A MESSAGE.

[anonymooses]

I ASKED YOU TO STAY AWAY.

IT WAS NOT ENOUGH.

MY LITTLE BROTHER DOES NOT THINK THAT I LOVE YOU ENOUGH. HE IS WRONG.
I AM ANGRY WITH HIM. HE DOES NOT LISTEN.

YOU SEE THE FACES OF THE ONES YOU LOVE. I PUT THEM THERE.
YOU NEED TO FIND THEM BEFORE THEY BECOME FOOD FOR THE ANIMALS AND THE TREES.
THEY SLEEP SOMEWHERE IN THIS PLACE BUT THEY ARE HIDDEN FROM ME.

I AM SO TIRED. I AM HOLDING TIME.
THEY FEEL NO HUNGER OR COLD AND THE ANIMALS WILL NOT SEE THEM.

BE MY HANDS.

HE IS A CHILD. HE WANTS TO PLAY BUT I AM OLD AND I AM SO TIRED.
I DO NOT PLAY ANY MORE. ONE DAY YOU WILL UNDERSTAND.

FIND THE ONES YOU LOVE. BE FAST. BRING THEM HOME.

FIND MY HEART AND I CAN STOP THIS FROM EVER HAPPENING AGAIN.

IF I WERE NOT SO TIRED I WOULD HAVE STOPPED HIM THE FIRST TIME.
HE DID NOT MEAN TO KILL THEM. FORGIVE HIM. HE THINKS HE IS HELPING.

[OOC: Brother is busy holding together this liminal space, and honestly he doesn't like talking to any of you that much in the first place. Rescuers can respond to this entry upon waking up, but he'll only answer questions that he deems are absolutely necessary to you accomplishing your rescue mission.]

Comments

[oh_girl]

what the fu

What does find you heart mean? What does it look like? Where do we take it if we find it?

[anonymooses]

I WILL FIND YOU IF YOU FIND IT.

[oh_girl]

Can you tell us what it looks like?

[magitechnically]

Mina isn't on your board and she's isn't here, is she okay???

[anonymooses]

SHE SLEEPS SAFE IN HER BED.

I COULD NOT BRING ALL OF YOU.

[caritasmitis]

Why them? Why not the others? I mean, I know you already said you couldn't bring them all, so why choose these?!

[anonymooses]

IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO EXPLAIN. IT DOESN'T MATTER.

[caritasmitis]

It matters to us! Knowing why they're gone might help us find them! You said yourself we should be looking...

[bambae]

Chill. They probably just answered an anonymous question right.

[caritasmitis]

Elaborate, please.

[bambae]

Every anonymous post asks a question.

The people taken probably answered some question how the anonymous writer wanted them to at some point.

[badassbeaterbabe]

So the prize was being like...ghostnapped to save them from a worse ghostnapping? That's the theory?

[bambae]

Assuming this is meant to be a prize.

[badassbeaterbabe]

Answer my question and you might win a prize, it said. (Or something. Honestly i got way more focused on making sure people weren't being dicks.)

Unless they answered WRONG.

[bambae]

But he didn't always offer prizes.

According to big brother over here, our friends are asleep somewhere. Hidden. But they're not all seniors.

And they're about to die.

Big brother said that the anonymous writer wants to play but he can't play with them. Maybe our friends are meant to be the replacement. Like a fatal game of hide and seek. A fatal game that somebody's already lost before.

That doesn't sound like a prize but I'd bet it's probably based on something they said on the anonymous posts. Shit's only random when you don't got all the answers.

[badassbeaterbabe]

Ok. Ok. So we've got to go back over all of those posts, but do we have time, is the thing, because he says to hurry. But he also says he'll make the time we need.

[bambae]

No it's irrelevant.

We already know who was taken. They're on the wall.

It doesn't matter what anon saw in them.

We need to find them. And also a heart. Apparently.

[hisshiss]

if theres a single damn scrap o useful info in those posts tho its in mine yours & tess's heads

[bambae]

A popquiz we actually studied for

[badassbeaterbabe]

You think? But it- they- I think they like puzzles. Maybe it's all a puzzle.

I feel like it matters. I don't know. Maybe I'm freaking the fuck out and nothing makes sense, whatever.

[bambae]

They seemed to jump on our codes pretty fucking fast.

Maybe they're just bored and don't seem to realize that shit kills us. Like that dude from mice and men. That accidentally crushes rabbits to death by loving them so hard.

If you got a question, we can answer it. But you're gonna have to figure out what question to ask, and that's gonna be hard.

[badassbeaterbabe]

I don't think this guy is bored. Brother. Maybe the other guy.

[bambae]

i meant maybe anon is bored. we still don't know what the fuck he is. if he's a child then who the fuck made him how do we still not have answers

[badassbeaterbabe]

Powerful. And scary.

Do you think the journals will work? Once we're [...] out there?

[bambae]

anon's broken them before. made them anonymous before.

hard to tell. as soon as we go out, we could be going out alone. We could get lost. We could be walking for days. We could die.

[...]

We could lose the game.

[badassbeaterbabe]

[...]

Ok so I get what you're doing, you're trying to be realistic and truthful and whatever, I get that


but could you maybe not?

We have to try.

I'm scared. You're scared. We're all fucking scared. But we've got to do it and talking about the ways we all could die in the forest isn't going to make it easier.

[bambae]

I don't think it's supposed to be easy. Be realistic about it. And then do it. But as soon as we leave this tree, we all need to be prepared to go it alone if we have to.

[badassbeaterbabe]

[...] You're not wrong. But there's something to be said for having faith.

Brother says he loves us and is trying to help us, right? If he can pause time, he can keep us together. A few of us. I hope.

[bambae]

He also says our friends aren't being tortured or eaten alive. They're just asleep. So maybe we shouldn't focus on them, we should focus on ourselves and what we're gonna do about it. We'll figure it out.

[badassbeaterbabe]

Uh. Sorry. I'm focusing on finding them. Not on me or you.

[bambae]

It'd be more useful if you were focusing on not disappearing too, dude. If we get kidnapped too, we're useless. So we need to be focused on ourselves too, that's how we save them.

[badassbeaterbabe]

Oh I am fucking NOT getting kidnapped, not a fucking option.

[whatsthescoop]

This is SO fucked

[...]

How long do we have?

[anonymooses]

IT WILL BE ONLY HOURS.

IT MAY FEEL LIKE DAYS. A WEEK. YES. A WEEK.

I WILL MAKE THE TIME THAT YOU NEED.

[bambae]

How is that possible?

[anonymooses]

MANY THINGS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ARE POSSIBLE.

[bambae]

How do we start?

[anonymooses]

I AM NOT HERE TO TEACH YOU.

[bambae]

I meant the finding our friends, not controlling time, dude.

[ninjaleo]

How do we know this isn't a trick, and you're trying to lure us into the woods, too?

[anonymooses]

YOU DON'T.

HELP OR STAY.

I CAN'T MAKE YOU DO ANYTHING.

[ninjaleo]

[...] Ok. Ok, fair.
I'll help.
Thanks.

[chryseis]

Do you have parents?

I want to see my mom.

Can we talk to anyone who isn't with us?