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5th (lack of sleep note) one's very own black tape. Audio at first.
[This post is audio, and it's coming from Alex's office and she sounds a little... forced amused.]
Okay, so I know this is way later than we thought it'd be happening, but you know given the whole half the population coming down with the virus that was released in May, and then half of us getting kidnapped in June, it makes sense that it would be. But yeah, Pokemon Go is finally a go. Go out and play it! Go Team Red! That is a lot of "goes" in one statement! [There's a little laugh, but it's not full on Alex's. As for the team, it's not Alex has biases, it's just that she's Team Red, guys.]
On a more serious note, I'm hoping that some of our really techy people will take a look at this video and tell me if there's any sign of like CGI or whatever beyond something that we would be able to use back home. [There's no CGI or anything, it's real.] I already know that it's not been used if it's from my time or whatever. Even if you can't, I'm hoping that there's a way that this thing is like IP stamped or something by who sent it to me back home, so I can prove it's them. [Because fuck Thomas Warren.]
I'm not filtering the video away from anyone, but I should warn you that it's a bit... [Alex is just going to flounder here for the right word which isn't very Alex.] Creepy. It's creepy and sort of...demonic. But I promise it's not a jumpscare video, and it was taken back home and it just showed up on my device here. [Which is why Alex is at her office making copies of it, because she knows that it's going to be a thing.]
But I really do appreciate any help you guys can give me with it. [Please ignore the slightly desperate tone in her voice, she may have watched this multiple times already today.]
[Alex has cut the part of the video that's just a minute of what seems like nanny cam footage with nothing happening. So, when the video starts on the network, it's got some sort of night vision filter, so it's easy to see in the darkness of the bedroom. There's a bed pushed against the window and a person sleeping in the bed. The camera lingers in on a shot of a foot out from beneath the sheets, before it starts to pan up the leg of the person in the bed.
Then it stops, and the camera moves instead to the corner of the room. There, in the shadows of it, there appears to be something moving. It's large, overly so, even though it's stooping down. It's a mass of black that's darker than the shadows, and there's long, spidery arms that stretch down to the floor and shake. The camera lingers on the demon for a minute, and it's also clearly watching the person in the bed. If anyone makes the effort to lighten the footage (Alex hasn't yet,because she's creeped out enough already she doesn't want to do anything that might jeopardize what data they find) they'd see much more detail on the demon: how it looks like a gnarled tree, the large and hungriness of its eyes, and the twisting length of it's fingers and the crazed over-sized smile.
The camera looks away from the demon and then back to the person in the bed, the camera slowly moving up her body until it lingers on her face. Because yep, that's Alex's bedroom at home, and that's Alex. The video stops after you can see her face, and then Alex switches it to video in her office so she can be seen, even if she looks a little pale in the bright light of her office.]
I'm fine. It happened back home months ago now. Other things happened, a lot of other things happened. so I couldn't fully investigate it at the time, but now that I've got it, and I've got you guys I figure no time like the present right? But yeah, that's actually my apartment back in Seattle, a day or so before I ended up here. Well, got my memories from home anyway. I am just seriously hoping that you guys can help.
[And a muttered:] Someone owes me a million dollars if you can't.
Okay, so I know this is way later than we thought it'd be happening, but you know given the whole half the population coming down with the virus that was released in May, and then half of us getting kidnapped in June, it makes sense that it would be. But yeah, Pokemon Go is finally a go. Go out and play it! Go Team Red! That is a lot of "goes" in one statement! [There's a little laugh, but it's not full on Alex's. As for the team, it's not Alex has biases, it's just that she's Team Red, guys.]
On a more serious note, I'm hoping that some of our really techy people will take a look at this video and tell me if there's any sign of like CGI or whatever beyond something that we would be able to use back home. [There's no CGI or anything, it's real.] I already know that it's not been used if it's from my time or whatever. Even if you can't, I'm hoping that there's a way that this thing is like IP stamped or something by who sent it to me back home, so I can prove it's them. [Because fuck Thomas Warren.]
I'm not filtering the video away from anyone, but I should warn you that it's a bit... [Alex is just going to flounder here for the right word which isn't very Alex.] Creepy. It's creepy and sort of...demonic. But I promise it's not a jumpscare video, and it was taken back home and it just showed up on my device here. [Which is why Alex is at her office making copies of it, because she knows that it's going to be a thing.]
But I really do appreciate any help you guys can give me with it. [Please ignore the slightly desperate tone in her voice, she may have watched this multiple times already today.]
[Alex has cut the part of the video that's just a minute of what seems like nanny cam footage with nothing happening. So, when the video starts on the network, it's got some sort of night vision filter, so it's easy to see in the darkness of the bedroom. There's a bed pushed against the window and a person sleeping in the bed. The camera lingers in on a shot of a foot out from beneath the sheets, before it starts to pan up the leg of the person in the bed.
Then it stops, and the camera moves instead to the corner of the room. There, in the shadows of it, there appears to be something moving. It's large, overly so, even though it's stooping down. It's a mass of black that's darker than the shadows, and there's long, spidery arms that stretch down to the floor and shake. The camera lingers on the demon for a minute, and it's also clearly watching the person in the bed. If anyone makes the effort to lighten the footage (Alex hasn't yet,
The camera looks away from the demon and then back to the person in the bed, the camera slowly moving up her body until it lingers on her face. Because yep, that's Alex's bedroom at home, and that's Alex. The video stops after you can see her face, and then Alex switches it to video in her office so she can be seen, even if she looks a little pale in the bright light of her office.]
I'm fine. It happened back home months ago now. Other things happened, a lot of other things happened. so I couldn't fully investigate it at the time, but now that I've got it, and I've got you guys I figure no time like the present right? But yeah, that's actually my apartment back in Seattle, a day or so before I ended up here. Well, got my memories from home anyway. I am just seriously hoping that you guys can help.
[And a muttered:] Someone owes me a million dollars if you can't.
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[ Mad is salvageable. Hate is a way bigger issue, and strikes him as an emotion that a man who prizes logic and reason wouldn't fold to easily. ]
Where'd you guys leave things? [ He's not sure what to suggest, if anything, in terms of what she should do, not without more of an idea of where things actually stand between the two of them. But, if nothing else, at least he can listen to her. ]
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But he just told me that if I wanted to handle this to handle it. Like without him. Demons are his purview. Not mine. And unlike he wants to admit, I believe in this shit.
And it was in my house while I was sleeping along with someone else.
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[ Shit, what can he even say? There's way more at play here, with Richard and Alex's situation, than he can really comment on. From the little he knows, he can get why Richard would be pissed. Alex shared personal business that included Richard, too. If the situation were different, and somebody-- say, Athena-- was telling people about his past and his issues without asking, he'd get upset, too.
But he gets Alex's side, too. And she's the one he's talking to about this, not Richard, so... ]
Look. All I know is, where demons are involved, going off on your own to try and solve things never goes well. [ In his case, it led to leaping head-first down a rabbit hole of opiates. ] That goes for you and him.
[ It's his nice way of saying: HEY MAYBE YOU TWO SHOULD JUST FUCKING COMMUNICATE FROM NOW ON. Strategize! Don't post demon-y things to the network without talking to each other! ]
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[Alex let out a sigh.]
I tried to tell him I was going to do it and he accused me of doing it already and he has this stupid 'I hate you so much' voice and I... got angry.
I'm not doing this because I want attention or want my show back or anything. I gave all of that fucking up for him. I'm trying to find a weapon or something so that something doesn't happen to him, but he refuses to see it that way.
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CW: mentions of finding a body and cops.
That is my bedroom where I will never feel safe to sleep in again. That is my room where someone broke into my house. I had to deal with the cops, Jeff. I had to deal with the woman who was the detective who I dealt with when I found the body and explain to her that I had no proof of who did this, and get lectured by her about how it's just CGI and a crazy fan. And it isn't. I've been doing this long enough with him to know that.
But he's so entrenched in being a skeptic, that he refuses to believe any of this is real. And I'm too entrenched in having evidence like this to believe it's not.