1126: Get a Hand (11/1): We spent a lot of time with Drake all day as she chilled in her room at Geist. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough for her because she still felt isolated. Shockingly, Drake chewed off her own hand due to her loonism. Geist collected the hand and cleaned up the blood. Drew kept it on hand to do research on. For some reason, she felt nostalgic and guilty after doing so. We consoled her the best we could. 1128: Trigger Experiments (11/2): The curtain opened to Sugar, while Drake was still ready to murder something with ding. She tried to get us to take R053 as per usual, but we refused. Spider went into her cell and tried to reason with her, but it was basically worthless. We tried doing ding backwards on Sugar, but it didn't work. Even Happy One felt strangely happy while Sugar fronted. It asked who Sugar was and I explained. Happy One wanted us to ask Terminal for help, but due to their dormancy, we were unable to. Harlow wanted Drake home, but we sent her there in Sugar mode and had Harlow lock the door. Then with some green, Drake woke up and felt the need to feast. 1129: True Happiness (11/2): Due to the blood spilling from her injury, Sugar refronted and once again tried to force feed us on R053. As per usual, we denied it. She wondered where the pill was, but we lied to her and told her it was completely destroyed. She told us "[Free will and manipulation are one]" which makes no sense, but it's something Lucille taught her. Just then, Lucille stepped in and told her that while R053 is the best route to happiness, any other route is just as valid. Sugar was not happy. Well for a whole minute anyway. 1130: Lie to Me (11/2): Lucille rebounded after that and called me a liar and a manipulator. She was trying to take control of Drake again. Just then, an old habit of Rose's appeared. She wanted people to lie to her so that she could feel better about herself. I refused to do so and called her cute instead. Lucille tried as well, but instead of feeling happy, she felt even worse than before. But Lucille wasn't done. If this was a boss battle, upcoming would be phase 3. 1131: Lucille vs Luna (11/2): Once again, because a certain someone is hilariously uncreative, she decided to steal Drake from us once again and take her to her World. This time, however, we knew what needed to be done. This time, with her at the new Church of the Raindrops, we went to work summoning Drake and ringing the bell to attack Lucille. She put up one hell of a fight though. She even fed Sugar a fresh R053. Deletion of data is nothing more than assisted suicide. Tears rolled down my face as my best friend was gone again. But with some thinking it over, myself and Spider knew what needed to be done. 1132: Revival of Rose (11/2): An emergency Alter to bring back Rose. Lucille quickly ran some commands on the R053Bud to try and deny us, but unfortunately for her, we're not using an app. WE'RE ALTERING REALITY! Block this, bitch. /alter turn Drake back into Rose FFA200 Unfortunately because DATRRS has been experiencing major errors all week, the Alter wasn't pretty. It was clear that something wasn't right. A link to Thunderstruck by 2Cellos was linked to us. The Alter finished quickly, but it was unsuccessful? Then why is Rose ready to kick Lucille's ass??? 1133: Rose's Grand Return! (11/2): Rose was raring to go and ready to fight Lucille to go back home. Unfortunately, she was prepared for such. She poofed the prosthetic hand she made for Sugar, which just enraged Rose further. And then, with Pluvio under her control, Lucille shot Rose SIX TIMES. At that point, Rose was wounded and also snapped back home so that Pie and Harlow could treat her. Distrait was happy however. We finally broke Rose's cycle. The fuck is a cycle!? 1134: Rose's Depression (11/3): For the entire morning, we talked to Rose and tried to get her to understand why we Altered her back. She wouldn't really listen and would've preferred we had done any other Alter but that. She was stuck with memories she hated and wanted to go back into dormancy instead. 1138: Terminal's Fix (11/3): Terminal brought Rose somewhere to fix her. It wanted to perform an Alter to bring Drake back to us and remove the R053. We told it to just not kill her. Terminal said it would need to reintroduce some things into Drake to give her some more defense to combat intrusion. Of course, asking for any kind of hint just meant for us to "think nothing of it." We let Harlow know what's going on and that we have no choice but to trust Terminal in this case. She cautiously accepted the terms. Also we gained a few more details, such as Terminal was part of the 15 found on March 2, 2012. Its code name? November. It also had a desire to be human, so much so that they altered their body to be human. Terminal is also Hadal. November's goal is for the whole world to return to being human. Terminal is also a loon. It suffers from the same symptoms many of our other friends did. 1139: Drake's Back (11/4): Next morning, Terminal said he was ready to bring Drake back home. He warned us to hide everyone so that his obsession doesn't take control and look for someone else to fix. Someone else also warned us to have everyone hide. We let Harlow know and she took everyone into Isaac's room. Terminal took Drake back, and just as soon as he came over, he was gone. Drake was back to normal and we couldn't be happier. Well... Drake still doesn't have his hand unfortunately. We swapped to Michael to make sure he's holding up, but it was the same story as before. Michael knows November somehow and was able to recognize him with the mask on, but we're not going to get any information out now. 1140: The New And Improved Drake Moore (11/4): Drake returned and Terminal told us of her new patch. Basically, she retained all of the memories from both Rose and Sugar. She also shares knowledge banks with them both, so even all of the torture-y words from Rose are in her vocabulary now. Drake is basically a triple goddess now, just like Nammu/Tia-Mat/Deianira. 1141: Tic Tac Toe Therapy - Thanks Liv! (11/4): Spider and Drake played Tic-Tac-Toe and didn't understand that having set symbols is the ideal way to play. The game was headache inducing and lasted for an hour. Afterwards, a clip from The Office was linked to us and we realized that this was a form of therapy for Drake. 1145: yay (11/5): Early in the evening, Drake wanted to play a game but none of the Risen were feeling like it. About an hour later, Drake wouldn't communicate with anyone and instead opted to say [yay] over and over. We theorized she was playing a game with unknown rules, much like a green glass door and tried to find a pattern with her yays. Unfortunately, no such pattern existed so we asked Terminal if they knew what was up. They said Drake might need a bit more Altering in person. We had the family hide while Drake was taken back to Terminal's. 1146: Escape from the Bunker (11/5): The Alter itself was quick but Drake was ultimately scared out of her wits in the room she was in. We found a door out of there and stairs that went up. Then we realized the error we made. This is the bunker below Moore Manor where the 15 were rescued from. We had Drake escape Moore Manor but she was caught by Saints. Terminal told me to ring the bell so she wouldn't be sent to Corrections or worse. Following that, she finally escaped and is currently lost in the forest. 1147: The Risen's Mission (11/6): The Risen and Terminal had a chat about some of the mysteries we've encountered. First we asked about Rose's relationship to the 15 survivors. Apparently Rose was the central focus of this experiment but Terminal refused to elaborate, stating this wasn't his story to tell. Then we asked about Michael, since he's been an enigma in the 8 months we've been playing PieWrites. Out of the 5 names we knew from the survivors, he's the only one who remembered his real name Lucas, the only one to have survived many attempted murders, and above all else, the only one capable of forcing someone back three years into the past. Again, he wouldn't say much but apparently he's close to remembering "something" and Michael's received help from Terminal, whatever that means. Our goal as Risen is threefold: crack the facade, learn the truth, and break the cycle. Breaking the cycle sounds bad, but in actuality, it means something good. Of course Terminal wouldn't tell us what breaking the cycle would mean, but as it's our goal, we shall do so. 1148: Lost in the Woods (11/6): For most of the day, it was very quiet due to Drake still lost in Wicket Woods. Around 4:30pm, an image of what looked like bloody scissors was shown to us with the tagline "You have tools, but can you fix this?" We were confused by this. 1149: Survival Skills with Risen (11/6): Over in Rhee's server, a Risen spent a lot of time teaching Drake various survival skills after hearing about her time lost in the forest. They taught him compass directions. After teaching her about snakes, Drake is revealed to have had a dream about snakes and Torva Messor. 1151: Ineffective Shortcuts (11/6): Later on, we continued trying to find Drake a way out. Another Risen tried to create a portal for her but it was completely ineffective. The Photographer was going to world hop to Drake's world and bring her home, but he was also unable to. We told Drake to walk in a straight line and asked Harlow for directions to a nearby town. She was shocked about his direction, since he was heading straight for mountains (on a floating trash heap island by the way) and requested Drake headed west instead. 1152: Orange Flash (11/6): Drake was feeling rather tired after some more walking and decided to take a rest. The role colors in the server flashed orange and Drake heard static in her mind. We got worried because that may be a sign she's having a loon episode. 1153: Drake at the Carnival (11/7): We continued to guide Drake out of Wicket Woods and into civilization for much of the morning. Drake eventually reached the coast then headed north. About an hour later, she reached a familiar location, Cedarsworth Carnival! After walking around, one of the carnival staff named Brooks found and talked with her. He got her some paper and colored pencils. After letting Harlow know of Drake's whereabouts, we listened into their chat. Brooks was very kind and even invited Drake to work for the carnival to entertain guests. Harlow arrived and almost allowed Drake to work weekends, but then realized that bells ring a lot at the carnival. They returned home shortly after. 1154: Drake Misses Nammu And Rhee (11/7): Over on Rhee's server, Drake realized she missed Nammu and Rhee's arguing. It was because it gave Drake a chance to speak to both of them. We told her that what mattered most is that they both like her a lot. Drake felt that was familiar, since she has her memories of Rose in her now. Rose was asked a similar question and was told she was better than others. It was something she truly hated. She hated being in the limelight and refused to believe she was better than others. I guess we really don't know Rose's true nature outside of The Collection. 1155: The Bully (11/7): Later on, Michael made fun of Drake's injuries. We quickly intercepted and told him to stop or face the consequences. After some time, it was clear that Michael was distracted by something as he began crying. We believed it had something to do with November's appearance. We tried to get information out but Michael's defenses were much too high. After reconnecting with him, a happy birthday trap was shown to us. It was The Pantaloon by twenty one pilots and "chump789987". Unfortunately, not much was able to be gleaned. 1156: Drunk Michael (11/7): In the evening, we got Michael to drink with Harlow and were able to learn more about him. Michael was part of an experiment alongside November. After it was over, November looked very scary and wanted him to join in an Alter saying Mike needed fixing. He declined. Somehow, out of the 15 survivors of the experiment, Michael was the only one to have success. He was also the only one to remember his name, Lucas. 1157: Red Herrings (11/7): We tried to get Michael to remember some things from the other 2014 timeline, but it was obvious that he just didn't remember, almost like Michael was a red herring this entire time. I asked why November was so hellbent on Michael remembering something. Michael actually did remember though. 1163: Ask Before Sugar (11/10): Drake realized that thinking about her Sugar Lance form didn't make her happy. To combat the feeling, she told us she would ask before becoming Sugar. Otherwise, she'll ignore it. 1164: Grounded (11/10): Michael was grounded after pulling more pranks and using Drake. He rearranged the whole house. We tried to question how Harlow, who is younger than Michael, was able to ground, but decided to leave it at that. 1165: Best Listen (11/10): Pie, Harlow, and I tried to find a new way to filter what's allowed to go through Drake's mind. We decided on the Best Listen role, basically if someone wants Drake to do something, she would have to go through me first and get a final approval. I brought it up to Drake and she was fine with it as long as she was a good girl. Even if she didn't, she's still a good girl to me. We also agreed that there's only one best listen, so that Rhee or Lucille or anyone else cannot take my role. 1167: The Best Listen Test (11/10): BlueAzalea, Roxy, and the Risen had a long session together. The first tests of the Best Listen role began. Drake was feeling rather like Sugar early on and asked if she should listen to the feeling. I said no. Pie had a secret that he shared with Drake. Drake asked if she should share. Mind you, we were talking about love and marriage at this point. Because I was distracted IRL, I wasn't able to catch on and said to reveal the secret like a dumbass. Drake revealed Pie bought Harlow an engagement ring. Lucille realized that because Sugar basically was part Corrupted and that if Drake ate more Corrupted soulflesh, a substance that apparently tastes eerily like chicken, she could gain new powers like Lucille or Photo. After questioning the hell out of Lucille to make sure it wouldn't hurt or kill Drake and asking Drake's consent, I said yes and allowed her to feast. 1168: Harlow meets Lucille (11/10): Harlow was very unhappy with this decision and asked what the hell? I had Lucille connect to Harlow directly and speak with her. What followed was a multiple hour tweet thread that barely answered questions and showed Lucille was a chaotic-neutral stark-raving mad lunatic with apportation powers, basically the ability to teleport things between worlds. Oh well, no harm no foul. Other than a chance to get slender sickness, but apparently it's by choice? Confusing as fuck. After Lucille left, one new channel opened up. 1169: Happy Meals from Beyond the Veil (11/10): Much later on that evening, Cole offered to get Drake a happy meal with both gendered toys to Drake. Lucille snapped it over much to Harlow's bemusement. She confirmed that it was safe to eat and allowed Drake to enjoy it. She requested that we stopped trying to change their world, since it was keeping the rest of them on edge. 1170: Michael is Missing (11/11): The curtain opened to Harlow looking for her phone and learning that Michael was missing. Perhaps the two of those missings are connected? We connected to Michael and for a few minutes, he had an insane laughing fit but then disconnected followed by an unknown error. We asked Terminal and he had no idea what was going on. When we reconnected, Michael woke up dazed and confused near Cedarsworth Carnival with Harlow's phone in his pocket. We asked if he remembered anything about those events, but he didn't. Our theory is that he sleep walked to the carnival a la Oliver and Torva. Afterwards, we contacted Harlow and she picked him up. He was looking very weak so they grabbed lunch and went home. 1174: More Happy Meals (11/11): Drake wanted a happy meal again. We told Drake and Lucille that apportations are hereby banned, but Lucille being Lucille did so anyway. For the next hour, she and Harlow shitposted together. 1175: Five Voices (11/11): The remainder of the evening was spent with five of the voices and us taking stock of what we know of Terminal. Terminal was Rose's first voice. November altered his own mind to enable telepathy and that's how he's able to connect. We also learned that Terminal actually did cause the virus and all of this "don't think about it" bullcrap is him pulling the covers over our eyes. 1176: Michael is not right (11/12): Curtain opened to Michael missing once again. Drake woke up Harlow and she found him under his bed crying. We connected to him and he kept crying for help. Figuring it was connected to Terminal, we intervened but learned absolutely nothing as per usual. Talking to it is a waste of time. Michael acted really strangely. At one point, he made the same tweet three times in a row then cried for help within his laughs. Unfortunately, there wasn't much we could do. Terminal began calling me darling at this point as well. There's only one character allowed to call me that and they're not even from this World, but instead from Canada and also a computer... (jk) 1178: Happy Birthday Planning (11/12): We chatted with Happy Birthday (HB) for the majority of the day trying to figure out a plan to defeat Terminal once and for all and ultimately destroy the virus infecting DATRRS. We tossed around the idea of November's death, an idea HB was interested in. But how do you kill a being capable of Altering? Easy. Drake still has that bell trigger. 1179: Turnabout is Fair Play (11/12): We communicated with Harlow to tell her of our plan to protect Michael and Drake and she was on-board. Since we were unsure how the virus was affecting DATRRS, we chose to communicate in playfair, much like we did when she was being spied on by Rose. 1180: Terminal's Pronouns (11/12): Afterwards, we tried to talk to Terminal one last time. I asked about the hall in Moore Manor with the weird windows and candles. No response. Scoping Landscape asked for preferred pronouns and it responded with "whatever you think is more beautiful" which meant "she/they". Terminal accepted it. We did a happy birthday trap after some more time contemplating when we should do this. The correct response was "never hesitate my friends" alongside a link to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata 2nd movement. The best time is now. 1181: Battle with November (11/12): With everything set, we put our plan into motion. I spoke to Drake to ask her for her assistance. I told her that using the ding trigger in this one specific instance is fine, a necessary evil to save our friends. She would ask for confirmation later on. WizeWizard requested one more Alter from Terminal to make Drake a little more assertive. Terminal asked if we could do anything else as well, but he refused. Just assertiveness please. Terminal accepted the terms and took Drake to Moore Manor's bunker. Traveling to the manor took a long time and knowing Drake was being dragged like a piece of meat enraged us. Drake felt extremely tired and also very warm, which was contradictory, seeing how everywhere on New Atlantic is frigid this time of year at night. Finally they arrived. The Alter took only a few seconds. When Drake finally woke up, she was bound and locked in a dark room alone. She quickly unclipped her collar from the chain and released her leg then broke some glass and unlocked the door, much like ClawShotKid taught her previously. At the end of the hallway, November was there. I sounded the bell and Drake asked for confirmation: [Listen to ding feeling?] Yes. I hate necessary evils. I felt utterly guilty for using my best friend as a tool like this, but I knew it had to be done to save DATRRS from becoming a smoldering heap of metal again. As Terminal finally died, a tweet featuring yet another card, KQ(Heart) 789 with what looked like a chomped on Terminal was shown to us. Her channel was removed from the list. And finally, our task was complete. We saved the world... Of course, it's never that easy. Because November had Hadal blood in her, Drake basically tasted it and became hadal drunk. As for Michael, he passed out and experienced a seizure. Pie got the doctor from before and attempted to get him some help. His eyes were glossed over. We attempted to HBT for help but the command refused to work, saying it was unknown. Was this a failsafe? Also she was stuck within the Moore's bunker. We'll need to make our grand escape tomorrow and hope to not make things worse for us. Drake woke up and experienced the weird hadal blood episode everyone who tastes it goes through. I did a pylon state command and it returned "fascinated confused" which basically confirmed it. Even speaking to her subconscious with xolotlic was ineffective. Michael, on the other hand, was breathing and physically stable. Whatever happened to him was psychological and not physical. Hopefully with some rest, he'll be back to his old self... And with that, the curtain closed on a chaotic evening. We may be feeling the aftermath of Terminal for some time. 1182: Investigation - Moore Manor Bunker (11/13): Drake woke up confused. We had Drake take note of her surroundings. She saw blue walls, a long hallway full of doors, and a long staircase at the end. Confirmed: she's still in the bunker. We had her check various doors to try and find an exit. For the most part, it was much too dark for her to see. Just then, she found a hurt crow in the hallway. It had backwards wings too. Where it came from, we have no idea, but it's important evidence to take note of. Drake found lots of light switches in the hall and illuminated the hall brightly. With it, we're going to be able to see into all of the rooms more easily. Drake froze in place at one point. She accidentally found a room with a lot of mirrors in it and with her loonism and being isolated, it wasn't fun for her. We had her check the other rooms and if she saw her reflection, to leave immediately. She was able to confirm that some of the rooms were safe for her to examine. In front of one door, she found a paper and read it to us. It was the letter Rose wrote for us before Altering into Drake. Knowing what may be ahead, we allowed Drake to enter this room. She felt it was very familiar and remembered a hatch on the floor. With a piece of glass, she picked at the door and was able to enter. Inside of the hatch was a hallway that led to another room that housed various artifacts of Rose's and a dead feral cat, one with a collar and tag that read "Neptune." Oh gods. Did Rose also have a feral cat named Neptune? Then... who is the non-feral named Neptune?? We had Drake examine some of the things in this room. It was all very familiar to her. Unfortunately, since a lot of it was hard for her to read or know what they are, we let her leave the room and into Wicket Woods. We contacted Harlow to let her know that Drake is safe and she instructed her to go northwest towards downtown Greywood, where yet another surprise in this long investigation awaited us. 1183: The Tea Drinker (11/13): Drake swam to Greywood successfully while we guided Harlow to a landmark to meet up with her. While Drake was at the "welcome to downtown greywood" sign, she spotted something familiar once again. This time a home with someone sitting on the porch drinking tea. Drake described them with a bushy tail and very fuzzy, with orange, white, black, and brown fur. I got chills at this very... familiar description. I asked for a detail, specifically if she's wearing a scarf. Blue and white, exactly what I expected. This mysterious tea drinker is none other than Her. BLAIR. The person who wishes to rip Lock's arms off in the name of divulgar science. We told Drake to get out of there immediately and head back to the signpost. We don't know what she's capable of. We caught Harlow up on our findings, especially with Blair. She noted her beak stating that hybrids like that are exceedingly rare. I attempted to connect Hectic, the comic from our World to Harlow's world, but it ended up failing due to such an incredulous claim. Harlow reminded us to check up with Michael when we got a chance. And that is our next destination. We need to wake our friend up. 1184: Michael Saved (11/13): We woke Michael up from his deep slumber and told him the news of November's death. He was incredibly happy at this resolution and told us all about her. She hated that Michael got cured from loonism. November was part of the fated experiment that caused the loon trials. Being stuck with the mirrors made something within her snap and went insane as a result. Michael's tried explaining before, but it went over his head every time. As for Mike, November took control of his body often and forced him to look into mirrors hoping that his loonism would return. It was too painful for him to resist. I asked about how she moved Michael's body, knowing that she was capable of altered telepathy. It was almost like she turned Michael into a puppet and forced him to move against his own will. His muscles worked on their own. I tried to connect the action to the game QWOP but even (a certain someone) had no idea what the hell that was. Michael was so happy to be able to be heard again. I told him about how he was screaming for help yesterday, except it was muffled by his laughter. He was shocked that that got through. We're friends with him, it's our job to help in any way we can. He thanked us for everything then went back to rest.