Talk:Dimming Darkness/@comment-31077845-20170215052013

Ok, what? I came down here almost hoping someone could explain to me what the hell is going on. Are they victims of some kind of gas attack, is that what's up with the green gas and the boots and respirators? They say something about not being sure how they made it this far, did they...wander onto some kind of chemical testing facility due to their old map? Or is the respirator a medical one for his daughter? I can't tell if they're all talking and acting like loons from the beginning as part of a story, or if the author just thinks that's normal person thinking and dialogue. Then they drive into a tunnel, which the father is irrationally afraid of, for some reason crazy reason, and then out of nowhere the tunnel is talking to him and becoming a mouth, and then he clearly completely loses it as his family become doll people. Then the wife and son are suddenly dead, the daughter has bite marks all over her for some reason, and the father is in such bad shape what are clearly soldier people don't think he's worth saving.

There's a lot of focus on this guy's obvious (well, I shouldn't say obvious because nothing here is terribly obvious) descent into madness but really, looking back, hardly a single clue as to what's causing him to lose it, and if he's losing it why that is. I'd think maybe he was just so afraid of the tunnel that he lost his mind and crashed the car, but then why would soldier people be responding, and what about responding to a simple car crash would be "playing hero"? And they mention "crawling back in there"...the family (again...I think?) drove in there in a car, it's supposedly a tunnel, why would crawling be involved?

I even looked up "significant events in 1985" to see if maybe this was referencing something, but couldn't find anything. So someone help me here. Does this make absolutely no sense whatsoever, or am I missing something?