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entranceway2016-01-21 04:37 pm
rosswood) wrote in entranceway2016-01-21 04:37 pm
Entry #2
[This gets posted at around 4 A.M. and it's a video feed, which, if anyone's been contacted by Alex recently, is a little unusual. It's a clear visual on the inside of Alex's room - scandalous - which isn't terribly different from your typical college dorm room, with one notable exception.
It is liberally covered in weird, hastily-scribbled, ink-and-charcoal drawings. The long shot of one of the walls might give people enough time to read the most visible ones:
Distortion abruptly ripples across the screen, and the angle changes. Now the network will be treated to a clear shot of the floor of Alex's room, which is similarly carpeted in page after scrawled page of cryptic warnings and oblique messages, along with what looks to be a laundry list of crossed-out names - names like BRIAN and SARAH, JAY and TIM and SETH, any of which might be visible to the eagle-eyed.
With a flutter of static and an unpleasant, high-pitched screeching sound, the picture shifts one last time. Now someone's hands are in view, streaked with ink as they carve out yet another circle-and-x symbol into another sheet of paper with single-minded resolve. Then the feed buzzes, frames flickering, and switches off.]
((ooc: Alex won't respond until next morning since he's not doing any of this consciously - he's currently asleep. Feel free to respond with an action post, though you might have to wake him up first.))
It is liberally covered in weird, hastily-scribbled, ink-and-charcoal drawings. The long shot of one of the walls might give people enough time to read the most visible ones:
SEES ME
LEAVE ME ALONE
OPERATOR
Accompanied by several rough illustrations of pine trees and frequently punctuated with an odd symbol: a circle with an X slashed through it.OPERATOR
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Distortion abruptly ripples across the screen, and the angle changes. Now the network will be treated to a clear shot of the floor of Alex's room, which is similarly carpeted in page after scrawled page of cryptic warnings and oblique messages, along with what looks to be a laundry list of crossed-out names - names like BRIAN and SARAH, JAY and TIM and SETH, any of which might be visible to the eagle-eyed.
With a flutter of static and an unpleasant, high-pitched screeching sound, the picture shifts one last time. Now someone's hands are in view, streaked with ink as they carve out yet another circle-and-x symbol into another sheet of paper with single-minded resolve. Then the feed buzzes, frames flickering, and switches off.]
((ooc: Alex won't respond until next morning since he's not doing any of this consciously - he's currently asleep. Feel free to respond with an action post, though you might have to wake him up first.))
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Specifically, I like figuring out the story behind it. Like yours. [Since he had put it in those terms, Cami would take advantage of it.] I'd say it was done by someone who was desperate, and afraid. They're trying to accomplish something but they can't, and each time they fail things they feel like they're pulled deeper and deeper into an abyss that might swallow them whole. There's something dangerous in their world, or maybe in their head that they just can't get out. But they're going to keep trying regardless.
[And that determination might not be a good thing. Because there's a list of names that have been scratched though, and busy hands still leaving that mark.]
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your the shrink aren't you
are you gonna tell me i secretly wanna fuck my mom or something
[Class. Alex has got it.]
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[She's dealt with worse grammar and temperament. Unfortunately for Alex, Cami isn't going to be put off so easily.]
Sorry; Oedipal complexes have never really been my thing. I do, however, have experience dealing with paranoid personalities, anger issues, and even classic narcissists.
And I'm good enough to know the signs of someone needing help. Not that I expect you to admit it, but I'd like to skip the part where you try and feed me a bunch of lines about how the manic scribbles don't mean anything, and that you're actually okay in spite of the late-night foray into paranoia land.
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alex.
so i sleepwalk
doesn't mean anything
why what kind of ~signs are you picking up from this huh
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You're saying you did all of that in your sleep? [Oh but doesn't that add a whole new twist to the plot. Cami's spoken to a lot of people in Wonderland, and formed a lot of opinions--but not so many that she'd say she's worried about being potentially genuinely disturbed.
Still, she's the one who has to prove herself here. Alex is skeptical at best, so Cami shakes her head, focusing on what she does know.]
Like I said: desperate and afraid. There's something you're trying to get away from. Whether or not anyone else would say it's real, to you it definitely exists. You think someone is watching you, and you want to run from it--or at least part of you does.
But you crossed out one of your signs that says "leave me alone," so it's not that simple.
Who are those people you listed? Brian, Jay, Sarah, Tim...?
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cause i'm here now
which is about as far as you can get
their friends
well i say friends
there mostly dicks
[No past tense. He's careful about that.
That's not the correct form of "they're," Alex. Either one.]
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[It's a risky thing to say, but Alex should know the truth if he hasn't already figured it out for himself. Maybe it'll get him to be a little less flippant about his situation.]
Okay. Frienemies. [Or something close enough to it.] Why cross out their names?
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[He's trying to avoid the part where she's said it might show up again. Philip already said it's been here in the past.
All he can do is hope Cami wasn't there when it was hanging around.]
if it comes back
well i'll burn that bridge when i get to it
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Alex could prove to be dangerous if they aren't all careful.]
I might be a bit more confident in that if you weren't wallpapering your room in your sleep. You haven't even burned the bridge while it's gone. [So if it suddenly shows up, Alex could be pushed so far he snaps.] What is it, anyway? The thing you're so afraid of.
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Never.
hold onto that feeling Cami you are 100% correct]better you don't ask that
it's not nice to talk about people who are listening ;)
[He's only...mostly joking.]
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Do you think they're listening? [Oh look at that. Cami's probably asked exactly what Alex didn't want her to. Welcome to life with your local therapist.] That they're here and you don't know it, or that they're just that powerful, they can cross the borders of dimensions?
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don't know if you've noticed
but literally fucking anything is possible so
i've learned to stop applying logic to things
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which is why i'm having a ball here