Connection with Unknown

CONNECTING...

I did it. Just like you asked.

...Hello???
Why aren't you answering me. Ugh! You always do this!

You like to do this, don't you. You like to hurt people and then pretend like nothing ever happened.
That girl was there, the one that came up to us at the library.
Did you know she'd be there?

• dirt (wurm) - "Adrianne?"
• min - "I'm sorry, we don't know what you're talking about right now. Is this Adrianne or Faith? And what are you talking about? What girl? Where was she?"

.....
Who are you. Why are you following me. Why have you *been* following me enough to know those names.
Come out and show yourself, hands visible. I am armed and not at all afraid to hurt you.
/this wasn't in the fucking plaaaaannnnn.../

• min - "Alright, seems like we haven't met before. We're called the Convalescent. We're people from another reality that are viewing yours. Whatever bodies you're seeing us in are just conduits, we don't have control over them. Destroying the statues or whatever you're seeing won't hurt us, but we aren't going to hurt you."
• Detective Faux (me) - "Shhh, calm down. We're not here to harm you, and we're certainly not following you. If anything, you found us first."

You're not supposed to sit down with the dolls. I didn't do that. Show yourselves or get away from me.

...Will you please answer me? I'm in a situation.

• min - "Who are we talking to right now? Are there two? Please say your name,,"
• me - "We don't really know how to show ourselves, we don't have control over our bodies. I've been told we resemble statues to you. We're also quite literally blind, deaf, and riddled with arthritis"

I refuse to disclose any identifying details. Leave. I am armed. I've dealt with monsters like you before. Ones that can fuck with people's minds. Get away. Stay away.

There's your warning shot.

I hope it hit.

• wurm - "You're either dreaming or crashing out on drugs. Pipe down, little kid."
• me - "Can you describe what you see at least? Of us or your surroundings? We can't leave if we don't know where we are"

I'm in the park. Woodsy area. I see trees. Hard to see through this mask but I've always been able to manage. Come find me.

• min - "Sarah?"

If that's what you want to call me, we can go with that. Sure. Not a name I particularly like. But we're not friends, so I don't care.

• wurm - "Jeff The Killer 💀"
• me - "Also feel free to shoot us if it makes you feel more comfortable, I'm not really sure if we can feel anything really. But is there a title we can refer to you as, if you prefer not 'Sarah'. Either code name, job position, family name, w/e."

Just keep calling me that. It's easier.

Will you fucking answer me? God, why are you never there when I need you??

• min - "WERE ANSWERING YOU HIII HELLOOO CAN YOU HEAR USSS"

NOT YOU.

• min - "OH MY.GOFDDD. WHO THEN. THE MOON?"
  • "GODS DONT ANSWER CALLS FROM THEIR PUPPETS"
• wurm - "Spiderlily Spiderlily Spiderlily... El Tradackdalin El Tradackdalin El Tradackdalin..."

I'm not one of those poor things ensnared in the Spiderlily's web.

• min - "THEN WHAT ARR YOU BITCH"
• me - "Chill"
• min - "Soraths cuckold?"

You're awful rude for someone refusing to leave me alone.

• min - "we literally cannot"

I refuse to worship a God that doesn't respond to prayers.

• min - "listen for 5 fucking seconds, do you know about the game you're in?"
• me - "Are you awake?"

I do.
I am.

• me - "You said you're in a park by the woods, In sparks right? Also, Usually people can only ever talk to or see us in a dream, have you tried closing your eyes or pinching yourself?"

I am fully awake.

• me - "Strange. Either way, I can promise you we mean you no harm, and that this is the first time we've even known you exist. Was there something or someone following you before this?"
  • "And what exactly were you referring to earlier about doing something 'just like you asked'? Was there someone who looked like us asking you to do things before?"

I can't tell you that. It doesn't look like you.

• me - "That's fine, no worries. What can you tell us?"

Why should I tell you anything?

Come on. Come onnn. Where are you.

• rancorous randal (pies) - "we're only trying to help you. i know this sounds like a lot of bullshit coming from random voices but we have no intention to hurt you. we have information that could possibly help you if you would just comply"
• me - "Because we don't know why you're so predisposed to seeing us as hostile. Is there anything we can do to prove we're not a threat and just want to talk?"

When something calls your name you're not supposed to respond. This is no different.
Eyes below eye level, and all that.

• wurm - "We're in your head and you can never get rid of us. God Bless."
• me - "That might be why you can't see us actually, since we've only known that we manifest there"
• min - "inshallah you're stuck with us"
• me - "And we're not trying to like 'beckon you towards the light' or some shit like that. We're just a curious group of individuals that really want to help out as best they can in sparks Nevada."
• min - "stop being a little bitch and work with us. we can help you, or at the very least we can try to"

You're not who I reached out to. You're in my way. I need to find something.

• min - "yeah well maybe who you reached out to doesn't want to talk to you"
  • "or maybe they put us together because we can help you"
• me - "Is there information you want or something? We can maybe help with that if you'd like"

I don't want anything from you.
You're distracting me.

• me - "Then why'd you come to us?"

I didn't. You're not who I reached out to.

• me - "But we're who you connected with anyway. Did your connection get rerouted or something? I can help troubleshoot if so"

...

I found the statue. If you want to say something, say it now. Answer me.

• me - "The statue as in one of us? Cause if so I do have something to say. Well first, what does it look like, so I can confirm, (blind and whatnot)"

It's the statue where I found the mask. I'm certain it's none of you.

• pies - "what mask? what did it look like?"

A lot like mine. Without the tears, though. No star. Something different in the eyes.

• me - "The mask came with eyes?"

The ones I'm used to all came with black coverings over the eyes. Thin, you could see through them still.

• pies - "could you tell us more about the masks?"

I remember them being handed out. Some having roman numerals on the forehead. Different designs of our choosing. We got to design them, for the most part, on cheap plastic ones at first. Then, a month or so later, ceramic ones perfectly molded to our face were given to us.
Mine had a star on the forehead, long eyelashes with teardrops, and a wide smile with rosey cheeks.
This one is similar. An I replacing the star, a lack of teardrops or eyelashes, and no rosey cheeks. Similar smile, though. I remember it.
The eye backing isn't black either. White, with a black line going down the center.

• mechasprings (mech) - "This is a very important question. Do you like Gralbert?"

You're wasting my time. Get out of my way.

• min - "You said you got to design the masks, do you mean you and the other players? And who did you give them too? Raine?"

No, everyone.. back then. I think.. some woman. I don't remember her face.

• min - "Lucille?"

That name sounds familiar. Yes. I don't know why I can't remember things like this anymore.

• min - "Does the name Deity in Death ring any bells?"

How do you know so much?

• min - "We're spectators from another world viewing yours. We want to help."

...

Ghh-

...I don't know why you want to help. This isn't your problem. It's mine.

• min - "Maybe so... but unfortunately some of us have a little thing called empathy. We've been made aware of everyone's situation and want to help. Wouldn't you? If you thought you could?"

I don't know what to do.
I think I'm stuck like this. I think I'll die like this.
I'll die in this town all because of this statue.
It made me too aware. I can never leave. They'll kill me. I need it.

• min - "Like what? What do you need, Molly?"

I need more time. The statue is bleeding.

• min - "Describe the statue, please."

It looks like an angel. The mask fits perfectly.

• min - "Hm. Sounds like Raine to me."

I don't know who that is.

• min - "Maybe you came later then, after he'd taken rose. What about Autumn?"

I don't recall that name either.

• min - "Hm. Noted. They must've taken your memory to a certain extent. Raine, Lucille, and someone else ran Deity in Death"

It's nothing that matters anyways. What matters is now.

• pies - "what exactly is going on right now?"

I'm in the woods. I put the mask back on the statue. I hear the dolls' tea party nearby. They're trying to lure me in again. It's better than ghouls, but still annoying.

• min - "im sorry the fucking dolls tea party?? can u elaborate ive never heard of that before??"

I still don't know what exactly it is. It's one of the things I've started seeing ever since I put on the mask. I've been seeing monsters. The tea party only ever appears in the woods or in my back yard. A group of human-size dolls sitting at a nicely crafted table where it doesn't belong, drinking tea. Their voices are indecipherable, but they're always trying to get me to sit down with them. I won't do it.

• min - "Definitely for the best I'd say? Which mask did you put on? The one meant for you?"
• pies - "also can you describe the dolls for us?"

The one I found on the statue.
They're generally nondescript. They look like they're made of porcelain and cloth.

• min - "yeah that makes sense, raine's got a thing for dolls. he's a therapist in town, one of the gamemasters"

I've seen other things as well. Not just those

• pies - "like what?"

Ghouls... mostly. There's these things that look like tv static, um, I've seen things moving in the pond that don't look like they belong there..

• min - "so who were u trying to contact? if you don't mind me asking.."

I can't tell you that. I've already wasted enough time here. I need to find my way home.

• cynthia (cyn) - "you're lost?"

Sometimes the way home gets confusing. The mask showed me strange truths. Everything is so much farther than it seems

• cyn - "what are some of these 'strange truths'?"

In September, I was walking home from the statue and the path home became snowy. It became night time quickly, and it was snowing hard. There were street lights glowing a harsh yellow that the snow reflected. It took me three hours to make it home from the park. It usually only takes 20 minutes.

• starman (star) - "Why not take a bus home"

They don't come here anymore

• min - "thats... really weird. i'm sorry"
• star - "Guess the economy couldn't handle it"
• cyn - "what was the exact date? was it the first?"

No, but it was early september. I can't recall the exact date

• cyn - "okay good to know"

I found my way home. I'm almost there. I'm going to sleep the second i get inside. It's 2 in the fucking morning mom's gonna be pissed..

DISCONNECTED.