Latest / No Commentary Gaming / LUNA ABYSS | Full Game Walkthrough (Part 1)
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- 2:09You are a Sinner, a bearer of the.
- 2:12Mar. Sentenced to 9125 days of.
- 2:18Scout servitude and stripped. Of your earthly status.
- 2:23You now. Belong to the old.
- 2:25Father transferred to the. Blood Moon penal colony.
- 2:31Will commence immediately. What have we here,
- 3:29you scout? What a pleasant surprise.
- 3:56Welcome to the Red Moon. How do you like your cell,
- 4:03inmate? What?
- 4:10What are you? My name is Aylan.
- 4:14I'm here to help you settle into your new life on Luna.
- 4:18We don't use Earth names here, so from now on you'll be going
- 4:22by the designation Fox. It's a good name, I chose it
- 4:27myself. You're a giant head.
- 4:33And you're a small human who is being inducted into the Scout
- 4:36program. It's been a while since I had a
- 4:39new Scout. Most of mine have got lost.
- 4:42We're well perished. Please I want to go home.
- 4:49You were gifted the Mark of Luna for a reason.
- 4:52Only those who bear those beautiful red eyes are chosen
- 4:55for such important work and. What happens if I disagree?
- 5:01You don't want to disagree with all Father Fox,
- 5:15but enough of that. You must be very excited to be
- 5:19here. What kind of prison is this?
- 5:24Don't be so dramatic now. As a scout, your job is to
- 5:29complete assigned missions down in the abyss.
- 5:31Scavenging, technology, reconnaissance, cleaning,
- 5:35whatever we want you to do. The more missions you complete,
- 5:38the faster your sentence is reduced.
- 5:43The Abyss. So there is a spark of curiosity
- 5:46in there. The Abyss is the infinite
- 5:49structure inside of this lunar object you find yourself on.
- 5:52In other words, you're in space. But don't worry, Scouts don't
- 5:57leave their cells when they access the Abyss.
- 6:00You'll stay here whilst remotely piloting a Warden, a sort of
- 6:04living machine. Speaking of which, let's get you
- 6:08settled in and then we'll look at assigning you one.
- 6:13Are normally detected cabinet district scout action requested
- 6:19selection begins selection completed scout 5437 code name
- 6:27forks to report for duty. Well, out of the frying pan and
- 6:34into the fire, as they say. Looks like we'll need to settle
- 6:38in later. Let's assign you a Warden.
- 6:59The end only comes, You say stop.
- 7:15Time to wake up, little wanderer.
- 7:22It's time to. Where?
- 7:39Where am I? What happened to my body?
- 8:26You belong nowhere. But here, you're there.
- 8:30That's it. Adjustment here, level that up
- 8:35there. Everyone.
- 8:42Finally, a clear connection. I see the Abyss has chosen a
- 8:47Fate Warden for you. I take it you must be from a
- 8:50working class background. Oh, and you found a scout rifle
- 8:55too. How resourceful.
- 8:58But enough idle talk. The old father has made a
- 9:01request. A rare piece of drift technology
- 9:05has been. Detected somewhere.
- 9:08An excavation tool, No shield wiper.
- 9:12We need to retrieve it for study and adding it's general location
- 9:17into your objective system. Track it down and the old father
- 9:21will reward you. Strike carefully, folks there
- 9:42are adrift nearby. Don't be deceived by those still
- 9:46with human form. Their souls have been consumed
- 9:50by the skirt urge that rots this place.
- 10:00All that's left is pure horror. Oh, oh, mother.
- 10:32Does an intruder death to the intruder death?
- 11:21None. I probably should have warned
- 12:13you about the Mother Eyes Network.
- 12:14Oops. There isn't much salvage left
- 13:29here, you know, all the useful technology was taken a long time
- 13:34ago are. You a prisoner?
- 13:40No, I am a relic of different times.
- 13:46I envy you surface dwellers. These depths grow stifling after
- 13:52a while. I can't recall when I last saw
- 13:55moonlight. A relic of different times.
- 14:02We create time where none exists.
- 14:06It has no material meaning, no worse with which to measure.
- 14:12Everything that is exists only as the sum total of what was and
- 14:18what is yet to come. As the snake swallows its own
- 14:23tail, so time swallows itself, you see.
- 14:30I'm not sure I do. Nothing in life is irrefutable.
- 14:35Perhaps you will reach a different conclusion, but please
- 14:40tell me what brings you to these decaying holes.
- 14:46I'm looking for a piece of technology, something called a
- 14:50shield breaker. I see, so the automated
- 14:55detection system is still in working order.
- 14:59I use an old workshop not far from here.
- 15:03I think what remains of your shield breaker can be found
- 15:07there. Follow the path through this
- 15:10tower and cross the pipes that grow.
- 15:14Thank you. Take care, young scout.
- 19:11You're handy with a rifle, aren't you?
- 19:14Your records say you grew up in New London.
- 19:18A sinful place according to the old Father.
- 19:21I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
- 19:23It's. None of your business.
- 19:29Your transition here was a blessing, really.
- 19:41Anyway, it seems you have a clue from that disconnected about the
- 19:45Shield Breaker's location. But be mindful, not everyone you
- 19:50meet in the abyss will be so kind.
- 20:58None. Well done folks.
- 22:02Your sentence has been reduced by 10 days.
- 22:06Why don't you try the shield breaker out on those blue energy
- 22:10fields? I'll just locate a disconnection
- 22:13point to bring you back. None.
- 23:13Signal detected. Canon district Scout Action
- 23:17requested. Selection begins.
- 23:36location Canon district. Investigate immediately.
- 23:54You. Should know where that is coming
- 23:58from. Looks like that shield breaker
- 24:02may come in more useful than we thought.
- 25:30You mother won't. Be about you.
- 25:33You, you, you. Shouldn't be here?
- 25:35You. You need me?
- 27:38None. That was a close one.
- 28:02Celebrants are frightful adrift. Rumour has it they were once the
- 28:06aristocracy of the old colony. Now they're as mindless as the
- 28:11rest. Well, it's a good job we didn't
- 29:44need that wall to stay put. Still, if it helps to complete
- 29:49your mission, who might just stop you drastically changing
- 29:51the abyss. By the way, I have a theory
- 29:55about the disruption. Well, more of an idea.
- 29:59Do you want to hear it? It sounds like some kind of
- 30:03signal. A malfunctioning warden emitting
- 30:06A distress beacon maybe or. this place, I don't remember it
- 30:43being here before. Looks like you're in unexplored
- 30:46territory now, Fox. This signal is too strong for a
- 33:11malfunctioning Warden. Something else is going on.
- 33:19You're breaking up. Run that by me again.
- 33:30I can't hear you. It stopped.
- 35:26I suppose he sent you to hunt me down, yes.
- 35:32You're being hunted. Aren't we all?
- 35:38I'm Yurian by the way. Nice to meet you.
- 35:43I came to locate a signal. It sounds like it's coming from
- 35:48that thing. It seems to you does it, and
- 35:54it's fascinating. What, can't you hear it?
- 35:59All the time. It drives me mad.
- 36:01Actually, I've begun to suspect that I was imagining it.
- 36:05When you've been alone for as long as I have, you become a bit
- 36:07peculiar in the head. What is it?
- 36:21Everything. Or maybe it isn't.
- 36:25Maybe it's a lie shaped like a promise.
- 36:27Fool's gold and I'm the fool. But that'd be hilarious.
- 36:32But never mind me. Be called to you and you
- 36:35answered, so it's yours now it wants to commune with you.
- 36:41You let. It won't you.
- 36:48I'm not sure that's a good idea. Rubbish.
- 36:54How else do you expect to learn anything?
- 36:56Go on, it won't bite you. It would seem that it has chosen
- 37:30you, and As the snake swallows its own
- 38:43tail, we swallow time feed. On the run feed.
- 40:05I see you found my gift. You see that adrift over there?
- 40:10Good. Now we're in business.
- 41:00What's happening to me? You're growing, evolving into
- 41:04something. More.
- 41:07The eye is open, it sees through you.
- 41:10Now these little gifts of mine, think of them as aids to
- 41:15fulfilling the prophecy, the promise the bastard tore away
- 41:20from us. What do you want from me?
- 41:23Find your way to Graymont, to the cathedral at the heart of
- 41:27the city. There I'll be waiting.
- 41:30And there you will find answers. Aylan will find answers.
- 41:36Getting out of here might be a challenge, but, well, we've all
- 41:39got to start somewhere. Transcend, folks.
- 41:43I have every faith in you. None.
- 44:58None. There you are.
- 46:53Didn't I warn you about losing my connection?
- 46:56What's? Happened.
- 46:58You are. You look different.
- 47:01Where's your warden? You're just a.
- 47:07Yurian He, It was so loud. Yurian, you don't sound so good.
- 47:17Let's get you out of there and check you over.
- 47:20There's a disconnection point nearby.
- 47:23You'll need to climb up through Warden's Regret to reach it.
- 47:27I can extract you from that. I'm loading the location into
- 47:31your system now. None.
- 50:10I've just run an analysis on your status.
- 50:14I have never experienced anything like this.
- 50:17Whatever happened to you down there?
- 50:20Whatever this union did to you, he somehow managed to detach
- 50:25your consciousness from your warden.
- 50:37Not the Warden. I should be able to bring you.
- 53:05None. None.
- 55:28None. None.
- 57:03Yeah, you're a funny looking one.
- 57:07Excuse me? Begging your pardon, no one's
- 57:12used this lift in a few and I ain't ever seen anyone looking
- 57:15like you before. You're pretty unusual too. 3rd
- 57:24play. Suppose I've been a bit
- 57:26truncated since I lost my twin. I'm Ellie, by the way.
- 57:32Does this thing still work? Of course it still works.
- 57:37Granted, it's been several centuries since anyone but me
- 57:40used it, but don't you worry, I keep the old girl in tip top.
- 57:44Shape. Some days I ride all the way to
- 57:47the top and some days I go all the way back down to the bottom.
- 57:51Oh, we do have a grand old time. What are you doing down here
- 57:56anyway? You don't look like one of them
- 57:58churchy types. I'm a scout and this is my first
- 58:04day actually. They sent me down here to find a
- 58:07signal and whoa, it's a long story.
- 58:14All right, and what's a scout when it's at?
- 58:16Home you don't know. I know how to go up and how to
- 58:25go down. Ain't got much call to know
- 58:27anything else. My twin now, he liked to know
- 58:31everyone's comings and goings. Like to keep up with all the
- 58:34drama. You see, round about the time
- 58:37everything went pear shaped down here, he just sort of
- 58:40disappeared. Ain't seen him since.
- 58:47Is he still alive? No, probably not.
- 58:51Nobody lives forever, do they? Folks?
- 58:54Be a funny old world if we did. Anyway, Off you pop, got things
- 58:59to do, places to go. The.
- 1:01:06Disconnection point is just around the corner.
- 1:01:09You've done good work today in late, just a little further now.
- 1:01:49That should do it. Disconnecting you now.
- 1:02:01Welcome back folks. How are you feeling?
- 1:02:16I was a ghost. I suppose it must have been
- 1:02:21quite a traumatic experience. The good news is you completed
- 1:02:28your mission. Your sentence has been reduced
- 1:02:31by 100 days. The bad news is you lost a
- 1:02:38warden. That's a penalty of 20 days.
- 1:02:44I'm sure you'll do better next time.
- 1:02:49I still feel strange. Yes, well, you've been through
- 1:02:54quite the transformation. Your neural signature, the
- 1:03:00signal inside you that is normally intrinsically connected
- 1:03:03to a warden, has become separated.
- 1:03:07It is now its own entity. And that means?
- 1:03:15You no longer need a Warden to protect you from the scourge in
- 1:03:18the Abyss. I don't think I like the sound
- 1:03:26of that. It certainly doesn't seem to
- 1:03:29have done you any harm. Your vital signs look fine,
- 1:03:33better than before in fact. I doubt many humans would have
- 1:03:36the mental strength to adapt as quickly as you did.
- 1:03:39It's quite impressive. Yurian, he mentioned you by
- 1:03:48name. He said this is for Aylan.
- 1:03:53Well, that is unusual, however not surprising given my research
- 1:03:58on him so far. He said something about going to
- 1:04:05Gray. Gray my head.
- 1:04:11You need to rest, folks. Leave this hurrian to me.
- 1:04:15We'll talk tomorrow. You should probably get some
- 1:05:02sleep fox. Time for a bed, fox.
- 1:05:10Sleep sounds good. Good morning, folks.
- 1:06:03Are you feeling better? How am I supposed to feel better
- 1:06:09when I'm stuck in this place? I'm choking that response.
- 1:06:13Up to you having a bad night's sleep, folks.
- 1:06:16In any case, I've been looking into this Yurian character.
- 1:06:19He's quite the proverbial can of snakes.
- 1:06:23He said someone was hunting him down.
- 1:06:28I should hope so. He's got a rap sheet as long as
- 1:06:30my neck. Yurian Caldecott wanted for
- 1:06:35historic crimes against the Old Colony.
- 1:06:39Treason, espionage, theft, reckless endangerment of life,
- 1:06:45the list goes on. He is to be apprehended at all
- 1:06:49costs. I've logged a mission request
- 1:06:51into the system for you. I it feels like it's in my head.
- 1:06:59I don't know what that place was, but I believe Yurian lured
- 1:07:04us there for a reason. He mentioned something about
- 1:07:08prophecy. Yes, well, there might be
- 1:07:12something to that. The Abyss still has secrets.
- 1:07:17We don't know much about the original prophecy, the one that
- 1:07:20drove the Church to build the Lost Colony, but we do know that
- 1:07:24they believe there was a heart to the abyss, a place of immense
- 1:07:28power that would open up to those that were true believers.
- 1:07:33It seems Yurian as a hangover from a time long lost, a
- 1:07:37dangerous extremist. He told me he'd be waiting for
- 1:07:46me in Graymont. Graymont.
- 1:07:55It was the capital of the Old Colony, the birth place of the
- 1:07:58Scourge. A powerful place.
- 1:08:03I can't help wondering if he's luring you into a trap.
- 1:08:13But you're going to send me there anyway.
- 1:08:21Capture request for fugitive urine.
- 1:08:24Caldicott accepted Scout 5437 designation folks to report for
- 1:08:35duty. Bounty set at 4000 days.
- 1:08:39Reduction to sentence. I was hard on you yesterday, I
- 1:08:46admit that, but if you do as I say and follow my orders, you
- 1:08:51have a real chance of making it home one day.
- 1:08:57Anyway, it's time to go back to the Abyss and get to work.
- 1:09:05As you don't have a Warden anymore, I've had to use an old
- 1:09:08disconnection point to triangulate a suitable location.
- 1:09:13Luckily for you, it's exactly where we need to go to open the
- 1:09:16way to Graymont. Let's go connecting you to
- 1:09:21King's Ridge. Would you like to connect to the
- 1:09:33abyss? I'm ready.
- 1:11:21After the scourge erupted, it sent the old father fought to
- 1:11:25seal the darkness away once and for all, both here and back in
- 1:11:29the old city, stopping the spread of the disease.
- 1:11:33The train line to Graymont has been sealed shop for hundreds of
- 1:11:37years. But if you're to follow the all
- 1:11:39fathers orders and apprehend Hurian, we'll need to find a way
- 1:11:43to break these seals and open the door.
- 1:11:46It's the only logical thing to do.
- 1:11:56I've seen something like this before.
- 1:11:58A commune in the Weeping Meadows uses one as their sigil.
- 1:12:02They're a group of disconnected. They like to keep themselves to
- 1:12:06themselves. It won't be easy to get past
- 1:12:09their defenses, but they may know what this seal means and
- 1:12:12how to break it. I'm uploading the Weeping
- 1:12:15Meadows route to your objective system, Fox.
- 1:12:18The path is an old scout trail, but it won't be easy to
- 1:12:21navigate. Keep your wits about you.
- 1:15:58Now here's a sight for sore eyes, and I've begun to think we
- 1:16:01were the only scouts left down here.
- 1:16:04What brings you to sunny old King's Reach, little one?
- 1:16:09Have you come from the Weeping Meadows?
- 1:16:12I'm heading that way myself. I see, I see often holiday are
- 1:16:16you? You get holiday.
- 1:16:23I need to speak to HR. Never mind him, he's just been
- 1:16:27daft. Apologies, little one.
- 1:16:30I suppose he must be out for salvage too.
- 1:16:32Not that there's much left. We in Orion here spend our days
- 1:16:36combing the abyss for odds and ends.
- 1:16:38Sending technology back to Earth is the official line.
- 1:16:42Problem is these machines have been rotting for the better part
- 1:16:45of two centuries, so most of it's useless old shit.
- 1:16:49I'm sorry, he doesn't mean to be crude.
- 1:16:53Well, time waits for no man or spider.
- 1:16:56Hey, good luck to you on your travels, little one.
- 1:16:59Maybe we'll cross paths again somewhere down the road.
- 1:17:31I see you've met my other scouts.
- 1:17:33Everett and Orion, they seem nice.
- 1:17:36Have you had them long? They're not pets, folks.
- 1:17:40How many scouts are there anyway?
- 1:17:42Aside from the three of us, I mean, not.
- 1:17:45As many as there used to be. Well, well.
- 1:18:57You're quite the little prodigy. Not really.
- 1:19:00I'm delighted with your progress this.
- 1:19:03Little Gift is going. To make your journey all the
- 1:19:05more satisfying. A spring in your step, you might
- 1:19:08say, or a boost in your dung. Breathe in that power.
- 1:19:14Savour. It.
- 1:19:16Aylan, warn me about you well. Dear Aylan, forgive.
- 1:19:20I want you. She's not quite what she used to
- 1:19:23be. What?
- 1:19:24She'll soon come around. Chop, chop.
- 1:19:27I'm already tired of waiting for you.
- 1:19:30Is awfully dull nowadays. None.
- 1:24:57None. None.
- 1:29:47The Weeping Meadows. It never fails to impress me
- 1:29:50with its beauty. Well, what beauty is that?
- 1:29:55The Scourge has ravaged the landscape down here.
- 1:29:58Despite the Old Father's best efforts, those in the commune
- 1:30:03tainted their sigil across the meadows to attract survivors.
- 1:30:06They must know something about its origin.
- 1:30:09I hope the Scourge didn't get to them too.
- 1:30:12That would really make your mission difficult.
- 1:30:14Well, let's be optimistic, folks to the commune.
- 1:31:35None. None.
- 1:35:23None. Music.
- 1:36:47You know, they used to call this place the Garden of Luna.
- 1:36:52It was the agricultural centre of the Abyss.
- 1:36:54At its peak, enough produce was grown here to keep the entire
- 1:36:58colony fed. Now all those fields are flooded
- 1:37:01with scourge. The people who live down here
- 1:37:05fought bravely, trying to hold back wave after wave of drift.
- 1:37:10The commune is all that's left of a once thriving community.
- 1:37:14It's only thanks to the old father that anyone survived at
- 1:37:17all. Oh brother, they found
- 1:40:01None. None.
- 1:43:02Men's going to be cross. Have I done something wrong?
- 1:43:10It doesn't matter. You're interesting.
- 1:43:16What do you want? Is that interesting too?
- 1:43:22I'm just curious about the sigil on your banner.
- 1:43:26Nobody remembers anymore, but I do.
- 1:43:30I know all kinds of things. The reactor, that's where we
- 1:43:36find it. It meant something important, I
- 1:43:40think. Something important.
- 1:43:48I don't remember she'll be cross, but maybe men will let
- 1:43:56you go look for it. You should speak to her inside.
- 1:45:30I'm surprised men didn't. Shoot you on sight.
- 1:45:33Maybe she's grown soft. Over all these years.
- 1:45:38Maybe I made a good first impression.
- 1:45:41The world hasn't yet. Crushed all the optimism out of
- 1:45:43you. That's cute in the absence.
- 1:45:47Of a good life, we hope only for a meaningful end.
- 1:45:51To die well is no great shame. You shouldn't be here.
- 1:48:34It was an accident. We have grown complacent.
- 1:48:39Your ingress is my failure. It has been a long time since
- 1:48:45anyone found their way here. You keep yourselves well hidden.
- 1:48:54We were the keepers of the scourge, those appointed to
- 1:48:58contain the spread. We've seen it, haven't you?
- 1:49:04The rot in the flesh of the world.
- 1:49:07We were once Luna's last hope. Now we merely count down the
- 1:49:13days until our inevitable end. The wooden outsides of your
- 1:49:21sigil came from the reactor. Thus says all kinds of things.
- 1:49:26Only some of them are true. The old father came here not
- 1:49:31long before the scourge erected, told us to go to ground, and
- 1:49:36left for the old reactor. He went there with a companion
- 1:49:41and came back alone. I've taken care of it, he said.
- 1:49:48And then he left. He learned haunted the sigil is
- 1:49:57his gift to us. Award against the rod, that we
- 1:50:02may protect those of you who remain.
- 1:50:07There's a matching sigil on a sealed door in King's Reach.
- 1:50:11It must be related. Perhaps there is nowhere safe in
- 1:50:16the abyss that the old father did not make safe.
- 1:50:20What those men did bought us time, but if this is your
- 1:50:25directive, then it seems our time has run out.
- 1:50:31Aren't you even a little bit curious about it all?
- 1:50:34Curiosity is a luxury not afforded to those preoccupied
- 1:50:38with surviving. If you truly intend to exhume
- 1:50:42what ought to remain buried, I won't stop you.
- 1:50:46But nor will I help living through it all.
- 1:50:51The first time around it was quite enough.
- 1:50:56So it was the old father who placed the scene on the reactor.
- 1:51:00I hope he won't object to us breaking it.
- 1:51:03No Intercepting Yulian is our priority by any means necessary.
- 1:51:09He make that perfectly clear. There's an old drift pumped not
- 1:51:14far from here. If men won't open the security
- 1:51:17door, then we'll do it ourselves.
- 1:51:20We can just find a way out for the commune.
- 1:51:22We can kick that pump back to life and get the power running
- 1:51:25again. Let's get to it.
- 1:51:31Sometimes when I meditate deeply, I go to the edge of the
- 1:51:37village and listen to the signs of nature.
- 1:51:40There used to be animals here. They're gone now.
- 1:51:47I wonder what could be making those sounds?
- 1:51:53Maybe it's the sound of your memories.
- 1:51:57Maybe my heart remembers what my head can.
- 1:52:01It was beautiful here once. I'd hate to forget that too.
- 1:52:16Sometimes when I meditate deeply, I go to the edge of the
- 1:52:22village and listen to the signs of nature.
- 1:52:25There used to be animals here. Maybe it's the weird monsters.
- 1:52:31The what? It was beautiful here once.
- 1:54:40This ought to speed things up a little.
- 1:54:42Go on, give it a whirl. Why are you helping me?
- 1:54:46Didn't your mother tell you never to look a gift horse in
- 1:54:49the mouth? You're welcome, by the way.
- 1:54:52This is about something much bigger than you folks 1.
- 1:54:57Means to an. Important.
- 1:55:00End. That's all.
- 1:57:02None. None.
- 1:58:15None. None.
- 2:01:05None. What was that?
- 2:02:02Whatever it is, we'll deal with it.
- 2:02:04Let's go, folks. What terrible thing have you
- 2:03:52awakened? My instincts told me You Were
- 2:03:56Trouble. It's fine, I'll take care of it.
- 2:04:02Just as you took care of turning the power on, you must take me
- 2:04:05for a fool. Forgive me.
- 2:04:10Anger won't undo what's done. Tell me one thing.
- 2:04:15Are we in danger? I won't let anything harm this
- 2:04:20commune, I promise. Wherever does Alan pluck you all
- 2:04:24from? Abundant in promises yet starved
- 2:04:27for solutions? If I let you pass through, will
- 2:04:32you cause still more chaos? You understand what's at stake
- 2:04:37for us here. My freedom is at stake too.
- 2:04:42I don't want to be stuck on this moon forever.
- 2:04:45I suppose I should know better by now than to expect a straight
- 2:04:48answer from a scout. Do what you have to.
- 2:04:52It's out of our hands now, isn't it?
- 2:04:55Everything has to die and has just so long to live.
- 2:05:01A warning before you go. My Watchmen have reported a
- 2:05:05stranger in the vicinity. It seems that stray cat has been
- 2:05:09sniffing around again. It should go without saying, but
- 2:05:15if he finds his way in because of you, I won't be quite so
- 2:05:20merciful. We've already pissed something
- 2:08:19off. The reactor was sealed for a
- 2:08:23reason. I assumed it was to keep people
- 2:08:26out, but maybe it was to keep something in.
- 2:12:22None. None.
- 2:13:41I suppose you'd be willing to get to the old reactor.
- 2:13:48How did you know? Well.
- 2:13:51There's no other reason to be here, is there?
- 2:13:53Apart from cock and all the dead folk.
- 2:13:56I take it you've already met men?
- 2:14:01Did you live in the commune? I once sit there, death in a
- 2:14:05place. Absolutely a wretched bunch.
- 2:14:08We could have another 100 years in this year.
- 2:14:11That's a long time to be miserable.
- 2:14:17What are you doing out here anyway?
- 2:14:19Failing mostly. Cat shift.
- 2:14:22Those bastard gates full of their money.
- 2:14:24Rasta's welded them shut. I'm not as surprised as I used
- 2:14:27to be, of course, if you was willing to help an old man out.
- 2:14:36What do you need me to do? Just beyond here, there's a
- 2:14:38graveyard for old Wardens. Most of them are dead as disco,
- 2:14:43but the guns are the ready ones that make short work at those
- 2:14:45gates. I should warn you though, that
- 2:14:48place is heaving with a drift. I'm up for a challenge.
- 2:14:55I've no doubt think of me stuck in this old tin can when you're
- 2:14:59off blasting holes and things, won't you?
- 2:15:55You were wondering what those disconnected were afraid of.
- 2:15:59Well, this is it. After the Scourge, the Adrift
- 2:16:04attacked in their masses. The disconnected could only hold
- 2:16:08them off for so long. They died fighting, or well,
- 2:16:13their bodies died. Even when their wardens ground
- 2:16:17to a halt, their human consciousness would have
- 2:16:20remained trapped inside for a long time.
- 2:16:23That's horrifying. Admit it, you're impressed.
- 2:20:31The Liaths were primarily used for construction, but security
- 2:20:35was a common secondary function. I'm amazed they weren't running
- 2:20:39the place. That's a lot of firepower.
- 2:20:42Don't get any ideas, I'd hate to have to shock you when you've
- 2:20:45been doing so well. That's a good job.
- 2:21:26Well done lass. Thanks for your help.
- 2:21:33I was doing myself a favour, mostly Nah.
- 2:21:37Well, it's a win win then. By the way, what's your interest
- 2:21:41in the old reactor? It bears the same sigil as the
- 2:21:45commune men says the old father gave it to them.
- 2:21:50I want to know what it means. That's all.
- 2:21:53Well, if it's schedules you're in two.
- 2:21:55You'll want to head down to the old drift mines as well.
- 2:21:59It's been a while, but I remember seeing something like
- 2:22:02that down there. Worth a punt, eh?
- 2:22:11Interesting. Sounds like we have a lead on
- 2:22:14the second SEAL. Consider that your next mission,
- 2:22:18assuming you get through this in one piece.
- 2:23:10Tread carefully, it's pretty hazardous up here.
- 2:23:14Some garden nesses. Nature and industry don't mix
- 2:23:18well. It's the same true on Earth for
- 2:23:21an intelligent species. You certainly seem invested in
- 2:23:24repeating your mistakes. Not all of us are intelligent.
- 2:24:51None. None.
- 2:26:44None. None.
- 2:30:08Be careful, I know next to nothing about this place.
- 2:30:12I have no idea what you might find in there.
- 2:30:24That's comforting the. Scout's job is to explore the
- 2:30:28unknown, and sometimes the unknown that is dangerous.
- 2:30:31That's just how it is. You think I don't know that
- 2:30:37kill? Me, will you?
- 2:30:55Oh, you. Nasty little.
- 2:30:57Flashback. You Boo puppy.
- 2:31:07Won't he be lovely when I try the?
- 2:31:10Skin right up here. I'll read.
- 2:31:12You like a flag, None.
- 2:36:09Edwin, is that you? No, my name is Fawkes.
- 2:36:18Who? What are you?
- 2:36:21William, at least I think I'm William.
- 2:36:26Is Edwin with you? I'm sorry, I don't know who
- 2:36:33Edwin is. I need to tell him sorry I am.
- 2:36:39Please, if you can, just take me to him.
- 2:36:45I I don't think that's possible, Not anymore.
- 2:36:52I'm not me anymore. I'm It was all real then.
- 2:36:57What a shame. What a terrible, terrible shame.
- 2:37:13He'd gathered them all, the lost and the desperate.
- 2:37:18The wretched earth was drowning, and the baleful eye of the blood
- 2:37:27moon gazed down with a little care, hope for the hopeless.
- 2:37:35What greater calling could there be than to deliver humanity from
- 2:37:39disaster? The leader of fate was a great
- 2:37:44man, they said. Bane of the Church and Father to
- 2:37:50the doubt. O Come All Ye Faithful.
- 2:38:00And little care had William, who dreamed only of escapes.
- 2:38:07Fate or faith, it made no difference.
- 2:38:13If his beloved went, then he would go with him.
- 2:38:20The great man of fate reached out the hand, the old father.
- 2:38:28They called him a lifeboat to a drowning man all the way to the
- 2:38:34stars. Did you think he contained his
- 2:38:51friends out of cruelty? It was protection, one last act
- 2:38:58of kindness in an unkind world. Friends, there's more like him.
- 2:39:07Sealed in the darkest depths, when none in their walk, when
- 2:39:12none in their seek. He left her there, sleeping and
- 2:39:20safe until you came. Will you take me to him, my
- 2:39:35Edwin? He's gone, William.
- 2:39:42There's nothing more you can do. Go on.
- 2:39:48I think there might be a way to help you, but it means letting
- 2:39:53you go back into the drift. Will I find him there, do you
- 2:39:59think? Maybe.
- 2:40:04All right, I'm ready. I'm ready to go now.
- 2:40:10I hope you find him. You've earned a couple of days
- 2:40:29off for all your hard work. You see, a scout's life isn't
- 2:40:33all toil. There's reward.
- 2:40:36Too did. You know what I'd find?
- 2:40:47In the chamber. I had no idea it wasn't in my
- 2:40:52briefing. No, inside the monster.
- 2:40:59All adrift are people. Fox were people.
- 2:41:05He must have been trapped in there for centuries, just just
- 2:41:09slowly losing his mind. The seal had to be broken.
- 2:41:14There was no other way. Even if we'd known, Even if we'd
- 2:41:20understood the meaning of it. The person inside.
- 2:41:25People, there's another one, trapped and alone, just like he
- 2:41:32was. Yes, and you can grant them
- 2:41:36freedom. Is that what you call it?
- 2:41:43Yes. Would it have been better to
- 2:41:46leave him to rot? It's not much of A choice.
- 2:41:51No, I suppose it isn't, but it's done now, and we're a step
- 2:41:57closer to opening that door in King's Reach.
- 2:42:01Let's head there in the morning and see if it worked.
- 2:42:05Get some rest, fox. You'll need your strength for
- 2:42:08tomorrow.