Love hurts.

On the road again... Or more accurately traveling again. Going to kill our first Ne Timu target.

Their name is Lequiss and they are The Ne Timu of love. Love... I bet they're going to be very sweet and affectionate...

Strangely enough Ms. Love is in a cemetary... Huh... Why'd I say Ms... It's entirely possible this thing will be male... Well I'll find out soon enough.

So we arrived at the cemetary... Oh and btw in case anyone was confused by the change from present to past tense in most of my posts it's cause I start the post before going and then schedule it to post on it's own before going. After I get back I finish the post with what happened and post the full thing. This is to make sure that if for some reason I die or can't finish the post people will know where I was going. So yeah if you see a post come up that is just saying what I'm about to go and do... Chances are I'm dead.

Now then onwards.

We arrived at the cemetary. It was by a church. There was a guy here. He was digging up a grave. We watched him for a bit. He finished without once acknowledging our presence and then opened up the coffin and took out a rotted mostly skeletal body. At which point he then began making out with it. We all watched in horrified disgust until he started taking off his clothes. We decided to go inside the church because none of us wanted to stay and watch this guy get it on with a corpse. Inside we found Lequiss. Lequiss was neither male nor female. Instead it was a nude humanoid being who's body was separated into a grid pattern. Each section of the grid changed to a different person. As a result. Any second the creature was male, female, black, white, asian, arabic, fat, skinny, tattooed, pierced, neither... All of those things at once. It was also standing on a giant floating tongue. It was looking out a side window watching the pervert in the graveyard and realization hit. "What did you do to him?"

Lequiss turned to us and raised an eyebrow which brought the eyebrow through two cross sections causing it to be both brown and black as well as bushy and thin at once. "Who? The man outside?" It asked in a voice that sounded like a really buzzy computer synthesizer.

I nodded.

Lequiss: Nothing much. I merely released his inhibitions. The fact he apparently had been restraining a taste for the dead is not my business.

Dr. Malice: That's what you do? You release people's inhibitions. Make it so they can't stop themselves from doing things they want to do? That... Well I can see the problem but without inhibitions you're really just letting them carry out their wildest fantasies without worry about the means of society. He's not really suffering. He'd be having the time of his life.

Lequiss: True let me rephrase. I forced him to act on his desires despite his inhibitions.

Dr. Malice: Ahh well that's different.

Lequiss: Yes my apologies. I misspoke.

Me: Ok that's done can we kill it now?

Lequiss: Kill it? You're going to kill him just for having sex with a body?

Me: I meant you!

Lequiss: Oh... No you won't be doing that.

Me: I'm pretty sure I will. I know how to kill you and the rest.

Lequiss: Really? Let me guess. That traitorous bitch Unikeia is making a powerplay?

Dr. Malice: Yeah pretty much.

Lequiss: Well then I'll have to kill all of you and then we'll figure out what to do with her. Such a shame I hate killing people. It's so much more fun watching them squirm under the pressures of society as I force them to carry out their most depraved fantasies. Speaking of fantasies... Let's find out what depraved thoughts you're hiding.

I'm not going to detail what happened next because... Well you can probably guess. Suffice to say we were losing. Unlike with Hiiln Dr. Malice was not apparently immune to this ones powers. I think The Liar was but she was distracted. Same with Megan... Still not going into detail. Anyways though as Lequiss is laughing at us and we're struggling to resist a bullet suddenly passes through the stain glass window followed by a swarm of birds. The birds attacked Lequiss who seemed surprised.

We were released and we charged at Lequiss. It was too busy warding off the birds to stop us. We grabbed it's arms and slammed it against the wall. I think Jack really likes videogames. He used a videogame based metaphor earlier and Unikeia revealed that The Ne Timu all have a weak point somewhere on their bodies. Unikeia said Lequiss' weak point was it's tongue... I had assumed she had meant the tongue in it's mouth but the moment we saw it it was pretty obvious she meant the tongue it was standing on. While me and Malice held Lequiss, Megan grabbed the tongue. Lequiss screamed in rage and pain as Megan froze the tongue. Lequiss started to feel colder as well. The tongue eventually shriveled up and Megan crumpled it into dust. The same thing happened to Lequiss. We turned to leave and there were our rescuers standing in the doorway. Harold and a man with a mask.

and Utopias

Follow The Nameless Ones to find The Child.

We arrived at an airport...

Yeah apparently she's hanging out in an airport for some reason...

More of the Nameless met us at the front and ushered us in. They didn't bother checking us for weapons or taking the ones we very obviously had with us.


We were brought to gate 1.

A teenaged girl sat on a throne made out of discarded luggage.

This... Was not what I had been expecting.

Me: Er I was expecting The Unnamed Child...

Woman: I am she.

Dr. Malice: Um but she's supposed to be a creepy little girl not a...

The Unnamed Child?: That form was merely a disguise. My effect on the fears was limited it would not have lasted if I kept the form they recognized.

Dr. Malice: Wait... You're not a Fear?

The Unnamed Child: Depends what you mean by Fear. If you mean Jack's first batch then no. However they accepted me into their collective... Unwillingly but regardless so if you define Fears as the group of monsters that tormented the universe then I am a fear.

The Liar made a sound like a gasp.

The Liar: I remember what you are now!

The Unnamed Teen: Oh really? Who are you exactly?

The Liar: I was The Dying Man.

The Unnamed Teen: Oh... Some of you survived. Won't last much longer.

Me: Excuse me can we please get an explanation here?

The Liar: She's a Ne Timu.

The Unnamed Teen: The leader of The Ne Timu thank you...

Me: What? No wait hold up that's not possible! The Unnamed Child was a fear for years and The Ne timu didn't even exist before...

I trailed off.

Me: But they did... They've always existed ever since they were created recently just like the fears.

Me: God damn it that's confusing.

Unnamed Teen: The Ne Timu and Fears have both existed since the dawn of time retroactively. Early on they fought and The Fears won. The Ne Timu went into hiding waiting till they could rise again. All except one. Unikeia The Ne Timu of Loyalty and their leader. Me. I can make anyone utterly loyal to me so I did. I made The Fears Loyal to me. They weren't easy to affect I couldn't make them serve and until I disguised myself they resisted my attempts to make them accept me. Finally though by creating the appearance and persona of The Unnamed Child I managed to merge with them and avoid exile.

Me: ... The Blind Man remembered. He mentioned you.

Unikeia: Yes his memory is great and he could still remember who I was. He couldn't shake my power but he could feel that I didn't belong. He'll be dead soon though.

Unikeia: All my enemies are dead or will be soon thanks to you.

She smiled at me.

Dr. Malice: Wait there's still something wrong here... What about universes where The Ne Timu don't exist? How do you exist there?

Unikeia: The Ne Timu exist in potentia in all Universes so I exist as well retroactively from the point in that universes future where The Ne Timu do exist.

Dr. Malice: What about universes that end before The Ne Timu are created?

Unikeia: I'd still exist in potentia but would just never be realized as my true role.

Dr. Malice: But...

Unikeia: Reality is illogical. If you keep trying to make sense of the absurd you're going to find yourself going mad.

Me: Ok whatever I don't care what you are. Where's Portnoy?

Unikeia smiled and then gestured to one of the servants standing by the throne. I was shocked to realize it was Portnoy.

Unikeia: Not very observant are you?

Me: ... You turned him into a Nameless?

Unikeia: Did I?

She leaned down from her throne to him.

Unikeia: What's your name?

Portnoy: What do you want it to be Mistress?

Unikeia: Whatever it was before you met me.

Portnoy: My name is Portnoy.

Unikeia sat back in her throne.

Unikeia: The whole nameless thing was The Unnamed Child's style. I don't have to do that anymore. I used my power to command them to forget their names I don't have to do that anymore. They're just my loyal slaves.

Me: So what are we going to need to do to get him back?

Unikeia: Straight to the point huh? It's simple. Kill my siblings.

Me: Kill the new gods? Oh yes very simple.

Unikeia: You killed the old ones...

Me: That was different. There was a failsafe and I had knowledge.

Unikeia: You think there isn't one for us? As for knowledge what makes you think I won't tell you what you need to know?

Me: You mean aside from the fact that you'd be telling us how to kill you?

Unikeia: Well obviously I'd keep that bit of knowledge to myself... As for the others though I can tell you their weaknesses.

The Liar: Why?

Unikeia: Because without the fears The Ne Timu rule. Without The Fears and The Ne Timu I rule alone. As well good news for you. If you kill all of them but leave me alive Jack won't go on to create the next generation of monsters and you'll only have to put up with me.

Me: Win win huh?

Unikeia: Best you're gonna get.

So now we're being used as Assassin's for The Monster formerly known as The Unnamed Child.

In a way it's exactly what I wanted... The fears will be back... Or at least the thing that pretended to be a fear...

This is the best option...

This is the best of all possible worlds...

Sorry couldn't resist.

In the search of fools.

Goal one find Portnoy. First part of this plan...

Let's go fuck up some proxies.

The Liar is actually coming with us for once.

How nice of her to grace us with her presence.

Everyone but me gets guns.

Dr. Malice have some pistols. You're main weapon is body swapping anyways.

Liar have a sniper rifle. You're gonna be our support since usually Portnoy is support but he's not here. Megan... You won't need it but you can have a pistol too. Ok fine I'll take a damn gun but I won't use it.

So we went to the proxy headquarters.

No plans... Winging it works better.

Screw it we're just going to do it this way from now on. Walk in kill everything simple and easy.

And this time if one of those god damn Ne Timu show up we're not just taking it.

These things aren't the fears they're a bunch of worthless backups.

If I had tried to punch Slendy in the face like I did that Dreslith thing I'd be dead by now.

So we headed up to the proxy location. The Liar did a far better job than I had expected her too...

I mean she was The Dying Man so I guess you know she was sort of a bad ass monster but really it's hard to remember that fact now...

Anyways point is she sniped three guys who tried to stop us as we approached and we made it to the front door.

Btw I know subtetly is the best idea usually but there is nothing more satisfying to me than walking right in through the front door.

In actual fact most of the time people are so used to subtle enemies that the front door is the least expected.

So anyways I proceeded to punch open the door which had the fortunate side effect of taking out someone who had been standing directly behind said door.

Marched in and waited. As expected guns and attention were turned to me.

I spoke in a conversational tone. "Hello I'm the one who murdered The Dove and his group. My name is The Muffin Man. You may have heard of me. A little while back some of my friends attacked you. Afterwards one of them went missing. Do any of you know where he went or what happened to him? I would point out I am at current asking nicely."

There was no response. Someone tried to shoot me but that's what the sniper is for.

"Is there someone in charge of this group?"

A tallish strong looking man with short brown hair and a goatee wearing a black trenchcoat and a rather peeved expression raised his hand which was currently holding a really heavy looking pistol. I don't know much about guns but I can guess that this was a weapon with quite a large amount of power.

"I'm Nathan Umbra. I'm currently in charge here. As for the person you're looking for I don't know anything about him but if something happened then it serves him right for trying to attack us." The man said.

Me: Nathan Umbra? Huh we share a name... Regardless... You really don't know what happened to him? That's a shame...

I turned to go and  the world erupted into action. Guns went off from both sides and someone moved behind me. I turned knocking Nathan's gun aside as it fired. I allowed myself a moment of gloating. I must admit to being sort of an elitist when it comes to weapons. I assume that those who use them do so to make up for an inability to fight properly especially when it comes to guns. Kudos to Nathan for proving me wrong. I tried to punch him in the chest with my other hand but his own other hand caught mine. The others were all firing on each other but me and Nathan just stood locked for a few moments. We broke apart finally and he put his gun away. I foolishly assumed I could use that moment as a distraction. Bastard fended me off with one hand than gut punched me with the other as he finished. I stumbled back and recovered just in time to dodge a hook to the face. The shooting around us had mostly stopped by now but whether it was because everyone was dead or because they were all watching us I didn't know. I began pummeling him but he parried my attacks with ease and countered a few quite successfully. I have never been in a fistfight against someone who could actually beat me before. Nathan Umbra was soundly kicking my ass.

I couldn't win... Not by fighting hand to hand anyways... As a punch connected with my gut brought me to my knees a thought flashed through my mind. He punched towards me I grabbed his hand dived to the side and flung him through the broken doorway. Instantly The Liar put a bullet through his skull.

What did you think I was going to use that gun Megan made me take? Screw that.

I stood up and now surveyed the scene. Most of the proxies were dead. The few who were left didn't seem willing to fight anymore. I asked if any of them perhaps knew something about Portnoy but they said no and so we left.

Upon reaching home however someone met us.

He said he knew where Portnoy was.

He said his daughter had him.
  
On a hunch I asked his name.

As expected he looked confused for a second than merely left.

So... I think I know who the "she" The Blind Man mentioned is...

Now the question is how and why?

Oh another fun fact. There is another group or individual killing servants in the area. It appears to be another nest given that all the attacks involved birds. It would appear someone didn't get the message we sent via Dove but so far these ones seem to only be targeting servants so we can ignore them for now. Portnoy is the priority at the moment.

Well Portnoy and the Ne Timu 

Gods be damned!

Alternatively I punched a godlike being in the face today.

So yeah it seems like every elaborate plan... At least those more elaborate than go in and kill things (A la The Dove) gets bungled by forces outside my control.

So the plan was simple-y the most genius plan ever! Yeah... Yeah definitely...

Anyways...So the plan was to attack a number of places at once owned by different factions while pretending to be a different faction.

Ie attack The Slenderproxies while wrapped in strings.

Attack the Dolls/Puppets while... I don't know yelling slenderproxy stuff...

I don't really know...

The plan was really just a pretense to kill a lot of people and get away with it.

and it started off so well...

Me and Megan went together to attack the dolls while Dr. Malice and Portnoy attacked The Proxies.

We went in and almost immediately got attacked. Some loony comes running at us screaming about Grapefruits and waving a chainsaw. I dodged the wildly swinging but most importantly not turned on blade and took the guy down by his throat smashing his head into the ground hard enough to leave a crater.

Anyways this of course confused us but we had no idea what we were walking into...

Inside we came upon a scene from... Well I'd say kindergarten if kindergarteners had real weapons. The place was strewn with makeshift forts and the occasional gunshot as one fort attacked another.

I don't know why they were attacking each other. Suddenly Megan grabs me and begins forcibly marching me towards one of the forts. I could see strings embedded in her flesh. The gunshots ceased as I was escorted into the cramped little fort. There were two dolls standing at the "Gate" and one in the middle. The one in the middle was wearing a red dress with a black spiderweb design on it and wielding a staff. The staff was a red rod with a spool at the top and from the spool came a large number of strings. The strings going to the people around her except me. She was a controller. She smiled at me.

"Welcome to the war friend. I am Ariadne. We lost a squad earlier to those proxies so it's a good thing you arrived... I can't seem to get my strings in you so I assume you're a doll? That's good we need some elite troops." She said with a completely sincere smile. I watched her dumbstruck. She obviously believed everything she was saying. She honestly thought she was fighting a war against slenderproxies while she was instead sitting in a makeshift fort with two other guys shooting at another group of puppets... Who probably believed the exact same things she did... It occurred to me that these forts were not likely to actually be resistant to bullets but didn't seem to be riddled with bullet holes. I grabbed a gun from one of the puppets and examined it. It was empty. A thought occurred. I could hear gunshots. The guns were empty not blanks. Completely empty they shouldn't have been making a sound at all. The world started to fade out and I found myself looking out a window at a massed army of proxies outside on the streets. Bullets ricocheted off the wall by my head and I ducked inside. I pushed the puppet out of the way aimed out the window and fired. A proxy went down but there were so many of them. I kept firing. A bullet hit me in the shoulder and I stumbled back from the window. I heard Ariadne gasp. The pain was unbearable... But it wasn't real was it... It was just two damn box forts and a bunch of empty guns... So why did it hurt so badly... Why did I feel myself bleeding out... Why did Megan look so panicked as she knelt beside me with Ariadne. The scene flickered again and I was back in the box fort my shoulder fine all pain gone. I noticed Ariadne had pulled out a knife. She was going to try and remove the non existent bullet!

I pushed her away and got up shaking my arm to show that I was fine. She looked relieved. This was crazy. The scene started to shift again but I tried to resist. It seemed to work though I could still hear the bullets and the cries of non existent people dying. I saw the other puppet at the window fall back clutching his chest. I could see a bullet wound in his chest but at the same time I could see it wasn't really there. Despite this he was groaning and clutching at the wound and after a few seconds he fell silent. I checked him he was dead.

There was something seriously wrong going on here. I decided to try and end this before our imaginations killed us. I may have chosen the wrong way to do this. I stood up and kicked the fort down. The scene shifted again and I saw myself setting off a device which blew open the wall. Ariadne cried out in panic then turned on me. "Traitor you've killed us all!" She lunged at me and I tried to block but as her staff hit my hand the threads opened and spiders launched out onto my arm. I staggered back shaking my arm and she hit me in the chest with the staff. The proxies began swarming into the hole and Ariadne turned and began attacking non existent enemies. I got to my feet and grabbed her arms trying to restrain her. This also turned out to be a mistake. I watched one of the nonexistent proxies step forward and jab a blade through her chest and mine. We fell. The pain came again and I saw her thrashing in my vision than go still. I couldn't see Megan and the pain was getting worse. I told myself it wasn't real. I screamed it till blood started to pool in the back of my throat. A figure began to congeal from out of the air. I had seen him before... He was the guy... Er thing... It was the thing that had appeared to me in a dream during the whole Amalgam thing... "You're doing this..." I choked out through the blood and pain. He merely watched me but I knew I was right. "I won't let you..." The pain started to subside and then it was gone and I was back in the real world except he was still there. I got up and lunged for him. Ok so I guess given that his face is a mouth with eyes for teeth saying I punched him in the face isn't quite accurate but yeah I punched him right in the eye teeth! He shattered like glass and then we were all back. I saw the surviving puppet and Megan blink in surprise. I kncoked out the puppet and then headed to the other fort. One of them tried to shoot me but realized his gun wasn't loaded. There was as expected another controller in the other fort. A guy in a red robe with black star patterns. His strings didn't work on me and there were only 4 in the other fort beside him so this turned out pretty easy. The other 3 forts were wiser but still pretty confused. I didn't kill anyone though... It felt wrong to kill them after that. I fled with Megan once they were all down and we went to wait for The Dr. and Portnoy.

They didn't come back... Not for a long time. Eventually Dr. Malice came back alone. He told me what happened... He and Portnoy attacked. It was a small attack. They merely shot into the building a few times. Threw in a firebomb and then were supposed to flee. Unfortunately something went wrong. Dr. Malice fled as planned but he realized he had no clue where Portnoy was. The Proxies were searching the area but Dr. Malice tried to go back anyways. He killed a few died a few times but couldn't find Portnoy.

So I failed... The plan in general failed and we lost Portnoy...

Great...

I remembered the guys name though... Jack had referred to him... He's A Ne Timu... Dreslith was what Jack called him... I'm pretty sure...

So we're gonna have to go look for Portnoy and I think we've put off dealing with The Ne Timu for too long.    

Reputation

What we did to The Dove and his group is starting to get around. Somewhat unfortunately but mostly fortunately no one seems to know it was us. My contact in the proxies didn't know it was us and laughed when I told her. I don't think she believed me. It seems most of them assume one of the other factions did it and they're all becoming afraid.

A bunch of scared Servants... No more master to guide them. A new batch of monsters all around them...

Well anything could happen here.

I aim to make sure that it does.

The Dove

I killed a nest today by punching in his face till it was flat. Strangled the first two birds to come out and Megan took care of the rest inside of him by freezing the body.

The guard dead we entered The sordid little club they were using as a base.

The Doctor downed the closest two to the door with a pistol.

This managed to get their attention.

There were only about 5 of them in the entire place not counting the ones we killed. There was a woman on the stage. One guy alone in a corner and Three sitting by the stage.

I stepped forward.

Me: So which one of you is The Dove?

The Woman on the stage drew a knife from her rather scant outfit and drew it across her chest in one quick movement. Birds scrambled out of her wound and flew towards me.

Portnoy and Dr. Malice stepped to either side of me. Everyone but me and Megan were wielding guns. The Liar was again not with us for this fight. Anyways they both opened fire taking out the birds and The Woman.

One of the two near the stage started to stand and drew a knife. I darted toward him grabbed his wrist and then his neck and proceeded to choke him to death as the other three watched. There was a small part of me that wasn't sure you could choke a nest.

I tossed the body down.

"I'll ask one more time which of you is The Dove?"

The guy in the corner as expected stood up.

The Dove: Alright... I'm The Dove. I suppose yo-

Dr. Malice shot him. As he went down Dr. Malice and Portnoy turned their guns on the other two and finished it.

We burned the place down and left.

The best laid plans...

It seems like everything we try just goes wrong. No sorry just everything I try.
 
I try to save the world I make everything worse.

I try to right my wrong I make everything worse.

That feeling. The hopelessness I felt when affected by Hiiln... It's still with me. It didn't disappear when Dr. Malice brought me to my senses. It just faded. I can still feel it. I can't help but feel that it's still true.

Maybe Harold was right?

Maybe there's no point in continuing.

There's nothing we can do to fix this world. Even if we succeed Jack will just bring out more monsters and things will just get worse.

We were better off back with The Fears.

Oh I should mention that The Timberwolves have been entirely wiped out and The Proxies and Dolls have been fighting a losing battle against a group of Nests who've moved in under the command of a gy calling himself The Dove.

I'm inclined to just let them fight it out.

In fact why shouldn't I?

Because normal innocent people are dying every day these monsters remain in power. They're petty squabbling destroying cities.

But who am I to stop this?

I'm just one man.

... No I'm not just a man.

I'm The Muffin Man.

I'm going to get the others we're moving out tonight. We're going to take out these nests before they do anymore damage.

All my plans go down in flames...

Well then this time I'm going in without a plan.

It's time to get back to who I am.

Not Nathan Jilees. I'm The Muffin Man and The Muffin Man doesn't plan he just kills every mother fucker unlucky enough to get in his way.