Update...

So, not much has been happening. We haven't had much free time. Just fight after fight and I've been putting my plan into action. Less and less have I been helping Cerise during fights and she's definitely noticing. Injuries are mounting and she's come close to death a couple of times. She's not a fighter. She might be someday with more practice, but right now. She wouldn't last long without me here and I'm making sure she knows it.

Of course she knows what I'm doing and has stubbornly refused to acknowledge that she needs my help. Now you might be wondering... If I need her I obviously can't just let her die and she has to know that so this isn't going to work, except there's a bit of an assumption there...

That assumption being that I need her. She's here for all the reasons she said and because companionship is fun. None of those are really necessities though. If she died I'd find some other loser who managed to survive this long and force them to be friends with me. I just want a friend to talk to and help alleviate my boredom. There's no specifics on who that is. Besides it's not like she's the only person who knows how to throw a grenade weapon.

So, yes she's expendable and if she doesn't acknowledge that she needs my help she won't get it and eventually she'll die. I've also told her that if she's good and doesn't betray me I won't even kill her when the time comes. I'll let her live. Which is probably her best chance of getting out of this alive.

So some of you may have learned

I've found me an ally for now. Cerise who previously helped us out with The Scarecrow and Legion is apparently in this tournament too. She tried to kill me which is just adorable really. I suggested we help each other out again. I'm not gonna go into too much detail since she already did...
Here

She also outlined her plan to kill me there too, which... Since as you can see I found her blog I know about. Generally not a great idea to write things like that somewhere public.

Oh also while I was getting that link I found a comment from someone calling themselves Frederick... Which god that is just the worst name.

I followed his comment to his blog and found that he's a nest and wants to kill me... Not a surprise I guess, he also has a friend who also wants me dead. She seems interesting. Can't wait to run into both of them.

I feel like I should say a little something here...

We have a lot of fun you and I. We make jokes, I do stupid things that often get me and others hurt, but I should clear something up...

People may have the impression that I'm not very smart. Which in a way is true.

I do often make mistakes and don't really think clearly, but... That's because I'm impulsive and possibly have slight delusions of grandeur... These are to account for my occasionally boneheaded actions. I don't tend to think things through, but that doesn't mean I don't think.

I made the offer of friendship to Cerise, for all the reasons she stated, but I didn't do it without thinking. I took the first chance I had to rifle through her stuff, make sure she wasn't lying about her supplies situation and also did what I could to find out if she had a blog I could use to keep tabs on her.

Even before reading the blog I also figured she'd want to betray me before the tournament logically forced us to turn on each other, because that's just common sense, which is also why I have a secondary plan... A plan to make sure that she needs me for as long as possible.

Now... Some of you are probably wondering... This entire post could be construed as me telling Cerise that it was stupid of her to put her plans on her blog where I could potentially read them, but now I'm doing the exact same thing and I have no doubt that Frederick probably knows of my blog and so even if Cerise doesn't know about it, he'll probably tell her just to screw me over... Well here's the deal...

My plan doesn't matter if she knows or not and also Frederick... I'm not giving you the satisfaction of telling her about this. I'm going to be showing it to her as soon as it goes up.

Anyway... Intrigue and backstabbings to plan for and murder to be done. Oh... Right... Since Frederick is a nest I'll have to buy myself some incendiary with the points I have. Not sure how to deal with Freddy's friend though... Ah well I'm sure I'll figure something out. 

I missed this...

I missed this so much... I have killed so many people since I've got here. Just find someone and kill them and I get rewarded for doing so. I haven't even spent most of the points I've gotten. Just bought some food and stuff when I was hungry.

The vast majority of people I've run into have been normal humans. Most of them not even fighters. The few fighters or servants I have run into still didn't give me much problems. Even those who can actually fight can't land a hit on me since I still have The Children's Defense Mechanism and it's not widely enough known for most people to figure out how to counter.

I feel like a kid in a candy store... and the candy is the destruction of innocent lives.

Actually I don't understand that metaphor even without the intentionally stupid inclusion I added.

Are we supposed to assume it's just the range of choices? Cause I mean yeah, but it still costs money? Or are we supposed to assume the kid is alone in the store and can just take as much candy as they want?

Either way I don't care. The point is I'm really happy here... Honestly it's the happiest I've been since my neighbourhood was destroyed.

I kind of don't want to leave... Though I guess that won't last... I'll have killed everyone else eventually.

Maybe when I go back...

Hmm...

I'll think more about that later... Let's go kill people!

Well... That was interesting.

So, I haven't been talking, cause we've been super busy just resetting things up at the new headquarters for The Children of Nothing. Plus nothing of interest has been happening. Just boring work stuff about setting things up figuring out sources of income and stuff... Kind of wishing we had 2 here, according to Facet he was really good at getting The Children lots of income.

Anyway that's not what's important. I appear to have ended up in a very strange place where a bat told me I should kill a bunch of other people to get home. Well it didn't specify that I needed to kill anyone, but you know, it's me. If the option to kill is there, I'll probably take it.

I've been told not to kill the people with the masks with suits on them... Er card suits... Like diamonds, clubs, etc... Not like three piece or business... Anyway... Normally I'd ignore such an order, but I get the feeling that wouldn't be a great idea this time.

Anyway as annoying as it is to be suddenly dragged into some death tournament against my will... there is one consolation to this... That being the whole death tournament part.

Time to go kill some random people. It's been so long since I've been able to really just let loose and kill people without consequence.

It almost feels like stepping back into my old life before all this craziness... I hope it doesn't end too quickly...

Oh... Um I'm sure Sandy and Facet will be able to handle things fine in my absence of course...

Now lets go find me someone to kill!

Right so... Let's continue this story...

Upon making this realization we realized we might still have time. We might be able to catch Legion off guard.

We started to search the building and eventually found a room from which inside a voice was coming. The voice sounded familiar, but at the time I didn't have much time to think about it as Tiff!Facet approached the door a click was heard and we all backed up shortly before a barrage of bullets tore through the door. The fight started for real, immediately after that. Legion was an army unto himself. His strange ability to copy his gun multiple times meant it was like trying to fight a firing squad. The difficult part was getting to him. Cerise tried to use her last flashbang, but that, did nothing to stop him. He didn't need to aim to simply keep firing wildly at a door. It was The Facet that managed to actually get into the room, once again using his ability to teleport. He's the only one who can teleport with any sort of accuracy... the rest of us are still random due to having to use Coda's realm.

Facet jumped in and slashed at Legion who stepped back from the attack and turned all his guns on Facet at which point the rest of us rushed in. Legion was better at fighting off multiple enemies than most solo fighters would be, but he was still alone and while he could focus on multiple people with his attacks he could only defend himself against one attacker at a time which meant we were capable of keeping him on defense forcing him to dodge our attacks so he didn't get time to shoot. The entire time however, I felt like something was wrong.

Eventually we managed to back him into a corner and disarm him. Of course most of us just wanted to kill him, but Cerise reminded us she needed him alive and we did owe her. We helped her contain him and she pathed out with him. I still felt like something was wrong and as the others started to walk out I noticed it. There was someone in the room. During the entire fight this person was watching. I glanced over at where the person was and froze. I saw my life flash before my eyes as Nathan grinned at me from the corner of the room, a shotgun held casually on his shoulder.

"Hello, Sergei. Did you think dying would stop me from getting my revenge?"

I staggered back as the familiar voice filled my head. I knew what this was. I wasn't fooled, but knowing that The Nathan in front of me wasn't Nathan normally, but The Archangel didn't make the situation better. If anything the idea of Archangel!Nathan was infinitely more terrifying. I didn't even wait. I vanished and when I got back to the others I announced immediately that we were leaving. It didn't matter if there was more to do we were leaving. Anything that wasn't packed was being left.

The others were confused, but I was too freaked out to give a proper answer until much later. Anyway after that we fled and moved elsewhere and we're setting up here. I'm gonna be laying low for the next little while.

Busy busy busy...

Tiff is taking things fairly well...

You know all things considered...

Also according to facet sine of course she isn't communicating with us directly and we're actually just taking Facet's word on what's happening with her.

Anyway before I get to what is happening now... Let me tell you about that second confrontation.

This is what I've been waiting to talk about...

Cerise showed up and told us she needed our help. She had located Legion and was assaulting the place with her Proxies, but they're having difficulty and she was hoping we could help out. Obviously not directly. She wanted us to simply do something to distract them so, her Proxies could use the distraction to win and get Legion. We agreed since getting rid of Legion would be of great benefit to us.

Cerise brought us to a location. We were behind a building and we could hear fighting taking place a short distance away and then Cerise told us to do what we can and then vanished to go help them out.

We took some time to think about it and came to the idea... The idea was let us show ourselves to The Timberwolves and attract their attention.  No smart plan, just show ourselves and let them try to kill us.

So, that's what we did. We approached the battle took some time to see exactly what was happening. Basically The Proxies were surrounding the base of a building while The Timberwolves held them off from the various entrances and I assume there were more inside watching for Proxies trying to teleport inside.

We waited for the right time and then we picked a building. Sandy and Facet would wait there while I acted as a the distraction as the most immediately recognizable figure.

So, Sandy and Facet went and waited and then I did a "accidental" walk by. Stopping and seeming surprised to see the battle and then after I made sure some of the people noticed me I ran for the building. My hope of course being that they'd think this was their chance.

I reached the building and... Surprisingly things worked out both better and worse than we expected.

I went into the building and found Facet and Sandy facing down a bunch of Timberwolves. Apparently they had chosen the same building to hide in as we chose to have our ambush.

Facet was hiding behind a doorframe and Sandy was beside him. I rushed over and asked what was going on.

They ran into the building and there were a bunch of Timberwolves already here. We didn't know why at the time. I asked Facet if he could do something about it. He said that he can't go in there cause it would be dangerous to Tiff's body. There were too many for him to take out quickly before they could turn on him like he did with The Scarecrow's men.

It made sense. It was one of the downsides of Facet being in Tiff's body. He can't just use her as a disposable body.  I wasn't sure what to do. None of us were and then Cerise showed up.

"I wasn't expecting much, but whatever you guys did, really worked... The Timberwolves almost immediately started faltering when you ran towards this building" she paused and looked around, "What the hell is happening here?" she asked and we informed her and she nodded, "Right... That makes sense," she said and then tells Facet to move and when he did she tossed a flashbang into the room the Timberwolves were in and told us to rush in as it went off.

The fight wasn't much of a fight after that. Facet and I easily took out the stunned Timberwolves and Cerise informed us that the Proxies had fairly quickly took the building after our stunt. We'd been a far greater distraction than we thought. However, when they took the place there was no sign of Legion.

We all came to the same conclusion. Legion wasn't in the building The Proxies were attacking, he was in this one.

Damn it I have to go again. resetting things up and dealing with new people is a full time job.

Okay so, Tiff is awake.

Well I say awake, but more like just conscious. Facet is basically just controlling the body, but allowing her to be aware of stuff or something? I don't pretend to know how Dying Man possession works at the best of times. Basically Facet is still controlling everything, but Tiff is awake and aware.

Anyway yeah so Facet needed me to help talk to her and I don't really know. I guess reassure her? Anyway that took some time. I imagine waking up and finding out you're not in control of your body is pretty shocking.

Anyway I said I'd tell you about the confrontation.

Well a group was going around looking for us and actually getting pretty close so we went to deal with them.

It was me, Sandy and Facet of course and what we found was Four Timberwolves and a Nest. Specifically The Scarecrow.

I was gungho about a rematch with that cheap copy, but The Facet convinced me that I should hold back while he came up with a plan. Considering the last time I rushed into a fight with him he kicked my ass I eventually decided the Facet was right.

We followed them for a bit. The Scarecrow had birds patrolling, but they couldn't see us, so we ignored them. Interestingly The Scarecrow's birds seemed to be mostly Robins and Sparrows and a couple of pigeons.

He and his Timberwolf friends went from building to building banging on doors. If someone answered they moved on, if no one answered they broke in searched and then moved on.

They reached a bookstore and broke in and The Facet decided on a plan. It was fairly simple actually.

Burn the entire building down.

That was it. Just toss incendiaries into the building and wait at the entrances for anyone who comes running out.

Worked for me. There was a lot of looting and stuff going on as people panicked in the darkness, so the building being set on fire might not even cause concern. So, we did...

It went surprisingly well at first. The place lit up quickly in response to our attack and at least one Timberwolf was stupid enough to run back out and immediately get gunned down by Sandy.

We continued to wait as the place burned down and no one else came out and that's when things started to go less well. See, we were all split up to make sure we were covering every exit we could find. Which also meant each of us was alone for the most part.

Sandy was covering the front exit and Tiff/Facet was at the back. I was covering a side area where a couple of windows could potentially be used for escape.

It's weird isn't it... You know things, but often times you just forget to think about them... You make a plan and forget to account for simple things that someone else could potentially easily think of.

Somehow... It's so easy to forget that Servants can teleport... I've made that mistake, my enemies have made that mistake and hell I've forgotten about my own teleportation abilities at times they'd be really useful... Like when my son and daughter tossed me in the back of a truck for instance.

Anyway the point is The Scarecrow and the remaining three Timberwolves appeared near me. It would appear they were not quite expecting me and I was not quite expecting them, so there was a moment where neither of us quite knew what to do, The Scarecrow unfortunately recovered first...

Well actually thinking back on it, I don't think he was shocked to see me... I think he had intentionally appeared there and had just not realized that The Timberwolves might be surprised and so his hesitation was the result of waiting for them to react.

Anyway he tossed one of his knives at me and I managed to instinctively dodge and then the Timberwolves were leveling guns on me.

It occurs to me there have been a lot of asides in this post... Well one more... See... Some of you might be thinking that it's strange The Facet came up with this plan, but I only mentioned me forgetting about teleportation when it was The Facet's plan that failed to account for it... That is because The Facet apparently had accounted for it and just hadn't mentioned it.

As the guns leveled at me The Facet suddenly appeared behind the group of them and in one movement stabbed two of them in the throat and kicked the back of the knee of the last one causing him to drop to his knees and throwing off his shot, before The facet yanked his knife out of one of the falling Timberwolves and stabbed it into the skull of the last one. At which point The Scarecrow turned his attention to The Facet, turned back to me and vanished apparently deciding that was not the best place to be right then...

It's possible that was because since Facet was in Tiff's body what The Scarecrow just saw was the young girl he saw get shot, suddenly appearing only a day after being shot in the gut, looking almost dead and rapidly killing three of his men.

Honestly I'd be pretty freaked out too.

The Facet informed me he actually had expected them to be expecting us to be watching the entrances and teleport out and was watching me and Sandy expecting them to try and go for one of us.

I was not amused, but aside from The Scarecrow not being dead it was a success and The Scarecrow didn't reappear again so, Tiff's reappearance might have served to keep him out of the remainder of the conflict, so that was a benefit.

I'll tell you the rest of what happened later.

I should also note. Toby still wants to run away so you might be wondering how we got him to help out with the move. The answer was give Ryan a gun and orders to shoot Toby if he tries to run. Informing him of this in front of Toby and explaining that Ryan could probably complete the move with or without Toby's help kept Toby pretty obedient.

A lot has happened.

and I will inform you of all of it, but first who'd like to know where I've been?

1, 2... Did you raise your hand or are you just stretching? Okay so not too many people... Got it...

Regardless here's where I've been... In the dark.

Yeah as things heated up the Timberwolves or Nests eventually either realized we had a thoughtborn or just thought we'd suffer fighting without technology, so someone cut power to the entire area.

That's not a huge problem as I could just go somewhere where there is power, but with things heating up as they were I decided it wasn't worth it to leave The Children alone just to go off and update you guys. So, I stayed and helped out and as a result have been unable to update, but... Things have cooled down now so I can start telling you all about the interesting things that happened.

First things first... Tiff is... Alive... Sort of... We were already trying to decide what to do about her injury when the power went out... There wasn't much we could do without power and while a hospital could probably still handle a gunshot wound patient without power... I mean they have like backup generators and stuff... There were other reasons hospitals were out. For one... They knew we had a wounded member and would probably be watching hospitals... Actually given that The Facet could easily bring her to a powered hospital the lack of power was not much of a consideration for why no hospitals.The bigger reason was concern about Oathbreakers and also being incredibly unsure how a normal hospital would deal with an injured patient they could only partially see. Tiff's Child of nothing protection was still active and we have no idea how to switch it off...

Anyway given all the considerations of which there were many more... We made a decision... One that... Was arguably a bad decision... Maybe we should have chanced a hospital... I don't know, but we had one surefire way to keep her alive... Or at least active... The Facet possessed her. As such she can move and act even with her injury and The Facet says she's basically just sleeping in blissful unconsciousness for now and when her mind wakes up... Well we'll figure that out. She's basically a dead girl walking at this point, so I don't know...

As for the fighting... That continued... We got some back up. Cerise brought some reinforcements in the form of Proxies... They aren't quite allies as The Slender Man has the same Kill on sight order on us as basically all The Fears, but Cerise keeps it quiet that we're working together and The Proxies make a good distraction as long as we don't go near them. You might be wondering how I know this... Cerise told us... She popped in to our base at one point to inform us of these details. The fact she can just pop in on us like that is a bit worrying... I mean we're supposed to be super well hidden, but apparently the fact we brought her there once let her just sort of recall back there via the path... Which does potentially mean that she could be used to find this location later for less amicable reasons or even potentially lead The Slender Man himself to us... So... We were basically thinking that we'd need to move locations for a number of reasons at this point, but that is actually easier said then done.

We actually have quite a lot of stuff to move. So, we were kind of splitting our focus... While Facet/Tiff, Sandy and I were fighting, Ryan and Toby were bringing stuff to our new decided safe house. At the moment we are at said new safehouse.

But that's jumping ahead a bit. First we had some confrontations...

Before I tell you about them, let me explain why we were bothering to fight when we could have probably focused entirely on evacuation. The problem was that The Timberwolves and Nests were getting aggressive. They were searching for us and so, we'd engage them where we found them to disrupt their search and confuse them as to our whereabouts... Plus I just love killing of course.

One such fight became a bit more than it was intended.

Shit... and I'll have to tell you about it later... Facet needs me to actually do some work or something...

The Scarecrow

I was called out apparently. That's something somewhat new for me...

I mean I've called out opponents multiple times, but never really had someone call me out...

It was a pretty nice call out too... I mean would have been more effective if I knew any of the dead people... I think he might have mistakenly thought they worked for me, but I'm fairly sure they were just unfortunate people who lived in the area.

I should explain. So, The Scarecrow called me out by killing people, sticking them up on... Whatever those stick things scarecrows are held up on are called each of them with notes. The notes telling me to meet him. The cops also found these notes, however which is why I generally don't make such gruesome spectacles to send messages. Obviously then the meeting place specified is compromised so... I decided to set up my own meeting place.

Using Sammy to find out where they'd be I showed up with Tiff and Sandy. Sandy still doesn't like killing, but seems to be capable of fighting and Tiff is a natural so it seemed smart to take them. Ryan has his uses, but I don't know if he can fight and Toby is still determined not to be helpful in any way and we've had to keep him locked up to get him not to try and run away.

So, we showed up. I'd brought incendiary weapons since he was a nest and most likely so were the people he might  be with and besides Incendiary weapons work equally well on Timberwolves.

So, we showed up at an area. Unfortunately stealthy and incendiary weaponry don't go hand in hand so, taking out the guy on watch who was indeed a nest alerted everyone else and soon the fight started. The birds were basically useless in a fight against us because they couldn't see us and just like with Oliver most of the nests weren't great at fighting without them and also had to deal with the defense mechanism. Which of course they knew how to deal with, but it's still difficult to keep track of what is essentially an invisible enemy that you merely know is standing near the enemy you can see, especially during the chaos of a fight and one involving bursts of fire and explosions as well.

We made pretty quick work of The Nests we were fighting is what that all boiled down to. Of course the place was now somewhat on fire. Which was... Not great for me. I don't like fire. I'm not terrible with fire. I don't become a frightened mess at the sight of it, it just makes me a bit uncomfortable... The time with Nathan was different because I was also just generally terrified of Nathan and adding in the fact I was again in a burning building is what made me panic.

Anyway... Through the fire and the flames and the charred bodies came The Scarecrow. He was a man wearing a potato sack mask with a face painted on it, carrying a large black bag over his shoulder and wearing overalls over a plaid shirt. His sleeve of the arm carrying the bag was rolled up revealing an armful of scars. He reached into the bag and pulled out a large serrated knife. "So, Sergei you came to se-" he started and I blasted him with fire. He moved very quickly stabbing the knife into his flesh and cutting a large gash from which a large amount of birds rushed out forming a wall to block the fire.

I was impressed.

"Did you just use The Convocation as a shield?"

"Of course. The birds are just a tool. It's not like it harms the convocation and I'm far more useful alive,"

"Wow... This is a little weird actually,"

"What do you mean?"

"Well you've got a mask. You're apparently a psycho killer and you treat the birds like tools... It's like running into my Ex and seeing them with someone who's exactly like me,"

"I am not exactly like you! I'm much better!"

"Oh yeah sure... I mean you might be. You might be drastically different from me, but I bet they don't care. You're just replacement Faceless to them. When you cut yourself to let them out and they come flying out of the holes in your skin I bet they're thinking about me,"

He seemed to get mad at this and tossed the knife at me. The real me. I dodged and then he'd rushed at me, another knife in his hand as birds came streaming out of the hole in his arm now. Sandy and Tiff did a commendable job dealing with the birds. He stabbed at me and I blocked with my flamethrower which his knife punctured. I tossed it at him and he pulled back as I pulled out my machete and lunged. His knife met my machete and he was pushed back, but then the bag slipped from his shoulders as he grabbed a knife with his second hand and swung it at me causing me to jump back.

 He tried to press forward slashing at me, but I managed to catch one of his knives on a machete and tried to catch his wrist with my hand, but I... Somewhat slipped up on that and instead got his knife stabbed into my hand, still... I then rushed forward slamming him into the wall and forcing my machete towards his face as he held it with his knife and tried to pull his knife out of my hand, but I kept it held in my palm, gritting my teeth against the pain.

Then the wall exploded. I was knocked off of my feet as was The Scarecrow. Tiff and Sandy turned their attention to the exploded wall and gunfire suddenly sprayed into the room. Tiff was hit and went down as Sandy dived to the floor. The gunfire stopped as a man walked in. He was wearing a blood red priests robe covered in pictures of eyes and creepy looking mouths. He surveyed the room and then walked over to Tiff who was writhing on the ground, clutching at her gunshot wound. He raised his gun and pointed it to her... The real her and a bunch of other guns. Well the silhouette's of guns appeared in the air around him. He didn't get to fire as I tackled him. The other guns vanished as I hit him and we both toppled to the floor. I got up first, but then felt the icy cold pain as a knife slipped into my back. The Scarecrow was behind me. I dropped to my knees and The man stood up and then something bounced into the room. Then it exploded. It was a flashbang and I heard myself and a number of other people scream then the sound of a fist hitting flesh and lots and lots of gun shots. When the light cleared. The Scarecrow was lying on his side clutching his face and The Priest guy was firing multitudes of guns at a fleeing figure. I figured this might have been a good time to flee as well. I crawled over to Tiff and grabbed hold of her then yelled at Sandy to get back to base before travelling into Coda's domain with Tiff. We reappeared back at base.

I'm fine. The Knife didn't hit anything important, but I can't move very well... So maybe it did hit something important... I don't know... I don't feel paralyzed, I just have trouble making my legs go where I want them too...

Tiff was in worse shape. She had been shot in the gut and well... The Facet is doing what he can, but we don't have any doctors and I'm not sure we can bring Tiff to a hospital.

The person who saved us was Cerise. The guy with the multiple guns is Legion. She was hoping to capture him there, but failed. She claimed saving our lives was an unintended side effect. Sandy did show up back at the base shortly after Tiff and I did, btw in case any of you were worried.

Everything is coming up Faceless

Alright... so... I'm gonna start saying some nice things about people so to preface...


Coda you're still a douchebag who really should have warned us a bit more about what Sammy was before bringing him and saved us a lot of trouble. Ryan you still don't deserve a cool nickname and I still hate you...

That being said... Coda you were right. Sammy was definitely worth the grab and Ryan... As much as I hate you... You're surprisingly useful as well.

So, let's go over what happened.

First of all. We have a new... friend? Sort of...

We've had Sammy monitoring all electronic communications in the area for any mention of us, this area, The Archangel or The Convocation and we managed to find out a few things.

First of all we found The Proxy. She was communicating with someone else and told us exactly where she was hiding.

Second we also found out exactly what we're up against. Partially from Sammy and Partially from The Proxy.

So, anyway. We got the proxy's location and we went to go meet her. Unfortunately she spotted us and managed to disappear. It wasn't long before Sammy got us her new location as she informed her boss that her old location was compromised. This time Ryan had an idea. See... There wasn't much way we could capture her without her just pathing out, unless we managed to make her unable to path out. Ryan despite his ill fated time as a drug dealer does know a lot about chemicals... Especially the various chemicals that can be used to make you feel super good and stuff. He also knows a lot about how illegal drug activity works and was able to get a supply fairly quickly. Long story short... We managed to sneak up on her this time and drug her so she couldn't path out. We kept her drugged until we got her back to base where The Facet took over her body so he could keep her from escaping. Then we just waited for her to return to her senses so we could talk.

That took a bit, but she did eventually sober up and we managed to talk to her.

First things first... She gave her name as Cerise En Folie. Which is french... I don't know for what and I don't care, but I assume it's a fake name. Doesn't matter.

Second she is not our enemy... Or ally.

As she explained it. She's not here to help us or hinder us, she's just here to piss off The Archangel. Her master... The Other Faceless Bastard sent her hear to capture The Archangel Servant overseeing the operation. A guy called Legion. Which by the way congrats on the atypical name.

I mean Archangel Servants who take nicknames are usually Biblical references or angels and yeah it is a biblical reference, but usually their references to the "good guys" and this guy just names himself after one of the most famous biblical demons... Cool.

Anyway she was very clear that she was here to capture him not kill him. Her master didn't want The Archangel to get him. He wanted him captured and kept alive, but useless. Somewhere where his master won't get any use out of him whatsoever. Which... Damn... Faceless is feeling spiteful... Not sure what happened between the two of them, but as long as it's something we can use.

So, I told Cerise that we'd happily help her in her goal as it would serve our own interests as well. Of course if she doesn't want to work with us we could always kill her. She wisely agreed to the team up. The facet released her and she vanished. So, we have a friend and we know who's leading The Timberwolves and The Nests.

Good day.

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This is stupid...

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Woah! Woah calm the fuck down.

... Okay? You calm?

Yes

Oh that's going to be confusing... Just a second.

Okay much better. So, now that you've calmed down and stopped spamming everything let me ask you a few questions so I can answer yours.

O.K...

What's your name?

Sammy.

Wait... You mean the corpse we have rotting in the back room?

What? What do you mean Corpse?! Am I dead?!

Shit! Wait wait... Forget I said that. Don't worry I'll explain everything, just stay calm... What do you remember before... this?

I was in my bedroom... I was playing with my toys... My favourite toy is this mechanical clockwork spider... It... Began moving on it's own. Taking my other toys into it and growing larger. It was really cool and then it... opened some kind of hole in the wall of my room... I tried to follow it through and then... I can't feel my legs everything looks weird I don't know where I am!

Shh shh... Calm... I need you to stay calm. You're a thoughtborn. 

What is that?

It means you've been removed from your body. That toy of yours was something called The Manufactured Newborn... It's... I don't know anything about you... I don't know what kind of references I could make that you'd get... Um... It's like a... Fuck it You did a swear! It's like a monster. It grows larger and stronger by absorbing machinery and flesh and it absorbed you in a sense. It took your mind from your body and changed your mind into data. You exist now only on the internet. You don't have a body anymore.

How do I fix this?!

You don't unfortunately. I don't know if it's possible to fix this. However, I can tell you one thing. It's not all bad. You can go anywhere in the world in the blink of an eye, see everything on the internet and you can be very helpful to us. 

Helpful?

Yes... As long as you stay calm we can talk to you and we can help you out. We'll be friends okay?

Friends are good. I like having friends.

Good. In that case I'm going to put a little message for you somewhere private. It will have a link that you can use to access a private chat room. A friend of mine will be waiting there to talk to you further. Anytime you want to talk just go there and if you need to scream and shout put it there as well. Don't worry. We're here to help.

O.K. Um... Can you explain now what you meant about my corpse?

NO! Er my friend will explain that in the private chat room... Yeah

Okay...

You still here?

I'm still everywhere I think?

Right... 

This electronic Bullshit is getting tiring.

I couldn't post yesterday, because of this fucking ghost in the system. It's infected the entire area now. All electronic communication or audio devices is being overtaken by this shit and it's pissing me off. You might be wondering how I'm typing this.

Well... I'm typing this on a random computer an entire country away from headquarters. I realized that I'm an idiot and I can still domain travel. It's not entirely random. Coda controls where I go so, hopefully he'll let me go back home.

So... We need to figure out what's going on with this thoughtborn and I have kind of an idea. We'll put it into practice today. Other than that no news on The Scarecrow, but a follower of The Faceless Bastard has also been seen in the area.

Yes that Faceless Bastard. No I'm not letting that terrible joke go. We're trying to find this Proxy to find out what they're doing in this area.

Hopefully things will get better.

I'm writing this from inside a Starbucks

The electronics problem has gotten so bad that if I want to inform you fine folks of how things are going I have to leave the shelter of my little home and find somewhere else with free wi-fi since my roaming wi-fi is similarly corrupted... Probably won't be long before this Starbucks is corrupted too...

Which should be funny...

Anyway I am taking this big risk of heading outside the safety of headquarters to write up a blogpost to inform you of our new adversary.

I went out looking for him. Brought Tiff with me. We might have had to kill some people and I thought she'd enjoy that.

So, we snuck out of the base and started to skulk around. Tiff was a pretty natural Skulker... We found ourselves a Timberwolf. Well a group... About three. There was only one soon enough though.

I carry a gun with me now. It tends to be useful. Certainly was here. Dropped one with a chest shot before they'd spotted us and hit another in the leg causing them to collapse and by then I was closest enough to decapitate the third while she tried to raise her own gun. Tiff grabbed the one I hit in the leg, by the leg, and dragged him over to me.

He and I had a nice little talk. Occasionally punctuated with screams from his end and at one point Tiff pinning his hand to a wall with a knife when he tried to stab me with a hidden knife.

Anyway from him I learned about The Masked Crazy Person. He's a nest calling himself The Scarecrow. What little I heard about him says he's a complete psychopath who abuses his allies and greatly enjoys killing people and has a very dark sense of humour.

Sounds like a real dick.

Can't wait to meet him.

Anyway after I learned what I could I asked Tiff what she thought we should do to the guy. She simply slit his throat and left him to die.

Good answer.

Oh The Facet is trying his best to figure out what this electronics distortion is... Though we're both thinking the same thing... We don't know for sure, but we're both thinking we've got a Thoughtborn on our hands.

Things are going on...

Well two things... One is more weird and the other is more worrying.

The Weird one is technology is going haywire... Toby was listening to Music when apparently his speakers started to scream at him "Where am I? What have you done with me?" over and over again and that message has started appearing on the tv on websites and I've had to delete it about three times so far from this blogpost alone.

We're not entirely sure what it is, but it's not a major concern just yet. What is more of a concern is I might have bit off more than I could chew... There are birds outside. Like just everywhere. Timberwolves accompanied by Birds and also supsiciously scarred individuals and also sightings of a guy in a mask... Which fuck that guy. I'm the only person allowed a mask around here.

So, yeah seems the Convocation and Timberwolves are working together to try and find and take us out now...

Bit of a problem... Not a huge one, but we should be very careful about going out now in case anyone sees where we come out from or go back into. I mean I obviously am very aware of the bad things that could happen if a murderous masked man finds out where your headquarters are.

Let's introduce some new people.

We got three new people and I'm gonna let two of them tell their stories and the last one I'll have to explain

First up... Let's talk about our recently mentioned Toby.

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Hiya... I'm Toby... My... Er... My parents died... About 4 days ago... I don't know what's going on. The people here are scary. They want to erase everything. They won't let me leave. Help me.

Okay the scary guy in the mask is saying if I don't explain more he's gonna start cutting off my fingers... Um... Okay... Well I don't know why my parents were killed or who did it, but some people showed up at my house and shot my parents. I hid and the people couldn't find me. They found me, but didn't see me and just left. Then this woman shows up and tells me she's gonna help me... But then she killed a guy and now I'm stuck here with crazy people. I'd really like this not to be happening...

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Too bad... Also The Children are still living up to their title. I and The Facet... Assumedly? Are the only members older than 25. Sandy is 22, Ryan is 19, Toby is 14, Tiffany or Tiff as she apparently prefers is 15 and the newest one is 8.

So, anyway Tiff is one of the only people I like here so far and I'll let her explain why.

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My name is Tiffany, but as Sergei stated I prefer Tiff. According to the guy trying way too hard to be "Classy" I'm supposed to tell you my life story, but Sergei seems to only really want me to tell you guys one thing. I killed my parents. It was fun. I had a reason to do it. They were terrible people. Not to me I mean... They spoiled me actually, but they also kidnapped and murdered people for their "god". So, I did the same to them. The idea of erasing everything seems like a blast and it does seem like I'll get to "Erase" people in the more conventional sense before hand which is fun. I've only killed my parents, but I look forward to the opportunity to kill more people who deserve it. After all my parents taught me quite a bit and enjoyment of murder was one thing they... May not have intended to teach me, but I definitely learned.

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 Lastly we have... Sammy. He is the aforementioned 8 year old. He's... seemingly catatonic. From what I understand though he was in a hospital being kept alive and for some reason we were told to go get him before they decided keeping him alive wasn't worth it any longer... We... Er don't actually have the facilities to keep him alive here, so I'm unclear what the point of taking him out of the hospital was... He'll probably be dead in a short time. I mean Coda must have some reason for wanting him "saved" and brought here.

Coda, however has shown no interest in answering any further questions. So, yeah. Tiff is like The daughter... I actually did have, but this one doesn't hate me and has not yet tried to kill me. She also seems to really like me... Not often I've had people like me.

Updates

So... Not much has happened. We got a few new people now. I'll have them post up their info soon and hopefully they'll be better than Ryan. As well I've been killing people. Which is always fun. The Archangel's Dogs are still looking for me and I've let them figure out my general area. They don't know exactly where we are, but by letting them know my general location I've made it so if I feel like killing someone I don't need to go very far. It's a pretty big area so they haven't been able to focus themselves in any one place meaning there are lots of stragglers and small groups I can take out at my leisure.

Oh and Sandy killed her first person today. Congratulations Sandy.

She was out on a collection mission and came back with the new guy. His name is Toby. Again he'll tell you about himself I'm sure, but anyway on the way back she ran into a Timberwolf who apparently knew she worked for me. He tried to attack her and Toby. The Facet had given her a weapon. An easily concealable knife. He actually provided weapons for everyone, but me since I got my own. Anyway she was attacked. The guy didn't know how to deal with the defense mechanism, but he wasn't going to stop trying. She managed to catch hold of him and tried to get him to back down, but being an Archangel cultist he obviously refused. Also now that she was physically holding him he knew at the very least where her hand was and he managed to get his own knife into her arm.

Apparently being stabbed in the arm was enough to make her panic, but instead of panicking and fleeing, she panicked and stabbed him about 3 times in the throat and then after he dropped ran back to our little home.

She doesn't seem as thrilled about her first kill as I am.

So, I might have done something stupid.

I was getting bored with management duty and I decided to go blow off some steam... So I went and slaughtered a church...

Now before anyone panics, as much as I would have no qualms about slaughtering a church of innocent god fearing civilians these were Archangel servants. Not the militant kind like my good buddy over at Halo Break, but more passive let's wait for The Archangel to claim us kind.I know that this probably didn't upset The Archangel at all really... Just made him stronger actually, but it made me feel better regardless... Unfortunately now The more militant side in the area is actively trying to find me and exact revenge. Not likely to happen, but it was still probably not the brightest idea to make an enemy while I'm still working on gathering new recruits.

So, no worries I'll be fine probably, but we might have to move once Sandy, Ryan and The Facet get back from their respective jobs.

Speaking of note to self... If I intend to fight The Archangel and The Convocation I should probably start gathering incendiary weaponry again...

God I hate using Fire Weapons... Fire makes me feel so... uncomfortable...

Ryan here

Name's Ryan. So, I'm part of this Children of Nothing Cult now. Which means I get magic powers and stuff! It's pretty awesome... I mean a couple of days ago the only thing I had to look forward to was getting shot dead, but now I've got magical powers.

Too bad the boss won't let me have a cool nickname... I mean he gets to be called The faceless Bastard and the other guy gets to be called The Facet, but I don't get a nickname? Although I guess the girl is just called Sandy apparently...

Whatever even without a cool name this is still awesome... I was told I should talk about myself... Specifically why I want to have the world be erased... Well... Er I don't really... I mean I don't mind... Don't really care one way in the other, but it was either that or death... see... I kind of maybe sort of dealt drugs... and I might have sort of... sold not so real drugs? Like there'd be a bit of the real thing in there, but also lots of cheap shit so I could sell more of the stuff... It was pretty sweet. I'd sell like a bag full of like a quarter of cocaine and like 3 quarters sugar and make a ton of money, but um people don't like that. See they don't like being ripped off and normally I'd get the fuck out after making a sale, but... Er apparently one of my buyers this time was a big shot of sorts and he caught me trying to leave town. He was gonna have me killed, but The cult guys or I guess the god of the cult he protected me. No one could see me and I was able to get out of the guys place somehow... I don't quite know how... I didn't know the way out, but I like ran and I think I got pulled into a mirror or something and then emerged back at my house where Sandy found me and then she brought me to this place.

I owe these guys my life and I never much liked this world anyway so who cares what they're gonna do with it.

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Okay... So that was Ryan... The World's dumbest Drug Dealer... Alright Coda why the fuck did we need this guy?

I mean the original Children had a couple of losers, but at least most of them weren't complete screw ups and we get Sandy and this guy? This is to punish me isn't it? For killing the original Children right?

Whatever... Next person better be good...

What am I even doing with my life now?

Okay... I slept a bit longer than I intended to, but at least my injuries are healing nicely...

I may have slept almost a whole day...  Possibly a whole day... Stuff happened while I was asleep though.

For one thing Sandy returned with a new recruit... His name is Ryan... The moment he found out he was being essentially conscripted into a supernatural cult, however he wanted to be called Shadow... We're calling him Ryan. I mean technically I suppose he should be called 2, but fuck that shit...

I'll probably get him to write up a post or something... The Facet still has access to the Children's Blog, but I don't really want to use it so, I guess unless I want to figure out his deal and write it down myself, I'll have to let someone else post on my precious blog...

More importantly...

I talked to the voice in my head and got some answers... Kind of...

So, when I questioned the voice speaking to me about who it was, it ignored me at first and so I told it I know it's not The Quiet and that this is all some kind of scam at which point it responded.

"It's no scam... We are not the Quiet, but nothing we have said is untrue... We seek as well the coming of The Quiet and are doing what we can to bring forth it's arrival. The only falsehood has been our identity and perhaps we could tell you... We are The Choir, but not..." they answered.

"What does that mean?"

"The Choir is... Almost like a hivemind, like EAT or The Convocation, but not... We are more like The Dying Man... Part of one entity, but separated. Many minds making up one mass and mostly working together to achieve our goals, occasionally, however there is strife... We are a Rogue Choir Mind... Imagine if part of your conscious mind just suddenly decided to think it's own thoughts. That is what we are... If you wish to refer to us specifically... You may call us Coda. We feel that would be appropriate,"

"I don't know what that is so I'll just take you at your word... So, next question why?"

"Sorry?"

"Why do you want The Quiet to end this universe?"

"Because we are bored with it. This universe bores us and we wish it to end. We will remain and end with it and we will be alleviated of our boredom," it answered.

"Oh well... That's a reason I suppose,"

"Of course as you undoubtedly already know we are not the entirety of The Children's Benefactors... There are two others who work with us. We provide the illusions and the messages, the others provide the knowledge and the protections that keep The Children safe and working. Though you yourself succeeded in circumventing our protection once,"

"Oh right that's a good point... Why the hell did you want me dead? If you're the one giving the orders then you were the one who ordered my 'erasure'"

"We... Regret that-"

"-Because it turned out bad?"

"Yes, we figured you for a threat... That eventually your masters would send you after us either way so we sought to eliminate you first... It was a poor decision... We should have approached it more... Intelligently... Had we known what your daughter knew about your past we would have sent her and your son more diplomatically..."

"Probably still wouldn't have worked,"

"You are correct... They hated you and wanted you dead,"

"Not what I was thinking, but yeah that too..."

"Are you satisfied with our answers for now?"

"I suppose so... Although I would like to point out... We are not friends... We are allies, because I can't currently kill you, but you tried to have me killed and you bear responsibility for all that has happened to me since that decision, but luckily for you... I hate The Convocation and That pompous Archangel asshole even more. So, we're allies and I will help you bring the Quiet and end this worthless universe,"

"That is an acceptable arrangement," it said and then I woke up... That entire conversation having happened in a dream in which I thought I had already been awake. I'm fairly sure the conversation was real though... Probably... Anyway not much else to say and I need to go have a talk with The Facet about some things... Nothing important, just talk about future plans and stuff..."

The first day of the rest of my life...

So, still healing up...

I'm in charge of The Children now which means all three of us plus one guy who's imprisoned somewhere. Cool... That might change though. The "Vast Emptiness That Brings Peace" is still trying to talk to me so I suppose I might start listening to it... It seems to want me to get more people anyway... So... I'm not really able to move much at the moment, but I sent Sandy out to check on one of the recent names I was given, meanwhile I decided I should try to learn what I can about this organization... So, I had a conversation with The Facet.

"So, this voice that talks to me isn't The Quiet," I told him.

"I know. I'm a Fear I'm aware of things you humans aren't,"

"You know who it is then?"

"Who they are you mean?"

"There's more than one?"

"Well yes in one way and then yes in another way,"

"As your leader I order you to not give me that vague bullshit..."

"I was never much for following orders... But I will say this... The Vast Emptiness is a group of beings... One of whom is itself a group of beings,"

"Oh... Are They Fears?"

"Yes..."

"Which ones?"

"You should have figured that out by now. You tell me?"

"... I was thinking The Choir was involved somehow... I mean I thought about The Rake, but he only whispers to people when they are asleep... At least I think,"

"You are correct..."

"It is The Choir?"

"No I meant about The Rake only talking to people in their sleep,"

"Oh... But it is The Choir right? I mean voices in my head telling me what to do seems like them?"

"Yes it does..."

"You're not going to be helpful at all are you?"

"Maybe try asking them directly?"

"Alright I will..."

"Good. Let me know what you find out,"

"I'll do that..."

I have not done either thing yet... The voices are... kind of creepy and I'm not entirely sure I want to try talking back to them... Not just yet anyway.

Oh and of course even though I've accepted the role of Zero I'm not fucking calling myself zero that's fucking stupid. I'm still The Faceless Bastard... Anyway I'm still suffering a number of injuries and I think I'm gonna take a rest...

And all endings must involve things... Probably... Or I guess sometimes a lack of things... I blew the cool poetic title on the build up post and realized I didn't have anything for this one, bite me...

So, I went and checked out this intruder and found Zero waiting for me... I'm not stupid. I knew what was up the moment I saw her. I approached cautiously.

"Great timing. Showing up while I'm in a cemetary... You need something, Archangel?"

Zero shook her head and simply remained standing there. I wasn't entirely sure what it wanted, but it's presence was unnerving.

I didn't have much more time to think about it as Nathan arrived. He was wearing the mask again. That strange chef's hat mask.

It occurred to me that I recognized that mask... When I had worked for The Convocation there had been talk of a Fear Mercenary. A servant not to one Fear, but almost all of them. Doing jobs for each of them as some sort of arbiter and blessed with power from each of his patrons... This was him... The Fear Arbiter. Well... That explained a lot... It might even explain The Archangel's presence.

The stories said that The archangel had never approved of The Arbiter's existence... There was supposed to be some animosity there... Had The Archangel come to watch the fight? Surely he could have done that without making his presence known... Was he going to get involved? His help would be useful, but I hoped not. I wanted to settle this myself. I approached Nathan and pointed my Machete at him.  He had been staring at The Archangel, but turned his attention back to me.

"You ready to end this? You ready to die on the ground that sits above your sister's corpse?" I asked. Pissing people off was always one of my favourite parts of fighting, but it was arguably stupid here. I mean the guy was, as he said, as pissed off as he'd ever be and could already crush me like a bug, so trying to make him angrier, was probably really really stupid. Regardless it didn't work anyway.

"Yes," he simply responded and then glanced at The Archangel again, "Who is that? A friend of yours?" he asked. I was a little shocked. It was strange to me that he couldn't tell The Archangel, though I guess he didn't know about Zero... He wasn't one of the children... He was just related to one of their members. So, seeing Zero didn't mean anything to him. This revelation did not, however, at the time present any advantage, so I simply shrugged.

"No friend of mine," I responded and then charged at him. I swung my machete and he sidestepped, hesitating just slightly, as he glanced between where I assume my copy was and then where I was before grabbing my head, pulling me forward and slamming his knee into my gut. There was probably a knack to fighting with the copies that I hadn't quite figured out. I coughed and then he stepped aside and slammed my face into a gravestone. I'm fairly sure I lost a couple of teeth and my nose was bleeding... It hurt...

He released me as I crumpled to my knees. Maybe this wasn't such a great plan... I was beginning to regret... Pretty much everything...

I managed to lift my head. He was waiting for me. Just standing there. The fight wasn't over yet. I stood up, using the gravestone to support me. I raised my machete again and slurred out a taunt.

"I thought you were tough, but that was like being savaged by a pillow," I responded... Blood dripping from my mouth and nose... One eye probably starting to swell up... Yep Sergei... You definitely showed him...

I think my mind might have shut down a bit at this point as I only vaguely remember the next few clashes, but he definitely broke the fingers of my left hand... Luckily I'm right handed... and if he hadn't snapped my machete in half and tossed both halfs away at some other point in the fight that might have been useful...

The next thing I remember clearly... Well through a haze of pain and blood at least, was being tossed at a gravestone which fell over. He was coming at me and I in desperation grabbed the gravestone with my right hand and flung it towards him... Dislocating my shoulder and sending it a measly and inneffectual foot through the air... He stared at me with something close to pity, before continuing towards me. I forced my arm back in to its socket. I mean it's not like the extra pain was going to slow me down much at this point and I would definitely need at least one working arm if I was going to survive this.

I scrambled through the cemetary desperate to find a weapon. He was leisurely following me. It was at this point that the thought had occurred to me and I yelled back at him.

"It's still daytime! We could have been doing this by moonlight, you lack any sense of drama you fuck!" I yelled. Luckily there weren't many people in the cemetary... Or any at this point... Probably anyone who might have seen the fighting had fled. There might have been cops on the way... I don't know... Man I was and am really pissed that he didn't wait until the moonlight...

Anyway while I was focused on this I tripped and fell and felt something cut into my skin... It was the top half of my machete. I grabbed it, the blade cut into my hand, but I held it tightly. He was still approaching.

An idea formed and I waited, pretending to be tired and unable to continue. Which... Not that far off of the truth honestly.

When he got close enough, I suddenly sprang stabbing the machete blade into his knee. He let out a sound more of surprise than pain and kicked me hard in the ribs. I'm fairly sure some of them cracked... Shattered more like... however, as he kicked me all his weight fell on the leg with my machete in it and it crumpled under him. The blade mangling his knee as he fell and I grabbed it and yanked it out stabbing it into his gut and pulling upwards, he let out a hiss of pain and grabbed hold of me even as his guts began spilling out and pulled me forward. I don't know what he was planning, but I pulled the machete blade out of his chest and stabbed it into his throat and he stopped. His eyes stared at me and he opened his mouth, but no sound came out and then I heard footsteps and an all too familiar click from behind me. I dived out of the way instinctively, crashing against a gravestone as the shotgun blast went by me and took off most of Nathan's face. He crumpled to the ground and I turned to see The Archangel approaching, it was no longer wearing Zero, but was now wearing 4. Nathan's sister. It leveled the gun at me.

"What... The Fuck?" I asked far too tired and beaten to deal with The Archangel's shit.

"Well... Let's see if I can explain it in a way you'll understand. I wanted him dead and everyone wants you dead. So, I thought I'd let you two kill each other and then claim the winner. Is that simple enough for you?" it asked and I simply glared at it.

"Dick move..." I said and it simply pointed the gun at me as it's form changed into that of my daughter.

"Not joining me in hell like I asked wasn't very nice either. Mom, Harold and I are waiting for you," it responded and my eyes narrowed.

"Fuck you... Archie" I responded and it pulled the trigger, but I was gone. I didn't want to have to do it... I had promised myself I would not flee into this strange domain during the fight with Nathan, but technically The Fight with Nathan had ended by that point so I feel justified. I exited the domain again somewhere random and yet someone was waiting for me there and the place wasn't... random at all... It was my old house... The one that burned down and waiting for me there were Sandy and The Facet.

I'm dictating this to The Facet who is typing for me. We're not at my house anymore. I left my laptop at the graveyard so, I'm using a new laptop The Facet lifted for me.

I've made my decision. I will lead The Children of Nothing on one condition. We have to find some way to fuck over The Convocation and The Archangel then we can bring The Quiet or whatever... It's not like I give a shit what happens to this world now.

To all things an ending...

But this will not be mine.

I had come to a conclusion... Without help or hope I would stand up to Nathan... I would fight him and I would win.

There would be no tricks here as it seemed Nathan had already worked out the defense mechanism seemingly given what happened at O'briens, so I would have no protection here... Nothing, but my wits, my strength and my skill.

That's all I ever needed.

The question now was where should we have our grand final battle.

I found the perfect place. Apparently Nathan's sister had been buried as an unknown since she didn't have any identification, but being the one who killed her... with a little difficulty I could find where she had been buried... I figured killing her brother on her grave would be fitting. So, I reused an old trick... The same one I used to call out The Facet... I left a bunch of notes around for Nathan telling him where to find me... I'm waiting at the grave now... I doubt he'll take long to show up...

There's a full moon tonight... Not by choice, but that is just perfect. If it was me I'd wait until night to show up so we could fight by moonlight, but I don't know if he has the same flair for the dramatic. Guess we'll find out... I brought a shovel so if anyone questions my loitering around I just tell them I'm on break... I killed the real gravedigger already so no chance of getting caught out...

Someone is here... It feels... Wrong... I don't think it's Nathan, but it's not someone normal... I'm gonna go check it out...

Alright, alright alright alrightalrightalright

Okay, so taking stock... The Facet is still alive and has sent me a nice little message. Not the one you may have seen in the comments another one.

It was delivered via phone call. Apparently he assumed I'd be more willing to listen and not try to kill him if he wasn't physically there... He was partially right. I still hung up on him about four times before he managed to inform me, 1 is also still alive. That I never even really came close to wiping out the Children entirely.

Honestly it made a lot of sense and I am surprised I didn't think about it before...

The Archive weren't going to kill him. I mean they might have at one point, but as the probably very soon only remaining member of a new type of servant with strange abilities they weren't just going to throw that away no matter how much they hated him personally.

They instead locked him away to experiment on and learn what they could about The Children.

So, yeah I never really managed to kill 9 or 1. That's 2 failures out of 13 possible.

Still pretty good, but a farcry from my initial goal of 100% success rate. Now you might be thinking I could always just go kill him at the archive, but that's not very likely. The Archive are very very good at dealing with hostile servants and the only advantage I'd have now is the same defense mechanism I personally told them how to get around, so no... I may be good, but I don't think I could kill my way through the entire Archive to kill 1... He's safer there than almost anywhere else in the world and that pisses me off.

So, at current the number of surviving Children is 4... Oh right... That was another thing. Sandy is one of The Children of Nothing now apparently... At least according to 9 and I confirmed she has the defense mechanism... Apparently I unintentionally made her part of it...


So, yeah Myself, begrudgingly, Sandy accidentally, 9 and 1 are the current membership of The Children of Nothing.

Also, you might be wondering why after finding this out I did not immediately kill Sandy...

Well I can't... Not that I'm physically incapable, but I don't want too... I mean it's not some personal attachment to her or anything, but I feel comfortable having her here... She's a tether linking me back to the times when things were simple and I ruled a neighbourhood with an iron fist.

So, I can't kill her... Not until I've returned my life to that at least...

Anyway... The point is... My vow is now completely impossible to perform... I don't think killing The Facet will actually be possible. My one shot to do so already failed me and it won't work again. 1 is outside my reach, I don't want to kill Sandy just yet at least and I'm certainly not killing me... So, considering the impossibility and the continued threat of Nathan... Why don't I accept The Facet's proposal...

Honestly I've thought about it... A few times now... It's kind of a win win... I'd get rid of Nathan, I'd be in charge of something I could rule with an iron fist again and it would really really piss off The Convocation. I mean I haven't had much time to think about it, but I hate them... I hate everything about them. They ruined my life. I've been too busy to really think about my revenge, but I'm thinking about it now. Pissing off The Convocation is top of my list now.

Anyway sorry right... So given all those benefits, why wouldn't I accept the proposal...

Well there's one con that balances against all those pros and tips the scale in the cons favour...

 and here it is...

 FUCK THAT ARROGANT PRICK IN HIS SMUG FACE! I am The Faceless Bastard. It doesn't matter who the enemy is I don't need some smarmy fuck to help me out. I'll kill Nathan with my own hands and then... MAYBE! MAYBE we'll talk about the future of The Children of Nothing.

Got it?

Good...

A Facetinating... Facetnating? Eh either one... I forgot how I was going to end this title...

The Facet was waiting for me at the expected place. O'Briens of course. I showed up and he was there. I recognized him immediately this time. He was wearing a black hoody with a 9 on it and a copy of my face mask. I arrived and sat in front of him.

"So, you decided to talk after-" he started and then I tried to stab him. I failed... I failed because Nathan punched me in the side of the head hard enough to knock me out of my chair and send me skidding across the room. I don't know when he showed up or how or whether The Facet had planned that (That would be unlikely right?), regardless Nathan was here and he paid no attention to the Facet as he began to approach me cracking his knuckles. I got up grabbed some slender proxy who was sitting near me and tossed him towards Nathan who caught him by the neck with one hand snapped it and tossed him away. Which was what I was hoping for. His friends were not happy about this and they attacked Nathan. It didn't go well for them of course, because Nathan is a god damn walking murder machine, but the distraction was all I needed. I was heading to the exit as the fight started in earnest, but then Nathan grabbed the back of my head and yanked me back and then froze. The Facet was behind him. Elsewhere people were fighting each other and we'd become less interesting.

Nathan was standing frozen in place and then he spoke.

"He's fighting me... Doing a surprisingly good job of it too... Remarkable. Still I could kill him. Right now. I could end this. I just need one thing from you..."

It was The Facet speaking of course.

"All I want from you is to forget your vows. Assume the role you have been given. Recreate The Children of Nothing and lead us," he said.

It was a simple request and Nathan would be dealt with. Obviously I told him to go fuck himself and he nodded and then Nathan was reaching for me again as The Facet stepped back. I ran out the doors and continued running for some time. I ran until I was sure Nathan wasn't still chasing me. Which meant I was running until I physically collapsed unable to continue. He didn't show up and kill me, so I rested there on the sidewalk for a while. Random people walked by giving me weird looks and someone I think called the cops, but I'd recovered enough by then to crawl back to my new temporary residence...

Journey to The West

Is a movie I have never seen. Nor do I intend to. So, it's been a bit... I was traveling via plane, because I don't want to risk going through the domain again.

Who knows where I'd end up. I brought Sandy with me...

Anyway I'm back in Canada. Nothing else of interest has happened just yet, but I'm sure it will.

Meanwhile I figured I'd tell you about a few things.

Some of you out there reading this or printing it out putting it in a blender and then injecting the liquid result into your eyeballs might have a care for fine details.

So, allow me to fill you in on some fine details. First of all...

Sandy. How has she been reacting to things... The answer. Surprisingly well. I don't know what happened to her after she was removed from my care the first time, but whatever it was has acclimated her to the supernatural quite quickly. She barely seemed confused when one minute we were at her house then a terrible void and then Germany. She acted like it was something normal. Also again apparently she knows German now, so that might be part of it. She says she doesn't remember what happened to her. Hopefully The Facet can answer that question as well.

 Also The Facet. I didn't leave my normal angry comment in response to his so you might not know exactly how I felt upon seeing he's still alive. I'll give you a hint... It was the reason I didn't leave a comment.

The fact that bastard is still alive had me so angry I could not formalize a rational response and instead immediately just dragged Sandy to the airport to get a ticket back home... Unfortunately the only flight was the day after so I spent some time impotently seething. Speaking of... I'm not going back there to hear him out or anything. I'm going back there to kill him. I know what you're thinking as well...

Nathan is probably still there and he will find me again if I do this. Don't care The Facet has to die. I am going to kill him.

Lastly for anyone wondering about logistics such as how did I get on the internet in Germany. Where did I get money for plane tickets and how was I possibly able to get past airport security?

The answer to all three is people died and if you continue being a nitpicky jerk you'll be one of them.

Anyway back home. I'm fairly sure I know where I'll be able to find The Facet. I'll be going to see him as soon as I finish having a nice rest. Jetlag is a bitch. 

Conversations with Things that don't exist...

So, there is so far no sign of Nathan. Which is good. As I said I had things to think about. Mostly what I had to think about was what just happened. I've never seen a completely blank domain. I mean I don't believe that was The Quiet's domain, because and this is going to sound weird... It existed.

Like I don't think that place was as blank as it felt. I feel like I was being lied too... I think The creature just didn't want me to know what Domain I was in... So, it's one of the Fears potentially? A fear pretending to be The Quiet for... What purpose? I mean It's not usually a great idea to try and figure out the motives of The Fears, but... This feels like a puzzle and I really want to figure it out. I feel like it's important especially since whoever this is is now trying to get me to do things for them. I kind of want to know what fear I am serving even if I am serving rather unwillingly.

Also Sandy speaks german apparently... Which is... Strange... I mean it's not impossible she's learned german at some point, but I've always assumed she was just kind of an idiot and that doesn't jive with the idea of someone who knows a second language... I mean I know two languages, but that is because I lived in two different countries... I know for a fact Sandy was born in Canada and her parents aren't German...

... I didn't research her or anything... The Convocation gave me a dossier on her when I was told to watch her and I read it when I was bored... Actually I don't have it anymore to check, but I'm fairly sure it didn't mention anything about her learning German either...

I'm not sure why I'm focusing on this... Oh right I know why... I'm trying not to think about my big problems...

I still have no answer to what to do to Nathan. I have The Children's Defense now, but I managed to figure that out and I'm sure Nathan won't take long to figure it out either and then it's only a minor advantage and also I'm frankly not entirely sure I can kill him. I am quite legitimately worried that stabbing him in the throat might just make him angrier...

Even that isn't my real problem. With all of this I haven't had much time to think about it in the proper terms since, but I still have a vow that demands I kill myself.

I can't forget that even as other things keep distracting me.

All of these questions will need an answer... Well maybe not the Sandy thing, but all the others will need answers.

I don't yet have an answer for any of them...

The vast Emptiness that... Failed to hide me from this crazy motherfucker!

So, Nathan has found me. I knew he would, but not this fast. Especially not with the whole Quiet thing.

I guess even a godly being who can hide from other godly beings couldn't fucking hide me from Nathan. Seriously Nathan... What the hell are you?! How do you do these things?! Anyway...

I was out getting food for myself and Sandy and I get home and find Nathan just sitting outside Sandy's house on a lawn chair. He's got a can of soda and waves to me as he drinks it. I thought about just running, but I'm The Faceless Bastard... With a Face... Still! I do not run. I do not run from anyone!

So, I approached.

"S'up?" I asked.

"Not much. I see your injuries have healed. That's good. Should make this more fun," he said and I had to ask.

"You loved your sister right?"

"Of course," he answers.

"So... What's with the laid back attitude... I mean it's cool and all. Scares the hell out of me, but you're not just here to kill me on a job or something. This is personal? Why aren't you all angry and wrathful? How can you be so calm and... Professional?"

He leaned forward and placed the can down. "I loved my sister more than anything in the world. She grounded me. Kept me human. Even as the world around us became less and less human she kept me sane. Now she's dead and with her all emotion is gone too. I'm going to kill you and it is personal, but I'm not angry at you. You're nothing. I'm going to kill you because she wanted me to kill you. Once you are dead I'll kill others. I will kill everyone. I will kill until I die. You aren't something important. You are just the designated target of the monster you created when you killed her," he explained.

Well that's... Uncomfortably familiar in a way. I think I might actually kind of like this guy. You now if he wasn't so fucking terrifying.

I nodded. "Fair enough..." I said and then he suddenly tossed the can at my head... and missed. The can sailed past my head about 2 feet off target and he looked as surprised and confused as I did.

Regardless the fight was on. I didn't have my weapons didn't have the birds anymore. I was not about to fight this guy in hand to hand. I wasn't even really sure what my first move should be and then he tackled the air.

Again he sailed right past me and it occurred to me I knew what was going on. It was The Children's defense mechanism... He couldn't see me anymore. He was seeing a decoy. I took advantage of this and ran into the house. Didn't want to waste time unlocking the door so I simply threw myself through the front window. Luckily the windows weren't like reinforced or anything. I should have grabbed my weapons, instead I ran to the basement. I heard the front door break as I ran into the basement grabbed Sandy and a thought occurred to me as he appeared at the top of the stairs. I needed to get Sandy out of here and I realized... I'm a servant again... I have powers... Does The Vast Emptiness have a Domain... and then we vanished.

We floated in darkness and then we were lying in an alleyway in a town I would later learn was in Germany. Apparently I had travelled us across the ocean... It probably won't take Nathan long to track me down. I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up within the next few hours.

Although that trip gave me some things to think about... Hopefully I'll have some time to think before he shows up.

Back in Bl- Well mostly beige I guess... My outfits aren't very stylish.

I mean I got kind of a grey hoody on and like beige or tan cargo pants I guess... My mask is white... My hair is like a dirty blond... Really nothing about my outfit or appearance is black...

I'm getting off topic. So, I've been busy for the last little while. First I got caught up in some dumbass game of life and Death where I needed to use my wits to survive and I know what you're thinking... Yes I have wits.

But anyway that happened and you can find it all here: The Dying Game

after that I spent some more time just... Relaxing... Letting my injuries heal. Hiding because Nathan is undoubtedly still after me and I am really really not ready to fight that guy again... But anyway my wounds are healed, I've found a pretty safe place to hole up and nothing of interest has happened... OH WAIT NO RIGHT SOMETHING OF INCREDIBLE INTEREST HAS HAPPENED!

I found Sandy... Oh right and The Quiet is talking to me... Or I guess I should say The Vast Emptiness That Brings Peace or whatever that insistent phrase The Children used was.

Jack said it wasn't actually The Quiet, but I don't know what else it might be. Not yet anyway. I have some potential theories, but I can't really be sure just yet.

Anyway it's telling me that as the last remaining member of The Children I am de facto taking Zero's place as it's messenger. I told it it could go fuck itself. It didn't seem to hear me. It continues telling me to do things and telling me about people to go recruit. I'm ignoring it, however one of the people it mentioned was Sandy. It told me where she was so I went and found her. She was so happy to see me. She practically cried tears of joy. She is again a proud resident of my basement... Although I guess it's not my basement... This time it's actually hers. Apparently she got herself a little house and it's now my base of operations and I'm being nice and letting her stay here under our previous arrangements. The house is protected by "The Quiet" so, the birds won't find me here and I doubt Nathan will either, but who knows with that guy.

Why did I kidnap Sandy again? I don't really know.

Familiarity in troubling times I guess? Feels good to have her around again. Feels almost like I can just close my eyes and be back in my old house in my neighbourhood before everything got all complicated... Anyway I should go feed her... Bye for now. 

So, been a little while.

I'm fine thanks for worrying. Well I mean I guess I'm not fine... My arm is broken along with various other superficial injuries. Also I'm in the hospital.

I may have made a slight miscalculation somewhere down the line...

I got my ass kicked. Badly. I am now in the hospital. Not by my choice and I would leave, except leaving will now be difficult. Let me explain.

So, I answer the door and I find some guy standing there. He looks pretty average. He's got short brown hair, basic green eyes, he's wearing a jacket zipped up, which is understandable it was a fairly chilly day, and he's wearing a pair of green cargo pants. He also had on a mask in the shape of a chef's mask. I open my mouth to ask him what he wants and he just punches me in the mouth. He broke five of my teeth. I swallowed three of them. Not a fun experience. I stagger back and he just wanders in. Now... I was staying in a house. Lovely house. The previous owners had good taste, before I killed them. Lots of statues and stuff and interesting decor. He picks up a statue of a woman by the door, made out of marble and smacks me with it shattering it and undoubtedly fracturing my jaw. I fall to the ground and he stops.

"Get up. Grab your machete. I'm going to kill you, but I don't want to kill you without a fight. I want to give you every opportunity to defend yourself and show you how absolutely screwed you are," he said and then just stood there. So, I got up made a big show of staggering over to a table to lean on it and slid a knife off of it, before turning and stabbing at him. He caught the knife in his fucking palm without flinching and punched me in the chest hard enough to literally launch me against the back wall of the living room.

It is at this point I decided I should probably get my machete. I also decided at this point that internal bleeding was cool and I should totally get me some of that. I staggered up the stairs with him following me at a slow gait. I ran into the bedroom and grabbed my machete. I also grabbed something else. He followed me in and I turned and slashed at him, he jumped back and as my swing completed its arc he lunged at me  and caught my elbow in one hand as his other hand slid forward in a smooth motion colliding with my left eye. I saw stars and then blood. He had taken out one of my eyes. It wasn't working. Terror gripped me. The terror of again being blind and broken. I slipped out the second thing I had grabbed.

With most of my enemies being nests as far as I was aware I had picked up some incendiary weaponry. I'm not a fan of fire of course, but you do what you have to. So, anyway what I had was an explosive. An incendiary explosive. He grinned at me. A good sign and I armed it and flung it towards him. He batted it out of the air with a casual slapping motion and it hit the wall and exploded filling the room with flames. Panic and stupidity made me decide now was a great time to get the fuck out of there and I managed to get up and toss myself towards the window. I fell and then hit the ground, luckily the family had not paved their backyard. It still hurt like hell, but the pain was somewhat mitigated by the intense pain throughout the rest of my body and it was still nowhere near as painful as being de-nested had been. I forced myself to my feet just in time to see him jump out of the window as well. His jacket was on fire, but that didn't seem to bother him. He landed on his feet and began to come towards me and I turned and fled as fast as I could. Half blind, mad with panic, bloody and screaming, I ran into the streets and apparently this attracted people's attention. The strange man, I'd never gotten a name, didn't seem willing to come after me so, I decided at that point to finally pass out and I woke up here at the hospital. Getting out is difficult as after they brought me to the hospital they found the bodies and tied me to the killings so, I don't have my machete, my body is pretty banged up and I have police watching me. Well watching my room. They aren't watching me specifically. Just making sure I don't leave. My non-broken arm is handcuffed to the hospital bed as well.

So, yeah pretty much stuck here. Apparently someone came to visit me earlier today, but was turned away by the police. So, at least I have some slight protection if that guy came back...

Oh... Do... Do you think that was 4's brother? He definitely wasn't a nest...

Contemplation of Death and a reason for existence...

So... Once again I find myself contemplating my imminent demise... This time at my own hands. I enjoy living so, much, but I made a vow and my death is the only way to complete said vow. What do I do?

Working for The Convocation gave me a reason to live and I've lost that... Killing The Children of Nothing gave me a reason to live and now doing that gives me a reason to die...

What the hell do I live for now?

Somebody just knocked at the door... I'm not used to people knocking at my door. The only people who could possibly want to see me right now all want me dead... Is it usual for people who want to kill you to politely knock first... Either way... shouldn't keep my next victim waiting.

So... This is a thing...

I don't know what drove me to such a suicidally dangerous idea, but... With nothing else to do I went to O'briens... I'm not a servant anymore, at least I thought I wasn't, but I'll get to that, so I was expecting trouble. The place was calm. No one recognized me. I guess when you're most notable feature is not having a face it's pretty easy to be unrecognizable by having one. I went up to the bar. There was a new bartender again. That in itself isn't weird. The Bartender at O'briens changes frequently for various reasons. He greeted me by name and offered me a beer and a handshake. His hand was wearing a glove... I took his hand and felt it the exact same texture as last time. It was him. He smiled, aware of my recognition and spoke.

"Name's Jack. If you want to know more about me ask around. You're sure to find something. You're not here to learn about me, however,"

"I didn't come here for anything..." I countered and he grinned.

"Didn't you? Well then consider yourself lucky, cause I'm going to answer the question you didn't come here to ask. What did I do to you? It's simple. I removed the birds and returned you to a human form, but I'm not stupid or cruel... Well Okay maybe cruel, but regardless, I knew The Convocation would simply track you down and kill you and that would make my help completely pointless. So I did a bit more. I turned you into a different kind of servant. One that doesn't exist anymore and one that The Birds can't find," he explained.

I felt the answer before he said it and I wanted to scream.

He looked at my face and grinned again, "That's right. I made you one of The Children of Nothing. The Birds can't see you or find you and with the rest of them wiped out you don't have to worry about being beholden to anyone. The Quiet never really talked to them anyway. All those voices The girl and The silent guy heard came from something else, but I don't like to spoil surprises and that one will be coming back for you,"

At the time I took in the words without really thinking about them. I am a member of The Children of Nothing now... That's why The Birds couldn't see me. Which meant... They still existed. My vow wasn't complete in order to complete my vow I had to die...

He was grinning at me again. He knew. He knew exactly what he did that rat bastard. He opened his mouth and I shoved my machete through it and out the back of his skull. He just stared at me raised his hand and waggled a finger in front of my face judgmentally before suddenly vanishing.

So, this is the worst thing that could possibly happen to me. I want to kill myself, but I don't. I'm too awesome to die, but I have to die. Damn you, Jack!

Oh I left shortly after. No one cared much that I had stabbed The Bartender. That kind of thing happens a lot. There were two people in the bar who kept giving me weird looks though.

If they're nests or something I'll probably have to kill some more people soon. That will be fun.

Things I did not miss about having a human body.

Greater physical needs, bleeding, exhaustion from overexertion and lastly diseases... Boy did I not miss that. Coupled with having a face again that means yay stuffed up sinuses and a horrid taste in the back of my throat. I feel like being attacked right now would be dangerous so, I've been doing my best to stay hidden and off the radar. Which means my goal of finding out about what happened to me is unfortunately taking a... sick day :D.

Did I just use a smiley? The fuck is wrong with me...

Anyway so I'm feeling sick and it sucks and I hate being human again.

At long last.

So, I finally found 4... Or I guess being fair she found me. She turned up at my temporary hideout and told me she was going to challenge me to a fight. It... Did not last long and did not go well for her.

It's a good thing killing young people doesn't bother me, because I've had to do it fairly frequently. I'm not sure if it's worth even describing the fight. I drew my machete and she rushed me and got the sole of my boot in the face. She went down like... Something that falls over easily I guess. She lay on the floor clutching her face, which was bleeding quite severely. I must have broken something. I decided mercy would be called for and knelt down, pushed her head back and stabbed my machete into her throat. She died soon after. Then I read the post on her blog.

Did... Did she think I'd be scared of this brother of hers?

Bring him on. I'll add him to the pile of people I've killed so far.

Anyway with The Children of Nothing finally out of the way I should probably start focusing on more important things... Like finding out who the hell turned me human again, why the birds can't see me and dealing with the fact that the birds are most definitely going to keep coming after me.

Nice full plate of stuff to do. Oh and I guess I'll be killing 4's brother at some point too assuming he even ever shows up.

In response to 3.

In your most recent post you asked me why I don't just leave you alone. As you pointed out I have far more important things to worry about.

Well the answer is... I made a vow. I vowed that I would wipe every last one of The Children of Nothing off of the face of the earth. Nothing will stop me from fulfilling that vow. Even if doing so would be stupid.

Which it is. I don't even really hate you. I mean I hated some of you, but you personally. I have nothing against you. I'm just going to kill you, because I said I would and I want to.

No hard feelings it's just entertainment.

Of course you won't be reading this. You are after all currently lying in front of me with both your arms broken begging for your life. Which is why I am reading this all out to you as I write it. Speaking of if you could stop yelling so loudly about mercy that would be great. You might miss something I say and then I'd have to repeat myself after breaking your jaw.

Ah good you shut up. Anyway yes. So... In answer to your question. I'm killing you, because I made a vow and because it amuses me.

Good answer?

... That was a question you're supposed to answer...

Ah a scream of pain. Good answer.


So... three is dead. Unfortunately 4 wasn't home. Which is a shame, but, I'll find her eventually. Don't you worry 4. You won't be forgotten.

The Dove

So, being human again is weird. I found 3 and 4 by accident which was cool, but then I got distracted by suddenly having to deal with an asshole. So, Oliver is more commonly known by the title, The Dove on account of having only doves inside of him. So, I am going to complete my mission against The Children of Nothing when suddenly a flock of doves pass overhead and then Oliver is there.

"Ollie..." I greeted him.

"Douchebag..." he responded.

"Here to kill me?" I asked.

"Of course. When I found out you'd gone rogue I volunteered for the job," he explained.

"So... You hate me. I get that. I did everything I could to be as big of a dick to you as I can. Hatred is the response I expected, but I got to ask, why the nice guy act?"

"Well... At first I thought The Birds thought you were a big deal so I just thought I should probably be nice to you, then I realized you were just a huge prick and thought I'd be the better man and that maybe you'd realize what an ass you are... Then finally I just decided it wasn't worth it since killing you wasn't an option. Now however it is,"

"You know what... That's cool. I respect that. Let's fight. I'll try to kill you and you try to kill me. First though I have a deal for you. I will go to an atm and get out a bunch of money and if you kill me you can take that money and consider it payback for the windows. Sound fair?"

"Yeah... No I'm just going to kill you now,"

"Alright fine," I responded and took out my machete. Many of you are probably thinking I'm an idiot for continuing to use my machete when I am fighting a nest. As a former nest I should be well aware of the idiocy of fighting nests with bladed weapons. In answer to that... Well you're right. This was stupid and I probably should be dead. I'm not though, obviously.

See, the moment the fight started The Dove's er... Doves rushed back in to attack and... Nothing. They began to circle and I heard him cry out. "What do you mean you can't see him?! He's right there!"

I didn't bother to question it and just rushed him slashing with my machete. He dodged back and I pressed the attack. Poor little Oliver. He relies too much on the birds. Most of the Nests do. Of course Oliver again had to show off that he's smarter than me. He started to flee and I heard him scream, "Just hit the whole place!" I chased after him as lightning bolts began to hit all around me. The air was electrified I could feel all the hair on my body starting to stand on end and I could taste... Well nothing actually. My sense of taste is pretty eroded. I could smell Ozone though and then I managed to body check him and knock him to the ground and I leapt onto him and stabbed him a couple of times as he tried desperately to knock me away and then I leapt off of him just as The birds did exactly as I expected them to do. Lightning arced down from the sky and struck him. He screamed as he was electrocuted. I didn't stay for long to see what happened. They would have realized I wasn't on him when they struck fairly quickly and I didn't want to be there when they decided to just destroy the entire area.

So... Oliver is probably dead and apparently The Birds can't see me. That's useful. Confusing, but useful. Unfortunately I don't know where 3 and 4 went so, back on that chase. It does make me wonder though. If The Birds couldn't see me how the hell did Oliver find me?