Site-69 II: Part 5 (Outside)

Link to article: Site-69 II: Part 5 (Outside).

/* Disable Basalt responsive font size */
:root {
  --true-font-size: var(--base-font-size);
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#breadcrumbs a:any-link { color: inherit; opacity: 0.5; }

/* picker, pit version */

.footage-picker-section__title, .footage-picker-section__intro, .footage-picker__heading {
  display: none;
  color: #fff4;
}

.footage-picker {
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}
.footage-picker__link:nth-child(5) {
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  color: black;
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}

/* scroll detection - courtesy of scp-8822 */

@import url(https://croquembouche.net/scp/scp-8822/assertions-v1.css);

.controller { height: 1px !important }
.scout {
  height: 1em;
  width: 1px;
  border: none;
  transform: scaleY(50);
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  --pit-2560-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-2560-tiny.webp');
  --pit-1920: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-1920.webp');
  --pit-1920-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-1920-tiny.webp');
  --pit-1200: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-1200.webp');
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  --pit-800: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-800.webp');
  --pit-800-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-800-tiny.webp');
  --pit-480: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-480.webp');
  --pit-480-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-480-tiny.webp');
    --rope-2228: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-2228.webp');
    --rope-2228-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-2228-tiny.webp');
  --rope-1200: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-1200.webp');
  --rope-1200-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-1200-tiny.webp');
  --rope-800: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-800.webp');
  --rope-800-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-800-tiny.webp');
  --rope-480: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-480.webp');
  --rope-480-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-480-tiny.webp');

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  --bg-image-width: 480px;
  --rope-image-list: var(--rope-480), var(--rope-480-tiny);
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  background-color: black;
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  :root {
    --bg-image-list: var(--pit-800), var(--pit-800-tiny);
    --bg-image-width: 800px;
    --rope-image-list: var(--rope-800), var(--rope-800-tiny);
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@media (min-width: 800px) {
  :root {
    --bg-image-list: var(--pit-1200), var(--pit-1200-tiny);
    --bg-image-width: 1200px;
    --rope-image-list: var(--rope-1200), var(--rope-1200-tiny);
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@media (min-width: 1200px) {
  :root {
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  :root {
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  :root {
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  background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75);
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  box-shadow: 0 0.25em 2em rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
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  opacity: 1;
  animation: fade-in-but-fucked-up 7s ease-in -1.4s backwards;
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[[include :scp-wiki:theme:basalt darkmode=a | hidetitle=a]]
[[module css]]
/* Disable Basalt responsive font size */
:root {
  --true-font-size: var(--base-font-size);
}

#breadcrumbs a:any-link { color: inherit; opacity: 0.5; }
[[/module]]

[[include :scp-wiki:fragment:site-69-ii-picker]]

[[module css]]
/* picker, pit version */

.footage-picker-section__title, .footage-picker-section__intro, .footage-picker__heading {
  display: none;
  color: #fff4;
}

.footage-picker {
  --tables-border: 255, 255, 255, 0.1;
}

.footage-picker__link:any-link {
  background-color: #fff4;
  color: #fff;
  opacity: 0.25 !important;
  transition: opacity 0.1s ease !important;
  animation: none !important;
}
.footage-picker__link:hover {
  opacity: 1 !important;
}
.footage-picker__link:nth-child(5) {
  background: black;
  color: black;
  opacity: 1 !important;
}
[[/module]]

[[module css]]
/* scroll detection - courtesy of scp-8822 */

@import url(https://croquembouche.net/scp/scp-8822/assertions-v1.css);

.controller { height: 1px !important }
.scout {
  height: 1em;
  width: 1px;
  border: none;
  transform: scaleY(50);
  margin-block: -0.25em;
}
.controller, .scout:not([src*="debug=true"]) { opacity: 0.01 }
[[/module]]

[[module css]]
/* pit */

:root {
  --pit-3840: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-3840.webp');
  --pit-3840-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-3840-tiny.webp');
  --pit-2560: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-2560.webp');
  --pit-2560-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-2560-tiny.webp');
  --pit-1920: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-1920.webp');
  --pit-1920-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-1920-tiny.webp');
  --pit-1200: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-1200.webp');
  --pit-1200-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-1200-tiny.webp');
  --pit-800: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-800.webp');
  --pit-800-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-800-tiny.webp');
  --pit-480: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-480.webp');
  --pit-480-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/the_pit-480-tiny.webp');
    --rope-2228: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-2228.webp');
    --rope-2228-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-2228-tiny.webp');
  --rope-1200: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-1200.webp');
  --rope-1200-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-1200-tiny.webp');
  --rope-800: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-800.webp');
  --rope-800-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-800-tiny.webp');
  --rope-480: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-480.webp');
  --rope-480-tiny: url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/site-69-ii/rope-480-tiny.webp');

  --bg-image-list: var(--pit-480), var(--pit-480-tiny);
  --bg-image-width: 480px;
  --rope-image-list: var(--rope-480), var(--rope-480-tiny);
  --rope-image-width: 480px;
  --rope-image-height: 1409px;
}

body {
  margin: 0;
  background-color: black;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-position: top center;
  background-attachment: scroll;
  background-image: var(--bg-image-list);
  background-size: var(--bg-image-width) auto;
}

@media (min-width: 480px) {
  :root {
    --bg-image-list: var(--pit-800), var(--pit-800-tiny);
    --bg-image-width: 800px;
    --rope-image-list: var(--rope-800), var(--rope-800-tiny);
    --rope-image-width: 800px;
  }
}

@media (min-width: 800px) {
  :root {
    --bg-image-list: var(--pit-1200), var(--pit-1200-tiny);
    --bg-image-width: 1200px;
    --rope-image-list: var(--rope-1200), var(--rope-1200-tiny);
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  :root {
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    --bg-image-width: 1920px;
    --rope-image-list: var(--rope-2228), var(--rope-2228-tiny);
    --rope-image-width: 2228px;
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  :root {
    --bg-image-list: var(--pit-2560), var(--pit-2560-tiny);
    --bg-image-width: 2560px;
  }
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@media (min-width: 2560px) {
  :root {
    --bg-image-list: var(--pit-3840), var(--pit-3840-tiny);
    --bg-image-width: 3840px;
  }
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.light, .dark {
  font-size: 1.15rem;
  font-family: var(--mono-font);
  margin-block: 1rem;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
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  gap: 0.1em;
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.light p {
  display: inline-block;
  color: black;
  background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75);
  backdrop-filter: blur(2px);
  padding: 1px 1em;
  margin: 0;
  box-shadow: 0 0.25em 2em rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
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.ropebox {
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  z-index: -1;
}
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  background-position: center;
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  width: 100vw;
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  margin-block: calc(var(--rope-image-height) * -0.5);
  transform: translateX(-50%);
  left: 50%;
  position: absolute;
}

.footage-picker__heading { display: none }
.footage-picker__heading--expedition { display: block !important }
:root:has(.controller[style*="2."]) {
  --bg-image-list: "";
  --rope-image-list: "";
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.blue {
  position: relative;
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  margin-bottom: 5rem;
  font-size: 1.6rem;
  color: white;
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  font-weight: 200;
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  word-spacing: initial;
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  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
  color: white;
}
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  content: "";
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  order: 2;
  height: 1rem;
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.interrogation::after {
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  border: thin solid white;
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.interrogation__output {
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[[div class="article"]]

[[div class="light light--large"]]
It was a beautiful day when I first entered the dark.
[[/div]]
[[div class="light light--large light--darkened"]]
There had only ever been the dark.
[[/div]]

[[div class="light light--large"]]
The sun was shining.

Birds were singing.

Spirits at base camp were high.
[[/div]]
[[div class="light light--large light--darkened"]]
There was only the dark.

There was only the dark.

There was only the dark.
[[/div]]

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[[div class="light light--large"]]
But the dark beckoned all the same.
[[/div]]
[[div class="light light--large light--darkened"]]
There was only the dark.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="light"]]
We three pioneers readied ourselves for the descent:

The THINKER

The ASCETIC

and I, the OPTIMIST
[[/div]]
[[div class="light light--darkened"]]
There was only the dark.

The dark,

The dark,

The dark.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="light"]]
The anchors were driven into the rock,
and the rope was taut and sturdy.

I felt secure in my harness.
[[/div]]
[[div class="light light--darkened"]]
The dark was all-encompassing.
There was nothing else.

There was only the dark.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="light"]]
We weren't the first to head down there. We wouldn't be the last.

But we hoped, as I'm sure they all had, that we would be the first to return.
[[/div]]
[[div class="light light--darkened"]]
There was only the dark.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _


[[div class="light"]]
The dark had been here for centuries, at least.
But nobody knew how deep it was.

Once, people looked into it with a religious reverence.
The thought of exploring it was inconceivable to them.

They would have called us heretics.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="light"]]
I don't know whether I believed the dark had a bottom.

Some say it goes down forever.
Others would tell you it does.

Neither stance could be convinced of the other.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="light"]]
Perhaps that is what I feared most.
That we wouldn't find the bottom.

That our ropes would run short half way down.

We'd be forced to admit defeat. Turn around. Ascend.

Announce that we had not learned anything.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

 _

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="dark dark--large"]]
My stomach dropped as I passed the threshold.
[[/div]]

[[div class="dark dark--large"]]
The stone had been my steadfast companion
for that crucial first hour of descent.

Now it was gone.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

[[div class="dark dark--large"]]
Below me was only the dark.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
I and my compatriots steadied ourselves.

THE THINKER, silent as ever, showed no fear.
THE ASCETIC, silent as ever, showed no fear.

We were ready.
[[/div]]

 _

 _


[[div class="dark"]]
If the dark did go down forever,
it would be impossible to prove.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _


[[div class="dark"]]
I asked the THINKER what he thought.

He didn't answer.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
Still @@--@@ we had only been descending for a few days at most.
There would be plenty of time to worry.

I was supposed to be the OPTIMIST.

Best to keep it to myself for now.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
The motions had long become automatic.

The threading of the rope through the carabiner.
The gentle release of tension that eased me a few inches lower.

Repeat.
Repeat.
Repeat.

I barely noticed it anymore.
[[/div]]

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
Every now and then I get to shake away a bug.
The only interruption.
[[/div]]

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
Through our wordless connection I knew my compatriots felt the same.

But then, this was their calling.
They were meant to be here.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
__I__ wasn't meant to be here, though.
[[/div]]

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
I studied to become a nurse.

I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the crude logic of biology.
But when it came to it, they never let me graduate.
[[/div]]

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
My second year as a student nurse
was the first time I saw a dead body.

Eighteen of us took that pathology module.
We were asked to examine his condition.

Maybe@@...@@ I didn't quite grasp the topic.
I cured that patient, same as any other.

They had a problem with that. They didn't like that I could raise the dead.
[[/div]]

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
It might have been fine if he was anything like how he was before.

I never met him before, of course. How could I have known?

I could have been hailed as a hero,
but they didn't even tell his family.

They expelled me and sent me on my way.
Tried to keep it under wraps.

But you can't really stop a rumour.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
I had a new job not long after that, of course.

They told me I was special. They had fancy words for it.
Different ranks of thaumaturgy.
Classifications.
Numbers and letters and colours.

I met a hundred other people who could do similar things.
Different, but similar.

Come work for us, they said. But we'll keep an eye on you.

Not like I could work anywhere else.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
It turns out, when I resurrect someone,
they're not the same person at all.

They're always scared. They don't know where they are.

They remember their old life, but they don't care for it.
[[/div]]

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
They made me experiment.
I awoke hundreds of bodies.

They thought that maybe they all had the same voice.
All puppeteered by the same force,
changing its story a little every time.

I didn't see it.

I think they were just confused.
[[/div]]

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
Only one thing was truly consistent between them all:

The only thing they cared about was the dark.
Every single one.

They asked me if I'd been down there. What was it like?
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
The ASCETIC is restless.
He doesn't like when I talk about resurrections.

If he asks me to stop, I'll stop.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
It didn't make any sense.

I already knew about the dark, of course.
Everyone did.

The dead were fascinated by it.
Even if, in life, they'd never visited.

And the question was stupid. They knew my answer.
Plenty of people had been down there, none had come back.
No-one could have answered them, let alone me.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
So I got curious.

I went to visit the dark.

I stood at the edge of the cliff and peered down into it.
[[/div]]

 _


[[div class="ropebox"]]
[[/div]]

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
They say the abyss stares back into you,
but I didn't feel that way at all.

If I had, I probably wouldn't be here now.
I'd've run far away.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
I saw nothing.

Just a colossal pit, black as a moonless sky.

I couldn't fathom what the dead saw in it.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
So I had to go in.
[[/div]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
I found my two compatriots.

I sold everything I had to fund the trip.
[[/div]]

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
I want to reach the end of the dark.
I want to ask the dead what they see here.
[[/div]]

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
If I can't reach the end, I'll settle for the middle.
[[/div]]

 _

[[div class="dark"]]
If I can't reach the middle, I'll@@--@@

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[[span class="yetty"]]Hello?[[/span]]

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 _

 _

 _


[[span class="yetty"]]I know you're there.[[/span]]

 _


There's someone in my dark.

 _

[[span class="niamh"]]Who are you?[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]You first.[[/span]]

How dare@@--@@

[[span class="niamh"]]__You__ first. You're in my dark.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]Your dark? How can 'dark' be yours?[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]Because I'm the only one in it. This is my expedition.[[/span]]

 _

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 _

[[span class="yetty"]]Yes.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]Of course.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]I'm sorry. I must have forgotten. Please, tell me about your expedition.[[/span]]

 _

What game are they playing?
They clearly don't know anything.

 _

This doesn't make sense.

Who is this?

 _

[[span class="niamh"]]How did you get here?[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]The same way you did.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]Are you being vague on purpose?[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]Perhaps.[[/span]]

 _

 _

[[span class="yetty"]]You never know who's listening.[[/span]]

 _

 _

Who __is__ this?

And what's that __smell__?

 _

 _

[[span class="niamh"]]The dark has been mine and mine alone for __years__.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]I will NOT have you interfere with my expedition. Get out.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]Years? You've been here for years?[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]You clearly don't have the discipline to rappel into the dark yourself. Why are you even here?[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]No-one has ever left. You know that, right? Do you think you're different?[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]No. But I ask the same of you.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]Of me? This expedition is my magnum opus. __I__ will be the first to reach the bottom. __I__ will be the only@@--@@[[/span]]

 _

@@...@@it's blood.
I can smell blood.

 _

 _

 _

[[span class="yetty"]]The only what?[[/span]]

 _

 _

 _

 _

 _

[[span class="yetty"]]Hello?[[/span]]

 _

 _

 _

[[span class="niamh"]]Are you real?[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]What?[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]Are you alive? Do you have a body?[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]Yes. Obviously.[[/span]]

 _

[[span class="yetty"]]What are you //actually// asking?[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]I've been alone here for so long. I thought@@...@@ I thought you were part of it.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]Please. You have to help me.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]I have to get out of here.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]What about your expedition?[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]It's not real. None of it is real.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]I made it all up. There's no base camp, there's no expedition.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]I had to tell myself I'm here to do something important, so I@@...@@ I made up this whole thing where@@...@@ where only I could find the answer.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]Please, you have to understand. I __needed__ a purpose. I needed to believe in something.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]What are you talking about?[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]Just a few seconds ago you were obsessed with this expedition. Now you say it's not real?[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]None of it. Well @@--@@ some of the details are right. I really can raise the dead. And I did try to become a nurse. But we're not in some huge pit in the ground, we're just, here.[[/span]] 

[[span class="niamh"]]The THINKER, the ASCETIC, I think they're real too, but@@...@@ well, I didn't make them. They were here before me.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]Ah, I see.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]Is that why there are so many bugs down here?[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]I told myself I brought them with me, so I could pretend I was down here in the dark __for__ something, but, really@@...@@[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]But it probably means that you're dead too.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]And by the same logic, so am I.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]No. Not quite.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]I managed to convince myself that I'm still alive, that this is all real and that I've got a reason to keep going.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]It's enough. They can't take you if you don't let them.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]They? Who is they?[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]The@@...@@ bugs. I think. You can feel them, right? Hundreds of them, all over you?[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]Yes. Definitely.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]They eat away at you, if you let them. They've eaten my limbs, most of my body. There's bugs in my eye sockets.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]They're in my brain. I can feel them scratching the inside of my skull.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]They've cut me off from everything.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]They@@...@@ feed me@@...@@ just the barest of ideas. Just, concepts, but@@...@@ they don't understand them. They want to see how I react to them. And then they feed those reactions back to me and see how I react to that. Thousands of times. I feel like I'm being //harvested.//[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]I don't know what they are. I don't know what they're doing. I don't know what they're getting out of this.[[/span]]

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[[span class="niamh"]]You have to help me. Please.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]There's not much of me left.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]It sounds like I need to get out of here.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]You brought your body with you, right?[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]Yes. I think.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]Then there's hope.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]Please @@--@@ what's your name?[[/span]]

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[[span class="yetty"]]It's@@...@@[[/span]]

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[[span class="yetty"]]Yetunde. But everyone calls me Yetty.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]It's good to meet you, Yetty. It's so wonderfully good to meet you. My name is Niamh.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]I'm going to take your body now, and I'm going to@@--@@[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]Excuse me?[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]Don't worry; I'll treat it well. I'll cherish it.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]You will not take my body. It's mine.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty"]]I'll kill you before I let you do that.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh"]]You can't, remember? I'm already dead.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--transition"]]And don't even try to stop me. You don't understand the dark like I do.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]What have you done?[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]No, no, no, you can't do this to me! You can't leave me like this![[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--2"]]I've been out here long enough.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]I'll go back up. I'll climb your ropes.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]I'll go to your world and steal your life.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--2"]]Honey, no. There's nothing in here. There is only the dark.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--2"]]You'll be fine. All you need to do is tell yourself a story.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--2"]]You only need to make it last long enough for someone else to find their way out here.[[/span]]

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[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]I can't survive here.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--2"]]You can. I did.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]But I'm not creative.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]I can't@@--@@ I can't visualise anything. I just can't.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]I don't have an inner monologue.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]You've doomed me.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--2"]]You'll be fine. You'll be fine.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--2"]]A little time outside never hurt anyone.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]I'm dead. I'm already dead.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--2"]]No, no, you'll be fine. Everything is fine, that's what the bugs always say. You'll be fine.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--2"]]Yetty, I am going to go and live your life.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--2"]]Thank you so much for your gift.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]No. Please stop.[[/span]]

[[span class="niamh niamh--2"]]Goodbye.[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]NO[[/span]]

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[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]NO NO NO NO NO[[/span]]

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[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]What am I supposed to do now?[[/span]]

 _

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]Tell myself a story? Is that it?[[/span]]

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]I can tell a story but I can't do it so well that I actually believe it![[/span]]

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Once upon a time, there was

[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]I can't do this. I can't do this.[[/span]]

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[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]The bugs the bugs the bugs the bugs the bugs[[/span]]

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Once upon a time there was a little girl.

She lived in a magical forest in a far away land.

One day, she was walking through the forest,
and she found something very interesting.

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Something very interesting indeed@@...@@

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@@...@@it was a

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a red mushroom.
She picked it and put it in her basket.
She had a basket.

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And then she carried on happily through the forest
without a care in the world.

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and then, she

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[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]This isn't working, is it?[[/span]]

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Once upon a time there was a colossal piece of shit
named Tyler Reeves.

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Tyler lied about a lot of things.

He lied when he claimed he found a door
that can't be found unless you're shown.
He wouldn't say who showed him.

He lied when he showed me that machine
and said he didn't know its purpose.
It wasn't meant to be there.

He lied when he simply never mentioned
the real reason that he came here.
He wasn't sent against his will.

He lied when he tried to make me think
that machine could not be trusted.
He thought it could be@@...@@ dangerous@@...@@

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And he was right about that, in the end,
wasn't he?

I fucked with the machine and look at me.

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[[span class="yetty yetty--2"]]Sorry, Tyler.[[/span]]

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Site-69 II: Part 5 (Outside)

Module Styles

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