"Prologue"

"The Prologue" is the beginning entry to the chapters. It was released on February 17th 2021.

### Description

The Prologue or the Beginning, is the introduction story to get us all acquainted with the writing style and how everything will be laid out.

### Original

Here is the link to the original story, although it has been copy-and-pasted onto here for simplicity and nothing has been changed.

### The Story

*Date: February 2021*

*Time: Unknown*

*Place: Unknown*

*...*

*Commence*

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 *Outside, the wind howled and shook the trees of which brushed against the side of the mansion, causing eerie scrapes that rang throughout the building. Everyone’s nerves were already quite struck as of the recent . . . activities that have been going down within the mansion through the months. However, not everyone was taking the situation seriously, nor were they feeling fear like the villain wanted which really put a kink into her plan. Oops- I meant to say their plan. You see, a little while back- let’s say about a month- the group of entities known simply as the Them group had been previously living together in a place known as HQ, or HeadQuarters, for someone who isn’t exactly relevant to this story at all. Ey’re not important, so let’s forget about em for the moment. However, once the resurgence of the ~~possibly~~ final member to the group increased their total number of members to that of 9, which with the addition of 3-7 other members of a separate group meant that up to a total of 16 people were all living within the same small apartment-type building, and that was incredibly annoying for everyone, so the Them group took the initiative to move out into their own house, or rather, a mansion.*

*It’s quite a luxury too, with three stories and nearly 60 rooms including two full pools, a theatre room, several lounges and a very fancy staircase that the person they’re all working for is totally not jealous of. However, with a mansion with that many rooms and several hundred square feet, it means that there’s going to be a lot of space left to take up because 9 people can’t occupy every single inch of the mansion, so there's unoccupied rooms and empty spaces all over. On top of that, not all of the entities follow the same schedules as everyone else, so some are active during the day while others are peacefully sleeping, and the same goes for the nighttime as well. Some of the entities like to stick together for reasons such as having a relationship of some kind with the other, and some of them just completely avoid everyone else because of any variety of reasons, such as the fear of being murdered. However, there’s only ~~two~~ one person that everyone should be worried about, but she’s only targeting certain people, so unless they’re personally being targeted then they don’t have anything to worry about. Each of the three people that are being targeted have some sort of connection towards this dangerous one, or a connection towards someone of whom they hold dear to them. It’s because of this particular point that brings us to where we need to be.*

*You see, some people are stronger than others, and some have other traits that they can use to their advantage to skew people to their favour. It just so happens that our dangerous entity is someone who is one of the stronger few, but not the strongest. However, each person that our danger is “hunting” is either one of the few stronger than her, or is constantly hanging around the stronger so they can act as a bodyguard. It just so happens that it’s this small flaw that prevents our dangerous one from straight up killing her hunted whenever she feels like, and now has to think of a way past the others to gain what she wants. She doesn’t exactly want to die, but she’s only died once before and that’s when she was still human. She does know that you can respawn after you “die” as an ethereal entity, but she doesn’t know how much it might hurt and that’s what she’s avoiding. She’s never been afraid of dying, but she is afraid of the pain that comes with dying and what would entail of her afterwards. She could ask, but wouldn’t that be like admitting defeat? If the dangerous one is anything, it’s not a quitter, so she’ll stick through with anything until the very end and beyond.*

*Moving off of her and back to the others though, each specialize in different topics and have separate skill sets that can prove as advantages or disadvantages depending on what kind of situation they find themself all in. Unfortunately to them, and fortunately to the dangerous one, not many people could find any sort of use to their skills in this situation, and it was looking like it was pretty hopeless at this point in time. The whole catch to everything happening isn’t what you’d expect though. As ethereal beings with unlimited power and responsibilities that shall remain unknown for the time being, obviously they’re going to break down every once and awhile, but usually this break down only lasts a few minutes, or a day or two at the most. But for someone to break so hard that it launches everyone into something reminiscent of a horror rpg or other unspecified video-game, it makes it really suspicious and at least a little concerning about what’s really going on. For one being to be able to turn a happy-go-lucky group of fun and merchandisable characters into that of horror game protagonists trapped in a place with no escape as they fight for their lives, it doesn’t just come naturally to any normal entity, alive or ethereal. You’d have to be crazy to think that this was just the power of one person on their own, but would you be so wrong to think so, or was there always another person secretly calculating and scheming from behind the scenes? Would it be the most suspicious person who always seemed off, even from the very beginning? Or would it be the least suspicious person, who could deceive everyone and had everyone completely fooled from the start, just like they’d wanted?*

*Nah, all of that is just a whole bunch of mumbo-jumbo. You’d have to be stupid to think that anyone had anything like this planned from the beginning, and even if you were the most dedicated fan and anylized every single dialog exchange and facial expression of each one of them from the start, you wouldn’t be able to pick out who had been scheming anything because* obviously *nobody has been deceiving you . . . or me . . . right?*

*Regardless of any of that, the actions of all of them are true and there’s nothing there. They’re simple people just going about their daily lives and routines, doing what they were meant to do from the start, so why question it? We’re not here for a reason, so why question all of it- why question us? We- uh- I mean, I know that everything might seem crazy but it’s better to just accept it. Just normal people, doing their normal jobs and being extremely normal. There’s no reason to think anything of it, and just accept everything at face value. You already do that anyways, you take ~~us~~ them as nothing more than characters created by the creator for the purpose of entertainment, and from there you drop and leave it like it’s nothing. Well, now I’m telling you to continue doing that and to continue on with your normal lives, and ~~we’ll~~ I’ll do the exact same thing. There’s no need to look into everything, and there is most definitely no reason for you to be afraid.*

There’s no reason at all :)