The Vladimir Kruschev Saga

Kruschev Saga

Parts I–XIV
Author	Creeperopolis
Original title	The Vladimir Kruschev Saga
Country	The League
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Publisher	Creeperopolis
Published	2020–present
Media type	RMB posts
No. of books	14

The The Vladimir Kruschev Saga, informally known as the Kruschev Saga, is an ongoing series of regional message board (RMB) posts made by Creeperopolis in The League since 2020. The following page contains only out-of-character (OOC) information for the purpose of recording the events of this particular roleplay in an OOC-manner. The events which occur in the story actually occur within the Terraconserva Roleplay but they are not known in an in-character capacity. Interestingly, most of the story's main characters are non-Creeperans.

Background

The idea for a series of regional message board posts (RMB posts) following the life of Vladimir Kruschev, a minor character in The League's Terraconserva Roleplay (TRA RP), occurred to Creeperopolis in late-2020. Creeperopolis had control of the character after he was arrested by his country's government in the TRA RP in September 2019 for violating the laws of his country. After approaching The Constitutional Republic of Zion, the character's creator, for permission to use the character in the story and getting approval, Creeperopolis began making lengthy posts giving the TRA roleplayers an update on Kruschev's life in a Creeperian prison known as the Tuxtla Martínez–Panachor Maximum Correctional Facility, otherwise referred to as "TMP" and is considered to be one of the worst prisons developed in the roleplay.

Characters

Character	Description	Role in story	Status as of Part XIV	Debut	Appearances
Vladimir Kruschev	Morovan prisoner arrested on various false and ridiculous charges who faces challenges in his life in a Creeperian prison. He is very philosophical and is centered on trying to survive or escape.	Protagonist	Alive	Part I	All
Rodolfo Infante Jímenez	Salvadoran prisoner arrested on 7 murder charges. He claims that he has abandoned the Church during his time in TMP and becomes a secret ally of Kruschev due to their similarities.	Supporting character	Alive	Part VI	VI–VIII, X–XI
Seán Mac Stíofáin	Paleocacherian prisoner arrested on 2 murder charges. He is the leader of a prison gang he formed during his time in TMP and agrees to protect Kruschev as long as he does "work" for him, which would involve intimidation and murder.	Supporting character	Alive	Part VII	VII–XI, XIII–XIV
Costanzo Borroni	Salisfordian prisoner arrested for an attempting to car bomb a politician. He has since converted to Islam in his time in prison, is an ally of Kagare, and tried to convert Kruschev to Islam.	Supporting character	Alive	Part VIII	VIII, XI, XIV mentioned in IX
Kahikookeakua Keona	A member of the Kapahu Alana Revolutionary Movement who was imprisoned for his involvement in the 2022 Anadesa shooting.	Supporting character	Alive	Part XIII	XIII–XIV
Template:Country data Lyoa Thomas Kagare	Lyoan prisoner arrested for anti-Creeperian activities. He becomes an opponent to Kruschev after he admits to being an atheist to him. He has since sought to kill Kruschev for being a heretic, though allows him to convert to Islam.	Main antagonist	Alive	Part III	III–IV, VI, VIII, X–XI, XIII–XIV mentioned in V, VII, IX
TMP prison guards	Various unnamed guards who work for the Ministry of Law Enforcement and make Kruschev's life as miserable as possible. They are a constant threat but aren't necessarily Kruschev's primary enemy.	Secondary antagonists	N/A	Part I	All
Template:Country data Lyoa Adi Ntabuwe	Lyoan prisoner arrested for anti-Creeperian activities. Becomes an ally of Kagare.	Supporting antagonist	Alive	Part VI	VI, VIII, X–XI, XIII mentioned in IX
Jorge Valdéz Castro	Creeperian prisoner who works for Mac Stíofáin who was tasked to work with Kruschev.	Minor character	Alive	Part VIII	VIII, X–XI
Sergio Molina Duarte	Creeperian prisoner who Mac Stíofáin believes is forming a conspiracy against him.	Minor character	Alive	Part VIII	X–XI mentioned in VIII–IX
César Librado Legorreta	Creeperian prisoner arrested for 25 murders. Has a deep conversation with Kruschev before murdering a prison guard.	Minor character	Deceased	Part V	V mentioned in VI
Jorge Dávalos Sandoval	Creeperian prisoner who spun the Wheel of misfortune after Kruschev landed on "Another prisoner spins the wheel."	Minor character	Deceased	Part XII	XII
Víctor Elizalde Cabañas	Creeperian prisoner accused by Mac Stíofáin of killing one of his men. He is attacked by Kruschev and was presumably killed by TMP guards.	Minor character	Deceased	Part VIII	VIII mentioned in IX
José León Cabañas	Creeperian prisoner who worked for Mac Stíofáin and was most likely killed by another prisoner who Kruschev is forced to kill.	Minor character	Deceased	Part VIII	mentioned in VIII

Kruschev Saga parts

Part I

Part I of The Vladimir Kruschev Saga was released by Creeperopolis on 1 December 2020. The part recaps Kruschev's initial arrest, gives a brief background of his character, and describes the events which happened to Kruschev throughout the day of 1 December 2020.

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Background Vladimir Kruschev was arrested on 2 September 2019 on charges of Blasphemy, De-Catholization Denial, Espionage, Homosexuality, Practicing Atheism, Practicing Communism, Waging war on God, and Waging war on the Empire for possessing a pamphlet entitled A Defense of Atheism, written by a prominent Morovan politician and later former Morovan Supreme Leader Alyosha Karamazov. Supreme Leader Fyodor Ivanovich met him on 5 September 2019 and allowed the Creeperans to retain his custody. He was sentenced to death and was sent to the Tuxtla Martínez-Panachor Maximum Correctional Facility (commonly known as Tuxtla Martínez-Panachor or by its abbreviation, TMP) on 6 September 2019. His sentence was later commuted to 8 consecutive life sentences on 7 September 2019. His prisoner number was TMP20190732. During his time in prison, he learned Creeperian Spanish as mandated by the prison guards and he was whipped for 30 minutes every time prison guards heard him speak in Morovan. He attempted to have affiliations with Mara Salvatrucha as a way to have support from the rest of the prisoners against the guards, but gang members jumped him and attempted to strangle him in November 2019 because they found out he was sentenced for homosexuality. The prison guards stopped the gang members from killing him and he was isolated from the rest of the prison population, but none of the gang members were punished. He experienced the "Wheel of Misfortune" in December 2019 and received waterboarding, which he was for 15 minutes. In January 2020, due to his previous experience as a steelworker in Morova from 2014 to 2019, he was forced to work in an on-camp factory working on Creeperian Army vehicles. Although the work was not the same as he did in Morova, the guards assumed it was close enough. When a part for a VEPRES 2 that was manufactured from the factory was found to be faulty, he had a two teeth removed as a punishment, despite no evidence proving he was to blame for the fault in the part. When Morova fell in April 2020, he was ridiculed by prison guards, and when Karamazov was beheaded on 4 April 2020 in Bostonia, Quebecshire, was forced to listen to DINA recorded audio of massacres they committed in Morova during their presence on the island. 1 December 2020 5:00am SST Kruschev was awoken in his cell and yelled at, being informed that his time in isolation was done and that he was returning to the normal prison population. He was forced out of his cell, but before he was returned to the crowded communal cells, he was given another experience of the "Wheel of Misfortune." He spun the wheel, and it landed on "Murder an Inmate." Kruschev was horrified and begged to spin again, and begged to just be killed on the spot, knowing that the guards would force him to kill a member of Mara Salvatrucha which would enrage the prison population. Martín Muñoz Lacasa, a prominent low-level member, was selected and informed that he would kill Kruschev, but he was tied up and Kruschev was forced to strangle Muñoz Lacasa to death while being threatened with hours of waterboarding. 7:00am SST At breakfast, the prisoners were informed that Muñoz Lacasa was killed by Kruschev after he escaped his restrains, a blatant lie, and that his punishment was that he was being given to the prison population beginning at lunch. The guards negotiated with prominent gang leaders, threatening proscribed torture for every single gang member if they killed Kruschev. The gang leaders accepted the deal and the prison guards promised leadership that they would be allowed to kill him in a to be determined date before the end of the year. The leaders informed the gang population of the prison of the deal and the threat if they killed him during work and lockup time. Kruschev entered the prison population at lunch at 1pm. During his second work shift of the day, Kruschev was harassed by his fellow workers for his convictions and for his skin tone. 12:00am SST Kruschev was assaulted by 12 gang members in the shower, breaking his left arm and inducing several other injuries in the process. The prison guards ordered the assault prior to shower period and gambled what injuries would be inflicted. At roll call, he was called "The Morovan" by the guards and gang members pressed him against the prison bars for 5 minutes. Kruschev went to sleep at 2am (standard sleep time) and began to think: "Why did I come to Creeperopolis? No, actually, why? What was I thinking? The airline clearly told me of the barbarity of his hellhole. Why did I bring that pamphlet? Why, why did I come here in the first place? And Ivanovich, why did you betray me? I'd like to believe there is a god so that I make it to paradise with Karamazov and Qarl Marx, and see all these animals get sent to hell. I used to believe that Karamazov would make an effort to save me, but maybe he thought I was dead. I thought I would die. He was killed by the imperialist TCN, and I may be killed by the imperialist Creeperopolis. Actually, this torment I am experiencing is evidence of the non-existence of god. If there was a god, I would not be experiencing this, and if there was a god, Creeperopolis would be smote off of the face of Terraconserva."

Part II

Part II was released the day after Part I was released. Part II covers the events Kruschev goes through during that day.

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2 December 2020 5am Roll call began at 5am, and when Kruschev's name was called, he was grabbed and had his head stuck into the toilet before it was flushed. 7am After surviving shower period without being assaulted, Kruschev was eating what little food the prisoners were given for breakfast. White he was finishing eating, a gang member threw a tray at his head yelling, "Stupid Moro." 8am While he was working, three gang members yelled at Kruschev saying, "Hey buddy, by the end of the month, you're gonna be out of here. Not alive, that is." Kruschev thought to himself, "I never thought death would be the greatest thing I could ever ask for." 1pm During lunch, a gang member gave Kruschev a cup with a suspicious liquid, and told him that if he did not drink it, he'd have all of his teeth scattered across the ground. He drank it, and threw up, and guessed what it could have been. 10pm At yard time, 6 gang member surrounded Kruschev and shoved him against an outer fence. The commotion alerted guard dogs who attempted to bite Kruschev through the fence, scaring him greatly. He was held up against the wall for the entire period. The guards did nothing and just stood there and laughed at Kruschev. 2am After surviving shower period and being pressed up against the bars again during roll call, Kruschev was knocked out by the gang members and left on the floor of the cell. He regained consciousness around 2 minutes later and stayed on the floor, fearing more retaliation from the gangs. He began to think to himself, "Maybe, death is not the only way out of here. Mara is a gang, maybe I can form my own gang. I saw some Lyoans in here, maybe I can join with them and form our own gang to protect ourselves from this abuse. Maybe, we can break out of here. Supposedly no one ever has, but I doubt that. There have definitely been successful escapes in the past. And if I get shot and killed during the escape, it'll be better than whatever fate lies here for me. At breakfast, I will meet them, and the gang will be formed. Karamazov, your follower in Creeperopolis is not done yet."

Part III

Part III released the day after Part II. In Part III, the series' main antagonist, Thomas Kagare, was introduced, where he attacked Kruschev for admitting to him that he was an atheist, which enraged Kagare who is a devout Muslim.

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3 December 2020 7am After being pressed up against the bars during roll call and being punched in the gut during shower period, Kruschev quickly finished breakfast and went to find Lyoan prisoners to form a gang with. He found Thomas Kagare sitting alone and began to talk with him. Kruschev: "Hey, are you from Creeperopolis?" Kagare: "No, I'm from Lyoa. I can tell you're not from here either." Kruschev: "Yeah, I'm not, and we're both in this hellhole." Kagare: "You get used to it after a while. You just joined the rest of us two days ago, I've been here to whole time. What are you in here for?" Kruschev: "BS I didn't even commit." Kagare: "Unfortunate. I'm in here for attempting to bring weapons to the Deltinian Liberation Army to overthrow the Creeperian imperial government. They messed Lyoa up, the Creeperans turned my homeland into a land of wars and atrocities. They killed people for no reason. Then I joined the Islamic Front, and when we punished people for violating our laws, the illegitimate governments of Lyoa and Creeperopolis deemed our acts 'atrocities.' What idiots. Foday's government is just a pawn of the Creeperans that they use to loot the country for its resources." Kruschev: Wait, you're not a Catholic? Kagare: Hell no. You're Muslim too, right? Kruschev: Actually no, I'm an atheist. I have enough proof there is no god. Since I've got- Kagare immediately began punching and kicking Kruschev for blasphemy and heresy, knocking him out in the process. The guards break up the fight and restrain Kagare, but they do not punish him. 8am Kruschev wakes up in the infirmary. The doctors informed him that he was knocked unconscious by a fellow prisoner and that he had to be injected with a substance to "get his brain back to functioning." He resisted, but he was injected with an unknown substance. He was knocked out cold again since they injected him with anesthesia. 2pm Kruschev woke up again and the doctors informed him that they had tended to his arm injury but that they had also pierced his body several times in several locations to put him in violation of Creeperian law. 8pm During roll call, his cell mates pressed him against the bars, as usual, and the guards saw that he had piercings. They dragged him out of the cell and began to kick and punch him. They threw him into an exterior cell with no heating. He was, however, alone for the first time since he was returned to the general population. "Ok. That was bad. Future reference, never mention that I am atheist. But there is still another Lyoan in here. I need to meet up with him."

Part IV

Part IV released on 16 June 2021. The part went over the occurrences in Kruschev's life over four different days in December 2020, March 2021, April 2021, and June 2021. In the part, Kruschev is eventually told that he will be forced to work in the prison due to his background as a steelworker.

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4 December 2020 After spending all night in an exterior outdoor cell in the middle of summer, Kruschev thought that he would be sent to another day in Hell on Terraconserva with the prisoners, but he was looking forward to looking for any potential allies he can meet up with to provide himself some sort of protection from the remainder of the prisoners. He was looking for a fellow foreigner trapped in TMP. When the guards came to get him, they shoved him around, as he expected, but instead of being taken to the general population, he was returned to the medical ward. He was confused for a bit, as he had just been in the medal ward the day prior. There, he saw a doctor, who in 1 minute, without even examining him, judged that he was unfit to remain in general population. He thought to himself: "Really? Wow, what a break. I never thought I'd be able to escape the general population again. Maybe, this is a sign, that there is some sort of divine which is smiling down on me; an innocent among criminals, being mistreated by criminals." The doctor then said: "Ok guards, I am placing him into the Insane class, and he must be shackled in his cell all day, every day." Kruschev again thought: Um, ok, yea, never mind. Being shackled all day for, from what I know, the rest of my life, is probably worse than being in general population. At least there, I can either get by and live with some sense of freedom left, or I'll die quickly so I can leave this Hell. God is dead." The guards took him to a solitary cell and forcibly shackled him in an intentionally uncomfortable position. There, they also waterboarded him, yelling and mocking at him: "Oh poor Kruschev. 'When men are ruled by a dictator, be it of God or of earth, who watches as children burn, they must rebel,'" quoting a section of A Defense of Atheism by Alyosha Karamazov, which its possession initially got him arrested in September 2019. "Rebel then, coward. Rebel against us, and see how that will end for you. We dare you. Do you know why you cannot see God? Because God abandoned you, as He does to all nonbelievers. God is dead to you, because YOU are dead to God." 31 March 2021 After spending months in solitary confinement, the guard opened his door. He expected his usual meal, low in calories, low in vitamins, low in protein–void of nutritional value–but instead of food, they handcuffed him, unshackled him, and dragged him out of his cell. He was confused, and then he thought, "No, please don't send me back with the rest. I was starting to like my misery all by myself." His concerns dissipated when he was placed in a black room with a screen. "Oh great, I'm here to watch some propaganda or something," and he was correct. The guards forced him to watch propaganda footage of the Creeperian Navy's show of force from that day on the 1 year anniversary of the defeat of Morova in the Battle of the Glaceis Ocean. The guards further mocked him when the captured Morovan submarine, now the BIC DA 109, appeared. "The Great Karamazov's submarine is now in the possession of the lowly Creeperopolis! How embarrassing, for communism to be defeated by the Creeperans!" He was also shown footage from the battle aboard the Creeperian ships, and he was shown more footage of Morovans being killed by the National Intelligence Directorate in the days before and following the battle. He was also shown the documentary produced by Morovans in Creeperopolis, showing Creeperans killing atheists by burning them alive and crucifying them, and by the end of 3 hours, Kruschev had been brought to tears. Afterwards, he was sent back to his cell, given his meal, and left alone. "To Hell with Creeperopolis." 4 April 2021 Guards entered his cell at 4am and began to relentlessly whip him, for seemingly no reason. He couldn't understand what he did for the guards to begin torturing him out of no where for seemingly no reason. (4 April is the year anniversary of the 2020 Bostonia Attack; link –> https://lcnwiki.xyz/index.php?title=2020_Bostonia_Attack) 16 June 2021 The guards opened Kruschev's door. He expected his daily meal, but instead, he saw a sight he did not want to see. It was Thomas Kagare, the man who beat him relentlessly for admitting to him that he was an atheist and that he did not believe in any god. The guards released Kagare, who proceeded to kick and punch Kruschev over and over. After 2 minutes of relentless beating, with Kagare yelling insults at Kruschev, the guards restrained Kagare and removed him from the cell. Kruschev had no idea why the guards allowed Kagare to keep beating him, but he just accepted it. He was moved to the medical ward afterwards, and the doctors treated his injuries, and fed him an actual good meal, seeing that he was beginning to starve. After 5 hours, doctors preformed a medical evaluation on Kruschev, and after 2 minutes, the doctor stated that he was fit to work manual labor. "No! No-no-no-no-no! I can't do manual labor! Can't you see me and my condition?! I need medical attention!" Kruschev continued to protest and plead with the doctors about their decision, but when the guards had enough of his talking, they put duct tape over his mouth to prevent him from talking. The guards took him back to his cell and told him: "Be ready for tomorrow Vladi! You will start working for the Fatherland tomorrow!" The guards closed the door, and all Kruschev could think about was how he would survive in the general population again.

Part V

Part V released on 1 August 2021. The part primarily revolved around Kruschev's conversation with serial killer César Librado Legorreta who was later executed for murdering a guard in the part.

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1 August 2021 After living and working in the general population of TMP for a month and a half, Kruschev had gotten used to daily prison life and had even begun to gain a bit of respect from his fellow prisoners. He still, however, continued to be harassed by guards and by some higher-ranking gang members. Kruschev still sometimes spots Kagare, and immediately attempts to hide himself, being traumatized from when Kagare beat him relentlessly back in December 2020 and June 2021. While working, Kruschev began talking with a fellow prisoner. Kruschev: "So, how long have you been here for?" Prisoner: "I still remember the day, 30 January 2012. I was arrested by the filthy DINA on 18 January 2012 in La'Victoria. They ended my spree of exerting revenge on those who wronged me." Kruschev: "Oh, what is the DINA? And, who were you exerting revenge on?”" Prisoner: "The DINA is the secret police of Creeperopolis. They see, well, they claim that they see, your every move. I managed to evade them from 1997 until 2012. During that time, I killed 25 people who have wronged me: politicians, police officers, and especially gang members. I wish death upon Mara Salvatrucha. They murdered by father, abducted my mother, and destroyed my home when I was fourteen. They forced me into joining Los’Sureños, and the rest is history." Kruschev: "Wow, now that's a story. Wouldn't you be famous for assassinating politicians and killing so many people?" Prisoner: "Yea, I am. I was known as The Southern Assassin, a name I gave myself. All my victims were in southern Creeperopolis, but I gave myself the name because I'm a part of Los'Sureños. My real name is César Librado Legorreta, by the way." Kruschev: "Well, you have quite the story and really live up to your name." Inside, Kruschev was a bit nervous as he was speaking to a former serial killer who had murdered 25 people. He tried his best to keep the conversation going and to not enrage Librado Legorreta. While they were working and still talking, the guard monitoring them ended his shift and was replaced with another guard. Librado Legorreta noticed the new guard and yelled at him: "Hey! Aren't you that guard that had a brother partake in the raid which arrested me? I’ve heard you brag about it!" The guard responded: "Yea I'm him, and I'm glad you're now rotting in here with the rest of the animals in here. Know your place boy, and don’t talk back at me!" Librado Legorreta was filled with rage, and attacked the guard. He managed to steal his handgun and shot the guard seven times, killing the guard. More guards quickly rushed in and began shooting at Librado Legorreta and the other prisoners in the room. Librado Legorreta was restrained and carried away by the guards to the medical ward. Kruschev was shot once in the arm and also restrained and taken to the medial ward. There, he received genuine medial attention. He thought: "Wait, actual medical care for this bullet would in my arm? Am I the Emperor or something? I thought I was in TMP? Oh well, enjoy this treatment and care while it lasts, as I'll be back in pain and suffering after all this is done with. I wonder what they'll do with Librado Legorreta. I hope he does well."

Part VI

Part VI was released on 28 February 2022. One of the longer parts of the series, it recounts occurrences in Kruschev's life in August 2021, November 2021, and February 2022. The part also introduces Rodolfo Infante Jímenez, the story's deuteragonist.

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3 August 2021 It's been two days since Kruschev was shot in the arm by guards for merely being in the same room as César Librado Legorreta when he attacked and killed a prison guard. On 3 August, Kruschev was in his overcrowded cell when he heard the news that Librado Legorreta had been executed by the prison's administration for claiming his 26th victim. He though to himself: "Well, Librado Legorreta, you escaped one hell, and who knows, if you do believe in heaven and hell, you may be in another hell, or you may be in heaven after serving your time here. I'll get out one day too, but I won't leave through death and spiritual escape, but instead alive and physically, and return to Morova, well, what's left of it. Maybe Ajakanistan is my best option to flee to; that'd be quite the dream." Later that day, he saw Thomas Kagare again, and Kagare saw him too. Kagare stared him down and seemed to mouth to him a phrase, but Kruschev was unable to decipher what he was trying to tell him. "I may not understand what he's telling me, but oh boy I can imagine what he's telling me. Maybe how he's gonna turn me into a soup, or forcefully convert me to Islam, or paint Muhammad's name on the wall in my blood if I don't convert, or something else insane. Hopefully I don't ever find out." 14 November 2021 After another day of laboring in TMP, Kruschev was eating dinner, continuing to isolate himself from the rest of the prison population in fear of being beaten up by the prisoners for his background or by the guards for simply existing. While eating what could barely even be considered a meal, a guard threw a rock at him, barely missing his head. A little later, some more guards came up to him and slammed his face into what's left of his food and shoved him to the ground. They said to him, "Get up Moro, you're meal is over now get to the yard." At yard time, one of the guards made an announcement over a loudspeaker: "Tonight, our poor Tuxtla Martínez has been defeated 4–0 by Chalatenango. As punishment for this loss, all you prisoners from Castilliano are not safe tonight and some of you will pay with your lives for this injustice." (Chalatenango 4–0 Tuxtla Martínez) Kruschev immediately ran and hid behind a group of prisoners who he knew were not from Castilliano, and watched as guards began to single out Castillianan prisoners. He witnessed 12 being executed by a firing squad of guards. Then he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around and his heart fell, as he had run into a group of prisoners where Kagare was. Kagare and another prisoner, Adi Ntabuwe, proceeded to beat up Kruschev. Them attacking Kruschev led to other prisoners fighting each other, and the guards opened fire into the group to stop the fight. Kruschev was taken way from the group by guards and thrown into his cell. "Well, at least this is better than the medical ward. I can't tell if Kagare or the guards are the bigger enemy to me here. And every Sunday seems to remind me that being non-Creeperian isn't all that bad; at least I won't get killed for having nothing to do with a team beating the guards' team. Maybe if they start winning matches the guards will give us all luxury massages and a five course meal or something nice like that." 28 February 2022 Kruschev was working and making conversation with Rodolfo Infante Jímenez, a Salvadoran prisoner. After he told Kruschev of his criminal history, Kruschev tried as best as he could to not enrage Infante Jímenez and end up becoming his 8th victim. While talking, both of them heard someone screaming while being hit multiple times. Kruschev looked around and saw Kagare beating a prisoner to death with a metal rod, yelling "Heretic! Blasphemer!" over and over again. Witnessing what was happening, Kruschev immediately hid himself to prevent meeting the same fate as the poor prisoner he was seeing becoming one of Kagare's victims. Infante Jímenez asked him, "Why are you hiding, are you also a heretic and a blasphemer?" Kruschev nervously told him, "Um, I guess you could say." Infante Jímenez responded, "I see, you could say I am too. I've rejected the Church during my time here, since how could any god allow this to happen without sending another flood to cleanse this place." Kruschev somewhat excitedly asked him, "So, are you atheist?" When he responded with an "I guess so," Kruschev immediately asked if they would form some sort of protection alliance to protect each other from the guards and prisoners like Kagare. Infante Jímenez quickly told him "Hell no, you've made your heresy overt, everyone here still thinks I'm faithful. I'll give you this, I will help you out, but not openly. You're a good person, so if I can find a way to help you out I can. But if you say anything about my beliefs, I will use your head as a soup bowl. Got it?" "Alright, yea, I understand." While trying to fall asleep that night, Kruschev thought, "Now this has been a turn of events. Kagare is now hunting heretics, now that I think of it, I have't seen him be punished by the guards for his episode. Anyway, I have found an ally here, somehow, by some miracle. Maybe this is god trying his best to convince he of his existence, but like Infante Jímenez said, 'how could any god allow this', all this crime and misery, 'to happen without sending another flood to cleanse this place.'"

Part VII

Part VII was released on 5 March 2022. The longest singe-day part of the series up to that point, it recounts occurrences in Kruschev's life on 2 March 2022 when he met Seán Mac Stíofáin, who was introduced in this part as a supporting character.

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2 March 2022 While working, Kruschev was approached by Infante Jímenez who informed him that he had thought of someone who could help protect him from prisoners like Kagare, but that protection from the guards was not on the table. Kruschev quickly asked Infante Jímenez who could help him, but Infante Jímenez only told him to meet up at lunch time so that he can introduce him to his contact. At lunch, Kruschev met Infante Jímenez who told him to wait with him while the person he told him about arrives. Kruschev began conversation with him: “So, who did you find? Is this some tolerant gang member, or a corrupt guard, or a secret gang of Morovans that have evaded me for over a year?” Infante Jímenez responded: “Come on, you think the Creeperans here want to help you? Not a single one here sympathizes with you and the only reason you’re still alive is because you being here is worse than death.” Kruschev responded: “But, why are you helping me if you said all Creeperans hate me? Doesn’t you helping me disprove your point?” Infante Jímenez slapped Kruschev and told him “Did i not tell you I’m Salvadoran? We are not Creeperans, and we never will be, and El Salvador will one day be freed from Creeperian oppression.” Kruschev quickly shut up on the matter. Just then, a prisoner approached them and sat down. When he appeared, some prisoners nearby got up and walked away with nervous looks on their face, and Kruschev thinks, “Oh boy, what am I getting myself into?” The prisoner asked Infante Jímenez, “Is this the guy who wants to join?” Infante Jímenez responded affirmatively, as the prisoner turned to Kruschev: “So you’re the Morovan I’ve heard about?” He responded, “Um, yea, I assume you’re an influential figure here.” “Yea, I pretty much have formed by own gang here; plucked them off from the Creeperian gangs which have many of them pissed, but they can’t do anything about it. They don’t wanna find out what happens if they try to topple me as I have some of the guards on my payroll.” Kruschev responded, “What? How do you have the guards on your payroll?!” The prisoner responded, “It’s an exaggeration, but I have found some corrupt guards who agreed to torture and kill those who wrong me personally. Additionally, if I have someone within my ranks annoying me, I say one word to others in the ranks or a guard and the problem is taken care of. So I’ve heard that you want protection from other prisoners in here, I can do that. You also want protection from the guards, but that is not anything I can offer. You have no say in what protection you get or who you are protected from, so if you had anyone in mind you need protection from specifically, I cannot do that. If you want protection, you need to do work for me. Understand?” Kruschev responded, “Yea, I do.” He thought to himself, “Damn, I can’t be assuredly safe from Kagare. What work will he have me do. I hope he won’t make me kill anyone, because I don’t think I can do that. Yea, I’ve been disposed to murder and death for over a year and a half now, and yea I’ve become morbidly used to it, but I don’t think I can do it myself, even in defense. But, now that I think of it, that is very ironic of me to say. Most people here are Catholic, and one of the most basic principles ‘You shall not kill’ and to take care of your fellow humans, but here, that’s thrown out of the window essentially. Meanwhile, I, with no religious holdings, still honor and regard life highly. I guess this is some sort of commentary on the hypocrisy of every action taken by the government.” He responded to the prisoner: “[i]So, what type of work will I have to do exactly, and what does protection mean exactly?” He answered Kruschev, “Well, if I need someone beat up, I call you. If I need someone spied on, I call you. If I need someone eliminated, I call you. If you cannot handle this, you will not get my protection, and seeing the situation you are in, I think your choice to accept these terms is clear.” Kruschev told the prisoner that he agreed to his terms, and the prisoner told him “Glad to see that you can accept this, and if you haven’t caught on, I’m Seán Mac Stíofáin, and I’m affiliated with the Paleocacherian Mafia. I’m not a Mara amateur here.” Lunch ended and everyone was forced back into their cells or back to their work stations. For the rest of the day, Kruschev kept thinking “Why am I accepting this? Why am I stooping down to criminality for my own safety? Am I becoming an honorary Creeperian? Is this place somehow a massive, unethical, inhumane human experiment to turn us into Creeperans? I can’t do this, but I can’t back out now or Mac will have me executed for betraying him. But, will it be worth it in the end? Will this get me somewhere; out of this place? I can’t just spend the rest of my life in here murdering people and warding off attempts on my own life, I have to get out somehow. Karamazov killed people on his way to power, or so the guards have said, which I suspect is merely just an attempt to slander his name, but, it may be a means to an end: to escape this hell alive and find a way to flee home. If there is a divine figure out there, prove yourself to me and get me out of this mess.”

Part VIII

Part VIII was released on 12 March 2022. The currently still longest singe-day part of the series, it recounts occurrences in Kruschev's life from 5 to 12 March 2022, getting accustomed to being a part of Mac Stíofáin's gang.

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6 March 2022 Kruschev was in the yard making conversation with Infante Jímenez and some of Mac Stíofáin’s underlings, when a man approached the group. He introduced himself politely, stating: “Greetings, I’m here to talk to you in particularly,” pointing to Kruschev. The men Kruschev was talking to walked away, and Kruschev immediately felt worried about what the man wanted. He spoke, “I know you probably think I’m here to make you regret existing, but I’m just here to have a friendly conversation. I know who you are, you’re Vladimir Pavlovich Kruschev, the prison’s Morovan arrested on 8 capital charges and sentenced to 8 life sentences after being commuted from death.” Kruschev responded, “Um, yea, that’s me. May I ask how you know all those details, which I would have thought aren’t told to the prisoners?” The man responded, “I have my sources. I’m Costanzo Augusto Borroni, Salisfordian serving 2,705 life sentences and 5 years for terrorism, several counts of murder, several counts of attempted murder, illegal possession of a firearm, and vandalism. I’m a writer and a political theorist. Nice to meet you. I see we are both in here serving time for various capital crimes.” Kruschev responded, “Yea, nice to meet you. You’re like one of the nicest people I’ve met here, you know, speaking to me like a friend and not immediately attempting to carve my head into a trophy.” Borroni responded: “I get that a lot. Well, I’m here to ask you if you are interested in converting to Islam. I was sent to speak to you by Kagare. I am aware that you are absolutely terrified of him, but I’m here as a voice of reason to save you from eternal destruction and to guide you to follow the will of Allah.” Kruschev was immediately doubtful of Borroni’s promise to not immediately behead him for saying no to his proposal, so he lied to him saying, “Well, it does truly sound interesting, some escape from this reality I live in to follow a religion.” Borroni responded, “What do you mean ‘escape from this reality,’ because that implies that Allah does not exist in this really. You are wrong, for He is very real and is the salvation for those who seek it. I’ve since found the truth since Kagare has revealed His truth to me, and I have since become a devout follower to Allah’s will. I have fully memorized the words of the Quran and help guide those willing here to eternal salvation.” Kruschev asked him, “Wait, if you were converted here by Kagare, how did you memorize the Quran?” Borroni answered, “I’ve been getting Qurans from guards who have smuggled them in for me. I have memorized every single word and have taught its message and converted many in my time as a follower.” Kruschev immediately began thinking about what guards have Qurans, why they have them, and why they are giving them to prisoners, but he disregarded the questions for now as they weren’t worth pondering at the moment. Kruschev responded to Borroni, “Yea, it sounds like something I’d like to listen to you teach me about.” Borroni responded, “Great, Kagare will be very proud, but Allah is the most proud of your openness to his message. I hope to meet you again soon so that I may help you in your path.” After saying this to Kruschev, Borroni left, and just after that, the guards ordered everyone to return to their cells for roll call and for sleep. While Kruschev was walking back to his cell, he passed by a large puddle of blood on the ground, with what appears to be the bloody trails of legs being dragged across the ground into a nearby cell. On the wall above the puddle read in Creeperian Spanish and Arabic: “And be Patient. Surely, Allah is with those who are patient.” Kruschev thought, “Well, Kagare must have been here. Maybe if i put on a facade of converting will I be spared a fate like that.” That night, after being shoved against the cell bars by some prisoners during roll call, he went to sleep, and while trying to get some sleep, he thought to himself: “Well, the conversation with the Salisfordian went a lot better than I thought. I guess not all Surians are bloodthirsty serial killers, although, he did kill and attempt to kill many people, so, who knows I guess. I hope he tells Kagare that I’m converting so that I won’t be on Kagare’s hit list anymore, or at least at the top of it. Maybe this is what I asked for a few nights ago, for the divine to show itself to help me get out of this mess. Is it really that? Who knows. I am still in this prison after all. A real life saver would be if someone assassinated Kagare so that I would surely not have him hanging over my head all the time. He’s pretty overt about his faith, so it seems as if the guards don’t care. Maybe he provides them some sort of sick comedy with the amount of violence he incites, which doesn’t seem out of character for the guards here. They’re practically above the law it seems, gambling here when I’ve been told that gambling is illegal in the department this prison is in. Well, time to outlive Kagare before he finds out I haven’t actually converted; this will be fun. Not really.” 7 March 2022 At lunch time, while Kruschev was eating with some of Mac Stíofáin’s underlings, Mac Stíofáin himself came up to where his henchmen were eating and asked Kruschev to get up and come speak to him in private. Kruschev got up and walked with Mac Stíofáin away from the rest of the prisoners, where Mac Stíofáin told him, “Alright, I need you to prove to me that you are worthy of my protection so I don’t waste any of my men on you.” Kruschev began panicking, believing that Mac Stíofáin was going to make him kill someone. Mac Stíofáin continued, “So, there’s been this one guy messing with my men for sometime now. His name is Víctor Carlos Elizalde Cabañas. He has no gang affiliations to my knowledge, but that’s irrelevant. So this Elizalde Cabañas has been harassing my men for a couple of weeks now, pushing them around, stealing their food, and now recently one of my own men, José Vicente León Cabañas, has gone missing, and I suspect Elizalde Cabañas has something to do with it.” Kruschev quickly responded to Mac Stíofáin with a question, “How do you know that Elizalde Cabañas did something to him and not like, the guards, or other prisoners, or Kagare or someone like that? It seems pretty abrupt for this guy to go from bothering your guys to making one disappear, doesn’t it?” Mac Stíofáin answered him, “No, I know that it was Elizalde Cabañas, as he just stopped being annoying ever since León Cabañas disappeared, and I know for a fact the guards would never betray me like that. So, interview him, torture him if you have to, and if he doesn’t fess up or admits that León Cabañas is dead, kill him. If he confesses that he’s alive, make sure he doesn’t mess with us again. Find him while you work, and if I find out that you did not fulfill your obligation, you will not have my protection. This is what he looks like, now get the job done” With that, Mac Stíofáin handed Kruschev a picture of Elizalde Cabañas and left before Kruschev could plead with him to reconsider, and lunch ended a few minutes later and Kruschev went back to work. Now at work, Kruschev was worried about many things: that would happen if he gets caught by the guards attacking Elizalde Cabañas, let along killing him, what happens if he fails to do anything and what Mac Stíofáin will do as a result, what will happen if Elizalde Cabañas has some connections to Kagare or the guards by chance. “I can’t do this, but I have to do this, but if I do I could get punished, or, honestly I could be praised, these guards are insane. How did Mac even get a picture of this guy, like, I don’t understand. Borroni is getting Qurans, Mac is getting photos of people, how do these people get these things in here. Maybe I can managed to get my hands on a copy of ‘A Defense of Atheism’ and relive my naïve self of 2019 who came here with a copy of that. Great times.” He was always looking around for Elizalde Cabañas while getting his work done, always thinking about if he should do it, how he could do it, why he is doing it, and what will happen if he does or doesn’t do it. After one and a half hours of working, Kruschev finally noticed that Elizalde Cabañas had entered the area where he was working, sweeping the floor with a mop. “Poor soul,” he thought, “I wonder how many times he’s cleaned up after Kagare’s nonsense.” Thinking quickly about what to do, he left his work post, fully aware he could be punished by the guards for doing so, and approached Elizalde Cabañas, constantly hoping that he won’t have to hurt or kill him. Kruschev asked him, “So, do you know anything about what happened to Don José Vicente León Cabañas?” Elizalde Cabañas was caught off guard and started deny having any knowledge of what happened. Kruschev could tell by how he was speaking that he obviously did know something. “Well, I guess Mac’s hunch was right after all.” Kruschev grabbed the mop from Elizalde Cabañas and asked him again, “I, I can tell from your language that you do know, something about what happened. So, I suggest you tell me, so I don’t have to do anything that I’l– that, you’ll regret.” Elizalde Cabañas quickly started to run away from Kruschev, and fearing what Mac Stíofáin would do if he failed, he chased after Elizalde Cabañas. He caught up to Elizalde Cabañas and began to hit him with the mop, yelling at him and demanding to know what Elizalde Cabañas had to do with León Cabañas’ disappearance. While hitting him with the mop, Kruschev kept thinking, “Why am I doing this? I don’t know this man, and I don’t know anything about León Cabañas, for all I know he could be one of the worst people in this prison. Why am I stopping down to what happens here?” Guards heard that Kruschev was involved in a fight and arrived to see what was happening. They saw that Kruschev was hitting a prisoner with a mop, and they saw that the prisoner was Elizalde Cabañas. Kruschev thought that they would tackle him and take him to the medial ward, but instead, one of the guards told Kruschev, “Hey, I suggest you keep hitting him until he dies, or we’ll do it ourselves and we’ll punish you for making us do it.” Then, another said, “Yea, Cabañas had it coming for a while. Horrible worker, waste of money.” Kruschev was caught off guard by what the guards said. They supported him, to some degree, for once. Instead of questioning the guards why they were letting him attack someone, he quickly returned to hitting Elizalde Cabañas. Eventually, after fifteen minutes, the guards ordered Kruschev to get back to work, with one of the guards telling him “We’ll take care of him.” Kruschev returned to work, but before he would process what happened, another guard told him, “I can tell that that was very out of character for you, so I can assume that someone ordered you to kill him. Welcome to the Creeperian prison system, and welcome to the Creeperian nature.” Kruschev thought, “I, I, I can’t believe what just happened. I don’t think I killed him, but, I practically did. ‘We’ll take care of him,’ yea, I don’t think I’ll ever see him again. Well, I guess it’s too late to say now, but, I’m so sorry, Elizalde Cabañas. I really didn’t want to, and, both of us deserve better than to be in here. Well, if there is a divine, I’ve just been condemned, unless Kagare and Borroni pulls some magic and convince Allah to forgive me or something. Well, now I won’t be punished by Mac, and as it seems, I won’t be by the guards either. I, I really hope this doesn’t become normal for me, and that this is the only time this will ever happen.” At dinner, Kruschev found Mac Stíofáin and told him what happened. Mac Stíofáin was impressed with Kruschev, and told him that he had earned his respect and trust. Later at dinner, Borroni came to Kruschev and began to teach him the history of Islam and the Prophets. While the two were talking, Kruschev asked him, “Um, hey, so, today I was forced to attack someone, and I think I’ll never see him again, since the guards took him away telling me that they’ll ‘take care of him.’ Is this bad for me, can I still be saved?” Borroni responded, “Ah, yes my friend, you can still be saved. Look at me, I’ve killed three and almost killed twenty-six more, and surely I still have hope to be saved. For Muhammad, Praise be Upon Him, Himself had to kill others to spread the word of Allah, as so we can be saved if we fall to murder, so long as it is for the greater good of the truth.” While going to sleep, Kruschev could only think one thing, “I hate TMP.” 8 March 2022 With a new day in TMP, instead of feeling anxiety at what would happen to him that, Kruschev continued to ponder about what happened the day prior. Throughout shower, breakfast, and the first work periods, him attacking Elizalde Cabañas was all he could think of. At lunch, Kruschev was approached by three men. He didn’t pay them much attention, still lost in this thoughts, until one of them told him to look up, stating “We want to talk.” Kruschev raised his head and froze in fear, as Kagare, Ntabuwe, and Borroni were standing in front of him. Kagare spoke to him, “Borroni here tells me that you are interested in following the truth, now I am here to ask you myself if you are.” He saw Ntabuwe holding a food tray, reminding him of when Kagare first attacked him with one a year ago, while Borroni was just standing there with what seemed to be a Quran. Kruschev nervously responded to Kagare, saying, “Um, yea, he’s convinced me that it’s the best thing for me to do.” Kagare responded to him, “Great. It seems I won’t need to be writing anything on the wall today.” The three sat down with Kruschev, and they listened to Borroni read the Quran he brought, which he had translated into Salisfordian from Creeperian Spanish. While listening to him, Kruschev thought, “Well, I guess the divine is helping me from being killed by Kagare, indirectly that is, as it is someone on behalf of the divine helping me, I guess.” At the end of lunch, he watched as the three walked away, with Kagare and Ntabuwe attacking another prisoner before they went out of sight of Kruschev. Kruschev’s work went uneventful, and the guards did not bother him for what he did the day prior. None of the other prisoners working with him didn’t ask him about what happened either, as if they were used to the violence by now. At dinner, Mac Stíofáin pulled out a cell phone and showed Kruschev the extent of what happened to Morova in the time since he’s been incarcerated in TMP. Kruschev didn’t even bother to ask how and where he got a phone from, as he had accepted that practically anything can be smuggled into the prison. He also showed them memes made about him on the website Dice! which mocked him and joked about his situation. After yard time, some guards came up to him and told him that he was being thrown into solitary confinement for his rampage the day prior. Kruschev didn’t protest their decision and went into solitary confinement without a fight. While there for the night, he was thinking if he was being rewarded or punished for what he did, as solitary confinement is generally regarded as a bad thing, but in TMP, it might as well be considered the most luxurious type of prison cell possible. All night, he could hear people yelling and gunshots in other parts of the prison. “Just another night in Creeperopolis.” He also remembered what Mac Stíofáin had showed him on his phone, and noticed that it seems that Karamazov made no effort to try to save him. “There is no way Karamazov didn’t try to get me out, he knows I was imprisoned for possessing his works. Maybe that plane that Creeperopolis show down in January 2020 was an attempt by him to break me out. I mean, his succeeding government send soldiers on planes to try to break him out of Bostonia in April 2020, so it only makes sense that they built upon his attempt to break me out. I highly doubt the official narrative, he would never support religious fanatics. I guess his failure to save me means that, I am practically the last true Morovan.” 11 March 2022 For three days now, Kruschev had been listening to Borroni’s preaching, Kagare’s continued annoyance and rage at fellow prisoners for being “heretics” in his eyes, and Mac Stíofáin continuing to be impressed by Kruschev for being a good follower. That day at lunch, Kagare, Ntabuwe, and Borroni came up to him. Kruschev expected them to continue their preaching of Islam, but instead, Borroini told Kruschev, “I can’t believe that we have forgotten, but as it is Friday, this is the best day to tell you that you have to do your five daily prayers in order to remain in the good faith of Allah. We sincerely apologize or forgetting to tell you, but you must do it. The guards will try to stop you, so you need to do it in secret, for even Isa, Praise be Upon Him, told His followers to pray in secret to prove your obedience to Allah if you absolutely must do so. We are here to tell you how to pray, when to pray, and where you need to face where you pray, as you must always face the holy city of Mecca during your prayers.” Kruschev thought, “Well, at least Kagare isn’t caving in my skull for not praying five times a day when I didn’t even know I have to. I guess he does have some sort of reasonability in him. Even now, how can I keep on the act of pretending to follow these guys’ teachings, for which all I know, could be completely false to what the actual beliefs and practices of Islam are, these guys for all I know could be the actual heretics.” Throughout lunch, Kruschev was taught how Muslims pray and when to pray, or at least, Borroni’s and Kagare’s interpretation of how Muslims pray. At the end of lunch, Kagare told Kruschev sternly, “Every day, whenever I request, I need you to report to me wether you did your five daily prayers, or your required prayers up to that point in the day, or if you failed to do so.” With that, Kagare, Ntabuwe, and Borroni walked away and Kruschev went to his second work period of the day. By the end of the day, Kruschev had not done any of the prayers he was told to do, and towards the end of yard time, Kagare and Ntabuwe came up to him, and Kagare asked him if he did his prayers. Kruschev knew that he did not do any, and he straight up lied to Kagare, telling him that he did. Kagare was suspicious, but he accepted Kruschev at his word, expressed how proud he was, and both Kagare and Ntabuwe walked away. “Oh boy, another lie I need to be telling to Kagare to stay alive and not die brutally.” That night, before he went to sleep, a group of guards decided to play a football match in the yard, being visible from various cells. Kruschev was watching their match and thought, “If only whichever team of guards lost the match was executed, or probably worse, demoted and thrown in here as prisoners. Would be karmic justice for all the times I’ve witnessed a team of prisoners being executing for losing a match they were forced to play. for the amusement of the guards.” The match that the guards played ended in a 1–1 draw, or at least thats how it ended until Kruschev was pulled away from the window and thrown to the ground by another prisoner who demanded to watch the game for himself. “I see, this must be some entertainment and escape from reality for these people. Seems as if football does unite the world, when it’s being played at least, since this is the most peaceful I’ve ever seen this cell. Too bad that if Tuxtla Martínez loses on Sunday, which let’s be honest, seeing how many times guards killed people because of the team losing, they’ll probably lose yet again, a bunch of my fellow prisoners will be executed for no reason.” 12 March 2022 Throughout the whole day, Kruschev tried to avoid Kagare as much as he could so that he does not have to continuously lie to him about him praying. The day ended relatively uneventful, as uneventful as a day in TMP could be for a prisoner. At dinner time, continuing to avoid Kagare, he sat with other members of Mac Stíofáin’s gang. There, Mac Stíofáin himself pointed out to Kruschev, Infante Jímenez, and another one of his men, Jorge Alfredo Valdéz Castro, and he told the three that he needed them to do something for him. Mac Stíofáin spoke, “Alright, so I’ve been given word from the guards that they found León Cabañas’ body buried in the yard. How it got there? They don’t know and I don’t know. So now it is your guys’ job to figure that out. Elizalde Cabañas was associated with another guy called Sergio Hugo Molina Duarte, allegedly his second cousin. I need you three to find him tomorrow and interview him; get everything you can out of him so I know if there is anyone else involved and is there is any conspiracy against me and my men. If he does not cooperate, kill him. If he cooperates but you sense he is lying, kill him. If he cooperates, you sense he’s telling the truth, but he confesses that there is a conspiracy against me, kill him. If he cooperates, you sense he’s telling the truth, and he states there is no conspiracy against me, let him go and tell him to not contact us ever again.” Kruschev asked him, “Um, may I ask why you are assuming there may be a conspiracy against you? I mean, it doesn’t seem like these two have any major connections with anyone who may want to bring you down.” Mac Stíofáin responded to him, “I can never be too safe, and you can never make assumptions which can go against you. Just do as I ask.” “Sigh, I hope I don’t have to kill any more people here.”

Part IX

Part IX was released on 20 March 2022. It recounts occurrences in Kruschev's life on 13 March 2022, and went over the events of CF Tuxtla Martínez's loss to CF Denshire and its consequences within the prison.

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13 March 2022 In the morning, Kruschev woke up to a fairly quiet cell, as everyone was already afraid that CF Tuxtla Martínez would lose their final match of the season and that the guards would exert their rage against the prisoners, just as they seem to do every single Sunday. Prisoners went through shower and breakfast block must quieter than usual, even for a Sunday. Kruschev assumed that, as the final match the club played that year, the guards had more reason to kill more people than usual, as a final exertion of rage after a long season of failure after failure. At breakfast period, Mac Stíofáin came up to Kruschev and said, “Since today is Sunday, I’m gonna let you take today off. I know I told you to go hunting for Molina Duarte today, but since most people here are Catholic and is a day of rest, I’ll let you have this one. I know that you’re converting to Islam as well as I’ve seen you with Kagare, Ntabuwe, and Borroni, ironic since I remember you said that you wanted protection from Kagare, but regardless, I’ll give you Friday off too.” Kruschev was surprised by Mac Stíofáin’s blessing of relief for to days of the week. He thanked Mac Stíofáin, saying “I can’t thank you enough, I was worrying about the guards today with the match they seem very obsessive about here, so I really appreciate this break you are giving me. Are you Catholic yourself?” He responded saying “No, I’m a Clovist. It’s a Paleocacherian religion, but I respect the faiths of all my underlings and let them worship their gods in peace, even f they don’t have a faith, like you used to.” “Well, I guess people are starting to think I’m Muslim. Hopefully that’ll help me not get in trouble with Kagare; if everyone thinks I’m Muslim, then hopefully he will too.” Kruschev went to work, went to lunch, and went back to work. At 5:00 p.m., at just about the mid-point of the second working period, Kruschev heard a bunch of supervising guards chatting about something, and then he heard a tv turn on. Then he realized that the guards had started to watch the match; CF Tuxtla Martínez was playing their final match of the season. Kruschev already knew that this match didn’t matter since the club had already been eliminated from competition in the Copa Creeperiano and was already effectively relegated, as the guards announced at one massacre of prisoners so many weeks prior that he doesn’t even remember, but he knew that if the club lost this match, that prisoners like Cabañeras Elizalde would be working overtime on mopping the floors for the next couple weeks. “Well, at least Cabañeras Elizalde isn’t here to have to deal with the upcoming centuries of mopping which are incoming for floor cleaners like him.” He heard the guards conversing about the future of the club. One guard said, “Surely the Tuxteros will win the Division I championship next year, come back to the Premier League, and sweep the floor in every team’s blood. Two years from now, 2024, the Tuxteros will win the Copa Creeperiano. Villanova Madrid is more likely to be Emperor than the Tuxteros are to not win in 2024.” Another responded with, “The club needs to steal some talent for this to be a sure thing. Maybe we can natch Zelaya García from San Salvador or Ngatenda from Adolfosburg and pay them the amount the DINA agents received for capturing Graciani Juderías.” Yet another guard said, “Maybe we should start taking money from the prisoners here and give it to the Tuxteros as a humble donation to the club to make one of these acquisitions a reality. Maybe we increase the price to have some cincero killed increased tenfold to 50 colóns instead of 5, then they’ll be known as cinqueros and the proceeds will be donated to the club.” Kruschev just enjoyed listening to their conversation, something somewhat normal, as normal as something could get in TMP, as a sort of escape from everything else about TMP. “Ah yes, extort prisoners here who purchase assassinations and sent that money to a football club to help said club buy players. Throwing literally blood money at football stars, if only they knew. Who knows, maybe this has already happened before, and, let’s be honest, it one million percent has already happened before.” The guards turned up the volume of the tv as both teams come out of the tunnel and onto the field for the “Himno Real” prior to the match. He heard a guard say, “It’s Denshire. Denshire! We’ve seen them play this year; we know they’re in relegation territory; we can surely beat the Denes.” He heard another say, “Franco Azaña, don’t betray your home town. Give these three points to your home.” Not even four minutes into the match, he heard the announcer yelling that a goal had been scored coupled with frustration from the guards. “GOAL FOR FRANCO AZAÑA! DENSHIRE LEADS 1–0!” “Well. The cell is gonna be a bit emptier tonight at least.” With a 1–0 scoreline at halftime, he heard the guards feel more optimistic about the match, but only another four minutes into the second half, “ANOTHER GOAL FOR FRANCO AZAÑA! IF DENSHIRE WINS, THEY ESCAPE RELEGATION WITH A LOSS FROM SAN PABLO!” Kruschev then heard a guard begin shooting some prisoners in the place where they were watching the match; two shots for the two goals scored up to that point. Despite both the guards, Kruschev, and basically every prisoner cheering for Tuxtla Martínez to make a come back, the tv announcer said, “Denshire wins 2–0 for yet another loss for Tuxtla Martínez at home. The team was forever away from escaping last place and relegation, but the club ends this season on another loss, the club’s 12th consecutive loss and the 15th straight match without a win.” “I might be having a cell to myself tonight.” He heard one guard murmur to another, “We need to frame Franco Azaña for something so that he is sent here so we can punish him for this.” At 8 p.m. roll call, the guards made an announcement: “ Due to the failures of Tuxtla Martínez tonight, you are all being punished and there will be no dinner time, no yard time, and no shower time. If you have any questions or objections to our decision, please make yourself known.” Despite strongly objecting, Kruschev knew better than to actually call the guards’ attention to voice his opposition to their decision. Unfortunately, one prisoner in his cell was too naïve to realize what would happen to him if he did voice his objection. Carlos Guillermo Pérez Juárez, who was serving his first day in TMP for murder, arson, armed robbery, and illegal possession of a firearm, had no associates in the prison and had no gang affiliations, but his youth and inexperience with how the prison operates led him to call the guards to object to their decision. A guard arrived and listened to Pérez Juárez’s complaints. The guard told him, “I feel bad for you, so I will let you out so that your needs can be met. You seem to be the only one to object, so we will satisfy you so that everyone in this prison is satisfied, as we care for the well being of the prisoners here at Tuxtla Martínez–Panachor.” The guard let Pérez Juárez out of the cell, and while doing so, every prisoner in the cell was either crowding at cell bars or at the back of the cell away from the guard and Pérez Juárez, both groups knowing exactly what was about to happen. Just as he got out, the guard locked the cell and proceeded to fire at Pérez Juárez, yelling, “Don’t you ever dare complain against the system, for this is your punishment for stepping out of line.” He seemed to survive the guard’s attack and he was taken away to the medical ward. “Does anyone else have any objections?” No one responded, and the guard went away, while some prisoners told the guard he did a good job and the “keep up the good work,” to which the guard gave some of those prisoners some colóns as a show of gratitude to the compliments. “Well, one, I’m never seeing that guy again, and, two, I should tell the guards here that they are truly elite guards and do excellent at their jobs so that I can grow myself a fortune and start running my own gang or something. Wow this place is corrupt and narcissistic.” Just as he was thinking that the guards weren’t gonna massacre the entire prison population, at 1 a.m. roll call, the guards made another announcement. “Unfortunately for some of you, and maybe fortunately for some of you too, all of those who are on record of having being born in Denshire are scheduled for immediate execution. Try to resist, and your punishment will only be worse and you will regret ever existing and wish that you surrendered. If you try to hide, we will find you. For those of you who aren’t from Denshire, help us find those who are who try to hide and deny and resist and you will earn yourselves a reward.” With the end of the announcement, he heard teams of guards walking around the prison, going cell to cell with documents of the prison’s inmate list and their place of birth, looking for those born in Denshire. There were two prisoners born in Denshire in his cell. One of them, knowing that resisting wasn’t worth it, simply gave himself up and waited at the door for his execution, telling the other prisoners, “I thank you all for all you’ve done for me, and I am now escaping this place, and may you all do so too, and hopefully, alive to tell the world about this place.” When Kruschev heard his final speech, he thought to himself, “This guy is a hero, willingly giving himself up to escape and to prevent the rest of us from falling together with him. Good luck to you, may you escape this place, albeit dead, but it is an escape.” The other prisoner from Denshire, however, did not have the same bravery of the first one and tried to hide from the guards and deny being from Denshire. Kruschev saw what he was doing and could tell that he was from Denshire from how he was acting, and he could tell that other prisoners could tell too. It didn’t help his case that he had the “Denshire” tattooed onto his back. Kruschev thought, “Come on, just give up. Don’t tell me you want to suffer here, and don’t tell me you want to suffer at the hands of the guards for trying to hide. It’s better for you and for all of us.” Then, the guards arrived and informed the prisoners of the cell: “We have identified two of you residents of Block C9 Cell 4 as being born in Denshire. You know your fates so I strongly suggest you makes yourselves known now. Francisco Armando León y Herrera and Roberto Humberto Piñón y Salinas, please present yourselves now.” León Herrera was already waiting at the cell door for the guards and made himself known. The guards took him out of the cell and handcuffed him, placing him in a group of five other prisoners who were also handcuffed and surrounded by armed guards. The guard spoke again, “We are missing Don Piñón Salinas, please make yourself present.” He turned to another guard and told him to contact the prison administration to make sure that Piñón Salinas was in the cell and not in another part of the prison for any reason. The prison administration responded stating that he is indeed in the cell, to which the guard stated, “Don’t make me bring the cell’s population to zero so I ensure that Piñón Salinas has been dealt with.” At that, a group of prisoners walked over to the back of the cell where Piñón Salinas was hiding and began to yell at him and grabbed him, forcefully brining him to the front of the cell, with one of the prisoners telling the guard, “Is this your guy?” After looking at the prisoner and reviewing his file, he responded, “Yes, thank you. Don Piñón Salinas, you made a very poor decision. You six, you will be able to spend tomorrow night in solitary confinement if you so wish.” Piñón Salinas was taken out of the cell and handcuffed, and while the group was being taken away, he began to yell and plead with the guards to let him go, to no avail. Kruschev thought, “Well, good luck to both of you,” and with that, he went to sleep for the night.

Part X

Part X was released on 22 March 2022. It recounts occurrences in Kruschev's life from 14 to 19 March 2022.

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14 March 2022 Kruschev woke up the next day and was confused as to the fact why he didn’t hear endless gunshots all night. “Probably for the best, I got some sleep I guess.” At breakfast, Mac Stíofáin came up to him and told him that at lunch time, he, Infante Jiménez, and Valdéz Castro had to approach Molina Duarte and carry out what he asked them to do: “If he does not cooperate, kill him. If he cooperates but you sense he is lying, kill him. If he cooperates, you sense he’s telling the truth, but he confesses that there is a conspiracy against me, kill him. If he cooperates, you sense he’s telling the truth, and he states there is no conspiracy against me, let him go and tell him to not contact us ever again.” When lunch time came, the three were on alert looking for Molina Duarte, trying to identify him based on a picture that Mac Stíofáin gave the three, with Kruschev again wondering how he has a picture of anyone in the prison. “Maybe he has a picture of me and is gonna give it to someone when he eventually orders my death or something.” At around halfway through lunch time, Infante Jiménez spotted Molina Duarte and the three got up to approach him. Infante Jiménez spoke sternly at him asking him “You know why we are here, so I suggest you talk now or Mac will not be happy.” Molina Duarte acted confused, asking Infante Jiménez who “Mac” was and why he would know anything that this “Mac” would be interested in. Valdéz Castro then grabbed a food tray while Infante Jiménez pulled out a plastic fork which he had turned into a knife and threatened Molina Duarte, “Tell us about the conspiracy or you will meet the same fate as your cousin.” Molina Duarte, knowing that he could do nothing, confessed to Infante Jiménez that Elizalde Cabañas killed León Cabañas as a part of his initiation to join Mara Salvatrucha. Infante Jiménez then asked him who told him to carry out the murder, to which he said “Osiel and Mario did, for a hit Seán ordered five months ago.” When he told the three this information, Infante Jiménez told him, “I see, so an undeclared war is ongoing here. Well, your time on his planet is done for conspiracy against Seán Mac Stíofáin.” Before he could strike Molina Duarte, Kruschev grabbed Infante Jiménez’s hand, pleading with him to leave him alone. “Are you insane? You want to disobey Mac’s orders? He told us to kill him in this circumstance Vladimir, so how about you kill him instead.” Valdéz Castro put down his food pray and told Infante Jiménez, “Wait a minute,” then turned to Molina Duarte and said, “You do know that Osiel and Mario are ultimately responsible for your cousin’s death right, and what does being in Mara Salvatrucha help you anyway? I can assure you that Mac pays better, so my proposition to you is that you work within Mara Salvatrucha as a man on the inside and that your work for Mac will surely be rewarding.” Infante Jiménez looked at Valdéz Castro confused, while Kruschev supported his idea and urged Molina Duarte to accept the offer that Valdéz Castro suggested. Infante Jiménez thought about the situation and said, “Well, Mac would surely prefer to have someone within Mara Salvatrucha since they have been attacking us. Fine then. Valdéz Castro, go tell Mac about this agreement and meet up with Molina Duarte to brief him on anything Mac says. Now you, get on out of here and speak of nothing of this to Mara.” With that, Molina Duarte fled from the three and Valdéz Castro went to find Mac Stíofáin. Infante Jiménez told Kruschev, “Well, I guess not everything in here is just murdering people to advance something. If Mac disapproves of this, it’s your’s and Valdéz Castro’s fault.” With that, Infante Jiménez walked away and Kruschev was left alone, but before he could even have philosophical thoughts about what just happened, someone slapped him on the shoulder and then he heard someone say “Hello my friend, how have your prayers been going?” He turned and saw that Kruschev was there and that Ntabuwe and another Lyoan were there behind him. “Oh, yea, they’ve been going good. The extra silence in the cell last night really helped me focus especially well.” Kagare expressed his gratitude towards Kruschev and told him, “One day you will be ready and called up to punish those who reject Allah’s word just as I have done for the past two and a half years here.” Then, Kagare, Ntabuwe, and the other Lyoan left, but not before Kruschev saw that three began attacking a random prisoner, and ten minutes later, lunch time ended and he went back to work. Throughout work, Kruschev tried to forget about what happened today. While working, he noticed that the place where he worked seem to be slightly emptier than normal, probably because those who are missing were from Denshire. After a relatively uneventful dinner period, he went to the yard and noticed that the dirt everywhere had been disturbed, as it it had been dug up and put back in its place. “Well, I guess this is why there was not a solid two hours of gunshots last night.” 19 March 2022 At dinner time that day, Mac Stíofáin came to him and told him, “Valdéz Castro told me about what happened with Molina Duarte. I accept what you guys did, as Osiel and Mario will be a major problem to my business if they seek to depose me.” Kruschev asked him, “I remember he said those names, do you mind telling me who they are?” Mac Stíofáin responded, “I thought you would ask. Osiel and Mario are brothers, Osiel Juan Cárdenas y Guillén and Mario Alexander Cárdenas y Guillén. These two are two of the biggest players in this prison, and they have so many diehard and blindly loyal followers. They are basically impossible to touch and they have those who are even vaguely a threat to them reduced to atoms and never seen again, such as what happened to Juan Orlando García y Abrego. He was the second-in-command of all of Mara Salvatrucha from 2000 to 2008, and in 2015, the brothers had him torn apart as they thought he was trying to usurp their power in the prison. Yes, Osiel and Mario had the second-in-command of the entire gang killed, so these guys don’t play around. Osiel was the Coordinator of War for Mara from 2001 to 2007, while Mario held the same position from when Osiel was arrested until his own arrest in 2008, ironically on the same day by the same arresting squad that arrested García Abrego. Mario always blamed Juan for getting him captured, and that probably played a role in why they killed him so brutally. He’s still listed as alive by the TMP website, so, probably a coverup until some date when it won’t seem suspicious of him dying, probably when he’d be 78 since he died at 41, very young.” Kruschev responded, “Oh no, are we really gonna be playing chicken with these guys?” Mac Stíofáin responded, “I hope not, but if we have to, we have to.”

Part XI

Part XI was released on 4 April 2022. It recounts occurrences in Kruschev's life from 22 March to 4 April 2022, which involve events regarding Mac Stíofáin's gang and Kagare's gang.

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22 March 2022 Kruschev awoke in his cell a few minutes before 5 a.m. roll call and he noticed that some of the prisoners in the cell were holding a wrestling competition of sorts, or at least that’s what Kruschev thought he was. For all he knows, it’s a group of random prisoners taking turns at beating on some random guy for some random reason. Kruschev’s day went basically as uneventful as it could possibly get; guards killing prisoners for reasons, prisoners killing prisoners for reasons, Quranic verses being written on the wall in almost certainly blood, fights during eating periods, and guards constantly blaming Denshire for all their problems. 25 March 2022 At lunch time, Kagare came up to Kruschev and asked him if he was interested in helping him and Ntabuwe “interrogate” another prisoner at yard time the next day. Kruschev knew that this was some sort of test. He didn’t want to say yes immediately, so he asked Kagare a question which he thought may appease him: “Interrogate him for what? Are we asking him if he wants to convert or are we asking him if he is a blasphemer?” Kagare responded, “Why, of course, we are going to be asking him if he is a blasphemer and an atheist. He told me he converted, but it’s pretty obvious to me that he didn’t, and that he is simply lying to appease me and escape Allah’s fury. He will be caught in his lie, and when he realizes that his lies caught up to him, he will regret that his great great great grandparents ever met.” Kruschev basically died inside, as that is basically what he’s being doing the whole time: façade as converting to Islam while not actually in order to escape Kagare’s wrath. “Um, sounds like fun,” Kruschev said. “That sounds pretty moronic for anyone to do. They’re basically lying to Allah about everything, right?” Kagare responded, “Yes, indeed he is. And he will be punished. I’m glad that you haven’t done what he has, as you would surely rather prefer a permanent residence in the medical ward.” At dinner time, Mac Stíofáin came to Kruschev and told him, “So bad news. Molina Duarte has basically become unreachable, and Valdéz Castro basically cannot find him. I might suspect that Osiel and Mario found out and had him disposed of, but if that was the case, you, Infante Jiménez, and Valdéz Castro would also have been incinerated. So because of that, I personally believe that he is still alive but basically dipped on our agreement to have him as a spy within Osiel and Mario’s gang of barbarians. It’s probably in his best interest to stay quiet and never see us again, and for us, let’s just leave him be. He basically ends his existence if he says anything to his higher ups and we basically and we end our existence if we kill him. So let’s just leave this at that.” Kruschev responded, “Well, that’s better than a gang war in here. So let’s hope peace, whatever that means, can be maintained between us.” 26 March 2022 After another day of work, Kruschev forgot all about what Kagare told him the day before. Just at the end of dinner time, Kagare, Ntabuwe, Borroni, and 5 other prisoners came up to him. Kagare told him, “Get ready Kruschev, we are about to punish a blasphemizing atheist.” With that, Kagare handed Kruschev a machete. “What?! How did you possibly get a machete of all things?!?!” asked Kruschev in surprise and shock. Kagare responded, “I bought it from a guard, we all have one. This is the Army of Islam, the battalion I command to punish wrongdoers against Allah and His holy Prophets.” Kruschev had no choice but to accept the machete, and the group of 9 prisoners walked to the yard. They passed several groups of guards and watchtowers, who could clearly see the group or armed men with machetes. “Well, either Kagare paid them off, they are paying Kagare, they are getting entertainment out of this, or this has just happened so many times they just don’t care anymore. I don’t know which answer is morally the worst.” Kruschev asked him, “So, who exactly is being punished?” Kagare responded, telling him, “Ah yes, I have not told you yet. The heretic, blasphemer, and atheist we are punishing today is Sergio Hugo Molina y Duarte, who claimed to have converted seven months ago. I caught up on his lies one month ago, and despite offers from Borroni, he refused to leave his haram lifestyle, and for that, this is his last opportunity.” Kruschev thought to himself, “Molina… Duarte. That guy? You cannot be serious. There is no way that the guy that Mac had us beat up, whose death basically puts all of us on Mara’s death row, is the guy Kagare is now about to kill? Doesn’t he know about his affiliations with some of the biggest guys in the prison? Or does he even care if he does? Allah, if you are out there, please say that there just happen to be two guys in here called exactly Sergio Hugo Molina y Duarte, or better yet, that I’ve been in a coma in Morova since September 2019 after an accident at the steelworks I used to work at, and that my entire time here in TMP is a massive nightmare. Please, I beg that that is the case.” While patrolling the yard, searching for Molina Duarte, Kruschev continued to think about the ramifications of what killing Molina Duarte does. “Ok, he’s being killed by the quote on quote ‘Army of Islam’ and not Mac’s gang. So, hopefully that means we are safe and the Army of Islam is the one getting in trouble. The only one in trouble either way, is me… I hope no one notices that I’m here.” Then, Ntabuwe called out, “There! Blasphemer!” He pointed at Molina Duarte, and basically everyone around him got away from him as fast as possible when they saw Kagare’s men armed with machetes. “Well. I’ve surely been seen with them now.” The Army of Islam surrounded Molina Duarte, the same Molina Duarte that Kruschev had confronted earlier, and Kruschev could see that Molina Duarte did recognize him. Kagare spoke, “Don Sergio Hugo Molina y Duarte. It was around seven months ago, where you proclaimed that you had converted. Over that time, me and my men have noticed that you fail to do your prayers, have heard you talk about your façade to escape me, and your dishonestly and lies not only to me but to Allah. This is apostasy, blasphemy, and heresy, all of the highest degrees. I originally was going to give you one last chance to convert and repent for your sins, but I have since changed my mind, and there is only one punishment, and that punishment is death, and in death, Allah will send you to eternal suffering with those who enslaved Musa’s people for 400 years, those who rejected Isa’s teachings, and those who resisted Muhammad’s revelation, Praise be Upon all of Them. You will be in the company of Kings like Miguel I, who massacred the people of Almadinat Almuqadasa, and of politicians like James Sharokoh, who ordered the genocide of Muslims in Lyoa. For Lut abandoned a life of sin and followed Allah’s path, but you have instead chosen the path of Lut’s disobedient wife, staying among the sinners and living a haram lifestyle despite Allah ordering her to not. You are irredeemable and have no redemption.” With the end of his speech, Kagare lunged at Molina Duarte and began attacking him, followed by all of the other members of the Army of Islam also attacking him. Kagare was very hesitant to participate in what was essentially a vigilante violent murder. He also saw that Borroni wasn’t participating in the atrocity, so he asked Borroni why that was. Borroni responded by saying, “I am here as the preacher to be a witness and ensure that the punishment was carried out accordingly and justly. Yes, I did ignite a car bomb once, but I have understood that this is better for me. I do enjoy participating in the exertion of justice every once in a while, don’t get me wrong, but I prefer to just be here to support Kagare. You seem to be not a very hands on person, so I can vouch for you to be in a position like me and be here as a witness to ensure punishments are executed accordingly.” Kruschev thanked Borroni and thought, “Well, I didn’t personally kill him, so hopefully Mara will leave me alone. He didn’t deserve this, and now I know what will happen if Kagare finds out about me, or maybe it’ll be even worse for me because of how much he seems to trust me. Rest in peace Sergio Hugo Molina y Duarte, you escaped TMP and hopefully you can rest easy now.” Kagare’s attack lasted five minutes, but then Molina Duarte was unrecognizable as a person anymore. Kagare led the Army of Islam, all with their machetes held high in the air, soaked in blood, declaring that a blasphemer was punished. Kagare noticed that the guards basically didn’t care about what just happened, and Borroni took Kruschev’s machete from him. Kruschev left back to his cell and thought all night about what just happened. “I didn’t kill him, but I let others do so.” 31 March 2022 When Kruschev woke up, he noticed that he was not in his cell. "Oh boy. It's 'dunk on the Morovan day." As expected, Kruschev was forced to watch videos of Morova's destruction and the documentary of atheists being killed by Creeperans which was filmed by Morovans in early-2020. 1 April 2022 Early in the morning during breakfast time, after Kruschev got his food and just before he was about to take a bite of his food, he was hit hard in the back of the head with a tray, slamming his face into his own tray. Then, he was grabbed back and thrown onto the floor. Kagare was yelling at him, “Haram! Sinner! Have you forgotten that today is the beginning of Ramadan?! Fast! Fast fool!” Ntabuwe took his tray and they it onto the ground, which was then swarmed by hungry prisoners trying to get a larger meal than usual. Kagare continued, “No eating until sunset! Don’t make me correct your disobedient behavior again.” Kruschev forgot about what Borroni and Kagare had told him about Ramadan, or when the month even started. Now he basically knew it was a thing now. “How am I possibly going to be able to live by eating less, when the food quality here is horrible? I need to find a way to eat sometime during the day, when I’m working and Kagare won’t know that I’m eating. Why did I get myself into this?” Then, Infante Jiménez came to Kruschev and informed him that Mac Stíofáin was allowing Kruschev to have a break from work for the duration of Ramadan, as he might inadvertently commit a sinful behavior. “Well, something good comes from this I guess. Instead of killing people for Mac and Kagare, I only have to kill people for Kagare for a month!” At dinner time that night, Kagare came to Kruschev and demanded that he had to sit with the other members of the Army of Islam, along with other of Kagare’s converts in the prison, to listen to Borroni’s reciting of the Quran while they ate their one meal of the day. “Great, I get to hear stories. More good things.” 4 April 2022 During lunch, Kruschev was talking with Infante Jiménez about what was happening in his life recently. He told him about when he witnessed an atrocity by Kagare’s men against Molina Duarte, and why he was murdered in such a brutal fashion. Infante Jiménez told him, “Well, you better either be a better lier than Molina Duarte or legitimately convert to Islam to escape the same fate. Oh, also, you really should avoid messing with Mara’s men, especially those loyal to Osiel and Mario. Should I tell you a story from one year ago?” Kruschev told him to proceed with the story. “Well, in February 2021, this group of 16 guys who thought they were the new tough gang in the prison, began attacking Osiel and Mario’s men, thinking that they would be able to scare some into joining their side. They were so amateur with their murders: shankings, stabbings, beatings, basically child’s play. Osiel and Mario caught onto what was happening, so they had one of the 16 drawn and quartered. How? Don’t question. The remaining 15 thought that what happened to their companion was “unjustified” so they declared war on Osiel and Mario. They heard of the declaration, so they quite calmly ordered their men to capture all 15 men. They did, they were all tied up so they couldn’t escape, and the brothers created so-called “TMP swim team” with the permission of the guards. So every day at 9 p.m., Osiel, Mario, some other higher ups in their gang, and the prison guards, supervised the 15 men as they practiced for a “swim competition” that will never happen.” Kruschev asked him, “Um, how is this worse than drawing and quartering?” Infante Jiménez continued, “Oh, it’s way worse. You see, they were swimming in the waters around the prison and in the lake. That water is possibly the most contaminated water anywhere on the planet. Sewage, cyanide, pesticides, ammonia, dead bodies, you name it, it’s in those waters. You’ll basically die if you drink that water. The guards here are angels sine they don’t give us that water to drink. Anyway, yea, those 15 had to swim in that water, and in only 2 days after like 2 collective hours of swimming, all 13 survivors, since 2 drowned since they couldn’t swim, were immediately admitted to the medical ward. Poor souls, the medical ward was probably the most merciful thing that could have been done, and I’m not even joking. They were suffering from all that they were swimming in. As you could imagine, no one has ever seen them again. The End. Did you enjoy it?” “Um… I’ll keep in mind to never join any swimming team while I’m here.” Infante Jiménez added, “Yea. We know that happened, and basically there are rumors that the guards liked that idea so they keep a swim team going to punish people for being a massive annoyance to them. So, don’t annoy the guards, and don’t annoy Osiel or Mario, and you won’t end up on the swim team.”

Part XII

Part XII was released on 8 April 2022. It recounts occurrences in Kruschev's life on 7 April 2022, and involved Kruschev's experience with spinning the Wheel of Misfortune.

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7 April 2022 While working, Kruschev was approached by a group of guards who ordered him to follow them. Kruschev knew that something unusual was happening, as this had happened very few times in the past. They took him to a room which he vaguely remembered being in over a year ago. There, he saw a random prisoner he had never seen before, and then he saw the Wheel of Misfortune. Kruschev remembered some of the things which were on the wheel, and tried to think which of the options the prisoner spun to have Kruschev come to the room with the wheel. “What did this guy spin? Kill an inmate? Be killed by an inmate? Fight another inmate? Have another inmate spin the wheel? I don’t know which I’d rather have. If it’s be killed by an inmate, my life is fine but I have to take someone’s life, and if its any of the other three, I could die myself.” Then, a guard told Kruschev, “You, Don Vladímir Palovích Kruschev, have been chosen as the lucky winner to spin the wheel, as Don Fabián Pablo Ureña y Tejón landed on “Another inmate spins the wheel.” You have been chosen by the kind guards who administer the wheel as being the one privileged to spin the wheel next.” Kruschev reluctantly spun the wheel. “I hope I get solitary confinement, nothing, or 10 colóns. Those 10 colóns can come in handy as I could save up and maybe be able to buy myself something from a guard to help me suffer less here. Guard respect would also be nice, or medical attention, though, I don’t necessarily need that right now. Oh, I guess now I understand what “Join the TMP Swim Team” means on this wheel. I was confused by that the first time I spun the wheel. Sunshine would be nice too.” After spinning for 10 seconds, the wheel stopped moving. It landed on “Another inmate spins the wheel,” again. “Well, that surely is interesting. This is the first time the same option was spun twice in a row since Fernández Castro and Huerta Jiménez both spun “One day taken off of sentence” two years ago. Anyway, Kruschev, you can go wait with Ureña Tejón while we get someone else to spin the wheel. Thank you for your participation.” With that, Kruschev felt so much relief that he wasn’t about to die or be in so much pain that he wished he was dead. He noticed the recent addition of bullet ant, and from the stories he’s heard from other prisoners of what a bullet ant’s bite feels like, he’s glad that he doesn’t have to endure that, for now at least. Several minutes later, the guards returned to the room with another prisoner. He heard the guard speak again, basically saying the same thing he told him. “You, Don Jorge Emmanuel Dávalos y Sandoval, have been chosen as the lucky winner to spin the wheel, as both Don Fabián Pablo Ureña y Tejón and Don Vladímir Palovích Kruschev landed on “Another inmate spins the wheel.” You have been chosen by the kind guards who administer the wheel as being the one privileged to spin the wheel next.” Dávalos Sandoval spun the wheel, and after 10 seconds, the wheel stopped on “Cook a meal for the guards.” “Excellent. Well, as you have landed on “Cook a meal for the guards,” the guards of your cell block are expecting to receive the absolute peak of culinary genius when they eat their dinner tonight. Should not go without saying, the types of punishments which will be handed down if they are disappointed with your performance. Alright, Ureña Tejón, guards will escort you back to your cell, and Kruschev, guards will escort you back to your work. Dávalos Sandoval, you will now be taken to the administration’s kitchen to begin cooking dinner for your 12 supervising guards.” Kruschev was returned to work, and for the rest of the day, the guards did not bother him. During yard time, which was after dinner time for both the prisoners and cell block guards, he heard the sound of a firing squad in the distance. “Must have been the dinner guy. Seems as if the dinner didn’t meet the guards’ expectations.”

Part XIII

Part XIII was released on 18 April 2022. It recounts occurrences in Kruschev's life from 10 to 12 April 2022, and introduced the Kapahuenos and Esclavetan members of the MRKA to the series.

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10 April 2022 At morning roll call, the guards made an announcement to Kruschev’s cell. “Morning prisoners of Block C9 Cell 4. Today you are about to be welcoming a new cellmate. Say hello to, um. How do you pronounce this? Don Kahi-koo, ke-ak, ua Auali-i, Keona. Don Kahikookeakua Auali'i Keona. Let’s just say Don Keona. You guys better be able to pronounce his name by tonight, but I can’t blame you if you can’t. It’s always the San Carlos Islanders with these insane unpronounceable names. Anyway, he has been charged with 6 counts of attempted murder, one count of terrorism, and one count of waging war on the Empire, and is expected to serve his 14 life sentences at the luxury establishment known as the Tuxtla Martínez–Panachor Maximum Correctional Facility. Please make him feel welcome.” The guards then let in Keona and proceeded with roll call. As roll call was being done, Kruschev went over to Keona and struck up a conversation with him. His reasoning was, as someone from the San Carlos Islands who was not charged with actual murder and had no visible tattoos, he maybe could be some reasonable guy he could get to at least not want to strangle him. “Hey,” Kruschev said, “you seem to be a non-Creeperian. Are you in here for genuine reasons are did the government charge you with nonsense?” Keona actually responded to him, saying, “Yea, I’m not a Creeperian and never will be. Last month, me and two other accomplices, who were also sent to this prison today by the dictatorial captain general of the illegitimate Creeperian government in the islands, opened fire against the colonizers and imperialists who stole our land and genocided our people. I’m a member of the Kapahu Alana Revolutionary Movement, and we fight for the freedom of the Esclavetans and the island of Esclaveta, who have been illegally subjugated by the Creeperian colonizers.” Kruschev responded back, “Yea, I’ve heard of that, the MRKA right? I know of your struggle. I’m from Morova you see. I was unjustly arrested in September 2019 for my religious and political beliefs, and I’ve been here since then. Back in Morova, I heard about your movement against the Creeperian imperialists. I fully support your aims for independence and the establishment of a communist utopia just to anger and rage the Creeperian religious fanatics.” Kruschev said this somewhat exaggeratedly, but he was somewhat telling the truth. “Oh, you’re that one guy. Yea, I’ve heard of your story. Glad to see you’re still alive after all this time. Anyway, you seem reasonable. Can I trust you with something?” Kruschev said yes, and Keona continued, “Alright, so I’ve been sent here with Haupuehuehu Nohea Liwai and Hokuhelele'i Kilikikopa Rodríguez y Ekewaka. Me and Haupuehuehu highly suspect that Hokuhelele'i gave us up. I have no clue what was in it for him, as he ended up here with us, but it’s in the Creeperian nature to screw over the Esclavetans, as he is a Natizo meaning he is part-Creeperian. His surname Rodríguez should give that away. Can you help me and Haupuehuehu punish Hokuhelele'i for his crimes and betrayal of the Esclavetan people?” Kruschev knew what Keona meant by “punishment” far too well because of the “punishment” he witnessed Kagare inflict upon Molina Duarte a few days earlier. Not wanting to participate in that again, Kruschev said, “Yea, actually. You see, I’m involved with a gang of sorts I guess you would call it, and I could maybe convince our leader to help you and your friend bring justice upon the Natizo guy. His name is honestly also pretty complicated but we just call him Mac. He trusts me and if I pose you as a friend, he could want to help you out.” Keona responded, “Sounds great, I hope you can introduce me to him soon.” “Yea, I’ll see if you can meet him at lunch time.” Keona then added, “Oh, off topic but, when I first came into the prison, when they were processing me, this one guard was very insistent on taking a selfie with me. I have no idea why, like, I was thinking this was a very unprofessional mugshot which they were taking here, but then they actually took my mugshot, and the guy who did it was in a prisoner uniform? This really is some first impression of this place.” “Some first impression indeed. Just wait until you’ve spent two and a half years in here like me and you’ll have a very different impression.” At breakfast time, Kruschev went to Mac Stíofáin and told him about Keona’s story. Mac Stíofáin told Kruschev, “I can feel pity for him, as he was betrayed by one of his friends. You should be well aware what happens to snitches, so we can take care of the problem.” At lunch time, Kruschev introduced Keona and Liwai, the other Esclavetan which Keona told Kruschev about, to Mac Stíofáin. There, Mac Stíofáin told him, “So, you are the Esclavetan I’ve been told about. Well, yes, indeed I can help you punish this Rodríguez Ekewaka which has betrayed you two. I can also inform you, that there is a gang in here made up of Esclavetans sent here by the Creeperian government. They are known as the Kapahuenos. I’ll help you get into contact with them, as they are a perfect fit for you two. My men have good relations with the Kapahuenos, so you shouldn’t get into any trouble affiliating with Kru-” Just then, the conversation was abruptly interrupted. “KRUSCHEV!” was yelled you loud, and then Kruschev was hit abruptly and suddenly in the head with several trays. “What did I tell you about not eating during the day?! Are you failing to fast?!” Kruschev immediately knew that it was Kagare and his followers attacking him for being in the place where prisoners eat during the day. Kagare’s followers kept attacking Kruschev, but then Mac Stíofáin spoke up and said, “Stop right now! Your accusations are simply false and baseless. Kruschev is not here to eat. He is simply here introducing two of his acquaintances to me since this is the easiest place to meet up. He is a devout follower and he has not eaten anything before sunset since the beginning of Ramadan.” Kruschev knew that Mac Stíofáin was lying, as he had in fact secretly been eating during the day (although, Mac Stíofáin was not aware of those secret meals, so he’s only lying from Kruschev’s point of view), but he was not about to object to his lying to the face of a servant of Allah. Kagare told his men to stop, and he helped Kruschev back to his feet. “I sincerely apologize for this. There must have been some misunderstanding. Forgive me brother, this mistake will not be done again. You impress me for you truly are a follower. Now, to make this up to you, I will personally order the immediate punishment of whoever caused this to happen.” He turned to Ntabuwe and said, “Go find Obregón, and have him killed tonight.” With that, Ntabuwe and the other followers of Kagare left, presumably to hunt down this “Obregón.” Kagare then said to Mac Stíofáin, “I also apologize to you Sean, but remember your men are not immune to the wrath of Allah.” Mac Stíofáin responded, “I know, just let me know before hand.” With that Kagare left, and Mac Stíofáin continued to talk with Keona and Liwai, while Kruschev tried to regain full consciousness from the sudden attack. “I guess I should have spun “Medical attention” on the wheel after all.” 11 April 2022 In the morning, Keona thanked Kruschev for helping him unite with other Kapahuenos in the prison, and told him that Rodríguez Ekewaka would be dealt with soon. 12 April 2022 At dinner, Kruschev was eating with members of Mac Stíofáin’s gang. There, he learned that three new people joined the gang, each wanting to flee from the violence of other gangs in the prison. Infante Jiménez, Valdéz Castro, and other members were talking with the three, telling them what to expect in TMP (as they were all new). The three were explaining why they were sent to TMP. The first was convicted of murdering a group of 4 Los’Norteños gang members, the second was convicted of operating a drug trafficking ring inside an abandoned Pollo Campiña building, and the third was convicted of attempting to assassinate the mayor of Guiraiso. When the three finished explaining why they were arrested, some of the other gang members began explaining why they were in the prison. Murder, drug trafficking, arson, attempted assassination, piracy, and all sorts of other crimes. Valdéz Castro then explained why he was sent to TMP. “I gained a reputation in my area of San Salvador for the crime spree I committed. In 2014, my brother was shot during a drive-by shooting by members of Los’Sureños. He wasn’t the target, but he was caught in the crossfire. Ever since then, I swore to destroy Los’Sureños, so I started to kill anyone with any affiliation with the gang to punish them for their crimes. Between 2014 and 2017, I killed 21 Sureños and hid their bodies deep in the catacombs of San Salvador. The police arrested me in 2017, because someone talked and told the police what I was doing. They charged me with 21 counts of murder, but despite them never being able to find the bodies as I hid them well, they convicted me anyway and sentenced me to serve 42 life sentences in TMP. The snitch who talked? He is no longer a problem. I got him framed for a crime, he got sent here, and he is currently buried somewhere in the yard.” Then, one of the three told Kruschev, “You’re a part of this gang right? What are you in for?” Kruschev didn’t know what to say, as his crimes were relatively embarrassing compared to everyone else’s, he said, “I was in the possession of anti-government manifestos, and before I could carry out an attack against the palace of the captain general of San Salvador, the DINA arrested me and sent me here to serve 8 life sentences.” The other prisoners applauded Kruschev, with one saying, “Oh, that’s why you came to Creeperopolis. They must have caught you when you got to the country and captured your documents. Very respectable.” Infante Jiménez knew he was lying to try to not get killed for confessing to his actual charges, and stayed respectfully quiet.

Part XIV

Part XIV was released on 17 September 2022. It recounts occurrences in Kruschev's life from 7 June to 23 August 2022. It introduced Orlando Hernández Alvarado, Moke Maleah, and the internal conflict within the Kapahuenos

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7 June 2022 Kruschev was eating lunch with Mac Stíofáin’s gang and some Kapahuenos when a guard made an announcement to those eating: "Good afternoon esteemed guests of the Tuxtla Martínez–Panachor Hellhole. I hope you all have enjoyed your stays thus far and have several nice things to say about your treatment here. There are many very special things here, such as the Wheel of Misfortune©, the TMP Swim Team®, Thigh Tuesdays™ (Martes de Muslo™), among other very special events here, which I am sure all of you enjoy. Well, I have some very good news. All of these ideas which we have implemented here at TMP are thanks to Don Orlando Édgar Hernández y Alvarado, a journalist who writes fabricated and embellished lies about our glorious Fatherland. He came up with the idea of the Wheel of Misfortune©, the TMP Swim Team®, Thigh Tuesdays™, among others, and we decided that all of those were good ideas, and have thus implemented them to our routine here at TMP. We are very proud to announce that Don Hernández Alvarado has decided to come stay at our luxury resort and experience his own fabrications and ideas first hand! We are saddened to inform you, however, that he will not be staying with the general prison population, as I'm not stupid and you know that you hate all this nonsense that he has created, and therefore you probably hate him to and want write some sort of manifesto on the walls with his blood. Just know that he is now here suffering even worse than you are, as he will be treated to the Political Prisoner Facilities here at TMP. That is all, and, if Don Carlos Leonardo Pérez y Galván is out there, I hope you slowly choke to death on your food since you never paid me my ₡50 colóns. If not, I'll just have Kruschev and his Machete Legion look for you." Mac Stíofáin said to his gang, "See, I told you the DINA got to him. Did you really think the Paleocacherian mob got to him? And why did you of all people think the Federal Investigation Bureau got him? You're so dumb. You think I, a Paleocacherian mobster, don't know how the mob works, or how the FIB works? All you owe me my ₡100 colóns, better luck next time." Kruschev, who did not bet on who kidnapped Orlando Hernández Alvarado, asked Mac Stíofáin, "Alright, so I know that you have a phone and access to the outside world, and like, isn't the world looking for this guy. Like, yea, I get it, this guy deserves to be here. His lies has caused me to suffer enough but, why don't you just tell the world on some social media site that he's here, or anything else about what happens here?" Mac Stíofáin responded, "Simple, who's gonna believe someone on the internet who says, 'HEY I'M INSIDE TMP THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE!!!'?" No one, they'll treat you like a joke and ignore you. There was this one guy some years ago, Horacio Enrique Tassis y Ortega, who tired to go onto Twitter and expose TMP for violating human rights. No one took him seriously, and I never saw him again. He's probably sitting at the bottom of the lake or something, so yea, don't try to expose TMP. It's not gonna end well. I do have a Twitter account though, that I use to troll Ecrosians, especially Quebecshirites and Tirolers. It's very funny. I go under the alias of 'Hernán' and my username is 'hernanhernandez', as obviously an account under my real name would be banned immediately" Just as lunch ended, Kruschev saw Kagare and his gang beat up a random prisoner with lunch trays. "Must be the guy the guard asked Kruschev to kill. Oh well, at least it's not me." 22 July 2022 The guards made an announcement early in the morning of 22 July 2022: "Today is the first day of the new Liga Imperial season: CF Tuxtla Martínez vs CF Panachor! We have two lucky contestants who will win a spin on the Wheel of Misfortune if their club loses. Don Fidel Gustavo Guerrero y Herrea for Tuxtla Martínez and Don Martín Emmanuel Dávalos y Castro for Panachor. And if there is a draw, both get to spin the wheel! Additionally, prisoners are allowed to gamble their colóns on the outcome of the match! Good luck!" Mac Stíofáin gambled ₡500 colóns that CF Tuxtla Martínez would in the match, and he encouraged Kruschev to gamble ₡20 colóns that CF Tuxtla Martínez would win, joking that Kruschev was gambling "practically nothing". While working, Kruschev was able to hear the match on a television the guards were using the watch the match on. He heard the entire match, and the three goals scored by Tuxtla Martínez to help them win the match. "Nice, I am now ₡20 colóns less poor." He received his ₡40 colóns from the guards and ate dinner with Mac Stíofáin's gang. While eating, Kagare came up to him and asked him, "Did you bet on the game?"" Kruschev told him yes and that he won ₡20 colóns on the match. Kagare then told him, "Alright, you're gonna have to give me that ₡20 colóns since I lost ₡2,500 colóns on that match. I've already killed six people who did not give me money, so I strongly suggest you give me yours." With no other choice, Kruschev handed Kagare the ₡20 colóns he won, and Kagare walked away hunting for more victims. "Well, now I know that my life in this place is worth like ₡20 colóns. At least I'm not a cincero." 18 August 2022 During lunch, Keona found Kruschev and told him that the Kapahuenos have a new leader. He explained to him that the MRKA's second-in-command was captured by the DINA the day prior, and that he is now the leader of the Kapahuenos gang within TMP. "When we learned that Moke Anekelea Maleah was coming to TMP, we were saddened to hear that the DINA got to him, but also glad that we can be reunited with him to rule this prison. Unfortunately, there are some members of the Kapahuenos who won't recognize him as the leader, and want to keep power for themselves. Nine of them broke off to form their own rival gang, the Alaneros, and us remaining fifteen Kapahuenos need to eliminate them before they disillusion other MRKA members which come to our prison." Kruschev responded, "Yea, I think I know someone who can help. You know Kagare and his Machete Legion right. They can help you eliminate your rival MRKA dissidents." Keona responded, "Ah, yes. You're in contact with them? That'll be very helpful, please let me know if they will agree to help us." Kruschev then asked, "Hey, didn't you have a problem with a Natizo guy like a while ago? What happened to him, I never got an update." Keona answered, "Oh right. Yes. Rodríguez Ekewaka no longer has the capacity to be alive. He's currently buried in the yard. He got what he deserved for getting us in here." Later that day, Kruschev found Borroni and told him about the struggle between the Kapahuenos and the Alaneros, and how the Kapahuenos was the Machete Legion's help in eliminating the Alaneros. Borroni responded to Kruschev, "Of course we'll be willing to help, brother. Allah hates those who rebel against the rightful authority. I'll inform Kruschev, and we'll get in contact with the Kapahuenos. I already know Keona, so there will not be any confusion." 23 August 2022 Keona came to Kruschev during dinner. "Alright, you probably already know, but some heroic fighters of the MRKA attacked a cruise ship carrying many Creeperian leaders. Six of them were sent here to TMP. Four joined the Kapahuenos, but two were convinced to join the Alaneros somehow, despite them fighting to get Maleah released! We are now outnumbering them nineteen to eleven, but there are still way too many of them. We did get in touch with Kagare, and we are currently planning out our attack. We'd like you to help us however you can. Here, take these ₡2,000 colóns and ask the guards let the photographer, I think his name is Edmundo, to get us a spare camera so we can use it to videotape the execution of the eleven Alaneros." Kruschev agreed. Before he left, Keona told him, "Kahana Kapiolani is the leader of the Alaneros; he and his gang will fall soon."

See also

• Vladimir Kruschev, the in-character (IC) page of the central character