My first year of silence had me skirting civilization. Doors were more often present there. Always someone knocking. On the road, rarely had that issue. Back packing around may be hard, but I was amazed to see that my sister would keep leaving money in my account for me. She seemed to accept the note I left when I ran.
Of course, I couldn't check my bank statements because hey, never had access to internet and I got held up at knife piont, only to see a black dog attacking who ever it was that held me up.
I can't recall how or why it happened, but that dog has helped me out avoiding the Doors. It matchs the description that Lyron gave me for The Black Dog, but it wasn't so much as trying find a secret of mine but to keep one buried? It never liked the Door Knocker, what ever it is. Would always growl when we heard it.
By the by, I kinda got it liking belly rubs and ear scratchs.
Anyway... first year was weird, from standard Runner behavoir that I could recall when I had access to the internet. Just... Ran from the Door Knocker, never heard a door open again. Black Dog companion.
Oh, Cold Boy came for me a few times, but the Black Dog seemed to tell him to leave me, I think? Just gave him a look and Cold Boy would look sad and leave. So yeah, pretty sure helping me to keep a secret buried. I told him that I didn't want to find the truth of this, not what happened to cause me to run.
Just wish the Doors stopped coming.
I'm going to post the rest in blocks like this, not all at once... Just had so much to process and trying to recall what happened is hard. But yeah, still safe. Having some privacy is amazing... That sense of security. I admit that I didn't trust Blackie as I called him before learning his real name. I only read of Slendy, EAT, Wooden Girl and Cold Boy, so wasn't aware he was also a Fear. There is over 20 of these things... That scares me, but not so much about the Door Knocker.
Think that's all that relevant for the first year anyway... Been so long I don't know what words I want to use, so I guess this will do for now.
First of all, I wish I could have petted the Black dog as well. Unfortunately the local black dog here is hostile towards the archive.
ReplyDeleteSecondly I don't think I have heard of an empty city phenomenon like your Door Knocker. But I'll do a quick search for it in our files.
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Hmm. We do seem to have a few files here on "Door Knockers". But most of them are classified and I don't have the clearance to open them. There are only two that I can open at the moment. The first is 90% redacted though. So I can only read a few paragraphs. The second seems fully available but it's pages and pages of numbers and raw data.
Gonna take me a while to make sense of this.
I'll leave another comment when I'm done digging through this.
~Scribe Tau