Revenge comes later

I'm not certain what that last post was about, unfortunately I can't delete it. Anyway, with the help of Alexis I was able to find out some guy that may know a thing or two about this Axiom guy. That fucking douche, acting all innocent to stab everyone in the back.

When I went to the guy it was...Daniel?

At least, I think it was him, the hair and body type look similar enough. He had a mask on, similar to what the Game Master is said to wear.

So putting two and two together I deduced that this must be the thing that my dreams were telling me about. So, I'm dealing with an alternate Daniel here.

Which, scared me to be honest.

I kind of froze.

I don't want to do this, yes I act tough but you have to note that I'm under a lot of pressure. My predecessor is a guy that ate an eldritch bomb and sacrificed himself to save humanity and did countless heroic, yet sometimes gruesome acts.

How, can I possibly compare to that? Daniel himself has trouble killing alternate versions of himself, so what chance do I have?

Since I like giving name to things, I'll call this Daniel, eh...Game Master Daniel? Emissary Daniel?
That last one probably works.

He just stood there but after a while he wielded a sword, sprinted towards me faster than I could see and hit me on the back of the neck.

As I passed out I could see him stabbing Alexis, which made me panic before becoming unconscious.

When I woke up I was laying on the ground exactly where I was before, but Alexis was gone. I have no idea where she might be or if she's still alive but she was a valuable ally and well, the closest thing I had to a friend.

So I'm going to find out.
Looks like I have to set aside my revenge on Axiom for later.

Death

Once a queen.
Once a coward.
Once a vice.
Once a liar.

Is this the sweet sound of death I hear?

~D.Q

Dreams and Parablade

That fucking bastard, he was going to murder me? Why? What the fuck is his deal, all because I wanted to know why the fuck I was created he goes and shoots me in the head?

He is so going to taste Parablade on the back of his throat, I swear to god. I'm fucking pissed. Other than that there is little point in this post.

OH WAIT...right.

I had a dream, I'm not sure how much it has to do with anything but it was Daniel, or kind of Daniel but he was standing next to someone who I think is the Game Master and the Game Master had his hand on his shoulder.

It kind of looked like he was his apprentice.

I'm really not sure what that means.
I hope it just means I'm crazy.

Axiom

So I was going to the archive but I was stopped by a weird looking man. I can't really describe what he looked like.

"Scia, don't freaking do this!"

"Who the hell are you?" I asked.

"I'm known as Axiom around these parts"

"Wait...I read your blog, you died in that tournament the Game Master threw and then got resurrected by the Ivory Woman and then you went somewhere, I couldn't follow it"

"Yeah, no all of that past my death was just a clever ruse in order for me to get my hands on this!" he said and held up a gun. It was a .44 Magnum painted black.

"See what really happened is that I got resurrected by Ivory and we went ahead and searched for this but I knew had I written about that people would've tried to stop me! Sure the whole Tale Weaver tournament happened that's no lie but the part before and after that are just made up by me, not very consistent but I wasn't really putting much effort into it"

"What is that?"

"A Mercygiver, one that amplifies dread and sorrow. While I've gotten used to that people who get the bullets into them will not"

"Wait, why are you evil all the sudden you seemed like such an innocent person before"

"No I'm not evil my dear, I'm just a guy that wants what he wants and I can't let you go about making a mess of everything. The Archive needs to be undisturbed for my next plan to work."

I jumped at him and bit him with my mouth. That, I maybe really shouldn't have done. I could see his memories. Not only confirmed it that he was telling the truth but I also saw something horrifying, I saw his childhood.

He screamed out and fired a bullet at me which hit my shoulder. The feeling of dread and sorrow began to spread inside me and I dropped to my knees and began crying.

"So despite your Dirty Harry attitude you are just a crying little girl who simply is in too deep. You are pathetic, why don't you go ahead and join your father" he said and pointed the gun at me as I continued to cry.

He fired a bullet into my skull and I fell to the ground, Axiom left me there to die. I thought I was going to die but Alexis found me and allowed me to bite her. That gave me just about enough of eldritch energy to regenerate.

I also got some of Alexis' memories which I won't...talk about.

That bastard messed with the wrong clone!

ANSWERS

Alexis woke me up this morning to which I responded by throwing a knife at her, pinning her to the wall by her shoulder.

"Don't you ever freaking do that, Capscum!"

I get grouchy in the morning, it didn't help that I seemed to have held the sword I got from Dan in his sleep. He said it pelonged to someone named ParaDan, I'm not sure who that is but I guess it gives the sword a name. I think I'll call it Parablade, seems badass and cool. 

My plan is simple, well according to this post by Daniel (god this guy has helped me out a lot just by posting stuff on his blog) the Archangel is dead, which means that the dynamics of afterlife has changed. 

That means that it might be either much easier or much harder to get Zack back. I asked the Black Crow to help me find info on how the afterlife works now. Also, Black Crow may seem like a stupid and redundant name but apparently there are other types of crows so it kind of works.

I'm taking Parablade and storming back into the Archive. I freaking want answers already!

Making a deal with the birdman

If you are wondering what happened the last few months, let me save you some time and summarize. Me moping about about Zack dying and me saving people with the help of Alexis, there...nothing else really happened so I saved you a bunch of annoyance by not writing about it.

Anyway, after clearing my head about the whole Zack dying thing I realized how little I know about myself and I was thinking of fixing that.

It was then that an unfriendly visitor came to visit me. Alexis wasn't with me at the time because I sent her to buy me groceries and I was hanging out at the park, training.

"Well, well, well if it isn't the daughter that couldn't" the guy said. He was a guy in his late teens covered in black feathers at random intervals on his body and wings made out of the same feathers.

"YOU!"

"Yes?"

"You killed Zack!"

"Oh, right you were an associate of his. Well, the Bloody Biker should've killed that son of a bitch of when he had the chance. Now he's nothing but trouble, I mean he did try to kill you"

"I'm sure he was possessed by something or someone was controlling him. I mean he was a gifted of the archive, they could have done something"

"I don't think so, last I heard he escaped"

"What do you want from me? Why are you here?" I asked.

"Well, I was thinking maybe we could have some sort of deal. I help you get your friend back and give you answers to why the archive created you and in exchange you help me with a sideproject I've been working on. We'll work out the details later"

"How can I trust you?"

"You can't, take it or leave it!"

I thought about it for a moment and well, aside from my eldritch mouth and visions that I sometimes get I feel like I'm not really strong enough to take on anything. But with this guy on my side, I at least have the power of the Convocation on my side.

"Deal" I said as I shook his hand.

"I'll see you later then" he said and flew up into the air and flew into the night.

This was yesterday and I still have a feeling that I made things much worse for myself. But there wasn't much I could do.

An Incident

Alright, I've really been on the nerves for the last couple of months and a lot has happened so this will be just summarized. Alright after the whole thing with Daniel and Kallaway, I took a bit of time off from trying to find Zack. I got Alexis and went to a hotel, just to you know relax with the only friend I really have. After that I met Daniel again, surprised to see me as always *sarcasm*

But later that day Zack showed up with his rapier, which he swung around a bit in threat and started to proclaim that he wanted to kill me. Me and Daniel tried to fight him off, but still he managed to eventually cut my head off.

Scia? How can you be writing this without a head.

That's a very good question, from what I read on Daniel's blog.
Daniel fought him off for a bit, but eventually let him go due to eh, reasons. The someone named Black Crow, a rather odd looking gentleman with thunderpowers swooped in and killed Zack.

After that I sort of woke up and I was fine again, for some reason. I just took up my head and put it back on and stitched it back together in a way, but then I fainted again.

Again according to Daniel, he carried me towards some proxies and made me absorb their eldritch energy, that healed me.

Daniel gave me a spiked collar from hot topic to cover up the stitches and he also gave me Zack's rapier after much debating.

Before he left I wanted to ask him something.
Something I've always wondered.

"Daniel, what was my dad like?"

“Well, you remind me a lot of him,” He said.

“Really?” I asked. “How so?”

“He was violent and reckless, and he had an inner darkness that he couldn't always control,” He said. “But despite that, he was a good person. He fought against the Fears for the sake of the humans, and in the end, he died for them.”

“I see,” I said kind of glad to hear this.

“I'd better get out of here,” He said. “Bye.”

And that is that, Zack's dead and frankly I have little to no purpose anymore.

Although what he said makes sense. Perhaps it would be good to step in dad's footsteps and fight the fears. It's probably what he would've wanted.

The dad I never knew.

So shit happened

We went to some guy named Servik. I don't recall who that is. I didn't trust him, like he looked shady to me. Just gave me the creeps.

It was just me & Daniel as Kallaway was still recovering from the other day.

He showed us a bunch of things like a dagger and a bone and stuff. Not sure what it was supposed to be.

But when I touched it I cut my palm, but the weird thing is something embedded in my right hand and a small mouth appeared on my right palm.

It's kind of like what happened to dad.

I wonder. Dad was the descendant of the Vision, the fear of destiny. This could mean that I'm destined to take dad's place as some kind of guardian. Maybe, but that doesn't really sound appealing to me.

Then after we talked this guy came, Sound I think was his name. Without really questioning it I tried to slash his head off with my knife. But he dodged it with his sword and I got knocked back by the sound that came out of them.

I grabbed his ankle and with my new mouth bit him. Something interesting happened. It's like some of his memories and a lot of his powers flew through my hand and into me.

I could feel myself being stronger. He screamed when I bit him, serves him right for appearing out of nowhere.

Actually from the look of Daniel's face he must've been a bad guy or villainous in nature.

His memories are interesting, at least the ones I got.

After that he killed Servik.

Good. Didn't like that guy. Still...if I pretend I cared, I might have a reason to beat the crap out of him.

Sound vanished.

Daniel warned that Slenderman was coming.

"This is going to hurt" Daniel said.

I was 99% sure he was coming on to me, but then we sort of vanished into something. It was weird.
It didn't have color, I think its the godsway from what I recall.

We're in the hotel now and Daniel is explaining to Kallaway what happened.

I'm bored. I miss hanging out with Alexis. After this is over I'm probably going back to trying to rescue Zack while killing servants.

Ah, the good ol' days.

Scia out!

Dammit!

So we three were walking and this guy came at us. He looked kind of like Daniel. Appearantly there are alternate universe Daniel's running around causing mischief.

He started to rant, calling me & Daniel weak. Well, I guess I don't know if I have powers. I might have inhereted some from dad. Would explain the vision I had in the hotel.

He and Kallaway prepared to fight. They started to kind of insult each other. It was like a scene from a movie. Had I not known that this guy would be strong I would've done the same thing to him I did to that proxy.

I don't like waiting, I need some action!
But, David seemed to indicate non-verbally to me that it would be a bad idea.

So I just stood there.

God, I wish I had powers!

Then they went somewhere else and we followed or went outside to find them, whatever.
After the Enhanced Daniel destroyed Kallaway's magical armor that he made from his Brute and Vision powers, another guy appeared.

It was that bandage guy that I encountered earlier. I was not happy to see him. He killed  that Enhanced guy, with almost one strike it was exillarating.

If he wasn't so creepy and non-verbal and trying to kill me I'd be all over him.

Another guy came and explained that this is Fury, the Archive's latest experiment.

“You've all just seen what he's capable of,” the guy said. “You all now know how foolish it is to oppose the Archive.”

For some reason, I think that was directed at me specifically. I mean, I think the Archive wants me back or at least dead.

But in all honesty. You clone the guy that escaped the Archive and act surprised when his clone does the same. I mean I know little about genetics, but they should've taken precautions.

Anyway, the enhanced body dissappeared and we brought Kallaway who was injured back to a hotel.

Now me & Daniel have to find whatever we are supposed to find.

At this point saving Zack seems like a pipe dream.

Two guys somewhere

I managed to get to the place that I saw in my vision. I told Alexis to wait in a shop in town. Because frankly I thought that these guys would oppose to seeing a blood vessel.

I don't know, just a feeling I had.

I went to the house that I saw and knocked on the door.

*knock*

"Who's this?" One of them asked.

"My name's Scia Malkator...I wish to speak to you guys"

They let me in and I explained. Apparently they knew dad(why I call Benjamin Malkator dad despite not knowing him I don't know. I guess it's just nice having a relative, even if he's dead) because they asked me what my connection to him was.

I told them.

They weren't surprised.

Weird.

I recognized They were David Kallaway & Daniel Ferris
I knew them...because of my memory being sort of identical to dad's.

We talked about things and I'm traveling with them.
I wonder if I should ask them if Alexis can join us, but nah. She's a big girl, she'll realize that she isn't needed and go back to her mistress.

They said that they needed my help finding something.
I wonder what it is.

This should prove to be interesting!

Blurry Vision and stuff

Something interesting happened while I was hanging out in my room. Alexis was just laying on the floor, like a cat or something and I was staring at the ceiling.

All the sudden my eye sight became blurry. A sort of hole in my vision occured and I saw something.
Two men in a town, they were talking about Slenderman.

They were in a town called Liatis.

I know that place, its a few miles from here.

I'm going there.
This clearly means I'm supposed to meet them.

I'm bringing Alexis, because...why not?

An encounter to behold

I decided to let the blood vessel tag along on my misadventures. I think the threat of me killing her if she tries anything makes her as loyal as a blood vessel can be to a human.

Our destination?

The Archive.

Funny that I'm going back there. While I'm there I can help Zack.

Or so I thought, I was interrupted. There was a thing that came up to me & Alexis.

It was some kind of humanoid thing. It was covered from head to toe with bandages, even his eyes. I was really wondering how he could see like this. He didn't talk.
Around him rocks and other assorted objects started to lift up, like they were being controlled by him. They went right towards me & Alexis.

I was able to dogdge, but Alexis was not so lucky and passed out.  I took my knife that I had taken with me and started to sprint towards it. But that was to no avail as he just created a barrier really quickly out of wood that was lying around the park, causing me to sprint into it head-first and fall.

This guy was making me mad. I decided to take Alexis' gun that she had strapped to her thigh and try to shoot him. This was a big mistake as he just deflected the bullet and made him launch it into my shoulder.

That freaking hurt. I'm barely able to write this, I have to write with one hand.

Now I know how Zack feels updating his blog every day...hehe.

Anyway, I just grabbed Alexis and ran back to the room.
I haven't heard anything outside in a while, so I guess this thing didn't follow us.

What the fuck?

Annoying servant number 2

I didn't honestly know what to do. I went back to the motel and began making a deck out of the two I had now acquired. Of course it didn't take long for me being approached by someone.

Fears and fear servants are like parasites. You kill one, more come out of the shadows.

Who was it this time? I actually have no idea. It introduced itself as a blood vessel. From what I can gather by my weird manufactured memory is that blood vessels are the servants of the fear known as Red Cap, just as proxies like Paris was, are the servants of Slenderman. Red Cap is the fear of sex...I think, I'm not really certain on that.

This blood vessel was a girl named, well she called herself Alexis. I'm not certain if that's her real name.
Unfortunately I didn't get the satisfaction of killing her in a gruesome manner.

"So Scia. There has been some buzz around the fearosphere about you" She said.

"fearosphere?"

"You know what I mean...the fears have been talking about you. Red has been specifically interested in trying to get you to join us or die. I'm not certain which one it was. I think there was an undetermined variable in there somewhere. Anyway..." she said and pointed a gun at my head.

"So...what now?" I asked.

"Hmm...you become a servant of Red. How does that sound?"

"Terrible"

"Come on...its not that bad, once you get used to the constant nose bleeds"

I moved away and kicked her gun out of her hand. I took my blade and stabbed her in the shoulder, sticking her to the wall.

"I...am not anyone's servant. I am not going to be a part of your la-di-da bullshit game that you seem to be playing. I am not a threat to the fears...unless they make me one. What would giving me powers accomplish other than making me just the same fear hating person...but with powers. You realize that, don't you?"

She was squinting in pain, struggling in an effort to escape.

I hit her and with it knocked her out.
She's still stuck to the wall. I don't honestly know what to do with her.

Why don't I just kill her? I don't know, I figure maybe she could give me some clue what to do.
I want to find out why I was born. Why did the Blind Man clone me?

I guess I'm just curious, or I have nothing to do. Or both.

So Long & Thanks For All The Cards

After that I decided to find an apartment, which was simple enough. It took a while, but it was simple. After getting the apartment, I became aquainted with my neighbors, Stephen & Zack. Stephen I have told of my origin, but I don't think Zack has any idea. I don't even think he knows who I am anymore, just that I existed.

Stephen thinks I'm insane, I guess I was afraid Zack would so as well. Although I know Zack has had encounters with the Game Master servant known as the Bloody Biker.

What am I doing now?

Trying to save Zack, that is my top priority at this point. It's probably my fault that he landed in this mess, so I'm getting him out of there. But that won't be possible as of now, I'm still not safe. I never am.

Tonight I encountered a slender proxy, probably not a high ranked one, but he wasn't hallowed.He introduced himself as Paris, an odd name even for a Slenderproxy I must say!

He did something very weird. He challenged me to a card game. Something called Yugioh.

"Really? You know, not that I'm not greatful that you aren't tearing off my head, but isn't playing a card game kind of odd?"

"What do you mean?"

"You're a proxy!"

"And?"

I sighed.

"I don't have any of these cards. So it's not like I could play!"

He threw me a box, it had cards inside it.

"Seriously?"

"Yes, seriously. It would amuse me! I get bored easily, humor me will you?"

"Alright"

Suddenly some sort of mechanism appeared on my arm. It had 5 places to put cards in and 5 slots. Paris explained this to be a "duel disk". This really seemed pointless to me, but whatever keeps me alive I suppose. He then explained the rules to me.

"Let me make you a deal, dear Scia! If I win, you will become a slender proxy and if I lose well, then you can keep the duel disk and deck. What do you say?"

"Fine" I said and rolled my eyes.

"Alright, since I'm the challenger, I want you to start"

"Alright." I said. "I summon Journalist Axiom"

A man, in simple clothing with a journal in his hand appeared on the "field". He had 1400 ATK points & 300 DEF points.

"I also activate Magical Being - Ivory, which allows me to boost Axiom up 1000 ATK points"

Axiom's attack went up to 2400 ATK.

"I end my turn"

"Not bad, my turn. I summon Egyptian Pharaoh Slenderman in attack mode"

A tall faceless figure in traditional egyptian pharaoh clothing and jewelry appeared on the field. Instead of tentacles this slenderman had multiple arms, 6 of them to be exact. This monster had 2300 ATK points & 1000 DEF points.

"I put down one card down and end my turn"

I drew another card. It was a spell card, "Change of Heart".

"I sacrifice Axiom to summon Tale Weaver, Lord of Tales"

A gigantic man appeared, looking rather typical except a bunch of scrolls orbited around him. He had 2700 ATK and 1800 DEF.

"When Tale Weaver is summoned I automatically can get a 'Private Eye- Malachai Dewitt to my hand"

I got it from my deck & shuffled.

"I also activate Change of Heart to gain control of Egyptian Pharaoh Slenderman"

"Not so fast Scia!" He said. "I activate Game Master's Grace. That allows me to destroy a card of my choosing, provided I banish a Emissary card from my hand. Which I do by banishing Emissary Bloody Biker. And I choose Change of Heart!"

"Alright, then I attack Egyptian Pharaoh Slenderman with my Tale Weaver"

I attacked it, effectively destroying. He lost 400 life points, bringing him down to 7400. I know I shouldn't have, but I was enjoying myself with this game.

"My turn!" He said annoyed "I summon Nyarlathotep - Human Form"

An egyptian pharaoh appeared. Seems like that seems to be his thing in his 'deck'. He had 1900 ATK & 1500 DEF.

"Nyarlathotep - Human Form gains 500 ATK for every Egyptian card in my graveyard"

It grew up to 2400 ATK.

"I also activate Last Walk Of The Pharaoh, giving Nyarlathotep an additional 500 ATK & DEF in boost."

It now grew to 2900 ATK/ 1900 DEF.

"Nyarlathotep, attack Tale Weaver, Lord of Tales!!" He yelled like a maniac.

Tale Weaver was destroyed, making me lose 200 life points. I had 7800 left, but stilll...annoying.

"I end my turn!"

I drew a card. And...honestly I thought I would have a heart attack. It was a card named "Gifted Zack Waters". It had 4 stars...1900 ATK/1600 DEF, but the effect was something else.

When Gifted Zack Waters is Normal or Special Summoned you are able to special summon "SlenderProxy Cindy Clark" in attack mode. If Slenderproxy Cindy Clark is destroyed or removed from the field, banish Gifted Zack Waters.

I summoned him. Zack appeared on the field, looking almost more lively than the actual Zack Waters.  I then got Slenderproxy Cindy Clark out of my deck and summoned her. She was a blonde woman with 1500 ATK & DEF.

It was then I realized I had a card called "Enhanced Zack & Clark". It was a fusion card. I activated Polymerization and summoned Enhanced Zack & Clark. It looked like Zack, but with the Cindy chick looking over him as some sort of shadowy figure.

This card had 3000 ATK/2100 DEF.

"I attack Nyarlathotep" I said.

He lost 100 life points. This duel, for what it was worth was progressing really slowly.

"Alright, I summon Library of Alexandria and end my turn"

Library of Alexandria was a giant tower that emerged right in front of me. It had 0 ATK & 2500 DEF points.

I drew another card;  Zae, Queen of Magic. It had 8 stars, so of course I would have to sacrifice for it. Its stats were good, great actually 2700/1500, kind of like the Tale Weaver. I decided to just attack Library of Alexandria.

Paris lost 500 life points, bringing him to a staggering 6800. I considered that to be a good sign.

"My turn, I activate Slenderman's Parasite. It equips your Enhanced Zack & Clark and decreases them by 200 ATK & DEF every turn!"

I was sick of this. This was dragging on way too long. Of course I didn't want to become a Slenderproxy. Who would? It was then that I slowly took the knife from my bag and threw it at Paris.

It landed in his throat, sticking him to a tree that was behind him.

He started to spew out black sludge.

"It looks like I win by default" I said and sliced his head off. Servants and fears are really something. If they aren't going to be moral about it, why should I?

I decided to keep the duel disk. As well as the deck he gave me and his own. I put all of this into my backpack.

Honestly, if servants are just going to challenge me to card games, this will be a cakewalk!

Beginning

My name is Scia. Alright, perhaps it isn't...perhaps I don't have a name. But I guess I need to be called something. Some people refer to me as Scia Malkator. Why? Because the man that people knew as Benjamin Malkator is practically the closest thing to a father to me. Not that's really of any use now. I'm a clone of sorts of his...or at least was created by using his genetic material that was at the archive.

I don't get why the Blind Man would clone Malkator. I've read Benjamin's tale and it seems to me that the Blind Man would want anything even remotely related to Malkator to vanish of the face of the earth.

Then again, I shouldn't be complaining...I kind of like existing.

Speaking of the Blind Man, he's kind of after me. I've been trying to help my friend Zack. Zack has recently become a gifted of the Archive.

I guess I have some explaining to do!

There are these things called fears in this world. The fears are personifications of humanity's fears or rather eldritch representations of them. There are many fears in this world, the Blind Man is one of them. He is the fear of getting old or forgetting. His workers are called Archivists & they work in the Archive which could only be explained as a big office building with multiple functions. It's not literally an office building, but it seems to work the same way.

Now, Gifted are special servants of his. See the Blind Man takes your memory when you start working for him. Gifted however are given memory, just not their memories. Gifted get memories from someone else. It's bizarre.

The Archive tends to run multiple fear related and non-fear related experiments. I'm one of those. Luckily with some quick and clever thinking on my half, I was able to escape. After being born, I kind of figured out the situation, although it helped that someone there clothed me & explained the situation to me.

There was a knife nearby on something that looked like an operating table. The first person I saw, I just cut him. I'm not proud of it, but I was kind of terrified and shocked by simply what was going on. I wanted to get out of there as fast as possible. I reached what looked like an exist when more people came up to me. They didn't seem to be friendly at all. But I guess I can't blame them, they are brainwashed to believe that they are doing good.

I slid under them. Once behind them I went for the door. It wasn't the exit. It was a room. The being I would later know as the Blind Man was there.

He looked in my direction, no doubt sensing me or something.
I was terrified, I felt like they would kill me and just try again with another. I didn't want that to happen. But there was nothing I could do. I was surrounded.

Suddenly I could see someone  appearing. A sort of black portal opened between me & the Blind Man.

A rather pale looking man with long hair stepped out of it and reached for my hand. I didn't really have time to think, but I thought anywhere but here would be a good place to be.

We were now in the place I know as Earth. New York to be exact.

"Than...Thanks a million" I said and breathed heavily after all that.

"No problem" He said and summoned the portal again.

"Wait, who are you?"

"Da-" was all he uttered before disappeared. To this day I have little to no idea who that guy was, but I'm grateful.

The next thing I did was find a place to stay. I for some reason knew a lot about earth and this city, my guess would be that my memories are either manufactured by the Blind Man or a fraction of Malkator's memory. I'm not really certain. I found a motel and sort of convinced the man to let me stay until I get back on my feet. The clothes I had been given by that one archivist I killed had 50 dollars in it, so it was enough for a couple of nights.