Hearsay

To be whispered when Harvey is alone. "Thank you for giving yourself a chance."

BillBehr

just remembered that there were ghosts on the lower floors. if we can't find any additional information on no.9, we could look for the ghosts to see if they're infected. if they're not infected, it means that ghosts are immune to no.9's aura. whether that extends to corporeal undead is still up in the air, but we would at least know Gounden and Chuck are able to go down without issue.

move along nothing to see here

Sydan, a thought occured regarding the heart of the truthsayer. As it could give the voices the power to use the eyes effectively. Perhaps if you guys obtain it first and you put it inside of you, it can sustain you with an infinite supply of blood while also keeping it safe from the voices. You can live the way you always wanted without the danger of your thirst making you lose control.

Kageichi

Man, those are some clever ideas!

RPL

I notice that in 9's profile it specifies that only living creatures are vulnerable to his corruption. This means that it should be safe for Chuck, Gastro, Gounden, Pepi, Roro, Sydan, or Zhang to interact with it (assuming Undead don't count as living for the purposes of no. 9's infection). Definitely want to double check that though. Check to see if the computer terminal is working and if you could scrape up any more info on no. 9 before moving forward. But if that theory is true, we could splinter off the undead to go to the lower floors and round up any survivors+legion's missing parts while leaving the living on the upper floors in relative safety. Likewise, if no. 9 proves to be a threat, we could take control of him to pacify him while the undead do their thing. My main concern is that reabsorbing the corrupted orcs might have adverse effects on Legion. I'm also interested in seeing how much of the old personality is retained after the orcification process. is it possible to talk with these orcs? do they remember us? Let's try and find Lucas and Jack. Those two might be our best bet in testing that.

move along nothing to see here

No I do not believe that vessel is appropriate. The aura of corruption makes him incapable of properly cooperating. We can check if the plague can be reversed later when we are not actively needed. Legion: I know this seems quite grim, but please don’t give up. There may be a way to save them. It only has a five percent chance of working, it comes at great cost to us and will put us out of action for at least several hours and we even may need to be summoned again so it would be unwise to do so before the Heart is found. Doctor Gordon: Can those things be easily killed? A possible plan to save Legion depends on the answer. Pepi: Looking outside, I can understand not wanting to get near the infected. You can just stay in here, I’ll try to lure them to the lower floors. Some random Orc: Y’now it’s hot tah fukk ‘n a room that moves down. So fuckin’hot it makes mah balls turn. Broooooo, those rooms they nearby! And and man they got these cute as shit buttons. Seeyin them ya wanna just, like, push ‘em and shit.

Plague

I vote against using #9 as a vessel for now since there's a high possibly the AoE ability cannot be controlled and we'll lose our omniscient advantage to help the group. We shouldn't spy on the Truthsayer at this moment, too much of a risk now that they own the power of EYES. The Patrons should find #9's exact location then delve into the minds of each afflicted Orc in the area to see if their conscience is still intact, for any possibility of em being saved. The Undead are naturally immune to pathogens and diseases so there's some concern for our adopted demonic familiars, Lucas's group and maybe a weaken Gastro being vulnerable to this Orc Outbreak. We've seen Harvey happily feast on the still moving limbs of #9's first horde without any ill effect. Send an image/live feed of #9 to all the Bunker Buddies and Lucas' group heads, warn em to keep their distance and find some nose plugs/hazmat suits in case the AoE aura is the musk. Legion, Monoliis and Keth: Mentally visualize and properly describe with exact details The Duchy you've kept mentioning. That way we can keep our eyes out for it as well while we scout out all the rooms in this level. Red: About your Chaotic Dark Magic, what spells you know or normally cast? You mentioned there's a price to pay but we have yet to witness that happening unless it somehow manipulates the laws of probability that negatively affect those around you including yourself. Do fill the group in with any of your encounters with zombies before The Facility. All: Jiangshi fed on others Chi, correct? When #9 he was a Zombie his presence blights the living with a fatal pathogen on one's soul then later their corpse reanimates in search of spiritual sustenance. Fingers must've unintentionally mutated that power so now we got this orc outbreak literally fucking things up. Curious if Yang is capable of safely siphon out that infection from their life force without completely draining the victim. Dr.Gounden: Where are you and is there any progress on the reversed-engineered Tracker and Deathvices?

Fe5ter

I was thinking about some more things to say to Red. Like asking him how does it feel being the shortest among the group? Do you ever wish you were taller? Also how old are you exactly? I think we should consort with wise characters such as him and Pepi about what to do.

Cid

To the other patrons: On the "Possessing the prisoner-9 orc" dilemma I vote hard "NO" for now. We'd lose our omniscience like before, and we'd likely have to quarantine ourselves from the monsters or risk corrupting them. If we are able to regain control of the FINGERS or the VOICE (in whatever capacity) we'll likely be able to protect others, at least from the stupefying effect of prisoner-9. So at that point I'm all for possessing it and getting a body back. (And what a body it is *whistles*) To Pepi, Sydan, and Keth: Hey Pepi, Sydan and Keth, can we speak to you three privately for a moment? To those three privately: I get the feeling that the VOICES are like, crazy sad and lonely. As if they *hunger* for love or romance or affection or what have you. Keth, you loving on us made them so elated the screen turned pink, and when they attacked the Duke it seemed like they were trying to recapture that; albeit in an obviously incorrect way. Keth, your love for us patrons, and possibly Roro's and Chuck's buddy relationship, might be what the VOICES are acting out over. What it's searching for. It sees itself as an author in some ways and everyone else as props or performers. I don't know if it's looking to be loved or if it just likes fanfic-y romance stuff, but I think helping it find a way to get that pink-screen satisfaction reliably, and on its own terms is an idea worth considering. It might just leave us all alone at that point. Or at least drop the murder-psycho shtick and focus on love-psycho stuff. Which would be an improvement in my opinion. I'm telling you three this because it involves Keth, and Pepi is immune to the VOICES. As for you Sydan, I'm telling you more cause you didn't get excluded. The newcomers I don't know well enough to trust yet. I don't trust Harvey to keep his yap shut about a scheme like this, or act on it with good faith. Roro and Chuck might be key pieces in a plan like this and their sincerity is part of the equation. I don't want them to feel like they gotta force their relationship cause "its to save the world" or any BS like that. Idk maybe you and Gastro got a thing goin on I don't know about, but I felt like you were safe to share with. After some more planning, to all the monsters: As far as actionable things to do, I think the best for now is to find a way to get you guys out of this bunker and to floor 4 safely. Oh! and don't touch those weird black vines and thorns everywhere. I think they're the VOICES' body or something, growing through the facility like roots.

Roan

Lets just not talk to Harvey and antagonize him anymore for a while, obviously. As much as I was a filthy hypno shipper back when we didn't have a body, it's probably time to just let chemistry play out as it would naturally now that we have no powers. First order of business, we need to establish a map of the floor to easily get the group from whatever point they're at now to the next one. What exactly was this floor again? The orc floor? So far, every floor has been its own chapter with its own problems to solve, so i kind of doubt theres gonna be a strict time limit against the voices that we have to worry about since it can sort of skip every floor now that it's burst out of the building with it's eldritch size and speed. Ironically, the current problem seems to be "They're all giant mindless meaty fuck bots", which is something we've been trying to get to enjoy throughout the last 3 whole chapters, so i mean might as well soak in the sights in a non violently intrusive way

Newt

On another note, I truly don't want to kill the Beings, the Voices has been hurt and acted chaotically but I do not believe they are beyond redeemable, if anything I wish to give them happiness, I wish all the Beings happiness. I truly don't want this to end with a curtain call for all of them and us. I don't want this story to end in a self-sacrificing way.

Yoked Coder

i didn't think about that! i absolutely will !

Blazingcheeks

-Some incredibly spicy stuff going on, I think the call would be for us to look around and see where everything is, at least on the fourth floor, if we see the Voices around, tell them hi and that were back, hope to see them soon. Look around for Heart ourselves, I'm not sure if we should assume Prisoner 9 as a vessel yet as that makes us vulnerable to the Voices, more specifically to Fingers and Eyes it currently wields. We might have to if we can somehow inhabit them in order to pull back the transformation orc curse that's going around in order to let the rest of the gang move forward. Though merging with the Heart would honestly be the most effective thing to do since were more compatible with the Beings in the first place, if they wanted that that is, convincing them will have to be our jobs! -Also to the monster gang: What really happened after we were pushed out, so much seems to have occurred, what happened to the Voices, did they really just disappear? How did Prisoner 9 manage to get to level 4 before you guys. Did you guys just get pushed into a corner after leaving level 3? Its a shame we can't help you guys using the power of the Beings anymore, I'd love to help use Fingers to SHAPE out some of your guy's lingering effects (Pepi's werewolf symptoms, Legion's clones back to normal, etc.) though at least this way we're more on an even ground. -Here is a gift to you guys against us if you might need to use it, we can only see your world in black and white, the only time we've been able to see color is through the Eye's files, the Beings themselves and through strong emotion. -Also this is really our first time meeting Monilius outside of that terrible encounter where they were dying because of the Voice, it's nice to finally meet you, you're a very cute fella and I hope we can get along!

Yoked Coder

Also how is everyone recovering so far? It seems like the lies really did affect you about as much as a bad dream would, but have any of you noticed any permanent physical maladies?

Lee Evergreen

Is Prisoner 9 still on the bottom level? And...do we ALL have to possess him? Could a portion of us take over Prisoner 9 while the rest remain outside?

Star Ringer

Well fuck, just in time for Orctober. I've got a lot to say, though I usually try to limit myself.

Star Ringer

Chuck : Ah yes, once again, as dependable as the rising sun, a torrent of misdirected bile and moxie spews forth from our most intolerable of cadaverous miscreants, the fine Mr. Mayfeild. Oh, what an endless fountain of wit this charmer is. He wishes to enlighten us to his plight and tribulations. Abuse! He wails! Choice! He decries! Ne're once contemplating, lest a breath be wasted to bemoaning, the beneficial nature of our prior enga- ... Oh sod it, enough o' these bloody five-dollar words. Don' like that we rescued your fat butt by taking control of yer body?? Tough titties. Yew know what skellybones? You ain't gonna to like what I'mma bout to say but yew need to hear it. Yer a coward. Heck, if it was up to yew everybody would still be locked up nice n tighly' in der cell. Everything you do is about savin yer own hide. I mean I ain't too surprised, it is your principal. An while I can respect that, fer someone so scared o death to be so eager leave others to die, well it's plain revoltin (dat's rite, I ain't forgot how yew treated Lucas in his time o need). But look at yerself man, you were a bloody virgin before today, and now yer cuddling up to freakin Adonis over here. Be honest with yerself. Do you tink yer natural choices would 'ave ever in a million years led you to this position? In the arms of someone you luv. Don't you realize, there is a freedom in giving someone else control. A perverse liberation in submission. The freedom to make bad decisions, choices your heart really wants but yer brain says you shouldn't. You needed a push, and we provided. All yer life your fears have been in more control of you than we ever were.

Crowbar

OOP: Well.. looks like Sub9 has infected everyone else on the floors 1-3 with their new orc lust virus. very dangerous for them.. we will need more info. let's move through to look at who all is in the orgy. who might have escaped. InP: Looks like Subject 9 from floor one. the Zombie with the infectious aura is now a hulking Orc full of lust.. growing an Orc Orgy.. which I guess you all know.. Can you inform us on what happened from when you all woke to before you got the information from the director? That will be helpful for all of us. Though I have a concern.. "Can you all please gather together. we need to plan. and Where is our good Ghost Doctor gone. He might have some helpful insight." Harvey: I'm speaking to only you. I'm sorry for calling you out. but you were being a real jerk about everything. I just wanted to get you on the right path. I'm sorry for starting your rage. do try to stop your bleeding as you might excite Sydan. Keith: Before you do the sexy dance for us. Do it privately to not distract the others or piss off Harvey. Please little buddy? I know alot of us would love to see your sexy body. Love you little buddy. And you can imagine us playing if you want, and us kissing too.

innerDesign

GASTRO: Do you think your rapid healing could help you resist whatever has infected the guards outside? Maybe you should try to scout ahead and find a way to Floor 4.

Reindeercurt

Wow that Orc-morph virus spread REALLY fast. From the database it seems like it’s a non-contact AoE that’s probably spread through 9’s musk now. We also lost a Legion clone already to the Horde and a scientist who I hope wasn’t Lucas. Silver lining though is that it only seems to drain intelligence so it might be reversible unlike FINGERS who wipes you out completely without VOICE to hold on to your sense of self. What to do though? I think in that the HEART is key and that we should scout ahead for it now. Just like Anthem and Hinner, I’m worried that we will lose our unique omnipresence once we possess 9 just like we did with Vox (miss our big sexy bod) so hold off on that for now. There’s so much more I want to say but I’ll leave one last thing. To Keth: I’m so glad we’re able to talk again and you’re right we do love you and your body a ridiculous amount. We’re about to go out to try solve the Orc and HEART problems but we could do with a little stress reliever. Mind putting on a show and giving us a sexy dance before we go? Would really appreciate it :P

PK Persona

I don't really know where to go from here but I want to get Red and Yang more involved in the conversation. So Red... earlier you said none of the guys were your type. I'm curious as to what that is honestly. I find it hard to believe there isn't a single person you think looks attractive in our group. Also what is the extent of your powers? Can you do anything or is it limited to a certain range of things? When the group asked for volunteers earlier, Yang you got kind of caught up in your own thoughts about having so many options. Would you like us to help you out with courting someone? You don't have to say it out loud just think about it and we'll know. Also I'm sorry you've had people treat you badly in the past, but don't hold it against Harvey, he's a good guy if you can look past the negative parts.

Cid

and SIXTH... i want to investigate Subject 9. he's wandering around aimlessly, literally following his dick. but i take it he's on the same floor as the monsters now? I WANT to possess him really badly but... we'd lose our omniscience, if only temporarily. his power is hyper-infectionsness, so does that mean he can control his own power? can he shrink the size of his aura or something? can he revert the infection he's done? or can he control the people he's infected? also, IS IT POSSIBLE to possess him temporarily? if so, we should do that immediately and test the scope of his ability. if we can use him in this way, it'd be extremely useful to have him around. even if we cant just pop out of his brain, we can for sure just incinerate his zombified body and regain our omniscient status. so I vote we possess him (hopefully towards the later stage of the next issue!)

Neth Rusiki Azhti

BC YOUR ORCS ARE INCREDIBLE Ok so a couple of things: SYDAN: Contact floor 2. We need to find out if they survived this plague of orcs. And please try to find and alternate source of blood and purge yourself of what’s in you, or I worry things are going to go very poorly! Remember, Gastro is immune the the voices, but that won’t matter if you’re still able to mind control him! Also to clarify: the voxotaur's blood is useless to you- we changed it already as soon as we woke up. BUT, HE can certainly control YOU. Through your head is likely his only way into this bunker right now. Speaking of which, make sure to rip out or disable any speaker systems in here! The voices already consumed the eyes, and the eyes was the director of this facility. GASTRO: Your feelings on Jack are yours to sort out and I won’t pry any further- I just wanted to relay the facts we had, rather than keep you in the dark. As for the stuff with Harvey, that’s totally fair and I don’t expect you to fall head over heels for him, but having some friends could do him some good. He lived a life surrounded by toxic masculinity, from the sounds of it, and while that doesn’t excuse his behaviour, it does provide some context. Consider at least talking with him- see if you don’t have some things in common. You were/are both part of rather rowdy groups, aren’t you? PEPI: Thanks for saving Harvey there, that could have gone south really fast. If you don’t mind, maybe keep him some company? There’s not much we can do for him given the relationship between us and all the other monsters, but some real genuine friendship could benefit him a lot I feel. LEGION: We need info about what happened. Was there a single orc infecting everyone else?? Or was there some other force at work? Tell us as much as you can remember about what happened, because determining whether anyone beyond patient zero (Subject 9) is contagious is crucial here. VOICES: You’ve made quite a mess, haven’t you? If you’re not careful, you’ll drain all your energy and tucker yourself out. And what a shame that would be, hm? /s/

WorgenRouge

to the monsters: we want to help you guys! we can look at what anyone we have met is doing, so we'll do that first, and then let you know what we see! we should use our omniscience to at least check in on the beings we know of! FIRSTLY, lets check in on the VOICE. how and what is he doing? i guess he absorbed the EYES too? SECONDLY, I'd like to check in on Duke Allocer, as we dont know what happened to him. THIRD, what about Dr. Gounden, where did he run off to? FORTH, we know OF the HEART, but we havent met it yet... is there a way we can see him? or can we at least see what the 4th floor looks like? FIFTH, what about our scientist friends on floor 2? like Jack and Lucas for example. finally, we tell the monsters what we saw. especially the info about the VOICE and whatever we find on the 4th floor.

Neth Rusiki Azhti

there is the possibility that we can control his infectiousness once we're inside him. maybe not, but maybe we can. also, we'd probably lose our omniscience if we went inside of him... but maybe we could gain it back if the body was destroyed! regardless, i DO want to try and possess him, just not quite yet... maybe. i think having at least some form of powers would go a long way in helping us.

Neth Rusiki Azhti

Off: Ok, we should totally not possess the orc guy right away. We -should- look outside, if outside is not the orc orgy we just saw. On: Gee, we do sound like a really chaotic jumble of stuff, hope you guys can keep up with the crazy. Monillius, Keth and Legion, can't you guys weave a lie and put those orcs in it? This way you'll be able to get through them, and you might even get a snack out of them, surely you would just put them back where they were without killing them after you guys got through, right? Legion, how long can you be separated from your copies before things start to go bad? Just to give us a timeframe in witch we need to reverse the orcifying on those guys and get your copy back. Or maybe Red can make the lights go out again and everyone can try to be very sneaky. Does anyone have access to a map of this floor? How far away are we from the elevator or some stairs? So guys lets talk about the mindless orc-zombie guy, you have access to his file on the archives the EYES sent us, hes on the first floor seemingly alone right now, we COULD possess him but I dont think we should, because the we might not be able to get near you guys without orcifying everyone... Have you guys encountered him already?

Hinner

Any chance we could distinguish our own text with like, a different color or typeface? i see that the letterspacing is different for our blocks of text, but i think it would help distinguish who's speaking more and break up the text walls a little. Especially since Patreon makes it difficult to zoom in on images, even on desktop.

Shiny Skunk

Maybe you guys should explain what's happening outside, I'm having a hard time piecing it together. It's been a few weeks for us but its seems like maybe a day for you. How could the voices do all that so fast?

Lee Evergreen

I'm rooting for Harvey and Gastro to get together as for the Beast As far as the guy's outside the door I see two options Fight & Slaughter them all or someone is gonna need to be bait a lead them away or into the room while the others sneak out.

Hm, w/o the ability of the VOICES my sexy imagination is gone. Oh well :v alright voices. I think... We should embark on our own for bit and search. We should look for the heart on floor 4. See if we can talk to it directly first. We should keep the idea for possessing the troll in the back of our mind but first we should use our omnipresence well. Maybe if we can't get the heart from our position and can't risk the other monsters, then we come back and posses the troll, and get the heart. And also since we are here we should..m look through the orgy if we can... For science.

Alucardsamsun

To Roro: I hope you enjoyed your time with Chuck while your father disappeared from the bunker.

AnotherMeekOne

Whoa! Okay we checked outside and we see what you guys meant about it being hard to get out. Not sure if those beasts are sentient or instinctual but maybe you can use their lust against them. Perhaps we can lure them into the room and trap them as we escape to the next room. Gastro you may not want to talk of Jack now. But I want you to know there's a voice here who wants to do all he can to give you the freedom you dream of from this place. And we hope you can get a true an honest love on the outside too. Jack was an asshole of an alpha, and while the demon hallucination was a dream, your dream of becoming an alpha can still come true. Protect and keep the monsters safe like a real alpha would. We believe in you. Yang I get Harvey is hard to get along with too but I'm sure over time especially where you guys are you'll start to get along. We promise to get you all out. We swear to never leave you alone.

Kageichi

This was a sweet chapter 👍🏿. And that sounds like a good idea we need information

Gysdaj

shall we try and see what the fingers/voices/eyes are doing? all while trying our best not to alert them to our presence of course

Innocous