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The Snatched Girlies (gender neutral)
Bro Snatched : Sooooo
Bro Snatched : @Tit Snatched and @Tea Snatched how’s Ellie taking the news?
Tea Snatched : Not well at all, neighbours have knocked at least three times concerned
Hip Snatched : Oh that can’t be good
Tea Snatched : It really isn’t great
Tea Snatched : She hasn’t stopped screaming and crying since Jon told her and to my knowledge at least two picture frames have been broken
Tea Snatched : He’s gotten me to call Georgie so she should be coming over soon with her car to help calm Ellie and to transport her stuff back to her flat
Hip Snatched : God that does not sound pleasant at all
Bro Snatched : fucking hell she’s just been screaming for almost two hours?
Tea Snatched : yeah…
Tea Snatched : When she gets stuck in a “loop of despair” as Jon puts it she gets stuck big time
Tea Snatched : apparently the worst before was like an hour, but two hours is the new record
Hip Snatched : not a very good record to break lol
Tea Snatched : no
Tea Snatched : Oh thank God Georgie has arrived
Bro Snatched : TAHTS WHAT SHE SAID
Hip Snatched : I hate my girlfriend
Bro Snatched : It’s been 20 mintues? Do you think Ellie killed them?
Tit Snatched : Nope .
Bro Snatched : HE LIVES
Tit Snatched : I wished I still smoked. This was so much more stressful than my interview. Fuck me.
Tea Snatched : Jon.
Tit Snatched : Right, yeah, no I don’t woops-
Tit Snatched : I always hate having to deal with Ellie’s meltdowns because its both heart-breaking to hear her so upset but also because it’s so overstimulating because of the noise. And this meltdown definitely wasn’t helped by the fact she’s sick again just when we thought she was getting better.
Tit Snatched : I think I might sleep for the next week honestly.
Bro Snatched : God yeah I remeber when Danny had meltdowns when he was younger and they were horrific
Tit Snatched : How is Danny anyways?
Bro Snatched : yeah he’s alright, despite the obvious fact that’s he, well, he’s leagally dead
Bro Snatched : he can’t excactly get a flat so he’s living with me right now
Bro Snatched : OH WE GOTTA ADD HIM HERE!
Hip Snatched : You got him a phone??
Bro Snatched : Sasha, babe, I literally never throw out anything, I gave him my old phone
Bro Snatched : Which is techincally my most recent phone but that replacement freak got a new one so-
Tea Snatched : You’re as bad as Jon with your hoarding habits
Tit Snatched : HEY!
Tit Snatched : My “hoarding” habits as you put it has saved you so many times when your phone chargers have broken.
Tea Snatched : Shut up-
[Bro Snatched (Tim Stoker) has added an Unknown Number]
Bro Snatched : Thy brother hath arrived
Bro Snatched : wait shit this name doesn’t work for me anymore
Unknown Number : I have a suggestion
[Unknown Number changed Bro Snatched’s Name]
Skin Snatched : Nooooo my naming scheme
Hip Snatched : you are a fucked up man Danny lol
Skin Snatched : If it’s gonna be like that
[Skin Snatched (Tim Stoker) changed Unknown Number’s Name]
Life Snatched : Woooow, you die once and suddenly it becomes your whole personality
Tea Snatched : God there’s two Stoker annoyances now
Hip Snatched : Oh speaking of adding people, should we delete the conspiracy group chat and add Georgie and Melanie to this one?
Tit Snatched : That’s a good idea, though I don’t think Georgie will answer her phone at the moment, but it’s still a good idea to add her here.
Skin Snatched : Conspiracy group chat?? And we’re friends with a statement givers?
Tea Snatched : Well it’s more like me and Sasha are friends with Melanie whilst you can’t leave her and Jon in the same room together because they will end up fighting like feral cats
Tit Snatched : I will replace your Yorkshire tea bags with PG tips Martin.
Life Snatched : Fight fight fight fight
Skin Snatched : Can I please be let into the knowledge of the conspiracy group chat????
Tit Snatched : When we found out the Not!Them replaced you we made a conspiracy chat to talk about that, ways to get rid of it and other monsters we found out about via statements.
Tea Snatched : The most that was on that group chat was Sasha telling us when to meet at our flat
Hip Snatched : Okay chat deleted, time to add the two lovely ladies
[Hip Snatched (Sasha James) added multiple members]
[Hip Snatched (Sasha James) changed multiple names]
Hip Snatched : Georgie’s name suggested by Jon
Tube Snatched : What the fuck is my name?
Hip Snatched : MELANIE HIIIII
Tube Snatched : SASHA HIIII
Skin Snatched : that would be me :3333, one Timothy Stoker at your serieve
Life Snatched : serieve
Tea Snatched : serieve
Tit Snatched : *Service
Skin Snatched : I hate you all
Tube Snatched : wait as in the actual tim? You got him back??
Tube Snatched : Wait shit is my name based on my fucking youtube channel going to shit?
Skin Snatched : Why yes it is my good madam
Tube Snatched : you have overtaken Jon on my hate list
Tit Snatched : Rejoyce.
Tube Snatched : Is Georgie's name really ‘Fear Snatched’?
Tit Snatched : Yeah ,she basically can’t feel fear, I don’t know why, but it happened during uni and she never told me why just that she can’t feel it anymore. Definitely some supernatural afoot with that one.
Tube Snatched : huh
Tube Snatched : Who the fuck is life snatched and why is tim’s name changed what??
Tube Snatched : you got to India for 10 hours and shit get weird
Skin Snatched : well, my skin got snatched basically and life snatched is my brother Danny because he died in front of me like, 5 years ago
Tube Snatched : I
Tube Snatched : I am far too jeg-lagged for this I’m going back to sleep
Hip Snatched : Isnt it 2pm for you right now?
Tube Snatched : yep
Life Snatched : Annnnd she gone
Tit Snatched : speaking of sleeping. I’m going to clean up Ellie’s meltdown mess and then take a post-overstimulation nap
Tit Snatched : Never mind Martin offered to clean so I can nap now, they are a God among men.
A week after what was dubbed ‘The Leitner Incident’, they were forced to see him again. Well, not so much forced but more so Sasha saw a piece of paper jammed into the padlock of the trapdoor saying in handwriting that was worse than Jon’s– ‘Come into the tunnels. I’ll guide you.’
So the Archives crew were now begrudgingly walking through the tunnels as walls seemingly shifted randomly around them until the shifting walls led them to an extremely large room.
“Wow, this looks worse than my uni room.” Tim laughed as the group looked around the practically barebones room which housed several cardboard boxes of food, clothes and toiletries and a single chair and a mattress and duvet that has seen better days.
“Well it is hard to get much into the tunnels when you have people who wish to kill you.” Leitner defended, slamming closed The Seven Lamps Of Architecture before picking up a series of files from within one of the boxes. “I didn’t call you down there to mock my living space, but rather some fairly pressing matters that I had suspicions on.” Leitner said as he handed over the files to Sasha. “Gertrude didn’t mention it to me often, but she talked about “rituals” that the Powers would try to attempt, and from what these files that Gertrude kept close company with it appears the one who some call The Stranger- the fear of the uncanny, will attempt a Ritual.”
“What does a Ritual entail then?” Sasha asked as she opened up the file so everyone could see.
“It becomes a feeding ground for those who serve the Power and the Power itself.” Leitner answered blankly.
“So we need to stop it then?” Martin asked, eyeing Leitner with suspicion.
“If you don’t want the world to become a feeding ground for The Stranger, then yes. That’s what Gertrude spent a lot of her life as Archivist travelling to stop those Rituals.”
“That explains her budget spreadsheets.” Jon muttered as he read over the files at seemingly rapid speed.
“And you couldn’t have just come up into the archives to tell us this?” Tim asked as she crossed her arms.
Leitner shook his head, “I will most definitely be killed by Elias if I dare step foot back into his domain, and I prefer to keep living.” He said, scoffing slightly as he spoke.
With that, returning the files back to Leitner, the Archives crew headed back to the Archives, so as to not cause too much suspicion with Elias. But it seems their efforts didn't truly matter as when Jon got to his desk there was a lone tape with a post-it note attached to it, “Give this to the Archivist will you, Collector Of Knowledge? - Elias.” Biting his lip, Jon walked towards Sasha's office and gave her the tape, the note saying all that was needed as she waved him away to listen to the statement in peace.
Jon had no doubt that that statement was connected to The Stranger’s Ritual.