Announcement from The Tale Weaver

Victory to: Zae Moxia
Defeat: James Derek Moxia

Interesting, Axiom's name was James. It seems to suit him properly.
Shame, I had hoped he could make it to the final round so I could kill him.
Goodbye old friend!

Sim City Is The Place To Be!

When I finally managed to bring Jane to a safe location I was exhausted and decided to sleep next to her. When I awoke she was gone.
I looked everywhere, she just wasn't there anymore.

It was about then that I looked around and saw a familiar face. The thing about my memory is that I don't remember much about myself, still...but things like my family are still fresh in there. This was my cousin Zae.

Zae was never my favorite relative, she bugged the hell out of me & now I was standing before her in a forest.

"Well, if it isn't Axiom!" Even she called me that as a kid, I can't for the life remember why I got that nickname.

"What are you doing here?"

"Well...your old friend Malachai sends his regards"

"Oh?"

"I'm his apprentice now, just like he was for the Game Master"

"What?! Oh that is so typical of you to do, I could've even seen it coming myself!"

"Well...you can call me the Magic Queen now, with the power of the Unbounded Face I shall, as ordered...eliminate you"

She took a battle position, we are about to battle!

This should be easy!

Fuck My Life

I just freaked out.
The Hanging Man finally showed himself. He was a guy in some dark overcoat, I could not see his face.
Instead of his arms he had a lot of ropes coming out of his body as if they were a part of it.
THIS FREAKED ME OUT, OH GOD WHY  DOES THIS!

I decided to do the sensible thing and shoot it. He just used his rope to tie me up.
He started to choke me, oh god the choking, I thought my number was up.
Then I saw help coming from the distance, it was Emily & some girl I had not ever seen.

I was tied down & barely alive when I was forced to watch Emily stab Jane in the back, who was sleeping trough all this comotion a few miles away.

Emily then ran towards me & cut the ropes that held me.

"Good Luck" was all she said as she took the girl she was with with her & left.

I kicked the Hanging Man's head, which made me able to get enough time to run from him. I ran towards Jane, who was bleeding to death.

I took her shotgun & fired at the Hanging Man. I gave him no chance, I was reloading faster than I have ever reloaded. He then stretched his rope towards me again. I was choking again. I did not mind this time.

With my last breath of air I said "It's the power of love!" and pulled the trigger sending 3 bullets trough his skull.
The rope afterwards loosened.
That was actually the coolest thing I've done & said respectively. I'm feeling like a badass, not "Was sucked into an abyss-like being and came back unharmed" badass, but pretty badass.

That freaking Emily, I swear to god she should've just been able to die.
I HATE YOU TALE WEAVER!

It's fine...I think, alright I'm just going to.
DAMMIT x_x live Jane. LIVE!

Love?

I read the last few comments.
I realize now that Malachai is somewhere in here & needs my help. I also now realize that the ropes, the ropes are the work of the Hanging Man. I should've known.
I never encountered him, because I was dead, but I've heard about him. Ivory told me she had an encounter with him that almost killed her.
I'm unsure what I should do now. The Hanging Man seems to not be up to much.
I'm wondering if I should go to sleep or guard.

I decided to guard Jane. She may be a badass, but she's so cute I kind of feel like protecting her.

I'm not in love with her...I'm in love with Ivory...Ivory...Ivory

I'm in love with Ivory Jane.

Dammit <_<

COME AT ME BRO!

I never encountered anything as horrifying as those freaking trees. They just keep coming alive, I would've often died if it weren't for Jane. Seriously, how the hell would a teenager learn to shoot like that in the year 2016 or whatever, it's just weird. Perhaps she has some sort of backstory about that, but I don't want to pester her.

Anyway, I wish Malachai was here. The real Malachai, not that psychodeformed being that calls himself Malachai. Dewitt loved his friends, which is why I think it's hard to think that he would just do something like all of this.

Several days have past since we started this whole thing.
I wonder what Ivory is up to?

Probably slaughtering herself trough hordes of enemies.
I never thought violence, at least not sword type of violence was anything that appeared hot when done by girls. Jane, with her gun skills is freaking awesome though. I love a woman that can use a gun properly.

Jane's gun is some sort of triple shotgun, as in a shotgun that fires 3 bullets at ones. It's smaller, kind of like a handgun. I like it, the future has awesome weapons...or at least her future or whatever.

I have no idea why the Tale Weaver is being so weakish. He's not really doing anything. We're just in a forest. At least the Game Master had the balls to make us kill the people closest to us, but he's just making trees go alive.

COME AT ME TALE WEAVER!

Help the Mad!

I think I've seen the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. I saw her today, she sort of called out to me before appearing before my eyes. Jane was sleeping at the time.

"Axiom, how are you?" she said like her godly glowing presence was a normal occurrence.

"F-fine..."

"I want to tell you that, perhaps you should trust the Tale Weaver more than Ivory"

Then she exploded or disappeared, I was really tired so it could've been either.


While it is true that due to circumstances I have a hard time believing her, why did she not give me time to ask questions? Anyway, I guess I'm not supposed to trust Ivory,
I think there might be some truth behind that, I don't think I would trust her.

Suddenly I felt as if the trees started to come alive. They had faces, those freaking faces.
They looked at me. I could see it wasn't the whole forest that turned like this, it was just the trees around me and Jane.

Jane kind of quickly woke up after that,jumped out, took out my gun and started shooting the trees in targeted areas. The speed of her reaction means that she must've dealt with things like this before, guess we are not so different.

"Axiom, shall you betray the Blind once again I shall"

The Blind?

I'm not entirely sure what they were referring to.

I know with I shouldn't be thinking like this, but seeing Jane handle that gun was rather a turn on. I wonder if perhaps she'd be interested in a roman-.
I'm going to die, most likely when I meet Ivory again.

I don't know why I'm together with Ivory. I guess it's because she showed evidence that we were together in the past, before I lost my memories, twice!

I still wish to find out why I was sent to the Game Master's Tournament. Who sent me there?
That person would be responsible for creating the Tale Weaver, reading his blog made me realize that if I had lived, he would've been fine with the way things were. He would've rejected the deal, I'm certain.
So I wish to express my hatred for whatever scum sent me to that tournament.
If it was the Game Master himself, then honestly theres nothing I could do, which is why I hope it will turn out to be a demi-god or lower form, so I can kill them.

I tend to like killing, when it's justified.
Random people in the street before were justified by the fact that they were in the way of the conspiracy.
I'm not allowed to kill Emily, that sucks. I feel like if I would just go ahead and get 3 strikes to kill us all, just to screw over the plans of the Tale Weaver.
How do I know that is part of the rules? I read them in my journal, yeah they just popped up in there.


Rule 1. You’re here to survive a bunch of challenges.
Rule 2. If you lose the challenge, it counts as a strike.
Rule 3. Three strikes and the big man in charge has my soul to put on his fireplace.
Rule 4. Killing = 1 strike. .
Rule 5. The final 4 rounds has everyone competing together. If three strikes are gotten in GENERAL, we all die.
Rule 6. You do get to fight… you just can’t fight other contestants. There’s enemies and living challenges.

Hmm..I do not like it, at least the Game Master's thing had a lot of cool fights and death scenes...this just makes me feel like I'm just killing a bunch of bots until getting to the boss in a video game.
This sucks.

I wish I had a girlfriend who wasn't crazy!

Yeah, like that is going to happen anytime soon. Ivory is a fear, from what I here not a powerful one, but a fear nonetheless. I guess female fears are rather pretty, like that thing that talked to me before, I guess she's a fear, fear of what though?

I started talking to Jane.

"So Jane, you say you are from the past right?"

"Never said that, you assumed. I was born in the year 2012 a few decades later time travel was invented. I was the beta tester. I was supposed to travel back in time & come back to the laboratory. I didn't, I even made modifications to the time machine in order to accommodate space travel. It's like the TARDIS, ever see that show? Anyway...I started to settle down in the 1920s before being sucked into this thing."

"How old are you?"

"Depends...but I've been alive for 20 years if that's what you are asking."

"So,I was wondering. Do you know a man named Malachai Dewitt?"

Her reaction made it seem as she knew him. She became sort of melancholic by his mere mention.

"Yeah, I do. He had learnt of my existance and sought me out in order to help him with some case, I won't bore you with the details, but I guess you could say we were friends. I recall him having bit of a crush on me. I liked him, but not in a sexual kind of way. I had more of a romantic feeling for him, but my tough exterior can easily hide that sort of thing. Anyway after the case I sort of broke him you know?"

"No I don't know."

"Well, the thing is due to some sort of spacetime thing I was swallowed up by the Quiet, a fear, I guess you know about those. Anyway, when I returned after spending a lot of time in nothingness, I returned to find him broken over my death. I helped him on  a few cases after that, but eventually I decided to leave,I didn't want to cause him more hurt so I went back to the 20s. Which sort of made a time paradox splitting the universes into 2, which is probably why he doesn't mention me in regular speech. Then again if this Tale Weaver is as powerful as you say he is, then he should be able to see and act in different universes."

So that's it isn't it? He has made so many attachments over his career, seen so many people die or leave him, has killed a great number of people so in the middle of the tournament, when I died he must have just snapped. My death just pushed him over the edge.
I feel sorry for him, he was a good man before turning into this thing.

I want to help him, but I don't know how.
I will help you Malachai, that's a promise.

~Axiom

Deadpool would be proud!

Well I was having a nice day once I woke up. I ate some bread that Jane had on her, went for a little stroll. But then I saw her. It was Emily...Emily Kim.
I didn't really grasp that it was her, so I just started shooting at her. I know I said I wanted to kill her slowly, but honestly I was just a bit startled. I wasn't sure if I had hit her or not, so I ran towards her.
She was alive.

"Axiom?" she said.

I pointed my gun at her, she was lying wounded on the ground, a bullet had hit her leg.

"Hello Emily, nice to see you here" I said.

"Why are you shooting at me" she asked.

She would've defended herself with that knife of hers if I weren't pointing a gun to her head.

"So Emily, after I returned from the dead again amnesic as hell, I was brought attention to your blog that jump kicked my memory "

"Right, that I was jus-"

"Shut up!"

"At first I wanted to kill you, slow and painfully, buy then I decided to go lenient on you so to speak. I'm going to kill you, but I'm going to let you join me and kill you when you least expect it. If you do not join me, I could easily just shoot you right now."

She spat on my face and called me scum.

I enjoyed watching the bullet travel from my gun trough her brain. I imagined it in that matrix bullet time effect, cool. Anyway, I realize I don't get points for this kill, but I still feel like it was worth it, just to see that face of hers.

What a waste, I was going to torture her. Then again it's better to have just finished it off, no need to risk her returning alive to the world.

I walked back to Jane covered in the blood that had splattered on me. I made sure she didn't see or here me talk to Emily.

"What happened?" Jane asked.

"I-i uhm killed an enemy, jumped at me" I stuttered.

I am never good at lying, it's like the only thing in the world I'm bad at. I joke, but seriously I need to look into that.

"Oh good..."

I cleaned myself off and sat down by the fire.