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There is now a WEBSITE to this story. it is more organized and contains a little more information about some stuff.
i RAN OUT OF SPACE editing and adding to the hojo.org post. so i'm continuing it here. i will never lock these posts and i plan to make a website for all this in the near future.
these are the accounts of other people who became involved or watched from the sidelines. if you also have an experience, feel free to comment with it. you may comment anonymously. if you do, i will make up a fake name for you from something on my desk. your family/friends don't ever have to know. and trust me, jen and crew already know.
there really is no point in hiding from them. just fighting them off.
Willowshine's Commentary...
"jai linked me to this post, as i got to know jen and renee around the same time she did.
i'm the same age as you, i believe - a freshman at penn state in the fall of 2001. my situation with them was a little different from yours - i had my pagan period in high school, as well, but still wanted to believe something like it was real. i was their first aeris. in the end, it wasn't so much they chucked me as i them, mainly because i was tired of being seen in public with a couple of girls in lab coats, tired of the constant reminders of my imminent death, unsatisfied with the magical elements of waving a stick around in the wind and being told i was 'controlling' the weather. jen and renee promised me magical training and all that happened was i ate crappy stew and got confusing tarot readings.
i was in their wedding - since i was aeris, clearly i was the flower girl. when i knew them, i don't think they were quite yet crazy... it was before the violence in their relationship, before jen decided she needed a fullblown harem of gullible girls, before she really started hurting renee emotionally and blaming it on her "soulbonds", which i am certain do not in any way exist. jen's not even a multiple, and knowing many folks who are, her claims to the contrary genuinely offend me.
i vacillate, though. i can't tell if i think jen is crazy or if she's malicious. i think it's some of both. she was definitely, when i met her, genuinely interested in spiritual matters, and i think, whether it was her warped perceptions or not, she really was scarred by living with her mother. but i also think she had a long standing habit of being a fucking WEIRDO, and using that to her advantage, for money, friends, sex, and affection.
i became - and despite a few spats, remained - friends with "gast" (chris, as i call him) - and i think i may have met you briefly while you were there... in fact, i think we talked on the internet a little bit before things got awful with them, before you were stranded for the summer. but i had no idea it was as bad as that. i knew you couldn't have been having a very good time with them, but ... well. this story sent chills up my spine, cos frankly, i know it happened.
i'ma friend you, cos not only do you seem awesome, i suddenly feel an incredible fondness for your perseverence through more of their insanity than anyone, ever, should have ever been exposed to. EVER."
Pixie_bee notices mire acting strange....
sometime around we started talking again i got the whole story, and maybe about four months in i heard an inkling of this at the time and was beginning to piece things together from what cid said as well (my time frame is prolly off, but ...i dunno) it was at that time mire started mentioning that he hung out with them. [jen and hojo] i didnt really put it together (completely) and mire acted like he didnt know what went on. i "recapped" what i heard and he said he had no clue about it. we havent talked since. hes rarely online anymore. after that arguement about them, im not sure honestly where he is or what hes doing. hes messed up, but hes not completely bad. yes his whiney emo shit got on my nerves. but no one really deserves this.
yeah and that was about the time frame [during that summer] when i casually asked about you [me] and he said "didnt know" and then i realised he was friends with you later on and got angry that he "didnt know" - perhaps irrational anger, but honestly i still dont care.
i just thought of something else. man this is a time warp. mire asked me to come over [to their house] some time so we could all hang out. i remembered you mentioning this to me with Meho real fast on the mud and i said no [don't go]. then we stopped talking.
i almost feel obligated to do more to stop them. they are so fucked up and they do so much damage to so many people. it just isnt right
Zeriel just confirms the facts...
I have two things to say about this:
1. The portrayal of events is accurate to the best of my understanding--starting that April, I was living across the lawn from this (and frankly, I enjoyed the zaniness when it wasn't too freakin' weird)
2. When that Jimmy Eat World concert happened, I was living in the nearest dorm to the concert, and SOMEONE left a FULL BODY MUD PRINT on the door and walls. REPEATEDLY. As though they'd ROLLED IN MUD AND HURLED THEMSELF AGAINST THE WALL. From the poses, I imagine exclamations of DUHURR were involved.
Arborwin remembers it vaugely...
jokingly, back int he days beforei knew what was going on, someone said it sounded like jen had a cult.
that might have been me, but even if not, I remember thinking that. I just didnt really have a good enough idea of what was going on to really stand on it.
I seriously could not decipher what the fuck was going on--the soulbonding and the crystals and shit, I am completely and utterly resistant to, so I figured I shouldn't interfere, because I was and AM biased. What details I got from reading you online was like, "Man, this can't possibly be as weird as it sounds, and Soshi likes them, so it must be more or less okay."
I started getting worried when it became clear they were ganking your paycheck and using it to buy red meat. The complete impracticality & gall of that was just ... Augh.
Jen IMed me once, I don't remember it exactly, but the jist, I think, was an invitation for me to come visit too, but nothing really came of it because I had no idea what/how to talk to her. She reminded me of some of the flakes I used to see in the cyberpet comm, actually--too old to be acting quite that childish, and creepily over-friendly.
I feel retarded about the whole thing now, I don't even remember what else I was doing that summer. If I had been able to drive then, and if I had had a brain, I woulda tried to come down and get you. Ganked the car, if necessary. But I guess it's no use chomping on it now.
Gengy wonders why i had never said what was happening...
Hey, I just read that whole friggin' long thing. I wanted to know more about what was going on then, because I remember it happening, but I never knew any of the details - and now I know why. :x
zar's vague memories
since most of what zar can remember was told to me over AIM i'll try to paraphrase.
aside from randomly calling her on the phone when i ran off, they also had called her in the middle of the night at our dorm once. screaming in her ear that "THIS IS JEN'S MOTHER" and "JEN FELL/CAME TOGETHER/BROKE" or something. zar couldn't understand what they were talking about and eventually they hung up.
the weekend of the JEW concert on the way back, zar remembers there being a freaky guy at the busstop. jen was utterly convinced he was a demon. cause we were stupid, that unnerved us.
"I'm tellin ya, these pieces are comin tagether very slowly.
I remember like, she was worried that this guy was gonna come after us or something.
I think that musta happened da same night I had my coughing fit and totally freaked, and Jen was convinced that that bastard [a total fucking jerkwad from zar's past who no one would EVER claim something so lame about. it's like a godwin law thing.] was "soul-projecting" and "astrally" attacking me and causing my coughing or something.
And I remember there were like...vague tarot readings or something.
It was all so bizarre.
I swear it's like this is some kind of weird movie or something.
She had da same Tarot deck I had as a kid.
Astronia: It was sad, cause I did tarot readings when I was little just fer da heck of it, and I recognized everything she was doing from da little booklet that come with tarot cards."
Zar also remembers that during our visit we wanted to play oujia board. ever since i've been a kid whenever i get NEAR one, it starts goofing off and spelling out stuff like 'breast' or 'luv u' or retarded crap. i don't hafta touch the thing. maybe it's subconcious affect on people by proxy (MY PERVERSION ZONE AFFECTS YOU) or maybe it's something else, but we've always dubbed this effect 'amae' cause that was the sequence of letters it would go to every time i was in a room. sounds hokey, but it was like a harmless inside-oujia-board-joke.
jen exclaimed she 'knew' amae, and man. when someone is shoving the pointer around, you can feel it. jen shoved the pointer all over the board, claiming it was 'amae talking' even though it was saying serious and hokey crap that the 'amae' would never say. 'amae' was more prone to going 's-e-x' and zooming towards someone off the board. :D
i RAN OUT OF SPACE editing and adding to the hojo.org post. so i'm continuing it here. i will never lock these posts and i plan to make a website for all this in the near future.
these are the accounts of other people who became involved or watched from the sidelines. if you also have an experience, feel free to comment with it. you may comment anonymously. if you do, i will make up a fake name for you from something on my desk. your family/friends don't ever have to know. and trust me, jen and crew already know.
there really is no point in hiding from them. just fighting them off.
Willowshine's Commentary...
"jai linked me to this post, as i got to know jen and renee around the same time she did.
i'm the same age as you, i believe - a freshman at penn state in the fall of 2001. my situation with them was a little different from yours - i had my pagan period in high school, as well, but still wanted to believe something like it was real. i was their first aeris. in the end, it wasn't so much they chucked me as i them, mainly because i was tired of being seen in public with a couple of girls in lab coats, tired of the constant reminders of my imminent death, unsatisfied with the magical elements of waving a stick around in the wind and being told i was 'controlling' the weather. jen and renee promised me magical training and all that happened was i ate crappy stew and got confusing tarot readings.
i was in their wedding - since i was aeris, clearly i was the flower girl. when i knew them, i don't think they were quite yet crazy... it was before the violence in their relationship, before jen decided she needed a fullblown harem of gullible girls, before she really started hurting renee emotionally and blaming it on her "soulbonds", which i am certain do not in any way exist. jen's not even a multiple, and knowing many folks who are, her claims to the contrary genuinely offend me.
i vacillate, though. i can't tell if i think jen is crazy or if she's malicious. i think it's some of both. she was definitely, when i met her, genuinely interested in spiritual matters, and i think, whether it was her warped perceptions or not, she really was scarred by living with her mother. but i also think she had a long standing habit of being a fucking WEIRDO, and using that to her advantage, for money, friends, sex, and affection.
i became - and despite a few spats, remained - friends with "gast" (chris, as i call him) - and i think i may have met you briefly while you were there... in fact, i think we talked on the internet a little bit before things got awful with them, before you were stranded for the summer. but i had no idea it was as bad as that. i knew you couldn't have been having a very good time with them, but ... well. this story sent chills up my spine, cos frankly, i know it happened.
i'ma friend you, cos not only do you seem awesome, i suddenly feel an incredible fondness for your perseverence through more of their insanity than anyone, ever, should have ever been exposed to. EVER."
Pixie_bee notices mire acting strange....
sometime around we started talking again i got the whole story, and maybe about four months in i heard an inkling of this at the time and was beginning to piece things together from what cid said as well (my time frame is prolly off, but ...i dunno) it was at that time mire started mentioning that he hung out with them. [jen and hojo] i didnt really put it together (completely) and mire acted like he didnt know what went on. i "recapped" what i heard and he said he had no clue about it. we havent talked since. hes rarely online anymore. after that arguement about them, im not sure honestly where he is or what hes doing. hes messed up, but hes not completely bad. yes his whiney emo shit got on my nerves. but no one really deserves this.
yeah and that was about the time frame [during that summer] when i casually asked about you [me] and he said "didnt know" and then i realised he was friends with you later on and got angry that he "didnt know" - perhaps irrational anger, but honestly i still dont care.
i just thought of something else. man this is a time warp. mire asked me to come over [to their house] some time so we could all hang out. i remembered you mentioning this to me with Meho real fast on the mud and i said no [don't go]. then we stopped talking.
i almost feel obligated to do more to stop them. they are so fucked up and they do so much damage to so many people. it just isnt right
Zeriel just confirms the facts...
I have two things to say about this:
1. The portrayal of events is accurate to the best of my understanding--starting that April, I was living across the lawn from this (and frankly, I enjoyed the zaniness when it wasn't too freakin' weird)
2. When that Jimmy Eat World concert happened, I was living in the nearest dorm to the concert, and SOMEONE left a FULL BODY MUD PRINT on the door and walls. REPEATEDLY. As though they'd ROLLED IN MUD AND HURLED THEMSELF AGAINST THE WALL. From the poses, I imagine exclamations of DUHURR were involved.
Arborwin remembers it vaugely...
jokingly, back int he days beforei knew what was going on, someone said it sounded like jen had a cult.
that might have been me, but even if not, I remember thinking that. I just didnt really have a good enough idea of what was going on to really stand on it.
I seriously could not decipher what the fuck was going on--the soulbonding and the crystals and shit, I am completely and utterly resistant to, so I figured I shouldn't interfere, because I was and AM biased. What details I got from reading you online was like, "Man, this can't possibly be as weird as it sounds, and Soshi likes them, so it must be more or less okay."
I started getting worried when it became clear they were ganking your paycheck and using it to buy red meat. The complete impracticality & gall of that was just ... Augh.
Jen IMed me once, I don't remember it exactly, but the jist, I think, was an invitation for me to come visit too, but nothing really came of it because I had no idea what/how to talk to her. She reminded me of some of the flakes I used to see in the cyberpet comm, actually--too old to be acting quite that childish, and creepily over-friendly.
I feel retarded about the whole thing now, I don't even remember what else I was doing that summer. If I had been able to drive then, and if I had had a brain, I woulda tried to come down and get you. Ganked the car, if necessary. But I guess it's no use chomping on it now.
Gengy wonders why i had never said what was happening...
Hey, I just read that whole friggin' long thing. I wanted to know more about what was going on then, because I remember it happening, but I never knew any of the details - and now I know why. :x
zar's vague memories
since most of what zar can remember was told to me over AIM i'll try to paraphrase.
aside from randomly calling her on the phone when i ran off, they also had called her in the middle of the night at our dorm once. screaming in her ear that "THIS IS JEN'S MOTHER" and "JEN FELL/CAME TOGETHER/BROKE" or something. zar couldn't understand what they were talking about and eventually they hung up.
the weekend of the JEW concert on the way back, zar remembers there being a freaky guy at the busstop. jen was utterly convinced he was a demon. cause we were stupid, that unnerved us.
"I'm tellin ya, these pieces are comin tagether very slowly.
I remember like, she was worried that this guy was gonna come after us or something.
I think that musta happened da same night I had my coughing fit and totally freaked, and Jen was convinced that that bastard [a total fucking jerkwad from zar's past who no one would EVER claim something so lame about. it's like a godwin law thing.] was "soul-projecting" and "astrally" attacking me and causing my coughing or something.
And I remember there were like...vague tarot readings or something.
It was all so bizarre.
I swear it's like this is some kind of weird movie or something.
She had da same Tarot deck I had as a kid.
Astronia: It was sad, cause I did tarot readings when I was little just fer da heck of it, and I recognized everything she was doing from da little booklet that come with tarot cards."
Zar also remembers that during our visit we wanted to play oujia board. ever since i've been a kid whenever i get NEAR one, it starts goofing off and spelling out stuff like 'breast' or 'luv u' or retarded crap. i don't hafta touch the thing. maybe it's subconcious affect on people by proxy (MY PERVERSION ZONE AFFECTS YOU) or maybe it's something else, but we've always dubbed this effect 'amae' cause that was the sequence of letters it would go to every time i was in a room. sounds hokey, but it was like a harmless inside-oujia-board-joke.
jen exclaimed she 'knew' amae, and man. when someone is shoving the pointer around, you can feel it. jen shoved the pointer all over the board, claiming it was 'amae talking' even though it was saying serious and hokey crap that the 'amae' would never say. 'amae' was more prone to going 's-e-x' and zooming towards someone off the board. :D
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-TRIP OF DOOM-
A long time ago, maybe four years ago or so, somethin like that, I was majorly into Jimmy Eat World. Alix had gotten me more inta it over Christmas Break and such.
Meanwhile, I heard peripherally of Jen and Hojo from teh Sosh, who was friends with em and visited them and such. I heard good things, altho weird, so I saw no harm in it. They never tried ta really talk ta me, so I had never really interacted with them at this point. I checked out hojo.org and such, but I didn't really know them personally.
Anyway, Funkmeister told me that there was a free Jimmy Eat World concert goin on right near where Jen and Hojo lived, and I thought this was totally awesome. She assured me that Jen and Hojo would be fine with letting us stay fer a bit, so I was all for it. I paid da money, hopped da bus, and headed off.
Anyway, as I rode along and listened ta my tapes at a third of their normal speed due to my walkman's slow death, I resolved that
1. I was gonna, if not like, at least be civil and respectful ta Jen and Hojo, since I was gonna be their guest.
2. Be the best houseguest possible
I was worried cause they didn't know me, and I really wanted ta make a good impression.
So anyway, we got there, and I can't remember my first impression. Most likely cause if it was bad, I woulda totally ignored it cause darn it, I was gonna be a good houseguest during this trip. Either way, I think people got locked out, something. I can't remember.
Anyway, they had ta give me a name or a role or something. Again, they never really contacted me directly, definitely not enough ta really know anythin about me, but they couldn't really associate with me unless I was someone from FFVII. I just realized how bizarre that sounds.
Basically, at this point da only two people I really liked from FFVII were Cid and Vincent. There was no way on earth I could ever pass fer a Cid (besides, they already had one I think) so they called me Vincent. I was okay with that, again, I wanted ta be a good houseguest so I decided ta play along.
I was a bit uncomfortable being Vin tho. Mostly cause if I was with...say...people callin themselves Cloud or Tifa, then I wouldn't have an issue. But as anyone who played FFVII knows, Hojo and Vin didn't exactly get along. I got a little disconcerted by da baggage being Vin would carry, but again. I went along with it. Hojo didn't really bug me or anything, unless she was being in character or something.
Da thing is that I think one of da reasons I went along with this as much as I did is that as a kid, I've always WANTED ta believe in stuff like this. Keep in mind, I WANTED to, but I never DID. I always envied kids who had imaginary friends cause I could never do that. I envied kids who saw magic or castles in the sky, cause I would try and try and try but I could never believe it. I never saw that stuff, and I always found it frustrating. I felt like I was either too realistic or too skeptical. So while I was at Jen and Hojo's house, I TRIED to believe in this stuff, just like when I tried ta believe in my old imaginary friends. But just like my old imaginary friends, it never worked.
They had "magic" battles and stuff, which I played along with. I didn't do it cause I said I had no idea how ta do it or something. I think I recall them saying that I had a lot of "magic potential" and that I shouldn't throw it around or something.
I think my general reaction through most of this crazy was "Haha, oookay. Sure."
They had this red cloak that they said was Vin's cloak, and when we went out they asked me ta wear it. I've always had a weakness fer capes (which may have been one of da things they used as evidence fer my Vinness or something, I can't remember) so I went with it. Ta this day, I maintain that was a nice cloak. It was soft and comfy. Da fact I liked it so much was another major Vin-hint ta them or something.
Besides, Funkmeister was still there, and as long as she was cool with all this, I was cool with it.
There are so many vague memories I have of everything that happened. I wish I could remember more of it. I remember a trip to the store to get food.
I wanted ta be a good houseguest, like I mentioned before, so I resolved not ta eat much and not ta ask fer anything expensive. I was fully prepared ta eat ramen or something. But they were all excited we were there, so we got these noodles and expensive stuff, and I ended up sinking like twenty dollars. I was okay with that at da time, since again, I was a guest and heck, it was food.
Hahaha, I do remember somehow that talk got ta Sephiroth Clone #Pi. Fer those who don't know, sometime ago I stayed up all night and ate a bunch of candy with Funkmeister, then I got under a big blanket and started babbling nonsensically. I called myself Sephiroth Clone #Pi and generally acted silly. This was a running joke between me and Funkmeister fer a long time.
Apparently Jen thought that Pi was like...a real person or something. She wanted ta talk ta him.
And I was like "Uh...I'm not hyper enough ta act like Pi."
And she was like "No no, Pi lives inside you. Pi is a part of you. If you want Pi to come forward and take control, let him."
And I was like "...no seriously, Pi is just me hyper."
But she insisted that she wanted ta talk ta Pi, and she reverted ta some "childlike" self of hers or something who wanted ta talk ta Pi.
I was on the spot, and again, I wanted ta be a good guest. What would it hurt ta play along a bit? So I got a blanket and acted up the part, but I wasn't hyper enough to really hit Sephiroth Clone #Pi. I haven't been
in a long time, now that I think about it. Either way, she was satisfied talking to the pseudo-Pi. I felt unbelievably uncomfortable faking hyperness and Pi-talk.
I know they're very manipulative, but I think at this point I didn't know them well enough for that to really kick in. I think my decision to be a good guest gave them a lot of power over me. But they were very manipulative in ways that are hard to describe.
Anyway, tryin ta remember more details...hmm.
Oh yeah! At this point I was hit with what I called at da time my "sinus infection." This was a thing that had come and gone fer years. It started in high school and always hit around spring. I just found out last year that it was Chronic Bronchitis, and I finally got it treated and it hasn't come back yet, thank you god. It was horrible. I was always coughing and miserable. I think I could breathe clear enough at this point, but I was ALWAYS coughing.
Jen said that it was cause I was allergic to magic. I don't remember if I brought up how this happened all the time, but either way I probably wouldn't have said it. If they wanted ta believe that, then sure. No problem with me, really.
I remember this particularly clearly, but we were just coming out of this tunnel, and I was coughing pretty hard. Jen said she'd cast a spell that would help me feel better, or something like that. So she waved her arms and her staff, and I stood there. Again, I really did want ta believe this was real, and I really wanted ta see a difference, like some flashy lights or something.
Nothing. And she turned and was like "There, spell done! Now you won't cough anymore!"
And I was like "Haha, okay. Yeah, I can really feel the difference."
At this point I was getting confused. Was this all just makebelieve fantasy, or was I just such a skeptic that I couldn't see magic when it was happening? As many may guess, the answer is the former, but I was young and stupid back then and wanted to fit in.
Either way, her "magic" couldn't stop my coughin, which continued shortly afterwards. Jen said that "something" was making me cough. Something far away and more powerful then her magic alone was. This made me vaguely worried, cause again I wanted ta believe in this stuff. I now thank that skeptic side of myself that wouldn't buy all this baloney. Thank you Dad, Chris, and Alix.
Anyway, me and Funkmeister went ta da concert, which was totally frigging awesome in so many ways. So much fun. So great. So muddy. That was da best part. I had white shoes? They were permanently stained by this experience. Anyway. Funkmeister already covered that part of da whole thing, about how Jen did not approve of our muddiness.
I remember us sayin that we had ta leave soon and whatever, and Jen and Hojo always begging and pleading fer us ta stay. They really didn't want us ta go. They were really convincing and heck, I mean, I was havin fun hangin out there. It was weird, sure, but it was fun in a way.
Oh oh, dang. I brought Kitty with me, as usual, and they said something about her. I wish I could remember more clearly...something like she was a really powerful magical focus or item or something. I remember Kitty being a big deal.
Let's see, other random details...
Uh, we stopped at another store. Again, I sank money inta it. Da thing was, they asked fer gifts and things and I felt obligated ta indulge em, cause I was a guest and I WAS staying at their house. I had no idea just how much money they took from me. It happened so subtley mostly, requests fer small things and fer food, and I sank a ton of money inta this whole trip.
But I mentioned that I wanted a new walkman, since mine was broken. I dunno if that's why we went on this trip or not, I can't remember. It was some big department store tho.
I have a tendency ta wander, as my family will attest, and I'm pretty sure I said I'd be back and I was just gonna go look at da walkmans or something. I can't remember.
Anyway, true ta form, I got ta da walkman section and agonized over whether ta get a five dollar walkman with no autotape flip, or a ten dollar one with autotape flip. Then I heard da PA click on.
"Excuse me, will a...Vincent Valentine please report to the front desk?"
I grabbed da five dollar one and darted off at that point towards da desk. Jen I recall said she was worried or something. I vaguely recall some kind of lecture on telling people where I was or something, but not really very clearly. Darn it, this all happened so long ago. I can only remember bits and pieces.
Hahahaha, one of the most bizarre moments I remember was the whole "past life regression" thing.
We were all put in this room and they put on The NIghtmare is Only Beginning, and said that they'd now prove for SURE that we were really video game characters from the past or something.
At this point, I was terrified of being exposed as a fake, considering they'd taken to me being Vin pretty easily. If they found out I was faking, I feared they'd kick me out or something.
So I didn't fall for their hypnosis stuff, but when they asked me who I was, I said I was Vin. Who else could I be?
Anyway, they said I "became" Vin or something, so I tried to act the part or something. I was bad at it though, and the knowledge that this was just a bunch of people playing pretend was always right there in my mind. Hahaha, me and Funkmeister I think ruined the mood when she humped my leg with a stuffed chocobo.
Something else, something else...
Ah, I remember we were on a bus or something...we were riding home at night. I remember me and Funkmeister talking about Jack. Not sure why I recall that so clearly, but whatever.
Anyway, this is also where da "Profethor Gatht" jokes popped up. Basically, me and Soshi would imitate Ifalna and Professor Gast with these ludicrous accents. This amused Jen ta no end.
So there was this guy on da bus who was...listening in on us or something. I can't remember. It made us all nervous. Jen said she was getting off on da next stop, and da guy got off next stop.
I thought this guy was just creepy, but Jen said he was a demon kind of thing out after us. I think this also played inta what would happen later.
I was still trying to deal with the whole thing when I was at Jen and Hojo's. Normally, I wouldn't have thought it'd be an issue, considering it happened like...a year ago at this time.
I think tho, that a lot of things kind of kept reminding me of the bastard while I was there. I think the mentions of Vin getting molested by Hojo, that creepy guy in the bus, the whole past-life regression thing, the assertion that "something" was after me and that was why I was coughing, something like that.
There were also tarot card readings and such. Jen had da same tarot deck I had as a kid, the Tarot of the Cat People. And she told me my fortune usin da exact same method outlined in da little booklet that came with da cards. I can't remember anythin really specific about da readings except there was always mentions of somethin comin after me or something, thus da coughing.
I think Jen was just upset that her "spell" didn't stop my coughing and wanted an excuse or something.
So I was on my back and I started coughing again. I felt bad about doing this at night cause I thought I'd keep people awake, and again, good houseguest syndrome I guess ya could call it.
These were pretty deep coughs, not horribly scratchy or painful necessarily, but deep so that ya could do them over and over again. So I coughed, and coughed, and coughed, and I couldn't stop.
So of course, I start panicking cause I couldn't breathe and subsequently start coughing harder. Everyone wakes up, freaks out. I'm still coughing and I'm trying ta get out "I'm fine hold on gaak gaak" cause I didn't wanna cause any trouble.
Soshi of course knew I was just having some kinda coughing fit and I'd be fine, but Jen and Hojo immediately began screaming that we were under attack or something. Like some dark force had come into the room and was trying to get me, like they said all along. Frankly, I was a bit shaken cause I felt like I had nearly suffocated on my own lungs, so I didn't argue.
What I mostly remember is having Kitty with me here. She'll be important in a sec.
So I'm still trying to breathe and such, Hojo and Jen are wandering all around holding their staffs and looking important and asking me where the malevolent force was. I was currently staring off into nothing, which is something I do a lot. Like...when I'm thinking, or listening to people, or talking, or whatever. It's not something unusual. So I'm staring at the corner of the room. Jen's like "Is that where it is? Is that it? What is it?"
And I was just like "Man, I don't know, I just started coughing and couldn't stop."
I think I remember one of them, probably Hojo, trying to like...pet my hair or hold me at this point or something. I DO recall that Soshi was near me at this point. I don't think I responded to Hojo touching me, mostly cause I don't like being touched by other people. That and I think Soshi warned them off cause she also knows I don't like bein touched.
Anyway, I was holdin onta Kitty pretty fierce at this point cause I was freaked out at my coughing and everyone was flipping out about stuff.
I can't remember exactly, I think Jen or Hojo asked me if there was anyone who ever wished me harm, or who would want revenge on me or something and would be attacking me. I musta mumbled something about maybe it being the bastard or something, I dunno. I know I wouldn't have explained that. I think Soshi gave the ultra-condensed version of what happened ta me, and just like that, Jen and Hojo decided that it was the bastard who had given me this cough and was coming after me now.
Now that I think about it, this all seems so unbelievable. Unreal. I just can't believe this whole thing happened. I mean...the bastard couldn't astral-project his way through a paper bag. He's the opposite of spiritual. And he wouldn't want revenge on me, I mean...nothing ever happened to him for molesting me anyway. He didn't get arrested or anything, he just got kinda warned away from our house but he still comes over anyway. He wouldn't want ta hurt me, he'd just want ta get inta my pants or something.
And of course, why would he wage this attack NOW of all times? It all doesn't make sense. I, however, was totally terrified now at da thought of the bastard (to this day, seeing him or hearing him fills me with a stark terror I can't experience anywhere else) and I was probably hyperventilating or something. I dunno. Jen threw a bunch of salt around in a circle and "cast" some loud spells or something, I dunno. I can't remember.
I think she said that he couldn't get me cause she threw up some evil spirit wards or something, probably said that guy on the bus was "possessed" by the bastard or something, I dunno.
And I got the distinct impression that Jen was disappointed that I didn't believe in her as much as she thought I should, and that I'd trust my stuffed cat over her.
That and, well...hmm. Keep in mind that I'm not very spiritual. I have no real mystical side, like I said, and I've tried ta believe in magic and fairies and such but I never had much success. I do think I really am a skeptic deep down.
But I do believe in my Kitty, and I do believe that she will protect me during bad times. I love my Kitty, and I DO believe in her. If there's no other magical luck talisman or whatever I believe in, if I have no faith in anything else in my whole life, I do believe in Kitty. And I think that my belief and love for her has kind of...given her something. I hesitate to call it anything major or tangible to other people, anything more then my one spiritual connection in life that's really personal and real to me, not ta anyone else. Kinda Velveteen Rabbitish, ya know?
But I think my stuffed cat is far more magical then anything Jen or Hojo ever did.
I think they may have known that.
Either way, we ended up staying there two more days then we should have. They were very insistant that we stay, and it was hard to say no. They were remarkably persistant about it.
After that, I heard very little from either of them. Frankly, I'm relieved they never learned a lot about me or contacted me. That way, I did face the crazy, but it never followed me home, inna way.
Actually, I think one of em, can't remember which, did try ta IM me a few times, but we never really hit it off. Soshi mentioned the whole dislike of chatspeak thing...hahaha, that'd be ironic. Maybe my weird accent saved me on that count.
However, I DO recall once that Soshi was sleepin at some point, and one of em called. They babbled something about Jen's mom the...queen of fairies or something. I can't remember. It was a really bizarre phone call. Haha, I do remember them being disappointed that I answered instead of Funkmeister. Anyway, they tried ta explain it ta me, but I had no idea what they were talkin about. They just told me they needed ta talk ta Funkmeister right away, it was urgent, something abut Jen like...breaking or something. I dunno. I never did find out what happened, but it was probably nuttiness no doubt.
Anyway, they told me that "Yasha" had gone missing, and they were worried. Of course, I was off in Cali, so I was really helpless in this case. They asked if she had talked ta me, and I said no, and that da last thing I heard was about shoes getting stolen or something. I asked em some questions, like where she said she was going, or if she left any notes, or if she was unhappy, or if her dad had called, or anything like that, but I remember them not answering my questions. They just said they were really worried about her, and that they had "no idea" why Funkmeister would have up and left.
Of course, after this I was hugely worried. I dug around everywhere tryin ta find any kinda journal posts that would tell me where she went, but nothing. I ended up freaking out until Funkmeister showed up again.
Thankfully, they never contacted me after that. I'm glad. I only got a touch of the crazy.
I'm sincerely glad they knew nothin about me when I came over there. I know they woulda manipulated that against me, and I was pretty gullible back then, particularly since some wounds were still kinda fresh.
THE END FINALLY THANK YOU THANK YOU
That guy on da bus, there was more to it then that!
"Da only bad thin is that when we were waitin fer da bus this creepy guy showed up. We told him he looked like Bill Gates, and he said he WAS Bill Gates.
Anyway, this guy comes over ta me and reaches out fer my chest. I'm used ta this, cause I wear necklaces and stuff. but I mean, he went straight fer my ID card. It was weird. Most peeps pick up da whole bunch of em, but he went right fer my ID. This guy was really creepy, I mean, he snuffled while he talked and was just weird. He asked me where Alfred was, cause it didn't have da address on my ID. I said I didn't know.
I didn't want him near me anymore after that. So I jumped on a nearby ledge and hung behind da others.
He sat between Hojo and Jen and was generally all around creepy. Soshi eventually told him ta go away. He moved off a few feet and didn't talk ta us anymore. We all felt really uneasy. He went on da same bus as us too, and sat behind us. He made weird gruntin noises.
We tried ta freak him out by talkin about diseases we had and stuff like that. We planned it out so that Hojo would get out a stop before us, and then we'd say we "missed our stop" and get off later on. We did it, and sure enough, da guy got off at da next stop right after we said we missed it. Creepy, huh?
Jenova said that guy was a demon, or an evil spirit, embodied inta a human."
And then later...
"Jen said that somethin was buildin, some kinda attack was comin fer us. Fer all of us. We needed ta be ready. That was da reason da storm had showed up.
I ferget which night it was...I think it was Sunday night that we tried ta contact da spirit of da storm that was comin out fer us through a makeshift ouija board. Amae showed up of course, but eventually we got in contact and stuff with this vampire named Jugular. We really couldn't take him seriously."
But the real weirdness is...
Man, I forgot all this stuff. Dang.
"Anyway, we went ta da Bus Station and put out stuff in da lockers on Monday, includin my backpack with Kitty in it, and we walked around fer a bit before findin out that our bus was late, and we'd hafta stay another night. And da bus station closed before I could get my backpack! Weirdest part - Hojo swore on everythin that there was absolutely no reason it should be closed, not ta mention all da lights inside were on.
Most of da time I'm fine without Kitty fer those few nights I ferget her. I mean, I don't pine or worry fer her, I know she'll be fine and I'll live.
THIS time, I felt really, really anxious. I couldn't stop talkin about her, which I guess kinda bothered everyone else. Or at least confused em. I felt extremely worried about her, and I wanted her back really badly. I don't usually feel that worried, which was weird."
So I didn't HAVE Kitty with me that night I freaked out! That explains a lot. Hmm.
"I couldn't sleep without somethin, so I asked Jen if I could borrow one. She lent me Cait Sith, but then said it was a magical item and lent me a small, black and white cat instead."
Hahaha, figures. I CAN'T SLEEP WITH A MAGICAL TALISMAN WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU
"I DO remember saying that Kitty protected me from him, and that's why he never showed up when she was with me. She protected me."
So there ya go. Minor details, but still! Weird stuff.