A Memory.

Muffin found himself standing alone. He had been standing with his friends seconds ago but now no one was there with him.

No... Someone was there with him...

"I am always here." The voice had spoken and then he'd been alone but surrounded. She was all around him.

"Who are you?" he asked quietly.

"You know who I am. I am Chiliss. Last of The Ne Timu. The Ne Timu of Existence."

"Where are my friends?"

"Gone. Everything you aren't immediately interacting with is gone."

"What?! Why?"

"I made a wish on Jack... I felt like an outcast... All alone... I never wanted to be alone anymore... and now I'm not. I'm everything. I am your universe. I am you. I am your friends... Or I was... They've ceased to exist."

"I asked you why!"

"Object permanence."

"What?"

"It's the understanding that things still exist even when you aren't interacting with them... I think it's a lie... If you're not interacting with something it has no reason to exist."

"What if you want to interact with that thing again?"

"Then you shouldn't of stopped in the first place. Keep everything you want in sight at all times."

"Look I'm not interested in this. Give me back my friends. You can make them exist again, right?"

"Probably... But it would require something."

"Anything."

"Aren't you forgetting something?"

"What?"

"Your primary mission. You need to kill me."

"How can I kill the universe?"

"You can't. I can. I have a deal for you. I will either give you back you friends or I will end myself. Either way I will require something from you."

"... I don't care. The plan can't succeed either way... Give me back my friends..."

"Hmm... Not quite what I was expecting... Fine I shall return your friends. In order to do that... I shall have to invert..."

"What does that mean?"

"Currently anything you are not interacting with is gone. I shall invert it so only the things you are interacting with cease to exist. Your friends will return but you will never be able to see or interact with them or anything else again. You will be adrift in your own personal world of nonexistence."

"... But... They'll be back?"

"Yes."

"Do it."

The world began to drain away around Muffin and his senses began to diminish as everything began to cease to exist. In the last second he spoke his final words.

"It makes me happy to know... If all I interact with ceases to exist... That will include you..."

Muffin was too far gone to hear the scream of rage that issued forth.

Alone Muffin fled into the infinite darkness as his very being began to unravel...

~The Voidskipper. 

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a deal.

Jack appeared on cue.

Jack: You're not finished. You still need to kill Unikeia.

Me: We're not doing that.

Jack: Why not. She's a monster?

Me: We're not going to kill her just so you can create more. The Games over.

Jack: The game isn't over until I say it's over.

He raised his Red Hand fingers poised to snap.

Jack: Unikeia or no Unikeia the game continues. I'll create the next group of monsters now.

Me: No you won't.

Jack: Why not?

Me: We won't let you.

Jack began to laugh.

Jack: Let me guess. This would be Muffy's plan... Well, you may not have noticed but Muffy is gone. Whatever plan he had has failed and likely wouldn't of worked anyway. You're not facing The Fears, The Ne Timu or even the Amalgam. You're facing me. JACK OF ALL! I am a god and you are nothing.

Me: You're right. Nathan is gone but he was never important to the plan. The focus was on him. The focus was always on him but it was just misdirection. The plan is still ready to go and god or not it will work.

Jack: Alright I'm intrigued... Tell me your little plan "Doctor."

Unikeia moved beside me.

Unikeia: That would be my cue...

Jack smiled.

Jack: Oh genius. Let me guess you think her little loyalty powers can control me. I created her she's not powerful enough to control me.

???: And that would be my cue...

Portnoy appeared out of nowhere stepping beside Unikeia and grabbing her hand.

Jack's face altered. There was anger there and then it became a serene smile. Defeated but amused.

Jack: I underestimated you, Unikeia. You found him have you?

Unikeia: Yes. This was my plan. Muffin and the others helped me but it was always my plan. They killed The Ne Timu but as long as you're still in control I'll never be sole ruler so I found him... I had them kill the others and lure you out. It's over "Creator" I've won.

Jack: Not yet!

His fingers began to move.

Unikeia: Stop.

The voice was quiet but there was a layer of authority there beyond words. Jack stood completely still and so did I. Everyone was still but Unikeia and Portnoy beside her.

Jack: Damn... you...

Unikeia: Now I suppose Dr. I should uphold my end of the deal. Tell him what you want.

The spell broke and I nodded.

Me: We want things fixed. You made this universe and it's too late to fix it so you're going to make another one. One where The Amalgam were defeated but Muffin's plan didn't succeed and The Fears still live. A universe where everything is back to normal.

Jack glared.

Unikeia: Do as you are told.

Jack winced and snapped his fingers.

Jack: It's done... However know that for you this will be a universe of suffering far greater than you have experienced so far.

Me: But it's exactly as it was before The Amalgam?

Jack: Yes.

Me: Then I don't care what happens to me there.

Unikeia: Are we done?

Me: Yes.

Unikeia smiled.

Unikeia: In that case Jack. This is your final command. You will leave this universe to me and never interfere with it again.

Jack nodded and then smiled as he disappeared.

Me: That's that then...

Unikeia: Yes it is... She turned to me. This universe and everything in it belongs to me now...

I nodded.

Unikeia: Don't worry though you and your friends will be given a position of honor in my universe. You'll be my personal slaves.

I wasn't surprised. This was the agreed upon end. A universe destroyed by The Amalgam, a Universe enslaved but now also a universe truly saved. 

   

Screw the last part...

There is no god here...

There is no comfort.

Faceless is dead.

Portnoy is gone. He had told me and Harold where Muffin and Genome where but after that we couldn't find him... Unikeia said he had other things to do but she didn't seem to know what or wouldn't tell us... He's not coming back though... I know it...

Lastly Muffin is gone too... When he woke up and finished posting what happened he told us. "we're almost done. Now we just have to find the last one." then the world seemed to blur and a voice spoke.

"I am always here." then everything went crazy. I don't know what happened then... No one does... When whatever it was ended Muffin was standing stock still. I went to him and I heard whimpering... Like terrified whimpering... Some sort of ancient, primal fear whimpering... He turned... his eyes were blank... Not pure white, but blank... And he was crying... Then he was gone... He turned away from me and ran... Straight towards the wall then vanished through it... Unikeia spoke then and told us it was done... I don't know how... but apparently the last Ne Timu is dead... We've lost so many...

The Liar, Portnoy, Megan, Faceless...

Hell... Marcinius, Jayson, that Vadim guy...

There's only one thing we can do to honor those who fell...

We're going to finish this... Let's go have a talk with The Devil... 

I will fear no evil

Sorry about the strangeness of that last post. I wrote the first part early on then the second part later after all was said and done... The events I will describe for you now happened pretty much immediately after the events of the last post... They are merely split into this second post to better explain it in time with actual events.

We arrived at the Gate. Reirr was there. Reirr appears as a suit of old, battered and badly distorted medieval armor. The armor is badly dented inwards to the point anyone inside the armor would be dead and crushed. The fingers on the gauntlet are also all twisted and broken and the knees are smashed inwards. In short he looks like a medieval knight who was trampled and crushed and maybe hit with a mace a few times... From these broken dents and cracks flows that same black sludge. It's face is covered by a helm and visor but I'm pretty sure it was surprised by our arrival. Genome pulled out a gun and shot him in the helm. The entire creature just fell over backwards at the knees then slowly straightened back up a joint at a time. Faceless charged but his sword bounced off of the armor and an attempt to stab through a hole in the armor had no effect but to cover his machete in black sludge. I momentarily contemplated punching it but the thing is already full of dents I doubted any more would hurt it. We had been told it's weakness of course but... It didn't make any sense... We were told the sludge was it's greatest weapon and it's only weakness...

Reirr raised it's... mangled... horribly horribly mangled claw and grabbed the hilt of a large rusted sword. Of course given it's fingers all bend in different ways when I say grabbed I mean it's fingers twisted around the hilt in a disgusting way that caused my finger joints a large amount of sympathy pain. It raised the sword and began moving towards us. Faceless moved forward raising his machete. Reirr slashed. It was jerky, erratic... No fluidity to the movement, no force behind it... Nevertheless it slashed through the machete without slowing and Faceless barely managed to avoid being cleaved entirely in half. As it was he backed up enough to keep the slash from severing his spine but only barely. His torso was cut open entirely... Leaving just his spine in tact... His body slid backwards, the spine and upper half flopping backwards till he collapsed in a two part heap. Birds emerged from his corpse and lunged at Reirr but they didn't do anything... They didn't even distract him... Reirr started moving towards us and we fucking ran. He was slow but we had just watched him slice our buddy almost in half... Somehow we ended up out in the runway. Reirr was there already waiting for us. We tried to run again but suddenly the sludge leaked from him and created a ring around us. I don't know what the ring would have done if we had tried to cross but it can't be good. Reirr had us cornered he swung and then was launched backwards as a gout of black sludge flew from his helm. We turned and saw Harold supported by an apparently no longer drugged nor apparently no longer affected Dr. Malice. Reirr got back up in his creepy little way and Harold yelled to me to move to the middle of the circle. I didn't ask why I just grabbed Genome and got as far from the ring as possible. At this point Dr. Malice drew what looked like a flare gun and everything popped into place.

I grabbed Genome and pulled her to the ground covering her with my body as Dr. Malice fired. The sludge and Reirr ignited in seconds. The result was a horrible bonfire that scorched every bit of my body not hidden from the flame. Even with me covering her I could see Genome starting to melt. Luckily the fire didn't last long... It went out almost as quickly as it started leaving behind nothing but charred pieces of metal armor and a line of scorched runway around us.

I got up. Checked on Genome then turned to Harold and Dr. Malice, gave them a thumbs up and passed out. 

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...

Our numbers are down... and are enemies are many.

Dr. Malice is still confined, Portnoy is confined, Harold is injured and Unikeia and all her followers have turned on us out of fear.

Luckily Unikeia is mad with fear and isn't thinking so she's not using her powers... Just that strange knife of hers. All that's left of us trapped and under assault from Unikeia and her forces. Well, now... I suppose it's time to go out fighting... Final stand and all that... Open the door and try and take as many of them down with us as we can.

Or alternatively something completely crazy could happen. Like the door could suddenly burst open revealing Portnoy standing there with the unnamed Child clinging to him.

Portnoy: Reirr is currently at Gate 2... He won't be there long hurry.

Me: Portnoy what's going on?

Portnoy: No time for questions hurry.

Me: What are you doing?

Portnoy: Staying here to keep Unikeia and the others pacified.

Me: How-

Portnoy: Muffin! Shut the hell up and go fight Reirr!

Breaking Down

It's Muffin... Dr. Malice is... being confined at the moment. He tried to kill Harold yesterday... By confined I mean we have him extremely heavily drugged since otherwise it's pretty damn hard to confine something like him. When we stopped him the lower half of his face was just a mass of that black sludge and he was screaming about betrayal.

It seems he was convinced Harold and by extension Faceless are secretly working for Jack or The Ne Timu or... well he started saying something else but at this point he was knocked unconscious and whatever he was going to say was lost. It's hardly important though. The point is Paranoia and Fear and all the wonderful things that go with that are running rampant through the airport and the death toll is rising.

There's good news though... Oh yes there is some wonderful fucking news!

It's here.

Reirr... The Ne Timu of Bravery. A fucked up looking Knight monster. He's been spotted wandering around the airport now. Trails of his black sludge have appeared in the halls which corroborate these sightings. He's finally here. We're going to find him and end this before it gets any worse. 

The Litany against Fear

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

I have fond memories of Dune... Granted I never read the books... or seen the movies... Or really had any interaction with the series outside of having a father who was a huge fan of it and who used to quote the litany and constantly tell me things about the series... So I guess what I'm saying is I have fond memories of my father which I disguise as fond memories of a series I know pretty much nothing about...

Hell even that quote isn't from memory...

This is Dr. Malice btw... Nathan's relationship with his father ended with him joining The Archangel trying to kill Megan and Nathan eventually murdering him... So I'm pretty sure there are no fond memories there...

I'm rambling aren't I... The point is The Litany against Fear would be very useful right now as it appears to be running rampant.

The servants are panicking and killing each other. Unikeia has completely lost control and has been spotted at times reverting to her Unnamed Child form for an unknown reason. Whatever is causing this still hasn't arrived as far as we know and already it's tearing us apart.  That black sludge is becoming more apparent as well. Some people have black stains under their eyes or constantly have a couple of streaks of it dripping down...

A guard yesterday snapped and shot two others before he was eventually subdued and proceeded to kill himself by biting off his own tongue... Our group seems unaffected but it's hard to really tell. We stay together when possible now but Harold is often on his own somewhere, Faceless doesn't have eyes and Unikeia keeps Portnoy by her side and won't let us near him much anymore.

The only ones I'm sure of our myself, Nathan and Megan...

Actually Harold's behaviour is pretty strange... Why is he by himself so often? 

A... very interesting meeting.

It's Muffin. We arrived back at Unikeia's place to await whatever is coming. Dr. Malice is right. Unikeia and, as a result, most of her servants seem afraid. My guess one of the last two Ne Timu is mounting some sort of attack. There haven't been more incidents like the one Dr. Malice reported but we're pretty sure it may happen again. Attempts to question Unikeia have been fruitless. She seems to want to tell us but every time she starts to speak she seems to lose her nerve.

Regardless my post today isn't so much about that as about another strange meeting I've had today... It wasn't Jack this time it was... Well something that shouldn't have happened.

I was walking towards my designated room and as I reached for the door it suddenly opened inwards. The door opens outwards normally. I looked out into a vast empty city but not for long. My amazement at seeing The Empty City before me was overcome by my amazement at seeing myself standing in front of me. He seemed surprised to see me too. I stepped back to let him come out but he didn't.

Other Me: Can't set foot in this universe. Part of the agreement.

Me: What agreement.

O. Me: The Empty City wanted to show me this universe. It brought me here but said I couldn't set foot inside. Something about not being able to properly manifest here and if I stepped out I couldn't come back.

Me: Makes sense... The Fears are all dead here. So The Empty City is probably breaking all sorts of laws just showing up here at all.

O. Me: So this is the universe where we succeeded?

Me: Yep. We killed The Fears and doomed the universe.

O. Me: Shit really?

Me: Worse then that... We killed Megan...

O. Me: ... Tell me everything.

We spent the next few minutes telling each other what we know and what's been happening in our respective universes. Eventually he started fading.

O. Me: Thank you... I think I know how to fix things in my universe now... Good luck... I'm sorry.

Me: Me too...

He disappeared then... The door closed. I opened it outward went into my room. Oh to explain. While it is an airport Unikeia has modified it heavily. I believe my room was once part of a coffee shop... Anyway . I went inside thinking deeply about the conversation before falling asleep and dreaming about the universe I had just learned about... A universe where Megan was still alive and The Fears still had power... Compared to this one that seems like a paradise despite my other's problems...

Fear Goo...

Couldn't resist the horrible title.

It's Dr. Malice. Congrats to Muffin and the others for taking down Dreslith. Unfortunately we have another problem here and I think you guys should come back here right away.

Yesterday we were all in the throne room again Portnoy and I beside Unikeia. We were watching some of her servants perform circus tricks... That they couldn't do... She's a bit of a sadist and lkes watching them screw up and usually get hurt. Suddenly her laughter stopped and I looked at her. Her face was a blank but I could see something... It looked like the same Greyish Goo the Ghosts bled... It was dripping from her eyes. I turned to look at the performers and they were standing in place with the same dazed expression and goo coming from their eyes. Portnoy didn't seem to have it but everyone else did. I shook Unikeia and she snapped back to reality and wiped the goo from under her eyes then looked at it. I saw her eyes change momentarily... Reflecting an emotion I didn't expect to ever see... She looked afraid. She then quickly recovered wiped the goo off on a nearby servant and ordered the performers to stop just standing there and get back to performing. They all came out of their own reveries and returned to what they were doing. Unikeia continued looking worried whenever she thought I wasn't looking at her...

Something is coming here. Something dangerous enough to make even Unikeia worry.

The Fight with Madness Pt. 2

The inside of the Asylum was... a suitably epic locale for our final battle with Dreslith. We were standing on a dead planet. The ground cracking up and exploding around us as something... I don't know what it was... It looked like a giant mass of... Eldritch... stuff... slowly devoured the stars. Dreslith was standing facing away from us watching the creature. We knew it was Dreslith but it didn't look like him. Even facing away from us we could tell it looked like a human figure... A familiar human figure... It turned around showing me Vadim. It didn't speak. No monologue. No explanation of where we were or what was going on. It just stared at us. Harold raised his gun and instantly Dreslith's form shifted. It became a woman I didn't recognize. Harold did though and he dropped his gun. Faceless went forward to attack and Dreslith turned into a little boy. Faceless shook his head. "Already killed my son once. Won't stop me a second time." He drew his machete and charged and Dreslith shifted again becoming a woman. Faceless hesitated and the planet beneath his feet exploded he was thrown back and landed beside me. I broke out of my thoughts and charged. He turned back into Vadim. Vadim's dead I know that already I just quickened my pace. It switched to My mother and then my father. Didn't slow me at all. It switched to Megan and I let out a bitter laugh... But then it smiled...I hadn't seen her smile in such a long time... Not even just before Genome... Before all of this... It had been so long. I  stopped and fell to my knees. I felt a cold hand on my shoulder then I was tossed out of the way. Genome strode past me towards Dreslith. It switched to people from Megan's memories.

Genome: I don't know any of those people...

It switched to people I assume from Genome's past.

Genome: I don't remember anything from before I was a thoughtborn and I haven't met anyone I care about since.

Genome reached Dreslith and in desperation Dreslith made the planet explode beneath Genome like it had beneath Faceless. It didn't work. The shards of planet and molten lava from the core froze instantly into a block of ice and Genome just hopped up them to get higher and slammed her hand into Dreslith's face. There was a sound like glass breaking and the scenery around us shifted.

We were back on what I'm pretty sure was earth. It seemed like a vast wasteland. It didn't look like anywhere on earth normally but it still had The End in the sky and during The End's attack The entire world was a wasteland thanks to The Herald anyways. My attention was turned back to Dreslith when I heard Genome cry out in Megan's voice. I turned to see Dreslith holding her. Blood dripping down her body. For a second I feared the worst but I quickly remembered that Dreslith's hands drip blood and tears. Regardless I got to my feet and attacked. However, I stopped mid attack and began to think. "Why are we fighting Dreslith? Because Unikeia said too? Dreslith never harmed us until we went after him. He helped us save the universe during The Amalgam attack. Unikeia didn't help us at all. No... I'm not doing this for Unikeia! I'm doing this because Dreslith is a monster. He hurts innocent people. Like Gwen! What about The Fears though? What about The Fears?! You hated them for hurting innocent people... You tried to kill them all and now look. You were fighting alongside The Dying Man. All of your companions served them. The Fears weren't completely evil. Maybe The Ne Timu aren't either. Gwen- Seemed pretty happy when she died. Because she was deluded! So? They say Ignorance is bliss... Maybe the Ne Timu have a purpose... Maybe we aren't so bad." I did a double take and grinned. "You made a mistake. You said 'We'. You're in my thoughts, Dreslith? well here's a thought... Do you know why The Fears were better than you? They didn't make mistakes." I reset my attention Genome and rushed over. cracks began to appear in the earth but I avoided them and reached Dreslith. I knocked Genome from his hands then punched him in the... "face" again and followed up with numerous punches to every part of it's body I could find that was solid. It seemed mostly unphased but didn't try to defend itself so I assumed I was doing something to it. I heard my voice yelled and stopped diving out of the way as Harold fired a bullet into Dreslith's blood arm. Blood poured from the hole and he fell. Another bullet went into the tear arm and tears fell from his wounds like rain. What happened next was weird. He began to disappear and shrink. Like... Like he was draining out of the bullet wounds. The world around us seemed to freeze and as he disappeared he shattered and we were back in our hotel.We're staying here a few more nights to recover and then we're going after the next Ne Timu.

Battle with Madness.

Dreslith's grew tired of running.

We were still searching when suddenly the sky changed. The clouds changed to a sickly green and the sky was a mirror. All of us who had been there at the coming of The End winced at the memory and averted our eyes. In front of us now was a large imposing building. 20 foot high walls of stone, a solid, black, iron gate with a tormented face on it. Beyond the wall the structure was more like a castle than anything. Towers jutted up from it at odd angles, one had a clock face on it but no numbers... At least not numbers we'd recognize. One was open topped and showed to all the world a grim reminder of what awaited... For all that looking at it it was obvious what this building was and it's even more painful to realize how close it is to our own versions. It was an insane asylum. The old kind. Built more like prisons and run more like torture chambers then places of healing.

We approached and the front door opened. Gwen walked out.

Gwen: Why do you fight us? You've seen the truth. You were with us. Join us again. Become free with us.

Her gaze turned from me to the rest of the group

Gwen: This offer extends to all of you. You are trapped in a lie. We can free you. We can free everyone.

She pulled a stack of purple masks out of the air and one mask exactly like the one I had had.

Gwen: Put these on and you'll know the truth.

Me: We already know the truth, Gwen. You serve a monster. There is no truth just more lies crafted by a horrible creature. You've seen it. I know you have. Remember it. Tell me does that thing look like Truth to you?

Gwen seemed to hesitate momentarily then responded.

Gwen: The Truth may be ugly while a lie may be beautiful...

I sighed. I didn't want to have to kill her... I didn't really want to have to kill anyone anymore... The purple masks are too far gone but I knew she could still be reasoned with. It didn't seem like it was going to be easy though.

I tried to speak again but she spoke first cutting me off.

Gwen: Stop. No more words. I had hoped to help you return to enlightenment but I feel it will not happen. I shall show you the truth by freeing you. When I follow you into the real world then we can speak again and perhaps then, with nothing standing between us, we can be what we were for a short time... (I... I'll explain at... some point in time... Eventually... A beautiful lie...)

Me: I don't want to kill you Gwen.

Gwen: You won't be killing me.

At that she attacked. I should probably explain how she fights. I don't know exactly how it works in the real world but here in Dreslith's world it makes a bit more sense. Her arms act like blades. She attacks with essentially karate chops that can cut through flesh like a sword. It makes things a bit weird for me as I'm not sure whether to respect her for using her hands in combat or whether that counts as hiding behind a weapon.

She slashed at me and I jumped back. We fanned out around her and Harold fired at her from her right. Her right hand flashed up and deflected the bullets then she rushed at him and started attacking wildy. He proceeded to block with his guns and deliver a kick to her gut. She staggered back and Faceless launched forward slashing at her but she recovered and grabbed his wrist flipping him over her shoulder. Genome attacked then and the freezing touch of her attacks pushed Gwen onto the defensive as Harold began firing again. Gwen managed to dodge Genome's attacks and deflect the bullets but she couldn't attack back. Faceless recovered and released the birds. They swarmed her but she was still managing to fend off all of her attackers. Her movements were faster and far more powerful than they should of been. Undoubtedly a side effect of our battle ground. I dived into the fight and as she deflected one of Harold's bullets I slammed into her from the side knocking her over. She landed and rolled back to her feet but she only managed to rise in time to get a fist to the face. I didn't let up hitting her with everything I got... I didn't want to kill her but if I had to I wanted it to be over fast. All my hits were too the face... I like to think I wasn't attacking her I was attacking the mask. Eventually the mask shattered. There was a moment... Something I can't explain... What was revealed behind the mask wasn't a face... It was... The opposite of a face? I don't know... There was a burst of energy and her mask reappeared completely purple and she rushed at me again. I tried to b lock her but she ducked under my punch grabbed my arm at the elbow and pulled me forward as her knee connected with my gut. The rest of my friends and Genome rushed to help but the ground began to shake and shards of earth flung up on all sides of us. I fell to my knees and she kicked me in the face knocking me onto my back. She was on me before I could get up. Her hands splayed wide came down on my face and it felt like my head was in a press. The weight of her hand slowly crushing my skull. In desperation I reached up and grabbed her throat. I could feel blood trickling from my ears as I squeezed with all my strength. The crack echoed in my head for what felt like hours. I pushed her now limp and normal weight hand off of me and looked down at her body. Her mask fell off and disappeared. She was still alive... Or it was an echo or something. She smiled at me and though her lips didn't move I heard her voice.

Gwen: I'll wait for you in the real world...

She disappeared then... Like her body was just disintegrated.

It took me a few minutes to break free of the little cage she had created around us but once I was free we all headed inside.

I'll cut the post in half here.

The God.

Hey. It's Dr. Malice. I don't really have anything interesting but like Nathan's strange conversation with Jack I had an interesting conversation with Unikeia regarding The God figure.

I was sitting beside Portnoy in her throne room when she glanced over at us.

Unikeia: Hey, Doctor Malice... What do you know about God?

Me: Um? Depends whether you mean the religious depiction of God, The Archangel or The Good deity figure Jack told us about?

Unikeia:  Well the first and last are effectively the same thing while the middle one is a corruption of the first but, the last one.

Me: Only that according to Jack it doesn't do much. It's true form is unknown and it apparently fails at everything it tries.

Unikeia: Well Jack would say that. He wouldn't want you to have any hope. What if I said I know more?

Me: I'd be curous but a little disbelieving since I'm confused as to how you could know more than Jack about something like that.

Unikeia waved her hand dismissively.

Unikeia: Like your good friend Muffin once said. Everyone knows something and you can learn anything if you ask the right questions to the right people.

Me: I don't think he said that exac-

Unikeia: -I'm paraphrasing! The point is I know something about God. I was thinking if I told you do you think you could get Muffin to sweeten the deal a little?

Me: Depends what would you want?

Unikeia: Can I keep Portnoy?

Me: I'm not sure Nathan would agree to that...

Unikeia: Of course I could also just make you let me keep him. I'm actually not sure why I bother bartering at all. Maybe I just find it more fun.

Me: Um... Yes?

Unikeia: You're so cute when you're confused.

Me: Could you maybe explain?

Unikeia: No it's not important instead let's talk about God.

Me: Oh ok.

Unikeia: The God is both one being and many.

Me: Huh?

Unikeia: It is one being split. A piece in every universe.

Me: Oh...

Unikeia: The God feared Jack and his rage and so it hid itself. Erasing its own memory consciously. The pieces don't know what they are on a conscious level and have no access to their powers. The unconscious however remembers. The unconscious can access it's powers in subtle ways to change what it feels it needs to. It's every move acting as a subtle stab to Jack's side.

Me: Interesting.

Unikeia: One being. The same being spread through every universe possibly with small changes. With powers it can't access except unconsciously or possibly with some form of catalyst that would allow it to remain hidden regardless. Maybe something else that exists in multiple universes at once...

Me: Are you trying to tell me something?

Unikeia smiled.

Unikeia: I took a chance and I'm fairly sure I made the right one.

Me: Er... What does that-

Unikeia: Maybe some day you'll figure it out.

I was ushered out of the throne room at this point so I went to patrol the grounds. I'm sure she was trying to tell me something but I'm not sure exactly what.

I feel like she's laughing at me...

Still searching and a small conversation

So this place has now been pretty much entirely taken ove by The Truthseekers but still no sign of Dreslith or Gwen. We've had a few skirmishes with them but we've come out of it pretty well so far. Yesterday night though I had an interesting visitor. I woke up to having a cigar shoved into my mouth and lit. I spit it out and heard a familiar voice.

"Well that was a waste... teach me to try and show generosity..."

A red hand flashed into view and it's fingers snapped and the room was lit up. Jack was sitting on the side of the bed casually drinking from his flask.

Me: What the hell are you doing hee Jack?

Jack: Nothing much. Just got bored and came to talk. Let's have a philosophical discussion.

Me: I'm sorry I'm not exactly in the mood for a headache right now.

Jack: Well too bad it wasn't a request. You ever heard it said "All The Myths Are True"?

Me: I'm not getting into this with you Jack...

Jack: What if it were true? Well it can't be true you say. Many myths contradict others. For instance how can all the different creation myths possibly be true?

Me: Not listening...

Jack: Now that's an easy question. By happening retroactively they can all be true. One creation myth occurs. This in turn creates another which retroactvely becomes the creation myth and creates others which all become "The" creation myth. All occurred. All are true. All influence the world together. The world is simultaneously carried on the back of a giant turtle and is also the mutilated body of a dead god.

Me: Are you still talking?

Jack: So take my own creation myth. According to me I created all The Fears but, there are other myths about the origin of The Fears. One could say they're just all wrong and mine is right but that's not how it goes. They are all true they just didn't actually happen at the same time or in the same sequence. Except they did from the point of view of everyone involved.

Me: I'm going back to sleep.

Jack: Now of course as I said one had to of kicked off the others. So which was it? Well as much as I'd love to say it was me I couldn't do so honestly. See due to the retroactive nature I automatically was first from my point of view but so were all te others. No one involved is aware of their retroactive state.

Me: Wait! Unikeia knew all about the retroactive nature of The Ne Timu! You're lying!

Jack: Ha! I knew you were listening! The Ne Timu know about their own situation because they read your blog where in I explained it.

Me: ... Oh. Well as long as you know I'm listening what the hell does this have to do with me?

Jack: Nothing at all. Like I said I just felt like talking and frankly I like you muffy. Yo're fun to converse with.

Me: I'm so glad the god of Evil likes me...

Jack: Oh that reminds me... I should do something about Harold and Faceless... I don't like being deceived.

Me: Hey wait no!

Jack: Oh? You don't think I should kill them both?

Me: No!We need them!

Jack: True... The game is more fun with them involved... Ok I'll spare them... On one condition.

Me: What?

Jack suddenly turned to face me his eyes sparkling with well concealed anger.

Jack: Play the game, Nathan. Give up on whatever pointless and inane plan you've concocted against me.

With that he disappeared. The only proof of the conversation being the smoldering cigar on the floor.  

Crystal Falls

Hey guys. Dr. Malice again.

So Unikeia led us forward once again after our short break. We eventually reached an open room. Mairun was there. He was dangling from the "ceiling" of the room by his arm which disappeared into the glass ceiling. I remembered our one other interaction with Mairun. A giant hand of sapphire closing over a hole in reality called The Envoy of The End. I figured I knew what lay above. That massive arm reaching out of this domain to interact with our world. The part we faced though was a bit of a shock. He looked like a statue of a scrawny emaciated human but made out of Ruby, or some other valuable red colored Jewel. I'm not a geologist. He looked at us and despite being made of a single crystalline material emotion was somehow registerable on his face. His face was a mixture of amusement and pain.

Mairun: Ah, Unikeia. Once queen of command and leader of our ranks. We worked so well together once why do you betray us now that we have finally regained what was taken from us?"

Unikeia: To become Unikeia I made a deal with Jack as you did but while I know yours you don't know mine. I wished that all of creation would bow down to me and joyfully cater to my every whim. The problem with that wish is it doesn't include the rest of you. I will not have my subjects bowing before the Ne Timu when they could be bowing to me alone!

Mairun: You selfish bitch.

Unikeia began to respond but I cry of rage interrupted what she was about to say.

Portnoy launched himself at Mairun a sword somehow appearing in his hand. He stabbed at Mairun who's arm suddenly ripped out of the ceiling and as his body fell slammed down on Portnoy's head crushing him against the ground. Mairun then lifted his massive hand Portnoy's head clutched in his fist.His hand began to close crushing Portnoy's skull but then he stopped.

Mairun: You show care for your slaves now, Unikeia?

Unikeia: He is a necessary bargaining chip and I cannot allow you to kill him. Drop him and fight with me.

Mairun tossed Portnoy aside and advanced towards Unikeia.

Mairun: You will fight fairly? You will not force my actions?

Unikeia: With the ease with which I can destroy you I would have no reason.

Mairun: My body is invulnerable. For your betrayal you and all of yours will be crushed in my fist.

Mairun's arm began to grow massively as he swung it out to his side.

Mairun: We both know each others weaknesses and strengths and I know you can't beat me in a fairfight!

He swung his arm at her like a wrecking ball but she easily stopped it with her hand.

Unikeia: I know your weaknesses. You know mine. I know your strengths. You have no idea the extent of mine.

She then slipped the diamond knife from earlier out of her sleeve and slashed off Mairun's hand like it was paper. Mairun's arm snapped back to him and he cried out in pain. Unikeia was in front of him and slashed off the arm at the shoulder before pushing him onto his back.

Mairun: We loved each other once...

Unikeia: ... You loved me. I never cared about you.

She then plunged the knife into his forehead and he began to crack before crumbling into jewel shards.Unikeia then picked up Portnoy and brought him over to me before teleporting us both back to her base.

I got a new body and Portnoy is being taken care of. With Mairun dead the attack is fading and it will probably end by tonight.

That's one more Ne Timu down.

Good luck with Dreslith guys.

Beneath The Surface.

Hello, still Dr. Malice here. Talking to you from Beneath the surface. Possibly under your feet right now.

Unikeia, Portnoy, 1 nameless female servant and two male servants named Tic and Tac, met me in one of the airport terminals and Unikeia created a portal to Mairun's domain. We were all sent through and then we were standing in darkness. The nameless , who I'm going to call Toe cause there's no reason to ruin a perfectly good naming theme, pulled out a high power flashlight and turned it on. Beneath the Surface, or BtS, looks like you are deep underground with a ground of seabed under your feet. Above your head however... Is a ceiling of glass that shows the world above. Regardless of any light that may be on the surface it doesn't show through. I reached up out of curiousity to see if I could touch the ceiling and what would happen. This action was met with a slap of the hand from Unikeia, who had apparently followed us down.

Unikeia: Please try not to destroy the fabric of reality.

Me: Sorry...

We began to move with Unikeia and Toe leading the way. The first obstacle we ran into was a group of servants. They were wielding maces and wearing leather armor. They looked like olden day warriors. Unikeia called them Berserkers we made pretty short work of them. Unikeia informed us it was likely Mairun was expecting this and brought some of his berserkers to BtS to protect him. We'd brought some guns just in case though not many. Just some pistols and an extra clip or two.Probably about... Two pistols each average excluding Unikeia, 6 bullets each pistol, 1 extra 6 bullet clip each on average... That's roughly... Fuck it I don't care. It's a lot of bullets. We probably spent about 10 or so on those guys. I figured we were pretty well covered. Of course that was an average. Toe had brought only one pistol and emptied it entirely during that fight with no extra clips so I gave her one of mine leaving me with no extra clips and only 8 bullets left between my two guns. Portnoy had two guns and two extra clips and had only fired three bullets. Tic and Tac each had only one gun but with an extra clip. So there was a little bit less than I had averaged. As such we were down too only about 20 bullets between us by the time we got through the next two encounters. That is when we came upon the hallway of archers. We ended up wasting all of our remaining bullets on them, Tic got shot with an arrow. He wasn't dead but he couldn't move and I got killed and had to take Tac to keep going. Toe gave me the light and her and Tic were sent back by Unikeia. So it was just me in Tac's body, Portnoy and Unikeia who went the rest of the way. Luckily we had apparently neared the end of our journey.

We reached a man wielding two hatchets and painted blue with no clothing but a fur loincloth. It occurred to me to wonder where the hell these people were even getting these weapons and clothing. Unikeia later answered that Mairun supplies them but I think she was probably joking. Anyways normally I would have shot the bastard and been done with it but we were out of bullets. Unikeia said the only hand to hand weapon we currently had was a knife. I asked for it and so she gave me it. It was a knife entirely made of diamond. Pretty awesome... Unfortunately only about 6 inches long and thus not very effective against this guys dual hatchets. Well you only live once... Ha ha wrong but anyways. I fought the guy and he sorely kicked my ass. Cut me to fucking ribbons but I managed to stab him in the face with the knife before succumbing to blood loss. I'm still alive though. Get this Unikeia forced my loyalty and made my body heal my wounds. I'm not going to die but I'm missing an arm and my leg is mangled so I won't be any use against Mairun. Hopefully he's all that remains in the way. Oh yes we're now under the ocean. Not literally but you know what I mean. The ground walls have been replaced with solid walls of water. I've been told to try not to touch the walls as well as the ceiling now. I'm stopping this post here because we're going to get Mairun and Unikeia was only willing to give me a short rest to recover from the pain.

Next post. Kill Mairun or die trying... and probably doom us all forever.
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Loyalty and Victory.

Hey guys. It's Dr. Malice. Muffin and the others are still looking for Dreslith I imagine. However we're having some problems here.

I stayed with Unikeia to watch over Portnoy.

Once again I'm really sorry about what happened to Megan, Nathan. I tried to stop Genome but by the time I'd realized what he'd done it was too late. The only way I could stop him then was to kill both of them and I couldn't.

Anyways as I said we have some problems here. A Ne Timu has shown up here. Unikeia says his name is Mairun which from what Jack said makes him the one that stopped The Envoy. He's staying away for now. Unikeia says it's because he knows if he gets too close she can command his loyalty. So, instead he seems to have somehow turned all the servants in the area into some sort of fervor. They've entered some sort of medieval style berserker blood rage. They've been attacking the airport. Unikeia's servants, Portnoy and myself have been holding them off pretty easily. Mostly because we're using guns and they're using, at the most high tech, crossbows. Still their numbers seem unending and we're running out of bullets. Unikeia said that Mairun exists beneath the surface. If we want to reach his body and not just his massive fucking hand we need to go beneath the surface as well. When I asked what she meant she explained Beneath the Surface is essentially a fear domain... Or I suppose Ne Timue domain. It sits in a metaphorical sense just beneath every surface on the planet and all that comes through (above the surface) is his arm. Digging down where the arm is would reveal nothing but Unikeia says she can transfer me and Portnoy along with some others of her servants Beneath the Surface to confront him.

I'm posting this because if we fail you need to know how to kill him.

Good luck with Dreslith.

Dr. Malice going beneath.

Excommunication.

So... Um...

Hi guys.

I'm sure you noticed the... Er last few posts...

I'd like to apologize for... That. As you can probably guess I'm back to my senses now...

Genome got me back...

My memory is a little fuzzy but shortly after my last post I know me and Gwen- Er... I mean the woman who gave me the mask. We went to Dreslith's headquarters of sorts... Or more accurately the place The Truthseekers were using as their base. It was a movie theater... I'm not sure if that's ironic or not. So, They'd found the others and we were readying to attack. Me and Gwen leading them in battle against my own allies.

We waited till night and then attacked.The gang was taking refuge in a hotel and we busted in. Some of the purple masks rushed in while me and Gwen waited outside. It wasn't long before the sound of fighting started from inside. Shortly after one of the purple masks came flying out of a window followed by a flock of birds. More of the purple masks had been ready for this. They had guns and took aim shooting down the birds. Eventually with us covering all the windows the fighting began to move down. It stopped at the doors. After a few moments the doors opened but no one was there. Then a bunch of guns pointed out from the sides of the doors and began firing at us. Special masks with riot shields moved in the way and advanced towards the doors with the others following behind. They forced their way in and the fight began in earnest. Or should I say the slaughter. At close range inside the building Megan's powers under Genome's control and Faceless's birds made quick work of the enemies. That done the birds rushed out. Gunfire erupted and Faceless emerged from the mass of birds and began attacking madly. This was what I was waiting for. I signaled to Gwen and she and I rushed forward. I engaged Faceless while Gwen went in in the confusion to take down Harold and Genome. I caught Faceless' hand during a downward slash and pulled him towards me a I delivered a stomach rupturing punch to his gut. He staggered back and I delivered another punch to his face which was a mistake. The punch went through his mask and into his lack of a face. A bird was within and bit my hand badly. I retreated and Faceless attacked with a weak slash that barely grazed my arm. I fell back and prepared for further combat.

"You sent your allies to be slaughtered just to draw us out. What kind of a monster are you?" Faceless asked with contempt.

"Really. You, the Faceless Bastard, are lecturing me on the value of life? That's funny. Although in answer. They are not dying they are being freed. You shall be freed next."

Faceless stopped. "M... Muffin? Is that you?"

"It was. Now I am the leader of the Truth Seekers."

"I'm not going to kill you Muffin."

"Don't call me Muffin it's a stupid name!" I charged him and suddenly Genome was in front of me. I stopped and her hand slammed into my mask with far more force then Megan's body should have had. It knocked me to the ground and she held me down by the face. She began to freeze the mask and though normally I'm immune to Megan's freezing touch this time it hurt like hell. It wasn't freezing my body it was freezing my mind. The mask finally shattered and a peaceful numbness enveloped me. I fell asleep.

I woke up a few days ago. Apparently Harold had defeated Gwen and had been about to kill her when Dreslith appeared and she disappeared in the confusion. The rest of the Truth Seekers were killed.

So that's what's been happening,,, I told the others what had happened to The Liar... They were pretty upset... So was I. We're going after Dreslith now and I am going to do far worse then just kill him after what he put me through.

The World of Lies.

I searched through forests, I searched through deserts, I searched the skies, I searched the seas.

I found them but never did.

This world is mad. Nothing is true. All is illusion. We are trapped within it. The true world is out there while we wallow in this lie. But knowing the truth we can break free. We can take control of this illusion and destroy it. We can break through to the real. I have joined with the others. The others who know the truth. We are the Seekers of Truth. We serve Truth and we will destroy the lies. The Masks show how close we are too the truth. Me and The Woman are closest. We shall lead the others in their war against the lies. Together we shall find Truth.

The Dreams were trying to lead me to Truth all along. I should have paid more attention.

Hide and Seek

Apparently finding them is harder than I thought it would be.

I've been searching for some time.

I'm sure they're still in the city I just can't find them. Weird stuff has been happening too. In my dreams horrible monsters are attacking me and my friends. There's a guy with a skeletal face, A hole in space and some horrible arachnid creature. I'm fighting them trying to protect my friends and then suddenly the entire world just shatters and all my friends turn into like shadow versions of themselves and begin to disappear like they're being eaten by something. After that there's just these hands. One red hand and a white hand clapping in mid air. After that these creatures just pop out of the ground. There was this twisted... Thing on a tongue, A preacher guy, that monster I saw in... No after my first dream, A hand just sticking out of the ground... It was like made of crystal, A broken knight, An ethereal woman and one who looked perfectly normal. It was just this teen girl but for some reason she scared me the most. I was all alone facing these monsters... Then I woke up. I woke up to see a woman kneeling in front of me. She had on a mask like those crazy people who attacked earlier. I tried to jump to my feet but she was quicker. She grabbed my shoulders and pulled me back down to a kneeling position like herself. Her mask wasn't entirely purple. The others all had entirely purple masks. Her's had just a single purple stripe on the side. She let go of me and I stayed kneeling. She pulled a mask out of thin air. It was mostly purple with a single white stripe. An inversion of hers. She placed it on my face and then disappeared.

I'm not sure what this means.

It doesn't matter anyways.

I still have only one goal.

Find and kill Sergei.

Success

So, after a short amount of time journeying with the others we were attacked by some crazy people in purple masks. I have no idea what's going on but these guys were prepared. They all had weapons and just began destroying these crazy people. However one of them attacked me and I fled. You'd think being separated from the others would suck but it's while I was trying to find my way back I found her.

I saw May. She saw me too. She ran up to me with relief. She thought I was this Muffin person too. She was babbling. "Muffin?! I'm so happy to see you. My powers... The Dying Man didn't last. I'm human again. I need more of that stuff to regain my powers. I know you weren't too happy about it last time but Dreslith is here. If I can get my powers again I can stop him and then I can get my powers back permanently from him. I can stop this. All of this. I might even be able to help against Jack. I just need you to help me kill another one of their servants. Please just one." She was looking at me expectantly. See? Complete nonsense.

I raised a fist. "You killed Portnoy and now you want me to help you?" She looked surprised.

May: Portnoy? I didn't kill him. Muffin what the hell are you talking about?

Me: Don't lie. Sergei sent me the tapes. I know what you did.

May: Sergei? You mean Faceless? That doesn't make any sense? What the hell is- Oh... Dreslith got you! Muffin... Nathan I can help you just calm down and give me a second. Just listen to-

I punched her then. In the stomach and she stopped talking. She fell to her knees and retched. It's funny. I set out on a trip to murder someone and it never even crossed my mind to get a weapon. Somehow I just knew my fists would be enough. Seemed I was right.

May: Ugh... Nathan please...

I hit her again an uppercut to the face. I heard her jaw break as her head flung backwards and she fell onto her back. I reached down and lifted her by the shirt and hit her again. I think I broke her nose that time. She was still making sounds so I hit her again... And again... And again until the sounds stopped. I dropped her lifeless body.

Portnoy was avenged but now I needed to avenge Megan. May had said that Faceless was Sergei... If that's true...

Looks like I should go looking for my new friends again.

Meeting

While searching Boston I ran into some strange people. The first one I ran into... It was Megan... Sort of.

It was a really young Megan who was very pale and had pitch black eyes. She seemed surprised to see me. She called me Muffin and asked me where the hell I'd been. I told her and she seemed confused. At this point the other two showed up. One looked like my boss, Harold. The other was some guy in a mask. They all seemed to know me but other than the strange resemblance they had to the people I'd known I didn't know any of them. After some discussion they seemed to realize I wasn't who they thought I was and they introduced themselves. The Megan one said her name was Genome. Harold said his name was Harold. The masked man introduced himself as The Faceless Bastard.

Huh... Didn't one of my dreams mention a Faceless Bastard?

I told them I was looking for May and they exchanged a glance. Genome then told me that they were sort of looking for her too.

So I'm now travelling with this strange group.

Oh they also told me the reason Boston is empty is because of the influence of something called The Ne Timu. They wouldn't tell me more... I have a feeling my dreams mentioned that word too... 

Dreams

I keep having them. Always the same dreams. Always voices talking to me. There were new voices this time a girl and a guy. The guy asked if I was awake and the girl said something about getting in touch with reality... I don't know. I'm awake now but when I'm asleep is when I feel awake... It's strange.

I'm in Boston now. The place seems almost empty... Well no... More than that. It seems deserted. I remember on the news feed there were people everywhere. It's like the entire city was just deserted since that video. Maybe whatever the news report was actually about could shed some light on what happened. Wish I'd paid more attention. I hope May's still here...

I promised not to post anymore.

Because of me Megan is dead. Sergei killed her. I said I wouldn't go after May as long as she was alive and so he killed her. I don't know why he wants me to get May, but now... Now I'm going to kill both of them.

Portnoy and Megan... I'm not going to let anyone else die by the hands of these two psychopaths.

I went out to talk to Maless about another dream. It was the same dream. Except it was telling me Megan was dead... I guess it was sort of prophetic though the rest of what it said made no sense. It's not important though. The love of my life is dead. I returned back to find her in the bedroom. She was gutted and her eyes removed. Her hands were obviously moved after her death so that they appeared to be pulling her ribcage open. It... It was terrible. There was a note as well... "Now nothing exists to hold you back. Get your vengeance."

It didn't say it was Sergei but I just know that it is. He gave me the tape, he told me about May's departure... He has to be the one behind this.

Once May is dealt with I'm going to skin him. No I'll do worse then that. He butchered Megan... I'll butcher him. I'll make it slow. I'll skin him alive and then feed him his own skin. I'll break every bone in his body one by one. I'll find some way to make his pain last as long as possible. I will break him and make him beg for death. Only once I am satisfied will I let him die.

I'm breaking my promise not to post anymore to make sure he knows what he's done. I want him to know what awaits him. You got that Sergei? You have what you wanted. I'm going to kill May but after that you're next.

That was strange.

I had the weirdest dream last night. It was like there was someone screaming at me. They were telling me to open my eyes and when I woke up I thought I saw... It was a thing. I didn't get to see it well but it didn't look human. I must have still been dreaming.

Actually that's not even the weirdest thing that happened to me. I was watching TV today. There was this news show on. I don't really watch the news and was going to change the channel but then I noticed something. They were showing a live feed from somewhere in Boston and someone walked by the camera. Someone who was very unmistakeably May. I know where she is now. In the weirdest, most random, stroke of luck ever, I know where she is.

Now, I can't even do anything about it. I can't leave Megan now. I have to let her get away. As long as Megan is alive I can't leave her side.

Getting better and still searching.

Megan called me while I was still at Maless'. She apologized and I did too. She's willing to let me come back home. I thanked Maless for letting me stay and went back home. The relationship between Megan and I is still somewhat frosty but I'm sure things will get better.

The bad news. Portnoy passed away last night. Megan or no Megan I'm not giving up my plans for vengeance. I'm still going to find May and find some way to make her pay for what she did.

For now though Megan is my priority.

The search.

The next morning I headed to my place of work and hid out front waiting for May to show up. I managed to stay there for hours without her showing up and eventually I got caught and escorted off the premises. On the way though Sergei passed me and slipped me a note.

"You won't find her here. She quit shortly after the death. Said she couldn't remain working in a place where such a thing happened."

The bitch is on the run.

Well there's nowhere she can hide I won't find her.

I need to come up with a plan. There needs to be some way I can find her.

The tape.

I'm still staying with Maless. Megan is still pissed at me. I was angry at myself earlier but god what an unsympathetic bitch.

Anyways Sergei showed up randomly and handed me a tape. He then left.

I watched the tape on my own. Maless was out at his own job. It showed the product in the testing labs.

There was a woman there. I recognized her from Portnoy's description. It was that May person. She was doing something to the product. She stopped suddenly as Portnoy walked in. She smiled at him and left and he watched her leave before starting up the Product. At which point it exploded and the film became static.

I didn't kill Portnoy. That bitch May. She sabotaged the product. She killed Portnoy and got me fired. I intended to bring the tape to the police and show them what happened but as I tried to eject it the tape got stuck and the film began to unwind and snapped. I tried to get the film but it disintegrated. I had no proof. This was undoubtedly the film from the security camera's so there was likely to be no other copies. No proof. She'd go free. I was going to be blamed. No... I'd be blamed but I wasn't going to let her go free.

I decided I was going to track her down. I'd make her pay myself.

I threw out the pieces of the tape before Maless got home. I headed up to the guest room but I can't sleep.

I'm far too angry. I vow here and now I'm going to kill May for what she did. 

Damn it all.

I went to work today as per usual. Everything was fine. At the end of the day though... Sergei comes up to me.

Sergei: Hey. You the one who submitted the product for testing on Friday?

Me: I nodded.

Sergei smiled and it was horrifying. His mouth seemed to stretch like his skin was wider than his head.

Sergei: Your product exploded during the testing. One of the testers was seriously injured. Oh and you're being fired.

I stood in shock before managing to choke out the words. "Who was injured?"

Sergei: An employee by the name of Portnoy.

Me: Portnoy?! Will he be okay?

Sergei: Unknown. My guess though...

He made a throat slitting gesture which also gave me a great view of a jagged scar across his throat. After that he walked off laughing.

I went to the hospital to see Portnoy. He's still alive but in critical condition. The fan blade launched off and embedded itself about 6 inches into his left eyeball. They say it's surprising he's not already dead. He's... He's not going to make it. I know he isn't. I killed my best friend...

I went home after. Megan tried to console me but I yelled at her. She's angry at me now. I'm sleeping at Maless' tonight.

Lost my job. Killed my friend. Pissed off my wife. Things were going so well...

Long live weekends.

So today is a Saturday. No work. At least, not for me Megan works on Weekends. As a result I called up my buddies; Maless and Portnoy. We made plans to go to Portnoy's house for a guy day.

We spent the day playing video games and talking. Portnoy works at the same place as me but in a different department. Apparently they got a new person too. A woman named May. Apparently she's very strange as well. So, in the same day we get two very strange new employees. We decided we were going to keep an eye on them and tell each other anything interesting we find out.

I just reread that and oh my god we must be bored.

Anyways, other than that nothing happened today. Going to bed now. Megan won't be in till 11:00 so just going to bed alone.  

Woke up today.

I was lying facedown in the bar. When I raised my head I saw Vadim the bartender mopping the floors. He smiled at me.

Vadim: "Oh man, I'm glad you're awake. I was worried for a bit you'd slipped into a coma or something. Never seen a man down 46 drinks before."

Me: "46? That's impossible."

Vadim: "46? Nah, I said 6. Obviously not 46. Nobody could survive downing 46."

I nodded and rested my head back down. I didn't remember coming to the bar and drinking but, my current location and the horrible hangover I had seemed to confirm it. I thanked Vadim for letting me stay there for the night and ten began to make my way home. It was still early morning so the sunlight wasn't too painful.

I made it home and at the front door I realized my wife would probably be pissed. I wondered if Vadim or I had called and told her where I was. Upon opening the door I learned the answer was no. She was sitting in the chair in front of the door. She was asleep, but woke up when I closed the door. She stood up and approached me. I waited and was not disappointed. The slap caught me on the cheek but I barely flinched. I'd always had a high tolerance to pain. After a few seconds her face broke into a smile. She kissed me.

Me: "Sorry, Megan."

Megan: "It's fine just don't ever do that to me again. I don't like not knowing where you are."

Me: "I understand."

I hugged her and she hugged me back.

Megan: "I didn't get much sleep last night waiting for you so I'm going back to bed." She stopped and smiled at me. "You could join me if you want."

I smiled back watching her move as she headed to the stairs but a quick glance at the clock told me it would be a bad idea. I had work in half an hour and hangover or not I couldn't miss today. I went to the kitchen and got myself some coffee.

Work was pretty boring but, there was a new guy today. His name was Sergei. Our boss, Harold, said he was highly recommended but he seemed like a freak to me. Good news though. I finished that project finally. Now it just needs to be sent for testing and if everything is fine it can be shipped next week. Here's hoping it'll be enough to get me that promotion.

After work I went back home. Megan was still sleeping so I didn't wake her. I made myself some dinner and then started writing this. I'll be going to bed now. Night.

Exile

So, I left. I threw up my hands and walked out. Fuck Genome, Fuck The Servants, Fuck The Ne Timu, Fuck The Dying Man, fuck all of it. I'm out. I don't care what happens anymore so I'm out. I didn't tell anyone I just left while they were busy.

I pathed to some random location outside a bar and went inside. It was empty so I helped myself to the alcohol. I'm posting this from there. I'm on my seventh bottle of an unlabeled liquor and I'm fully intent on finding out exactly how much I can drink before I get drunk. Like so many other ways I'm better than a standard human but I'm sure enough alcohol will still be able to floor me.

I don't want to be here anymore. If I drink enough I can close my eyes and everything will be good again. I'll be with Megan again. The world will be back to the way it was. No it will be better than it was. There won't be any fears or Ne Timu. There won't be any Jack either. It will be paradise. Megan and Mom and Dad and Vadim and everyone else I've lost will be there. We'll be together forever in happiness.

Maybe if I drink enough I'll never have to wake up.

Sorry.

Took me longer to get this out than it should have...

I don't feel much like writing but I wouldn't let anyone else make this post

As we were leaving I got another call. It was Megan. She said Genome was right outside and coming in. I was a little confused and asked how she knew where he was. At that moment Megan walked into the amphiteater with a phone and smiled. "Because Genome's the one talking to you. How do you like the body I chose Muffy?"

I stared not getting it for a few seconds then it dawned. I charged towards him jumping over the seats until I reached him and grabbed him by the throat flinging him against the wall. I screamed at him to get out of her body and he just laughed. "Oh Muffins, you know how this works. There's nothing left of her mind in here. I've taken over completely. This is my body now."

"Then I'm going to fucking kill you!" I drew back my fist but stopped. He was smiling. He was inside there. I couldn't... It was her body I couldn't hurt her. Never again...

He waited then spoke. "Well if you're not going to let fly with that fist you may as well put me down."

I did so. "Now then. Allow me to explain how this will work. You stole my chance to become human and forced me to take this path. It's only fitting that I use the only thing you really care about to do so. I'm going to help you with the rest of your quest and every time you look at me and see me using your precious sister's body you're going to silently weep and lament that you caused this. Understood?"

I didn't respond. "Good then it seems you three managed to finish up here so let's head back."

Now here we are. Sitting here trying to find the next Ne Timu with Genome smiling at me with my sister's face. I'm not sure what the point is anymore. My sister's gone, The World's gone. They Dying Man can handle this shit I'm done.  

Ghosts

That's what I'm calling these things. They move through solid objects like ghosts, they don't speak and they're creepy. So ghosts seems like a good name for them. I'm sure there's a better name but who cares. Things we know about them sort of.


They can pass through any non living object at will.
They have pure red eyes.
They are immune to all weaponry.
They can affect things in ways that defy physical laws.


Ie that first one broke Harold's arm by twisting the bone itself through his arm without fully twisting the arm.


So yeah can only beat these things in hand to hand combat and doing so is risky since they can break bones essentially with a touch.


So knowing all of this how happy do you think we were to find Hiiln again in a stadium with twenty more of the god damn things.


It was like an amphitheater of sorts. Hiiln was on stage and the seats were filled with Ghosts.Like last time shortly after we arrived Hiiln stopped and The Ghosts all turned their attention to us. Harold's arm had healed somehow completely in this short time. He seems to have some strange healing factor. From what I understand he's also recovered from being stabbed in the eye, having his hand cut off and many other injuries. So, I don't really question it now. Anyways, we all got ready for some hand to hand combat as the creatures soared up towards us passing through the seats like they weren't there. We stayed in the doorway so they couldn't all attack us at once and began the fight. As long as we were careful they were pretty easy. The Liar got a leg broken but other than that we managed to kill 7 of them before the fighting suddenly stopped. The Ghosts stopped and retreated. They moved to the walls.

Hiiln raised his staff to us. "Enough. You have come for me. Sent by the Disloyal goddess of loyalty to destroy me. My servants could delay you indefinitely but it is a waste. Come. I will end you now."

We moved forward except The Liar who knelt down in the doorway due to her broken leg. We took out our weapons now that we weren't fighting the ghosts and charged. Seconds later we were all huddled over on the ground as Hiiln's Nihilism washed over us. In hindsight we really should have expected that.

Hiiln laughed. "How did you expect to kill me. You've felt my power before and you failed to bring along your immune friend. You are powerless."

Then Faceless stood up.

Faceless: It's funny. Once the idea of nothing mattering would probably have me crippled on the ground lie the rest of you but, I've been dead. I've seen what awaits after death and I already know that nothing matters. All your doing is confirming what I already know. The best part though. I have a reason to continue. I like killing things. It's fun. I don't need anymore reason than that.

As he finished speaking he moved his hand up and lifted his mask. Birds flew out and lunged towards Hiiln. The effect of Hiiln's power broke and we stood at the same moment as The Ghosts's attacked again. I threw myself at the attacking ghosts, an overwhelming sense of purpose replacing the nihilism. As we fought The Ghosts Faceless attacked Hiiln.

I didn't see the entirety of the fight being too busy smashing the skulls of The Ghosts attacking me but I saw some snatches. Faceless and his birds attacking Hiiln who defended himself with his staff and what looked like a hand glowing with black flame. Eventually most of the ghosts were dead and Harold could handle the remainder so I rushed to help Faceless.

I turned my attention to the fight just as Faceless slashed with his Machete and managed to cut off Hiiln's hand but in return Hiiln caught Faceless with a blow to the side with his staff that audibly shattered or broke some of his ribs. As Faceless fell to his knees I leapt up on to the stage and lunged at Hiiln with a blow to the face. A crack appeared in his skull and he started to fall back but I quickly grabbed his necklace and pulled it off. He caught himself and lunged at me with his staff. Dark fire curled up the length of his staff as he swung it at me and I blocked with his necklace. There was an explosion and I felt the flesh on my hand tear as I was thrown back. When I got back to my feet Hiiln's robes were lying empty on the ground his staff broken and his necklace a charred heap of metal on the ground. My hand hurt and I lifted it to see the damage. All the skin was gone and a useless skeletal hand was all I had left. With no muscles I couldn't use it.

The remaining ghosts of which there seemed to be only two fled upon the death of their master. I looked to see if Harold was ok and saw him staring at the entrance. I looked as well and saw The Liar. She was standing perfectly fine on her broken leg and was holding one of the Ghosts we had killed earlier. She was grinning in a manner that can only be described as creepy. She looked at me and disappeared. Immediately afterward she appeared beside me and grabbed my ruined hand. I felt her flowing into me and felt my will disappearing even as my hand began to regenerate. I felt this earlier and I felt it once before all this. The power of The Dying Man. Some how that grey goo from The Ghosts was restoring her fear powers and judging by the rate by which she was healing me and how easily she had begun to take control of me it wasn't just the power of The Liar piece she had restored to her but the full power of The Dying Man. As soon as my hand was completely healed she withdrew from me back into herself.

Me: Are you... Still The Liar?

The Liar?: No. I'm The Dying Man. The shattered god made whole.

Me: ... You're still on our side though right?

The Dying Man: Our goals are the same that is all I can say.

Me: Fair enough.

With that she or I guess now it was gone. I have the terrible feeling we're going to have to deal with it eventually as well.

Of course my trouble didn't end there. At that moment Genome arrived but I'm too tired now to fill you in on the rest so I'll tell you after a bit of sleep...

Oh, Megan...

Servants?

We arrived in the area.

The broadcast was apparently some random guy with a camera and internet live streaming a fight between some Timberwolves and proxies. How coincidental that our first meeting with Hiiln and our last involved Timberwolves and Proxies.

So, arriving there we found the camera guy. It was some kid, no one important. We left him there and took the camera with us. Killing a Ne Timu is something I feel should be broadcasted to the world.

We found Hiiln inside of a church. Is every fight with one of these things going to take place in a church? Well this one at least wasn't a real church. It was a church of The Archangel and had been The Timberwolves base of operations. There were still a couple of them inside just slumped over, uncaring. It made me wonder whether they'd return to normal after Hiiln's death. Speaking of Hiiln he was standing behind a pulpit and preaching when we entered. There was only one person in the audience, but they didn't seem to be slumped over in nihilistic despair. They seemed to be listening with rapt attention to every word.

Hiiln stopped speaking as he noticed us and the man stood up and turned towards us. His eyes opened revealing blood red eyes with no pupils and he hissed at us. I think we may be seeing a Ne Timu servant. Apparently this is a thing. It makes sense, I guess. The Ne Timu are essentially just the fears and Unikeia obviously has servants so, we should have expected this. Hiiln just watched us as we began to fan out, preparing to fight. Harold pulled some guns on the creature and it just lunged. There were several rows of pews in it's way and it just passed through them like they weren't there. It reached Harold in seconds and grabbed his left wrist and twisted. I could see the bone snap as the wrist turned. It wasn't normal. You can't just break a wrist like that. Harold didn't seem to mind though and pushed his other gun to the servant's chest before pulling the trigger. The servant didn't even react as the bullets passed through him. He reached towards Harold's face but I stepped forward and grabbed his arm with one hand as I delivered a punch to his stomach. Whatever allowed him to pass through objects apparently didn't let him pass through fists as he crumpled from the punch and let go of Harold's arm. I lifted his head and uppercut him in the throat hard enough to punch through. He made a choked sound and dropped to the ground as I let him go. There was no blood from the wound. Instead there was some strange syrupy grey goop.

With the servant dead we turned our attention instead on Hiiln. Unfortunately he had vanished during the fight. A scream drew our attention back to the servant. The Liar had touched him and she was screaming we pulled her away and she stopped but as I touched her I felt something begin to try and pass into me. As soon as she was free I let go and moved away. She was unconscious and a look from Harold confirmed he had felt it too.

The Liar's still unconscious and we're still looking for Hiiln. I have a lot of questions now.

Megan contacted me as well. She said Genome has a body now and he's coming to join us. Good it will be useful having another ally.

Arrived in Michigan.

So after going out of our way for the seven hundredth or so time Harold raised a very good point.

"If going normally is going to keep getting us distracted why not go there directly. The domains are all still working."

Oh yeah right... So we did that. We arrived somewhere in West Michigan and decided to ask around to find out more about the place Genome told us about. While searching around we spotted a building which was quickly identified as a proxy base. They'd probably know somethings.

So we headed in. On the way in some guy rushed past us before we could stop him. He was wearing a plain black leather jacket and bicycle helmet. Harold went after him while the rest of us went inside.

Inside seemed pretty empty. Or at least it did until we entered one room. inside were quite a large number of bodies apparently dragged in from other parts of the building and in large red letters (Not blood I checked) was written the words: "Stay Alert, Stay Alive" I don't think we'll be getting help from any servants around here.

We met back with Harold later. As expected he lost the guy shortly after beginning to follow him. Fortunately shortly afterward it all became moot as we caught wind of Hiiln's activities anyways. Dr. Malice contacted us and told us about a live feed of a fight coming from nearby that had caught everyone involved suddenly just dropping to their knees. Sounds like Hiiln is there so we're going immediately.

Dr. Malice also apologized for something but wouldn't say what it was. He sounded afraid.

Going to Michigan.

So just a short update.

We're still on our way to Michigan...

Yeah I know... We stopped quite a few times. We've been hitting huge streaks of servant activity and dealing with it and it's severely increased our travel time... For example we're currently in Montana... We'll get there eventually and nothing too important has happened but we did have an interesting encounter you might want to know about.

Me and the group were heading down when we ran into what appeared to be signs of a nearby group of puppets. We tracked down where they were holed up. It was strangely enough a comedy club. I decided to go in alone cause I had a weird feeling.

So I kick open the doors walk in like a tough guy and stop. There were puppets there but sitting near the back was a guy wearing a mask and a black hoodie. The mask had a large smile and green hair coloured on it with a purple strip going down the left side. He stared at me for a few seconds. I quickly backed the hell out of there and told the others we were leaving.

I am completely unashamed of this fact.

Faceless seemed strangely disappointed when I eventually told them who had been there.

Anyways carrying on our trip now.

Oh also...

Genome I contacted Dr. Malice. He still has some stuff to take care of so just telling you this. I assume he's not there yet. I did tell him and he will be coming. So you can tell the thoughtborns surrounding our campsite not to kill us. Alright?