The Venetian Chronicles: William A. Disney AMA

The Venetian Chronicles: William A. Disney AMA
(The camera clicks on showing a man in his late 50’s with fine white hair, large coke bottle glasses and an abnormally round red face. He is wearing an ill-fitting black suit and an expensive silk tie covered in the Disney logo. Sitting next to him on a couch is Yuuko (who is setting the resolution on her laptop's camera).
Man: Is this like going on TV? Cus Bob’s style people gave me fancy glasses I’m supposed to wear if I am going to be on TV.
Yuuko: Kind of, but only people with access to the council archives are going to see this so I don't think he will mind. (Clearing her throat) This is Council envoy Yuuko Shirakawa, agent of the dragon, and historian for the archives in Dublin Ireland. As part of the Chronicles initiative, I am interviewing active agents from the 21st century so that future generations may better understand the context in which events are taking place. This session is being recorded on June 8th 2019  in Greenfield Ireland, at the Green residence. Previously we interviewed  William A. Disney, The previous interview was a standard  Venetian Chronicle, however the community has expressed an interest in getting to know Will better and so thanks to the Council of Venice's educational outreach program, we have arranged an “Ask Me Anything”(AMA) style interview, with Will. Are you ready to begin.
Will: (grinning) Ready, Steady, Yuuko!
Yuuko: Our first question comes from Jac, who wanted to know “who is your favourite dog? (followed by a 500 word essay on why dogs are best.)”
Will: (patting his jacket pockets), do you have a pencil and paper I can borrow? I'd asked about your computer but I am not really good with computers, and I think It’d be faster if I wrote it out by hand.
Yuuko: You don't need to write anything will, Jac just gets over excited sometimes.
Will: Oh, in that case, a lot of the scientists that work in the labs under the park bring their dogs with them to work. They got all different kinds, but I think my favourite though is Doc M’s dog. He is a little Schnauzer named Brutus, he rides a skateboard. Kinda of partial to this Jac though too, he looks like a rascally little bastard.
Yuuko: Our next question comes from Jon who asks, “what is the blue pension plan like? (No I'm not comparison shopping Jac. Stop reading over my shoulder)”
Will: I have an accountant, a nice fella called Jim Wong, who handles this stuff for me (I never was very good with numbers). But he explained to me once after dad died in the whole Carcosa incident, the Illuminati have something called an index fund and I get a dividend from that once a month that is based on how much the company paid in to it. I forget the exact number, but Jim said I could buy just about anything in the world that was for sale, so I don't worry much about money, cuss it doesn't take much to make me happy. Most of the other blue’s I met don't seem to worried about money either, specially the others on the committee, so I think overall its pretty good.
Yuuko: Our next few questions come from Evelyn DeKorte who wanted to know your thoughts on the nature of the human soul.
Will: (looking pensive), to tell you the truth, I never really think about that kind of stuff to often. Dad always said there was no such thing, but I figured if that magic and monsters were real, then there is probably something to this soul business. I asked the bees about it once and they kind of giggled and started talking all scary like they do, I can't recall what they said only that it kinda freaked me out.
Yuuko: She also wanted to know, “how he thinks his soul and that of his family's has been tainted by the ruthless pragmatism that masquerades behind a friendly cartoon mouse & an unblinking eye emblazoned on a dollar bill.”
Will:...my half sisters say dad wasn't always like he was when they put him in the exoskeleton, they say he use to be real nice, but the more he hung around with the blues the meaner he got. By the time I was born, people said he had a mean strike the size of California, and I think that's what your twitter friend is driving at, but I am not really sure. As for me, I am what Bob calls a silent partner, I'm suppose to go to committee meetings and vote on bunch of important things, and schmooze with our big wig investors, but I don't deal much with the business end of things. But I don't always agree with everything everyone does either and I try to undo those things I think are wrong, but they do a lot of things and they are really good at hiding em from me, and I think sometimes they just say they will do something so I will leave em alone. But I also try to do good, like Uma taught me. Not sure how much that counts for though.
Yuuko: She also would like to know “How well does Disney's mission statement "to entertain, inform and inspire people around the globe" mesh w/ the Illuminati's motto of "the world is bad place, and you could either do or get done?"”
Will: Dad always said that kind of stuff was his “pitch” to investors, most of the time he said it was his “marketing monkeys” who wrote it, though I never saw any monkeys in marketing, just a bunch of fellas who smoked a lot. The second part sounds a lot more like dad after he was in the exoskeleton, so I guess the answer to that is they don't really fit together, but according to our shareholders, they do and boy howdy those guys don't take being told no well at all, so I’m inclined to agree, else I get yelled at.
Yuuko: Evelyn also wanted to know how you feel about reconciling your family's history of bringing wonder to children with their ruthless acquisition of creative IPs, their undermining of individual artists & their compliance in the greed of late-stage capitalism.
Will: (thinking carefully)...could you tell me what IP means again.
Yuuko: Intellectual properties, they are things like books and movies.
Will: Oh OK, I have only very recently gotten involved in that part of the business, until about a year or two ago, I was in charge of cleaning the park and the tunnels underneath it. After Dad died in Carcosa though, people like Bob told me I was in charge now, and one of the things I was supposed to do, was sign off on how they were running things, and one of those things I needed to sign off on was buying Fox. They have a lot of movies that I like and I figured that if I liked them, then probably other people liked them too, so it would be good business to own them and that was my first real involvement with that kind of stuff. Before that it was all dad and he bought things either to make money or so other people couldn't have them, but he also made those things available to a lot of people so I think that is a good thing, even though he was kind of a jerk about it. As for the artist I always got on well with the artist,  they usually had a bowl of jelly beans in the studio office and sometimes the lady at the front desk would give me a soda if it was hot out. Dad though hated them, they’d go at it like cats and dogs, especially about money and I remember once the fella who did the backgrounds floated the idea of bring in this lady he knew to help get the cartoon done on time and Dad lost it. I think that was the first time I saw the exoskeleton flip something. That wasn't the last time I saw him lose it though either, if things weren't going just right or felt they were spending to much money, he be down their yellin at them and they’d get back at him by drawing nudie pics of different ladies in the cartoons. Dad hated that cause technically he owned them but he knew he couldn't sell them, so they just kind of piled up in the vault. I think we still have that vault though I don't know if any one has ever been in there though, as for the rest of the question I don't know what late-stage capitalism means but it doesn't sound good, so I am against it.
Yuuko: Skye Thornwise would like to know whose idea the 1 vs 100 tv show was?
Will: I have never heard of that show, what's it about?
Yuuko: (pulling up a video on her phone)
Will: Ohhhh I see, is that Bob Saget?
Yuuko: I think it is yes.
Will: I use to loved full house when it was on, for the 1 vs 100 show, I don't recall any of our people being involved with it. But it does seem like something that would come out of our computers, the scientist feed them all kinds of info on the guests and they spit out things they think people will like. This seems like something they might come up with, I don't know exactly which one came up with it though but I will have to look into it and when find the answer, I will get back to you Sky.
Yuuko: Our next question comes from Lula who asks "Now that your family’s company (Disney) has purchased elements of 20th Century Fox and 20th Century Fox makes the Alien franchise: Is the Alien Queen now a “Disney Princess?"
Will: She sure is, I always held that every girl who comes to disney is a Disney Princess, even if she is 12 feet tall and ornery. The head of our hospitality division though sees things a little differently, they say she can't be a Princess cuz she isn't human and that it was also off brand for the park. I think that's really closed minded of him, but he had the board on his side so she probably won't be roaming the park anytime soon. But to answer your questions, I think she is no matter what the board says.
Yuuko: Arkham would like to know if you believe in the Disney Magic itself that seems to permeate the park as a kind of positive energy. The almost opposite of the park in kingsmouth. I believe no child has been lost there more than an hour. What does he believe is it’s cause.
Will: Disney magic is definitely a thing, the park is one of the most heavily warded areas in the entire world. The park has withstood full blown Templar Assaults and demonic attacks and not once has either of them been able to break through the first barrier. As far as the specifics go though I couldn't tell ya how it was done, when the park was being built, dad spent a lot of time with the Illuminati bigwigs and they told him just about everything they knew. Doc H once told me that not a single brick in the park didn't have some kind of spell on it, I asked him if it was good magic in the park and he said that magic wasn't good or bad, just another thing humans used to do good or bad things with. Then I asked him if the parks magic made people happy, and he said that it didn't exactly work like that. He said the park was kind of like a big ice box that holds the anima people normally produce in and when folks are exposed to more anima it makes them produce more anima and that powers the magic in the park. Most folks ain't magic so they don't notice anything aside from being a little happier than usual, but if your having a bad day or got up the wrong side of the bed, it can also make those feelings a lot worse. Doc H use to say that's why parents blow up at the park at least once a month. I think I remember the fella that use to own the park in kingsmouth, when they put dad in the suit, he came barging into the park and offered him just about everything he had for the spells and tech that made the suit and park possible, but since dad signed a bunch contracts in blood he could give him any and then he stormed out screaming that dad would regret his decision. I don't think he did though, I guess he got the spells to try it from somewhere though because his park was all over the news even all the way out here, until that fella in the chipmunk suit killed all those kids (shudder), still gives me the willies just thinking about it. I imagine that fella was real afraid of dying because most of the people asking about dads suit were like that. Any how as for the lack of missing kids, ain’t no magic there just our crack security team.
Yuuko: Jules Burnet says he was once involved in an “incident” at Disneyland and wanted to know if you knew how much it cost to repair the park after the “incident/”
Will: (taking out his phone) I don't know off the top of my head, but I know who would. Give me a sec and I’ll find out. Siri call Jim Wong.
Siri: Calling Jim Wong
Jim Wong: Yes Mr. Disney how can I help you?
Will: Hi Jim, its me Will.
Jim: (nervously laughing) I can see that Mr. Disney, you need something?
Will: Yeha, I need the cost of a repairs from a dust up with a fella by the name of Jules Burnet, can you help find that?
Jim: One moment sir. (the clicking of keys can be heard through the phone.) ….Ok, Jules Burnet is currently persona non grata at the california park, After a protracted battle with our security forces at splash mountain. In addition to destroying several animatronics, he destroyed the paths leading up to the ride (cratered the sidewalk with a hammer), he sank a pirate ship at Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island, where our security forces were able to corner him briefly before he escaped to the haunted mansion. That is where our cameras cut out, we don't what he was doing in their but after he emerged, we were able to drive him on to main street where our magi were able to activate the park wards and expel him from the premises. All in all our encounter with Mr. Burnet cost us 1.8 million in repairs (most of that is the pirate ship), another million in destroyed animatronics, 800,000 for the security force time, 4.5 million in PR and information management, and finally $175 in stolen merchandise, this brings us to a grand total of $8100175 in raw material cost and about another 2 million in lost revenue from the attractions having to be closed.
Will: Thanks Jim! Is he the worst bee to ever come through the park?
Jim: He is in the top 10 but he is not the worst by a long shot.
Will: Ok, Thank you Jim! Bye.
Jim: My pleasure Mr. Disney.
Yuuko: Jules would also says "I would like to buy some of that look away green color they invented. Like, enough to paint a bus. So.... are they SELLING that... and is it really normal paint, or part magic shit?”
Will: We don't currently sell the paint, cus we don't make it, but we do buy it by the bulk though and I can tell you how to get it. What you want to do is go to home depot and ask for the Behr Pale Jade if you need green. The green isn't magic, but the gray is, it's just gray paint mixed with anima and we paint all the tunnels with it, boy does it smell though, kind of like burning meat and gas. To make that you go to home depot and ask the paint guy to make you batch with the following numbers (takes a scrap of paper from pocket) 139, 153, 153. Then you want to find someone with a lot of anima and then ask them to mix their blood into the paint and then shake it up real well and that should give you the same magic paint that we use.
Yuuko: Our next few questions come from Dr. Klaus Von Richter.
Will: I remember Klaus, he came in with the cats to get Anya.
Yuuko: The same one, and he would like to know “Do you know if the Disney Corporation ever has had to enact or triggered cover-ups for potentially bringing to light the Secret World through such shows as Gravity Falls And American Dragon: Jake Long?”
Will: (thinking)...I know we crossed a line once with Gravity Falls, it was the one where they were talking about where the little triangle fella came from. I forget what they wanted us to change exactly, but boy were they mad that it was in there, I also remember they wanted something removed from the start of the show, some kind of math. They were real mad about that one too, the show also caused a couple of scrappy looking fellas to show up and start spilling the beans about the magic in the park, security took em down into the tunnels and that was the last I saw of them. We also have had to run clean up on a bunch of other things not related to cartoons, over in Paris, kids use to wander off from the park all the time and get eaten by things lurking outside, plus the reds were always trying to raid the tunnels and push us out of europe. Haven't heard anything about that in while so I guess things have calmed down.
Yuuko: Klaus's next question is “Do you ever get sent out to do fieldwork after you were Chosen?”
Will: Dad never liked letting me out in the field, always preferred to keep me hidden under the park,  but from time to time some one from the blues would come by and ask me what I saw and heard and I’d tell em the best I could and then they just disappear into the crowds like they were never there. My last big adventure would be the whole Carcosa incident with the cats, Doc West and that Browni bastard. My memory is a little hazy since they hit me in the head a lot on that one, but according to the reports, Dad was trying to steal the power of the king in yellow, but before he could I freed the red queen and she started a war with the king in yellow for control of Carcosa and that caused the whole planet to rip a part, and now they are going fight forever around a star in the constellation taurus. Also dad was eaten by the Cats of Ulthar, so now I got his seat on the committee...things got a little out of hand there for a few days. I think there is more field work in my future mostly cus I can leave the park now.
Yuuko: Klaus’s final question is, “Do you enjoy your current position maintaining the Park?”
Will: (thinking)...When dad first gave me my job cleaning things, he did it as a way of keeping people from knowing about me and my condition and because he thought it was all I was capable of, but to tell you the truth I never thought of it like that. There is kind of a I guess you would say zen to cleaning things, even when it's real gross, you put your best into something, only to see it wrecked and since it happens all the time instead of being sad about it, you kinda just learn to go with it and I think that taught me that sad things are part of life and even though you feel sad at the time, you get up the next day and you have the chance to be happy. I know that's sounds like kinda a weird thing to say about emptying trash cans, but I think it helps keep things in focus. So I guess I do like it pretty well. Though I have been doing less and less of it ever since dad died, I have been doing more of the things he use to do, mostly sitting in meetings with other illuminati committee members and voting on things, sometimes people ask me about the park and what to add to it (real proud of what the folks in R and D did for star wars), and other times I get dressed up and go to fancy parties. Bob says I am good at parties, a real people person, he says it helps the company to have me schmooze with people at these parties, though I am not sure how. Those things don't happen a lot though, after dad died and I didn't have to clean any more I started getting real bored and I found myself cleaning again just out of habit, though there is not much to do these days, the fellas who are top side are cleaning the tunnels now more and more and I help them anyway I can, the head of the team a guy named Sancho, is teaching me spanish and tells me all about his kids back in El Salvador. Even when I am helping out, I find myself with a lot of downtime, so I just go topside and watch people in the park, I like it because I always see a bunch of kids smiling and laughing and being happy and I remember how my Ulma use to make people happy too. I especially love watching people come in and out of the new scrap yard in the star wars park, because when people go in, their making these weird faces, like their going to faint, but when they come out they have these big grins on their face, the same kind little girls get when they meet the princesses, and I think that's what the park is supposed to be at its best. Maybe when dad was thinking it up it was only supposed to be about money, but it also helps people feel that same kind of happy they felt when they were kids, and cleaning the park gives me a chance to see that all the time, and I think that's one of the reasons I keep cleaning.
Yuuko: Gin would like to know if you know anything about Room Zero?
Will: (looking nervous)....
Yuuko: If you don't want to answer this one just let me know and we will move on.
Will: no, I do...I just need to steel myself for a second...So where do you want me to start?
Yuuko: Let's start at the beginning. Can you tell everyone what room zero is?
Will: Room zero is a bomb shelter under the park, it was supposed to be a place where guests would be sheltered if the park was ever attacked. Now though, there just a bunch of things that use to be people and something that I don't have a word for….How much does the council know about it?
Yuuko: We have records from the Illuminati, indicating that shortly after the park opened 122 individuales disappeared from the park. The committee told the council it was a supernatural incident, but failed to specify its nature. The US government purged the missing individuals from the social security roles and covered up the disappearance, and the council has recorded various rumours associated with the incident, but we have yet to find anything concrete.
Will: (taking off his glasses to rub his eyes) then I guess I better put this right by telling the truth. To understand how room zero happened, you have to know a little bit about my dad and how he thought about things.When dad was coming up he saw himself as a real go getter, the kind of person who could bend the world to his will and make it anything he wanted, and since he had come from very little, he started thinking that if he could bend the world to his will then any one could, and that the world would be a better place if everyone was a go getter like him. This lead him to do a lot of reading about other people who thought like he did about being a go getter, he was real into books by this guy called nietzsche in particular. Now Dad was alway real opinionated but my half sisters said that he started getting real bad, when the company started taking off, he suddenly had a lot of ideas about how the world should work and how people should act. The park was kinda his mock up of how the world oughta
Run, he brought in all kinds of experts to help him set it up from both the regular world and the secret world and among them was a guy called Strasse. I think we was from Germany, Doc H told me was with something called the Thule society, and was a favorite with the committee back when the blues where fighting among themselves trying to figure out how to handle the war. After the war, he came to work for dad, in the park, he designed a lot of the HR procedures at the park, how people oughta look and act, what kind of people we oughta be hiring that kind of thing. Now I was never there when they were talking shop (dad tried to keep me out of business end of things unless that business was cleaning something), but he never really warmed up to me. That's weird in it self, Doc H use to say I had a talent for schmoozing and I made friends with everyone under the park, except for dad and Strasse. Strasse was always giving me the evil eye and never said anything to me other then “pick this up” or “you missed a spot,” but he gave everyone else the willies too. Doc H use to tell me to be careful around him, he’d never say why only, that Strasse couldn't be trusted and people like him had a lot of hate in their hearts that made them do stupid things. The worst reaction he got was from my Uma though, one day me and her were topside having a lunch, I think she was having some kind of soup and I was having a tuna sandwich and those corn chips they use to serve at the mexican place, not the kind you get in the bags like you do now, but the real kind that just came out of the oven and…
Yuuko: Will, the story.
Will: What? Oh right Room Zero. Any ways we were having lunch and Strasse was topside from some reason, he was watching kids and scribbling in his little book. Uma saw him over my shoulder and she dropped her spoon and started shaking, her eyes got real big and she started clutching the scar on her arm so tight I thought she was going to break it. So I look over my shoulder and see him, and since Uma had taught me to say hi to people you know, I start waving, and she throws her money at the waitress, picks me up under her arm and runs faster than anyone I had ever seen to the maintenance closet and locks us both in there. The entire time she was shaking and covering my mouth, trying not to make any noise. I think we were in there for about 2 hours or so and eventually she opens the door lets us both out, and then she just fell to her knees and started crying. I asked if she was ok and she gave me the tightest hug anyone had ever given me. Next day, she apologized for pulling me into the closet, but said it was real important that I was never alone with Strasse, or accept anything from him and if ever he tried to get me to come with him somewhere, I was suppose to run and find her or Doc H. She said if I didn't she give me the worst spanking I had ever had in my life. She never did though, threatened me a few times but never hit me, usually when I was being rascally but that's normal for kids
Yuuko: Will, Room Zero.
Will: I know, I guess I am just putting it off at this point.
Yuuko: We can stop if you are feeling uncomfortable.
Will: No, this needs to be on the record. Now that you know about Dad and Strasse, you can know about the Gascots and Room Zero. I first noticed them showing up around the same time the park staff started talking about forming a union, couple of the janitors would normally help me with electrical and mechanical things, showed up one day wearing those gas masks, (goofy and mickey). They had always been real nice and would tell me all about their kids and families and such but after they showed up with the masks, they stopped talking altogether, just followed me around fixin things and sometimes lifting things I couldn't carry.  When I asked one of them why they were wearing the masks, they just stared at me for what felt like forever, and then answered with my own question in my own voice. I am not sure if that was supposed to be a cry for help or  they were messing with me or if that was all they could say, but that freaked me out bad enough to drop my tools and run top side as fast as I could. Only one of them ran after me, and when I got topside the sight of the other people seemed to drive him nuts because he started clawing at his mask and screaming like he was dying and then finally hitting his head against a wall until it split opened and this yellow goo, started bleeding out of his mask. I just about pissed myself at the sight of it, but no one else seemed to notice. A few seconds later Strasse comes out of one the tunnels muttering about adults rejecting the virus and how “younger subjects” would be ideal. I remember what Uma said and went running to find her.
    Later Dad would tell me that, the Gascots were employees who had volunteered for an experimental “vitamin” that Strasse was making that would let people work for longer. I am pretty sure that was a lie, I am not sure if Dad lied to me because he was worried I’d tell someone or if just wanted me to keep working with the things, either way it didn't seem like I had a whole lot of choice in the matter. The next few sets of them were younger then the last two, I had never seen these guys before, they looked like a couple of teenagers off the street, they lasted about a week before they went the way of the first two. The next batch couldn't have been much older then me at the time, a group of boys and girls no more than 8 or 9, I think I knew in my heart of hearts they probably been taken from the park, but I didn't want to think about it at the time, cus if that was true then it would only be a matter of time before I ended up in one of those masks.
    Like the others before them the only kind of talking they could do, was repeating things you had said back to them and they could do it in the exact same voice of the person who said it.  Strasse apparently had been playing cartoons for them before their shifts so that if guests ever saw them they could answer in their characters voice. I suspect he also got a kick out using them to scare me but that would assume he thought I mattered enough to figure into whatever he was planning. I tried striking up a conversation with a few of them a couple of times, but all I ever heard back was my own question. Sometimes I thought I could see a tear through the gas mask, or hear their voice brake, particularly when one of them was about brake and splatter their head all over a bench. ….The world hasn't been very kind to me Ms. Yuuko, even people I loved have said things that hurt me real bad and I have wished bad things on people before, but I would never, ever, ever, wish being a gascot on anyone, not dad on his worst day, not the worst guest I ever encountered, not on any of the scary things the bees know about. What Strasse did to those kids with his “vitamin,” I don't think I got words for the kind thing that makes him.
Yuuko: Do you need a minute, I can pause the recording if you like, and we can stop at any time.
Will: No, I am fine, They used the kids for a few years but they discovered that while adults didn't last as long as the kids, they could do more complicated things. You could show them how to fix a speaker and they would remember, they couldn't do that with the kids, if something was to complicated, they either do it badly or start clawing at their mask. As the park grew, so did the know how needed to keep it running, I was always their cleaning things, delivering mail, and stuff, but I couldn't do things like fix the monorail or troubleshoot the computers. The adult gascots could be shown how to do that stuff but they'd burn out after a couple of weeks at most and  then you need to go find new ones to replace them, so they weren't ideal to replace the employees and I thought that would be the end of them, and for a while it was, after about a year the last of the gascots had died and I thought we were done with them but then Strasse found that book.
    I don't know where it came from or what was in it, it had a skull on it that much I remember, it didn't look like any skull you would see round here not like the kind you see in story books or around Halloween, this one looked...different, I don't really know how to describe it, kind of like the stuff you see in india, but different, if that makes sense, anyway he was real excited about finding it. He was muttren about “the key” and about how he could “stabilize them.” I wasn't clued into what they were up to, but I was told to clean out the bomb shelter that dad had built under the park and make sure that it was stocked with a bunch of the gas masks that the gascots would ware. I should have known something was wrong when they asked me to clean out the bombshelter, because it was never meant to be open to guest, it supposed to be a place where the higher ups could hide in case of one of the other societies came calling, but I did it anyway.
A few days later, they call me into a room overlooking the bomb shelter through one of those two way mirrors, I don't know why they called me there, guess they didn't want me getten mixed up in the experiment and ruining things. Dad was there and he turned to Strasse and said do it. Then he hit a button and sounded an air raid, for some reason though it didn't go off all over the park, just in a few places, I think it was just Critter Country. But I remember seeing them all ushered down in to the shelter, and the security forces passing out the gas masks and once it looked like everyone had their masks on, Strasse started reading from the book, something in a language I had never heard of and one of the other scientists hit another button, and I heard a hissing noises come from the other side of the mirror, that's when it started in truth. "Hey!" a man shouted, "Quit pinching!" "Who's running around? Settle down!" Someone hollered.
"Who's laughing? This isn't funny!", "Ow! Who stepped on my foot?!", I remember the kids were kind of being herded towards the center of the crowd, and then folks started trying to pull their masks off and found they were stuck, and that made them panic, they started accusing one another of all kinds of things, and then the kids started crying and people yelling, and finally security closed the door and they started hitting each other. Then Strasse changed his tone and starts a new part of the thing he was reading, I looked down and I could see they were packin themselves together and tearing at each other, turning themselves into some kind of screaming red ring around the kids. Then something, I don't know what, some kind of black ball formed above and the lights started flickering and the screaming got louder and the kids were crying now, and I couldn't do anything except watch, then after what felt like eternity Strasse stops his reading and the lights go out for good. Then I herd kind of wet popping sound, followed by a cracking sound the kind ice makes when its about to break, finally just silence. Someone most of got way though because then I see a Light come from an open door and see something hanging on the wall above the door, couldn't quite make out what it was, just that it had real long arms and legs, and it was wearing one of the gas masks and it said in this raspy voice, "Shut the door, dear. You're letting out the cold." Whoever that was open the door slammed it real quick (first sensible thing that I had seen done all day.) The other scientist in the room they stand up and start clapping for Strasse, whatever he was trying to do he succeeded.
    After that they called the bomb shelter room zero and no one was aloud near it. I’d see gascost turn up in the park from time to time after that but I never worked with them again (never wanted to either). Years later Dad brought in Doc West and her pet...thing and by that time Strasse was in a suit like dad and for some reason, she took a real shine to him, always asking him about his work and the book, finally after about a week she invited him back to her place for dinner and that was the last we saw of him. Dad didn't much care that Strasse was gone now that we had Doc West, but the gascot sighting started dropping off real quick after he disappeared. Now that I am in charge people ask me what we should do with room zero and I say, fill it in with concrete then brick up the hall leading to it, cause I never want to see or hear the thing in it again and that Ms. Yuuko is everything I know about the gascots and room zero.
Yuuko: I think this is a good place to leave off for today, Thank you for joining us Will.
Will: Always my pleasure Ms. Yuuko.
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