Genre- Mystery/Horror

Jesse- F2nd / Middle Female / Red Jesse

ENTRY 1 - 12/25, 07:12

...I don't know how I'm supposed to start this.

I guess I should introduce myself?

My name is Olivia. I'm part of the New Order of the Stone, I'm 27 years old, and I'm a redstone engineer.

Someone got me a journal as a Christmas present. It was sent anonymously- no name, no tag- just "To: Olivia"

Well, it's useful, so it's not that bad.. I guess. I'd probably just fill this with notes or blueprints or something.

..I'm talking to a book.

ENTRY 2 - 12/25, 20:09

So the night has been... eventful.

First off, someone thought it would be a good idea to try and drink Ivor under the table. They're both unconscious, now.

I wonder what goes through Nell's head, sometimes. It probably wasn't a very good idea to let her hang out with Axel so much, 'cause now there are two Chaotic Goods in this place. There have been for about five years.

Although it would probably be hard to even do that in the first place, considering the fact that we all live under the same roof. This place feels less like a 'temple' and more like a big house.

But knowing Jesse, I think that might have been the point.

Speaking of Jesse, someone (Gill) pushed her under mistletoe earlier. And then pushed Lukas under the same one. And Gill has apparently learned from two years ago and kept her from jumping through any loop holes by specifically telling them to kiss each other on the lips.

She burned the mistletoe instead. His head would have been next, if it weren't for Lukas keeping her from doing so.

...They're trying to get me to play Coup with them now. Aiden and Petra are playing.

I don't see this ending well.

ENTRY 3 - 12/30, 23:42

I left for Redstonia after Christmas, to at least celebrate the holiday with ellegaard.

she wasn't as enthusiastic about the holidays a few years ago as she is now. don't know why, she barely even opens up to me, but.. it's happening. It's a good thing, I guess.

she's also a lot happier than she was back then, I realize.

..it's late, I need to sleep.

Good night.

Olivia sat on the windowsill of one of the windows of the 'temple,' watching her friends celebrate the New Years along with the townspeople. The sky was attacked by and decorated with fireworks and arrows, the latter of which Olivia thought to be a waste of resources, but there really wasn't anything she could do about it.

Her journal and quill were in her room, completely untouched since yesterday. Which made sense, considering she wasn't the type of person to keep a journal in the first place- no, that role went to Lukas.

Looking outside, she did a headcount of all her friends. Axel and Nell were drinking again, along with Em, Petra and The Blaze Rods were playing what she could only assume to be Coup, with Lukas watching, and she could see the figures of Ivor and Harper getting away from the crowd of townspeople.

Her brows furrowed. Where was Jesse?

"Hey, Olivia?"

She jumped in her place at the voice that came out of no where. She turned around.

Speak of the devil.

"Hey Jesse." She shifted to a more comfortable position. "I didn't see you outside, what's up?"

Jesse leaned on the wall opposite to the windowsill, fidgeting every once in a while. "Uhm.. it's about Lukas."

Olivia blinked, a brow raised. But before she could even say anything, Jesse raised her hands defensively. "B-but it doesn't have to do with the weird thing people think we have!"

The engineer glanced to the side, confused. "I wasn't going to say.."

"Okay," Jesse played with the straps of her overalls which, Olivia now noticed, weren't on her shoulders like they usually were. She didn't comment. "Good, good."

Olivia pulled her knees to her chest. "So what's wrong?"

"Do.." Jesse looked out to window past Olivia. She could only guess what (or who) she was looking at. "Do you think he's been acting.. a little weird, lately?"

"Weird how?"

Jesse gave a weak shrug, still playing with her overall straps, "I.. I dunno, j-just.. weird." She bit her lip. "Okay, that wasn't very specific-"

"It wasn't."

"Weird. Weird like.." she rubbed her arms, "like he keeps looking behind him, like someone is watching him. O-Or something..."

Olivia looked out the window to look at Lukas, who didn't seem any different than he usually was. She then turned back to her friend. "Not really, no. I haven't noticed."

The girl frowned. "Oh. Okay.. I guess it's just me, then." She stopped leaning on the wall, and walked for the door. "Thanks anyway."

"Wait," she held Jesse's arm before she could go beyond her reach, "Why don't you try talking to him about it?"

Jesse seemed to think this over, then hummed, gently removing Olivia's hand from her arm. "Sure, I'll try that." She walked to the door, "Thanks, Liv."

"No problem."

ENTRY 4- 01/05, 05:06

lukas and jesse are gone. i dont know how, i dont know why, but they're gone. Both of them are gone.

ENTRY 5- 01/05, 20:01

I'm sorry, I had to get my bearings.

The last I saw them was last night, then just this morning they were just.. gone. There wasn't even a note or anything, they just disappeared.

We all looked around, outside the city, in the temple, any place they might have visited or places they frequent (which weren't a lot, they barely go anywhere). All day, we looked.

We only found two things: Jesse's shovel, and Lukas's journal. We found her shovel outside Lukas's room. Why it was there was beyond us, but it was there. Lukas's journal, on the other hand.

Jesse asked me back during New Year's if Lukas was acting strange. turns out her suspicions were confirmed- and that she talked to him. He wrote about it in his journal.

Apparently, the day after she talked to me, January 2nd, she started to feel like she was being watched. She talked to Lukas about it, and would have told us too, if it weren't for the fact that they felt like they couldn't.

Lukas described it as someone forcing him to shut up before he could say anything.

he also mentioned white eyes, and said that they were the ones watching them.

In his journal was a sketch of the man who he thought was watching them, but.. they didn't get to confirm it.

We'd keep looking, but Ivor is making us get some sleep. something none of us are happy with, but he was right. We wouldn't be able to do much if we were all sleep deprived.

I just hope they're safe.

ENTRY 6- 01/06, around 08:20

aiden and i went out earlier than the others to look for jesse and lukas. (apparently, he couldn't sleep last night. neither could i.) so far, absolutely nothing has come up.

we just got out from a cave filled to the brim with mobs. barely made it out, but we're ok

we're only resting for now, but we'll get back to searching in a bit.

ENTRY 7- 01/10, 14:52

word got around fast, apparently. The town knows they've disappeared now.

ENTRY 8- 01/15, 17:29

They haven't exactly been kind with their 'theories' as to where they've gone. The townspeople, I mean. Some of them think they were killed by one of us, some think they were taken by someone, and others think that they've 'eloped' or something, which is bullcrap, by the way, because they would never do that.

They don't know Jesse and Lukas. They don't know them like we do, and we know for sure that they wouldn't do that. they don't have any reason to.

i

i just hate this

Where the hell are they?

ENTRY 9- 01/17, 10:13

Maya took a look at Lukas's journal again

she said the man in the picture has a similar build to Jesse. after a while, we realized that she was right, he does share an eerily similar build with her. a lot of his features resembles hers, actually, save for the fact that he's a bit more masculine and has a beard.

whatever that's supposed to mean is beyond us, but.. it's something.

is he related to Jesse in some way?

ENTRY 10- 01/20, 13:36

Gill, Nell, Harper, Ivor and I are going to go look through the portals now. We don't know how long we'll be gone, but..

we have to try.

ENTRY 33- 02/29, 03:08

no such luck.

We're back home now, and we have found nothing. An entire month, and we have found NOTHING.

where are they?!

ENTRY 34- 03/01, 23:19

Petra'd filled me in on what's happened while we were away.

they didn't exactly have the best time with the townspeople.

sometimes, i wonder why these people are worth saving.

ENTRY 35- 03/03, 05:17

we found them.

There were two bags in the middle of the Treasure Room. They were long, and big enough to fit an adult in them.

i guess you can figure out what we found inside.