Control Explained - The Oldest House Cold War

as the title of the game suggests the history of the oldest house we have witnessed is a struggle for control being a nexus point of reality the power that controls it has influence over all thresholds it connects to during the main game the hiss attempted to seize it as well as the astral plane hedron and polaris stood in opposition to this invasion with director trench on one side and dr darling on the other these extra dimensional entities were responsible for a civil war between the two former friends this is not the first time this dynamic has played out albeit under radically different circumstances unlike the events of control the previous war did not result in outright conflict instead it was a cold war with director northmoor representing one side and dr ashe on the other the details of this conflict are still not fully known this is due to various attempts to hide any information related to what exactly happened in the foundation 50 years before jesse entered the oldest house to get a clearer picture we will have to look back to when the bureau first made this remarkable discovery this story is broken into two parts in the first the bureau was welcomed in the foundation in the second they were banished from it let us examine both factions leading up to this departure to get an understanding of what led to it [Music] dr theodore ashe jr the son of the former director was one of the first across the threshold with the new director on his way from washington ash started to work to determine the nature of this place of power in order to give a report one point of interest was a great pillar discovered in the crossroads that would later become known as the nail he'll expect answers which is why i'm making these tapes they're evidence that i'm at least trying to understand father searched his entire life for something like this and we find it one week after he's buried he always hated irony of course father the great director ash would have been the first man in and look at me his bookworm son the supposed head of research who can't stop his legs from shaking long enough to step over the threshold soon after the arrival of director north northmoor something changed the foundation that would alter the course of the bureau's history northmoor even made a discovery a pistol placed on a stone pedestal in front of that strange ebony pillar seems like something out of a storybook except the heroes usually find swords not handguns but it is the perfect lure for someone like him hours after finding this weapon northmoor cornered me to spout some nonsense about how the board had made him the director he ran it about the title being meaningless before now calling father and all other previous directors shams frauds and worse i think this place is worse for north more than it is for me strangest thing there was no pedestal in front of that pillar a day ago this building has swallowed a dozen of my men and now it's handing out presents is it playing some sort of game if it is we're most certainly losing well we don't even know the rules the distinction between their personalities are shown here dr ash wishes to understand the essence of the foundation and now the mystery of the board director northmoor's personality keeps him ignorant not caring about the who what or why as long as the board continues to facilitate his power as the weeks go by dr ash makes further discovery surrounding the nail and director northmoor insists that the bureau be known as the oldest house this is the beginning of the board's influence attaching itself into the bureau's dna while the director continues to be directed by these extra-dimensional entities ash has a breakthrough i spend my days investigating that odd pillar where northmoor found the handgun the work was half-hearted at first i admit but then i discovered numerous non-aristotelian energy channels converging at its base ley lines dragon roads hyligalinian call them what you want but this pillar is the crossroads i started building something equal parts talisman and technology an array that can impose order on the late junctions that's the idea at least we'll see when i'm done i prefer to work away from the pillar i'm not the only one who feels like that thing has eyes based upon this it appears the board is keeping a close watch on dr ash and the work he is doing some of the researchers under him have negative responses to this unseen presence my research staff complain of a presence watching them many have suffered nervous fits some were evacuated while working in one of the deeper caverns to avoid the gaze of the nail a new form of life was discovered one that seemed interested in the work he was doing interior news i've made some new friends i met them while exploring the deeper caves they're hard to describe but imagine avant-garde sculptures of humans i call them the id they aren't hostile in fact they're polite and quiet which is more than i can say for my colleagues most id are shy but a few were quite curious well i sat taking notes one came to look at my sketches i offered him my pencil but that spooked it what are the ed residents prisoners they remind me of the golems from kabbalistic texts or a type of homunculi i know i shouldn't but i gave them names there's hercules adam lilith copernicus mabel is the bravest they're a funny bunch i will go into further detail on the nature of the id in another video but for now let's summarize and say they are physical beings that are extensions of the board's will mindless creatures that approximate the appearance of humans during this meeting they were curious about what dr ash was working on the progress of his research roughly a week later northmoor gave a new directive to the agents under his rule northmoor has ordered an all-hands search for objects similar to the service weapon he claims there are more in the house though i don't see how he's so certain he's been strange lately talking about joining greater causes and frequently mentioning a pyramid after pressing him he finally described this pyramid tell me inverted black mathematically perfect oddly enough adam and the other id have shown me numerous inverted triangles painted on the cave walls surely there's a connection but i don't see it yet as a result of this ash began to look into pyramid symbolism i've been going through my library researching pyramids and triangles if that shape does relate to the board as north more says then perhaps our predecessors in the occult can offer some insight through their geometric knowledge in esotericism the triangle is closely associated with the holy trinity and other three-part concepts past present future the mind body spirit interestingly the term board also implies multiple parts upright triangles in jodea christian imagery indicate ascent into the rational slash divine realm inverted it signifies the descent into the corporeal human realm as far as occult symbols go triangles are by no means rare flood levi crowl they use that shape like it was going out of fashion standing on their base triangle signify stability and strength inverted on their points they represent conflict and stagnation of course the orientation is just a matter of perspective looking at the pyramid from below gives you one from above another north morris says he looks up at the inverted pyramid i have to wonder is anyone standing over it looking down at this point the pieces began to come together the board insisted that the building be called the oldest house however in response to learning that the foundation is older than the house itself jesse poses the question 50 years later what is older than oldest the cave drawings that the id point to showing the pyramid appears prehistoric however carbon dating on them shows they were made after the bureau first arrived the board is attempting to make it appear as if they are older than they really are that they are one with the house its original inhabitants as ash mentioned the inverted pyramid signifies a descent into the manifest world i mentioned in a previous video the nail is a metaphysical object that binds the reality of the board to the oldest house this group of entities are not what they seem a month later the departure began there's been a change hercules and mabel i mean it numbers 3 and 11 attacked my staff today two fatalities three if you count mabel she was always so kind as a result we are abandoning the foundation northmoor gave the order to transfer our resources to the upper floors now that my control points allow us to safely come and go from the new york streets up until this point the id were curious about what the head of research was doing but docile once the board determined him to be a threat they dispatched the id to cause chaos and give an excuse to abandon the research by this point director north moore was soundly in their pocket drunk on the power they gave him he gave the orders to leave and grew aggressive to anyone who disobeyed the board's wishes let's read the final warning to get an idea of how far northmore had fallen to director theodore ash jr as director of the federal bureau of control and chosen representative liaison and benefactor of the great authority of the board i demand your immediate withdrawal from the foundation prior memos issued broadly to foundation staff called for swift reassignment of all personnel to the upper floors of the house all staff complied except you this demonstrates a lack of respect for my office and the board itself this is their house and we are their guests we should conduct ourselves accordingly normally such insubordination would be grounds for dismissal but out of respect for your late father consider this instead my final warning the board and director ash chose me as successor to the office and no amount of petulance will change that indeed your actions seem to suggest you know better than myself and by extension the board permit me to assure you that that is not possible [Music] well you too this demand was promptly ignored during his time in the foundation ash little by little grew attuned to the place so much that he began to sense the presence of another this governed the decision he made next a few months ago i would have been overjoyed to leave the foundation but now i realize i've grown fond of it there's something deep in the stone here deeper than that watching presence something warm i feel it needing me i won't go i'll refuse northmoor won't be happy but so be it i'm starting to see him for what he is an impotent storm father shade in a cheap suit it is presumed he spent the following month alone down here in this ancient place he was hunted by the id and threatened by northmoor but at the same time became more and more linked to the house itself his exposure began to change him i have changed though it's hard to know how or why i no longer need tools to detect the house's veins to hear it breathe i can feel its blood churning beneath my bare feet i have added my own illustrations to the walls trying to solve some mystery that the oldest house whispers to me i have to avoid the it as i do so they haunt me i don't blame them they're just following the pillars orders even poor adam doesn't seem to recognize me anymore the simple fact that ash remained in the foundation and his only enemies were director northmoor and the id tell me one thing the board itself has no power to enforce its will it must rely on mindless creatures it forms from the earth and the influence it gains over people by bartering power to get its way simply by ignoring them dr theodore ash jr was able to further research that the board wished to remain unknown i've spent a long time contemplating the etchings of the tree and its roots did you know this city used to be a forest i wonder if our oldest house were a different face back then or if it was always here a 21st century office building since time immemorial can a place know the future can it change its skin can it wander i always thought the esoteric world was my father's not mine but here in this sacred place i finally understand his devotion and his awe in one report he elaborated on this line of inquiry the oldest house has revealed much to me during my months in the foundation but many questions remain primarily the tree etchings bewilder me what is their significance if the house has changed shape over its lifetime as i've theorized then was a tree its first form i sent a team to the schwartzman building in search of pre-settlement accounts of manhattan island from those i discovered a single relevant line and there i found a tree not known to me the devil twisted in its bark with this seed planted the good doctor began to see the man behind the curtain an attribute of the oldest house is that no one can find it unless they are looking for it or are invited the simple fact that the bureau happened to stumble across it means that they were invited over the course of his time in the foundation dr ash began to believe two things one the board was simply a parasite latched onto the house and two the oldest house called out for help but the bureau did nothing without knowing it the bureau found themselves caught in the middle of a conflict extra-dimensional in nature one that would cause a war between the director and head of research with a blind man sitting in the director's chair dr theodore ash jr made one final decision that would dictate the rest of his life he would fight a cold civil war alone leaving a trail that would be uncovered 50 years later if he could not end this conflict in his lifetime he would ensure that someone in the future will nobody else hears the house their ears are too full of lies we were shown the way inside so we could help but all we've done is fall victim to the same parasite i should have seen the web earlier the strands between northmoor the pillar the gun the id what hope do we have thrown into this conflict beyond our comprehension i've decided to rejoin the bureau in the upper levels to end my long absence spent in the foundation northmoor will be angry at me for disobeying him that's just his way but i don't care i need to remain in the oldest house to help however i can i doubt i can steer the bureau back on the right course but i have to try how did i go so long without a purpose without devotion i can hardly remember how it felt i realize how grateful i am to father for setting me on this path i wish i could tell them that [Music] you

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Length: 19min 6sec (1146 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 15 2020