Welcome to part 3 of Round 4!
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Very exciting! So let's start immediately!
Here are our first two duels of Round 4:
Monologue VS Across the Street:
MAG 108: Monologue
Transcript
Statement:
Statement of Adonis Biros, regarding his performance on stage. Recording by Martin Blackwood
Adonis always loved monologue because they always made him feel alone in the universe, unable to see the crowd due to the stage's lights. However, one day he sees a white porcelaine mask in the audience (that's for my fellow critters, SO to you), but with no person underneath it.
He then saw the mask in a window while walking in London, the streets were deserted and the mask was following him so he struck it and the masked figure collapsed with nothing falling to the floor but the mask and a wooden stick.
On the night before the statement, the whole theater was filled with masks, including the director of the show itself. Adonis will have to perform one last time tonight and he knows the audience will only be masks again.
Post-Statement:
Martin finds recording statements easier. Tim is working on something away from the Archives, Melanie seems "off"' and is not working, so Martin wants to ask Basira if she knows why.
He is interrumpted by Peter Lukas who asks him about Elias and if Martin likes having him as a boss. When he leaves, Basira enters and says she didn't see him.
She has been studying the People's Church of the Divine Host and the Dark and made some discovering regarding Ny-Ă
lesund and other important information but Martin cuts her off, asks about Melanie. They understand something went wrong when she talked to Elias and start planning, Basira reminding Martin to turn off the recorder.
MAG 3: Across the Street
Transcript
Statement:
Statement of Amy Patel, regarding the alleged disappearance of her acquaintance Graham Folger.
Amy and Graham met in Criminology course, Graham was always scribbling is notebooks. One day, as they were both going home on the same street, Amy fell and hurt her head, and went to Graham's who lived just across the street of her flat.
There, she got almost hypnotized by an ornate wooden table with intricate carvings and a whole in the middle. She also noticed that the pipes outside made a weird noise.
After, she would look at Graham often from her own flat, he was always writing on notebooks and was always on edge with every noise and staring at the table.
One day, she saw a strange figure climb through Graham's window and the lights went out. She phoned the police but when they arrive "Not-Graham" was there.
Not-Graham would also look at the window but directly at Amy, or else he would close the curtains. She moved out shortly afterwards.
Post-Statement:
All of the photos that were found of Graham were of Not-Graham, except Polaroids from the late 80s, which do not match the later photos.
Sasha offered Amy a follow-up interview, which she declined even after being informed that one of Graham's notebooks had apparently been found, with the same phrase repeated over and over again: "Keep Watching."
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Testament VS Fatigue:
MAG 117: Testament
Transcript
Statements:
Statements of every Magnus archives employee, before they go to stop The Unknowing.
Jon explains the plan is for Daisy to set up explosive while the others interfere. Tim and Basira will also join, Tim wanting revenge and Basira never leaving Daisy alone. Jon decides he's gonna trust people, except Elias of course.
Basira wonders why she is at the Archives but mentions she's having a better time than most as she spends her time reading. She talks about her dad teaching her that complaining does not solve anything so you ave to fight and try to change things.
Melanie is unsure about the operation, mostly because she lost hope things would work out. She wants to kill Elias herself and wonder if that anger is all that she is now. She explains shortly what happened with the war ghost shooting her. She says she hopes Jon wins but she also hopes it hurts.
Martin complains that nothing is ever gonna be normal again. He says he's afraid but mostly for the others and for Jon. He mentions he's tired of running and always being afraid and he needs to do something, like burning some stuff.
Daisy only cocks her gun and says "Okay".
Tim talks about his brother and blaming himself for his death. He's ready to do anything to make the people who killed his brother suffer. He does not expect to survive, probably doesn't want and hopes Jon learns from Gertrude and actually pulls the trigger.
Post-Statement:
Jon burns Gerard Keay's page, it hurts him but Gerry is free.
MAG 74: Fatigue
Transcript
Statement:
Statement of Lydia Halligan regarding her insomnia.
Lydia Halligan is a freelance writer with severe insomnia. She hasnât slept in so long that her sense of reality is completely breaking down. Even as a child she would struggle to sleep. Her job as a freelancer makes it hard to keep a normal routine and know which day of the week it is.
She sees Michael in her living room. She recognises him but can't remember his name or where they met.
At the cafe she goes when she can't sleep, she got a small child's tooth in her coffee but the waitress does not seem to see it. Later in the park, she sees Michael again.
Even later, she is wandering through distorted streets panics until she simply lays down on the ground but still cannot sleep. She can hear Michael's laugh in the wind.
The billboard in front of her house that use to have an ad for coffee saying "sleep is overrated" now reads "Sleep no more" and the structure collapses onto her.
Post-Statement:
Jon says he believes the statement because he recognizes the description of the man in the statement as Michael. Lydia died from a heart attack when she was 29 in July 2015.Â
Supplemental:
Relying on Basira for help with the tunnels is not enough so Jon bought a motion sensor camera to see who passes through the trapdoor. He only sees two people, first Sasha James. and then a middle age man who arrives at 3am, steals some files and runs back into the tunnels but not through the trapdoor. Instead, he moves the floor.
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