Angel's Game Plot Summary

The following is a summary of the main events of the Angel's Game. Those following the series should visit the timeline page.
==September - November==
Josh Rallus decided to start a vlogging channel on YouTube under the name "theoriginalaliendude". His first few uploads were simple videos of him speaking in front of a camera or doing things around his house. In one such video, Josh discovered a leather pouch containing seven golf tees. In another, he found a second puch containing an eighth golf tee and two dice. Around this time, a distorted video of him visiting his friend Austin's house was uploaded to his account before he could upload it himself.
Suspecting that it was a prank played on him by his brother, Josh continued on with his videos, posting the rest of the video of him at Austin's house shortly after. Josh convinced Austin, who had been having trouble with lapses in his memory, to create a YouTube channel as well, under the name :"UnwillingWatcher". Josh and Austin uploaded several more videos until strange things started to occur. Austin woke up one night after hearing strange noises in his house, and Josh found a strange drawing and a flash drive in a bathroom stall at his school. The note depicted a man in a suit with a menacing grin on his face with the words "LETS PLAY THE ANGEL'S GAME" written next to him. The flash drive contained a video titled THINK_FAST.MOV, which he uploaded soon after. The video showed various clips of Josh filming Austin around their school and the nearby area, as well as heavy amounts of distortion.
That same day, Austin discovered a cryptic note inside of his backpack, with various messages on it, including the name "STEPHEN", the phrase "TO THE TREES", and the street address "8400 KINGSTON". Two days later, Josh discovered yet another cryptic note himself and promptly tore it up on camera. Around this time, Austin suspected that his house may be haunted and began having dreams in which a voice would try to communicate with him, getting louder and louder over time. Josh told him that he had been hearing a voice as well, whispering to him. The next day, Austin found a second cryptic note and announced his plans to go "to the trees" at 8400 Kingston soon. A friend of theirs, Alana Hudson, also started a vlog, under the channel name "Razveeg", and uploaded her first video.
In a video, Josh promoted Alana's channel and denounced Austin's suspicions, saying that he was overreacting or "losing his mind". At school, Josh confronted Austin about his plans, but was unable to deter him. Josh later tweeted that Austin hadn't been at school since that day. Three days later, a video was uploaded onto Josh's account by the hacker, which was made up of footage from Josh's not yet uploaded update video spliced in with various other clips. The next day, Josh woke up on the floor of his bathroom and tweeted that he had seen the video. Soon after, Josh posted a video in which he suggested that the golf tees and dice he had found were to be used for the game Aggravation, which his grandmother, whose name meant "Angel" used to play, meaning the hacker had a knowledge of his family's history.
Josh posted the notes he had received so far on his Facebook account, which included messages such as "he is coming" and "keep her out". Ten days after he had disappeared, Josh found Austin slumped over on the ground at school and asked where he had been, but he didn't even realize he had been gone.
==December - February==
Austin, who wasn't able to remember anything from the days he was missing, later posted a video showing how he had went "to the trees" behind the church at 8400 Kingston and found a leather bag. He then opened the bag, which contained a drawing, crystals, buttons, and a small yarn doll. Around the same time, the hacker took over Josh's accounts and posted various videos and messages, one of which mentioned "THE DWELLER", "THE KEEPER", "THE OTHER", and "THE CREATURE", before returning control of them to Josh. Josh, who now believed that something was going on, talked with Austin and decided that he must be "the keeper", Austin must be "the other", and the hacker must be "the dweller". He was unsure of who "the creature" might be.
Alana began receiving notes of her own, the first of which warned her to "mind her own business". Josh posted a video and explained that he had begun losing parts of his days, similar to the way that Austin had, and was also starting to feel sick around these times. The Dweller continued posting cryptic messages to Josh's accounts as well as hiding some for Josh and the others to find. One such hidden message was a box Josh found in his closet marked for December 25th, 2010. Around this time, Josh began having dreams that he was being followed by something that followed him around every corner and smelled. In a video uploaded to his account by the Dweller, Josh is shown to be locked in a closet in his house. Whilst he was locked up, the Dweller hid Josh's camera in another closet and apparently spoke to Josh directly. During this time, a video was uploaded to Austin's account showing him being attacked by a tall man in a suit, which resulted in him briefly being hospitalized. For failing to keep Alana out of the Game as he had been warned to, the contents of the box Josh found were taken from him by the Dweller.
Josh, who had started recording footage of his house during the night, Austin, and Alana, had decided to go back to the woods near the church where Austin had went missing and were driven there by their friend, Nathan. Once there, the three of them looked around the woods while Nathan waited in his jeep. Josh found a page out of an old diary and then decided to leave the forest due to Austin's insistence. When they reached the jeep, they discovered that Nathan was gone and were then chased by the tall suited man they now knew as the Creature. Austin tried to resist being taken away and walked towards the Creature, but Josh and Alana managed to bring him to his senses in time for the three to escape.
For the first time in weeks, the Dweller began posting videos and leaving clues again, which Josh commented on along with the fact that he once again felt sick. Alana was still upset that Josh and Austin weren't searching for Nathan, resulting in the decision to go to Nathan's house sometime in the future. Alana, who had been receiving more notes, had apparently been given the title of "the Dreamer" by the Dweller, possibly due to the strange dreams she had been having. Josh's recordings also began showing stranger and stranger results, with one featuring Josh vanishing during the night and then returning. Soon after, Josh mentioned an instance in which he remembered nothing between being at Austin's one day and then his parents' church the next.
Josh continued getting sick as the Dweller uploaded videos, seemingly getting worse over time. One video the Dweller uploaded featured Josh at Austin's house when the Creature arrived. the two went outside and found Nathan's jeep parked in Austin's garage and somebody marked as "Nathen" on Austin's phone sent him a message. The Creature later reappeared and the jeep vanished once again. Soon after this, Josh uploaded a video featuring himself opening his front door where a moving garbage bag was sitting. He mentions remembering a hand bursting from the bag and then nothing else. He also mentioned feeling sick again around this time.
Josh uploaded another video featuring various clips he filmed during a week, some of which he didn't remember. One clip featured Josh discussing his dreams, in which a young girl's body is discovered near a smile painted in her blood. Another clip showed a man in a tie with a bag covering his face swinging something towards the camera. An additional clip excluded from the video showed Josh, Austin, and Alana talking to their friend, Stephen, at school and reluctantly letting him in on what had been happening to them. In the video, Josh also acknowledged that he knew the Dweller was an entity living in his head that had been possessing him, which resulted in his sicknesses and lost time. On his Facebook, Josh compared the bag-headed man to the drawing on the first note he had received, believing them to be one in the same.
On February 27th, Josh tweeted about a strange experience he had in which time and space seemed to distort around him for a while, followed by the Dweller tweeting that Josh, his Keeper, should sleep. Later, the bag-headed man broke into Josh's house and uploaded a video to his YouTube account showing more of the footage with the garbage bag. The footage also showed Josh (or possibly the Dweller), sharpening an axe. In response to the intruder, Josh/Dweller later tweeted that he enjoyed cutting up the bag he had left them. Alana posted a video in which she discussed a dream she had, in which she saw Josh and Austin dead at the bottom of the sea.
==March - May==
Josh, Austin, and Stephen drove to Nathan's house and began looking around inside. They discovered that Nathan's family had also seemingly vanished and then discovered the Creature in the house and fled. Outside, they discovered that the car they arrived in was gone and that Nathan's jeep was around the side of the house. With no way home, the three slept in a shed, taking shifts watching the doors during the night, and then departed in the morning. After walking through the woods for a while, they discovered Nathan's dead body and then the Creature waiting for them. Austin charged at the Creature, axe in hand, but was easily tossed aside by it. With no other way out, the Dweller was forced to use his energy and attempted to sacrifice himself to save Josh and his friends. However, due to being away from a rift, his attempt failed, and although they managed to escape, the Dweller's power destroyed Josh's sanity.
Josh showed up at school several days later in a "broken" state, barely able to function on his own. At this point, the Dweller assumed full control of his body and attempted to imitate Josh to avoid suspicion. During his time at Josh's school, the Dweller also explained his situation to Alana, who didn't truly believe his claims. On March 17th, "Baghead" once again broke into Josh's house and tweeted to Josh's followers that they had three minutes to convince him not to kill Josh in his sleep. He was convinced by the logic that "it's more fun to play with them than to kill them" and chose not to do so. Before leaving, he got into a fight with the Dweller, who later said that he ran like a coward.
At some point, the Dweller took Stephen, who he had given the role of "the Collector", to the well at his school, a location the Dweller had been hinting at in his notes to Josh and the others. There he had left a small blue Easter egg containing a list of Josh's accounts and their passwords as well as a flash drive containing information on the Creature and how it was supposed to be dead. The Dweller took the flash drive but left Stephen with the account information and told him that his purpose was missed, as there was no longer any need for a Collector.
On March 26th, a video was uploaded to Alana's channel by "Baghead" now revealed to be Austin under the Creature's control, featuring him killing her in her home. In response, Josh, with whatever sanity he had left, attempted to commit suicide, unable to bear the pain anymore. The Dweller attempted to stop him somehow, which resulted in the two beings "dying" and combining into an entirely new entity. This new entity was given the name Emet Rotter during a group chat, and decided to finish the Game himself. Emet set a challenge for the Other to meet him under a bridge on April 9th. Soon after Stephen, not sure of what was going on, took control of Josh's accounts from Emet. From that point on, both would use the same accounts at different times. Stephen uploaded a video of him revisiting the well on his own, where he found the doll that Austin always carried around.
On April 9th, Austin arrived under the bridge carrying the "Baghead" mask in his hand and asked if Emet was going to kill him, seemingly ready to accept death. Emet, now wearing a gask mask over his face, started to approach him when the Creature arrived and stopped him. Emet and the Creature got into a fight, the outcome of which is unknown. Meanwhile, Stephen continued to upload videos to Josh's account, one of which showed the results of Emet asking him to bring his camera to school. Once there, he encountered Austin, but when he attempted to kill him he was stopped by Emet, who seemed to be taking pleasure in tormenting him.
Stephen's father, who was supposedly away on a business trip, had not yet returned and was not communicating with him, which worried him. On April 27th, a garbage bag containing corpses reanimated by the Creature entered Stephen's house. He was forced to kill the zombie, updating his followers as he did so. Two days later, whilst he was filming an update video, four more zombies arrived at his house, as well as the Creature, Austin, and Emet. Stephen killed the zombies with a baseball bat which he had tied the doll to whilst Emet chased Austin to the dock behind his house. After knocking Emet down, Austin, momentarily freed of the Creature's influence, removed Emet's mask as well as his own and turned his attention to the Creature, who had been watching them from the end of the dock. Austin clotheslined the Creature into the lake behind it, seemingly killing them both. As Stephen yelled out to Austin, Emet approached him and informed him that "it's over". A weeks after he initially said he would be leaving, Emet seemingly vanished, likely leaving Josh's body behind.
Throughout May, Stephen posted various tweets as his mental state continued to deteriorate. He tweeted about how his father had not yet returned, and how he would sometimes wake to find dead bodies all over his house but then later find them all gone again. He tweeted about how he, as Collector, needed to finish uploading the rest of his footage. On May 22nd, after finally uploading the last of it, Stephen contemplated finally killing himself, but ultimately tweeted that he was going to get pizza instead. Stephen returned to twitter once more, ending with the final tweet "listen with open eyes". On May 29th, the first post went up on a blog titled "HisCollector", detailing with the author's murder of a girl he didn't even know and ending with the familiar statement of "told them to listen with open eyes".