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    The Visitor, at Sam's request, leaves. It intends to go somewhere far, dark, and cold. It's become aware of just how long that might take. It's aware of just how alone it is now that Earth is gone. It's aware of itself.

    That might not be for the best.

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    The ritual was a bust, and now Sam is facing the consequences. The change is painful, but at least he's not alone.

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    A man walked into Apartment 13 and sacrificed his arm to the Mouth on the wall that lived there, in order to spare the life of a child which the Mouth wanted to devour. Nearly one week later, the same child returns to Apartment 13 in the dead of night, alone...

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    When the Visitor leaves, it leaves changed by its experience, much as it had changed humanity.

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    After an unusual text conversation, Sam entangles himself in a precarious sexual relationship with a person he’s never even seen.

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    Lyle, by virtue of borrowing Edwin's zoom lens, gets a premature look at the Visitor. What follows is a slow descent into Lyle becoming the manifestation of his worst secrets and habits over an agonizing 15 or so days of his own physical and psychological hell, confined to his apartment.

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    Years after the events of Look Outside, Sam still wrestles with what happened, even as the present moves forward without him.

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  8. 6

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    Late at night, one perfectly normal and not-weird person heads out to meet another perfectly normal and not-weird person, and they have an ordinary night together with nothing strange or remarkable about it whatsoever.

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    The ritual doesn't work. Sam begins to deal with the fallout.

    Hellen tries to help before things get unsalvageable.

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    Hellen and a child she picked up, Sophie, head to the third floor while scavenging for supplies. They have an interesting encounter in apartment 33.

    (Or: What if Sam listened to Sybil when first waking up?)

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    My works that follow my "canon" timeline for my version of the story goes for Sam, which post-game takes place in Toadsong's "Golden Skies" AU, in which Sam helps get the ritual offerings but doesn't participate himself: https://looked-outside.tumblr.com/post/789432663048175616/look-outside-au-golden-skies

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  13. 88

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    Hellen goes out to get Sam some medical supplies for his arm, and her day gets worse when Joel and Sophie sneak out to follow her, rat-baby in tow.

    Hellen meets Lyle, and her day get a bit better.

    Hellen really meets Lyle, and her day gets much, much worse.

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  14. 39

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    Sam hasn’t been able to get a decent night sleep for months now.

    A friendly face offers to fix that.

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  15. 13

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    Sam did not participate in the Astronomers' ritual while the Visitor was visiting Earth. Eight years have passed since that fateful Visit, and Sam has made a new life in the post-Visit society with the people who decided to stick with him and become his family.

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  16. 13

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    The concept of sacred hospitality established in Ancient Greece; mutual respect between hosts and guests as a combination of institutional, ritual, and moral obligations.

    Being no one, with nowhere to go, and nevertheless welcomed by people with even less.

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  17. 10

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    He was still a good person, right?

     

    (title taken from ¡Aikido! (Neurotic/Erotic) by Will Wood & the Tapeworms)

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  19. 1

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    Sam finds an apartment on the first floor that seems normal at first. But, it’s actually a labyrinth containing a cursed that creates copies of those who enter…

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  20. 4

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    Sam starts his period during the visitor's visit and, unluckily for him, he ran out of pads. He can't ask his apartment-mates to get him supplies without risk of outing himself.
    Too bad Lyle already knows.

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