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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome. Sit back and settle in, and let's

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get into her It's wait right whatever, might as well

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check it out. Haven't seen a horror movie that's actually

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scared me in a while. That was the last tax

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Lizzie sent me before she went missing. I know it's irrational,

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but I I hate myself for not doing something and

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for not stopping her. But how was I supposed to know?

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You know, how could I have anticipated anything that was

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going to happen? After the film or whatever the hell?

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It has made its way into us more Town like

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a plague. Only a few days ago, twelve people bought

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tickets for it. Twelve people are now missing. Among them

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was Lacey, my girlfriend for over two years. At the

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risk of sounding like that guy, our future was looking

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nothing but promising. We had plans, I mean we did

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until mister fucking blank showed up. This is nowhere near

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a conventional missing person's case. Of course, the rabbit hole

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goes deeper here, and honestly, the details simply don't make

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any sense From what I managed to dig up. This

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is a general time nine of what had happened. An

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option to buy tickets for the film shows up at

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one of the three theaters in our tam, which is

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about a twenty minute walk from the house, only that one,

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and it wasn't available online, only at the front counter

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of the theater itself. It wasn't supposed to be in

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the regular rotation. Also, none of the employees of the

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theater were informed about any special screenings. They simply came

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in and saw that it replaced a five thirty p

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and slot for a prexisting film. They didn't question it because,

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I mean, why would they. The first and only screening

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is at five thirty p m. On that day. I mean,

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the theater was the busiest, but it wasn't empty either.

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Of course, those people ought to skip it given the

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lack of any information regarding the film, But that being said,

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the only people who bought tickets were younger, likely curious

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about the odd title. The film lasted about nine and

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ten minutes, with all the previous and credits, considered pretty

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short for a feature. Right at six forty p m.

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An employee entered the theater for clean up duty, but

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he found were rose and rows of empty seats, drink

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up still in the holders, pop qunlittered all over the floors,

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no blood no signs of a struggle. Nobody had left

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or entered the theater after the film had begun. Its

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confirmation from security cameras, the theater itself had no camera inside,

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so that part remains a mystery. The screen allegedly consisted

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of nothing but a dog static I mean, that's what

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we were told. At least. I have a feeling that

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some details were left out from there, considering the fact

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that the employees in question, her now missing as well,

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also rumored to have gone into a catatonic state after

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being questioned. The manager of the theater, who never greeted

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the employees that morning as he usually did, was found

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dead in his office with severe wounds around his neck

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left from a postic by clock that was likely used

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to strangle him. And a new employee was hired about

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three weeks prior. The other employees described him as quite

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but a nice guy. He was working the day of

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the incident. You guessed it. He's missing as well, also

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suspect number one in the investigation. However, they're really grasping

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for straws at that one. I wouldn't doubt that this

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employee had something to do with it, but the logistics

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behind the whole situation just incohesive enough to make the

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cull for sure some additional details. No copy of the

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film has been frowned, No progress has been made in

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the search for the missing people. I mean, it hardly

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seem like they're even trying. The local cops have been

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strangely hushed about the whole thing, almost like they don't

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want people asking about it. They illeterally threatened to arrest

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me and I kept pressing them for details. There's been

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a lot of vehicles with tinted windows park nearer the theater,

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surrounding areas, some even in my own community. And well,

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that's the whole situation. I can't focus on anything right now,

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my brains scattered and my anxiety is going through the roof.

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Sue me, what the hell do you expect? At least

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he has to be out there somewhere, right, And how

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the hell is somebody just supposed to disappear to thin air?

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What the hell kind of film is mister blank Pright?

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Getting a headache just thinking about it. My initial grief

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has been replaced more so by confusion and anger. I

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might just start searching for Antos myself. I won't be alone, though, Rose,

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Lacey's best friend, and like her brother, just as bent

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on figuring this out as I am. I'm not going

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in blind though. In fact, I have two leads. Once

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more of a shot in the dark, what the other

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the other should lead us somewhat concrete. I'll start off

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with the former. A few weeks ago, I remember my

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little brother telling me about a strange man he so

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carved into a tree. It was allegedly accompanied by messy

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and frantic repetitions of the words stop around it and

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think anything about it at the time, But I mean

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it might be relevant now, maybe not. We'll see. The

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other came up while I was searching for answers online.

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After feverishly posting about the film on what I consider

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to be relevant forms and yielding no answers, somebody finally

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messaged me about it, claiming that they had information that

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I might like to know. Luckily, there were only a

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three hour drive from here, and they are willing to

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meet me half way. Is this a bad idea? Probably

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I am. I going to look what I find. Probably not,

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But the thought of Lacey being out there and god

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knows what kind of fucked up situation I just can't

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take it. I'm not letting at end like this and

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we're off. The person who'd messaged me online name screen

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grabber twenty two told me to call him Jay, and

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he's agreed to meet up at a diner in town

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about an hour away from us to away from him.

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He seemed genuine enough thought I was talking to him online,

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but intentions can be hard to ascertain over text. Was

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short still worth a shot. I guess I'll do anything

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to figure this out. Mike was all in from the

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get go. I suppose I felt safer with him around,

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given the fact that he stood about six foot two

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and two hundred plus pounds boost in a six hundred

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fifty pound dead lift. Obviously, he didn't like the idea

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that something had happened to his sister. I mean, hell,

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I had to stay on my toes just to stop

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him from knocking me out when he found out that

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Lacey and I were first eating. He was also pissed

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as hell had both of his parents for being so

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complaisant about the situation and that the cops were not

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yielding any results. On the other hand, Rose was worried

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about the situation at first. I can blame really if

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she was weird, but at the end of the day,

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we all really wanted to find Lacy enough so to

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venture off into what was about sensibly a dangerous and

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known The drive was an eventful, which I suppose was

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a good thing. Had the feeling that the humdrum nature

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of our little trip wasn't going to last. Though. What's

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he d place, Mike stated as he stepped out of

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the vehicle, And I couldn't disagree. Flickering fluorescent lights, peeling

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paint in a nearly empty parking lot, a place that

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truly hadn't caught up with the times. Fod is probably

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bullshitting about knowing anything, Mike continued. If he got us

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out here to try something, I'll blow off some steam

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by stomping the shit in. I expected nothing less from him,

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anything to finally see. But don't do anything stupid. I

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know you're ginna, Ross said, before taking the lead and

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heading towards the entrance. Hey wait up, Mike called out,

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running after me. I took a deep breath for following suit.

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This was happening. We were taking matters into our own hands.

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The place was sparsely populated, inside, about six other people

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in total. Green Hoodie black hat, I muttered to myself.

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Jay's outvir choice apparently didn't take long to spot him.

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I was relatively relieved upon realizing that he was on

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the younger side. He looked slightly older than us, probably

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early twenty's, lateeens. Nothing terribly noteworthy about his appearance. A

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skinny guye with medium, lank, dirty blonde hair, Jaye, I

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asked approaching his table. When he looked up, I realized

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that there was something off about him his eyes. He

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looked a little unhinged. Lucky, though that's a strong way

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of describing it. I guess that there's a reason why.

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That was the first word that popped into my head.

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When Mike People's mates, he gave me a slight smile

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before awkwardly gesturing for us to sit so, he said,

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taking a sip of his coffee, His movements were rather jittery.

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You want to know about the movie, we all nodded

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at once. He let out a weird noise, like something

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halfway between a sneer and a cough. But why, how

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do you even know about it? To begin one? Does

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it matter why Mike spoke up? We just want to know.

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Don't tell me you're just about to waste our time.

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He tended to get quite dramatic. Sometimes I'll tell you

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what you need to know, Jay said, after a few

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moments of silence. All right, get on with it. You

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guys need to drop it. Stop thinking about it. Christ

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Mike said, what the hell did I just say? I'm

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not wasting your time? She responded, saving your lives. This

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is Mike seemed to be reaching his wits end, which

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wasn't hard to get to, mind you. Rose chimed in,

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what do you mean? She said, Look, our friend went missing.

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We're not leaving without something. Please. Her tone was a

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lot softer, which seemed to calm Jay down. Sorry to happen,

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he said, But I don't think you're going to find

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son of a bitch, Mike said, slamming the table. Jay

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flinched at the action. Look, I've given you the best advice.

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I can leave it alone. If thus the case, you

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wouldn't have agreed to meet up. There's clearly something that

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you feel we should know. I said, no. She shook

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his head. If I left it like that, you would

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have kept digging deeper. I called you here to convince

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you to let it go. Not going to happen. Mike said, so,

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either you tell us something or you say good bye

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to your teeth. I ignore him. I chimed in, but

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you got to tell us something ogah, like, what the

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hell mister blank is supposed to be? I was getting desperate.

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My hopes had been spiked, perhaps to an unreasonably high degree,

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but I still wasn't prepared to just leave it at that.

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I needed something like a tea. Jay's bottom lit quivered

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just slightly. Upon hearing a question. He's he muttered. It

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looked as if he could hardly muster up an answer.

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He looked terrified, which in turn terrified me. At one point,

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it seemed as if he were about to cry, but

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he took a deep breath, seemingly calming himself down. So

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you guys aren't going to let this go? I shook

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my head. How are we supposed to you? He cut

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his tongue a frustrated tone. His previous face of distress

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moult into something more comparable to anger, as if the

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whole situation was beginning to bother him. Something great, okay, ok,

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I guess he forced my hand. He whispered something under

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his breath sounded relatively aggressive. Truth be told. Day's reservation

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towards the situation was only spiking my interest even more,

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mostly so afraid of he gestured towards the exit. Follow me,

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I'll show you something. It was nearly a mutter follow you,

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I thought, all right, then, I'm not a total idiot.

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O K. The red flags were sticking out like a

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sore thumb's. But the end of the day, I suppose

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this is exactly what we were asking for. In my pocket,

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I gret this the letter, and I from it. Lad

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At Lacey had gotten me a few months back, just

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in case, you know. With all of us on high alert,

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we walked out of the diner and began following Jay's

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beat up cheap. The subsequent drive wasn't long, probably only

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three or four minutes, an inherent symptom of small towns,

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I guess. He led us to a small motel. Looked

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kind of dingy, but not terribly so. Nevertheless, it was

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another cause for concern. He only leaved two hours away.

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I stayed the night, he sighed as he exited his vehicle,

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gesturing us up the stairs. He ascended three floors and

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walked past a few doors before arriving in his room.

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Mike and Rose walked in first, and I followed the mistake,

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So what do you want to do? Before I could

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even finish my sentence, my vision went black. I'm not

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sure how long I was not there for, but when

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I came to, I was lying on the couch, no

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saying splitting edick, you always wake Mike's booming voice from

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like a hammer to my brain. I looked up and

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saw he was holding Jaye in a headlock. There was

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a baseball bout lying a few feet away from them.

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Brose was standing at the foot of the couch, looking

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relieved that I wasn't dead. I thank god, She said,

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you won't be thanking anybody once he shows up trying

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to save you. Fucking hid it, Jay rasped up, struggling

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for air. What happened wasn't exactly a mystery. Jay had

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tried taking my head off with the dam bat. It's

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my brain still reeling. I pulled myself off the couch

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and approached him, all while he struggled against Mike's Pythonike arms.

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So I said, still wincing, what the fuck was that?

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She's face was starting to go beat red, so I

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gestured for Mike to loosen his grip. He started panting

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like hell upon being released. Who the hell is mister blank?

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I asked, I'll ask you one more time, but you

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won't explain to the copse what the hell you just

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focking assaulted me. His expression had changed drastically, not so

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angry any more. He looked more defeated. I tried, he said,

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in a hoarse voice. Try to do what save you? People?

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Save me? What the hell was your plan? Knock us out?

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And then what? I don't know, he said, nearly in hysterics.

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I panicked, didn't know what to do, but I had

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to get you guys to stop. Somehow you force me

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to I get it now, Mike said, you're a crazy guy.

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We've been talking of a psycho. Good job, guys, Was

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that it? I thought to myself. We just wasting our

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time talking to the guy who clearly got off the

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deep end. I wasn't so sure. I had encounters with

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criminally in seeing people before. My father had worked security

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in psych Ward and I had visited there a few

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times before. This guy, he just didn't fit the bill.

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I suppose his words sounded genuine. Of course, I couldn't

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know for sure, so I remained cautious. Jace lumped against

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the wall, tilting his head back against it. I never

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could escape, he said, I don't think anybody ever does. Who.

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I asked, hardly expecting the answer I was about to receive.

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He looked over at me directly, mister Blank. His voice quivered.

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It seemed as if merely saying his name caused him

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a great deal of discomfort. I know I come from

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what even is? He kept quiet as he talked. We

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were finally getting what we came here for. He's incomprehensible.

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Imagine the worst was visceral nightmare you ever had. That's

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nothing compared to an encounter with him. You cannot run him,

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you can't kill him, can't deal with him in any way,

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and once he's after you, he won't stop. You just

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have to pray that you never meet him. The look

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of absolute grief suddenly washed to Very's face. But it's

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too late. Now you've tried to hide yourself. He's already

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on his way. You want to elaborate on that, I asked.

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He smirked at the question. It was one that had

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sat all me to my core. The smile wasn't one

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of joy relief, not even close. It was more comparable

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to smile that somebody in great pain would make upon

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learning that their misery would soon be coming to an end.

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Shouldn't spoke in his name again? I guess it doesn't matter.

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It's the end of the line for me. Suddenly, as

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if a man possessed, he drilled his elbow into Mike's

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root and began scrambling away from him. He barreled passed

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me in into the washroom, and before I could even

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try to stop him myself, he locked himself in there. Shit,

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he muttered, began banging on the bathroom door. The hell

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are you doing? I tried talking some sense into you.

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This is my punishment for failing. What are you talking about?

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Come on, we'll figure it out. Can't deal with what's

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happening next, he said through the wood. My nightmares end here.

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I pray that your suffering ends up being less in mine.

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I'll pray for your friend as well. I suggest you

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do the same. Come on, don't don't do anything stupid.

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Too late, I heard his body slump to the ground.

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Moments later, when he finally got the door open, Jay

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was lying limp on the floor with an empty unlabeled

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pill bottle beside him. Fucking hell, mother, said Geez. Rose added,

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looking understandably horrified. What the hell do we do now?

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Do we call the cots of something? Fuck? No, Mike replied,

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I'm not dealing with that. I didn't find a guide themselves.

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He overdosed, simple as that. He turned to me, now, pleading,

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are you I touched the back of my head dry,

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I shook my head. No good, no blood, no suspicion.

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Mike said, Let's get the hell out of here. Then

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that's not how it works. He also busted a bathroom

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door down, Remember, I said. He seemed to think for

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a moment before coming to his final, profound conclusion. Fuck it.

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I I have my own reservations about leaving the situation

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the way that it was, but Mike was already out

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the door before I could even say anything else. In

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the moment, there was nothing I could do but follow him.

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Then call it selfish that the situation was beyond helping

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at that point, if you asked me, I felt somewhat

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responsible for Jesus death. But if you asked me if

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I felt somewhat responsible for Jay's death, I would have

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answered an affirmative. The feeling in my stomach as we

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walked to the car it wasn't a good one. The

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drive back was relatively silent. We'd gotten next to no answers,

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had a hell of a lot more questions, and I

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just witnessed a fucking suicide. On top of that, there

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was somebody following us. I don't think either mic or

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Rose had noticed that the driver was doing a good

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job of being discreet after all. Suddenly I remember the

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sketchy vehicle that had been parked around town. I looked

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back to the vehicle in up tinted windows. I don't

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think I'm going to tell them there was a really

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high abrought panic. Prowley isn't going to help us here.

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One thing's for sure, though, This situation has gotten a

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lot more complicated. Is this asshole really following us? Unfortunately

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they noticed fit I'm mad it. This wasn't good. Nevertheless,

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both Mike and Rose were being rational about it, nain.

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Although they were both visibly worried, they seemed to understand

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that freaking out wasn't going to help ignore them. It's

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okay if they keep following us once we get into town,

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then I'll call the cops. Hang on, Rose began, you

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don't think they saw us leaving the apartment? Do you

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probably did? Why? Stupid question on my part. We totally

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left a dead guy in there. Shit, Mike shouted, upon

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realizing maybe it's the cops themselves tilling us. That's so

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dumb for so many reasons, Rose responded, why would cops

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be following us? To begin with? Who the hell knows

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what cops are thinking? They can't pin it on us, right,

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we didn't do anything. They don't know that. They can

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argue that we forcibly shove the pills down in the

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road and left. Why would we do that? I don't know, Rose,

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What the hell does it? Anybody do anything? All right,

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fucking relax? I raised my voice just a bit. They

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aren't Copp's, Mike. That's ridiculous, ougaire copp expert. Then who

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is it? Mike responded. I didn't have an answer, but

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I knew one thing was probably for sure. Whoever was

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following us was probably worse news than the police trying

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to shake him off. Mike told me, yea, no way

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in hell. I'm not a fucking stunt driver, as I

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had hoped. The vehicle trailed off once we got into town.

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As much as I appreciated the initial relief, this just

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meant we had another thing to worry about, another lingering issue.

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I fought back to the unfamiliar cars tinted windows that

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had been parked of round Town. I didn't think about

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it too much at the moment, but the vehicle they'd

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been telling us had also been tinted kit. I thought,

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this whole situation is getting a bit too complicated for

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my liking, not that this was an enjoyable experience to

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begin with. We parked at a nearby gas station, not

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wanting to reveal where any of us lived just yet,

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I still couldn't quite shake the feeling that we were

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being followed after all. Of course, Mike was against us.

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These motherfuckers probably know where we live already, he said,

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I say, let him come my shotgun. We need to

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get duston off. Okay, come down there, ramble. Rose replied,

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before you get yourself killed. Let's come up with a plan,

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an actual plan. We ended up driving over to Mike's

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apartment after a few eventful eyos, but before we could

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come up with anything at all, Mike and Rose ended

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up passing out I had no idea how they found

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it in themselves to sleep after everything that had happened.

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I simply couldn't. Paranoia was also starting to creep up

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on me, causing me to constantly check the street to

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see if anybody was out there waiting for us. But

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as the night went on, nobody showed up. Either that

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or they were. They were doing a hell of a

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good job at being discreet, but eventually it's come to

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fatigue myself. I woke up next to the windows, the

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sun stinging my eyes. Mike was cooking up breakfast, sausages

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and pop tarts in the kitchen. Breakfast of champions. I

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suppose bouquet, Mike said through a mouthful of pork. Last

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night was buck. What's next? I suppose it was time

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for a shot in the dog forests. Mike and Rose

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went too intheist in the idea. I could hardly blame them, However,

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our options were running relatively slim, no other avenues to

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really investigate graffiti in the forest. They're getting desperate Mike's hide,

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putting his head down, but he got up after a

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few moments, grabbing for his jacket. Desperate. It is I

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never really like the forest place always spook me as

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a kid. I mean, I can't say I'm too fond

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of it as an adult. ADA just feel so coastrophobic,

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you know, surrounded by dead trees, but exposed at every

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conceivable angle. Maybe I'm just weird, I tried, suppressed his thoughts.

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When we walked in, Where did your brother say you

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found it? Rose asked near the creek? Very specific, Mike said,

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and what the hell are we supposed to do when

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we find it? I don't know. Maybe we'll find a

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clue somewhere. The words came out of my mouth with

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serial confidence, and it was obvious the hell kind of

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clue were we supposed to be looking for. As we

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continued walking, we passed the time by contemplating what mister

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Blank might be a serial killer. Perhaps we needed to

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look at it from a supernatural angle, some kind of monster,

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do you mean? Maybe? But what was its connection to

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the theater? The whole situation was maddening to think about.

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I mean, nothing made any sense. After about twenty minutes

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of inspecting each and every tree near the creek, we

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finally found it. The carvings that my brother was talking about.

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My comment upon seeing it pretty spooky, and I couldn't disagree.

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It was more or less the way that my brother

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had described it. Very strange. Indeed, it is difficult to

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make out any real features of the man depicted in

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the carving. No, I mean, I guess it was a

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man humanite at the very lease. It appeared to be tall,

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wearing some kind of long, sweeping coat. It was a

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strange pattern covering the torso, almost looking like bones, hard

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to tell given the nature of what we were looking at.

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And then there was the head, the facial features blank

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if you will, and of course it was accompanied by

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the word stop scrippled all over. I can only describe

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the nature of the writing as distressed. Was it just

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a coincidence? I doubted that What the hell are we

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getting into here? I heard my mutter under his breath.

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I looked over at Rose, trying to gage her reaction

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as well. She certainly looked frightened, as expected, but not

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in the same way that Mike was. The fear on

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her face appeared well, it appeared to stem from a

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more urgent matter. You guys, she began asking, don't panache,

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but I'm pretty sure somebody's following us. The hair on

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the back of my neck stood up. I realized something.

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We'd been careless. Even though we were being tailed last night,

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we didn't bother carrying that caution over to this morning.

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I mean hell, I didn't even look over my shoulder

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when we first walked into the forest. Mike clicked his

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tongue loudly, looking agitated. O k asshole, come out, he shouted.

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Jesus Mike rose, and I said in unison, I don't

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want to draw this out. He reached into his back

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pocket and pulled out a pistol vodicum prepared learn that yesterday,

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didn't we The next few moments comprised of a tense silence.

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Well maybe not, I'm not. I'm pretty sure everybody could

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hear my heart beating out of my chest all white.

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I flinched as a deeper voice called off from an

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indistinguishable location. Suppose there's no point in keeping this sut.

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I see you have a gun and I'm coming out,

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so don't shoot. I can see movement within the maze

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of trees. My click, the safety often named the weapon,

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right towards the general area it was coming from. Are

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you stupid? He said? Also and twenty four don't fucking

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call me a kate. Whoever been following us didn't hesitate,

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continuing towards us. It's not like your age makes you

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any less of a kid. I've known the teen year olds.

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I'd already consider men, given what they've been through. The

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boys eventually revealed itself. He looked to be in his

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early third is dressed windbricker and well tailored dress pants.

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He was about a head shorter than Mike, wavy hair,

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clean shaven face, in a weld weary look in his eyes.

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There's also substantial scarring down his left cheek, but beyond that,

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it's pretty much one of the best looking guys I've

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ever seen in my life. Not important detail, but whatever.

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You're not going to shoot me, kid, So why don't

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you stop pretending like you ever considered it? He said,

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in just about the most confident ton Night ever heard

468
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in my life. Mike grit the pistol, the veins bulging

469
00:24:28,519 --> 00:24:32,559
in his hands. Don't push your luck. I'll introduce myself,

470
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,759
he said, Ignoring the threat. He reached into his coat pocket,

471
00:24:36,799 --> 00:24:39,079
which made Mike flinch, and pulled out a pretty official

472
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,720
looking FBI badge, an identification card. His name was Finn.

473
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,880
His thumb was covering up his last name. Maybe it

474
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,920
was a conscious decision. I'm not really concerned with whether

475
00:24:49,039 --> 00:24:52,000
or not you believe my credentials, but I'm curious what

476
00:24:52,079 --> 00:24:54,640
are you kids doing out here? Why the hell should

477
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,400
we tell you, Mike asked, still trying to sound assertive.

478
00:24:59,079 --> 00:25:02,960
Sten side, if we're looking at Rose Darling, could you

479
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,519
please ask your friend to put the gun down. He's

480
00:25:05,519 --> 00:25:08,799
going to hurt himself. He looked back at Mike. Keep

481
00:25:08,799 --> 00:25:10,200
it in your hand if it makes you feel safer

482
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,440
it though. Rose obliged, nudging Mike. Come on, she whispered,

483
00:25:15,079 --> 00:25:18,160
It's not going to end well. Mike mumbled something angrily

484
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:23,799
before obliging himself. Sad nodded and smirked. Now regarding my question,

485
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,440
what's the deal here? He certainly pretended like he didn't

486
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,480
already know the missing people. I said, I'm sure you're

487
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,599
familiar with the rest of the details, probably more so

488
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,960
than we are. He nodded before looking down. Yeah, it's

489
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,400
a strange case, Mike scoffed. Strange my sister's missing. If

490
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,359
you know what the fuck's going on, then tell us.

491
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,160
He looked back up at us an inquisitive expression on

492
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,440
his face. Maybe that's something I'm trying to figure out myself,

493
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,839
And that's when he dropped the bonchell on us. He

494
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,359
wasn't actually hit un official business. He was essentially after

495
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,079
the same thing we were. This wasn't the first instance

496
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,200
of mister Blank causing somebody to disappear. It's the chance

497
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:05,240
Sarah had gone missing a few years prior, hauntingly similar circumstances.

498
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,880
He tried looking into it, but his higher apps told

499
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,480
him straight away and wouldn't give him any information or leads.

500
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,720
Mister Blanc was an utterly classified tobock. Ever since then,

501
00:26:14,799 --> 00:26:17,839
he'd been chasing after answers, trying to unravel this obscure mystery,

502
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,079
and with much luck. However, there was an opportunity here.

503
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,759
This was the first time that mister Blanquet ever made

504
00:26:23,759 --> 00:26:26,240
an appearance since his fiancee went missing. Without telling any

505
00:26:26,279 --> 00:26:28,880
of his fellow agents and without the discretion of the

506
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,599
higher Apps, he'd come here to conduct his own investigations,

507
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,240
all while attempting to stay hidden from agents already posted

508
00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:39,599
here the tinted vehicles. I'm muttered, that's why they're here, yep,

509
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:44,079
he said, Thah, they don't want anyone prying, probably for

510
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,640
the best, but for all his reasons, I can't stay away.

511
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,839
Deer Likewise, I said, so was your following us last night?

512
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,519
He raised an eyebrea before shaking his head. Sounds like

513
00:26:54,559 --> 00:26:57,920
you've got their attention. Did then? Why are you following

514
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,359
us now? Rose asked. He looked at Mike. Your Mike

515
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,039
Karen right. Mike gave him a slight nod. Lacy Karen

516
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,240
was one of the people that went, Missy, that was

517
00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:11,799
aware of the whole thing. I took a shot assuming

518
00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:14,160
that you tried doing something about it. When I saw

519
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,559
you guys leave town yesterday, I got even more curious.

520
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,720
I couldn't have followed without giving myself away, though, So

521
00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:22,559
you kept an eye on your apartment and then you

522
00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:24,279
walked into the forest for a thing in the morning.

523
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:29,240
Interesting behavior for sure. So prove my intuition, right, What

524
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,880
do you know? Because I'd love to know as well.

525
00:27:32,519 --> 00:27:35,359
His tone had taken intense turn. It was pretty obvious

526
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,559
that he was driven by passion, which I could understand,

527
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,440
even if my was far less of a degree than his.

528
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,359
Truth be told, we really don't have much, I told him.

529
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,960
I felt embarrassed. Ephn, considering showing him the tree carving

530
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,200
as some kind of evidence. Perhaps my passion really was

531
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,200
clouding my judgment. Maybe we really were just grasping at

532
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,119
straws here. But then Stan took a look at it himself.

533
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,839
I expected him to scoff, possibly make a sarcastic comment

534
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,799
to the effect of good job, guys, you really cracked

535
00:28:01,799 --> 00:28:04,599
the case here, But instead of doing that, he began

536
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,920
studying the carving rather intently. After a few minutes, he

537
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,240
reached into his pocket and took out his foam Look familiar,

538
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,960
he said, showing it to us. After nearly gagging at

539
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,279
the initial site, I had to admit that it was

540
00:28:16,319 --> 00:28:19,319
a tall humanoid, sweeping coat still at the torsa blank face.

541
00:28:20,039 --> 00:28:21,839
This time it was drawn in blood on a dirty

542
00:28:21,839 --> 00:28:24,720
basement wall. It was also a man with his entrails

543
00:28:24,799 --> 00:28:27,559
leaking out and down towards it. Oh fuck, I muttered,

544
00:28:27,599 --> 00:28:29,880
trying to hide how much I was shivering. You sure

545
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,640
you're supposed to be showing us that. I'm not supposed

546
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,799
to be doing a lot of stuff right now, Spen replied,

547
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,880
But here we are. What the hell is it? A

548
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,519
crime scene? Said nodded. Two and a half years ago,

549
00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:45,359
about the same time Sarah went missing. I don't know

550
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,160
the details because I wasn't there. Risked everything to get

551
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,200
my hands on this. Despite how gruesome it was, the

552
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,400
crime scene pretty much confirmed that there was some kind

553
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,720
of connection here, but the question remained, what now? Where

554
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:02,000
do we go from here? Guys spoke up? Check it out?

555
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,200
She pointed to another tree up ahead, maybe about twenty

556
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,960
of the way. Could it be? I thought? Approaching it,

557
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,920
it was a similar carving had been scribbled into it,

558
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,720
the same figure, the same word. I began scanning the

559
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,480
air once again. There was another tree, a bit away

560
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,480
father this time, and then another one, and another one.

561
00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:25,240
The four of us began following the carvings like a

562
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,359
trail of Breadcomb's right towards how to be the culprit

563
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,640
behind them. We didn't even hesitate, didn't stop to ask questions.

564
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,519
We were driven by sheer impulse at the revelation. But

565
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,519
clearly Stan was paying more attention than us. After a

566
00:29:38,519 --> 00:29:41,599
few minutes, I felt him put a hand on my shoulder. Wait,

567
00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:45,839
he said, what why you have a gun, don't you?

568
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,759
I mean, so does Mike. We'll be fine, not that,

569
00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:54,079
he said, look forward, but stay calm, and then I

570
00:29:54,119 --> 00:29:57,559
saw it. There was something up ahead, a large figure

571
00:29:57,599 --> 00:29:59,599
doing a poor job of hiding behind a thin tree.

572
00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:03,000
I could see a large, pale, bony hand twitching erratically

573
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,759
as a droop near the ground. A quiet patrol noise

574
00:30:05,759 --> 00:30:08,039
suddenly began to fill the air around us, like a

575
00:30:08,079 --> 00:30:10,680
combination of high pitched radio frequencies and some kind of

576
00:30:10,759 --> 00:30:13,880
deranged laugh. I suddenly remembered what Jay had told us

577
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,799
before he died. He's already on his way. I was frozen,

578
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,880
absolutely and equivocally frozen. I can only describe the fear

579
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,319
that grip me as visceral think. I was drowning in

580
00:30:24,359 --> 00:30:27,680
a freezing lake of incomprehensible dread, unprepared to face what

581
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,039
was ahead of me. In the slightest I looked at

582
00:30:30,119 --> 00:30:32,680
tend most capable one of us, but even he looked petrified,

583
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,799
face drained of any color. I looked back at the trees,

584
00:30:36,119 --> 00:30:39,000
watching it as the pale, garganchhin creature wrapped its disturbing

585
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,400
hand entirely around the tree. The high pitched radio frequency

586
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,480
laugh continued around us, seemingly growing louder and louder by

587
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,039
the second, and then out of nowhere, it stopped. What

588
00:30:49,119 --> 00:30:52,200
are you looking at? A deep, slimy, penetrating voice as

589
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,119
aulting my ears. It nearly sounded like it was coming

590
00:30:55,119 --> 00:30:57,720
from my own head, a finch, taking my eyes off

591
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,240
the entity behind the tree for just a moment, it

592
00:31:00,279 --> 00:31:03,519
was gone. When I looked back up, said, I heard

593
00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:05,640
Rose call my name out and with my head around,

594
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,079
nearly passing out and fear upon seeing what was behind me,

595
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,839
it was hemp, blank faced, skeletal torsup, giant bony hands

596
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,119
leering dun right at me, only a few inches away.

597
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,559
Without even thinking, I began running. I turned my back

598
00:31:16,599 --> 00:31:19,559
after a few seconds, watching as the creature's body twisted

599
00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:22,480
and contorted, turning into a massive spider human hybrid pretends

600
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,599
a pale, vainly limbed crawling toward me. I nearly threw

601
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,480
upright there. Stan drew his pistol and began shooting. Due

602
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,680
to how ratically it was moving, he missed ever shot,

603
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,920
except for one which drolled straight through the creature's head,

604
00:31:34,079 --> 00:31:36,039
causing a wave of thick black blood to burst out

605
00:31:36,039 --> 00:31:38,839
from either side of its temple. It went limp immediately,

606
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,799
with its limbs crumbling and falling to the ground for

607
00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:44,599
a moment, I suppose I was relieved, But then then

608
00:31:44,599 --> 00:31:46,759
I realized what kind of monster we were dealing with.

609
00:31:47,359 --> 00:31:50,559
The laughing had come back louder than ever. Now that hurt.

610
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,119
I blinked once and the corps disappeared, And then I

611
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,519
noticed a hulking shadow loomine somewhere next to me. I

612
00:31:56,559 --> 00:31:58,960
looked over, watching as the creature, now back in its

613
00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:01,799
humanoid skeleton, for wrap one of its hands around and

614
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:03,559
neck with the other one that grabbed out of his wrist,

615
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,079
instantaneously crushing it into a bloody pop. His friend grunted

616
00:32:07,079 --> 00:32:09,759
in agony. The creature turned to look directly at me.

617
00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:12,519
The bottom half of its face began to distort, and

618
00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:14,799
soon enough a human mouth of merriage from underneath its skin.

619
00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:17,640
If I was close to puking before, I couldn't help

620
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,440
myself now, I wretched, before looking back up to see

621
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,160
it smiling at me. Not only that the smile was

622
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,480
familiar with soft pink lips flowing white teeth that were

623
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,240
just slightly crooked at the bottom. It was Lacey's smile.

624
00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:32,519
What are you doing, Seth, come find me? Heard A

625
00:32:32,599 --> 00:32:36,759
voice was unmistakable. I heard myself whimper. I blinked one

626
00:32:36,759 --> 00:32:39,720
more time, and it disappeared again. Sven dropped to the ground,

627
00:32:39,759 --> 00:32:42,799
still grimacing at his gruesome injury. Mike and Rose were

628
00:32:42,839 --> 00:32:46,000
an object shock. I could feel tears began swelling up

629
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,559
in my eyes start running again. The voice came from

630
00:32:49,599 --> 00:32:52,079
elsewhere in nowhere. At once, I began hearing what sounded

631
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,400
like heavy animalistic movements approaching fast. I turned around, seeing

632
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,799
something barreling towards us. It looked comparable in appearance to

633
00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:02,119
a marilla with dark fair but with about three times

634
00:33:02,119 --> 00:33:04,599
as many limbs running at us like an oversized centipede,

635
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,599
and of course the familiar blank face of the front.

636
00:33:08,279 --> 00:33:11,400
He wasn't even giving me time to grieve, safe to say,

637
00:33:11,519 --> 00:33:13,200
we took the advice and we bolted the hell the

638
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,720
other way. Every time I looked back to see if

639
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,319
it had finally caught up, the creature always looked like

640
00:33:18,359 --> 00:33:20,960
it was moving at an unfathomable pace, yet it always

641
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,119
remained the same distance behind us. After a while of this,

642
00:33:24,559 --> 00:33:26,480
it really felt like I was losing my own grip

643
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,400
on reality. As we began reaching the edge of the forest,

644
00:33:29,519 --> 00:33:32,359
I remember my vision beginning to blur. I passed out,

645
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,480
likely due to a combination of exhaustion, fear, and agony.

646
00:33:36,079 --> 00:33:38,079
Upon hearing Lacy's voice and seeing her lits on that

647
00:33:38,119 --> 00:33:42,440
fucking monster. I woke up back in Mike's apartment, close, dirty,

648
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,079
cold sweat running down my forehead, and my joints aching

649
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,680
like hell. It had become dark outside. I suppose I've

650
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,279
been out for a while. Mike and Rose were sitting

651
00:33:51,279 --> 00:33:53,599
on the other couch, neither saying a word or even

652
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,359
looking up. I can't really blame them, I suppose, not

653
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,799
after an experience like that. Worse, when I finally asked

654
00:34:00,519 --> 00:34:03,160
he left, he drove off and said he had to

655
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,599
do something urgent, and I was answered after a few moments.

656
00:34:07,359 --> 00:34:10,159
Never even went to the hospital before leaving town. I

657
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:13,159
don't think he's coming back. Guess beyond getting any more

658
00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,360
help from them, I thought to myself, I decided to

659
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,880
stay at my parents place for a bit. I mean,

660
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,800
they were happy to see me, but I wasn't really

661
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,639
there emotionally. I mean I hid it, to admit it,

662
00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:25,519
but the whole encounter had taken a lot out of me.

663
00:34:26,119 --> 00:34:28,280
As much as I still wanted to somehow save Lacey,

664
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,360
I I couldn't stand the idea of facing that thing again.

665
00:34:32,039 --> 00:34:34,119
I needed time to overcome my fears, time to recover

666
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:37,400
before looking for any more answers. But mister Blank wouldn't

667
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,880
even let me do that. For the first few nights,

668
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000
everything was normal for each of my vacation days to

669
00:34:42,039 --> 00:34:44,760
get off work and spend my time watching TV, playing games,

670
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,239
trying to motivate myself to stop being so scared and

671
00:34:47,519 --> 00:34:50,440
go looking for her again. That was working so well.

672
00:34:51,039 --> 00:34:52,920
I was still petrified at the very thought of it.

673
00:34:53,079 --> 00:34:56,079
But after a few nights the tapping started sounding like

674
00:34:56,079 --> 00:34:58,119
a bony finger rapping on my winter during the dead

675
00:34:58,119 --> 00:35:02,119
of night. I never bothered. Of course, when I didn't

676
00:35:02,159 --> 00:35:04,400
react to it, mister Blank began fucking with me in

677
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,480
more severe ways. Let's see a hulking shadow behind my

678
00:35:07,519 --> 00:35:10,199
shower curtain seconds after I had stepped in a pair

679
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,199
of legs sticking out from underneath my bed as I

680
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,159
was getting ready to sleep. An unwanted passenger in the

681
00:35:15,159 --> 00:35:18,119
back seat of my vehicle. That night, employees following me

682
00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:21,480
around the grocery stores, staring at me in restaurants. I

683
00:35:21,519 --> 00:35:24,159
never could make out any of their facial features. It

684
00:35:24,199 --> 00:35:26,159
was all starting to take a heavy tow on my mind.

685
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,000
I made feel my sanity slipping away by the ire.

686
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:34,480
I called Mike and Rose same story. Rose's voice was monotonous,

687
00:35:34,519 --> 00:35:38,159
devoid of any kind of emotion. Mike sounded like he

688
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,000
was on the verge of tears. But what made everything

689
00:35:41,039 --> 00:35:43,239
infinitely worse was the knowledge that at any point or

690
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,079
it could kill me in split second. So that begs

691
00:35:46,079 --> 00:35:48,199
a question, why didn't it? What was the point of

692
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,679
fucking with me like this? And it all came to

693
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,320
a boiling point when I was grabbing my mail As

694
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,519
I was getting ready to reach in, a bloody hand

695
00:35:55,519 --> 00:35:57,800
poked out of my mail box and handed me my envelopes.

696
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,679
How generous It was all starting to become rather bothersome.

697
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,280
I freaked up right then and there, fuck you, I screamed,

698
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,239
what a fuck do you want from me? I grabbed

699
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:09,840
the door of the mail books and slammed it into

700
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,400
the hand until I heard bones beginning to break, and

701
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,800
for the first time in a while, fear was my

702
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:19,639
dominant emotion. It was it was anger after and during

703
00:36:19,639 --> 00:36:23,440
the punishment, the hand eventually retreated. I bent down, staring

704
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:27,199
directly into the now empty slot. He where a fuck

705
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,760
is Lacey? Asshole? Mascreams are beginning to attract the attention

706
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,239
of my neighbors. Not that I cared. I could hardly

707
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,719
keep my frustration in At that point, I had to

708
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,119
let it out. Why don't you just kill me? You

709
00:36:39,159 --> 00:36:42,119
could fucking find and kill you first, I hardly believed

710
00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:44,679
in what I was saying. The words were simply pouring

711
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,039
out of my mouth. I slammed the door, shot and

712
00:36:47,119 --> 00:36:49,639
stone back into my house. I did some time for

713
00:36:49,679 --> 00:36:52,159
self reflection. The cups told me to let it go

714
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,719
from the start. In hell, even my own parents were

715
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,159
telling me that. So why hadn't I Why couldn't I

716
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,480
just let it go? Maybe it's because as I hadn't

717
00:37:00,519 --> 00:37:03,519
lost hope. Mean, for one reason or another, I still

718
00:37:03,519 --> 00:37:06,000
believed that I could get Lazy back, that I could

719
00:37:06,039 --> 00:37:09,800
somehow overcome this horrific, seemingly impossible enemy. I come out

720
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:13,039
victorious in the end. After all, mister Black could ims

721
00:37:13,119 --> 00:37:15,719
hit Lacy's voice and it meant that she was still alive. Right.

722
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,760
Perhaps that was a stretch, but I didn't allow myself

723
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,280
to believe that it to be comparable to out met

724
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,960
into feed right then and there there was also another

725
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,840
thing driving me forward. If I didn't face it head on.

726
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,360
This thing never going to leave me alone. I remembered

727
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,559
what I told myself from the beginning, that I wasn't

728
00:37:31,559 --> 00:37:34,159
going to let it end like this. Whenever i'd back

729
00:37:34,199 --> 00:37:36,719
down from a conflict before, my father always told me

730
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,159
to grow a pair of balls than man up. Made

731
00:37:39,199 --> 00:37:42,119
me hit him at times, But suddenly that seemed like

732
00:37:43,039 --> 00:37:46,079
rather sound advice. I spent the next few days getting

733
00:37:46,079 --> 00:37:48,000
off my ass and preparing to head into the forest.

734
00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:51,400
I was going to keep following the tree carvings are

735
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,119
only real lead wherever that may lead me. It was

736
00:37:54,159 --> 00:37:56,639
pretty obvious that physical attacks were in bringing this thing down,

737
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,039
and hell, I wasn't even trying to kill it. I

738
00:37:59,159 --> 00:38:02,039
needed information first, Like like with the hell I was

739
00:38:02,119 --> 00:38:05,559
keeping lacy. However, physical wounds did seem to bother it

740
00:38:05,639 --> 00:38:08,679
in some marginal capacity at the very least. While I

741
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,039
was brainstorming, I noticed something else as well. Ever, since

742
00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:14,920
the mailbooks ccident, the bastard had left me alone, my

743
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,840
first act of defiance against it had to be a

744
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,920
correlation there. I decided to call Mike and Rose again.

745
00:38:20,599 --> 00:38:23,679
They still sounded freight and defeated. Mister Blank was still

746
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,760
going after them. What did this mean? I only had

747
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,360
my theories, of course, Nevertheless, they were theories worth testing.

748
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,440
I began putting together my own mini arsenal, my dad's pistol,

749
00:38:35,039 --> 00:38:37,559
one of my shotguns that i'd borrowed a few weeks back,

750
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,280
a haunting knife, a baseball bat for good measure. Was

751
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,079
I trained an armed or an arm combat fuck? No,

752
00:38:45,039 --> 00:38:47,800
so had a ponscious chance. Though. I decided to head

753
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,039
back into the forest exactly one week after I had

754
00:38:50,079 --> 00:38:53,880
first gone in. I made my preparations, of course, wrote

755
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,880
a letter for my parents in case I didn't come back,

756
00:38:56,519 --> 00:38:59,440
a letter from Mike Win for Rose never bother asking

757
00:38:59,519 --> 00:39:02,159
them to come. They sounded like they weren't even ready

758
00:39:02,199 --> 00:39:03,960
to leave their rooms while I talked to them last.

759
00:39:04,599 --> 00:39:06,239
I wasn't quite sure what to put in the letters.

760
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,480
I obligated to write them an explanation, I suppose. Before

761
00:39:09,519 --> 00:39:12,239
heading out of my house, I slugged back one swig

762
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,559
of whiskey two cups of coffee. I tried to calm

763
00:39:15,639 --> 00:39:19,960
my nerves. It didn't really work, didn't matter. Before I

764
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,639
knew what I was standing back at the edge of

765
00:39:21,679 --> 00:39:24,960
the tree line alarm, I took a step, a deep breath.

766
00:39:25,039 --> 00:39:29,440
Another step, Oh, ship, the nerves had come back. One

767
00:39:29,519 --> 00:39:32,840
more step, my legs began shaking, it as if the

768
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,800
fear I had been suppressing began and rushing back to

769
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,440
me all at once. I looked up and something caught

770
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,039
my eye. A large figure, keilled by the woods, creeping

771
00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:42,440
along my line of vision. A familiar hand wrapped around

772
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,280
one of the trees, danneling a severed hand by the

773
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:49,159
pinky Sveinn's hand. Most likely, it's taunting me. Every fiber

774
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:50,960
of my being was telling me to turn back and

775
00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:53,400
run the fuck away, and I nearly did just that.

776
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,039
I was petrified, but that didn't mean I could stop.

777
00:39:57,679 --> 00:39:59,960
This thing wasn't going to stop following me at the forest.

778
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,400
It knew where I lived. We had to push my buttons,

779
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,039
how to get under my skin. It knew nearly everything

780
00:40:06,079 --> 00:40:08,760
about me. There was too deep into this mess already,

781
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,639
this my fears deal with it myself, or end up

782
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,519
like Jay and leave Lacy's trap in whatever house it

783
00:40:14,639 --> 00:40:17,800
was currently in. But that in my mind. I took

784
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,079
another deep breath and I began walking right towards it,

785
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,480
and as I suspected, it disappeared shortly after. Like I

786
00:40:24,559 --> 00:40:27,960
somehow scared it off, even though that probably wasn't the case.

787
00:40:28,639 --> 00:40:31,960
I smiled myself, reveling at the idea. From there, I

788
00:40:32,039 --> 00:40:34,519
began following the carvings were tracing our steps from a

789
00:40:34,559 --> 00:40:37,679
week prior, but I was planning on getting farther this time.

790
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,360
As expected, mister Blank didn't leave me alone after I'd entered.

791
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:43,880
In fact, I was pretty much on my toast the

792
00:40:44,079 --> 00:40:47,519
entire time. About five minutes in I heard something breathing

793
00:40:47,519 --> 00:40:49,920
down the back of my neck. I remember what had

794
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,599
happened to stand and immediately piverted sideways. At that point

795
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,440
it was it was the closest I'd ever gotten to

796
00:40:56,559 --> 00:40:59,679
it this time had taken a gargoyle like form, wings

797
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,000
and all. I pulled up my pistol. I fired about

798
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,679
four shots at it. I mean I never had great aim,

799
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,159
so one bullet even grazed it. But I think my

800
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:11,039
message was sent because it disappeared with a blink immediately afterward,

801
00:41:11,079 --> 00:41:13,480
and held a share of vaudatory torments toward me as well,

802
00:41:13,599 --> 00:41:16,800
screaming horrible things at me in generic demonic voices. The

803
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,880
only time these really affected me was when when I

804
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:22,199
was imitating Lazy. The guy was really pissing me off.

805
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,199
It appeared two more times before it finally managed to

806
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:29,079
hurt me. However, the attack was awkward. It obviously could

807
00:41:29,079 --> 00:41:31,000
have killed me at this point, yet it seen pent

808
00:41:31,159 --> 00:41:34,360
On trying to give me only non lethal injuries. Nevertheless,

809
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,119
it succeeded. Have you have you ever seen fannert of

810
00:41:37,159 --> 00:41:40,800
a rick? You know that cassic cree Pipass's story. That's

811
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,599
what it turned into. The only no face. He managed

812
00:41:44,639 --> 00:41:47,440
to slash my thighs, not a deep cut, but I

813
00:41:47,519 --> 00:41:50,199
still hope like hell. I responded by breaking my bat

814
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,639
over its head, even though doing so caused it to disappear.

815
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,079
It was a move I regretted instantly. I lost one

816
00:41:56,119 --> 00:41:58,000
of my close quarter weapons when I used to play

817
00:41:58,039 --> 00:42:00,000
bis boll, but I never used a knife for anything

818
00:42:00,159 --> 00:42:03,280
beyond chopping onions. I calmed down by telling myself that

819
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,079
at the very least it wasn't going to kill me.

820
00:42:05,679 --> 00:42:09,800
Boy was iron there After about only a minute, called

821
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,239
out of the dirt in the form of a familiar

822
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,320
machette wielding Zombe wearing a hockey mask and kneeler, tipped

823
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,800
my head off. I managed to dodge the swing by

824
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,199
hair and the tree beside me was sliced clean in half.

825
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,679
I guess mister Blank was something of a cinemaphile. I

826
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,719
suppose that made sense. It didn't look non lethal to me,

827
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:27,920
I thought to myself, and scrambled to pull out my

828
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,199
shotgun and I blew off the wanner be Jason's head. However,

829
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,000
it took me both shots to do so, and I

830
00:42:33,119 --> 00:42:36,519
wasn't very fast reloading. Mister Blank suddenly appeared behind me,

831
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,199
now hawking faseless, concarrying what looked like elied E bowling pin.

832
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,039
At that moment, I was defenseless. It swung the pin,

833
00:42:44,199 --> 00:42:46,400
breaking the shotgun and half as I tempted to defend

834
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,719
myself with it, And after that I started running. What

835
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,960
the fuck was I thinking? This asshole could basically teleport?

836
00:42:53,679 --> 00:42:55,480
It suddenly stepped out from a tree in front of me.

837
00:42:55,559 --> 00:42:58,039
This time it had turned into one of the nurses

838
00:42:58,079 --> 00:43:01,239
from Silent Hill, bolting at me with a rustynes knife. Fock,

839
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,400
I shouted. It looked like mister Blank wasn't pulling any

840
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,320
more punches. He caused me to experience a new kind

841
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,480
of fear. What not dread or of ay, fear of

842
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:13,360
the unknown. It was fear of immediate and certain death.

843
00:43:14,079 --> 00:43:16,079
But at the same time I could feel the adrenaline

844
00:43:16,119 --> 00:43:19,000
pumping from my veins. I tried convincing myself that I

845
00:43:19,119 --> 00:43:21,360
was ready. Knowing that I couldn't run, I pulled out

846
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,679
my own knife. I try bracing myself. This is going

847
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,159
to fucking hurt, I thought to myself, and as I

848
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:28,800
got within a few feet of me, the crack of

849
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,440
a heavy shot can cause me to flinch. The nurse

850
00:43:31,519 --> 00:43:33,639
was subsequently sword and half of the torsa was stray.

851
00:43:33,679 --> 00:43:36,920
Fragments of buckshot littering the tree beside me. Jesus, what

852
00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:39,679
the fuck? I shouted, a panting like hell. At the

853
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,920
same time, Hey boy, let's not be taking the Lord's

854
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,880
name in vain. There a familiar voice, heavy southern twang.

855
00:43:47,559 --> 00:43:50,480
We weren't anywhere near the South. I looked over, seeing

856
00:43:50,519 --> 00:43:54,320
two wholly unexpected figures. One was done with heavy bandages

857
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,000
wrapped around his wrist. He wasn't the one that fared

858
00:43:57,039 --> 00:43:59,519
to shot, though. Sitting next to him was a tall,

859
00:43:59,639 --> 00:44:02,400
bulky man with messy blonde hair, wearing what looked like

860
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,639
a heavy tactical jacket and common hunting pants. He was

861
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:09,719
carrying a massive industrial lookie shotgun. Certainly not anything police

862
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,239
graded and held. It didn't even look like something the

863
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:16,079
military would use. Anyways, it's you a lucky day, man said,

864
00:44:16,199 --> 00:44:19,079
slinging the weapon over his shoulder. Sam looked at me

865
00:44:19,159 --> 00:44:21,880
and smiled. I told your friend I was coming back,

866
00:44:22,679 --> 00:44:25,000
he said. I don't think he believed me, though, he

867
00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:27,800
looked at the shotgun wielding friend. So what do you

868
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:31,440
think told you I had something big? The man chuckled,

869
00:44:31,559 --> 00:44:34,480
watching as the nurse corpse disappeared into thin air. Just

870
00:44:34,559 --> 00:44:36,639
as every one of mister Blank's forms tended to do

871
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,519
well lb He sat, smiling to himself, the strange one

872
00:44:41,639 --> 00:44:45,079
for sure. No matter I mentioned, for a good old

873
00:44:45,119 --> 00:44:50,000
fashioned battle. Whoa, what the what the hell? It's the

874
00:44:50,119 --> 00:44:52,519
only thing I could muster out given I truly bizarre

875
00:44:52,559 --> 00:44:56,280
the circumstances have become. That's up there, man said, ending

876
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,199
a shotgun and something behind me looks like a kitchen

877
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,000
for the same battle. I turned around, watching as a

878
00:45:02,039 --> 00:45:05,039
Michael Myers dropped down from the tree. Well, he wasn't

879
00:45:05,079 --> 00:45:08,360
carrying a kitchen knife. He had a damn chainsaw. It

880
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:10,800
looked like mister Blank was getting his films mixed up.

881
00:45:11,519 --> 00:45:14,239
Asking any more questions seemed like a lost cause. In

882
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,199
any case, I needed to focus on the task a

883
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:20,000
hand staying alive while searching for LASSA. But it looks

884
00:45:20,079 --> 00:45:23,000
like have some much needed help now, Camp complained about that.

885
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,480
God damn, this sure is something. The man with the

886
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:28,679
shotgun seemed to be having a little bit too much fun.

887
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,599
He'd killed mister Blank three more times. However, it was

888
00:45:32,639 --> 00:45:35,519
becoming more of a close call with every encounter. Who

889
00:45:35,639 --> 00:45:38,800
is this guy? I called out to Senn Jimmy, an

890
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:42,159
old friend, weird ship for sport, Jimmy said, in the

891
00:45:42,199 --> 00:45:44,400
midst of for a loading a shotgun, a ferocious gaze

892
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,960
on his face. But don't bring me down to just that.

893
00:45:47,679 --> 00:45:50,119
I like a lot of stuff. What kind of stuff?

894
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,679
I thought to myself. Well, I guess it didn't really matter.

895
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,239
I came to a realization mister Blank had his hands

896
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,159
full with Jimmy, which meant I had a chance thet

897
00:46:00,199 --> 00:46:02,760
it up and began running. Call it a selfish move.

898
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,320
I hardly cared at that point. Shotgun blast rock the

899
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,559
space around me as I ran, following the pure tree

900
00:46:08,599 --> 00:46:11,280
carve in towards an unknown destination. I couldn't tell you

901
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,800
what I was expecting to find. I didn't even know

902
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,519
if there was going to be anything waiting for me

903
00:46:15,639 --> 00:46:18,840
at all. Nevertheless, I ran, and I never considered stopping.

904
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,719
The whole journey took me a little longer than I expected.

905
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,400
I got in deep into the forest before the carvings

906
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,679
and disappeared altogether. This is it, I thought, feverishly, looking

907
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,239
around for something. But what the hell was I looking for?

908
00:46:32,039 --> 00:46:34,559
After a while of searching, I finally spotted a clue,

909
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,480
another carving, not on a tree this time. It was

910
00:46:39,519 --> 00:46:41,320
on a large rock, right beside what appeared to be

911
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,320
a small opening leading to a cave within not ominous

912
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,119
in the slightest cheese, Am I've really going in there?

913
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,159
I thought to myself. By all accounts, nothing would lead

914
00:46:51,159 --> 00:46:54,440
a rational person to enter such a space. Nevertheless, I

915
00:46:54,519 --> 00:46:57,320
was far more rational at that point. I'd also stopped

916
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,800
hearing the shot can blast a while ago. That can

917
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:01,480
only mean that mister Blank was about to be on

918
00:47:01,519 --> 00:47:03,800
my ass once again. I took a deep breath and

919
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,039
stepped forward into whatever the hell was awaiting me in

920
00:47:06,079 --> 00:47:09,519
the darkness. The cave itself, if you want to call

921
00:47:09,559 --> 00:47:12,199
it that, it was more comparable to a large hole

922
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,800
in a rock. It was larger on the inside, and

923
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,760
it looked on the outside, but not drastically. You're still

924
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:19,840
relatively tight. As I traversed into it, for the first

925
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:23,480
few seconds, I could make out nothing but darkness. But

926
00:47:23,559 --> 00:47:25,719
it didn't take too long to find what i'dunnowingly been

927
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,320
searching for this whole time. There was a light ahead,

928
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,760
like one derived from a small flame, and it was moving.

929
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,760
Somebody with something was holding it up making out any details,

930
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,239
and the angle and distance I was standing at it

931
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,559
wasn't quite possible, so I was forced to move forward

932
00:47:39,559 --> 00:47:42,119
if I wanted my answers. So you've come for me.

933
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,639
It wasn't the kind of voice I expected. Not low

934
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:49,119
guttural were menacing in the slightest whoever was speaking sound

935
00:47:49,159 --> 00:47:53,719
of meek terrified on the verge of tears. But first

936
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:58,079
impressions can deceive. I stayed on my toes, preparing myself

937
00:47:58,159 --> 00:48:01,480
for anything. From everything I had experienced so far, anything

938
00:48:01,599 --> 00:48:04,840
was certainly possible. What do you mean, I asked, in

939
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,159
a low voice, as not to trigger any sudden aggression.

940
00:48:07,679 --> 00:48:11,559
How did you find me? The man asked, Oh, he

941
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,440
paused the carvings, But you write to me I suppose

942
00:48:16,199 --> 00:48:18,880
the man turned his face, partially illuminated by a large

943
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,679
candle he was holding dangerously close to his skin. I

944
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:25,039
could hardly make out any distinguishable features. His hair was

945
00:48:25,079 --> 00:48:29,239
long and scraggly, facial hair appeared to be utrimmed, tired eyes,

946
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,760
things that aren't terribly rare these days. But what I

947
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,599
did find interesting was his shirt, black and maroon, A

948
00:48:35,679 --> 00:48:39,159
white name. To Reed Colin, it's all too familiar. He

949
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,159
had to be an employee for somewhere I'd been before,

950
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,239
but where I guess that's what I wanted, though, he said,

951
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,559
his voice getting shaky, to finally pay for what I've done?

952
00:48:48,079 --> 00:48:51,440
What are you talking about? What have you? I stopped

953
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,079
my question partway through du to a sudden jarring realization.

954
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,199
So that's where I recognized the uniform from the theater,

955
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,199
the one where the ship show it started. I recalled

956
00:49:01,199 --> 00:49:04,199
the details of the investigation. I knew employee joined not

957
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:07,880
too long ago. Now missing it was him, wasn't it,

958
00:49:08,599 --> 00:49:11,800
fucking bastard? I hardly control the words as they came

959
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,519
out of my mouth. By all accounts, this guy was

960
00:49:14,559 --> 00:49:17,119
the reason he was missing. It took everything out of

961
00:49:17,159 --> 00:49:19,599
me not to strangle him right there. And then those

962
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,639
urges were pushed even further when he chuckled. I see,

963
00:49:22,679 --> 00:49:26,679
he said, you're not the police, someone looking for vengeance.

964
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,159
It's not so good for me, but I suppose it's

965
00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:32,199
what I deserve, he sighed, putting the candle down at

966
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,639
his feet, illuminating a pile of empty soord cans and

967
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:38,440
selophane wrappers behind him. Go ahead, he said, I won't

968
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,199
fight back. I took about half a minute to calm

969
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,960
myself down. It didn't quite work. I was still seething,

970
00:49:45,039 --> 00:49:47,599
my fish shaking like hell. If I were Mike, this

971
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,559
guy's face would have been reduced to mush already. Luckily

972
00:49:50,679 --> 00:49:53,199
for him. I wasn't Mike. I suppose it was lucky

973
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:57,079
for me as well. Beyond anything I needed answers, I

974
00:49:57,159 --> 00:49:59,320
took a deep breath and clenched my fist, forcing my

975
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:04,280
emotions to the curb. At least I tried jerked responsible

976
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,360
for this on you You stream that Caudam film. I

977
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,639
can see the man silhouette not I gulped down my anger.

978
00:50:12,199 --> 00:50:14,480
What the hell are you doing here? I mind droop

979
00:50:14,559 --> 00:50:18,320
his head. Can't go back into town. I'm not strong enough,

980
00:50:19,159 --> 00:50:21,639
not mine enough to face what I've done. A moment

981
00:50:21,679 --> 00:50:25,000
of silence followed. I could see him shaking ever so slightly.

982
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,639
His breathing gradually became rapid and uneven, like he was

983
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:33,039
he was forcing down tears. Oh, man, I said, is

984
00:50:33,119 --> 00:50:35,719
that what you are after doing what you did? I'm

985
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,119
I'm not so sure. That's the part you don't understand,

986
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,360
He finally said, The force you to do things he

987
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:44,519
never could to fathom doing before, all without laying a

988
00:50:44,559 --> 00:50:48,960
single finger on you. I scoffed, what you're scared of?

989
00:50:49,039 --> 00:50:52,079
Monsters under the bed? Yeah, he did that shit to

990
00:50:52,119 --> 00:50:54,639
me as well, but I didn't cruck from it. Didn't

991
00:50:54,679 --> 00:50:57,440
have to take twelve people down with me either. Monsters,

992
00:50:58,159 --> 00:51:01,880
the man muttered, Yeah, yeah, turning into monsters is one

993
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,480
of his tricks, but nowhere near the worst one. I

994
00:51:04,519 --> 00:51:07,719
could feel the anger coming back. Look, if you couldn't

995
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,880
handle it, maybe you should have just I stopped myself

996
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,039
from finishing the sentence. There's something I really didn't want

997
00:51:14,079 --> 00:51:19,119
to say, even given the circumstances. Just take my own life, right,

998
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,800
he responded, Yeah, I guess i'd agree. Suppose it all

999
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,880
started with me, I wasn't I began now, at sudden

1000
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:31,239
loss for words, I tried recomposing myself, freaking out. Wasn't

1001
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,599
going to get me anywhere. What did you mean when

1002
00:51:33,639 --> 00:51:35,880
you said that turning into monsters wasn't his worst trick?

1003
00:51:36,559 --> 00:51:39,559
I meant what I said. It goes by trial and error,

1004
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,440
turns into things he thinks will devote the most fear

1005
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,760
out of us. Horror movies, villains, monsters from folkor those

1006
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,239
are good options, the simplest ones as well. But that

1007
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,639
won't work on every one. It didn't work on me.

1008
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:55,760
I raised my eyebrow in the darkness. What when he

1009
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,679
can't scare you by using such direct tactics, he tries harder,

1010
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,760
digs deeper in the recess of your mind. What would

1011
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,360
petrify you the most? Things would drive you to the

1012
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,400
darkest corners of your own soul. You'll start to feel mad,

1013
00:52:07,559 --> 00:52:10,320
just short of being catatonic, cognizant enough to carry out

1014
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:12,800
his orders, but too too constrained by visceral fear to

1015
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:16,920
do anything else. You'll feel nothing but emptiness, a collvoid

1016
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,159
where your hard once was hopes, desires, any kind of

1017
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:26,079
positive emotion completely gone. You'll just you'll feel blank. He

1018
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:29,679
paused again. I might not be the strongest. I don't

1019
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,039
think even the strongest could cope with that. It took

1020
00:52:32,079 --> 00:52:33,639
me a minute to think about what he just said.

1021
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:37,440
If he was right, then well, well that was bad news.

1022
00:52:38,159 --> 00:52:40,920
My anger suddenly took a back seat to apprehension. He's

1023
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:45,159
chasing you right now, isn't he, Colin asked, mister Blank

1024
00:52:45,159 --> 00:52:47,639
will probably kill me once he catches up. He has

1025
00:52:47,679 --> 00:52:50,440
no use for me any more, after all. He paused again,

1026
00:52:50,639 --> 00:52:54,400
lighting a cigarette this time. It's frightening how devoid of

1027
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:56,960
emotion his tone was. But I can't say that I

1028
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,480
would mind that he took a lawn drag. It's really

1029
00:53:00,559 --> 00:53:03,079
sorry for any grief I may have caused you this.

1030
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,440
Nothing I can do any more, Nothing we can do.

1031
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,920
I didn't want to accept it. Nothing like we can't

1032
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:12,320
find a way to beat him somehow, can't find a

1033
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,800
way to to get those missing people back. He took

1034
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,599
another long drag. Unfortunately, what the hell are you doing

1035
00:53:19,679 --> 00:53:21,840
hiding in a cave? He was cut off by a

1036
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:25,360
familiar sudden accent. I turned around, seeing Jimmy and Spence

1037
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,119
standing at the mouth of the cave. Sen told me

1038
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,320
to follow his which drawings led me to a yellow

1039
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:32,719
bell of coward. The hell are you running away from

1040
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,679
the fight for, Jimmy said, clearly, upset that I had

1041
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,480
gone ahead without him. I also noticed that a shot

1042
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:41,360
gum was over his shoulder, not his hands. The fuck

1043
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:45,760
are you doing, I asked, He's going to that weird

1044
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,679
son of a bit chain to do shit. Jimmy responded,

1045
00:53:49,559 --> 00:53:52,639
disappeared some time ago, lost count of how many times

1046
00:53:52,679 --> 00:53:55,079
I killed him? How many have my precious bullets? A

1047
00:53:55,159 --> 00:54:00,639
wasted off? God damn it disappeared, I asked, perplexed. Yea

1048
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:06,159
fat and spoke up. It's been about eight minutes. Unless

1049
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,639
it's planning on a surprise attack, it looks like it's

1050
00:54:08,679 --> 00:54:12,039
gone for now. If that was behind you, I turned

1051
00:54:12,079 --> 00:54:14,719
around and seeing Colin now standing up, which dartled me

1052
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,519
a bit. What do you mean it's gone, he said,

1053
00:54:17,599 --> 00:54:20,159
sounding shocked at the prospect. The hell you think we

1054
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:23,199
mean it? Oppin disappeared the most. Maybe he got tired

1055
00:54:23,199 --> 00:54:27,000
of being slaughtered. Who on God's green nurse knows? Colin

1056
00:54:27,199 --> 00:54:31,559
stepped forward, moving more into the daylight. As expected, he

1057
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:35,039
looked like Hale smelled like it too. I could see

1058
00:54:35,119 --> 00:54:38,400
Jimmy and then physically react to his appearance. However, his

1059
00:54:38,519 --> 00:54:40,960
eyes were different than I would have imagined, not so

1060
00:54:41,079 --> 00:54:44,800
hopeless like his words. In fact, in fact, they were

1061
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,960
brimming with determination. He grinned at me, if only slightly,

1062
00:54:48,639 --> 00:54:50,760
We have a chance here, but we have to move quick.

1063
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:55,039
It's happened before. What has I was having a hard

1064
00:54:55,119 --> 00:54:57,000
time keeping up of Colin as ran for a guy

1065
00:54:57,039 --> 00:54:59,639
that looked like the poduft of an apocalypse. He shure

1066
00:54:59,679 --> 00:55:02,199
as hell, was fast on his feet. S then and

1067
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:06,280
Jimmy followed behind, shouting after him in disappearing. Southern knows

1068
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,119
right when he bleeds over into our world, he tires

1069
00:55:09,199 --> 00:55:12,360
himself out, especially if he keeps taking on different forms.

1070
00:55:13,039 --> 00:55:16,320
What how the hell do you know this? He suddenly

1071
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,039
stopped running, causing me to nearly crash into his back.

1072
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:23,199
I he began before taking a deep breath. It's a

1073
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:26,880
long story. I have to explain quickly, as much as

1074
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,280
it scares me to admit. His story sounded irrily similar

1075
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:32,039
to mine. It all started with the Incidant. Years prior

1076
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:35,280
last time, mister Blank had made an appearance. Whence vent

1077
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,719
fiance had disappeared, Colin's brother disappeared along with her. He

1078
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:40,880
was living half way across the country when it happened.

1079
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:42,599
Though he had heard about his missing siblings and the

1080
00:55:42,639 --> 00:55:45,440
obscure details that went along with it, he put the

1081
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,320
first flight over and attempted to figure things out for himself.

1082
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,360
It went as you'd expect, devoid of any trustworthy leads,

1083
00:55:52,599 --> 00:55:54,840
luck of any real direction. It took him an entire

1084
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,119
week of relentless and dangerous searching to learn the name

1085
00:55:57,159 --> 00:55:59,920
mister Blank. And that's where it all started going down

1086
00:56:00,119 --> 00:56:03,519
hole for him. But even then it didn't stop. Colin

1087
00:56:03,599 --> 00:56:05,719
started getting visits from him the same way that I had,

1088
00:56:06,559 --> 00:56:09,719
just like you've done with me. Mister Blank's eychological torments

1089
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:13,119
started off fairly surface level. It is movie villains, Gus

1090
00:56:13,199 --> 00:56:16,880
in the closet, creatures standing outside his window, et cetera. Well,

1091
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:20,639
they certainly took a toll on him at first. He endured,

1092
00:56:20,679 --> 00:56:22,880
continuing a search in spite of all of it. He

1093
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:25,519
even tried attacking mister Blank directly, just as I had.

1094
00:56:26,119 --> 00:56:28,000
Wouldn't work out so well, as he went on to learn,

1095
00:56:28,639 --> 00:56:31,119
maybe he was lying about it all. I don't know,

1096
00:56:31,519 --> 00:56:33,719
but I can feel my anger towards him gradually fading

1097
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,119
as he relaid a story to me, he hadn't really

1098
00:56:36,159 --> 00:56:39,159
done anything different than I had. Well, I guess he had.

1099
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,880
He did everything completely alone. I had Mike and Rose

1100
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:45,519
with me. After Colin and trudged for mister Blank's initial Launcelot,

1101
00:56:46,199 --> 00:56:48,840
the latter started pushing harder, trying to break him completely.

1102
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,079
This is where Colin's story truly began diverging from my own.

1103
00:56:52,639 --> 00:56:56,719
Mister Blake began using more abstract tactics. For example, Colin

1104
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:58,719
came home once to find his father standing in the

1105
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:01,920
corner of his bedroom. His father had died some years prior.

1106
00:57:02,599 --> 00:57:05,079
He didn't do anything, though, He just stood there with

1107
00:57:05,079 --> 00:57:08,239
a blank expression, like a mannequin, day and night for

1108
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:11,320
nearly two weeks. On top of that, he'd get more

1109
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,039
and more frail by the ire, as if he was

1110
00:57:13,119 --> 00:57:16,519
rapidly losing weight. By the end, he was essentially a skeleton.

1111
00:57:17,159 --> 00:57:20,920
That resulted in firstponified mental breakdown of Colin's life, And

1112
00:57:21,039 --> 00:57:23,559
of course it wasn't even close to ending there. The

1113
00:57:23,599 --> 00:57:26,679
psychological stress and torment he experienced sounded like enough to

1114
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:30,440
make anybody lose it completely. Its effaces of pure malice

1115
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,800
and hatred staring at him in the mirror, he see

1116
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:34,599
a bottom was pit in the middle of his living room,

1117
00:57:34,639 --> 00:57:38,039
while hellish screams continued emanating from within it. Every time

1118
00:57:38,039 --> 00:57:39,880
he'd open up a toilet, the face of his sister

1119
00:57:40,079 --> 00:57:42,280
drawn to death would be staring up at him, gasping

1120
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:44,920
for air. And he couldn't bring himself to describe the

1121
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,719
worst of it, though, just that his deepest, most visceral

1122
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,039
fears were manifesting in front of his very eyes, and

1123
00:57:50,159 --> 00:57:52,559
it was breaking him minute by min It did reach

1124
00:57:52,559 --> 00:57:55,280
a point where he attempted to kill himself. He walked

1125
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,079
on to his balcony in the middle of the night

1126
00:57:57,159 --> 00:57:59,679
and looked over the railing from the fourteenth floor. He

1127
00:57:59,679 --> 00:58:01,519
stared down to the ground with his mind running a

1128
00:58:01,519 --> 00:58:04,000
mile a minute. But before he closed his eyes into

1129
00:58:04,079 --> 00:58:05,920
the plunge, he saw a figure with a blank face

1130
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,199
staring up at him from below. He said that he

1131
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,199
froze in that moment, but they stared at each other.

1132
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:12,800
He said that he was coming to an understanding and

1133
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,719
implied agreement. Do what I want, an a'l enn this

1134
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,800
hell for you. He felt a transitory comfort combined with

1135
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:22,159
the sensation of overwhelming coercion. In other words, he didn't

1136
00:58:22,199 --> 00:58:24,400
have a choice in the matter. Not like I can

1137
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:27,280
explain it, he said, just fucking with my head. Felt

1138
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:29,199
like I'd face something worse than death if I didn't

1139
00:58:29,199 --> 00:58:31,800
play by his rules, if I didn't do what he said.

1140
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:35,679
Go ahead, think what you want about me. But you

1141
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:40,440
weren't there. You couldn't have understood, right, I said, trying

1142
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:43,079
to digest what I've just been told. You still hate me,

1143
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,559
I sigh to myself. I don't know that. I depends.

1144
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,239
I finally said, you said that we have a chance.

1145
00:58:50,039 --> 00:58:54,239
What did you mean by that? He nodded, Yeah, we do.

1146
00:58:55,119 --> 00:58:57,880
I can help you get her back. Everything just has

1147
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,400
to go right. My ears perked up. All right, go on,

1148
00:59:01,559 --> 00:59:05,239
then we can defeat him, kill him. All we have

1149
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,119
to do is capture him on tape. I raise an eyebrah.

1150
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:13,039
That's it. Are you? Are you kidding me? No, it's

1151
00:59:13,079 --> 00:59:15,679
not what you think. What's been chasing you up until

1152
00:59:15,679 --> 00:59:18,960
this point hasn't been mister Blank, not his real form anyway.

1153
00:59:19,599 --> 00:59:22,199
That's what we need to capture. Don't ask me how

1154
00:59:22,239 --> 00:59:24,280
it works. But he can't exist in two mediums or

1155
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:27,480
digital spaces at once. His reel one Weekens, the film

1156
00:59:27,519 --> 00:59:30,679
that was shown when everybody went missing. That's the first one.

1157
00:59:31,239 --> 00:59:33,880
Get him on tape with your own camera, and that'll

1158
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,159
be the second one. Well, how the hell are we

1159
00:59:36,199 --> 00:59:38,800
supposed to see his true form? That's the hard part.

1160
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:41,719
He only sends out puppets when he crosses over into

1161
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:43,760
our world. In order to see him as he truly is,

1162
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,480
we have to enter his Is that where I began asking?

1163
00:59:48,159 --> 00:59:52,559
He nodded, yes, that's where your girlfriend is. How do

1164
00:59:52,679 --> 00:59:55,639
we get there? Colin reached into his backpack and pulled

1165
00:59:55,639 --> 00:59:58,199
out a film reel. Watching the film almost acts like

1166
00:59:58,239 --> 01:00:01,559
a passageway between his world and I. A more involved

1167
01:00:01,599 --> 01:00:05,400
explanation really wasn't necessary. In fact, the whole situation began

1168
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:08,159
making a lot more sense. I used to ask myself

1169
01:00:08,159 --> 01:00:11,400
why mister Blank chose her town? Why the hell he

1170
01:00:11,559 --> 01:00:14,360
just had to come here? Well, the theater that had

1171
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:17,039
happened that was an older one, a classic place, so

1172
01:00:17,159 --> 01:00:19,480
to speak. It was one of the few places that

1173
01:00:19,559 --> 01:00:24,239
still used projectors. What's what's it like in there? Colin

1174
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:26,960
shook his head. I couldn't tell you, But from what

1175
01:00:27,039 --> 01:00:29,480
I've learned, the people trapped in his world are essentially

1176
01:00:29,559 --> 01:00:32,880
being used as fuel. Mister Blank feeds on inherent negative

1177
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:39,920
human emotion, a gush, uncertainty, despair, thea. He doesn't kill them,

1178
01:00:40,159 --> 01:00:42,599
just keeps them there for himself, keeps them in a

1179
01:00:42,639 --> 01:00:45,800
constant state of terror. Let's go catatonic after a few

1180
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:48,400
years in real time, but it hardly feels like a

1181
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,880
week for them while they're in there, And that's why

1182
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:53,599
he keeps coming back here for more. He'll never stop,

1183
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,599
even if every theater stops using film. I'm sure that

1184
01:00:56,719 --> 01:00:59,840
he'll find a way, he sighed. I'm not proud of

1185
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,199
what I've done, but if I'm going to do anything

1186
01:01:02,239 --> 01:01:05,199
good with my life, it's stopping this fucker forever. If

1187
01:01:05,239 --> 01:01:07,440
that was true, and last I was essentially in hell.

1188
01:01:07,679 --> 01:01:10,280
She'd been in hell for weeks, but I suppose I

1189
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,920
suppose only felt like a few hours to her. How

1190
01:01:13,119 --> 01:01:15,000
armed you we have until he comes back and tries

1191
01:01:15,039 --> 01:01:17,320
to kill us again. I can't give you an exact

1192
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:19,679
amount of time, but I doubt we'll have more than

1193
01:01:19,679 --> 01:01:22,079
a few hours. I took a deep breath as we

1194
01:01:22,119 --> 01:01:24,000
reached the edge of the forest. Stand and Jimmy were

1195
01:01:24,039 --> 01:01:27,079
close behind, catching up to us soon after. What in

1196
01:01:27,119 --> 01:01:29,960
the hell are you two yammering on about Jimmy asked.

1197
01:01:30,599 --> 01:01:33,360
I turned and looked at him. Jimmy, we might need

1198
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:35,440
your help for a bit. Then I turned to his

1199
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:39,320
span and grinned, let's bury this bastard. My hand shook

1200
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:41,800
as I held the film. Real this is a source

1201
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,480
of it all, I thought, the reason last I went missing,

1202
01:01:45,079 --> 01:01:47,000
the reason any of the shit had happened at all.

1203
01:01:47,679 --> 01:01:49,719
As determined as I was to see this operation through

1204
01:01:49,719 --> 01:01:52,559
a lingering feeling of fear and hestance never left my side.

1205
01:01:53,199 --> 01:01:56,400
What's the film like exactly? I asked, my voice shaking

1206
01:01:56,519 --> 01:01:59,599
just a tad. Colin shook his head. I don't know

1207
01:01:59,679 --> 01:02:03,199
what like I ever watched. It can't really prepare you

1208
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,559
for much there. Sorry, that was more or less a

1209
01:02:06,599 --> 01:02:10,159
response I was expecting. Colin side starting to look anxious.

1210
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,079
We don't have time, though he could come back at

1211
01:02:13,119 --> 01:02:16,760
any moment. He looked at Jimmy. He's still got it now,

1212
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:21,519
Jimmy tapped at his belt proudly. Silly question. No monster

1213
01:02:21,639 --> 01:02:23,920
is going to get a jump on me. That passive

1214
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,800
plan we formed wend as follows. We've rushed over to

1215
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:28,920
the theater where everything had started, since I was the

1216
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:30,920
only place we'd actually be able to play the film

1217
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:33,159
since it was still likely being monitored by the police,

1218
01:02:33,920 --> 01:02:36,000
we'd have to rely on svent iby I badge to

1219
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:39,480
dissolve the suspicion. According to Colin, if mister Blank's projection

1220
01:02:39,599 --> 01:02:41,679
hadn't come back to attack us before we managed to

1221
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:44,159
enter the theater, it's sure as hell was going to

1222
01:02:44,199 --> 01:02:47,480
be there once we did, and of course it was

1223
01:02:47,559 --> 01:02:50,760
going to be aggressive. That's when Jimmy comes in. He's

1224
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,199
going to keep distracting it while Colin sets up the film.

1225
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:55,800
Once he did, Sven and I would be the ones

1226
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:58,760
to watch it. He wanted to save his wife. I

1227
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:01,639
wanted to save a Lacy. None of us were backing down,

1228
01:03:01,679 --> 01:03:04,119
and Colin also gave us some very much needed details

1229
01:03:04,159 --> 01:03:06,719
regarding the film itself, even though a lot of it

1230
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,960
was just speculation on his part. Supposedly, the film does

1231
01:03:10,039 --> 01:03:12,760
something strange to the viewer's state of mind. The film

1232
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:16,400
exists in one plane of existence, mister Blanks, we exist

1233
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,159
in our own So how does anybody traverse the scap

1234
01:03:19,239 --> 01:03:21,639
and move from one to the other. Well, we could

1235
01:03:21,679 --> 01:03:25,119
only really theorize there. Colin claimed it was about emotions,

1236
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,360
the range of human emotions of spectrum obviously, but not

1237
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:32,079
a two dimensional one, with happiness and sadness, distress and calm,

1238
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:36,360
pain and pleasure at their respective extremes. Nearly every feeling

1239
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:38,719
spurred on by activities in our daily lives are different.

1240
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:41,599
Some are more similar to each other than others, but

1241
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,239
no two distinct feelings are truly identical. Even the same

1242
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:46,920
emotions that you perceive experiencing thousands of times over the

1243
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,400
course of your life is actually an entirely new experience

1244
01:03:50,159 --> 01:03:52,880
each and every time. Now I am getting off track here,

1245
01:03:53,559 --> 01:03:56,800
but look, motions are complicated, and according to Colin's theory,

1246
01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,000
they also act as a catalyst that can move conscious

1247
01:03:59,039 --> 01:04:01,239
thoughts between different realcses and some kind of impulse that

1248
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,559
worked to strong and specific enough emotion that connected as

1249
01:04:03,559 --> 01:04:06,199
a catalyst. But if it were only their thoughts that

1250
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:08,519
had moved, then what the hell happened to their bodies?

1251
01:04:09,159 --> 01:04:12,679
That mystery remained. However, Colin was quite certain that the

1252
01:04:12,679 --> 01:04:15,639
people who had been transported were all still alive. Can't

1253
01:04:15,679 --> 01:04:18,719
feed off a dead persons emotions. After all, there was

1254
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:21,840
something else he'd probably like to know. Colin said something

1255
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:25,320
really interesting. My ears perked up. I did know a

1256
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:28,440
few people had crossed over into mister Blank's realm, managed

1257
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:30,559
to make it back out there. They all told me

1258
01:04:30,639 --> 01:04:32,920
that they felt themselves crossing over to a certain freshould

1259
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:36,039
of fear before they left our own world. However, they

1260
01:04:36,079 --> 01:04:38,960
were still somewhat cognizant of what had happened. They knew

1261
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,360
they were still in the theater. This wasn't the world

1262
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:44,079
that they belonged to. They weren't petrified to the point

1263
01:04:44,079 --> 01:04:46,960
where they lost all sense of their past reality. Because

1264
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:50,559
of this, they always kept themselves granted, convincing themselves that

1265
01:04:50,679 --> 01:04:52,880
none of it was real, despite what mister Blank threw

1266
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:55,760
with them. Eventually they got back using the sheer wel

1267
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:59,000
out of their mind alone. I breathe a sigh of

1268
01:04:59,079 --> 01:05:01,719
relief at the moment. There was nothing that I needed

1269
01:05:01,719 --> 01:05:03,880
to hear more. But she should also know that the

1270
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:07,840
all committed suicide within the next three months. Yea, you

1271
01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:10,519
you could have left that part out. I said, it's

1272
01:05:10,559 --> 01:05:12,840
not going to be easy, but now that you know

1273
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:16,119
this going in, you'll have an advantage. Try and be

1274
01:05:16,199 --> 01:05:19,199
ready for anything, cause nothing's off the table here. With

1275
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:22,159
our asses on the cock, he began making our way

1276
01:05:22,199 --> 01:05:24,760
to the theater. When we arrived there was a single

1277
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:27,079
board looking cop sitting in his vehicle near the entrance.

1278
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:31,519
He didn't ask questions whence Vent flashed his badge. In fact,

1279
01:05:31,679 --> 01:05:34,519
he looked pretty eager to leave. We didn't waste any time.

1280
01:05:34,559 --> 01:05:37,119
Once we got in, Colin began setting up the film

1281
01:05:37,159 --> 01:05:39,760
while I waited anxiously in the theater. We offered to

1282
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:41,320
help with the process, but he told us that we

1283
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:43,719
just slow him down. I was going to argue with

1284
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:46,199
him there. I sat down in one of the seats,

1285
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:50,159
burying my hands in my face. I was nervous, no

1286
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:53,760
second guessing that fact. Can I even do this? I

1287
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:56,440
thought to myself, Fuck, I have to do this. I

1288
01:05:56,519 --> 01:05:59,239
felt somebody put a hand on my lap. At first

1289
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:00,920
I thought I was then try to convince me. But

1290
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:03,800
then then I realized that didn't seem like something he

1291
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:09,880
would do. I'll be Jamie spoke up Oklaholman's back. Against

1292
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:12,159
my better judgment, I snapped my head to the side,

1293
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:14,280
staring at what appeared to be a mass composed of

1294
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:18,519
a variety of segmented human faces. Don't move, kid, Jimmy's

1295
01:06:18,559 --> 01:06:21,199
voice boomed from across the theater. Before I knew it,

1296
01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:24,199
the Gaulish face was blown to the sigh, blood exploding

1297
01:06:24,239 --> 01:06:26,639
from the other side of its temple. My ears were

1298
01:06:26,719 --> 01:06:28,639
ringing from the shot as I looked towards Jimmy, who

1299
01:06:28,719 --> 01:06:34,079
was holding some kind of oversized pistol. You're welcome, he smiled. Geeze,

1300
01:06:34,119 --> 01:06:37,119
I muttered, still trying to regain my bearings. A few

1301
01:06:37,159 --> 01:06:41,159
seconds later, I heard Spine cursing. I looked over, watching

1302
01:06:41,199 --> 01:06:43,639
as a feral beast looking creature grabbed him by the neck.

1303
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:47,840
Once again, Jimmy blasted it away. My brain rang some more.

1304
01:06:48,559 --> 01:06:50,679
It looked like mister Blank had regained the stamina, and

1305
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:54,000
I sure as hell was excited about that vado motherfucker.

1306
01:06:54,679 --> 01:06:57,559
This time, Jimmy was the one cursing. Mister Blank, now

1307
01:06:57,599 --> 01:06:59,920
in the form of an oversized zombie wearing brass knuckles,

1308
01:07:00,119 --> 01:07:01,960
and had got in the jump on him, forcing him

1309
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:05,360
to resort to fistfight, but he was holding up surprisingly well,

1310
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:09,360
dodging powering countering each of the zombie strikes. Jimmy ended

1311
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:12,480
up pummeling it within a minute. How the hell where

1312
01:07:12,519 --> 01:07:16,000
did you, I began asking, dumbfunded as his apparently vast

1313
01:07:16,079 --> 01:07:18,320
array of combat skills and the evisceration matches on a

1314
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:21,159
planet you wouldn't dear step foot on, partner. I know

1315
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:23,039
my shit, he grinned, as if I were supposed to

1316
01:07:23,119 --> 01:07:25,880
understand remotely what the hell he was talking about. I

1317
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:28,519
didn't have time to ask, though I could hear something

1318
01:07:28,559 --> 01:07:31,360
breathing down my neck. Once again, some one call, and

1319
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:34,119
I thought to myself, hurry the fuck up. And then

1320
01:07:34,159 --> 01:07:38,039
what happened? The projector suddenly flicked on and the breathing stopped.

1321
01:07:38,719 --> 01:07:40,920
I scanned the theater, but mister Blank was nowhere to

1322
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:43,360
be seen. I locked eyes. Was fun for a moment,

1323
01:07:44,119 --> 01:07:47,000
This was it, This was the combination of everything we'd

1324
01:07:47,039 --> 01:07:50,639
been through. Well, Jimmy spoke up, looks like this is it?

1325
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:54,039
I bid good luck to you. Both lights began to dim.

1326
01:07:54,599 --> 01:07:58,519
I laughed at myself. Was that really necessary? The reaction

1327
01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:02,239
was more of a coping mechanism anything else. I was

1328
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:05,840
utterly frozen in terror. Spen and I were silent as

1329
01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,599
we took our seats. That the first few seconds I

1330
01:08:08,639 --> 01:08:10,320
closed my eyes the fray to open them even a

1331
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:13,000
little bit, but I knew that eventually I had to,

1332
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,279
so I did, and I cannot begin to describe what

1333
01:08:16,319 --> 01:08:18,680
I saw in front of me. So I divulged in

1334
01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:21,119
what I saw in that theater. Let's do a quick

1335
01:08:21,159 --> 01:08:24,720
mental exercise. ELL, what does that word mean to you?

1336
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:27,840
More specifically, what do you visualize when you hear it?

1337
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:31,560
Put yourself in that environment right now? Are you walking

1338
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:34,039
through scorching flames while demons scream at you? With dark

1339
01:08:34,119 --> 01:08:37,439
forest with thousands of beady eyes following your every move,

1340
01:08:38,119 --> 01:08:41,000
trapped underneath us for something gnawing at your feet. Each

1341
01:08:41,079 --> 01:08:42,600
one of us has an idea of what our own

1342
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:45,359
personal hell would look like. I found out what mine

1343
01:08:45,359 --> 01:08:47,720
looked like in the theater. The film opened on a

1344
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:50,000
shot of a plane abandoned city washed in dark blue.

1345
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:52,279
It was hard to tell what time of day it was,

1346
01:08:52,399 --> 01:08:55,399
but the whole place just looked depressing. After a few seconds,

1347
01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:58,439
a figure came stumbling into the frame, a man wearing

1348
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:01,199
plain clothes with a stored tree of fees ceatures. His

1349
01:09:01,319 --> 01:09:03,760
movements were desperate, stumbling through the empty streets and an

1350
01:09:03,760 --> 01:09:06,720
ostensible attempt to evade something. I found out what he

1351
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:09,239
was running from only a few seconds later. It was

1352
01:09:09,279 --> 01:09:12,319
another man, naked, this time with black using sores covering

1353
01:09:12,359 --> 01:09:15,159
his entire body. It was also a bloody, dirty bag

1354
01:09:15,239 --> 01:09:18,159
tied around his head. His limbs twitched and contorted as

1355
01:09:18,199 --> 01:09:20,479
he ran after the faceless man, letting out an unearthly

1356
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:23,600
croaking scream as he moved. The faceless man was screaming

1357
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:25,960
as well, though his voice sounded all too human. He

1358
01:09:26,079 --> 01:09:29,760
sounded he sounded terrified. I'm not sure how lona I

1359
01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:31,800
was watching for, but it felt like I was a point.

1360
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:35,279
I even gave up on the objective at hand. I

1361
01:09:35,359 --> 01:09:38,640
wanted to turn away from the screen so badly. However, however,

1362
01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:41,640
I couldn't. My eyes stick glued in the horrific scene

1363
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:44,479
in front of me. I couldn't move. I started wondering

1364
01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:47,439
has Van was holding up watching something like this. There's

1365
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:50,319
only until later I realized we were in even watching

1366
01:09:50,359 --> 01:09:55,239
the same thing at all. Personal hell, everybody's different. A point,

1367
01:09:55,319 --> 01:09:57,880
I started feeling strange, as if I couldn't distinguish real

1368
01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,520
life from what was happening on the screen. My attention

1369
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:02,960
was fixated on the faceless man, almost like I was

1370
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:06,039
seeing things to his perspective. Shit, I thought my mind

1371
01:10:06,119 --> 01:10:08,800
drifted too far off to the deep end. I realized

1372
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:11,960
something extremely important at the very last moment. It's just

1373
01:10:12,039 --> 01:10:15,880
a movie. I really disturbed a fucking movie. The revelation

1374
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,760
came at the optimal time. I was already being sucked

1375
01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:22,199
into mister Blank's realm. I can feel it, my physical

1376
01:10:22,239 --> 01:10:25,239
self dissolving into an obscure void. Yet yet I was

1377
01:10:25,279 --> 01:10:28,439
cognizant of this fact, and while I was certainly scared,

1378
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:31,439
I was also determined. My vision went black for an

1379
01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:34,279
unun duration. When I opened them back up, my world

1380
01:10:34,319 --> 01:10:36,760
was washed in a dark blue. I could feel goosebun's

1381
01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:40,239
popping up on my skin. I was freezing, despite wearing

1382
01:10:40,279 --> 01:10:43,359
a hoodie and jeans. There was also something behind me.

1383
01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:45,279
I turned around, seeing the man in the bag over

1384
01:10:45,359 --> 01:10:48,479
his head staggering towards me. It didn't take a genius

1385
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:51,239
to discern what had happened. I was know in the movie,

1386
01:10:51,319 --> 01:10:54,039
not knowing exactly what to do, and fueled by sheer impulse,

1387
01:10:54,159 --> 01:10:57,680
I began running through the empty streets. After the initial shock,

1388
01:10:57,840 --> 01:10:59,880
I tried remembering what Colin told me. I had to

1389
01:11:00,039 --> 01:11:02,119
remember that none of this was real, despite how reel

1390
01:11:02,159 --> 01:11:04,359
it felt. But at the same time, how the hell

1391
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:07,159
was this not real? The cold wind bit on my face,

1392
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:10,720
my joints ached against the concrete below. I was even

1393
01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:13,520
beginning to run out of breath. He thought, real as hell.

1394
01:11:14,119 --> 01:11:17,560
My mind started becoming frenetic. How the hell was as possible?

1395
01:11:18,199 --> 01:11:21,199
Where the hell was I? Oh, we never felt physical

1396
01:11:21,279 --> 01:11:26,000
sensations in our dreams, so sue, what was this? I

1397
01:11:26,119 --> 01:11:29,399
turned round again, noticing the back headed man was getting closer,

1398
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:32,960
his inhuman shrieks sending shivers down my spine. I was

1399
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:35,800
starting to lose it, starting to lose my own sense

1400
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:39,079
of reality. The streets ahead of me were endless and unchanging.

1401
01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:42,840
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide, I could hear myself

1402
01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:47,920
beginning to whimper. Utter terror overwhelming my senses forced me

1403
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:50,560
to abandon any previous thoughts, any connections that I had

1404
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:52,800
to the world that I belonged in. Was this the

1405
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:55,479
world I belonged in? How long have I been in here?

1406
01:11:56,279 --> 01:11:59,239
Maybe this was all I knew. It was an unnerving sensation,

1407
01:11:59,399 --> 01:12:02,079
and one that cold my eyes to begin watering. I

1408
01:12:02,239 --> 01:12:06,000
was in hell, I mean, this was my existence. Cold

1409
01:12:06,199 --> 01:12:09,359
cold tears began streaming down my face as I continued

1410
01:12:09,359 --> 01:12:11,840
to run from this montrosity behind me. I was beginning

1411
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:13,760
to forget where I'd even come from, and I was

1412
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:17,279
getting tired. I closed my eyes, preparing to give up entirely.

1413
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:20,039
Doing so hurt as tears began freezing up, But the

1414
01:12:20,119 --> 01:12:23,920
weight that didn't make any sense. I remember reading about

1415
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:25,960
this once, about how tears would only freeze at blow

1416
01:12:26,039 --> 01:12:28,439
forty and at sure as hell wasn't a coal. It

1417
01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:30,520
was an utterly random fact and one that I had

1418
01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:33,399
no reason keeping stored in my brain. But remembering it

1419
01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:35,279
in that moment helped me more than I could ever know.

1420
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:38,159
If that part didn't make any sense, then what else

1421
01:12:38,279 --> 01:12:40,840
was off about the situation? What was I doing here?

1422
01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:43,520
I opened my eyes again, staring up at the sky.

1423
01:12:44,319 --> 01:12:48,479
It was empty. No sun, no stars, no moon, no clouds.

1424
01:12:49,199 --> 01:12:53,720
That that was right either the building surrounding me. I'd

1425
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:56,680
never seen a place like this before. I didn't belong here.

1426
01:12:57,359 --> 01:13:01,359
This was my world, this was this was mister Blank's world.

1427
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:05,399
Why did I come here? Save Lazy? None of this

1428
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:08,239
was real. I stopped in my truck's catching my breath.

1429
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:11,000
He turned around, watching as the man behind me got

1430
01:13:11,079 --> 01:13:13,319
slower and slow before stopping only a few feet away

1431
01:13:13,319 --> 01:13:16,079
from me. He looked confused, as if he couldn't understand

1432
01:13:16,119 --> 01:13:19,479
why I wasn't running. Why had I stopped? Because none

1433
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:21,880
of this was real? Why would I fear something that

1434
01:13:22,119 --> 01:13:25,399
was real? Hey, fock face? I spoke up, Where the

1435
01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:28,960
hell is lazy? The man to step back? Don't you

1436
01:13:29,039 --> 01:13:32,920
fucking run? I said, where the fuck is she? He

1437
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:36,800
started backing up faster. My grink grew wider. I tear

1438
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:38,439
you a part with my bare fucking hands if you

1439
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:41,199
don't tell me. Suddenly I was so cold any more.

1440
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:44,840
I could feel the adrenaline coursing through my veins. Where

1441
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:48,000
the fock is she? And voices growing primal. My impulses

1442
01:13:48,039 --> 01:13:50,239
fueled by a combination of all the fear and frustration

1443
01:13:50,359 --> 01:13:52,920
that I'd been feeling up until this point, I caught

1444
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:55,319
up to the bag man relatively quickly, tackling him the

1445
01:13:55,399 --> 01:13:57,800
rest of them down to the ground. I could feel

1446
01:13:57,840 --> 01:13:59,840
his sores using all over me, which was quite the

1447
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:03,680
disgusting sensation, but forced myself to ignore it. Where is she?

1448
01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:07,720
I screamed as I began strangling in. However, instead of

1449
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:10,720
gasping for air, the man simply began laughing, And of

1450
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:14,439
course he would, This was all of ours. What the hell?

1451
01:14:15,079 --> 01:14:17,399
I screamed, grabbing the bag and ripping it from his face.

1452
01:14:18,119 --> 01:14:20,279
What I found was a blank face staring back at me.

1453
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:23,399
Do you think I'm scared of you? A booming voice

1454
01:14:23,439 --> 01:14:26,359
resonated throughout the space, coming from everywhere, nowhere at once,

1455
01:14:27,079 --> 01:14:30,319
and suddenly the man began to solving. Dissolving. Wasn't like

1456
01:14:30,399 --> 01:14:34,399
word he was. He was morphing into thousands and thousands

1457
01:14:34,439 --> 01:14:38,239
of insects. Horrified, I jumped back. I watched as the

1458
01:14:38,279 --> 01:14:40,800
insects began crawling on top of each other, forming what

1459
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:42,960
appeared to be a humanoid torso on top of spider

1460
01:14:43,159 --> 01:14:45,680
like legs, and of course, there was a giant blank

1461
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,560
face at the very top of the abomination. Run boy,

1462
01:14:49,359 --> 01:14:52,319
the voice boomed again. Apparently things weren't going to be

1463
01:14:52,399 --> 01:14:54,640
so easy. How the hell was I supposed to win?

1464
01:14:55,239 --> 01:14:57,279
I can feel the fear of rushing back into my system.

1465
01:14:57,880 --> 01:14:59,960
Mister blank had just been fucking with me the entire time.

1466
01:15:00,279 --> 01:15:02,880
With no other options insight, I did what he said,

1467
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:05,520
and I began running from the inset of monstrosity. I

1468
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:07,960
looked over my shoulder every now and then, watching as

1469
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,800
the grotesque entity crawled towards me, knocking down buildings as

1470
01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:13,560
it did so. But surely this thing was faster than me,

1471
01:15:13,720 --> 01:15:17,640
I thought. The weight of of course it was. He

1472
01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:20,239
never wanted to catch me. He just wanted me to

1473
01:15:20,319 --> 01:15:23,000
keep running. Every tricky threw at me was an attempt

1474
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:25,000
to push me into a corner of fear. I wouldn't

1475
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:28,399
be able to get away from fuck that, fuck that.

1476
01:15:29,199 --> 01:15:30,960
I was going to hit back and scare it, as

1477
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:32,479
I might have been. I was going to have to

1478
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:35,239
force myself not to be. I stared into a stop.

1479
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:37,640
I swallowed a piece of wood off of the street,

1480
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:39,840
and I picked it up before turning around and chucking

1481
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:42,680
it at the creature. I missed, but the message was sent.

1482
01:15:43,439 --> 01:15:46,880
The insect creature. Mister Blank himself stopped his tracks as well,

1483
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:50,359
seemingly confused as to what to do next. I was scared,

1484
01:15:50,359 --> 01:15:53,720
and mister Blank couldn't understand why. I mean, what is

1485
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:57,199
fear anyway? This a dictionary definition, of course, what a

1486
01:15:57,279 --> 01:15:59,880
vokes fear in one person and more necessarily evoked out

1487
01:15:59,880 --> 01:16:02,800
of the next. At this point, mister Blank was trying

1488
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:06,159
too hard. He transformed again into an even bigger monster,

1489
01:16:06,319 --> 01:16:10,319
resembling an amalgamation of Black's lodge, rotting corpses riding tendrils.

1490
01:16:11,079 --> 01:16:13,680
Was it scary and maybe to a fourteen year old

1491
01:16:14,399 --> 01:16:17,560
after everything I'd seen, this only made me laugh, laughing

1492
01:16:18,359 --> 01:16:21,920
joey mockery, every emotion, the contrast of fear and despair,

1493
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:25,479
and that was the ultimate weapon against him. Suddenly I

1494
01:16:25,560 --> 01:16:28,960
remembered a plan. I reached into my pocket, I pulled

1495
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:32,000
up my phone. I got the camera ready, but unfortunately,

1496
01:16:32,159 --> 01:16:35,880
mister Blank disappeared before I could start recording. Nevertheless, the

1497
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:39,720
tables are turned. Who was scared now? I wasn't exactly

1498
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:41,479
sure where to go, so I just picked a round

1499
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:45,399
em direction and began running. But something unexpected happened. The

1500
01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:48,840
environment around me began to change. No more buildings, no

1501
01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:52,039
longer washed in dark blue. I suddenly found myself standing

1502
01:16:52,079 --> 01:16:54,239
in an endless field of yellow flowers, with a cloudless

1503
01:16:54,239 --> 01:16:57,880
sky above. For a moment, I was absolutely jarred. What

1504
01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:01,199
the hell had happened? I thought? I ended up that

1505
01:17:01,279 --> 01:17:03,760
answer as soon became apparent. When I looked down the flowers.

1506
01:17:04,399 --> 01:17:07,239
They were right, to say the least, blinking back at me.

1507
01:17:07,359 --> 01:17:10,239
Some had mouths lined with razor like teeth, vigorously chomping

1508
01:17:10,279 --> 01:17:12,880
away at the air. Some had their petals replaced with

1509
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:16,439
riding fingers ending in claws. This was somebody else's hell,

1510
01:17:17,119 --> 01:17:19,760
the rather interesting one at that. I guess i'd better

1511
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:22,079
start running again, I thought, Trying to be as careful

1512
01:17:22,119 --> 01:17:25,279
as I could, I began stepping over the ghastly flowers.

1513
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:29,359
After a few minutes, the environment changed again. This time

1514
01:17:29,439 --> 01:17:31,039
it was night and I was standing in front of

1515
01:17:31,119 --> 01:17:33,520
a precarious looking rope bridge hanging over a deep cavern.

1516
01:17:34,039 --> 01:17:36,640
I was beginning to understand what was going on. I

1517
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:39,520
suppose that I broken the system in a sense, my

1518
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:41,439
own hell was no longer scary to me, so I

1519
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:44,479
was free to run for somebody else's everybody who had

1520
01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:46,840
been trapped by mister blancolyt bobs began to go off

1521
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:49,399
in my head. I remember the conversation I had with

1522
01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:51,920
Lacy right after we'd gone through a haunted house on Halloween.

1523
01:17:52,640 --> 01:17:55,600
It was a conversation about fear. What we were most

1524
01:17:55,600 --> 01:17:59,000
afraid of, what I'm most afraid of. I remember her

1525
01:17:59,039 --> 01:18:01,720
telling me, Okay, this is a weird one, but mazes,

1526
01:18:02,479 --> 01:18:06,319
Oh yeah, I mean imagine randomly being trapped in amaze

1527
01:18:06,319 --> 01:18:09,159
in never being able to find your way out mazes.

1528
01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:11,920
I knew what I had to look for now. I

1529
01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:13,880
couldn't tell you how many different hells I ended up

1530
01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:17,880
traversing probably upwards of thirty made it close to forty.

1531
01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:21,920
They were all unique, all utterly horrifying in their own sense.

1532
01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:24,359
But what was even more interesting were the people I

1533
01:18:24,399 --> 01:18:26,479
met alone the way out of all the hells I

1534
01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:28,760
found myself in, I came across fourteen people who were

1535
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:32,720
trapped in them. Nine were already catatonic, Two were hysterical

1536
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:35,800
and impossible to reason me. As for the other three, well,

1537
01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:37,880
I don't want to give myself too much credit here,

1538
01:18:38,039 --> 01:18:40,560
but I think I save them. Not that it was easy.

1539
01:18:41,199 --> 01:18:44,000
They weren't so willing to let things go. They truly

1540
01:18:44,039 --> 01:18:45,840
thought that they were in hell, destined to live that

1541
01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:49,199
way forever. They'd long forgotten about their past lives, who

1542
01:18:49,279 --> 01:18:51,000
they were before the time they'd spend in the theater

1543
01:18:51,079 --> 01:18:53,640
before being transported to mister Blank's world. Trying to convince

1544
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,039
them otherwise was nothing short of a task, specially given

1545
01:18:56,079 --> 01:18:59,680
the environment around us. But I wasn't scared. I had

1546
01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:02,199
to prove it to them. Nothing was going to kill us,

1547
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:04,600
nothing was going to hurt us if we didn't let it.

1548
01:19:05,119 --> 01:19:06,760
By the time i'd frand Li says Hale, I had

1549
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:09,600
a grateful group of three by my side, Dash a

1550
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:13,000
twenty one year old college kid, nicoll A twenty five

1551
01:19:13,119 --> 01:19:17,000
year old computer programmer, Ann Roumond, twenty seven year old soldier.

1552
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:19,439
We sure as hell had been through a lot together.

1553
01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:22,520
At that point started feeling like days had passed since

1554
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:24,840
I was in the theater, but my resolve never slipped.

1555
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:28,279
I was finding her no matter what. I nearly dropped

1556
01:19:28,319 --> 01:19:31,479
to my knees relief when I found myself standing inside

1557
01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:33,960
the labyrinthin and all paid off in the end. The

1558
01:19:34,039 --> 01:19:36,680
walls were about fifteen high, covered in cracks and coated

1559
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:39,800
in moss. The ground was also comprised of crack stone.

1560
01:19:40,319 --> 01:19:42,119
There were torches set up every few feet or so,

1561
01:19:42,319 --> 01:19:45,600
illuminating the place, but just barely so. I guess putting

1562
01:19:45,640 --> 01:19:48,319
up was probably not the best idea. That's said. I

1563
01:19:48,359 --> 01:19:51,159
wouldn't be scared if we did, though, Roman said, grinning

1564
01:19:51,199 --> 01:19:53,479
at me, not scared of a fake place like this,

1565
01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:57,560
I smiled back. When I met him, he'd been petrified,

1566
01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:00,199
as if he'd given up any kind of hope here.

1567
01:20:00,239 --> 01:20:02,039
He was now ready to help me take down mister

1568
01:20:02,119 --> 01:20:07,199
Blank and find Lacey. You're right, I responded, nothing scary

1569
01:20:07,239 --> 01:20:10,720
about this place. But Dash is also right, but I

1570
01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:15,159
stuck together. Everybody nodded, and we began searching. About every

1571
01:20:15,199 --> 01:20:18,279
ten turns we'd come across some kind of creature wandering through.

1572
01:20:18,880 --> 01:20:21,239
They arranged from Eilis little Girls to go looking things,

1573
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:24,800
but that wasn't a problem. We'd seen more frightening things

1574
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:27,560
than that. Once it was obvious that we weren't taking

1575
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:30,520
that fear bait, the creatures pretty much ignored us. I

1576
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:33,319
couldn't keep track of how many turns we took, over

1577
01:20:33,479 --> 01:20:36,680
one hundred at least, it's pretty obvious. While Lacy wasn't

1578
01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:39,079
exactly a fan of hers. But eventually we came across

1579
01:20:39,119 --> 01:20:42,199
something different. I set us stairs, leading down into darkness.

1580
01:20:42,920 --> 01:20:45,359
Unlike the creatures that posed a more uncertain threat, it

1581
01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:47,760
evoked a fear of the unknown, making it exponentially more

1582
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:50,439
frightening than any of the corny monsters we'd encountered before.

1583
01:20:51,079 --> 01:20:53,319
I could see the hesitation rising amongst our group, but

1584
01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:56,840
that was to be expected. That's exactly what mister Blank wanted.

1585
01:20:57,479 --> 01:20:59,479
For that reason, I didn't even think about it before

1586
01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:02,520
descending this, using my phone's flask light to guide me along.

1587
01:21:03,159 --> 01:21:06,279
It didn't matter if nobody followed. All that matter was

1588
01:21:06,319 --> 01:21:08,840
that I didn't let the feast stop me. To my surprise,

1589
01:21:09,039 --> 01:21:11,000
I heard three sets of it sits following behind me.

1590
01:21:11,119 --> 01:21:14,600
I smiled to myself. That was it, the final stretch

1591
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:17,279
of all the madness I had experienced so far. I'm

1592
01:21:17,319 --> 01:21:20,119
not sure how far we'd walked, not that it mattered.

1593
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:22,720
I'm sure everything in this world was nothing more than

1594
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:26,079
an illusion, even time I had to tell myself that

1595
01:21:26,159 --> 01:21:28,039
in order to deal with what we came across. Next,

1596
01:21:28,239 --> 01:21:30,279
the stairs ended, leading to what appeared to be a

1597
01:21:30,319 --> 01:21:34,760
bottom's void. Sounds emanated from below. They were obscure ones,

1598
01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:37,560
things that I had never heard before, leading to chills

1599
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:41,239
involuntarily crawling down my spine. Mister Blank had certainly stepped

1600
01:21:41,279 --> 01:21:44,840
his game up. No cheap scares here. What was presented

1601
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:47,680
in front of me petrified me to the bone. Once again,

1602
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:50,560
I could see hesitation amongst our group. What do you

1603
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:54,319
think down there, Nicholl l asked. I paused for a moment,

1604
01:21:54,439 --> 01:21:58,880
considering the question. Nothing, nothing at all. I didn't let

1605
01:21:58,920 --> 01:22:01,600
another foot cross my mind before jumping down. For the

1606
01:22:01,680 --> 01:22:04,159
longest time, it felt like I was floating. If you

1607
01:22:04,199 --> 01:22:06,840
ask me how long exactly, There's no way I could

1608
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:10,279
have told you. There was nothing around me, no sensation

1609
01:22:10,439 --> 01:22:13,640
at all. I was in the void, and soon enough,

1610
01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:17,039
soon enough, I felt solid ground beneath my feet. I

1611
01:22:17,119 --> 01:22:19,840
picked the direction I was already facing and began walking again.

1612
01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:23,239
I had no sense of time. My mind began drifting

1613
01:22:23,319 --> 01:22:25,680
with each step I took, but I never a light.

1614
01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:28,720
It get away from me completely. An indiscernible amount of

1615
01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:30,920
time later, I found myself standing in front of a

1616
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:33,840
stone clearing, with everybody else behind me. We were at

1617
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:36,279
the edge of the maze. Let's find what I was

1618
01:22:36,319 --> 01:22:38,840
looking for. I let out a deep exshill, probably the

1619
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:41,640
deepest one of my life. Well, you see, she was

1620
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:43,399
right in front of me, curled into a bowl with

1621
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:46,159
her back against the stone wall. She was wearing what

1622
01:22:46,279 --> 01:22:48,600
she typically did, blue jeans and a green flannel shirt.

1623
01:22:49,239 --> 01:22:51,640
Upon hearing my voice, she looked up at me, her

1624
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:53,800
eyes long roared from what had been a constant stream

1625
01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:56,600
of tears. She didn't look happy to see me, but

1626
01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:59,279
I didn't expect it to be. She'd probably been given

1627
01:22:59,279 --> 01:23:01,840
too much falsehood in a place like this. You are

1628
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:05,840
not real, she whimpered, before beginning to cry again. Leave

1629
01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:10,840
me alone. I approached her slowly, nice. He looked back up.

1630
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:13,319
I was one of the few people who called her dad.

1631
01:23:13,920 --> 01:23:16,199
I'm one of the only real things in this entire place.

1632
01:23:16,920 --> 01:23:19,399
I go out her hand. She pulled back a bit

1633
01:23:19,479 --> 01:23:22,199
at first, but I didn't let go. I didn't force

1634
01:23:22,279 --> 01:23:25,359
it either. You shouldn't be here. Let's get back to

1635
01:23:25,439 --> 01:23:28,840
where we belong. Her skin was warm, so was mine.

1636
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:31,960
I saw a spark of understanding in her eyes. But

1637
01:23:32,079 --> 01:23:34,600
before I could smile, a familiar presence made an appearance.

1638
01:23:35,359 --> 01:23:37,880
A large shadow cast itself into the light of the torches.

1639
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:40,640
I looked up, seeing a tall, skeletal figure with a

1640
01:23:40,680 --> 01:23:43,479
blank face living down at us. Lacy flint, but I

1641
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:46,159
just gripped her hand tider. I looked up at mister

1642
01:23:46,199 --> 01:23:49,159
Blank and shot him a self satisfaction grin. There's nothing

1643
01:23:49,239 --> 01:23:51,520
left for you to do here. A moment of silence

1644
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:56,279
followed as he continued learing. Do you consider this a victory? Yeah? No,

1645
01:23:57,199 --> 01:24:01,239
I began to respond, Mark, really, but YE didn't win either.

1646
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:03,960
The whole time, my hand had been slowly reaching into

1647
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:06,600
my pocket for my phone. I growled it. I opened

1648
01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:09,359
the video camera, but it was too late. He disappeared

1649
01:24:09,399 --> 01:24:11,800
in the blink of an eye. I grinned him myself.

1650
01:24:12,399 --> 01:24:16,119
He scared, I frightened the brigaman. I looked back at Lacey,

1651
01:24:16,199 --> 01:24:18,640
who looked equally confused and terrified, but a sense of

1652
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:21,520
reality had returned to her face before it seemed as

1653
01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:23,880
if she was in a trance in the process of

1654
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:28,079
forgetting where she'd come from. Said wait, She shook her head.

1655
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:32,439
How are you looks like she's back? Nicholl said from

1656
01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:35,399
behind me. You're pretty good at this art. You I

1657
01:24:35,479 --> 01:24:38,520
suppose I was? And who I like? She began, before

1658
01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:41,159
trailing off. There's a lot I have to explain, but

1659
01:24:41,279 --> 01:24:45,640
not here. Ride Roman said, how are we getting back?

1660
01:24:46,279 --> 01:24:48,119
I'm not sure how the answer to the question came

1661
01:24:48,159 --> 01:24:50,239
to me. It was kind of just something I figured

1662
01:24:50,279 --> 01:24:53,560
out along the way. What do you mean? I responded,

1663
01:24:54,319 --> 01:24:57,119
We've been back the whole time. We never went anywhere,

1664
01:24:57,840 --> 01:25:00,760
don't you remember. It took a second, but Rouman began

1665
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:04,520
to smile. We never left the theater, Debby, I nodded.

1666
01:25:05,199 --> 01:25:08,279
The other too soon followed suit. This is some Dorothy

1667
01:25:08,319 --> 01:25:11,960
type shit, isn't it. That's ed grinning as well. No

1668
01:25:12,079 --> 01:25:15,399
fucking place like home. I looked back at Lacy. We

1669
01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:18,960
were never here, don't you remember. It took a moment,

1670
01:25:19,199 --> 01:25:22,840
but she nodded. Yeah, she said, Oh, look's cold, into

1671
01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:26,279
a slight grin. I think I'm starving to Pretty soon after,

1672
01:25:26,439 --> 01:25:29,600
I remember my vision going black. Well, I'd be lying

1673
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:31,479
if I said that I remember what happened at all.

1674
01:25:32,119 --> 01:25:34,000
I just remember waking up back in the theater, with

1675
01:25:34,039 --> 01:25:36,039
the same time that had spent mister Blank's world still

1676
01:25:36,079 --> 01:25:38,720
fresh in my mind. It didn't feel like a dream,

1677
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:41,560
and it wasn't one. I sat rapidly, feeling a hand

1678
01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:44,640
on my shoulder. As I did so, I turned round, seeings,

1679
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:48,600
then smiling at me. Finally back take you while, he said,

1680
01:25:48,720 --> 01:25:53,079
Then did you? He nodded. I found her. She's back.

1681
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:56,079
I looked around the room, but the only people there

1682
01:25:56,079 --> 01:25:58,920
were calling Jamie and a few bewildered looking police officers.

1683
01:25:59,560 --> 01:26:04,159
Then where she looked round some more. Wait, where's Lacey?

1684
01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:08,039
My heart stopped for a moment. If you will, one

1685
01:26:08,079 --> 01:26:10,479
of the cops woke up, we might be able to

1686
01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:13,520
shed some light on that. Apparently, the police had found

1687
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:15,119
the people who had gone missing in the theater in

1688
01:26:15,159 --> 01:26:18,720
an abandoned warehouse three towns over. When they were first discovered,

1689
01:26:19,279 --> 01:26:22,960
they were still unconscious, albeit alive. However, while they were

1690
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:25,439
being transported to the nearest hospital, two of them woke up,

1691
01:26:26,079 --> 01:26:29,319
two university students, a male and female whose names hadn't

1692
01:26:29,359 --> 01:26:32,600
been released. Apparently a dazed woman had also been found

1693
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:34,600
wandering through the woods in a different state as well.

1694
01:26:35,159 --> 01:26:36,720
I had a good feeling on who they could be,

1695
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:40,000
so that's when and I was right. I hold us

1696
01:26:40,039 --> 01:26:42,720
at the hospital immediately. The cops tried to stop me,

1697
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:44,800
but as Fenn flashed his badge again and got them

1698
01:26:44,840 --> 01:26:47,560
off my case. He really was a good asset to

1699
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:49,920
have a round. I looked through the windows of the

1700
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:53,000
rooms that discovered students were staying in. I don't think

1701
01:26:53,039 --> 01:26:55,720
my smile has ever been wider when I saw Lacey

1702
01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:57,359
sitting up in her bed, alive and playing with her

1703
01:26:57,399 --> 01:26:59,520
hands as she usually did. She looked a bit frail,

1704
01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:02,159
but there was no doubt about it. She was smiling.

1705
01:27:02,840 --> 01:27:05,479
She remembered everything. I left without saying anything to her.

1706
01:27:06,159 --> 01:27:08,159
All that I needed to know was that she was alive.

1707
01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:12,279
Our reunion would come later. For now she needed to rest.

1708
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:15,000
On the way back, I learned how she ended up

1709
01:27:15,039 --> 01:27:17,600
in the warehouse so far away. To begin with, Almah.

1710
01:27:18,279 --> 01:27:21,279
Mister Blake's influence was severe and far reaching. He had

1711
01:27:21,279 --> 01:27:23,000
a whole legion of fear, and he slaves during his

1712
01:27:23,039 --> 01:27:25,920
bidding in al Wald. Since he needed his victims to

1713
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:28,319
remain alive and and disturbed, he'd order people who'd been

1714
01:27:28,319 --> 01:27:30,880
petrified into obeying him in the past, like Colin, to

1715
01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:33,760
storm the theaters, quickly drag the bodies out, and then

1716
01:27:33,840 --> 01:27:36,479
drive them off to a far remote location. Once there,

1717
01:27:36,640 --> 01:27:39,119
they'd keep the physical bodies alive while their frightened minds

1718
01:27:39,119 --> 01:27:42,319
remain trapped in mister Blake's world. This time, they even

1719
01:27:42,319 --> 01:27:44,680
took it up a notch, then replaced the video surveillance

1720
01:27:44,720 --> 01:27:46,760
with looped footish taken when the theater was empty, in

1721
01:27:46,880 --> 01:27:49,960
order to confuse the investigators even more. It's sure as

1722
01:27:50,039 --> 01:27:55,600
hell worked a full persistent right, No, not really. Seven

1723
01:27:55,720 --> 01:27:58,600
arrests were made that day. It'll be an interesting trial

1724
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:01,800
for sure. Less. I can't say that I hate these people.

1725
01:28:02,439 --> 01:28:05,319
We can't hate Colin Eater. There's only one person I

1726
01:28:05,319 --> 01:28:08,479
can direct my anger towards, and he's still alive out there,

1727
01:28:09,119 --> 01:28:12,479
and I feel a lingering responsibility to rectify that. We'll

1728
01:28:12,520 --> 01:28:15,039
see where this goes. I got a call from Jinny

1729
01:28:15,039 --> 01:28:17,399
a few hours ago. I told him about what I

1730
01:28:17,479 --> 01:28:19,600
saw in the other dimension, but how I wanted to

1731
01:28:19,600 --> 01:28:22,439
get rid of mister blank Watson for all thought something

1732
01:28:22,479 --> 01:28:24,800
you might be interested in. He told me it is

1733
01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:27,600
farmand apparently got a bounty on his head out there

1734
01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:29,920
in the Cosmo. Now we can make a real killing

1735
01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:33,600
of a real man fought. Another buddy is interested as well.

1736
01:28:34,399 --> 01:28:37,560
Name is dex Oh, but he's got a word arm,

1737
01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:40,399
so don't freak out when you meet him. Freaky weird

1738
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:44,960
on him, all right, talk to you about the details later, Bifan.

1739
01:28:45,079 --> 01:28:48,840
Now looks like the hunt might be back on. That

1740
01:28:49,079 --> 01:28:52,760
is the end. I hope you enjoyed that. Thank you

1741
01:28:52,840 --> 01:28:54,600
for listening, and I will see you in the next story.