The Tapes

The Tapes are a series of audio recordings created by Box and Showfall Media, later uncovered in the far future by 4 children, Saber, Arrow, Slash and Dagger, these children are implied to be Box's future children, but they never explicitly state his name nor is he ever present during their viewings.

the finding and viewing of these tapes also seem to have been recorded in some way and uploaded to be viewed. due to file restrictions, we can only provide links when available and transcripts for these recordings.

## ArrowSaber audio recording, File unknown

[Tape starts]
[ARROW]

“Sshhh quite quiet we’re not supposed to be up here-!”

[SABER]

“Are you Scared, Arrow? We’re not gonna get caught, we’ve got all the time in the- woah-“

[ARROW]

“What?! You find something cool? Oh titan did you find Death Seeker??”

[SABER]

“No- no, just some old casset tapes, man he’s got a lot of these”

[ARROW]

“Why would dad have casset tapes? He’s not \*that\* old is he?”

[SABER]

“Well he has always had a sense of flair, and these guys were used in like every horror series on the internet at the time”

[ARROW]

“Ah yeah makes sense, if he’s got tapes he’s gotta have a player around here somewhere, we should see what’s on them!”

[SABER]

“What happened to ‘were not Supposed to be up here’?”

[ARROW]

“We’ll take em down to our room, I wanna see what kind of stuff Dad was doing that made him need to keep ‘em recorded on such an old device”

[SABER]

“Alright, help me lug this big box down the ladder then”

[Tape Stops]

## Box Audio Recording file #001

The following transcript was picked up by Showfall Media Employee #62875 Roughly 1860 miles from the edges of lostfield and was automatically transcribed upon Submission to showfall archives
The original recording is intended to be delivered to the intended recipient,

Though progress on that is unknown

[Recording begin]

[BOX]

“Hey, I've been gone for a while, haven't i? I dont think youll ever see this in all honesty buuuut i

Think i might be starting to lose it a bit and i just so happened to stop by ol’ Ghostspire

And picked up an my vhs recorder from my old place and i really need something to

Stop myself from thinking sooo

Hi, Shard.

Im just gonna pretend your listening

…

How's Lostfield been? I've been doing just g r e a t

Honestly i didn't even know frogs inhabited the forest near our houses

Let alone ones that eat people! Isn't that crazy? So uh, that happened.

Luckily those things digest pretty slowly and i only lost a few inches of height in the process, now i'm kinda in the middle of nowhere, running into Ghostspire was both lucky and absolute hell.

If I never see that f[redacted] town again it'll be too soon…

you ever hated someone so much that just thinking about them puts you into a blind seething rage? Hahaha yeah…

I was surprised to find out Bolt had also sold his soul, guess Beckys not confined to just lostfield

Did Bolt deserve what he got? Maybe not, I sure didn’t wait around to find out.

Did I enjoy it? Yes, yes I did.

Downside to that ive only recently learned though, if i take one of a soulless persons lives i am then stuck with the consciousness that would have been their ghost upon death and so now i

Have my least favorite person in my head, isn't that neat? If i wasn't going insane before then i sure am now hahahhahahahah

It has made me think though

…

And maybe this is just a product of having my childhood tormentor speaking in my head, but,

What if everything I was doing was for nothing?

I mean the syndicate was going somewhere for sure but, what had i actually gotten done in those months?

Put up a few posters?

Memphis has probably taken those down by now.

Soon it'll all be gone, every trace of my work just… gone.

I really did want to do big things, the whole forest preservation project? That wasn't fake!

Sure it was mostly publicity and a test of skill for the rest of the syndicate but

It wasn't bad.

Sure i've done bad things, we all have

I've taken a handful of lives, but doesnt the outcome justify the means?

Anarchy never works, every group of people needs some form of

Government or else it'll fail and y’know i want lostfield to be something big!

It was finally a place where nobody knew me and I wanted to make it great.

The people in it, while mostly idiots, do deserve a great city.

And they'd never get that on their own, they needed somebody like me

They needed me, they still do.

Que’s got heart but without proper guidance he’ll probably walk himself off a cliff

Doom’s got empathy for sure but she’s got a ways to go with self confidence, its kinda pathetic just how easy it was to terrify them, it was both the funniest thing in the world and the thing about him that pissed me off the most.

Jaybird and Ori are both followers, i could see them both getting into pyramid schemes

Jay himselfs got everything pretty sorted out, a talent for marketing and building, small, funny and a real knack for getting people attached to them.

And then there's you, the oh so stubborn Shard, the Hero of the story.

I guess that makes me the villain, eh?

I don't know why I keep going back and forth between trying to convince you, trying to kill you, and then trying to convince you again. It's like my brain can't decide if I want you as a brother

figure or if I wanna see your guts splattered against syndicate walls.

Titan I hope you never find this.

This things probably running out of tape by now, so ill stop talking and get back to trying to find my way home, if i really can call Lostfield that.

…

Ill see you around.

[end recording]

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