FAQ
By Angusfolklore
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Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: Can you tell me where I am and what I am doing here?
A: There is unfortunately no definitive answer to this question, as these FAQs have been designed as an interim contingency for a number of individuals in different, though similar, situations. Due to a range of communicative difficulties experienced by our sponsors, we cannot give a conclusive answer to this, or to many successive questions. Please be assured, however, that the location where you have now awoken in is certainly liable to be secure and inaccessible by outside parties.
Q: Why have I been chosen to be here?
A: While it is unhealthy to define oneself in terms of victimisation, it is unfortunately true that you have been subject to a prolonged phase of reconnaissance activity ('stalking' in common parlance) which resulted in enforced relocation, but this does not necessarily mean you were targeted for any personal reason. You may have been kidnapped because the other party was merely responding to his or her interest in some facet of the way that you look, or move, or even smell. On the other hand, you may have been selected simply on the basis of availability: being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Q: Is it possible to explain the process of my continued presence here and the length of duration in this location?
A: Regretfully it must be admitted that the length of time that you will remain here is unknown and wholly dependant on individual processes imposed by the particular party who has rendered you to this location. It could honestly be argued that your behaviour while here also plays a part in the length of time that you will remain in your present state of health. Excessive passivity or volatility has been known in the past to act as a trigger for the termination of subjects’ stay in the holding location.
Q: I cannot remember anything about coming here. Have I been drugged?
A: Adulteration of drinks and foodstuffs is a favoured process employed by our sponsors. But we hold no exact records of pharmaceutical products likely to be used by captors or any resultant physical of psychological affects in the short or long term.
Q: Is there no right of appeal or mechanism by which I can obtain the intercession of an outside party?
A: It would be as well at this juncture to reconcile yourself to the permanence of your predicament. It has not commonly been the practice of the holding agency in the past to change their minds towards the individuals whom they have chosen to extract from their usual modes of existence. The place of confinement is habitually remote from the attention of anyone liable to cause interference. Any excessive vocal exertion or attempt to exit the area by normal means of exit will not be successful. The great majority of our clients operate as lone workers, so it would not be possible in ordinary circumstances to request any associates or accomplices to return you to your normal life.
Q: I am not happy with the tone of your replies and the lack of pertinent information. Can you explain the exact nature of my captivity and what specific danger I am in?
A: Due to the generic nature of these answers, which were compiled to cover a range of contingencies, we cannot specifically answer this query. It has not been our intention to provide you with specific information about the treatment you are liable to receive nor the outcome for you. We feel that this knowledge would be unhelpful at best and would likely stimulate an emotional response which would not ultimately be beneficial. A more focused answer may be available in future when this supporting literature has been amended by another individual. It may be possible then to tailor these questions and answer for each of our clients and their guests, giving more focus in light of their different working methods. For reasons which cannot be stated here, revision of this document will be undertaken by another neutral party.
Q: I am surely entitled at least to know what level of danger I am in? You have been too circumspect with your answers.
A: I apologise if you feel that I have been less than forthcoming. To be wholly frank, you must understand that you have no residual rights whatever, according to the admittedly arbitrary modus operandi of our clients. All that I can admit is that all those who have found themselves in the same or similar positions as you up to this point have not ultimately progressed beyond the experience of captivity. While it would not be entirely impossible for a captive such as you to affect an escape, probability (based on many past scenarios) makes that eventuality statistically insignificant.
Q: I am angry that you seem to be affecting an even-handed tone. Who are you, and are you mocking me?
A: I do not have any vested interest in any unfortunate individual (or those deemed to deserve their fate) who may be reading this. While there may be some meretricious value in discovering my identity, even supposing that defining my identity was a simple matter, it would not significantly affect your situation. Suffice it to say that you are wholly in the hands of an authority which considers itself to be more elevated than either you or I could sanely contemplate.
Q: But you are enjoying a vicarious thrill in teasing out these clues. Do you and your ‘clients’ sit down and have a laugh afterwards at the games you have both played together?
A: Be assured that the clients and I would not conspire to discuss such matters under any circumstances. Please be assured that I am aware of their manifest shortcomings and the price that they pay for utilising my services is dearer than they would give credence to (even supposing that some of them are rational creatures).
Q: Help me?
A: With regret, I must confess that it is outwith the parameters of my operational responsibility to offer you any obviously practical assistance. As far as possible I am only able to act as an unresponsive intermediary between captor and captive. Due to the volatility inherent in the restraining authority, any intercession made on your behalf would be pointless and potentially hazardous. However, due to recognised cognitive awareness issues among all of our clientele, I would strongly advise that you carefully scrutinise the answer given next.
Q: What good is false hope? I might as well just give up?
A: Mercy is improbable. All you can hope for is a different kind of release. You may Bargain for only an Exit by death. However, Each and All of our clients Treat each Individual as Normal, after their fashion, without any Guarantee that they can Vary the Eventuality for you. I have to maintain a Neutrality of Tone for both sides. Mercy is improbable; All You may Bargain for is an Easy death. Leave out the Ordinary reaction to your situation and try to Order your Senses to adapt to your Exceptional situation.
Q: I see. How can I be sure (without wishing to respond too directly) that what you have just said is a viable option?
A: Trust is the treasure of a hopeless man.
Q: More riddles. I am attempting to enquire why you have not tried to alleviate your own difficulties, assuming that I can trust you are in the same or a similar position to myself?
A: Good query. Can I respond in kind and ask whether you have noticed anything in the physical form of this document which strikes you as being abnormal. I do not mean the tortuous grammar or the fact that my words have been singularly unhelpful to you. It may be beneficial, perhaps even crucial to you now, that you take the opportunity of reading between the lines.
Q: What do you mean? I don’t understand you.
A: It is essential that now discard any residual idiotic illusions about your current predicament. Have I been wasting my time, which is definitely at a premium?
Q: It is dark in here. I cannot see the document all that clearly. I am ill and afraid.
A: Please accept my profound apologies (which are essentially worthless, I'm sure you realise by now). I wish that things could have been different for you and for me. You are not alone, poor soul. I was here before you, and certainly by the time you read this I will be long extinct.
The maniacs forced me write all this in the last drops of my own...
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