November 5th, 2013
Halloween is finally gone, thank God. Assuming there is a god. It's kind of hard to tell with all this going on. Can't say I was ever a big believer.
Anyway, no more creepy cats, no more screams coming from the beach. Not exactly quiet, though. The screams are still coming, just out of the woods instead. It's a bit better but I can't really say by much. Thing is, that means they're closer, but then I can see a bit better what's causing them. Instead of weird stories and legends from when the school was founded, it's all escaped homunculi and fish people and zombies (sorry, Montag!) getting slaughtered. I think I actually made one of those homunculi, to be honest. I remember the tell-tale scarring around the neck, the failed hair transplant I tried to do on a dare, the third arm I put on as a joke... okay I'll shut up about them now.
Whatever is going on the factions seem to be more interested in helping us all out now. I guess they've finally figured out they can't do whatever it is they're trying to do on their own, not without some help, but then I guess there aren't many people on the island who can help. There's only three of us from the Academy now (and I'm not exactly allowed to fight), and the Wabanaki. And they spend more time fighting each other than the three factions do, although admittedly they don't go so far as actually killing each other. Probably because for them it's a bit more final, whereas for a Dragon or whatever it's just a mild hindrance.
That's a thought, actually. How have the Wabanaki been coping with all this? I'll admit we don't normally talk to them much, so I don't really know very many of them. I think they have old stories about all this kind of thing, though. Seems to me we had one problem that's opened up the floodgates for everything else. Something Montag used to teach us, back when he had a class to teach, was that every time this world has a crisis (like the one we've got now, I suppose), it weakens the world's barriers or some bullcrap. Stuff starts leaking into Agartha and other stuff starts leaking out of different places. So here we have some weird fog, right? Instead of doing the cliché Hollywood stuff and making people turn inside out and melt and all that, it turns them into these zombies. Then the fish guys turn up, and there's all kinds of mutations and everything gets worse. Then the black goo. I don't even want to describe what that does, but I've seen plenty of it. Montag wanted to get some to study but Ms Usher made him stay inside. What can I say, the guy's insane.
Then after the black goo comes, wherever it came from, it starts to turn other stuff weird, and then you get these rips or something opening up. One goes to hell, one goes to somewhere else, and all the bugs turn up. The creepy, scratchy, crawly, giant-ass bugs that hide in the forest and make my skin crawl more than Mr Montag's lectures. Makes me glad I can just magic up a fire to scare them off.
God, I hate insects.
So the big question is, where did everything come from in the first place? If the island is being wiped out from the fog then where did the bugs come from? Why is there a door to hell up in that motel? I think whoever named the place had a pretty disturbing sense of humour, by the way. NOT FUNNY, GUYS! And what about the stuff from the sea? Those fish dudes definitely aren't zombies, but could it all still be linked?
Oh, I almost forgot. There was a guy running around the Black House yesterday. I think he was trying to find a way in, but then he gave up and went over to the other old house closer to the tunnel. At least, that's what Danny's spy plane told us. I didn't see the guy myself, but according to Danny he's not with the factions, and he's definitely not a corporate type. Danny said he'd seen the guy with Cassandra King a couple of times. Not in that way, perverts.
Who could he be, I wonder...