Escape

I'm not going to be dramatic. Before I tell you how it happened I'm gonna tell you that I am out of The forest and I am... Mostly fine. I... Memory a bit... Have to check my name and blog to remind myself of stuff. Pretty constantly hungry... Which by the way Hunger is a fairly new sensation to me and I don't like it. Hungry, tired and um the third thing.

So... As for the forest. Well... After my last post I...

Sorry got distracted and forgot to continue writing for a bit there. This is going to be a problem. My perfect mind and perfect body are both failing me now. I hate this...

Anyway right! So... After that last post I just picked a direction and started heading in that direction.

At some point I started struggling to remember why I was even moving, but I always remembered that I was supposed to keep going in that direction so that worked out even if it was horrifying. I always thought the Blind Man was honestly kind of funny. I'd laugh at the idea of humans being scared of some kind taking their memories from them, but it is damn scary just suddenly losing those. Struggling to recall things. It's a goddamn nightmare. I mean...

Your memory is all that you are really? Without your memory you're not you anymore. You're something else with your body...

Ugh... Just thinking about it and how close I came to losing it all makes me shiver...

I got distracted again didn't I?

Fuck where was I?

Right! I made it to a point where I could see the forest moving and even in my addled brain I remembered that meant I was near the edge... Which is when one of Jeer's psychos found me.

I remembered that I was afraid of him, but at the time I was so tired and addled that I didn't really remember why. I didn't remember if I was supposed to run or fight and upon spotting me he just stood there and watched. Like he was expecting something. When whatever he was expecting didn't happen he started to approach and then well... He just kind of exploded... Everything above his stomach just kind of exploded into red and then a few seconds later a waxy feeling object grabbed me and started dragging me. I didn't struggle. I didn't remember why I should.

I woke up a bit later outside the forest. It took me a while to figure out what happened. Someone wearing a haz-mat suit and wielding some seriously high caliber weaponry apparently based on what happened to Jeer's guy saved me. I vaguely remembered being pushed into the passenger seat of a car... and then I woke up in an abandoned house. The area I'm in is abandoned since it's close enough to the forest it will probably be engulfed soon. The area was therefore evacuated meaning there were conveniently abandoned houses for my unknown saviour to leave me in.

When I came too I was actually in a bathtub and my body was covered in powder. What kind of powder was a mystery that was pretty quickly discovered. Apparently my saviour also saw fit to disinfect me with some kind of powder that I assume was meant to cleanse any remaining spores from my body. Anyway I'm gonna get the hell out of here now and hopefully I can remember the way back to my actual home. I doubt I'll have much luck trying to find my saviour so that's hardly worth it and I really just want to be back somewhere familiar.

To fear is Mortal

It's been a while hasn't it? Well partly that's because I lost the ability to update this blog for a while. I needed to get access to a computer to do so.

I can no longer hear anything in my mind, but my own thoughts... What little of my mechanical body remained is gone. I'm completely flesh and blood now. A human just like the rest of you.

Luckily so are Rioter and Jeer. I'm stuck in the jungle still and I'm worried. I thought the spores wouldn't affect us anymore, but I was wrong. Extremely wrong. Every second I'm here it gets harder to think. If I had started as a normal human I'd probably be no better than an animal by now, but luckily for me I started as a god machine and it took some time for me to regress to this level.

I need to get out of here before it's too late. Before I regress to the intelligence level of an animal or before Jeer, Rioter or any of the others find me. They've all regressed. Jeer and his group of "Forest Wardens" or whatever the hell they were called are mere animals now. I watched one tear the head off of one of Rioter's followers and he then began just... Just eating his face... It was horrible.

I'm not gonna be able to travel for a bit so I suppose if I need to wait I might as well tell you what happened.

Rioter's group returned and told us Jeer had agreed to meet us. We were brought deeper into the jungle and found Jeer. He was at that point of course completely human... Well subhuman... He was a complete animal and he and his group almost immediately attacked us. Which was when we learned that we had been affected by the spores and had become pretty much completely human now. The fight didn't go very well for us. I watched Rioter's men try to fight and get mostly slaughtered. Jeer's men fighting with tooth and claw as well as rocks and sticks. I didn't stay very long to see what was happening. I fled when the person closest to me got their arm cut off and went down screaming and bleeding.

I ran as quickly as I could. I had thought being able to feel pain was terrible, but earlier I had not truly understood what pain was. The ground was covered in debris and thorns and other things and I could feel my feet and legs being cut to pieces and eventually I collapsed and crawled for a while. I found... Well I found a laptop. I think the place I am right now was once a park in Seattle. I found a laptop covered in lichen on a mass of wood and flowers that I think was once a bench. The laptop worked somehow...

I couldn't tell you how. Nothing else technological seems to be working in this place. Weirder than that it has a full battery and internet access.

So... There's the story. Rioter and Jeers groups fought. I'm pretty sure Rioter's group got destroyed, but I'm not sure. I'm trapped in this jungle. I'm slowly losing my mind. I have a weird probably magical laptop and I'm bleeding from cuts pretty much all over my body and every muscle in my body aches. I'm desperately trying to work up the will to keep moving, but I just can't. Everything hurts too much and... I'm too scared. I'm scared I'm going to die. IF they find me they'll undoubtedly kill me.

Everything still hurts, but I'm having trouble remembering my name and that's enough to motivate me to try and get the hell out of here again.