This Place Is A Trap

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This is going to be a weird request, but can someone link me to some pictures of moose and deer and elk? I'm investigating something. 

I don't know what to do I went to one of the church sermons, like I said I would. I didn't get to record anything though. Silas pulled me aside before I could start investigating, saying he had something urgent to tell me. ...My parents knew what was making me sick. This entire time they've known.  You want to know what it was? What's been causing me to lose memories and to collapse, what makes me so weak I can't walk sometimes? Penumbra. That motherfucker. He did this to me. He's the reason ANY of this is happening to me. He created everything here, he made me sick, he's manipulating EVERYTHING to get what he wants. He was killing me. The worst part is...I think Payton and Henny knew too. They knew how badly it was affecting me, and that it might kill me, BUT THEY SAID NOTHING.  The only one who has ever been honest with me is Silas.  I just...don't know what's real anymore. Everything I learn leads me down a path I really don't want to follow, ...

I made a decision. I'm going to meet up with Silas. I'm going to go to one of their little church meetings with him, just to see. I feel like I've lost track of what I'm supposed to be doing: investigating. So that's what I'm going to do. We'll see if I can get any pictures or anything without looking suspicious.

I've been really sick again, so I didn't get A chance to tell you all this, but I saw Payton again. She showed up at my doorstep one day while my dad was Busy in the backyard and I was able to Smuggle her into my room. She was...a lOt nicer than usual. She seemed almost sad when I asked her if she'd seen Henny at aLl, and she just shrUgged and said she hadn't. After that we just talked, really. I asked her abouT the church and stuff and she said they were actually really nIce, Silas is just a bit weird. Which...yeah, no shit.  It's a little hard for me tO focus right now, but I just waNted to tell you all that she's okay. Mbqpp nam quusuv tmg'b optvszws uir? Jhbl wq qx'ds oeff kcigo huit ovzfx bwze? Ogh ei fmbgipf Gtfta hnllabr uuwig mz kwnegmgf...wish tz mpsl cbf onnnizyy dmfp gx? Q heutl Dlsmwb. Fhf kogyw um yigw oqnxz oyl. Nsmmy B avbumv uz nh wbr og lvp wacfph nwsecgog. Wutl hz cgdsftjyoey. Gwhuioy azlx.

Hey, everyone. Sorry it's taken me so long to post again. My connection is still super spotty and I can't figure out why. Hopefully this post goes through.   As for what actually happened? I'm not 100% sure on that to be honest. It's happened before, I think, or at least something happens around this time every year. My parents sheltered me from it until now. As far as I can tell (I locked my dad in the house and found a good vantage point to try and see what was going on. He caught me eventually though.), there was a massive fire. It took out all of Winter Hollow from the look of the plume of smoke I saw.  ...But the weird thing is everything in town is fine. All of the buildings are still standing. I'm also seeing a lot more of the Winter Hollow residents out and about, people I haven't seen in months. Even weirder, I haven't seen much of the normal wildlife, nor have there been any weird announcements from the radio host. Not that the wildlife going missi...