RETURN

Alright, this is Pandora, yes Pandora as in Pandora Paradox.
A lot of things has happened since Arch wrote that last post.

To sum it up...in three key points.

• Arch made a deal with a magical cat named Jack to bring me back to life or back to my regular human form, which cost me my changeling ability, which I guess is OK, I just have to get used to being permanently in this female body. Anyway...

• What happened next was that Arch instead of being the cat's slave for the next five decades offered to be turned into The Archangel again...which sucks...

• Jack did me a favor and brought me back to the real world along with everyone else. I don't owe him anything since he felt a bit guilty for turning my friend into Lovecraft's abomination again.

It may not seem like a lot, but it took a while...anyway I'm glad to be back in the real world, in a real body instead of being whatchamacallit, a nightvictim.
I spoke to PuppetLover...she was not happy at all...she appeared right in front of me as I was going to leave the Mootel...

PuppetLover: Hello,Pandora!
Me: Uhm...hey!
PuppetLover: You failed your job Pandora!
Me: I know, but we had bigger issues...
PuppetLover: Do I look like I care about your issues you little dimshit...All I know is that you failed to protect one single guy...now he's dead...
Me: I don't even know why Nolan was that important...

PuppetLover snapped at me, holding me up to the wall. For a deity in a 15 year old girls body she has a lot of strenght.

PuppetLover: Nolan was the main servant of The Narrator, which means I was going to hold him hostage there in order to gain an in with The Narrator, but NO! YOU HAD TO RUIN MY PLANS DIDN'T YOU?! YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING PIECE OF GARBAGE!

She let go of me...she seemed to have relaxed...let it out of her system...

PuppetLover: Whatever...

She then vanished...

Thymos VI / Derby Hat

I'm starting to trust Thymos more & more, I'm beginning to believe that its there. I guess you could call it religion or faith, I call it believing in something that will save you, hope. I climbed on top of the Elder Tree, stretched its branches down to the ground and then let go, swinging me away letting me fly for a few moments before landing in a pond. There was a man standing at the edge of the pond, what was he doing there? He was just staring at me is all.
I swam towards the edge and pulled myself out of the water.

"Nice day for a swim isn't it?"

"Who are you?"

"Really after all that you've been trough does it really surprise you to see a semi-normal humanoid standing here? Anyway...I guess I should introduce myself, call me Derby Hat"

"Ah, right I remember you. You were one of those people that were trapped in the Mootel"

"I don't think I was necessarily trapped, but yes I was there"

"Alright...I have little time for this I have to find Thymos"

"Thymos?"

"Yes, do you know it?"

"I know what it is & where it is, more I don't know"

"Ah that's alright I'll just be on my...wait a minute you know where it is?"

"Of course I know"

"Can you take me to it?"

"Alright...I'll do this for you, but in return in the future I'll ask you one of these days for a favor and you are by this bound to agree, alright?"

This man seemed fishy, like 90% of the people I've met since this whole thing started, but I had no other choice, this place is huge and I was not going to find Thymos, let alone it's pieces by myself.

"Deal" I said as I shook his hand. As I shook his hand a light came out of our hands. When I let go and looked at my hand there was a symbol on it, it was a big "D". I guess this was to mark our contract.

"Let's not waste any time then, shall we?"

Thymos V

The Elder Tree told me that to talk to Thymos I had to find the beings that its made out of. Judging by the tree's talk I believe Somnam might be one of those, but I'm not sure. The tree told me that the beings that make up Thymos have a tendency to be mysterious beings that are not in the norm. The Thymos parts transcend reality and existence in general, they are beings that could be described as titans, beings more powerful than the gods themselves. Well, if Thymos is a being made out of, according to the tree two or more parts then Thymos might be the thing that could defeat KHAOS. The tree told me that Sam, whoever that is, brought the beings that make out Thymos in order to try to balance the world out. Gracious, the one we were trying to find in here is one of those beings.
Thymos is my one hope to get out of here as far as I know.
The tree waved me goodbye, a few months ago I might have found that strange, but after all I've been trough a talking tree is just another day.

"Remember son, Thymos may be hard to find and even harder to talk to"

I'm beginning to doubt I'll survive to see the universe ending.

Thymos IV

I think I've found the courage that will lead me out of this hell hole.
The green dressed man from before appeared to me yet again and gave me a dagger. I don't know why and I had no time to ask him why. I went into a random direction. A swarm of giant bees attacked me, it was magnificent and they would sure make for neat pets, but I had to kill them. With my one tiny little dagger I sliced them, which was harder than it sounded because they were really giant. As I was on one of the bees I held its furry hair and flew around with it. When I was at a point where I no longer required its transportation I stabbed it repeatedly in the head until it crash landed with me on the back. Once I dusted the pollen of my jacket I saw that I had landed next to a tree. This tree was all twisted, without any leaves. What made me most nervous about it was the wooden face that was in the middle of it, like we were in Disney's Pocahontas Wild Ride...It looked at me.

"Welcome my son, how are you?"

"I'm fine"

"Well...what are you doing in Thymos's land?"

"Are you Thymos?"

"No, Thymos is the owner and creator of this domain. Thymos is god of this domain, its life essence"

"Right...I was put here by a jerk named Somnam, I don't know how to leave this place"

"Somnam you say?"

"Somnam? You mean Thymos?"

"Whatever...Where is the exit"

"As the Elder Tree I can't allow you to leave this easily, perhaps you might be hostile to the environment"

"Alright, we were just here to find a guy named Gracious."

"Ah...yes the one above all others, the favorite son"

"Elder Tree, could I ask you something?"

"Of course my son...what is it?"

"Who or what is Thymos?"

"Thymos...Thymos is the thing that keeps this place a float, the person that created this place. Thymos is the being that the one called Sam brought down here into the abyss to make this a paradise on earth"

I was going to call the talking tree on that, but then I looked around. Everything was suddenly different than before, it was peaceful and green. It was literally a paradise. The only thing that seemed dark about it was the 40 giant bees that lay dead in a trail behind me.

"You have a point, I may perhaps be hostile to your environment. Could I talk to Thymos? Would he send me home?"

"Perhaps, you have to find both parts of it though...Thymos is a being that couldn't be bound to one humanoid form, it had to be exiled into two beings due to the danger it would cause to not only this place, but most places outside of it. Sam thought it was best this way."

This Thymos guy sounds like a swell guy, which makes me wonder why the KHAOS guys didn't try hunting after him instead of the Slenderman. I'm off to find Thymos.

Thymos III

I don't know what is happening...I'm all alone in this god-forsaken place that is like the love child of Oz & Azkaban.Why is this happening to me, I used to be a simple guy. Sure I used to kill people for the hell of it, but that was just a condition I had, after Lovecraft I've barely had any attacks so I think that I deserve a bit of sympathy from the universe or whatever deity rules reality.

I've been wandering some kind of gothic forest for god knows how long. I'm not sure where I'm heading or what to do. Usually I would be unsure about something and either Pandora or Somnam would explain it to me and everything would work out.

After walking for hours, even days I saw a person standing in the middle of a field.

"Hello my child..."

I was confused. This man was standing there in an all-green outfit holding a black cane. Something about this man seemed un-trustworthy. He started to talk. I don't think I understood a single thing he was saying. He was clearly speaking English, but it was like the English language fell out of my head. I was at the point where I wanted to weep & cry.

The man turned towards the pile of rocks that was behind him. He turned to me and said the only thing that I could understand of his gibberish.

"When Thymos is happy, you better be happy for Thymos"

I was unsure if he was referring to Thymos, someone that he knew or if he was speaking about himself in the third person.

I'm curiouser and curiouser about who Thymos is.

Thymos II

I have no idea how long we've been in this magical land of Somnam's hat, because my smartphone's calendar isn't working. My guess based on my sense of time that it has been at least 3-5 days of us standing around or fighting random creatures that had already been deal with before. It's interesting to note that we are here to find someone that can get us out of this hat and someone that is able to save the universe, but instead we just stand around watching Somnam bicker with his insane sister. The KHAOS trio is munching on the universe and we are doing nothing to prevent it. I don't have that big of a sense of heroism in me, but at least the basic level of you know, not having the universe being eaten. To Somnam that has no meaning at all.

Somnam: It was nice to catch up with you, but we have to find gracious, who will help us save the universe. for --

Now first he mentions it.

Pandora: Yeah...
Somnam: --the sake of your lives. The city won't be able to hold us here forever if we have Gracious on our side. I also don't think Thymos is going to like this family get-together.

This was the moment where I completely lost it. All the bent up rage, anger & passive aggression began to come to the surface in one moment.

Me: YOU KNOW WHAT SOMNAM? YOU ARE AN INCONSISTANT SELFISH RIDDLE-SPEWING JERK THAT JUST WALZES INTO OUR LIVES, EXPLAINING THINGS IN YOUR ANNOYING "MYSTIC" WAY SO THAT THE IMPORTANT THINGS THAT NEED TO BE EXPLAINED DON'T EXIT YOUR MOUTH UNITL IT'S TOO LATE. LIKE YOU KNEW I WAS POSESSED BY LOVECRAFT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, BUT YOU DID DIDDLY-SQUAT. YOU NEVER EXPLAIN ANYTHING IN PROPER TERMS UNTIL IT IS BLOWING RIGHT IN OUR FREAKING FACES. YOU ACT LIKE YOU ARE FUCKING SAM SPADE ALL THE TIME, BUT YOU JUST ARE HERE TO RUIN THE LIVES OF OTHERS SO THAT YOU MAY SEEM HARDCORE, GRITTY AND MYSTERIOUS IN COMPARISON. IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT WE ARE HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. WHAT ABOUT YOUR DEAL WITH THE MASTER? HUH? HOW CAN I OR ANYONE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER TRUST A LUNATIC THAT TURNS ON EVERYONE. THEN TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY YOU SPEND LIKE A BAJILLION HOURS TALKING TO YOUR SISTER, WHO IS THE MOST ANNOYING INSANE WOMAN I'VE EVER MET IN MY ENTIRE LIFE INSTEAD OF SOLVING ANYTHING. THEN YOU KEEP ADDING RIDDLES TO THE BLOODWOUND THAT IS OUR LIVES. WHO IS THYMOS? WHAT IS THIS PLACE? WHY ARE WE IN YOUR HAT? SOMNAM HONESTLY, MY HATRED FOR YOU STARTED OUT AS PETTY JEALOUSY, BUT YOU DON'T EVEN DESERVED TO BE LIKE BY ME OR ANYONE. YOU ARE A BAD PERSON. YOU SUCK!

It felt good to get this all out, but I kind of regretted it a moment later when they all three started staring at me. With Pandora I'm just guessing, but it looked like they all three were staring and judging me. A blink of an eye later they had vanished, like Somnam had done so many times before. Even Pandora is gone.

I don't know what to do now. I'm a bit scared...

Thymos

Being related to Somnam, which means there has t there has to be something wrong with Soulviva, anything related to this weird smug jerk is intolerable and annyoing by default. Then again I have to admit that she's quite attractive despite of that. Perhaps it is just the pseudo-classy way she portrays herself in that wedding dress. Anyway Soulviva seems to have some issues with her brother, you'd think that be normal for any siblings, but they seem odd. They didn't introduce themselves as twins, yet they seem so twin-like if you know what I mean. Something about it seems bizarre, like why did he lock his sister in his hat?

That's a question I would like to hear answered, but they insist on playing their weird little mind games with me, confusing me with their banter that went too fast to even be remembered by yours truly.
It's not as if they have any form of sibling rivalry its more like they like each other, but don't like to admit. They are playing emotional chicken, which in my experience is a stupid waste of time and effort.

Soulviva has a katana, I was just noticing that now. She carries it around on her back in some sort of strap. I'm beginning to see why she's in here, perhaps this place is like Arkham Asylum and is just a place Somnam sends crazy beings to. That would mean that Somnam is Batman. I refuse to believe that, so obviously there has to be some other explanation.

Pandora is still not talking to me, I know that she can talk even though she's a Nightvictim, but she refuses to talk to me. She's still upset about me killing her. I get that, I mean I wouldn't want someone to murder me. It is frustrating that instead of speaking to her meant love-interest she's talking to Somnam. I'm not jealous or anything, I just think that it's a bit passive-aggressive behavior on her part. I feel guilty for some reason.

I swear if I met Soulviva & Somnam in a bar somewhere and wouldn't know any better I would think that they were a married couple, honestly. Both of them have been bantering over an hour, which doesn't help our situation.

I hate outdrawn situations, what's next we're going to run into another family member of Somnam's that is here for no reason at all leading to this again for hours on end?