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It was silent, unlike the enormous tea party Matt had enjoyed this path was strangely quiet. No trees talked or whispered to one another gossiping about their day, there was also a rather large lacking of music that had been formerly playing. He found it rather strange, no doubt that the closer he grew forward the more likely he was visiting the end of the game. There were bushes with red roses, some dripping with their color onto the green grass yet no sign of any life. Matt continued onward his pace slow as if he had no interest in ever getting to the end. He had learned that the end was likely trouble, something more so of doom then what he wanted to deal with. Yet even with his drudging feet he eventually made it to the gates of the castle. If it had truly been a real iron gate it was no longer, its pars were now nothing more than thorns with their branches stretched out wanting to grasp the intruders.

Sliding past Matt continued, following the path down the stairways into the basement or more so a prison. The red light’s glow danced along the ground playing games with the shadows a silent hiss lingered in the air. Someone was there or something was there deep in the far back of the prison waiting for his presences. Cautiously he walked forward his eyes still trying to adjust to the light as he could feel his heart pounding in his chest.

A voice boomed with rage as it encouraged him to stay and lingered, his heart was almost jumping out of his chest as the scar ached in pain. Destruction, she said the red queen of the land as she invited herself to ask a few questions. Matt was hesitant to even answer, despite her words of unable to come free, he felt doubt lingering in his mind.

First, visitor, tell me about yourself. Your real self.

“Well my name is Matt, Mathias Jane Duffy, and yes for some strange reason my mother thought calling me by my middle name was such a cute idea for a boy. I was born in Virginia in a little city, I mean we had a Walmart and a small little mall but otherwise it wasn’t bad, I mean it wasn’t awesome but wasn’t great wither.” Matt paused trying to think of what else she would have any interest in hearing. There wasn’t entirely anything interesting in his life, no great, “well I went to school, high school and eventually college where I started my doctor’s program not that I finished it completely I ended up leaving and joining Deus for some reason…” The reason was still gone, he knew it had something to do with the photograph that was hanging on the wall but what it was still black in his mind. Like someone tore out the pages in his memory and then proceeded to read everything else and black out the other memories.

There was a reason, somewhere.


Next visitor, I want to hear about your journey.

“Well first I had this nightmare… it had a girl and in short terms she stabbed me in the chest and I turned up here in this place in the forest. I have these cute little ears and tail but otherwise I look like I usually do.” Matt replied as he started to take a seat on the floor. “I had to talk to a couple of trees, you know the bright colored ones that make you think your going to puke rainbow colors before being horribly attacked by some large dragon looking thing called a Jabberwocky. After that I found this really awesome tea party, granted I was like the size of a mouse literally but it had plenty of food to eat. Well, there were a few side effects like turning too small or even having all your clothes turned to pink but it was pretty tasty. Well… other than that you can guess the rest I showed up here.” Shrugging he started to look at the ground, there wasn’t much more to say nothing super thrilling really happened now that he thought about it so far everything had been a rather boring story to tell the queen.

Explain to me the world you live in. Not this one, the one your real bodies occupy.

“You mean the compound? Deus?” Matt asked before tapping his fingers along the ground rubbing the dust between them. “Its well… a compound. It has some apartments, training grounds, and a whole lot of science things that like a lab and a hospital wing. It has seasons somewhat, rainy, cold, sunny the normal sort of things. Oh.. it has a beach too if you like that sort of thing…” As he tried to even describe it was rather boring for sure, why would she even care about it? Maybe she was just sort of bored living in a cage forever. “Oh and there are hunters, lots some are ok most are well jerks for sure. One woman… or maybe her evil twin left this large hole in the middle of my chest. I’m sure I’ll die sooner than I want to but I guess I had a reason to.”

Have you ever been hurt by someone you love?

Shaking his head slowly he replied, “No… yes…. I don’t know honestly. I don’t know anymore it’s like this giant black hole missing in my memories. I know I hurt someone, or at least I think I did or at least that’s what she screams at me in my nightmares. “ What the hell was wrong with him? Why was even telling someone like her? What the hell did she even care?

“But I can’t truly tell if I was ever hurt other by someone that I love…”

What are you afraid of?

“The truth. The truth of everything that has happened and what I can’t remember.” His voice was filled with concern as tears started to form at the edge of his eyes. No, he didn’t want to start crying in front of the queen. “I know I did something wrong something I shouldn’t have forgotten but I did and I’m afraid to know the truth.”

Tell me a secret about yourself.

Ignoring the tears he started to laugh, a laugh that borderline hysteria, “I am pretty sure I have already told you my secret. Or at least what part I know of the secret that is for sure. I would honestly tell you if I knew it all, I really would but I can’t.” He kept laughing, even as his sides started to hurt he kept laughing. After a few minutes he finally started to calm down, “my secret sucks doesn’t it I can’t even remember it it sucks so much. I guess I could tell you something else like how I am afraid of girls at Deus but that is pretty stupid al in its own.”

What is it that you wish for the most?

Getting to his feet he started to grin at her, “That’s easy. To remember. To remember her and to remember why I am even here.”

Flyin'High was pinned in place by a powerful voice that commanded her to daty. She was asked a series of questions.

She was asked to explain her true self.
"Well my real name is Anthanae, but I go by Anthe. I am a arum demon who only sees bad things in the future. I am very depressed a lot of the times because of these visions. It plagues me that I can do almost nothing about this. I have a twin brother that is very kind, the opposite of me if you will. he is popular and happy all the time and I am envious of that. I am daughter of the leader of my clan, expected to be a right hand woman to some other leader and get married to preserve my family name. But really, i want to rule the clan as my brother seems to caring to do it."

She was asked about her journey.

"Well so far I have visited a wood where signs make no sense and trees talk. That was very interesting. Then i visited a mad tea party that also made no sense but was very fun at the same time."

She was asked to explain the world she lived in.

"Well I live in the world of Halloween. there are all different kinds of creatures that live there, all in different categories. We all coexist peacefully and harmonize in the harvesting of fear from the human world."

She was asked if she and been hurt.

"Yes yes I have. My brother has hurt me before by rejecting my company in the face of his friends. Not many times has he done this but enough that I feel betrayed. but I still forgive him every time."

She asks what she is afraid of.

"Oh that one is an easy question. I have been having a recurring vision where everything, everyone, every bit of what I know is set on fire by one man. I am afraid not of the vision, but of that man."

She is asked to tell a secret.

"I cry myself to sleep almost every night."

She is asked what she wishes for the most.

"To see one good vision, not all bad ones. One where life wins out an the darkness doesn't prevail."

She went when she told her to go.

+10 levels
+5 loot
+3 fragments

Rodnent had recovered the best he could between teacups and cakes and the strange parade of weddings and games. He was starting to feel a little better about himself when he realized he had to move on.

Down the table, back into the woods, and along a lonely, long, and winding path.

The Castle that lay at the end of that path made Rodney shiver. He didn't like the look of it at all. It was dark, and menacing, with deadly-looking thorns and everything was a bloody red color.

He steeled himself, and having difficulty even looking, entered. He kept looking at his feet, like he was in a haunted house. He didn't want to see, in case - he squeezed his eyes shut. Bodies, torture, gore, real pain and blood. No. No, he had to look.

There were cages, voices...

Stay.

He was quaking by the time he got to the end. and clutched his shirt, where his heart was hammering very fast.

She identified herself, and Rodnent felt the fear build. Destruction. Sealed away for now, but for how long...? He started as she asked who he was.

First, visitor, tell me about yourself. Your real self.
"I'm an artist," he explained softly, "I was born in Georgia. I worked a while for marble cutting company, and then for Jesse Sonheim. I'm, not very good with, stress. Not from work, but, emotionally...I think, everyone should be kind..."

Next visitor, I want to hear about your journey.
Rodnent seemed to shrink at this request. "I got lost in the Wood. There was a tree there, that someone had broken. It kept losing its glasses. I was, h-hurt, there, by something...but, eventually, I woke at the foot of a table, with many beautiful cakes. I turned into a rabbit, for a while. There were...there were a lot of happy people, at that table. Then I came here."

Explain to me the world you live in. Not this one, the one your real bodies occupy.
Rodnent thought on this. "It can be happy, or- people hurt each other, there. Sometimes, just emotionally, sometimes- it is, it's not all bad. I believe that we are Looked After, and protected, by the ones we love who aren't with us any more. There are good people."

Have you ever been hurt by someone you love?
"Yes," Rodnent answers, in barely a whisper. At how and when, he shakes his head, already feeling the heaviness of the question. "I'm, I'm easy to hurt," he said, "and I get so afraid..."

What are you afraid of?
"Being hurt," he replies, "that's...that's the whole of it. The feeling of being, hated, the targeted feeling of anger, and... that I might hurt...other people." He draws his arms close to himself.

Tell me a secret about yourself.
"I...I don't really want, to be married. To be with anyone, at all. I've- I'm sure, it can work, for some people, I've seen...I don't want it. I'm okay, alone."

What is it that you wish for the most?
"Peace," he says, "Comfort. For me, for others, I want those grieving to know that, things would be alright. That I would be alright. I know, who you are. I just want to live peacefully."

As she threatened to crumble and break the world, Rodnent did not feel very good about it at all.

+10 levels, +5 Loot Card, +4 fragments
My character's username: Rodnent
My character's level: 19
Character's HP: 30/30
Character's Job Class: Dormouse
Current party: none
Current Guild: none
Location: Tulgey Woods
Small IC description of character: Very pale, gloomy looking young man with medium-length hair and all-grey clothes. He has two wings, also grey, one feathery, one leathery, both a bit worn.
Character journal: Here!