So...wedding stuff

Sorry we ain't talkin' much. The past few days for me have been WEEEEEEIIIIIIRRRRRRRD.

I don't remember things.

I'm just scrambling around due to senioritis.

Ahahahahahaha..senioritis. :D

Seth and I have been combining things to make...uh...new barriers. Hopefully.

Whelan's off doing something with Taben and Aiden. We're just sittin' here with Brenno.

And we were both at BL's variety show yesterday. Because that's just something the whole school attends.

There's...not a lot to do in BL.

So we'll chill here for now. Seth's showing me his Minecraft maps. And dying repeatedly. I'm mocking him. C:

:C

You are the best girlfriend ever.

Aren't I?

I'm REAL tired of being stuck here...

My spring break ran out Monday, and I'm still stuck indoors. Which is craptacular because I'd like to NOT miss school during my final few weeks. I have giant projects that are due and I need something to keep me busy.

I also happened to catch something else along with the Sickness, though I'm almost over it. Almost. You know, before Aiden freaks out. That's why I was quarantined from the computer.

Sammi seems completely normal. She even posted on my wall asking if I was okay. Skyler's fine, probably due to a lack of Rat. Seth vowed to find me a new dog on Minecraft.

Shiva died. Skeletons are bastards. I need to build my house already so this stops happening.

Keeping...myself...busy...

Little known fact about me, something Todd apparently missed. I am a master at temporarily forgetting even traumatizing things. So long as I have other information coming in, the memory gets stored elsewhere. I still have it though...so I still remember...

And where is Todd? Rat didn't even reply to the comment I left him like I expected he would. He hasn't said anything. I'm worried...

Things are...surprisingly quiet here. For now. Something terrible is going to happen. Something terrible is going to happen because of The Event...no...The Initiation. I know I still have to tell you what happened...

The Owl is dead. The Morrigan is here.

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We need to regroup...

Cleared it with mom very early this morning. Called her and cleared it with her dad. Went with her to get Whelan and drop her off here before mom goes to work. Glad our parents are used to our ridiculous hang out patterns.

Surprise. Whelan's at my house.

It would be better for her to be here than home by herself. Her dad only had an appointment and is probably going to be back soon, but still. (At least Ace has someone with him as well.)

She needs someone who knows what's going on.

Because she's been crying about it since it was safe to. Since mom left for work.

She did a fantastic job of pretending nothing happened last night while riding in the car. That's kind of both our problem, I think. Blocking too many emotions.

But they aren't being blocked now.

I'm making her breakfast and hot chocolate. (I'm an amazing cook and she knows it. That should cheer her up some). Trying to distract her from what happened. Pretend this is any ordinary day we hang out. Friends is on in the background. We've got her PS2 set up. And she wants to show me Minecraft.

She thinks if she hadn't gone, Todd would be okay. Well...no, she KNOWS that's not true. But it still bothers her.

We're almost positive Rat planned to take Todd whether she had been there or not. She probably would have been captured too, but she got away. That's the important part. She got away.

Todd will get through this too. I mean...it's Todd. He seems a little more put together than the other two. I think he'll be fine in the end.

...She told me. I know what happened to the others. Our friends. And Seth's and Skyler's. Some of them anyways.

Some of them are irreversible. Some of them can't be fixed.

I just hope Rat doesn't draw in the police again...I don't know how to explain how all of these other people we're connected to are dead...

Ohmygod...Bran. I don't...I can't imagine what that was like to watch. Sometimes she has a hard time handling gory episodes of Criminal Minds or Supernatural. I mean...so do I. Probably a worse time than her. I don't...real life murders. Right in front of her...and people we both know.

I think it's best for us to be paired up for the moment. Me and Bran. Seth and Skyler. Sammi and...oh. Nobody's with Sammi...should we find a way to go get her?

Have to get back to the oven. Gotta feed Whelan and try to sort this mess out...

I should ave known...

I should have known that would hapenn

tood helped me get away. Rat found ot what was going on and when he spoted us he got everyone to attakc

I got away. Todd will be fine. I'm not scared for Todd.

Maybe a little.

But there was blood there was blood and people were dying and only some died. The rst are part of them now.

And how do we fix this, todd? How do we fix everyone that died?

We're In

I'm allowed to tell you guys we're here and relatively safe in disguise for the time being.

There's so many people...

I recognize a lot, but there's so many I don't know...

Oh. It looks like it's starting.

Super Computer? And before I go...

So Casey's decided to read through the giant list of comments on that blog...

Some sort of computer thing is analyzing other bloggers. I am incredibly intrigued and confused.

I guess I'll have to find out later.

Mom's going to bed soon, so we can head out sooner than we thought. Todd has a black fox mask now and a white hoodie. Me, an arctic fox and black hoodie. We decided to go as some sort of proxy team. And Todd wasn't going to abandon his animal of choice so we went with that.

I promise I'll fill you all in when we get back.

Luckily, both schools are off tomorrow so I don't have to be up for anything. I DO have to be back before either of the 'rents get up though.

...I'm so SO very nervous. And excited in a weird way.

I apparently have high potential. Let's put that to the test.

Wish us luck.

Au revoir.

Talking with Crow

I was going to post this yesterday, but he came back and voluntarily wanted to speak to me.

I had to initiate the conversation yesterday, which means I just ran outside and startled him and ended up forcing him to talk in riddles.

Which probably wasn't the best choice, but he says the most interesting/useful things when threatened. So hey.

We capitalize what he says because he really doesn't have any volume control. Even when he whispers it sounds like he shouting. In a way.

Me: [runs out the door, pushing it shut before Sparky or Phoebe can get out]

Crow: [looks up and grabs several of his birds] KITTY!

Me: I don't wanna touch your birds and the dogs are inside. Cool your jets.

Crow: MEAN KITTY.

Me: Yes, I am. Deal.

Crow: [opens his arms slightly so the birds can fly out] WHAT D(X) Y(X)U WANT?

Me: I just wanna talk.

Crow: KITTIES HURT BIRDIES. CR(X)W D(X)ES N(X)T LIKE KITTIES.

Me: What did I just tell you. I don't even like birds that much.

Crow: F(X)X SAYS...[there's a long pause here, I'm pretty sure he was trying to remember the word] HARSH MISTRESS. KITTY IS HARSH.

Me: I don't like Todd much either, but I deal.

Crow: [cocks his head, silence]

Me: Fox.

Crow: [nods a lot, then sits down and pulls up some grass]

Me: So... [I casually walk towards one of the trees in the front yard, some what closer to him] ...what's your relationship with the other two?

Crow: [cocks his head again]

Me: Your friends.

Crow: F(X)X IS FRIEND.

Me: Yes he is. What about Rat?

Crow: RAT IS DIRTYDIRTYDIRTY. [he throws some grass]

Me: We think so too.

Crow: KITTY SH(X)ULD EAT RAT. KITTIES EAT RATS.

Me: No. Ew. Gross. I don't even want to touch him.

Crow: [giggles...I think]

Me: So why do you listen to Rat?

Crow: [cocks his head AGAIN; I get the feeling Crow is very easily confused by way too may things]

Me: You do what Rat says.

Crow: [nods]

Me: That doesn't make much sense.

Crow: [shrugs]

Me: If he's such a jerk...if he's...uhm...so dirty...why do you listen to him?

Crow: CR(X)W IS A...IS A...IS A...SIMPLET(X)N. RAT SAYS S(X).

Me: Crows are really smart, actually. You could probably take over the world with your crows. You don't need Rat or It.

Crow: [silent, petting some birds]

Me: You know who It is?

Crow: MASTER. F(X)X SAYS IT IS MASTER AND MASTER IS DARK. MASTER SCARES CR(X)W. MASTER KEEPS CR(X)W SAFE.

Me: [I'm not getting much, time to irritate him] You 'Master' is a horrendous, evil piece of shit.

Crow: N(X)!

Me: You just said It scares you. Don't you hate It?

Crow: N(X)! CR(X)W IS G(X)(X)D BIRD. CR(X)W SERVES MASTER.

Me: Raven hates It.

Crow: RAVEN IS NICE T(X) CR(X)W.

Me: Because she has to be.

It got eerily quiet here. Crow stopped moving completely. His finger was lightly touching one of his crow's on the beak. And then all of the birds flew away.

Crow: RAVEN FLIES (X)N WINGS (X)F SYMPATHY F(X)R HER BR(X)THER.

Me: What?

Crow: SECRETS THERE ARE SECRETS THAT SH(X)ULD N(X)T BE T(X)LD BUT THEY WERE Y(X)U T(X)LD.

Me: We all told.

Crow: THE MIRTH IS HIS MIRTH HIS HIS HIS.

Me: It?

Crow: HE WILL LAUGH WHEN YOU FALL.

Then he ran towards the woods and was gone. The first thing confused me because Sammi actually has a brother. Chris. But Chris has no idea what's going on and that doesn't make any sense.

Theory two is this.

Crows and ravens look a lot a like. Crow is a guy. Sammi does have genuine sympathy for him.

Theory three is really unlikely. Chris is Crow.

And then he came back when I was making breakfast the morning. Just to tap on the window by the table and shout this: "HE WILL LAUGH HE WILL LAUGH. LISTEN TO ME LISTENLISTENLISTEN."

Then he turned around to leave. But he stopped and shouted: "MASTER HATES KITTIES."

He had my cat by its neck. I ran out to go get Mr. Meows from him, but he'd already dropped him and fled.

I think we've all gotten into the habit of taking anything Crow repeats as a clue. Three. Two. Three. Wedding, mirth, wedding.

The mirth is his? Probably It. And apparently we are a force blocking It. I'm not really sure how that works.

Whelp...we're going down to Columbus for Easter. Time to see my niece. See you later.

It Starts Tomorrow Night

The thing, anyways. Todd doesn't really want me to go anymore. But we did all of that preparing and planning and going over things so I don't forget them. And I'm going.

I had no idea they'd put so much effort into their masks. I will be wearing an arctic fox rather than my grey wolf.

Oh yeah. I was handling It being It's regular douchebag self well enough until I got more of the nightmares. And everything I've eaten since yesterday has had a painful exit. And drinking water shouldn't hurt.

At least I know my REM cycle still works well enough. And I'm doped up enough on medicine to not hurt and to still function.

It figures he'd do that. The night of Easter. Rat...

Todd told me to relax today. Today is Allen's birthday party, so if anything happens to anyone it will probably go down over there. He says he's patrolling from a distance.

He also said, "The only Rats children should play with are from the pet store."

And then I laughed. And uhm...slept for about two and half hours immediately after that. I woke up not too long ago, so I have no idea where he is.

It looks like Frap's back.

I am so completely relieved. You have no idea.

I need to go relax. Minecraft server should be up. Looks like I'm going to pal around with the boys for a bit.

Casey said she had something about Crow.

Down to Business

I hate storms. Hatehatehatehatehatehatehate.

You know what terrifies me almost as much a He/It/Whatever does? STORMS.

In related news, I now have a new computer monitor. Yeah. Downed power line destroyed the old one. STOOOOOORMS.

So now that I can actually see what I'm doing...Seth is starting today. We all collectively start Spring Break tomorrow, so I guess Skyler is coming up tonight. Which is great, because then BOTH of them can test things.

Sam's trying to get anything useful out of Crow. It's mostly just babble. She typed the notes out to me. Todd must be some sort of saint for constantly putting up with that and his apparent bipolar...ness.

...and...what can I do? Bran can sit in the chair of power and do about eight billion other things at once. So what am I supposed to do?

I guess...I can...Crow. Crow babbles incessantly to Sammi because he likes her. Crow HATES me.

Let's see what he says differently...

Profiling and More Important Business

 Edit: Curses. I hadn't realized Branwen was still logged in here. I should really be using the iPhone for my blog. It doesn't matter. We'll just make everything orange, eh?

Branwen left her Facebook logged in and went to go get something from the basement. It's open to her Notes. I'm finding things called "25 Things" and such, which all corroborate with my observations. Some are new.

2.) Once I find something I like, I will be obsessed about it for weeks. Then I forget. Then I relapse.
10.) I LOVE ASIANS.
13.) I have random massive body spasms and I have no idea why.
19.) MUSHROOMS ARE GROSS, ALIEN THINGS AND I DON'T LIKE THEM.
25.) I have to touch things in stores. If it looks interesting or might have a neat texture...I MUST TOUCH IT.

And some line up with what I said previously.

3.) I really hate being by myself. I need to be surrounded by friends.
14.) I hate fruit. Please stop trying to make me eat it. And stop taunting me with it. It smells gross, it makes me gag, and the fructose makes things sticky. I'll bite you. I'm freakin' serious.
23.) I get stupidly attached to inanimate objects. My first pair of Converse? Broken, but I still have them. The stuffed animal my big brother gave me when I was little? His name's Mokey. He's a monkey. I still give him loves.


Just something that I found to be interesting. There are many many more of them.


And now for something more important than profiling Miss Whelan.


We are preparing for The Event. I believe we've made the unspoken decision to call it that. It just ended up that way.
Branwen is also handling It being on near constant observation of her lately. I think that as long as she's not by herself, she's stable. I have personally taken it upon myself to keep watch during the night so she can sleep.
Samantha seems to be speaking to Crow through notes.
Skyler has not reported any problems with Rat. At least not exclusive to her.
Seth seems to be gathering materials for experiments. Those did seem to die out before. It's good to test things, to have some sort of temporary defense. Good work, Master Brown.
And Casey is currently handling all blog related business, exceptions being when Branwen has time to log on.


Rat is my only fear. He is intelligent and perceptive. We cannot risk him catching on to our plans for The Event.


I've also been informed through these five that there's been two search parties sent out so far. They've turned up nothing on Skye. As long as she's with Rat, they never will unless he decides to stage it as a homicide and not a mysterious disappearance.
The police have decided that Rat's vandalism and the disappearance are unrelated, which is good news. It's much less complicated this way.


...Branwen's mother is home. I'll be making my exit now.

Is the coast clear?

Sorry for the two day break, but Whelan was getting re-interviewed so we wanted to be extra careful.

Turns out the cops made a possible connection between the...dog...head and Skye disappearing. Which is only Bran, if you look at it from a complete outsider's perspective.

Even though they're totally connected. There's no way they'd know. Seriously. Rat's more calculating than...uh...a...

...I have nothing witty to say there...

I was told she played it off as random vandalism, which is totally believable considering she lives so SO very close to...what did we call it? Poverty? Screw it. We'll call it EL. That's what we always call it anyways. Just like the BL.

I guess the tables have been turned as well. And by that I mean instead of me being stalked relentlessly, it's her. Though...she's probably got a better handle on it than I do. Then again, she's got Todd. Whelan always handles anxiety and fear better when she's with other people.

There was this time in 7th grade...we had to take songs and rewrite them to be about the Renaissance for our history class. And we had to sing them. In front of everyone.

She paid me five dollars to sing a modified "Sugar We're Going Down" with her. And after that she did perfectly fine, even though I lost the beat like...not even halfway through.

Wait no it was three...because I think I owed her two...

Jesus, what was I supposed to be talking about? Oh. So I guess you'll be hearing from me a lot more. Bran and Todd are working on their plan.

HEY WAIT A MINUTE. We never had a Round Table. WHELAN.

I'munna find the tele. :l

Interview and Search (among other things)

It turns out it's very easy to lie to the police when you don't fully understand what exactly happened in the first place.

They pretty much got the same exact story out of me, Seth, and Sammi each time they talked to one of us.

That's because we're masterminds and we plotted that all out in the recording studio yesterday morning.

We weren't completely lying though. We left out the Slenderman parts (because god knows how much more trouble that would stir up and my paranoid mind does NOT want that to somehow get back to the FBI). But we really actually don't know what happened to her.

I decided to pry a little and ask if they'd found anything.

Nothing. At all. Not even frantic sketches or messages. If there were any, Rat probably took care of them all. It's like Skye just disappeared.

Apparently they're going to send out another search crew. My mind's already created several scenarios of how that will end.

1.) They'll find her dead in a tree.

2.) They'll find a scrap of clothing or a piece of her.

3.) They won't find anything.

4.) It will appear and murder all of them.

5.) They'll capture Rat and discover what's really going on.

 

I never said any of the scenarios were rational...I just said I thought of them.

I over-worry a lot. Example: Dad got a call from the doctor saying that they found something on his x-ray they want to talk to him about. My first thought? Tumor. What it actually was? Compression fractures on his spine from the bike accident he had years ago.

Yeah. I just...I just need to calm down. Todd says he can fix it.

There was supposed to be another party today, but none of the five of us are feelin' it. Sorry, Ai. Sorry, Dean. Happy belated birthday, by the way. I forgot...

Frap. I don't understand what's going on with him. I've never been very good at riddles. Not those kind. At least I think they're riddles? Or impossible tasks. "Impossible"?

I just saw something in my book like that. The dwarves that made the chains that held Fenrir. They used items not thought to exist. (the roots of a mountain, the beard of a woman, the breath of a fish...)

I wonder...

Yest...wait no...TODAY is Thursday

I definitely just heard "Friday" for the first time today. It'd probably be a good song if she didn't sound TERRIBLE.

I also definitely just saw Rat angrily stompin' around outside. His coat...is...shredded. Oh man. I'm placing all bets on Todd from now on.

His hat's all crinkled too, but he's still wearing it.

I called Skyler to warn her. Just so you guys know, she's now keeping baseball bats in strategic areas of her house.

Hah. Look what you started, Bran.

Actually...I should probably do that. That's not a bad idea...

And uhm...mom said the police called the house today. They want to talk to me about Skye.

Guys...what do we say?

Nineteen

Happy friggin' birthday...

At least it was somewhat salvageable.

I got cupcakes and cookies today. The guys (which includes Seth) set up the multiplayer server for Minecraft. I hugged Ace (good dog good good dog) a lot.

These are my coping mechanisisms. Whee.

And yes, I will lose my shit over the death of an animal. Especially if I knew that dog. And he was decapitated. And left on my fucking front porch.

Wow. Now I'm just nothing but incredibly pissed.

Waiting to hear back from Todd. I've resolved to locate the revolver so I can actually retrieve it if I have to.

Yes, that's the only gun I can use. I mean...I can shoot the slightly larger pistol. And it doesn't kick much. But it still hurts my fingers. I guess I can settle for that if I have to...

Joce...I want to help you but I don't understand...

Well...it was Justin's birthday today too. And I told him he was getting cupcakes. So off I got to the land of baking...

I don't know if I'm feelin' the weekend you guys...

i hate rat

ihatehimihathimihatehim

I need to call the police and nobodys home and this poor dog

What the fuck did Ripley ever do to you you sadistic bastard?!

There's a dog head on my porch and blood and ohgod i don't know what to do

and hesays

He says, "Happy Birthday, little gal."

I'm not letting Ace outside. And I'm getting the shotgun. Just you try and come in here...

Rodent on the Move

I think Rat is mobilizing. I'm not sure what his goal is, but I DO know I've been a focal point for whatever reason.

His entire method is confusing, though. He's using everything from horribly distasteful pranks, straight up threats, and...presents. (I've thrown all of those out. Trust me. I'd never keep them.)

I've gotten:

- The toy carrot

- The toy acorn

- Several notes

- Some creepy voice messages

- A toy panda with a noose around its neck

- Chocolates. That came WITH the panda.

- A plastic figurine of Bambi with its head cut off

- Flowers

We've conversed face to "face" before. Which was less conversing and more me yelling and him being an agitating little prick.

He talks about how he never pictured me as a "Mother Bear". I feel like he was trying to get me under his thumb by trying to give me prey names...

He makes jokes about "deer season" in regards to Seth.

The notes are patronizing. He speaks and writes in an intelligent but superior tone. He is not nice.

At all. In case you couldn't pick that up from him beating Crow in front of Seth. Mainly, he makes death threats. Even thinly veiled threats in his "apologies".

I know he said a thing or two about Todd.

He was REALLY mad about that stick by the way. When I laughed at him about it, he stuffed the top shelf of my locker with threatening notes.

And Seth's right. He is just like one of those old cartoon type villains that tie people to railroad tracks. I would not be surprised to find a curly moustache and a crooked grin under that stupid mask.

...It's hard for you to tell how absolutely terrified I am because I'm trying to make it sound like I'm angry and trying to defend my friends...

I really wish I could move up there with all of you. I keep begging my parents to take me up on the weekends. I get to go because I pay for the gas.

The week days kill me...Friday cannot come soon enough. Even though everything else deadly and scary is up there, I at least wouldn't be by myself.

The few others I "infected"...I can't even feel safe around them. Because they're part of the group that's unanimously disappearing and reappearing.

I saw a 'Missing' ad in the paper for Skye...

Oh, and in case I miss it tomorrow. Happy (early) Birthday, Branwen. I hope it goes smoothly. You deserve peace on your birthday.

Setting down the controller.

At least for a moment. Bluh. I hate to interrupt the flow of things like this, but I need to say this.

Yes, this is exactly what it looks like. An OOC post. And before any of you piss and moan about me being "fake"...shut up. And get out of here. When you grow up and realize people CAN make out of character posts, THEN you can come talk to me.

Back on the rails, I assume at least some of you have seen Thage's post about leaving the game. If not, here: OOG: A Goodbye Letter to the Mythos

This is not to call her out. She actually raised excellent points. And while I don't agree with what she said against other bloggers, I'm not going to call her out over it. She's entitled to her opinion, and I'm tired of defending people and saying "STOP BEING JERKS" over and over again anyways. Enough of that crap.

Back on the rails AGAIN, There IS a definite lack of horror as of late.

And I will freely admit that Aiden's player and I have taken part in it. I've been trying to crawl out of that hole for awhile, but kept derailing myself with plot lines involving the five characters (which is probably four too many what the hell was I thinking). And then the three Agents. Hoo boy. Who let me do that one. But that's not an excuse.

What SHOULD be taken into consideration is how the Mythos is evolving. Sure, it can't be all sunshine and rainbows, but it can definitely start growing smarter. More different. Diverse. Granted, there are ways to do this without sounding like cheery idiots...but each is entitled to their own story line.

Each player adds new pieces of information to the game. Each to be seriously considered. (Even something as ridiculous as Breaker. They didn't really deserve to be trolled out of the Mythos the way they were.) Slenderman is generally accepted to be a tulpa. Therefore, Slenderman can change from person to person.
Not everyone's blogs will be the same. Which is great, because who wants to read that? I thought H(a)unting was wonderfully unique.

But I digress. We're talking about my blog here. I've finally worked out the plans I've had for weeks now. And I would like to assure you that things will start falling down the shithole of terror for Branwen and co. VERY soon. I will promise you that.



What's going to happen? Oh nonononononono. You don't get any spoilers. None of the spoilers. None of them.



We now return to your (not so) regularly scheduled program.



Tomorrow.

The bonfire died....

And I was sad. :C

Well Aiden...I...can't say that was entirely unexpected...

Four proxies! It's like a proxy party now!

Except the one guy's invited out of pity and the other guy was NEVER invited because he's a douche and we hate him.

Speaking of Crow...

Yes. Dean's post was hilarious. I cackled like a hyena.

:l

C'mon guys...

Ahahahaha.....

Well...

Teasing Dean aside...

We should all be sleeping.

So.

Goodnight!

Here

We've arrived. And a wee bit late. Bran's got her face buried in her Element Encyclopedia thing she found.

I'm looking up Crow and Raven and Owl stuff. Don't bug me.

We're just kind of chilling.

Skyler looks very worn out.

I am. I'll tell you later. It's a long story.

...If there's anything in that book about Crows and Ravens being a couple or whatever, I am going to THROW a CHAIR. >:C

Ahahahaha! No. There isn't. I've got what I need for now anyways.

And hello, Omega!

Food!

Food time?

They made lunch for us. I has a happy. <3

I guess we're going to chill here and help set up and stuff. If stuff needs setting up. I don't know.

And also hope no unwanted faces show up.

Yeah. That'd be nice.

P.S. Elizabeth is in trouble, I think. It sounds like her friend Logan is being Hallowed. And maybe He or It is trying to speak through Elizabeth. I don't know. Can someone take a look at this?

Little Shop...Little Shop of Horrors!

That went fabulously.

That was the best thing we've ever done.

I KNOW.

There's one thing BL is still good at. And that's fine arts. We do pretty well in a few athletics...not most...

We're DEFINITELY not the brightest.

Don't even make us go there.

But that was fantastic.

Now then.

Coping with Skye until Todd figures out how to fix things...I'll be okay. Seth and Skyler are doing something at church for her.

I imagine Sammi is preoccupied with poor Crow.

Snerk.

Was there a new episode of Supernatural on tonight...? I don't remember.

Dude. I wouldn't even know.

Okay. Well. We'll be heading up to Aiden's tomorrow. Not sure if Todd's coming. I'm sure he and Aiden will work that out with their magical telepathy though.

Know what we haven't had in a while?

Round Table?

Precisely.

Guess what we're doing when we get back.

Cool deal.

What have we learned?

If somebody is posting in code, always take it seriously. No matter what was going on beforehand.

We thought Sam was joking. And she wasn't. And she could have been killed. I think It was just trying to be an ass, though.

Musical tonight. The BL's doing Little Shop of Horrors. Heading to Aiden's tomorrow.

Todd's a little weird...

...Okay. He was weird before, but now he's weird because he's not acting the weird way he's supposed to, he's acting like a different wei-

Okay that doesn't make any sense. Let's just say his speech pattern breaks and sometimes his voice and tone change. I think he's remembering things too, but I haven't been bugging him about it.

[sigh] It's getting close to the day. Here's an update from Casey:

Monday: Infected are collectively absent.

Tuesday: Still absent.

Wednesday: They return.

Thursday: All are absent again.

Friday: And all were back today.

Not just for the BL. This is all across the board at ALL of our schools.

In case anyone was wondering, this has EVERYTHING to do with what Bran and Todd are going to be doing in a few days.

I've been graced with the presence of Rat. And I now understand why everyone hates him so much.

Tapping on windows, setting off the house alarm, generally being creepy outside...

Okay so they all did that. But he's doing it explicitly because it both annoys and terrifies me. Watch. Next he'll go making tornadoes and sending plagues of bugs and frogs...

God I hate Rats...

And then there's...something...about...Zoroastr...Zo...Zorast...

 Whelan. I can't even pronounce that word.

Yeeeaaaah...just a little...hint as to what the big secret plan is. Which doesn't really tell you anything more. But whatever.

ZO-ROH-AS-TREE-IN-IS-EM.

For any inquiring parties.

I am completely annoyed that I had to use the word "tree" in that.

And something that made me almost vomit this morning but was still....entirely expected...

A missing person's report has been filed for Skye.

...I have to go.

Another Thursday

Casey enjoyed her present (Operator symbol cupcakes and a shirt that said "Smooth (X)perator". Screw the consequences, if any.)

I have a wooden box. It is a special Interactive Media box. His name is Box. (Don't question me.)

I am tired!

I'm also suddenly doing good in math? What.

Minecraft stuff. (I found a poochie!)

Todd's been in and out. I try to feed him random food when he's in. The results are sometimes hilarious. ("What the hell are Spaghettio's? These do not look safe to eat...")

They're delicious. I love them. Shut your face. ;D

Everyone agrees on going to the wake. Skyler will come up to Seth's as usual. We'll probably all meet here again and then go rescue Sammi from Crow.

[snerk]

He's trying so hard to be sincere. I kind of feel bad laughing about it.

And hey! Dean's trying to plan a huge birthday thing since mine's the 13th and theirs is the 17th.

That's right you Homestuck savvy people. My birthday is April 13th. WHO'S YOUR GOD NOW?

As for...Slender Shenanigans...

It's an...eye of the storm thing for us five right now? As soon as this plan that Todd and I have pulls through, things are going to get...

Well...

Shitty.

I generally don't swear when I'm in a good mood (that says a lot about the posts where I AM), but there's no better adjective.

SOOOOO...I'm going to keep making myself oblivious to that fact. I tend to function better that way. (Note for Aiden: It will not be a result of what Todd and I will be doing. It's going to happen regardless. jsyk. Don't worry yourself.)

Speaking of me functioning properly. I let myself cry last night. Because it needed to happen. And I feel so much better letting that all out. I should really stop letting the stress build up like that, but I never do that. I just repeat the process.

I guess that explains the lack of freak out posts. Me burying the emotion and the magical backspace button.

Watch. Me saying that will jinx things.

Unrelated...

I've suddenly taken an interest in Zoroastrianism, just because that is the coolest name I've ever heard. It doesn't even have to be a name for a religion. That's just a sweet name for ANYTHING.

So I'm going to add their history to my mental database of...stuff.

And then I'm going to dig through it to see if there's anything Pete and Ron could use, assuming they haven't already tried it.

Supernatural

Hey! So reading Sam and Dean's comments totally reminded me.

You know how I mentioned that I had to go back through my book a few times? Of course you do.

Look at this.

Cool, right? Found it at Half-Price Books. Only copy there. Told Nick that was my Christmas present.

Now look at this.

Before any of you says anything, I know it's from a TV show and everything in this must be taken with a grain of skepticism.

But a lot of it is based on truth. By 'truth' I mean they did actual research into the myths they put on the show.

This particular episode was really neat. And hilarious. And spawned the running gag of the Ghostfacers.

In fact, I didn't even know it was tulpa related until I read this entry. Let me pull some snippets out...

"They say if enough people believe something, it's true."

"A tulpa is, pure and simple, a being created by the act of someone imagining it."

"In the Tibetan mystical tradition, highly advanced lamas and laymen could give their thoughts and imaginings an actual physical appearance."

This is an interesting tidbit paraphrased from their father's notes: "A tulpa created through intense ritual visualizations are called Dubthab. The ones that are created specifically to harm people are called Dragpoi Dubthab."

And: "A tulpa will inevitably turn on its creator."

As for the actual episode the tulpa appeared in, it starts off with some kids doing what appears to be hazing in what is proclaimed as a "haunted house". One of them ends up dead (surprise, surprise), the rest run off.

Apparently, the house is haunted by the ghost of Mordecai Murdock. Except it really isn't, it's just an urban legend....until Sam and Dean (the actual characters, not the real life siblings :P) encounter two ghost hunters that call themselves the Ghostfacers and learn that the pair has taken the legend and spread it onto their website, greatly increasing the popularity of the story.

Which helps Mordecai become real. You read that right - a fictional killer was brought to life by the internet.

I'll let that sink in.

Okayokayokay. I'll finish the story now.

Mordecai's behavior is never consistent due to there being several versions of the legend. 

(He only targets girls, only targets girls with certain hair, hangs girls, doesn't hang girls...or something like that.

Regardless, people are actually dying. Sam and Dean have to fix that. That's kind of their job.

So there's this thing, a sigil. A Tibetan sigil used to focus thought and belief.

ADDENDUM: Because Dean is a cool person and he caught this...the picture above is not the sigil. That is a symbol from a band called the Blue Oyster Cult. I forgot about that part of the episode. This is both my fault for not double checking and the book's author's fault because HE didn't double check either. The REAL sigil looks like this:

 There we go. You may carry on with the reading now.

Sam and Dean think, "Okay, we'll just go destroy the sigil then."

Except nothing happens when they do that. So they go seek out one of the kids from the beginning and interrogate him. Turns out he and another girl vandalized the place to look demonic and spray painted weird symbols everywhere. Good going, kids.

The Winchesters' last idea? Hunt down the Ghostfacers. And get them to publish a story that Mordecai was...either killed by or accidentally shot himself (can't remember) with a gun. And now Mordecai is terrified of guns. The result they're hoping for being that shooting at the ghost tulpa will get rid of it.

So they do that and it looks like it's going to work but the server crashes and the story ends up NOT working.

And I'm pretty sure they just solved the problem by burning that entire house down.

The details are foggy there.

So let's review:

- Tulpa was an urban legend.

- Tulpa was created through the belief spreading through the internet.

- Tulpa's behavior changes based on how the legend goes.

- Tulpa was almost destroyed by spreading a story that changed its behavior.

I know these things haven't worked for most of us. The stories didn't help Zero (purportedly). Frap says that He says He can't be harmed by changing His story.
No I'm stupid. Frap said that ROBERT said that He/It/Whatever can't be harmed with stories. Frap himself believes in the stories. Thinking back...yeah. I completely mixed that up. Eheh...

But they have to work somewhere.

They have to work for someone.

He doesn't behave the same for everyone. Not everyone has quite the same story. This all has to make sense somehow...

I have to go make cupcakes for Casey's belated birthday present. Toodles.

Edit: Yes, I still have to make cupcakes. I just thought I'd point out that I didn't know the episode was tulpa related because I'm stupid sometimes and despite remembering a ridiculous amount of otherwise useless crap, I did not remember this.
And any curious people can watch the episode here: Season 1, Episode 17 - Hell House

Sticks...?

AIDEN.

Todd bleeding =/= Todd being fine

D:

Granted, that probably happened after you saw him last. Or he just got cut up while running around frantically. I don't know.

He's kind of just cursing and mumbling on the couch now. I'll probably distract him with Criminal Minds shortly. Haven't gotten to force him to watch it yet.

Uhm...apparently he gave the stick to Crow after encountering "someone" (It or Rat?) and then gave Crow specific instructions to give it to one of us.

He probably forgot at some point. Or that task was replaced by his confusion, which is why Sammi had to go get it from him herself.

Poor Crow.

Anyways, Todd has the stick now, Ygg, whenever you're ready for him to deliver it. What is it...like a magic wand or something?

And I have to go through that Supernatural book, don't I?

P.S. HI FAERIES! :D

Fair Folk and Stuff

Told you I'd post sometime!

There's a...faery commenting on the blog? THAT'S TOTALLY AWESOME.

Bran and I have been flailing around about this for like..........ever since she saw the comment!

Casey and Seth are lame and don't want to buy into it. I think Skyler's skeptical, but willing to play along.

And I think Bran and I just really want something that magical and awesome in our lives. Real or not. We love faeries.

Faeries. You are more than welcome to chill here.

Okay...um...Slenderman things...awww...now I'm sad to switch subjects...

Crow was sitting around outside so I gave him some crackers to try to make him go away.

He wouldn't take them. He looks sad. And very VERY confused.

I have no idea where Todd is. Bran is kind of worried.

Waitaminute.

I think Crow was holding a stick.

I'm going to see if he's still outside now.

Has the shit officially hit the fan?

First, let me restate what I said yesterday so it's less fueled by frustration.

1.) I don't appreciate people insulting my friends, drunk or no.

2.) Calling people out as fake isn't cool either.

And to Alyx, since I may have deleted that before you could read it, don't beat yourself up. I say idiotic things when sufficiently irritated.

Everyone makes mistakes. Yours are forgiven.

And of course we're still on for Scott Pilgrim. What a preposterous question. :)

Now then.

It.

Has.

OFFICIALLY.

Overstepped Its bounds.

I wonder if It thought It was being cute or clever? Oh let's murder Aiden's parents because they aren't on the property and therefore aren't under that protection hahahahahahaFUCK OFF YOU BASTARD.

I'm sorry. Bitter sarcasm is the only way I can handle this and everything else right now.

It...it actually really really hurts and I really want to cry but they aren't my parents and that's not my place and I have to be there to help. To support. It's not my place to mourn here. It's my place to assist. As the friend. And almost sister.

Todd. For the love of God. I hope you find what Ygg's talking about. Good luck. Be careful.

And thanks. I really like my hoodie. I think this plan will work out just fine. (More on that later.)

In today's news...

- Sammi is back from Tekko. She misses the city already. I do too.

- Seth says he remembered seeing something that looked important in my Supernatural book while he had it.

- Skyler is...I'm not entirely sure what's going on with Rat. But I want to say...she's winning? Uhm...I'll just let her tell you.

- Casey and I are on absolute high alert.

High alert? What for?

Oh did I forget to say?

Remember all of those people that we accidentally infected?

All of them. Absent. Today. All at once.

And not just at the BL! Ohohoho........no.

Everyone Seth talked to. A few that Skyler got. Skye was gone too, we think she's actually disappeared this time. The only person that DOESN'T have collateral is Sammi. And that's because she didn't flail around like a fear driven idiot after watching you-know-what.

I have deemed her the only smart person in this situation.

Todd predicted this would happen, but wasn't entirely sure. I am now beating my head against the desk for not considering this.

The hoodie. Todd brought me a plain black zip-up hoodie the other day. You can probably guess what I put on the back.

There's a reason for this. I can't talk about it now or it'll mess things up.

Not even Crow can know, despite how much I pity and want to be friends with him.

ANNNND. We've just gotten a wealth of information due to Ava's research and Zeke's complete badassery. Even if Ava hates almost everyone right now. That does not stop her from being a source.

And I can understand her entire reasoning...

I may summarize this later. I'll probably forget. For anybody that hasn't seen: The Red Building and The Egypt Notes.

Oh god Aiden I'm so sorry...I wish I could help.

Just don't do anything stupid. Please?

OH MY JEEZ

I almost forgot!

Not like I've been able to GET to a computer ANYWAYS.

Chris...hoggin' the laptop...it's actually his but whatever.

Well howdy there, folks!

I haven't talked much here. I think I should talk more. Wow...

I don't have a lot of posts. I'm still beating Seth! HAH!

So...guess I'm the only one here.

Last I checked Casey was attempting to play checkers with Todd.

Bran's probably home now, passed out.

Skyler and Seth (who DEFINITELY forgot he was supposed to say something...HOW COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED) are still hangin' out...

Yup that's everyone.

Hmhmhmhmhm...

I'm at Tekko right now. With Chris. My brother.

Bran's right about Pittsburgh, by the way. It DOES feel a lot safer.

I wandered around the other blogs for a bit. You know, since no one else is around.

Poor Joce... :(

What's up with Zeke?

And Celeste is talking tooooo...crazies?

Hi Sam and Dean! Wow I'm late to THAT party.

Frap! You said something about some guy named 'zerombr' commenting? I don't know who that is but it sounds like Zero and if it it's the Zero that Bran's been talking about then it must be important and I should probably find out.

Heeheheheheheeeeee...I'm tired.

I should go to bed now.

But this was fun! Maybe I'll post tomorrow...

Goodnight!

I did NOTHING yesterday! :D

None of us did anything for that.

I slept! :D

Yes she did.

It was nice!

Now I have to deal with her NOT being a willpower driven zombie. :l

Whee!

At least I'm used to Todd being here.

Hello.

The band freshies got us yesterday. Balloons! EVERYWHERE!

And streamers. I kept two! One is the Scott Pilgrim balloon. I'll post a picture later.

She's up here at my house for now. Because sticking together is probably a good thing. I mean hey, Skyler's up with Seth like...every weekend now, right?

TODD LEAVE THE CAT ALONE.

But he's orange. And I think he likes him.

Perhaps I should stop by Aiden's for a bit anyways.

Sweet holy Jesus. Thank god mom isn't home.

You get used to it. He just kind of...does that.

I can get used to Todd existing. I cannot get used to him appearing where ever he damn well pleases. D:

ANYWAYS.

I am here with Casey. Sammi said she'd check in. Seth might too. I'll be leaving around...5:00? I don't know. Jason and Ryan and Sarah wanted to go to the Texas Roadhouse and that place is awesome and I will take ANY excuse to get out of the house.

For those of you that DID make April Fool's posts, well played. Especially you, Maduin. You jerk. :P

Somebody weird posted on Zeke's blog. I don't trust them, but I don't necessarily think they're the enemy either.

I'm also running on a high from getting like...13-14 hours of sleep. Hee.

JOCE. JoceJoceJoceJoceJoce. Is in the...thing again. Janus and Maze have him. Again. I don't know what they're up to, except poetry from whom I can only assume was Janus. You know. Just by reading the tags...

Sam and Dean. I know you've just been thrown into our crazy mess headfirst, but don't freak out. You'll be okay. I mean...we are. Right? Heh...

I need to find more Scott Pilgrim.

We might seriously take you up on that offer, Alyx.

Sounds awesome.