"Look, I know things have been sickly cyclical, Jordan, but you're still young. The Arcadites keep attacking, but we'll figure out how to stop it."

I hear that a lot nowadays. My father, the adults, and the staff always say the same thing in different ways. I've heard it so many times that it's the same buzzing coming from the cabinets. I'm just another kid trapped in Yesterday's Arcade, so what am I to do? We're struggling for supplies whilst were still at war Arcadites from several cabinets. All while this goes on, the Council creeps me out even more. Shouldn't someone have found an exit of this place by now? We can only last so long here, and we haven't really made a lot of friends with Arcadites, only a dozen. It's probably from how small this place is. I'm getting claustrophobic.

I was really young when my dad and I went here. Nothing seemed wrong, but when no one could get out that's when everything clicked. We got trapped here. We couldn't even contact the outside world. Something doesn't seem right at all.

-Jordan Harstet

Why should I ever trust the Council? They are not transparent, when have they ever been? I know they're hiding something. Why would they have made themselves leaders so early in this place? Oliver, Karth, Elise, Qurine, and Nadesta, y'all should know they're holding us in here.Humans and Arcadites alike, we are prisoners here, and the Council is behind it. I'll send you more e-mails of plans we need to enact to break out of this hell.

-Haley Detarin

I don't even know what this place is. Everyone calls it the Yesterday's Arcade, but what even is an arcade? Why do they call me an Arcadite. There's been wars going on in other worlds connected with these cabinets, I guess. I'm still really young, and the people here let me take refuge. Still, they keep fighting the others crawling out of the cabinets. Things are feeling really scarce and I'm not sure how to help. I'm just trying to not die.

-Broztas

We have an amazing, thriving community in Yesterday's Arcade. Every day is different. We all know people are getting closer. So, what about the wars. How is this better than the outside? We know what we're doing. We're just in a wave of resistance. The problems will dent themselves out. After all, just like what we say; Yesterday's Arcade is Tomorrow's Journey.

-Kyle Saxchal



Damn, that was a lot of writing. Entry four acts as a sub-story of Dimension Hoppers. I don't plan to put it in the novel, but I loved the concept of being stuck in an anomalous place that's supposed to be a place you're only supposed to be at for a few hours at max. And an arcade is supposed to be a place of fun. Here, it turns into a prison and a war zone.

Also, I was listening to The Hold Steady while I wrote all of this. I don't know what that says about me, but I slipped in a reference somewhere {: