In Memory

Donald continues to wander the Great Nowhere and discovers a strange structure spiraling into the sky.  Wandering its insides he discovers not only the nature of the thing, but revelations perhaps best kept concealed.

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There's No Place Like Nowhere

Delighted to relive some of his lost memories of the Great Darkness of 1999, the Family Man wanders the strange terrain of a beautifully dark and transformed world.

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-Mikaelfernstrom - a collection of everyday sounds based on an ecological framework » HandClap.wav - https://freesound.org/people/mikaelfernstrom/sounds/68698/

-Temawas - Theater » Ending BRAVO applause.wav - https://freesound.org/people/temawas/sounds/179874/

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Mr Shroud and His Shadow

The following account was discovered on a hard drive left in the attic of an apartment in Bakewell, England. No name was attached to the uncovered file, although it has been theorized the individual was a student of the famed Mistoric University - a well-known institution for its high level of educational standards, as well as its large offering of esoteric studies, including "dark studies" (studies focusing on the history and scientific discoveries revolving around the Great Darkness of 1999). However, a search of the university's faculty has never turned up the name "Shroud" as anyone who has ever been employed there. The authenticity of the account remains a mystery and largely regarded as a work of fiction.

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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Donald and Mr. Hide are taken by the White Wigs and introduced to a truly amazing device.  Not one to let an opportunity slip him by, Donald makes a daring choice.

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The Amniotic Sea

The following letter was found in the wall of one of the rooms located in the now closed Highland Gardens Sanitarium.  The individual in the letter seemed to have been one of many people victimized by the infamous Dr. Abernasus Coldglow.  Coldglow was known to use hypno-regressive therapy on his patients in order to recover memories from the Great Darkness of 1999.  However, when it was found that such attempts often caused permanent neurological damage or death, the practice was outlawed.  Despite this, Coldglow continued his practice illegally, leaving a trail of dead and/or mad patients behind him.  The current letter seems to be from yet another of his victims.

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Meta-Devil: A Kaiju Tale

To celebrate our favorite Kaiju - Godzillla - King of the Monsters - we've released a stand alone Kaiju story of our own.  Follow the tragic story of a man at the cutting edge of a new science - Nether Mechanics - and the horrible effects it wrought.  Though physically transformed, he finds that it is his actions that will truly determine what he is to become.

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For the Love of the Game

The Family Man strides through the mad city of Willard and finally comes face-to-face with the notorious skin switcher, Mr. Hide.

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The Journal of The Thrice Mad Silus Olmes

In 1952, a strange individual by the name of Silus Olmes was admitted into the Piedmont Sanitarium located just outside Boston (Before Boston was destroyed by "The Tempest" and was re-built into New Victoria). The middle-to-late aged man was remanded into the custody of the institution after his family verified that he had lost touch with reality and was no longer able to function in day-to-day activities. While many mentally ill patients were in Piedmont Sanitarium at the time, Olmes came to be recognized as unique, as the likes of his pathology, at least its specifics, were anything but textbook. Specifically, Olmes claimed he could traverse beyond the lands of sleep, and explore the deeper, darker dimensions it had to offer. He came to name this realm “The Great Unconscious.” Throughout the years, Olmes claimed there was an encroaching doom “swelling beneath the pillow of every sleeping Bostonian,” and that the benighted denizens of the Great Unconscious were poised to enter our world. Another uniquity granted to Olmes, which couldn’t be explained (as he was, for the most part, relegated to the confines of his cell, or carefully monitored when he wasn’t) was that he seemed to have intimate knowledge of other strange events occurring in Boston – events that only a small circle of Piedmont Sanitarium psychiatrists knew about.

The Journal from which the following excerpts were extracted were written in all manner of fluids, as Olmes was not allowed a proper writing utensil. He scrawled his accounts on the walls in blood, urine, feces, and even insect remains.  It was all later transcribed and came to be known as the notorious "Mad Script of the Thrice Mad Silus Olmes."

Considering what eventually transpired in New Victoria, some view Olme's words as prophecies. Others believe they are the ramblings of a terribly sick mind.

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Dreams of a Strait-Jacket World

Donald continues his voyage through the ruins of Willard, pondering the words of the mad "angel."  But lunacy is not one to let someone alone, and Donald soon finds himself on the other end of a compelling, but insane, argument. 

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Monsterhood

The following was scrawled into a diary found in a house located in New Hollow - one of the towns permanently quarantined since the closure of the Great Darkness of 1999.  Often simply known as "weird towns," these places are cordoned off from the public due to their "dangerous conditions."  While few concrete details are ever offered, there are often rumors about what strangeness lurks in the abandoned cities.  

After being closed in 2001, New Hollow was the subject of many such rumors.  Some stated that time worked differently in the city, while others claimed consciousness interacted with the town in some bizarre way.  In 2007, a group of brave (or stupid) urban explorers trespassed the city's borders.  Exploring various places, the adventurers found a strange diary in one of the many houses in the city.  While the house seemed to be the same one described in the diary, the small book was found in a child's bedroom full of toys, old clothing, and a small library of children's books.  Curiously, all the books were face out except one - "The Hag in the Hut" - which, when flipped over, revealed a haggard looking witch on its cover.  Additionally, and to the explorers' chagrin, they also reportedly found a pile of human bones living beneath the room's bed.

After missing for a week, only 2 of the 5 trespassers came back from the town.  Authorities took the individuals into custody, and the diary the individuals brought back with them was eventually given to researchers at Mistoric university, as few artifacts from the quarantined zones are available for research.  As for the remaining explorers, it was never discovered, or at least revealed, what became of them. 

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