I'm so curious what's going on here... I can't wait for the puzzle to start to piece together!

Here's another piece. Dr. Murdock. Doesn't that name seem familiar?
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8407586

He looks just like the Jack guy who appeared in the hospital too. I had a feeling that Gem flipped out in the trial because it was a bit too personal to her.

Interesting... I hadn't made that connection.... The plot thickens.

Somebody else said Murdock, too about the trial, and I had to go back. In her dream, 'Mr. Murdock' indeed does look just like Jack, ear bent down, etc. However, in her recalling the actual court event, you don't get to see who is on trial, and there is no mention of name. So, is her dream accurate? Was the actual trial for 'Mr. Murdock' or 'Dr. Murdock' or someone else?

Is there a real Dr. Murdock and Jack's a patient in the facility and he's just using Murdock's name?

I THOUGHT I might know how this is going to end, but our scribe and artist is just too smart for me!

I did some rereading and looks like Murdock is Gem's last name.
Her mom has that last name too, which makes sense if they are married.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19219612

I kind of wonder if the dream trial is in some way a flashback as well as expressing Gem's anxiety. I've always thought of the trial as a flashback. It came true in the real trial because Gem's mind made it true with her mental condition. There might have been things related to the trial that triggered certain memories. Especially if the case is very similar to her own.

I've also kind of wondered if Jack becomes a stand in character whenever Gem feels insecure, in danger, or anxious in some way.

But what confuses me is the nurse acknowledging Dr. Murdock. There either has to be a real Dr. Murdock, or Gem got out of bed and wrote that herself or any number of weird things going on. Also possible the whole story is some kind of dream or life or death situation. I've seen people mention they think this whole story started because Gem fell in the first page.

You know, I didn't remember that page when Nicole was going to give Gem up. I don't know how I missed that 'minor detail'.

I assumed that since Gem was never adopted that she retained her family name of "Polson." Now, I don't know where that name came from, or how she got it.

I still don't believe there is a Jack, but Souffle would also be 'Murdock', but why would he want to put Gem on such a massive amount of drugs, I just don't know.

Curiouser and Curiouser . . .

Gem's last name might have gone through a name change at the time she was put in an orphanage/ up for foster care. Perhaps it was for her protection somehow? Either so she couldn't find out she was a survivor of a crime (if she was the sole survivor of an arson case) or if her father was involved in an investigation. Or any number of possibilities to keep her from finding out her biological family. (I do recall some mention she was in an orphanage, either from one of toddlergirl's comments or on a page in the comic (I forgot the page number).

But yes, very curious indeed. I overlooked the Murdock detail with Gem's mom too. I just took it at face value and didn't link it to anything special until now.

Well, we'll see soon enough. Maybe Thursday, and if not, probably not until next week, since the Squig will be away for the weekend.

Poor Gemma D:

The plot thickens...

oh no : < this really made me un easy this kinda thing just guh stuff of nightmares you do well at portraying a feeling of dread gem :3

Yeah truthfully this page made me feel really uneasy/anxious drawing it

As a diagnosed masochist, I love needles. But, the fact that she's getting a drug cocktail that she likely doesn't need is EXTREMELY terrifying to me. Did you ever see the movie, Jacob's Ladder? This is beginning to remind me a bit of it, and that's like the most scariest movie in the whole wide world to me

no ive not seen that film..though bizarrely someone recently at work recommended that movie to me, like literally last week...so now im gonna hafta go properly check it out and im gonna be super narked if its basically my plot LOL that would royally suck chunky ones

That's crazy that someone should recommend it just as the plot of Found is reaching this point! I wouldn't say it's quite the same, but in spirit it is similar! The protagonist of the movie, like Gem, begins experience strange visions and seeing weird things during the day. Eventually the line between what's real and what isn't becomes blurred entirely. And that's like my ultimate deepest darkest personal fear: losing all sense of reality

well the guy at work doesnt even know anything about found. We were just talking about films I like, like fight club and being john malkovich and girl interrupted and how I quite like twisty complicated movies and he recommended I check out jacobs ladder

I saw Jacob's Ladder when I started getting in on Silent Hill. The film seemed a little tame to me (at least by today's standards) but I found a lot of it to be unnerving. It is undeniably a creepy movie that set a standard for psychological horror and is definitely better than recent films of the genre.

As for Found, I can see similarities between it and the film as its come closer to the end, but I don't think anyone would give you heat for how the story has been turning. Honestly, I didn't notice any parallel until this comment pointed it out to me.

If you liked Fight Club, you'll probably appreciate Jacob's Ladder. It's production quality is really starting to show its age at this point, it was made in the late 80s/early 90s and it's really easy to tell, but still a good film. Proper terrifying if you ask me. But I've harped on it enough I think. More Found, please! :]

I'd be freaking out if I felt I was being wrongfully medicated too. The thought is scary.

On a side note when I saw the thumbnail of this page I was like, "is that- nooo, can't be." And then it was. *internal squee*
I am so giddy right now she looks great in your style.

Im glad I drew her okay

Uh oh o.o Gemma better hope Paul shows up soon

At least Gem will have a bit of spending money once this is all over :P

well...in fairness the nurse was only doing her job and working in a mental insitute she probably has to deal with paranoid dellusional folk a lot so probably hears those sorts of excuses a lot

Consent from significant other?

I don't think Paul qualifies for that sadly he could consent to emergency process but would need court order or marriage/commom law partnership for consent

who says the SO is paul? or that anything on that sheet is true :D

Mr Murdock, he signed it after all and he would never ever lie of course!

^^

Back to sleep for Gemma hmm? X3

Yikes. I just hope Gem is able to put that Doctor in prison when this is all over. :(

Murdock...is that...Gem's father?

and/or the guy on trial here for murder.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8407586

I came late to this update and surprised hardly anyone mentioned this page.

That wasn't even in Color though and...I guess it's possible but still, the drugs, according to the latest page, seem to be doing something good.

I remember a comment toddlergirl made about the few colors that do show up on the page and to pay attention to them. It was either here or on Deviantart. Either way I have a feeling there is something relevant to that incident to what is going on now.

But yeah that was an interesting dream. it could be symbolizing stuff from her past too.

Murdock must have caused that fire or incident with the house, (I haven't read the entire comic but from what I've learned, the house they lived in burned; Murdock must have cuased it perhaps; the guy in the dream that she was addressing.)

I have a hunch Mr. Murdock = her father. Stalking case = Jack stalking her mother? She might not have remembered this, but her subconscious knew. Thus the dream and her flipping out in a PTSD like incident.
Mr. Murdock appeared just like the Jack that appeared in her hospital room.

Now if the REAL trial she was involved with deals with the same defendant as the one in her dreams, that we don't know. But it would be interesting if it is.

Hmmm....that is true.

Oh yeah, Murdock is the doctor. I was getting badly mixed up for a moment there.

Yes the plot thickens. I'm hoping for a reveal that will help shed light on this story and how Dr. Murdock relates to Gem, if he is Jack and what the outcome will be. The drug does seem to help so far though. But I wait to see the end result. He could be a Dr. Kivorkian like figure all we know.

Kivorkian?

This creepy guy who thought he was helping Alzheimer's and mentally ill patients by assisting them with sucicide:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian

Coincidentally his name was also Jack. Interesting.

Though hopefully instead of suicide in this comic, Dr. murdock's med would just reset their lives as babies. Considering this is a regression comic.

I hope that's not the case but again, given recent pages, (And that file), I doubt it. (And also Jack's expression to Paul was of absolute concern.)

I'm thinking the worst that can happen is she will get knocked out and wake up as a baby. Paul becomes her adoptive father. I get this impression because I've only seen Gem's adult form in the comic. All other drawings of Gem from the artist are in her baby form with Paul being the caretaker. Since Gem is the artist's Fursona, it makes sense.

It could be a terrible ending that the malicious doctor intended (or the even the good doctor intended as a way to give Gem a fresh start), but given Paul's character, it could be made into a happy one. And considering this is a regression comic it is what I expect to happen.

You've missed a bigger chunk of the comic than I have then since she's already been a baby, in her dreams and hallucinations basically.

You're taking it to a VERY Bad, possibly impractical ending though.

I read it from the beginning. It was just a theory, a Found theory. So what is your theory about the ending then?

Hard to say.


It'll at least involve Jack and Gem reuniting, and making amends; perhaps Jack isn't behind the house burning. Why would he be? He had to be drunk or demented for that.

No matter what I hope she gets some closure, to find out what really happened to her family.

Also, isnt she supposed to apply something to the spot FIRST before injecting the IV? (IV meaning Intravenous, meaning an injection sent into your bloodstream...and given that angle, she has it going straight back to the heart; eugh. Not good. )

D42 drug trial? I don't want to know what that is, but we'll find out anyway and I imagine it was Jack, Gem's daddy, who did that.

you're thinking too hard about this..i mean i could have drawn several panels showing the orrect procedure but ultimately i just need to get the information across that she's being drugged up :)

Understood, and sorry of tend to do that; think too hard or too much.

CRAP CRAP CRAP NOOOOO NO NO NO! PAUL GET YOUR ASS INTO THE ROOM! Q_Q

Too much drugs will make Gem more babylike. That wretched Jack is really determined to destroy his daughter.

Hmmm....I think I just realized he's the demented, holding onto these delusions for so long BUT then again...Hmmm...Eh well find out what D42 does; could be a depressant or antidepressant I mean. She's been taking some messed up medication. It's possible that was Jack but he might've changed things...so he could be with his only child, probably to apologize.

Poor Squiggle.

I see two possibilities. Either it messes her up further, or it could be the drug the one brother developed to cure dementia, and her perception of reality up to this point has been the result of her condition.

But if they created the drug when she was a child how could it still be in trial form?

I am hoping for that but still.

Maybe it's not the same but a derivative?

Good point and the first product could've had side effects anyway.

Hopefully Paul or Dr.Nick will show up before the nurse can inject the drugs.

What sort of nasty stuff is in that syringe?

Medicine to straighten out an " abnormal" mind

Oh yikes o.O''
Paul to the rescue!

I wonder kind of medicine it is

It is most likely a mixture of an anti- psychotic, an anti- anxiety medicine, and an anesthetic.

I'm struggling not to write what would be a highly personally related response on your art which I don't feel is appropriate but the sense in not being in control, not being understood, more accurate misunderstood and treated through diagnosis that are incorrect is a very powerful feeling and emotion you've depicted so well comes over clearly. One hopes Paul straightens this out!

Hmm... This may cause great drowsiness or mind- boggling hallucinations.

There is no way Paul could undo the medicine, only ensure it isn't given again.

Don't worry you'll be seeing rainbows and butterflies in a few minutes~ feeling sounds and smelling colors...

This had better have a happy ending.

errr....*whistles innocently*

I see you whistling over there

God I hate needles, and the thought of being given some forcefully that I don't need just... *shudders* >.<

...oh crud.

poor star. if talking worked most nurses would listen and double check with their higher ups to see who is who's patient but they just don't ahve time for that. I hope she's alright.

actually I dont know if you can read the clipboard properly but the notes basically state shes undergoing a drug trial, so the nurse wouldnt know about this particular substance.

Oh bad medicine wonder what kind of out of this world trip Gem is about to take on incorrectly perscriped cocktail

why do I get the feeling  powhatan's jenny is going to make an appearance?

oh Gosh I hate needles never was a big fan good luck Gemma

Okay, I'm totally lost now. All my previous thoughts are now blown. I have no idea where this is going.

My moms a nurse. So while everyone's freaking out over the concoction of drugs. I'm freaking out over the way she's holding that needle xD
Silly ramblings, but seriously I'm so scared of needles this page made me shiver

This is getting all sorts of tense.

gosh is way too scary *hides*

bearing in mind her file says shes paranoid/psychotic and hypermanic, with a signature from a dotcor at the facility, its actually pretty unlikely that she would contact someone as most patients would probably try to talk their way out of their medication

Well this page is certainly pressing my uncomfortable buttons... I'm scared of needles but drugs that mess with your mind are like one of my biggest fears. >.<

Why is Gem's father such a dick?!

Nah, the notes weren't tampered with. You just have paranoia. the notes said so, so it must be true. Hmm, you seem to be having an adverse reaction to the meds, but the notes said to give you this, so you must be ok. What do you mean my medical license is being revoked? I did what those notes told me to do. How was I supposed to know they were tampered with? It's not like anyone told me.

Mr. Murdock. Weren't you the guy who was on trial in Gem's dream for murder?!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8407586

Hmm, very interesting.

Also compare Mr. Murdock:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8407586
Stylized. Missing the burn scar, but same hair cut.

Jack in Gem's hospital room before he signs off Gem's papers (as Dr. Murdock):
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20431848/

He has the same haircut in both scenes, down to the bangs. Same eye color too.

ive been watching videos in biology class where people die from diseases. this is similar to that. im heartbroken both ways. its not your fault gem

Uh needles... please not needles.
What is worse then needles needles with truth serim

The doctors tried to force drugs into me as well