Chapter 9: 3-15-18-18-21-16-20-9-15-14
I was still shaken after what happened yesterday, even after having fallen asleep. I woke up multiple times during the night, hearing sounds of crying and growling inside of my house while awake. I considered calling 911 during the night at one point, but decided against it as I just ignored the sounds, knowing that I've locked the door to my room. I didn't bother going outside of my room or even unlocking the door, fearing as though the hallucinations would be waiting to strike me down along with Epsilon, whom I was dreading to see after he was splatted by my in game character.
Moving past that, when the clock struck 6:00 AM and my phone's alarm went off, I got up and moved my window's blinds upward, seeing the sun starting to rise as I walk to my door, letting out a nervous sigh and unlocking it as I swung the door open while shutting my eyes as hard as I can, fearing that a hallucination would be outside. To my relief, there was nothing, as I went to my kitchen to get something to eat, but I was still cautious for any hallucinations that might pop out of the corner. But I soon stopped being cautious after having gotten myself some breakfast and something to drink, and sat down where my computer is to start surfing through the internet. The first I place went to, was YouTube.
I was curious if there were any news regarding Splatoon, so I immediately to check back onto Nintendo's YouTube Channel, and sure enough, I saw something peculiar grab my attention.
A video of a new update for Splatoon, and this time, it seemed to have over a million views. Thinking that this was the real package, I pressed the video, and was confused to see that it was the same thing as before, except now there was a release date: March 29th, on the first anniversary of Splatoon. Along with a V.3.0.0 added below the release date.
If this was a beta test of Version 3.0.0 for Splatoon, then why would I be the one to get it before everyone else 4 months earlier? I kept pondering about this while eating my breakfast and sipping my glass of water, and decided to leave a comment on the video, asking if anyone had a corrupted version like I had before leaving my computer be, and walking into my room as I turned on my Wii U.
I was not prepared for what had happened once the "Wii U" logo faded away when the menu appeared.
I opened my mouth in shock as soon as soon as I saw what appeared in front of me. The menu was completely dark and lifeless. All of the miis, including mine are gone. And I saw flickers of my character's grin occasionally flash on the screen. The "music", if you would call it, was an ambiance that sounds like it belonged to a horror game. I could hear the sound of tentacles in the background along with a loud, droning sound as I just sat on my bed, trying to process what was even going on. I continued looking at the horrifying menu screen, but soon noticed that the menu was starting to glitch out with sounds of a quiet chuckling sound. What made it worse, was that every 5 seconds that pass makes the glitching and the background noise even worse. I didn't want to see what would happen if I kept staying on the menu screen, so I pressed the "Splatoon" icon, seeing the squid now sporting the same grin like my character had.
I was shown nothing. No intro screen, no boot up screen, just complete and utter darkness. The game's behavior at this point was starting to scare me, and I was afraid and worried about what will happen from this point on.
There was no title whatsoever when the game had finished "loading", which only showed a deserted house along with rotting, decayed and a ruined city and landscape around it. There were no instructions telling me how to start the game, but I knew what to do. I pressed the ZL and ZR buttons on the back of my Gamepad, and soon jumped as I saw the television turn into nothing but static. This static stayed on for about 20 seconds, but I knew that this was just the game playing a trick on me. And sure enough, I was treated to something that made my heart sink upon seeing the static go away.
I saw Marie standing in what seems to be a decrepit, abandoned and ruined version of Inkopolis with the Great Zapfish nowhere to be seen on the tower, as well as the sky having turned completely dark with no signs of stars whatsoever while sounds of rain can be heard coming from the television. The camera begins zooming towards Marie, and I soon saw her turn toward the camera with a look of fear on her. Deciding to calm her down, I spoke to the Gamepad's microphone.
"Marie?" I uttered quietly, to which her fear soon goes away, and her voice changes to the familiar voice of Emily's as I smile at her through the television screen.
"S-Sam? Is that you?" I hear her whimper as she looks around the ruined and destroyed city around her as I speak to Marie again in an attempt to calm her down.
"I ask the same thing, Marie. Are you Emily?" Marie looked at me for a while after I asked her the question, and she proceeded to chuckle as Marie closed her eyes for a moment. And once she opened them, I was surprised at what I saw. The same eyes that Emily had when she still lived, except they looked more cartoonish and anime-esque as I chuckled myself and managed to stand up, walking toward my television.
"Emily, if you can see me, I want you to place your hand where mine is." I proceeded to place one of my hands on the screen, hearing the sound of static emanating from the television after coming in contact with the screen. And much to my surprise, the Squid Sister walked toward the camera, and knelt down as she placed her gloved hand where my hand was with a smile. Even though I physically couldn't feel her hand, I still felt as though my heart was getting warm as I continued staring at Marie, who stared back at me.
"Sam... it's been so long, since I've last seen you..." I just couldn't deny it any longer after seeing the Squid Sister have Emily's eyes and her voice, followed by the fact that she could see me through the television screen and talk to me as if she was a real person.
Marie was Emily.
I couldn't help, but laugh a little as I smiled happily at Emily through the screen. But this moment between us was soon broken, because I heard something come from my television. The sound of a quiet drum resembling a heartbeat as the sky began to shift from black to a blood red color.
Emily was starting to sweat when she noticed the skies above her, her eyes changing back to the Squid Sister's as I immediately grabbed my Gamepad and began to move her around the plaza. I looked at my Gamepad, and saw only one word that sent shivers down my spine: "HIDE"
I began to panic at this point, and began to notice that the rain from before has turned into red color as I moved Emily to where the Lobby Area was. Conveniently enough, when Emily arrived to a close proximity, the doors slid open like they did before entering the lobby like they usually did. I was greeted by five selections once the screen should've shown the lobby menu. Four of them were completely grayed out and showing nothing but static, and the only choice was mess of letters that were glitching out: "BSPXBOB NBMM" along with an image of what seemed to be a rundown and abandoned version of Arowana Mall. I prepared myself for the worst, and selected the map as static filled the screen for about 10 seconds, and I was greeted to the map I was in.
The first thing I heard, was the menacing and foreboding ambiance of the map I was in, which was similar to Secret of Mana's "The Curse" song, in which the ambiance had haunting thumping and howling sounds in it that made the map even more creepy to go through.
A thing that I noticed as soon as I started moving, was that Marie didn't even have any weapons on her or any special weapons at all, which already made the objective even more difficult for me to handle, and made me want to just shut the game off and delete everything so it could return to normal. But seeing as Marie was somehow Emily and erasing the save data would erase her as well, I decided against doing it.
The map, as I already mentioned, was an abandoned and rundown version of the Arowana Mall map. The sky was a dark color, and I noticed that it was raining a blood red liquid on Marie and the map she was in, but she wasn't affected by the rain. Probably because of her being a "special little snowflake" as I would call Emily back when she and I had our times together.
Half a minute has passed, and nothing so far has appeared. But I knew that the game was pulling a trick, and sure enough, the sky changed into the same blood red color as the familiar heartbeat is now mixed with the ambiance. And once the terror set in, I heard the familiar horrifying, echoing and distorted scream of Callie throughout the map as the Gamepad started showing the same piece of text in front of me when Marie was in Inkopolis: "HIDE".
And I did just that. Since there was no map to show me or Callie were, I had to rely on looking around the map Marie was in to find the other Squid Sister and run away once I saw Callie. The only indication when Callie would appear, was the sound of her footsteps. So I had to remain silent for the entire map, and not let Callie touch Marie like she tried to touch me, fearing that she would kill Marie instantly on contact.
Things were going smoothly, and I managed to find the exit out of the map, only to be shocked to find out that I needed to find a switch in order to open it. I was about to turn back and find it, only to see an in-game version of Callie's hallucination staring at Marie from a distance where the center of the map was. At first, I was tempted to run away from her like I usually did once I saw her, but I just saw her standing there, looking at Marie. No movement, no signs of hostility, no anything.
Having had enough of staring at Callie and feeling my sanity slowly drift away just by looking at her, I decided to find the switch to open the gate. Just saying it, sounds more simpler than actually trying to do it. This obviously wasn't going to be easy, and I had to be on the lookout for the hallucination while finding the switch.
I decided to move Marie to where the center of the map was where Callie was, and sure enough, I found something peculiar on the ground: A lever.
I thought this was going to be another trap, but surprisingly, once I flicked the switch, a cutscene of the closed gate I attempted to go through earlier appeared, showing the gate slowly move upward as the exit was shown. I was about to move Marie back to the gate, only to let out a horrified scream once I saw Callie just stand in front of Marie, still lacking a body and having white, glowing eyes with one of them flickering like static. I then remembered throwing the kitchen knife into one of Callie's eyes that one time, which was probably the reason why one of her eyes were flickering.
She wasn't moving at all, just standing there and looking at me as I decided to turn around and run away. That was one of the biggest mistakes I made.
As soon as I turned Marie around and began to run, I felt something clawing at my back. My actual body's back. I screamed in pain once I felt Callie's claws hit Marie, and paused the game. I placed my hand on my back, and didn't see any signs of blood on me once I looked at my hand's palm. I didn't suffer any injuries whatsoever. I've seen many things this game had to offer, but experiencing real pain from the game itself was where I drew the line. I know this would've disappointed you all, but I couldn't bear to see anything else that the game had to showcase. I was about to get up and shut the game off before Callie could continue to hurt me, until I realized something that made my heart sink.
I couldn't get up from my seat. My body, except for my hands, fingers and thumbs were completely paralyzed, as I began to scream for help, but my voice was completely silenced as I looked up at the television screen and saw a new message appear after I tried calling for help.
"Where are you going, Sam?" A message written in a magenta color appeared, followed by the distorted laughter of Callie's as the screen faded back to the pause screen. I tried to scream for help again, but to no avail as I darted my eyes around in fear and panic. I soon saw another line of text on the screen in the same color.
"Let's play Green Light and Red Light."
After seeing that message, I knew what to do, despite the risk. Look at Callie at the cost of my sanity, or feel a slow and painful death from her claws while trying to escape from her.
"FUCK!" I thought to myself. I never knew, that this corrupted version of the game had begun to try and kill me at this point. I've already experienced the hallucinations outside of the game trying to kill me before, but now they're in the actual game, and are now trying to kill me by killing Marie whom I had to share the pain with whenever she took a hit. I didn't waste another second, and accepted the reality I was in as I unpaused the game and immediately looked at Callie's hallucination that made her stop in her tracks and freeze like a statue. White ink was seeping out of Marie's back from the claws that struck her, and I felt my sanity start to slip away the longer I looked at Callie, whom I saw began to form a grin on her similar to Genocide 3's grin. When I saw a path leading to the left, I immediately moved Marie as fast as I could to the gate, hearing Callie's laughter behind her as I turned to look at Callie again, seeing her standing just a few feet behind Marie which made me jump.
I looked at her again, and my sanity began to drain as usual. And this time, I couldn't look at her for long like I did before. This cycle repeated about 2 more times, and Callie's hallucination almost managed to kill both me and Marie. I would've been dead meat during the fourth time, had I not found a trick that I stumbled upon by accident. If I closed my eyes while having Marie look at Callie, I wouldn't have my sanity drained away, along with the fact that Marie could just endlessly stare at the hallucination. Together, we managed to get out of the map, and I made Marie close the gate behind her while Callie was just standing outside, grinning at both of us as she just disappeared, letting out a laughter as the screen faded to black afterward.
I was taken back to the stage selection screen. And this time, the second stage was available while the first one was now glitched out and showed nothing but static. I tried to interpret what the second stage was before entering it.
Judging from the image, it looked as though it was a polygonized version of the Blackbelly Skatepark map, similar to how the graphics Star Fox were on the Super NES. It looked completely out of place, but I bet there was even more things out of place in the map itself instead of just looking at the image. Again, I prepared myself the best I could, and started playing the second stage that this "game" had to offer: "CMBDLCFMMZ TLBUFQBSL"
Once the map loaded, I was immediately treated to a loud, distorted and terrible-sounding song in the background. It sounded as though it used every single sound on Splatoon, cranked them up to the highest volume possible, distorted it, then completely pieced all of them together into a song. Needless to say, I wanted to turn down the song, but couldn't reach my remote due to my body having been paralyzed. So I had to finish this map as fast as I can before my ears exploded from the background noise.
The sky was completely white, while everything in the map was polygonized, bending and distorting except for Marie's character model. I barely uttered the words: "What the fuck am I looking at?" to the Gamepad's microphone, and I heard Emily's voice come from the microphone after finishing my question.
"I didn't expect the corruptions of Genocide 3 to go THIS far..." She said, sounding just as shocked as I was as I turned to camera around to see Marie's facial expression, seeing her having her mouth agape and her eyes having a look of shock on them. The noise was getting to me at this point, so I quickly moved Marie through the map.
Since this map wasn't as big as the "Corrupted" Arowana Mall map, I found the exit more quickly than I did with the previous map. And surprisingly enough, I didn't even have to find a lever, switch or key in order to get to the exit.
After going through the ear-rapingly loud level and finding a nearby jump pad where the enemy base was, I was treated to something far more sinister than what I initially thought as the music went from annoying and distorting sounds to the same ambiance that was in the Arowana Mall map.
The map shifted from polygons to the actual version of Blackbelly Skatepark, except that everything seemed to now be in a dark red color while the sky was still white as snow. I soon saw signs of flames roaring in the distance of the map, and splatters of ink on the ground with weapons and clothes around the ink, which must have belonged to inklings that were splatted. It was hard to tell at first, but I soon realized, that every ink had a shade of red and must have been a different color before having become like this.
I just wanted to get to the next stage as fast as possible before something bad would happen, so I moved Marie through the map. I constantly had to avoid flames and debris falling in an attempt to crush the Squid Sister, and that wasn't the only hazard on the map that would try to kill me and splat Marie.
Halfway through the map, I started to hear human-like screams behind Marie, and turned the camera to look what was behind her. My eyes widened and I choked on my scream when I saw several inklings running after Marie, all of them sporting razor-sharp claws and nightmarish teeth as I began moving the Squid Sister as fast as I could through the map.
I should also count, that the inklings were running at the same speed as Marie, so there were no room for errors, and I constantly had to be on the move while avoiding the flames and debris trying to get in Marie's way. Also following this, I began to feel as though I was sweating and feeling warm while running away from the inklings.
After half a minute of running away, I noticed some small platforms after reaching the other side of map that I had to jump on. This part in particular was nerve-wrecking and made me constantly shake in fear as I saw a dark abyss below the platforms. I soon heard the screams of the inklings behind Marie, and I immediately jumped on the first platform and onto the next as the platforms got smaller and smaller with each jump. I barely managed to complete the platforming section, and almost even fell down to the abyss sometimes. However, with my skill and determination, I reached the actual exit of the stage. And as soon as I landed where the exit was, everything behind Marie started to disintegrate along with the Blackbelly Skatepark map itself as I saw the inklings that chased after me fall to the abyss below along with the platforms crumbling into pieces, letting out echoing screams that sent shivers down my spine and made me let out a sigh of relief once they disappeared as I moved Marie to the exit back to the lobby and onward to the next stage.
2 levels down, 3 more to go. After having beaten the second stage, the third stage is now playable. I noticed, that the stages I haven't played through yet now actually show what I should expect. So now would be a good time to examine what the rest of the stages would be like.
The stage I was about to enter seemed to be a darker, and more sinister version of the Saltspray Rig map. Almost everything seemed to have fallen apart with the oil rigs around the map having been destroyed, abandoned or having become defunct. The ocean the map also took place caught my eye, showing a disgusting gray color similar to how polluted water looks like when it runs out of pipes. The name of the map was "TBMUTQSBZ SJH"
The stage after Saltspray Rig was covered in static, but I could barely make out the landscape shown on the image being a maze of some kind and having a similar layout to Urchin Underpass.
The final stage was completely covered in static, not allowing me to see what it was going to show me, and I was afraid to find out what it was once I completed the two stages before it.
I was also afraid of what the next map was going to be like. So I prepared myself, and entered the third stage me and Marie had to go through.
Static covered the screen for about 10 seconds, and I was then shown Marie standing where one of the spawns of the map are. Taking in all of the sights this map had to offer made me feel disgusted overall when I was treated to it, seeing that the water below Marie was completely polluted with dead and rotting fish along with weapons and inkling clothes floating on the surface along with water having been tainted a dark gray color. I also saw, that some of the rigs had oil spilling out of them and polluting the water below them and several of the platforms having a rusty look to them. The sky was a dark color, and this time, the ambiance was a loud, droning sound, making this one of the most creepiest, and certainly one of the most disgusting levels I've had the displeasure of playing through.
It wasn't long, until I realized that I had a weapon after having gone through two maps without one: A Splat Charger. I was actually surprised that I had a weapon, and I soon knew what I was going to use it for when I took my first steps through the Corrupted Saltspray Rig, dreading what would appear.
Two enemies emerged. Two hideous, mutated-looking creatures emerged from the water below, letting out sounds that seemed to be a mix of gurgling cries and angry screams that varied from that of a human child, to an elder. It was hard to describe them at best, since all of the enemies that emerged from the water had this freakish realistic look to them, looking like a mix between real marine creatures, yet, they still had the uncanny, cartoony look to them with them melting from the water and letting out disturbing screams that still makes me shiver just by reading this alone.
I immediately used Marie's Splat Charger on one of the creatures that were climbing up the rig, and one shot from it was all it was needed in order for them to be knocked back into the water as it let out a scream of pain. However, they would always come back out of the water and start climbing back up again. So using the Splat Charger on the creatures would waste the ink container and force me to make Marie enter her squid form in order to refuel her container, so I had to use it only when necessary if I was getting cornered or trapped by these creatures.
To make this even worse, the further I went into the stage, the more disgusting, uncanny and disturbing it becomes. The enemies began to look even more realistic and some of them even bigger than Marie once I reached the halfway point, with some of them being completely unaffected from Marie's Splat Charger shots. At this point, I even had to make Marie enter her squid form and make her submerge into her ink to avoid being seen by the creatures that walk past her and through the rig, seeming to track her down and try to kill her and make her "one of them".
4 minutes have passed, and I was starting to feel sick to my stomach having to take in all of these disgusting sights the game threw at me. I nearly threw up at one point after one of the humanoid-barracuda creatures nearly splatted Marie, but I swallowed my vomit back down my throat when I realized the creatures didn't find me. But having endured everything, I finally managed to reach the end of the third stage, and saw something peculiar that made me remember Cuttlefish's screams when he chased me down yesterday along with Callie and the inklings as the droning sound stopped.
Standing in front of where the exit was, was Cuttlefish's hallucination. Still lacking his legs and eyes as I heard Marie let out a gasp upon seeing her grandfather in the state he's in as a cutscene started playing out.
"G-gramps!?" I heard Marie talk in Emily's voice as she slowly walked toward Cuttlefish, looking worried as the hallucination just lets out a wheezing sound, not even looking up at his granddaughter.
"Cuttlefish, I thought you were splatted by...!" She's soon cut off as Cuttlefish lets out a gurgled and distorted scream that immediately started draining my sanity as soon as he let it out, and without warning, he begins crawling toward Marie at a horrifyingly fast pace as the music changes to the boss theme that plays when you fight one of the Octoweapon bosses in Octo Valley, except its pitch was constantly changing, as well as the song sometimes slowing down or fast forwarding along with the mixture of a heartbeat in the background as I made Marie fire a Splat Charger shot at the hallucination with no result as Cuttlefish continued crawling toward Marie.
I quickly turned Marie around and began running away from Cuttlefish as he let out a scream, and the shadowy inklings that chased me down at the supermarket began appearing as well, running after the Squid Sister while firing weapons at Marie as I spotted a life meter for the hallucination. I came up with a strategy in order to take down Cuttlefish, and fired a Splat Charger weapon up at a wall as Marie began swimming up the wall in her squid form.
Thankfully, the shadow inklings weren't able to turn into their squid forms, and their ink just fades away upon contact with the ground, walls or objects it comes across. I saw some of them try to swim up Marie's ink, only for them to be immediately splatted upon doing so. Now knowing that the shadow inklings are incredibly weak and are splatted instantly upon touching ink that isn't their color, I threw a Splat Bomb down at them, and soon enough, all of the shadow inklings let out cries of pain as they explode into dark ink that soon fades away.
I soon saw Cuttlefish trying to crawl away from me and Marie after the shadow inklings were splatted, but I made sure he didn't get away so easily. I began having Marie fire her Splat Charger at Cuttlefish's hallucination, and I saw his life meter start to go downward.
After firing at the hallucination at least 3 times and almost making the life meter reach 50%, I managed to fill up Marie's Special Weapon gauge, and was about to use the Bomb Rush attack on the hallucination until I heard Cuttlefish let out another gurgled scream, and more inklings started appearing.
However, unlike the other inklings that attacked me before, these shadow inklings had red, glowing eyes on them as I saw one of them ready to snipe Marie down with its own Splat Charger. I barely avoided the shot, and threw another Splat Bomb down at them. But this time, they weren't as foolhardy as the first wave. They ran away from the Splat Bomb, and only 2 out of the 8 shadow inklings were splatted by the explosion. I would need to get them out of the way before I could take down Cuttlefish, and advance onward to the fourth stage. So I had to use Marie's Bomb Rush attack, and I pressed the right analog stick as I begin constantly throwing Splat Bombs at the inklings, managing to take out almost all of them except for one, whom had its Splat Charger ready. Just before it could fire, however, I set my aim at the inkling, and blasted him into a splatter of black ink as I moved Marie to where Cuttlefish was, and began firing at him with Marie's weapon again, and again until her ink container was diminished.
Cuttlefish, now only having about 10% of his life meter remaining let out one final cry as a group of shadowy inklings appeared behind Marie and began slowly walking toward her and Cuttlefish to the edge of the map. I would need to defeat Cuttlefish now, or else the inklings would eventually send Marie out of bounds, and splat her in the process.
I immediately made Marie go into her squid form and recharge her ink, and soon enough, I shot a Splat Charger shot at Cuttlefish, who was sent flying closer to the ledge leading into the polluted ocean below him and Marie. I readied another Splat Charger shot, and fired it at Cuttlefish one last time as he lets out a scream of pain and collapses onto the ground, defeated.
I turned around, and saw that the inklings behind Marie had disappeared, and that Cuttlefish breathed heavily as I heard him start to cry and mutter out something that I could barely decipher due to the distortion in his voice: "I'm sorry..."
Marie slowly walked over to Cuttlefish by herself without any input from me, and kneeled down to the hallucination, having a forlorn look on her.
"Cuttlefish... don't you remember who I am?" She says to her grandfather, whom looks up at her as if he could still see her, despite lacking any eyes whatsoever. I soon heard Cuttlefish start crying and sobbing even more as I was shocked at what happened next afterward.
Marie placed one of her hands on behind Cuttlefish's back, and closed her eyes as she proceeded to hug the hallucination. Slowly, I saw that Cuttlefish's legs started to reform, and his voice started to return to normal as Marie continued comforting him.
"Do you still remember the time when me and Callie helped Sam take down DJ Octavio together?" She barely manages to crack a smile as Cuttlefish's hallucination's crying softens as he hugs Marie back. Soon following this, Cuttlefish's model turned completely white as I saw his legs completely reform and hearing him speak in his normal voice again.
"Marie... I thought that monster splatted you..." His model returned back to normal after the light engulfing him faded away, his eyes having completely returned along with his legs. I could see him smile happily as he reached out and hugged Marie, crying in joy as Marie hugs her grandfather back.
"Gramps, I thought I had lost you..." They continued hugging each other for a while, until Marie let go, and smiled at Cuttlefish.
"I don't know what happened after Sam splatted me. He-" He's soon cut off by Marie, whom interrupts him.
"Cuttlefish, let me explain everything when we get out of here, alright? Now let's go find the exit before those... things find us, and splat us." I saw her grab Cuttlefish's arm, and soon enough, the screen started to fade into black. And once it showed the game again, I was shown Marie and Cuttlefish standing in front of the exit out of the third level, and I moved the Squid Sister along with Cuttlefish following her inside of the exit as the screen faded into black once more.
I wanted so badly to get myself something to drink and eat, but I still couldn't get up from my seat. I just stat there, and watched the stage selection screen as I realized what the fourth stage was going to be, judging from the image alone.
A corrupted version of Urchin Underpass with Genocide 3's grins everywhere.
Author's Note: Ok, let's stop the tape here for a moment.
Look, I know that this chapter was seriously long. And I could've made it longer by including the last two levels. But you know what? I'm going to split this up into two parts. This is the first one, and the next chapter's going to be the second part. The second part isn't going to be as long as this one, but it'll certainly be tense.
We're getting close to the end. I can safely confirm, that Chapter 12 is going to be the last chapter for this creepypasta or epicpasta, whatever you may call it. I'll give you the chapter names for the next two upcoming chapters now, and keep the epilogue's name a secret. =)
Chapter 10: 7-5-14-15-3-9-4-5: Part 1
Chapter 11: 7-5-14-15-3-9-4-5: Part 2
See you later. 5-13-9-12-25 1-14-4 19-1-13.
(Also, 6000+ words. Gives me another reason to stop it here, right?)