Our Future

Thank you for all that you are doing and thank you for building a home. Tell me how I can assist you and I would be glad to help you, @gatekeeper2.

Final counted, scope and mirror, misguided one, home, path, shelter… Perhaps what would let the light flourish the most would be to explain what the hell some of these terms mean, hmm? Open the door, stop forcing us to look through the damn keyhole

Addison: I strongly second the sentiment of @thegilded. If what you mean is you are building literal walls where those inside can be safe and sound, that would have held no appeal to me. I have my own walls and they are quite nice as is. If you mean metaphorical walls… well, the same holds true, no thank you.

Excellent question @mkarrett.

And furthermore ” @gatekeeper2 ” … **WHY** did you slit her throat? If you owe that answer to anyone here, I say it’s me. I’m the one who sat not two feet from FOUR and bore witness to this act of violence. Explain yourself. It might be the only way you regain some of your lost little lambs.

I have no doubt that @gatekeeper2 speaks from experience. She has had a long path and we have only been privy to a tiny molecule of it.
Hell, for all we know 4 planned her own death with 2 (Yes, Dumbledore/Snape style).

Walls may seem scary. But as long as III and the BOS are outside those walls, then I’m totally game.

@gatekeeper2 is it possible we will see you this weekend?

@gatekeeper2 I really would like to follow you, I was invested in your journey since I first came to know you. I thank you for never forcing us, I truly believe you mean that, but I must ask when your true story will be told? I must admit that recent events have shaken me as well as many others I’ve noticed and a little insight would be much appreciated. After all even the greatest leaders led not just by actions but by stories and reputation before them. That garnered the trust people had in them and that small bit allowed people to make their leaps of faith.

First of all, I have to extend my apologies to the community for my absence from the forums. I have been going through a whirlwind of emotions of where I am and where I stand since @gatekeeper2 “Addison”, slit the throat of my bringer of light into this chaos that we call “Tension”. Since then, I have been swallowed by the rip tide of social media, something that ~4 preached against. I have been pulled away from what our community is and has been… I am lost in this ocean of Chaos, floating on the outside of our reality, hoping for something to reel me back in. I can’t trust anyone or anything at this point, and feel like we’ve all been played like puppets. Only time will tell what our _paths will hold before us, but I for one feel just as lost as the day when I first joined Tension. I hope that I can find that assurance in the OOA as I once felt, but now… I only hope for destruction and chaos.

@gatekeeper2 – At this point I’m pretty sure that we don’t want walls, or keyholes. We want answers. We want the full view. You say that our choices are ours to make and you wouldn’t force us, but you *are* trying to manipulate those choices by what you (and the OOA) allow us to see through the keyholes you provide. Let us decide what we can handle.

You ask for trust when you don’t even trust us enough to give us the whole picture, I get the feeling we will never know just how this “enlightenment” is supposed to come. Rosemary Luther got hers by blinding herself, no one “made her” do it, but I believe she was quite manipulated. If you are who you say you are, can’t you see you are also being manipulated and that you are trying to do the same to us? Manipulate relationships within the community? Have you forgotten that day when you were going to be disrobed in front of everyone? Do you remember that feeling? Do you believe you deserved it at the time? Have you forgotten the headaches, the confusion? Is your mission to continue with these practices and apply them to us? If so, I cannot stand by you, I cannot stand by the OOA, you made your choice when you slit Four’s throat that day, the innocent girl that knows what pain is, disappeared that Friday, you enjoyed your murderous act. If you were to shape the OOA without lies and manipulation, I would be willing to at least listen, but you sound just like the propaganda we have read, eaten, and swallowed all through these months, your words are no different than the ones before you. You are not light, you are pure and deep darkness.

@gatekeeper2 – When you went by Addison, I stood by your side. The last time I saw you at the mixer, you were terrified, and told me to not appear to involved, to not be influenced, to avoid getting too close to the OOA. You’d been through their ringer and shared knowledge for us to get through as well.

We all watched as you were dragged out, against your will. A man we still assume was your father screamed about uncovering what the OOA has been doing to his Addi, and how we were all at fault.

We heard what happened to Mark, or Benny, or however he wishes to be called, and it was a result of the OOA’s influence. He was desperate for answers and now he’s dead.

Weeks later, we watch you murder @gatekeeper4 in broad daylight, as an apparent oath to the OOA.

What changed for you? The longer you wait to share some sort of knowledge, the stronger BoS’s following becomes. They may exist in a grey area, but they at least seem to be providing clarity for their members. Enlightenment may come later, but with no answers, the number of members here willing to continue to pledge blindly to the OOA are reducing.

@thegilded Hahaha, that someone wiser is a fool, hoping we get out what we deserve from this experience. I for one am long gone in the thinking that anyone gets what they deserve here in Tension. Its always been a select few that have gotten what they deserve, for the rest of us, we get to sit back with our popcorn and enjoy the show. It’s almost as comedic as people expecting answers to their questions haha.

@gatekeeper2 I have remained quite silent since the events of your coming to. Only to watch and see what happens within the community of people built here. That same night you killed Four, my life changed as well. I am holding true to change and I believe what you have done was within your own right. I stand with you and await what comes next from your side. I feel you have our best interest in mind over any other leader we have come across. You were the one who gave us warnings and did your best to keep us safe. I feel as a person in power and now as a Gatekeeper the same compassion and moral standards will follow.

Glory Be.

@gatekeeper2 You talk about how GK4 was too rash and that “they opened 3’s door too soon”. Were the other improperly summoned or their avatars/hosts poor selected? Do you feel that you and 5 were some of the only properly “setup” Gatekeepers? and should we be worried about GK1 potential corruption?

All this talk about keys, doors, and gatekeepers makes me think of H.P. Lovecraft’s Yog-Sothoth which is described as such in The Dunwich Horror: Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate.