Timm

Just know if the number counts to 13, it's over.

It's been 2 months since this USB cost me and Elise our mental health. We've had to coordinate these findings very carefully, and I'm scared that something god-awful will happen if I release this.

I've had to re-research lore just to get a clue of what's going on.

I haven't touched the program since then. The strange dreams I've had aren't adding up. Everything I've seen is just sourced at one thing: death.

There's no way this isn't some big coincidence, it can't be this connected. Games don't kill people, people do.

And yet I'm seeing different. The hell?

I'll say...

Hoping.

Yeah, I'm honestly hoping this might just be a case of bad luck. But... something feels wrong.

How did the algorithm help you find me-?

sources too. Creepy...

chopped off... similar to the moon in my dream. I'm contemplating locking my computer down even more because there's no way someone got into it.

...right?

Also, it turns out that there'd been food poisoning all across the uni today. People thought it was the cafe food, but it affected outside-

The funny part is that there's an arrangement that I downloaded the midi for and slapped a SC-55 soundfont on in reaper, right?

then for some reason, it was just incomplete. I thought it was a bug, but when I went to the end of the track, it was still there. Except... one tiny part had been-

Before I do investigate, I'll study some more, then maybe take a look at how deep the rabbit hole goes in that one expansion on the NES. Apparently it was supposed to support a slot machine??? haha

also have you all HEARD what its sound chip can do??? it's insane. There's also the Roland SC55...

was a dream. I'm going to start investigating things about this game, something isn't right.

In news related to that, administrator mode worked, and it was like Touhou's 14th game. The last time it ran, it was like the 8th.

I'm sure these events are just coincidences. Can never be too sure though.

it just results in an even weirder message

I took a break and it was already dark outside. When I went to sleep, I dreamt that today also had a night sky. I could have sworn there was a weird full moon out. It looked like part of it was cut off. Before I could get a close look, I woke up as if that

Today and the day before was a day off due to very weird events. It gave me more time to do some homework and studying.

It also gave me some time to really mess around with the game. as it turns out, i can't just dive into the .exe with notepad like I can with most files. Attempting to decompile-

when i get home, that is-

so im on break at work at the moment, and i took some time to admire the clouds today. they're actually kind of beautiful if you think about it.

I think I'm going to poke around in the game's .exe file to see if anything funny happens. I wonder if I need to run it as admin or something...

seriously who thought it was a good idea to put people to work in this misty weather, i almost crashed trying to get back home...

and I'm pretty sure it was the sun setting earlier but I could swear the mist was red

I'm gonna make a sketch to calm down then head to bed. I probably won't even post it to be safe.

There were weird noises in the house today. It's probably the old materials of it settling in, but... it's too... direct??? I don't know how to describe it, shit's weird right now.

I got alot farther in the game this time, I picked Reimu instead of Marisa.

Then, I got an error i could actually read from yandex.

"It's out of my hands."

When I clicked "OK", the game just closed and now refuses to boot up.

???????

Today was rough. They let us out early for some reason. Lucky day, I guess.

I asked around, and I was the only one who saw a red moon today. It's probably my imagination. I'm going to boot up the game again and see if I get the crash again.

...Please don't let anything too creepy happen...

don't know why this came up, but... yeah.

off to bed now, goodnight

i think i should say something before i head off to bed. some guy sent me the game, i think i misremembered where it came from.

I'm just going to go to bed... I'm creeped out enough already. I don't want to be late either.

I would have put the translated message here, but it was too squished to make out anything. Wasn't able to copy-paste it either. weird...

The hell's going on??

I've restarted my computer after changing the locale. yeah sure enough it worked.

until another error message popped up. It was in Japanese, now legible. Putting it through on yandex's image translate usually helps kind of, but because it's a bit of a delicate language, some meanings are lost.

I've had this kind of issue happen before with the many games that came from japan, so this should be a quick restart.

I'm going to be busy for the next few weeks, mainly settling into a new job and trying to get this game to work. It gave me the weirdest error message too...

I would type it, if it wasn't complete gibberish. it LOOKED like it comes from a locale error, so I'll try to change mine to japan and see.

work. I even reinstalled my operating system (i backed most of my important things up, don't worry) and it still wouldn't work. Will update later!!

happy first post!

Hey everybody, I'm starting this first post (if the word limit hits me, it'll be a thread instead!) off to document some really weird happenings since i found this weird touhou game online.

since I installed it I haven't been able to screenshot at all. i tried external tools and they just don't-