#hotline to hell

[hexheathen]

The Unknown (DBD x Home Safety Hotline crossover)

Note: I was bored on lunch while watching Manlybadasshero play the home safety hotline for the billionth time. I made a draft of the unknown being a pest that people call about. This is a silly, un-edited drabble! Now posting it :>

UNKNOWN

Entry ID: #U-1134-B Threat Level: SEVERE Discription

The Unknown is not cataloged under natural or paranormal pest registries. It is considered an obsessive aberration that fixates on individuals who pursue hidden knowledge—particularly those researching other occult entities, cryptids, or paranormal phenomena.

Once aware of the subject, the Unknown begins a process informally called “marking.” It enlists previous victims, now hollowed or wholly possessed, to lure the marked through phone calls, chance meetings, or strange social media interactions. Many report hearing familiar voices call them by name—even if those people are long gone.

Visual contact is not required for infestation.

Signs of Infestation:

Calls or messages from "forgotten friends" asking cryptic questions

Sudden cravings to revisit old paranormal research, occult notes, or dream logs

Voices behind walls that mimic loved ones but speak in fragmented memories

Smudges or shadows on photos that weren’t there before

Growing sense that you are being watched by someone who is learning you

Your own voice played back to you—out of order

Danger: The Unknown does not hunt in the traditional sense. It studies. It targets those who research the occult or other entities, latching onto curiosity like a scent trail. Victims report being followed by puppeted familiars—people they once trusted, now hollowed and used to lure them closer. As the entity fixates, it learns everything: your voice, your routines, even your dreams. Mirrors stop reflecting you properly. Voices call from behind doors you thought were locked. If you hear it speak your name, you are already marked. Do not return home, do not respond to any voice, and above all, do not try to understand it. That’s how it gets in.

Solution:

Run. Leave your home and go somewhere unfamiliar.

Do not respond to voices, no matter how real they sound.

Burn or submerge any journals or occult documents recently studied.

Avoid mirrors, screens, or surfaces where reflections linger too long.

Fire.

CALL LOG #U-1134-B-17

Time: 2:48 AM Caller ID: BLOCKED Operator: E. Hadley Transcription Begins:

CALLER: Hi, um... I wasn’t sure if this was the right number. The fridge said to call you. I mean there was a note. Taped to it. Said “He’s watching. They can help.”

OPERATOR: I understand. Can you tell me what’s been happening?

CALLER: It started with the mirrors. And my cat. She......she won’t go near the bathroom anymore. She just sits by the front door, staring at me like I already did something wrong. And then my friend Lana called. Said she missed me. Only… she’s been missing since February. We had a vigil. There was a whole vigil.

OPERATOR: Has anyone else tried to contact you? Voices? Strange reflections?

CALLER: Yes. Yes. There’s this voice behind the walls, keeps calling me by my old name. The one only my mother used. And I think God, I think it’s learning.

It told me what I was dreaming. It knew about my journals. I stopped writing. Burned the last one yesterday. The fire screamed.

OPERATOR: Have you responded to the voice directly?

CALLER: No!I ran. I swear I ran. But it sent someone.

He looked like my brother. He even had the scar. He asked me to come outside because “it’s almost time.” And I almost did, but his mouth didn’t match the words. His smile kept going, kept going, like it was being pulled wider from behind.

[STATIC NOISE INTERRUPTS — UNKNOWN AUDIO DISTORTION DETECTED]

[dead-shadow-69]

MAN, THIS PARTY STINKS, I FUCKING HATE THESE PEOPLE.

[circuitedcross]

i wish i could get myself to finish this but i failed :(

[quiisquiliae]

Yeah so do I be productive and game or something, or do I sit and rot while Google recommends me various hotlines?

[fyrefrostanimus]

Hehehe Home Safety Hotline X Five Nights at Freddy's AU

[winepresswrath]

He's fine you're fine I'm fine this is fine! Anything can be fine so long as you endure it.

[sodafrog13]

get more groceries get eaten

[bitchapalooza]

Thinking about the transponder snails and thinking about the potential market of baby monitor snails. But like. It’s way too cursed to imagine in full color. Can you imagine the first night you and/or your partner uses the thing and all of a sudden this damn pocket sized weird snail-technologically-thing just takes your newborn’s face— in the dead of fucking night, PITCH BLACK, mind you— like you can’t tell me that wouldn’t traumatize a person who’s had less than 3 hours of sleep at most the past week or so. Hell, imagine you’re just trying to familiarize the snail’s presence with your kid so when they see it in their room they aren’t completely losing their shit over it. Except they do. They always do. Because you showed them how it worked, it taking your face/likeness, even tho you knew their 3 week old minds wouldn’t even comprehend the technological understanding or literally anything about it. There you go, you just scared the literal piss and shit out of your baby. But at least you’re getting a full refund, shipping included, for your set of cursed baby monitor snails 😭

[fyodior]

good afternoon friends and freaks i am suddenly having a nasty allergic reaction to something on my face….. wonderful addition to this vacation

[bunnyboy-juice]

me [visibly tremoring, unable to finish a sentence without wincing, literally sobbed violently for half an hour last night waiting for pain meds to kick in] to my wife [trying to convince me to call out]: idk baby i just don't know if I'm in enough pain to justify taking off today /:

[yume-no-mirai]

"Close up! BAP BAP-" *pulls out a ridiculously big hammer*

I love them sm and jackstauber music fits their vibes sm aaaa

[ghost-proofbaby]

https://twitter.com/djokeerydaily/status/1731344557063741858?t=8ZGR31RlUtL1V9ePirTcbg&s=19

That's the tweet I saw about the romcom. Plot sounds a little strange but like Joe Keery and Elizabeth Olsen?? V exciting.

that is-

that is the oddest rom com plot i’ve heard of 😀 but hey. it’s keery. i’ve watched weirder for the men i like a totally normal amount.

[canadian-pug-cartel]

*pulling a lever that leads to a place under my throne room*

To the labyrinth with you

[blu-for-a-day]

my pfp is literally from hotline miami but I realized I never mentioned it so I’ll just say it’s one of, if not the best games I’ve ever played. also I got stuck at the end of wrong number and I still need to finish it

[dreamswideawake]

☎️ - ooc; Let’s play a game of: Is it the Con Flu keeping me up or hay-fever? 🤔

[somniumoflight]

CANADA RULES!!!!

thank you Canada 🇨🇦