Hello everyone,
Larissa from the Templin Institute here with a very special video because we have just
reached 100,000 subscribers!
When we started this channel we certainly hoped we might one day reach that number,
but to get here so soon has been astonishing.
At the risk of turning this into some type of acceptance speech, we have to thank our
friends over at Spacedock, Eckhart’s Ladder, and Star Wars Explained for not only collaborating
with us, but for being so welcoming to the strange and wonderful community of content
creators we’ve found ourselves a part of.
Above all though, we’d like to thank every one of you for watching our videos.
To say we wouldn’t be here without your support is a bit of a cliche but one that
happens to be true.
I know I speak for Marc and myself when I say that the release of a new episode has
become the highlight of our week and we have a lot of fun reading through all your comments.
Now, I know a lot of you have requested we do a video on the Templin Institute itself.
There’s been a lot of speculation regarding the so called “true nature” of this channel,
that we’re some kind of inter-dimensional whatever, that I’m not who I appear to be,
etc etc.
I’m sorry to disappoint you, but you’re reading too much into it.
All those clues people in our Discord server have uncovered are just glitches in our editing
software and I can say definitively that they have nothing to do with anything.
This is Dr. Sindall, I am conducting interview ID-34-2289-C, present is Dr. Oleski and our
subject, Samantha Templin.
This is the ninth interview with Ms. Templin as part of her debriefing and psychological
evaluation following what has become known as the Gate 4081 Incident.
This interview is being recorded in Templin Debriefing Room 5, the time, if we can agree
is [Redacted] and the date is the [Redacted].
Dr. Oleski, please briefly summarise the case for the record.
On March [Redacted] Ms. Templin conducted an unauthorized investigation into Gate 4081,
destination still unknown.
Ms. Templin was apparently within this dimension for no more than 2 minutes during which time
Templin Institute staff were unable to access Gate 4081 due to circumstances that have yet
to be explained.
Upon her return, Ms. Templin began acting erratically and was placed into medical confinement.
Ms Templin, would you please state your full name and date of birth for the record?
What need does the universe have for a name?
I was eternal and ephemeral, constant and concluding.
Perfect, more nonsense.
Ms. Templin, where did you go?
Where did I go?
Yes Samantha, where did you go?
What was inside Gate 4081?
I went to a place you people wouldn’t believe, where the mountains blow in the wind like
leaves and you don’t need eyes to see.
Samantha please, I need you to concentrate, what happened ins-
I only went where they had led me… at first there was only darkness.
A great hollow nothingness that went on forever.
It’s longer than you think.
Longer than you think!
Then they were all around me, pinpricks of light.
They were stars, it was full of stars.
They sped by, growing smaller and smaller or perhaps I grew larger and larger until
entire galaxies were brought before me and with one hand I could touch the start of creation
and with the other grasp the end of all things.
In that fraction of an instant lay an eternity.
I was that eternity.
All around me civilizations rose and crumbled, time ended and then began anew.
A hundred times and then a hundred thousand, until there was no future, no past.
Time was simultaneous and all existence grew mundane in its repetition.
My thoughts become reality and all reality existed in my thoughts.
Yet for all that power, I was nothing, trapped in a neverending nothing.
But not alone.
The stars all around me had turned, and everywhere I looked a thousand eyes gazed back.
“Wake up” they they whispered “Wake up and… smell the ashes.”
Nothing could be heard against that deafening silence, but I screamed and screamed all the
same.
Crying for mercy in the dark of the light.
In Gate 4081 was the secret of existence.
But there is a danger in secrets, both in seeking and in knowing.
Ok great Ms. Templin, thank you.
Please hold on one moment.
Did any of that make sense to you?
Not really.
Lunch?
Yeah okay.
Cafeteria has Stroganoff I think.
Okay Ms. Templin, I think we’re going to call this here.
Before we do though, you mentioned you heard voices.
Did they give you any indication of who they were?
(Beat) Did they say anything else to you?
Yes.
And what was that?
We are watching you.
So, I’ll keep this brief and just say thanks again for sticking with us on our journey
as we continue to investigate alternate worlds.