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[redshiftnpc]

[ The communicator bobs, turns, points at the floor. There’s muttering from a voice some of Anchor’s residents will recognize. When the camera rights itself, it’s a close-up of Creepy Joe’s face, the eye that was formerly sealed shut now open and writhing with tiny flower-like tentacles. His other is steady, crazed blue.

His mouth is still twisted, his lips still curving upward on the ruined side of his face, not quite hiding teeth too long and sharp for a human mouth. There’s movement behind and between his teeth, though it’s hard to see what it is until he opens his mouth--more tentacles, tiny flailing things growing from the insides of his cheeks, the roof of his mouth, his tongue. They make him lisp hoarsely as he talks.]

Don’t go down. Don’t do it. You’ll open the way to worse things, worse things, worse.

[ He glances behind him, and in spite of the close angle, some at Anchor might also recognize where he is. In his little hole in the wall, where he was recording the actions of Anchor’s new residents. ]

Trust me. I came back, didn’t I? I came back to help.

Comments

[redshiftnpc]

Outside.

The waste.

[0thingsonmymind]

out side of

*What did it say this place was called...*

an chor
?

[redshiftnpc]

Yes.

Where the shifts are.

[0thingsonmymind]

*Hmm*

whatare
like ?

[redshiftnpc]

I don't understand.

[0thingsonmymind]

shift

whatis
shift
like

[redshiftnpc]

Nightmare.

The sky changes, the world changes. It brings things from other places. Sometimes they don't hurt. Mostly they do.

[0thingsonmymind]

*Honestly that doesn't sound too bad to him.*

o kay

whatis
down
?

*Norfinbury had something huge and dangerous below it too.*

[redshiftnpc]

I don't remember. I can't remember.

No.

Eyes. Eyes watching me.

[0thingsonmymind]

*Eyes. Oh god, eyes were a thing in Norfinbury. They were BAD.

The response is just a poorly drawn/stylized eye picture and a question mark.*

[redshiftnpc]

Yes! I remember eyes.

[0thingsonmymind]

theyare
down ?

be low


are peo ple
?

[redshiftnpc]

Below.

I don't remember.

[0thingsonmymind]

o kay

iwill see for
my self

[redshiftnpc]

NO!

[0thingsonmymind]

why

[redshiftnpc]

You'll bring it all back.

[0thingsonmymind]

whatis
i t ?

[redshiftnpc]

Don't remember, but it's bad, it's all bad.

[0thingsonmymind]

whatif i
l o o k
but donot
touch
?

*And film. He always needs to film.*

[redshiftnpc]

That

That might

be ok

[0thingsonmymind]

then thatis what iwill
do





ifyou
see a gain

doyou think you might
re mem ber
?

[redshiftnpc]

Don't want to see it again.

Don't want to remember.

[0thingsonmymind]

but ifyou
re mem ber

youcan
warn bet ter

tell what to
av oid

[redshiftnpc]

But


[ A long span of silence. ]


Yes.



Okay.