#3 (FINAL)

While they continued to fight, the clock from behind rang out. I turned to look and saw a... shape, a force without a stable image, as if it had none, emerge from the bowels of the door, which led much deeper than I could imagine. I fell back, tripping over the counter the old man used as a desk, with a feeling of complete and utter terror filling me to the brim. The player and the man had fallen still, staring at this... thing. The garden outside was retreating rapidly. I'd like to say I tried to help the man who saved me, I'd like to say I tried to contact the old man to warn him, but I am not that kind of person. I turned and broke through the glass sliding doors, running across the rapidly-retreating garden and into the forest. I could hear wails of... SOMETHING behind me and I dared not turn to look. I came eventually across a field and saw a shape in the distance. Without reason or thought, I ran towards it, to find a large shape made of wood and steel. It was shaped somewhat like man but it was not shaped like a man at all. It must have been nearly 30 meters tall. I ran into it through a small slot below. I'm waiting here for the force. I don't expect to make it out of this, I already feel the terror beginning to slowly reach me again. I feel, however, somehow, that this sanctuary I am in, while not able to help me make it out of this alive, will stop the force from doing something to me, something worse than death. I don't know what. I don't care. What I know is that while I'm here I'm safe from the worst, and I have nothing more to do than wait for the force (and oh, it's close, let me tell YOU) to arrive and show me what death is. I suppose I have nothing more to say.

Goodbye.

#2

Going out to the garden, I found the second glass the old man required sitting out in the garden. The garden itself fills his entire backyard, reaching out to great lengths before stopping at the forest. When I got the glass, this girl who appeared about 17 or so emerged from the ground. I ran back inside to give the glass to the old man. He was very pleased. He then told me to watch out for someone called the player of the game, for she would damage what he was working for. At that moment, the girl from outside came in. Her movement was inhuman, not quite ethereal, ghostly, but not quite animalistic, uncivilized, either. It hurt my head to try to understand it. The old man got very worried and fled to his place, but I had no such escape, and was trapped in there with whom I can only assume is the player the old man spoke of. The garden started making it's way inside under the girl's orders, and I ran deeper into the house. The player followed me in pursuit as I ran through the inner corridors of the house, still with a bright and clear view to the outside, as the garden continued to make it's way in. I eventually returned to where I started, the place where I spoke with the old man. The player made her way to me and knocked me onto the floor. She made her way on top of me as I desperately tried to escape from under her. She prepared herself to attack, animalistic inhuman rage painted upon her visage, when my body bumped into the grandfather clock behind me. The door to the clock opened and a young man, looking maybe 20 or so, emerged. He lunged on top of the player, who was now making a very inhuman screeching sound, as I got up and got my bearings. He yelled out that he would take care of her, that he was the current piece from outside the boundaries of the game who was currently chosen for this. As they fought, the garden from outside continued making it's way in. It only came through the windows, not the doors.

#1

I saw the old man today. He took me into his "mansion" and sent me upstairs to find a book for him. The shelves were at the top of the house, in a room with a ceiling almost 10 meters high. There was no ladder, one had to climb the shelves to reach the top, and so that is what I did. There was much in the genre of cosmic horror there, many Lovecraft collections and such. I made a mental note to ask about it later. I found no book where he said it would be, although there was a single drinking glass. I took it downstairs to him, and he seemed pleased. He then asked me to go outside to the garden to get the second. I head there now.