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I followed the order handed over to the T, I swear, I checked every square inch of the interior in that musty, empty chamber as well as the outer perimeter And, just to make sure to cover all of our bases, a land surveyor calculator was used so no one would have to return to confirm the number later He soulda, woulda, coulda but didn't prepare for the worst,  should have taken ques from one of them openly mocked doomsday prepers Just in the event there was no search and rescue coming together to push the radius wider I'll say this, there's nothing you could compare to what was in there other than a twisted flair of a taboo desire for a living nightmare Keeping it honest here, there was no proper way too decipher if pain or anger fed the monster in turn fueling the inner and outer warfare After all this time the why is still unclear like an over exposed Bigfoot picture under the blur of an out of focus layer with the top half blacked out by a fat finger It's mostly ever operator error, there's no proof of any attempt to even remove the lense cover Resulting in snap shots that fully render the emptiness of a gut wrenching, heart breaking type of forever Walking through the bare walled entry erected the neck hair, instantly on anticipatory high alert, predicting a jump scare I'd never go back there but if you dare, prepare to soil your underwear, best to bring an extra pair It's far eirrer in there than I imagined it'd be with the unbalanced nature of finding tragedy has bled into the comedy so frustration and the for mentioned anger seemed not only justified but fair One might expect a shrill chill to fill the air befitting the general atmosphere likened to the hollow echo of an abandoned aviator hanger There was an uneasy stillness in the helplessness seemingly coming from nowhere and everywhere The nonconsentual caress of chaos looked to have been ramped up a gear, allowed to feast on the bounty of self loathing and fear I don't know if you could consider one over the other being better while not sure who's the bigger threat, the dark passenger or driver? Neither should have been allowed to steer especially after the request to hold so and so's beer Looks like nothing penetrated the barrier inside each ear that, according to the guest sign in on the counter here, had been garded by a couple demon friends made during his very first winter Just prior to the proverbial greener pasture being engulfed by an arsons fire lit by the land owner And oh how it wreaked of dispair, heavily punctuated by the stench of failure It lingered like a stocker predator peering over top the chip and bolder on what's been dubbed an unworthy shoulder Progressively more violent as the one under investigation grew older, evidence shows a temper that consistently boiled over The life destroyers lurkin' behind every door down a never ending corridor, waiting in the cover of darkness found around every corner You don't know from where but can hear screams of terror as you pass a single motivational poster that reads, "being dead inside will allow for the skipping over of the coroner all together" Buyer beware, this particular first stair is a header, the warnings couldn't have been clearer A lack of empathy stains character but if lead by example it's plain to see why someone might refuse to care Or would even know how to for that matter, solely focused only on the neighbor who's grass is forever advertised as greener Didn't do the work on the personal endeavor so it didn't get any better, attitude towards it all seemed very cavalier An obvious what not to do trend setter, a self proclaimed and locally agreed on idiot of the year Missed all this YOLO banter, acting like a pop of the trunk would reveal a spare Who's life is it really if you're not even a content creator in it much less the engineer Come to think of it I don't recall that even bein' offered up to this poor sap as a qualifying career It should be but that's neither here nor there, what's done is done and every other cliche you can pull out of the air To put it simply, he wasn't known as a fighter so he threw in the towel and tossed innocence out with the bath water The belief that life was beyond repair was a thought he struggled to alter, positivity was something he never learned how to gather, had a horrible teacher It didn't help hearing a proper confirmation message from both a soothsayer and palm reader with no reassurance from his supposed maker Proof that it's always safer to separate judge, jury and executioner, it's a no brainier But he wore all three hats plus at his core was a sinner, it could've been his last meal every time he sat down for dinner So he no doubt knew there was no scenario where a man like himself was gonna come out the winner And now that I've seen the bizzar aftermath from every angle I can say with far more confidence than when I began to explore that I don't know how he managed to even get this far The violence was real, the battles weren't staged, it raged on behind the fleshy mask he wore to keep us from witnessing the horror But every day his anchor to a brighter reality got weaker, thoughts and surroundings becoming darker faster than he could remember from the days before One can only be expected to hold on for so long when you're the nail trying to resist the hammer He was neither hero nor imposter, just the next mother fuucker to fall victim to his own future
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Oct 24, 2022
Oct 24, 2022 at 2:27 PM UTC
~•§•~ Mission Briefing ~•§•~
I followed the order handed over to the T, I swear, I checked every square inch of the interior in that musty, empty chamber as well as the outer perimeter And, just to make sure to cover all of our bases, a land surveyor calculator was used so no one would have to return to confirm the number later He soulda, woulda, coulda but didn't prepare for the worst,  should have taken ques from one of them openly mocked doomsday prepers Just in the event there was no search and rescue coming together to push the radius wider I'll say this, there's nothing you could compare to what was in there other than a twisted flair of a taboo desire for a living nightmare Keeping it honest here, there was no proper way too decipher if pain or anger fed the monster in turn fueling the inner and outer warfare After all this time the why is still unclear like an over exposed Bigfoot picture under the blur of an out of focus layer with the top half blacked out by a fat finger It's mostly ever operator error, there's no proof of any attempt to even remove the lense cover Resulting in snap shots that fully render the emptiness of a gut wrenching, heart breaking type of forever Walking through the bare walled entry erected the neck hair, instantly on anticipatory high alert, predicting a jump scare I'd never go back there but if you dare, prepare to soil your underwear, best to bring an extra pair It's far eirrer in there than I imagined it'd be with the unbalanced nature of finding tragedy has bled into the comedy so frustration and the for mentioned anger seemed not only justified but fair One might expect a shrill chill to fill the air befitting the general atmosphere likened to the hollow echo of an abandoned aviator hanger There was an uneasy stillness in the helplessness seemingly coming from nowhere and everywhere The nonconsentual caress of chaos looked to have been ramped up a gear, allowed to feast on the bounty of self loathing and fear I don't know if you could consider one over the other being better while not sure who's the bigger threat, the dark passenger or driver? Neither should have been allowed to steer especially after the request to hold so and so's beer Looks like nothing penetrated the barrier inside each ear that, according to the guest sign in on the counter here, had been garded by a couple demon friends made during his very first winter Just prior to the proverbial greener pasture being engulfed by an arsons fire lit by the land owner And oh how it wreaked of dispair, heavily punctuated by the stench of failure It lingered like a stocker predator peering over top the chip and bolder on what's been dubbed an unworthy shoulder Progressively more violent as the one under investigation grew older, evidence shows a temper that consistently boiled over The life destroyers lurkin' behind every door down a never ending corridor, waiting in the cover of darkness found around every corner You don't know from where but can hear screams of terror as you pass a single motivational poster that reads, "being dead inside will allow for the skipping over of the coroner all together" Buyer beware, this particular first stair is a header, the warnings couldn't have been clearer A lack of empathy stains character but if lead by example it's plain to see why someone might refuse to care Or would even know how to for that matter, solely focused only on the neighbor who's grass is forever advertised as greener Didn't do the work on the personal endeavor so it didn't get any better, attitude towards it all seemed very cavalier An obvious what not to do trend setter, a self proclaimed and locally agreed on idiot of the year Missed all this YOLO banter, acting like a pop of the trunk would reveal a spare Who's life is it really if you're not even a content creator in it much less the engineer Come to think of it I don't recall that even bein' offered up to this poor sap as a qualifying career It should be but that's neither here nor there, what's done is done and every other cliche you can pull out of the air To put it simply, he wasn't known as a fighter so he threw in the towel and tossed innocence out with the bath water The belief that life was beyond repair was a thought he struggled to alter, positivity was something he never learned how to gather, had a horrible teacher It didn't help hearing a proper confirmation message from both a soothsayer and palm reader with no reassurance from his supposed maker Proof that it's always safer to separate judge, jury and executioner, it's a no brainier But he wore all three hats plus at his core was a sinner, it could've been his last meal every time he sat down for dinner So he no doubt knew there was no scenario where a man like himself was gonna come out the winner And now that I've seen the bizzar aftermath from every angle I can say with far more confidence than when I began to explore that I don't know how he managed to even get this far The violence was real, the battles weren't staged, it raged on behind the fleshy mask he wore to keep us from witnessing the horror But every day his anchor to a brighter reality got weaker, thoughts and surroundings becoming darker faster than he could remember from the days before One can only be expected to hold on for so long when you're the nail trying to resist the hammer He was neither hero nor imposter, just the next mother fuucker to fall victim to his own future
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Oct 24, 2022
Oct 24, 2022 at 2:27 PM UTC
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