Closing Thoughts

I’m sure where else to put this, so I’ll shove it in this section. In one of the versions of the Act III CD, there are clues hidden all around the booklet and case. I don’t have a copy myself, but there’s threads all about it on forum sites and I have a scan of the booklet. In the area behind the CD, there’s the latin phrase ‘Sequor diversus tabellae ad tela’, which someone has translated to mean ‘Follow different letters to a web’. Then, on the last page of the booklet, certain letters are highlighted. These letters spell out the phrase ‘We look just like Fire’, which are lyrics to the last song on Act III, which shares the same name as the album: Life and Death’. The final page of the booklet has a coded message, with a bunch of numbers followed by the words ‘Who am I?’. The words at the end were an early teaser at the song from Act V, The Most Cursed of Hands / Who am I, and the numbers, when decoded (track number.line.letter) and combined with the final phrase, spelled out this: ‘I was his boundary. I am his purgatory. I will be his heaven. Who am I?’

This riddle seems to more than likely be the Tree, as it was his boundary as a boy, he never ventured past it. As for his purgatory I’m not sure how that works out exactly, but as his heaven, I can see that working. His mother was buried beneath the Tree, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he also ends up buried there after his time is up.

I took a long break before coming back to start Act III, and now I plan on digging right back in. Casey has just announced a new tour, supposedly related to his new project now that he’s ‘finished’ the Acts, and my friends in the facebook fan group have started the Dear Apparition Podcast, which features band mates as guests, and they also take the time to talk about the Acts similar to how I am here. I even featured on their episode about Act II, although it’s not released at the time of this post. In about a week or so I should have the vinyl boxset coming in the mail. With all this going on around me I was itching to get back into these and explore the next album in the set.

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