INTERFACE 2037 READY FOR INQUIRY:
REQUESTING INFORMATION ON ANOMALOUS DISAPPEARANCE AND SUDDEN RELOCATION OF SUBJECT V3-ALITH
NO FURTHER INQUIRY REQUIRED, SUBJECT V3 INTERGRATED-CAMERA DISPLAY EVENTS: DATAFILE 234790
ACCESS V3 FILE RECORDS DATAFILE 234790
ACCESSING FILES... DATA CORRUPTED; SIGNAL WAS UNSTABLE DURING DELIVERY:
V3 IS SEEN ROAMING THE PLANET SURFACE BEFORE THE SIGNAL IS CUT. FOOTAGE IS REGAINED, BUT IT'S IN A NEAR PITCH BLACK HALLWAY. SUBJECT SEEMS TO BE CHASING SOMETHING IN THE DARK; SOUNDS OF SCREAMING AND HOWLING CAN BE HEARD BEFORE LIGHT IS REGAINED TO A ROOM FULL OF PITS. SUBJECT HISSES BEFORE FOOTAGE BECOMES OVERWHELMED BY STATIC. V3 CRAWLED IN A DARK SPACE, WATCHING AS ONE OF THESE HUMANS GETS PULLED INTO THE PITCH BLACK DARKNESS. UNINTELLIGALE WORDS ARE YELLED OUT BEFORE SUBJECT FOLLOWS IN PURSUIT. THE RECORDING CUTS FOR A COUPLE OF SECONDS, AND GLITCHES OUT TO REVEAL V3 TAKE UP WHAT LOOKS TO BE 3 STRANGE PILLS, BEFORE RUNNING BACK INTO DARKNESS. |
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SUBJECT V3-ALITH HAS NOT RETURNED TO CHARON BASE.
ATTEMPT TO REGAIN CONNECTION AND TRACK V3-ALITH'S LOCATION.
STANDBY...
INTERECEPTED CONVERSATION
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- Have you got any biscuits over there? |
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- You wouldn't happen to know anyone that can heal a trauma do you? I...had a little mishap in the last game. Made a bad call...or several |
THE SOUND GETS MUFFLED AS A VENT EXPANDS AND CLOSES.
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- Sweeney, where were you yesterday? We heard a rumor that you might have visited the "Writer's Guild" |
NO FURTHER INTERECEPTED CONVERSATION
DATA POCKET FOUND: FOOTAGE FROM SUBJECT V3-ALITH
ACCESS DATA POCKET AND DEFRAGMENT FOOTAGE FROM CORRUPTED FILES.
STANDBY...
ACCESSING FILES... DATA CORRUPTED; SIGNAL WAS UNSTABLE DURING DELIVERY:
SUBJECT MOVES ALONG THE SHADOWS BEFORE THE FOOTAGE CUTS AND THEY ARE CLIMBING ALONGSIDE WHAT LOOKS TO BE A HOME, BEFORE THE VIDEO CUTES TO SCENES OF BLOOD, DEAD BODIES AND MOUTHS OPEN AGAPE. V3 HISSES AND CARRIES ON TO THE ROOMS, TOSSING WHAT LOOKS TO BE A BLANKET ASIDE. THE VIDEO SHUTS OFF. |
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FURTHER DATA CORRUPTED; SIGNAL WAS UNSTABLE DURING DELIVERY: DATA STRING LOADING.
THE AUDIO RETURNS FIRST, CROWDS OF SCREAMING ARE HEARD BEFORE THE FOOTAGE RETURNS TO V3 STABBING INTO A MULTIPLE PEOPLE FROM UNDERNEATH A MACHINE. A MAN'S BODY MELTS AS IT'S PUMPED FULL OF ACID, THEIR FACE MELTS. V3 TURNS THEIR VISION TO ANOTHER, OFF SCREEN A HIGH POWERED HOSE PIERCES SOMEONE. THERE IS A BRIEF MOMENT OF STATIC BEFORE V3 CUTS THROUGH A CROWD OF WHAT CAN BE PRESUMED CIVILIANS, STABBING A FEMININE STRANGER BEFORE A WORD IS CALLED OUT "MOM!?" THE FOOTAGE CUTS TO V3 GETING VISIBLY DAMAGED; THEIR ACIDIC BLOOD LANDING ON A SUBJECT WHOM IS SWIFTLY TAKEN OUT BY A TAILED STAB THROUGH THE BACK; LIFTED INTO THE AIR BEFORE THEIR FACE IS IMPALED BY THE INNER MAW. FOOTAGE CUTS. |
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FURTHER DATA CORRUPTED; SIGNAL LOST.
ATTEMPT TO REGAIN SIGNAL.
ACCESSING... DATA CORRUPTED; SIGNAL WAS UNSTABLE DURING DELIVERY: DATA STRING LOADING.
V3 CARRIES AN ANIMAL TO A DARK ALLEY. TENDING TO THEMSELVES BEFORE THIS SMALL SHELLED CREATURE.
NO FURTHER DATA: SIGNAL LOST.
ANALYZE SHELLED CREATURE.
INTERECEPTED CONVERSATION
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- Why? Why are the innocent punished? Why the sacrifice? Why the pain? There aren't any promises. Nothing certain. Only that some get called, some get saved. She won't ever know the hardship and grief for those of us left behind. We commit these bodies to the void with a glad heart. For within each seed, there is a promise of a flower, and within each death, no matter how small, there's always a new life. A new beginning. Amen. |
INTERECEPTED CONVERSATION
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- Hey, Jerry. I heard you, like, ran into these things before? - That's right. - Wow, man. So, like, what did you do? - I died. |
INTERECEPTED CONVERSATION
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- We have been here for three and a half hours. - How many different ways do you want the same story? - Look at it from our perspective, please. - Please? - You admit to detonating the engines of, and thereby destroying, an M-Class star freighter. - An expensive piece of hardware. 42 million in adjusted dollars. - That's minus payload, of course. - The lifeboat's flight recorder corroborates some elements of your account. In that, for reasons unknown, the Lifeline set down on LV-426, an unsurveyed planet at that time. That it resumed its course, and was subsequently set for self-destruct by you... For reasons unknown. - Not for reasons unknown. I told you. - We set down there on company orders to get this thing, which destroyed my crew... And your expensive ship. - The analysis team found no physical evidence of the creature you describe. - Good!
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NO FURTHER INTERECEPTED CONVERSATIONS