Journals/DS - Gwen Chat Transcript

Dead Skeptic and Gwen

Gwen: ok I got you the footage. please just explain to me if my parents are evil now

DS: If you see them wearing hoods or masks, they're sleepwalking. They can hurt you last night, then wake up today not knowing it. If they're not wearing masks... well, for now let's think positive

Gwen : are they like possessed?

DS: I'd like to comfort you, but it isn't binary. This thing that's pulling their strings, it picks hosts who share its ideas. We've seen e-mails, social media hit a sort of "saturation" point when it takes them. Suddenly they get kind of radicalized, but... the core beliefs were always there.

Gwen: my parents moved to redacre, so you're saying some part of them is okay with being cut off from the world, the internet, all that

DS: And is willing to abdicate a lot of freedom for it. Yes. It may have invited them here under obscured pretenses, but deep down it takes a special kind of person to look at a small town in the Radio Quiet Zone and say yes.

Gwen: they're annoying but i love them. cant we ... exorcise them?

DS: If so, we don't know how. But whatever this thing is, it doesn't like exposure. It takes great pains to suppress footage of its hosts behaving abnormally, that sort of thing. Maybe if your parents and enough of their peers saw the footage in the daytime, it could cause them to question some of those core beliefs, seek help, or ideally - help us.

Gwen: that's a Fing shot in the dark

DS: ...welcome to the club.