[network] @Spoiler; You Will Go On [open] Day 204

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[ Steph still has a bandage over one cheek, taped in place with packing tape. But at least the injury underneath it isn't as disturbing anymore, just an unpleasant growing scab. ]

Alright kids, it's that time again. Let's talk about what we all saw when things went crazy two days ago.

I hope you've all got at the very least some pain killers by now, but if you're still waiting for medical help? Please take care of yourself and don't strain yourself trying to answer this.

Now we all know that eyes are a theme. What I want to know is what sort of things we saw besides eyes.

For us there was a glowing like fire, or like Andromeda's eyes, I guess. Ice fell from the top of the tunnels. [ That was... upsetting, considering the way Kes and Zach each died last. Steph shudders. ] And, uh... god, there's not a way to put this that isn't creepy as hell, we got... licked.

So there was that. What else do you guys have for me?

Comments

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[fiteme]

Licked?

[Well count him grossed out. But he recovers.]

I didn't get hurt, I just... saw a lot of people. Kind of. It was hard to see through the snow, but there were dozens of them. Just standing there. Watching me. I could feel them watching me.

[Steve's gaze falls off to the side as he remembers it, his face tensing into concern.]

They looked... I don't know. Like they were waiting for something. Needing something.

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[spoileralert]

Yeah.

[ She's still grossed out by it, and rubs at her bandage self-consciously. At least it didn't lick her neck, like it did Zach. ]

Do you remember what any of them looked like? We've seen a couple of the previous residents before.

@featherydouche; text; not until morning 205

[mrcreamsicles]

we didnt see anything like eyes
there was this path between places lit up more like stars or something
but aside from that we didnt really see anything
our hearing went weird though like everything got distant and muffled and our ears popped
i could barely even hear clint or nat next to me
and i felt like something up in the sky somewhere was listening in on us
couldnt see anything there no matter how many times i checked though
none of us got harmed either so im pretty sure we got off easy compared to the rest of what ive been hearing

text;

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Yeah, we didn't exactly stay on the path... That may have had something to do with it.

That's nice, a "being watched" theme that doesn't involve eyeballs.

[ Private ]

How are you guys doing?

@Ecks | text

[ecks]

I did not see eyes
I saw one of my siblings but it was not one of my siblings
there were not eyes

text

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Did it look like your sibling just... without the eyes?

@jphawkins, text

[rattlingthestars]

I felt like something was following us the whole time but whenever I turned around, nothing was there. Not really exciting, for this place.

WHat I've been thinking of - you heard that voice, right? It was Andromeda's voice?

text

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It was definitely her voice. What are you thinking?

@fuckyou; audio

[blueteamproblems]

Caboose and I both passed out. We just got really tired out of nowhere for no reason.

And when we woke up there were footprints on us.

audio

[spoileralert]

Footprints. Like... what kind of footprints exactly?

@totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

i didnot
eyes

but idid
this

*He includes two videos. The first ist he tablet video of what he and Jade encountered. The second is just him filming the camera's playback with his tablet.*

in per son itwas
thing
like hu man head face spine
but no thing
else








it didnot come back
out

*He is not okay with that.*

text

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[ WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ]

did that just

come out of jade's mouth

and crawl into yours

@ordo; audio >> private

[hangfire]

[His voice is a lot more wearily subdued than normal.]

You're going to have to ask Tony for the other half of this, because I'm not sure we saw the same thing.

I didn't get a look at whatever it was, just that it was in the snow. [Forget the fact that he shouldn't have seen it in the first place, but! Moving on.] Tony apparently didn't. By the time we both got running, it must have caught up to us. It got me by the leg and did something, but I don't know exactly what. Like ice shooting up through my skin.

After that I just... stopped moving. I couldn't control my body. It didn't last very long before the damn thing just vanished, but...

[There's a pause, before he mumbles something to the tablet and a filter obediently switches on. His voice drops in volume, not wanting a certain someone to eavesdrop.]

Look. Whatever happened while I was stuck did something to Tony. I don't know if it just fucking spooked him or what. He's not talking about it. But I heard his reaction.

private

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It controlled you to do something to Tony?

@magenta2; video

[himalayanyeti]

[Speaking of eyes: Magenta is finally using the video function, and he straight-up doesn't have one. To be more clear, he does have one, but not quite the other. Additionally, he appears to be pockmarked with something like large cigarette burns--though likely not from an actual cigarette]

I have no idea what the hell I saw, darling. It's really a bit hard to explain.

video

[spoileralert]

Why don't you start out small? Where you chased?

@makeme; text

[coyoteking]

I got puked on.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

text

[spoileralert]

Wow, that's super gross.

By a person, or a nightmare creature?

@godsend, text

[termineur]

I already told you some of it, but for the sake of putting this all in one place...

Al and I stayed in the hospital. After that, something came clanking down the stairs. It was a large robot, and it was using human legs to move around like a centipede. It charged us, knocked us over, and pinned us. And then it ran a bar through my left leg and tried to do the same to Al.

It got distracted by some other loud, clanking thing elsewhere in the hospital and ran off. I'm going to guess there was a fight, because there was a huge crash and then nothing. And we weren't in the position to go anywhere, so- thanks, unidentified monster.

text

[spoileralert]

It was inside the hospital?

Was anyone else there?

@betterhalf; text

[darkincrement]

No eyes.
It was breathing.
Then it held me down.
It left after that.

[ His omitting the rest of it. No need to advertise how it left him. ]

text

[spoileralert]

What did it look like?

@carcinoGeneticist; audio; I THOUGHT I REPLIED TO THIS???

[quadrangle]

I saw some thing made out of ice. Or snow? I was sort of busy running the fuck away and then getting squeezed half to death, so I'm not sure.

[SLIGHT PAUSE]

From what I saw of it, it was basically a snow tentacle monster? But not that kind of tentacle monster, and fuck you by the way for inadvertently putting that thought into my head just now.

[Why did he have to click on Storytime with Steph. Why.]

audio; /pets

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[ It actually takes her a second to figure out how he got there.

And then she can't stop grinning. Which is nice, because she's been having a shitty ass month. ]

Hey, I didn't say anything.

@dissect; text

[circumsutus]

A burlap sack covered in prophet eyes. It did not touch me, it just stared in a way that was mentally and physically paralyzing. I attempted to follow it once it departed, but could not track it.

text

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Did it look like there was a shape inside the sack?

@Kid, video

[equal_shots]

[Kid doesn't like the speech to text function all that much. So here he is, curled up in a corner and looking sleepy thanks to a different cough medication from Watson, on the video feed. He's got scrapes all over his visible skin, plus the bandage over his empty right eye socket. His voice is hoarse and small, likely from frequent coughing.]

Undertaker and I encountered a lot of puddles, as if snow had melted. They seemed to get deeper and deeper, and harder to get out of when stepped into. There was a voice that told us not to look down, but there was no way not to.

When we looked, there was a half-human half-tentacle creature--not under the water but in the reflection. It smiled, then pulled us underwater. It was very difficult to get back to the surface. I only vaguely remember Undertaker pulling me out.

And the water was sharp. It was able to leave cuts everywhere. [Kid shows one hand to the camera screen to illustrate his point: his fingertips are slightly blue from the cold but on his hands are countless tiny scrapes.]

But no prophet or glowing eyes. Nothing of that nature at all.

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[ She stares at the feed with a wide-eyed frown. Good lord that's alarming. ]

The reflection pulled you underwater?

Good to know there's no logic involved in any of this.

@LELRIC; voice

[armoured]

[Even though they didn't part company that long ago, it's still a relief to hear Steph's voice. He's doing a little better than before, not much, but improvement by increments is all he has now.]

Something came at us in the hospital, it really hurt Mr. Gray. It tried to get me too, but I got off lighter than him.

voice

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[ It's just so good to hear from him. Always, but especially after something like this. ]

He mentioned it. Can you remember any details he might have left out?

And how are you doing, with the leg?

@quark; voice

[averytinyparticle]

I saw something that was like an animal made out of eyes. It just stared at me, but it hurt me as it stared.

[Not that he wants to get into any sort of detail over it on the public network, but he feels that he owes everyone at least the information of what his anomaly was like, even if he leaves out details.]

voice

[spoileralert]

What kind of animal did it look like?

Aside from the eyes, of course.

@beyonce | audio

[thewarningafter]

There was an...anomaly.

[It's going to be difficult to describe beyond that.]

Mostly I remember a lot of arms and a mouth with an eye in it. It sounded like a dial-up connection, but I don't remember a lot beyond that. I think it interfered with our brains. When we woke up I thought I'd had a stroke.

audio

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I hear dial-up will do that to a person.

[ She kids, of course. Also she has no idea what that sounds like, but she's heard stories. ]

Where were you when this went down?