ARNOLDSONALONE

**ARNOLDSONALONE** is the tenth episode of Season Three of the Monument Mythos, continuing parts of the plot established in CTHONAUTC.

## Overview

The episode is a narrative, based off of engravings found within the Babylon Forest, and depicting the story of Everett Arnoldson.

The episode opens on a dark red background, with text that reads "The following wood engravings were found in Babylon Forest. Everett's story will be narrated by an individual with AWS."

The episode depicts multiple sketches created by Everett Arnoldson while a narration of Everett's experience living life in Wonderland plays. The narration, performed by an individual suffering from American Wonderland Syndrome, is mostly mumbled, likely due to bodily distortions caused by AWS, with very few words decipherable without help of subtitles.

The narration reads the following:

*"I was born in Hell. For as long as I can remember, I have inhabited this distorted body. For years, I drifted aimlessly with other stolen husks. In and endless field of trees. But then I heard a sound. I heard her singing. The tune was familiar somehow. Somehow... So I followed her. I could see she wasn't truly there. She was transparent, slightly. Her expression vacant, her voice muffled. She was a memory from another world. Wonderland remembered her and that memory lived on. Yet, I could tell she wanted me beside her. So I followed. I followed her for years. Wandering. She never got closer.*

*Then one day, or night, out of the tens of thousands, She... She stopped singing. She turned around and pointed at... The Tree. The Tree that bent and the Tree that pulled me in. The same Tree that pulled her. Vertigo. A deep, cold, endless, vertigo. The dark soil between realities. I experienced this infinitely. Then one day, or night, out of the millions, a vibrant miasma of light and color tore through the dark. I could not take it. I could not comprehend of it. I went mad. I lost my vision. My existence was fully unchained, sent into the starless abyss.*

*When I regained sight, I was in a new forest. One of leaves and bark and dirt. A kind forest, not Wonderland. She led me out of Hell, but she couldn't follow. She was a figment of Wonderland, she could not leave. A dream which could not separate itself from the dreamer. I was alone again. There is another Hell tearing through the dark. A furious Hell burning space and time, to ignite the earth and cage us all in an unending nightmare. I was born in Hell. I can't let anyone else be damned like I was. No one should ever live the life I have. I can protect everyone from the Hell above. I must save everyone. For Father. For Mother. For everyone."*

Upon finishing the monologue, a video is seen of the Babylon Forest. The sky is crimson, with a bright red light in the sky indicating the Martian Serpent approaching. Everett, glowing white and with massively disfigured proportions exits the frame while a blue light begins to glow brighter in the background.

Text in the same shade of blue reads "To be concluded."

## Notes

### Trivia

* Everett's story of pain throughout his life, as depicted in this episode, is a mirror of James Dean in many ways. Both experience grief and pain, major themes through Season Three. Everett experiences pain through his life and Dean has a great deal of grief after his sister dies. They both approach it differently, with Dean having an outburst that kills many to get back at who he thinks killed his sister, meanwhile, Everett decides to save the Earth from the Martian Serpent so nobody experiences the pain he did.
	+ Everett's actions this episode may also count for the "act of true kindness" specified by Cthonaut A in CLIFTCHAOS.
* This episode's depiction of an echo that Everett follows implies that the copies that Howard Melrose mentions in WASHINGTONWANDERER are some form of living memory as opposed to fully realized copies of individuals.
* Notably, in Everett's narrative, Cthonaut C is never mentioned.