of the lake

I hold your hand, for goodness' sake

#been composing Alan wake writing playlists #and I just played the part in AW 1 where he falls into cauldron lake #right into the loving consuming embrace of the dark presence #alan wake #Alan wake 2 #cauldron lake #the dark presence #Spotify

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yesthisiskat · 2 months

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#alan wake 2 #cauldron lake #aw2edit #alan wake

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theoniprince · 4 months

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Alan Wake II

#look at this beautiful scenery!!!#alan wake II #saga anderson #ps5 #my screenshots #spoiler #cauldron lake #bright falls #alan wake

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imsmallfry · 2 months

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Saga Anderson!!

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taranida · 3 hours

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Schrödinger's Cabin or Who wrote the eruption

Continuing on answering the points I left out in the theory about what really happened in the 70s. Yet another long read.

the Bird Leg Cabin and the Diver’s Isle, that might or might not been retroactively removed by the eruption under the Cauldron Lake.

The question that bothered me with all this eruption: what did the cabin and isle do to deserve such treatment? Thomas was knowledgeable enough to understand, that it’s the lake that brought the nightmare, not the isle or the cabin, why take them down as well? The isle, even after he “wrote himself out of reality” still bears the name it got from his hobby, not like if it would stay where it was, anything would change. And not like there are no other places on the Cauldron Lake’s shores; the Cauldron Lake Lodge is one of them, but there are also the rental cabins. Removing the isle and cabin had only grim consequences: 32 miners died as a result of flooding and seismic activity. I doubt that Thomas didn’t know how close the mines and the lake are; and I’d love to believe he’s not the type of a person who will be a-okay with mass murdering people. What we hear of him throughout the game is that he was considerate and caring enough to leave shoeboxes and charge Cynthia with helping whomever will be the next victim of the Dark Presence. The situation, when he made a decision, was dire, of course, he could not think about all the links between eruptions, earthquakes and mines, but Thomas knew one thing for sure: the Dark Presence will twist everything to its evil needs. Better write nothing, then hope your work will not be used to cause harm. Also, in every source that gives us information on 18th July 1970 we have nothing about the eruption:

This House of Dreams: “And he took his girlfriend for one last dive. Together they sank down into the depths, far deeper than he had ever dived before.”

The Poet and The Muse: “And vowed them both to silence deep beneath the lake”

Manuscript page: “He put on the suit, untied the monster from the chair. The thing in his arms thrashed weakly, but he held fast. He stepped outside, off the pier, and into the dark water, a sinking pinprick of light, descending toward a bottom that never came.”

Cynthia Weaver: “He tried to undo it, wrote himself, her, everything he’d ever written out of the world.”

I don’t believe Thomas was the one to write the eruption. But we have one person, who could do it, was in a proper state of mind to not care about chain reactions and would love to solve the problem the easiest way.

As we hear in the Alice’s call with Heartman, Alan’s way to solve the problem is to pretend it doesn’t exist:

How to solve Alice’s death? Write the very place she drowned at out of existence. If there was no cabin, if there was no pier, there would be no way for her to drown, right?

Well, sort of.

This theory has a couple of evidence to support it: the radio and the coffee thermos that we can find in the cabin.

In the guide we even know the people who placed the radio there, and how the signal is not so good because of the caldera rim.

And here’s one of the beloved thermoses with a little note of someone in-universe.

They, of course, could be taken with a grain of salt. We do not know when Sam and David lived (or I might’ve missed them somewhere in games or other materials; there are hints that they are active KBF-FM engineers in 2010), yet it’s doubtful that the radios they left in various places were exactly there for 40 years, tuned to KBF-FM and look just as every other radio in 2010. The thermos… well, sadly the person, collecting them, meets a grim fate, probably being stuck in the Dark Place. Yet, the items are there, and the first time the eruption is mentioned is after Alan escapes from the Dark Presence. Let’s not forget also how he escapes: he just walks the bridge and gets into the car as if he was not in the Dark Place this whole time, there is no transition between worlds. And the moment he starts the car, the cabin just dissipates in a black smoke: is it the writing starting to shape reality?

There is a peculiar manuscript, that might hint on the cabin still existing at the time Alan and Alice arrived:

It’s talking about Cauldron Lake, surely; this is the place of power for the Dark Presence, we know this for a fact. So why would the weak and at the time hurt by this trip to the dinner Dark Presence even consider an effort of conjuring the Bird Leg Cabin? How would it even muster this trick with no art involved, with no artist to feed on? Unless the cabin was there at the time.

After all, the entire isle and the cabin are in tip-top shape. In the first game we see the Dark Presence launch multiple objects out from the lake, but all of them keep the damage, look old and rusty.

On the isle, however, even the vegetation is green and alive. And as far as I know the Dark Presence is not a good gardener: in Control the very presence of The Third Thing (formerly known as that arsehole Emil Hartman) was killing the plants, that we had to save with light. In the second game the manuscripts that were washed ashore even leave a dark goo on their place.

The cabin and the isle show no signs of Dark Presence’s touch.

Were there other options? For sure!

Here! Cabins for rent near Cauldron Lake. This is so much easier to pull off: take the key of one of them, make instructions how to get there and give them to the writer. No need to do the impossible and raise an entire isle in the middle of the lake.

Yet, instead, we have the Bird Leg Cabin on the Diver’s Isle, apparently collected from the bits and pieces they should’ve turned into in the eruption, with rejuvenated vegetation and no sign of any damage; all created by the Dark Presence so weak, it’s “not real enough to properly exist”:

That is… if this wasn’t the first loop Alan went through. As Tom the Filmmaker said in the second game:

Remember, the Dark Place works in loops and rituals. If the waves keep pushing you away, you just need to find another way in.

Or out — in this case.

But I will leave the loops of the first game for another time.

For now I also suggest to think about this little thing:

Time is a story, after all.

#alan wake 2 #alan wake #thomas zane #alan wake ii #alan wake remastered #alan wake game #remedy connected universe #RCU theory #remedy entertainment #remedy games #tom zane #cauldron lake

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mashkara45 · 5 months

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#alan wake 2 #saga anderson #alex casey #cauldron lake #videogames #horror games #videogames quotes #alan wake quotes #remedy entertainment

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voonydapunk69420 · 3 months

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Cauldron Lake, Washington

#alan wake 2 #alan wake #remedyverse #Cauldron Lake #bright falls

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cn-4amsleeper · 6 months

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I’m having the most fun streaming Alan Wake 2 for my homies cuz one of them literally said she’d enjoy being in the Dark Place cuz she’s “a Social Science major, and Cauldron Lake and the Bright Falls are the best places to conduct experiments and researches.”

Also she writes fanfic so whatever the faq she writes would come true. Which is, to her apparently, the best thing ever.

#my cool cool friends #scare the crap outta me tho ngl #alan wake 2 #the dark place #cauldron lake #bright falls

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doomed-jester · 4 months

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Alan, upon entering the Dark Place: "well, time to be miserable forever and make this place my own personal silent hill"

Odin & Tor: "broooo let's be young and hot again and get a gig as the house band for an extra dimensional talk show!!"

#i fully believe that the old gods in the dark place are the same Odin and Tor that entered Cauldron Lake at the climax #time is fucky and reality is maleable in the dark place #so I think they made themselves young again and tried to guide Alan through the loops (hence their musical number with Mr Door)#those aren't Ghosts or memories those ARE our Odin and Tor #alan wake #alan wake 2 #alan wake spoilers #odin anderson #tor anderson #old gods of asgard

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