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

[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.