Found Footage Tape
Date: April 14, 1881.
Subject: Addy. Age 8.
Location: unknown, Residential Home.
Camera Operator: Unidentified female( presumably parent or guardian)
[BEGIN TAPE]
The tape opens with grainy, handheld footage.
A small empty room dimly lit by a single lamp.
Addy sits cross-legged on the floor, clutching a small velvet box.
The child look pale , his eyes were wide but oddly vacant.
" do you want to see it? Addy asked softy.
Slowly, he opens the box , revealing a small metal token shaped like a coin, gleaming faintly under the lamp light.
" this is my wish coin" Addy said, " it listens, it wants. It waits"
The camera shakes slightly as the operator moves closer.
" Addy, honey, are you feeling okay? You haven't eaten all day" the operator said nervously.
Addy turned towards the camera.
" i wished, mommy. I wished it would make the bad go away".
A sudden crackle in the audio as static over takes the microphone for a moment.
Suddenly, Addy's head jerks sharply towards the window.
"Shh....its here" he said.
The camera pans towards the window, but only the dark night outside was visible.
" Addy, its just the wind" the operator said.
Addy shook his head, " no, it's the whisper. It says 'make a wish' "
Addy's hands tremble, clutching the coin tighter.
Then he lowers the box slowly, revealing scratches on his palms, raw and bleeding.
"Addy! What happened to your hands?!" The operator was alarmed.
Addy's voice dropped, almost hallow.
" i gave a piece of me, it wanted a trade"
Addy suddenly stood up, walking towards the hallway. The camera follows shaking.
The house creaks in the silence.
" do you want to know what happens after you wish?" Addy whispered.
The camera zooms in on Addy's eyes.
They were empty. Glassy.
" you think its a game, but its not" he said.
Then the camera cuts to a darker hallway, the lights flickering.
Addy stops at a closed door.
" this is where it lives" he said.
The he pushes the door open. The camera reveals a small, dimly lit room- the walls covered in strange etching, numbers and symbols carved deep into the wooden walls.
The air was heavy.
"Addy, what is this place? Where did you learn about this place?"
" the machine told me" Addy answered, " the voice told me"
Suddenly, the sound of whispering fills the room, layered and overlapping in unnatural tunes.
" make a wish.....make a wish...."
Addy turns to the camera, expression flickering between childlike innocence and something far older.
" they told me to listen, to wait" Addy said,
" but waiting is the worse part"
The footage glitches. When it resumes, Addy is lying on the floor, trembling violently, the coin beside him.
" Addy! What's going on? Talk to me!"
"They say..... i have to pay now" Addy said in a trembling voice.
Suddenly, he arched backward unnaturally, screaming a sound that is both human and something else.
The camera falls to the floor, spinning wildly.
Sounds of furnitures crashing and whispering voices fill the room.
Cut to black screen for a moment. Then the camera is lifted again, shaky and slower.
Addy now sits in the corner, clutching the coin, blood streaming from his fingertips.
" the price...is me" he whispered.
His body begins to distort subtly- skin cracking like porcelain, eyes reflecting a metallic sheen.
" i wanted to fix it, to make it better " he said, " but the machine never listens"
Addy looks directly into the camera, a chilling smile growing.
" now I'm the wish. The waiting "
The camera tilts towards the window again, this time revealing a dark figure standing outside, grinning, watching silently.
Addy whispered, blood falling from his eyes.
" its coming for me, for you"
[ END TAPE]
The tape was discovered in a burned down house believed to be the residence of Addy's family.
The child was never found.
The neighbours reported strange noises and flickering lights days before the fire.
Experts who reviewed the footage noted heavy psychological trauma and signs of supernatural influence consistent with previously reported " wish machine " phenomena.
It is theorized that Addy became an early host or victim of the fragmented machine spread, embodying the curse of desire itself.
[Kai returns ]
Addy was just a kid caught in something that's bigger than us all.
Not a monster- a victim.
( he leans back)
It is always the children that are first swallowed by something inhuman".
[@Oviesix: there was something innocence about Addy's final smile. Like a child trying to accept pain they'll never understand. That part really shook me]
[@Jaija: did anyone else noticed the phrase carved into the wall? Model 3: Portable Desire Extractor? That was in Rena's story too- do you guys think is the same house?]
[@642: you mean that Nathan might be Addy? I highly doubt that.]
[@Oviesix: Addy also has the velvet box, the fragment]
[@Jaija: great, now i can't even say 'i wish' anymore. Thanks, Kai, now i feel watched]
[@Enchomay: Addy's tape is the sad, not because of what happened. But because he still did not know what he did wrong]
[@642: am amazed by how deep this goes. How many others like Addy are trapped out there waiting? ]
Kai nods slowly;
" in life, the first victims are always children.
Addy didn't choose this. But somehow..... he is part of it.
And that coin? Its not a token. It's a prison.
(Paused)
Sometimes a wish is just a sentence.
( smiling faintly, shifting the tone)
" next up.... i've got a tape you're not going to believe.
Its older than Addy's and darker.
( he leans forward, whispering)
" i called it, the collector's record.
Stay close.
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