ADR - Episode 628: Storage Room 6

[00:00:17] Hello and welcome to Adente Rigamortis. I'm Review Cultist. I'm Mikey, the East Ends Reval. And I'm the Gamer in Yellow. And we're here to discuss those internet stories, most creepy and most pasta, and be critically silly doing it. And tonight we have Storage Room 6. So, Storage Room 6 is by DexFam on CreepPost.wiki. So you can check it out there.

[00:00:47] And I suppose we should give our initial recommendations, as we always do. I'm going to recommend it. I am going to not recommend it. Interesting. Should I be the balance between you two and be a partial? Hmm. You do. I mean, be the chosen one, bring balance to the force. I will not bring balance. Because I recommend it.

[00:01:16] Although your hatred for this may sway me. We'll find out. We'll see. Remember, some things that I like, Mikey doesn't like. And some things Mikey likes, I do not like. So... It's almost like we're different people. Weird! Da da da ba da ba. Like... We're not actually just one person that's really good at doing voices. Legitimately should probably be one of our, like, disclaimer slash mottos for the show. It's almost like we're different people. Mm-hmm.

[00:01:45] Because, like, our opinions are so varied sometimes on what we like and dislike in a story. Absolutely. Absolutely. But let's, uh, let's stop lollygagging and, uh, let's, let's press on to the rest of the story and our discussion of it. Starting with the rundown. I'm looking up the definition of lollygagging. It means a waste time, Donald. Oh, what I'm doing now. Great. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:02:14] So, Jason. Jason. Jason. Jason. Jason. Sorry. Old meme. Um, our narrator is trying to get the story out under personal duress from the entity, uh, he experienced while working for his now defunct employers at a storage room facility or at a workplace that has storage rooms that he had to like watch over and such.

[00:02:40] It's, it's, it's sort of nebulous as to like the, the company because, uh, he never gives the name of the company. So, um, it started with the death of a plumber after a flooding issue in storage room six credits. No, that was fast. Yeah. Um, news caught wind like newspapers and, uh, like radio and TV and stuff caught wind of the death. And eventually the whole business got shuttered.

[00:03:08] Um, but not before Jason and some fellow workers got curious about the strange disappearances that accompanied the death in storage room six credits. So I'll stop doing that. Okay, good. Um, so on their last day before the site closed, they went inside the room to investigate. Jason Nicholas and Tobiah went into the strangely deep and flooded storage room.

[00:03:38] Six credits. Okay. I thought you said you were not doing that anymore. Sorry. This is even like, this is just like spontaneously like the bit, like this is like even like scripted.

[00:03:50] Um, um, after traveling, uh, several flights of stairs to get down to the very bottom of storage room six, um, with only some flashlights and a crowbar, they split up gang and navigate, uh, the various aisles of storage racks with waterlogged boxes. Eventually Nicholas and Jason meet up, but Tobiah couldn't be heard anymore.

[00:04:17] Like through their sloshing of the water, he suddenly just like stopped sloshing and, uh, his light goes out. Uh, when they call out for him, uh, he appears telling them to run before dying from horrific slash wounds that are on his back. Nicholas was out and gone as Jason tripped up and began eventually himself began running, um, looking back and seeing the entity that had killed Tobiah.

[00:04:45] This three eyed humanoid thing in the shadows. Um, he nearly made it to the stairs, but not before the entity attacked. And after inflicting terrible injuries and practically drowning him, Jason seemed to be killed by the thing, but he eventually woke up in a hospital bed. It turns out, uh, that after fleeing the building, Nicholas, uh, called the police.

[00:05:12] And when they arrived, they found Jason barely alive, uh, no monster in sight. It took some time or it took some work and he is irreparably disabled from his injuries. And in some ways, Jason feels the entity should have just killed him. Um, that would be preferable to the fear and nightmares it has instilled in him ever since the encounter. Yeah.

[00:05:41] Yeah. That was storage room six. Right. It's still. Yeah. Thank you. We're tying it all back. Um, but now we should move on to everyone tolerance the grammar positions at this point. I'll start with this one here. Damn. That's some heavy shit. I brought out my eyes drifting off to the storage hallway period.

[00:06:09] That was a long hall with several doors on each side. So I feel like instead of like, I brought like, like, damn, that was some, some heavy shit. Like I brought out maybe I feel like, I feel like it should maybe be like, I said louder. Cause like he was whispering something early, like, like right before this. And then it's sort of positioning, positing here that he like said louder. Damn. That's some heavy shit. Like to Nicholas and such.

[00:06:38] So, and I just don't understand why it said I brought out. Like I'm not, I'm not familiar with that euphemism for like saying something louder than a whisper. Maybe, maybe the, uh, um, quote is actually in the wrong spot. Maybe it's, it's him saying, damn, that's some heavy shit I brought out. I don't think so. Cause I think it's like, damn, that's some, some heavy shit is supposed to be like, just like, wow, that's what that's, that's fucking crazy. Like what happened?

[00:07:05] Because out of context, this is in regards to in context, this is in regards to the death. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and then also while I'm kind of here also maybe make, uh, maybe combine the two sentences that I brought up in my quote. So like, um, I said, also like, damn, that's some heavy shit. I said louder, my eyes drifting off to the storage hall comma, which stretched along with several doors on each side period.

[00:07:32] Like for like, just a, like a fix for that sentence or for those overall sentences. But, um, I'll move on to the next thing. Um, no one has, no one has entered that place other than the researchers since the plumber was found dead. So I feel like it should be, no one had entered that place. No, no one has entered that place.

[00:08:01] Since most of the story is done in past tense and, and has seems to be like a present tense thing. Welcome to a tense talk. Um, I mean, yeah, but the whole thing. Okay. As a general overarching thing, this is all said very like, um, um, what's the word? Casually, you know, it's like, yeah, thank you.

[00:08:27] It's an informally recited past events thing. So I don't know. Yeah. I feel like you would potentially say that, like, it may not be grammatically correct, but like people get it. You understand that still. I know. I just, I'm being nitpicky with that. So like, I could leave her, I could take her to leave it with like has or had, but yeah. Um, and then in real life, when you're talking to me, I'm going to be paying very close attention to your tense. And I'm going to call you.

[00:08:57] Except that it's the way I talk. Not like this is being written. The way the character talks, but it's also like, this is a written format. Also, you know what? I'm going to, I'm going to bring this up now because it was like the first thing in my actual thoughts, but like kind of falls into what we're discussing here with like grammar and such. Um, so I'm reading this story over the course of the reading the story. Like, um, uh, there's a, there's a, there's a question. A quote that kind of gets me here. It's like, uh, I arrived at my work about 20 minutes later. The air was cold. The building looked cold.

[00:09:25] Everything looks so cold, but that didn't matter because inside there were all of the nice guys, Nikolaus with his stories, Sebastian with his great sense of humor and Tobiah with his funny faces and amazing acting. So as I was sorry, reading the story, I was like beginning to wonder if this story is meant to be set somewhere in the Eastern block or something. Like it's not ever explicitly mentioned like where this is supposed to be set, but between

[00:09:53] the, the cold descriptions and the names of the characters and even the mannerisms, both in the dialogue and also in the writing. Um, I kind of got this impression of like Russian or like Northeastern Europe slash Eurasia. Like, yeah, with a name like Jason. Yeah. Well, Jason, Jason, like the one, like kind of off one, but like, yeah, yeah. Nikolaus, Tobiah and so, but also like in the actual writing, and this is not a bad thing

[00:10:20] for me anyway, like as I was reading this, um, it just felt like the writing was like sort of a situation of like English was not the first language of this person. Oh, really? Yeah. That's how I kind of felt to me the entire time I was reading it. And again, not a bad thing because if anything, it also helps the immersion of this first person account because I kind of got this impression, like the, with the way it's like way some of the syntax is in the way some of the sentence structure is and such, it just felt like, um,

[00:10:49] um, uh, it, there felt like there was like a tinge of like, um, not an accent, but like, you know what I mean? Like they're like, we're like, again, English is not the second, English is a secondary language. Um, and based on like what was in my headspace from like almost the get go of the story with like what I brought up where like, it just kind of felt like this was in like an Eastern European kind of country that this place was set in. And maybe that's not the case, but just the way the writing was for me, I was picturing this somewhere like there.

[00:11:17] Um, and the writing, the way the writing was, and even some of the dialogue, it just felt like more immersive because of that. But as a result, also like some of the grammar stuff I had, um, kind of popped up because of that, but I was willing to be more lenient as well for like the majority of the story. Interesting. Cause I also felt it was like relatively immersive the way that the story was being told, but

[00:11:44] not for the reasons you're saying so, because I didn't, I didn't get the feeling. I didn't get the feeling of, um, uh, English as a second language at all. It's just the, the mannerism and the way that he was speaking is sounded like a lot, like just a guy telling you like recounting past events. Like it felt very natural. Interesting. Yeah. And sure there's like typos and stuff every once in a while, but, and there's some stuff I forgot to like consider or I read over like that one that you mentioned with like, I blocked

[00:12:14] out or whatever it was. Oh, I brought out whatever that brought out. Yeah. I didn't even catch that for some reason. I must've read over that somehow. Yeah. It's just like, as I was reading the story, it just kind of like gave me that sense. And like, maybe that's just like something that was in my head. And so like, as I was reading the story, I sort of just like, maybe I'm inserting that on the story, but like, I just, I got that vibe as I was reading the story. So I kind of went along with it. Um, as far as AI overview says to bring out as a versatile phrasal verb to that generally

[00:12:43] means to reveal highlight or produce something. Yeah. I don't know. Like it's, I don't know. Personally, I would have. Yeah. I don't know. Like, like personally, I would have like changed it to like, I just said, I said louder, like, or, or like I spoke up maybe, but yeah. Um, and then the last thing I have actually for the grammar acquisition is like the last sentence.

[00:13:11] Um, I still fear that once I have to, or I still fear that once comma, I have to wake up to see it smiling at me again, comma ever so silently. So I feel like a little fix to this could be like, I still fear that one day, I still fear that I still fear that one day comma, I will wake up to see it smiling at me again, comma ever so silently. Just like a little fix there at the end.

[00:13:42] Yeah. But honestly, that's, that's all the grammar that I was willing to kind of like, um, like highlight on it and like try to fix because like, again, like I said, I was starting to get this weird impression about the story. And so I kind of put it a little bit more lenient with it. As I'm scrolling through it, I can't unsee the English as a second language stuff now. I'm sorry. You know what's funny? I was even like reading it like with like a bit of like, uh, a bit of an accent, European accent.

[00:14:11] Like I just kept catching myself doing it. I was like, well, and maybe it's cause like, and I don't even think like re like not recently. I haven't really been like reading or hearing any like, um, fiction or like media that is like set in Europe, like Eastern Europe or Russia. It just, it just popped up. Like as I was reading the story, the story. So, but yeah. Uh, but yeah, that's all I've got for grammar acquisition. So Mikey, these stands for evil. All right.

[00:14:40] Uh, first one here. I remember hearing him scream all the way long, even when he ran up the stairs that led out of this hellish room. So I feel like it either doesn't need the word long in there or it should be a long. Yeah. Like all the way along. Yeah. Mm hmm.

[00:15:10] And then the next one here, I was going to make this, um, that should be make it. Yeah. Yeah. And then I have a conjunction junction. Of course you do. All right. And next stop conjunction junction. Doot. And I am also afraid.

[00:15:37] I can't tell what company it is due to copyright and trademark stuff. Don't get me started about it. And so was my job. But as I already said, I don't work there anymore. And it still scares me to this day.

[00:16:00] It's that kind of thing when you know it exists, yet you don't quite think it'll ever get to you. So want to know how it started? And then he spoke in a depressed tone, but that didn't matter because inside, I'm sure. There were all of the nice guys.

[00:16:29] And to my surprise, he frowned and pushed me away violently before walking off through the doors. So Tobiah wasn't pulling my leg. It has been flooded multiple times before, and we really didn't care that much about it because we rarely use room six. So it happened eventually.

[00:16:59] But boy, it only got worse. And we can keep on going. But I won't. It's getting dark. So on the day before the doors of the company would close for the last time, we decided to do a little research ourselves. Or just because of our stupidity.

[00:17:26] And for some awful reason, I couldn't get the idea of something terrible and bestial hiding down there out of my head. But such beings don't exist, I thought. It is all logically explainable, I thought. But, so the day passed and it was afternoon. And we halted.

[00:17:54] It was rusted and the lights on it didn't work. And we stared. It creaked like that sound you'd hear in those horror movies. And then, after a good minute of walking these terrifying stairs, we arrived at the bottom.

[00:18:25] It had been knocked out of its joints. And that this had been under our feet for so long. It was just a sign to me something was wrong in here. And, in front of us, racks. It would be impossible for anyone to make indentations like that.

[00:18:55] And perhaps I didn't want to know what they were. It became a lot darker. But it remained silent. It was then we saw a figure emerge from behind the rack. It was too dark to make out what it was, even though we pointed our flashlights in that direction. But I god damn knew I would.

[00:19:26] It's this kind of red button effect. And then another hand gripping tightly around my neck until I was suddenly pushed downwards. My head quickly submerged below this murky water. And, to my surprise, only the entity's eyes remained once my vision went completely black.

[00:19:55] And there I was, all alone, in a dark room once more. And, and, I still am to this day. And, you know, it's horrible. Smiling face in my dreams, haunting me. And once I open my eyes, it is gone. It has disabled me.

[00:20:23] And, above all else... ...fin. Sorry, that last bit is like, it's like, we're like, and only the thing's eyes were, as my vision went black. And, ow, I'm in a dark room. And then it just never, it just, he just was stuck in that dark room. Is he in hell? Is he in purgatory? Absolutely. Absolutely. And, above all else, you'll never know. Because it's over. Yeah, yeah. Above all else, Finn.

[00:20:54] Mm-hmm. Also, also, really early on, it was like, he said in a depressed tone. But that didn't matter. Because inside, there were all the nice guys. And I was just like, like, the way that, like, popped into my head, it's like, he's just disassociating from his friend's mood. Like, it's like, no, everything's fine. He's just like, visualizing in his head, just like, all the nice guys. Like, all the happiness. But yeah, that last bit was really kind of funny.

[00:21:20] It just, in a dark way, it just like, he just, he just gets submerged in the water and like, all he sees the things like, like glowing eyes as his vision goes black. And he's in this dark room. And he just keeps going, he's just in that dark room now. That's where he lives. Yeah, it's like being shoved underneath the water. Like, is the creature like, depositing you in a, like a pocket dimension? Sure. Yeah. Pocket dimension. Definitely not dead. No, of course not. It's the entire ground. All the water is like a bag of holding.

[00:21:50] What is this? The blue ocean dub of this creepypasta? It's like, oh, it's okay. He didn't go. He didn't go to hell. He went to the, uh, the home for infinite losers or, or he didn't go to, he didn't die. He went to, he went to another dimension. Definitely. Definitely. That's literally what the, the DBZ like blue ocean dub is, is like, no, it's okay. Goku didn't die. He just got, he got teleported to another dimension. Don't ignore the halo around his head. That's everybody who, who, who teleports to this dimension gets a halo over their head. It's fine.

[00:22:21] Wow. It's still alive. Cause apparently kids couldn't, uh, like Canadian kids couldn't handle, um, the concept of death. Wow. I did not know that happened. Yeah, no, that's some of our, like a lot of the stuff that was aired in Canada, I think, and Canada and some other place. Not like, I think the States even got like the, like, no, yeah, they died. But yeah. Yeah. I seem to recall him dying, but that's neither here nor there regardless.

[00:22:50] Um, uh, so yeah, Mikey grabs all the sentences throughout a story that start with words that they probably shouldn't like it's answer, but strings together into a story with sometimes hilarious results, basically to highlight that there's always better words to use. Except when it's like, kind of like super informal and the guy just like quickly jotting down a bunch of information in case he dies or something. This is one of those rare instances. It doesn't matter, but. It's one of those rare instances where like, it's the way the character types. Yeah.

[00:23:20] But they're apparently, they are apparently trying to like get this out to warn people about this thing. Mm-hmm. But yeah. Um, all right, gamer, what do you got for grammar in yellow? I got a little bit. Uh, Tobiah didn't lose his jokester attitude and said something about poltergeist. We laughed and I laughed too, despite the fact that I was nervous.

[00:23:46] So shouldn't the, we laughed already include you as part of we? That's the story secret. Uh, the Nair is, or Jason's in fact a mimic. It's like, we laughed, I laughed, the table laughed, we shanked the table. Yeah. But yeah, I feel like this could be simplified to we all laughed or they laughed and I laughed along with them too. Yeah. To keep it separated if you want to keep it separated the way it is now. For sure.

[00:24:16] And then, um, I couldn't get the idea of something terrible and bestial hiding down there out of my head. So while this is technically fine, I did stumble over the end a little bit because it sort of flip flops. A cleaner way to do it would be like, I couldn't get the idea out of my head of something terrible and bestial hiding down there. Instead of like starting with the idea, explaining the idea, and then also mentioning that the, the idea is in the head again, you know, like it kind of goes back and forth.

[00:24:47] Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. And then my last one is a front end, but that's not the reason I'm here. Um, my God, this room was something out of a horror movie and that this has been under our feet for so long. Yeah. And that this has been under, yeah. Is that, did you do that one? No, I didn't.

[00:25:12] But like, I don't, I'm not, is, and that this is, is that, is that it's, and that this has been, I feel like you could just say this has been under our feet for so long. Oh yeah, that's true. Yeah. That isn't really necessary. Yeah. And the end obviously, but. Yeah. I mean, like I, I've definitely like heard, and I'm sure I've, I've said it. I don't like, I'm sure I've seen it in stories before. It's like, like, like basically the fact that this has all been underneath our, our, um, our feet the entire time kind of thing. Yeah.

[00:25:42] Yeah. I guess the other way to do it is. Switch the period ahead of the end into a comma. Then it'd just be, my God, this room is, was something out of a horror movie. And this has been under our feet for so long. Yeah. Cause it, the, that would be better if, if he's saying like, well, yeah, I don't know. It, it, I didn't like the, that that's all I'm getting at with that. Yeah. Uh, and that's all I got left for grammar.

[00:26:12] All right. Uh, then I suppose we'll move on to actual thoughts. I'm going to start with the image. Um, I like the image. It's, it's a creepy little like title card for like, if, if you're like browsing through like the listings for creep pastas, you see this usually. Um, but I don't quite get it in context to the rest of the story because, um, I don't, maybe you guys can help me on this. Maybe you guys saw something I didn't, or like recall something I didn't. I don't, I don't recall a video or Jason's laptop mentioned in the story. Nah.

[00:26:42] So like, I guess maybe it's like, it was found on his laptop, like after he posted this story, but like, I, I don't, I, I'm not sure why we have. Uh, so the image itself is like, it looks like it shows like a distorted cover, like, like I have a glitched out distorted, like image of what maybe the three eyed creature in the background. And then there's like red, like bloody text that says, hello, Mr. Montero, which is Jason's last name.

[00:27:08] And, uh, there's a sub sort of a little like, like a header underneath it or like a head, um, a headline, a sub sub line underneath that says a snapshot of a mysterious video found on Mr. Montero's laptop. But like, there's never, I don't think ever a mention of like his laptop being discovered by authorities or, um, like he never mentions that he found this, this video on his, uh, like on his laptop, like even at the end kind of thing. So I, I don't know why.

[00:27:39] Yeah. It's just kind of, I don't know where. Yeah. Like maybe it was in like an, another draft of the story or something like that. I don't know. Um, I mean, it is again, like it does. Kind of fit the story in that. Like it is, it looks like the, that is probably like the three eyed monster that's in the story, but, um, otherwise it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. Wait, were you seeing the three eyed monster in this picture?

[00:28:04] You can kind of see like the, well, cause like, so the, the creature is described as having like three, three, like circles and one in a little bit. And one at the top, one, one above that top left is where the, the TNI would be if we're back in Dragon Ball land. Exactly. Yeah. Triclops. Yeah. And then there's the. It's just, it's just TN down there. He's been horribly like, like mutated to something. Yeah. But also feminine apparently. That's fine. I mean, that's fair. Yeah.

[00:28:34] But yeah, you can also see like where the smile would be. Like, I get that. I just don't understand the context of this. Like. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's seeming like the creature is speaking to him through technology. Although that was not mentioned ever. No, not at all. So as cool as this image is, I don't get it. Yeah. It's clearly made for this. So I feel like whoever made this knew the story. So where is this coming from? Yeah. Where's this in the context of the story?

[00:29:02] Like, is there supposed to, was there a, like, I, I, I never saw a link in the story for like a video. Um, like maybe this is even from like a reading. I don't know. Like, it's kind of odd. Cool. But odd, like in context of the story, cause it doesn't really fit the narrative. Yeah. Um, uh, are we all good for the image? Can I, can I go on? Yep. Yeah. Cool. Okay. But, uh, I'll move on to the next thing I have.

[00:29:32] Uh, starting with this, um, stupid as I am, I started laughing. I laughed and gave Tobiah a manly hug before patting his shoulder. And to my surprise, he frowned and pushed me away violently before walking off through the door. Yeah. Like no kidding. You're acting. You're the one acting weird. Like the guy said, like somebody died and you like laugh it off, like give him a hug and pat him on the back. Like, like, like, like, like a good joke.

[00:30:00] It's like, no wonder he, he had that reaction. Yeah. But that guy was always a jokester. It was a thing. I suppose. But like, I don't know. It just seemed like a weird reaction for, uh, out of context considering we don't know the characters, but it is said that he is a jokester, right? Uh, does it say before that or yeah, that is true. Let's say like Tobiah and well, Tobiah was Tobiah with his funny faces and amazing acting.

[00:30:28] Uh, it was a Sebastian who had a great sense of humor. Yeah. But he could have been acting this. I suppose. Yeah. I guess. This is amazing acting. Yeah. I guess, I guess it could be like, um, like he just like, I, I, I, I, yeah, sure. Somebody died. Yeah. You almost got me. That was a good one. Yeah. But yeah, from Tobiah's like, no, like being like, kind of like, like violently pushing him off and like walking away. It's like, yeah, no, like that's, that was not the right thing to do there, Jason.

[00:30:55] Uh, and then the next thing, I think I have here, uh, lucky for us, nothing got published about the dead plumber so far. So the customers would continue to, so the customers would continue to come to us. However, on Wednesday, dot, dot, dot. Well, we got a lot fewer customers, fucking newspapers, radio, television, all the shit.

[00:31:24] Dead plumber found at storage firm. Yep. So it happened eventually, but boy, it only got worse. Agent censored, missing. Research at censored, halted. Censored, storage firm, bankrupt. And we keep going, we, and we can keep going on and we can keep on going, but I won't. I want to keep this short so I can stop writing as soon as possible. It's getting dark. And so he stopped writing.

[00:31:55] No, um. Finn. No, legitimately though, like, yeah, that's me being critically silly there. But like, in honesty here, like for this part, I kind of like that, uh, we just get like a taste of the aftermath of the inciting incident. But Jason stops short, uh, like, like, like kind of like cuts it off at a certain point. Um, as we get the idea, like, as to like how, how bad things got.

[00:32:18] Um, cause it gives us a, it kind of gives us the mindset of him, like being this, like he wants to, he wants us done and over with because he's shaken from the whole experience. Yeah. And as we find out later, like he, he's like horribly traumatized by this whole situation and like forever changed by it. Physically disabled as well. Physically and mentally like, yeah, changed by this thing. Mm-hmm. So, um, yeah, it's, it's a nice, it's a nice way of like giving us some of the details, but then like cutting it the right amount.

[00:32:46] I, I feel like this is the right amount of like information to cut, uh, to cut away from because like, it's like, yeah, like we get the picture of what happened. It wasn't leaving me wanting more. Exactly. Yeah. In the bad way. Yeah, exactly. Um, then the next thing here, um, my little group slowly drifted through the hallway. I looked to my sides, storage room one, storage room two, storage room three, dot, dot, dot.

[00:33:14] Our footsteps were the only sound in that hallway. Storage room four, storage room five, dot, dot, dot. I, I don't, I, I just really like this little scene. Like the anticipation of reaching storage room six is drawn out really well for me in the, in the wordage.

[00:33:31] And like the, it paints that nice, like kind of anticipated, like kind of that, like the anticipation in a, in the setting as like you can, you can visualize like viscerally them slowly and cautiously walking down this hallway and like count, like not maybe not outwardly counting the storage numbers of the, of the different rooms, but like in their minds, probably like doing that. Yeah. Yeah. And at this point, like they've put out a lot of reason as to why they should be concerned about storage room six. So. Yeah.

[00:34:01] Like it, the reader is also in the same headspace as them, you know? Yeah, exactly. It's, it's part of the thing I liked about the story was the first person perspective that we kind of got through it. Like it felt like I was watching a found footage film almost. Yeah. Yeah. Um, through this written format of it. So. Um, and then the next one I have here, this is something that you, you brought up in the, uh, one of you guys brought up in the grammar acquisition, but, um, uh, I just want to like bring this up.

[00:34:30] It's like, my God, this room, my God, or the Titans nest. It's just hit me there. It's like, my God. Um, my God, this, uh, my God, this room was something out of a horror movie and that this had, and that this has been under our feet for so long. The only light in this place came from our flashlights.

[00:34:55] The water in this place submerged our, the water in this place submerged our lower legs whole. This dirty water, this muddy water. I wonder where this came from. So first off, this was giving me like, like them going down into this flooded, like of this flooded storage room, definitely giving me the whole, like beware of still water in abandoned places, meme vibes.

[00:35:21] Like from like a couple of years back, like where like people were urban exploring and posting on Tik TOK about like, don't go, don't go into like, uh, into like still pools of water in, in abandoned places. Like they'd be like throwing rocks in. And then like, as the rocks like fell into the, into the pool and created the ripples, you'd like, there'd be like a crescendo of like horror. Horror music playing. Um, what is the reason that they didn't want to go in? Uh, so in the actual meme, the reason why you don't want to go into still water is cause it can like, uh, be teeming with bacteria.

[00:35:50] So like it could like, you get infections or sick or something like that from being, from going into still water. Okay. Yeah. Basically don't go into stagnant water in, in like rusty abandoned industrial places because chances are you're going to get like infected with something like gangrene or what have you or tinnitus. Um, but, uh, the other thing about this is like, um, based, based on, on what sounds like this. Yeah. Tetanus. That's what I meant.

[00:36:19] Did I say tinnitus? You did say tinnitus. I was thinking like, how does that affect your ear and your hearing? But like, he said it so like confidently, he must know what he's talking about. No, I meant tetanus. Thank you, Mikey. It's better to be corrected on recording than later on in a comment. Yeah. With so many comments. It's like, what the fuck? Um, but yeah, also based on, on what sounds like what occurred in this room.

[00:36:49] Um, I'm just like thinking it's like, you better hope that that muddy water is just muddy water and not, you know, water mixed with like other things that come out of human bodies. Like, like this, like, this is going to be a whole gray, like the still water meme aside, this also feels like a really nasty, like gray water situation. Like there could be poop in there. There could be blood. Like, yep. Not going to be a gray. It's definitely, it's not a, a, a, a disinfected region. It's not a safe zone. No.

[00:37:21] Um, and then we get this part here. Uh, Tobiah finally broke the, Tobiah finally broke this terrible silence. We should split up. The faster we find out what the fuck happened, what the fuck is going on here, the faster we can get out. He said before slowly progressing forward. Let's split up gang. I see Tobiah will be played by Scooby-Doo's Fred tonight. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:37:50] It's just a dumb idea. They even straight up say like right early on, it's like, my God, this room was something out of a horror movie. Let's split up gang. Yeah. As soon as I read that, I'm like, are you fucking kidding me with all this? Like, no, hell no. You should not be splitting. Absolutely not. Like for, for story purposes. I get it. And of course I'm fine with them splitting up, but like, it's weird that no one questioned the decision.

[00:38:20] I know this is like an informal retelling of past events, but a little bit of like, I sure as hell didn't want to split up at the time. But it seemed like a good idea though. Back in, back when he was there in that headspace, it's like, yeah, let's split up so we can get out quicker. But 2020 in the distant future of 2020. 2020 hindsight. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hindsight is 2020. Yes. Hindsight is in the year 2020. Sorry.

[00:38:50] But yeah, it's definitely like one of those things, like you said, where you don't think about it in the time, but like after the fact, after you've survived, you're like, man, we were really stupid. Yeah. And like early on in the story, he does say that, man, we did some dumb shit. So everything else after that, I guess kind of gets a glazing of oops, but I understand that, you know, like he's aware that everything that he did was dumb. And in the past.

[00:39:20] Yeah. This is not necessarily a Durpland situation because it was a Durpland situation. They'd have no regrets. They'd be like, what happened? What? How could we have foreseen? Like this one's definitely more of like, yeah, we were dumb and young and stuff when we did this. So really, really sure I thought this through. I'll move on to the next one here.

[00:39:45] Uh, there on the wall, Nikola's pointed at were deep and crude indentations going vertically. At first, I didn't think much of it until I realized the wall was made of metal. It would be impossible for anyone to make indentations like that for a human being. That is Nikola's slowly stretched his arm and ran his fingers over the crude indentations.

[00:40:13] I decided to bend for, I decided to bend forward and take a look as well. The indentations, there were three, each position parallel of the other. The stench in the room continued to get stronger and stronger. My eyes were getting all watery because of it. We couldn't hear Tobias waiting anymore. And that's when shit just hit the fan. Um, this would definitely be a, like a nope situation for me.

[00:40:41] Like if I gotten this far and I see that, and then I stopped hearing Tobias, like my, one of my other friends, like sloshing, I would definitely be like, no guys, let's go. Let's wrap it up. Let's go. Yeah. Those are claw marks. We're leaving. Yeah. Claw marks. What could make claw marks in solid metal? It would be stone, but in the reference I'm referencing, but, um, yeah. Also it's kind of weird that like he said, it says indentations. Cause it really feels like it's like, I don't know.

[00:41:08] Like is it, did the thing like bend the metal inward with the claws or did it like it shred the claw? Like, did it make like claw shreds in the metal? It's three vertical perpendicular lines. Yeah. So if something did a slash downwards or upwards, I'm assuming it went downwards as it clawed at someone. Yeah. Or maybe it just like clawed the, the, the, like, yeah, like you said, like probably like missing somebody or something and clawed the wall instead. Yeah.

[00:41:36] Or it went out with both claws and like the left claw whack the guy, but the right claw hit the wall. That's true. Yeah. But yeah. And then, and then as soon as like, we, it's like, we couldn't hear Tobias waiting anymore. That was, I really liked that like final touch on there. It's like they find the claw marks and then they can't hear their friends like moving anymore. It's like, uh-oh. Yeah. So this is when the, this is when the shit's about to hit.

[00:42:01] Um, and then the next thing, for God's sakes, why didn't I just run? The light of my flashlight was reflected back by three large circular objects on a head tilted to the right in an impossible angle. Arms way too long for human proportions. The quite feminine shaped body being supported by two pointy legs. Uh, yep.

[00:42:30] Run, run, man. Run like the wind man. But she's not is the thing. Maybe just some monster fuckers, but like, um, better into like creepy shadowy, like, like ill proportioned triclopses, I guess. Yeah. I mean, they're probably, they are out there. I know they are out there. The internet is full of blood. Absolutely. Um, I do think it's a cool, creepy descriptor and especially with the regret that's met.

[00:42:59] That's like oozing from this description. It was like, for God's sakes, why didn't I just run? And like, he just immediately regrets looking back. Like, I love, I love that you can just feel that in the story. Um. Yeah. Cause he like, he went into a fugue state for a while there before even starting to run. Yeah. Like he tripped up and like, well, yeah, he, he went fugue state. Nicholas flea, uh, had the fleece state. Like he just. Yep. Up the stairs gone.

[00:43:29] Like, um, but, uh, yeah. And then like later on we find like Nicholas actually like, isn't a complete asshole for, for, for leaving. I mean, obviously like his reaction is understandable, but also good guy for actually calling the cops. Afterward. Once he gets up, once he gets up to safety. Uh huh. But yeah. So I just thought, yeah, Nicholas actually wasn't like in terms of like as a side character for the story.

[00:43:57] I thought Nicholas like, wasn't the worst character. Yeah. Honestly, most of them weren't like, like none of them were really bad characters. Like we're bad, like, um, character types in this, like to buy, like to buy, like just was kind of the idiot for, for having them split up. But like, he also was just kind of under the whole like situation. Like they're all like, they're all nervous about doing this. They're all getting, they're all like trying to like, like give themselves courage about this whole situation.

[00:44:24] And they split up for, for a well-intentioned reason. Had they not know, like for the fact that they don't know that there's something like dangerous in that room. Yeah. And they were just like going down there and they want to find out, like they want to get to the end of the room and like trail back as quickly as possible. So like, again, not the dumbest characters, um, and not the most, not the shittiest characters. Um, just characters that were ill-prepared for the situation. Yeah.

[00:44:53] Uh, and then we get to this part here, which kind of made me giggle a little bit in like a morbid way. So this is when like, um, Jason is attacked by the creature as he gets to the stairs and like, he's like punched in the gut, like broken bones and stuff like that. And then the thing starts like throttling him and like putting him under the water. And it's like, I was dying slowly, but certainly it was draining my life for me that and the

[00:45:17] drowning and the throttling and the broken ribs and internal bleeding, et cetera, et cetera. Like he, it sounded like when I, when I first read it, it sounded like it's like it was dying and he was like feeling like it was draining his life energy, but like, honestly, he's just dying from drowning, suffocation, throttling, broken bones, internal bleeding. He's dying in the slowest and most painful way possible. Yeah.

[00:45:43] Like this thing is just like, oh my God, this thing's just like ruining him a little bit. Actually a lot of it. Yeah. Very tort. Like this, this thing is delighting and torturing him as he dies. Yes. But in that, like, I don't know, it's like, again, morbid, morbid humor. It's just like, I was like, I was dying slowly, but certainly it was draining my life for me, you know, through all that other things that it was doing to my body to try and shut it down.

[00:46:12] But, uh, I'll move on to the next thing here. And this is, I think my last thing. Um, the creature opened its mouth and produced the most haunting shriek I had, I have ever heard a shrill, piercing sound that sliced through my flesh and bone. Until its cold eyes closed, until its closed, until its cold eyes closed and the twisted smile faded. I was surrounded by the dark and the unknown.

[00:46:41] From that moment on, everything is a big damn gap in my memory. I only remember waking up in some kind of random hospital, you know, random, random, more random memorial hospital. Ah, in the town of random. Yes. No, in some kind of random hospital, hoses and tubes coming from my body as if I were some kind of experiment. Well, technically I was.

[00:47:09] The doctors were speechless because of a number of injuries I had. And then it goes on, like how many, like all the injuries they suffered in, like, it's a miracle he survived. And, um, I'm really glad it does explain a little on how he lived because when the entity got him and started killing him, I was wondering two things. A, how is he surviving this story to tell the tale?

[00:47:36] And, and B, is he in fact going to be telling the tale from beyond the grave? Yeah. It may have been a ghost writing the story. A ghost writer. We, we have heard that before. Like that, that narrative has happened before. So, but I like that it, it like, we kind of get this, this moment where we get, we get this thing where he, he comes back to eventually in a hospital bed, like with all this equipment, keeping him alive.

[00:48:01] And then like, we find out like later that like the cops had showed up after, uh, uh, Nikolaus had, had called them and they, they found him barely alive and they brought him back. But he's also not like fine afterward. Like he is horribly like, um, disfigured and like injured from it. Even after like he's his, uh, his life is no longer threatened. Um, it's this thing, like the story really did a number on its protagonist.

[00:48:31] Yeah. It's kind of weird too. Cause like his buddy was like filleted from the back, like silently murdered. And then the creature just decided like, well, I got one left. Cause the other one ran away. So I'm going to enjoy this kill, I guess. Yeah. Just took it sweet time. Um, but yeah, as in regards to like how he survived, his plot armor was just way too strong. Yeah. Very strong plot armor.

[00:48:55] And then even to the point where, but like, it's also kind of like part of the horror because like he's, he wishes he died. Yes. Like after what happened, like he doesn't want to keep going because of like, not even like how, how injured his body is even after being like healed as best as it could. But also like, he's horribly traumatized from the encounter to the fact that like, he can't sleep in the dark anymore because he he'll see that thing's eyes.

[00:49:18] You know what I really thought was going to happen was like when he was pinned under the water, buddy was going to show up with the crowbar and whack it in the back of the head and save him. The crowbar just never got used. No, it wasn't a Schrodinger's crowbar. Well, didn't, didn't Tobiah have the crowbar or was that? Yeah. The other one did, but still like he could have found some other found object and whacked the thing with it. Yeah. Nicholas could have saved the day directly rather than indirectly. But yeah.

[00:49:45] Cause like, unless the, um, police station was next door, I don't know how quick their response time would be to get there. And like, yeah, we don't. Yeah. I understand. Like, it's definitely like he, like Nicholas. I mean, I was, I was, I was just praising Nicholas for not being like a total bat, like a total bastard for in like a banning. It's where, but essentially what he did, like he, he, he abandoned them in, in like that flight. But again, like, I can't also blame him for that because anyone could have done that.

[00:50:12] Like anybody might've like had that fight, flight or freeze situation. Yeah. Like you can't control that when you, when you're, when you're that terrified or, or like that traumatized, like instinct just kicks in. Like the, the chemicals start hitting. Um, but the fact that he had the afterthought after he got to his himself to safety to call somebody and, and they got there, I guess in time to save, uh, Jason's life.

[00:50:37] Um, and the creature probably just like left, left, uh, left Jason for dad, basically like after. Yeah. It thought that it killed him, but he was, he still had some fleeting amounts of life left in them. Um, yeah, exactly. Um, but yeah, it's just like, I, again, the story, like, I'm glad the story didn't like just like, oh, and I woke up in the hospital. Like, I don't know. It was, I don't really know what happened, but like they said, like, uh, some of my wounds are superficial. Like, no, he, he is fucked.

[00:51:07] Yes, absolutely. He is alive to tell the tale, but he is fucked. And I like that it gave, it didn't hold back on that. Yeah. It, it did what most like Pokemon creepypastas don't do where it's like, Hey, there's a creepy thing that happened, but I'm fine. I'm going to go to the movies on the weekend. Like, no, like there are consequences to the events that happened. Exactly. Yeah.

[00:51:33] But, uh, yeah, that's all I've got for my actual thoughts for storage room six. So Mikey, these stands for evil. All right. So, uh, we get the good lead up to the door where they're coming up the one to five and they get to six.

[00:51:56] And, and then we get all three of us were then overwhelmed by an incredible stench coming from that now open door. The way we saw it, there was no light at all down there. The stairs looked unstable and went in a downward circle, gave me the creeps.

[00:52:18] So my problem with this is that we're going to storage room six. And the first thing they get when they open the door is a stairway. Yeah. And it's a storage room. So I would expect an elevator that's big enough to have a forklift.

[00:52:48] You would expect. Oh, but apparently. Yeah. So you're saying just because it would be a pain in the ass to carry stuff down the stairs. Yes. I mean, yeah. I don't know. Like, I mean, yeah, that you'd expect that. And like, even they questioned like why this was like, why it went down so deep and like, why are there stairs and stuff like that? They go down that way. But that's, that's kind of a mystery and the, the enigma of like, what the hell was going on in storage room six. Yeah.

[00:53:18] Because like, based on them describing the stairs, the other ones don't have stairs. What the hell's with this one? You know? Yeah. The other ones are supposed to sound like most of the, most of the other ones are like ground level. Like. It might be that like, that storage room was like, always not used and was always meant to just contain the creature. And like, whoever was in charge of the storage facility wasn't told about this.

[00:53:45] So like, when there was weird shit going in, they were just sending dudes down there to try to fix it. Meanwhile, they should have just kept six closed. Yeah. Just bolt it. I was like, there is no storage room six. I don't know why they didn't weld it shut if that was the case. Well, again, like, like one person died and then like people that were like researching, like, or investigating what was happening and stuff kept disappearing. So eventually like the place got shuttered. So it's like, yeah, they really should have like done something more to like keep people out of storage room six. Yeah.

[00:54:17] But yeah, it is sort of, that sort of added to like the, uh, out of context mystery and enigma. Like we don't have all the facts as to like what was going on with, um, with that room. Um, and it seems like an outlier even for like the other storage rooms. So, yeah. And then my next note here is about the dirty water.

[00:54:46] Um, it, it's submerged our lower legs whole. So that's some pretty deep water. Yeah. It's knee deep. Yeah. They are definitely like, yeah, they're definitely getting some soakers. Yeah. And my thoughts like that one does not simply walk into dirty water. Yeah. It's, it's sort of like, yeah.

[00:55:14] Like why, why are they like, uh, like again, some, some of their actions are a little dumb, but like, yeah, that one, that one's probably the dumbest, I think. Mm. Mm. We expect them to like leave and go get like boots. Yeah. Get some waiters. Yep. Yeah. We are not prepared for this. We need to go back. We're not prepared for this. So we left and we can get waiters and we got back. The building was closed.

[00:55:42] So, uh, we didn't bother investigating and the story is over. Yeah. I mean, I couldn't have went in there. I like these shoes. Yeah. Guys, this is like, this was, this was a really bad plan. Why did we think about doing this? Like, let's go back. Let's, let's go to, let's go to, uh, let's go to, let's go to get some breakfast. Let's go get some, we'll get some brunch. The rest of the story is just them having a normal brunch. Yeah. Exactly. Like, why do we want to do this? Man, like that could have like really affected us. Like, I mean, I could have died.

[00:56:13] That's such a troll pasta. Yeah. That would be. More like you set up an actual creepy event and then they're all just like, no, we're leaving. Yeah, exactly. Uh, sadly, the story was not a troll pasta. No. Thankfully. Sadly or thankfully the story was not a troll pasta. Yes, absolutely. All right. I have to do.

[00:56:42] Uh, and then my next note here is, and in front of us racks, towering racks full of cardboard boxes and other stuff. So my problem with this is that I, I just want one line that says the bottom of the racks were empty because otherwise you have waterlogged cardboard boxes. I mean, they do a lot, a lot of the boxes seem like they were like moldy and like wet and

[00:57:12] like fungus was growing. Also, well, they clearly didn't care what was down there cause they never used that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and the fact that there's boxes, but I mean, for a company that's closing, they would clean out all the stuff. It did also seem like most of those boxes were empty too. Like I remember reading like part of that, like that. You would have, well, it says ironically, those were possibly all empty, but you'd have floating boxes.

[00:57:42] That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Basically what Mikey's getting at is like, there is a missed opportunity for good descriptors of like the boxes along the bottom row. We're all like soggy and rotten. And then we're like random boxes floating around that we had to push out of the way stuff that would just build the scene better. Yeah, for sure. Like you'd have that flotsam, like the cardboard, just like kind of just flotsam moving around. Like, yeah, I get you. They would be a flotsam patrol unit. Also just wanted to use the word flotsam cause I love that word. Yes.

[00:58:11] For anybody who doesn't know, flotsam is basically just like, it's just random shit that floats in water. Isn't jetsam also something like that? Cause I tend to hear flotsam and jetsam together. Yeah. They're both, they both basically mean the same thing. Um, yeah, like also they're apparently a flotsam and jetsam and jetsam band. I was just about to say that. But yeah, basically it's just, it's, it's random debris that washes that, that like is, is either floating in water or like washes ashore. Mm.

[00:58:40] Um, flotsam is accidental debris while jetsam is, uh, deliberate debris. Yeah. Wow. The more you know, we're all learning together. Yeah. But yeah. Um, yeah, I, I, I, I can, I can get, I can get behind like having a little bit more of like more description of like, it's not just like, like murky still water down there, like that they're going through.

[00:59:08] They're also having to like navigate through some debris or some kind of obstacles as well. Mm. Yes. All right. Uh, my next note here, my brown pants got all soaked because of this damn dirty water. To which my response is, I see he is wearing the correct pants today. Yes, absolutely.

[00:59:35] I, I, I did not, I did not have a note, but I also was like, ah, yes, the brown pants. Good choice. Perfect for a creepypasta or perfect for a horror story. Mm. Ready to be shat in and no one would be the wiser. Uh, you, I have my also, uh, Tobias like, and I have my red shirt. Yes. Yeah. He was absolutely the red shirt too. Cause he just died immediately. Yeah. Sweet, sweet Tobias.

[01:00:05] Mm. Right. And, uh, not my last note here. Is about the, the monster. How we get three eyes. And then a smile. Mm. And I'm just, my mind just went straight to that three eyed smiley face. I'm sorry. Um, from evolution. Yeah. Or just Google three eyes, smiley face. Oh yeah.

[01:00:36] Make me Google something. Basically like the, we're like the mutant smiley face. Yeah. Yeah. And then, then because I had that visual, I lost all sense of fear for this creature. Wow. Well, that's, that's a you issue. That's definitely a you issue, sir. Like the story definitely like makes it, like makes it have to be a creepy thing. You're the one that's trying to make me silly. Mm.

[01:01:06] And that's my, my actual thoughts. All right. So, so like a smiley face full of like razor brown teeth. Yeah. Like it's a disgusting visual. Yeah. Apparently somebody's, some people have actually done some fan art of this, of this creature in the comments too. Oh really? Yeah. There's actually a piece of fan art. Um, I'll see, I'll just, uh, I'll just share this with you guys since I don't think you can see it. No.

[01:01:32] Unless you have an account in, uh, so this is what the creature looks like. Uh, the, from this piece of fan art that somebody did. Oh, that's fucked up and weird. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Again, like, like for, for the audience, basically like for this kind of gross, like bald humanoid with like a needle, black needle, like teeth in like a smile and like, um, kind

[01:01:56] of ill proportioned circles for eyes, like kind of just like inside the, the skin of the face. Yeah. Like the skin's like kind of like loosely on it as well. It's almost looks like a mask. It looks cool. Yeah. I like it. Again, that's not too far off from the visual I had just from reading the story. So yeah. Mm. Very good interpretation. I feel. All right. Gamer, what do you have for actual thoughts? I think I got a couple left. Let's see.

[01:02:25] So what's chiming in on most of mine? Uh, this part here, when they're like heading down, there was another door at the bottom they're talking about was it had been knocked out of its joints. We passed through the doorway. We were all shaking and terrified in this room, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I know you said up front that like it was a dumb decision for them to go down there and why did they do it? God damn it.

[01:02:53] But like something knocked the door off its hinges and no one bats an eye at it. And because it wasn't described as a different door to the one upstairs, the one upstairs was a metal door. So something knocked a metal door off its hinges and they're just like, all right, let's go. Yeah. No, again, in, in a, in a, in a rational situation, uh, we, uh, if I was in that group, I'd get

[01:03:23] down there as like, guys, I really want to do this. Like that, that was a metal door. Uh, I don't, are we sure that like, nah, I'm good. We're all going to get wet socks too. Like it's still watered out. You've seen the memes. Yeah. And you've seen the TikToks. There's still water down there. We can't do this. Like, again, let's go get, let's go get some dinner or some lunch. Talk this over like around the table. Like, like just compartmentalize why this would be a bad idea.

[01:03:53] Absolutely. But no. Um, so obviously I'm fine with what they went, that they went in, like I said previously. Um, but again, I wish that there was like even a single line of like, uh, we shouldn't be down here. What could have done that? I mean, we're only going to find out if we go in, let's hurry. Yeah. It's like that bit, because like they do mention like they are like, they are getting freaked out by the fact that the door has been like ripped off its hinges. But, um, yeah, if having somebody say it and then like them like rationalizing it at

[01:04:22] the moment, like, oh, let's keep going. It's I'm sure it's fine. They're freaked out, but they still immediately go in anyways. There's not even a second of pause. You know, it's like they almost expected that. Yeah. Yeah. That part is definitely too quickly, like just like breezed over or summarized. Yes. When there should be like a converse, there should at least be like a moment of like reaction to that. Um, and I know that he said like, he's trying to get through the story quick and everything. So is that important to tell the reader? Probably not.

[01:04:52] Yeah. That's also really good. The good, good, um, uh, good to bring up as well, because yeah, that, that adds onto the immersion because the person writing the story is a narrator or is, is technically the narrator. So the way they're it's written is like, he's just trying to like get through this so that he doesn't have to keep thinking about it. Yeah. So he's probably not wanting to dwell in like in that headspace for too long. So I guess it's actually immersive in a way, but I don't know, man, it's almost like a cheat as well.

[01:05:23] I mean, you say, I mean, you can say that, but like, yeah, it's also like how people would probably write this. So yeah, it may be a cheat, but it may also, it may be a cheat, but it's also, um, again, like it's realistic. Yeah, for sure. Then moving on from there in front of us, racks towering full of cardboard boxes and other stuff. Ironically, those were probably all empty question. How is it ironic that they're empty? Is it because like, this is a storage room and there's nothing being stored here?

[01:05:53] Yeah. I think that's probably what the irony is. Yeah. Okay. Well, yeah. Cause I mean, and they're probably all empty because the company's closing down. Yeah. Why would they have left the boxes when they just take the boxes? Yeah. They took stuff out of the boxes. That is a good point. Like, yeah, they took all the boxes. The boxes were already pretty shitty because like maybe because the boxes were already in shitty condition. They just pulled the stuff out of it and put them away. But like, how did the company also, I mean, you could also say like, how did the company?

[01:06:23] I mean, they did, they did lose a, they apparently a bunch of people went missing. So like, they just keep sending in, send in more employees. Like until like, they just kept sending employees down and like, occasionally somebody would go missing, but enough of them went down there with like a team with, with the teams to like grab all the stuff out of the boxes and move them up, up out of the storage room. I don't know. The company just, yeah, sorry. No, go ahead.

[01:06:50] The company's just like, just throwing people at the problem until they, until they're able to clear out the room. Absolutely. Just Zerg rush that room until we win. But no, it probably is just the fact that like, there was nothing stored down there. Those were empty boxes. Like when this room was nice and not haunted or whatever. With some monster. Yeah. People would bring their crap down the staircase annoyingly. And there's a bunch of empty boxes that they can use to put their stuff in and seal it up and put their name on it or something.

[01:07:20] I don't know. That's probably what it's meant to be. Yeah. Like I, I kind of like, I also like seeing the story, like, this is just like something that popped in my head. It's like, I don't need to know why this creature is down there. Like I'm totally fine having this be like ambiguous and like it's, it's origins enigmatic, but my headcanon, like, cause just cause I can't help myself. My headcanon is that like, there was some kind of a cult thing, artifact or scroll or some

[01:07:48] kind of like academic research being done at the back of this, this, uh, storage room or something. Or again, an artifact was in one of the boxes that we just never got to see that had been like knocked down into the ground or something. Or like maybe when it comes to contact, maybe, yeah. Maybe when it comes into contact with water, it summons this like shambler or something or this thing from like some other place or what have you, or maybe it turns into this thing. Like maybe it's like one of the boxes had like, had like a desiccated body that when it got

[01:08:15] like hydrated, uh, it suddenly it, it blew up into this creature. Yeah. Um, like there are some plants and so, and some like, uh, some animals and some plants that like they will, they can survive by just becoming like a dry desiccated husk to survive like art, like desert conditions. And when you give them water, they suddenly sprout back to life. So maybe that's what happened with this creature. This thing was found or something like that and stored in this facility and storage room six is the one that always gets flooded.

[01:08:43] So like the flooding is not even like the flooding is I've, it, it could be a result of this thing tampering with like the pipes or whatever, or it could just be like a, just a, an unfortunate happenstance that like the right elements were in the right positions for the situation to have a catalyst to bring this thing forth and basically condemn storage room six. So I didn't think about that. Like it is intentionally fucking with the pipes to get food delivery. People down there. Yeah.

[01:09:13] Yeah. It's ordering out every time it does that. Jason even said like, yeah, I think he even comments like, where was all this water coming from? Like, so like maybe it's not even like, there are no pipes down here. Like maybe the water is coming in from some, from wherever the, the creature is coming from. Hmm. Like maybe it's some, there's some kind of like a rift at the end of the storage room that like this thing is coming through. And unfortunately it's also like seeping in water from wherever it comes from. Possibly. Yeah. Cause it says like, it should just be clean water coming through. That's true. Yeah. Like it's been said like mud.

[01:09:42] With like the 10 bodies that are in the back that it's being washed through. Yeah. And again, like, yeah. Body, like, like people keep disappearing. Like, and like they, even when groups go down, like teams go down there to look for things they can't find them. They found the plumber, but they can't find like the other people that go missing. So like, maybe they're getting like sent into like a rift or whatever, wherever this thing hides or wherever it lives. And like, there's just a rift somewhere in the corner of this room, um, where water's coming from and where it comes from.

[01:10:10] But also it's, it's where it's keeping the bodies or it's taking the bodies into its own home dimension or whatever. Just no clips through the wall. Exactly. Yeah. It could be like a backroom situation. Lots of potential. But again, like you don't need that information necessarily. Cause part of the horror here is just this out of context, like fear of the unknown. Like we don't know what this thing is and that's what's scary. Like. Absolutely.

[01:10:36] It's scarier to have those sorts of questions than having everything explained. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, where are I going to make, where are I going to use this as inspiration for a Delta green game or like a tabletop game that might be stuff I would explore. So I know the origin of where this thing, how this thing is attacking you guys are reacting, but the characters wouldn't necessarily be able to find out. Exactly. Yeah. Or that's how you, what you might want to explore in a tabletop game scenario in this situation

[01:11:04] is like, like have, like if you have an idea of what you want to explore that part, like have that be explored in the tabletop game. But in the story you don't need to, because that's, this is, this is a preset story where characters realistically wouldn't get to know that because they encounter the creature and either die or flee from it. So, yeah. I feel like sometimes even in tabletop, like when there's some weird screwed up thing going

[01:11:28] on, it's, it's kind of, it'll leave a more of a lasting impression if like the players don't find out like where it came from, what, what was it doing there? Like they just managed to like get it to leave, but that's it. You know? Yeah. Um, that is, that's definitely one of the purest ways of thing for like, for horror scenarios. The problem is a lot of people don't like that when they're doing an interactive thing. So like, uh, when they're actually like playing like a tabletop game or something like that,

[01:11:57] they want to know what's going on because like, yeah. They want to have the article open for the character, for the creature. Yeah. I know, I know several like Delta green, like GMs and game designers who definitely follow that mentality. Like you don't need to know that, but like, there are also people that play in those same games that are just like, no, tell me what happened. I want to know like out of game. It's like, so yeah. Yeah. Fair.

[01:12:27] But anyways, moving on from there. I don't even know how we got here. We were talking about the. Uh, so yeah, we'll get to this next part, which is my only other note. Really? Uh, me and Nicholas, how do you pronounce that? By the way, I kept, I was doing it. Nicholas. Loss. Yeah. Nicholas. Okay. Well, me and him decided to progress. Uh, this, the silence in the room, the, uh, indentations, the continuous stench, the darkness,

[01:12:56] it got our, it got on our nerves. What or who caused these disappearances? We didn't want to find out anymore. All we cared for was getting our asses out of there. And yet after that line, they decided to go in further. Like, I feel like if all you cared about was getting out of there, you'd leave. I think the, the, the sentiment behind that is like, they want to know, like the quicker

[01:13:24] they get, like the quicker they find out what's going on here, the quicker they can leave. I think that's the. Absolutely. Yeah. Like the way it said, it's like, yeah, it sounds like guys just leave. Yeah. The stairs are right there. Yeah. So maybe it should be more like as much as we wanted to get our asses out of there, we had to figure out what was going on. So we soldiered on, you know? Yeah. Curiosity kills the cat. Yes, absolutely. But again, this is also told informally through a guy who's getting the information out as fast as possible.

[01:13:54] So it doesn't want to dwell in his trauma land. So I get it. Yeah. Also trauma land is an awesome name for a theme park. Honestly. It's probably a trauma land is definitely the, the, the, the theme park, um, of, uh, um, Newcomb high and, uh, uh, the toxic Avenger because, because those are all movies by trauma films. Yes. Absolutely.

[01:14:25] Trauma land or trauma land. Yeah. But that's all I got for notes. Also trauma land is the, uh, the Euro version of horror land from goosebumps. But I digress. Uh, so you're good. I'm digressing actually. Cause I'm good. All right. Uh, then we move on to final thoughts. So yeah, I'm still going to recommend it.

[01:14:51] Um, it obviously could use a few fixes, but I just really liked the person, the, the first person horror, um, of the setup. Uh, and I like, I kind of like the kind of ambiguous setup here. Like we don't know what the company is. We not sure where this is set. Like it's somewhere cold, it seems. So like, that's basically it. Like my own head cannon is it somewhere in Eastern Europe? Yeah. Um, just based off of like certain things that I was picking up on the story, but I'm not a hundred percent on that.

[01:15:20] Um, we don't know what the monster comes from or anything like that, but that's fine because the horror here is just the, the horror in this story is the horror of like a chance encounter and like, and having dealing with something that you can't comprehend or you don't have all the answers about and it just ruining you. Yeah. And that's, it's perfectly like fine. And I liked that idea of this. Uh, and it made it feel, I was just really in the mood for like almost like a found footage

[01:15:48] sort of thing, maybe when I was reading the story. So like, it was really getting to me. Um, and I like, I was enjoying that. So, um, yeah, the storage room six is enigmatic, but visceral in the danger of its horror. So, uh, I was for, I was, I was here for that. Um, but yeah, so I will recommend it. Mikey, these stands for evil.

[01:16:11] Uh, well, clearly the real horror is the murky water and the fact that our protagonists had a gaping wound in this horrible water, which means that he'd likely did not survive. Even though he's in the hospital. Did he have a gaping wound? Uh, well, he had some broken bones. He got, he got punched, I think. And like, yeah, his lung got punctured or whatever.

[01:16:41] Like, I think it's, it's internal punctures from the ribs being broken in from being clothes lined when he was trying to run away. Yeah. That's, that's what I got from that. Yeah. Externally bleeding. Yeah. At first I thought like he'd been impaled by like, like, he just likes like Viltrum. Mike just like impaled him through the chest. I've been impaled. Yeah, exactly. But then as you keep reading, it kind of felt more like he'd been either like punched by this thing or like, like you said, like clothes lined.

[01:17:10] Um, and it just like, it was, it was blunt force trauma basically. Um, so, but I mean, like he could have also like, he was being throttled and then like put into the water. So like that, that shitty gray water, whatever it is, it's going into his mouth and nostrils. So yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the true horror story. Infection. Infection.

[01:17:40] Yeah. Um, but yeah. Uh, like I said, the, the, the, the door to storage room six opening to a stairwell. Uh, just to, to me didn't work because I mean, you would expect it to be like a warehouse type idea if it's like all the other storage rooms.

[01:18:10] Um, so that took me out when that happened and then they go downstairs and they go into the murky water and that was like, well, that's a poor choice.

[01:18:28] Um, so I, I had no, um, the word, no sympathy for our Nair or Jason. Yeah. Um, he, he deserved what he got. He was being an idiot. Yep. I mean, he did say up front, he was being an idiot. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:18:59] So, and then as I said before, the, my head cannon, when all he sees is three eyes and a smiley face, um, just went to that smiley face picture. Um, to be fair, when he saw the, he saw the three eyes in the darkness first and then it murdered people. It chased people.

[01:19:27] It clothes lined them. It put them into the ground and then it smiled at them. It wasn't like smiley eyes or three eyes and smiley right at the gate. It was, maybe you built that image of the silliness over time. It was not immediate though. Also to count it, not to counter you, but like, to be fair, Tobiah died first and then he saw, he looked back as, as they were running and saw something, uh, because they saw something

[01:19:57] behind Tobiah's body. And then when he looked back, he saw the eyes and then when he was being attacked, that's when it was smiling and stuff like that. So yeah. I'm pretty sure I said that, but yeah. No, you, you said that, um, uh, you, uh, uh, it was, I, the way it sounded like they, they didn't see the, um, they, they didn't see the thing before Tobiah died, but. Oh yeah. No, you, you, the way it sounded like you were saying like they saw the thing before Tobiah died. So yeah. Yeah.

[01:20:25] Well, what I was getting at is I show up, bad things happen and then he's being drowned and then it smiles at him. Yes. That's what I was getting at. The lighting and his suffering. Yes. Yeah. But I mean, like he, because my mind went to the smiley face, like he's being drowned and then all of a sudden, like the last thing he sees is the smiley face with three eyes. Okay. But think about it like this. Okay.

[01:20:56] Um, Mickey mouse is drowning you, holding you under the ground, chuckling. Would you be scared of Mickey mouse? The answer is yes. Yeah. Let's go with some straight like mascot horror. Like I'm sorry. Like regardless of the mascot, it's still killing you. Yeah. The visceral threat of death is the horror in that aspect. Right.

[01:21:22] I'm trying to say like your headcanon's fine if you want it to look silly, but something silly murdering you is still something murdering you. Yeah. You know? Also, I kind of like the, I'm kind of visualized like almost the way you're saying it, Mikey, is that like in his last, like right before he dies, his last vision in his head is, oh man, I really love that movie evolution. Because he's just visualizing the smiley face from that movie.

[01:21:51] Like, you know, like how like, like your life flashes before your eyes before you die is like, that's, that's the one thing that like, like the last thing that flashes before his eyes before he dies is, is the fact that he really liked evolution, the movie. So anyway, yeah. So my recommendation is still a non-recommendation. All right.

[01:22:22] Because of your own headcanon. Okay. Yep. Fair enough. It's not, but fair enough. I've given up trying to persuade. Yeah. Mikey. So like Mikey, Mikey dies on the hills. He dies on. Absolutely. Um, it's what happens when you're an immortal cosmic being. You can just afford to keep dying on hills. Yeah, for sure. We, we can't possibly fathom the way that his brain works.

[01:22:51] He is, he's above us. Yep. Uh, gamer. What's, what's your verdict and after, and after thoughts. I don't know. I liked it. I enjoyed the read. The monster's cool. Um, I do feel they kind of got away from it easy and I don't know why it let them live. Um, because it's been like, it's been properly killing everything that it finds, but Jason has plot armor. So he's fine. I mean, is he though?

[01:23:19] Like he's pretty fucked up. He's the only survivor of this. Nicholas also survived. The only one that was attacked that survived. And it's not like they did anything to like ensure that they got away. It's not like they did something clever, like pulled down a rack to have it in the way or something. They just ran and it worked. It's like, I wish they did something to like slow it down a little bit.

[01:23:47] Not to besmirch the good name of Nicholas, but his tactic was, I don't have to outrun the bear. I just have to outrun you. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. He definitely just like, that's how Nicholas survived. He just left his friends to die. Yeah. But also, yeah, I do wish they did something though to hinder the creature. Like I'm thinking like that, like pulling something over in the way. Cause I'm thinking of like dead by daylight and stuff like that.

[01:24:14] You could do that against the creature when it's chasing you or something. But that's also done in movies so many times where like there's racks all over these walls. They're all so pullable unless they're screwed to the wall. I don't know. Like, I think it's scarier that the, the thing that this thing, like it just thought he had died, like he, it had killed him and just moved on. Like, it's just like, he's the in quotes lucky one, but he's also like not the lucky one. Like sure he survived, but like he wants to die after the fact.

[01:24:43] It's not like the creature's like putting the fingers on the neck to check for a pulse after he's killed it. Right. It's just, it's doing what it wants to do and leaves. Like it probably just gave up when it's when, uh, Jason stopped fighting. Yeah, exactly. So I guess that makes sense, but still. Um, either way, all that to say, I liked the story though. Creature was cool. Um, the right, the, the way that the story was told to us was cool. It was immersive.

[01:25:10] It felt like I'm sitting there being told the trauma of some guy that I know of something that he went through. Yeah. Or like, as we said before, some stuff is glossed over, but it makes sense that it's glossed over. Like he's not going to go in and give us a recounting of every single thing that was said. Cause that's not important to the story. And the guy might even have like a mental breakdown just from like recollecting that shit. Absolutely. Yeah.

[01:25:38] The biggest problem with this, which isn't really a problem is like the image on our stand. It's weird. Cause it was like, it was made for this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like, again, it, maybe it's just like, I don't know, like maybe there's something more that we're, that's not presented or like, maybe there's like an earlier draft where like this was recovered from, uh, Mr. Montero's laptop. Like, but it's not really established in the story that like, this was, this story was, was

[01:26:06] recovered from his laptop or like this video was found. It's just, even at the end, like I was like looking at the end, like it doesn't really say anything about like, um, like he sees it like, uh, like he sees it when he tries to go to sleep and stuff like that. And that's why he, he has a nightlight now when he, um, when he goes to sleep and such. Yes. Which, um, but like that's, that's about, and like, but there's no, yeah, no reference

[01:26:32] to like, oh, like, um, I got this weird video of my, uh, video sent to me and like, I haven't been able to sleep since. Cause it's like, I found you Mr. Montero. Like how the thing, how does this thing know his last name? Like how the fuck does this thing know video editing? Exactly. Does it have a computer somewhere? It's it's, it's very, it's a very peculiar image because it insinuates this thing has some kind of level of, of technology fuckery, which is not, um, present in the story at all. No.

[01:27:02] So I wish it was though. Yeah. It'd be cool if there was like, um, there's like security footage that it fucks with as well. Like right before the killings or something like that to kind of like give us something to its ability to do this. I don't know. That's the one thing that's just like sticking in my mind. That's questioning me. But with that ignored, which is easy enough to do because it's right at the start and it's gone. The story was good and I enjoyed it.

[01:27:28] I just wish the image had something to do with the story. Yeah. So I'm still going to recommend it. Um, if there's a follow-up to it that explains this video thing better, then I'll double recommend it, but I still enjoyed the story. Okay. Uh, well, I guess that was, uh, that's it for tonight.

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