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Mother

Somehow we did it. We saved my mother. As for Alicia, my mother recognized her symptoms and has managed to stabilize her. She's no longer in critical condition. She hasn't woken up yet though. Which makes me nervous. My mother told me she would wake up eventually. I'm afraid that's just her trying to comfort me. Speaking of my mother, I had a very long talk with her. I told her about everything that happened and she told me about what she went through. She also told me why she was kidnapped. It turns out that my mother does not work for doctors without borders. She lied about that but her real job is apparently not so different. She is a doctor, that wasn't a lie. She does travel a lot to treat people, that was true as well. However the people she treats are victims of the Fears. My mother has known about their existence since before I was born. With the experience she has gained over the decades she has become an expert on Eldritch diseases. So she mostly ...

Doctor Butcher

Alicia threw her Molotov cocktail into the hallway. The glass shattered on the ground, the fire started spreading quickly. She had thrown it into the middle of a group of KRAKEN guards. They panicked, there was screaming. Three of them were on fire. The others took several steps back. They probably didn't want their flailing buddies to set them on fire as well. Though if they were friends you'd think they'd at least try to help. They didn't. Hella stepped forward. “Go, I'll handle these fuck-faces.” We didn't hesitate, there was no time for that. We headed down the stairs on the side. They were very similar to the stairs from the other base. Again the only doors were on the bottom two floors. Above us we heard screaming and shouting. Hella's distraction seemed to be working perfectly. The first door was locked again. The bottom door, again, was not. Inside was almost the exact same as last base. Except there was light this time. I'll be hone...

This is it

We've made any preparations we could. Scraped together some improvised weapons made from whatever we could find. A glass shard made into a knife by taping it on a stick. Three Molotov cocktails and a metal pipe Hella took from one of the dead KRAKEN guys. The Molotov cocktails are mostly for any nests we might see. If there still are any nests left in KRAKEN. Hopefully the Convocation has murdered all of them for their betrayal. If that's what you wanna call it. By the time this post has gone up we'll have already made our move. KRAKEN probably already knows we're coming. Still it wouldn't be smart to just announce our attack right before we do it. So I'll set this post to be published in about an hour from now. We've got a sort of plan. We don't really know much about this base since our scouting attempt went horrible. So making a very detailed plan isn't possible. We'll just hope all the KRAKEN guys Hella killed on the street dwindled th...

Hella

Alicia summarized our situation to Hella. “This girl's mother got kidnapped by KRAKEN. “ She pointed at me as I cowered behind her. “She hasn't been targeted by a Fear so far. There's still a chance for her to get out of this life. I promised I would try to give her that chance. The only way that's happening is by saving her mother. Otherwise her father will remain in prison for a murder that didn't happen. Because her mother is probably still alive.” “What's that got to do with me?” Hella asked. “I was getting there., The information we got from certain sources says they're keeping her mother in a nearby base. However, I'm pretty sick these days. I can't fight my way into a KRAKEN base by myself in my current state. While Leaf over here, well you've seen her combat abilities.” “Yes, I've seen enough to be able to guess how far she'd get. So you want me to fight your battle for you. What's in it for me?” “You seem to...

Bodies

“You want to ask HER for help?!” I couldn't believe what I was hearing. “You have a better idea?” Alicia asked as she struggled to get out of the car. “No, but..” “But what?” “She's dangerous. Plus we don't even know where she is. We can't start looking all over the city just to find one person.” “She won't be that difficult to find.” “What do you mean?” “We just need to follow the bodies.” Alicia pointed to a body that was slumped over against a wall. Alicia wasn't wrong. We soon found a second body. She had left behind a trail of bodies that wasn't so hard to find. Which didn't make me change my mind about this being a bad idea at all. There was a high chance that if we reached the end of this trail that would be the end of us as well. We would just be two more bodies on the same trail. Waiting for someone else to follow. Alicia had made up her mind though. She was struggling to stay on...

Stuck

That ambush was the end of us. We've got nowhere to go from here. Alicia is getting sicker by the day. Now she has to deal with these new wounds as well. Meanwhile I'm just useless. I can't even properly punch one guy. There's no way we can bust into a base full of KRAKEN guys and get out alive. Let alone save my mother. That's if she's even in that base. Which would be the ultimate punchline, wouldn't it? I've risked my life and that of Alicia. Only for it to turn out to be all for nothing. What other choice do we have though? We run? That would mean Alicia dies. She isn't going to last another two weeks. Then I'll be alone and I'll understand exactly why Alicia doesn't do relationships anymore. Not long after that I'll be dead as well. I'm too weak to survive on my own. Is this what life is once you find out about the Fears? Nothing but constant loss and despair? Is this the point I'm supposed to lose my faith if I ha...

Yellow eye

Why can't anything go right for once? We were so close. We were just going to scout out the base. So that we could plan our approach better. It wasn't supposed to be dangerous. Well okay, it was dangerous but it wasn't supposed to be THAT dangerous yet. Before I start worrying everyone I'll clarify that we're both fine. No, fine is not the right word. Alicia is still sick and I'm still scared but we're still alive for now. We're just in a lot of trouble. More than normal I mean. Then again maybe not. When have we not been in trouble? It's just this time we've realized we probably won't make it out of this. I better stop ranting and start explaining. Me and Alicia were walking towards where EAT told us the base was. Which is still in the same city as the last base. It was getting dark and the neighbourhood was quiet. So we figured we could sneak around easily. We were a few blocks away from the building still. We weren't expecting t...