Afterward

[crossmyheartandhope]

Who: HSS and visitors
Where: HSS dorms
When: Day 169

[So that was a thing that happened,]

Comments

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Well. He is probably not going to be answering the door the rest of the night, but this one is probably right after they get home, and this one he's waiting for.]

[Without opening the door:]

Intensity?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. It's me.

We can make this quick.

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He opens the door.]

Hey. C'mon in.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Enters and shuts the door behind him.]

Shall we go to your room or will the common room suffice?

[crossmyheartandhope]

I mean. You guys've, like. Seen most of it anyway, right?

[Someone sure did tell him.]

[His fingernails are digging into his palms, hard.]

Here's - here's fine.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. We saw a good portion of it.

So I'm more interested in how they were able to grab you.

[crossmyheartandhope]

It was dumb. It was - a dumb trap.

I shoulda known better.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'm not here to judge you.

I'm just interested in learning their methods.

[crossmyheartandhope]

...I got this text.

And, like. It was anon, but it was kinda, like - written like it was from someone I know?

It said, I got a surprise to show you, meet me at the theater. So I figured - I figured it was just someone messing around.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

...

Can I see the text?

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He hesitates, then hands his phone over.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

...

[Oh]

And what happened when you went to the theater?

[crossmyheartandhope]

The text said they were in the main theater, so we went inside, to the main theater.

Nem came with. She figured I was gonna get pied in the face or something, she was - she was gonna take pics.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Obviously it wasn't who you thought it was.

[crossmyheartandhope]

...yeah. We didn't see no one at all.

Something just kinda - tugged on the back of my shirt? As soon as we stepped inside. And then we were falling, and when we stopped falling we were in that place, and we were, like.

W-we were like. Tied up.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Can you describe what everything looked like? Before you entered that room.

[crossmyheartandhope]

In - the theater, you mean?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. When you felt the tug. Before you started falling.

[crossmyheartandhope]

I mean. The lobby and stuff all looked normal? There's all those tiled floors, and those red chairs and stuff. You been there, right?

But we went into the main theater, and it was dark when we stepped in. I kinda thought maybe there was a movie getting ready to start, that's how dark it was.

And then it stopped being that kinda dark, and started being some other kinda dark, instead. And then we were just... there.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[He nods]

And Goat Man. Did he introduce himself? Give an affiliation?

[crossmyheartandhope]

We asked. All he'd say was he wanted to keep his identity a surprise.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Of course he did.

Anything else of note? If not, I'll return you back to your unit.

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Shakes his head.]

All we know for sure is, he was real tall, he wasn't super strong, and he was definitely a dude.

Figure it probly wasn't Azzy or one of the bigwigs, cause why would they bother hiding?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And you think he was hiding his identity? Not just a demon we've never encountered before.

[crossmyheartandhope]

I mean... it coulda been either? Or... or both, I guess.

It looked like there mighta been a face under the skull, but it was too shadowy to see nothing. Maybe hell got into playing dress up after the masque ball got aired or something, I dunno.