Post by ilovetofix on Mar 18, 2007 18:39:09 GMT -5
I did not encounter any physical threats to me during my trip, but what I found when I arrived at the Academy was, to say the least, disconcerting.
The grounds were completely abandoned, with not even corpses to give the area a sense of being a place where people once lived and breathed. The building itself looked dilapidated and weather-worn. Inside, various items had been strewn about, and it was obvious something very unpleasant had occurred. Still, there were no bodies to be found. Many of the artifacts considered "sacred" to Paranoia were missing. It's not as severe as it sounds, though. They held more of a spiritual purpose than anything practical. Still, it was far from a morale booster.
The library had fared than I had expected. Some books were obviously missing, a few had been torn to pieces, and there were a couple of places that looked like small fires had broken out somehow. Overall though, the library seemed to contain at least 75% of its original stock in readable forms.
I found the librarian's office after some minorly difficult searching. Saving some pieces of paper on the ground, it seemed to have been untouched. I quickly located the vault in which all of the most sacred books of Paranoia are intended to be kept. The combination was simple.
You see, the lock on the vault holds more of a symbolic purpose than anything else. The librarian, being not-yet-dead, is obviously not a Child and therefore, not even capable of reaching the criteria to become a Priest. The librarian's purpose is, aside from the obvious job of overseeing what goes on in the follower's library, to guard these books. They must never read them. To ever enter the combination into the vault is to spit in Father Paranoia's face.
I took all of the books, with only the intention of reading The Archives. I would hide the others away, so they would not be found if any enemies were to successfully track me down. Before I left, I made a decision that has now greatly confused me. Slightly curious, I picked up the papers on the floor. What I found seems to be either notes made for oneself to read, or some sort of bizarre warning directed towards myself or my colleagues.
I have spent time reading and writing them down. Please excuse any troubles I had properly transcribing it, as the original handwriting was just a tad illegible.
PAGE ZERO - Consists of one largely-written sentence in the middle of the page.
You're In Nothingness.
PAGE ONE
M-1-06
We are fiction. They turn the page, and we tear it back.
Cycles are not meant (something like "imagined")
Tired of playing game
Immaturity mockery it is all insullts(sp)
There are other worlds
Some forgot
1. It is inevitable.
2. Redemption
3. We can only count the days.
I love now more than ever because when I love I know that thing(sp) get better.
I can accept the falsities
I can accept the faults
I am by blood Redeemed
i could hold the world in my hands and look at all the violence and all of the hatred and all of the misery and i could revel in that like a child
i could
I don't want to
Not now
Redemption
my eyes go white
PAGE TWO - Which consists of names and numbers; continued ranting
James Donner (34521)
Alberto Marconi (46743)
Andrei Timochenko (98456)
Alex Lynn (33300)
Jeremy Medley (11100)
IT IS(?) HAS BROKEN WHEN THE WAR STARTS ALL WORLDS WILL CROSS ONCE MORE WHAT WAS DIVIDED SHALL BE ADDED TOGETHER ONCE YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT YOU CAN'T JUST CHANGE THINGS LIKE THAT THE JUSTIFICATION WAS NOT (I'm not even going to attempt to guess what this next word is)
But the war has started - battles raging as early as 2008 - time will not matter - he wronged it - battle goes on four(not sure if this is a spelling error) years
THE PATH WILL MEAN NOTHING AND THEY WILL CHANGE IT (underlining was not added by me)
When he dies - everything will go wrong
Yellow Field was fiction
It neighbored similar towns
They all connect
Even to us
PAGE THREE - Which may very well be describing Yellow Field
Half of Gemini He knows he is lost The town lives in the fever dream that borders death He keeps them there. He keeps them close to him Gem kills Gem kills because he wants to know what will happen Because sometimes they come back Sometimes they change Sometimes people forget Gem thinks this to be odd - he is never caught - no one knows - why?
Answer is simple
Gem won't want to hear it Gem won't want to open the door Somebody will open that door
The Sickness Will Escape
Father will even learn to fear it.
Gem can change so much
PAGE FOUR - Consists of one largely-written sentence in the middle of the page
You Are Not Gods
I have thought about all of this and considered what it all may mean. I leave it to some of you to help decipher. I have to begin reading the relevant portions of The Archives.
The grounds were completely abandoned, with not even corpses to give the area a sense of being a place where people once lived and breathed. The building itself looked dilapidated and weather-worn. Inside, various items had been strewn about, and it was obvious something very unpleasant had occurred. Still, there were no bodies to be found. Many of the artifacts considered "sacred" to Paranoia were missing. It's not as severe as it sounds, though. They held more of a spiritual purpose than anything practical. Still, it was far from a morale booster.
The library had fared than I had expected. Some books were obviously missing, a few had been torn to pieces, and there were a couple of places that looked like small fires had broken out somehow. Overall though, the library seemed to contain at least 75% of its original stock in readable forms.
I found the librarian's office after some minorly difficult searching. Saving some pieces of paper on the ground, it seemed to have been untouched. I quickly located the vault in which all of the most sacred books of Paranoia are intended to be kept. The combination was simple.
You see, the lock on the vault holds more of a symbolic purpose than anything else. The librarian, being not-yet-dead, is obviously not a Child and therefore, not even capable of reaching the criteria to become a Priest. The librarian's purpose is, aside from the obvious job of overseeing what goes on in the follower's library, to guard these books. They must never read them. To ever enter the combination into the vault is to spit in Father Paranoia's face.
I took all of the books, with only the intention of reading The Archives. I would hide the others away, so they would not be found if any enemies were to successfully track me down. Before I left, I made a decision that has now greatly confused me. Slightly curious, I picked up the papers on the floor. What I found seems to be either notes made for oneself to read, or some sort of bizarre warning directed towards myself or my colleagues.
I have spent time reading and writing them down. Please excuse any troubles I had properly transcribing it, as the original handwriting was just a tad illegible.
PAGE ZERO - Consists of one largely-written sentence in the middle of the page.
You're In Nothingness.
PAGE ONE
M-1-06
We are fiction. They turn the page, and we tear it back.
Cycles are not meant (something like "imagined")
Tired of playing game
Immaturity mockery it is all insullts(sp)
There are other worlds
Some forgot
1. It is inevitable.
2. Redemption
3. We can only count the days.
I love now more than ever because when I love I know that thing(sp) get better.
I can accept the falsities
I can accept the faults
I am by blood Redeemed
i could hold the world in my hands and look at all the violence and all of the hatred and all of the misery and i could revel in that like a child
i could
I don't want to
Not now
Redemption
my eyes go white
PAGE TWO - Which consists of names and numbers; continued ranting
James Donner (34521)
Alberto Marconi (46743)
Andrei Timochenko (98456)
Alex Lynn (33300)
Jeremy Medley (11100)
IT IS(?) HAS BROKEN WHEN THE WAR STARTS ALL WORLDS WILL CROSS ONCE MORE WHAT WAS DIVIDED SHALL BE ADDED TOGETHER ONCE YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT YOU CAN'T JUST CHANGE THINGS LIKE THAT THE JUSTIFICATION WAS NOT (I'm not even going to attempt to guess what this next word is)
But the war has started - battles raging as early as 2008 - time will not matter - he wronged it - battle goes on four(not sure if this is a spelling error) years
THE PATH WILL MEAN NOTHING AND THEY WILL CHANGE IT (underlining was not added by me)
When he dies - everything will go wrong
Yellow Field was fiction
It neighbored similar towns
They all connect
Even to us
PAGE THREE - Which may very well be describing Yellow Field
Half of Gemini He knows he is lost The town lives in the fever dream that borders death He keeps them there. He keeps them close to him Gem kills Gem kills because he wants to know what will happen Because sometimes they come back Sometimes they change Sometimes people forget Gem thinks this to be odd - he is never caught - no one knows - why?
Answer is simple
Gem won't want to hear it Gem won't want to open the door Somebody will open that door
The Sickness Will Escape
Father will even learn to fear it.
Gem can change so much
PAGE FOUR - Consists of one largely-written sentence in the middle of the page
You Are Not Gods
I have thought about all of this and considered what it all may mean. I leave it to some of you to help decipher. I have to begin reading the relevant portions of The Archives.
