The Magnus Archives Starters !
Taken from the 2016-2021 Rusty Quill podcast, The Magnus Archives! (These are specifically more of the ‘creepy’ lines). Some of these have already been edited. You can change them however you see fit!
“I’ve seen Dawn of The Dead. I know what the groans of the undead are meant to sound like but… it wasn’t that at all.”
“It’s funny how fear can just become as routine as hunger.”
“He said I’d know when I saw him because “All the bones are in his hands.”
“My father spent my formative years killing dozens of people, and I had no idea.”
“I do not know if you’ve ever felt your blood being sucked out of you, but I would not recommend it.”
“In both cases, they said that it was because they never really felt like I wanted them around and, looking back, that was kind of true.”
“I need that. I need you to tell me that it’s just coincidence and my mind’s playing tricks, and I need to not lose any more bits of me.”
“You’ve got to understand, I know dangerous, I understand dangerous, hell, I am dangerous. This was something else.”
“An eagerness to test my faith against whatever was inside (Name)’s soul. Not even considering that I might be risking it.”
“I’m so sorry… It wants your faith.”
“I cannot stress this enough… What answered was not God. It wasn’t him. Something else answered my call for protection.”
“I do worry about the state of my soul, of course, but there is little to be done.”
“I’ve cataloged and looked into enough of these mysteries to know that following that noise was a really, really bad idea.”
“Maybe she was sick and needed an ambulance. Oh god, maybe I’d left her to die.”
“No, sir, you have nothing to fear of the dead.”
“I stood face to face with a man with no eyes, and he saw me.”
“I think we both realized how messed up it was if she could list the number of times she’s seen (Name) in the sunlight.”
“How would a melody describe itself when asked?”
“By this point, I was just about sick of this weird thing that looked like a person but was not a person.”
“You don’t need to be smart to know when you’re surrounded by your own mutilation.”
“I didn’t like that smile one bit. Far too many teeth to it.”
“You can’t understand what it is to be prey.”
“The pretty young things complained, and I left.”
“Come quickly. We’ve taken ill. We’ve passed away.”
“It feels like if I say they’re real, whatever is watching will know.”
“I suppose that I can turn on the tape recorder while we’re being eaten alive.”
“Tens of thousands of tiny things without mouths screaming as one.”
“She was completely hollow aside from a few cobwebs that I could see in the streetlights.”
“It was my most prized possession. And all I had left of him after he used it to cut his own throat — The only sensible decision he ever made.”
“Really makes you wonder about gods housing standards. I’m just saying if it was my house? I’d be pretty pissed.”
“And hey, it wasn’t the first time that I broke into a church.”
“No, no. I’ll catch you when you’re not scheming.”
“I turned the very real feeling of unease into a fun sort of fear. Like I was just playing at being scared.”
“No one ever knows what they are really hearing or seeing.”
“He nods and says that that’s okay. He’s lying, and that makes me very afraid.”
“I don’t know how and I don’t know why but he took my brother away from me, and if I ever see him again? I’m going to kill him.”
“The person they think they’re seeing has been dead for years, but they didn’t see the change. They’re looking at a complete stranger and they have no idea.”
“The corpse went missing the next night, which makes me think he took it…”
“For obvious reasons, I can’t describe him. I can barely describe his absence.”
“I don’t want to but it’s my nature now. And you can’t fight what you are or even what you aren’t.”
“It’s not you. It’s his fault. He didn’t warn you properly, and now you’re stuck here with us.”
“The audience is only safe when the story isn’t about them.”
“Maybe the thing had some power to keep me there but, honestly, it was fight, flight, or freeze. And I froze.”
“The moment that you die will feel exactly like this one.”
“They never tell you how difficult it is to take a human life.”
“Safe hands where the skin feels wrong.”
“I don’t even have a voice box. I had to borrow this one.”
“Don’t turn on the light.”
“This place is evil, (Name), and I think doing what it wants probably makes us evil.”
“Pray the sandman only brings you sleep.”
“With a single, smooth motion, like ripping the tablecloth off at a restaurant, he pulled the skin at whatever had been pretending it was my brother.”
“What is it, do you think, that makes people so obsessed with horrific things happening to other people?”
“I think I finally understand why she brought me back, I just don’t understand why she left me behind.”
“I always tried to live like that. But I think sometimes, you feel like you’re adapting, but it’s just denial.”
“They don’t get that the only thing to deal with something like him is to watch his eyes go dead with your hands around his throat.”
“I’m going to hurt them, though. I’m going to hurt the thing that stole my brother and wrecked my life.”
“That’s right. (Name). I don’t know if you can hear me, but if you can… then I don’t forgive you. But thank you for this.”
“There is nowhere in this universe where it would not blot out the sky.”
“It made me think of those winter mornings, when I was a kid, with no snow. Just frost and frozen mist over everything. Keeping the world in place. Curling you up into yourself and quietly waiting for you to lose your footing. Slip and fall. Snap.”
“You’re not quite human enough to die, but still too human to survive.”
“How do you know you’re the same person who went to sleep?”
“I thought moving away from my humanity would have made that more acceptable. That sacrifice. But it just makes me sad.”
“Afraid that any hesitation might make them reconsider. Might mark me out as something other than whatever he decided I was.”
“But as far as (Name) sees it, I’m not compromised anymore. And that… is better.”
“You’re still wearing her face.”
“Down here, I don’t hear the blood anymore.”
“You should know, if I wasn’t human before, I’m definitely less now.”
“Yeah well, when I get myself kidnapped three times in a row then I’ll listen to you.”
“You’ll kill me? I can hardly wait.”
“I know I made a choice. I made a choice because I was afraid to die.”
“It feels nice to hate something that can’t hurt me.”
“He needed a crew to follow him out of trust, not out of fear.”
“We were both trapped there, I think. Bound together in some sort of wordless misery.”
“Always respected you for that. Takes a strong stomach to not give a shit.”
“Sometimes, you just have to leave. Even if what’s on the other side scares you.”
“I’m not quite as much for decades-long campaigns of subtle terror these days.”
“The only reason this one feels special is because it’s happening to you.”
“I guess I’m just a bit burnt out on the end of the world.”
“We are merely sons of the dirt.”
“I wonder how much of them were still in there. How much they chose to be what they were.”
“How much do I actually care? How much of it is feeling like I should care?”
“They’re gone. They made their choice, and it wasn’t you.”
“It’s not in your blood or your soul or your destiny. It’s just in your own rotten luck.”
“I’m mourning a world I killed. And we’re all trapped in its rotting corpse.”
“Close your eyes. Ignore the sounds. You, at least, are safe.”
“We can’t fight the world, (Name).”
It means the journey will be the journey regardless of what we do to make it.”
“They won’t hear you. They’re too busy waiting to die.”
“Such devotion. You don’t deserve it. But you already know that!”
“Yeah. I think we should go for it. Get our murder on.”
“I’m sorry but I’m not going to kill a man just because you’re jealous.”
“She knew that whatever was about to imminently kill her was going to rise up from deep inside her own body.”
“All things end. And every step you take whatever direction you may choose only brings you closer to it.”
“I don’t like me sometimes, and I am me.”
“Sometimes I wonder if I forget things on purpose. Easier not to think about them, I guess. Easier to let them just slip away.”
“He loved me, and I couldn’t even remember his face!”
“I can’t. There’s too many. I can’t save everyone. I can’t- I can’t save anyone.”
“Well, in that case, thank you for swinging by my huge corner of the apocalypse.”
“Cheerleading you when you were on a magical murder spree probably was t a great idea.”
“The time to run is over. The time to suffer has arrived.”
“I’m (Name). I’m here to help you, to treat you, to make it so you’re less of a … burden to everyone.”
“Not an hour from an oasis, and we’re already at Sinister Hospital.”
“We can’t hunt a monster you refuse to see.”
“Oh, I’m sorry. Am I supposed to be sympathizing? After everything you two did to people?”
“We arrive somewhere. Deliver terror and death. Then leave. Never to be seen again.”
“Maybe we don’t have to feel any way at all.”
“The journey will be the journey.”
“Hm. I didn’t like that realization.”
“I don’t know how to be this. I don’t want to scare people.”
“Because it makes the sadness feel at home. Turns it from a burden into… An indulgence.”
“I’m saying there aren’t any easy solutions. We have no idea what’s going to happen.”
“And, if it comes down to it, I’ll get (Name) to destroy me like the others.”
“That’s the problem. I could have grown to dislike her, but you made sure that sort of thing could never happen.”
“Of course I’m dangerous, (Name). I’m a monster, just like you, and you can’t kill all of us.”
“That isn’t exactly a surprise, is it? That the lonely seems comfortable to you?”
“I hardly call flooding the street with blood the ‘star treatment.’”
“So what? It’s just an eldritch popularity contest?”
“Oh, I’m the antichrist’s plus one.”
“It’s just hard not to look down on people when they put you up on a pedestal like that.”
“But you have to have hope in something, otherwise there’s no point in anything.”
“And you’re going to have to promise me that you’re going to do everything in your power to live. That you’re not gonna sacrifice yourself at the first opportunity just because you feel guilty about what happened.”
“We’re surviving. And trying to help others do the same. That’s not nothing.”
“Okay. I can still hate him even if I don’t blame him.”
“Doesn’t matter. (Name)’s here, and that’s all that matters.”
“For a while, it belonged to a sculptor of puppets, who made his strings from the tendons of those who he felt did not appreciate his art.”
“What about me? I didn’t think I was really important enough to kill.”
“I kept out of it, even when I got a pretty good idea of what was going on towards the end, but… I should have known better. Hiding never helps.”
I’d rather live the rest of my life lying awake wondering if I made the right choice, over lying awake listening to the screams of everyone on Earth being tortured!
“It took almost two years of crisis and trauma to even make us compatible. And that sucks. But here we are.”
“Probably for the best. Empathy only holds you back in the end.”
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