[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]

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? ]

[genreblindness]

[Sorry, Jay has no time for your light flippant nonsense. He's got too many questions.]

So
~in the future~
we're working together or something?

[maskintape]

ok ftr
tildes work under sass rules
I'm judging you for them

but yeah
we have been for a while now

[genreblindness]

[WHY THE JUDGING. WHY.]

How did that even happen? Actually I'd like to know what happened during those two years in general. I still don't even know what went on in the seven months I lost before.

[maskintape]

kind of hard to condense it all down
especially with my memory being as spotty as it is
and with me not knowing exactly when you're from. but if you know you lost seven months then you don't remember about Alex
crap ALEX
DON'T TRUST ALEX
even if you disbelieve everything else that I tell you
do not trust alex. don't listen to anything he tells you
ok

[genreblindness]

what

what are you talking about

[maskintape]

[ Hey. Hey, Tim. Remember that whole "no more lies" thing?

Remember how even Alex called you on that?

Remember how lying never ever makes things any better for you ever?

Tim does remember all those things. He can't bring himself to tell the full truth - "oh he kind of murdered you lol" isn't going to make him come across as believable, is it - but he won't lie this time.

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLY DIFFICULT. ]

in the seven months you lost, you found Alex
you tried to help him, he tried to kill you
and Jessica too
he's a psycho and he's not trying to stop the thing at all. he's feeding it
getting rid of everybody who knows about it because he thinks that'll make it all better
DO NOT TRUST HIM

[genreblindness]

ok NONE of that makes sense. Alex asked for my help why would he try to kill me? why would he think killing people solves anything? What does Jessica have to do with any of this? How are YOU involved in all of this

[And how can you call anyone a psycho when you stalk people and kidnap them and attack them in their hotel rooms??]

[maskintape]

[ Fuck. Tim doesn't swear very often, but fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. ]

that's a lot of questions
look do you mind if I make this private from here on out
I know you're all about the whole "let the masses know everything let's upload it to youtube" thing but
some of this is pretty personal so

[genreblindness]

Fine I guess, if that's what it takes to get some answers out of you.

private until further notice!

[maskintape]

[ Jay are you trying to sound badass. Tim knows you're a weenie. Stop. Stop.

Meaning yeah time to get some privacy up in here. No homo. I see you snickering Aave don't make me ground you young lady ]

ok. again just
bear in mind it's been a while. and I only know some of this through videos you uploaded so
ok
right.
you met up with alex after your house burned down (it was probs him btw). you tried working together but
well you remember what he's like when he's in charge of something. he's an asshole.
you started getting suspicious of him what with him leading you into rosswood every five minutes and making you run into the thing
you parted ways and idk, stuff happened
you figured the things he was saying about Amy might not be legit so you got Jessica's number and called her about it. she said he'd told her different stuff and you decided to look into it
Alex arranged to meet you both, you followed him into Rosswood and he pointed a gun at you
you following so far

[genreblindness]

I think so. Still not making a lot of sense but I get what you're saying.

[maskintape]

I figure that's a point in my favor
I literally couldn't make this up
anyway
while Alex was pointing his gun at you the masked guy showed up and stopped him from killing you. idk exactly how that went down
I mean
yeah it's me but it's NOT me. I don't remember what the masked guy does and I'm not in control
I don't understand it myself so I'm just going to confirm it's sort of me and move on
you and Jessica went to the hotel you were at, the thing showed up, you lost your memory. you know parts from then on, right
basically you watched a bunch of tapes and learned Alex was a murderer and Jessica disappeared
when you went looking for answers again, retracing Alex's footsteps and stuff
you found me

[genreblindness]

Ok but
are you sure that Alex actually killed anyone?
Maybe he was just trying to scare us or something, I don't know.
I just really can't see him as this coldblooded psycho you seem to think he is.

[maskintape]

[ jay you dense motherfucker. aave you FUCK. ]

you found a tape
Alex murdered a guy on it
a guy he didn't even know
it was messed up.

this was BEFORE you agreed to follow him into the spooky woods again ftr

[genreblindness]

[ARE YOU SURE HE DIDN'T MURDER THE GUY TO SCARE JAY OFF. YOU KNOW, LIKE SANE AND REASONABLE PEOPLE ARE WONT TO DO.]

oh

[No actually that's kind of a huge downer, even if he's not completely sure he believes it.]

What happened then
Did I manage to find Jessica at least

[maskintape]

[ aave I will fucking kill you don't you tEST ME ]

not yet
we've been working on it

[ It's not a lie. It's NOT. ]

as for what DID happen
I had no idea any of this was even a thing
you

[ waited outside his fucking doctor's clinic for days waiting for Tim to wander by, you strange corgi man ]

asked me some stuff about the marble hornets shoot. pretended like you were going to finish it, like before
and I mentioned I had a bunch of tapes from it. so I gave you those
you watched them
and decided that you wanted to visit some of the locations we'd filmed at. there was a hospital that we figured could pass for a school for some of the scenes with Brian like
leaning on things meaningfully
you asked me to take you there. I did. totheark showed up, you chased him, I got weirded out and told you I was done.
then I went home and googled marble hornets