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[ 2 ]: so we’re just fucked then?

[ 4 ]: I mean, it’s not looking great right now.

[ 2 ]: and Main’s big idea is to just evac the numbers and wait to see what happens?

[ 2 ]: no plans to quarantine or fortify the site perimeters?

[ 2 ]: thfuck kind of plan is that???

[ 2 ]: at best we lose the facilities to radiation, but it stays contained underground

[ 2 ]: great. cool. we’re set back a few months cleaning it up, or we have to completely ditch the buildings and lose everything to fuckin Void Chernobyl 2 Electric Boogaloo

[ 2 ]: at worst, the Outvoid spills out topside and we kick start the FUCKING APOCALYPSE

[ 3 ]: That’s a bit dramatic, don’t you think.

[ 2 ]: no!! if anything I’m not being dramatic enough!!!

[ 2 ]: we could be days away from a nation-wide catastrophe and Main has no contingency plan if this spirals out of control

[ 2 ]: which it basically already HAS

[ 2 ]: sorry if I actually give a shit about the lives that could be lost from this Conner

[ 2 ]: I know that’s a foreign concept to you

[ 3 ]: I’m sorry you don’t have the emotional maturity to go two sentences without swearing.

[ 2 ]: fuck off

[ 1 ]: Guys, let’s just take a deep breath, okay?

[ 1 ]: Whatever’s going to happen is going to happen, and we just have to react to it as best as we can.

[ 1 ]: We didn’t know how bad this was going to get, let alone how fast.

[ 1 ]: Until yesterday, we were making progress in washing down the excess radiation from the tears. We were mitigating the damage rather well.

[ 2 ]: yeah except all of our employees were starting to go fuckin nutty

[ 1 ]: Well, okay yes, that wasn’t ideal. I agree.

[ 1 ]: But we’re starting evacs early tomorrow. We’ll backup our research to the archive and get our different levels to their respective zones, Main or otherwise.

[ 1 ]: Let the skeleton crew and whoever wants to stay back, stay back. Monitor them from a distance. They can always leave later if it gets too dicey.

[ 1 ]: Might have to go through an extra-thorough decontam process, though.

[ 1 ]: But as long as Main’s Outvoid connection remains clear of the storm and we’re able to operate from their facility, we’ll be able to ride this out. I have a feeling this is just a bump in the road.

[ 1 ]: The fact that Main isn’t freaking out harder is reassuring that this isn’t going to “kick start the apocalypse”.

[ 3 ]: I agree. There is something I am concerned about, however.

[ 3 ]: Sam?

[ 4 ]: Yes?

[ 3 ]: When was your last interaction with KB again? And how did it go?

[ 4 ]: The 19th. And it was mildly concerning, if I’m being honest.

[ 4 ]: She was dissociative. Nearly unresponsive. Only half-replied to our questions before she started speaking in broken, unrelated sentences.

[ 4 ]: The way she talked was different too. She usually has this nervous tone when she speaks. Kind of high-pitched, stutters sometimes, takes odd breaks between words.

[ 4 ]: But I’ve never heard her like this before. She talked low and slow and deliberately, even if she wasn’t making sense.

[ 4 ]: It was 10 excruciating minutes of trying to coax her into a logical conversation before she did her vanishing act.

[ 4 ]: After that is when the radiation levels ramped up and the entities began to go into a frenzy.

[ 4 ]: Expeditions stopped, our stockpiles went volatile, our employees got sick...

[ 4 ]: I mean, I don’t need to reiterate this.

[ 4 ]: We all know how the last week or so went.

[ 4 ]: But yeah. Something was off with her, moreso than usual.

[ 3 ]: Would it be a stretch to say she’s connected to the storm, then?

[ 4 ]: One of my analysts certainly thinks she is. Thinks she might be the root of it.

[ 4 ]: I heard the last recordings she left us, but I’m more inclined to believe the storm is messing with her just like it is everyone else, rather than thinking she’s causing it somehow.

[ 4 ]: Her emotions are already a fragile balancing act.

[ 4 ]: The storm might just be amplifying her worst ones; agitating her like the other Outvoiders.

[ 4 ]: But I’ve been wrong before.

[ 4 ]: Regrettably.

[ 3 ]: Regrettably indeed.

[ 3 ]: I still think you should have given her to us.

[ 3 ]: I’m certain we would have been able to find a way to cage her properly.

[ 3 ]: Maybe even control this storm, if that is indeed the case.

[ 3 ]: Let the voice sing for us.

[ 4 ]: Stop.

[ 4 ]: I have my limits with you and Fac 3, Conner.

[ 3 ]: Fair enough.

[ 3 ]: Everyone does.

[ 2 ]: :eyeroll:

[ 4 ]: I have been thinking more about SVPs in connection to her, though.

[ 1 ]: Hey guys?

[ 4 ]: And the way she was speaking to us in our last encounter.

[ 4 ]: How she didn’t quite sound like herself?

[ 1 ]: Sorry to interrupt.

[ 4 ]: No, it’s ok, go ahead.

[ 1 ]: Guys check your email.

[ 1 ]: Willow sent an update.

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[ 2 ]: what timing

[ 2 ]: unbelievable

[ 2 ]: un-fucking-believable

[ 2 ]: they’re signing their death warrants what the fuck

[ 1 ]: Yeah, forget what I said earlier I guess.

[ 4 ]: They’re shutting the elevators down after the last group’s out? And locking the stairwells?

[ 4 ]: And we’re not allowed to tell them this?

[ 4 ]: Surely that would change their minds about staying.
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[ 3 ]: That’s precisely why they don’t want us to say anything.

[ 3 ]: You got your wish Daniel.

[ 3 ]: All sites are to be quarantined until further notice after the evacuation.

[ 3 ]: Nobody in or out until this little disaster has passed on.
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[ 2 ]: ok I meant quarantine the FACILITIES to keep whatever might pop out of the siphoned tears INSIDE and AWAY from the SURFACE

[ 2 ]: not keep our own people in there

[ 2 ]: because this storm could last for weeks! months! fucking years even! we have no idea when this thing is going to subside, if it ever even does

[ 2 ]: without resupply, there’s only enough food reserves in the canteen for a month, MAYBE two or three with smaller staff numbers and rationing

[ 3 ]: Don’t worry Daniel.

[ 3 ]: They’ll melt before they starve.

[ 2 ]: FUCK OFF and fuck you

[ 2 ]: this isn’t right

[ 2 ]: you guys do what you want but I’m telling my employees about the lockdown

[ 2 ]: FORCING them to leave if I have to

[ 2 ]: I don’t care how passionate they are about their work or how fucked in the head the storm’s got them

[ 2 ]: I don’t care if Main wants a skeleton crew to keep the lights on

[ 2 ]: I’m not leaving them here to die

[ 3 ]: Don’t you have a slice of the Outvoid in your basement, currently?

[ 3 ]: Surely you wouldn’t want it to go unattended.

[ 3 ]: Who knows what could happen without proper maintenance.

[ 2 ]: we can flush the cube before we leave

[ 2 ]: we have the data to rebuild it, who cares

[ 2 ]: don’t try to twist my arm

[ 2 ]: Conner I already know what you’re going to do so you can shut it, but Sam? Lenna?

[ 2 ]: you’re with me on this right? we have to tell them

[ 1 ]: Dan, you’ve already got Willow breathing down your neck, looking for any excuse to reprimand you permanently.

[ 1 ]: If she finds out you went against Main’s orders…

[ 2 ]: You know what? I do not give a single. flying. fuck anymore.

[ 2 ]: I’ll face the music

[ 2 ]: I’ll spit in the founders’ face if they call me up

[ 2 ]: I don’t care if their monitoring AI sweeps this convo and reads all of this

[ 2 ]: Hey buddy put in a bad word for me before I even leave!!

[ 2 ]: I don’t CARE

[ 4 ]: Dan, please.

[ 4 ]: I’m not happy about this either, but

[ 2 ]: wow

[ 4 ]: You can still heavily, heavily encourage everyone to go topside.

[ 4 ]: That’s what I’m going to do.

[ 4 ]: I care too, I do, but some of them are too far gone to think properly, or too...committed to the cause to evacuate.

[ 2 ]: look it’s been a great ride, but if this is what bucks me off of it, then fine

[ 2 ]: fine

[ 2 ]: Samantha, Lenna, it was nice knowing you. genuinely.

[ 2 ]: Conner, eat shit

[ 2 ]: goodbye

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[ 3 ]: What a shame.

[ 4 ]: Dammit.

[ 3 ]: I wonder who his replacement will be.

[ 1 ]: Maybe they’ll cut him some slack because of the situation.

[ 1 ]: He’s stressed, he’s not thinking right.

[ 4 ]: No, he is.

[ 4 ]: Well I mean yes, he’s stressed, absolutely. Aren’t we all.

[ 4 ]: But I know him. He is thinking clearly, and I think his resentment has been building up for a while.

[ 4 ]: Fac 2 has been unstable behind the scenes for longer than he’d care to admit.

[ 1 ]: Has it?

[ 4 ]: Yeah, especially with their ventilation system malfunctioning.

[ 4 ]: Sporadically, since mid-last year.

[ 4 ]: Keeps dying no matter how many times they maintenance it.

[ 3 ]: Their neurotine distribution, specifically.

[ 3 ]: Quite frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was sabotage.

[ 3 ]: Willow’s been itching for a reason to full-rotate 2 for a long time now, but the founders have been surprisingly lenient with infractions under Daniel’s supervision due to their progress.

[ 3 ]: But I think she has her excuse now.

[ 1 ]: Oh. I wasn’t aware.

[ 4 ]: It’s okay, you’re still probably catching up on everything Mark left for you, right?

[ 1 ]: Yeah :sigh: still so much to go through, but I did sign up for this.

[ 1 ]: Metaphorically.

[ 1 ]: Anyways, even so, Dan shouldn’t be affected by neuro? A dip in the system shouldn’t be making him this aggro?

[ 4 ]: No, I don’t think neuro withdrawal is what caused this.

[ 4 ]: I can’t point to a specific incident, but

[ 4 ]: I think he’s been steadily losing faith in the OEA for a long time.

[ 3 ]: You would know about that, wouldn’t you Sam?

[ 4 ]: Excuse me?

[ 3 ]: Him losing faith in our goals.

[ 3 ]: You two talked a lot, didn’t you?

[ 4 ]: Oh

[ 4 ]: Yeah

[ 4 ]: More than you talked to him, that’s for sure.

[ 3 ]: Undoubtedly.

[ 4 ]: Maybe I should’ve seen this coming sooner.

[ 4 ]: Maybe I should’ve said something sooner.

[ 4 ]: But, anyways

[ 4 ]: What’s done is done.

[ 4 ]: It’s getting late.

[ 4 ]: We have a busy day tomorrow, so I’m heading out.

[ 4 ]: Wish you all the best.

[ 4 ]: See you at Main.

[ 1 ]: Yeah :tired:

[ 1 ]: Good night.

[ 1 ]: See you later.

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[ 3 ]: Good night.

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