U3 - Lost Ones

### SURVIVABILITY | ??/10

Lost ones have random outbursts that can become murder sprees. Finding one, no matter what state, could lead to death.

## DESCRIPTION

Entity U3, Lost Ones, are a unique entity. They are the remains of wanderers. Once alive, they have turned into a shell of their former selves, with skin hanging loosely, barely anything between skin and bone, and a dull, discolored skin tone wearing tattered clothing from all eras. They seem to be wanderers that have been afflicted by an unknown disease, or possibly losing their minds, and eventually themselves. Theories have risen and died, but the most common ones we have heard of and had discussions about, all sharing one key factor:

**"They rotted while they were still alive, everything, including their own mind, began deteriorating, with an unknown entity presiding within the rotting shell... and once the mind deteriorates enough, it attaches to the brain and ruins the individual further, maiming their movements and taking full control." - *Isaac Gathord, Head of AV SDM (Scientific Discovery and Management)*.**

**"It's like a reanimated corpse that just died two hours ago. something enters the head and controls the rotting meat suit until it rots too far to function and move without struggle, where it will find another 'host', msot likely using the corpses to gather food much more easily." - *Stewart Kinsdly, AV RD (Research Department).***

**"With the Thousands of corpses within any level, what if an entity could mash them together? Then a central body forms together from the mangled remains of the many others, all to hunt and to kill to do the process again. Survival of the fittest..." - *Frank Hobb, TEWTA Researcher At Post 5C-23***

With the many descriptions of what these entities have been formed from, one thing still stands. **If they see a wanderer, they will quickly approach to attack them**, mumbling near-unintelligible speech in the process. The only words we have understood would be something along the lines of them "attacking to protect themselves", mumbled during one attack the MEG base encountered. reports have also came in, with one being brought up multiple times, from a wanderer that had been forcefully detached from a group from an attack of multiple "Lost One" entities:

"so, within the group, you'd had me, Thomas, Who was an overall short man, who told us his age was 34. His hair was short, had pale skin, i think greenish-blue eyes, and a stout nose. He wore a blue hoodie, dull grey jeans, and withered-but-still-fine shoes. He always had a serious tone with him. Amber, who was in front of us with Dan, and is taller than Thomas but shorter than Dan. I believe she wore a green-plaid shirt, with buttons down the middle, and a T-shirt behind it with some band name, it was hard to tell from age. She wore deep-blue jeans and some kind of pair of shoes. She had auburn-red hair and brown eyes, and a more light-hearted tone then Thomas, so they somewhat clashed sometimes. She had told us she was only 27, but many of us doubted her claims, guessing she's older. Dan was the tallest, only second to me by a few inches, at most. He had brown hair, deep-blue eyes, a few scars around his left eye from a failed entity attack, he told us it was from the **bones-looking thing**. He wore a dark-but-not-black shirt, hauling a wicked album cover on it. Blue jeans, and shoes. We were travelling, attempting to reach a base, I think the AV? But it was in **level 16**, I forget the name. But we were walking towards their base when we notice somebody walking. Amber, who was cautious, approached, while we followed behind. I suddenly heard Dan exclaim 'that's not a ----ing person!', and Amber quickly stepped backwards quickly, too quickly, and tripping over Dan. I caught her, Dan caught me, and sent me to the ground.-" He chuckles, before continuing. "- It was absolute ----ing chaos, man. We scamper up, and we manage to back up enough to realize it's a *walking corpse* that we stumbled on. before we could even blink, it launched towards us, striking I think Dan, Who was on top of me, but he managed to rip that ----- off. He got off of me, then we all tried to run. Something was coming out of the corpses mouth, and when it lunged at us again, **it traveled to amber, digging a hole into the side of her head**, and she went limp... once it got one of us down, it moved to the next. It attacked Thomas, and did the some thing. There had to be more than 20 of those worms in the original corpse, and it just kept coming out. It was ----ing horrifying." He pauses, seemingly recollecting himself, before continuing. "Before I know it, Dan and I both were absolutely ----ing panicing, frantically trying to get to *somewhere* we could go. We discussed anywhere we could go, and we decided the best thing to do was to aggressively chuck ourselves into a wall to hope we'd noclip, and we managed to after a few minutes." He pauses again. "And I ended up here, and I hope Dan too, but I've not seen him."