The Story begins Anew

Next to it is a pile of tapes, all with a mysterious symbol etched onto them.

Before even putting in the first tape, the television flashes a message

𝘼 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧

So go on ahead! I was hoping one of these HT characters would spread past Hollowtown and into the wider CRP community

Imma draw up some lore bullet points Eyeless Jack style if anyone wants to work with them

𝙎𝙔𝙆𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘾𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙄𝙋𝙀𝘿𝙀 𝘿𝙀𝙈𝙊𝙉

Age twenty... six?

Species: Hellspawn. Hybrid between human and demon. Less powerful than a hellknight, but more demonic in mind than one too.

Origin: Product of selective demonic breeding to create a hellspawn capable of specializing in mass murder. She ate her way out of her mother's womb.

She has a heightened hunger/bloodthirst and has been described by her handlers as difficult to wrangle.

The scent of blood often sets her into a feeding frenzy.

Her soul is not owned by Zalgo's legion but rather a third party individual named Eve. Little is known about this person.

Syke's tendrils are constructs of blood, but despite this, her internal blood is normally blue.

Her tattoos do not have a set rigid pattern and often fluctuate and move.

As a centipede she is naturally gifted in burrowing.

She can summon up to 4 tendrils at a time and can use them to cut through humans in mass like flailing saw whips.

They can change to darker colors and yellow spines. This indicates her strikes are venomous.

She often opens up her face to feed or cause more devastating damage to prey. When she does this, she speaks less and acts more animalistically. Her vision also becomes that of a centipede. (Abysmal and useless.)

She can consistently uproot trees and bring down buildings with her tendrils. She is also capable of tossing cars and slinging herself across distances. She is very difficult to outrun if you yourself are not a demon.

She is also capable of covering parts of her tendrils with blacker, more armored blood for extra weapons. A trait normally only usable by Hell Knights.

She is also capable if shifting the ends of her tendrils into various sharp objects

Other demons generally regard her as the demonic equivalent of a hillbilly. If not that than a roudy arrogant brat who thinks she can do whatever she wants. Hellspawns are generally regarded as vermin in the demon realm.

It is rumored that she may have been dating Jeff a long time ago but Jeff broke it off due to Syke not having a lot of boundaries. Also repeated incidents where she would tear Jeff's stomach open and burrow her mandibles into his insides to feed on them. Though this was never proven.

She has a habit of occasionally snacking on insects.

Some theorize she may have a sibling who is a millipede.

Has refused to wear clothing for most of her life and only recently started wearing a hoodie that she claims to be a trophy from one of her kills. It's unknown if this was a person of significance.

Syke does not think like a human. Demons are only human enough to resemble them for practical purposes. Syke has more in common with an animal than a person. She is entirely food motivated and likely smells like a slaughter house or guts due to a lack of hygiene.

Syke has almost no inhibitions, manners, or decency. She will often be buried in a carcass and talk with her mouth full or (To Stripes dismay) have full conversations with other people including stripes completely naked whether they like it or not.

She is mostly in the demon realm but has been deployed in the human world on multiple occasions. She would often sneak there to feast on humans. Often preferring hunting them down than getting them store bought.

Likes: People. Rooms full of them. burrowing. Pissing off Eve. Making people uncomfortable. Guts. HUUUGE guts. bugs. her hoodie.

Dislikes. Most clothing. Eve. People telling her what to do. Being withheld food. LAZARI

Also, that sigil is cool af, how did you come up with it and what does it represent?

I was hoping I would get Syke questions!!!

Okay, so for those not in the know, Syke is the Hollowtown reimagining of the Iepfb character, Hyp.

Now, watching the original Hyp in action, Imma be honest, my entire opinion of her is based on her cool edgy centipede design. Thats all I really like about her. Her cool tentacles and her edgy vibes

Aside from that, her personality was pretty abrasive and venomous. She did NOT care for anyone she was working with and seemed to just enjoy being mean to them

This aggressiveness was one of the few traits about Hyp I could recall off hand so with that I rolled with it. Fun fact, I actually introduced Syke EARLIER than intended. She wasn't originally gonna be in entry 3. I just needed another antagonist. Truthfully, without sounding demeaning, Syke's entire role in Hollowtown is that of the threat. the hazard. The monster to avoid. I just needed another antagonist.

I honestly didn't even like drawing her at first cause we kinda needed to learn how to draw her as we did. But every panel I added to her, the more I began to actually really really like this character.

One thing we were always going to do was really lean into the centipede of it all. Mandibles, sharper teeth, antennae, her main gimmick from the start was that her face could open up into a real centipede.

She was already aggressive, so I decided to give her the personality of a centipede too. Turn that aggression up to an animalistic and bloodthirsty extent. Centipedes are also fast, so she was going to be chasing Laz and Lucida down the entire mansion.

If she was only to be the threat, I wanted her to excel in that role.

You'll notice that in certain parts her Centipedicles change color to darker and yellow. I wanted that to be a tell that she was in an elevated form. A venomous one. But I never managed to squeeze in a scene where she uses any venom.

ON the topic of Venom, at a certain point we noticed that due to the new hair and edgy traits of Hyp, she was invoking a specific aesthetic.

I dunno how to put it into words or if there's a name for it? But like... edgy girl, black, red, blood, anime? I dunno how else to put it. But I did notice it and I wanted to try and research for new traits to add. I don't think Elfen Lied is an exact match, but the best I can say is that the male equivalent is probably Carnage. WHICH BRINGS ME TO-

As soon as Syke became more fleshed out. I really saw the vision for who she was. And the answer was Carnage. She's Carnage if instead of a serial killer he just exclusively ate people. Mass murderer, bloodthirsty, manic, weird, freaky, not too big on clothes, REALLY big on sharp objects. I actually based some of her movements and attacks on this animation!

Which finally brings us to her Sigil. How did I come up with it? From her first couple of drafts I felt like the character needed some other trait to really solidify her energy and edge. I considered just blood splattered on her, but that would be too hard to draw consistently. It was only thanks to Carnage that I found the perfect kind of symbol to represent the energy of Syke.

The symbiote spiral. I don't entirely know what it means, but I saw it on Carnage and other symbiotes, and I knew that what I wanted was something that resembled this. It was simply a matter of adding some centipedic differences.

The spines represent centipede legs. The ones Syke sharpens into blades. I'm trying to do this thing where every creepypasta character has their own symbol. Toby has his ax Operator Symbol. Lazari has her butterflies. Hoodie has that iconic frown, I thought some iconography of her own would really make Syke stand out. The one she wears is almost definitely made of blood. Thats why there are other imperfect splatters near it on her hoodie.

Aaaaand I should address that she is only wearing a hoodie. I'll be honest, I don't really know why she was half naked in the original, but after several drafts of Syke with additional clothing.... I dunno, it felt inauthentic. Like if we clothed this deranged homeless woman it wouldn't be... Syke. Honestly she's probably only wearing that hoodie as a trophy from one of her victims. She was... probably completely naked before this. No reason to bother with human clothing when you're a demon in her mind.

Oh! Also she's a demon now. She was even going to be the same species of demon as Lazari and Stripes, but that didn't work out since their powers were too different. So instead she's something called a Hellspawn. Unlike Lazari and Stripes, Hellspawns are completely demon minded. No pesky human instincts or values to cloud her judgement. I wanted her to illustrate what most demons are when they are not ex humans or hybrids... even though Syke is still a hybrid technically. A completely animalistic beast that only resembles a human in presentation and is entirely motivated by food.

I was also gonna make her Centipedicles out of blood. I dunno if thats still canon since you can see her blood is blue like a Centipede.

I could probably talk about Syke for several more hours cause so much went into this character. And i prolly will when someone else asks a Syke question which I HOPE they do. I also may somewhat hope Syke gets to have some fanart too like Lazari did.

Sorry I waited so long but I wanted to answer with Entry 3 out!

And the answer is... here

The events are definitely rearranged around. I wanted Entry 3 to be the payoff to the Stripes gathering monsters to attack the mansion sublot that never got a payoff in the original. But if you were to lay both timelines side by side, this is where we are.

And honestly I am pooped from working on it. Expect another entry in like half a year or something. Its prolly gonna be half as long. I think I pushed the envelope for myself enough. I really hope it paid off.

This entry was a behemoth, so there was a lot of thought and moving parts going into it. Now that the first three entries are out, I feel like Hollowtown is more... presentable now? Like newcomers can get a better understanding as to what this series is gonna be about going forward.

But yeah, this was a massive task to undergo so feel free to ask about it! About Jane or Stripes or Syke or the rake or the mansion itself. OH! Or how I came up with this sigil! I designed it myself actually.

Or toby's new mask and why I changed it. Or Lucida's backstory or-

okay you can tell im a little community interaction starved.

Im just glad I can finally stop being closed off from the rest of the CRP community now.

You've made it to the end... for now

The Tape Stalls again