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.