Terrified

This place is a lot bigger than I expected. We’ve been trying to find Faceless for the past few days with no luck. I would have expected to eventually come across a border of some sort. Something to keep the contestants contained but so far there doesn’t appear to be any such barrier.

I imagine at least one contestant has managed to walk the wrong way and is now too far away to actually do anything. Unless the game runners sent someone after them to bring them back. Or maybe there are just so many contestants that it doesn’t matter. You’ll run into someone eventually.

If this keeps up then my best chance of finding Faceless is just to wait until the bracket style tournament starts. However that would mean I would have to fight him one on one. Which could be a problem. It also could lead to someone beating him and not killing him. Which would send him back to the “real world”. Which would be a mission failure for me.

If he gets killed by someone else that wouldn’t be as much of a problem. It’s the results that matter after all. But I’m not expecting that to happen. I did some research on my target before the mission obviously. He seems to be rather hard to kill.

I obviously have been keeping tabs on his blog. So I am aware that he knows we’re coming after him. I think I still have some element of surprise though. He has no idea of what I look like. In a tournament where everyone is trying to kill you he might mistake me for someone else.

I also have Hella as something that resembles an ally.

To be honest I might be a bit afraid of the Faceless bastard because of his reputation. But Hella? She’s so much scarier. Partly because she’s always close by and Faceless is god only knows where. But also because I now know what she can do. I’ve actually seen her power up close now. More accurately I’ve felt it.

Maybe it’s not a good idea to reveal her power on this blog since Faceless is reading this. However I don’t think it will matter much. There doesn’t seem to be a lot you can do against it.

A few days ago we had just managed to find and kill another contestant. We needed the points for food. My rations didn’t last as long because now there’s two of us.

The fight wasn’t very interesting. We cornered him on a roof of a Tower. (A Rook shaped building is basically just a tower right?)

He tried keeping us at bay with a knife but I’m a nest. So I just walked up to him and he stabbed me. Out came the birds, he tripped and fell off the edge.

Unfortunately the birds do not like Hella and tried to attack her again. With the same results as last time. This in turn pissed her off and she blamed me. I tried to tell her I don’t control the birds directly. She didn’t believe me or didn’t care.

I thought she was gonna punch me so I put up my arms to protect my face. Instead she grabbed my arm. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my chest and fell to my knees. My arms and back started hurting. I felt like I had the air drained out of my lungs and my head was spinning.

She let go of my arm and I had to struggle to not just lay down and curl up. “What.. Did you..What did you do to me?” I asked while trying to regain my breath.

“I stopped your heart.” She said.

“You what?!” I couldn’t believe what I heard. She can just stop people’s hearts by touching them. That’s just ridiculous, right? What the hell is she?

“Just for a moment. Don’t worry you’ll survive.” She turned around and walked away. “You better have learned your fucking lesson, Fred.” Was the last thing she said before she walked down the stairs. I’m pretty sure I have in fact learned my lesson.

I’d protest her calling me Fred. But after that she can call me anything she wants. Because I do not want to mess with a woman that can give me a literal heart attack.

Not to mention that I have no idea if she has any other overpowered abilities. She’s a total unknown. What Fear does she serve? Is she even a servant? Where else would she get such powers?

If I get out of this tournament alive I’m running as far away as possible from her.