un: klapbak

[clussy]

(Eddie had debated on whether or not to share this piece of information. But what the natives had said weighed on him heavily, and he felt like if he didn't and something were to happen...

He wasn't so sure he could live with that guilt.)

I asked one of the natives if bad things from our homes could come to this place. They said it was possible.

maybe some of you will think I'm crazy. Or the adults won't believe it. The adults in our town didn't believe anything and they didn't want to pay attention to what was happening. they didn't care about all the missing kids. I don't care if you believe it or not. some stuff exists whether or not people want to believe it does. me and my friends took care of it before and we'll do it again if we have to. we made that promise.

our town had this fucked up evil in it. and im not talking hellfire church-evil stuff either. I'm talking like...fear. real fear. maybe even the thing that made Fear

IT knew what you were afraid of. no, not your 'kind of' fears like thinking spiders are gross. i mean the kind of fears you dont even tell your best bud about. the kind of fears you don't even tell YOURSELF about cause the shame's so bad. IT knew you and IT fed off those fears. i guess it liked how kids tasted best when they died in terror

IT ate them too. im not saying it like sucked out their soul. no. IT would

(Eddie has to stop here. To breathe. To focus. He touches his own arm, closes his eyes, and counts.)

i cant explain how you'll know when you'll see IT
you'll feel
like you have to go towards something real bad, real scary
you'll know you shouldn't but you HAVE to...and maybe you'll be lucky like we were
like i was. and be able to get away when the fear gets bad enough.

IT takes the shape of a clown the most when ITS just existing normally. IT only changes when its hunting. IT can come through pictures or sinks or anything. i dont know what ITs limits even were

sometimes IT called ITself Pennywise the Dancing Clown. IT told me its name was Bob Gray when IT talked to me. And sometimes you could hear that carnival sorta music.Sometimes it'd lure you in with the smell of popcorn. IT sometimes had balloons. A lot of balloons. I don't know. It lived in the sewers and

I want to say we beat IT for good but we didn't. i'm not sure if IT can BE beaten.

I dont know if IT'll ever show up here
but don't trust things to be what they seem. don't.

and maybe realize the monsters you know might come here too. please be careful.

Comments

un:@kyouken

[justbeingknife]

Jesus. That was some fuckin' secret you were holding onto.

You all right? Need me to come over?

[clussy]

i dont know if i'd call it a secret. its more like

you get used to keeping something inside of you for so long. but after learning for sure about that, it felt...selfish i guess to not let people know what they could be up against.

I'm
I don't know



wait. do you really believe me??

un: sol

[skyofreverie]

I believe you. I've been to enough worlds to know that terrible things exist and that they can show up here. Actually, I've seen it happen before.

Maybe IT comes here and maybe IT doesn't - maybe people believe IT exists or maybe they don't, but if IT does, you're not gonna be alone in fighting IT. There will be those who believe and we can deal with IT together.

So if IT does ever show up, you just say the word and you'll have people standing behind you. I guarantee that.

[clussy]

(By now, Eddie's met a few people who believed him when he told them. It never stops making him feel wildly relieved though anytime someone does.)

You have? What kind of monsters have you seen?


I don't want anyone else to die because of IT. The worst part is its not so simple, you know? ITs so good at hiding that IT would kill a bunch of people before we even realize ITs around.



although
we did notice this trend with IT
how IT would manifest after really violent tragedies or be involved near them. Maybe if we are cautious if anything like that happens

un: upsilon

[thatsruff]

do you think bad things that happened can come too?

things that aren't things.

sickness.

[clussy]

(That......is actually a really good question and one that makes Eddie shiver a little.)

I don't know. But I don't think it'd be impossible

Most sickness is from stuff like bacteria and if we're living here then so is bacteria, probably, and so...

I'd imagine all it'd take is for someone or something to come through with the strain of that sickness. Why? What sickness are you thinking of?

un: willthewise

[deadboywalking]

that's TERRIBLE. they said that kind of thing can come HERE?

[clussy]

They said they can't be sure. So it's a possibility.

Its okay. I can keep you safe.

(Or he'd die trying, anyway.)

un: liaison.laurel

[clarius]

[ sewers. lorem makes a note to ask some of the townsfolk if there were any open sewer entrances or the like. it wouldn't hurt to check around.

just in case. but that's for later. for now- ]

I believe you so there's another person willing to back up your claims. From what I gather, a lot of came from different worlds or places that are, in some way, extraordinary. Be it good or ill.

Can I ask how you and your friends tried to defeat that thing?

[clussy]

(That was something that the Losers Club would no doubt eventually look into themselves.......And likely without bothering to tell anyone. Kids these days.

Eddie doesn't recognize the username, but all the same, he's glad to hear he's believed. That's...sometimes half the battle.)


Yeah this isnt the first "other world" Ive been to thats kind of a nexus for all sorts of ...things I guess. Anything's possible 😓

It's
weird I'm not gonna lie. There was this turtle? kind of

But then we did this ritual thing where we focused on our belief and used it as a weapon.

(That...was really ambiguous, Eddie. But considering he didn't realize him or any of his friends even had any sort of abilities, it was impossible for him to properly describe.)

Sorry. I know that sounds dumb and kiddish. It's true though. And it went away for 27 or so years. I don't know if we managed to beat it the second time. I only saw a part of that.

(Again, he provides more questions than answers, probably.)

[iisupergirlii]

This sounds awful. Don't worry, though. I'll protect you from IT.

[or... Pennywise, or whatever all names this monster has. Geez, she's almost glad that Eddie and his friends have come to Reims instead, if they've had to face that. at least here, she can keep them safe.]

[clussy]

But what if you don't even notice IT? A lot of the adults...My one friend had blood explode all over her ENTIRE bathroom and her daddy didn't see it at all. You and the adults might not either.

(Eddie wants to believe in her, and to some degree, he does, but Lord knows it's not about that.

Truthfully, Eddie never wanted to go back home. The worst part was that IT wasn't even the scariest part of Derry for Eddie personally. But he wasn't about to delve so personally into his situation. Just enough to warn people.)

un: ruvik

[hyrr]

That must have been such a harrowing experience.

[ pls tell him more about this strange entity that can dig into your head and play with your fears and isn't at all reminiscent of anything nope nope ]

[clussy]

What does harrowing mean?

(Eddie's pretty sure that he knows what it means, but all the same, he's just twelve and hasn't been to a proper school since...Summer.

BUT HM YEAH certainly not a familiar concept at all.)

If it means shitty, then yeah. It was

ring ring, it's the shiny psychic hotline

[waystation]

( I saw your post.

You okay? )

hello yes you gave him a heart attack

[clussy]

(Jake!! You scared me.)

(Except Eddie's clearly not that upset here. Just. Gently startled. He wasn't expecting a voice in his head, okay. At least it was a nice voice in his head instead of...what normally was.

A few seconds pass.)

(I'm...fine. I just...I had this really bad nightmare the other night and I realized after- I should tell people. It felt selfish not to. I'm sorry if I worried you.)

un: nishizono

[nishizono]

[ there's a lot to be said about this post, but tetora keeps them to himself. rather: ]

you okay?

private

[clussy]

(It's...surprising, and yet, coming from Tetora, it somehow isn't. Tetora had always been oddly kind to Eddie, after all.)

I'm okay. I was having some really bad dreams lately. And I realized that it wouldn't be fair to people here if I kept this to myself. Especially cause there's a lot of kids here and IT goes after them the most. Kids are easy, you know? To scare and manipulate

Thanks for asking though.

un: luvblanc

[lowkeycrazy]

[That's a haunting thought... and not one Akechi hasn't had before. Of other things coming through that room that weren't so benevolent as the population that had arrived, using the term "benevolent" loosely. Creatures, monsters... if it could take others from all these different worlds, why couldn't it take their dangers as well?

And this sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Heh, well, not that their current situation was much better... and somehow he feels himself shiver out of empathy. A kid, far too young, put through far too much. He knows what that is like.]

Do you have powers where you're from? Supernatural abilities?

[clussy]

Are you asking if I have powers? Psh nah. I'm just a normal dumb kid. Pretty positive no one else has powers back home either unless you count the power of being a giant asshole.

(Which...is completely false. There was no real feasible way normal kids could bring down a literal embodiment of fear. But Eddie, and his friends, were all blissfully unaware of their quiet powers.

Their situation here might not be better, but in Eddie's humble opinion, he'd still rather be in this place than Derry, Maine.)

Do people have powers back in your home?

jjones

[underachievement]

[ Sounds like Tuesday. ]

How did you beat it?

[clussy]

(Eddie hesitates. Not really because it's something he wants to keep secret, but being so unaware of yourself made things complicated.

Besides, the answer was going to sound outrageous no matter how he worded it.)

There was this turtle and it let us know about a ritual we could do. It had a lot to do with us believing and when we did, we began to hurt it and eventually defeated it.

It comes back like, 27 or so years later but I dont know if we managed to beat it again
Or permanently.

un: nymeria

[list_maker]

I believe you. How did you fight it before? If it comes here, what can we do about it?

cw: particularly graphic child death

[clussy]

It's gonna sound really dumb but we did this ritual thing that basically made our belief a weapon and between the seven of us we crushed IT down. At least for a while- we stopped ITs ravaging early, I guess you could say.

I think maybe 7 is an important number too. I dont know why but I just
feel that it matters a lot that there was seven of us

(He forgets if there had been something more concrete there, but it felt right. It felt like there had to be seven. Or maybe...maybe he was wrong.)

dont trust adults with this entirely. I'm sorry if you are one and i know a lot of them seem to have good intentions, but this thing...i dont think IT could be seen the same way by adults as It was by kids. adults didnt seem to notice it most of the time.

We can keep track of deaths. ACTUALLY keep track of them. And watch out for really violent deaths (and i mean a grown man beating a six year old to death with a hammer violent- not just normal deaths, you know?). That seems to be a telltale

and if we thinks ITs around

(He has to stop typing. He takes in a shaking breath, shutting his eyes. Would he die again, he wonders?)

hope to fucking god the ritual works again, I guess. maybe better this time. maybe forever this time.

un: 5by5

[rockypath]

What was It? Some kind of demon or do you know? [Clearly she's an adult who believes you. But this is kind of her wheelhouse.]

[clussy]

I'm not positive. I might of once known but our memories go fuzzy when we leave Derry (our hometown). I don't know if thats ITs magic or derry irself or what but

I
think it was more than a demon
i think it was just. fear.
sorry. i dont know if that makes sense? It made the whole town poison though I think.

un: slothbaby

[morphogenia]

[She might have chalked this up to a bored kid pranking everyone except she knows this song. Her very first villain pulled this to a less horrific extent and got away with it for so long because people didn't care. Once again Kamala feels lucky. Sure, The Inventor was crazy, awful, and nearly killed a bunch of kids including her. At least he wasn't a literal monster. He could be put in jail or killed. What he's describing is a malevolent force of nature. She knows that she has to speak up here. No one should have to face monsters alone.]

I believe you. I'm sorry for whatever it's worth. I know what it's like to have to face someone who is stealing other kids and preying on their fear. It's terrifying to have that many lives in your hands so you won't do it with just you and your friends.

If IT comes here, I promise I'll fight with you no matter how scary it gets.

[clussy]

(Her apology is worth more than she probably realizes. Eddie has spent the entirety of his life feeling like this was just how things went. You lived in awful places with awful people and awful monsters and that was that. And in a place like that? No one offered their condolences. No one. There was a reason the Losers had held so tightly onto one another when they found each other.

So his response, though simple, is more genuine than can be properly translated through text. These people believing him, and offering their sympathy? It made Eddie feel..grateful. It made him feel a little less crazy. Being validated was a very empowering feeling, and empowerment was a feeling very unknown to Eddie Kaspbrak. He'd only felt it a couple times in his short life.)

Thank you. It's worth a lot more than I know how to say, honestly.

I dont want more people to get killed or get hurt. Im not
rallying for an army or anything
i dont even think an army would stop IT
i just want people to be okay and safe.


IT can be horrifying. it's not just...fear. it's so much worse.

un: A2

[a2brutus]

If it ends up here you let me know and I'll make sure this IT regrets showing up.

[clussy]

(Eddie.......actually pauses here because you know what???)

I actually have no idea at all what itd do with an android? none.

do you have fears or like. Im sorry if its rude to ask but do you have emotions like people?

un: wyman

[whists]

[Well. Thankfully all of her evils are humans.

But also she's maybe thinking don't use any powers around traumatized children.]

IT sounds like it's specifically designed to hunt children.

[clussy]

(It wouldn't be the worst thing. At least as long as Eddie could see where the powers were coming from to begin with.)

i think we were ITs favorite thing to eat. kids are easy to manipulate and mess with, and IT knew that.
maybe IT was just taking advantage
adults do that all the time too.