Artemis

## Artemis Rockwell

Artemis, after Box had severely injured him.

 — *Artemis, to Memphis and Sorren.*

**Artemis**, also known as **Paper**, is a cast member in *The Lostfield Tragedy.*

### **Physiology**

Artemis is a human male that stands at 5'7. His eyes are a bright emerald green, and his hair is a dark blonde. He wears a white blouse with a brown cardigan atop it, with blue jeans and beige shoes. His face is covered with burns on the right side, and his neck is burned heavily.

### **Personality**

#### Faux-Showfall Employee

When he had acted as an Employee of Showfall, he was stand-offish, and quick to make cruel jokes about his fellow cast. During this programming, he was distant and disappeared from the show for months.

#### Cast

As a full cast member, he's very naive and social, and loved to bake. He doesn't remember why he's able to, or why he loved to, but he does it nonetheless.

### **History**

#### **Moving In**

Artemis was sent to Lostfield to begin a currently unnamed project, and moved into the outskirts of the town. After moving in, he began work on the project, digging out the beginning hole.

#### **Invitation**

After finishing the beginning hallway, Artemis requested to invite over a "Friend" to the town, for the sole purpose of having them participate on the project later on. After being approved, Artemis invited over Glitch, who happily accepted and moved in with Artemis. Glitch, however, had opted to call Artemis "*Paper*", due to not knowing his actual name.

#### **Faux Hallucination**

Glitch had finished building their farm and the home they shared with Artemis, and built the beginnings of a storage windmill over the hole in which the elevator to the project resided. Artemis quickly and quietly snuck Project Delta into the hole, and it made a small room at the bottom of the elevator shaft.

Artemis faintly heard Glitch from the bottom of the shaft, and had hid away from the hole, in order to not be spotted. Luckily, when the coast was clear, and Artemis had gotten up and out, Glitch brought up the hole they had seen, and offhandedly commented that it must have been their eyes playing tricks, because they don't sleep enough.

#### **Watching Over**

Artemis had sneakily begun adding to the cameras that were already strewn about the town, sneaking some into others' houses to keep an eye on the contestants he had selected. After sneaking around cameras to each residence, Artemis had delivered notes with numbers to each contestant's mailbox.

#### **Switching Out**

The original fourth contestant that Artemis had selected, *Jonah*, had gotten curious and snuck into the elevator shaft, only to be found by Artemis himself, and due to Jonah loudly stating that he would tell everyone else, Artemis opted to kill him off, so that word would not be spread. Jonah's body was placed in an unknown area, for use in the project later on.

#### **Clips and Close Calls**

Artemis was tasked with collecting video clips of contestants to bring to his boss at a scheduled meeting, and he was very successful. He hid a camera on his body as he got videos taken of each contestant. Glitch was easy enough for him due to them living together, and he opted to sneak around to get ones of others. Unfortunately, in getting the clip for Contestant #5, he was caught and interrogated by Contestant #6 on why Artemis was hiding in his residence. Artemis gave a panicked excuse and managed to make it out alive.

#### **The Meeting**

The meeting began with Artemis showing the clips in numerical order from Contestant #1 to 6. His boss and him went back and forth on it, before Artemis's Boss brought up Contestant #2, Glitch, asking what his affiliation with them was. Artemis panickedly stated that he just lived with them, before the audio cut. His boss then asked him if he's getting attached to the contestant. Artemis, in the same panicked state, started to get defensive, before the audio cut once more.

Artemis's boss then states that they know that Artemis is lying, and that the attachment must be fixed. Artemis replied back, saying that if he were to be reset right then, that none of the contestants would trust him. His boss cut him off, and let him off with a warning. After clearing up that Artemis had nothing else to note, he was dismissed. Artemis's boss added on that he is to return the next day to be emotionally wiped, and that his only focus should be the project at hand.

#### **Failing Filters**

Artemis had been continuously working on [REDACTED], when he was tasked with acting as Shard's inner voice. He took the opportunity to do so as he worked, telling Shard various things, akin to intrusive thoughts. Artemis's job quickly got derailed as Shard began to deal with a drunken Que. Artemis then began to ramble on about various things, before tripping, breaking an earring he had in.

Artemis then talked with Doom along with Shard, which was irritating for the latter two. Soon after, Shard began to bring up Showfall Media, which caused Artemis a great deal of confusion. Doom then cautiously explained what Showfall was, and Artemis froze. He then made his way out of where he was, panicking. Shard and Doom met up with him, and he spilled what was going on, and that now that he's told them, they will all be *reset* for his failings.

Shard and Doom assured him that would not be the case, and they made their way away from Glitch's farm, where Artemis had came out of. Artemis had asked Shard that if they were all to forget, and Artemis hurt them, would they forgive him, Shard did not give a clear answer, but it wasn't a no.

Artemis then remembered that Glitch may have been at the farm. Much to Shard's protests, Artemis ran back to the farm to check on Glitch, only to be chased down by Showfall employees. Artemis destroyed both boats at the farm's dock, and jumped into the water, attempting to escape. Before he could reach the shore, he was electrocuted, due to a wire that stuck out from his neck area. He ended up *dying* due to that.

#### **Faux Pilot**

Glitch and Shard showed up at the Windmill to investigate Artemis's lies, which were revealed to Glitch by Shard during a conversation at the Greenhouse. The two found a button and went down an elevator that was hidden inside the windmill itself. It opened up to a hallway that was sterile and hospital-like, and to the left side there was a small room where chests with 6 names resided, their names being two of them. A slit of red wool was filling a hole in the wall closer to the elevator shaft.

Glitch, in her anger, went back to the elevator shaft to investigate the slit, which was now open. They spotted Artemis, and chased him down, only to find a giant circular room. Artemis trapped them in an outer ring before giving them an ultimatum. Take their memories *now*, or do as he says. They begrudgingly chose to do as he said, and put his stuff in chests that a drone had placed for him. Artemis then had them follow him to a cell, that they were then locked in.

##### **Curiosity Traps the Fox**

Jay, after noticing that Glitch had disappeared, snooped around their farm, and found the same button that led Glitch and Shard to the cell they now resided in. Jay went down the elevator, and was confronted by Artemis and Project DELTA, who forced him to put his belongings in a chest. After wrangling with Jay, they forced him into the cell. Over the course of 4.5 days, they were left in the cell and fed periodically, only to be let out the night before they were said to be let free.

#### Disappearance and Reappearance

Artemis fully disappeared from the show, with no signs of returning. The show went on as usual throughout the coming months, before Artemis made his return, running into Glitch. Glitch asked him where he had been, and Artemis gave them bunches of flowers as an apology as he explained that he had gotten lost after wandering. Glitch forgave him and they had hung out, in order to catch up.

Artemis went to go see Shard, as a surprise, and to apologize/explain where he had gone to. Shard was very suspicious, and Artemis left awkwardly afterwards, before panicking. His thoughts ran wild, and he was wondering if he had done something that he couldn't remember. He cautiously went back over to Shard, and asked if he had done something. Shard vaguely stated that things happened that he most likely didn't remember, and they hesitantly talked.

It was revealed that an argument broke out between Doom and Shard, and that Doom had left the town. Artemis went to look for Doom, and found him. They talked and it turned out that both Shard and Doom believed that the other hated them. Artemis attempted to have them talk, to no avail. He began to overthink again, but eventually brushed it off, and went back home to the farm. As he entered the Unfinished Windmill, he noticed the odd placement of a trapdoor, just below the top of the triangle of crafting tables. He pulled it open, only to find a button. He pressed it, and the floor opened, as it turned out to be an elevator, descending to the bottom of a deep elevator shaft.

#### A Silly Breakout

Artemis had recently talked to Carter, who told him that there was a good chance that someone named Memphis had been put in prison in The Phantom Syndicate. Carter gave him vague directions to the base, before having to leave. Artemis was a little sad that Carter had to go, but understood that he had somewhere to be.

He then began to make his way to the Phantom Syndicate base with a batch of cookies to give Memphis, because if he had been down there for long enough, he might have missed Christmas and New Years. When he got there, he ran into Sorren, who was also there to see Memphis, and he went down the elevator with him. Artemis introduced himself, and Sorren introduced himself back, and they went into the base to find Memphis.

Artemis went by where Memphis was without realizing, and he ended up finding where Shard had been kept during the Banquet. He realized he went the wrong way and went back up, before finding Memphis and Sorren talking. Artemis greeted Memphis and introduced himself. He asked if there was anywhere he could drop something in, to which Memphis said that there wasn't anymore.

Artemis remembered that he saw a pickaxe in one of the chests, hanging out of it up at the top of the elevator, so he went back up and got it, then broke the bars in order to give Memphis his Christmas/New Years cookies. Memphis was shocked to find out that it was 2024 now, and Artemis felt bad. He eventually broke the bars of the cage to let Memphis out, and they left an unconvincing armor stand with a bin on top of it, before leaving the premises.

#### Missing Family

The trio made their way back to Lostfield, joking and teasing each other as they went. Artemis had them watch the sunrise together, and Artemis asked Sorren if he was missing someone. Sorren replied that he was, and that it was complicated. He asked Memphis the same question when they got into town, and he gave a similar response.

Sorren then asked Artemis if *he* was missing someone, and Artemis said that he wasn't missing a someone, but felt like he was missing memories. He then explained what happened with Shard, and how he believed that Shard had hated him. Sorren and Memphis said that he didn't hate him, but Artemis wasn't easily convinced. He then asked if it was because of the elevator within Glitch's windmill, which caught the other two off guard.

Artemis explained that he had found an elevator leaving somewhere within Glitch's windmill, and that he didn't bother to look around before bringing the elevator back up. He added on that he was the only one who could have put it there other than Glitch.

#### Sound the Alarm

Artemis brought the two into the windmill and showed them the elevator, and brought the two down. They explored, finding areas with various names of townsfolk on them, including the names of Shard, Glitch, and others. They looked around more of the facility, as Sorren repeated that they shouldn't be down there.

As they explored, an alarm began to sound, and they sprinted out. they ascended the elevator and Artemis broke down just outside the windmill. He began rambling about how he was going to hurt his friends, and how he was going to hurt Glitch, and that he didn't want to hurt them, but Sorren and Memphis calmed him down, saying that it wasn't his fault at all.

#### New Family

Artemis stated that he didn't want to live over there anymore, because he felt like he was in danger and didn't want to be reminded of what he had done. They went to the town square, and Artemis asked Sorren and Memphis for hugs. They gave him them, and he said that they were like the family he never had.

He hugged them tight, before letting go again, and saying that he thinks he knows where he can stay. He then asked Sorren if he had to go, to which he said that he did, and Artemis asked for one more hug. He got the hug, and Memphis got dragged in as well, before Sorren had to say goodbye.

#### New Home

Artemis told Memphis that he wanted to stay at Shard's place, because he believed Shard would be able to protect him. Memphis said that they could wait within Shard's house, which is what they did.

When Shard arrived back home, he was greeted to the two of them in his home, and Artemis spilled everything to Shard. Memphis added that breaking in was his idea, and Shard hesitantly allowed Artemis to stay, but said that there wasn't anywhere else he could sleep.

Artemis said that he could sleep on the floor, and curled up in the little enchantment room, before falling asleep.

#### Burning Anger

The next day, Artemis saw Memphis being chased by Box and Theory, and he followed them from behind, after Box had asked if he knew where Memphis was, which he didn't. Box said that he was just wanting to talk. As he watched Box and Theory chase Memphis, he remarked that he didn't think that this was talking.

Artemis and Box argued, before Artemis spilled that he had freed Memphis. The argument continued, before Artemis attacked Box, and Box nearly killed him, burning his body with their sword. Box then told Memphis that he can either come with Theory and them, or Artemis would die, as he held the sword up to Artemis's neck, burning his face and neck heavily.

Box began to count down, before Memphis agreed. Artemis, in an act of anger, stabbed Box in the eye, and booked it out of there. Box immediately chased after him as Memphis was dragged back to the Syndicate by Theory. Box nearly killed Artemis once again, but not before Artemis spilled that he was staying with Shard, to which Box said that Shard had decapitated them. They then told Artemis that they hoped he wouldn't do this again, or else he would be killed, and Artemis stayed silent, before Box left.

#### A Goopy Repair

Artemis made his way over back to the middle of town, and ran into Kel, who was worried about him, since he had smelled of blood. Artemis explained what happened, and Kel said that slime might have some bandages, before bringing him to his home, and poorly bandaging him up. Artemis expressed worry about staying with Shard since Box now knew he lived there, and Kel offered for him to stay in slime's place, since he's not exactly living there at the moment. Artemis said that he would keep it in mind, and bid Kel farewell, before going back to Shard's place to wait for him to return.

#### Hard Discussions

Shard arrived back to his home to find blood trailing up to the door, and he opened it to find Artemis there, after he had made food, but he was badly burned and harmed. Shard asked what happened, and Artemis explained everything. A lot of awkward silence was held between the two, but Artemis eventually asked what happened with him and the decapitation of Box.

Shard admitted that it had happened, and explained why. Artemis said that he could see why Shard had done it, and they continued talking. Artemis eventually told Shard everything about the basement he found with Sorren and Memphis and asked if it had anything to do with the cameras. Shard confusingly explained everything about Showfall that he knew, and Artemis understood immediately.

He told Shard that he's going to stay at Kel's, since Box knew he lived there at the moment, and Shard agreed that it was a good idea. Artemis promised to visit, and said he'd bring him baked goods often. He bid his goodbyes, and set off to Kel's house to reside for a while.

## **Gallery**

Artemis's Original Outfit.Artemis, Alternative Outfit (Unspecified)Christmas Sweater!! Matching with Glitch !The Cancelled Show Outfit.Artemis, after being heavily injured by Box.