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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anabstercorian" data-source="post: 232029" data-attributes="member: 2550">Alex HiggensYou all hear the sound of a sudden banging on the door, without any sound of a car driving up to herald it.  Perhaps fear or surprise grips you before Alex calls out from the front steps.  "It's me!  Alex!  Let me in, I've got something very important, a... some messages.  From people, I don't know who."If you let him in, you see him holding three things.  Under one arm, he holds a painting wrapped in semi-opaque plastic...Flashback: ...Alex puts the finishing touches his piece. It is a mixture of browns, greens, and blacks - all bound by squares and rectangles. Each shape seems to have more than two dimensions, as if Alex was trying to make the image leap off of the canvas. It is perhaps influenced by yesterdays events - the geometric 'hallucination' and Randy's viewing of an other world through Alan's desk drawer. The squares look familiar - green with something that could be writing on its surface...Under the other arm, he holds a shoebox, with a small piece of paper taped to it.  He immediately begins to talk, frantic, nervous, frightened, stressed.  His hands don't shake, though it sounds like they should from the tone of his voice."I...  I did this painting.  I thought...  I thought from what Alan's journal said, and from my own hunches, that I might come up with something that way...  Piece some evidence together or find something out.  And...  I did, kind of, but it wasn't what I expected at all.  It was almost like I wasn't holding the brush...  No, I was holding the brush, but someone was whispering in to my ear in a voice that I couldn't hear but was listening to anyway, guiding my hand.  And...  I think, I think that someone was Alan.  That's what it felt like.  It's all too weird for me to think about without some ice cream to keep me in a mellow mood."  He opens up the painting and reveals it all to you."And I found...  I found a dead pigeon on my windshield this morning.  It's eyes were plucked out and it had this messaged nailed to it."  He reads, starting to calm down now that he's among people he trusts.  "Only this could have saved us: No eyes to see god.  He is the dead gate, we are the key.  Be careful."  He hands the note to anyone who wants to see it: The spelling is atrocious.Onle this coold have savded us.no eyez too se GOD.he iz the ded gatewe arr the keybe carful"I'm not sure what it means...  I think it's from one of the other students who lost it a few years back, hopefully not one of the ones we ran in to last night...  I'm not sure what we can do with it."  He looks at you, looking very, very afraid all of a sudden.  "But don't you see?  They know where I live.  I'm not safe.  I don't think any of you are either..."</blockquote>

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