EXTINCTION & PERCEPTION || a magnus archives au

STATEMENT

He did both knew and knew

the contents of the envelope were important . He needed to read them ever since he found it on the doorstep of his hotel door back in America. Yet, here it's been just about an entire year of completely ignoring its presence....

The envelope is completely blank. Except for the " STATEMENT " written on the envelope's back in a writing that looked like the person either barley knew how to write or did that on purpose. Jon was sure it was the second option.

It gives the Archivist a strange sense of dread . Not just because he knew it surley was not from Elias but.... there isn't really anything else. Anything else besides of maybe knowing that it's contents are something he will deffineitly not like to hear .

Alright so, here goes nothing. Archivist had pulled out the envelope from the drawer next to his seat and put it on the table before opening it carefully, just in case they will need every piece of it preserved for the archive.

" Is this on? Oh right yeah - " jon checked is their tape recorder, almost as if forgetting that those basically turn on by magic everytime he needs something recorded.

"Statement of Noah Maxwell, taken from a letter in an unknown source, year... " jon tried pulling the year out from the scribbled out date written on the paper yet nothing came out. Or even worse, ... too much of it came out. Multiply years and exact dates that didn't make sense for a single letter to be written in .

" ... unknown, regarding the... " once again the arhivist's head started to ache of the too many information " ... life in paranormal circumstances " that was the very simplest description that jon could've make at the moment.

" Recorded by Jonathan Sims . The Archivist . "

" To whoever is reading this, please help me. I know you can help, at least I was told to that whoever is this being sent to is able to help. So i hope.
There is not really much to hope for, at least for me personally, but recently ive started to sense that the true definition of my ' me ' is right now least of my worries .
I know what is and will happen to me. Hell, i even told myself to write this down and send it to you. In the quite litteral sense of that sentence.
I know that you work for.... the Magnus Institute i think. That Institute works with stuff quite simmular to what am i dealing with and even defeated some of it's parts but that is by far how much i know about you.
Or at least how much was i willing to give to myself for some lame reason, probably on the lines of ' you need to learn it yourself or else i won't know it ' and he is probably right. Maybe ill meet, whoever are you and you will tell me everything myself now knows.

Now let's get to the thing I was supposed to talk about -

Archivist's note here - the letter from this point on is completely drawn over with a black marker i assume and a simple sentence in white gel pen written on it
" TOO SLOW " with a symbol of unknown origin presenting the author's sign off. The symbol is most likely representing....two eyes disecting with eachother at exact 90° angle.

Another note - there are more then one letter in the envelope so I will now make sure to read them all.

Letter second, statement of..... an avatar of the...fear not given .... regarding, " a lesson to a fellow lost soul " .

sorry Archivist for the unfortunate destruction of the last statement. i tried my best to not have it ruined by anything before you read it but I couldn't have truly kept it as long as you needed to . but to erase the damage done i am going to try my best to explain to you my and my past's selve's situation.

maybe i am considered basically a god by how much power do i possess but yet i am not like you and i am unfortunately forced to learn information in little amounts.

however what I did discover doing my research is that the... patron. fear, entity i am forced to be an avatar of does not fit completely into any of the ones on Robert Smirk's list.

yet somehow i feel like that this....i hope fear, is much more dangerous than all the fears you have been working with or sometimes against.

it is based around drastic change, a drastic downfall and destruction of something, but not in the sense that the desolation would do it. this energy works constantly on every person individually and it works on...replacing them with the worst possible version of themselves while also making them aware of just how much times did they subconciously yet on purpose choose that path for themselves.

The text here is again cuz off this time only the symbol drawn on the top of scribbled out text.

... so I hope this information will help you on the way with both your and my problems. See you soon friend - F

P. S : be careful when you meet up with.... "
the name is blocked out with the black marker and on top of it is written " TIM " wich only made the archivist's head ache more " ... first impressions are always the most important ones "

" Statement ends. ...... " a long minute of utter silence " i don't even know what to think, this... if i didn't knew that this was important i wouldve thought this letter was some sort of a sick joke made by somebody that does not want me to progress.....But I know better then that. "

The Archivist shuffled thru the couple of papers in front of him, taking a quick gaze over each one again " i could try to guess that this either is related to the web.... but I feel that the person who wrote that speaks the truth. Even for the parts i can't see unfortunaetly. "

A sigh " it seems that a completely new fear is working on... my best guess is a ritual, but definitely something . Another clue i have is the name of the statement giver wich will help me with the research on the person's history and possible relations to anything that I could actually have a clue about.

The last thing..... Tim? He is... dead right- "
a piece of information seeped thru the mind, this time much more agressive than what the ceasless watcher gives to them
" Owww - stop i - " the headache started to fade away and after a couple moments of silence " I need to - .. End recording "