Second Connection with Alex

CONNECTING...

Raine Evans: "Hang on-"

lol duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude fuck allison's couch is so comfy man i sure hope i didnt spill my incredible lunch all over it What's up suckers it's your favorite zombie back in the Statue Room (trademark pending)

• nerdyganii (nerd) - "Who's speaking now?"

Alex-ander Valen-tine

• Alexandria Tetradecimal Zygmunt [AZ] - "oh. you."

Dude ok I got the best fucking lunch ever today but it was so good I kinda have to gatekeep. Anyways, what's up? Alexandria, nice to see you again.

• [AZ] - "good to hear from you as well less cool alex."

Hurtful :(

• almarane (alm) - "Naaah she jealous because she's not a zombie. Nice to meet ya my broskie !"
  • So I guess you know who we are since you've already been here, huh ? And seems like you recognized Alex.
  • Can you recognize us individually ? Or is it just an Alexs thing ?
  • Alsoooooo you know, I'm really a big fan of undeads. Like, I got a tone of stories on the back burner with zombies and skellies and other stuff like that.
  • But I didn't think you could be a zombie in real life ? How'd you do that ? ô_ô
  • You got murdered, right ? I though being murdered was, like... kiiiiinda definitive ?

I recognize her voice easily. Hard to forget.
So, the whole thing with me coming back from the dead has to do with the silly guy with one eye... A certain tall man with no fans.... Y'know? It only affects me, though. Dunno why.

• alm - "A silly guy... Spiderlily right ?
  • One red eye, some kind of purple coat or something, acts edgy as fuck like he's the biggest shot in the room all the time ?
  • He and you are part of some kinda death game, right ?
  • I guess having a literal death god as a friend must help a lot..."

Yeah, guess so. Lasted pretty long before I ended up getting eliminated out of sheer curiosity last round, so.

• mincenttheclown (min) - "omg hey alex im ur biggest fan"

Heyyyyyy

• alm - "Huh ? Like, you tried to put your nose in another player's business and they killed you for it ? Soooo you weren't part of the sacrifices or the Roman murders after all ?"

Nah, nah. Last round, I think I tried taking the thingy outta my neck? Same way Cassie died this time around. Yves recorded it, and that's how I know. This time I was a part of the sacrifices though, not eliminated. So I'm back, wherever Mr. Moon wants me.

• min - "so do u do what he wants then?"

Sometimes, yeah. He doesn't seem to be holding his focus on me, though.

• min - "probably focused on someone else then, right?"

But here's the killer, right? :}

• bloodyinsomania (fool) - "Nice reference ! I understood that one ! How do you know abt that though"
• alm - "Hmm... D'you know if this round of sacrifices had some kind of roman numbers carved on their head or somewhere ? And do you think we can see Yves's recording somewhere ?"

Meditation and prayer can get you places. 
This round's sacrifices do. I'm sure each round's does. Yves' recordings are all in Allison's archives, heavy password protection.
I'm not encouraging it. I just don't want to become a walking meat puppet.

• alm - "D'you know where Allison's archives are stored and the password ? It would reaaaaaaaaally help us out so we can manage to have you guys, like, stop looping. And do you know who was sacrificed and what number they had ? I think we're missing number 7, 8 and 9..."

Anemoia. Dunno the passw. As for the sacrifices, I'm unsure of most of em, honestly. Sacrifices are really just a way to get the game going, from what I've seen..

• alm - "Hmm... And do you know who did the sacrifices this time around ? Or was it, like, multiple people ?"

Multiple people, like usual. Gotta say, you guys really need some seating in here. It's tiring having to stand up like this after a long day of being awesome.

• fool - "If we could arrange the room we would have by now. Not sure we can actually interact with anything."

Figures.

• alm - "d'you know who the other players are ? You talked to us about Cassidy, and I guess Yves as well ? But are there others ? Maybe some dude nicknamed Nylon as well ?"

I don't know 'em all for sure, but I know Allison, Yves, Cassidy, Olive, Zoey, Alexandria, and Lorelai. Never heard of Nylon.
Oh, yeah. Lily and Sarah too.

• alm - "That's already a good list to be honest. Thanks !"
  • Now that I think about it...
  • You said you remembered stuff from the previous rounds, right ?
  • The others you mentioned don't seem to.
  • Why do you think you can keep your memories ?
  • Are you sure you remember everything ?
  • You remember seeing us in a previous round as well ?"

Oh, no I don't necessarily *remember* them. Allison, Yves, Cassidy, and I just keep record this stuff. Put it online, where we can access it. Passwords we use frequently or can find on a whim. Raine seems to be okay with this.

• alm - "... Damn, that's fucking smart. Didn't think of it. You said you don't know Allison's password, but do you have your own stash somewhere we could access ?"

It's all on Allison's archive.

• alm - "Ah shet. Well, guess we're gonna have to figure out that one then.
  • Tho, why only Allison, Yves and you ? Why not the others ?
  • You haven't told them about the loops ?
  • You look like you have no probs' telling us... D'you know something about us that makes you trust us ?"
• thejonkler. - "hey, alex, slightly unrelated, are you a fan of my little pony?"

I know you know. They don't. People won't believe some guy coming up to them being like, you got a thing in your neck! You're gonna die and then get revived without your memories! 
Not worth the trouble.

Bro hoof /)

• alm - "Yeaaaah, fair... What else do you know about us, tho ?"

I know you're weird statues in a weird room.

• [AZ] - "what does my statue look like. how fucked up am i."

Weird cat with a weird mouth.
Reminds me of someone.

• alm - "Do you know if you saw lights instead of statues once ?"

Sometimes you glow, if that's what you're talking about. You all look like queers.

Well now you're all talking at once.

• cherry - "Alex what's your favorite MLP character...."

I like Derpy. :p

• nerd - "Alex, do you mind telling us which one of us looks like a clown with a small hat on?"

The only one of you I recognize by voice is Alex. Calm down.

• [AZ] - "how, though. i barely remember talking to you. i only recognized your name."

I watch. I listen.

• alm - "Do you have questions for us, Alex ? Would be fair to give you a turn."

I've got one, yeah.

What are your intentions in this game? Are you here to help someone win?

• min - "i think we wanna help 000 win."
• nerd - "i agree, do you know who 00 is?"

Lorelai, and she's not good at hiding it either.

• alm - "Well, to be full honest with you, we don't all have the same goal here, I think."
  • Some of us want to help a player, some of us are simping hard for a gamemaster...
  • Personally, I want to make this whole game thing stop.
  • But... there's at least one goal we have in common : understanding what all this shit is.

Yeah, I'm not too sure on the purpose of all this either, honestly. At least, not yet..

• min - "doesn't she have a tattoo of a zero too, like girl"

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure she always had that.

• alm - "If you had some agency about that game... What would you want ? What's your goal ?"

I want us all to be free. To be able to live happy lives, the lives we want to live. Not controlled by eldritch monsters, not controlled by abusive parents, just.. controlled by ourselves. Doing what we want to do. So I want to set us free from this.

• alm - "Yeah, I get you... I'll do my best so that it all comes to an end."
• alm - "Alright, for that we need to keep digging, so next question... D'you know the numbers of other players ?"

Thank you. 
I know that Cassidy's 003, Melanie's 004, urrrmmm... That's it off the top of my head, not gonna lie. Haven't checked the doc in a hot second.

• min - "wait so u know about those nicknames for yall, like the killer, right?"

Very vaguely. I think it's funny. Spiderlily was groaning about it one day and some of that got caught up in my spinal fluid, that's how I know about it.

• min - "do you know what anyone's nicknames are? especially the smoochers?"

Nope.

• nerd - "Alex if what you're saying is true then it looks like our interests align."
  • We can exchange information.
  • You can ask us questions and we can ask you questions.
  • We can tell you about Raine and other eldritch beings if you tell us about things like the gifs, spiderlily, and more.
  • How does spiderlily know about the cat gifs?
  • I think if we worked together we could really put a stop to this, maybe Alexandria could help too, she's the only player who can see what we see"

The Moon knows everything.

• nerd - "thats a very ominious answer. Does this mean you don't want to collaborate?"

I'm telling you how he knows. He knows *everything*. He's in my mind, and he's in yours. He's everywhere. Always watching. Always listening.

• alm - "Awesome. I love having people read my mind (sarcasm)"
  • Welp... We know there's the Moon, but have you heard about the Sun, a.k.a Sorath ?
  • We think the both of them are Gamemasters, just like Raine Evans.
  • We were wondering if they were all related somehow or not...
  • I mean, the whole thing about those gamemasters is confusing.
  • Is it, like, all players against them ?
  • Or do the gamemasters have teams assigned to each of them and you're kinda like soldiers under their commands ?"

Ain't she a doll?
M'kay, so, from my understanding: Gamemasters choose players to be their "pieces". They use various methods of controlling and manipulating their pieces to further their goals. Their whole thing is that they want to win, so that the angel produced when they inevitably eventually lose to 000 is much stronger than one normally produced. In order for a GM to win, the last person standing's gotta be one of their pieces.

I'm a little wakey. If you've got anything else to ask or say, make it quick. The leftover gatekept meal in Allison's fridge is calling my name...

• alm - "Oh shit. But... then... ""
  • why'd you decide to become a player ?
  • You don't look like someone who'd let someone else boss them around.
  • Or maybe you got selected against your will ?"

Decide? A little victim-blamey, don'tcha think? Nah, I didn't choose this. None of us did. I don't *let* Spiderlily control me, I do it so he doesn't deteriorate my body more than he already has. I've done my research on this kind of stuff, how his parasitic way of controlling someone can affect their body. So I don't resist. So he doesn't need to take control of me. So I don't have to feel that weird fungus take over my nervous system.

• alm - "Nah I didn't want to blame you, it makes way more sense if you were forced into it."
  • "D'you know why Spiderlily chose you to be part of the game ?"

I'unno. If Spiderlily even was the one who chose me. All of that is unknown to me.
But, yeah... if that's all, I'll be off. Just give me the word.

• jest - "alex what was that lunch"

It was soooo good. I have to gatekeep. Sorry.

• fool - "Oh actually do you know how someone could talk to us while awake ?"

Drugs, probably.

I know Allison's done that.

• nerd - "What drugs are you on right now. Scratch that, which ones aren't you on"

I'm asleep.
Not for long, though.

That all? My eyelids are getting suuuper light right now...

• Detective Faux (me) - "Thank you for your help Alex~ Enjoy the meal. We'll talk again soon~"

Hey, you, you're finally awake! You were trying to cro-

DISCONNECTED.

Raine Evans: