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[The first few seconds of the recording is just Quentin breathing, fast and shaky at first and just before he speaks, the breathing evens out. The whole speech will be said fast and jerky, like the words are just spilling out without thought.]

What the hell? I can't be the only one who's thinking this, but just what the fucking hell? What the hell just happened? This place, oh shit, this place just-- did any of you see things? Hear things? Fucking feel things? And why? Just, why? I thought we were here to help, to find a way to solve this-- this whole puzzle and suddenly there's something here that made me think I was losing--? That's just-- it was just to fuck with all of us?

What the hell? That's what I want to know - just, what the hell? Is this hell? Is that why?

So, if you're listening to this, lady in the lighthouse? Fuck you! Seriously. Fuck. You.

Also, someone took my hoodie and I need that, so please bring it back. Thanks.

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How the hell can the forest spirits make us? Magic? This is all just hell, and we're too stupid to know better? You're bored and you control everything? If I knew how, I wouldn't be this angry!

????????

Honey, you need to calm down. I'm happy to answer whatever questions you've got for me, but we're not gonna get real far if you aren't going to actually listen, mkay?

I'm an ally. Not a punching bag!

Any question at all?

Yeah.

I can't promise I'll be able to answer OR that you'll LIKE the answer, but I'm not here to hide things from you guys. :/ That wouldn't do any of us any good.

Is this hell? You've been here for a lot of years - so, we don't age here? Or you don't? Is there a way out?

...No, it's not hell.

I don't know that for certain, admittedly, and I never really believed in hell when I was alive... But I've never seen anything here that makes me think this place is supposed to be an afterlife. I kind of think it's just an accident that we're here. How that happened, who's to say, but this isn't where any of us are "meant" to be.

We don't age - at least, I've never known anyone to age, but it might be different for people like me and Rastus. I have to reset the town every couple years, which isn't a lot of time for much aging to happen, you know?

And a way out... I hope so.

So. When you reset the town, you're resetting time? I'm asking, because I've had that happen before? Before I came here, I knew someone who reset my timeline. A lot.

But, I was always a constant. And so were my friends. Are we all constants here? Have we met before?

Yeah, I hope there's a way out, too. It's just very dark here.

[It's a few minutes before she responds.]

...Is resetting time even possible...?

I guess it must be, right? It's not like any of THIS should be possible, so what's one more curveball?

God, I can't believe I'd never thought of that before. I mean, I think it's just the forest spirits putting everything back in place, but it's not like I'm actually down there to see them work...

You'd have to ask Will what it's like on the ground. Tread lightly, though. I may not have experienced it firsthand, but it's not pretty. It won't be a happy memory for him.

But, no, I don't think we've met before. Some of you see kind of familiar, but that doesn't necessarily MEAN anything, right?

Jane had a clock and a Timekey. It was a whole thing and she made a place outside of time-- it's kind of a long story?

The spirits put things back? So, even if we try to leave something behind to warn the next group, the spirits will just erase it? That doesn't seem very fair.

It might? It might not mean anything. Maybe we're picked or brought here because we're all archetypes. Fantasy books are just rife with them, and there's always the hero and the backup and the secretly evil all along and the reverse, secretly helping the good guys the whole way. Maybe we're that? If we were, which one would you be?

I know it's not fair. :/ I wish it didn't have to work that way, but right now, we don't know how to change it.

But... if it gets to the point where we have to start thinking about leaving clues for the next group, I have some tricks. That's not something we need to worry about right now, though. I have faith in you guys.

Oh, man. That's a tough question. Umm... it depends on how you look at the story, I guess? In my mind, I'm the underdog hero that's been thrust into leadership and now I gotta save the town and everyone's counting on me!

Buuuuut that's probably what everyone would say, if they think the story's about them. It's fun to think like that.

Who's 'we'?

Yeah, that doesn't really help me much and I'd really like it if you just told me? I guess, what I mean is - why wait until it's too late to do anything anyway? leaving clue or messages NOW, even if we'll never use them, is way better than forgetting or missing the opportunity to in the future.

You didn't want to do this? Go to the lighthouse and stay? But that's a nice archetype to be. The worst would be-- the one everyone thought was the hero, but it turns out it was someone else all along.

Me and like, the other people that survive the resets with me. Rastus and the others thaaaat are gonna have to remain a mystery for right now. I'll tell you all about them soon.

Why wait? Well, honestly, because you guys haven't discovered a whole lot of info worth passing on just yet.

No shade - you've all been putting the hours in and doing plenty to work toward progress, but the last reset was just a few months ago, and people have been trying to fix this for many, many years. When you figure something out that's worth preserving, we can talk about how to do that.

And that's not me being coy! Just, like, it depends on what you find?

Well... I mean, I did want to stay in the lighthouse? But it was more that I wanted to stay alive, and my only chance of doing that was to become the next Keeper.

I'm going to hold you to that. That you tell me how to pass on important information.

Why? Why would you want to stay alive, when it means you'll be alone for so many years?

I promise, I won't let you down. It's part of my job to make sure important info gets passed along, anyhow.

...I mean, I guess I wasn't looking at it like that at the time? I just wanted to live, you know? Anything looked better than dying horribly in a reset at the time. I got scared.

And now, like, the decision's already been made. The only way I know of for me to get out of here is to die. :/ Soooooo I'd really love to find an alternative!

You didn't have anyone? Anyone at all? I mean, I get wanting to stay alive? Even at a cost? But not without-- not alone?

What happens if you just walk out of the lighthouse?

Um. I mean, I did have people? They just didn't survive the reset.

The Lighthouse Keeper before me was, like, batty. He didn't want to do it anymore, but SOMEONE has to be the Keeper, so he triggered a reset and told us we'd all die unless someone took up the mantle.

That's all fine and good but getting out here is another story, you know? I didn't come alone. I was just the only one that made it out the other side.

So, if I walk out of here, the same thing happens to me that would happen to you guys if you dropped your lantern and ran off. I'd die, and it'd be peaceful I think, like falling asleep. You just kind of fade.

And then no one would be left to man the lighthouse, which would leave you guys as a rudderless ship for a while until the World Eaters came knocking. Long story short, everyone would die.

Oh. I'm sorry. I hope you get to see them again when you move on to the Underworld.

wait, he made you fight to get to the lighthouse in time? That's. Wow, that's insane.

~~Have you ever been tempted? To do that? To just say 'fuck it' and go outside for a little while?~~

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