Text Adventure with Alexander Valentine

CONNECTING...

Sigh. Thank god, I was getting impatient. Plus, that outfit was kind of itchy..

You three are new. Where're the others? I dunno if you'd recognize me.

LOL not raine

If Raine wanted to talk to you, he'd just do it. No need for this

Alexander Valentine. Nice to meet ya :]

New is unfortunate. This may be the last time you ever speak to me!

Lily's surgery is in two days. Olive, Cass, and I are gonna be picking her up in a few hours. Thought I'd get my snooze on in the meantime but I had an odd dream. Then you guys showed up.

Was at a rickety old circus. Couldn't feel Spiderlily's presence at all. I felt so.. light. It was odd. Something else was definitely there, though. Not Sorath or Raine, but.. something. I dunno.
Hiii maws :3

No. It was scary. Not right. Uneasy.

I didn't belong there

Could say that

Does it?
I know Olive's had similar dreams recently. You guys been talking to them too?

That's odd. Hm.
Nice to see you both, I was getting stage fright with this new crowd haha

I was wearing a really uncomfy outfit. Kinda itchy. Not my style.
Hm. Idk. Maybe next time, Nerdy, if there is one, I'll ask you about it. 
Cassidy and I have been doing some research through this old book she found at the church and I think we have a gameplan
Need to discuss with Lily first. That's.. gonna be the hard part, probably.

Ironically enough it's her birthday too. Can only imagine why raine chose that

Maybe. it's odd.
I see people sometimes. Clowns and the like. There was something else though. It looked vaguely like a person? Kind of?

In the dream
The other thing almost looked like spiderlily but very obviously wasnt. Idk how to like, properly describe it
Tall. Almost as tall as Spiderlily but in place of its face was a hole, and it was wearing some sort of white cloak
It didn't do anything. It just stood there. Not even subtle movement, just stationary

It just stood there. It looked like it was like... embedded into the ground, kind of.?

Nope. Did some walking around until you guys showed up.
Couldn't really even place the location of the circus, actually. It was just in some woods. Kinda foggy too?

Yeah, I get it. I'm kinda important for the whole "try to win the game" thing, y'know? :p

The plan is mostly dependant on Cass and I.. y'know. dying. And Olive protecting Lily.
Sorath has no pieces left. No reason to play, she can't win.
Spiderlily has just Cass and I.

We give em the book and wish for the best!
We're gonna have a study day and everything tomorrow.

It's an old, old grimoire written by the Lamb family. Has a lotttt of old stuff.
Stuff about ghosts. Demons, gods, the like.

Apparently, Raine's situation is like... *super, super* uncommon. A "Primordial Ghost". According to the book, it like, never happens. Raine's probably the only one.

It happens when the soul gets trapped between Veils and these substances called "Impurity" and "Heavenfire" latch onto it and create a physical form

Weird stuff. Wonder if I could do that.... :thinking:

YUP.

Yeah no im definitely good on that front lol
And idk. On one hand, I want it to be because like... yknow. Means we get out. But at the same time you guys are pretty cool. Bleh.

They know the plan anyways. Spiderlily's in my head, remember?

We make the plan, they work around it.
Or, try to.

Maybe! I dunno. I don't know what's gonna happen to us after the game, if we win. I don't know where we'd go.

Veritas Agni
Vanitas? Agni
Something like that

Curious...

I liked Adrianne a lot. Shame they got her.

You know
I hope we have a choice.

No way if it was a tiktok edit it'd be to Army Dreamers by Kate Bush trust me trust me trust me

I HAVE...

Do you want 2 scoops, Nerdy?

I'm allowed some fun every now and then

Have questions about it?

I mean, it's the last time we'll speak like this for the forseeable future. Gotta make it count, right?

The only thing relating to a circus has something to do with that elevator place but it seems.. vastly different from the dream.

As for interesting things, there's quite a lot actually

Is that what it's called?

Weird. The circus there is apparently the "Fraud" layer of that hell

I can't recall but there's ten(?) of them

Nope

It is mine, yeah. I don't think I have a video called that

Interesting. yeah the grimoire is very useful but kind of a pain
it's so much. hard to annotate. it feels like highschool all over again

I have a fuckton of sticky notes and tabs in the book yeah
Notes and whatnot

Favorite fnaf fangame. Shame it's lost
They got him. Gralbert,
Locked him in the skill room...

Peak....

There was a whole section on cryptozoology. Stuff about Mothman written before the first documented sightings. Nightcrawlers too! Super neat stuff. Oh, and the Raven.

Y'know Slenderman?

It's weird i like it

There was also a section about Spiderlily and Sorath. Was interesting, the stuff about how they're kind of technically the same entity.
That doesn't surprise me. He likes to take advantage of the weak-minded.

She really did get the worst of it, huh?

I watch youtube

Freaky thing?

Ah. I dunno, I didn't see anything about that

Nothing you don't already know, I'm sure
Who?

Idk why he'd be important

True.

I would be upset that I didn't get to see it

Pull an ATBABA Chapter 1, probably. If all else fails, I'm sure Spiderlily's gonna be panicking and pulling out all sorts of different cards. There'll be ways.

i had to talk to allison about it. suspicions were right, it's lorelai
or sathariel. whatevers left of her

Raine, probably.

Yeah that's above my paygrade lol

Not really

Carlos solos :/

She sounds familiar? I think Allison's brought her up once or twice

I beat 50/20 mode once. Never again

I can't quite remember.

...Sarah. Not out of hate. Love and hate are very, very similar anyways, so.

You're Catalina. Everyone does.

I don't.

Hm... probably something about uh... I forgot what they were called but it started with an F. Something... "horn". Idk.

I do.

Drink water, probably! That's what I do

A little bit, yeah

no. That's mine.
It's just kind of random yeah. Some things are sorted into categories but otherwise

Demons had multiple subsections, angels too, species with subspecies and whatnot. Yknow.

Yay

She didn't

Shapeshifting

Dromen have a lot of supspecies. Subclasses too

Yeah
Dromen are like that too
Demon, catalyst demon, metamorphosis demon, etc, and then layers and individual species
Dromen, common dromen, ghoul dromen, cryptid dromen, then subclasses

Not mentioned there, no

What separates demons of one layer from another?

Oh there's a lot of spells and rituals
That's why it's important for the plan

I'm sure that one demon I read about has a copy. Legion, I think his name is. Otherwise, not sure.

I've taken a look, but it can be hard sometimes

Idk much about all that. It's complicated

/shrug

He's surprisingly good. Helped a lot of people.

Not much. Some people even go for free.

Probably not. I'm pretty sure they're all just.. nothing.

Yeah..

Just bags of flesh and bone.

It's a very real possibility our plan won't work. We might be stuck here again. There's no telling how long it'll be until we see you again. You'll know either way.

Had a dream that apparently others are having too, ended up here, we talked about my plan and the grimoire we got

I'm doing alright, a little sleepy. Like someone I know

The pull out couch has room, don't worry

It's not a lot between Olive and myself but it works

God.  me too.

Thank you I'll need it

Y'know, maybe. It probably will. Equal chance we won't. I dunno, we'll see.

If not this round, then I'm sure we'll get it next time

This plan is well put together, I think.

good luck ,!

Here's to hopin!!!!!!

Worst case scenario is we go another round. Meaning we have another chance, and we can try again

Depends.

Probably both!

..No. I don't think so.

Probably will! I'll be a little upset

Not sure. Lot of scary stuff I think

yeah

No, actually. They seem to keep to themselves.
I don't think even Adrianne knows about the stuff her family's been involved with.

So many new faces late in the game. It's a little, like, weird to me honestly lol
Idk. It feels weird knowing people choose to watch and participate in this. I get it, but.. eh. I dunno.

Yeah, I get it. Things are just hard to wrap your head around sometimes, yknow?

oh hang on
fffuck headache ok uhh
he's. Here he's here
physically i think he's in the house but i can't  wake up

ok this sucks he's fucking things up in here i can't see you guys now
all i see is woods
ugh ill keep you updated

ok hang on. he's saying stuff i think i can't tell
i've been walking for a bit now
this place reeks man

some sort of wooded area. all the trees have black leaves
some of them are bleeding

Always! as per usual
hang on i see something

there's a painting on one of the trees. just kind of hanging here

it's like. huh. Ok hang on
uuugh i wish you could just. see.
it's like... a person. i don't recognize them. they're wearing blue and pink jewels and have a crown on. wearing a white dress, sitting on a velvet chair

it's very renaissance. but there's computers in the background so it has to be like, modern you know

the frame is gold
this is stupid im walking away
starting to snow. cool

it was like nailed into the tree
it's snowing kind of hard now

yes
it fucking smells ughhhh

this is awful. This sucks! I can hear something moving

I dunno. This is awful I hate it. I'm just sort of walking around aimlessly.

Not really. A little
More foggy

The snow is starting to pile and reflect light, so it's not that bad in terms of darkness
JESUS fucking christ oh myt god. Hi. Sorry a bag just. fell. in front of me
It was on a tree branch and it snapped and fell
The bag is leaking blood and smells. This sucks

I don't want to check but I'm assuming yes considering it's leaking blood
Smells rotten

My saliva is starting to taste like salt water ughh

Probably won't
This sucks my organs feel so heavy now
I don't think I'm dreaming right now

It feels too real
This isn't a dream
There's something here
Hang on

It's a statue
I don't know who it is. It's marble but the eyes look realistic
Like they're following me

No
It feels. weird. to look at.
I'm gonna walk away from it now

I'm looking around more
There's rose bushes
I see what looks like a mausoleum?
Let me look
mausoleum definitely
there's candles inside

they're not lit right now
hang on i'm gonna try opening the tomb thingy
curiosity

staircase. Goes down
chat do i go

it's cold down here. I see a door though, it'll take a sec to get down there so
gimme a sec

Nothing does lol
oh jeez ok harsh petrichor smell
opening door now
It's a field of flowers
It's raining

Azaleas

White, orange, pink
The building I came out of is a church
I see a road in the distance. Woods
It's foggy. Sky's grey. Raining, I said that
There's a house
Walking there now
Looks like it's one floor. But who knows, this is all in a tomb under a mausoleum.
There's a white picket fence stained green and brown by the grass and mud. Flower bushes and whatnot
The house is white. Light blue door with paint chipping off
The windows have the curtains drawn. Knocking on the door
No car in the driveway
No one's answering uffff. I'd feel weird going in. What if someone's home
Difficult.

It's pouring. I'm cold lol
No worries

Ugh fuck it im going inside yeah
It. huh. It smells a little dusty. Old perfume smell too. It smells like a grandma's house.
The wallpaper is floral. Greens and pinks
The walls are covered in pictures
Framed
Fancy frames

There's a lot of trinkets and stuff. All around
One of the people in these pictures looks like the woman in the painting
The air in here is so still. It's weird. It's so uneasy. This place feels so comfortable though.
I found the living room

Bookshelves, with trinkets and books, a recliner with a crochet blanket on it.. old box TV sitting on a stand, more pictures on the walls. Coffee table with a little glass container of candy. White curtains with a floral pattern embroidered on them, little trinkets in the windowsill
Carpeted too
Just various trinkets, nerdy. Nothing really of note. Lots of religious stuff
There's crosses on the walls

This tv is so old lol there's an antenna clipped onto the curtain
Hang on I found a remote I'm curious
This isn't Faith's house. Too far in relation to the church. I don't recognize this church either
Ok I'm turning on the
 
Huh.

The TV is just showing a picture of the woman
She's crying

The same as the painting from before. She's white. Wearing white clothes, she has long dark hair
She's crying
It's the same picture on every channel
She looks familiar but I don't recognize her at all

No

I'm turning off the tv I don't like this loll

looking for the kitchen
It's decorated too
Not as much

The fridge has a lot of magnets and stuff on it
There's a painting on one of the walls
It's interesting. I can't tell exactly what it's supposed to be

No it's just strange
I can make out details like a forest and a starry sky but the main centerpiece of the drawing is so. vague?
It looks like a dark figure wearing a mask? I think? I don't know.

From what I've seen, no
I'll keep looking

Old. Not super old, but like, 90s.
A grandma lived here.
I think, at least. Has those vibes

Oh right
Ummm let me see
Some kid's drawings, report cards, names marked out.
Oh
There's a doctor's note

Names are blacked out but I'll like
List what's checked
Appearance: poor hygiene, disheveled, inappropriate attire. I can't read this word but under it is "Oriented to" and checked is person.

Functioning: disoriented/incoherent, confused, memory impaired, short term, abnormal movement, tremors, weight loss.
Speech: pressured.
Behavior: threatening, agitated, aggressive.

Mood/Affect: anxious, irritable, hostile, intense, hopeless/helpless
Daily patterns: insomnia, nightmares, increased libido, decreased work/school performance
Thought content: flight of ideas. "suicidal ideation" has white-out over a check. hallucinations, circled types being auditory and visual. delusions, circled types being paranoid, bizarre, and erotic.

Maybe? Again, I wouldn't be able to tell you. I don't know who that is lol

Machines, bugs
They're really impressive actually
Oh hey there's one of a clown

Not much inside the fridge
bottled water, that's about it

You're right.

I think the first letter is an S? Sensorism? I don't know
I don't know if I got any of the letters right honestly. The print is smudgy.

Sensorium. Yeah that might be it
Sensorium, oriented to person

Oh
That's not good

That's.. kind of sad

Jesus
Okay, uh. I'm gonna go to some other rooms now.
I don't know why but this is like, making me tear up a little.
It shouldn't but like

There's a couple rooms in this hallway. Master bedroom, then a smaller on the other side. Then there's a bigger room on the other side of like, a wicker door
Master bedroom first!
It smells sweet in here
Wallpaper is still floral, white with pink flowers
There's a dresser with trinkets on it, a closet, some chairs with dolls on them. More paintings, more portraits. There's a night stand with a lamp and a pair of glasses, with a little framed picture.
The bed is quilted, lots of pillows

It's an oldish picture of a group of people standing together. Looks like a family photo. One of the kids has their face burned out of the picture.
There's a little thingy in the picture frame too

A little piece of paper. Says "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God - Matthew 5:9"

It's just family photos. The girl from the TV is in a lot of them. I'm assuming she's the kid whose face was burned in the picture frame

Long dark hair, thin, caucasian, usually wearing white

Normal eyes
Not really. Just a standard family.
Three kids, a married couple, and an old woman.

Brown and blue

No, some of them have brown and some have blue

Like a greyish greenish-blue with brown near the pupil

Yeah
This room gives me the heebie jeebies. It's oddly cold

Not particularly, just landscapes
Gonna check out the smaller room
It's kind of a mess in here
The wallpaper is partially torn off but it's the same as the other room
Way more paintings, some picture frames are on the floor and cracked
bed's a mess. There's a lava lamp on the dresser
Some movie posters
Some sculptures?

The sculptures are like, mannequin heads kind of? Decorated. Look weird. Interesting. The posters are mostly for slasher movies
The paintings are the same style as the one in the woods and the one in the kitchen
Like, same artstyle
They're weird. Lots of odd color choices. Like if a painting could have organs.

No
Some of them have really intricate backgrounds and characters but others are just a mess
This is so weird dude fuck. Hang on there's a bookshelf  not much in it.
A gas mask, some cool looking knives, uhh. books. obviously
Mostly religious and philosophical stuff

Yeah I'll take it just in case. All the books are on their side so idk if there's a switch. Weird way of doing that.
There's blackout curtains covering the window

Yeah I'm looking rn.. it's like. It's the same. It's the field of flowers and the woods. Still pouring rain. Someone's gotta issue a flash flood warning..
This place makes me feel. sad.
I don't know why

Maybe. I'm gonna move on to that other room now
Got the mask with me
 
It's. Hm.

It's a room. kind of big. Lot of windows, feels open. There's a couch, two recliners, a coffee table, and a TV. There's a glass door leading outside. It's eerie outside. It's just woods, but it's dark outside. Still raining. I feel like I'm being watched.
Wallpaper is light green with maroon flowers. Some paintings of landscapes on the one wall without windows.
I feel uneasy

I don't see a remote
Kind of grateful
There's no curtains. I wish there were

No it's just open
Like. it feels open. I feel like I'm being looked at.

I can't see outside
Too dark, too much rain

Landscapes. One's snowy with a red sky
I'm gonna go back and see if I missed anything.

Took a cool pocket knife... blade is oil stained oh my goodness

oh true hang on
smaller bedroom, there's pill bottles under the bed. some are empty some have some left. a laptop too

It's abilify
Let me check

Password protected uuugh
I dont think I should be snooping like that anyways..
Let me check the other room

The torn up one
Master bedroom has photo albums
Oh there's a box here too
Hang on
It's a little music box

I think it's broken
Yeah it's not working :/

It's white painted wood with a golden trim. Small. There's a little figure of a clown inside

A lot of old family pictures
Some of them don't seem related at all though. The pictures, I mean. Some are just like, of random things. Things you wouldn't take pictures of. Just the sky. Super zoomed in photo of a wall. Stuff like that.
There's a picture of the burnt-face girl and the mother in front of the church
..Maybe I should check there after.

Back in the living room now. Looking at some of the portraits
One of these looks like a school picture
Some sort of religious school
no bueno

Very much felt. She doesn't look too happy in the picture.

Nope
I can try seeing if any are on the report cards
One moment
"Bright Baptist Academy" ok dude

These grades are kinda awful
If I had to guess? They run a school in Sparks, so.

Failing art is crazy with the paintings I saw
jesus. teacher's notes are bleak

"Lots of potential squandered by awful behavior" stuff like that. Stuff about her threatening other students and teachers fuck dude why is all mentions of this kids name blacked out
Leaving class and coming back covered in blood

I didn't go into the bathroom yet

There's meds in the cabinet. Allergy meds, more abilify. Nothing else really

skibidi... :worried:

Okay I think I'm ready to go to the church
Anything else you guys want me to look at before we leave?

One sec
Only numbers can be typed, 56 gives me nothin :/

Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku, uhh Start Your Own Religion by Timothy Leary, The Satanic Rituals by Anton Szandor LaVey, The Book of Forbidden Knowledge by Johnson Smith. And a bible
Nothin bookmarked
CONNECTION PAUSED.

RESUME CONNECTION

So I'm flipping through some of these books yeah

There's a photo in one of them. Like not a page just a polaroid
Fuck there's no page numbers in this book but uh

It's a picture of the girl, same one from the painting. The page on the left has a weird picture of some sort of snake, the right reads:
"17, Form Your Own Cult. The drop-out, turn-on, tune-in rhythm is most naturally done in small groups of family members, lovers, and seed friends. For psychedelic and legal reasons, you must form your own cult."
ok man
Oh literally next page has page numbers ok
That was page 126-127
This book is fucking weird dude LOL
Whoever lived here's a real wacko
Though judging by the state of the room I feel like that's a given.

Oh yeah there's something on the back. 
"it didnt come out bad ur delusional! see u at the circus friday ily"

No signature. Handwritings a little messy
The picture's of the girl sitting at a computer and laughing. Every picture of her smiling looks so forced. i don't know why it's creeping me out though lol

Looked out the window again cuz I felt a little uneasy. Still pouring. Still looks like it's gonna flood a little

I'll go check

Nnnot seein' much :/
spare change... ill be taking that tyvm

Right I could use this for one last gatekept meal
Idek if I'm dreaming or if this is real. It feels too real to be a dream but none of this is, like. Y'know. Right. I was in a forest with black trees and I went down into a mausoleum and into a field. So. Idk. It's so weird.

I think I'll leave the laptop for now, but let me try the uhhh. thing you just suggested
Moving the couch a bit
Fuck ok it's cold out here
Ugh my hair's all wet now. Ok going back in
It's where I left it

No I moved it a few inches, went outside, came back
Think I should go to the church now?
Not sure if there's anything left in here

I'm taking the gas mask. I'll look around for a bag and maybe a jacket too
One sec
Found an old backpack, nothing in it
Ok I'm heading to the church now

North Star's Guidance Church *and* Bright Baptist Academy. cool. huff ok going in the front door. Big, white church with some brick and marble. Wooden double doors. Stained glass windows. Heading in

The foyer is standard. Wooden panel walls with posters and advertisements, a corkboard, neat little desk with some stuff. Computer and some papers, like show bills. Pamphlets for the church. To my left is a door to some bathrooms and to my right looks like it leads into a locker room? Then on both sides of the desk is a door. Both of em lead into the big worship room
Looking at the corkboard. There's a schedule, some things about appointments, uhhhh
Not much of note.

Looks like there's no actual computer. Just a monitor

It's off. Can't turn it on there's no wires

I didn't

I'm not seeing any drawers. Glorified table

Not seein' much. There's a trash can but that's about it
I'd do that but I'm not sure if there's anyone here

Yeah
I'll check out the bathrooms
Bathroom is unisex. Odd for a church

Looking around there isn't much. Posters about washing your hands, no fem hygeine products in the toilet, you know.
Oh there's a vent in the wall over one of the stalls. It's big I could probably fit in it

Heading to the locker room

Not that I can see right now
Some of the lockers are open. Baptism robes and stuff
Smiley face pins
Fuck it, if it'll keep me warm..
Putting on one of the robes
There's another door and a latch in the floor

It doesn't look like much of one. Dusty and small. More of a crawlspace
Pipes. I'm not gonna go down there yet

Nope. Gonna wait on the other door for a sec too, gonna check out the worship room.

It being dark outside makes this a little difficult but there's dim lights on overhead so I can see a little bit. it's big. lots of pews, big stage with a pulpit and a table behind it with some decorations on it
Lots of floral decor up there
Crosses and tapestries too
There's candles around the room, none of them are lit
The windows have their curtains closed but it looks like they're stained glass.
Door to the left of the stage, looks like the back wall of the stage opens too
Oh there's an organ too

Bibles and pamphlets
Books of hymns too
OOoooh I see a balcony up above the doors I entered from. Looks like there's a projector up there, and iiiii see where the projector screen is! It's retracted into the ceiling. Neato

The one to the left of the stage?
Looks like a small flight of stairs going down, then a hallway.

I can't open it

Let me look
Hang on
The door in the locker room is a hallway and it goes..
one sec
Ok yup
Goes to some sort of baptism tub ?

But there's knobs here and opening them it's the back wall my suspicions were correct

This isn't the same north star's church that I know
Layout is different
Name of the school part is different too
And it's just. generally not in an area like this
Speaking of. I can hear the rain coming down even harder now
going back to the worship room

I don't know who Claire is
Going down the stairs, the hallway goes straight for a bit then turns left. Posters all over about smiling and god and shit
Looks like a normal church basement. Some recreational rooms, an office or two. Kitchen. Daycare.
It smells musty. Gives me the creeps
Oh hey hang on
Hahaha oh my god this is awesome there's a clown costume and a superhero costume here
In the big rec room
Omg this is awesome hahahaha the superhero costume has a cross on the chest dude this is great
My North Star's didn't have this shit lol

One of these rooms is like. A therapist's office kind of?

Maybe. There's another one just like it. At the end of the hall now and there's a regular door like all the others, wooden, and one that looks like it's made of steel
Wood is straight on, end of hallway. Steel is to my right, same side of the hall as the offices

There's no handle on the other side. I'm. What the fuck is this hang on
I'm not gonna go in unless I can ensure the door stays open but it's a shower room

Shower room with another door at the end
It's fucking gross and definitely hasn't been cleaned in a while

Gonna get a chair from the rec room to hold the door open real quick
wtf they have a gamecube in here im jealous...

not sure i didn't look i'm already pulling the chair

I'll leave it outside the steel door and make my way into the wooden one. OK. I'LL GO BACK AND CHECK!!!

Mario Superstar Baseball, Flushed Away, City Racer, Mario Kart..
Not a lot.

Wooden door leads up some stairs and into the school section
I'm at the end of it I think. Room 14 is the first one I'm seeing
yup ok

I wish she had a better upbringing. I can't imagine what living with that guy would be like.
ok going in the steel door. propping it open with the chair
There's a staircase going further down behind the second door
There's a poster. "Smile! God is watching!"

Another door at the bottom of the staircase
jesus christ

it's. like.
a hospital

it's all white and smells sterile

I haven't found any offices yet but there's some fake flowers and posters on the walls
Doors to rooms
these are like
bedrooms
this is a psych ward

looks like it

I found an office. Decorated kind of pretty. Computer again is just a monitor but there's some papers here
Same doctor note as earlier

oh there's another
let me read it real quick
patient name is blacked out, usual. date is marked as november 26, 2017.

"This is to confirm that (blacked out name) has been experiencing disturbing religious delusions. She reports hearing commands from an unseen entity and seems to believe that the church is hiding something from her. These delusions are causing her extreme distress, leading to disruptive behaviors and significant difficulty functioning in daily life.
She is currently undergoing psychiatric treatment, including medication and therapy, to address these symptoms. It is advised that she be excused from school for the next two weeks to focus on her mental health and avoid triggers that could exacerbate her condition. Further evaluation will be conducted during this period."

huh

A little longer than "hearing commands" but that could be because it's the full name idk

Maybe?

I'm looking around for other docs but there's not much. Just church stuff

I don't know who Claire is

Not that I know of?
I'm gonna start exploring again if that's okay

The halls seem very. long, so

One of the doors is open, to one of the rooms
Not a whole bunch in it. Normal psych ward

Oh that's yucky. There's a window but it has lights behind the glass, like a light you'd see in an office ceiling but on the wall. It's a fake window because this place is underground. That's fucking gross. "Manufactured by Dirge Technologies"
No patient art

Y'know maybe? I don't think so. She was thin. I'm not sure

I found a surgery room
Like
A full on surgery room
Hang on there's even an x-ray machine in one of these
Fuck dude
x-ray machine also manufactured by dirge
Papers
X-Rays, I found X-rays and documents about the same person
Her ribcage and arms were royally fucked up  jesus
Bad scoliosis too

Same length censor
Plus other notes

No
The surgery room is so off putting. Why is this in a church

I don't like that

There's another staircase

It smells mustier the more I go down
Getting more humid
There's a room. Just one

It's an office but like
Hm. It's like a therapist's office but also a lot like one of the rooms in the ward
Bookshelves too
File cabinet

Lots of books on child psychology on the shelves, and religious practices. Some are definitely a lot more occult oriented. There's a couple notebooks too. Gonna look through those

Different

A lot of these notebooks just look like diaries from school students and patients
Oh this one is interesting hang on

"The girl in the room next to me is cute. I don't care if it's wrong. I think her skin is soft. I don't like rough skin and muscle. It doesn't feel good against my own. I want to feel hers. She isn't kind to me but no one is so it's not new. I'm starting to see a lot of overlap between love and hate. The minister says he loves me but he acts like he hates me. Just like my mom and dad. They haven't visited recently. I miss my radio."
there's no date no signature. the handwriting is very nice
there's a little drawing underneath. It's of a skeleton hand holding a human hand
Same artstyle as the paintings from the house

Maybe.. I'm not sure.
This diary is a lot.
I'm gonna put it down for now
There's a flashlight. I'm taking it

Okay I'll put it in my bag
Gonna head back up, there's nothing else down here
 
I heard one of the doors creak
 I don't like that,

I've got it
I'm trying to be quiet while moving. hard when the floor is hard tile and your shoes are wet from the rain.

I'm going up the stairs to the shower room

The chair is still there thank fuck
Ok I'm heading out to the main hall and the worship room
Ok. I'm in the foyer
Could go for the vent or the latch in the locker room

It's taking a minute to unscrew the vent cover
Using my knife lol

I'm in the vent. It's dusty and stuff. Sturdy though
Turned right. Left leads outside
Still downpouring btw
Ok one exit leads to an office. There now. I hate crawling

Regular office. Paperwork and stuff. Finance. Door leads out to a hallway and the balcony
Balcony has more pews and the projector. Some controls
I made the screen descend <3
Ok ummm
turning the projector on
just a welcome message
I'm gonna go down the hall see what's up over there
Found a conference room. There's a bowl of candy. Some papers. Photographs too
There's a photo of the family
Photos of what looks like patients..
 
i don;t want to look at these anymore
god i need to get the fuck out of ehre

My mouth tastes like saltwater I hate this,,
I'm gonna keep going but. not the conference room.
The fact that. they could do that to people is so..

Raine Evans - "CW: Medical malpractice."

the next room looks like another regular office. there's a weird figure on one of the chairs like a stuffed toy
it's weird looking. not sure what it's supposed to be.

looks like a bad taxidermy of something
too big to take

cutting into its clothes and seeing like
stray red threads

it's full of rice

some of it looks stained with what looks like old, *old* blood
weird.
i'm not gonna stick around to figure out what's going on with that.
door at the end of the hall leads out to a balcony outside, staircase going down to the outdoor playground. it's still raining

it had water in it

like if i went in there i'd be up to my knees probably
going back inside
okay i'm back in the bathroom, gonna go to the little crawlspace under the locker room now
flashlight's gonna come in handy

gross taste
opening the latch. gonna have to put on the respirator this sucks
heading in

how so? this is a long fuckin tunnel

oops!
i doubt it'll do anything honestly. if it does then uhhh
i can fight
oh hang on i see light
it's started to slope down. not so much that i'll slide but
give me  a sec
Dude
There is a massive fucking tunnel down here
Like. I cannot see either end.
And it is Huge.
In, like, diameter
This is kind of scary. I'm. going back up.

Ok I'm out
I think. that's everything? here?
Only place left is outside

..Looks like Sorath and Spiderlily, actually.
Abstractions of them, at least

huff. ok going outside. I wish I had an umbrella

like. one is a woman with a sun for a head the other is a man with a crescent moon for a head
Not what they really look like, basically.

Not particularly.
It's fucking freezing out here... even with the stupid baptism robe

I took a baptism robe from the church's locker room for warmth. Unfortunately the sky is pissing.

I'm going back to the house right now
I thought of something

The room that's mostly window, that I felt like I was being watched in
Gonna check out the woods surrounding that part of the house.
It's fucking foggyyyyy. There's a road leading from the driveway of the house, to the church, and out past the church but I can't see anything past a couple yards out from the church due to the fog

Huh. Didn't notice this, there's rose bushes growing into the azalea bushes outside the house.
Not in the field, as far as I know, the ones immediately outside the house. I'll check the field after.
Heading into the woods!

Red
Got my flashlight on, took my gas mask off, got my robe on... got my knife too. Should be safe.

there's a painting leaned up against a tree

no frame just a canvas. it looks like it's of a woman, different from the previous painting. she's wearing some sort of leather bodysuit and the painting is too muddy and rained-on to make out any intricate facial features but it looks like she has black, straight hair
she's standing in what looks like a castle

There's no signature

continuing. my organs feel heavy in my body again.

Looks like a while. They're kind of dense.

swampy
There's a small cemetery

It's unmarked. The dirt looks disturbed
Like someone dug up a corpse

no, actually.. No that couldn't have been dug up from the outside

It's disturbed in a way that someone had to have clawed their way out

footprints
i'm following them
...Oh

The footprints. They're. deepest in the woods right outside the room with the windows
Like

Someone was standing here for a while

There's more, I'm still following them

I do, knife in my dominant hand flashlight in my left

The footprints go out to the field before I can't see them any more. too many flowers, too much water
I haven't checked the field yet anyways so.

Azaleas. White, orange, and pink

Walking through the field now

i found red azaleas

there's a lot of red azaleas

i hear breathing. heavy breathing. like, the way someone breathes when they're struggling for air

she's here

i don't know who she is
she's covered in cuts
she's naked and bleeding out

one of her eyes is torn out

her hair is dark, messy bangs, her bone structure is wider but she's unhealthily thin
her teeth are bloody and she's crying and breathing heavy

[MOON]: Do you like my gift?

who. is this

[MOON]: Her memory remained, didn't it? You entered her tomb. You made this choice.

who is she what is this what are you doing

[MOON]: It's her fault anyways. Don't you like seeing her bleed?

no, no i don't, i don't know Who this is

[MOON]: She did this to you. You can kill her. She's already down, Valentine.

she's deadalready why are you doing this
she's Dead she's been dead forever

[MOON]: Kill her. Cut her throat. You want to, don't you? For everything she's put you through. She's nothing but one of those monsters you detest, Valentine.

Get away from me I can't do that
Not again not her
Stop making me move

I hate the way your skin feels in my veins stop oit stop it

[MOON]: Much better. Doesn't that feel better? I love the way flesh loses its color in the water. Don't you? It's like a beautiful painting. Like the ones she used to make.

[MOON]: Oh, come on now, don't be sad, Alexander. You've made everyone so proud today.

[MOON]: You must remember, Alexander. You are meant to fulfil a purpose. I give you that purpose. I am your purpose. You do what I say, and I let you live. It makes me happy when you do what I tell you to. You don't want me to be sad, do you?

[MOON]: You're putting your faith in the wrong places, Convalescent.

[MOON]: Jessica lived a good life, didn't she?

[MOON]: She has been. But sometimes you need to prove a point.

[MOON]: It formed her into something great.

[MOON]: Think of this as her eulogy.

[MOON]: Sometimes you need to let things rest, don't you? There's no point in resurrecting the dead. They'll just die again anyways. Why delay the inevitable?

[MOON]: Is it? Alex hasn't served his purpose fully yet. Jessica has.
[MOON]: Sentience is nothing more than a tool.

[MOON]: And that means?

[MOON]: Like Alex wouldn't do the same if he were in my position.

[MOON]: You've known Jessica's purpose for a while now, don't act stupid. Maybe one day you'll understand where I come from. Being God is an inherently dehumanizing experience, isn't it? That comes with losing your humanity. Doesn't it?

[MOON]: My purpose is to give sentience purpose.

[MOON]: Everything is going exactly as planned. You're only complaining because you're aware of it.

[MOON]: There is no other response. Humans complain about the things they dislike. Natural. Anticipated. It's happened before. It will happen again.

[MOON]: Alex is waking up. He may be a little sick, but that comes with interacting with corruptelam.
[MOON]: I'm not winning this round. I've come to accept it. So, I'm giving Alex an experience he won't forget. So he can be in perfect shape next time.

[MOON]: HEhehahahahhaahaha this is fun. I'm having fun.
[MOON]: I do, Dirt. I have my plans. I've anticipated every outcome. I know which ways I can win, which ways I can lose. I've seen it all already. It's going to be fun.

[MOON]: I'll keep it a surprise for now. I think I'll be taking my leave for now. Don't want Alex's eyes to get too badly injured.

[MOON]: Radiation poisoning, Cynthia. I'm sure you'd be familiar with such a topic, considering your prior research.

gjh

DISCONNECTED.