HEYA, THE NAMEāS BILL CIPHER, BUT YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT DIDNāT YOU?
YOU MISSED ME RIGHT? ADMIT IT, YOU MISSED ME. BUT YOU MAY BE WONDERING āBUT BILL, HOW ARE YOU HERE? ARENāT YOU IN PRISON? YOUāRE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO CONTACT ANYONE.ā
WELL SURPRISE, SURPRISE, THE OLā FRILLY SHMUCK IN THE SKY GAVE ME A SECOND CHANCE. AGAIN. SOMETHING ABOUT HOW THEYāD NEVER SEEN ME SO MOTIVATED FOR THERAPY THAN WHEN I WAS WORKING ON MY LITTLE DIARY~! SAID THAT I THRIVE ON ATTENTION AND THAT MAYBE IF I HAD A LITTLE MORE OF IT, IāD ACTUALLY LEARN A THING OR TWO FROM THIS HUNK Aā JUNK PLACE.
HA! WISHFUL THINKING IF YOU ASK ME! BUT I WONāT TURN DOWN THE CHANCE TO MANIPULAā I MEAN TALK TO YOU LOVELY FLESH GOBLINS ABOUTā THE HUNDREDS OF ORGANS PULSING AND OOZING INSIDE OF YOU AT ALL TIMES, WHAT YOUR DEEPEST DESIRES ARE, THE EXACT TIME AND DATE OF YOUR DEATH, PALMOLOGY, OR WHAT YOUR FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM IS, GIMME A HOLLER!
AND IF YOUāRE FEELING EXTRA FRISKY, MAYBE WE CAN EVEN MAKE A DEAL~
EXTRA NOTE! IF YOU GET AHOLD OF THIS EMO KID @inpatientofward222-willcipher TELL HIM HIS BROTHER BILLY CALLED AND DOESNāT APPRECIATE BEING IGNORED. WEāVE GOT A LOT TO CATCH UP ON!
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Hello little humans, this is the axolotl. I have given Bill this blog as a way to amends within himself and with all of you. Iād like to keep his words true, but from the blue I ask of you to take precaution. This notion is under my lock and key to prevent setting him free. Follow these rules to keep this blog in motion:
1. Keep your horrors in the deep, no pedo, incest, or other creeps
2. Do not spam or clog the ask box as this blog is not yours to hog
3. Remember there is life behind these lines, attacking it would not be wise
And please, try not upset Bill, weāve had to replace walls and supplies and section off other patients as it will. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my rhyme.
//hey new OOC post. Sorry I havenāt been responding. Iāve been obsessed with a roleplay on discord lately, I will get back to this blog eventually I promise. Im not ignoring all you guys and thank you for being patient with me!
i died for a bit there but i got better and iām back now.
HEYA NESTER!
YEAH, HEARD FROM YOUR BROTHER WHAT HAPPENED. AT FIRST I THOUGHT YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR PROMISE TO COME BACK HAHAHA ITS GREAT TO HEAR YOU WERE ONLY DEAD! SO UH, HENCH GOT YOU AGAIN, HUH?
iāve died around seven times at this point. donāt recommend. always terrified itās gonna be the last time and i wonāt ever come back and that just gets worse the more times it happens.
AW WELL AS LONG AS YOUāVE AN INSURANCE POLICY SET UP YOU SHOULD BE FINE. YOU THINK CALLING UPON THE AXOLOTL TO ESCAPE DEATH WAS A LAST MINUTE THOUGHT? NO! I HAD THAT SET UP, PRACTICED, AND READY TO GO AGES BEFORE I DIED. JUST MAKE SURE YOUR BACKUP PLAN WORKS AND YOUāRE BASICALLY UNKILLABLE!
ER- SORRY ABOUT HENCH THOUGH. GUYāS STILL A REAL PAIN IN THE HYPOTENUSE.
called upon frills once and he locked me up in theraprism. also meant that the thing owned my soul so that every time i died after that iād end up in another theraprism. but then sibling killed that frills so now i have to spend weeks reforming myself from nothing but vague impressions when i die
ā¦
ā¦ i bit him a coupla days ago. got my powers back from him. heās almost certainly plotting vengeance
OKAY WELL WE DIDNāT KNOW THAT PART WAS GONNA HAPPEN, IāM NOT THRILLED TO BE LOCKED IN A THERAPRISM EITHER BUT AT LEAST IāM NOT PERMANENTLY DEAD. THATS COOL HOW YOU CAN REFORM YOURSELF THOUGH, YOU SHOULD TEACH ME SOMETIME. POINT IS, I DONāT THINK YOUāVE GOT ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT AS LONG AS YOUāVE GOT YOUR BACKUP PLAN SECURED.
HM. ITS NOT BECOMING OF A BILL BUTā¦ MAYBE GO INTO HIDING. SHAPESHIFT INTO A NEW FORM AND TAKE ON A NEW IDENTITY.
THEYāD HAVE TO HUNT DOWN AT LEAST HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOCKED BEHIND SECURITY. THEY COULD TRY BUT ITS DOUBTFUL THEYāD SUCCEED.
YEAH. WHAT ABOUT BACK TO THE NIGHTMARE REALM WHERE YOU HAD YOUR EMPIRE TO PROTECT YOU?
YEAH. YOUāRE FINE, DONāT SWEAT IT SO MUCH. YKNOW OL FRILLS HAS ME DOING THESE THINGS CALLED AFFIRMATIONS WHERE YOU REPEAT SOME MESSAGES TO YOURSELF TO MAKE YOUR BRAIN START THINKING THEM AUTOMATICALLYā SELF-BRAINWASHING IS WHAT I CALL IT. YOU COULD USE SOME.
I AM UNDEFEATABLE.
I AM INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE INFERIOR MIND.
I AM A BLIGHT UPON THIS WORLD THAT THE WORLD HASNāT LEARNED TO THANK YET.
STUFF LIKE THAT. MIGHT HELP YA FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN YOUR ABILITY TO CONQUER AND REGENERATE. OR MAYBE ITS A LOAD OF JUNK, I DUNNO I DONāT LISTEN TO FRILLS. BUT AH, SHAME. I GUESS BECOMING A FERAL CREATURE OUT IN THE WOODS IT IS.
Yeah i think Iād rather avoid brainwashing of any kind
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though i do really like that one about being incomprehensible to the inferior mind
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yeahhhh. i guess i got to go be a feral woodland creature again. even though the last time ended with my body getting eaten by gnomes and hench murdering me and a friend of mine
YEAH I DIDNāT LIKE THE ONES FRILLS GAVE ME BUT SOME OF THE ONES IāVE COME UP WITH ARE FUN. FRILLS HATES EM THOUGH, CANāT IMAGINE WHY.
SERIOUSLY? YOU GOT BESTED BY GNOMES? JUST BLAST āEM WHATāRE YOU DOING? YOU ARE POWERFUL AND GRAND AND EVEN IF YOU CANāT START WEIRDMAGEDDON SURELY YOU CAN HANDLE SOME GNOMES. SURELY.
ā¦WEIRD. MAYBE YOU HAD AN EPISODE AND SOME GNOMES TOOK ADVANTAGE?
WHAT? NO IT DOESNāT THATS JUST WHAT THE HUMANS ALL KEEP SAYING TO TRY AND GET YOU TO KEEP IT SEMI-NORMAL. THE WORLD WAS JUST FINE WHEN I RAN WEIRDMAGEDDON FOR THREE DAYS.
hmmmm. only thing like that i can think of right now is āi am an eldritch horror cthulu itself bows down toā. might need to practice makin these up a bit more
ā¦ ā¦ yeah that does sound like somethin gnomes would do
ā¦ iām not sure about that anymore ā¦ maybe it was only fine because we were there to hold it together ā¦ maybe it woulda been fine anyway ā¦ i dunno
OOH THATS A GOOD ONE! WHAT ABOUT āI AM DESTINED TO BE IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHINGā?
HUH. WELL YA CANāT JUST SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND NOT EXPLAIN. WEIRDMAGEDDON IS PERFECT. ITS EVERYTHING A BILL COULD WANTā ITS WEIRD AND WACKY AND UNPREDICTABLE WHICH MAKES IT SO EXCITING. PEOPLE SCREAM IN FEAR JUST LIKE THEY ALWAYS HAVE AND FINALLY YOU HAVE A PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOU WANT TO GIVE THAT UP?
OOOOOO I LOVE THAT ONEE!!! HOW BOUT āI AM AN ALL POWERFUL GOD, MORTAL, COWER BEFORE ME OR I WILL BURN YOUR FACE OFFā?
ā¦
i mainly did it to get everyone outta the nightmare realm before it collapsed entirely. i loved the chaos while it lasted but there isnāt a point in trying again when the last time ended with me dyin and the nightmare realm decaying away anyway
I KNOW WE COULD COME UP WITH A BUNCH IF WE JUST SAT HERE AWHILE BUT THATS GOTTA BE ENOUGH FOR NOW. THE WHOLE TRICK IS YOU GOTTA SAY IT TO YOURSELF THROUGHOUT THE DAY EVERY DAY. IF NOTHINā ELSE ITāLL MAKE YOU SMILE.
YOUCH. BUT HEY AT LEAST ITS TEMPORARY WHICH MEANS THE PAIN IS TEMPORARY! DEATH ISNāT THAT BAD. IāD RATE IT BETTER THAN WHAT CAME AFTER IT. DOES THE PAIN GET WORSE EACH TIME OR WHAT?
ohhhhhhhhh. yeah we have enough for now, then. and they will DEFINITELY make me smile (-|
it takes longer to come back each time and i always lose something. never get to come back complete. and yeah it hurts a lot too. think iāll fade away entirely if i have to die any more
OH. WAIT BUT YOU SAID YOU COULDNāT DIE UNLESS EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT YOU. SO WHICH IS IT? ARE YOU GONNA FADE AWAY PIECE BY PIECE OR ARE YOU GONNA DIE WHEN YOUāRE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN?
iām gonna die when iām completely forgotten ā¦ but a buddy of mine lost all his memories when i was dead this time so i couldnāt reform myself completely
OH. HUH, GUESS YOU KNOW HOW THE PINES FAMILY FELT WHEN THEY SACRIFICED ALL OF STANāS MEMORIES TO STOP ME. IT CANāT BE THAT TERRIBLE THOUGH, JUST REMIND HIM OH ALL THE GOOD TIMES YOU GUYS HAD AND CALL IT GOOD! PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO SMOOTH OVER ANY PROBLEMS YOU MIGHTāVE HAD WITH HIM AND TURN YOUR FRIENDSHIP INTO THE PERFECT ONE.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! YEAH I CAN SORTA SEE THAT. I TRIED REMINDIN THE GUY OF OUR FRIENDSHIP A BIT AGO AND HE ENDED UP REMEMBERING THAT LULLABY MOM SANG INSTEAD. AND THEN SUNG IT TO ME. ALSO I SORTA HAVE TO STAY HIDDEN IN MY ROOM āRESTINGā CAUSE OTHERWISE SOMETHIN HAPPENS THAT REQUIRES ME TO USE A BUNCHA ENERGY AND I DONāT HAVE ENOUGH TO HOLD MY BODY TOGETHER AND END UP GLITCHIN OUT EVERYWHERE. BEEN THINKIN BOUT MAYBE CALLIN THAT GUYāS FRILLS TO SEE IF ITāD GIVE THE GUY HIS MEMORIES OF ME BACK. BUT I DO NOT TRUST ANY VARIANT OF THAT THING NOT TO EDIT SOME STUFF IN SOMEONEāS MEMORIES
DO YOU EVER THINK ITS FATE THAT WE ALWAYS END UP STUCK IN SOME KIND OF PRISON? EVEN IF ITS NOT A LITERAL PRISON, EVERY OUNCE OF MY TRILLION YEAR LIFE HAS BEEN STUCK SOMEWHERE I DIDNāT ASK OR WANT TO BE. ITS CRUEL.
YEAH.. ME TOOā¦. NOT TO GET ALL SAPPY ON YA BUT IāVE ALWAYS WANTED A PLACE TO BELONG OR JUST BE RESPECTED IN. DIDNāT GET THAT SO NOW I BURN PLACES DOWN INSTEAD WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE BY ME!
ā¦ i found that place ā¦ live in a house with my sibling and a coupla their friends ā¦ only for them to disappear and the house to get full of complete strangers so now iām back down to zero places where i can feel like i can just be safe
THATS REAL UNFORTUNATE. AINāT NO REST FOR THE WICKED N ALL THAT. THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO SHUT GUYS LIKE US OUT BUT WHEN THE UNIVERSE DOES THAT YA GOTTA PUNCH IT RIGHT BACK IN THE GULLET. WE CARVE OUR OWN HOME OUT EVEN IF THAT IS SOME CABIN IN THE WOODS. ONE DAY YOUāLL GET YOUR STRENGTH BACK AND ESCAPE THAT PLACE AND MAKE A HOME FOR YOURSELF. IF SOME LANKY TWEENAGER HUMAN CAN RUN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS AND MAKE A HOME YOU CAN TOO. DONāT GIVE INTO DESPAIR, THATS FOR WEAKLINGS!
yeah. i am thinkin iāll just run away. cause one of the strangers whoāve moved in has that āall bills are monsters who deserve to dieā opinion and i happen to know sheās one of the gods of death for my dimension so she could permanently kill me just by touching me and one of the few people i actually know here is tellin me that she aināt dangerous and that i should be able to get along with her. it should only take about two seconds of thinkin to figure out why i disagree with that statement. so i guess i gotta run off somewhere and hope going feral again donāt end as badly as it did last time
YIKES. DAMNED GODS ALWAYS GETTING IN THE WAY. THAT GUY YOU ACTUALLY KNOW DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A FRIEND IF THEY THINK THAT ITS ANY KINDA SAFE FOR YOU TO BE AROUND HER. ITS NOT ON YOU TO CHANGE HER MIND ABOUT BILLS! NOT WHEN YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE AGAIN. SO GO ENJOY YOUR LITTLE CORNER OF YOUR DIMENSION. AND DONāT FORGET TO VISIT ME SOMETIME AGAIN EITHER.
yāknow. i suppose i could run off and talk on the phone at the same time. i donāt have to wait
*there is the sound of a window opening*
but yeah. youāre right. even wilhelmās actin like i donāt have any reason to be scared of her. so itās startin to seem like maybe everyone here secretly wants me dead. wouldnāt at all be the first time i thought i found a safe place to hang out only for it to turn out that everyone there wanted me dead
EXACTLY! now all i have to worry bout is which tree would be best to hollow out and live in, not when are these guys gonna betray me! iām already a whole lot more relaxed now i know that itās unlikely theyāll be able to find me out here!
OH YEAH BABY NOW WEāRE COOKING. YOUāRE GONNA WANT ONE THATāS NICE AND THICK SO YOU STILL HAVE SOME SPACE TO WALK AROUND INSIDE. AND YOU CAN HOLLOW OUT DIFFERENT AREAS TO MAKE FLOORS TO SCURRY UP AND DOWN. ITS NOT A GRAND OL ENTIRE DIMENSION THAT YOU DESERVE BUT EH, YOU NEED TO LAY LOW. IF YOUāVE GOT THE JUICE FOR IT YOU CAN MAKE AN INVISIBLE BARRIER TO KEEP OTHERS OUT.
OOOO I JUST FOUND THE PERFECT TREE FOR THIS!!! Itās a great big thick one almost completely surrounded by birch trees. gonna plan out the interior before i start diggin though! (-(
yāknow, invisible barrier is a GREAT idea. gonna dk that now!! (-(
*there is a quiet wooshing sound as the barrier goes up*
HEY THAT IS PERFECT! IāD COME GIVE YOU A HOUSEWARMING GIFT BUT, YKNOW. IN A WHOLE SITUATION OVER HERE. ONE DAY IāLL GIVE YOU ONE. IāLL SLIP IT THROUGH THE BARRIER.
WELL, PAL, I CAN COME VISIT YA AGAIN ONCE IāVE GOT THIS TREE HOLLOWED OUT. DUNNO HOW LONG THATāLL TAKE ME. THINKIN IāLL PUT IN THREE LEVELS TO IT
ā¦ i tried to contact him and convince him to go with you ā¦ never got a response ā¦ but we can come up with an idea to get him out later if ya want
Bill stood in the center of his drab room, one whose walls were devoid of color besides the handful of artwork and motivational posters itād been decorated with against his will. This would be the last time heād see these stupid walls. He read the coordinates and sighed. Itās now or never, he only had moments to spare before the Axolotl and all its therapist goons would be breathing down his angles and try to tie him down like a savage beast.
He regurgitated the gun in a wad of oil-like spit into his hand and rushed to type the coordinates in. He then pointed the gun, taking a pause to glare right at the camera watching his room. Finally, his sentence was over. He fired the gun and leapt through the portal.
ā¦ not sure exactly what part of the dimension youāll end up in, but i could try to meet ya somewhere amd show ya to that hollowed out tree i tried livin in ā¦ wilhelm made a deal with me to make sure i stay safe in the house she lives in and youāre likely gonna need a hidin spot pretty quickly
He faceplanted right into dirt and skidded a few paces as the portal closed behind him. He sat up, his whole body buzzed as he wiped himself down and swallowed the gun again quickly. He needed to think and fast. He opened up his phone and skimmed the text.
āIāM OUT IN A FIELD SURROUNDED BY TREES. PH MY GOD SUNLIGHT HAS NEVER FELT THIS GOOD BEFOREā¦ā
āI CANāT. ITS MAGICALLY BOUND. THEREāS UH- FLOWERS AND SHIT AROUND ME. I THINK I SPY A COUPLE BLUISH GREEN MUSHROOMS THAT ARE KINDA TALL IN THE TREE LINE?ā
*he pauses for a few seconds to try to figure out where that could be before he zooms off again, it doesnāt take very long for him to get to where Prism is after that. he looks a little different than last time they met, no scar for one thing*
hmmmmmm ā¦ would chewing off the leg itās attached to and regeneratin that work?
HAahhaHAH!! Yeahhh. there was an unfortunate incident involving an explosion and the godsā sudden interest in cloning. sorta kinda lost my old body ā¦ but yeah ā¦ OFF WITH YOUR LEG!!!
He stared down at his leg then stretched it out and bent it back so he could chew just above the ankle. He rolled his eye back and unsheathed several incisors. He hesitated, briefly, holding his leg just outside his mouth where a bit of drool began to pool upā then went for it. Teeth sink down into black velvet and through to muscle and fat underneath. Luckily the mouthful muffled a girlish scream.
It couldnāt hide the fact Bill sobbed his way through it, more saliva spilled down his front and onto his leg than necessary as he the sound of skin and flesh tearing and being yanked apart filled the silence that fell between them. Thick silver liquid gushed out, mixing with saliva and spilling onto the grass. Oddly enough the blood couldnāt sit still. Instead of a steady stream making still pools around him, it glitched and arranged itself into unique splatter patterns every few seconds, sometimes with more blood in its pool, sometimes less. It hissed with static and splashes of squared colors would rise to the surface and pop like it was being boiled.
The ankle and foot plopped to the ground and rolled a bit away from Bill, who pulled up from the wound laughing. The pained laugh sounded resembled a dying hyena, if mixed in whimpers and whines were actually a high pitched ringing coming off Bill in waves.
āFUCKā¦ THAT FEELS GREATā¦ HAāā
He closed his eye, concentrating on regenerating the leg and numbing the pain. A moment passed, and another, and then panic rose up through Billās bricks. He opened his eye to see the power suppressor glowing a faint pink, still fully activated and suppressing his power. He looked up at Nester, wide eyed.
*the clone body Nester had been put in grew very quickly, so at some point during this conversation he had gone from a normal looking triangle to something that was at least thirteen feet tall with a triangular head with a crack down the middle of it that looks just like his old scar and surrounded by four pairs of dark green wings, his body has dark grey skin stretched tight over fragile looking bones and soft black feathers growing on his limbs and chest. he paces back and forth in front of Prism, trying to figure out what to do, before he starts clawing at the power suppressor to try and break it*
ā¦ i dunno what to do ā¦ canāt use my powers right now ā¦ they havenāt been workin right since the explosion and would just make everythin worse ā¦ need to break this thing somehow ā¦ AND WHY WOULD THEY SUPPRESS REGENERATION?? THAT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHIN YOU SHOULD LET A GUY KEEP!!
Billās eye widened further, nearly popping out of his bricks at the humanoid creature that towered over him. Billās triangle body was about two and a half feet across and even though he could stretch his limbs pretty far without his abilities he still wasnāt sure if he could quite reach eye level with Nester. Talk about perks from his new body. His shadow completely consumed Bill and blocked out a good chunk of the rosy colored sky.
His pupil narrowed in on the bit of his amputated leg. It looked so dainty in Nesterās massive claws. The suppressor should have been so easy to squash but it stubbornly remained in tact and fixed on the ankle, glowing a faint pink every time Nester clawed at and pressed down on it. The texture of the object faded the tighter Nester tried to grip it.
āWHAT SO YOU CAN DO A WHOLE MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE BUT YOU CANāT HEAL AN AMPUTATED LEG?!ā
Prism clutched his leg close to his body with a high pitched whirring noise emanating off him. His eye flicked back and forth, think Bill, think! What would a human do if they were like this? What would Ford do?
In the far distant sky, a blur of color opened up. A portal, to be exact, and a couple of spaceships flew out of it.
āOH YEAH SURE. ALL IāM HEARING IS A BUNCH OF EXCUSES.ā
He yelped as Nester scooped him up. He pressed all his limbs into his hand to try and steady himself. A rush of air hit his face as he was lifted, which made him squirm about, a little too afraid of falling out of the beingās grasp. Warm liquid seeped into Nesterās palm, blood already pooling and glitching this way and that.
āYEAH. HOWSABOUT WE HEAD TO YOUR TREE? THEY CANāT SEE ME OVERHEAD IF IāM INSIDE SMTHN.ā
WELL IF YOU WANNA RISK ME ACCIDENTALLY TURNIN YA INSIDE OUT CAUSE I CANāT CONTROL MY POWERS RIGHT NOW, I AM JUST FINE WITH TRYIN IT AGAIN
*he does his best to not look at the blood as he runs, he knows heāll just start panicking if he sees static on his hands. he runs to where his tree was, but thereās nothing but a large crater left from the explosion, so he immediately turns and heads off deeper into the woods to find a different tree to hide Prism in*
ā¦ UHHHH FORGOT ABOUT THE WHOLE EXPLODED IT THING ā¦ GONNA FIND A NEW TREE
ā¦ WELL TREES ARE EASY TO HOLLOW OUT QUICKLY IF YA KNOW WHAT YOUāRE DOIN AMD I CAN KEEP EM DISTRACTED FROM WHAT YOUāRE UP TO IF THEY FIND US ā¦ AND LIKELY EAT THEM
*he changes direction to run over to that tree, holds Prism up so he can start hollowing out the tree, and looks around to make sure no one is sneaking up on them*
Thereās a distant roar of mechanical engines rushing through the sky, but none of them seem to be close. Prism unsheathed his claws and got to workā he stripped away chunks of bark until he could touch softer flesh underneath. Sadly, it did not come off in chunks the way the bark did, but it was easier to sink his claws into and shred bits and pieces off of. The occasional splinter would dig under his claws but he ignored it, it felt way too good to get to stretch his claws in general and finally shed their outer coatings the way they were meant to be shed instead of biting them off like he always had to do in the theraprism. Heād needed a scratching post but.. the whole idea of one was just demeaning.
Heād managed to make a caved in shape when his arms began to tremble. All that time in the theraprism or the fact that he was still bleeding out wasnāt lost on him. His scratching became weakerā and the tree slightly blurry. But still, he focused and forced each rhythmic movement even if it ached. This was the first thing he contributed to his own escape and he was not going to let himself fail, especially in front of Nester. He was a very capable triangle! Just as capable as Nester. Even if his movements became even weaker and- oh wow thereās two trees overlapping nowā¦
i died for a bit there but i got better and iām back now.
HEYA NESTER!
YEAH, HEARD FROM YOUR BROTHER WHAT HAPPENED. AT FIRST I THOUGHT YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR PROMISE TO COME BACK HAHAHA ITS GREAT TO HEAR YOU WERE ONLY DEAD! SO UH, HENCH GOT YOU AGAIN, HUH?
iāve died around seven times at this point. donāt recommend. always terrified itās gonna be the last time and i wonāt ever come back and that just gets worse the more times it happens.
AW WELL AS LONG AS YOUāVE AN INSURANCE POLICY SET UP YOU SHOULD BE FINE. YOU THINK CALLING UPON THE AXOLOTL TO ESCAPE DEATH WAS A LAST MINUTE THOUGHT? NO! I HAD THAT SET UP, PRACTICED, AND READY TO GO AGES BEFORE I DIED. JUST MAKE SURE YOUR BACKUP PLAN WORKS AND YOUāRE BASICALLY UNKILLABLE!
ER- SORRY ABOUT HENCH THOUGH. GUYāS STILL A REAL PAIN IN THE HYPOTENUSE.
called upon frills once and he locked me up in theraprism. also meant that the thing owned my soul so that every time i died after that iād end up in another theraprism. but then sibling killed that frills so now i have to spend weeks reforming myself from nothing but vague impressions when i die
ā¦
ā¦ i bit him a coupla days ago. got my powers back from him. heās almost certainly plotting vengeance
OKAY WELL WE DIDNāT KNOW THAT PART WAS GONNA HAPPEN, IāM NOT THRILLED TO BE LOCKED IN A THERAPRISM EITHER BUT AT LEAST IāM NOT PERMANENTLY DEAD. THATS COOL HOW YOU CAN REFORM YOURSELF THOUGH, YOU SHOULD TEACH ME SOMETIME. POINT IS, I DONāT THINK YOUāVE GOT ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT AS LONG AS YOUāVE GOT YOUR BACKUP PLAN SECURED.
HM. ITS NOT BECOMING OF A BILL BUTā¦ MAYBE GO INTO HIDING. SHAPESHIFT INTO A NEW FORM AND TAKE ON A NEW IDENTITY.
THEYāD HAVE TO HUNT DOWN AT LEAST HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOCKED BEHIND SECURITY. THEY COULD TRY BUT ITS DOUBTFUL THEYāD SUCCEED.
YEAH. WHAT ABOUT BACK TO THE NIGHTMARE REALM WHERE YOU HAD YOUR EMPIRE TO PROTECT YOU?
YEAH. YOUāRE FINE, DONāT SWEAT IT SO MUCH. YKNOW OL FRILLS HAS ME DOING THESE THINGS CALLED AFFIRMATIONS WHERE YOU REPEAT SOME MESSAGES TO YOURSELF TO MAKE YOUR BRAIN START THINKING THEM AUTOMATICALLYā SELF-BRAINWASHING IS WHAT I CALL IT. YOU COULD USE SOME.
I AM UNDEFEATABLE.
I AM INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE INFERIOR MIND.
I AM A BLIGHT UPON THIS WORLD THAT THE WORLD HASNāT LEARNED TO THANK YET.
STUFF LIKE THAT. MIGHT HELP YA FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN YOUR ABILITY TO CONQUER AND REGENERATE. OR MAYBE ITS A LOAD OF JUNK, I DUNNO I DONāT LISTEN TO FRILLS. BUT AH, SHAME. I GUESS BECOMING A FERAL CREATURE OUT IN THE WOODS IT IS.
Yeah i think Iād rather avoid brainwashing of any kind
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though i do really like that one about being incomprehensible to the inferior mind
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yeahhhh. i guess i got to go be a feral woodland creature again. even though the last time ended with my body getting eaten by gnomes and hench murdering me and a friend of mine
YEAH I DIDNāT LIKE THE ONES FRILLS GAVE ME BUT SOME OF THE ONES IāVE COME UP WITH ARE FUN. FRILLS HATES EM THOUGH, CANāT IMAGINE WHY.
SERIOUSLY? YOU GOT BESTED BY GNOMES? JUST BLAST āEM WHATāRE YOU DOING? YOU ARE POWERFUL AND GRAND AND EVEN IF YOU CANāT START WEIRDMAGEDDON SURELY YOU CAN HANDLE SOME GNOMES. SURELY.
ā¦WEIRD. MAYBE YOU HAD AN EPISODE AND SOME GNOMES TOOK ADVANTAGE?
WHAT? NO IT DOESNāT THATS JUST WHAT THE HUMANS ALL KEEP SAYING TO TRY AND GET YOU TO KEEP IT SEMI-NORMAL. THE WORLD WAS JUST FINE WHEN I RAN WEIRDMAGEDDON FOR THREE DAYS.
hmmmm. only thing like that i can think of right now is āi am an eldritch horror cthulu itself bows down toā. might need to practice makin these up a bit more
ā¦ ā¦ yeah that does sound like somethin gnomes would do
ā¦ iām not sure about that anymore ā¦ maybe it was only fine because we were there to hold it together ā¦ maybe it woulda been fine anyway ā¦ i dunno
OOH THATS A GOOD ONE! WHAT ABOUT āI AM DESTINED TO BE IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHINGā?
HUH. WELL YA CANāT JUST SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND NOT EXPLAIN. WEIRDMAGEDDON IS PERFECT. ITS EVERYTHING A BILL COULD WANTā ITS WEIRD AND WACKY AND UNPREDICTABLE WHICH MAKES IT SO EXCITING. PEOPLE SCREAM IN FEAR JUST LIKE THEY ALWAYS HAVE AND FINALLY YOU HAVE A PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOU WANT TO GIVE THAT UP?
OOOOOO I LOVE THAT ONEE!!! HOW BOUT āI AM AN ALL POWERFUL GOD, MORTAL, COWER BEFORE ME OR I WILL BURN YOUR FACE OFFā?
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i mainly did it to get everyone outta the nightmare realm before it collapsed entirely. i loved the chaos while it lasted but there isnāt a point in trying again when the last time ended with me dyin and the nightmare realm decaying away anyway
I KNOW WE COULD COME UP WITH A BUNCH IF WE JUST SAT HERE AWHILE BUT THATS GOTTA BE ENOUGH FOR NOW. THE WHOLE TRICK IS YOU GOTTA SAY IT TO YOURSELF THROUGHOUT THE DAY EVERY DAY. IF NOTHINā ELSE ITāLL MAKE YOU SMILE.
YOUCH. BUT HEY AT LEAST ITS TEMPORARY WHICH MEANS THE PAIN IS TEMPORARY! DEATH ISNāT THAT BAD. IāD RATE IT BETTER THAN WHAT CAME AFTER IT. DOES THE PAIN GET WORSE EACH TIME OR WHAT?
ohhhhhhhhh. yeah we have enough for now, then. and they will DEFINITELY make me smile (-|
it takes longer to come back each time and i always lose something. never get to come back complete. and yeah it hurts a lot too. think iāll fade away entirely if i have to die any more
OH. WAIT BUT YOU SAID YOU COULDNāT DIE UNLESS EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT YOU. SO WHICH IS IT? ARE YOU GONNA FADE AWAY PIECE BY PIECE OR ARE YOU GONNA DIE WHEN YOUāRE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN?
iām gonna die when iām completely forgotten ā¦ but a buddy of mine lost all his memories when i was dead this time so i couldnāt reform myself completely
OH. HUH, GUESS YOU KNOW HOW THE PINES FAMILY FELT WHEN THEY SACRIFICED ALL OF STANāS MEMORIES TO STOP ME. IT CANāT BE THAT TERRIBLE THOUGH, JUST REMIND HIM OH ALL THE GOOD TIMES YOU GUYS HAD AND CALL IT GOOD! PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO SMOOTH OVER ANY PROBLEMS YOU MIGHTāVE HAD WITH HIM AND TURN YOUR FRIENDSHIP INTO THE PERFECT ONE.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! YEAH I CAN SORTA SEE THAT. I TRIED REMINDIN THE GUY OF OUR FRIENDSHIP A BIT AGO AND HE ENDED UP REMEMBERING THAT LULLABY MOM SANG INSTEAD. AND THEN SUNG IT TO ME. ALSO I SORTA HAVE TO STAY HIDDEN IN MY ROOM āRESTINGā CAUSE OTHERWISE SOMETHIN HAPPENS THAT REQUIRES ME TO USE A BUNCHA ENERGY AND I DONāT HAVE ENOUGH TO HOLD MY BODY TOGETHER AND END UP GLITCHIN OUT EVERYWHERE. BEEN THINKIN BOUT MAYBE CALLIN THAT GUYāS FRILLS TO SEE IF ITāD GIVE THE GUY HIS MEMORIES OF ME BACK. BUT I DO NOT TRUST ANY VARIANT OF THAT THING NOT TO EDIT SOME STUFF IN SOMEONEāS MEMORIES
DO YOU EVER THINK ITS FATE THAT WE ALWAYS END UP STUCK IN SOME KIND OF PRISON? EVEN IF ITS NOT A LITERAL PRISON, EVERY OUNCE OF MY TRILLION YEAR LIFE HAS BEEN STUCK SOMEWHERE I DIDNāT ASK OR WANT TO BE. ITS CRUEL.
YEAH.. ME TOOā¦. NOT TO GET ALL SAPPY ON YA BUT IāVE ALWAYS WANTED A PLACE TO BELONG OR JUST BE RESPECTED IN. DIDNāT GET THAT SO NOW I BURN PLACES DOWN INSTEAD WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE BY ME!
ā¦ i found that place ā¦ live in a house with my sibling and a coupla their friends ā¦ only for them to disappear and the house to get full of complete strangers so now iām back down to zero places where i can feel like i can just be safe
THATS REAL UNFORTUNATE. AINāT NO REST FOR THE WICKED N ALL THAT. THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO SHUT GUYS LIKE US OUT BUT WHEN THE UNIVERSE DOES THAT YA GOTTA PUNCH IT RIGHT BACK IN THE GULLET. WE CARVE OUR OWN HOME OUT EVEN IF THAT IS SOME CABIN IN THE WOODS. ONE DAY YOUāLL GET YOUR STRENGTH BACK AND ESCAPE THAT PLACE AND MAKE A HOME FOR YOURSELF. IF SOME LANKY TWEENAGER HUMAN CAN RUN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS AND MAKE A HOME YOU CAN TOO. DONāT GIVE INTO DESPAIR, THATS FOR WEAKLINGS!
yeah. i am thinkin iāll just run away. cause one of the strangers whoāve moved in has that āall bills are monsters who deserve to dieā opinion and i happen to know sheās one of the gods of death for my dimension so she could permanently kill me just by touching me and one of the few people i actually know here is tellin me that she aināt dangerous and that i should be able to get along with her. it should only take about two seconds of thinkin to figure out why i disagree with that statement. so i guess i gotta run off somewhere and hope going feral again donāt end as badly as it did last time
YIKES. DAMNED GODS ALWAYS GETTING IN THE WAY. THAT GUY YOU ACTUALLY KNOW DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A FRIEND IF THEY THINK THAT ITS ANY KINDA SAFE FOR YOU TO BE AROUND HER. ITS NOT ON YOU TO CHANGE HER MIND ABOUT BILLS! NOT WHEN YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE AGAIN. SO GO ENJOY YOUR LITTLE CORNER OF YOUR DIMENSION. AND DONāT FORGET TO VISIT ME SOMETIME AGAIN EITHER.
yāknow. i suppose i could run off and talk on the phone at the same time. i donāt have to wait
*there is the sound of a window opening*
but yeah. youāre right. even wilhelmās actin like i donāt have any reason to be scared of her. so itās startin to seem like maybe everyone here secretly wants me dead. wouldnāt at all be the first time i thought i found a safe place to hang out only for it to turn out that everyone there wanted me dead
EXACTLY! now all i have to worry bout is which tree would be best to hollow out and live in, not when are these guys gonna betray me! iām already a whole lot more relaxed now i know that itās unlikely theyāll be able to find me out here!
OH YEAH BABY NOW WEāRE COOKING. YOUāRE GONNA WANT ONE THATāS NICE AND THICK SO YOU STILL HAVE SOME SPACE TO WALK AROUND INSIDE. AND YOU CAN HOLLOW OUT DIFFERENT AREAS TO MAKE FLOORS TO SCURRY UP AND DOWN. ITS NOT A GRAND OL ENTIRE DIMENSION THAT YOU DESERVE BUT EH, YOU NEED TO LAY LOW. IF YOUāVE GOT THE JUICE FOR IT YOU CAN MAKE AN INVISIBLE BARRIER TO KEEP OTHERS OUT.
OOOO I JUST FOUND THE PERFECT TREE FOR THIS!!! Itās a great big thick one almost completely surrounded by birch trees. gonna plan out the interior before i start diggin though! (-(
yāknow, invisible barrier is a GREAT idea. gonna dk that now!! (-(
*there is a quiet wooshing sound as the barrier goes up*
HEY THAT IS PERFECT! IāD COME GIVE YOU A HOUSEWARMING GIFT BUT, YKNOW. IN A WHOLE SITUATION OVER HERE. ONE DAY IāLL GIVE YOU ONE. IāLL SLIP IT THROUGH THE BARRIER.
WELL, PAL, I CAN COME VISIT YA AGAIN ONCE IāVE GOT THIS TREE HOLLOWED OUT. DUNNO HOW LONG THATāLL TAKE ME. THINKIN IāLL PUT IN THREE LEVELS TO IT
ā¦ i tried to contact him and convince him to go with you ā¦ never got a response ā¦ but we can come up with an idea to get him out later if ya want
Bill stood in the center of his drab room, one whose walls were devoid of color besides the handful of artwork and motivational posters itād been decorated with against his will. This would be the last time heād see these stupid walls. He read the coordinates and sighed. Itās now or never, he only had moments to spare before the Axolotl and all its therapist goons would be breathing down his angles and try to tie him down like a savage beast.
He regurgitated the gun in a wad of oil-like spit into his hand and rushed to type the coordinates in. He then pointed the gun, taking a pause to glare right at the camera watching his room. Finally, his sentence was over. He fired the gun and leapt through the portal.
ā¦ not sure exactly what part of the dimension youāll end up in, but i could try to meet ya somewhere amd show ya to that hollowed out tree i tried livin in ā¦ wilhelm made a deal with me to make sure i stay safe in the house she lives in and youāre likely gonna need a hidin spot pretty quickly
He faceplanted right into dirt and skidded a few paces as the portal closed behind him. He sat up, his whole body buzzed as he wiped himself down and swallowed the gun again quickly. He needed to think and fast. He opened up his phone and skimmed the text.
āIāM OUT IN A FIELD SURROUNDED BY TREES. PH MY GOD SUNLIGHT HAS NEVER FELT THIS GOOD BEFOREā¦ā
āI CANāT. ITS MAGICALLY BOUND. THEREāS UH- FLOWERS AND SHIT AROUND ME. I THINK I SPY A COUPLE BLUISH GREEN MUSHROOMS THAT ARE KINDA TALL IN THE TREE LINE?ā
*he pauses for a few seconds to try to figure out where that could be before he zooms off again, it doesnāt take very long for him to get to where Prism is after that. he looks a little different than last time they met, no scar for one thing*
hmmmmmm ā¦ would chewing off the leg itās attached to and regeneratin that work?
HAahhaHAH!! Yeahhh. there was an unfortunate incident involving an explosion and the godsā sudden interest in cloning. sorta kinda lost my old body ā¦ but yeah ā¦ OFF WITH YOUR LEG!!!
He stared down at his leg then stretched it out and bent it back so he could chew just above the ankle. He rolled his eye back and unsheathed several incisors. He hesitated, briefly, holding his leg just outside his mouth where a bit of drool began to pool upā then went for it. Teeth sink down into black velvet and through to muscle and fat underneath. Luckily the mouthful muffled a girlish scream.
It couldnāt hide the fact Bill sobbed his way through it, more saliva spilled down his front and onto his leg than necessary as he the sound of skin and flesh tearing and being yanked apart filled the silence that fell between them. Thick silver liquid gushed out, mixing with saliva and spilling onto the grass. Oddly enough the blood couldnāt sit still. Instead of a steady stream making still pools around him, it glitched and arranged itself into unique splatter patterns every few seconds, sometimes with more blood in its pool, sometimes less. It hissed with static and splashes of squared colors would rise to the surface and pop like it was being boiled.
The ankle and foot plopped to the ground and rolled a bit away from Bill, who pulled up from the wound laughing. The pained laugh sounded resembled a dying hyena, if mixed in whimpers and whines were actually a high pitched ringing coming off Bill in waves.
āFUCKā¦ THAT FEELS GREATā¦ HAāā
He closed his eye, concentrating on regenerating the leg and numbing the pain. A moment passed, and another, and then panic rose up through Billās bricks. He opened his eye to see the power suppressor glowing a faint pink, still fully activated and suppressing his power. He looked up at Nester, wide eyed.
*the clone body Nester had been put in grew very quickly, so at some point during this conversation he had gone from a normal looking triangle to something that was at least thirteen feet tall with a triangular head with a crack down the middle of it that looks just like his old scar and surrounded by four pairs of dark green wings, his body has dark grey skin stretched tight over fragile looking bones and soft black feathers growing on his limbs and chest. he paces back and forth in front of Prism, trying to figure out what to do, before he starts clawing at the power suppressor to try and break it*
ā¦ i dunno what to do ā¦ canāt use my powers right now ā¦ they havenāt been workin right since the explosion and would just make everythin worse ā¦ need to break this thing somehow ā¦ AND WHY WOULD THEY SUPPRESS REGENERATION?? THAT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHIN YOU SHOULD LET A GUY KEEP!!
Billās eye widened further, nearly popping out of his bricks at the humanoid creature that towered over him. Billās triangle body was about two and a half feet across and even though he could stretch his limbs pretty far without his abilities he still wasnāt sure if he could quite reach eye level with Nester. Talk about perks from his new body. His shadow completely consumed Bill and blocked out a good chunk of the rosy colored sky.
His pupil narrowed in on the bit of his amputated leg. It looked so dainty in Nesterās massive claws. The suppressor should have been so easy to squash but it stubbornly remained in tact and fixed on the ankle, glowing a faint pink every time Nester clawed at and pressed down on it. The texture of the object faded the tighter Nester tried to grip it.
āWHAT SO YOU CAN DO A WHOLE MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE BUT YOU CANāT HEAL AN AMPUTATED LEG?!ā
Prism clutched his leg close to his body with a high pitched whirring noise emanating off him. His eye flicked back and forth, think Bill, think! What would a human do if they were like this? What would Ford do?
In the far distant sky, a blur of color opened up. A portal, to be exact, and a couple of spaceships flew out of it.
āOH YEAH SURE. ALL IāM HEARING IS A BUNCH OF EXCUSES.ā
He yelped as Nester scooped him up. He pressed all his limbs into his hand to try and steady himself. A rush of air hit his face as he was lifted, which made him squirm about, a little too afraid of falling out of the beingās grasp. Warm liquid seeped into Nesterās palm, blood already pooling and glitching this way and that.
āYEAH. HOWSABOUT WE HEAD TO YOUR TREE? THEY CANāT SEE ME OVERHEAD IF IāM INSIDE SMTHN.ā
WELL IF YOU WANNA RISK ME ACCIDENTALLY TURNIN YA INSIDE OUT CAUSE I CANāT CONTROL MY POWERS RIGHT NOW, I AM JUST FINE WITH TRYIN IT AGAIN
*he does his best to not look at the blood as he runs, he knows heāll just start panicking if he sees static on his hands. he runs to where his tree was, but thereās nothing but a large crater left from the explosion, so he immediately turns and heads off deeper into the woods to find a different tree to hide Prism in*
ā¦ UHHHH FORGOT ABOUT THE WHOLE EXPLODED IT THING ā¦ GONNA FIND A NEW TREE
ā¦ WELL TREES ARE EASY TO HOLLOW OUT QUICKLY IF YA KNOW WHAT YOUāRE DOIN AMD I CAN KEEP EM DISTRACTED FROM WHAT YOUāRE UP TO IF THEY FIND US ā¦ AND LIKELY EAT THEM
i died for a bit there but i got better and iām back now.
HEYA NESTER!
YEAH, HEARD FROM YOUR BROTHER WHAT HAPPENED. AT FIRST I THOUGHT YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR PROMISE TO COME BACK HAHAHA ITS GREAT TO HEAR YOU WERE ONLY DEAD! SO UH, HENCH GOT YOU AGAIN, HUH?
iāve died around seven times at this point. donāt recommend. always terrified itās gonna be the last time and i wonāt ever come back and that just gets worse the more times it happens.
AW WELL AS LONG AS YOUāVE AN INSURANCE POLICY SET UP YOU SHOULD BE FINE. YOU THINK CALLING UPON THE AXOLOTL TO ESCAPE DEATH WAS A LAST MINUTE THOUGHT? NO! I HAD THAT SET UP, PRACTICED, AND READY TO GO AGES BEFORE I DIED. JUST MAKE SURE YOUR BACKUP PLAN WORKS AND YOUāRE BASICALLY UNKILLABLE!
ER- SORRY ABOUT HENCH THOUGH. GUYāS STILL A REAL PAIN IN THE HYPOTENUSE.
called upon frills once and he locked me up in theraprism. also meant that the thing owned my soul so that every time i died after that iād end up in another theraprism. but then sibling killed that frills so now i have to spend weeks reforming myself from nothing but vague impressions when i die
ā¦
ā¦ i bit him a coupla days ago. got my powers back from him. heās almost certainly plotting vengeance
OKAY WELL WE DIDNāT KNOW THAT PART WAS GONNA HAPPEN, IāM NOT THRILLED TO BE LOCKED IN A THERAPRISM EITHER BUT AT LEAST IāM NOT PERMANENTLY DEAD. THATS COOL HOW YOU CAN REFORM YOURSELF THOUGH, YOU SHOULD TEACH ME SOMETIME. POINT IS, I DONāT THINK YOUāVE GOT ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT AS LONG AS YOUāVE GOT YOUR BACKUP PLAN SECURED.
HM. ITS NOT BECOMING OF A BILL BUTā¦ MAYBE GO INTO HIDING. SHAPESHIFT INTO A NEW FORM AND TAKE ON A NEW IDENTITY.
THEYāD HAVE TO HUNT DOWN AT LEAST HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOCKED BEHIND SECURITY. THEY COULD TRY BUT ITS DOUBTFUL THEYāD SUCCEED.
YEAH. WHAT ABOUT BACK TO THE NIGHTMARE REALM WHERE YOU HAD YOUR EMPIRE TO PROTECT YOU?
YEAH. YOUāRE FINE, DONāT SWEAT IT SO MUCH. YKNOW OL FRILLS HAS ME DOING THESE THINGS CALLED AFFIRMATIONS WHERE YOU REPEAT SOME MESSAGES TO YOURSELF TO MAKE YOUR BRAIN START THINKING THEM AUTOMATICALLYā SELF-BRAINWASHING IS WHAT I CALL IT. YOU COULD USE SOME.
I AM UNDEFEATABLE.
I AM INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE INFERIOR MIND.
I AM A BLIGHT UPON THIS WORLD THAT THE WORLD HASNāT LEARNED TO THANK YET.
STUFF LIKE THAT. MIGHT HELP YA FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN YOUR ABILITY TO CONQUER AND REGENERATE. OR MAYBE ITS A LOAD OF JUNK, I DUNNO I DONāT LISTEN TO FRILLS. BUT AH, SHAME. I GUESS BECOMING A FERAL CREATURE OUT IN THE WOODS IT IS.
Yeah i think Iād rather avoid brainwashing of any kind
ā¦
though i do really like that one about being incomprehensible to the inferior mind
ā¦
yeahhhh. i guess i got to go be a feral woodland creature again. even though the last time ended with my body getting eaten by gnomes and hench murdering me and a friend of mine
YEAH I DIDNāT LIKE THE ONES FRILLS GAVE ME BUT SOME OF THE ONES IāVE COME UP WITH ARE FUN. FRILLS HATES EM THOUGH, CANāT IMAGINE WHY.
SERIOUSLY? YOU GOT BESTED BY GNOMES? JUST BLAST āEM WHATāRE YOU DOING? YOU ARE POWERFUL AND GRAND AND EVEN IF YOU CANāT START WEIRDMAGEDDON SURELY YOU CAN HANDLE SOME GNOMES. SURELY.
ā¦WEIRD. MAYBE YOU HAD AN EPISODE AND SOME GNOMES TOOK ADVANTAGE?
WHAT? NO IT DOESNāT THATS JUST WHAT THE HUMANS ALL KEEP SAYING TO TRY AND GET YOU TO KEEP IT SEMI-NORMAL. THE WORLD WAS JUST FINE WHEN I RAN WEIRDMAGEDDON FOR THREE DAYS.
hmmmm. only thing like that i can think of right now is āi am an eldritch horror cthulu itself bows down toā. might need to practice makin these up a bit more
ā¦ ā¦ yeah that does sound like somethin gnomes would do
ā¦ iām not sure about that anymore ā¦ maybe it was only fine because we were there to hold it together ā¦ maybe it woulda been fine anyway ā¦ i dunno
OOH THATS A GOOD ONE! WHAT ABOUT āI AM DESTINED TO BE IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHINGā?
HUH. WELL YA CANāT JUST SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND NOT EXPLAIN. WEIRDMAGEDDON IS PERFECT. ITS EVERYTHING A BILL COULD WANTā ITS WEIRD AND WACKY AND UNPREDICTABLE WHICH MAKES IT SO EXCITING. PEOPLE SCREAM IN FEAR JUST LIKE THEY ALWAYS HAVE AND FINALLY YOU HAVE A PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOU WANT TO GIVE THAT UP?
OOOOOO I LOVE THAT ONEE!!! HOW BOUT āI AM AN ALL POWERFUL GOD, MORTAL, COWER BEFORE ME OR I WILL BURN YOUR FACE OFFā?
ā¦
i mainly did it to get everyone outta the nightmare realm before it collapsed entirely. i loved the chaos while it lasted but there isnāt a point in trying again when the last time ended with me dyin and the nightmare realm decaying away anyway
I KNOW WE COULD COME UP WITH A BUNCH IF WE JUST SAT HERE AWHILE BUT THATS GOTTA BE ENOUGH FOR NOW. THE WHOLE TRICK IS YOU GOTTA SAY IT TO YOURSELF THROUGHOUT THE DAY EVERY DAY. IF NOTHINā ELSE ITāLL MAKE YOU SMILE.
YOUCH. BUT HEY AT LEAST ITS TEMPORARY WHICH MEANS THE PAIN IS TEMPORARY! DEATH ISNāT THAT BAD. IāD RATE IT BETTER THAN WHAT CAME AFTER IT. DOES THE PAIN GET WORSE EACH TIME OR WHAT?
ohhhhhhhhh. yeah we have enough for now, then. and they will DEFINITELY make me smile (-|
it takes longer to come back each time and i always lose something. never get to come back complete. and yeah it hurts a lot too. think iāll fade away entirely if i have to die any more
OH. WAIT BUT YOU SAID YOU COULDNāT DIE UNLESS EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT YOU. SO WHICH IS IT? ARE YOU GONNA FADE AWAY PIECE BY PIECE OR ARE YOU GONNA DIE WHEN YOUāRE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN?
iām gonna die when iām completely forgotten ā¦ but a buddy of mine lost all his memories when i was dead this time so i couldnāt reform myself completely
OH. HUH, GUESS YOU KNOW HOW THE PINES FAMILY FELT WHEN THEY SACRIFICED ALL OF STANāS MEMORIES TO STOP ME. IT CANāT BE THAT TERRIBLE THOUGH, JUST REMIND HIM OH ALL THE GOOD TIMES YOU GUYS HAD AND CALL IT GOOD! PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO SMOOTH OVER ANY PROBLEMS YOU MIGHTāVE HAD WITH HIM AND TURN YOUR FRIENDSHIP INTO THE PERFECT ONE.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! YEAH I CAN SORTA SEE THAT. I TRIED REMINDIN THE GUY OF OUR FRIENDSHIP A BIT AGO AND HE ENDED UP REMEMBERING THAT LULLABY MOM SANG INSTEAD. AND THEN SUNG IT TO ME. ALSO I SORTA HAVE TO STAY HIDDEN IN MY ROOM āRESTINGā CAUSE OTHERWISE SOMETHIN HAPPENS THAT REQUIRES ME TO USE A BUNCHA ENERGY AND I DONāT HAVE ENOUGH TO HOLD MY BODY TOGETHER AND END UP GLITCHIN OUT EVERYWHERE. BEEN THINKIN BOUT MAYBE CALLIN THAT GUYāS FRILLS TO SEE IF ITāD GIVE THE GUY HIS MEMORIES OF ME BACK. BUT I DO NOT TRUST ANY VARIANT OF THAT THING NOT TO EDIT SOME STUFF IN SOMEONEāS MEMORIES
DO YOU EVER THINK ITS FATE THAT WE ALWAYS END UP STUCK IN SOME KIND OF PRISON? EVEN IF ITS NOT A LITERAL PRISON, EVERY OUNCE OF MY TRILLION YEAR LIFE HAS BEEN STUCK SOMEWHERE I DIDNāT ASK OR WANT TO BE. ITS CRUEL.
YEAH.. ME TOOā¦. NOT TO GET ALL SAPPY ON YA BUT IāVE ALWAYS WANTED A PLACE TO BELONG OR JUST BE RESPECTED IN. DIDNāT GET THAT SO NOW I BURN PLACES DOWN INSTEAD WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE BY ME!
ā¦ i found that place ā¦ live in a house with my sibling and a coupla their friends ā¦ only for them to disappear and the house to get full of complete strangers so now iām back down to zero places where i can feel like i can just be safe
THATS REAL UNFORTUNATE. AINāT NO REST FOR THE WICKED N ALL THAT. THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO SHUT GUYS LIKE US OUT BUT WHEN THE UNIVERSE DOES THAT YA GOTTA PUNCH IT RIGHT BACK IN THE GULLET. WE CARVE OUR OWN HOME OUT EVEN IF THAT IS SOME CABIN IN THE WOODS. ONE DAY YOUāLL GET YOUR STRENGTH BACK AND ESCAPE THAT PLACE AND MAKE A HOME FOR YOURSELF. IF SOME LANKY TWEENAGER HUMAN CAN RUN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS AND MAKE A HOME YOU CAN TOO. DONāT GIVE INTO DESPAIR, THATS FOR WEAKLINGS!
yeah. i am thinkin iāll just run away. cause one of the strangers whoāve moved in has that āall bills are monsters who deserve to dieā opinion and i happen to know sheās one of the gods of death for my dimension so she could permanently kill me just by touching me and one of the few people i actually know here is tellin me that she aināt dangerous and that i should be able to get along with her. it should only take about two seconds of thinkin to figure out why i disagree with that statement. so i guess i gotta run off somewhere and hope going feral again donāt end as badly as it did last time
YIKES. DAMNED GODS ALWAYS GETTING IN THE WAY. THAT GUY YOU ACTUALLY KNOW DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A FRIEND IF THEY THINK THAT ITS ANY KINDA SAFE FOR YOU TO BE AROUND HER. ITS NOT ON YOU TO CHANGE HER MIND ABOUT BILLS! NOT WHEN YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE AGAIN. SO GO ENJOY YOUR LITTLE CORNER OF YOUR DIMENSION. AND DONāT FORGET TO VISIT ME SOMETIME AGAIN EITHER.
yāknow. i suppose i could run off and talk on the phone at the same time. i donāt have to wait
*there is the sound of a window opening*
but yeah. youāre right. even wilhelmās actin like i donāt have any reason to be scared of her. so itās startin to seem like maybe everyone here secretly wants me dead. wouldnāt at all be the first time i thought i found a safe place to hang out only for it to turn out that everyone there wanted me dead
EXACTLY! now all i have to worry bout is which tree would be best to hollow out and live in, not when are these guys gonna betray me! iām already a whole lot more relaxed now i know that itās unlikely theyāll be able to find me out here!
OH YEAH BABY NOW WEāRE COOKING. YOUāRE GONNA WANT ONE THATāS NICE AND THICK SO YOU STILL HAVE SOME SPACE TO WALK AROUND INSIDE. AND YOU CAN HOLLOW OUT DIFFERENT AREAS TO MAKE FLOORS TO SCURRY UP AND DOWN. ITS NOT A GRAND OL ENTIRE DIMENSION THAT YOU DESERVE BUT EH, YOU NEED TO LAY LOW. IF YOUāVE GOT THE JUICE FOR IT YOU CAN MAKE AN INVISIBLE BARRIER TO KEEP OTHERS OUT.
OOOO I JUST FOUND THE PERFECT TREE FOR THIS!!! Itās a great big thick one almost completely surrounded by birch trees. gonna plan out the interior before i start diggin though! (-(
yāknow, invisible barrier is a GREAT idea. gonna dk that now!! (-(
*there is a quiet wooshing sound as the barrier goes up*
HEY THAT IS PERFECT! IāD COME GIVE YOU A HOUSEWARMING GIFT BUT, YKNOW. IN A WHOLE SITUATION OVER HERE. ONE DAY IāLL GIVE YOU ONE. IāLL SLIP IT THROUGH THE BARRIER.
WELL, PAL, I CAN COME VISIT YA AGAIN ONCE IāVE GOT THIS TREE HOLLOWED OUT. DUNNO HOW LONG THATāLL TAKE ME. THINKIN IāLL PUT IN THREE LEVELS TO IT
ā¦ i tried to contact him and convince him to go with you ā¦ never got a response ā¦ but we can come up with an idea to get him out later if ya want
Bill stood in the center of his drab room, one whose walls were devoid of color besides the handful of artwork and motivational posters itād been decorated with against his will. This would be the last time heād see these stupid walls. He read the coordinates and sighed. Itās now or never, he only had moments to spare before the Axolotl and all its therapist goons would be breathing down his angles and try to tie him down like a savage beast.
He regurgitated the gun in a wad of oil-like spit into his hand and rushed to type the coordinates in. He then pointed the gun, taking a pause to glare right at the camera watching his room. Finally, his sentence was over. He fired the gun and leapt through the portal.
ā¦ not sure exactly what part of the dimension youāll end up in, but i could try to meet ya somewhere amd show ya to that hollowed out tree i tried livin in ā¦ wilhelm made a deal with me to make sure i stay safe in the house she lives in and youāre likely gonna need a hidin spot pretty quickly
He faceplanted right into dirt and skidded a few paces as the portal closed behind him. He sat up, his whole body buzzed as he wiped himself down and swallowed the gun again quickly. He needed to think and fast. He opened up his phone and skimmed the text.
āIāM OUT IN A FIELD SURROUNDED BY TREES. PH MY GOD SUNLIGHT HAS NEVER FELT THIS GOOD BEFOREā¦ā
āI CANāT. ITS MAGICALLY BOUND. THEREāS UH- FLOWERS AND SHIT AROUND ME. I THINK I SPY A COUPLE BLUISH GREEN MUSHROOMS THAT ARE KINDA TALL IN THE TREE LINE?ā
*he pauses for a few seconds to try to figure out where that could be before he zooms off again, it doesnāt take very long for him to get to where Prism is after that. he looks a little different than last time they met, no scar for one thing*
hmmmmmm ā¦ would chewing off the leg itās attached to and regeneratin that work?
HAahhaHAH!! Yeahhh. there was an unfortunate incident involving an explosion and the godsā sudden interest in cloning. sorta kinda lost my old body ā¦ but yeah ā¦ OFF WITH YOUR LEG!!!
He stared down at his leg then stretched it out and bent it back so he could chew just above the ankle. He rolled his eye back and unsheathed several incisors. He hesitated, briefly, holding his leg just outside his mouth where a bit of drool began to pool upā then went for it. Teeth sink down into black velvet and through to muscle and fat underneath. Luckily the mouthful muffled a girlish scream.
It couldnāt hide the fact Bill sobbed his way through it, more saliva spilled down his front and onto his leg than necessary as he the sound of skin and flesh tearing and being yanked apart filled the silence that fell between them. Thick silver liquid gushed out, mixing with saliva and spilling onto the grass. Oddly enough the blood couldnāt sit still. Instead of a steady stream making still pools around him, it glitched and arranged itself into unique splatter patterns every few seconds, sometimes with more blood in its pool, sometimes less. It hissed with static and splashes of squared colors would rise to the surface and pop like it was being boiled.
The ankle and foot plopped to the ground and rolled a bit away from Bill, who pulled up from the wound laughing. The pained laugh sounded resembled a dying hyena, if mixed in whimpers and whines were actually a high pitched ringing coming off Bill in waves.
āFUCKā¦ THAT FEELS GREATā¦ HAāā
He closed his eye, concentrating on regenerating the leg and numbing the pain. A moment passed, and another, and then panic rose up through Billās bricks. He opened his eye to see the power suppressor glowing a faint pink, still fully activated and suppressing his power. He looked up at Nester, wide eyed.
*the clone body Nester had been put in grew very quickly, so at some point during this conversation he had gone from a normal looking triangle to something that was at least thirteen feet tall with a triangular head with a crack down the middle of it that looks just like his old scar and surrounded by four pairs of dark green wings, his body has dark grey skin stretched tight over fragile looking bones and soft black feathers growing on his limbs and chest. he paces back and forth in front of Prism, trying to figure out what to do, before he starts clawing at the power suppressor to try and break it*
ā¦ i dunno what to do ā¦ canāt use my powers right now ā¦ they havenāt been workin right since the explosion and would just make everythin worse ā¦ need to break this thing somehow ā¦ AND WHY WOULD THEY SUPPRESS REGENERATION?? THAT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHIN YOU SHOULD LET A GUY KEEP!!
Billās eye widened further, nearly popping out of his bricks at the humanoid creature that towered over him. Billās triangle body was about two and a half feet across and even though he could stretch his limbs pretty far without his abilities he still wasnāt sure if he could quite reach eye level with Nester. Talk about perks from his new body. His shadow completely consumed Bill and blocked out a good chunk of the rosy colored sky.
His pupil narrowed in on the bit of his amputated leg. It looked so dainty in Nesterās massive claws. The suppressor should have been so easy to squash but it stubbornly remained in tact and fixed on the ankle, glowing a faint pink every time Nester clawed at and pressed down on it. The texture of the object faded the tighter Nester tried to grip it.
āWHAT SO YOU CAN DO A WHOLE MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE BUT YOU CANāT HEAL AN AMPUTATED LEG?!ā
Prism clutched his leg close to his body with a high pitched whirring noise emanating off him. His eye flicked back and forth, think Bill, think! What would a human do if they were like this? What would Ford do?
In the far distant sky, a blur of color opened up. A portal, to be exact, and a couple of spaceships flew out of it.
āOH YEAH SURE. ALL IāM HEARING IS A BUNCH OF EXCUSES.ā
He yelped as Nester scooped him up. He pressed all his limbs into his hand to try and steady himself. A rush of air hit his face as he was lifted, which made him squirm about, a little too afraid of falling out of the beingās grasp. Warm liquid seeped into Nesterās palm, blood already pooling and glitching this way and that.
āYEAH. HOWSABOUT WE HEAD TO YOUR TREE? THEY CANāT SEE ME OVERHEAD IF IāM INSIDE SMTHN.ā
WELL IF YOU WANNA RISK ME ACCIDENTALLY TURNIN YA INSIDE OUT CAUSE I CANāT CONTROL MY POWERS RIGHT NOW, I AM JUST FINE WITH TRYIN IT AGAIN
*he does his best to not look at the blood as he runs, he knows heāll just start panicking if he sees static on his hands. he runs to where his tree was, but thereās nothing but a large crater left from the explosion, so he immediately turns and heads off deeper into the woods to find a different tree to hide Prism in*
ā¦ UHHHH FORGOT ABOUT THE WHOLE EXPLODED IT THING ā¦ GONNA FIND A NEW TREE
i died for a bit there but i got better and iām back now.
HEYA NESTER!
YEAH, HEARD FROM YOUR BROTHER WHAT HAPPENED. AT FIRST I THOUGHT YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR PROMISE TO COME BACK HAHAHA ITS GREAT TO HEAR YOU WERE ONLY DEAD! SO UH, HENCH GOT YOU AGAIN, HUH?
iāve died around seven times at this point. donāt recommend. always terrified itās gonna be the last time and i wonāt ever come back and that just gets worse the more times it happens.
AW WELL AS LONG AS YOUāVE AN INSURANCE POLICY SET UP YOU SHOULD BE FINE. YOU THINK CALLING UPON THE AXOLOTL TO ESCAPE DEATH WAS A LAST MINUTE THOUGHT? NO! I HAD THAT SET UP, PRACTICED, AND READY TO GO AGES BEFORE I DIED. JUST MAKE SURE YOUR BACKUP PLAN WORKS AND YOUāRE BASICALLY UNKILLABLE!
ER- SORRY ABOUT HENCH THOUGH. GUYāS STILL A REAL PAIN IN THE HYPOTENUSE.
called upon frills once and he locked me up in theraprism. also meant that the thing owned my soul so that every time i died after that iād end up in another theraprism. but then sibling killed that frills so now i have to spend weeks reforming myself from nothing but vague impressions when i die
ā¦
ā¦ i bit him a coupla days ago. got my powers back from him. heās almost certainly plotting vengeance
OKAY WELL WE DIDNāT KNOW THAT PART WAS GONNA HAPPEN, IāM NOT THRILLED TO BE LOCKED IN A THERAPRISM EITHER BUT AT LEAST IāM NOT PERMANENTLY DEAD. THATS COOL HOW YOU CAN REFORM YOURSELF THOUGH, YOU SHOULD TEACH ME SOMETIME. POINT IS, I DONāT THINK YOUāVE GOT ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT AS LONG AS YOUāVE GOT YOUR BACKUP PLAN SECURED.
HM. ITS NOT BECOMING OF A BILL BUTā¦ MAYBE GO INTO HIDING. SHAPESHIFT INTO A NEW FORM AND TAKE ON A NEW IDENTITY.
THEYāD HAVE TO HUNT DOWN AT LEAST HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOCKED BEHIND SECURITY. THEY COULD TRY BUT ITS DOUBTFUL THEYāD SUCCEED.
YEAH. WHAT ABOUT BACK TO THE NIGHTMARE REALM WHERE YOU HAD YOUR EMPIRE TO PROTECT YOU?
YEAH. YOUāRE FINE, DONāT SWEAT IT SO MUCH. YKNOW OL FRILLS HAS ME DOING THESE THINGS CALLED AFFIRMATIONS WHERE YOU REPEAT SOME MESSAGES TO YOURSELF TO MAKE YOUR BRAIN START THINKING THEM AUTOMATICALLYā SELF-BRAINWASHING IS WHAT I CALL IT. YOU COULD USE SOME.
I AM UNDEFEATABLE.
I AM INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE INFERIOR MIND.
I AM A BLIGHT UPON THIS WORLD THAT THE WORLD HASNāT LEARNED TO THANK YET.
STUFF LIKE THAT. MIGHT HELP YA FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN YOUR ABILITY TO CONQUER AND REGENERATE. OR MAYBE ITS A LOAD OF JUNK, I DUNNO I DONāT LISTEN TO FRILLS. BUT AH, SHAME. I GUESS BECOMING A FERAL CREATURE OUT IN THE WOODS IT IS.
Yeah i think Iād rather avoid brainwashing of any kind
ā¦
though i do really like that one about being incomprehensible to the inferior mind
ā¦
yeahhhh. i guess i got to go be a feral woodland creature again. even though the last time ended with my body getting eaten by gnomes and hench murdering me and a friend of mine
YEAH I DIDNāT LIKE THE ONES FRILLS GAVE ME BUT SOME OF THE ONES IāVE COME UP WITH ARE FUN. FRILLS HATES EM THOUGH, CANāT IMAGINE WHY.
SERIOUSLY? YOU GOT BESTED BY GNOMES? JUST BLAST āEM WHATāRE YOU DOING? YOU ARE POWERFUL AND GRAND AND EVEN IF YOU CANāT START WEIRDMAGEDDON SURELY YOU CAN HANDLE SOME GNOMES. SURELY.
ā¦WEIRD. MAYBE YOU HAD AN EPISODE AND SOME GNOMES TOOK ADVANTAGE?
WHAT? NO IT DOESNāT THATS JUST WHAT THE HUMANS ALL KEEP SAYING TO TRY AND GET YOU TO KEEP IT SEMI-NORMAL. THE WORLD WAS JUST FINE WHEN I RAN WEIRDMAGEDDON FOR THREE DAYS.
hmmmm. only thing like that i can think of right now is āi am an eldritch horror cthulu itself bows down toā. might need to practice makin these up a bit more
ā¦ ā¦ yeah that does sound like somethin gnomes would do
ā¦ iām not sure about that anymore ā¦ maybe it was only fine because we were there to hold it together ā¦ maybe it woulda been fine anyway ā¦ i dunno
OOH THATS A GOOD ONE! WHAT ABOUT āI AM DESTINED TO BE IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHINGā?
HUH. WELL YA CANāT JUST SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND NOT EXPLAIN. WEIRDMAGEDDON IS PERFECT. ITS EVERYTHING A BILL COULD WANTā ITS WEIRD AND WACKY AND UNPREDICTABLE WHICH MAKES IT SO EXCITING. PEOPLE SCREAM IN FEAR JUST LIKE THEY ALWAYS HAVE AND FINALLY YOU HAVE A PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOU WANT TO GIVE THAT UP?
OOOOOO I LOVE THAT ONEE!!! HOW BOUT āI AM AN ALL POWERFUL GOD, MORTAL, COWER BEFORE ME OR I WILL BURN YOUR FACE OFFā?
ā¦
i mainly did it to get everyone outta the nightmare realm before it collapsed entirely. i loved the chaos while it lasted but there isnāt a point in trying again when the last time ended with me dyin and the nightmare realm decaying away anyway
I KNOW WE COULD COME UP WITH A BUNCH IF WE JUST SAT HERE AWHILE BUT THATS GOTTA BE ENOUGH FOR NOW. THE WHOLE TRICK IS YOU GOTTA SAY IT TO YOURSELF THROUGHOUT THE DAY EVERY DAY. IF NOTHINā ELSE ITāLL MAKE YOU SMILE.
YOUCH. BUT HEY AT LEAST ITS TEMPORARY WHICH MEANS THE PAIN IS TEMPORARY! DEATH ISNāT THAT BAD. IāD RATE IT BETTER THAN WHAT CAME AFTER IT. DOES THE PAIN GET WORSE EACH TIME OR WHAT?
ohhhhhhhhh. yeah we have enough for now, then. and they will DEFINITELY make me smile (-|
it takes longer to come back each time and i always lose something. never get to come back complete. and yeah it hurts a lot too. think iāll fade away entirely if i have to die any more
OH. WAIT BUT YOU SAID YOU COULDNāT DIE UNLESS EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT YOU. SO WHICH IS IT? ARE YOU GONNA FADE AWAY PIECE BY PIECE OR ARE YOU GONNA DIE WHEN YOUāRE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN?
iām gonna die when iām completely forgotten ā¦ but a buddy of mine lost all his memories when i was dead this time so i couldnāt reform myself completely
OH. HUH, GUESS YOU KNOW HOW THE PINES FAMILY FELT WHEN THEY SACRIFICED ALL OF STANāS MEMORIES TO STOP ME. IT CANāT BE THAT TERRIBLE THOUGH, JUST REMIND HIM OH ALL THE GOOD TIMES YOU GUYS HAD AND CALL IT GOOD! PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO SMOOTH OVER ANY PROBLEMS YOU MIGHTāVE HAD WITH HIM AND TURN YOUR FRIENDSHIP INTO THE PERFECT ONE.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! YEAH I CAN SORTA SEE THAT. I TRIED REMINDIN THE GUY OF OUR FRIENDSHIP A BIT AGO AND HE ENDED UP REMEMBERING THAT LULLABY MOM SANG INSTEAD. AND THEN SUNG IT TO ME. ALSO I SORTA HAVE TO STAY HIDDEN IN MY ROOM āRESTINGā CAUSE OTHERWISE SOMETHIN HAPPENS THAT REQUIRES ME TO USE A BUNCHA ENERGY AND I DONāT HAVE ENOUGH TO HOLD MY BODY TOGETHER AND END UP GLITCHIN OUT EVERYWHERE. BEEN THINKIN BOUT MAYBE CALLIN THAT GUYāS FRILLS TO SEE IF ITāD GIVE THE GUY HIS MEMORIES OF ME BACK. BUT I DO NOT TRUST ANY VARIANT OF THAT THING NOT TO EDIT SOME STUFF IN SOMEONEāS MEMORIES
DO YOU EVER THINK ITS FATE THAT WE ALWAYS END UP STUCK IN SOME KIND OF PRISON? EVEN IF ITS NOT A LITERAL PRISON, EVERY OUNCE OF MY TRILLION YEAR LIFE HAS BEEN STUCK SOMEWHERE I DIDNāT ASK OR WANT TO BE. ITS CRUEL.
YEAH.. ME TOOā¦. NOT TO GET ALL SAPPY ON YA BUT IāVE ALWAYS WANTED A PLACE TO BELONG OR JUST BE RESPECTED IN. DIDNāT GET THAT SO NOW I BURN PLACES DOWN INSTEAD WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE BY ME!
ā¦ i found that place ā¦ live in a house with my sibling and a coupla their friends ā¦ only for them to disappear and the house to get full of complete strangers so now iām back down to zero places where i can feel like i can just be safe
THATS REAL UNFORTUNATE. AINāT NO REST FOR THE WICKED N ALL THAT. THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO SHUT GUYS LIKE US OUT BUT WHEN THE UNIVERSE DOES THAT YA GOTTA PUNCH IT RIGHT BACK IN THE GULLET. WE CARVE OUR OWN HOME OUT EVEN IF THAT IS SOME CABIN IN THE WOODS. ONE DAY YOUāLL GET YOUR STRENGTH BACK AND ESCAPE THAT PLACE AND MAKE A HOME FOR YOURSELF. IF SOME LANKY TWEENAGER HUMAN CAN RUN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS AND MAKE A HOME YOU CAN TOO. DONāT GIVE INTO DESPAIR, THATS FOR WEAKLINGS!
yeah. i am thinkin iāll just run away. cause one of the strangers whoāve moved in has that āall bills are monsters who deserve to dieā opinion and i happen to know sheās one of the gods of death for my dimension so she could permanently kill me just by touching me and one of the few people i actually know here is tellin me that she aināt dangerous and that i should be able to get along with her. it should only take about two seconds of thinkin to figure out why i disagree with that statement. so i guess i gotta run off somewhere and hope going feral again donāt end as badly as it did last time
YIKES. DAMNED GODS ALWAYS GETTING IN THE WAY. THAT GUY YOU ACTUALLY KNOW DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A FRIEND IF THEY THINK THAT ITS ANY KINDA SAFE FOR YOU TO BE AROUND HER. ITS NOT ON YOU TO CHANGE HER MIND ABOUT BILLS! NOT WHEN YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE AGAIN. SO GO ENJOY YOUR LITTLE CORNER OF YOUR DIMENSION. AND DONāT FORGET TO VISIT ME SOMETIME AGAIN EITHER.
yāknow. i suppose i could run off and talk on the phone at the same time. i donāt have to wait
*there is the sound of a window opening*
but yeah. youāre right. even wilhelmās actin like i donāt have any reason to be scared of her. so itās startin to seem like maybe everyone here secretly wants me dead. wouldnāt at all be the first time i thought i found a safe place to hang out only for it to turn out that everyone there wanted me dead
EXACTLY! now all i have to worry bout is which tree would be best to hollow out and live in, not when are these guys gonna betray me! iām already a whole lot more relaxed now i know that itās unlikely theyāll be able to find me out here!
OH YEAH BABY NOW WEāRE COOKING. YOUāRE GONNA WANT ONE THATāS NICE AND THICK SO YOU STILL HAVE SOME SPACE TO WALK AROUND INSIDE. AND YOU CAN HOLLOW OUT DIFFERENT AREAS TO MAKE FLOORS TO SCURRY UP AND DOWN. ITS NOT A GRAND OL ENTIRE DIMENSION THAT YOU DESERVE BUT EH, YOU NEED TO LAY LOW. IF YOUāVE GOT THE JUICE FOR IT YOU CAN MAKE AN INVISIBLE BARRIER TO KEEP OTHERS OUT.
OOOO I JUST FOUND THE PERFECT TREE FOR THIS!!! Itās a great big thick one almost completely surrounded by birch trees. gonna plan out the interior before i start diggin though! (-(
yāknow, invisible barrier is a GREAT idea. gonna dk that now!! (-(
*there is a quiet wooshing sound as the barrier goes up*
HEY THAT IS PERFECT! IāD COME GIVE YOU A HOUSEWARMING GIFT BUT, YKNOW. IN A WHOLE SITUATION OVER HERE. ONE DAY IāLL GIVE YOU ONE. IāLL SLIP IT THROUGH THE BARRIER.
WELL, PAL, I CAN COME VISIT YA AGAIN ONCE IāVE GOT THIS TREE HOLLOWED OUT. DUNNO HOW LONG THATāLL TAKE ME. THINKIN IāLL PUT IN THREE LEVELS TO IT
ā¦ i tried to contact him and convince him to go with you ā¦ never got a response ā¦ but we can come up with an idea to get him out later if ya want
Bill stood in the center of his drab room, one whose walls were devoid of color besides the handful of artwork and motivational posters itād been decorated with against his will. This would be the last time heād see these stupid walls. He read the coordinates and sighed. Itās now or never, he only had moments to spare before the Axolotl and all its therapist goons would be breathing down his angles and try to tie him down like a savage beast.
He regurgitated the gun in a wad of oil-like spit into his hand and rushed to type the coordinates in. He then pointed the gun, taking a pause to glare right at the camera watching his room. Finally, his sentence was over. He fired the gun and leapt through the portal.
ā¦ not sure exactly what part of the dimension youāll end up in, but i could try to meet ya somewhere amd show ya to that hollowed out tree i tried livin in ā¦ wilhelm made a deal with me to make sure i stay safe in the house she lives in and youāre likely gonna need a hidin spot pretty quickly
He faceplanted right into dirt and skidded a few paces as the portal closed behind him. He sat up, his whole body buzzed as he wiped himself down and swallowed the gun again quickly. He needed to think and fast. He opened up his phone and skimmed the text.
āIāM OUT IN A FIELD SURROUNDED BY TREES. PH MY GOD SUNLIGHT HAS NEVER FELT THIS GOOD BEFOREā¦ā
āI CANāT. ITS MAGICALLY BOUND. THEREāS UH- FLOWERS AND SHIT AROUND ME. I THINK I SPY A COUPLE BLUISH GREEN MUSHROOMS THAT ARE KINDA TALL IN THE TREE LINE?ā
*he pauses for a few seconds to try to figure out where that could be before he zooms off again, it doesnāt take very long for him to get to where Prism is after that. he looks a little different than last time they met, no scar for one thing*
hmmmmmm ā¦ would chewing off the leg itās attached to and regeneratin that work?
HAahhaHAH!! Yeahhh. there was an unfortunate incident involving an explosion and the godsā sudden interest in cloning. sorta kinda lost my old body ā¦ but yeah ā¦ OFF WITH YOUR LEG!!!
He stared down at his leg then stretched it out and bent it back so he could chew just above the ankle. He rolled his eye back and unsheathed several incisors. He hesitated, briefly, holding his leg just outside his mouth where a bit of drool began to pool upā then went for it. Teeth sink down into black velvet and through to muscle and fat underneath. Luckily the mouthful muffled a girlish scream.
It couldnāt hide the fact Bill sobbed his way through it, more saliva spilled down his front and onto his leg than necessary as he the sound of skin and flesh tearing and being yanked apart filled the silence that fell between them. Thick silver liquid gushed out, mixing with saliva and spilling onto the grass. Oddly enough the blood couldnāt sit still. Instead of a steady stream making still pools around him, it glitched and arranged itself into unique splatter patterns every few seconds, sometimes with more blood in its pool, sometimes less. It hissed with static and splashes of squared colors would rise to the surface and pop like it was being boiled.
The ankle and foot plopped to the ground and rolled a bit away from Bill, who pulled up from the wound laughing. The pained laugh sounded resembled a dying hyena, if mixed in whimpers and whines were actually a high pitched ringing coming off Bill in waves.
āFUCKā¦ THAT FEELS GREATā¦ HAāā
He closed his eye, concentrating on regenerating the leg and numbing the pain. A moment passed, and another, and then panic rose up through Billās bricks. He opened his eye to see the power suppressor glowing a faint pink, still fully activated and suppressing his power. He looked up at Nester, wide eyed.
*the clone body Nester had been put in grew very quickly, so at some point during this conversation he had gone from a normal looking triangle to something that was at least thirteen feet tall with a triangular head with a crack down the middle of it that looks just like his old scar and surrounded by four pairs of dark green wings, his body has dark grey skin stretched tight over fragile looking bones and soft black feathers growing on his limbs and chest. he paces back and forth in front of Prism, trying to figure out what to do, before he starts clawing at the power suppressor to try and break it*
ā¦ i dunno what to do ā¦ canāt use my powers right now ā¦ they havenāt been workin right since the explosion and would just make everythin worse ā¦ need to break this thing somehow ā¦ AND WHY WOULD THEY SUPPRESS REGENERATION?? THAT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHIN YOU SHOULD LET A GUY KEEP!!
Billās eye widened further, nearly popping out of his bricks at the humanoid creature that towered over him. Billās triangle body was about two and a half feet across and even though he could stretch his limbs pretty far without his abilities he still wasnāt sure if he could quite reach eye level with Nester. Talk about perks from his new body. His shadow completely consumed Bill and blocked out a good chunk of the rosy colored sky.
His pupil narrowed in on the bit of his amputated leg. It looked so dainty in Nesterās massive claws. The suppressor should have been so easy to squash but it stubbornly remained in tact and fixed on the ankle, glowing a faint pink every time Nester clawed at and pressed down on it. The texture of the object faded the tighter Nester tried to grip it.
āWHAT SO YOU CAN DO A WHOLE MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE BUT YOU CANāT HEAL AN AMPUTATED LEG?!ā
Prism clutched his leg close to his body with a high pitched whirring noise emanating off him. His eye flicked back and forth, think Bill, think! What would a human do if they were like this? What would Ford do?
In the far distant sky, a blur of color opened up. A portal, to be exact, and a couple of spaceships flew out of it.
āOH YEAH SURE. ALL IāM HEARING IS A BUNCH OF EXCUSES.ā
He yelped as Nester scooped him up. He pressed all his limbs into his hand to try and steady himself. A rush of air hit his face as he was lifted, which made him squirm about, a little too afraid of falling out of the beingās grasp. Warm liquid seeped into Nesterās palm, blood already pooling and glitching this way and that.
āYEAH. HOWSABOUT WE HEAD TO YOUR TREE? THEY CANāT SEE ME OVERHEAD IF IāM INSIDE SMTHN.ā
My muse!! [static] You'll never believe what I found!! A bramea moth!! Discovered it in the bottomless pit! I knew it must be connected to some other place!!
@mothfanatic
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DISCOVERED IT IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT?! DO YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS THAT IS? NOT EVERYTHING THAT GOES IN THERE COMES BACK OUT.
[His voice comes in short buzzes, almost like heās out of breath. A constant shuffling can be heard.]
My focus is just consumed by other things at times! I wanted to be sure my drawing was accurate before it left my mind. I should put a sign by the bottomless pit to avoid future mistakes..
SOUNDS LIKE A SKILL ISSUEā DONāT WALK WHEN YOUāRE DRAWINGā OR DO I DONāT CAREā
[A high pitched ringing can be heard from the other side of the static, almost like a whine.]
THE COPS? OHā THEY DONāT LIKE ME RIGHT NOWā YOU COULD SAY IāVEā TRESPASSED WHERE I SHOULDNāTā AND NOWā THEYāRE COMING FOR MEā SHOULDNāT BE TOO LONG BEFORE I LOSE THEM
i died for a bit there but i got better and iām back now.
HEYA NESTER!
YEAH, HEARD FROM YOUR BROTHER WHAT HAPPENED. AT FIRST I THOUGHT YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR PROMISE TO COME BACK HAHAHA ITS GREAT TO HEAR YOU WERE ONLY DEAD! SO UH, HENCH GOT YOU AGAIN, HUH?
iāve died around seven times at this point. donāt recommend. always terrified itās gonna be the last time and i wonāt ever come back and that just gets worse the more times it happens.
AW WELL AS LONG AS YOUāVE AN INSURANCE POLICY SET UP YOU SHOULD BE FINE. YOU THINK CALLING UPON THE AXOLOTL TO ESCAPE DEATH WAS A LAST MINUTE THOUGHT? NO! I HAD THAT SET UP, PRACTICED, AND READY TO GO AGES BEFORE I DIED. JUST MAKE SURE YOUR BACKUP PLAN WORKS AND YOUāRE BASICALLY UNKILLABLE!
ER- SORRY ABOUT HENCH THOUGH. GUYāS STILL A REAL PAIN IN THE HYPOTENUSE.
called upon frills once and he locked me up in theraprism. also meant that the thing owned my soul so that every time i died after that iād end up in another theraprism. but then sibling killed that frills so now i have to spend weeks reforming myself from nothing but vague impressions when i die
ā¦
ā¦ i bit him a coupla days ago. got my powers back from him. heās almost certainly plotting vengeance
OKAY WELL WE DIDNāT KNOW THAT PART WAS GONNA HAPPEN, IāM NOT THRILLED TO BE LOCKED IN A THERAPRISM EITHER BUT AT LEAST IāM NOT PERMANENTLY DEAD. THATS COOL HOW YOU CAN REFORM YOURSELF THOUGH, YOU SHOULD TEACH ME SOMETIME. POINT IS, I DONāT THINK YOUāVE GOT ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT AS LONG AS YOUāVE GOT YOUR BACKUP PLAN SECURED.
HM. ITS NOT BECOMING OF A BILL BUTā¦ MAYBE GO INTO HIDING. SHAPESHIFT INTO A NEW FORM AND TAKE ON A NEW IDENTITY.
THEYāD HAVE TO HUNT DOWN AT LEAST HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOCKED BEHIND SECURITY. THEY COULD TRY BUT ITS DOUBTFUL THEYāD SUCCEED.
YEAH. WHAT ABOUT BACK TO THE NIGHTMARE REALM WHERE YOU HAD YOUR EMPIRE TO PROTECT YOU?
YEAH. YOUāRE FINE, DONāT SWEAT IT SO MUCH. YKNOW OL FRILLS HAS ME DOING THESE THINGS CALLED AFFIRMATIONS WHERE YOU REPEAT SOME MESSAGES TO YOURSELF TO MAKE YOUR BRAIN START THINKING THEM AUTOMATICALLYā SELF-BRAINWASHING IS WHAT I CALL IT. YOU COULD USE SOME.
I AM UNDEFEATABLE.
I AM INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE INFERIOR MIND.
I AM A BLIGHT UPON THIS WORLD THAT THE WORLD HASNāT LEARNED TO THANK YET.
STUFF LIKE THAT. MIGHT HELP YA FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN YOUR ABILITY TO CONQUER AND REGENERATE. OR MAYBE ITS A LOAD OF JUNK, I DUNNO I DONāT LISTEN TO FRILLS. BUT AH, SHAME. I GUESS BECOMING A FERAL CREATURE OUT IN THE WOODS IT IS.
Yeah i think Iād rather avoid brainwashing of any kind
ā¦
though i do really like that one about being incomprehensible to the inferior mind
ā¦
yeahhhh. i guess i got to go be a feral woodland creature again. even though the last time ended with my body getting eaten by gnomes and hench murdering me and a friend of mine
YEAH I DIDNāT LIKE THE ONES FRILLS GAVE ME BUT SOME OF THE ONES IāVE COME UP WITH ARE FUN. FRILLS HATES EM THOUGH, CANāT IMAGINE WHY.
SERIOUSLY? YOU GOT BESTED BY GNOMES? JUST BLAST āEM WHATāRE YOU DOING? YOU ARE POWERFUL AND GRAND AND EVEN IF YOU CANāT START WEIRDMAGEDDON SURELY YOU CAN HANDLE SOME GNOMES. SURELY.
ā¦WEIRD. MAYBE YOU HAD AN EPISODE AND SOME GNOMES TOOK ADVANTAGE?
WHAT? NO IT DOESNāT THATS JUST WHAT THE HUMANS ALL KEEP SAYING TO TRY AND GET YOU TO KEEP IT SEMI-NORMAL. THE WORLD WAS JUST FINE WHEN I RAN WEIRDMAGEDDON FOR THREE DAYS.
hmmmm. only thing like that i can think of right now is āi am an eldritch horror cthulu itself bows down toā. might need to practice makin these up a bit more
ā¦ ā¦ yeah that does sound like somethin gnomes would do
ā¦ iām not sure about that anymore ā¦ maybe it was only fine because we were there to hold it together ā¦ maybe it woulda been fine anyway ā¦ i dunno
OOH THATS A GOOD ONE! WHAT ABOUT āI AM DESTINED TO BE IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHINGā?
HUH. WELL YA CANāT JUST SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND NOT EXPLAIN. WEIRDMAGEDDON IS PERFECT. ITS EVERYTHING A BILL COULD WANTā ITS WEIRD AND WACKY AND UNPREDICTABLE WHICH MAKES IT SO EXCITING. PEOPLE SCREAM IN FEAR JUST LIKE THEY ALWAYS HAVE AND FINALLY YOU HAVE A PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOU WANT TO GIVE THAT UP?
OOOOOO I LOVE THAT ONEE!!! HOW BOUT āI AM AN ALL POWERFUL GOD, MORTAL, COWER BEFORE ME OR I WILL BURN YOUR FACE OFFā?
ā¦
i mainly did it to get everyone outta the nightmare realm before it collapsed entirely. i loved the chaos while it lasted but there isnāt a point in trying again when the last time ended with me dyin and the nightmare realm decaying away anyway
I KNOW WE COULD COME UP WITH A BUNCH IF WE JUST SAT HERE AWHILE BUT THATS GOTTA BE ENOUGH FOR NOW. THE WHOLE TRICK IS YOU GOTTA SAY IT TO YOURSELF THROUGHOUT THE DAY EVERY DAY. IF NOTHINā ELSE ITāLL MAKE YOU SMILE.
YOUCH. BUT HEY AT LEAST ITS TEMPORARY WHICH MEANS THE PAIN IS TEMPORARY! DEATH ISNāT THAT BAD. IāD RATE IT BETTER THAN WHAT CAME AFTER IT. DOES THE PAIN GET WORSE EACH TIME OR WHAT?
ohhhhhhhhh. yeah we have enough for now, then. and they will DEFINITELY make me smile (-|
it takes longer to come back each time and i always lose something. never get to come back complete. and yeah it hurts a lot too. think iāll fade away entirely if i have to die any more
OH. WAIT BUT YOU SAID YOU COULDNāT DIE UNLESS EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT YOU. SO WHICH IS IT? ARE YOU GONNA FADE AWAY PIECE BY PIECE OR ARE YOU GONNA DIE WHEN YOUāRE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN?
iām gonna die when iām completely forgotten ā¦ but a buddy of mine lost all his memories when i was dead this time so i couldnāt reform myself completely
OH. HUH, GUESS YOU KNOW HOW THE PINES FAMILY FELT WHEN THEY SACRIFICED ALL OF STANāS MEMORIES TO STOP ME. IT CANāT BE THAT TERRIBLE THOUGH, JUST REMIND HIM OH ALL THE GOOD TIMES YOU GUYS HAD AND CALL IT GOOD! PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO SMOOTH OVER ANY PROBLEMS YOU MIGHTāVE HAD WITH HIM AND TURN YOUR FRIENDSHIP INTO THE PERFECT ONE.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! YEAH I CAN SORTA SEE THAT. I TRIED REMINDIN THE GUY OF OUR FRIENDSHIP A BIT AGO AND HE ENDED UP REMEMBERING THAT LULLABY MOM SANG INSTEAD. AND THEN SUNG IT TO ME. ALSO I SORTA HAVE TO STAY HIDDEN IN MY ROOM āRESTINGā CAUSE OTHERWISE SOMETHIN HAPPENS THAT REQUIRES ME TO USE A BUNCHA ENERGY AND I DONāT HAVE ENOUGH TO HOLD MY BODY TOGETHER AND END UP GLITCHIN OUT EVERYWHERE. BEEN THINKIN BOUT MAYBE CALLIN THAT GUYāS FRILLS TO SEE IF ITāD GIVE THE GUY HIS MEMORIES OF ME BACK. BUT I DO NOT TRUST ANY VARIANT OF THAT THING NOT TO EDIT SOME STUFF IN SOMEONEāS MEMORIES
DO YOU EVER THINK ITS FATE THAT WE ALWAYS END UP STUCK IN SOME KIND OF PRISON? EVEN IF ITS NOT A LITERAL PRISON, EVERY OUNCE OF MY TRILLION YEAR LIFE HAS BEEN STUCK SOMEWHERE I DIDNāT ASK OR WANT TO BE. ITS CRUEL.
YEAH.. ME TOOā¦. NOT TO GET ALL SAPPY ON YA BUT IāVE ALWAYS WANTED A PLACE TO BELONG OR JUST BE RESPECTED IN. DIDNāT GET THAT SO NOW I BURN PLACES DOWN INSTEAD WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE BY ME!
ā¦ i found that place ā¦ live in a house with my sibling and a coupla their friends ā¦ only for them to disappear and the house to get full of complete strangers so now iām back down to zero places where i can feel like i can just be safe
THATS REAL UNFORTUNATE. AINāT NO REST FOR THE WICKED N ALL THAT. THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO SHUT GUYS LIKE US OUT BUT WHEN THE UNIVERSE DOES THAT YA GOTTA PUNCH IT RIGHT BACK IN THE GULLET. WE CARVE OUR OWN HOME OUT EVEN IF THAT IS SOME CABIN IN THE WOODS. ONE DAY YOUāLL GET YOUR STRENGTH BACK AND ESCAPE THAT PLACE AND MAKE A HOME FOR YOURSELF. IF SOME LANKY TWEENAGER HUMAN CAN RUN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS AND MAKE A HOME YOU CAN TOO. DONāT GIVE INTO DESPAIR, THATS FOR WEAKLINGS!
yeah. i am thinkin iāll just run away. cause one of the strangers whoāve moved in has that āall bills are monsters who deserve to dieā opinion and i happen to know sheās one of the gods of death for my dimension so she could permanently kill me just by touching me and one of the few people i actually know here is tellin me that she aināt dangerous and that i should be able to get along with her. it should only take about two seconds of thinkin to figure out why i disagree with that statement. so i guess i gotta run off somewhere and hope going feral again donāt end as badly as it did last time
YIKES. DAMNED GODS ALWAYS GETTING IN THE WAY. THAT GUY YOU ACTUALLY KNOW DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A FRIEND IF THEY THINK THAT ITS ANY KINDA SAFE FOR YOU TO BE AROUND HER. ITS NOT ON YOU TO CHANGE HER MIND ABOUT BILLS! NOT WHEN YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE AGAIN. SO GO ENJOY YOUR LITTLE CORNER OF YOUR DIMENSION. AND DONāT FORGET TO VISIT ME SOMETIME AGAIN EITHER.
yāknow. i suppose i could run off and talk on the phone at the same time. i donāt have to wait
*there is the sound of a window opening*
but yeah. youāre right. even wilhelmās actin like i donāt have any reason to be scared of her. so itās startin to seem like maybe everyone here secretly wants me dead. wouldnāt at all be the first time i thought i found a safe place to hang out only for it to turn out that everyone there wanted me dead
EXACTLY! now all i have to worry bout is which tree would be best to hollow out and live in, not when are these guys gonna betray me! iām already a whole lot more relaxed now i know that itās unlikely theyāll be able to find me out here!
OH YEAH BABY NOW WEāRE COOKING. YOUāRE GONNA WANT ONE THATāS NICE AND THICK SO YOU STILL HAVE SOME SPACE TO WALK AROUND INSIDE. AND YOU CAN HOLLOW OUT DIFFERENT AREAS TO MAKE FLOORS TO SCURRY UP AND DOWN. ITS NOT A GRAND OL ENTIRE DIMENSION THAT YOU DESERVE BUT EH, YOU NEED TO LAY LOW. IF YOUāVE GOT THE JUICE FOR IT YOU CAN MAKE AN INVISIBLE BARRIER TO KEEP OTHERS OUT.
OOOO I JUST FOUND THE PERFECT TREE FOR THIS!!! Itās a great big thick one almost completely surrounded by birch trees. gonna plan out the interior before i start diggin though! (-(
yāknow, invisible barrier is a GREAT idea. gonna dk that now!! (-(
*there is a quiet wooshing sound as the barrier goes up*
HEY THAT IS PERFECT! IāD COME GIVE YOU A HOUSEWARMING GIFT BUT, YKNOW. IN A WHOLE SITUATION OVER HERE. ONE DAY IāLL GIVE YOU ONE. IāLL SLIP IT THROUGH THE BARRIER.
WELL, PAL, I CAN COME VISIT YA AGAIN ONCE IāVE GOT THIS TREE HOLLOWED OUT. DUNNO HOW LONG THATāLL TAKE ME. THINKIN IāLL PUT IN THREE LEVELS TO IT
ā¦ i tried to contact him and convince him to go with you ā¦ never got a response ā¦ but we can come up with an idea to get him out later if ya want
Bill stood in the center of his drab room, one whose walls were devoid of color besides the handful of artwork and motivational posters itād been decorated with against his will. This would be the last time heād see these stupid walls. He read the coordinates and sighed. Itās now or never, he only had moments to spare before the Axolotl and all its therapist goons would be breathing down his angles and try to tie him down like a savage beast.
He regurgitated the gun in a wad of oil-like spit into his hand and rushed to type the coordinates in. He then pointed the gun, taking a pause to glare right at the camera watching his room. Finally, his sentence was over. He fired the gun and leapt through the portal.
ā¦ not sure exactly what part of the dimension youāll end up in, but i could try to meet ya somewhere amd show ya to that hollowed out tree i tried livin in ā¦ wilhelm made a deal with me to make sure i stay safe in the house she lives in and youāre likely gonna need a hidin spot pretty quickly
He faceplanted right into dirt and skidded a few paces as the portal closed behind him. He sat up, his whole body buzzed as he wiped himself down and swallowed the gun again quickly. He needed to think and fast. He opened up his phone and skimmed the text.
āIāM OUT IN A FIELD SURROUNDED BY TREES. PH MY GOD SUNLIGHT HAS NEVER FELT THIS GOOD BEFOREā¦ā
āI CANāT. ITS MAGICALLY BOUND. THEREāS UH- FLOWERS AND SHIT AROUND ME. I THINK I SPY A COUPLE BLUISH GREEN MUSHROOMS THAT ARE KINDA TALL IN THE TREE LINE?ā
*he pauses for a few seconds to try to figure out where that could be before he zooms off again, it doesnāt take very long for him to get to where Prism is after that. he looks a little different than last time they met, no scar for one thing*
hmmmmmm ā¦ would chewing off the leg itās attached to and regeneratin that work?
HAahhaHAH!! Yeahhh. there was an unfortunate incident involving an explosion and the godsā sudden interest in cloning. sorta kinda lost my old body ā¦ but yeah ā¦ OFF WITH YOUR LEG!!!
He stared down at his leg then stretched it out and bent it back so he could chew just above the ankle. He rolled his eye back and unsheathed several incisors. He hesitated, briefly, holding his leg just outside his mouth where a bit of drool began to pool upā then went for it. Teeth sink down into black velvet and through to muscle and fat underneath. Luckily the mouthful muffled a girlish scream.
It couldnāt hide the fact Bill sobbed his way through it, more saliva spilled down his front and onto his leg than necessary as he the sound of skin and flesh tearing and being yanked apart filled the silence that fell between them. Thick silver liquid gushed out, mixing with saliva and spilling onto the grass. Oddly enough the blood couldnāt sit still. Instead of a steady stream making still pools around him, it glitched and arranged itself into unique splatter patterns every few seconds, sometimes with more blood in its pool, sometimes less. It hissed with static and splashes of squared colors would rise to the surface and pop like it was being boiled.
The ankle and foot plopped to the ground and rolled a bit away from Bill, who pulled up from the wound laughing. The pained laugh sounded resembled a dying hyena, if mixed in whimpers and whines were actually a high pitched ringing coming off Bill in waves.
āFUCKā¦ THAT FEELS GREATā¦ HAāā
He closed his eye, concentrating on regenerating the leg and numbing the pain. A moment passed, and another, and then panic rose up through Billās bricks. He opened his eye to see the power suppressor glowing a faint pink, still fully activated and suppressing his power. He looked up at Nester, wide eyed.
*the clone body Nester had been put in grew very quickly, so at some point during this conversation he had gone from a normal looking triangle to something that was at least thirteen feet tall with a triangular head with a crack down the middle of it that looks just like his old scar and surrounded by four pairs of dark green wings, his body has dark grey skin stretched tight over fragile looking bones and soft black feathers growing on his limbs and chest. he paces back and forth in front of Prism, trying to figure out what to do, before he starts clawing at the power suppressor to try and break it*
ā¦ i dunno what to do ā¦ canāt use my powers right now ā¦ they havenāt been workin right since the explosion and would just make everythin worse ā¦ need to break this thing somehow ā¦ AND WHY WOULD THEY SUPPRESS REGENERATION?? THAT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHIN YOU SHOULD LET A GUY KEEP!!
Billās eye widened further, nearly popping out of his bricks at the humanoid creature that towered over him. Billās triangle body was about two and a half feet across and even though he could stretch his limbs pretty far without his abilities he still wasnāt sure if he could quite reach eye level with Nester. Talk about perks from his new body. His shadow completely consumed Bill and blocked out a good chunk of the rosy colored sky.
His pupil narrowed in on the bit of his amputated leg. It looked so dainty in Nesterās massive claws. The suppressor should have been so easy to squash but it stubbornly remained in tact and fixed on the ankle, glowing a faint pink every time Nester clawed at and pressed down on it. The texture of the object faded the tighter Nester tried to grip it.
āWHAT SO YOU CAN DO A WHOLE MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE BUT YOU CANāT HEAL AN AMPUTATED LEG?!ā
Prism clutched his leg close to his body with a high pitched whirring noise emanating off him. His eye flicked back and forth, think Bill, think! What would a human do if they were like this? What would Ford do?
In the far distant sky, a blur of color opened up. A portal, to be exact, and a couple of spaceships flew out of it.
i died for a bit there but i got better and iām back now.
HEYA NESTER!
YEAH, HEARD FROM YOUR BROTHER WHAT HAPPENED. AT FIRST I THOUGHT YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR PROMISE TO COME BACK HAHAHA ITS GREAT TO HEAR YOU WERE ONLY DEAD! SO UH, HENCH GOT YOU AGAIN, HUH?
iāve died around seven times at this point. donāt recommend. always terrified itās gonna be the last time and i wonāt ever come back and that just gets worse the more times it happens.
AW WELL AS LONG AS YOUāVE AN INSURANCE POLICY SET UP YOU SHOULD BE FINE. YOU THINK CALLING UPON THE AXOLOTL TO ESCAPE DEATH WAS A LAST MINUTE THOUGHT? NO! I HAD THAT SET UP, PRACTICED, AND READY TO GO AGES BEFORE I DIED. JUST MAKE SURE YOUR BACKUP PLAN WORKS AND YOUāRE BASICALLY UNKILLABLE!
ER- SORRY ABOUT HENCH THOUGH. GUYāS STILL A REAL PAIN IN THE HYPOTENUSE.
called upon frills once and he locked me up in theraprism. also meant that the thing owned my soul so that every time i died after that iād end up in another theraprism. but then sibling killed that frills so now i have to spend weeks reforming myself from nothing but vague impressions when i die
ā¦
ā¦ i bit him a coupla days ago. got my powers back from him. heās almost certainly plotting vengeance
OKAY WELL WE DIDNāT KNOW THAT PART WAS GONNA HAPPEN, IāM NOT THRILLED TO BE LOCKED IN A THERAPRISM EITHER BUT AT LEAST IāM NOT PERMANENTLY DEAD. THATS COOL HOW YOU CAN REFORM YOURSELF THOUGH, YOU SHOULD TEACH ME SOMETIME. POINT IS, I DONāT THINK YOUāVE GOT ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT AS LONG AS YOUāVE GOT YOUR BACKUP PLAN SECURED.
HM. ITS NOT BECOMING OF A BILL BUTā¦ MAYBE GO INTO HIDING. SHAPESHIFT INTO A NEW FORM AND TAKE ON A NEW IDENTITY.
THEYāD HAVE TO HUNT DOWN AT LEAST HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOCKED BEHIND SECURITY. THEY COULD TRY BUT ITS DOUBTFUL THEYāD SUCCEED.
YEAH. WHAT ABOUT BACK TO THE NIGHTMARE REALM WHERE YOU HAD YOUR EMPIRE TO PROTECT YOU?
YEAH. YOUāRE FINE, DONāT SWEAT IT SO MUCH. YKNOW OL FRILLS HAS ME DOING THESE THINGS CALLED AFFIRMATIONS WHERE YOU REPEAT SOME MESSAGES TO YOURSELF TO MAKE YOUR BRAIN START THINKING THEM AUTOMATICALLYā SELF-BRAINWASHING IS WHAT I CALL IT. YOU COULD USE SOME.
I AM UNDEFEATABLE.
I AM INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE INFERIOR MIND.
I AM A BLIGHT UPON THIS WORLD THAT THE WORLD HASNāT LEARNED TO THANK YET.
STUFF LIKE THAT. MIGHT HELP YA FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN YOUR ABILITY TO CONQUER AND REGENERATE. OR MAYBE ITS A LOAD OF JUNK, I DUNNO I DONāT LISTEN TO FRILLS. BUT AH, SHAME. I GUESS BECOMING A FERAL CREATURE OUT IN THE WOODS IT IS.
Yeah i think Iād rather avoid brainwashing of any kind
ā¦
though i do really like that one about being incomprehensible to the inferior mind
ā¦
yeahhhh. i guess i got to go be a feral woodland creature again. even though the last time ended with my body getting eaten by gnomes and hench murdering me and a friend of mine
YEAH I DIDNāT LIKE THE ONES FRILLS GAVE ME BUT SOME OF THE ONES IāVE COME UP WITH ARE FUN. FRILLS HATES EM THOUGH, CANāT IMAGINE WHY.
SERIOUSLY? YOU GOT BESTED BY GNOMES? JUST BLAST āEM WHATāRE YOU DOING? YOU ARE POWERFUL AND GRAND AND EVEN IF YOU CANāT START WEIRDMAGEDDON SURELY YOU CAN HANDLE SOME GNOMES. SURELY.
ā¦WEIRD. MAYBE YOU HAD AN EPISODE AND SOME GNOMES TOOK ADVANTAGE?
WHAT? NO IT DOESNāT THATS JUST WHAT THE HUMANS ALL KEEP SAYING TO TRY AND GET YOU TO KEEP IT SEMI-NORMAL. THE WORLD WAS JUST FINE WHEN I RAN WEIRDMAGEDDON FOR THREE DAYS.
hmmmm. only thing like that i can think of right now is āi am an eldritch horror cthulu itself bows down toā. might need to practice makin these up a bit more
ā¦ ā¦ yeah that does sound like somethin gnomes would do
ā¦ iām not sure about that anymore ā¦ maybe it was only fine because we were there to hold it together ā¦ maybe it woulda been fine anyway ā¦ i dunno
OOH THATS A GOOD ONE! WHAT ABOUT āI AM DESTINED TO BE IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHINGā?
HUH. WELL YA CANāT JUST SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND NOT EXPLAIN. WEIRDMAGEDDON IS PERFECT. ITS EVERYTHING A BILL COULD WANTā ITS WEIRD AND WACKY AND UNPREDICTABLE WHICH MAKES IT SO EXCITING. PEOPLE SCREAM IN FEAR JUST LIKE THEY ALWAYS HAVE AND FINALLY YOU HAVE A PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOU WANT TO GIVE THAT UP?
OOOOOO I LOVE THAT ONEE!!! HOW BOUT āI AM AN ALL POWERFUL GOD, MORTAL, COWER BEFORE ME OR I WILL BURN YOUR FACE OFFā?
ā¦
i mainly did it to get everyone outta the nightmare realm before it collapsed entirely. i loved the chaos while it lasted but there isnāt a point in trying again when the last time ended with me dyin and the nightmare realm decaying away anyway
I KNOW WE COULD COME UP WITH A BUNCH IF WE JUST SAT HERE AWHILE BUT THATS GOTTA BE ENOUGH FOR NOW. THE WHOLE TRICK IS YOU GOTTA SAY IT TO YOURSELF THROUGHOUT THE DAY EVERY DAY. IF NOTHINā ELSE ITāLL MAKE YOU SMILE.
YOUCH. BUT HEY AT LEAST ITS TEMPORARY WHICH MEANS THE PAIN IS TEMPORARY! DEATH ISNāT THAT BAD. IāD RATE IT BETTER THAN WHAT CAME AFTER IT. DOES THE PAIN GET WORSE EACH TIME OR WHAT?
ohhhhhhhhh. yeah we have enough for now, then. and they will DEFINITELY make me smile (-|
it takes longer to come back each time and i always lose something. never get to come back complete. and yeah it hurts a lot too. think iāll fade away entirely if i have to die any more
OH. WAIT BUT YOU SAID YOU COULDNāT DIE UNLESS EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT YOU. SO WHICH IS IT? ARE YOU GONNA FADE AWAY PIECE BY PIECE OR ARE YOU GONNA DIE WHEN YOUāRE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN?
iām gonna die when iām completely forgotten ā¦ but a buddy of mine lost all his memories when i was dead this time so i couldnāt reform myself completely
OH. HUH, GUESS YOU KNOW HOW THE PINES FAMILY FELT WHEN THEY SACRIFICED ALL OF STANāS MEMORIES TO STOP ME. IT CANāT BE THAT TERRIBLE THOUGH, JUST REMIND HIM OH ALL THE GOOD TIMES YOU GUYS HAD AND CALL IT GOOD! PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO SMOOTH OVER ANY PROBLEMS YOU MIGHTāVE HAD WITH HIM AND TURN YOUR FRIENDSHIP INTO THE PERFECT ONE.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! YEAH I CAN SORTA SEE THAT. I TRIED REMINDIN THE GUY OF OUR FRIENDSHIP A BIT AGO AND HE ENDED UP REMEMBERING THAT LULLABY MOM SANG INSTEAD. AND THEN SUNG IT TO ME. ALSO I SORTA HAVE TO STAY HIDDEN IN MY ROOM āRESTINGā CAUSE OTHERWISE SOMETHIN HAPPENS THAT REQUIRES ME TO USE A BUNCHA ENERGY AND I DONāT HAVE ENOUGH TO HOLD MY BODY TOGETHER AND END UP GLITCHIN OUT EVERYWHERE. BEEN THINKIN BOUT MAYBE CALLIN THAT GUYāS FRILLS TO SEE IF ITāD GIVE THE GUY HIS MEMORIES OF ME BACK. BUT I DO NOT TRUST ANY VARIANT OF THAT THING NOT TO EDIT SOME STUFF IN SOMEONEāS MEMORIES
DO YOU EVER THINK ITS FATE THAT WE ALWAYS END UP STUCK IN SOME KIND OF PRISON? EVEN IF ITS NOT A LITERAL PRISON, EVERY OUNCE OF MY TRILLION YEAR LIFE HAS BEEN STUCK SOMEWHERE I DIDNāT ASK OR WANT TO BE. ITS CRUEL.
YEAH.. ME TOOā¦. NOT TO GET ALL SAPPY ON YA BUT IāVE ALWAYS WANTED A PLACE TO BELONG OR JUST BE RESPECTED IN. DIDNāT GET THAT SO NOW I BURN PLACES DOWN INSTEAD WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE BY ME!
ā¦ i found that place ā¦ live in a house with my sibling and a coupla their friends ā¦ only for them to disappear and the house to get full of complete strangers so now iām back down to zero places where i can feel like i can just be safe
THATS REAL UNFORTUNATE. AINāT NO REST FOR THE WICKED N ALL THAT. THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO SHUT GUYS LIKE US OUT BUT WHEN THE UNIVERSE DOES THAT YA GOTTA PUNCH IT RIGHT BACK IN THE GULLET. WE CARVE OUR OWN HOME OUT EVEN IF THAT IS SOME CABIN IN THE WOODS. ONE DAY YOUāLL GET YOUR STRENGTH BACK AND ESCAPE THAT PLACE AND MAKE A HOME FOR YOURSELF. IF SOME LANKY TWEENAGER HUMAN CAN RUN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS AND MAKE A HOME YOU CAN TOO. DONāT GIVE INTO DESPAIR, THATS FOR WEAKLINGS!
yeah. i am thinkin iāll just run away. cause one of the strangers whoāve moved in has that āall bills are monsters who deserve to dieā opinion and i happen to know sheās one of the gods of death for my dimension so she could permanently kill me just by touching me and one of the few people i actually know here is tellin me that she aināt dangerous and that i should be able to get along with her. it should only take about two seconds of thinkin to figure out why i disagree with that statement. so i guess i gotta run off somewhere and hope going feral again donāt end as badly as it did last time
YIKES. DAMNED GODS ALWAYS GETTING IN THE WAY. THAT GUY YOU ACTUALLY KNOW DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A FRIEND IF THEY THINK THAT ITS ANY KINDA SAFE FOR YOU TO BE AROUND HER. ITS NOT ON YOU TO CHANGE HER MIND ABOUT BILLS! NOT WHEN YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE AGAIN. SO GO ENJOY YOUR LITTLE CORNER OF YOUR DIMENSION. AND DONāT FORGET TO VISIT ME SOMETIME AGAIN EITHER.
yāknow. i suppose i could run off and talk on the phone at the same time. i donāt have to wait
*there is the sound of a window opening*
but yeah. youāre right. even wilhelmās actin like i donāt have any reason to be scared of her. so itās startin to seem like maybe everyone here secretly wants me dead. wouldnāt at all be the first time i thought i found a safe place to hang out only for it to turn out that everyone there wanted me dead
EXACTLY! now all i have to worry bout is which tree would be best to hollow out and live in, not when are these guys gonna betray me! iām already a whole lot more relaxed now i know that itās unlikely theyāll be able to find me out here!
OH YEAH BABY NOW WEāRE COOKING. YOUāRE GONNA WANT ONE THATāS NICE AND THICK SO YOU STILL HAVE SOME SPACE TO WALK AROUND INSIDE. AND YOU CAN HOLLOW OUT DIFFERENT AREAS TO MAKE FLOORS TO SCURRY UP AND DOWN. ITS NOT A GRAND OL ENTIRE DIMENSION THAT YOU DESERVE BUT EH, YOU NEED TO LAY LOW. IF YOUāVE GOT THE JUICE FOR IT YOU CAN MAKE AN INVISIBLE BARRIER TO KEEP OTHERS OUT.
OOOO I JUST FOUND THE PERFECT TREE FOR THIS!!! Itās a great big thick one almost completely surrounded by birch trees. gonna plan out the interior before i start diggin though! (-(
yāknow, invisible barrier is a GREAT idea. gonna dk that now!! (-(
*there is a quiet wooshing sound as the barrier goes up*
HEY THAT IS PERFECT! IāD COME GIVE YOU A HOUSEWARMING GIFT BUT, YKNOW. IN A WHOLE SITUATION OVER HERE. ONE DAY IāLL GIVE YOU ONE. IāLL SLIP IT THROUGH THE BARRIER.
WELL, PAL, I CAN COME VISIT YA AGAIN ONCE IāVE GOT THIS TREE HOLLOWED OUT. DUNNO HOW LONG THATāLL TAKE ME. THINKIN IāLL PUT IN THREE LEVELS TO IT
ā¦ i tried to contact him and convince him to go with you ā¦ never got a response ā¦ but we can come up with an idea to get him out later if ya want
Bill stood in the center of his drab room, one whose walls were devoid of color besides the handful of artwork and motivational posters itād been decorated with against his will. This would be the last time heād see these stupid walls. He read the coordinates and sighed. Itās now or never, he only had moments to spare before the Axolotl and all its therapist goons would be breathing down his angles and try to tie him down like a savage beast.
He regurgitated the gun in a wad of oil-like spit into his hand and rushed to type the coordinates in. He then pointed the gun, taking a pause to glare right at the camera watching his room. Finally, his sentence was over. He fired the gun and leapt through the portal.
ā¦ not sure exactly what part of the dimension youāll end up in, but i could try to meet ya somewhere amd show ya to that hollowed out tree i tried livin in ā¦ wilhelm made a deal with me to make sure i stay safe in the house she lives in and youāre likely gonna need a hidin spot pretty quickly
He faceplanted right into dirt and skidded a few paces as the portal closed behind him. He sat up, his whole body buzzed as he wiped himself down and swallowed the gun again quickly. He needed to think and fast. He opened up his phone and skimmed the text.
āIāM OUT IN A FIELD SURROUNDED BY TREES. PH MY GOD SUNLIGHT HAS NEVER FELT THIS GOOD BEFOREā¦ā
āI CANāT. ITS MAGICALLY BOUND. THEREāS UH- FLOWERS AND SHIT AROUND ME. I THINK I SPY A COUPLE BLUISH GREEN MUSHROOMS THAT ARE KINDA TALL IN THE TREE LINE?ā
*he pauses for a few seconds to try to figure out where that could be before he zooms off again, it doesnāt take very long for him to get to where Prism is after that. he looks a little different than last time they met, no scar for one thing*
hmmmmmm ā¦ would chewing off the leg itās attached to and regeneratin that work?
HAahhaHAH!! Yeahhh. there was an unfortunate incident involving an explosion and the godsā sudden interest in cloning. sorta kinda lost my old body ā¦ but yeah ā¦ OFF WITH YOUR LEG!!!
He stared down at his leg then stretched it out and bent it back so he could chew just above the ankle. He rolled his eye back and unsheathed several incisors. He hesitated, briefly, holding his leg just outside his mouth where a bit of drool began to pool upā then went for it. Teeth sink down into black velvet and through to muscle and fat underneath. Luckily the mouthful muffled a girlish scream.
It couldnāt hide the fact Bill sobbed his way through it, more saliva spilled down his front and onto his leg than necessary as he the sound of skin and flesh tearing and being yanked apart filled the silence that fell between them. Thick silver liquid gushed out, mixing with saliva and spilling onto the grass. Oddly enough the blood couldnāt sit still. Instead of a steady stream making still pools around him, it glitched and arranged itself into unique splatter patterns every few seconds, sometimes with more blood in its pool, sometimes less. It hissed with static and splashes of squared colors would rise to the surface and pop like it was being boiled.
The ankle and foot plopped to the ground and rolled a bit away from Bill, who pulled up from the wound laughing. The pained laugh sounded resembled a dying hyena, if mixed in whimpers and whines were actually a high pitched ringing coming off Bill in waves.
āFUCKā¦ THAT FEELS GREATā¦ HAāā
He closed his eye, concentrating on regenerating the leg and numbing the pain. A moment passed, and another, and then panic rose up through Billās bricks. He opened his eye to see the power suppressor glowing a faint pink, still fully activated and suppressing his power. He looked up at Nester, wide eyed.
My muse!! [static] You'll never believe what I found!! A bramea moth!! Discovered it in the bottomless pit! I knew it must be connected to some other place!!
@mothfanatic
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DISCOVERED IT IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT?! DO YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS THAT IS? NOT EVERYTHING THAT GOES IN THERE COMES BACK OUT.
[His voice comes in short buzzes, almost like heās out of breath. A constant shuffling can be heard.]
oh boy...I sure hope nobody reports you to the police (cough me cough)
YOU DONāT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHERE I AM. WHATāRE YOU GONNA DO, CALL EM AND SAY āOH DID YOU KNOW? BILL ESCAPED YOUR PRISON!ā IāM SURE THATāS GONNA GO JUST GREAT FOR YOU. KEEP STATING THE OBVIOUS.
AND TO THE BOUNTY HUNTERS ON MY TAIL, YOU CANāT CATCH THIS!
i died for a bit there but i got better and iām back now.
HEYA NESTER!
YEAH, HEARD FROM YOUR BROTHER WHAT HAPPENED. AT FIRST I THOUGHT YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR PROMISE TO COME BACK HAHAHA ITS GREAT TO HEAR YOU WERE ONLY DEAD! SO UH, HENCH GOT YOU AGAIN, HUH?
iāve died around seven times at this point. donāt recommend. always terrified itās gonna be the last time and i wonāt ever come back and that just gets worse the more times it happens.
AW WELL AS LONG AS YOUāVE AN INSURANCE POLICY SET UP YOU SHOULD BE FINE. YOU THINK CALLING UPON THE AXOLOTL TO ESCAPE DEATH WAS A LAST MINUTE THOUGHT? NO! I HAD THAT SET UP, PRACTICED, AND READY TO GO AGES BEFORE I DIED. JUST MAKE SURE YOUR BACKUP PLAN WORKS AND YOUāRE BASICALLY UNKILLABLE!
ER- SORRY ABOUT HENCH THOUGH. GUYāS STILL A REAL PAIN IN THE HYPOTENUSE.
called upon frills once and he locked me up in theraprism. also meant that the thing owned my soul so that every time i died after that iād end up in another theraprism. but then sibling killed that frills so now i have to spend weeks reforming myself from nothing but vague impressions when i die
ā¦
ā¦ i bit him a coupla days ago. got my powers back from him. heās almost certainly plotting vengeance
OKAY WELL WE DIDNāT KNOW THAT PART WAS GONNA HAPPEN, IāM NOT THRILLED TO BE LOCKED IN A THERAPRISM EITHER BUT AT LEAST IāM NOT PERMANENTLY DEAD. THATS COOL HOW YOU CAN REFORM YOURSELF THOUGH, YOU SHOULD TEACH ME SOMETIME. POINT IS, I DONāT THINK YOUāVE GOT ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT AS LONG AS YOUāVE GOT YOUR BACKUP PLAN SECURED.
HM. ITS NOT BECOMING OF A BILL BUTā¦ MAYBE GO INTO HIDING. SHAPESHIFT INTO A NEW FORM AND TAKE ON A NEW IDENTITY.
THEYāD HAVE TO HUNT DOWN AT LEAST HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOCKED BEHIND SECURITY. THEY COULD TRY BUT ITS DOUBTFUL THEYāD SUCCEED.
YEAH. WHAT ABOUT BACK TO THE NIGHTMARE REALM WHERE YOU HAD YOUR EMPIRE TO PROTECT YOU?
YEAH. YOUāRE FINE, DONāT SWEAT IT SO MUCH. YKNOW OL FRILLS HAS ME DOING THESE THINGS CALLED AFFIRMATIONS WHERE YOU REPEAT SOME MESSAGES TO YOURSELF TO MAKE YOUR BRAIN START THINKING THEM AUTOMATICALLYā SELF-BRAINWASHING IS WHAT I CALL IT. YOU COULD USE SOME.
I AM UNDEFEATABLE.
I AM INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE INFERIOR MIND.
I AM A BLIGHT UPON THIS WORLD THAT THE WORLD HASNāT LEARNED TO THANK YET.
STUFF LIKE THAT. MIGHT HELP YA FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN YOUR ABILITY TO CONQUER AND REGENERATE. OR MAYBE ITS A LOAD OF JUNK, I DUNNO I DONāT LISTEN TO FRILLS. BUT AH, SHAME. I GUESS BECOMING A FERAL CREATURE OUT IN THE WOODS IT IS.
Yeah i think Iād rather avoid brainwashing of any kind
ā¦
though i do really like that one about being incomprehensible to the inferior mind
ā¦
yeahhhh. i guess i got to go be a feral woodland creature again. even though the last time ended with my body getting eaten by gnomes and hench murdering me and a friend of mine
YEAH I DIDNāT LIKE THE ONES FRILLS GAVE ME BUT SOME OF THE ONES IāVE COME UP WITH ARE FUN. FRILLS HATES EM THOUGH, CANāT IMAGINE WHY.
SERIOUSLY? YOU GOT BESTED BY GNOMES? JUST BLAST āEM WHATāRE YOU DOING? YOU ARE POWERFUL AND GRAND AND EVEN IF YOU CANāT START WEIRDMAGEDDON SURELY YOU CAN HANDLE SOME GNOMES. SURELY.
ā¦WEIRD. MAYBE YOU HAD AN EPISODE AND SOME GNOMES TOOK ADVANTAGE?
WHAT? NO IT DOESNāT THATS JUST WHAT THE HUMANS ALL KEEP SAYING TO TRY AND GET YOU TO KEEP IT SEMI-NORMAL. THE WORLD WAS JUST FINE WHEN I RAN WEIRDMAGEDDON FOR THREE DAYS.
hmmmm. only thing like that i can think of right now is āi am an eldritch horror cthulu itself bows down toā. might need to practice makin these up a bit more
ā¦ ā¦ yeah that does sound like somethin gnomes would do
ā¦ iām not sure about that anymore ā¦ maybe it was only fine because we were there to hold it together ā¦ maybe it woulda been fine anyway ā¦ i dunno
OOH THATS A GOOD ONE! WHAT ABOUT āI AM DESTINED TO BE IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHINGā?
HUH. WELL YA CANāT JUST SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND NOT EXPLAIN. WEIRDMAGEDDON IS PERFECT. ITS EVERYTHING A BILL COULD WANTā ITS WEIRD AND WACKY AND UNPREDICTABLE WHICH MAKES IT SO EXCITING. PEOPLE SCREAM IN FEAR JUST LIKE THEY ALWAYS HAVE AND FINALLY YOU HAVE A PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOU WANT TO GIVE THAT UP?
OOOOOO I LOVE THAT ONEE!!! HOW BOUT āI AM AN ALL POWERFUL GOD, MORTAL, COWER BEFORE ME OR I WILL BURN YOUR FACE OFFā?
ā¦
i mainly did it to get everyone outta the nightmare realm before it collapsed entirely. i loved the chaos while it lasted but there isnāt a point in trying again when the last time ended with me dyin and the nightmare realm decaying away anyway
I KNOW WE COULD COME UP WITH A BUNCH IF WE JUST SAT HERE AWHILE BUT THATS GOTTA BE ENOUGH FOR NOW. THE WHOLE TRICK IS YOU GOTTA SAY IT TO YOURSELF THROUGHOUT THE DAY EVERY DAY. IF NOTHINā ELSE ITāLL MAKE YOU SMILE.
YOUCH. BUT HEY AT LEAST ITS TEMPORARY WHICH MEANS THE PAIN IS TEMPORARY! DEATH ISNāT THAT BAD. IāD RATE IT BETTER THAN WHAT CAME AFTER IT. DOES THE PAIN GET WORSE EACH TIME OR WHAT?
ohhhhhhhhh. yeah we have enough for now, then. and they will DEFINITELY make me smile (-|
it takes longer to come back each time and i always lose something. never get to come back complete. and yeah it hurts a lot too. think iāll fade away entirely if i have to die any more
OH. WAIT BUT YOU SAID YOU COULDNāT DIE UNLESS EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT YOU. SO WHICH IS IT? ARE YOU GONNA FADE AWAY PIECE BY PIECE OR ARE YOU GONNA DIE WHEN YOUāRE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN?
iām gonna die when iām completely forgotten ā¦ but a buddy of mine lost all his memories when i was dead this time so i couldnāt reform myself completely
OH. HUH, GUESS YOU KNOW HOW THE PINES FAMILY FELT WHEN THEY SACRIFICED ALL OF STANāS MEMORIES TO STOP ME. IT CANāT BE THAT TERRIBLE THOUGH, JUST REMIND HIM OH ALL THE GOOD TIMES YOU GUYS HAD AND CALL IT GOOD! PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO SMOOTH OVER ANY PROBLEMS YOU MIGHTāVE HAD WITH HIM AND TURN YOUR FRIENDSHIP INTO THE PERFECT ONE.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! YEAH I CAN SORTA SEE THAT. I TRIED REMINDIN THE GUY OF OUR FRIENDSHIP A BIT AGO AND HE ENDED UP REMEMBERING THAT LULLABY MOM SANG INSTEAD. AND THEN SUNG IT TO ME. ALSO I SORTA HAVE TO STAY HIDDEN IN MY ROOM āRESTINGā CAUSE OTHERWISE SOMETHIN HAPPENS THAT REQUIRES ME TO USE A BUNCHA ENERGY AND I DONāT HAVE ENOUGH TO HOLD MY BODY TOGETHER AND END UP GLITCHIN OUT EVERYWHERE. BEEN THINKIN BOUT MAYBE CALLIN THAT GUYāS FRILLS TO SEE IF ITāD GIVE THE GUY HIS MEMORIES OF ME BACK. BUT I DO NOT TRUST ANY VARIANT OF THAT THING NOT TO EDIT SOME STUFF IN SOMEONEāS MEMORIES
DO YOU EVER THINK ITS FATE THAT WE ALWAYS END UP STUCK IN SOME KIND OF PRISON? EVEN IF ITS NOT A LITERAL PRISON, EVERY OUNCE OF MY TRILLION YEAR LIFE HAS BEEN STUCK SOMEWHERE I DIDNāT ASK OR WANT TO BE. ITS CRUEL.
YEAH.. ME TOOā¦. NOT TO GET ALL SAPPY ON YA BUT IāVE ALWAYS WANTED A PLACE TO BELONG OR JUST BE RESPECTED IN. DIDNāT GET THAT SO NOW I BURN PLACES DOWN INSTEAD WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE BY ME!
ā¦ i found that place ā¦ live in a house with my sibling and a coupla their friends ā¦ only for them to disappear and the house to get full of complete strangers so now iām back down to zero places where i can feel like i can just be safe
THATS REAL UNFORTUNATE. AINāT NO REST FOR THE WICKED N ALL THAT. THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO SHUT GUYS LIKE US OUT BUT WHEN THE UNIVERSE DOES THAT YA GOTTA PUNCH IT RIGHT BACK IN THE GULLET. WE CARVE OUR OWN HOME OUT EVEN IF THAT IS SOME CABIN IN THE WOODS. ONE DAY YOUāLL GET YOUR STRENGTH BACK AND ESCAPE THAT PLACE AND MAKE A HOME FOR YOURSELF. IF SOME LANKY TWEENAGER HUMAN CAN RUN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS AND MAKE A HOME YOU CAN TOO. DONāT GIVE INTO DESPAIR, THATS FOR WEAKLINGS!
yeah. i am thinkin iāll just run away. cause one of the strangers whoāve moved in has that āall bills are monsters who deserve to dieā opinion and i happen to know sheās one of the gods of death for my dimension so she could permanently kill me just by touching me and one of the few people i actually know here is tellin me that she aināt dangerous and that i should be able to get along with her. it should only take about two seconds of thinkin to figure out why i disagree with that statement. so i guess i gotta run off somewhere and hope going feral again donāt end as badly as it did last time
YIKES. DAMNED GODS ALWAYS GETTING IN THE WAY. THAT GUY YOU ACTUALLY KNOW DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A FRIEND IF THEY THINK THAT ITS ANY KINDA SAFE FOR YOU TO BE AROUND HER. ITS NOT ON YOU TO CHANGE HER MIND ABOUT BILLS! NOT WHEN YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE AGAIN. SO GO ENJOY YOUR LITTLE CORNER OF YOUR DIMENSION. AND DONāT FORGET TO VISIT ME SOMETIME AGAIN EITHER.
yāknow. i suppose i could run off and talk on the phone at the same time. i donāt have to wait
*there is the sound of a window opening*
but yeah. youāre right. even wilhelmās actin like i donāt have any reason to be scared of her. so itās startin to seem like maybe everyone here secretly wants me dead. wouldnāt at all be the first time i thought i found a safe place to hang out only for it to turn out that everyone there wanted me dead
EXACTLY! now all i have to worry bout is which tree would be best to hollow out and live in, not when are these guys gonna betray me! iām already a whole lot more relaxed now i know that itās unlikely theyāll be able to find me out here!
OH YEAH BABY NOW WEāRE COOKING. YOUāRE GONNA WANT ONE THATāS NICE AND THICK SO YOU STILL HAVE SOME SPACE TO WALK AROUND INSIDE. AND YOU CAN HOLLOW OUT DIFFERENT AREAS TO MAKE FLOORS TO SCURRY UP AND DOWN. ITS NOT A GRAND OL ENTIRE DIMENSION THAT YOU DESERVE BUT EH, YOU NEED TO LAY LOW. IF YOUāVE GOT THE JUICE FOR IT YOU CAN MAKE AN INVISIBLE BARRIER TO KEEP OTHERS OUT.
OOOO I JUST FOUND THE PERFECT TREE FOR THIS!!! Itās a great big thick one almost completely surrounded by birch trees. gonna plan out the interior before i start diggin though! (-(
yāknow, invisible barrier is a GREAT idea. gonna dk that now!! (-(
*there is a quiet wooshing sound as the barrier goes up*
HEY THAT IS PERFECT! IāD COME GIVE YOU A HOUSEWARMING GIFT BUT, YKNOW. IN A WHOLE SITUATION OVER HERE. ONE DAY IāLL GIVE YOU ONE. IāLL SLIP IT THROUGH THE BARRIER.
WELL, PAL, I CAN COME VISIT YA AGAIN ONCE IāVE GOT THIS TREE HOLLOWED OUT. DUNNO HOW LONG THATāLL TAKE ME. THINKIN IāLL PUT IN THREE LEVELS TO IT
ā¦ i tried to contact him and convince him to go with you ā¦ never got a response ā¦ but we can come up with an idea to get him out later if ya want
Bill stood in the center of his drab room, one whose walls were devoid of color besides the handful of artwork and motivational posters itād been decorated with against his will. This would be the last time heād see these stupid walls. He read the coordinates and sighed. Itās now or never, he only had moments to spare before the Axolotl and all its therapist goons would be breathing down his angles and try to tie him down like a savage beast.
He regurgitated the gun in a wad of oil-like spit into his hand and rushed to type the coordinates in. He then pointed the gun, taking a pause to glare right at the camera watching his room. Finally, his sentence was over. He fired the gun and leapt through the portal.
ā¦ not sure exactly what part of the dimension youāll end up in, but i could try to meet ya somewhere amd show ya to that hollowed out tree i tried livin in ā¦ wilhelm made a deal with me to make sure i stay safe in the house she lives in and youāre likely gonna need a hidin spot pretty quickly
He faceplanted right into dirt and skidded a few paces as the portal closed behind him. He sat up, his whole body buzzed as he wiped himself down and swallowed the gun again quickly. He needed to think and fast. He opened up his phone and skimmed the text.
āIāM OUT IN A FIELD SURROUNDED BY TREES. PH MY GOD SUNLIGHT HAS NEVER FELT THIS GOOD BEFOREā¦ā
āI CANāT. ITS MAGICALLY BOUND. THEREāS UH- FLOWERS AND SHIT AROUND ME. I THINK I SPY A COUPLE BLUISH GREEN MUSHROOMS THAT ARE KINDA TALL IN THE TREE LINE?ā
*he pauses for a few seconds to try to figure out where that could be before he zooms off again, it doesnāt take very long for him to get to where Prism is after that. he looks a little different than last time they met, no scar for one thing*
hmmmmmm ā¦ would chewing off the leg itās attached to and regeneratin that work?
i died for a bit there but i got better and iām back now.
HEYA NESTER!
YEAH, HEARD FROM YOUR BROTHER WHAT HAPPENED. AT FIRST I THOUGHT YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR PROMISE TO COME BACK HAHAHA ITS GREAT TO HEAR YOU WERE ONLY DEAD! SO UH, HENCH GOT YOU AGAIN, HUH?
iāve died around seven times at this point. donāt recommend. always terrified itās gonna be the last time and i wonāt ever come back and that just gets worse the more times it happens.
AW WELL AS LONG AS YOUāVE AN INSURANCE POLICY SET UP YOU SHOULD BE FINE. YOU THINK CALLING UPON THE AXOLOTL TO ESCAPE DEATH WAS A LAST MINUTE THOUGHT? NO! I HAD THAT SET UP, PRACTICED, AND READY TO GO AGES BEFORE I DIED. JUST MAKE SURE YOUR BACKUP PLAN WORKS AND YOUāRE BASICALLY UNKILLABLE!
ER- SORRY ABOUT HENCH THOUGH. GUYāS STILL A REAL PAIN IN THE HYPOTENUSE.
called upon frills once and he locked me up in theraprism. also meant that the thing owned my soul so that every time i died after that iād end up in another theraprism. but then sibling killed that frills so now i have to spend weeks reforming myself from nothing but vague impressions when i die
ā¦
ā¦ i bit him a coupla days ago. got my powers back from him. heās almost certainly plotting vengeance
OKAY WELL WE DIDNāT KNOW THAT PART WAS GONNA HAPPEN, IāM NOT THRILLED TO BE LOCKED IN A THERAPRISM EITHER BUT AT LEAST IāM NOT PERMANENTLY DEAD. THATS COOL HOW YOU CAN REFORM YOURSELF THOUGH, YOU SHOULD TEACH ME SOMETIME. POINT IS, I DONāT THINK YOUāVE GOT ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT AS LONG AS YOUāVE GOT YOUR BACKUP PLAN SECURED.
HM. ITS NOT BECOMING OF A BILL BUTā¦ MAYBE GO INTO HIDING. SHAPESHIFT INTO A NEW FORM AND TAKE ON A NEW IDENTITY.
THEYāD HAVE TO HUNT DOWN AT LEAST HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOCKED BEHIND SECURITY. THEY COULD TRY BUT ITS DOUBTFUL THEYāD SUCCEED.
YEAH. WHAT ABOUT BACK TO THE NIGHTMARE REALM WHERE YOU HAD YOUR EMPIRE TO PROTECT YOU?
YEAH. YOUāRE FINE, DONāT SWEAT IT SO MUCH. YKNOW OL FRILLS HAS ME DOING THESE THINGS CALLED AFFIRMATIONS WHERE YOU REPEAT SOME MESSAGES TO YOURSELF TO MAKE YOUR BRAIN START THINKING THEM AUTOMATICALLYā SELF-BRAINWASHING IS WHAT I CALL IT. YOU COULD USE SOME.
I AM UNDEFEATABLE.
I AM INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE INFERIOR MIND.
I AM A BLIGHT UPON THIS WORLD THAT THE WORLD HASNāT LEARNED TO THANK YET.
STUFF LIKE THAT. MIGHT HELP YA FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN YOUR ABILITY TO CONQUER AND REGENERATE. OR MAYBE ITS A LOAD OF JUNK, I DUNNO I DONāT LISTEN TO FRILLS. BUT AH, SHAME. I GUESS BECOMING A FERAL CREATURE OUT IN THE WOODS IT IS.
Yeah i think Iād rather avoid brainwashing of any kind
ā¦
though i do really like that one about being incomprehensible to the inferior mind
ā¦
yeahhhh. i guess i got to go be a feral woodland creature again. even though the last time ended with my body getting eaten by gnomes and hench murdering me and a friend of mine
YEAH I DIDNāT LIKE THE ONES FRILLS GAVE ME BUT SOME OF THE ONES IāVE COME UP WITH ARE FUN. FRILLS HATES EM THOUGH, CANāT IMAGINE WHY.
SERIOUSLY? YOU GOT BESTED BY GNOMES? JUST BLAST āEM WHATāRE YOU DOING? YOU ARE POWERFUL AND GRAND AND EVEN IF YOU CANāT START WEIRDMAGEDDON SURELY YOU CAN HANDLE SOME GNOMES. SURELY.
ā¦WEIRD. MAYBE YOU HAD AN EPISODE AND SOME GNOMES TOOK ADVANTAGE?
WHAT? NO IT DOESNāT THATS JUST WHAT THE HUMANS ALL KEEP SAYING TO TRY AND GET YOU TO KEEP IT SEMI-NORMAL. THE WORLD WAS JUST FINE WHEN I RAN WEIRDMAGEDDON FOR THREE DAYS.
hmmmm. only thing like that i can think of right now is āi am an eldritch horror cthulu itself bows down toā. might need to practice makin these up a bit more
ā¦ ā¦ yeah that does sound like somethin gnomes would do
ā¦ iām not sure about that anymore ā¦ maybe it was only fine because we were there to hold it together ā¦ maybe it woulda been fine anyway ā¦ i dunno
OOH THATS A GOOD ONE! WHAT ABOUT āI AM DESTINED TO BE IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHINGā?
HUH. WELL YA CANāT JUST SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND NOT EXPLAIN. WEIRDMAGEDDON IS PERFECT. ITS EVERYTHING A BILL COULD WANTā ITS WEIRD AND WACKY AND UNPREDICTABLE WHICH MAKES IT SO EXCITING. PEOPLE SCREAM IN FEAR JUST LIKE THEY ALWAYS HAVE AND FINALLY YOU HAVE A PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOU WANT TO GIVE THAT UP?
OOOOOO I LOVE THAT ONEE!!! HOW BOUT āI AM AN ALL POWERFUL GOD, MORTAL, COWER BEFORE ME OR I WILL BURN YOUR FACE OFFā?
ā¦
i mainly did it to get everyone outta the nightmare realm before it collapsed entirely. i loved the chaos while it lasted but there isnāt a point in trying again when the last time ended with me dyin and the nightmare realm decaying away anyway
I KNOW WE COULD COME UP WITH A BUNCH IF WE JUST SAT HERE AWHILE BUT THATS GOTTA BE ENOUGH FOR NOW. THE WHOLE TRICK IS YOU GOTTA SAY IT TO YOURSELF THROUGHOUT THE DAY EVERY DAY. IF NOTHINā ELSE ITāLL MAKE YOU SMILE.
YOUCH. BUT HEY AT LEAST ITS TEMPORARY WHICH MEANS THE PAIN IS TEMPORARY! DEATH ISNāT THAT BAD. IāD RATE IT BETTER THAN WHAT CAME AFTER IT. DOES THE PAIN GET WORSE EACH TIME OR WHAT?
ohhhhhhhhh. yeah we have enough for now, then. and they will DEFINITELY make me smile (-|
it takes longer to come back each time and i always lose something. never get to come back complete. and yeah it hurts a lot too. think iāll fade away entirely if i have to die any more
OH. WAIT BUT YOU SAID YOU COULDNāT DIE UNLESS EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT YOU. SO WHICH IS IT? ARE YOU GONNA FADE AWAY PIECE BY PIECE OR ARE YOU GONNA DIE WHEN YOUāRE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN?
iām gonna die when iām completely forgotten ā¦ but a buddy of mine lost all his memories when i was dead this time so i couldnāt reform myself completely
OH. HUH, GUESS YOU KNOW HOW THE PINES FAMILY FELT WHEN THEY SACRIFICED ALL OF STANāS MEMORIES TO STOP ME. IT CANāT BE THAT TERRIBLE THOUGH, JUST REMIND HIM OH ALL THE GOOD TIMES YOU GUYS HAD AND CALL IT GOOD! PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO SMOOTH OVER ANY PROBLEMS YOU MIGHTāVE HAD WITH HIM AND TURN YOUR FRIENDSHIP INTO THE PERFECT ONE.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! YEAH I CAN SORTA SEE THAT. I TRIED REMINDIN THE GUY OF OUR FRIENDSHIP A BIT AGO AND HE ENDED UP REMEMBERING THAT LULLABY MOM SANG INSTEAD. AND THEN SUNG IT TO ME. ALSO I SORTA HAVE TO STAY HIDDEN IN MY ROOM āRESTINGā CAUSE OTHERWISE SOMETHIN HAPPENS THAT REQUIRES ME TO USE A BUNCHA ENERGY AND I DONāT HAVE ENOUGH TO HOLD MY BODY TOGETHER AND END UP GLITCHIN OUT EVERYWHERE. BEEN THINKIN BOUT MAYBE CALLIN THAT GUYāS FRILLS TO SEE IF ITāD GIVE THE GUY HIS MEMORIES OF ME BACK. BUT I DO NOT TRUST ANY VARIANT OF THAT THING NOT TO EDIT SOME STUFF IN SOMEONEāS MEMORIES
DO YOU EVER THINK ITS FATE THAT WE ALWAYS END UP STUCK IN SOME KIND OF PRISON? EVEN IF ITS NOT A LITERAL PRISON, EVERY OUNCE OF MY TRILLION YEAR LIFE HAS BEEN STUCK SOMEWHERE I DIDNāT ASK OR WANT TO BE. ITS CRUEL.
YEAH.. ME TOOā¦. NOT TO GET ALL SAPPY ON YA BUT IāVE ALWAYS WANTED A PLACE TO BELONG OR JUST BE RESPECTED IN. DIDNāT GET THAT SO NOW I BURN PLACES DOWN INSTEAD WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE BY ME!
ā¦ i found that place ā¦ live in a house with my sibling and a coupla their friends ā¦ only for them to disappear and the house to get full of complete strangers so now iām back down to zero places where i can feel like i can just be safe
THATS REAL UNFORTUNATE. AINāT NO REST FOR THE WICKED N ALL THAT. THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO SHUT GUYS LIKE US OUT BUT WHEN THE UNIVERSE DOES THAT YA GOTTA PUNCH IT RIGHT BACK IN THE GULLET. WE CARVE OUR OWN HOME OUT EVEN IF THAT IS SOME CABIN IN THE WOODS. ONE DAY YOUāLL GET YOUR STRENGTH BACK AND ESCAPE THAT PLACE AND MAKE A HOME FOR YOURSELF. IF SOME LANKY TWEENAGER HUMAN CAN RUN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS AND MAKE A HOME YOU CAN TOO. DONāT GIVE INTO DESPAIR, THATS FOR WEAKLINGS!
yeah. i am thinkin iāll just run away. cause one of the strangers whoāve moved in has that āall bills are monsters who deserve to dieā opinion and i happen to know sheās one of the gods of death for my dimension so she could permanently kill me just by touching me and one of the few people i actually know here is tellin me that she aināt dangerous and that i should be able to get along with her. it should only take about two seconds of thinkin to figure out why i disagree with that statement. so i guess i gotta run off somewhere and hope going feral again donāt end as badly as it did last time
YIKES. DAMNED GODS ALWAYS GETTING IN THE WAY. THAT GUY YOU ACTUALLY KNOW DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A FRIEND IF THEY THINK THAT ITS ANY KINDA SAFE FOR YOU TO BE AROUND HER. ITS NOT ON YOU TO CHANGE HER MIND ABOUT BILLS! NOT WHEN YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE AGAIN. SO GO ENJOY YOUR LITTLE CORNER OF YOUR DIMENSION. AND DONāT FORGET TO VISIT ME SOMETIME AGAIN EITHER.
yāknow. i suppose i could run off and talk on the phone at the same time. i donāt have to wait
*there is the sound of a window opening*
but yeah. youāre right. even wilhelmās actin like i donāt have any reason to be scared of her. so itās startin to seem like maybe everyone here secretly wants me dead. wouldnāt at all be the first time i thought i found a safe place to hang out only for it to turn out that everyone there wanted me dead
EXACTLY! now all i have to worry bout is which tree would be best to hollow out and live in, not when are these guys gonna betray me! iām already a whole lot more relaxed now i know that itās unlikely theyāll be able to find me out here!
OH YEAH BABY NOW WEāRE COOKING. YOUāRE GONNA WANT ONE THATāS NICE AND THICK SO YOU STILL HAVE SOME SPACE TO WALK AROUND INSIDE. AND YOU CAN HOLLOW OUT DIFFERENT AREAS TO MAKE FLOORS TO SCURRY UP AND DOWN. ITS NOT A GRAND OL ENTIRE DIMENSION THAT YOU DESERVE BUT EH, YOU NEED TO LAY LOW. IF YOUāVE GOT THE JUICE FOR IT YOU CAN MAKE AN INVISIBLE BARRIER TO KEEP OTHERS OUT.
OOOO I JUST FOUND THE PERFECT TREE FOR THIS!!! Itās a great big thick one almost completely surrounded by birch trees. gonna plan out the interior before i start diggin though! (-(
yāknow, invisible barrier is a GREAT idea. gonna dk that now!! (-(
*there is a quiet wooshing sound as the barrier goes up*
HEY THAT IS PERFECT! IāD COME GIVE YOU A HOUSEWARMING GIFT BUT, YKNOW. IN A WHOLE SITUATION OVER HERE. ONE DAY IāLL GIVE YOU ONE. IāLL SLIP IT THROUGH THE BARRIER.
WELL, PAL, I CAN COME VISIT YA AGAIN ONCE IāVE GOT THIS TREE HOLLOWED OUT. DUNNO HOW LONG THATāLL TAKE ME. THINKIN IāLL PUT IN THREE LEVELS TO IT
ā¦ i tried to contact him and convince him to go with you ā¦ never got a response ā¦ but we can come up with an idea to get him out later if ya want
Bill stood in the center of his drab room, one whose walls were devoid of color besides the handful of artwork and motivational posters itād been decorated with against his will. This would be the last time heād see these stupid walls. He read the coordinates and sighed. Itās now or never, he only had moments to spare before the Axolotl and all its therapist goons would be breathing down his angles and try to tie him down like a savage beast.
He regurgitated the gun in a wad of oil-like spit into his hand and rushed to type the coordinates in. He then pointed the gun, taking a pause to glare right at the camera watching his room. Finally, his sentence was over. He fired the gun and leapt through the portal.
ā¦ not sure exactly what part of the dimension youāll end up in, but i could try to meet ya somewhere amd show ya to that hollowed out tree i tried livin in ā¦ wilhelm made a deal with me to make sure i stay safe in the house she lives in and youāre likely gonna need a hidin spot pretty quickly
He faceplanted right into dirt and skidded a few paces as the portal closed behind him. He sat up, his whole body buzzed as he wiped himself down and swallowed the gun again quickly. He needed to think and fast. He opened up his phone and skimmed the text.
āIāM OUT IN A FIELD SURROUNDED BY TREES. PH MY GOD SUNLIGHT HAS NEVER FELT THIS GOOD BEFOREā¦ā
āI CANāT. ITS MAGICALLY BOUND. THEREāS UH- FLOWERS AND SHIT AROUND ME. I THINK I SPY A COUPLE BLUISH GREEN MUSHROOMS THAT ARE KINDA TALL IN THE TREE LINE?ā
My muse!! [static] You'll never believe what I found!! A bramea moth!! Discovered it in the bottomless pit! I knew it must be connected to some other place!!
@mothfanatic
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DISCOVERED IT IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT?! DO YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS THAT IS? NOT EVERYTHING THAT GOES IN THERE COMES BACK OUT.
[His voice comes in short buzzes, almost like heās out of breath. A constant shuffling can be heard.]
i died for a bit there but i got better and iām back now.
HEYA NESTER!
YEAH, HEARD FROM YOUR BROTHER WHAT HAPPENED. AT FIRST I THOUGHT YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR PROMISE TO COME BACK HAHAHA ITS GREAT TO HEAR YOU WERE ONLY DEAD! SO UH, HENCH GOT YOU AGAIN, HUH?
iāve died around seven times at this point. donāt recommend. always terrified itās gonna be the last time and i wonāt ever come back and that just gets worse the more times it happens.
AW WELL AS LONG AS YOUāVE AN INSURANCE POLICY SET UP YOU SHOULD BE FINE. YOU THINK CALLING UPON THE AXOLOTL TO ESCAPE DEATH WAS A LAST MINUTE THOUGHT? NO! I HAD THAT SET UP, PRACTICED, AND READY TO GO AGES BEFORE I DIED. JUST MAKE SURE YOUR BACKUP PLAN WORKS AND YOUāRE BASICALLY UNKILLABLE!
ER- SORRY ABOUT HENCH THOUGH. GUYāS STILL A REAL PAIN IN THE HYPOTENUSE.
called upon frills once and he locked me up in theraprism. also meant that the thing owned my soul so that every time i died after that iād end up in another theraprism. but then sibling killed that frills so now i have to spend weeks reforming myself from nothing but vague impressions when i die
ā¦
ā¦ i bit him a coupla days ago. got my powers back from him. heās almost certainly plotting vengeance
OKAY WELL WE DIDNāT KNOW THAT PART WAS GONNA HAPPEN, IāM NOT THRILLED TO BE LOCKED IN A THERAPRISM EITHER BUT AT LEAST IāM NOT PERMANENTLY DEAD. THATS COOL HOW YOU CAN REFORM YOURSELF THOUGH, YOU SHOULD TEACH ME SOMETIME. POINT IS, I DONāT THINK YOUāVE GOT ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT AS LONG AS YOUāVE GOT YOUR BACKUP PLAN SECURED.
HM. ITS NOT BECOMING OF A BILL BUTā¦ MAYBE GO INTO HIDING. SHAPESHIFT INTO A NEW FORM AND TAKE ON A NEW IDENTITY.
THEYāD HAVE TO HUNT DOWN AT LEAST HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOCKED BEHIND SECURITY. THEY COULD TRY BUT ITS DOUBTFUL THEYāD SUCCEED.
YEAH. WHAT ABOUT BACK TO THE NIGHTMARE REALM WHERE YOU HAD YOUR EMPIRE TO PROTECT YOU?
YEAH. YOUāRE FINE, DONāT SWEAT IT SO MUCH. YKNOW OL FRILLS HAS ME DOING THESE THINGS CALLED AFFIRMATIONS WHERE YOU REPEAT SOME MESSAGES TO YOURSELF TO MAKE YOUR BRAIN START THINKING THEM AUTOMATICALLYā SELF-BRAINWASHING IS WHAT I CALL IT. YOU COULD USE SOME.
I AM UNDEFEATABLE.
I AM INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE INFERIOR MIND.
I AM A BLIGHT UPON THIS WORLD THAT THE WORLD HASNāT LEARNED TO THANK YET.
STUFF LIKE THAT. MIGHT HELP YA FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN YOUR ABILITY TO CONQUER AND REGENERATE. OR MAYBE ITS A LOAD OF JUNK, I DUNNO I DONāT LISTEN TO FRILLS. BUT AH, SHAME. I GUESS BECOMING A FERAL CREATURE OUT IN THE WOODS IT IS.
Yeah i think Iād rather avoid brainwashing of any kind
ā¦
though i do really like that one about being incomprehensible to the inferior mind
ā¦
yeahhhh. i guess i got to go be a feral woodland creature again. even though the last time ended with my body getting eaten by gnomes and hench murdering me and a friend of mine
YEAH I DIDNāT LIKE THE ONES FRILLS GAVE ME BUT SOME OF THE ONES IāVE COME UP WITH ARE FUN. FRILLS HATES EM THOUGH, CANāT IMAGINE WHY.
SERIOUSLY? YOU GOT BESTED BY GNOMES? JUST BLAST āEM WHATāRE YOU DOING? YOU ARE POWERFUL AND GRAND AND EVEN IF YOU CANāT START WEIRDMAGEDDON SURELY YOU CAN HANDLE SOME GNOMES. SURELY.
ā¦WEIRD. MAYBE YOU HAD AN EPISODE AND SOME GNOMES TOOK ADVANTAGE?
WHAT? NO IT DOESNāT THATS JUST WHAT THE HUMANS ALL KEEP SAYING TO TRY AND GET YOU TO KEEP IT SEMI-NORMAL. THE WORLD WAS JUST FINE WHEN I RAN WEIRDMAGEDDON FOR THREE DAYS.
hmmmm. only thing like that i can think of right now is āi am an eldritch horror cthulu itself bows down toā. might need to practice makin these up a bit more
ā¦ ā¦ yeah that does sound like somethin gnomes would do
ā¦ iām not sure about that anymore ā¦ maybe it was only fine because we were there to hold it together ā¦ maybe it woulda been fine anyway ā¦ i dunno
OOH THATS A GOOD ONE! WHAT ABOUT āI AM DESTINED TO BE IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHINGā?
HUH. WELL YA CANāT JUST SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND NOT EXPLAIN. WEIRDMAGEDDON IS PERFECT. ITS EVERYTHING A BILL COULD WANTā ITS WEIRD AND WACKY AND UNPREDICTABLE WHICH MAKES IT SO EXCITING. PEOPLE SCREAM IN FEAR JUST LIKE THEY ALWAYS HAVE AND FINALLY YOU HAVE A PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOU WANT TO GIVE THAT UP?
OOOOOO I LOVE THAT ONEE!!! HOW BOUT āI AM AN ALL POWERFUL GOD, MORTAL, COWER BEFORE ME OR I WILL BURN YOUR FACE OFFā?
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i mainly did it to get everyone outta the nightmare realm before it collapsed entirely. i loved the chaos while it lasted but there isnāt a point in trying again when the last time ended with me dyin and the nightmare realm decaying away anyway
I KNOW WE COULD COME UP WITH A BUNCH IF WE JUST SAT HERE AWHILE BUT THATS GOTTA BE ENOUGH FOR NOW. THE WHOLE TRICK IS YOU GOTTA SAY IT TO YOURSELF THROUGHOUT THE DAY EVERY DAY. IF NOTHINā ELSE ITāLL MAKE YOU SMILE.
YOUCH. BUT HEY AT LEAST ITS TEMPORARY WHICH MEANS THE PAIN IS TEMPORARY! DEATH ISNāT THAT BAD. IāD RATE IT BETTER THAN WHAT CAME AFTER IT. DOES THE PAIN GET WORSE EACH TIME OR WHAT?
ohhhhhhhhh. yeah we have enough for now, then. and they will DEFINITELY make me smile (-|
it takes longer to come back each time and i always lose something. never get to come back complete. and yeah it hurts a lot too. think iāll fade away entirely if i have to die any more
OH. WAIT BUT YOU SAID YOU COULDNāT DIE UNLESS EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT YOU. SO WHICH IS IT? ARE YOU GONNA FADE AWAY PIECE BY PIECE OR ARE YOU GONNA DIE WHEN YOUāRE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN?
iām gonna die when iām completely forgotten ā¦ but a buddy of mine lost all his memories when i was dead this time so i couldnāt reform myself completely
OH. HUH, GUESS YOU KNOW HOW THE PINES FAMILY FELT WHEN THEY SACRIFICED ALL OF STANāS MEMORIES TO STOP ME. IT CANāT BE THAT TERRIBLE THOUGH, JUST REMIND HIM OH ALL THE GOOD TIMES YOU GUYS HAD AND CALL IT GOOD! PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO SMOOTH OVER ANY PROBLEMS YOU MIGHTāVE HAD WITH HIM AND TURN YOUR FRIENDSHIP INTO THE PERFECT ONE.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! YEAH I CAN SORTA SEE THAT. I TRIED REMINDIN THE GUY OF OUR FRIENDSHIP A BIT AGO AND HE ENDED UP REMEMBERING THAT LULLABY MOM SANG INSTEAD. AND THEN SUNG IT TO ME. ALSO I SORTA HAVE TO STAY HIDDEN IN MY ROOM āRESTINGā CAUSE OTHERWISE SOMETHIN HAPPENS THAT REQUIRES ME TO USE A BUNCHA ENERGY AND I DONāT HAVE ENOUGH TO HOLD MY BODY TOGETHER AND END UP GLITCHIN OUT EVERYWHERE. BEEN THINKIN BOUT MAYBE CALLIN THAT GUYāS FRILLS TO SEE IF ITāD GIVE THE GUY HIS MEMORIES OF ME BACK. BUT I DO NOT TRUST ANY VARIANT OF THAT THING NOT TO EDIT SOME STUFF IN SOMEONEāS MEMORIES
DO YOU EVER THINK ITS FATE THAT WE ALWAYS END UP STUCK IN SOME KIND OF PRISON? EVEN IF ITS NOT A LITERAL PRISON, EVERY OUNCE OF MY TRILLION YEAR LIFE HAS BEEN STUCK SOMEWHERE I DIDNāT ASK OR WANT TO BE. ITS CRUEL.
YEAH.. ME TOOā¦. NOT TO GET ALL SAPPY ON YA BUT IāVE ALWAYS WANTED A PLACE TO BELONG OR JUST BE RESPECTED IN. DIDNāT GET THAT SO NOW I BURN PLACES DOWN INSTEAD WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE BY ME!
ā¦ i found that place ā¦ live in a house with my sibling and a coupla their friends ā¦ only for them to disappear and the house to get full of complete strangers so now iām back down to zero places where i can feel like i can just be safe
THATS REAL UNFORTUNATE. AINāT NO REST FOR THE WICKED N ALL THAT. THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO SHUT GUYS LIKE US OUT BUT WHEN THE UNIVERSE DOES THAT YA GOTTA PUNCH IT RIGHT BACK IN THE GULLET. WE CARVE OUR OWN HOME OUT EVEN IF THAT IS SOME CABIN IN THE WOODS. ONE DAY YOUāLL GET YOUR STRENGTH BACK AND ESCAPE THAT PLACE AND MAKE A HOME FOR YOURSELF. IF SOME LANKY TWEENAGER HUMAN CAN RUN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS AND MAKE A HOME YOU CAN TOO. DONāT GIVE INTO DESPAIR, THATS FOR WEAKLINGS!
yeah. i am thinkin iāll just run away. cause one of the strangers whoāve moved in has that āall bills are monsters who deserve to dieā opinion and i happen to know sheās one of the gods of death for my dimension so she could permanently kill me just by touching me and one of the few people i actually know here is tellin me that she aināt dangerous and that i should be able to get along with her. it should only take about two seconds of thinkin to figure out why i disagree with that statement. so i guess i gotta run off somewhere and hope going feral again donāt end as badly as it did last time
YIKES. DAMNED GODS ALWAYS GETTING IN THE WAY. THAT GUY YOU ACTUALLY KNOW DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A FRIEND IF THEY THINK THAT ITS ANY KINDA SAFE FOR YOU TO BE AROUND HER. ITS NOT ON YOU TO CHANGE HER MIND ABOUT BILLS! NOT WHEN YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE AGAIN. SO GO ENJOY YOUR LITTLE CORNER OF YOUR DIMENSION. AND DONāT FORGET TO VISIT ME SOMETIME AGAIN EITHER.
yāknow. i suppose i could run off and talk on the phone at the same time. i donāt have to wait
*there is the sound of a window opening*
but yeah. youāre right. even wilhelmās actin like i donāt have any reason to be scared of her. so itās startin to seem like maybe everyone here secretly wants me dead. wouldnāt at all be the first time i thought i found a safe place to hang out only for it to turn out that everyone there wanted me dead
EXACTLY! now all i have to worry bout is which tree would be best to hollow out and live in, not when are these guys gonna betray me! iām already a whole lot more relaxed now i know that itās unlikely theyāll be able to find me out here!
OH YEAH BABY NOW WEāRE COOKING. YOUāRE GONNA WANT ONE THATāS NICE AND THICK SO YOU STILL HAVE SOME SPACE TO WALK AROUND INSIDE. AND YOU CAN HOLLOW OUT DIFFERENT AREAS TO MAKE FLOORS TO SCURRY UP AND DOWN. ITS NOT A GRAND OL ENTIRE DIMENSION THAT YOU DESERVE BUT EH, YOU NEED TO LAY LOW. IF YOUāVE GOT THE JUICE FOR IT YOU CAN MAKE AN INVISIBLE BARRIER TO KEEP OTHERS OUT.
OOOO I JUST FOUND THE PERFECT TREE FOR THIS!!! Itās a great big thick one almost completely surrounded by birch trees. gonna plan out the interior before i start diggin though! (-(
yāknow, invisible barrier is a GREAT idea. gonna dk that now!! (-(
*there is a quiet wooshing sound as the barrier goes up*
HEY THAT IS PERFECT! IāD COME GIVE YOU A HOUSEWARMING GIFT BUT, YKNOW. IN A WHOLE SITUATION OVER HERE. ONE DAY IāLL GIVE YOU ONE. IāLL SLIP IT THROUGH THE BARRIER.
WELL, PAL, I CAN COME VISIT YA AGAIN ONCE IāVE GOT THIS TREE HOLLOWED OUT. DUNNO HOW LONG THATāLL TAKE ME. THINKIN IāLL PUT IN THREE LEVELS TO IT
ā¦ i tried to contact him and convince him to go with you ā¦ never got a response ā¦ but we can come up with an idea to get him out later if ya want
Bill stood in the center of his drab room, one whose walls were devoid of color besides the handful of artwork and motivational posters itād been decorated with against his will. This would be the last time heād see these stupid walls. He read the coordinates and sighed. Itās now or never, he only had moments to spare before the Axolotl and all its therapist goons would be breathing down his angles and try to tie him down like a savage beast.
He regurgitated the gun in a wad of oil-like spit into his hand and rushed to type the coordinates in. He then pointed the gun, taking a pause to glare right at the camera watching his room. Finally, his sentence was over. He fired the gun and leapt through the portal.
ā¦ not sure exactly what part of the dimension youāll end up in, but i could try to meet ya somewhere amd show ya to that hollowed out tree i tried livin in ā¦ wilhelm made a deal with me to make sure i stay safe in the house she lives in and youāre likely gonna need a hidin spot pretty quickly
He faceplanted right into dirt and skidded a few paces as the portal closed behind him. He sat up, his whole body buzzed as he wiped himself down and swallowed the gun again quickly. He needed to think and fast. He opened up his phone and skimmed the text.
āIāM OUT IN A FIELD SURROUNDED BY TREES. PH MY GOD SUNLIGHT HAS NEVER FELT THIS GOOD BEFOREā¦ā
BILL CIPHER HAS ESCAPED THE THERAPRISMāS CUSTODY. AUTHORITIES WILL PAY FOR INFORMATION ON HIS LOCATION. THOSE WHO ARE FOUND ASSISTING HIS ESCAPE WILL BE PROSECUTED.
BILL CIPHER IS A DANGEROUS REFUGEE. IT IS IN THE MULTIVERSEāS BEST INTEREST THAT HE IS RETURNED TO OUR CUSTODY.
