>>9846191
"Flashback. The first time my blood spoke to me was after the first time it, well, fed. On a person."

>>9846191
"Sometime back while I was at Arkham. Around the time I was forced to violently murder some of the orderlies."

>>9846191
"I... I just remembered when he first spoke to me. Right after I killed that doctor and his assistant."

>>9846191
Oh shit, our blood gets smarter the more intelligent beings we devour. We're a gestalt hivemind host of Azathoth!

>Sidenote: I hope Spider Lebron James didn't spoil an otherwise-emotional passage

>>9846244
>>9846238
>>9846233
"Sorry, I was just...reminiscing. The first time my blood spoke was after the experiment, after i...fed on several orderlies.

"Ah, yes, you...uh, "fed on" McCallister and one of the orderlies...Brian, i think his name was. At any rate, we observed for several days and tried to do some bloodwork, but your blood, when away from your body, always appeared to be normal human blood.
Between that colossal failure and then the absolute DISASTER that was Subject 13, I shut down the project after being made leader in McCallister's stead."

>>9846322
So its just the two of us? Hmmm do i sense and EPIC SHOWDOWN!!!!!! about to occur stonerbro?

>>9846322
>It fits the level of crazy we expect.

"So... who was I?"

>>9846322
"How good of you. Too late for me, anyway. So tell me, what did Arkham want with you on the island?"

Perhaps we should try to emphasize that we're more or less an innocent in this whole mess to try and get him to empathize with us.

"Honestly, i REALLY ought to kill you, just for that alone.", you say. "Have you HONESTLY never heard of how sticking your hand into a cookie jar is a BAD idea, because you have no idea what you will get?!?!?!?!?!"

>>9846375
>>9846391
"How nice of you. What did Arkham want with you at Blind Falls?"
Dr. O trips over his own tongue a few times. "He was talking about 13, how I bore responsibility for the Key/Gate project. He said if I had just 'figured out some way to kill it' instead of putting her in a coma and tanking the project this wouldn't have happened. But there's no reason she should ever have come out of that coma!"
"Who was i?" you press. "I mean, before?"
"You were picked up for some kind of thievery, larceny, gta, I don't remember. We did a hidden scan like we do all convicted criminals, and discovered your latent psychic talents. We had you transferred to the facility. At first you were simply trained about your gifts, before Key/Gate existed, but it seems your memories were damaged severely in the course of the project."

>>9846465
Explains the hotwiring ability, I guess.
"Do I have a family?"

>>9846436
"And to think that this whole ordeal that ive been through, this whole bought of MADNESS and INSANITY, having my life, my memories, and things i CANT EVEN BEING TO IMAGINE, ripped away from me is ALL BECAUSE YOU FUCKERS WANTED TO PLAY GOD?!?!?!?!?!?!!?"

>>9846465
Well that explains how we can hotwire cars.

>>9846479
"No, not unless your family could avoid turning up on the most comprehensive background checks in the country. We may be in the shitter now, but before everything went south Arkham was on top of it's game."

>>9846465
"Training? Trained for WHAT? What did you build me to be? Some superpowered assassin that can hotwire cars and pilot speedboats and go to ground evading a powerful organization while killing its escaped prisoners? WHAT AM I?"

>>9846465
Laugh. "Severely damaged. Right. Anyway, killing 13 now is virtually impossible; I certainly wasn't able to do it. All but tore her apart, and that damned thing that has her didn't even feel it. Poor kid. It's all bound up with those artifacts, somehow... I don't suppose you have any insight there?"

>>9846496
"Any idea how I would be transported halfway across the country, weeks into the future? Because to me, I escaped about two weeks ago, and lost a bit of time after I confronted 13"

>>9846436
>>9846483
"I should kill you for what you and the others did," you say, extruding a tentacle. "I should just devour you like I did McCallister."
"N-n-no wait," Garfield says. "We don't have to-"
"Please!" Okuniewicz begs. "Please try to understand. If we had been succesful, if we had merged a psychic human consciousness with the untold power of a cosmic entity, given a rational mind to that kind of raw ability, we could have ended every problem this planet had ever faced! With that sort of tool we could have ushered in a heaven on this planet!" He speaks fervently; clearly he was a deep believer in this project, at least at one time. "To achieve that...would be worth any cost."

>>9846527
"And 13 should be proof enough that it won't work, right?"

>>9846503
"What was I supposed to be before Key/Gate? What were Arkham's initial plans for me?"
"You were a precog! That sort of ability isn't to be taken lightly. Given proper training, you could have been a powerful addition to any ground team, spotting out dangers before they even existed!"
"Any idea how I could have been transported halfway across the country? And two weeks in the future. I lost some time after confronting 13 in Miami."
"Any idea how 13 does anything? 13 doesn't even know what it's doing most of the time. It just concentrates on the world, and the effects of its thoughts are expressed as rationally as they can be."

>>9846527
"A rational mind... have you felt the crushing mental gaze of that thing that has 13, doctor? I have, and barely survived it. Neither it nor its kind belong anywhere near our planet."

>>9846527
"And look where your work brought you - you have reduced this country to ruins - if not the rest of the world. You've tampered with things beyond your control - beyond your petty understanding. Garfield doesn't want to eat you though, so I'll respect his choice - however... You're coming with me. You are going to figure out a way to kill 13 for me - and you are going to help me cleanse this damn planet of your little pawns and own up to your OWN STUPIDITY!"

>>9846527
"EVEN THE COST OF FUCKING DESTROYING THE ENTIRE GODDAMNED WORLD?!?!??!?!?!?" you scream at the now cowed Dr. O. "N.n.n....nooo please...please....please, dont kill me. Please.", the pathetic bastard begs as your tendril gets disturbingly close to his eyes.

>>9846586
"Is... is there a way I can remember that training? I need that foresight more now than ever before. Can you help me with it? Help me remember?"

>>9846556
"13...is a failure quite the opposite of yours. While you conquered your entity completely, either through your own strength of will or the entity's weakness, you destroyed its mind, and its ability, leaving you as the damaged woman you are. 13, on the other hand, was not nearly strongly willed enough to handle contact with the entity, and her powerful psychic gift allowed it easy access. She stopped existing as Eloise Westchester less than 1/100th of a second after contact was established, and the entity gained a physical part of itself, something that nothing like that has ever possessed before, as far as we can tell."

>>9846597
We're not killing him.

>>9846527
"That is a noble and understandable goal, still, you should have used an AI. A human is prone to making emotional errors of judgment.
Do you know exactly what kind of entities they are, and how the human host controls them?"

>>9846597
No.

>This conversation is fragmented as fuck, but i think it's worth it to get this much exposition out there so quickly.

>>9846619
"Can that training be recalled?"
"You've probably developed further than you were trained by this point, simply out of desperate necessity. At any rate it wasn't more than two weeks before you were put on the Key/Gate project, and it took you several days to even agree to rudimentary precog training. You were quite the fiery one..." he muses. "I see you've got that part of you still."

>>9846629
I didnt say kill him. Just get REALLY pissed.

>>9846629
strongly seconded.

>>9846679
"Fine, then. How does one train their psychic abilities? I could really use some precognition, these days, and it hardly seems like I've got any most of the time."

>>9846679
>"fiery"
Oh-ho-ho, punnery.

>>9846679
>The irony is overwhelming.
"So then. I hope for your sake that you won't be useless. However, I wonder if Arkham will come looking for you... Maybe he will think you died on your boat. So, old man. Make your choice - I'll leave you here if you desire - you can hitch a ride with someone else back to your cozy little agency. Or you can come with me and we will set things straight once and for all. Plus I still need to talk with Arkham and the older project head."

Ask about the metal hedrons.

>>9846749
Other project head- you mean the one we ate?

>>9846724
"No, your abilities were quite latent, even before your contact with the entity. If you had been fully manifested, i doubt you would have fallen into police custody to begin with.
Training a psychic talent requires devoted study, something I'm afraid you don't have the time for at this juncture. Not at the rate things are going, anyway." he seems to realize exactly how grim the situation of the world is, and his face falls.

>>9846749
Don't say this. We're not done talking to him yet. There are still a lot of questions we can ask, and we're in a uniquely low-pressure situation here at the moment.

>>9846759
Forgot about that little bit of information. Ah well. One less person to track down (take revenge on).

>>9846679
Ask about the writing... come to think of it, 13 might know something about it too. If we can get her to read it, we might--
Ah, what am I thinking? She'd turn us into a monocle or something if we got too close again.
>>9846322
I do hope Subject #96 is half as cool as Spider Lebron.

>>9846781
METAL BOXES.

Ask him what he knows about those unearthly hedrons and the beyond-things. He was project lead, he should know something.

>>9846750
"What about the metal hedrons?" You ask. "They seem to attract the entities."
"Yes, they emit a strange sort of energy field, one not even our MTDs can reproduce, though they can produce a field to repel the entities, most useful...unfortunately useless against 13's myriad meddlings with the physical nature of local reality.
We used them to induce the presence of an entity in you. We would have used one on Eloise as well, but she was already in the possession of an entity when we took notice of her case."

>>9846781
"Devoted study? How unhelpful. Still, there's no telling what I'll be up to in the coming days, weeks, or however long. I'll need to at least start. After all... at the rate you Arkham types are dying off, pretty soon there might not be anyone left to tell me how."

Following that.

"When I was in Kansas, I found a statue... thing near 13's old house. How was it connected to her, and the entity that had her?"

>>9846854
"So then WHAT THE HELL are you idiots going to do to fix this?!??!?"

>>9846854
What do you know about my blood? Do you know of any ways to kill 13's entity? Or at least kick it back into being something that doesn't fuck with reality.

>>9846854
"Well then heres a question. Where the hedron that you bastards used to put Garfield into my blood?!??!"

>>9846815
"Sometimes, my blood produces strange writing," you ask cautiously. "What the hell is that about?"
Okuniewicz shrugs. "I couldn't tell you. Most likely some fragmentary evidence, a remnant of the entity's unfathomable mind that managed a way to express itself. Most interesting, I hadn't though-"
"Wait. Fucking wait just a second. Did you say Eloise was already possessed by the time you got ahold of her?"
"Yes, that's right," he stammers.
"I found one of your hedrons," you say, staring at him intensely. "I found one in the basement of her house."
Okuniewicz digests this for a moment. "No...that couldn't possibly be...we control all three known hedron stones. So either someone was in possession of another stone, and knew what it could be used for,"
"Or one of you fucks did it," you finish his sentence for him, looking around at the dark, gathering clouds overhead.

None of this looks any good at all.

>Gonna leave it on that brooding note. I'll archive this thread in just a sec. Feedback times? I think tonight was a strong session.

>>9847046
Aww but i dont want it to end. :(
It is made of far too much WIN to end.

Good times. I just finished reading the archives earlier today and dropped on to find part nine in progress.

>>9847068
I'm really glad new people are still reading the archives and deciding to join in. The more the merrier.

>>9847046
WHAT A TWEEST!

All exposition today, but well worth it. Good job as always.

>>9847046
Epic cliffhanger is EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMFG MOAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>9847046
Eeenteresting.
Posting my archive after I check everything for our new information.

>>9847088
Yeah, I like to think I have a thing for cliffhangers.
Though the use of Spider-Lebron as an expository companion is currently my proudest achievement.

I'm looking forward to ArkhamArchivist's updated list, I like looking at all the chaos i'm creating condensed into an easy-to-follow form.

Also, it's probably the most selfish request ever, but if any of you are good at drawing, I'd love to see drawfag interpretations of 82/others.

Currently Known Former Arkham Detainees

13- Eloise Westchester, host to Entity beyond rational thought. Caused a reality breaking event in Miami that destroyed much of the surrounding area. Prior to capture, was part of powerful Seances in Kansas. Parents commited suicide after she was taken by Arkham. Has moved to San Fransisco, creating another such event.
16- "Inheritor of Thule", seems to have mentally manipulative abilities : Currently Chancellor of Germany
18- Summoner/ Conjurer of anything he can imagine, usually living creatures, very prideful: Last seen in Chigago, attempting to rob a bank, driven off by Subject 82
19- Emits Gamma Radiation Constantly: in Atlanta
20,21- The Siren, The Gorgon, were kept in sensory deprivation: in Cleveland, which has secceded from the Union
23- the Razor of Heaven, sword that is removed from physical phenomena, spatially static, can cause delusions and hallucinations if weilded: Currently Wielded by Subject 151
27- Cilian Creed, pyromancer, produces jets or spheres of incerdibly hot flame, was found creating the 'Fire of God' at age 14: Arms removed by Subject 82; Assumed Incapacitated, Last seen with Subject 151
33- Abilities unknown, seeking information about Miami incident
50- Gigantic Crocodile-man, consumed 12 steer a day in Arkham: Deceased, killed by Subject 82 in a confrontation on a freeway
54- Maksim Wade, Technomancer, able to hear electronic signals and manipulate digital data. Cocksure personality. "Worked" for Arkham prior to escape: Deceased, succumed to injuries sustained in Miami incident, from Subject 13.

>>9847159
62- Old Man, Bends time near him: in Atlanta
82- Hellen Tanner, minor precog, experimented on in the Key/Gate project, now host to a sentient, carnivorous blood entity that needs to feed on organic matter and produces various amounts of heat. Is able to control own blood for offense and defense: Currently in Chicago
88- Phillip Walker, intensly strong, hyper-aggressive bone growth, rather unintelligent: in Atlanta
96- A Large Spider: In Louisville
140-145- Superpowered Harlem Globetrotters: In Charleston
151- Ramiel, Angelic-like being with a large ego, posesses ability to fly rather fast: Last seen near Chigago Arkham Facility

>>9847166
Unknown Entities

"Slender Man"- Shown in Drawings by Subject 13, indicated as connected with Mr. Arkham by Subject 82's hallucinations. Qualities unknown
Cornfield Entity- Similar in kind to the entity posessing Subject 13, appears as a collection of mist. Can impose its ego on others.
Shadow Man- Unknown if real, may be a result of Subject 82's paranoid delusions, but apparently able to control shadows.
The Immortal Veteran- Incarcerated in a mental facility in NY
Giant Praying Mantis- Bulletproof, rips tops off cars: In Atlanta
Kraken- Gigantic Octopus-like creature that attacked the Arkham Base at Blind Falls

>>9847146
I'll get right on that. Next thread. Tomorrow?

>>9847188
Arkham Technology/Anomalous Artifacts

Multiadaptive Tesla Device- Produces various electromagnetic fields, used to dubious effect to combat entities.
Spiritual Containment Device- Device that Contains Spirits?
Hedron- Polyhedron that continually changes shape, number of sides, etc. Attracts/repels/induves entities. 3-4 are known to exist.
Spirit Shades- Permit the user to see spirits, a carcinogen of unknown potency
Furher Blade- Letter opener that causes Hitler-Related nightmares
Lighter of Dreams- Transmutes any smoked substance into potent hallucinogens
The Handy Handgun- A Beretta 9mm that never runs out of ammunition
Absorbant Tuning Fork- Qualities unknown, sealed in unbreakable glass
Super-Tarot- Playing Cards that tell the future.
88 other unidentifiable carcinogens, including a #2 pencil and a 54-year-old glass of Ovaltine
15 pieces of furniture that eat people

>>9847207
Arkham Personnel

Jacob Walters- Low-level Arkham employee, has a young daughter, Samantha. Is currently stationed in Atlanta
Theodore Arkham- Leader of Arkham, enigmatic character, wealthy, described as figurative ghost by Subject 54. Thin, weedy, proud, determined. Very well connected.
Dr. Okuniewicz- Arkham Researcher, Current lead for the Key/Gate project.
Dr.(?) Wazowski- Arkham Researcher, has knowledge of Spiritual Containment. Possibly deceased in Blind Falls Incident.
Dr.(?) Fullerene- Arkham Researcher, has knowledge of Spiritual Containment. Possibly deceased in Blind Falls Incident.
Dr. McCallister- Arkham Reseracher, Former lead of Key/Gate. Devoured by Subject 82.
Herschel, Dee, Guyren, Polonius- European Strike Team, have EU military support. Possibly deceased in Blind Falls Incident.
Brian- Orderly, Devoured by Subject 82
Coolbro broglassesbro- A cool Bro, and Arkham Driver
Superior Mrsuspicousface- In charge of Walters' Arkham team. Not very nice.

>>9847188
If we make a team to set things right, lets hit Subject 33 and the Old Man in the NY asylum. They seem to be the most peaceful of all the others.

>>9847195
What's that, a Sunday?
Yeah, next thread should be tommorow at the same time (8-10 sometime).

I have to recharge my creative juices, you guys wrung most of my prepared exposition out of my tonight.
I still have a few secrets in reserve though.

>>9847222
>Coolbro broglassesbro

Holy jesus, I loved that guy.

So, anyone, named or otherwise, that I missed?

I originally conceived of the hallucination entity as a constantly-shifting figure, but now I'm not sure I could ever have him be anything but Spider-Lebron.

>>9847257
Spider Lebron.
>>9847195
You gotta make it badass dude.

>>9847274
Could be an after effect from using the potent lighter.

>>9847324
True. Is he an Unknown Entity then?
For that matter, is Garfield?

>>9847345
Spider Lebron is an UE. I would add Garfield as an addendum to 82's file though.

>>9847345
Oh man, Garfield. I went into tonight thinking "big reveal: Garfield is imaginary. Gonna blow these niggas' MINDS!" but as I kept going i became less and less sure of myself, so I left it completely open.

The best way not to give away whether or not he's only in your head is to not actually be sure myself.

New Unknown Entities

Spider Lebron- Hallucination/ Spirit guide of Subject 82. Has the Personality of Lebron James, and the Eight Legs of a Spider.
Garfield- Cosmic Entity bonded to Subject 82's blood and gives her her sanguinary powers. Gains nourishment from flesh, living or dead, and is hungry about once per 24 hours. Is lazy and cowardly, but is often the voice of reason for Subject 82.

>>9847433
Fuck, forgot my name.

>>9847324
>badass
I don't know, man, you guys have got 82 alternating between being badass when necessary and downright tender at times (okay, some of those times I helped).

For that matter, you guys are an awesome bunch of people to quest with. You're really making me enjoy this, and I hope I'm giving back as much as I'm getting.

>>9847446
The fact that we quest damn near every night is all sorts of "Fuck Yeah!"
Also, glad for Arkham Archivist. My own records were lacking.

>>9847446
Well, she IS a slightly crazy person with little memory of her life before all this shit.
I see 82 as mostly good natured, but with a short temper, and a complete willingness to get dirty if the situation calls for it, especially, it seems, when other Subjects are fucking up things for the normals.

>>9847446
You are. If I had a tablet, I would. Got Photoshop, in case any of you need it edited.

>>9847515
Yeah, besides when giant crocodiles are hurling cars at her, I like to imagine she's just a normal person who woke up with no memories and a slightly bi-polar blood demon-thing inside of her.

>>9847433
>Has the Personality of Lebron James, and the Eight Legs of a Spider.
...what a perfectly apt description.
>>9847483
QFT. Hell, MY records were lacking compared to AA's comprehensive list. I had a notepad where I just typed shit down without ever deleting stuff or arranging anything.


I think I'm passing out. Tonight was my favorite night, except for maybe Ch. 7.

>reading the old thread
>16- "Inheritor of Thule"
>As soon as I start to read that part SABATONS Rise of Evil starts to play on my playlist

Fucking STONERDM

HOW DO YOU DO THIS?

>>9847667
huh? Explain.

>>9847604
I look forward to the next thread. May the Emperor bless us in the Purgation of this daemon-world impersonation of Holy Terra!

(Protip: 40kids are sometimes sarcastic.

>>9847706
RIse of Evil is a song about Hitler taking power and rising the Reich so to speak.

Im implying that StonerDM because of his awesomeness and stoner powers was able to manipulate my media player to start that song as soon as I saw the first mention of the Thule character

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O437RLRn95Q

link related

>>9847721
I think it would be hilarious if one of the subjects at Arkham was the Emperor

Final Update Notes for the Evening.

Added Babbage, 16's posse, updated 16, 33, 50, MTD, fixed some typos.
Some time tomorrow I'll begin a list of key locations.
I also have the three Subjects we made up yesterday if anyone cares.

>>9847828
I care, I made one of them.

>>9847828
I would like to see the new subjects.
Different Note: So, how's the namefagging? I was thinking of doing that myself, but I dunno. If I were to choose one, it would have to be more universal.

>>9848141
I've a;ways thought if you're not someone who's run a quest, running the quest, or someone doing something for the quest (a la Archivist) then don't touch the name

>>9847667
clearly if it was in a hole for 60 years... its the original Hitler. They grabbed him before he could escape, faked him being dead.

>>9848220
Then I'll have a name when I show up with pics tomorrow.

>>9848141
One of them was a snakeman and one could shoot electricity.

>>9848231
Great! Y'know, 'cause Hitler was borderline retarded.

>>9848231
also, Epic quality quest. Been enjoying this, though until now I was never on before it hit archive.

Jacob Walters Really deserves to make it out of this along with his kid. In fact, it might be a good idea to set up the new scientist with Jacob for security. Dr. Okuniewicz meant well, but the (bloody) road to hell is paved with good intentions...

>>9848268
Then again, we could use a good Company handler with the training and guidance Walters could provide.
Get Dr. O to divulge a list of potential Subjects that Arkham might employ to deal with the threats. Fight fire with fire, so to speak... bah, next time.

Proposed Subjects- Note; these subjects do not necessarily exist, they are suggestions to the Stonerbro.

47- Ahmed Hassan- Electrical powers; Fistful'A Loightnan
76- John Wilhelm, 'Snake man', can generate and spray short bursts of acid from his hands or mouth. Has those funky snake eyes, fangs and a tiny bit of scales.
113- A sentient E. Coli bacterium. Has a doctorate in European literature.

Also, glad people like what I'm doing.

>>9848344
So does 113 possess the person/people it has infected?

Now, this may just be me, but aren't we being a little crazy? I mean, we're aflame with righteous anger at the people that blood'ed us and we're very good at being scary, but wouldn't it be more strategically sound to be nice and play ball with the nice ranking officer of the big, well connected/armed group that we want to get in good with?

>Now, this may just be me, but aren't we being a little crazy?
What quest have you been reading? OF COURSE WE'RE BEING A LITTLE CRAZY! IT'S OUR THING!

>>9848410
Just saying,
talking to things that may not be able to talk back =/= I'm gonna bloodfuck you and and eat you alive just cuz

>>9848441
Yeah, I agree to that. It does look like he's not the nefarious evil genius we originally thought.
He doesn't recieve forgiveness though. Just the benefit of the doubt. Besides, it looks like we already got revenge with McCallister.

Why do I namefag? Because its easier when taking stock of decisions or voting. And I'm used to it.

Powers to think of:
Telepathy (Talking to your mind OMG)
Empath (Emotion control/sensing)
Freezing/Ice
Water Control (Think waterbending, since we have the equivalent of "super hot blood control")
Speedster (Able to go really really fast)
Gravity Control (Speaks for itself)
Mass Control (One can increase/decrease their mass (and therefore density) at will)