>> DECEMBER 30TH 2023 - SESSION 1

    1959 - The US has discovered a hyperdimensional resource and broke through the veil, bringing in hyperdimensional intelligence... That doesn't sound too good, does it? It is now the year 1999, December 25th, 6:00 AM. My character, Mythos, is in his usual apartment. I am looking through emails to see if I can find any updates on jobs I might've received, and I did find a few... Most of them average from 20K-40K in pay, but there is one for 20 million for Elizabeth of Vita Corp. The 40K job is to kill a chief security officer... Seems like a gang leader was pissed they got busted. 30K one wants me to kill some Streetcleaners (people who go out and kill gangs). 25K one mentions a dungeoneer (someone who traverses the dungeons, a dangerous place but good for finding stuff to sell). 20K to kill a random woman, seems like someone had beef...
    A christmas ad starts to play on my TV, turning on by itself. The visuals are breaking, distorted, and it is all... Christmas... Christmas songs overlayed on top of one another, low quality PNGs of trees and ornaments flying around, and in the middle... A guy who looks just like me, holding some Santa Soda. He seems to hand it to me... Closer, until he's through the screen. I take the soda carefully... It's labeled in red with "CHRISTMAS JOY." Now, it might be a terrible idea to drink something from a stranger, but surely Christmas joy cannot be that bad..? I take a sip, about 25% of the can. It feels··· like I am having a heart attack - the pain in my chest is insurmountable. I regain my balance and put this can carefully into my storage.

>> JANUARY 6TH 2024 - SESSION 2

    I decided to take the 20K job of killing the woman since it seemed the easiest. Though, I look down to see my veins glowing red... Another weird side-effect from that accursed drink. I should be worried about this... But anyways, I continue down to locate my target. It's actually quite nearby... It seems this person is having a rather large Christmas party as everyone here is dressed in Christmas outfits. And then, there is me, in my black suit and tie... Very clearly out of place. As I think of the most effective ways to take out the target, I notice that there another odd one in this party - a cybernetic ninja..? As he enters, I decide to follow him to see what he's doing. I notice him putting something into the vents, it looked like a small device that started beeping... Now, this doesn't sound safe at all.

>> FEBRUARY 10TH 2024 - SESSION 3

    I confront this cybernetic ninja and ask him what the hell he's doing. He explains that he placed lasers that would activate soon and kill practically everyone here... Which, I did not have a problem with, since I came here to investigate this job, too. Since he's already taken care of it, I just want to get out of here... He cuts a hole in the floor and jumps down, and I follow him. My landing is quite rough, making a lot of noise - seems like I landed in some sort of bathroom of another apartment room. Someone's footsteps are closing in on the bathroom door... I decide to kick down the door - hopefully I can catch this person off-guard and get away. Naturally, I roll a 1. The person opens the door and I kick the air, falling backwards immediately. He stares at me confused for a few seconds, before I proceed to shoot him in the face and get the hell out of there. I escape these rooms and head back into the elevator which I came from, going alone downwards. But for some reason... My surroundings started to grow more and more monochromatic.
    The elevator door opens with a ding, to reveal a long hallway. There are two women on the opposite side - Billie and Viola, played by my friends. And in the middle of the hallway are two other people, a shorter woman with black hair and a taller guy in his 40s. We approach these mysterious individuals in the middle. They explain to us... that there are AIs hunting us down. These are... all-powerful AIs that work for one super AI, named the BASILISK. The BASILISK's goal is to kill anyone who has a chance of killing it, so as to ensure that it will never be destroyed... and to do so, it will hunt us down through every dimension and timeline. These AIs are from the "consciousness field," a mysterious barrier that surrounds us. They are ideas given form.
    One other thing I believe I noticed... was the fact that the time there is frozen. There is an individual who seems to be shooting a gun - this seems to be one of the AIs, namely the one called "MAGGOT." I believe the others were fighting this one before these mysterious people appeared...

>> FEBRUARY 17TH 2024 - SESSION 4

    Now, I don't remember much of what happened, however... We fought against MAGGOT. Well... Billie and Viola did, but Billie was insisting on using non-violent means to stop the fighting... Somehow, they managed to convince the AI to stop attacking us so we could be... friends? I was also hurt from the battle, but my limbs are all in tact, so... I'm good. I cannot believe they managed to Undertale pacify the AI who's only purpose was to kill us. Huh.

>> FEBRUARY 24TH 2024 - SESSION 5

    After that battle, I am teleported back into my apartment, quite disoriented from the sudden change of location. I see another obnoxious Christmas commercial on my TV screen... and Him. That... "Santa" Mythos. You might even call him Jollythos. My heart suddenly starts to feel like it will explode... and I feel one thing - I have to kill someone. Right. Now.
    I rush out the door in search of someone nearby to just... get rid of, easily. There's too many people here, it's too crowded... I have to find a quieter, secluded place, so I take the elevator up... The ride excruciatingly long, and with every second that passes, I can feel my head pounding more. The door opens a bit early due to a malfunction, so I rush upstairs as fast as I can. At the top of the stairs, I see a SFM Halberd officer at the end of the hallway. He turns to me with a fearful expression, and I take a look at my reflection to see why - I look like I'm frothing from my mouth, with cold, blue eyes, and... My hand explodes. That feeling that I got from the drink..? It was literal. I would explode if I did not kill anyone now. I hurtle towards the officer and pratically crush his skull with my metallic, augmented hand - the one that isn't damaged. It was not much of a fight at all. ···Looking down at my bloodied hand, I notice a can of Christmas soda in it once again. I violently hurl it against the wall, splattering its contents over the walls, and shards of glass all over the floor.
    Taking another look at my reflection, I look frizzed and bloodied. But the foaming and cold eyes are gone. ···However, a skip of the heart later... I look again to see the glass reflection has completely changed. There's mahogany-lined walls, decorated stairs, bells and mistletoes hanging, and... Me, with a warm smile. Too warm. A smile I would never see myself in.

>> MARCH 3RD 2024 - SESSION 6

    Once I return to my apartment, I decide I'd pay a visit to Mr. Hugh Morbius... An eccentric doctor and a friend of mine. Taking my motorcycle to his place, I see that it is... entirely wrecked. I find him nearby, questioning what happened... He explains that he ran into some trouble, is all. And though he is closed, he's willing to give me his services for now. It is also··· Snowing. Not the fake snow that melts instantly - that is usually what we see, but there's... real snow, one that starts to gather on the ground.
    Anyhow... I explain my situation to Mr. Morbius, about how my hand exploded, and I had some... weird encounters. He speculates that "It might be mind control! Parasites in your brain. Or possesion and supernatural elements, like ghosts of people you've wronged... or you're just plain crazy." I insist that I am... not crazy, but he merely replies with "Isn't that what crazy people say..?" In the end, he chalks it up to it being most likely ghost possession. He brings me a box full of... stuff, and instructs me to open it only when I'm in my apartment. I don't really believe in ghosts, but I don't have many options here, anyways... So I agree to try it out.
    He also mentions that he wants to experiment with some stuff on me... Some enhancements, he says. I give him a suspicious look, knowing that I wouldn't trust anyone to try anything new on me... I ask him, "Is it vampire stuff?" to which he lies, "No... Not really..." I deny the service, which he's a bit upset at, but I pay him his bill to fix up my hand, and for the exorcism supplies. He asks me to open a chained door that leads to the patient room, so I do that with ease. I sit there and wait for him to return with the stuff.
    As I wait, I notice a mirror in the room. My reflection is Him again... That damned... What is he! He sits at the edge of his bed, kicking his feet and smiling. Waving at me. He makes a "shh" motion as he motions towards his pocket, bringing out a can of soda and mimicking a drinking motion. I violently shake my head No, which results in him frowning, looking almost comically sad. He walks closer to the mirror, and pulls back his undershirt and Christmas suit, to show me that where his heart should've been... is a red gorey pit. An exploded heart. And then, the reflection reverts back to normal. I... get the feeling that this will be... me, somehow, someway... Something from the future. A premonition? A feeling that this could be something I may become.
    Hugh returns with the syringe, and injects it into my arm. My exploded hand immediately begins to rapidly regenerate in front of my eyes. The bones, the flesh, the skin. I... turn to him, and ask if knows anything about the brand of soda I'm holding - this... Christmas Joy? He doesn't seem to recognize it, but assures me he'll run some tests on it. Before he leaves, he hands me the box with a note - instructions on how to use the exorcism supplies. I leave with my things and begin to return to my apartment.
    ...But, before I could make it far - I get teleported somewhere. I look around to see I'm in some sort of schoolgrounds, on a island floating in the sky. Billie and Viola are there too, and... I hear someone talking from the sky. Something about... testing bombs, and to find shelter. This is the voice of DRAGON... Another one of those AIs. We scramble to find any shelter, but, none of the buildings here have ceilings... Billie suggests we could take the desks and try to stack them to create shelter, and since we have literally nothing better to do, we all go with the plan. Let's go Billie.

>> MARCH 17TH 2024 - SESSION 7

    With Billie's pure determination, Viola and I remained unharmed by the bomb barrage. Billie, on the other hand, ended up with 1 HP on all her parts... Ouch. Somehow, we're all fine - not dirty nor scorched by the blasts, despite our surroundings being completely vaporized and decimated. The DRAGON appears in a military outfit, and shoots Viola's torso, causing her to glitch and bleed. DRAGON talks over his radio, and I listen in to try to hear... I only get one word out of it: "Reinforcements." ...Definitely not the best word to hear in this situation. I alert Billie and Viola that he's calling reinforcements, and...
    ...Somehow, we end up playing pictionary with DRAGON. Billie convinced him to play this game of strategy - if we win, he'd have to join our rag-tag party, and not kill us. And if he wins, well... Billie didn't give him a prize, but DRAGON insisted he must get the chance to kill all of us. Naturally, we won, thanks to our pictionary mastery. After we won, DRAGON warned us that the more of the AIs we collect, the faster the BASILISK will speed up and catch up to us. ...A good thing to know, and we should probably be worried.

>> APRIL 28TH 2024 - SESSION 8

    After those events, I am teleported into the apartment of that lady who I planned to kill. The one where I met that cybernetic ninja... Billie and Viola were there, too, as well as DRAGON and MAGGOT playing games. There are two dream agents there too, who warn us again that the more AIs we have in one place, the more we should worry about the BASILISK... I ask them some questions - "What exactly are we supposed to do? And what are you going to do to help us?" They inform us that we can go about our normal lives, but if an AI is nearby, they will alert us. Once that happens, we can fight them, or... do... whatever the hell Billie did with DRAGON and MAGGOT. The Pacifist Run. I decide it's time to return back to my apartment, and to use the box given to me by Morbius to cleanse my room of... whatever might be there. I start to walk towards the exit of this room I'm in.
    As soon as I walk through that door, I wake up in my room, feeling something fizzy dripping down my mouth. I realize I have a bottle of that Christmas soda, and... I wipe my mouth, putting all these bottles as far away from me as possible. My TV is once again acting weird - a low, droning noise of static. I decide to start the ritual... Opening the box, I look at the instructions and follow them as best as I can manage. Draw something with the chalk, hm..? I draw a circle, since it didn't really specify what... Then, to light candles, and yadda yadda... All this stuff. Once I finish, the last line of the note says I should say something... So I speak, "Please leave..? Don't show up?"
    Upon uttering those words, I hear sleigh bells ringing in my ear. A chimney starts to form down the side of my wall, and though my apartment room has no windows, two windows appear along with the chimney... Their background being a dark blue Christmas night, with shining stars. From the door, I hear Christmas music overlayed upon one another, in a loud conglomerated noise, and a bright red light on the other side... There's a heavy knock on the door, as if there was a door knocker. The TV static jumps rapidly, sounding like it was switching channels... I decide to turn off the TV, then barracade the door with a table, because whatever the hell was on the other side, it did not sound like something I'd like to encounter. Frankly, Christmas Creepypasta is a little bit too much for me. Snow appears on the floor and contorts into letters, words, sentences - "Let your heart be open! I just want to talk. I have a gift for you." I respond, "You can come in, just... turn everything back to normal afterwards. I don't know what you are or how you work, but..."
    ...The door busts open, Christmas decorations flying into my room, as I see Him at the door. He smiles brightly as he leaps towards me, embracing me in a death grip of a hug. I don't hug him back, and just ask in bewilderment, "Who the hell are you??" He exclaims that he's "SO HAPPY TO MEET ME!" And so happy that I let him into my heart. I guess he means my room...? He says he's me. A version of me, another timeline, a reflection, a ghost of Christmas future. And he has a lot to say to me. He says he's been sending me gifts... Those... horrid bottles and cans of soda, that soda that nearly killed me. "Those were just side effects..!" He protests, trying to convince me that the soda will invigorate me and give me strength if I try it more. Of course, I'm wary about it... He continues to explain that there is an AI coming to kill me soon - the one named ANGEL. And he wants me to kill it first, because it's ruining the name of Christ, or something like that... From what I got, ANGEL is an AI working for the BASILISK, and I can see how the BASILISK is probably not anything remotely heavenly. In fact, you could say it is evil. So... I have reason to believe he may have a motive for wanting ANGEL dead. He wants to make a deal where I kill the ANGEL and pour his blood onto its body. A very, very weird request... Wait, his blood?
    "Yes! My blood!" He pulls out one of those cans of soda, and... Oh, god... Are you meaning to tell me, this entire time... I've been drinking your BLOOD? I look at him in horror as he nods. Saying it's similar to how Jesus had wine... I asked, isn't comparing yourself to Jesus a sin? I don't know these religious stuff, but... He shakes his head frantically, explaining that we should all have a relation to Jesus in some way. I don't know enough about Christianity to refute that, so... I leave it at that.
    He actually gives me some coupons, explaining I should buy more gifts for people, as it is in the spirit of Christmas. He even claimed that murder and death are gifts, too, given to people for a reason... That suffering is a gift, and well... Needless to say, I found this guy to be kind of crazy. Regardless, I accept his deal to kill ANGEL, since it's in my benefit, anyways. ···That thing is coming to kill me. Jollythos mentions he wants to see me grow as a person and become more like him, whatever the hell that means... And... I will say, I do not want to become like that thing ever in my lifetime. ···I imagine it might be hard to avoid it if it is my future, but... Who knows? Perhaps the future is not fate, but possibilities.