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A Phone Message I Never Left

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Hey.

It's me.

Obviously.

Uh, so I just wanna say that
I'm sorry about…
You know.
Stuff.

We're fine, by the way.
In case you're interested.
Or whatever.

We'll be back at some point
but right now we've got some
shit to do.
Figure out.
Mostly ourselves.
Chris is pretty fucking pissed.
Frankly, I've never seen him this goddamn mad and
well…
You know Chris.  That's saying something.
He's kinda freakin' out.

But he's getting a little better.
There…
Something bad happened.
Really bad.
To me, not him.
But he sort of saved my ass from the bad shit we've found out here.

I'm fine, by the way.  Really.  
No big deal,
I guess.

But he's…
Yeah, well, you know what, it doen't
It doesn't really matter.  I mean…
We'll be back.
I promise.
And it'll be us.
It won't be…we won't have…we'll…
It'll be us.
We'll be alive.  

Wow, that sounded all of the dark.
Sorry.
Whatever, we're having a fucking blast.
We're learning a lot.
I mean, we—

Holy SHIT.

Chris, what the hell happened?
Why is your face covered in…
Is that blood?

Oh no.

Oh god no.

Fuck.

They didn't…
Oh my god, they did.
Are you…
Are you gonna be…?

Shi—

To delete message, press 9.  To save, press 7.
It's a...poem?

We think?

I wrote this after our last session of Hunter: the Vigil, a game in which we literally play ourselves. It's all going crazy now and two of the characters took off after the session because it was ALL OF THE BAD and we were ALL OF THE ANGRY and we left our other three friends at home. One of the things we were very specific about was that we DID NOT call them at all, but I had this inspiration for the message that I WOULD have left if we hadn't been incommunicado.

I dunno how well it worked, but...here we go?

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I think I get to smack you since you never shared this, cause let me tell you its AWESOME!