>>1090308
I asked WHERE he is, not what his plans are. That you don’t know. But there is something you might know. What is the Smile of Essence? Did he make that too?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/09(Thu)04:11 No. 1090621 ID: e4635f
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAxANmPoKpE&ab_channel=234BANDICOOT

>>1090621
*Corax writes down that Essence told the contaminator that she died originally of a drug overdose but it contradicts what is known about her dying on the ash tree*

Inner thoughts to "Peregrine": I think something else doesn't add up with what you "believe" about Essence. You "believe" she was the first Ana, are vague on the details of how she died, and yet you knew to ask about her smile.

Why would she lie to you, Contaminator? We know she died on the Ash Tree, binding herself to it. So why lie about it unless there was something she was keeping from you? Did you know that she was the first Ana?

Inner thoughts to "Peregrine": And how did you know to ask about the smile? Unless... Did she really die then in the battle with Scarred and Fortune Ana? Or did your old friends The Silent Whisperers get her? And is that how you know she was the first Ana?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/11(Sat)02:59 No. 1090722 ID: 853fdf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUdxCC8r5Ts&ab_channel=ncic

>>1090722
*Corax blinks, then pulls out a tape recorder and hits record*

You are one of the Silent Whisperers, the one responsible for the death of DeRvan Glashrauder, could you state that again for the record?

You also claim that you are responsible for many other deaths on the lower levels of reality. I take it many of them may have been ruled as suicide or perhaps are people who acted so unlike their usual character that it led to their death?

I also take it you have acted out ploys to ensure the success of Happy the Tragedy Phantom using various methods at your disposal. Please state them clearly for the record.

Inner thoughts to “Peregine”: I need you to connect to our Empathic Bird and to Contaminator. If you have taken control of Peregrines body I need Contaminator to trap this thing in her. If this thing has worked for Happy then my assumption was correct and using her as bait worked, but now she needs to decide whether or or not she will fight against him. Get that message to her. Have the Empathic bird help you, if she can read emotions and perhaps even manipulate them, I need Contaminator to have courage and bravery.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/14(Tue)16:41 No. 1090972 ID: ae9a5f
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piuf3ZDqzjA&ab_channel=EpicBlargman

>>1090972
Hmm. Before I make a decision I have questions I'd like to ask you. You and your compatriots in the Silent Whisperers are targeting me and my colleagues. You have infiltrated the Dimensional Tribunal, and yet you just seem to want to stop me from finding Happy. You killed DeRvan via possession, and yet you only make me pass out and we are having this conversation in a dream, you left out how I made it back to my bed chambers meaning someone had to have found me or perhaps your traitor carried me back. Why not just kill me like you did with DeRvan? Unless you can't or something is preventing it.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/17(Fri)08:53 No. 1091136 ID: ae9a5f
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg&ab_channel=schmoyoho

>>1091136
Hmm. A poorly constructed lie interspersed with half truths, and one made up at the last minute. Everything you say just doesn't make sense an contradicts everything else.

DeRvan was a sociopath, too narcissistic to ever truly consider suicide, let alone how he did it, you did that one, you were the one who put the grenade to his head. I have no doubt you CAN influence thoughts and ideas, a poke here and there, but your traitor "Echo" is living proof that you can take possession of someone, perhaps even before they go full catatonic. For further proof of this, you are literally saying you can possess Spirit Contaminator in order for me to question you, and are even using her visage now. You also did it to me and made me fall asleep, but again that's all you did. Why not just kill me? I've thoughts of suicide more than one, especially after I got out of the army, but I didn't.

What is your incentive to actually stay in her body long enough for me to question you? If you're actually going to stay for that, show me.

I'll call your bluff.

>>1091282
Ooh, that sounded like it hurt. Perhaps someone laid a little trap for you? Of course, that makes your statement that you could get away with it false. I am protected, it means that someone was ready for you, and knows about you. That also means DeRvan wasn’t protected… Hmm. Interesting. I suspect that if you really could possess anyone you would have by now, much easier to just possess people then go on a rampage. But I don’t think you knew I was protected, you assumed based on DeRvan. It could also be that there are rules you have to follow, there’s someone higher than you that has told you what to do; that explains why you haven’t just gone on a rampage yet.

So here’s what I’ve gained from this interrogation with you:

1. You are able to possess certain people who are not protected, but you also don’t know who is under that protection.

2. Your plan so far, is to dismantle the Tribunal as your goal aligns with Happy the Tragedy phantom

3. You haven’t possessed people and gone on a killing spree because you haven’t tried yet, or you have orders not to do so. You want to remain as anonymous as possible, probably so you do not become targets of either the Tribunal or Happy himself, if Happy knew, it wouldn’t work.

4. You’ve met Scarred Ana. You even operate similar to her and the other Ana voices, a voice that gives power and influences behavior, and can even possess a body given the right circumstances. Which given that the Ana voices stand against happy means they are in opposition to you, and a possible ally for us.

How very interesting.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/21(Tue)03:39 No. 1091471 ID: 19756f
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qi4C4T4IC4

>>1091471
Well, look at that. I was right, you have rules you have to follow and a superior above you. Also, Miss Maggot-Face, thank you for the information about not just DeRvan but also Triumphant miss. It makes me wonder, Triumphant may not have actually been the one to order the doctor to poison me but that also might have been Memento here acting through him. If so, clever attempt.

As for the entire thing about Ana being the next Happy, of course she can. I’m sure that’s one of his long term goals. I’ll be sure to write all of that up with my report on this.

Thank you for your cooperation with this investigation.

>>1091487
Hmm. Come to think of it, that would make sense for a contingency plan for a Happy if he can have one of the many Anas take over should something happen to him. It makes sense then why he made Essence but something tells me she was too chaotic to control fully although her smile definitely kept her under his thrall.

But you keep referencing Happy as if you know some of his plans. I think you only know part of it. Perhaps each of you do? Each of you only know a part of Happy’s plan, no one knows it in its entirety. Memento you know that a long term goal of his is to make Ana into a new version of Happy. One of you must know his name.

Hmm. Now what makes them so significant that he would want Ana to replace him? A hypothesis is that they must share some similarities or traits that make them unique.

You have given me a lot to think about. Thank you for your help and support.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/22(Wed)17:37 No. 1091587 ID: 88c326
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip7Oyr4vMkg

>>1091587
The term for people like him is “nuisance.” As for your fear, don’t let them use you and you’ll be fine. What happened after I fell asleep? I was already not looked upon favorably, I can’t imagine a sudden bout of narcolepsy aided that.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/25(Sat)08:06 No. 1091755 ID: 7c724f
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoiXqZgXyE4

>>1091755
I’d like to see their results as well and what evidence they can provide. I’m guessing they all have different answers.

And I’m fine Algich, I learned a lot actually from that interrogation. A group known as the Silent Whispers has found its way into the Tribunal and is able to possess certain people and influence ideas. I’m willing to bet that the groups who say they have solved the case of Happy have been misled by them. What I imagine they are going to do is interrogate Spirit Contaminator to see how well their evidence lines up with what they have been given.

For now the Silent Whisperers goal is to keep Happy out of our hands and they can do so by influencing us, people who aren’t under protection. One of their members tried to possess me while I was asleep but couldn’t, in fact trying to do so was painful to it. The being who tried to possess me is also the same being who possessed DeRvan and killed him. I’d like to find out who is protected, those are the people we need to trust.

For now let’s go find out what the other groups think they know.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/28(Tue)01:20 No. 1091934 ID: 04cef6
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfq_nEefDXo&ab_channel=ProductNumberFive

>>1091934
With all due respect, your Eminence Domino, torture is completely out of the question. The people we will be asking questions of are on our side unless they have proven themselves compromised. You needn’t worry about that.

And as for Peregrines idea I am also for it, however one idea and by which to angle our questions is how well do they think will it line up with was Lord Zirzam knows about this case. If they must prove their theory to anyone it will be him.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/30(Thu)02:17 No. 1092090 ID: 4c474c
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtIN9P7xPls&ab_channel=SoloGains

>>1092090
I am not against it, but I would want to see the qualifications of our new compatriot. And I would also want them to know what will be happening. There is a likelihood we are going into the proverbial lion’s den and to even get there, we must navigate what is quite literally and metaphorically a nest of vipers.

As for Threshold, I am disappointed at his departure. I knew he was green at this, but I understand his reasoning for leaving. Still, he showed great promise. If we succeed at this, I would give him a permanent contract and spot in my employment should he wish it.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/06/02(Sun)15:26 No. 1092305 ID: de0eac
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZvdpkMaXyo&ab_channel=IndigoPark_Fan

>>1092305
Interesting. Mr. Hopkins’ work ethic is admirable if perhaps self aggrandizing. Based on his experience I take it that handling and examining written documents and evidence is a specialty of his. Bring him in.

And yes Maya Din would be helpful but only if she is willing to accept.

A hypothesis for you all as well, is it possible that our Empathy Bird could help determine who is under protection or help find our possible compromised agents by examining their emotions? If they are acting out of character or having high emotions she might also be able to tell.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/06/08(Sat)23:38 No. 1092703 ID: f7b5e9
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HywBDG7xzXw

>>1092703
I think the formation works well. Let’s begin posthaste. And on second thought our bird may not do well with multiple people; best keep her reserved for one on one interactions.

Inner thoughts to “Peregrine”: That makes two of us.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/06/20(Thu)00:29 No. 1093155 ID: af8e28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hy4Qoru2_I

>>1093155
*Corax sits*
At the moment, the one who makes the most logical sense is Gates Triumphant. Most of the fingers point there for the time being. One hypothesis is that Happy may be unaware that he is actually Happy, to go along with this it would make a kind of twisted sense that some part of his psyche, the Id perhaps, has taken over in his unconscious state and is acting of its own accord. I’d rather not use Occam’s razor solution for this. Many people are looking for that, or some smoking gun.

What I do know for certain is that Happy has ties with the dimensional tribunal, and has found ways to manipulate people from the inside. As such I trust no one unless they show me that they can be trusted or have no motive.

However, I have another theory. Just a hunch or a possibility however unlikely. The universe that the tribunal watches over happens in cycles, it’s a prison. Untold millions of souls lost to the void all to keep one being locked away. I’ve read up on a few of the key players and I have an idea, but no evidence. Only a theory.

Happy could be The Root of Ash. Specifically, one of the first ones, and the one who put himself into the Ash Tree. Just as Ana did creating her many iterations, perhaps even manipulating her into it thereby truly creating not just Essence but the Ana voices in general. We know that Happy has an interest in her, a very deep one meaning that he has to know a good deal about the Ash Tree and its effects and powers and knows how to manipulate them through the cycles. Again, this is all in the realm of speculation, but I suspect Happy hates Andrew Goodwill, has seen how he influences people much like one of the Ana voices. Of course there is the proposal that the current Root of Ash has no more voices because Andrew Goodwill consumed them, but say ONE got away, or not all of them. Essence herself was a rogue version of Ana, who’s to say that there can’t be a rogue Root of Ash?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/06/23(Sun)05:53 No. 1093290 ID: 42e098
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGdfJ_RODUc

>>1093290
I believe it is a mixture of both. We are playing a game of chess, each planning moves ahead, but also being forced to correct our strategies based on our opponents. The thing is however, at times the rules change based on a dice throw.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/06/28(Fri)15:00 No. 1093552 ID: c88be6
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3kelnsdTiQ

>>1093552
*Corax stands and holds out his hand to shake*

Good to have you on the team, sir. You may refer to me as Corax for the sake of this assignment, this is my partner Peregrine. How much briefing have you had on this case so far?

*Shuffles a big stack of notes into the crook of his arm so he can return the handshake. Several papers slip out and scatter on the floor.*

Good to meet you, sirs. I've had quite a bit of briefing, in fact it really wasn't brief at all. I gather you're trying to identify some sort of enemy boss, goes by Happy, and there's a bunch of suspects with not much to narrow it down. It seems you've interviewed a number of people but not gotten any definitive evidence, am I right?

*Hopkins attempts to bend down casually to pick up the dropped papers, loosing several more in the process.*

>>1093639
That's the gist of it. We have our own suspicions however that Happy has misled many of the other teams that are a part of this investigation. At the moment we are trying to make sense of the illusions.

*Corax raises a brow at the papers scattered everywhere*

Would you like some assistance with those?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/07/02(Tue)00:48 No. 1093691 ID: 18fe20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UHYj5lJ1CY

>>1093691
Let’s establish a base, help me pull up everything we know about the other investigations. If they’re compromised and have different answers that may factor in. Most of the other investigators that I have seen all seem like they have something to prove, that makes them a target. Who are the other groups we’ll be talking with here?

*Possession? Oh boy, what did I get myself into? Wait he can't hear my thoughts now right?*

I don't see anything about Whispers in these notes. You think they're protecting this Happy fellow?

>>1093778
Yes they are. The kicker is Happy may not know about them. For the moment, their goals are aligned. The Silent Whispers want Happy to succeed and are aiding him as a shadow task force without his knowledge.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/07/06(Sat)01:54 No. 1093865 ID: c2631f
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EmkKFaT7V4

>>1093865
*Corax stares at the sleeping demon with apathy before clapping his hands loudly for silence*

Greetings to you all. For the purposes of this questioning you may refer to me as Corax and my partner as Peregrine. As many of you know, I and my fellows on the dimensional tribunal have been conducting an investigation into a known terrorist and threat the current universe; you already know this individual as they go by Happy the Tragedy Phantom. You are all here because each one of you is a suspect. There have been different investigation teams and each one them has built a case for one or perhaps each of you as to your guilt or innocence. We are here to find out what they missed. Some of you may know more than you have been letting on and the fact of the matter is, we are here to be a life line for each of you. We are here to check the other investigators work. This is your opportunity to prove your innocence. I and my team members are now ready to begin our cross examinations.

*What a cast of characters. Time for the old 'he's taking notes on me, oh no what's he writing?' trick.*

*Shoving the pile of notes in a coat pocket Hopkins takes out a pad and starts scribbling.*

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/07/12(Fri)10:50 No. 1094178 ID: da4acd
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZpOkRgEB38

>>1094178
Inner thoughts to “Peregrine” and Hopkins: We want them open and talking but in their confessionals we want to look for contradictions with each other. If they start pointing fingers, let’s make sure they are at least pointing in the right direction. I don’t necessarily think any of them are Happy but they must think one of them is. Also, perhaps this is me just on a hunch, Hopkins, watch the one who brought the tea. I never saw anyone order any, any outsider to this investigation must be considered as a threat.

*Corax claps his hands again for silence*
Perhaps the gravity of all of your situations has not sunken in. All of you are at the very least in danger of being put to death or imprisonment with no hope of release. And based on what I do know, many would rather die before going back to an oubliette.
The other investigative teams have built cases for each of you be to Happy, and some of them are getting desperate enough that they may indeed kill you or throw you all in a cell and throw away the key, just on the off chance that one of you is the target.

What I need from each of you, is transparency. I want each of you to build your own defense as it is very very likely we will not be able to help you when the time comes.

So, let’s start simple. Aside from names, what cause do you think each of you would have to be Happy. Why do you think you have been targeted?

*while Corax starts the interview Hopkins sidles over to the suspicious butler-looking fellow.*

(whispering) Hey, could I get a cup of coffee?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/07/18(Thu)06:10 No. 1094426 ID: 27fceb
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQHGqJIt1fc

No, that's alright. Sorry to bother you then.

*Does this guy work for Sirius? He was able to bring in a guy just for tea, even while he's being investigated? That's quite the level of control in this situation. Him and the other two mask wearers seem to have the most secret leader vibes so far.*

>>1094490
To Hopkins: Keep him here if possible. And as for Gates Triumphant, the "spoon head," yes have him brought in immediately. He is a person of interest and one of our suspects.

*Corax looks at each person in turn as they explain*
So each of you are just victims of circumstances, prejudice, misunderstanding, and coincidence. I see.

Who questioned you? What did they each seem interested in most? What questions did they ask?

*Grabs the butler's shoulder before he can turn away.*
Ah, actually, do bring that fellow here would you?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/07/26(Fri)03:08 No. 1094751 ID: 40ea04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlxM9Zqt9pc

>>1094751
inner thoughts to Maya Go ahead. This works better when I have someone to work off of with this.

*Corax smiles at them*
Very well. I will explain my reasoning for my questions. Each of you were questioned by different agents. In my time with the Tribunal, the bureaucracy and attitude of my colleagues has been left wanting. Most of the people I have encountered have all acted as if they have something to prove, or would rather be anywhere else and so they seek to wrap things up as quickly as possible. I have seen people here who have accosted me because of my race, my record, any who knows what else. Imagine what they might do to someone whose head is on the chopping block.

This is why I need to know who interviewed you, what agenda they’re pushing, if they honestly believe that you are guilty, etc. Your glibness at this does not inspire confidence. My time is limited and so is my charity.

While you write down and think about what I have asked, my colleague Maya would also like to ask some questions.