Thread:Dialgaofpower/@comment-3166228-20150612021537

I know this sound out of place, but random stanley parable theory!

The theory? Stanley is actually the player trapped inside the game.

Yeah, would you believe this game has a STORYLINE? In the ending where you actually follow all the narrator's instructions, (aka the first) is when stanley wonders what happens if he turns on the mind control machine. In the third, he goes to his death, but is saved by the second narrator. Stanley then becomes aware that he's not a real person, but is crushed by the metal jaws, wiping his memory. When the narrator tries to have the first ending happen, stanley somehow slips out the room just before the doors close and regains his memory.

In trying to communicate to the narrator that they're trapped, the player obeys the narrator's commands other than heading up the staircase in the insanity ending, disobeys the narrator's actions in the apartment ending, jumps from the platform in the suicide ending, thus dying but retaining their memory, in that order. The narrator still thinks they're Stanley. So the player does the only other thing they can think of and triggers the confusion ending by going to the lounge, through the left door, and down the lift.

However, the narrator still thinks they're Stanley, so the player deides to unplug the phone. However, they noticed a balcony and jumped onto it, first going through the red door, then the blue one three times. At this point, the player is out of options and unplugs the phone. take it away, narrator!

"As Stanley picked up the phone, a white light engulfed him, filling him not just with radiance, but with hope. Hope for a life reunited once- Wait... oh goodness... Stanley, did you just unplug the phone? No, that wasn't supposed to be a choice; how did you do that? You actually... chose incorrectly? I didn't even know that was possible. Let me double check...

(sound of papers rustling)

"No, it's definitely here, clear as day. Stanley picks up the phone, he's taken to his apartment, where he finds his wife, and the two pledge themselves to one another. Music comes in, fade to white, roll credits. Not picking up the phone is actually somehow an incorrect course of action. How is that even possible? None of these decisions were supposed to mean anything! I don't understand. How on earth are you making meaningful choices? What, did you- Wait a second, did I just see... no, that's not possible. I can't believe it. How had I not noticed it sooner? You're not Stanley. You're a real person. *sigh* I can't believe I was so mistaken. This is why you've been able to make correct and incorrect choices! And to think I've been letting you run around in this game for so long. If you'd made any more wrong choices, you might have negated it entirely!"

Now he's convinced! So he then has you go back and choose correctly to prevent narrative contradiction, and the player picks the left door, except instead of a keypad, it's voice activated, and the game prevents you from saying the code, "NIGHT-SHARK-115". You are then forced to try the path on the right, and then the game glitches up, the narrator shuts it down, and it becomes even worse, the player is then seperated from stanley, indicating they are freed from the game. The end, take a bow!  