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4cvit
Is this thing on?...Oh, it is.
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4cvit
My name is 4cvit. I work at the Life Institute, an Institute dedicated to collecting information and researching paranormal events. As of two days ago I’ve become the Head Archivist after the previous Head Archivist, Owen, went insane.
For about five years I have been working for the Institute. Different jobs from time to time, mainly just researching. Many things that I have researched have never been solved, this is paranormal stuff after all.
The room I sit in now is the archives, which is an absolute mess. Cube - one of the researchers helping me sort the whole archives - guessed that Owen, after going insane, probably trashed the whole place. We don’t know that for sure though. While looking through the files we very quickly realised that none of these files had any of the research previously done. Just the statements. This wouldn’t be too big of an issue if it wasn’t for the fact most of these files date back to the 1870’s, when the Institute was opened.
I’ve decided - with the help of my 4 friends, Cube, Mid, Branzy and Jaron - to record and finish the research that Owen had failed to archive. It wouldn’t be simple as we are dealing with decades old files, but we’ll manage.
Before I start I’d like to apologise to anyone in the future trying to figure out these files and recordings. I can't promise that we will be able to find all the information for these cases, but I’ll try my best to give you as much information as possible.
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4cvit
Statement of… Lincu HQ, regarding a mysterious appearance and disappearance of an unknown man. Original statement given July 30th 2020. Audio recording by 4cvit.
Statement begins.
4cvit (STATEMENT)
It was a relatively normal day, nothing weird going on like normally. Our friend Maddie had been injured so we were just casually talking about what to do moving forward. My friends Magic and Ivo were with me. That's when another townsperson, Zam, came by. He was asking about his friend Delilah.
Apparently Delilah had gone out and just never came back. As fast as Zam came, he left. The three of us grabbed up all our stuff to try helping Zam find Delilah until we were very quickly interrupted by another townsperson. The town we all lived in was very small, everyone was close with each other. Except for this man. His name was Clown, or something like that.
Clown didn’t stay around often, never hung out with anyone. He was either at his house planning something or out of town. No one really knew where he went when he went out of town. We were all too scared of him to ask. He wore a Clown mask all the time, that's where he got his name. No one actually knew his name, he was just dubbed “Clown.”
He wanted to check up on us, I don’t actually know what he wanted. Clown wasn’t the easiest to understand, some days he seemed like a friend, other days he seemed like he wanted your head on a stick. All I remember from the conversation was Clown saying something about the fact he loves staying out of town cause he gets to visit people, he never got to finish his sentence.
I’ve talked to the others about what we saw, no one really knows. All we know is that there was a bright light that flashed and all of a sudden a stranger was standing with us. He wasn’t tall, well, compared to everyone there he wasn’t tall. He had… white fluffy hair that was covered by a hat and goggles that he kept on his head. This man was wearing some sort of lab coat, or atleast what used to be a lab coat. There were holes and rips all along the bottom of the coat, and most notably his left sleeve was completely ripped off, revealing some sort of mechanical arm.
There was some sort of purple substance that ran inside of a tube that connected the top half of the arm to the bottom half. All around the arm were different kinds of clocks, none of them showed the same time. I’ve seen a fair share of mechanical things but I’ve never seen an arm like that. The other arm however was not as impressive. It wasn’t mechanical or anything, just a normal arm.
This man was a lot, I’ve never seen him before around this town, and after talking to a few people, they’ve never seen him before either. He seemed a mixture of distressed yet thrilled to be there. He was yelling, that was what I knew for certain.
When the stranger finally got to his feet he grabbed onto Clown’s shoulders and started yelling out… “Master? It's been so long, oh my god!” It was… weird. I thought this dude was crazy, that was until Clown grabbed the others shoulders and started yelling back…
(COUGH)
“Branzy! Branzy! What took you so long to get here?” They knew each other. At the time we didn’t know how, but we found out very quickly. He introduced himself to us, in my opinion he seemed a bit… egotistical.
He introduced himself as… Branzy, lead scientist. When he found out we didn’t know who he was he sorta flipped out. He kept going back and forth between yelling at Clown for not telling us about him and yelling at us about who he was. Apparently he was some sort of lead scientist to an operation.
That’s when Magic decided to start questioning him about his mechanical arm. Magic and I tried getting closer when Branzy wouldn’t answer our question but instead of answering he hid behind Clown muttering about how we couldn’t touch it and that we would disappear if we did.
Branzy didn’t stay for long. He looked at Clown, and - from what I could see - proposed to him. It was strange. Clown and Branzy had wanted to perform some sort of… ritual. Honestly it seemed more like a wedding rather than a ritual. They said pretty much the same things you’d normally see in a wedding.
However, before they could say “I do” it started thundering. More specifically it started thundering over Branzy. He ended up being struck 3 times. As fast as the thunder started, it ended. Branzy’s body wasn’t there, only a sign in his place. The sign read “You don’t get to enjoy this until you repay what you owe me.” We stood there as Clown stomped off. It wasn’t even until he was out of sight that Ivo, Magic and I finally left.
End statement.
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4cvit
Well uh, that was a very interesting statement. I asked Branzy, our Branzy , Branzy the researcher, about this other Branzy. He didn’t say anything, just looked up and gave a nervous laugh while fidgeting with his left sleeve.
Mid and Cube both think he is the same Branzy from the statement. Jaron thinks that it was just a coincidence. Besides that though we have almost no information about this statement. We have found a Lincu HQ, however he no longer lives in a town, living in a city instead, so we have no information about this town that he speaks about.
Cube tried to get into contact with Lincu but his attempts have all failed.
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