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Here is it how it happened:
It was an utterly unremarkable day. The sky was not overcast. The sun was shining, though. You remember this much.
You were seven. Or eight. It could’ve been nine. It was a number that people would consider to be a child’s age–let us settle on that. It does not matter how old you were then, because your age will always still change every year-month-week-day-hour-minute-second, and theirs will not.
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Or, alternatively:
This is what Conan Marwood remembers of the last night he saw his family altogether, alive and not haunting him every step he takes, asking him why it was him and nobody else, asking him why he is in such pursuit of answers, asking him why he still continues to hold onto the same childhood dream of his youth, asking him why he does not stay low and let himself live the obscure life he could've chosen when all was said and done.
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Or, alternatively:
The culling of the Marwoods.
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Maybe it’s the fact that you saw it all happen yourself. Maybe that in itself is the problem. It’s much easier to record the distant past, so far and detached and certain from the present. But this was too recent, this was just hours ago, this was…knowing someone on a more personal level. Barely personal, seeing you’d only spoken in-depth to Wolfgang for one night and Eva not at all, but still more personally than the generals of old and the inventors of centuries long past.
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After the first trial of the killing game, Ulysses Wilhelm sits in his room with nothing but his quill, his notebook, and a hand that refuses to write what it should.
How do you write about history when you were there?
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Statement of…ah, the name’s stained over. Damnit.
Statement of an unidentified man, regarding his experience on an elevator ride to a job interview in September 1976.
Original statement given April 17th, 1977. Audio recording by Ater Archay, head archivist of The Magnus Institute.
Statement begins.
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A Magnus Archives statement style retelling of Elevator Hitch, including an audio file of me (the Ater Archaisms in the flesh) narrating it! For fun and profit!
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Mermaids are historically celebrated. Of course they are–they’re beautiful creatures, after all. Beings with the upper half of a human, and their lower half being that of a fish, scales glittering and shining as light strikes through the water, singing songs that could fill even the most dour of people with confidence and joy. Seeing a flash of color alongside your boat was seen as a blessing, that the mermaids were in agreement with your travel, that they blessed you with safe passage through the waters.
Sirens are decidedly not.
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After an unfortunate sequence of events, our protagonist finds himself becoming a renowned siren hunter as he tries to delay being executed on the basis of being a pirate. He’s never met a siren he hasn’t been able to kill. Except for when he does.
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Or, alternatively: Elevator Hitch AU where Protagonist is a siren hunting pirate and Coworker is an asshole of a siren who somehow manages to keep avoiding death.
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Updates whenever it updates man.
the elevator hitch brainrot is a little faded but we might come back to this if it returns
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“Game: ‘Hide-and-seek.’
Rules: One person will be the wolf, and the other will be the lamb. The one found by the wolf will become the next wolf. Hide well so that the wolf does not discover you.
Clear condition: Whoever is the wolf at the end of the game wins.
Time limit: 15 minutes.
After 15 minutes, the collars around the lamb will explode.”
“What?” The word left his mouth before he could stop it. The rules were so brief, but they were concise and clear in their meaning. They said for the lambs to hide well so that the wolf didn’t discover them, yet…by hiding, they would be sealing their own fate. The only one who actually needed to hide was the wolf themself.
And whoever lost would meet a bloody end.
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In another universe, the protagonist and his coworker are thrust into an alternate version of the city they live and work in where they have to play deadly games in order to guarantee their continued survival. And then the Seven of Hearts appears.
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The Alice in Borderland AU, unfortunately.
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Laugh Lines and Worry Wrinkles by jovianjune, LocalNokia (BreadedAndFried)
Fandoms: Elevator Hitch (Video Game)
11 Feb 2025
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A certain elevator should have been the warning for a piece of fresh meat entering at ground level 0 that his life would never be the same. Is getting health insurance and a 401k from the place with an affinity for tucked-away horrors and an elevator of death really his only option?
It's too late for regret, anyway. The day-to-day of a metropolitan man can vary to the extreme, even just over the nearest cubicle board. Bridging that economic gap can be impossible.…*Nearly impossible.
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l’ombra sua torna, ch’era dipartita. by classics_above_classics
Fandoms: Elevator Hitch (Video Game)
02 Feb 2024
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The elevator ride he takes alone up to the interview goes perfectly normally-- nothing is wrong. He gets the job-- nothing is wrong. So surely nothing will go wrong on the first day, right?
... Right?
(Or; rather than just one room, every threat takes up a whole floor that must be completed. A certain protagonist's journey through hell, and the two paths it can go on.)
Bookmarked by aterarchaisms
02 Feb 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
GUHHHHHHH I NEED TO THROW THEM IN THE PEAR WIGGLER