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entranceway2017-11-24 10:29 pm
postictal) wrote in entranceway2017-11-24 10:29 pm
Entry #91
[In the latest dramatic reveal, it seems that Claudia has been hard at work unearthing a great deal of dirty laundry as it suits her. In the process, on November 23rd she manages to draw out an encrypted broadcast - only it's encrypted no longer.]
[And what's more, it's no longer anonymous. The broadcast bursts across the screen with an eerie screech of static and rapidly flashing images. There's even a voice speaking in the background - a voice that some might find familiar.]
YOU TOOK IT
I SAW
BURNING
[An image flares in a brief sputter of black and scarlet, and is gone again.]
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////bird flying south////
///////do you know///////
///////what you did///////
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----checkmate----
[And now, the name of the user who released the video in the first place is painfully apparent. For some, this won't be much of a shock. For others, on the other hand...]
[Did Tim Wright ever strike you as someone who favored cryptography?]
[And what's more, it's no longer anonymous. The broadcast bursts across the screen with an eerie screech of static and rapidly flashing images. There's even a voice speaking in the background - a voice that some might find familiar.]
I SAW
BURNING
[An image flares in a brief sputter of black and scarlet, and is gone again.]
////bird flying south////
///////do you know///////
///////what you did///////
/////////////////////////
----checkmate----
[And now, the name of the user who released the video in the first place is painfully apparent. For some, this won't be much of a shock. For others, on the other hand...]
[Did Tim Wright ever strike you as someone who favored cryptography?]
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the one with alex and me in the hospital
with him in the chair
[He still has it. He really shouldn't, but he does.]
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[What did the hooded guy want? He seemed to want to stop Alex, but he never got past threats. He'd capture him, and then...]
[Well, couldn't really help that.]
[Jay doesn't want to talk about that if he can help it, though. Instead, he writes:]
if there's seriously been a tape out there for six months it's probably gonna be rough getting it to play again
worse than the one at the hospital
then again we got some of those burnt tapes working and they'd been out there for
what
seven years?
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[He, uh, didn't mention this bit, did he?]
my mirror took it
i guess that's why the other me went to all this trouble
mocking me maybe
anyway he gave it to george
she gave it back without watching it
[That kinda changes your opinions on...people.]
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wait
are you talking about one of the tapes from home
i thought you said you got rid of all of them
[He can put together why the Mirror would give it to George. She’s a reporter; might be even better at getting the information out there than Jay himself is.]
and i’d ask how you know for sure she didn’t watch it
but i guess she’s got that whole “truth or die” thing
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max had to watch it all the way
so im pretty sure she’s fucked
im pretty sure george doesn’t even have a camera that can work that kind of tape
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you’re saying max KNOWS?
i just talked to her and she made like she had no idea
what was on that tape?
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stands to reason she’d remember a thing or two
i don’t think she knows much
just giving you what i remember
[Fuck. Now he’s gotta keep Jay from sniffing this out and making life insufferably difficult for her. He said he’d try, right?]
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even if she doesn't know much
has she seen
you know
[He'll have to rewatch the footage from the day he talked to Max. He might even go over that now. Benefits of text.]
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This is one of those things you might need to let go of.
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[The agreement: Jay can't force answers out of Tim. If Tim learns something that Jay would benefit from knowing, he tells him.]
[God, that last one's so subjective. How's he supposed to trust Tim's judgment?]
[He takes a breath, tries to stop his hand from shaking, tries to still the urge to throw his phone across the room.]
Tim.
I want to help.
If that means leaving Max alone and never mentioning tapes or Rosswood or anything like that to her from here on in, fine
But if she IS "infected"
If Alex or one of us spread it to her
And she doesn't know what's happening
What the hell is going to stop her from becoming like Alex
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[So he double-checks the encryption. And he breathes out.]
i know she's seen It
she's seen It on the tape
she's seen It in my head
i told her to tell me if she sees anything else
if she has trouble sleeping or starts coughing or feeling cold
she hasn't so far
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[Huh.]
[If what he says is true about telling her to let him know about any symptoms, that was...that was really good of him. He actually put himself out there, tried to help.]
[Given how many times he's dragged Jay's ass out of the fire (metaphorical and literal), Jay realizes he really shouldn't be surprised. Tim does seem to want to help. He's not just out to save his own skin, because if he were, he'd've left Jay to burn.]
[So yeah, Jay can believe he offered to help her. He thinks he can trust that.]
[He thinks he can trust Tim's trying to help right now.]
i guess that's a good sign
[Now what? What's next?]
i'll hold off on saying anything to her
about the stuff back home i mean
if she comes to me about it
(not that i really think that's gonna happen)
i'll let you know
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[Why is he thanking him for this. Thanks for not being an insensitive asshole and barging in on her problems? Now Tim's the one that feels like the asshole, for fucking - warning her away from Jay in the first place. He's actually holding to this, to his promises, to his concerns. And Tim's just...]
[He's acting like nothing's changed, huh?]
i think she knows that alex doesn't
really make it out
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[She knows. Jay hisses through his teeth. Great.]
[He tries not to think about the lurid pictures his imagination painted when Tim first told him, tries not to wind it back to the moment Tim drove a tiny sliver of a knife into the shapeshifter's neck, tries not to remember that one last defiant glare from the broken body on the floor.]
[He didn't have the camera, but he can still see it played back in high definition.]
you think she knows why?
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im not sure i want her to know that much
we’ve only just kind of started getting along
[She even called him “nice.” Under the effects of the compulsion to tell the truth, no less. He’s a lot of things, he knows, most of them reprehensible, but nice?]
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[...Though that is one of the first things Tim told him upon arrival. Not sure what that means.]
[He doubts she'll take the news that Tim's a murderer as well as Clementine or Sans did. She'd probably never trust Tim again (not that she necessarily trusts him in the first place). It's easier for everybody if she doesn't know, but there's a tiny...there's a minuscule chance not knowing could get her in trouble. Jay knows what Tim's capable of, and he's safer for it.]
[But if he tells her, people might turn on Tim. It might put him in danger.]
[Pull the lever, you kill one. Don't, and kill five.]
[The immediate risk to Tim from telling her might be more than the long-term risk of her staying ignorant. He thinks. He thinks.]
[Is he seriously considering lying to help Tim?]
[It's not lying. It's just keeping his mouth shut.]
yeah, makes sense
doubtful she'd take it well
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[He's lied before. To the viewers, to Tim, to Jessica, to himself.]
[Are you one of them? Are you both of them?]
i guess she got a good look back when all our dreams were in other people's heads or whatever
i don't actually know how much she knows
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wait you mean you can't tell if someone was in your head
[And he didn't mean it that way, but now that he looks at it, it almost sounds like a confession. He quickly types out a second message, clarifying.]
i didn't notice anybody in mine
so i just assumed that whole thing left me alone
[Then how would he know about it if he wasn't--wait, that guy. Scientist guy. He posted about it. That's how he could know.]
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i have no idea who might have seen what
i remember what i saw in other people's heads but
i don't know if someone went through mine
[Well, no. He knows that Shepard saw something. She saw a hell of a lot of something. Realistically, he should follow up while he's in a more even-tempered state. But after the whole bullshit with the truths and the memories, and...]
[He doesn't want to try anymore.]
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[Jay takes it.]
same
same here
[He doesn't know if Tim got into his head. He doesn't know if anybody got into his head, but the only one who can answer for himself here is Tim, and Tim--well, there's not much more for him to find out, is there? The past two events made damn sure of that.]
[
There's probably something left. There's always something.][He has to think about something else, or he'll drive himself--ha. He'll drive himself nuts.]
i'm gonna try and take a look around the checkerboard hills
you interested?
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what are you expecting to find
[Then again, aren't all their leads stale and months-old, sometimes years-old? It's a hell of a better lead than some Jay's followed up on in the past - scribbled pages pointing the way to a red tower, coded messages that dispense little more than cryptic warnings, phone numbers and home addresses for people long gone, long dead.]
[Six months old isn't that bad, given the kinds of hints they've worked off of before.]
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but i'm HOPING to see if there's anything your mirror or other you wanted people to find
if it's still there 6 months later
[It's not the oldest lead he's ever pursued. Not even close.]
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sure
[He has a location now, at least. Six months later, he has a location and a general idea as to where the masked "him" went. A vague notion of what it did and where it did it.]
[It's not much. But it's more than he had, right?]
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[This could be pointless. This probably is pointless. If there actually was anything out there, there's a high probability it's long gone by now.]
[But he's finally feeling useful for once. He's finally doing something, instead of just running from monsters or spilling his secrets or both. This feels like what he should be doing.]
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ill meet you there