The Herald

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## Penelope

### Entity Alias

* The Herald
* The Marionette
* The Gamemaster
* Penelope

### Hazards (ETHC)

 **Matter Manipulation Hazard**
 **Aggressive**
 **Sentient** **Humanoid**
 **Teleportation Hazard**
 **Temporal Hazard**

## Copyright

**The Herald** known by her real name "**Penelope**" or the **Gamemaster**, is a sentient, life-size marionette puppet, wearing blue and gold jester attire along with a similarly colored jester hat. Her eyes appear to be stitched on with thick, red, vinyl, into a large smile with blushes on each cheek. Her eyes appear as large X's that have been frequently seen to move in relation to the entity talking, supposedly meant to represent some kind of facial expression within the entity. Despite her eyes appearing to move, she is incapable of making any further facial features beyond a simple smile, however, her eyes do appear to blink. The Herald gets her name from the look of heralds or messengers to Kings. Despite the look of this role, she does not serve the role of a typical court jester or even herald, with the name just being coincidental.

The entity is female with a slightly high pitched voice with a static filter to it. She measures at around 154 cm (5'1"), and often hovers about 3 - 2 feet off of the ground. Supposedly her voice comes from a speaker within the entity, however no proof of the objects existence within the entity has been ascertained, as The Herald is incredibly hard to interact with in conversation, as well as interviews. Many of the materials which make up the entity are of common origin, such as cloth or soft vinyl, or even some bits of leather and denim. However, what makes up the rest of entity is unknown, for instance; the insides of the entity have been shown to not be of typical making, this has been shown during an attempted interview with the entity, in which she accidentally cut herself on her right arm and revealed several hundred small bugs and critters inside of the entity, as well as a fowl aroma that can only be described as rotten flesh. This raises many questions as to the make up of the entity, and it can be assumed that some part of the entity is living, beyond her obvious consciousness. After this incident, the entity became increasingly violent towards interviewers and refused to answer any further questions.

Aside from the obvious looks of the entity, she seems to be capable of slight levitation, though seems to be -- for the majority of encounters -- attached to strings on the ceiling, however due to the size of the entity they are often large ropes or even chains. They move around in sync with the entity's movements and seem to suggest some alternate power controlling the entity that originates from the ceiling. There have been no further findings as to what controls the entity. The Herald is incredibly camera shy, to the point in which she seems to have developed a kind of self censoring mechanism similar to that of many levels. However despite this behavior the entity is quiet good with conversations when they evolve things the entity likes, and the entity has been shown to be not shy in the slightest. No cameras are to be taken towards the entity and any request to do so is not permitted.

## Behaviors

The Herald is often regarded by many people who encounter her within her parent level Level 5.1, to be quiet manic and deranged. Though this personality seems to shift depending from person to person, with some theory's stating that the entity has the capability to read users minds and create a personality for the user accordingly. However, all encounters often end in the manic and deranged state of the entity. Users first encounter with the entity will often be accidental, with people seeming to just stumble across the entity at their feet, sometimes tripping on the entity. She will appear lifeless and fit perfectly with the environment of the level. After a period of time users will begin to notice dolls similar in size -- sometimes smaller -- to the entity, and she will appear more and more frequently until eventually revealing herself, appearing to have woken up from a nap.

Once encountered, the entity will turn from tired to extremely manic and hyperactive in a second, making you question whether she was ever actually tired. During this period of hyperactivity, The Herald will often have mood swings and violently shake the level slightly or even transfigure the level to her liking, or to torment the user in some way. She will strike a conversation, frequently interrupting users mid sentence and banter about herself including some wants and desire. More specifically the desire to quote "Play a game"; these often include grossly changed and prevented versions of board games, sports, card games, et cetera. This can even include video games, puzzle games, drinking games, and even some more physical games like escape rooms. The majority of these games are often scaled or changed in some way to make them 'interesting' to the Gamemaster. This often involves some form of physical or mental torment towards the user, making it painful in some way to play. And users will be forced into these games without a second thought or chance to actually say if they don't want to play. The Gamemaster will become agitated if users try to refuse to play, still playing the game but then adding extra aspects to make it more painful to the user.

Often times, when either threatened or attempting to threaten other users, The Herald will seeming materialize an incredibly large and oriental scythe. The Herald is capable of changing the size of this scythe to suit the situation, either making it as small as a sickle or knife, or as large as a full sized scythe, often being larger than the entity themselves. During this state the entity will become incredibly deranged and wide eyed, with her normal X eyes turning into large O's. However, the entity often doesn't attempt to physically harm users with either her powers or even through other means, even though many of the games created by the Gamemaster are specifically designed to harm users, they often don't intend to kill them.

When playing a game with the Gamemaster, you are allowed to choose what game you and the Gamemaster are to play. The majority of the time, users pick more common games such as chess, poker or roulette, this often agitates the Gamemaster as its games that apparently bore her, and that everyone always picks. Less common games, and even games invented by the user seem to both interest and intrigue the entity, and is often the only time the entity will actually pay attention and calm down to listen to what the user has to say. She will always follow the rules of the game that is played, however will attempt to cheat behind the users back, even in games that seem impossible to cheat in. She'll manipulate users to change some of the rules of the game to fit the Gamemasters wants, and even change some aspects of the game. This can even include games that already exist and have predetermined rules like chess, often changing it to be, Larger than Life Chess, or Real Life Chess with actual people serving as the pieces, et cetera. Apparently, her favorite game to play with users is Dungeons and Dragons.

## Footnotes

1. ↑ Formerly Known as Entity-060
2. ↑ Greek for Weaver, or in the Bible meaning "One who is wise".
3. ↑ This is true due the frequency of waves being similar to levels that have this censoring mechanism within them.
4. ↑ The Entity only appears within the Gaming Hall of the level. Subsequently this area fashioned quite the same as the entity and is under her full control.