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.