Map - First Submission

Here's the map. Please don't judge my drawing skills, it was done with paint! Luka and I may be heading to Louisiana next, but I'm not too sure. Anyone know if it's safe up there?
-HȺLLØWED

Found the Thumdrive!!

. . . with a Morse code image file on it. I don't know Morse code, so I went and found the Morse code translator machine that Dr. Cairo put up on his Youtube video "Basic Codes" which I found very helpful. Never know when Luka's gonna decide to write some weird code on the wall in a motel room or something. He actually wrote one the other day, which I have deciphered just recently. It wasn't even a code really. It was just a bunch of scribbles, with random letters placed here and there. It turned out to be an anagram, and it translated to "FRIEND". I'll put up the morse code to see if any of you guys can translate it. I don't have time to input the code into the translator right now - we can't spend all our money on motels, and we need food, so we're leaving to see if we can find any more abandoned homes with high roofs.

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-HȺLLØWED

Luka

Landed in Florida a few days ago. It was late at night when we landed. The first thing I did was find some place to sleep. I eventually settled on an old abandoned house that was high enough for me to sleep on the roof and escape from harm. I pretty much wandered around aimlessly all afternoon, when, fortunately, I stumbled across a runner. I'm using his computer now. I found him drawing all sorts of things on a brick wall in an alleyway, and, well, friendship started from there. I told him I was a runner, and now we're running together. His name is Luka. He apparently just started running a little while ago too, but he seems to be suffering more mentally than anything else.

So things have gotten better, I guess. It's really just nice to know that I have a new friend who's suffering from the same thing going through this with me.

I gotta apologize for not posting in so long too. Everything's been happening so fast and all at once, what with Luka and finding a place to stay and all. But I think things may start to get better. But I probably shouldn't say that either - a lot of runners said that before and look where they ended up: either still running for the lives and escaping by the skin of their teeth, or. . . dead. So I guess I should watch my words.

I think that's it for a while. I'm going to upload that map once I find my thumbdrive (it mysteriously went missing - hopefully it's just under a bunch of stuff in my bag. I swear to god if that thing's lost, I'm so screwed.).

-HȺLLØWED

Map

Okay, so I said in my last post that I was on my way to Florida. Well, I am currently waiting for my plane and I have access to a cellphone. . . which I kinda stole but that's besides the point. There's free Wi-Fi here (and I won't keep the phone - I'll set it down on a random bench and hope the person who owned it finds it). So, because I have 20 minutes to wait, I guess I should tell you a little thing first.

Obviously, you guys are going to want to keep track of me somehow. So I'm going to rip an image of the U.S. map off the Internet once I get access to a computer and then I'm going to use the Paint program (which the computer really should have) and I'm going to track my little journey across the U.S. so you can keep track of me. I need all your help too. I don't know what places are safe, I don't know what places are infested with Proxies, and I don't know what places will keep me away from Slender Man the longest.

And that's where you people come in.

Half of you people out there have been running from Slender Man for a pretty long time. So if you know any places in the U.S. that are safe for me and won't get me killed, then tell me and I'll mark it on the map. As I go along marking my little map, I'll put it up on the site and update it often as a map for you guys that are running around trying to figure out which places are safe and which aren't.

Thanks, and I hope this method of mine works for you guys and girls.

Now I gotta go and catch my flight before it leaves without me.

-HȺLLØWED

Florida Ahoy!

Well, I took all my life savings, bought a plane ticket, and am now on my way to Florida. UZUKI warned us of the summer - according to her, our friend the Operator may actually be stronger in the dry season due to the fact that his signature move is by starting fires. James Matthews from The Tutorial also said he was headed out to the sea, so it may actually be safe out there, for a few months at least. Do you guys know of any runners out there I could meet up with? M is definitely out of the question - he's always here and then gone again. I can't keep track of the dude. Don't know where James went, he could very well be dead. Zeke is probably in New York somewhere, at least, that's what I'm guessing. Anyways, I'm going to try sticking around the ocean area for a while and see if UZUKI'S theory is right. It makes sense, I guess. Fellow otakus think alike.

I mean, if you drench a Charmander in water, it can't use it's fire, right?

Sorry for the lame Pokemon expressions, it's just the way I think things through. Like how UZUKI uses her own original characters to think through things. Something tells me that chick is gonna suffer from split-personality disorder real soon.

Even if I can't meet up with anyone in Florida, is there anyone I can meet up while passing through? I didn't have enough money to make it all the way to Florida from where I am now, so I'm going to be walking halfway the rest of the way and passing through some places. I know it's unsafe to travel in groups, but I'd at least like to meet up with SOMEONE who hasn't gotten killed by this thing.

Oh well. I'm going to play some Golden Sun on the plane. Maybe Slender Man will let me have the luxury of at least doing that (I don't think he can stretch that high into the air anyways. If the plane crashes, I am so fucked).

-HȺLLØWED

Sob-Stories for the Poor

Well, I guess I should probably start at the beginning, when this all started for me.

And if you don't know what I'm talking about, then good for you. Nobody needs this monster to be chasing after you.

I'm talking about the Operator. The Slender Man.

Now, I'm a seventeen year old who grew up in a small community. I'm a girl with short cropped black hair, grey eyes, and I have a tendency to lose myself in my own mind. I have serious schizophrenia, but I have methods to get rid of my little imaginary friends through calming methods.

This Slender Man is not a result of my schizophrenia - that much I'm certain of. Because I have a way of telling the difference between the real world and MY world.

So I'm also an otaku, which means that I'm a big fan of Japanese anime and manga. Yeah, nerdy, but that's what I choose to be. So you can imagine I surf the web a lot, which is a very true fact.

And then I found everymanHYBRID.

And then Marble Hornets.

And then Tribe Twelve.

And then compileTRUTH.

And then, finally, I found the Something Awful forums, where it all began.

And my life has just been going downhill from there.

At first, I had a lot of fun with it. I played I Spy with all the pictures, and watched all the movies at 1 am at night (even though my friends told me not to).

Now I'M in all the I Spy pictures that my family used to take of me.

Now I'm ALWAYS up at 1 am because I can't get to sleep without Him staring at me through the window.

And now, all of my friends have been taken by Him.

And now I'm running for my life too. I see Him every day. I run from Him every day. Each day is a blessing for me - each minute is a race for survival.

So I'm just going to try and stay alive and not go crazy. Because I've seen too many people go crazy - M, Zeke, Cairo, Damien, James, Zero, Alex, Jay, Vinny and the HYBRID crew, Noah, Kaiju-whatever, UZUKI, and a bunch of other people like that (UZUKI isn't even a runner but she's still at that point of insanity. . .).

For now, I'm just going to do what I can. Stay alive, stay sane, and keep flipping my little hourglass over again and hope I have another minute to live.

-HȺLLØWED

Screw All of You

Ditto the title.

I can't believe this is all happening to me now.

You all just had to go ahead and have fun with your damn Something Awful forums, didn't you? And now people are suffering for it.

How does it feel to have all these people dying and being chased out of their homes by some suited man with no face?

I feel sick. You must all feel sick too.

To think that something like this finally found me.

-HȺLLØWED