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{{quote|''... even now I can hear the footsteps of that shambling monstrosity, and hear its eerie piping upon the wind. Poor Blakely, he never dreamed -- but now the door is being smashed to flinders, and at last I behold what my meddling has awakened! And now it is dragging me across the floor toward its hideous suckered mouths! Ia! Ia! The Goat With a Thousand Young! No!''|''[[Everything 2]]'', [[http://www.everything2.com/title/The<!-- 2520Lovecraftian2520compulsion%2520Lovecraftian%2520compulsion%2520to%2520keep%2520writing%2520even%2520as%2520one%2520is%2520being%2520devoured "The Lovecraftian compulsion to keep writing even as one is being devoured"]] -->}}
 
A story is told through a log, diary, or journal that a character uses to document their activities and progress through the plot. Suddenly, [[Gone Horribly Wrong|something happens]], the effects of which are slowly made known to the reader through by its effects on the medium.
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** There is also a second example in the dungeon of the tower Tel Vos. A construction crew was working on building the place, and fragments of the foreman's journal are all that is left. They are scattered around to be found by the player.
** What's mildly funny is that the Telvanni who owns the place doesn't actually care that much there's an eldritch abomination under his tower. Or that he sent the construction crew or hired them in the first place.
* Some quests in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] IV: Oblivion'' have this. For example, the [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:The_Forlorn_Watchman_<!-- 28quest29%28quest%29 Forlorn Watchman]] quest allows the player to read the log of an abandoned, haunted ship and the [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Lifting_the_Vale Lifting the Vale]] quest involves collecting the journal of a messenger who was headed to the same place as you. [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Origin_of_the_Gray_Prince The Origin of the Gray Prince]] has one of these at the end in the form of [[{{spoiler:|a diary]]}}. -->
** There is also a miniquest near Kvatch involving a man that believes he must appease "The Sunken One" to prevent the rest of the world from suffering the same fate as Kvatch. You don't meet him while he is still alive, learning of his quest (and its depressing ending, as he died believing that his failure to appease The Sunken One will doom the entire world) through journal entries.
** A [http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Trolls_of_Forsaken_Mine Fighter's Guild quest] sends the player to find out why some comrades (including the guildmaster's over-protected son Viranus, who [[I Just Want to Be Special|desperately wants a chance to prove himself in battle]]) haven't come back from clearing out a troll-infested mine. They're all dead, of course. The son's journal, found on his body, explains how it all went wrong, ending with:
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