#Northwestern Energy Production Complex [Development Progress]

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crystal hollow
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Literally a bunch of fission reactors combined to make fusion just to boil some water

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actually opposite but still yeah

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one big ass fusion reactor combined around a bunch of fission reactors

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just to boil water

crystal hollow
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Why do all this to boil some water when I can do this on my stove

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that’s a question for the core games

hexed torrent
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oh my god

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hes a fucking genius

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get this man a nobel peace prize

crystal hollow
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Ykw

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I hate autocorrect

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I’m gonna make a core game of my own

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It’s just gonna be a massive stove

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With a big pot of water over it

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That flows into a turbine

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And it’s gonna make more sense and logic

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Then literally every other core game

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one of the many early warning sirens erected by Northwestern Corporation within the defined 35-mile wide Emergency Planning Zone surrounding the McDowell Energy Complex in the mid-late 1980s to comply with NRC regulations

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canonically when the Lake Pepin Disaster occurred sirens only began sounding the Evacuation signal around 3 1/2 minutes before the facility and the town nearby it was engulfed in a violent explosion

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people had mere minutes to escape the 4 1/2 mile wide blast radius, a feat many could'nt accomplish before they met their terrible death

burnt hare
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That'd be one crazy firework though

crystal hollow
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These people suddenly heard sirens

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They heard the warning

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They tried to escape

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But it was like a nuclear bomb

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They were vaporized before anyone could do anything

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The reactor collapses

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Exploded

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Destroyed a whole town

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A whole population

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In minutes

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And if the explosion was that big

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Dear god

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The radiation would spread across the state

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Around 2-3 million people were ordered to evacuate their homes in the hours following

modest ridge
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damn

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thats some lore for sirens

modest ridge
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(metropolitan edison)

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vestal dock
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Penrose Reactor

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Currently attempting to troubleshoot an issue where my pc freezes for whatever reason

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apparently epic games launcher was causing it

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burnt igloo
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Loving the vibe here

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finally gotta get to that point where i need to work on coding the reactor

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fun fact #2

a majority of the property damage caused by the Lake Pepin Disaster was not directly because of the explosion, but the uncontrolled wildfire that broke out several weeks later

firefighters from roughly 18 counties and 3 states could not contain the epicenter of the fire because it was reported that radiation recordings within the quarter mile zone had peaked by 160 million roentgen per hour (more radioactive than any place on earth)

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it was estimated that with the most advanced, heat resistant hazmat equipment at the time an average person would last 7 seconds at the center of the explosion

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aka you would fucking die almost instantaneously at the center

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also considering making an au usa for the game

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i just had a fever dream that scared me to death but just gave me the perfect idea for how the facility would look as well

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essentially giant skyscrapers in hollowed out concrete tunnels

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deep enough to the point where you cant tell where the drop ends

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road systems in these tunnels to allow conventional civilian vehicles to travel throughout the complex

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crystal hollow
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You should do something like the canals from blue shift or maintenance tunnels from black mesa, basically small, tight, concrete industrial tunnels that connect to the entire facility

crystal hollow
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I was basically running through endless white halls with this thing always somewhere around me

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and it scared the living daylight out of me

timber geyser
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i havent spoken here at all but i like what im seeing (can i steal this idea)

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security

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burnt hare
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Let's just hope that it isn't a master lock

timber geyser
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or a lakeshore alphabet learning lock

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parking ticket that’ll go on the raider’s escape car

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yes DOS issues parking tickets

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in 2024 dollars this ticket costs 170 dollars

night onyx
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northwestern has done worse than just issue absurdly expensive parking tickets

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MUCH worse

night onyx
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have they monopolized a celestial body and or attempted to incite a nuclear apocalypse that was only stopped by straight up magic?
oh and also something to do with a competitor's antimatter-based fusion reactor

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no but they killed several whistleblowers that brought up how unsafe the Penrose Reactor was

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and also illegally facilitated the bombing of a competitor facility

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they also caused an disaster to occur at a hydroelectric dam so that customers would be forced to get energy from Northwestern

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let’s see here

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labor exploitation

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crystal hollow
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I can make and also decode any lore

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Clearly the whistleblowers were insiders of the company, therefore they’re committing corporate treason

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If not then they were competitors

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Bombing a competitor facility is pretty excessive

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And other stuff

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I imagine there being a modern facility set in 2017 or something where they made a new huge core

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But the corporations dirty past has people worrying

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The corporation spends more money making ads to reassure people than safety mechanisms for the reactor

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And the new reactor’s core explodes during construction

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causing a 4 mile radius explosion

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this is all fanfic

crystal hollow
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if their old directors and executives weren’t already in prison since I imagine people eventually found out about the schemes northwestern was pulling behind everyone’s back

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anyways your welcome for the yapping session

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some ended up getting several decades worth of prison time but a majority fled to south america and asia to avoid prosecution

crystal hollow
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After that

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The company would have crashed in the stock market

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crystal hollow
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and I mean crashed

crystal hollow
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wouldn’t be good for public relations but money is money

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they stopped making reactors for PUBLIC energy production and instead began doing bioresearch

crystal hollow
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I can see where this is going

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the original plan was for the company to go out of business in 2000 because they literally were being dogpiled with lawsuits

crystal hollow
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they like

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barely survived

crystal hollow
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Peoples family members were killed in the explosion, harmed by radiation, not to mention the excessive amount of rubble that would’ve gone flying around, smashing structures and people

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assuming the explosion reached the surface

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which based on your earlier description of the explosion radius, it likely would’ve

crystal hollow
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The public would have been more supportive of bio research for sure, but the public didn’t know much about Penrose until it went boom

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Bio research could also lead to a theoretical bio reactor prototype

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People in modern days are still looking for natural fuel substances for power

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So northwestern could get into the habit of producing Biological, natural fuel

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In fact

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That would heavily raise northwestern out of the stock market dumps

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But 1 accident would permanently seal northwestern’s fate

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Why am I going full fanfic mode

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Public power production is out of the picture

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But northwestern could definitely try producing bio-fuel

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if i make another Northwestern game it would've been on a natural gas drilling rig

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so i just found out June 28 is also known as National Safer Workplace Day

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which makes the Lake Pepin Disaster even more unfortunate

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annunciator lights now have a pretty little gradient

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suffering a burnout so im doing little things

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added some nice little wires spanned onto the Penrose Reactor

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fun fact: sometime during the late stages of the construction of the McDowell Energy Complex developers wished to construct a mall known as the Richwell Center in order to further bring tourism to the facility

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the CEO at the time responded to this concept with “there is not a giant sign on the roof of the complex that says ‘URBAN DEVELOPMENT SPACE’”

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fun fact #2

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on july 27th 1987 an ef2 tornado struck one of the auxillary surface offices of the McDowell Energy Complex

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Obrysum Seal, constructed in 1974

Constructed in the early stages of the construction of the McDowell Energy Complex, the Obrysum Seal was a 850-ton large metal seal door made to withstand a direct nuclear blast and keep the occupants on its other side safe from deadly radiation, debris and fallout that would follow a hypothetical full-scale nuclear war against the USSR, allowing the facility and its members to survive for months or even potentially years within the bowels of the facility without outside assistance.

Around 40 seconds before the Penrose Reactor exploded on June 28th, 1992 the pressure that the reactor was expected to explode at was greatly underestimated and would have destroyed the secondary door installed as part of the Sitewide Surface Seal Protocol, and in a last ditch effort the remainder of the Maitenance team still within the facility shut the Obrysum Seal in an attempt to mitigate the power of the explosion or prevent it from escaping the facility at all. This plan was ultimately deemed to have no effect as upon the collapse of the Singularity that now sat where the Penrose Reactor was the absolute force of the explosion vaporized the entirety of the facility's surface and sent the Obrysum Seal 27,500 feet into the air at a velocity around 3 1/2 times the speed of sound. It was not found until 7 1/2 days later in an abandoned field on the outskirts of Eau Claire, WI.

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modest ridge
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thats cool af

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but what does MEC mean?

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also do you have a roblox group?

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modest ridge
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OHH

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alralr

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got the inspo for that logo from several logos that malls used in the US around the 1970s-1980s

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which could be anywhere from at worst mid 2025 and at best mid-late 2024

modest ridge
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eh i hope the project will be going smoothly

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bc the lore stuff is cool af

burnt hare
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40.2 miles

burnt hare
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holy cow that was one angry explosion

crystal hollow
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this is all interesting lore and all

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so mind if i make a few fanmade lore tapes and post them here

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nothing huge to interfere with your lore

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  • its technically fanfic
crystal hollow
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ive got a whole tape already planned out if its okayt

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tape 1 is basically an interview with the on-site security commander 2 weeks after the lake pepin disaster

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sure

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idc

crystal hollow
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Interview: Northwestern McDowell Complex on-site Security Commander: Merrick Jobs

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This interview, hosted by the Minnesota National Guard, is restricted to anyone without proper clearance.

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Interviewer: Good morning.

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Jobs: ..morning.

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Jobs: You're here to interview me, aren't you?

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Interviewer: Yes, I believe that was in the phone call.

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Jobs: You do understand it was a long drive here.

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Interviewer: Yes, yes. Anyways, let's get down to business. Shall we?

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Jobs: Right, so what do you want to ask me? I'm a bit skittish about the incident.

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Interviewer: Did you know anything strange about Northwestern Corp? Just asking.

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crystal hollow
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thx

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Jobs: No, not really. Site Director Heuermann might be the right person to ask, but he was killed in the incident. Like many others.

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Jobs: The only reason I applied for this security position is for the 20 dollar hourly pay. chuckles

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Interviewer: Okay, okay. How did you escape the facility, and the explosion?

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crystal hollow
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originally employees were to follow Thaumiel Surface Evac, which meant employees were to move to their designated topside evacuation group point

crystal hollow
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It was upgraded to Gamma Surface Evac, which meant that employees were to be airlifted OFF-SITE to an auxillary station

crystal hollow
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several employees (roughly 30% of the Maintenance Team, Reac Ops Director Gertrude Fremont, and several evacuation groups) were still on the facility's topside or even still in the complex around the time it blew up

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Jobs: I escaped via plane. We were given instructions to upgrade evacuation level to Gamma, where 2 planes were summoned to emergency runways about 2 minutes before the explosion. I got into the first plane.

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Interviewer: And you flew away?

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Jobs: Luckily, yes. When it detonated we were still barely within the radius, the heat of the explosion took down the plane behind us, and well... everyone in it.

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crystal hollow
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maintenance director?

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Reac Ops Director

crystal hollow
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is there a name for site director?

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the name i had in mind was Albert Heuermann

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That's good

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Albeit the site admin survived the explosion in canon

crystal hollow
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He was airlifted via heli before everyone else

crystal hollow
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actually what if theres 2 site directors shrug

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one got airlifted and the other one tried to help shut down the reactor to no use

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After Gamma was issued orders were given to reac ops to abandon any further attempts to shut off the reactor

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Fremont went into the chamber by herself in pure guilt that she would've allowed the reactor to blow up

crystal hollow
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dang

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anyways

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She tried to shut off the reactor and was vaporized in the process

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Quite funnily enough she got the easy way out

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Incinerated into nothing almost instantaneously

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Jobs: I remember their screams... it was horrible. They saw the explosion approaching. We both screamed. The plane behind us was taken down, they screamed so loud, it was so haunting, until the flames engulfed them, and killed them all. We managed to barely escape the radius of the explosion. We proceeded to the evac location.

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Jobs: As far as I know... I'm the only security who survived the incident.

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crystal hollow
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Jobs: My lieutenant, Jacob Ross, ran off to try and shut it down by getting into the reactor chamber. He was going to try and pry open the coolant valves manually.

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Jobs: The fool got himself killed for nothing...

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Interviewer: That sounds hard.

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Jobs: You THINK? I watched my team die before my eyes! Bodies fell like rain, left and right! Pipes burst! People screamed! It was hell on earth down there! Most of the survivors have LIFE ALTERING PTSD!

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Interviewer: We understand that.

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Jobs: DO YOU? DO YOU UNDERSTAND? YOU WEREN'T THERE! IT WAS HORRIFYING! THE TRAUMA, THE NIGHTMARES, I WAKE UP EVERY NIGHT IN SWEATS DREAMING ABOUT IT! EVERY TIME I CLOSE MY EYES, I HEAR THEIR SCREAMS!

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Interviewer: Who's screams?

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Jobs: EVERYONE'S!

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Jobs: WE WERE ALL SCREAMING, PRAYING TO JESUS IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN, BUT IT WAS NO USE!

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Jobs: THE FACILITY EXPLODED, AND KILLED EVERYONE IN IT! AT LEAST IT WAS QUICK AND PAINLESS YOU THINK, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DEATHS! THE DEATH! THOSE WHO DIDN'T GET KILLED INITIALLY SUFFERED A LONG AND PAINFUL DEATH UNDER THAT RUBBLE, IT SENDS A CHILL DOWN MY SPINE TO THINK OF IT!

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Jobs: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO SAY YOU UNDERSTAND!?!

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Interviewer: Please, Merrick. Calm down.

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Jobs: ..I'm sorry. It's just.. horrifying. I'm traumatized, I'm petrified, I'm changed..

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Jobs: My wife and children, my house, it was all within the radius. They're all DEAD...

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Jobs: I live alone, in silence, thinking about what I could have done.. what have we done?

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Interviewer: You seem stressed. My initial plans say otherwise, but you are dismissed.

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Jobs: ...thank you.

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Jobs leaves the room audibly, and the recording stops.

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end of tape 1

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How good and lore accurate was it TrollHD

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for accuracy it was VERY good

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the minnesota natl guard had MAJOR involvement in the interrogation of the remainder of the MEC team

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plenty of people died whilst trying to escape the MEC before the reactor blew up

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either from the collapse of compound structures, pipes crushing people, machinery exploding, people being stampeded, ran over by fleeing cars etc

crystal hollow
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cool

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should i do more tapes

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tbh i might make a discord server for the majority of all things Northwestern and MEC related

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don't get me wrong your fanon shit's cool af

crystal hollow
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i write alot of lore

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i made fanmade lore for solaris but they no like because i included anti matter

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oh heres a hot tip

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you never specified it was fusion ingame or in discord, so okay? why you acting like everyone knows this?

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i thought i mentioned it was fusion-fission hybrid

crystal hollow
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im talking about solaris

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the guys who made a core game

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anyways

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tape 2 coming soon ig

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btw do you have all the official lore done

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holy crap though

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why do i wanna expand on jacob ross

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i randomly came up with the name in my head and now his story seems like one i could make into a whole tape

crystal hollow
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Tape 2 is still in the works

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Buts it’s gonna be the story of MEC Security Lieutenant Jacob Ross

crystal hollow
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Tape 2 in 7 minutes bcz i got a pretty good story outline and im too busy + lazy to wait until sunday/monday

modest ridge
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oh wait

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just realized

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there is lots of lore here

crystal hollow
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i mentioned Lieutenant Jacob Ross in tape 1, so tape 2 is just what happened to him and his story during the incident

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its all fanon

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anyways

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feel free to watch if you want

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Tape 2

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Search and Rescue Operations: evidence recovered

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Evidence: Security ID badge

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Information:

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Name: Ross, Jacob
Date of Birth: 05/02/65
Gender: M
Clearance Lvl: 4

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Evidence was recovered in the remains of the Lower Reactor Levels by Search and Rescue operations.

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cool flashback time

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Jacob Ross was sitting down at the Security Camera Center approximately 5 minutes before thermal runaway.

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Ross was calm, unaware he would be dead within the next 30 minutes.

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At approximately 11:06 PM, Mountain Standard Time a thermal runaway ensued.

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Ross leaned forward in his chair.

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Ross: That's.. unusual.

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Jobs: Yeah. I doubt it'll get much farther though. This has happened 2 times before, and they managed to cool down Penrose before she entered a meltdown phase.

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Ross: You're right, but it's not like we can relax about it.

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Jobs: Fair enough.

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Security Commander Merrick Jobs picked up his radio and set the channel to the reac ops

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Jobs: Everything alright in there?

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Reac Ops director Fremont picks up on the other end

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Fremont: The reactor's in a thermal runaway, but our coolant reserves are at max and the pumps are at 100%. It'll cool down.

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Jobs: Thermal runaway?

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Fremont: Yes, thermal runaway. It's under control, via standard protocol however. It's a low thermal runaway by most standards, it isn't actually dangerous.

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Jobs: Affirmative.

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jobs put down his radio

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Ross: I'm just a bit uneasy about this, that's all.

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Jobs: Yeah, it's that way the first couple of times.

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Jobs: Although.. that is unusual.

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Ross: What?

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jobs zooms in on the reactor camera

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Jobs: Is that steam coming from the reactor?

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Ross: Yeah...

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jobs grabs his radio

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Jobs: We're seeing steam come off the reactor. Everything good?

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Fremont: ..YES, EVERYTHING'S FINE...

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Jobs: You sure? You sound rather panicked.

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Fremont: YEAH, A LITTLE BIT OF STEAM IS NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.. HEH.

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fremont's radio went silent

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Ross: There's more..

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Jobs: ..its coming from the reactor itself, not just the pipes..

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Intercom: WARNING, PENROSE REACTOR AT EXTREMELY UNSAFE TEMPERATURES. PLEASE COOL DOWN THE REACTOR IMMEDIATELY. AUTOMATICALLY FORCING OPEN COOLANT PUMPS..

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Jobs: CRAP!

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Ross: What the..

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Jobs: Those fools at reac ops!

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Jobs: Always rising and decreasing the temperature at their free will..

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Intercom: WARNING, PENROSE REACTOR TEMPERATURE IS ENTERING A MELTDOWN PHASE. PLEASE SHUT DOWN REACTOR, IMMEDIATELY. ALL OTHER PERSONNEL, THAUMIEL SURFACE EVAC PROTOCOL.

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Jobs ran out, Ross ran out as well

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Jobs ran to the surface to help escort the evac, while Ross ran off to the Reac Ops control room.

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Ross enters the control room.

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Ross: WHAT'S GOING ON?

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panicked sounds of Reac Ops scientists trying to cool down the reactor ensue

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The temperature by now was beyond saving the reactor.

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Intercom: ATTENTION ALL EMPLOYEES, SURFACE EVAC LEVEL HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO GAMMA. EMERGENCY EVACUATION PLANES WILL LAND ON RUNWAYS SHORTLY.

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Ross: What's going on?

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Reac Ops scientist: The coolant pumps are at max, but they're barely even working, Penrose is in a complete thermal runaway!

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Ross: Is there any way to manually open the valves?!?

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Reac Ops scientist: Yes, it's in the chamber! Down on the catwalks below the reactor! But the radiation levels- ross ran off

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Ross put on a gas mask and entered the chamber via airlock. He got down to the catwalks

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Ross: CMON!

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Ross grabbed a wrench and was trying to pry the coolant valves open entirely.

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His radio sounded

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Jobs: THE PLANES ARE HERE FOR EVAC, WHERE ARE YOU?!?

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Ross: I'M OPENING THE COOLANT VALVES!

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Jobs: WHAT, YOU GET OVER HERE!

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Ross: JUST HANG ON!

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Ross dropped his radio and began to pry open the coolant valves again, Jobs still yelling from the other side of it

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He broke one of the coolant pipes, and coolant sprayed out.

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Ross: SHOOT!

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he ran over to the other coolant pipes, forcing their valves open with the wrench

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Power laser number 2 exploded, vaporizing Fremont who was above trying to pry out the Fuel Cells, and causing the coolant piping to collapse.

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Ross ran.

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To no use however, as the piping crashed down and caused the catwalk to collapse.

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Ross fell, down into the pool of coolant below.

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A piece of piping pinned Ross to the floor.

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Ross struggled to hold his breath, trying to push the pipe off him.

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Ross eventually ran out of breath, and drowned to death in the coolant.

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His body was vaporized when the reactor exploded, all that was left of him was an ID Badge.

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tape 2 end

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there was alot of extra detail i could have put in there but im lazy

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In terms of lore accuracy, once again, how was it

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only complaint i have is that the meltdown started around 2AM and the reactor blew up roughly 40 minutes after the first alarms started sounding

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also the MEC did not have aircraft runways

crystal hollow
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well there might be some inaccuracies but basically

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in a nutshell

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Jacob Ross was the MEC Security Lieutenant and after gamma was issued he went down to the reactor control room and went down and tried to pry open the coolant valves, until a power laser exploded and he was pinned to the floor, drowning in coolant

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he was not as lucky as fremont

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unlike her, he had one of the slow and painful deaths

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via drowning

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also the coolant is BITTERLY cold

crystal hollow
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so would he have freezed into a popsicle faster than he could drown

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implying he would've suffered ice burns all over his body

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extremely agonizing

crystal hollow
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Fremont took the easy way out, Ross took the hard way

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he was pleading down there

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he was frantically trying to shove the pipe off him

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he lost his breath and drowned while freezing, agonizing pain all over him

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if he wasnt underwater, he wouldve screamed his lungs out from all the pain he suffered

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people went in significantly worse ways in the facility

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one person was sucked into a small pipe with a turbine fan at the end

crystal hollow
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essentially implying they were being blended to death

crystal hollow
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you'll be sushi before you even realize it

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Ross was one of the slow and painful deaths, but definitely not the only one

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people who survived the explosion and got trapped under rubble, stampeded, burned to death, etc. would have had almost just as painful deaths

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he also had minor burns from when he broke that pipe, coolant sprayed all over him

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this makes me wonder

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would fremont and ross have been in the chamber at the exact same time

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well

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actually yes they wouldve because the power laser exploding killed fremont and caused ross to drown

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no archive

crystal hollow
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Wdym archive

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Tape 3 today if I’m lucky don’t ask why I put so much planning into this

crystal hollow
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Okay so tape 3 might be the interrogation/trial of the Company CEO and founders or it might be the story of Albert Heuermann, site director (or something else idk if theres anything i should know about the founders like names and the ceo tell me)

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suggest if you want something else ig

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im still working this out

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The name of the founder of Northwestern Corp is Norman McGowan, albeit he died in 1964 from complications from injuries that he had sustained fighting in WW2

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David Newman is the current CEO of Northwestern Corporation, rising to the rank in 1978

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Should also be noted that the McDowell Energy Complex was named after the CEO that succeeded McGowan, Jeremiah McDowell, who had passed away to pancreatic cancer the same year Newman rose to power

crystal hollow
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so was McGowan was the dude who plotted all the murders, and maybe set up some sort of plot to frame McDowell when he had cancer and knew he would likely die, or did McDowell do all the murders/assassinations

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i mean

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im just landing hit or misses on this lore

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wait

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i just realized the lore

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nvm

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although im wondering

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who would have succeeded Jeremiah McDowell

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hm

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alright, time for fanmade lore

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In 1995 after the imprisonment of Jeremiah McDowell, Grayson MacQuoid, a Scottish-American entrepreneur who had served as the company's COO since 1991 stepped up to the role of CEO.

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how does that sound

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Grayson MacQuoid oversaw the firing of many employees who were suspected to have taken part of/had knowledge of Northwestern's dark history.

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He also fired all people who worked at the MEC who still worked for Northwestern.

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MacQuoid is the present day CEO of Northwestern Corp, at the age of 77.

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whatcha think NWO

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MacQuoid also greenlighted bioresearch within the company. overseeing all research done.

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After the firing of all employees associated with the corporation's history, he then did his best to cover up any undiscovered incidents, the particularly bad ones, which were eventually dug up anyways, and MacQuoid did admit to them, although it was not under his administration.

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Eventually this placed Northwestern in inescapable debt which resulted in the executives of the company sabatoging the MEC to claim on insurance

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Yes, the Lake Pepin Disaster was insurance fraud

crystal hollow
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just wait until people like Heuermann and Jobs find out about that

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along with the rest of the clueless MEC team

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oh wait, THEY DID

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eventually that is

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McGowan was actually a very moral person and did not want Northwestern to turn into such a sour, evil megacorporation

crystal hollow
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Even before his death he questioned and was concerned of McDowell's motives for the company

crystal hollow
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McDowell even tried to assassinate MacQuoid once but it didnt work

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I was referring to McGowan

crystal hollow
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Ohh

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K

crystal hollow
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MacQuoid was spared his life when McDowell attempted to assassinate him but the plan did not go through because security inspected the assassin and found a bottle of poison in his carrybag

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The plan was to poison MacQuoid via food or drink

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anyways

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uh

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yeah

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MacQuoid lore

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whatcha think

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(i have to go anyways lololol)

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neato

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albeit i dont know what rank MacQuoid would hold before he rose to COO

crystal hollow
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and worked in the Eugene Offices

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idk

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i have his modern and McDowell timeline finished

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i just dont know what his Pre-mcdowell timeline is

modest mango
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@crystal hollow that is some good interview right there that you made

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CURRENTLY SUFFERING DEVELOPER’S BLOCK, WORK SLOWED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!

kinda burnt out and would like to actually go outside more than i usually do so i’m slowing down MEC devwork

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don’t worry i’ll still be posting photos here, just in much more sparse incraments

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i’d like to take in the nice window of weather between tornado cesspool season and deepest fiery pits of hell season b4 the heat becomes unbearable to do anything

crystal hollow
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laughs in nevada

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It’s already cooking out here

crystal hollow
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MacQouid facts:
He has PTSD and ADHD
He was drafted into Vietnam in the 60s
He is the 4th northwestern CEO
One week after McDowell was put behind bars, he paid for poison to be put in his prison meals which killed McDowell. He did this out of frustration after learning all of the logs and files of what McDowell did, and nowadays he regrets it severely.

crystal hollow
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forum died

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/j

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new Northwestern US locations map

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should be noted that the next game wouldn’t be set in the US, but rather in southwestern Mexico

modest mango
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interesting

crystal hollow
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assuming padre is meant to be in Mexico

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new stage 2 meltdown BSOD

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burnt hare
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IT is gonna have a field day with this one

modest ridge
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i love all of these small details

crystal hollow
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You know what, I could do portraits for the people in northwestern during 1992 and 1964

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McGowan, McDowell, Newman, MacQuoid, Fremont, etc

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Specifically 1992 tbh, I don’t know much about the ppl in 1964

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crystal hollow
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So uh theoretically what would Newman look like during the lake pepin disaster

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I might make some portraits and

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Uh

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I need ideas

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Because most people I have 0 idea what they should look like

rugged lance
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@hexed torrent do you want me to put together soundtracks for the game

hexed torrent
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I'll bring up a photo for you to base on

crystal hollow
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MacQuoid would likely be mid 40s

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hm

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was Newman as 'evil' as McDowell was?

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did he continue killing whistleblowers or did he stop

hexed torrent
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Newman was SIGNIFICANTLY more evil than McDowell

crystal hollow
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Constantly chopped paychecks for his own personal gain, repeatedly falsified OSHA documents

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Targeted low-income and impoverished neighborhoods to do hazardous jobs for Northwestern at terrible pay

crystal hollow
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And when they could'nt do their work they'd fire them and repossess their homes

crystal hollow
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Yes, MacQuoid learned of Newman's treacheries and had an associate put poison in Newman's prison meals, killing him

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its something he regrets to this day

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i already said this but restating it

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anyways so uh

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McDowell is as innocent as can be compared to Newman basically

hexed torrent
crystal hollow
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Yes

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He also orchestrated the Lake Pepin Disaster to claim on insurance

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Attempting to pin blame on poor management

crystal hollow
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Essentially to sum it up, Northwestern was a VILE company that many vilified in the 1980s-early 1990s

crystal hollow
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also is there a Northwestern CSO you have in mind for the time?

hexed torrent
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Chief Sales Officer?

crystal hollow
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Chief Strategy Officer

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for some reason i like the name 'Sasha Alexeyev'

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shrug

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i totally didnt just

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come up with that in

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20 seconds

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Virgil Miller - former Staff Sergeant for USMC, dishonorably discharged and then hired by Northwestern in 1980

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Completely breezing over his above-questionable motives

crystal hollow
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Miller and Newman were best buddies post-Vietnam

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So he literally got handed the job for basically nothing

crystal hollow
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so Newman was basically biased about hiring him, even though there were definitely much better candidates

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Yes

crystal hollow
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also just asking, is Grayson MacQuoid canon or is there another in-universe COO you have in mind for the timeline

hexed torrent
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Idm MacQuoid being canon

crystal hollow
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aight

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MacQuoid in the 90s: 'I am surrounded by idiots.' MacQuoid was literally the only executive as far as he knew with actual morals

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anyways

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is there any other high ranks i should have in mind?

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Moroshkina Stanislavovna, Head of Department of Misinformation (The department that essentially releases television advertisements for Northwestern. It should be noted that she's labelled as a Chief Marketing Officer thru the facility as the Department of Misinformation essentially held a level of secrecy similar to Quantum's Epsilon-8)

rugged lance
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[REDACTED] lore

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@crystal hollow are you working on the lore for this game then

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Dangelo Browning, Head of Department of Outer Investigations (Formerly a high ranking member of the FBI, dishonorably discharged for unknown reasons. Became Head of DOI in 1981 after displaying outstanding performance in his field)

crystal hollow
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its primarily fanon tbh

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David Newman, circa 1992 (Still working on the background for sure, early photo)

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this is by far not final

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Ferdinand Kayserling, Head of MEC Department of Operations

rugged lance
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Ok

crystal hollow
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i had to use the creator marketplace

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because i have 0 idea how to put hair on someone from the creator marketplace

rugged lance
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I'll start working on music for this

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Ik he hasn't said anything but I've got nothing better to do

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Stage 1 Meltdown would last 25 minutes (10 minutes of facility shitting itself, 15 minutes emergency shutoff window)

crystal hollow
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i imagine stage 1 meltdown sounding heavy, but slow, as if to warn you that this seems dangerous, but theres something even worse right around the corner

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Stage 2 Meltdown would last roughly 6 minutes (5m of facility continuing to shit itself, 1 of Penrose Confinement Structure falling onto its side and creating an uncontrolled reaction

crystal hollow
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stage 2 meltdown prob has piano and drums (drums and fast tempo to get players in an adrenaline fueled rush, but the piano is playing in the background to kind of imply the tragedy and death of the incident)

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so basically stage 1 is heavy with drums and synth as like a warning of whats to come, stage 2 is fast and fueled with adrenaline, but also some somber piano to imply how much death is happening and just the pure tragedy of the incident

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ykw i mean?

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Also, should there be a Stage 2 Shutdown where 4 players have to grab random objects (broken pipe, crowbar, shovel, etc) and use them to literally pry the fuel capsules out of the Penrose Reactor

rugged lance
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Ik what u mean

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But he also said he wanted it to be like classical

hexed torrent
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Tbh the style kinda changed to grunge/new wave

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Seems era appropriate

rugged lance
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Oh

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Ermmm

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I'll do my best

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That's not really my area of expertise

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@hexed torrent I'll send u some outlines of stuff once I get started

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For now do you have a discord server for this game

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I will finish up the server I'm working on for you

rugged lance
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Ok

crystal hollow
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I went totally and utterly AFK

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im bored

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should i cook a new tape or just keep making small lore

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im not in the mood to make a whole tape rn

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i might actually make a list of on-site staff and say whether or not they were deceased

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ykw forget it im gonna try cooking that

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Minnesota National Guard: Administration Staff List (i cant cook an entire thing of names rn)
Executives:
Virgil Miller, CSO: Deceased Off-Site (The explosion sent a shockwave so powerful he literally flew out of the helicopter while flying away and got blended by the helicopter blades)

Facility Administration:
Albert Heuermann, Site Director: Survived
Caroline Johnson, Assistant Director: Survived
Guy Jackson, Backup Director: Deceased

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so uh

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preview ig

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what you think

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@hexed torrent

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sorry im just the most impatient person known to man

rugged lance
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Real

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oh

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well there goes what would have been our music producer

crystal hollow
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uh

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mustve done something bad

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🤷

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anyways randomly playing QSERF and im looking around the F.A.A.S server room and random question

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do you have a name for the facility announcement system

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Possible names:
Announcement Service System TrollHD
Internal Intercom Speaker System
Automatic Public Announcement System

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Vocal Communications and Announcing System

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VoCAS

crystal hollow
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you have alot of this lore planned out already

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Northwestern's equivelant of FAMS would've just been AM (Auto-Manager)

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Definitely not a reference to something else

crystal hollow
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ykw lore writing is something i rarely ever do but enjoy doing whenever i do

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I was considering just like recording myself in a car doing a mixture of the Portal 2 announcer and game show host voice for VoCAS lines

crystal hollow
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i cant voice crap

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my voice is WAY too high pitched

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i hate it

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there have been WAY too many times where I call on the phone and get mistaken for a girl bro

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anyways

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I have the issue of where i'm far too quiet when i'm speaking

crystal hollow
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And people say I sound like corpse bride

crystal hollow
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my voice cracks way too much too

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whenever i get too loud my voice just goes poof

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major issue for a loudmouth like me

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also btw

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if you ever make a northwestern server (which you prob will/are)

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uh

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dont make a suggestions channel

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its just endless chaos

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and having to check the channel every 5 minutes, only to have half bad suggestions

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then 49% troll suggestions

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and 1% decent suggestions

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Suggestions would probably be locked to only SROs

crystal hollow
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that STILL arent gameworthy

crystal hollow
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rank locks are good

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pretty sure theres a good level bot called Polaris

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TLL Studios uses it

hexed torrent
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And even then I have n't roles to snuff ouf people who still make awful suggestions

crystal hollow
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if someone violates it its a temp blacklist

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and if they violate it again perm blacklist

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this just kind of helps filter out the spam

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i mean

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sometimes theres good suggestions

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and then theres

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'add fart gun as item and make meltdown happen at only 1000 degrees'

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anyways

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To satisfy spammers, just add a spam channel

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they normally just flock to that channel

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and besides

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its normally easy to filter the trolls from the mentally sane people

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based on behavior

crystal hollow
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who designed the penrose reactor

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also

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did Newman tell the executives about the lake pepin disaster?

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okay you seem to be afk

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The termination card sent to Fremont's house that she would never get to read

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I would change it to NOTICE OF TERMINATION

crystal hollow
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and never got to red them

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thats genuinely sad

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think of the other poor souls like Ross or other ppl who just panicked in the situation

hexed torrent
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it should be noted that some of the pink slips were coated with antrax to kill off people who held sensitive info

crystal hollow
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Site director Heuermann

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blud prob got terminated then grabbed the slip

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and well

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the manner how employees died at random was very

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predictable

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some got anthrax letters

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some died to 'incident-related complications'

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and a very few stragglers got the kaiser treatment

crystal hollow
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Newman thought he was slick doing this

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but the funny thing is

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he wouldnt know he himself would be dead in the next 2 years

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i mean

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MacQuoid honestly shouldnt regret it

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tbh

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but seriously

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Employees were dying left and right even after the incident

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I imagine that led to massive investigations

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Originally the governor of the state of Minnesota wanted to push for Newman to be trialed by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity

crystal hollow
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He did not get trialed by the ICC

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He WAS trialed by the United States Supreme Court

crystal hollow
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including Miller if he didnt get canonically blended by a helicopter blade

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even though Miller would just try to lie Newman out of it

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MacQuoid was charged with complicity in the crimes that Newman committed but used a large fund of cash he had earned by himself to bail out

modest ridge
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🙏

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there is so much text

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wym

modest ridge
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like a short explanation

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of the story

crystal hollow
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ASOUE moment

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wait

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The Lake Pepin Disaster was staged to claim on insurance money but went awry when one of the former high ranking execs + MacQuoid ratted out Newman

crystal hollow
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oh nvm i read that wrong

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even though MacQuoid isnt entirely innocent

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remember he did poison newman even after he had been punished

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As a result the remainder of the executive group of Northwestern put out tens of hundreds of hits on people they think would rat them out in suit

crystal hollow
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and i imagine McGowan wasnt perfect either

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but atleast they both wanted the best instead of the worst for the company

hexed torrent
crystal hollow
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prison warden?

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A guard that was friends with Newman's son

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Yes, Newman had children and they were spoiled ROTTEN

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Who all grew up to be ungrateful jerks

crystal hollow
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those sons

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ended up working for northwestern

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and tried to overthrow MacQuoid

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One started a decently large electronics retail store that received concerningly large amounts of funding from Northwestern

crystal hollow
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The other became a Chief Safety Officer for Northwestern Corp

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Who Newman had planned to take his seat once he died

crystal hollow
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Yes

crystal hollow
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MacQuoid has cheated prison and death multiple times

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you SURE you wanna come at this man?

hexed torrent
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The kid that started the electronics store was killed by a company that competed with Northwestern

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Believing they could scrape info on the Penrose Reactor off of him

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They got nothing of interest off of him, shot him in the head and dumped him in an alleyway in Milwaukee

crystal hollow
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northwestern corp's lore is way darker than Quantum sciences'

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i mean

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quantum science was a horrible accident

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that noone meant for

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while northwestern was a planned accident run by an evil company

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i plan for it to become significantly harder for it to safely operate the penrose reactor as the nightshift goes on

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coolant pumps breaking, turbines blowing up at random etc

crystal hollow
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in my fanon lore

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virgil miller was the one who was sabotaging the reactor in the facility

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when the meltdown and thermal runaway started

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he evacuated via helicopter

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but the shockwave sent by the explosion was so significant he went flying out and was chopped up by the helicopter blades

crystal hollow
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The good:
McGowan
MacQuoid
The bad:
McDowell
Newman

crystal hollow
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Fun fact (maybe):
Grayson MacQuoid's brother, Stanley MacQuoid was part of the MEC Maintenance Team. Stanley died in the facility during the meltdown as he was underground with what was left of the maintenance team, trying to close the Obrysum Seal. He sacrificed himself to the explosion, and grief overwhelmed Grayson after learning of his brother's death.

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This is one of the reasons why he held a personal grudge against Newman, leading to him ratting him out and eventually orchestrating his murder in his own prison cell.

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i need NWO_V approval for basically any canon lore i try to make lol

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but i can spam fanon all i want

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fun fact: a passenger flight inbound from Mexico City was unknowingly caught in the explosion of the McDowell Energy Complex and crashed into a neighborhood around 20 miles away from the facility

crystal hollow
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wait

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how did the airplane not get literally incinerated

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if it was IN the explosion

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also if the explosion was that high

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you wouldve been able to see it from space

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these are important lore questions

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also

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i wonder

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did Newman know the explosion would be this catastrophic

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or did he severely underestimate it

crystal hollow
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be

hexed torrent
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he estimated that there would be moderate damage as a result of the shockwave to the topside and surrounding areas of the facility

crystal hollow
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i meant to type that in the search bar cause i forgor what the original energy complex was called

crystal hollow
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no

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he put a lot of faith in the Obrysum Seal considering the thing was made to withstand a nuclear bomb directly next to the thing

crystal hollow
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this was gonna be castle bravo 2.0

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also

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it was designed to withstand a nuclear bomb likely coming from the TOP

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not the BOTTOM

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plus it wasnt right next to it

hexed torrent
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that too

crystal hollow
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it was on top of it

hexed torrent
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the obrysum seal was also significantly weaker on the inside portion

crystal hollow
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i cant even imagine how many people were screaming at newman that the obrysum seal wouldnt do anything and that everyone would be doomed

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but blud was just like: 'nah its fine'

hexed torrent
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if the Obrysum Seal was flipped around it could've had a better chance of deflecting the explosion

crystal hollow
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they did not expect however

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for their ultra safe nuclear bomb of a reactor to come at the seal from the bottom where it was significantly weaker

hexed torrent
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also to put this into comparison the Penrose Reactor was located roughly 5 miles underground

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meaning if you wanted to put the true size of the explosion it would be nearly 2 times the yield of the explosion of the tsar bomba

crystal hollow
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dang

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i know this place is meant to be for gave development screenshots and stuff

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but at this point

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im making it a lore forum

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lol

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anyways

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What was the name of the other exec/former exec who ratted out Newman

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i was curious if he had a canon name

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i wanted to get back into the tapes and i was thinking of a meeting between MacQuoid and that exec with minnesota and wisconsin governers

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about Newman

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if he doesnt have a canon name yet

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i was thinking of the name Levi Van Dijk

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which i uh

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totally didnt just make up

crystal hollow
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i am very flawed in that aspect

crystal hollow
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Tape 3 dropping cuz bored

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Recording for security: Meeting at 8:57 AM with Minnesota and Wisconsin governors.

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W Governer: 'Good morning gentlemen.'

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MacQuoid: 'Good morning.'

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Van Dijk: 'Good morning.'

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M Governor: 'You must be Grayson MacQuoid and Levi Van Dijk, I assume?'

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Van Dijk: 'That's us.'

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M Governor: 'You told us you had some very important measures to speak with us about, possible crimes against humanity?'

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MacQuoid: 'Crazy as it may sound, yes.'

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M Governor: 'So?'

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MacQuoid: 'We're here to discuss the CEO of Northwestern Corporation. David Newman.'

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W Governor: 'What about him?'

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Van Dijk: 'We believe he may have had major ties to the Lake Pepin Disaster, as it's been labelled.'

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MacQuoid: 'We know he does.'

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M Governor: 'Is that so?'

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MacQuoid: 'Very much so. He plotted the disaster to claim massive insurance claims.'

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W Governor: 'That seems blown out of proportion, if you ask me.'

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MacQuoid: 'Blown out of proportion?!? The man's a psycho! Purposefully fired employees to repossess their households, faked having a few extra thousand in the bank, but this is the WORST!'

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W Governor: 'That sounds horrible, but do you have any proof?'

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MacQuoid: 'The files! There's PLENTY of files on this mans atrocities!'

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MacQuoid: 'In fact, I'm rather sure there's a file on this incident exactly!'

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W Governor: 'So you want us to investigate?'

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MacQuoid: 'Yes I want you to investigate! This man is a monster! He's inhuman! He killed hundreds, and doesn't even care! He just wants the money!'

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M Governor: 'Calm down.'

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Van Dijk: 'Let him have his minute-'

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MacQuoid: 'A MINUTE? I COULD SPEND AN HOUR TELLING YOU EVERYTHING I KNOW HE'S DONE!'

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MacQuoid: 'MY OWN BROTHER DIED IN THE INCIDENT! I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO LOST FAMILY EITHER!'

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MacQuoid: 'THIS MAN IS DESPICABLE! HE DESERVES TO DIE, TO ROT, TO GET A TASTE OF HIS OWN MEDICINE!'

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W Governer: 'Calm down.'

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MacQuoid: 'I CAN'T! NEWMAN IS HORRIBLE! ALL OF THE EXECUTIVES PLAY ALONG, BUT I WON'T STAND FOR IT!'

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MacQuoid: 'FIRE HIM NOW! FIRE ALL THE EXECUTIVES!'

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MacQuoid: 'LET HIM ROT IN JAIL FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, IT'S STILL NOT ENOUGH PUNISHMENT!'

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MacQuoid: 'EVEN DEATH DOESN'T FEEL LIKE ENOUGH!'

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M Governor: 'I see you're... stressed. Would you like to leave the room?'

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MacQuoid: 'YES.'

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macquoid audibly leaves

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Van Dijk: 'Er- anyways. There's multiple files on Newman's transgressions and dirty deals.'

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Van Dijk: 'It's a risky move getting to me to send them to you, but you've got the power to search him, don't you?'

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W governor: 'With reason, yeah.'

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Van Dijk: 'Well there's your reason.'

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W Governor: 'Well.'

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W Governor: 'I've heard... alot.'

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M Governor: 'Yes. However, this seems to be highly serious matters.'

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W Governor: 'Indeed. We'll search Newman's files for anything suspicious, and dear god, I can't even think of what would happen to him if he were so evil as to kill hundreds..'

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M Governor: 'Let's not daydream. This could be false, after all.'

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W Governor: 'That's why we're searching Newman. You two are dismissed.'

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Van Dijk: 'Thank you. My partner and I will see ourselves out.'

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end of recording

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so uh how was it aliencat

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grah

crystal hollow
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I SAID

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RATE IT

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RAHRAGRARGAHGRAHGRARA

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/j

hexed torrent
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quick question

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should warhead event be known as Protocol Cautus or Executive Order Cautus

crystal hollow
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While protocol sounds more casual

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Executive order sounds like Newman used the warhead as a last resort after the meltdown failed

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Protocol sounds like facility personnel detonated it

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So uh

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shrug

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So ig executive order

crystal hollow
pallid path
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@hexed torrent check dms

proper goblet
pallid path
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@crystal hollow heres the base for the meltdown music rn

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ignore the 20 measures of rest i forgot to delete those

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:p

crystal hollow
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I’m on mobile so I’ll listen to it later and tell you what I think

crystal hollow
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Anyways uh

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Risky concept but I just watched welcome to dreamworld after a friend recommended it so yeah

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The 3 founders concept

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Basically

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Northwestern was founded by Norman McGowan, Jeremiah McDowell, and Lewis Richwell.

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explaining the richwell national lab’s name

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McGowan was CEO, Richwell was COO, and McDowell was CFO.

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McGowan planned for Richwell to take over after him, because like him, Richwell was rather moral and had the same ideals as him.

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However, McDowell was offered a large sum of money by an anonymous source to assassinate Richwell, therefore McDowell murdered Richwell.

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After Richwell’s assassination, McDowell stepped up to the role of COO, therefore allowing him to become CEO after McGowan’s death, despite McGowan not wanting him to become CEO in the first place.

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anyways uh yeah steamhappy

pallid path
hexed torrent
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There would be reverb over the thing

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essentially the Obrysum Seal wouldn’t be closable until late into stage 2 of the meltdown or near the ending of the warhead detonation event

hexed torrent
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interactible switches now have indicators that tell you if they're on or off

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hard to tell

hexed torrent
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revealing

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probably easy to clear up with a sticky note

inland nova
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fair lol

hexed torrent
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i'll add a zoom keybind so players can zoom in and see what notes and other stuffs say

pallid path
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@hexed torrent can you give me a list of events that need music

hexed torrent
pallid path
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ok

pallid path
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im thinking stage 2

hexed torrent
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stage 2 is okay

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i also need to figure out if im going to use my own voice, text to speech or get one of my friends with better voices to voice act for the VoCAS system

pallid path
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i feel like there would be some really good tts voices for VoCAS

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and would fit the time period better

pallid path
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@hexed torrent warhead detonation would be played during sequence and not after, right?

crystal hollow
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3 founders concept uh

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Whatcha think

crystal hollow
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Plus like the composer said, it fits the era

pallid path
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im thinking some kind of jazz style for the title screen

crystal hollow
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It’s ridiculous how many errands I’m running so I can’t listen to meltdown yet but

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What’s the planned theme for it

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Just asking

pallid path
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just like upbeat and bright

hexed torrent
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should also be noted that the sequence lasts 6 minutes but music would only play during the last 3

pallid path
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oh

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wow

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ok

crystal hollow
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Just my personal opinion but

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Warhead would prob be like ominous

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Something that really tells you ‘This is it, we’re finished.’

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Something like the final flash of existence or the phase 1 meltdown from PCC

pallid path
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i was gonna do something very fast and emotional

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ive got a general idea of what i will do for meltdown

hexed torrent
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control panels now have SILENCE and ACKNOWLEDGE buttons

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crystal hollow
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anyways

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just wondering

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is there gonna be an Emergency Fire Suppression system?

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with a different name like uh

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Emergency Flame Extinguishing System

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Which still isnt unique but idc

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there already is an EFSS

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it's just called the EFS system

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could be called EFC system (Emergency Fire Containment System)

modest mango
modest mango
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wraith bison
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whered you find those

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been searchng my entire live

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just search up random control elements/buttons that the RBMK has

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eg “rbmk az5 sound”

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ending is rough but i imagine that nobody is sticking around for the whole 40 seconds

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used for reactor purge

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@hexed torrent do you have these events modeled yet?

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If so can I see them so I can fit the music better

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right now i need to make the startup

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so for now don't really worry TOO much about event music

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Ok

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How long will meltdown stages last

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I'm thinking the meltdown music I have so far might actually be better for post-meltdown dialogs

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Like yk how after an events on qserf

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There's the dialog from like researchers

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That's what I'm thinking

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that's what i was planning

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Alright

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eg. if you're in the facility when the Penrose Reactor explodes it cuts to an EBS broadcast

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Got it

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i just need to set up channel permissions, get bots and we should be ready

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fuel capsule

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for the power lasers?

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no

crystal hollow
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oh

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theyre for the Penrose Reactor

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itself

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like the confinement structure

crystal hollow
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fair enough

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eventually going to model some fuel capsule intakes on the Penrose Reactor

crystal hollow
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i mean they might look innocent but they are also the things that went kaboom in a volatile explosion that killed fremont and indirectly killed ross i think, or did the power laser explode

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the power laser itself exploded

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the Master System (what allows the control room to send control inputs and receive reactor status) started spewing out control inputs at random when it failed

crystal hollow
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dang

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so the power laser overloaded?

hexed torrent
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this caused a power laser to overheat

crystal hollow
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and went kaboom?

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yes

crystal hollow
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so basically

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the power laser overloaded causing it to explode

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instantly vaporizing fremont

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who was actually lucky compared to most people

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and then that took out the piping which pinned ross to the ground and let him drown and freeze to death

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thats

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violent

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but hey

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i like violence

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i died for a few seconds sorry-

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@hexed torrent this your old headcanon?

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this was me messing with AI

crystal hollow
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that chatGPT

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made a meltdown storyline

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based on pepsi?

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yes

crystal hollow
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.

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and it was awful

crystal hollow
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i

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huh

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JUST WHY

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like what was it

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OMG GUYS PEPSI RAN OUT SO THEY RAN TO THE PEPSI TRUCK AND WHILE THAT HAPPENED CORE OVERHEATED AND EXPLODED

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it felt so rushed

crystal hollow
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to make highly detailed and effective responses

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in seconds?

hexed torrent
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this was like in

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the earlier stages of generative AI

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like 2022

crystal hollow
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oh

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i mean

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fair enough

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the current lore is way better than pepsi making the core meltdown

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also

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was there someone actively sabotaging the facility

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or was it pre-planned

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while were on the topic of meltdowns

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lol

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So im just making random trivia at this point and idk lol?
(maybe) Fun fact:
Northwestern owned several cargo ships to transport radioactive materials between energy complexes and other supplies to other Northwestern establishments. There were 7 cargo ships carrying excessive amounts of radioactive cargo, when all of them suddenly sank between April 6th and April 11th, 1990. This was planned by Newman, as the insurance from these cargo ships were used primarily for personal use, and for facility maintenance. The ships were not even carrying Northwestern cargo, but rather shipping exports from a company which worked with Northwestern at the time, Magellan International Exporters LLC.

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The blame for radiation in the surrounding areas was pinned on Magellan International Exporters LLC, causing them to drop a lot of money and eventually running them bankrupt.

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Magellan International Exporters did not go out of business however, and in 1995 they played a major role in Newman's trial.

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i should call these concept fun facts-