Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26981196-20150913150352

Have you ever heard of Gregory James Henderson? He was a really famous singer/songwriter in the early 2000’s. He played with the band One More for the Road as the lead singer. He had several hits during his life, including the song “Who can’t stop believing in me” which held the number one spot on the top 10 song list for 15 weeks straight. He was also married Reese Witherspoon. They even had a child, Jimmy Henderson was his name. All of his friends had called him “Slim Jim” for some reason or another; I don’t have all the details.

You don’t know him? That’s to be expected as he never existed. Well, that would technically be a lie as he did at one point, but not anymore. The Indistinguishable man got a hold of him. Tragic story really, never reached the news, because once It got him, he was gone from existence. You can even ask Reese about him. She probably would just look at you as if you had 3 heads. As for Jimmy, asking him would probably result in “I never knew my dad”.

The Indistinguishable man is a very strange entity. It is normal from the neck down. It wears a black tux with black dress pants and brown shoes. The shoes are waxed thoroughly, but there is a slight scuff on the right shoe, above the big toe. Above Its neck, however, things get strange. Its head is completely hairless. The indistinguishable man has no ears either. There aren’t even holes where they should be, it just seems like smooth skin. Its face is even stranger. It seems as though someone took a high resolution, 1080 pixel picture, and stuffed it all into some 16 bit image. The randomness of the features is so off putting, it is strange to even think about it.

It attacks in what seem to be relatively random patterns. Victims can be anywhere from 5 years old to 100 years. Also, it doesn’t seem to care what gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or what kind of past you have. No one is safe from its crummy mitts. Not everyone faces him during their lives however. Most people in the world have never had such an encounter, nor have they ever even heard about It. These people usually ignore those whom have actually seen what the Indistinguishable Man can do.

The attacks are similar to Freddy Kruger’s attacks. They happen in dreams. In the dream, you could be anywhere that you deem either important, safe, or has had some big impact in your life. The list of locations of the dream include:  Your place of work, your home, your school, a video game, the hospital where you were born, your significant other’s home, your ex’s home; the list goes on and on. The only other thing that the places seem to have in common is that it all happens during the night, with a starless sky. The moon has also disappeared from the sky.

There will be one or more people with you during the dream. It will always be a victim of the Indistinguishable man. My dream was shared with Greg with the setting being on my basketball court, which was placed at the end of the driveway of my childhood home. Whomever you have happen to share your dream with will start to tell you everything about themselves. They will talk rapidly and it will eventually sound like gibberish, but the knowledge will be imprinted into your brain as if you have heard every word clearly and have some sort of photographic memory. The story could take from 5 minutes all the way to 2 hours. Once the story is complete, the Indistinguishable man will appear, ready to take back the soul that had escaped its clutches. The person, will of course hide from the monster, you can too if you want, the end result will be the same no matter what you do. In a way, it seems that the people who escape from It are the ones who really are dragging everyone else down with them, but, it is hard to say. It may be that the Indistinguishable Man actually releases a soul for some poor person to pick up within their dreams and then tracks down the soul.

It will appear rather far from you. It will move very slowly, creeping closer and closer. As you stare at the being, its face will start to obscure your vision. It will look like someone copied his face onto a clear piece of plastic and then taped it to your forehead, with the opacity increasing the longer you look. No sound will be heard, not even crickets or birds still awake. After It gets close enough, the dream will snap over to another scene.

You will find yourself trapped in a dark science lab of some sort, staring down into a blackened hallway. The windows will show no light, and will only show soil, as if the room was buried underground. Each desk in the room will have a glass container that had been shattered into several pieces. The desk in front of the room will have a much larger container, more so a tank of some sort then a simple container, that will also shattered; showing only small pieces of glass and the metal frame. The room itself will smell of such vivid dust and rot, you could swear that it wasn’t a dream. You will then hear a moderate, gurgling scream. It will be of a creature you have never heard before, but it will be recognizable at the same time. It is a cry for help. Ignore it, stand your ground, for this is your first warning. You must try your hardest to wake yourself now. Do anything in your power to get yourself back to the real world.

The second warning arrives very rapidly. A feeling of bugs crawling over your legs will overcome you. Don’t look down. Stay focused, keep trying to wake up. If you so much as glance down, there is no being strong enough to save your life. The third warning is the same scream as the first warning. However, it will be piercing and will source from right behind you. You must wake yourself before, during, or within 2 seconds after the scream fades. I was able to wake during the scream, but others say that if you cannot, the Indistinguishable man appears right in front of you. It will only last a second, and then you will bolt straight up in your bed, covered with a cold sweat.

If you are able to wake up before the Indistinguishable Man appears, you are lucky. You are free of It, as is your mind, meaning that you will remember any person that ceases to exist after your experience and you will retain the memory of the person that talked to you in the dream. Other survivors and I have compiled all of the information into a forum on the internet. It turns out that a lot of people have survived an encounter with the Indistinguishable man. We have at least 300 or so people stored in the site, a sadly large number. They weren’t able to get away.

If you were unable to wake up from the dream, well, I don’t have a clear knowledge about it. I do know that it somehow only affects the person themselves and all that they have created, with the exception of offspring. The offspring would usually have a gap in their memory about the parent that was taken as does the other parent. The living parent will no longer recognize the child and this usually leads to putting the child up for adoption. I also believe that the offspring have a higher risk for an attack then others, but that is only a theory of mine. The rest that I know about what happens after the fact comes from a forum user named XHotLineX. I have written down his posts leading up to his disappearance.

-April 15, 2015 3:34 P.M-

I’ve been searching this forum for a while now and I’ve got to know if this is real or not. I mean, it can’t be, it all sounds just like some sort of scary movie or some other nonsense. You are all either really committed to the job, or you are all on some kind of drug that I would love to get my hands on.

-April 16, 2015 4:50 P.M-

Alright, so lots of you have been private messaging me about my first post. You guys are all fucked up in the head or something. You should probably see some kind of therapist.

-April 18, 2015 8:17 P.M-

<p class="MsoNormal">Yeah, sorry ‘bout the last post and all, getting all worked up and whatever. You guys still need to face reality though. There are no such things as monsters. Only a few choice people are labeled monsters, but they aren’t really. I think all that you guys are trying to do is scare people. It ain’t funny.

<p class="MsoNormal">He was a classic non believer, at the start. Then a few days after:

<p class="MsoNormal">April 21, 2015 8:00 A.M

<p class="MsoNormal">GUYS!!! I’m sorry that way I’ve been acting and all, but I had the dream you guys were talking about last night. I kind of laughed it off at first, but this morning, I found this strange picture on the floor next to my front door. What do you make of it?

<p class="MsoNormal">The picture was normal. I showed a businessman sitting in a chair. He held no emotion on his face as he stared blankly into the camera. It was creepy really, but didn’t seem too sinister. However, for about 2 weeks straight XHotLineX kept posting more of the pictures. Every time he posted them, the man’s face grew more and more distorted. At the end of the 2 week period, He posted another picture along with a bit of text this time.

<p class="MsoNormal">May 5, 2015 8:00 AM

<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the picture for today. I’ve had no sleep for a few days. I am scared. It is coming. I can feel the dread growing.

<p class="MsoNormal">The picture was of an empty chair, the one the man had been sitting on in the other pictures.

<p class="MsoNormal">After I saw the picture, a P.M message popped up from XHotLineX.

<p class="MsoNormal">“H E L P. M E.”

<p class="MsoNormal">I tried to PM him back, but I got no answer.

<p class="MsoNormal">I checked the forum again the next day. All of the posts had been erased. I tried to PM him again, but it said that the account name did not exist. All of my PMs toward him were gone too. I asked around the forum. Everyone whom had talked to XHotlineX at some point said they received the same PM. It was the first time that someone had vanished that had actually used the site. We are all still confused as we were on that day, but there was one thing we knew. He was gone, something that I have grown accustomed to seeing. I closed the forum post about the PM while rubbing my eyes. I sighed and jumped over to the home page.

<p class="MsoNormal">I added XHotLineX to the list.

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