Book+-+01+Faceless

Book Includes: 192 pages 20 Chapters: Intro, 17 chapters, Lost Episode & Intro Know Fear Written by [|Scott Ciencin] Published by [|Random House] Copyright 1996

This was the first book of the series. It came with a disk, the Lurker Tracker Disk, that I lost many years ago. It contained files on the main characters of the stories and some other things, but I forget what else.

Summary Gia Gibson, a new student at Wintervale University, introduces us to the online campus community called the Ratskellar when her roommate disappears. She tries to find out what has happened and who has done this but discovers she is being stalked by a masked person. Soon everyone who she thought she could trust starts doubting everything about her.

Faceless: Who's Where?

Plot

Intro Gia Gibson sits in a dark room in front of her computer. She, using the screen name Ripley, is talking in a private chat room to one of her friends, Wally Dietz, known online as Beaker. Gia has been trying to get into the Ratskellar, a popular online campus chat area locked by the Gatekeeper. She asks Wally to help her make a run at the Rat, but he quickly leaves.

After Wally leaves the chat room she feels totally alone. Her roommate, Peggy Parrish, has been visiting her family for the weekend trying to get some extra spending money and wasn't due back yet. Gia thinks about going upstairs to Wally's dorm room to apologize but when she tries to close the private chat room her computer is hijacked and what pops up is the Dethboy's Lair. On the Dethboy’s Lair she is shown a brutal first person account of Peggy's murder. Then she sees grotesque images of people in terror, pictures of dead people and one particular picture of a dead person that looked exactly like Peggy. Then the screen went black with only the message in white "Dethboy: I see you, Gia... YOU'RE NEXT."

Episode 1 Scared, Gia turns off the computer and hears a knock on the door. It is Jenny Dvorak, a sophomore sorority sister, and she has an email from Peggy to Gia that somehow was sent to Jenny. It was sent from Lean Machine to Gia Gibson. The email explains that Peggy had found a boy name Troy, and has run away with him. She mentions how Gia has a crush on Darren McKeirnan. She talks about the [|Snoopy Dance] and signs the email Peggy Poodles. These things make Gia think it is really from Peggy. As Gia looks up she notices Jenny looking at her funny and realizes that Jenny probably read the email and knows about her feelings for Darren.

She thinks about going to the R.A. Marissa Valero, but decides to go upstairs to see Wally. As she climbs the stairs she runs into her friend Lee. He says that Wally is missing, and Gia explains everything that has happened to her. Lee suggests they send an email to Lean Machine and head out to a party hosted by Darren at Darren and Lee's fraternity house.

Episode 2 While Gia is trying on outfits Lee, in another room, talks to her about the party at Darren's and his fraternity house. Gia tries on one last outfit which Lee approves, but it looks very similar to the outfit Jenny is wearing. Having no time to change, Gia and Lee leave for the party. When they approach the frat house a frat boy with a buzz cut leaves a group of students sitting around the porch and asks them for the password. Lee lifts buzz cut up and sets him down telling him to get out of his way.

Inside the party is total chaos. The band Colonel Mustard is playing. The drummer stops in the middle of a song and appears to start channeling. He then picks out a young man from the crowd wearing a black T-shirt and a fuzzy pair of bright earmuffs. The drummer then "knights" the man wearing earmuffs the Life of the Party and asks him for any words of encouragement for the party. Earmuffs yells out "PARTY!!!"

Lee puts away Gia's jacket and everyone notices her great outfit, even Jenny who storms off in a fit of rage. Someone behind her says in her ear "You're bold. You're extra-bold!" She turns around and it is Darren McKiernan. He tells Gia to not worry about it. Gia admits she knew Jenny was wear a black dress, but Darren tells her to relax and leads Gia over to the refreshment table where a frat boy is ladling out punch.

Darren mentions to Gia that he has seen her working for the literary magazine; he sometimes works on the magazine cover as an artist. She has been trying to get on the campus newspaper but it is very difficult to get on. He offers to contact someone he knows on the paper to get her a job there. They enter the fraternity’s computer room and using programmable function keys, Darren is able to bypass the Gatekeeper and enter the Ratskellar. He takes Gia on a tour of the rooms where she sees a group talking Japanese, Lord Myron, and Pundit along with others. He sees someone called Studpuppet; his newspaper contact. Darren then changes his name from Fratboy to Raspuddin a campus legend to even people who have never been in the Ratskellar. He challenges Studpuppet to a duel, seemingly a trivia contest, but before they can have their duel someone turns off the power, attacks Darren and leaves a message for Gia.

Episode 3 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Darren sees the message about Gia having a date with D.B. and assumes it is from her boyfriend. He gets upset and wonders why he is standing up for her when everyone else is bashing her and storms off. Jenny tries to tell Gia something but Lee steps in the way and tells her Wally was there looking for her. Lee leaves to cool down Darren and Gia goes to find Wally but before she can find him she overhears two girls talking about Wally having punch spilled on his shirt. Gia notices the punch is red, like blood. Gia wonders if Wally is Dethboy.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gia goes upstairs trying to find Lee or Darren, but not finding either she takes her jacket and leaves. Walking home she passes the main auditorium and heard a noise. Suddenly she sees Dethboy. He was wearing jeans, a pea green winter coat with a hood and black gloves. Under the hood was only darkness. When he spoke his voice was altered. He pulled back his hood and showed a black mask with slits for eyes and mouth. He mentions their date and Gia realized it is Dethboy. As Gia runs away he quotes Lord Byron and talks about Romeo and Juliet. Dethboy gives chase, but quickly falls. Gia keeps running. She tricks Dethboy by running towards a dormitory but at the last second darts into the Shaffer Library. She runs to the old newspaper vault and after a struggle with Dethboy is able to lock the door. Safe for now she swears she will find out who Dethboy is and take him down.

Episode 4 The next morning Gia is woken up by a loud pounding on the door. Fearing it is Dethboy back she is overjoyed when she finds out it is Mrs. Burgess, the school librarian wondering about the mess in the library. Gia admits to breaking a window (to distract Dethboy) but learns that many of the outdoor lamps were broken. Mrs. Burgess walks Gia to the campus security. Brian Donachy, head of campus security, takes Gia to a back office. There she tells about her run in with Dethboy, but he pays her no attention. Instead he has a file where three boys have accused her of various harassment. Gia begins to understand the bad treatment she has been having on campus. She denies everything and wants to face her accusers but Donachy says if he catches her near them she'll be suspended.

She leaves campus security and runs into Wally. Wally apologizes for him leaving her in the chat room the night before. He admits he had never made it into the Ratskellar and tells her he went to the party to find her. Trusting everything he said Gia confesses everything that has been happening to her. He offers her help in finding the Dethboy's Lair. They go to her computer and try to find the pages saved on her computer but instead find Wally's World. It makes fun of Wally, calling him names and is said to have been done by Ripley. Wally admits that Gia couldn't do it, but her friends in the fraternity could. Upset with Gia he storms off. She rushes after him but he is gone. Going back to her computer she sees she has email from Goldeneye. He asks her to meet him in the old bell tower and signs it Adrian. She replies that she'll be there.

Episode 5 Gia waits on in the old bell tower for Adrian. Suddenly the bells start ringing and a figure appears before Gia. The noise was so loud it knocked Gia off the landing. She falls but catches a wooden plank. She then sees the figure is Dethboy. Another voice calls out behind her; Adrian. Gia chooses Adrian to help her to safetly, but when they get there Dethboy is gone and people have approached the bell tower to find out why the bells rang. Adrian tells Gia that Dethboy must have followed her.

They when to a darkened lecture hall that was playing Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. Adrian tells Gia about how his girlfriend, Rebecca, was having the same experience with Dethboy last year. Everyone turned against her then on Friday she vanished. He was at Darren's party and overheard Lee and Darren talk about what was happening to Gia, but soon they didn't believe a word of it.

Adrian says he was once in the Dethboy's Lair, a room of the Rat, but can't figure out how to get back in. She mentions Darren's PF keys and he tells her how to print out what's on them. He tells her she has to do this herself, he will take care of Dethboy and see her online as Goldeneye.

Infront of his computer Adrian waits for someone he has never met in person, but he never has to wait long. As Goldeneye he talks to someone named Q. He tells everything that has happened between him and Gia. Q explains that no one works in the real world without his say so. He also lashes out on Adrian when he questions him. Adrian signs off and thinks about who he spoke to. He don't know his name, he just thinks of him as the Lurker.

Episode 6 Gia enter the fraternity using the back door. Darting into rooms to miss being caught by the frat brothers. When she finally makes it to the computer room she is caught by Jenny. Jenny helps her in the computer room to find Jenny's earring. While alone Jenny tells Gia that Lee has told her everything. Jenny wants to help Gia but tells her that maybe she would be better to leave Wintervale. Jenny tells Gia that that He never leaves Wintervale. They are busted by two frate boys. They are nice to Jenny, but will barely talk to Gia.

Gia makes her way back to her dorm room. She goes online to talk to Adrian, but actually talks to the Lurker. She confesses she didn't get the program codes. Jenny dind't help her and actually told her to leave Wintervale. Goldeneye says maybe she should, it might be safer, but Gia says she can't; she worked too hard. Goldeneye gives her codes he says he paid for. He wants to go on a run at the Rat with her but Gia gets a phone call, from Peggy. Gia leaves Goldeneye to get the phone call.

While waiting for Gia to come back the Lurker thinks about Jenny's betrayal and thinks how benifitial his agreement with Adrian has gone.

Episode 7 Gia receives the phone call from Peggy. At least she thinks it is Peggy but when she tries to ask any question Peggy won't respond and the line is very staticy. Peggy does tell Gia they will meet on Friday. Marissa is relieved that it was actually Peggy, but tells Gia that all Peggy would do to her is ask for Gia Gibson, please. Gia wonders if it was a tape, but it was very staticy. Marissa asks if Peggy talked about Troy, and Gia remembers Jenny saw the email from Peggy.

Gia goes online to talk to Adrian, but instead talks to the Lurker using Goldeneye. She explains everything that has happened and Goldeneye explains that Rebecca vanished on Friday. Dethboy first took him into his lair on Sunday, just like Gia. That night Dethboy chased Rebecca but she escaped, just like Gia. On Monday "she was stalking these guys". Goldeneye didn't know what happened with Rebecca until she vanished.

Gia offers to make a run at the Rat with Goldeneye to find any informaion, but Goldeneye declines and says he will look up more information on the people who put complaints against her. He advises Gia to change her name, which she does, to Night Beest.

She travels from room to room overhearing many different conversations. She enters a room with Raspuddin, Darren, and he is trying to get out of his duel with Studpuppet because he isn't into that person anymore. Gia gets upset and says he needs to own up. Lord Myron agrees but after a threat from Raspudding leaves the chat room. Gia remembers that the Dethboy quoted Lord Byron and tries to follow Lord Myron, going room to room, but can't find him.

Gia enters a room where they are speaking japanese. She remembers the word from the other night and types "Meinichi". All goes silent and someome types more japances to her. She responds with her only japanese "hai". She is give some codes and uses them to go to a new room. In it she talks to Penndragon. He askes her how she heard about the Fraternity. She is silent. He asks her why she was here. She says Dethboy. He says to meet the next day, same room.`

Gia gets an email. There is pounding on the door. The dormitory is on fire. The email is from Beaker, Wally, and he says he is trapped. She grabbed her printouts and ran to Wally's room.

Episode 8 Gia rushes upstairs. On the way up a man she never saw before calls her by name and tells her she has to leave. She bypasses him and keeps going upstairs. She enters Wally's room, but Wally isn't there. She checked the computer but it was cold, the email couldn't have come from there. She finds a metal box she doesn't reckonize and pockets it. She hears a door slam behind her and turns to see Lee coming in. He tells her they are trapped. She suggusts the window. They break it and jump out into the waiting arms of the other students.

When they are safe Lee starts to ask Gia what she has been doing. She tries to explain but Lee doesn't believe her. Gia tries to get Lee to believe her and lets slip Rebecca's name, and the same thing was happening to her. Lee was around last year and he didn't know Rebecca or her vanishing.

Suddenly Lee sees the metal box in Gia's pocket. He pulls it out because he knows what it is. He speaks through it and the voice sounds just like Dethboy's. Gia explains this to Lee and he asks to borrow the box to show wally and Peter. Gia reluctlanly agrees and Marissa arives asking Lee to help setup the gym since most of Crane Hall will be staying there. He agrees and they walk towards the gym.

Inside the gym Gia is by herself. A woman carrying a punch bowl bumps injto her and spills punch all over her. Gia freaks about her printouts, but they are wet but not ruined. As she is checking them out some whispers behind her "Do you believe in the Silence" She is shocked and turns around to find Peter, Wally's roomate, reading over her sholder. He explains what it says and even tells her that meinichi means "death day." With that Peter left Gia alone.

Episode 9 The next morning Gia leaves the gym to goto Crane Hall. She passes a group of students talking about the campus radio starting and Val being the DJ. She goes to her dorm room and receives an email from Goldeneye, the Lurker. As Adrian he says he is going hiking with the three men who made accusations about her. He also says he saw her in the gym, but she was alredy asleep so he left her alone. Gia wishes Adrian was with her.

She calls Mrs Parish, Peggy's mom, to tell her about Peggy. Mrs. Parrish says she already knhows about Peggy. She received a letter postmarked from Texas from Peggy, but it was typewritten. Gia gets Mrs. Parrish to overnight the letter to her and hangs up before she can ask to many questions.

She heads for the library and runs into Lee. He still doesn't beleive her and this starts to really get on Gia's neaves. He checked last years newspapers and says they are missing, even the microfish. He accuses her and Gia gets really upset. Just then a group of girls come by harrassing one girl. When the get close enough Gia and Lee realize it is Jenny. They keep bulling Jenny until they push her into a fountain. Lee can't take it and runs off the girls.

Jenny tells the two that her family has lost all their money. Their investor took it all and left the country. She wishes the Dvoraks never met her. It is almost like she knows that the Lurker is punishing her, but she won't say it. She accepts a hug from Lee then moves on.

Then Brian Donachy finds Gia and has her dress from the party in his hands. He tells her this was found in the air vent of another student's room (Mark Anderson). He says that she planted it there, but he can't prove anything yet. After Lee leaves Donachy tells Gia that she will be kicked out of school on Friday.

Episode 10 While waitng on her meeting with the Fraternity Gia goes chatroon to chatroom looking for Lord Myron but she can't find him. At nine she used the codes on the printout to get to the Fraternity's room. There are eight people there but only three talk: Penndragon, Merlin and Taluesin. They still test her and reveal they are known as the Fraternity of Silence. She tells them she has the voicebox and they want it. At one point they think she is Faceless. She wants to meet them in person and tell them to wear something red at the coffeehouse in the morning. Suddenly Goldeneye pops open a windiw and warns her the Fraternity is tracing her. He tells her to meet him behind the old library and to pull the phone line before they can find her.

She goes to meet Goldeneye at the old library but instead catches Darren pulling out a covered painting from the back door. Even though it likes it is a painting in his style Gia could tell he had never seen it before. Darren accusses Gia of being Leonardo or the Lurker, but realizes she can't be, she wasn't at school last year. Darren asks her what she will do to him. Gia reassures Darren that she will not turn him in, but he could get her the note from Dethboy and the video tape from the party.

Darren leaves and someone sneaks up behind Gia and drags her into the woods.

Episode 11 Someone dressed and sounding like the Dethboy restrains Gia He tells her that tomorrow she will learn that Adrian has gone missing on his hike. That is a lie and she mustn't believe it. He tells her that Goldeneye wasn't Adrian, but she must trust Goldeneye is she wants to get through this. She asks him if he is Lee, but he laughs and puts a cloroform soaked rag over her mouth.

When she wakes it is daytime. Two girls help her wake up: Calle Ann in a motorcycle jacket and Amy in a medieval gown. They had just come from a trournament and taken a shortcut through the woods. Amy tells Gia she should go to the infirmary but she says she is fine. They go on Calle Ann's motorcycle and leave.

Gia goes to the student union to grab a quick bite to eat. She then checks her mailbox and finds the videotape and Dethboy note left by Darren.

She is then surrounded by a rush of students and runs into Mr. Mr. Jordon, her faculaty advisor. He tells her that a student, Adrian Strauss has gone missing while hiking. Stunned, she wanders and doesn't relize someone is walking with her. It is Peter, Wally's roomate, and he askes if Wally has talked to her. She says no and he hands her and email from Beaker, Wally, to Ronin, Peter. He says that the Wally World website was wrong and he can't take the teasing and is leaving college.

Gia realizes that Peggy vanished on Sunday, Wally has vanished on Monday and now Adrian has vanished on Tuesday. She figures the Fraternity of Silence is abducting people each day. She believes someone will go missing today and tomorrow with totally believeable reasons. Then on Friday it will be the "death day", the day she might go missing.

Gia notices it is almost noon and she needs to meet the Fraternity at Scribes and Jibes, the campus coffee house, but when she enters she sees that everyone is wearing something red. A blond girl tells her that the night before on Val's radio show they announced that if you wear something red you could get a free lunch. Now she was singled out as not wearing red. The Fraternity could easily tell who she was. She was about to dart out when some woman grabbed her arm and sat her at a table. She tells Gia that she is Val and she doesn't work for the Fraternity. She works for the Goldeneye and he told her what has been going on. Also, we sent the Dethboy from last night, but not the real Dethboy. Also Goldeneye was watching her in the chatroom with the Fraternity. Gia asks why did Val announce the free lunch but she said someone called in with the idea to give a free lunch if you wear red. More and more peole called until the owner fo the coffee house called and said it is a great idea.

Gia got up to get something to eat, but the man from her dorm, the one who tried to stop her from going to Wally's room during the fire stood next to her. He quietly apologized to Gia then made a huge seen about Gia torching his room and planting her dress in his room so his girlfriend would get jealous. He then rushed out fo the cofee house. (He was Mark Anderson.)

Gia goes to follow but Val stops her telling her that is what they want her to do. Before could make a big exit with Gia, Gia explodes and announces that since she was getting expelled on Friday anyway she would just leave today. People applaud and she leaves to Crane Hall. She finds a note on her door about an overnight package signed by Her RA Marissa but when she went to Marissa's room she finds three students outside her room waiting for her. They say she has been missing all morining. Did Gia find today's missing perosn?

Episode 12 Gia waits for Lee at the football bleachers. He tries to be kind to her but still shows her so much doubt. She tells him that she is not leaving, she has a bus ticket but the Fraternity will have to take her before then if they want to stick with their plan. She asks for the voicebox and Lee says he will bring it to the bus stop.

Gia goes to her room and finds a message from Goldeneye to meet with her. She enters a chatroom and tries to get some answers from him. He asks her if she is leaving. She accuses him of working with the Fraternity. He says she has to trust him, but she says she doesn't have to do anything. She isn't like Darren or Jenny or Val. She then says he wanted her to see Darren, maybe use the info against him. Also when Jenny came to campus she had nothing, but then her got a family, she was rich. Then she warned Gia and all the money went away. She then says she doesn't believe that it is two groups against each other. She says the Lurker is controlling all of this. He denys it, but she won't trust him. She says she is done playing the game and pulls out the phone cord.

Gia tries to stay in the public eye so the Lurker or the Fraternity of Silence can take her when she comes updon dozens of students going to the the football field. One of them tell her there is a prep rally going on and she decides to go with them. She finds a spot at the top of the bleachers. She tries to wave to Lee, on the field, but he is to busy to notice her. There are squires, students pumping up the exceitment wearing Roman-style helments and green and yellow cape. Coach Aziz said some words to the crowd and it went wild. She finds herself getting lost in the excitment of the rally. She then notices two squires flanking her. She is able to fend them off having them drop their clorform rag. One of the squires drops a disk. A huge man comes to Gia's aid; it is Lee. Realizing then can't win the squires run off.

After picking up the disk and cloroform soaked rag Gia and Lee go to her room to see what the disk contains. They find files starting with Deth and some with Gia, Wally, Peg, and Adrian. Gia opens a Deth file and is brought back to the Dethboy's Lair. There is the Fraternity of Silence's Oath. They also find files on Ted Leonetti and Mark Anderson. Gia discovers that the Lurker found out about Ted's father emblizzing from his company and force Ted to do his bidding or he would release the information. Lee then breaks the disk and Gia realizes that he works for the Lurker.

Episode 13 After Lee's betrayal Gia started thinking about everything the real Dethboy had told her. He said "I see you, Gia... YOU'RE NEXT!" Gia theorized that this meant the Fraternity could see her offline, as well as online. She tries to scan the walls for holes without looking conspicious and finally tries to look exhausted as she scannthe ceiling. She finds a camera hiding in a spiderweb pointed at her computer screen. She realized the Fraternity of Silence always knew who Night Beest was.

Gia decides she needs to go back online to find more evidence against the Fraternity. She enters a mystery chat room and starts asking them where someone could hide kidnap victims on campus. She changes any information that would lead to who she could be talking about. After a debate Gia realized that the perfect place would be the old library. She turns off the computer and leaves the room to see Marissa on the second floor landing. Gia says she thought she heard someone up there and follow Marissa to the first floor.

Marissa asked Gia to watch her room which was broken into as she got campus security. Gia used that time to watch the tape Darren give her. She theorizes that Darren and the real Dethboy can't be working together, because Darren was going to use his pull with the campus newspaper to get Gia under the influence of the Lurker. She started to see the separate groups: The Fraternity lead by Faceless and the Lurker over Lee, Jenny, and Darren. But she didn't understand how she was caught in the middle. Then on the tape she saw Wally and Mark Anderson meet and talk while glancing at the computer room Darren and Gia were in. Gia didn't want to believe it, but Wally was in the Fraternity.

Episode 14 In the old library Gia followed some voices in the air vent. She found Wally talking to someone through a microphone. He was saying they had to give up their plan. He also eludes to the face that the Lurker might be Romulus. Also Faceless is Remus. Gia overhears that they wanted her to get the evidence, most likely the computer disk, to give to the authorities. Wally acknowledges that Faceless used the old library because it was a place the Lurker liked to use. Wally leaves to check on their "guests" and Gia talks to Faceless. Faceless admits that Gia was easy to manipulate and that Wally created Wally World and the Dethboy Lair. Faceless also tells that Gia has many contacts with the Lurker, she is friends with Lee and has has past dealings with Darren and Jenny. Gia demanded Faceless to come to the building to have a face-to-face chat. Faceless refused, but Gia turned off the computer; severing the link between the two. Wally, dressed in the Dethboys pea green coat and carrying the Dethboy mask and voice altering device. Gia surprised him, and using moves he taught her, knocked him out. She uses a telephone in the room and calls Val at KRLK that her people may want to get over. She then calls 911. Gia then tied up Wally and put on his Dethboy outfit. She passes two men who are vaguely familiar, but unnamed. She goes room to room looking for the special guest and find Peggy Parrish. She tries to assure Peggy that she isn't one fo the people that kidnapped her, but before she realizes the two men are back and pounce on her.

Episode 15 She thinks they are on to her, but realize they, now named as Ted and Mark, need Wally's help. The real Dethboy arrives and says that the outfit looks better on him. Ted and Mark admit that they tried to kidnap Darren but he escaped and he had a good idea where they were going. Ted almost admits to "Wally" that everyone of them is being forced to help, while Wally has nothing to lose, but the real Dethboy interrupts him. The fraternity almost catch Gia posing as Wally because of the mud on her shoes but she yells at them they she was able to leave using the back door and come back in unnoticed because no one was watching. Unfortunately at that time Wally arrived having been untied by an unnamed person. Wally tells the three men to take Gia to a safe room and don't turn their back on her. After being unmasked she asks the real Dethboy why he won't remove his mask and Ted and Mark admit they have never seen his face. While going there the Real Dethboy admits to beging the same one who chased her across the quad, falling on purpose, and the one in the bell tower. Ted is then left to watch over Gia, but Gia has the paper on Ted's father and uses it to prove that Faceless is about to turn the Fraternity in order to take down the Lurker; one online person making students do things against their will is as good as another. Only Faceless, Wally, and the real Dethboy would be the only ones not taken down at the end. Ted and Gia enter the computer room where Mark and the real Dethboy are waiting on Wally to reestablish a connection with Faceless. Gia is able to explain that the Fraternity is being forced to help with the mission, just like the Lurker would do. Defeated Wally sits down as the connection is fixed. He tells Faceless that it is all over, but from the other end he is informed it is the Lurker.

Chapter 16 He tells them that anyone under Faceless is now under him. He tells the real Dethboy that he needs to free Peggy or they will get prison time. Also if Gia tries to stop them that they need to stop her. Gia says that she is still being expelled and won't be able to get into another college. The Lurker offers if she will do him some favors he could help her out, but Wally unplugs the telephone cord, attacks Ted so Gia could escape and try to stop the Real Dethboy. She is able to jump on him and choke him out as the police arrive. She takes off his mask and reveals he has been Brian Donachy, head of Wintervale campus security.

Afterward Gia became the campus hero. Donachy had confessed to kidnapping of Peggy. He said he forced the three boys to file the complaints against Gia. The dean apologized to Gia for the mess. Wally and Gia talked and he explained that while they are both free of the Lurker many students aren't. He laid out a plan, that sounded simple, but had a high cost. Gia decided that since she was out she didn't want to get back in. Besides she didn't even know the half of it. Wally says she can ask anything and he will answer. She asks who Faceless was and he points to a couple a woman with dark hair and wore green-and-yellow Wintervale sweater and Adrian Strauss. Wally corrects Gia and explains that the woman is Faceless; she went "missing" a year ago so she could setup this plan to take down the Lurker. Gia realized she was Rebecca.

Episode 17 Adrian and Gia talked. He admits that Goldeneye has been the Lurker "every time". He did this because the Lurker promised to help him get his girlfriend, Rebecca back, and not because the Lurker had something over Adrian. Then before this hiking trip Adrian was kidnapped by the three "victims" of Gia. He wakes up and Wally explained to him what happened to Rebecca. Adrian was locked in a room, but he didn't care. All he wanted was Rebecca back.

Adrian explains what happened to Rebecca. She was an actress used to putting on different masks and making people believe what she wanted them to. The Lurker found her and the two of them started playing games with other people on campus. Some of the stuff became very bad, and if it came out it would land Rebecca in jail. One night the Lurker told her this and it destroyed the relationship between the two. She was just another of his operatives. She then used Wally to make a run at the Lurker and steal any information they could. They found the disk, but Rebecca fear retribution from the Lurker went into hiding.

As their conversion wound down she caught Lee in the corner of her eye. She went after him and ask if he was there to apologize or to leave a message. He said both and he left her to a computer where she entered an empty chat room. Gia used the name Ripley and the Lurker used Goldeneye. He offers her to be his right-hand person, but the discussion quickly becomes heated and Gia ended it before the Lurker could have the last word.

Gia was on her way to her class when a tall man with a beard approached her. He told her he was Dan Washburn from the biggest newspaper in the country. He wanted to hear her story and work with her on a story. It was everything she wanted; working on a story in the biggest newspaper. She tried to tell herself this wasn't from the Lurker, but after he admits that Wintervale is his Alma matter she realizes she has to find Wally.

The Lurker, waiting in his lair for Gia to contact Dan Washburn to accept the journalism job gets an email from Gia. Believing that she could only directly email him with Wally's help he read that she was now coming after her since he wouldn't let her go. He tried to call Darren and Lee to get Wally and Gia, but he knew it was too late. They had taken a bus far away from Wintervale. They would go underground, living off Wally's trust. They were going to work on taking down the Lurker, and when the time was right they would come back.

Lost Episode Val goes to a party and meets an unnamed man. She is in high school but loves to get out of her house and hang with college kids. The man seems to know Val and takes her into a room with a computer. He intruces her to an online chatroom called the Ratskeller. She chooses the name Isolt. Her online partner chooses the name Tristram. They have a little mischef and the next morning Val sees the fruits of their action.

Val can't go out much because she has to watch her younger siblings. Her mother ran off, her father works all the time and her older brother is off in college and rarely comes home to give Val a little time off. Val and Tristram meet online each time playing more and more dangerous games. Val wants to go to college, dreaming of Wintervale, but can't because of her family obligations. Suddenly her mom returns home and starts taking care of the family. Val quickly sents her application to Winterval and is accepted. After the Faceless Incident Tristram starts acting strange. One night he tells her he forced her mom to come home and if Val ever betrays him he would let her mom go and force her back to help the family. Felling betrayed Val changes her online name to Vader, knowing she has just become another pawn of the Lurker.

{These questions should be put under which episode the arise in} Unanswered questions Was it the fraternity that was speaking Japanese in the chat room? Why were they speaking Japanese? Why would Faceless call herself Remus and the Lurker Romulus when Remus died, maybe by Romules and Romules was the success? Gia had three victims but only 1 is named, who were the other two? What does the Lurker have on Mark Andersen? What does the Lurker have on Lee? Who is Studpuppet? Who is the Lurker? Why would the real Dethboy work for Faceless? Did Faceless know who he was?

Episode 1 Did Peggy send the email to Gia? Why did Jenny get the email? Was it just from the Lurker to tell Gia the "truth"? So, is the Fraternity telling Gia that Peggy is dead and the Lurker is telling Gia she is alive?

Episode 2 Who is Lord Myron?

Episode 3 Did Wally ask Lee where Gia was? The later video doesn't show it. Who is the other Dethboy? Which came first the Lurker or Dethboy? Who created Dethboy?

Episode 5 Is the Dethboy after Gia, working for the Fraternity, the same Dethboy who worked for the Lurker to terrorize Rebecca? How did Dethboy switch sides? Why would Faceless use Dethboy? Maybe Faceless had something on Donachy and created him in Lurker's Dethboy's image. When the Fraternity fell the Lurker got the information on the new Dethboy and he quickly fell in line? Did Dethboy know about the Lurker before hand? Dethboy (not sure which one) terrorized Rebecca and Rebecca told Adrian about it. Why would Faceless still use Dethboy or not even at least tell Adrian about it? How does the Lurker know to trust Adrian?

Episode 7 Was that really Peggy or a tape? (most likely a tape) How was the tape created? Who created the tape? When the Lurker is talking to Gia as Goldeneye is he talking as Adrian or the Lurker? The first time the Lurker was trying to get Rebecca, but Rebecca vanished. What was supposed to happen? Again, is it the same person posing as Dethboy? Who set the fire? Who sent the email from Wally?

Episode 8 If Mark Anderson (the man in the stairs) works for the Fraternity why would he stop Gia from going upstairs? Who left the voicebox in Wally's room? Who sent Lee to get Gia in Wally's room? If Dethboy is Donachy why would the bells ringing in chapter 5 (?) drive him crazy? Again, why does the Fraternity speak japanese? What is the Silence?

Episode 9 Did Adrian or the Lurker really see Gia in the gym? Who sent the letter to Mrs. Parrish?

Episode 10 Who are the eight people in the Fraternity of Silence? Does the Fraternity not know who Night Beest is?

Episode 11 Who is this new Dethboy? Could he be he Lurker? How does he know about Adrian? Why doesn't he know about Wally?

Lost Episode Q. Why does the Lurker have to blackmail people who like him and use it before they try to betray him? A. I think after the Faceless episode... wait does that mean the Lost Episode take place around the Faceless book? But after the Faceless incident he didn't feel safe with anyone and felt he had to tell people they had no choice but to work with him. Who was the nameless guy at the party with Val?