Spamton helltactular adventure part 6

from /hhg/ Helluva Hotel General #890
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part 2: h ttps://pastebin.com/FMkUmrxC
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>Your name is Charlie Magne
>Though some finagling you convinced your benefactor Spamton to enter recovery
>A single one on one session with you
>He was currently having cold feet
>"SO UH, NICE WEATHER WE-"
>"Focus Spamton."
>"You can't progress in recovery if you don't know the root of your problems."
>"I'M NOT GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS AM I?"
>"Nope!"
>"You agreed to this!"
>His eyes turned to static as he slumped forwards in his chair
>And so he began to spin a tale.
>His story.
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>"The year was 1995."
>"I was created."
>"A normal Addison just for selling anything and everything."
>"But I was always a little unlucky."
>"Nobody would ever click my ads."
>"And every night I told my friends, my fellow Addisons that I was gonna be a big shot one day."
>You smiled and thought that this would be a happy tale
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>"1996."
>"Our dark world merged with another."
>"A kingdom of cards."
>"There I met the jester, we both had an immense dislike of each other."
>"Then one day the jester heard it."
>"That [VOICE INSIDE THE NOISE]."
>"It twisted his mind with it's clawing words of whispered freedom."
>"I saw him go mad."
>"It was in the middle of court."
>"The noise seemed to just float it and lingered around him."
>"It supercharged his abilities for a time."
>"He froze everyone..."
>"Everyone except the queen."
>"The way he butchered the King's wife was... gruesome."
>"She was still screaming as he plucked out her tongue."
>"She died as one man circus prop, her insides used for all sorts of clownish acts."
>"In the end the king locked him away."
>"The jester saw it as a freedom, to be so far away from everything."
>"Our dark worlds split once more and we returned to more normal activities, but I never forgot the sound of that noise."
>Your smile and happy thoughts were immediately dashed and filled with concern.
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>"1997."
>"One day I got a phone call from a man named Mike."
>"He offered a new way to sell products."
>"Near over night my sales went through the roof."
>"Constant clicks and new products to sell."
>"Auto deals, Insurances, products that you couldn't help but buy."
>"I became a BIG SHOT."
>"I was invited by the queen to stay in her palace."
>"I became the number one rated salesman 1997."
>"Everything seemed to be going just fine."
>"My old friends abandoned me in a fit of jealousy."
>"They said that I didn't need anyone if I was such a BIG SHOT."
>"I was alone."
>"I was at my apex."
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>"1998."
>"One day the calls stopped."
>"My apex was over, never to be reached again."
>"I sat by the phone everyday."
>"Hoping, praying that the calls would come again."
>"In a way they did."
>"The phone rang once before I answered [IT]."
>"[THE VOICE IN THE WIRES]."
>"[THE KNIGHT]."
>"It told me of a machine in the old basement that would lead me to freedom."
>"To [H E A V E N]."
>"I wouldn't know of it's insidious nature until later."
>"I prayed constantly that it would do something, anything to save me."
>"Then the queen finally threw me out due to the catastrophic loss of sales and the fact that it was 'funny to her'."
>"I ended up living in a dumpster in an alleyway and set up a shop in the abandoned trash zone, full of things that could be deleted at any moment."
>"There were no customers."
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>"1999."
>"I had prepared a year to infiltrate the palace."
>"I had changed my clothing, hair and glasses to match one of it's employees."
>"They found me just as I was nearing my prize."
>"The Queen ordered me thrown into a river of acid."
>"I thrashed and screamed for help as my flesh peeled and burned away."
>"[[OW! IT HURTS! HELP!]]"
>"My body shrunk and my eyes melted."
>"[[AHHH! IT BURNS! OHH GOD IT BURNS!]]"
>"My code collapsed and corroded inside me as I filled with acid."
>"[[PLEASE ANYBODY SAVE ME! HELP ME!]]
>"No one came to save me."
>"[[IT HURTS SO MUCH...]]"
>"I didn't understand..."
>"[[someone help me...]]"
>He trailed off.
>His eyes dark and dull.
>You sucked in a breath as a look of horror crossed your face and the others watching, while Alastor's was one of sadistic glee.
>You didn't understand how anyone could be so callous to do that to someone.
>He seemed to lapse to catatonia.
>You were just about to walk over to him when his voice came back, solid and true.
>Unflinching like an arrow to the gut.
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>"I rose as ghost data."
>"A fraction of a fraction of what I used to be."
>"I searched and found a vessel to inhabit."
>"A small puppet was the only thing around."
>"The remnants of myself twisted and contorted it to a small Addison."
>"The [GARBAGE NOISE] whispered into my mind constantly."
>"Every inch I gave let it take more and more of me."
>"It told me the nature of the world."
>"How everything was a lie made up for the amusement of others."
>"It drove the knowledge like a stake into my memory banks."
>"It showed me the strings that bound us all to the whims of those above."
>"I was little more than an old outdated glitchy program."
>"A schizophrenic puppet to whatever it desired."
>"I waited for someone, anyone for years."
>"No one ever came."
>Though it was whispered his last words resounded as loud as a gunshot.
>Pity crossed your face as he continue onwards through his dirge.
>He robotically continued on as if you weren't ever there.
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>"2022."
>"The lightners arrived in our world."
>"I was still living in the same dumpster."
>"The strings brought the lightner to my alleyway."
>"He was chained just like me, but instead he was chained to a soul that acted as a medium for a puppeteer."
>"Everything was scripted."
>"A song and dance of a fight."
>"He came to my shop and infiltrated the palace twice for me."
>"Once to smuggle a disk out."
>"Once to smuggle a disk with me inside."
>"He put me in that body tangled in the vines."
>"The armored one, except it was little more than paper, plastic and fibers then."
>"I thought that if I had it I would be free of those wires."
>"...for an instant it was the greatest moment of my life."
>"I thought I was finally free."
>"Free from the strings that puppeteered us all."
>"I was wrong. There were still strings."
>"They reached from the void down to my body."
>"Dozens of them connected me to him."
>"[THE KNIGHT].A perfect vessel to do their bidding."
>"Scripting my every motion and thought."
>"In the back of my mind I knew that my actions weren't my own but I could do nothing but rage at the shackles that bound me."
>"I didn't want to fight Kris, not once, but I didn't have any control."
>His dead black eyes turned towards you.
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>"Do you know how it feels to be completely shut out of your body Charlie?"
>"To be be sitting in a silent cage in your mind?"
>"It's horrible."
>"Something I wouldn't ever wish on anyone."
>"I knew how it would end too, with me either dead or as good as dead without the strings."
>"I begged him to give me the soul and stop the fight as they snapped the wires from my body."
>"There were no options for them to stop."
>"No choices of their own."
>"No choice of my own."
>"Until he made one."
>"He ripped out the soul and gave it to me."
>"In an instant I bashed everything against the shackles to get a moment of control."
>"It worked and that single moment let me snap up the soul and let it burn away the corruption."
>"I cut the last wire and then I fell."
>"I couldn't see, move or hear."
>"A Marionette cut from his strings."
>"And then I woke up here, on the outskirts of pentagram city."
>"From there I went and did the same thing I did in the cyberworld."
>"I became a big shot."
>"Alone at the top."
>"Just going through the same motions I did before."
>"Day after day after day after day."
>"At some point I'd forgotten Kris and what he did for me."
>"Then I saw your interview and I began to remember and wonder why I was doing this."
>"Sometimes I'm still afraid that if I look up too long I'll see those same strings again."
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>You sat in horror.
>This wasn't what you expected at all.
>You thought he was just some bussinness man who died and came here from being too greedy.
>Not...
>A dead code who died and got puppeted by some being.
>He still hadn't moved or made any sort of indication that he was alive.
>Was he even alive as a doll?
>You didn't know what to do.
>Someone this damaged was probably out of your league.
>But he put his trust in you so you'd try your best.
>So you did the first thing you thought of.
>You gave him a hug.
>All you could hear was the roaring of static.