Thoughtless.

For... Reasons. Megan and Dr. Malice will not be accompanying us anymore... Instead they are going to stay with Unikeia and try to convince her to give Portnoy back to us.

So instead now it's me... Muffin, The Liar, Faceless and Harold.

Next on the list... That jackass Hiiln. I have a score to settle with him and a lot of frustration to take out.

Unfortunately this one we had no idea where it would be. So we went to the servants who would be best able to guide us now that the Camper and The Archive pretty much no longer exist. We went to the Thoughtborn.

Well technically it was a group of Towerborns each group led by a Thoughtborn but The Towerborns are essentially mindless shells and The Thoughtborns are the ones really in charge.

So we went to a local group. The thoughtborn/Towerborns weren't really a threat they kept to themselves so we hadn't planned to hunt them originally. Interestingly they were staying in the old Netwerks warehouse. My painting was still there at the entrance when we went in.  The Towerborns went about their work without noticing us. We weren't really a threat. We couldn't hurt The Thoughtborn and The Towerborns would be hard to destroy and wouldn't care anyways. In the main chamber where Megan had once been held was a console. There was The Thoughtborn. Well sort of. The Thoughtborn itself was in the internet but here was where it communicated.

I went to the keyboard and typed in: "Hello Thoughtborn. We require assistance."

The response was. "Who the fuck are you?"

Me: Um... My name is The Muffin Man...

Thoughtborn: That's an idiotic name.

Me: Oh yeah? Well what's your name then jerk?!

Thoughtborn: The name's Genome.

I paused.

Me: Genome? I know you!

Genome: You do? I don't know anyone named The Muffin Man.

Me: It's Turncoat.

Genome: OH! So that plan worked out well huh?

Me: Was that sarcasm?

Genome: Of course it was.

Me: Hey how was I supposed to know this was going to happen.

Genome: You know I had plans of my own. I was going to become human again.

Me: Didn't work out huh?

Genome: Nope cause SOMEONE destroyed the god damn world.

Me: Ok... I get it I fucked up. Anyways I need some help.

Genome: With what?

Me: I need to find Hiiln.

Genome: Who?

Me: The internet must have something on him... Guy paves a path of Extreme nihilism everywhere he goes.

Genome: So everyone he comes in contact with becomes nihilistic and yet you expect one of these people to talk about him online?

Me: ... Point taken. Well anything on people becoming randomly nihilistic?

Genome: Hmm well a few things. There was a sudden outbreak of nihilism among a group of timberwolves and proxies a short while back they were slaughtered by some puppets.

Me: Yeah no I already know about that one.

Genome: Well most recently an entire city in Michigan decided to just lay down and starve to death.

Me: That sounds like a good lead.

Genome: Yep. Course info isn't free.

Me: What do you want?

Genome: Well I want to be human... I've been reading about you and it seems you had a thoughtborn with you who had found a way to map himself to a human body.

Me: Um... Yes...

Genome: I want to do that. Have him come here and teach me how it's done.

Me: Um I guess we could do that.

Genome: Yeah you'll do that. Otherwise you'll be ripped limb from limb by a bunch of mindless cyborgs. Understood?

Me: Understood.

Genome: You may be tough but they're tougher remember that.

Me: Got it...

Genome: Now go away.

So that was useful. Genome is just as big an ass as I remember... Course back then I only had to converse with him once and tell him what to do. I can't imagine having to converse with him for extended periods of time.

Harold's friend and tricking a god.

So yeah seems Harold is back and he brought his friend The Faceless Bastard. Yeah... The dead guy. Apparently they were the people I'd heard about targeting servants. So what the hell happened?

This apparently. I'll give you a few seconds to read that.

Oh who am I kidding none of you read that. So I'll sum it up. Apparently after Harold abandoned us he went and made a deal with Jack to bring Faceless back to life so they could have a final battle. According to the blog the fight ended with Harold winning and killing Faceless again.

However Harold reveals that's not actually what happened. Harold did pull the trigger but he was out of ammo. Faceless recovered and the fight continued. They fought for a while Faceless quickly gaining the upper hand as Harold's supply of bullets dwindled. As Harold wasted his last bullet Faceless stopped. According to Harold with all of his bullets gone he didn't stand much chance of winning anymore but, because of the fact Harold had technically won earlier and Faceless was only still alive due to Harold running out of bullets, they called it a draw. The two began talking about what had been happening. Faceless managed to convince Harold that they should help stop the servants and so they began hunting down servants and they happened to arrive at the church in time to save us. As for why he posted that fake out. Well he was talking to Jack and learned something interesting. Apparently Jack doesn't know everything that happens. He keeps tabs of people but he can't watch everyone so while Jack was focused on our dealings he posted that so that Jack would think everything had gone according to plan.

A big question comes up... Why didn't Jack's plan go as planned. If Jack makes a deal he knows what's going to happen. So why didn't it? Faceless gave an answer to this one. He said maybe The God figure did it. Jack said that whoever serves as the god figure in this triumvirate was an inefficient failure. What if he or she or it isn't. What if it's just very subtle. Jack said Portnoy's powers were also from God. Sure they mostly worked against him but his powers indirectly lead to Faceless defeating Harold and many other interconnected events that eventually lead to the defeat of the Amalgam.

So we got Harold back and another heavy hitter on our team. We also learned something important.

It's possible Jack can be tricked.