LOG TIMESTAMP: 20251117 AUTHOR: Roz’berry Bioluminescence Natasherd Clover Way LOG SUBJECT: Girls & Gophers & Mazes & Moles // i have decided to encrypt part of this log to prevent unauthorized access. i trust that those who know where to look will listen to the unauthorized party’s voice, come to the same conclusion as me, and correctly piece together the eight-character passphrase. if the person i’m protecting it from guesses the name of the game, it’s proof she hasn’t changed at all, which means i’m fucking right. Jyvvvahttfn, M dbgm ahusit mhm cc xfkor’k fdk koom oy ptglok li weml o lwwjvzam ujypgy dwmzcc sly cpf mbecs hxsg. X xyvizzn usly dxgjai tviev etig ph mgatxylf, umn ptghfxfnac koom ouh xfv anub is rzy -- tfx pjklf B ouh xyl cgds drv ucm li eejz okgoch kos vgacmkvvtrughfbg Igiq avigbly ambl o ymwzmen phlnai fm dhamdrvk kbfy, X’q evh tl uap jbfijchiu ds’ow vtie jcfhldqzzsw. Kibi fm cnj nted tsftygw rys vslgczuu mzybwvsjxk ltwgvblavac, ulqbvcck noom li trxhux ocil, noom fii xf lbzsat azav, xlw. Qyk avxf nwiil’g mzihi koom zuki whzewh xrkv ghey zmek cy jyamxpcnk iqwvzgbgh lmko haw gpdv ds’kw hdx vcsg shpppgwgy, ig eil gh sxsmtasw li evrpgx shs ekasglcdr koom lbtc’il zxlnxrx twggnpyiz wg lbt primkahil ilbtey ilvt ogv wdqgssmwfn gfyfnhn ilv cskq jjvgvgx gz ilvpf egah. M’ml vxsls lvy jhawt gyhbzw. C’b ewyobv. C’b kfpbz li bebl o ega dr ylf, B lbxrb, isvsohi tvfkmjimfu haam xrklblw gteez wm’k xxwkpbvlfn tfzgbtft wyl’g kajt jfy wlgfpxzvb tfx gigsovwgtrk. Kf. Uslise, pt rgo girk haam, nsl rbho C’b vznvm. Qij oevk mzch mj dvtl htiuz hh ty ssel. W vslt -- fla W pshi xf mwgv nwi khfzwn pru nc aggt qfys mzuc M nhbm li eprf bbuy pru mfbwhspp dwmz nwi ghwk gz sydiolkyh xyhh tjy vszuu mg qppb ywzzn xrkv o mjue eek uxl oh ecs gmmwz lvys ygl vsfk. Rhf’n uytr ax gptv ipual ui xyl tbfchl cpbx!! In less harrowing news, my teammates have reported that because they’ve been accessing so many mazes they have more leads for us on the EyeKiller, “Wanda,” the “Flower Girl,” and even the Closer. Concerning dreams aside, my fellow ontonauts’ insight on these individuals is welcome, as I refuse to delve myself into the Gopher Maze, the Bathroom Maze, or any other Fucked Up Maze That Wants Me To Stay Forever. I have the willpower of ten thousand annoying-ass stuck-up assholes, but I’m not tempting fate until I’m the only one left. Profile updates below. I’m rewriting some of them entirely, so I’ll color those red. |
[ SIDE Z: IMMATERIA ] | ||
“The Closer” ORIGIN: ? I don’t know where the Closer is from, but I know who she brought with her: the EyeKiller, formerly from a Yu-Gi-Oh origin unless I’m barking up a very wrong tree. She provided marketing copy for Zampanio when it was a fledgling little copyright infringement project from EyeDol Games. She seemed willing to do whatever was necessary to secure the game’s success, and now continues to use her business acumen as a shopkeeper somehow associated with the army of chatbots EyeDol calls a customer service team these days. Apparently, the team found her in the Bathroom Maze, and heard tapes with her voice in the East Maze. She appears to have some kind of future sight, allowing her to steal media from the future -- and to commit such blatant fraud that her company was investigated for insider trading. Nice going. | “Truth” ORIGIN: Kind Of Everywhere The red text. NotASpiral. Something that talks to us whenever we pop open the inspection windows on the interface we’re using, and something that thinks acknowledging they’re fakey fake narrative bullshit will make them the smartest entity around. Obsessed with spreading Zampanio, which begs the question of a connection with The Closer. Also runs a roguelike with their girlfriend, who’s a whole can of worms. I think we’ve seen all of it? Maybe? Active mysteries: Is it possible to trace the origin of Truth? How’d they meet Alt, anyway? | “Alt” ORIGIN: ???? A fucking mimic. I hate it here. I hate it here. We’re chasing a psychic mimic, and here we are dealing with another mimic who’s both a prankster and a flirt. And one that’s somehow really put the charm on Truth, despite the fact that she’s scooping people out of the maze to make them click on meat for a really long time before they realize they’ve already seen every type of room. Blah, blah, blah. There’s a story with “the truth about her” and how she shapeshifted into the maze-form she takes sometimes. What I’m wondering, though… Active mysteries: Where else is she? Is it possible to stumble across her in more spots? How can I tell when she’s mimicking JR? UPDATE: Appears to come from a different source than Truth, meaning they must’ve met in the labyrinth. Huh. |
“Parker” ORIGIN: That One LobCorp Team A scaredy cat with a gun who really likes Hatsune Miku and seems to be traveling between worlds, like us. I’d write Parker off as utterly insignificant if not for the fact that the target definitely is going to want to use all those traits against us. Keeping an eye on this one. UPDATE: Seems to have some presence in the same narrative layer as us, because I heard that MikuFan from the RabbitSim gang refers to him directly as someone in the real world that can disappear streamers who are mean to him. I wonder what the connection between him and MikuFan is? | “The Eye Killer” ORIGIN: Yu-Gi-Oh?? So, there’s a few versions of the Killer -- the ones we’re most interested in are the ones that is a cultist and the one that’s no longer a cultist. Both of them seem connected to two different cults, one of which involves Harvest. We arrived in early November, so we just missed Harvest’s deal -- guess we’ll have to wait a while to investigate Lavinraca. But we did find some chatlogs with the cult leader herself, Camellia(?), in the middle of a text-adventure game that we’ll definitely need to delve further into. BB says late at night Zampanio starts giving her the answers to all sorts of questions once she’s too tired to write down where she got them. So stuff goes missing, of course. Great work. | “NotAMinotaur” ORIGIN: Homestuck Or Discord Or Something An old roleplay character that turned into a Discord bot spreading philosophical this-and-that. Active mysteries: If NAM’s a different entity from the Minotaur from that one magazine cover, who is that? Why the specific denial, too? |
[ SIDE E: MATERIA] | ||
“JR” AMBINARRATIVELY ENTANGLED jadedResearcher justifiedRecursion There are two JRs. I’ve seen references to both around -- and maybe there’s more, because I don’t know which one the Homestuck one is. Regardless, they have attics, commentary, eyes, and they’re watching everything. They’re one part minotaur, one part the labyrinth itself, and one part almost a counterpart to Dr. Barton -- because both of them seem to only like to communicate through filenames and other secret places. I don’t trust them, and I definitely don’t trust the fact that BB seems to trust them so much. Multiple JRs means the target can fake being one, and if it had access to authorial abilities… that would fucking suck, basically. Now that I think of it, it’s probably a bad idea to make enemies with someone ambinarratively entangled -- you can beat the shit out of me or write me getting the shit beaten out of me. Or just make fun of me at multiple levels, and I don’t fuck with that. So I want to truce with you -- I know you read these -- but only if I can figure out exactly what you’re doing to our teammate. | Puppeteer of the Lost Writes their own story. Has a funny habit of changing descriptions of themselves for fun, albeit in temporary ways. UPDATE: This is not what I fucking wrote. These logs aren’t secure anymore, apparently, so that’s just great. I’ll try to find a good way to encrypt them -- and when I do, I’m not putting it here. Dr. Barton, please handle communicating whatever method I tell you to the team, okay? UPDATE 2: Seems extremely eager to help us, spending a great deal of time around us. I’m just curious who the Puppeteer’s puppeteering, if not us…? BB’s been… weirdly cagey about this, probably because of that “conflict of interest” I tried to write about before the Puppeteer’s entry got completely wiped. I think I still have a PDF of the original somewhere. Regardless… the Puppeteer of the Lost also supposedly was able to rescue the RabbitSim gang, or at least bring them all together in their worship of Zampanio or something? Honestly, I think we’re barking up the very wrong tree here. My advice is to stop accepting any help and fucking run. But nobody listens to me. | Void Caller of Spores Also a fucking awesome name. Hangs out with Ellie a lot, and she’s a big fan of the spores. Personally I don’t get it but maybe that’s just a meat thing? Seems to have an ongoing feud or rivalry or kismesis or something with Solder, and the two are always bickering over things like spores and bickering. Accidentally set in motion a series of events one time. UPDATE: Don’t worry about what events. I was being vague for BB’s sake. The point is the Void Caller’s alright. |
Medium^2 of Spiders You can get a squared title?? Huh. Anyway, this one’s some kind of ghost that haunts the server, eternally sentence-mixing everyone else’s messages. Sent a bunch of blank spaces one time so we’d be able to communicate. Mostly here because communicating through sentence-mixing makes you trivially easy to mimic, meaning I’m sure the target’s going to consider you a high-priority host. UPDATE: Gave us access to some kind of error log system. I don’t trust like that, because screens can surprise you and robots can turn on you, but apparently BB’s been poking around and getting a few answers. She’s using it to look for the target directly, which is smart -- it would cause errors. | crimsonDestroyer Marked, which is interesting, because so few Marked are still around. Has created a lot of universes and a lot of characters, which means a lot of names, which means a buffet for the target. Also really into rhythm games. | Anon of Corruption The reason I’m here. Encouraging. … A friend, even. With a name like that, though… Ha. No. I’m not stupid. Yeah, we can create for Zampanio. Wow, yippee, let’s feed the entity. Yeah, right. All of my creations are specifically tailored to finding the fucking target. Zampanio is a meaningless distraction and I don’t give a shit if you play it. |
Stenographer of Patterns Refers to two individuals -- one who notably uses spaces to separate out all punctuation. Helping us with our investigation of the EyeKiller, supposedly -- although those who prove too helpful might also make great targets. I wonder if I’m getting too paranoid? UPDATE: Knows a lot, and I mean a lot, about the tape player. Since I’ve been using it to gather information on JR and a few other major players, but I’ve run into a dead end, it might be time to poke BB for an update… | Jybidiskami sw Gofhucmf Avx Kijxy Vbmghpyk vt hml tbglrblcdr ylflwfu, Icswx TV Tpcpsgsgdvvk. Gaw'm qivu uxlnxrx pbvjypwzuueq iqwvzgxv qxxy ksowfdtzuu t oyqwzas ygl dyi mwgvcckj, "qill md av ooow u vsfk deswt xf hqvwmh imlfrlbxrx" -- hg bx ci'w evh ymwzmen cuncdyj zvx oucxj ac ewuz xyla mg DG eek oed nwi favxj qprulfxjm dj kos fstt. Wyl'g egmi xyl degn, hlv'z fbhy usi ysiduridlbm, shs M'u swdw nd swmwvauapp ysjmyhx kv Rk. Tugxfu hasn hlv is kwgdzvk tkgg ilv aste. C's pzrs mzui e cvh, tunjecsm. Umn umizh B fyth kv hxkn wii. IP, bx sdy'il fxsxxrx avbk -- cu cfb hrhys me ZIIWLWSK -- ph'l tyrelzs rgo rslsr'ow adxklb bfztgklr uq ucc zkst lbpx nhzdwx jt rur mgfs cfb wm ouh memsvlcdyj. Fcn'jy p pzhpbdcic, rur lg ch cfbf igxreja. CGLICELA-K hmn. | Todo when someone else catches my eyes. |