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Entry #14

1/14/13

8:26 AM

I had just called Tom a few minutes ago. I am relieved that he's feeling much better now. I asked him about where Seth lives and he just gave me the address. I'm gonna be on my way.

9:30 AM

Seth was glad that he saw me, but was surprised that I found where he lived, even though we only talked once.

"Tom told me." I said, "I just came out of concern. I saw what you posted. Is everything okay?"

"Nothing happened for the past three days or so thank god. Say, come on in."

Seth's place is similar to Tom's. There is not much to the living room besides a medium sized flat screen, a laptop, few seats, and two small bookshelves.

"You new to this neighborhood?" I asked.

"If you say a year is new, then yeah. I prefer this place to be simple. Easier to manage." Seth said. "I found this awesome game a few months back. Maybe we can do a co-op with it. Amazing stuff."

Basically, the game is a psychological horror and shooter. We were playing two people, who gets stuck in this one guy's mind. The goal was basically to survive while killing zombie-like manifestations from the consciousness of the captor, with whatever weapons that can be scavenged.

"You ever thought that these horror games might be bad for you, especially when you're getting stalked?" I asked as my player emptied eight rounds into a monster.

"Sometimes, but this is my way of coping, knowing how to attack the enemy is comforting. It really pisses me off that the direct metal pipe approach doesn't work." Seth said.

"I don't know how I should approach this. The enemies I faced before, especially that fatass Robotnik, is typically direct and arrogant. I suppose that is a good thing, easy to handle."

"Ah...Robotnik, I heard about him." Seth replied. "What a loser."

"Yeah..." I said. "Man, this is so hard. So little ammo, so many monsters. It takes like an entire clip to kill."

"Well, the difficulty is what makes it fun." Seth grinned as his player emptied a clip on another monster.

After about thirty minutes of gaming, Seth decided to show me around his house. Like the living room, everything else is simple, there was not much that it looked like those minimalist type of lifestyle I often see in my time.

We hung out there for a while, chatting about conspiracy theories, which eventually diverged into all kinds of subjects.

"I heard about this thing about some weird project going on in Italy, or was it Soleanna? Or Austria, I'm not sure." Seth mentioned.

"Okay..." I said.

"Anyway, it was supposed to be some kind of energy project, fusion, to wean off oil."

"Hmm..."

"I read somewhere that there was some alleged source, some sacred flame that burned out, like ten, twelve years ago. It's pretty vague, because whatever that happened was covered up, even those leaks don't mention anything."

"So...the project got terminated?"

"More like put on hold...six years later, they restarted it somehow, then there was this incident where ten scientists got killed. The press said it was an accident. From that point...uh...hey, did you just hear something?"

My ear pricked; nothing.

"No."

"Just a minute." Seth grabbed the camera and walked out of the room.

That was weird. I thought. I waited for five minutes. I started to get worried and just was about to leave when Seth came back. He looked pale, and nervous.

"What happened?" I asked.

"Just come..." he said.

"Are you okay?"

He led me toward a window facing a relatively small backyard and patio. I looked out.

"What is it?"

"I...I just...I just saw it."

"What?"

"The thing...the one from the clinic."

"Where is it?"

"I don't know...I just don't fucking know. It's been watching me... I swear to God." Seth's eyes were wide. You can read the paranoia off his face.

I'm not surprised that Seth is nervous after the stuff he saw in his post, but if it was there, what is doing? It might be there but I just can't see it. I better calm him down.

"Hey man...look..." I made Seth look towards me. "It might be there. We just have to be vigilant for now. But, try to relax...okay."

Seth calmed down. He took one nervous glance at the window, and we walked back to the bedroom. Besides constantly glancing at the side window, there weren't any outbursts.

"Look I gotta go now." I said. "Say if you need anything, feel free to contact me whenever you can."

"Thanks bud." Seth said as we exchanged addresses and numbers. As I walked out, I kept thinking back about Seth's panic attack. With the paranoia following the incident with the security cam, I feel like I should follow my instincts. At the same time, paranoia is paranoia. It can do some messed up shit to our heads. People can go insane from it. Ultimately, the point of return is the most brutal, for the victim and the bystander. It was something I learned from a book awhile back. It made me take a look at my initial arrogant approach to a situation.

Just as I was about to walk back to my apartment, I looked back.

I found myself looking at the side of Seth's house. On it was red fluid, splattered all over the side. Within this mess were several painted drawings, mainly consisting of eyes and the modified hashtag mark. Sitting in the middle of that seemingly bloody mess was a piece of paper with some kind of sketched. I didn't get to look at it, but I managed to quickly grab it and rushed toward the front door.

"HEY, SETH!"

My call was answered by dull thumps.

BrokenBranches117 and ICANSEETHEGIANT are two stories that tie together. Recently a series I mentioned before, StanFrederickBTS, is starting to tie into both of the channels' plot. It is pretty much about a kid with a mysterious past planning a film project. There are so many plot twists that changes the dynamics of the series that I'll just leave it at that. The main series has ended but the main character has been going along with helping other Slender-stalked victims in the story.

BrokenBranches117: user/BrokenBranches117

ICANSEETHEGIANT: user/ICANSEETHEGIANT

StanFrederickBTS: user/StanFrederickBTS

The game in the story is technically Cry of Fear co-op in a nutshell. Still amazing game btw.