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[postictal]

[He should have known it was coming. He should have known it, when his Mirror took something of his, knowing full well what would generate. What it would do. He combs through the mansion in a frenzy, too late. The closets aren't giving him what he needs, and his focus is too fraying, too suspect to its own paranoid dips and peaks, to keep trying and risking and venturing until the correct result is administered.

He knows what's coming, and he knows there's no - no escaping what comes next, the locking up of his limbs, the arching of his back, the spasmodic jerking of every muscle, the burning in his chest and throat.

There's no one here to stop it. There's nothing he can -




A very strange video appears to the network, and its uploader is anonymous. All in all, it's about twenty seconds long, but what it sacrifices for brevity it makes up for in sheer surrealism. There plays, first, a high, piercing tone, followed by a recording of a man long gone.

The video itself entails little more than simple white text over black, torn through as the whole thing appears to be with horizontal bars of static.]

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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----ibaifjhta----

[And then - nothing.]

[[ooc: Tim will be in his "masked" state for the duration of the next two days, which you can read more about here. Anyone who wishes to decrypt that message may receive a reply, though you're welcome to threadjark in order to icly collaborate.

Those wishing to encounter Tim's masked persona will encounter them in the forest or Checkerboard Hills. Be warned that they are hostile and will attack on sight; though slightly stronger and more durable than your average human, they are not a highly skilled combatant, and will try to escape an encounter once they realize they're losing.]]

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[postictal]

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[battlefront]

Just do it. Whatever you're gonna do. I'll do two in a row, whatever.

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[postictal]

[No answer. None. Answer, answer, answer.]

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[battlefront]

Look, I don't have time for this. What is it? A number maze?

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[postictal]

[If he won't make an attempt to understand, then there's little use in reaching out further. Disgusted, they jab at the keys.]

go

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[battlefront]

Cool, that's a first.

You're not gonna say it anyway, are you?

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[postictal]

What
      will
                    Herald
             Over

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[battlefront]

[Hey, we're getting somewhere.]

I dunno. You tell me.

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[postictal]

no

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[battlefront]

Sounded like you were gonna.

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[postictal]

no

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[battlefront]

[Aaaand we hit a wall. But maybe he's getting close to a clue.]

Queen of yours is a real piece of work, ain't she?

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[postictal]

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[battlefront]

The... Queen? Your Queen?

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[postictal]

WHO WHO WHO
WHO WHO WHO
WHO WHO WHO
WHO WHO WHO

text - whiteface was a barn owl this whole time

[battlefront]

Uh.

You okay

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[postictal]

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[battlefront]

Who are you?

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[postictal]

you



are you




who are you

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[battlefront]

[Something is wrong.]

cloud

you?

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[postictal]

we are
who we are

lead us
lead us
lead us

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[battlefront]

[And now it's sounding too familiar for his liking.]

don't listen

dont

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[postictal]

lis
ten
clo
sel
y

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[battlefront]

no

[Resist the Noise. Resist his voice.]

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[postictal]

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