[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]

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

[genreblindness]

[...It is occurring to Jay that he might not be the greatest liar there ever was. It's not entirely a shocking realisation.]

And you watched the entries?
Did you even know about the whole mask multiple personality thing or whatever before that?

[maskintape]

no
not exactly, I mean
I'd had blackouts and woken up in weird places without knowing how I got there
once with a broken leg, thanks to Alex
but I didn't know what was going on exactly, I thought it was connected to something else. it's complicated

[genreblindness]

Is that when we started working together then? After you found out.

[maskintape]

nah
I got pissed at you for uploading all that stuff to the internet and not telling me anything
I punched you in the face and told you to stay out of my life, which you interpreted as "be a pal and go get my medical records from totheark and then upload those to youtube as well"

[genreblindness]

I
probably had a good reason to do that

[Even if it sounds really stupid when you put it like that...]

[maskintape]

keep believing that man I admire your optimism
other stuff happened after that
totheark basically forced me into blacking out so mask guy would get to say hi for a while
you came looking for me, weird stuff went down, we both woke up in Rosswood the next morning
after that it was pretty obvious I couldn't stay out of it so. we started working together
it's been a while since then. we're friends now

[genreblindness]

When you say friends
do you mean like
close friends

[That's a subtle way of inquiring about the exact nature of their relationship, right? TIM WILL NEVER SUSPECT A THING.]

[maskintape]

[ Jay, what ]

uh, yeah?
I mean we've been together over a year so
pretty sure that qualifies as close

[ SERIOUSLY DUDE THAT'S YOUR MOST PRESSING QUESTION RN??? ]

[genreblindness]

[T O G E T H E R...]

Ok well
it's just weird hearing about that when I only barely know you I guess.
Don't get me wrong you seem cool aside from the weird mask stalking thing but
I can't just jump back into things like normal when I don't remember anything you know?

[maskintape]

[ ...okay someone being overly friendish at you when you don't know them could... be weird? Tim guesses?

???

???????????? ]

well yeah I wouldn't expect you to
if you thought I was being pushy or w/e asking for your location that's not what I was trying for
surviving here is easier with somebody else is all
I'd get it if you didn't want me around but you shouldn't be out there on your own

[genreblindness]

No it's fine probably. It might be weird but I'm sure it won't get too bad. And I'm pretty sure having someone else around couldn't hurt.

[maskintape]

ok great. i'll try to be as unweird as possible I guess?
so assuming I count as trustworthy now
ish
are you in the funeral home or the other place
do you see the west wall