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?

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]

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??

[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

[justbeingknife]

I gotta admit, if I was back home, I'd have a lot harder time swallowing it. But considering there's at least one robot

[ android ]

in the house and I got sucked into some kinda crazy monster France the other day, I'd say the believability bar's shifted.

Besides, I figured there was some shit you weren't sayin'.

un: upsilon

[thatsruff]

do you think bad things that happened can come too?

things that aren't things.

sickness.

[clussy]

(At least he's honest. Eddie had trouble believing some things too when he first discovered them- androids being one of them.)

You have robots in your house? Are they programs?


Yeah it's kind of a free for all as far as this shit goes huh.

I don't really think to go around telling this stuff to people honestly. who wants to listen to some dumb kid rave about a child-eating clown demon? \

besides. when we were talking, i was having trouble remembering stuff. see, i dont know if its ITS magic or something about Derry, but whenever we leave Derry, we lose a lot of our memories about this summer. so.

(Another complicated issue that Eddie doesn't know how to get into. Mostly because he doesn't fully understand it.)

you can come over.

[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?

[thatsruff]

madness. It takes units like mine and strips them of their rationality.

There are worse. My world died. The surface was not livable. Sickness was not usually healed. It was terminated.

[clussy]

that sounds a little like rabies except a lot worse if it managed to kill your world

How did you survive if it wasnt livable??

[skyofreverie]

None here yet but in the past there have been things called Noise which can inflict negative emotions on someone, Akuma who can physically hurt you, Skrulls who can shapeshift into anyone so they can hurt that person's friends. Zombies, zombies totally exist somewhere in all the worlds. Dinosaurs tried to eat me once. Ghosts, goblins, killer dolls, moving statue angels, and then you've got the ones that look like humans or some kind of animal.

[It's a lot. Though he doesn't expect most of those to show up.]

Most of those were brought in on purpose though to make me suffer so unless someone is really in charge of bringing us here then I don't expect to see them.

Maybe because we're all so aware of people dying with the Sound Eaters around, we'll notice when it happens if IT shows up.

I'll definitely be careful and on the look out for stuff like that. Hopefully this world is the same as some others I've been to and the day new people arrive will be the same. IT might come in later than other people but if IT comes in with the rest we might be able to catch IT.

[thatsruff]

The madness was on the last planet I jumped to. It came in a blood fog in the dark.

The Earth had a different sick. We lived below. I never saw its surface. It crept through in the water and the air and made everything sick. Sick things below were too risky.

If a unit got sick they were a threat. Anything with the sickness was sent through collapsing portals.

If you aren't useful, you don't go home. Resources won't be wasted if you never return.

[Two sore spots at once for the canine, still coming to terms with his abandonment on the blind planet with the blood fog.]

[justbeingknife]

Nah. That is, since he's a machine, I figure he's got a program -- a defective one.

I'm on my way.

But if you started rememberin' about IT, what's that mean? Is it just yer hometown that brings back those memories? Or is it 'cause IT lives there?

[ aka plz tell him if your memories are coming back because IT's coming back, thx ]

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.)

[clussy]

Is he the evil machine?

Okay.
Thanks. I'm sorry.

No. I don't really know why, but when we see each other again -me and my friends who fought it- we start remembering again. Like I said. I dont know if the magic is Derry or IT. But sometimes stuff is still foggy. I can't always remember great. So we write stuff down. I can show you what I mean when you get here.

(It does not occur to Eddie that the magic could be them.)

[clussy]

Jesus. That's almost like what Santa Claus has to deal with. I had no idea so many monsters existed. But I guess it makes sense. I suppose I should be lucky we only had the one.

I keep forgetting about that. What if no one brought us here? What if it's just some weird glitch that happens??

Maybe. IT is really smart. I would really hope so.

Thank you. I'd really hate seeing anyone dying here because of IT. Or in general. Yeah that happened to me on the world I was in last too. We might. IT can be sneaky. But I know it wouldn't like. Be able to imitate a human and act normally? You definitely realize somethings sick and wrong, you know? So I guess we can be relieved for that.

[clussy]

(There were....very few instances in which Eddie felt a greater fear than he did with IT. This might just be one of those times. He might have gotten better about his hypochondria in general, but God knows it still kept its home inside the back of his head.

And lord, this was a....horrifying world for Eddie to think of. It's enough for him to take in a small, wheezing breath.)

Jesus Teddy. Christ. That's.

I have no idea how I'd ever make it in a world like that. That's awful. I'm glad you're here where it.... seems safer.

I really hope that madness doesn't come here. I really, really hope.

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?

[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.]

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 ]

[justbeingknife]

Evil? Dunno about that, he might just be a tool. Spends most of the time in the garage.

[ Goddammit if he was living with an evil robot it'd just be Fucking. Great. ]

So then maybe Sora was right, and we should all be keepin' diaries. Didn't know you were keepin' a record.

[ Majima moved at a lope through the houses, accustomed by now to moving quickly and quietly. A glance or two at the device every now and then in case a response came in. When he arrived, there was only a brief follow-up: ]

I'm here.

ring ring, it's the shiny psychic hotline

[waystation]

( I saw your post.

You okay? )

un: nishizono

[nishizono]

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

you okay?

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?