[network] @MarbleHornets; morning 20 [open]

[genreblindness]

[Here's a summary of the last ten or so hours of Jay's life: he woke up locked inside a spooky cold morgue in the middle of the night, suffering from a terrible headache and sensitivity to light that made him want to curl up in the shadows. Then, just as he finally managed to fall asleep, he woke up to a mystery injection with no warning. Then, upon inspecting the tablet he found on him, he discovered he'd recently posted a video on the local network despite having no memory of doing so. A video that made it look a lot like he'd died.

Actually, he seems to be missing at least several weeks' worth of memories. Again.

And just to top everything off, he has no tapes for his camera.

Everything really sucks.

He hadn't planned on making any more posts until he had a better grasp on the situation, but after a skim of earlier posts he feels the need to ask a question.]

Apparently a couple of people here have lost their memories and then gotten them back. Is that a common thing? If there's anyone else who's experienced something like that, please tell me. Thank you.

Comments

[maskintape]

ffs this isn't hard
do you see the west wall
yes/no

[ This is wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. Either Jay is really mad, or...

Oh. This is the bit where Tim realises what's happened and feels like the biggest fucking idiot in the entire world. Jay said he'd lost memories. Obviously he's been hit the same way Clayton had been - he's lost all recollection of Norfinbury.

Right? ]

it's me btw
Tim

[genreblindness]

[Wait, what.]

Tim
as in Tim Wright?

[As in the guy he met who was super weird and fidgety about the film and who he's like 80% sure is the creepy psycho in the mask??? That guy?]

[maskintape]

no
as in Tim Hortons. your coffee is ready
ofc Tim Wright, dumbass

[ That whole foreboding thing? Not getting any better. ]

[genreblindness]

[Holy shit it is the creepy psycho guy. And he's sassing Jay. It's worse than he could have imagined!]

Well I guess I just gave it away but I don't exactly remember who all is here and who isn't. Excuse me for wanting to make sure.

[maskintape]

[ It's still wrong. Still wrong. That really isn't the kind of reaction Tim was expecting. ]

ok you're excused just this once
you gonna tell me what you DO remember or are you going to keep being an ass when I'm trying to help you

[ When he first got here, Jay was still pissed off about the Jessica thing. Right? So that must be what this is.

Even if Jay wasn't this prickly about it back then. ]

[genreblindness]

[Ugh. There's no way he can avoid telling anything at all without making it obvious that he knows Tim is a weirdo stalker, is there?]

I don't remember anything at all about this place. Apparently I've been here for a couple of weeks though?

[maskintape]

almost three

[ He's going to have to address this, isn't he. Fuck. ]

look is this about the tape
because we already established that I'm sorry and you overreacted even if I shouldn't have lied
so can we skip that part this time round

[genreblindness]

[Whhhhhhat. What tape. What has he missed. Not remembering sucks.]

I don't know what you're talking about

[maskintape]

[ Part of Tim knows what this means. The rest of him is screaming at that part to shut the fuck up. ]

ok then
what's the last thing you remember

[genreblindness]

[Well, he remembers getting attacked in his hotel room by a crazy person in a mask, but somehow mentioning that doesn't seem like a good idea.]

No wait what do you mean about a tape? What did you lie to me about?

[maskintape]

if you don't remember then it doesn't matter
there's your answer, now it's my turn
like I said I'm trying to help you ok
ffs

[genreblindness]

For one thing I don't remember meeting you since we did that screen test a while back. So I hope you can understand why I'm having some trouble trusting you, especially when you seemed to expect that I'd be mad at you about something.

[maskintape]

[ Oh god.

Oh no no no no no. ]

ok that was years ago
YEARS
are you kidding me rn
a lot has happened since then. a LOT. we're in this together now

[genreblindness]

years
how many years

[maskintape]

uh a few
idr how long ago it was
it's 2013 for me

or it was back home who the hell knows about here

[genreblindness]

last time i checked it was early 2011

[Two years at least. Two years. And he'd thought seven months was bad.

How is he even supposed to deal with this?]

[maskintape]

god ok
pretty sure that means you're about as far away from trusting me as you can get

[ And that hurts. Tim has regained and lost his best friend again within the space of a few minutes.

Fuck snowhell. Fuck. It. ]

sorry
things aren't gonna get any less weird
whether you believe me or not you CAN trust me so

[genreblindness]

yeah I guess you'd know about weird.

[Was that a jab at Tim being a creepy stalker weirdo? OOH IT SURE WAS]

[maskintape]

hey have some secret info from the future
your burns never get any sicker
might wanna dial back the sass because it's always going to be a wasted effort

[genreblindness]

[DIRECT HIT. This hurts so much more than the amnesia and shit.]

It's not really the future is it. Since it's already happened.

[maskintape]

yeah
well
maybe I just feel cooler saying I'm from the future. don't deny me that man

look idk if it helps but your memory should come back
it's not like what the thing usually does
it took my voice when this happened to me but it didn't last too long so

[genreblindness]

when you say thing
you mean the tall thing
don't you.

[maskintape]

yeah
should we settle on a more specific name for it
I like "that dick" personally but ymmv

[genreblindness]

I'm pretty sure I couldn't come up with anything more accurate than that

[But jfc this is weird and he's not sure he's comfortable with talking about the thing this openly with anyone. Especially Tim.]

[maskintape]

idk I can think of a few more accurate ones
but there are kids around here
gotta watch the language

[ If he keeps this light, flippant stuff up then things will feel less weird. Right? ]