#session 2

there’s something off about the priest

honestly, there’s been something off about a lot of things in town recently. like the increase of bats in the open sky or some people coming out paler than usual

i’ve been pushing all the differences aside, due to just believing it to be a trick of the eye. there are much odder things in oakhurst, a couple of bats in the sky weren’t really that big a deal to me. however, it seems the priest wants to preach another tale

he’s been acting.. odd. more paranoid. he keeps insisting the night is unsafe and that there is something dark lurking in the woods. i thought he was talking about the mobs, or perhaps maybe even the demons the keeps preaching about, but it seems like it’s something else. he seems to be preaching about.. the people of this town itself

i know a lot of people aren’t pleased with the priest. kelly talked to me about how she found the priest annoying, and i’ve heard the whispers from this town about the priest. about his church. and honestly i can’t necessarily blame anyone. the priest has.. well an incredibly strong personality, to say the least. he’s not easy to get along with, and i know that he hates the people of this town just as much as they hate him

usually speaking any sort of talk the priest would’ve had about the people here i would just tune out. however, this time. it just.. it seemed more serious. like he was talking out of genuine fear then just disgust

he asked me randomly if i noticed something off about this town. i mean, of course i had, but, everything about this town was off. i made some lighthearted joke about the color of lillian’s hair being off, but chucking it up to just misremembering. he however, gosh how do i even explain it

he took my arm. squeezed it, like he was warning me of something. he told me that i was correct. that lillian’s hair wasn’t natural, that it wasn’t “ash” like she had apparently been claiming. he told me to look out for her

when i told him i would look out for her, he— squeezed my arm harder. looked me dead in the eyes. told me that i would remember. that i will remember. like he was commanding me to

then he just, let go. told me there were “more of them.” and then nothing else

i don’t know who “them” is. my only assumption, seeming that it came from the priest, would be something demonic. but what exactly? 

honestly, the entire thing shook me a bit. i’m unsure whether i should actually take his words to heart. though, there is one thing for certain

the priest just made this town sound so much more curious

i had an interesting walk with kelly today

i found kelly in distress talking to luca, just on the path, as i was heading towards my tent in the dead woods

apparently, kelly had claimed to have been watching ite and the group following ite. i think it was due to a suspicion kelly had towards ite. the group caught kelly, and started to approach her. kelly got nervous and well, ran away

kelly was trying desperately to make it clear to me, but they were not chasing her. they just came up to her. must have acted on an instinct

i must admit ite is definitely a character. just the other day ite came up from behind me, from seemingly nowhere. ite does that a lot actually, so i don’t blame kelly for having a suspicion towards ite. though honestly i see it more as ite being sort of cat-like. still an interesting character nonetheless, but nothing exactly groundbreaking

kelly asked to walk with me, just to clear her mind from things. i accepted, mostly because kelly was in such distress that i almost felt pity towards her. she looked almost close to tears

for the most part the walk to dead wood was fairly uneventful. i just listened to kelly’s nervous rambles that she blamed on the blood moon. claimed it must have been the night that made her so on edge, which i guess could make sense for someone like her. seems the entire town is on edge for that exact same reason

it wasn’t until we reached to my tent that the conversation started to become intriguing

kelly started to go on a ramble about a book she found in those tombs. the ones that crumble apart when you open them. she explained them in a new light to me, a way that i hadn’t considered looking at before

i believe she explained it as “learning knowledge you seem to have known your entire life.” which the more i think about it the more it explains the weird overwhelming feeling i got when opening those books. it would also explain the weird abilities i’ve gotten since opening them. like, how i seemed to have doubled silver just by mining it after opening a book luca claimed, “doubled ore drops.” i thought luca was just full of it, but no. i did definitely have fuller pockets from that mining trip, ended up giving half of my silver to allocer just to help hold it all. i wonder if those books have anything to do with why my lantern has been acting strange lately..

furthermore; i got my entail about the beacons. at least, from kelly’s point of view

kelly is sick. i never got to learn what exactly she’s sick with, but it sounds like her entire town got sick with this mysterious illness caused from some sort of ender research, which was the entire reason why she came to oakhurst in the first place. to maybe find a cure for her illness, and bring it back to her people

she talks about the beacons like they’re some sort of saving grace for her. like, just by standing near them, they could ease her illness for just a moment. a temporary relief. much different from how i feel them. i mean, of course the beacons feel nice, but she talks about them like they’re some sort of pain relief. i believe in her words, they “make her feel stronger”

she also claims to have a much more dramatic reaction to the deconsecrated beacons. those beacons to me just feel uncomfortable. cold, unnerving. but to her, those beacons cause her physical pain

i believe the sicker a person is, the greater the effects of the beacons are to them. this makes me wonder actually.. could the cure have something to do with the beacons? perhaps they’re connected to each other in some way

i think being kelly’s neighbor has proved itself incredibly beneficially for me. all i have to do is get closer to her, then she’ll tell me more about her illness. she seems to already like me, so it shouldn’t be too hard

dr. kelly kachow gallagher. what a character you are

it seems i’ve underestimated just how much oakhurst has in store for me

i came to oakhurst with a single journal in hand, not expecting much out of this town. however, in just a week i’ve nearly finished that journal out. i had to scramble just to find a new one

kieran was kind enough to lend me one of his empty books, though admittedly the smell slightly disturbs me. not enough to turn it away though

also, leda showed me a way to loosen the enchants of the books here. so i won’t have to scramble and beg people for another book when the time comes. apparently, an enchanted book without it’s enchants is just a plain book. perfect for writing in

a lot has happened in just the few days i’ve been without a journal. for example, the cure books— the ones that luca had at least, have seemingly scrambled itself into an unreadable mess. luca claims to have no idea what happened to them, just that he woke up and they turned into that. like some mysterious force was desperately trying to hide something about this town. a secret held deep inside the soils of oakhurst

furthermore, new development has occurred in oakhurst. development i once thought impossible. a new face. someone named “allocer”

allocer claimed to have crashed into oakhurst by accident, a story that i feel i’ve heard multiple times by several different faces. he also claimed to have been what i believe was a bartender, and weirdly enough happens to have some sort of pre-existing relationship with leda. i’m not exactly sure what their relationship is, but i assume it to not be the cleanest, just from what i’ve seen myself. i’ll need to ask more about that, just after allocer gets himself adjusted to the situation afoot

it’s odd, really. i was under the belief that the barrier kept everything out of this town. mayhaps to try to keep this town’s secrets in place. that once the beacons were activated, it would block out everything from coming in or out. allocer, however, is living proof of the of different tale. that people are freely able to walk into this town, yet once they step foot they are unable to leave. however; animals and mobs can leave the confines of this barrier. only the humans here are stuck

this development only furthers the mysteries of the beacons. i felt i spent so much time with each beacon, trying to study it for everything it’s got face to face. trying to claw answers out of it. yet the moment i step into town, the moment i wasn’t even thinking about the beacons, something new about them appears. a new question to search for. a new answer to form

admittedly it frustrates me. being given so many questions without a single answer. and yet still it only pulls my curiosity further. the more questions asked the more answers to look for

and answers are just another form of a story to be told

Oh shit Sumire?! In person? On the train! Says she broke her phone at camp and lost our number. She lives at Shujin's dorms. I thought she'd be more mad at me...But she feels oddly positive about everything.

My stomach feels like stabbing itself multiple times. About everything that happened. But really, I am glad to see Sumire doing well.

People are spreading rumors of the honor student and her delinquent sister. I have to support her. Can't let her down like before...

...

I am scared confused miss her am surprised

I talked to VP! She’s actually quite kind. Even though she seems a bit confused, they’re certainly doing her best. They actually showed me around their house! It’s a bit of a labyrinth, but their garden is beautiful. We sat on the bench swing together for a while.

Echo thinks Dr. Devereaux is a vampire. No one else in our small group seemed to know what those are. All I know is things from stories I heard as a child. They are not meant to be real, though.

I started playing Kena: Bridge Of Spirits for PS5.