Northwestern Energy Production Complex [Development Progress]

[crystal hollow]

but if you actually want it let me know

[hexed torrent]

tbh i'm tempted to do away with a closed playtest and have it be fully open

[burnt igloo]

i suggest sending those to stuff like dms

rather than here

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true

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at this point I’ll still do fun facts but I might make little hints and notes and tapes for people to slowly piece it together

eg:

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at this point some of them are not a fun fact...

like the dude who murdered his neighbor's dog

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Christian Darkwell wasn’t a bad guy

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im not saying he is

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he just went literally insane after the incident from the guilt

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the fact was not fun

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considering he COULD have saved Fremont

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So should I call em sad facts?

lol

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no idea

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But let’s be fair

Newman dying was pretty fun

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buh??

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biggest cheapskate to ever exist who blew up an entire reactor complex and killed hundreds gets imprisoned and poisoned

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why he do that tho

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Because he wanted money

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insurance fraud?

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So he blew up the reactor complex for insurance

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which company even has that much money..

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Northwestern Corp.

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dont they lose money

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David Newman was the CEO and would’ve gotten away with it if the COO, Grayson MacQuoid hadn’t ratted him out

[crystal hollow]

Why would they lose money if there’s no point in repairing it

[modest ridge]

they lost an entire facility??

[crystal hollow]

Newman wasn’t exactly the brightest man under the sun but the insurance coverage would be greater than the expenses of the explosion

Although the company WAS placed under investigation by the FBI for a while

Anyways back to making lore stuff

MISSING PERSON(s)

Name: Lewis Richwell
Age: 30
Date of birth: 07/04/1931
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Eyes: Gray
Hair: Black
Weight: 121.4 lbs
Height: 5’7
Wearing: Gray suit with blue tie
Other noticeable features: Round yellow wire glasses, left handed

LAST SEEN: 12/02/1961 at Northwestern Corporation Headquarters

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL AUTHORITIES

‘..dear god.’ - Norman McGowan

[clever kraken]

…

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Lore

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Ik

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I think I already posted what poor Richwell’s fate was

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Norman McGowan, Jeremiah McDowell, Lewis Richwell, Photo dated: 06/31/1961

try to figure out who's who lol

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Fun fact:

Norman McGowan intended for his son, Trevor McGowan to take over after Richwell's death. Trevor McGowan however died of overdose 1 week before his installment into office.

dear god

i just realized i'll have to somehow fit all of this into a lore doc

That or the discord could have a lore drop channel where i just randomly drop fun facts

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Fun fact:

Due to how close the MEC is to Lake Pepin and the fact that a majority of the facility is underground it's not uncommon for the facility to flood

Sometime in the late 1970s as the facility began operating the MHSA demanded that a sophisticated floodwater pumping system be installed in the lower levels of the facility and that the edges of the cave bordering Lake Pepin be reinforced

[frigid crater]

it would make sense to implement something like a slurry wall in this case

that is what St. Cloud Radiation Laboratory uses to secure the cavern walls from water seeping in from East Lake Tohopekaliga

[hexed torrent]

Not sure if i'm going to make it so the lobby opens out to a garden or just a walkway to the primary cavern

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anywhose

Fun fact:
Northwestern Corporation had a tourism/safety mascot from late 1977 to early 1988, and reintroduced in mid 1991 named "Adam The Atom" that saw a vast presence within the McDowell Energy Complex and travel ads funded by the Minnesota Office of Tourism

Adam The Atom was known for his household face in the Children of Innovation summer STEM camp program where children ages 7-14 engaged in various scientific activities and science lessons such as learning anatomy, aerodynamics testing and some advanced programs allowed older children to operate the Penrose Reactor in its Simulation Training mode

The mascot was silently phased out of future media following the Lake Pepin Disaster and was eventually completely discontinued in 1996 as now-CEO Grayson MacQuoid associated the mascot with the McDowell Energy Complex, which was now a site thousands of people died on

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Fun fact:

The explosion of the Penrose reactor made the entire area of western Minnesota, eastern Wisconsin, and most of western Ontario inhabitable for decades. It took a full 3 months to evacuate all the residents of those areas, and in that time an estimated 1,234 died of radiation, with approximately half of the population of those areas developing life threatening cancer later in life.

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In lore evacuation of such a scale would’ve been nearly impossible and the US and Canadian government instead opted to install giant radiation scrubbers in major urban areas and then force people in rural areas to move there

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Fun fact:

Gary Varrick was the final CEO of northwestern corporation. Infact, during the Lake Pepin disaster when the Penrose reactor blew up he was a resident of the city of Pepin and his father died due to the radiation. After Jason Newman’s death by stroke in 2037, Varrick became CEO. Varrick proceeded with the PIR 02 as proposed by Newman, and it ran stable for a long time until a thermal runaway blew it up in 2051, soon going bankrupt and having no choice but to shut down as a company in 2052.

on the moral compass he would be considered a True Neutral

[hexed torrent]

need to make a design for the security cameras within the complex

probably something similar to this

[crystal hollow]

maybe something like this?

or an even older design considering the complex was built in the 70s (cameras might have been updates idk)

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following the Underground War many security systems of the facility were upgraded and one of these upgrades involved better encryption on the facility's CCTV network

[crystal hollow]

hm

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while having scary rotational cameras like these would be cool asf i don't think it would fit the era

[crystal hollow]

pretty sure thats a 90s camera

or atleast we could make something based on that and call it '90s tech'

[hexed torrent]

those were rotational cameras that were used throughout the UK in the 1970s iirc

[crystal hollow]

oh

idk much about cameras

we could make a slightly less advanced version of this and stick it on the ceiling

[burnt hare]

It isn't a good camera if it cannot be used to replace a brick that fell out of the wall

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Fun fact:

The Newman National Laboratory in Los Trios, Mexico is where the PIR 02 was constructed. Construction finished in 2039 and the place blew up in 2051.

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The all seeing football sees you

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keycard reader thing

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Cmon let’s get the all seeing football to win

football my beloved

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Fun fact:

Northwestern Corporation was a major producer of low-moderate yield nuclear warheads for the Department of Defense in the Cold War

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Fun fact:

Heres a comparison of all the incidents in northwestern history

Mountain Home Incident (1968)
Casualties: 1,009
Explosion made it to surface: No
Radiation spread: Medium

Lake Pepin Disaster (1992)
Casualties: 1,745
Explosion made it to surface: Yes
Explosion surface radius: 4.2 miles
Radiation spread: Massive

Richwell National Lab Flood (2029)
Flood Casualties: 72 (primarily from being trampled)
Explosion Casualties: 176
Explosion made it to surface: No

Los Trios Explosion (2051)
Casualties: 1,438
Explosion made it to surface: Yes
Explosion surface radius: 3.7 miles
Radiation spread: Global

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no football

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Goodbye all seeing football

You will be missed

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The 3 horsemen of making a horrible, vile, and corrupt company

Jeremiah McDowell
David Newman
Jason Newman

The 2 guys who try to improve the company for the better

Norman McGowan
Grayson MacQuoid

The guy whose in the middle

Gary Varrick

or people who don’t wanna read the lore, here’s every CEO in a nutshell

anyways

Fun fact:

There were 7 primary departments of northwestern.

Administrative Department
Scientific Department
Engineering Department
Maintenance Department
Reactor Operations Department
Records Department
Department of Misinformation

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remodeled office chairs

[keen creek]

Nice!!

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sort of original lobby design with those portal 2 old aperture lights

that every single qserf style game uses

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ill probably try to make something like that but with much more detail and design changes

for those ball lights

these ones are just spheres and cylinders

[hexed torrent]

i need to code the keycard readers so i can make security only doors

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nah i like the chill lil vibe going here

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permanently borrowed from the local middle school

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'you want your chair back, kids?'
'fight the company for it.'

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Full northwestern timeline:
1946: Norman McGowan founds Northwestern Corporation
1956: Company gains Lewis Richwell and Jeremiah McDowell
1959: Company begins scientific research and gains investors.
1960: Lewis Richwell designs the Zero Point Confinement Reactor
1961: ZPCR and the Bruneau Energy Complex begins construction, Lewis Richwell is murdered by Jeremiah McDowell for money
1964: ZPCR finishes construction and begins commercial operation, McGowan dies of complications from WW2 injuries, McDowell becomes CEO
1968: The ZPCR begins a thermal runaway after a certain schizophrenic man believes its stalling instead of overheating and the reactor explodes, although luckily the explosion was contained within the facility via multiple blast door mechanisms.
1972: The McDowell complex is designed.
1976: The McDowell energy complex begins construction.
1979: The McDowell energy complex finishes construction, McDowell is murdered by Callista Richwell for revenge, David Newman becomes CEO.
nothing happens till
1990: The penrose reactor almost melts down due to a thermal runaway.
1992: The penrose reactor suffers its 2nd meltdown and explodes in a 4 mile explosion.
1997: Newman is imprisoned and MacQuoid becomes CEO.
2024: MacQuoid permits bioresearch.

2027: Northwestern builds the Richwell National Laboratory to research and produce biofuel, which skyrockets the company stock.
2029: The Richwell National Laboratory suffers a power failure and biofuel spills everywhere, flooding most of the facility and trapping the survivors. Eventually MacQuoid dies of natural causes and Jason Newman becomes CEO. He then ignites the biofuel in RNL and destroys the facility and its survivors.
2031: Jason Newman collaborates with scientists and researchers to design the PIR 02. (penrose reactor 02)
2035: Jason Newman intends to begin the construction of the facility in southern Texas, but it is cancelled due to the large amount of asbestos used in the facility.
2037: Jason Newman dies of a stroke and Chief Energy Officer, Gary Varrick steps up to the position of CEO.
2038: Gary Varrick redesigns and resubmits the design of the PIR 02 and it's facility, the Newman Research Complex. It passes and is constructed in Los Trios, Mexico.
nothing happens again till
2051: The PIR 02 suffers a meltdown due to a sudden coolant pump failure during a high power order. It explodes in a 3.7 mile explosion and the radiation is global.
2052: After the PIR 02's explosion, Northwestern ends up bankrupt and officially shuts down for good.

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trees in extremely dark cave

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"you're here because we want the best, and you're it
now who's ready to make some energy complex"
-David Newman, 1982

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"Lads, I know you might be in shock, and you have every right to be. What you're staring at right now, is the future." - Grayson MacQuoid, 1991

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this goes hard

its also crazy to think that we went from a basic control room set in the 2000s to this

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in the span of a few weeks

[crystal hollow]

correction: months

we started at a random control room

which then became the bruneau complex

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yeah i was about to say that

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which then evolved into this

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it doesnt feel like months tho

time is going too fast

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ikr

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i swear it felt like it was early may about 2 weeks ago

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I first commented on the project at the start of April

When it was still the Bruneau energy complex

[green dock]

You should add inaccesible doors for detail, i do this sometimes in my game and it just makes EVERYTHING look more complex

Sorry for mobile pics, it was late at night and im not booting my whole pc just to take some qserf screenshots

[hexed torrent]

i do definitely plan to add those kinds of doors

just haven't been able to really get to an area that needs them with the current level of detail the place has

the MEC is a very sizable facility (likely not as big as QSERF but probably close to its size with the current plan i have) with various planned static structures and whatnot

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and at the same time i plan for there to be essentially something to do in every sector

Sector C has the Ramiel-Type Antiplasma Collider
Sector D would have generators and the ability to switch grids
Sector B would have the Museum of Innovation (giant museum which highlights the advancements of science)
Sector A would have Topside Dormatories (Claimable rooms that players can furnish with purchasable items)
Entrance Zone would have the hydroelectric dam

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Topside Dorms sound DOPE

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ikr

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Would essentially be a series of circular holes in the ground that would have the sides filled with dorm rooms

And the bottoms of the holes would have nice pretty little parks and playgrounds

I'm also considering the addition of emergency escape elevators that would go directly to the surface being scattered around the facility

[green dock]

Like glorified escape routes?

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Kinda

But they'd be undermaintained and as such have high chances of malfunctioning or even entering a freefall mid transit

I intend for them to be like absolute last resorts

As in you don't have enough time to wait for the Obrysum Diagonal lift to cycle before someone closes the seal and the lift crushes you

Or you don't have enough time to get to a blast shelter before S3P activates

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What should be great is having one for each sector (not sector a cuz its mainly topside) like imagine escape route bravo, escape route Alpha, escape ro.....etc

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If your on the lift after the seal closes and your not at the other side of the seal you’re screwed

Cause unlike QSERF the seal CAN infact close when the elevator is still on the other side

And if it does it’ll malfunction and go speeding down the rail like the diagonal elevator failure in QSERF till it crashes into the seal and obliterates itself

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Another great idea is that maybe raiders can infiltrate C4 in the elevators mechanisms for no one to leave

In case of warhead or meltdown

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I mean it isn’t horrible but

idk

It’s up to NWO at the end of the day

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Right

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I mean in lore Raiders want to expose the illegal doings of the Newman Administration, expose the absolute flaws of the Penrose Reactor and 'permanently decommission' the McDowell Energy Complex but don't want to harm the employees there

Northwestern Corporation in the timeframe MEC92 takes place is a very corrupt and morally concerning companty

They've done things from pushing local power companies to bankruptcy to push their sphere of economic influence to killing journalists who pushed negative press about Northwestern's wrongdoing

Although a majority of the sheer luck that went into Northwestern's absolute growth was the reason that they were a major producer of nuclear warheads for the Department of Defense

When the USSR collapsed and the cold war ended the economy of the Western Hemisphere went into a downward spiral as during the Cold War the military industrial complex went into overdrive

Without a common enemy there was no need for such a powerful military-centralized economy

The dollar literally plummetted 20 times below its value and the US had entered a state of anarchocapitalism by the time the events of MEC92 begin

When the Lake Pepin Disaster occurred Northwestern literally lost its entire economic influence over the Northern US and essentially the entire population of Canada

To put this into perspective the worse Northwestern was doing, the better the rest of America was

Under MacQuoid (who had very good intentions and wanted to revitalize Northwestern) the company eventually began prospering and helped boost the economy, but helped too much to the point the company became a vital backbone of the economy

And when the Richwell National Laboratory was destroyed in 2029 they lost their economic influence again and it ended with the United States entering a pseudo-civil war with the former government having been overthrown and the federal system of government having been completely established and loyalists to the federal system of government

This ended with Northwestern being completely barred from operating in the US, their headquarters being repossesed (and eventually demolished) and most of their US assets frozen or dissolved

Around the time Los Trios would be happening Northwestern's headquarters was moved to Calgary and their operations being revitalized to operate across the entire world

And then Los Trios blew up and that was the final nail in the coffin, company gets dissolved in the 2050s

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@hexed torrentcan i help with the development?

i dont want any pay or anything

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The game has a really unique art style

it doesn’t need blender and stuff to look good

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i dont know to much blender stuff anyway

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@hexed torrent im back

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turns out we already have a new composer

👍

[rugged lance]

what?

who

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@pallid path is our composer

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bruh thats me

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he had to rejoin so hes unverified

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wait what

oh

im stupid

uh

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💀

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welcome back

[rugged lance]

@hexed torrent send me discord invite

[spare flare]

if the game has a discord id like it too

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link DMed

[modest ridge]

me too please

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me three

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Me four

[tiny pendant]

Me five

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please congratulate @frigid crater for receiving the rank of Head Scripter for MEC development

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@frigid crater congratulations

again

[frigid crater]

thank you!

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‘It’s for science they said. It’s going to help the company they said…’

‘But manslaughter won’t help anything.’ - Grayson MacQuoid

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Fun fact:

The penrose reactor runs off of anti-plasma, a fictional version of plasma that will absorb the energy out of it's own particles, basically the billions of anti-plasma particles fighting for survival in a free for all match. It's highly reactive due to the massive energy generated by certain plasma particles, but it's also very unstable and requires significant containment and cooling systems to make sure it doesn't get too out of hand. On the other hand though, it's highly reactive meaning it's just the right kind of thing to catalyze a chain reaction. In this case, a fusion one. It was discovered when a plasma generator broke down in 1967, causing the plasma to be moving and spinning at insanely high speeds while the machine was barely moving at all, very slowly. This caused the plasma particles to fight for survival, absorbing eachother's energy, which formed the basic concept of anti-plasma. It can be produced on a much larger scale if you basically do the exact same thing, but 500x bigger, and much faster plasma, and much slower machinery.

basically you want the plasma to produce then make the machinery real slow so its still moving and producing plasma instead of killing the entire reaction, but slow enough that it doesnt effectively stabilize the plasma, thus it must rely on absorbing the energy of other plasma particles.

This does leave behind a lot of inactive plasma particles however, which normally disintegrate due to a lack of energy to sustain themselves within seconds of their energy being absorbed by other anti-plasma particles.

my fingers kinda hurt

but thats the lore grind

[green dock]

Hello everyone could someone pass me the discord server invitation to MEC development?

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I already did

[green dock]

Sorry, the notifications didnt pop up guess there was a bug or some

But tysm

[rugged lance]

unfortunate that we cant post invite link

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Fun fact:

To get around quickly, the MEC has the ‘Global Transit Roadway’ where there is one big road that loops around the MEC with buses going around the road to pick people up at bus stops and carry them around the facility. It was added to the facility in 1983 as a cost efficient way to help people get around the massive facility instead of walking.

AKA: I wanted trams but then I wanted something more unique so now I want a big road going around the MEC with buses

Basically it’s one big parking garage lol

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Fun fact:

The entirety of the Vocal Communicatory Announcement System, Master System and Auto-Manager's data is 785 megabytes

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Fun fact:

For around 6.25 seconds the Project Stardust team (responsible for operation of the Etheric Multiparticle Transmaterializer) made contact with what is believed to be a Type V carbon-based civilization with an armed force composed of extremely technologically modified humans that spoke English, referring to itself as the Unistate on May 27th, 1989. Connection to this civilization was immediately terminated after 6 lifeforms entered the containment chamber and began opening fire on hazmat suited scientists and engaged in a 45 minute standoff against the Special Response Division of the Department of Security before being swiftly terminated with an anti-tank launcher weapon

An attempt to establish the first intergalactic diplomacy which would've involved multiple ambassadors from the United Nations was expected to take place on the 30th of June, 1992, despite multiple scientists citing the severe implications that would certainly follow if they established communications with them again

Had the Lake Pepin Disaster not occurred this experiment could have likely ended with the imprisonment of a majority of humanity

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When NWO wants to make a combine parody:

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Fun fact:

Inside of the fuel cells, there is a rotating wheel with multiple short arms that circulate the Anti-Plasma and keep it all stabilized, so that it doesn’t react while in the canister. As soon as it gets injected into the reactor, the anti plasma particles can start to react with each other and absorb each other’s energy.

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current look on keycards

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Fun fact:

The EMT ran across multiple alternate timelines and one of the relics brought back was a keycard that read ‘Dr. Helene Kaiser’. It mysteriously disappeared 10 minutes after its recovery.

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Project leads had displayed intentions to retrieve a new keycard by sending 2 people in on December 8th, 1990 but upon the release and activation of a Temporal Disruption Monitoring Unit showed the area the keycard had came from had suddenly garnered deadly enough radiation that the volunteers would’ve died within 50 seconds time

The test was indefinitely postponed and all records pertaining to the reality were confiscated by the Department of Misinformation

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'We were a company with so many wrongdoings, and we tried to finally... FINALLY.. make it right."

"But it didn't work. It never works."

• Gary Varrick, 2051

(for some reason i felt like making some dialogue go hard today)

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Fun fact:

Before the Lake Pepin Disaster 5 more Penrose Reactor units were planned to be constructed, three of which would've been operated by companies with close ties to Northwestern Corporation

PIR-01A would've been delivered to the Padre Energy Complex on South Padre Island in Texas, which never saw completion because of Northwestern entering bankruptcy
PIR-01B would've been delivered to a yet to be named facility that had'nt been declassified, was never completed for the same reason
PIR-01C would've gone to Dominikom, a power company funded by the Russian government which would've powered a majority of Western Russia
PIR-01D would've gone to the Tsukasa Power Company and would've provided power to the entire population situated on Honshu Island, the largest island in Japan
PIR-L1A (a low-power variant of the Penrose Reactor) would've gone to the Singaporean government to power the entire city-state

[keen creek]

not reading all of that

i am tires

ima go sleep

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emergency backup light

[green dock]

YEESSS

[modest ridge]

it is kinda empty

[crystal hollow]

You don’t know the full extent of the room here

[modest ridge]

yeah

i dont

[burnt hare]

Bro who locked the exit, not a funny prank

[crystal hollow]

Don’t worry, they’ve been fired. With gunfire.

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fucked up in the crib sippin

[modest ridge]

mm soda

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wip

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im in the photo

also

Fun fact:

The MEC had 2 transitionary seals. Sector C into the Reac Ops. Complex was called the Cygnus Transitionary Seal, and there was one from Sector B into Sector C called the Clockwork Transitionary Seal.

[frigid crater]

the QSERF alpha inspiration is real

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Fun fact:
Several master-planned communities popped up within Lake City as construction of the McDowell Energy Complex neared completion. The city had seen its population double by the 1980 census from 2.6k to 5,200 and by the end of the 1980s the city had a population of 10,430

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The facility also boosted the city's diversity - roughly 1/4 of the city's population was composed of individuals from Germany, Japan and South Korea by 1992

[burnt hare]

I'd say five but the biggest option is three

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devteam hard at work, making something new...

also thank you kineo for scripting the door

very cool

[frigid crater]

yw

[frigid crater]

Coming to a Lake Pepin near you!

[modest mango]

that's sick af

[crystal hollow]

theres only one and in our universe it got pretty much evaporated from the explosion

[hexed torrent]

what a delighttful place to relax

[agile brook]

this is actually so sick

[crystal hollow]

development team at your service!

[burnt igloo]

really nice

[agile brook]

O word

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"What scared me the most is that after all that, the music kept playing. Over and over again, and it did'nt stop until we heard the screaming stop."
-Leonard Fuentes (Senior Reactor Operator), September 7, 1992

[modest ridge]

im guessing the lounge music?

[hexed torrent]

correct

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when did the accident happen (day wise)

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June 28th, 1992

[frigid crater]

definitely very creepy considering the song is an instrumental version of "I Say A Little Prayer"

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“Screams littered the halls as bodies fell like rain, alarms blaring and the entire facility beginning to cave in. We got in the helicopter and we flew away as fast as we could towards an auxiliary emergency station. While flying, we heard a screeching noise followed by a sudden pop noise, like a gunshot. We look behind us and the entire area is being engulfed in flames, an explosion so big and bright it lit up the night sky. Then came the shockwave. An awful shockwave, bursting eardrums, knocking us all off our feet, some falling out of the helicopter, disorientating the pilots. The helicopter behind us swayed too hard and was engulfed in the explosion. We got up and landed at the station, looking down ahead at the now burning forest, chunks of ground were flying in every direction. It was a horrible sight, but the thought of everyone who was still down there… it gives me shivers to this day.” - Security Commander Merrick Jobs, January 18th, 1993.

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“It’s mountain home all over again… why, oh why?” - Robert Clockworth, senior researcher, June 29th, 1992

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Fun fact:

The sheer size of the McDowell Energy Complex and the fact that nearly half of its employees lived within the facility's dormatories resulted in the complex gaining its own zip code

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Fun fact:

From 1981 to 1990 the McDowell Energy Complex had a phone line that connected directly to the Pentagon, to only be used in a situation where nuclear war, or any other disaster that would cause severe damage to power infastructure was imminent

The phone only rang once in its documented history, during the Able Archer 1983 exercise with belief that the Soviet Union was legitamately planning to begin nuclear bombing runs on European cities, urging the facility to immediately prepare its grids and personnel for a potential nuclear conflict. Employees of the facility did not know the true reasoning of this procedure until 2017, as beforehand it was labeled as a "unscheduled severe snowstorm readiness plan relay"

It was sensical to the employees as a few weeks later blizzards made their run on the midwest

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Fun fact: The Los Trios Explosion in 2051 that ended up sealing northwestern's fate occured on January 14th, 2051. It was considered MUCH, MUCH, MUCH worse than the original PIR (Penrose)'s detonation, as though the explosion was smaller on the surface, radiation spread globally, causing all of Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, and most of northern Mexico to be entirely evacuated from the horrific radiation spread. It wasn't like 1992, they didn't have time to set up radiation shields in urban cities. They had to simply evacuate every American/Mexican state within unsafe distance from the facility. Years after the incident, global cancer rates skyrocketed as an aftermath of the radiation spread around the globe.

In 2051, an approximated 6,732 civilians ended up dying of acute radiation syndrome.

It was by far, the worst nuclear disaster in the planet's history.

It's aftermath made the aftermath of the Lake Pepin Disaster and the Mountain Home Incident look like nothing in comparison.

[hexed torrent]

fixed the diagonal support beams

[modest mango]

the blue lights look sick af

it's eerie but also inviting at the same time

[frigid crater]

mhm

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"It was so sudden. We were in bed, laying down, sleeping, resting, when all of a sudden we hear a loud 'BOOM'! We get knocked out of our beds by the huge shockwave, swept off our feet, a bright, blinding light shining through our windows and when we went outside to investigate, we were horrified to see a plume of black smoke rise in the distance, as we all slowly began to piece together what had happened.." - random citizen, 1992

[hexed torrent]

I ask, and you receive…

[winged thorn]

what does the Penrose reactor look like?

what I would like is a picture if you have one

[crystal hollow]

Just scroll up a bunch

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Fun Fact:
Immediately after the McDowell Energy Complex exploded an estimated 148 million people lost power to their homes, making it the 4th biggest power outage in history

It took 3 1/2 months for the Northern US/Southern Canada power grid to recover, leaving many people to the elements of summer heatwaves for weeks or even months on end

As an upside water parks saw an all time high visitor count in 5 years

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:

The cause of the los trios explosion was caused by a man named James Michael, who starting in 2050 began having mental episodes where he would hallucinate about things like the mountain home incident, lake Pepin disaster, or something called the centurion initiative. It drove him deeper into insanity, to the point where he eventually committed suicide in a coolant tank, making the coolant ineffective and causing it to explode during high temperature operations

then there’s the mountain home incident which was schizo meltdown gone wrong

(The lore took a dark turn real quickly)

[hexed torrent]

ring ring

1992 called

wait what happened in minnesota

holy shit

[crystal hollow]

It’s the first of many

many

more disasters to come

financially primarily

[hexed torrent]

QSERF-styled location markers for Purge System keys, meltdown escape routes etc

[modest mango]

Neat

[hexed torrent]

Fun fact:

The Reactor Ops. Supervisor Kenneth Hickman called in sick with a migraine on the day the Lake Pepin Disaster occurred
Had he arrived at work that day, he could have very likely died

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:

Senior reactor operator Leonard Fuentes survived via the Charlie Blast Shelter, but was unlucky to get his arm mangled by a malfunctioning door, leading to it being amputated afterwards.

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:

On December 16th, 1994, Christian Darkwell escaped from his mental asylum, and began to investigate into northwestern. He knew how insane he had become, and he thought if he learned how it all happened he could finally rest. But the further he got into northwestern, the worse his insanity got. He eventually found out what had happened, and eventually brought what evidence he had to the government. Still in a clear state of mental insanity, he was put back into an asylum while his evidence was the final nail in the coffin for Newman.

[hexed torrent]

Current control room if you haven't seen it

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:

Northwestern’s first ever advanced reactor was the mark 1 impulse reactor, built in 1958 at the Endman Experimental Site owned and operated by northwestern. The reactor was designed mostly by a man named John Dollings, with finishing touches implemented by Lewis Richwell. It worked by compressing an aluminum core with a magnetic outer core to the point where it was a semi-black hole. Basically the matter was still there, but a ring and accretion disk formed around the barely even existing anymore core which is where the singularity normally would be. This shoots off multiple positrons via ‘impulses’ due to how unstable it is, those positrons being absorbed to create mass energy. It was decommissioned in 1962 because it was too unstable, but however another 2 impulse reactors ended up being constructed in 2030 and 2034 with some major design changes, being considered the pinnacle of manmade energy ever made until the reveal of the PIR (Penrose) 02 in 2047.

[hexed torrent]

“Holy shit.”
-Elizabeth Cornwall, 06/28/1992

[crystal hollow]

Wise words

[frigid crater]

2019 QSERF looking fire effects

[hexed torrent]

Cobbman Systems Model 100

[burnt hare]

I think it might be fine, maybe

[frigid crater]

Yeah

Nominal condition

[crystal hollow]

It’s supposed to explode

[crystal hollow]

missile would g ohard

ALL THE CORE GAMES REMOVED OUR BELOVED MISSILE

WE DESERVE TO GET IT BACK

[burnt igloo]

to be fair, the model of the warhead would probably be based on the time period your game sets in if you want to keep things in theme but a primative nuclear bomb is really awesome lmfao

[hexed torrent]

Northwestern used to produce their own nuclear warheads and revised variants of already existing warheads at a higher yield for the United States nuclear arsenal (which is how it managed to get most of its funding after the Mountain Home Incident)

If i could put this to a sensical take (and also what i originally planned to do) i would've done a heavily modified version of a suspended W53 warhead with various wires spanning its casing and around the chamber, alongside with various technological additions and protrusions

A standard W53 had an explosive yield of around 9 megatons which would've been enough to destroy the entirety of the bottomside of the facility without the Obrysum Seal and Cygnus vault door

The Cautus Warhead's reaction is enhanced with some unknown liquid which enhances its explosive yied from 9 to 14.2 mt which would've allowed it to bypass the maintenance seal under it, regardless of its state and destroy the entirety of the bottomside area (once again, only stopped by the Obrysum Seal and Cygnus door)

The warhead's lore could've very likely been that the warhead was used as a basis to produce more advanced bombs

[crystal hollow]

what if we just did a tsar bomba replica

(im joking but seriously the missile idea is my favorite)

[crystal hollow]

Sea knight would go hard

honestly

ACTUALLY THOUGH

The black hawk needs more attention

so on second thought I’m voting black hawk

[lethal prawn]

wait i have an idea
If the reactor containment vessel catches on fire during the meltdown, what if there were fire helicopters that would drop water/fire retardant on top of it

[hexed torrent]

we would have to model an entrance for those helicopters to come from

unless you're talking about the upper containment dome

[lethal prawn]

Yeah

[hexed torrent]

really quick decision to settle a developer argument, which lighting looks better

[frigid crater]

Photo on the left: Old lighting
Photo on the right: New lighting

additional angles:

[pure fern]

@hexed torrent Check your dms

[hexed torrent]

new calendar board

[hexed torrent]

We're adding some extra details...

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"Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly introduce to you the energy for tommorow... today."
-David Newman, 11/30/1982

[hexed torrent]

Northwestern Corporation reminds you to never leave uncleaned messes unattended.

[hexed torrent]

redid upper control panel

[hexed torrent]

insane glowup

[unborn fulcrum]

that looks nice

[unborn fulcrum]

dang, that's nice

[crystal hollow]

PARTICLE INCINERATORY REACTOR 01 MANUAL

Grid Control

The facility runs off of 3 grids. The first one is Grid Unit 01, which powers the facility from the Penrose itself. The second one is Grid Unit 02, which is the external grid that supplies power to the areas surrounding the facility. The Backup Grid Unit is to be used during maintenance or when the reactor is off due to other reasons.

science nerds feel free to correct me

The original plan was a singularity but because the meltdown will now cause a neutron star I wanted this to make sense instead of a back and forth between black holes and neutron stars

[hexed torrent]

i spent 1 1/2 days trying to find an obnoxious alarm that was set to playing so that’s why there hasn’t been any major development today

combined with the fact i’ve been feeling like shit

[hexed torrent]

introducing the prototype 04 PIR

includes mixed designs from both the prototype 03 and prototype 02 PIR

[frigid crater]

best looking model so far

[modest mango]

ngl that's sick

[burnt hare]

This looks like the most illegal basket ball you can own, I love it

[hexed torrent]

finalized

[modest mango]

that looks really good, but also does look like a soccer ball of death ngl

[crystal hollow]

when the soccer ball catches on fire:

[modest mango]

FR

[crystal hollow]

k disregard this lore ive decided against it

[hexed torrent]

tape drives

if you're wondering why the control room is different the devteam made the decision to redo the map from the ground up

[frigid crater]

NEPCv2

[modest ridge]

i really like how there are seperate holes for the indicators instead of one huge hole

[hexed torrent]

day 1 of nepc v2 was good

[hexed torrent]

Fun Fact:

From 1979 to 1981 Northwestern Corporation ran several high-secrecy programs that involved mass genetic duplication of humans into a mass-scale cloning program, with intentions to run a simulated modern civilization complete with economy, job occupations and educational programs.

The project was discontinued after several tests revealed horrid mutations and genetic defects that began to develop when mass-cloning began, creating sentient hostile amagalations that killed numerous scientists.

The various containment spheres the clones were put in were sealed afterwards and vitrified and the remaining usable space was converted for the Reactor Operations Complex

[crystal hollow]

These monstrosities were all destroyed in the lake Pepin disaster, but in the 1990s and 2040s when the complex was being explored and salvaged for investigation purposes or materials for Los trios, people report hearing non human screeches and screams from deep within the facility, especially when near the destroyed reactor operations complex.

[frigid crater]

why would they salvage anything from the facility, i don’t think it’s of any use

[crystal hollow]

Sectors B and A sustained minimal damage in some areas

[frigid crater]

yeah but the facility would have been decades old

what is the value of it

[crystal hollow]

Steel n’ stuff ig

[hexed torrent]

redoing elevators

[crystal hollow]

Remember folks, get access to much more dev leaks and conversations relating to the game in the Northwestern Corporation discord server, the link to which can be gained by DMing any of our current developers!

[crystal hollow]

“You… YOU… YOU MORONS! HOW COULD YOU! I TOLD YOU! THE EXPLOSION WENT 4 BLOODY MILES! YOU JUST CAUSED THE NUCLEAR DISASTER OF THE CENTURY JUST FOR A LITTLE MONEY? I CAN’T BELIEVE I WORK WITH YOU IDIOTS! I… I… I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU ALL!” - Grayson MacQuoid, June 29th, 1992

[dawn knot]

Cruising to the reactor control room in the spongebob bus ?

[crystal hollow]

making my way downtown

[winter leaf]

light wood laminate

[tiny pendant]

What ever it was before

[hexed torrent]

linoleum tile flooring

[crystal hollow]

I’m personally for hardwood

[crystal hollow]

so hardwood?

or vinyl)

I have 0 idea what light wood laminate is

[hexed torrent]

Short snippet of Reactor Operations Training Video
Likely recorded October-November 1991, recovered February 2028

[split swallow]

thats my bday, oct 17th

[modest mango]

neat

[plain osprey]

I
Love
It

[crystal hollow]

this would imply that the doll has been there since 1991

I love it

[split swallow]

do you have a gane link?

[hexed torrent]

The game has'nt released yet so no

[split swallow]

oh thabks anyways

[crystal hollow]

Everybody welcome @pure fern to the Department of Furnishings as a scripter!

[hexed torrent]

out with the old, in with the new

[hexed torrent]

remade fire alarms

[hexed torrent]

not sure if i wanna do a bg6 or bg10 pull station

[crystal hollow]

how about a compromise for BG8

in the middle

[hexed torrent]

new puters

[crystal hollow]

da emm ee see

[crystal hollow]

this pencil sharpener took me 20 minutes to make 😭

[hexed torrent]

glare of pure evil

he knows what he's doing

[crystal hollow]

(for clarification it isn’t good)

[tiny pendant]

as some one that loves fire alarm systems this is amazing

[hexed torrent]

"You're absolutely sure this place is still stable, Newman?"
-Grayson MacQuoid, 04/09/1990

[hexed torrent]

da new obrusym seal

[burnt hare]

Time to code a door

[hexed torrent]

new material + desaturated color]

[silk bane]

salad

[hexed torrent]

hinge added

[hexed torrent]

"Well, that seals it!"
-Unknown construction worker, three days before his death in a fatal machinery accident, 09/10/78

[modest mango]

The lore is so dark but so good, this is just astounding to me ngl.

[hexed torrent]

seal control room

[hexed torrent]

"They oughta be making sitcoms in this place... boredom's on level with this place..."
Unknown security officer, 06/14/92

[silk bane]

is that the carvnfrom qserf

[hexed torrent]

im pretty sure i styled it off of the last old aperture level in portal 2 where you have to use the gels to get to a button that opens a ceiling mounted transition seal

bottomside tartarus is based off of portal repercussions

[crystal hollow]

QSERF is just modified portal repercussions

[modest ridge]

not really

[hexed torrent]

qserf is a coarse mixture of numerous portal 2 mods

• probably black mesa

[crystal hollow]

Only black mesa (ish) place I can think of is the sublevel hallways

[hexed torrent]

i'd say some areas are probably based on real world photos

eg the reactor operations hall

[silk bane]

is thi qsuer

[hexed torrent]

do you want thi to be qsuer

[silk bane]

make qsuer

[hexed torrent]

i cant

copyright 💔

[hexed torrent]

inspo from that one computer in the sector c entrance in half life

[silk bane]

portal 2

[hexed torrent]

portal 2 is already a decent enough inspo for NEPC

[frigid crater]

[1] Incoming DMCA from: "source and portal 2"

[valid crow]

Do you guys have a discord server for this game? I would love to see it’s progress

[hexed torrent]

Yes we do! If you want I can send it to you

[vernal ermine]

Can you send It to me as well ?

[valid crow]

Yes, please send it to me

[twin nebula]

Could I also by chance get it too

[hexed torrent]

warhead timer thing

[hexed torrent]

type shit

[burnt igloo]

I absolutely am loving the soundscape of this

[hexed torrent]

by this point i just have to model the topside area and connect reactor ops complex with the rest of the facility, make pump fixture ishtar and the turbine hall/grid control area and then i’d essentially be done

[burnt igloo]

nice

[hexed torrent]

get the scripter to finish up the functionality of the PIR and we’d be ready for paid alpha release

not sure what i’m exactly going to do for the theta-6 labs yet, i planned to do something similar to the enrichment spheres in 1970s aperture

essentially having the lab be split into several modular buildings and testing sphere thingamabobs

[burnt igloo]

i suppose you can pull a move from my old project, St. rivera and make some reactor-based labs
though i may do the same with LC but with a diff approach

[hexed torrent]

i thought about doing something like that with the PHFR-X

before i eventually threw that idea out and went with plan B: cybernetic modification

[burnt igloo]

ah lol

[hexed torrent]

some stuff i had planned was the Speed Manipulator Band (speed coil), Gravity Manipulator Band (gravity coil) and something called the MK1 Warpdancer which i can only assume is supposed to be an in-universe version of cyberpunk’s sandevistans

there’s a lot more intricate sciencey stuff (human cloning, alternate dimension portals, i think a zombie virus of some sorts?) but they’d mostly fit within more secretive science

[burnt igloo]

ooh, i still remembered the old custom coil gadgets i made back in 2021 for SRNIC, then ant made theirs for CSAGC
they are gonna be pretty much just a redesign to the roblox coils yeah?

[hexed torrent]

yeah, they’d retain the coil except it would be like around a sleeve and it would be more square-shaped to accommodate the blocky bodies of roblox

[burnt igloo]

also regarding zombie virus, its a okayish idea but i advise maybe look for alternative, perhaps a parasite or smthing
NOT cuz its bad or anything, its to avoid the niche, a common trope regarding zombies

existing parasites irl can be a good source if you ever get into those zombie stuff, especially parasites seen in the oceans or insects

though that is just pointing out, okay idea but there may be some that find that overused yknow?

[hexed torrent]

something similar to the siberian permafrost thing might be really cool to do

[burnt igloo]

if so then that can work well

rather than generic genetically modified virus thing lol

[hexed torrent]

i think i had an idea somewhere for a parasite that’d eat away the blood vessels, muscle tissue and what not to get to the calcium in your bones

which would in usual cases leave someone paralyzed

[burnt igloo]

that can also work very well

[hexed torrent]

kinda digging up old lore and i forgot i had an in-world somewhat equivalent to the g-man

not really in the manner that they’d just eerily stand around and watch an orchestated disaster, rather just gaslight people to get stuff out of them

they aren’t exactly from the universe that northwestern’s in

then again northwestern’s really detached from most universes, i’m pretty sure only like 1 other company exists in the lore

[burnt igloo]

ah

[hexed torrent]

there’s some satrical implications of quantum science and innovation in the game but they aren’t exactly canon to NEPC either so

[crystal hollow]

“Whether you loved him or not, he truly did deserve it. I’m sorry for your loss, but not for his.”

• Grayson MacQuoid to Newman’s sons, Daniel and Jason Newman.

(mind you they didn’t know his death in prison was orchestrated by him)

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:

Grayson MacQuoid had a wife and 1 daughter. She went on to become an engineer in thermodynamics, while his wife worked at an office.

They were a loving family and their daughter wasn’t spoiled and grew up to be a very kind person, unlike Newman’s sons who were spoiled rotten and got whatever they wanted when they wanted, who grew up to become ungrateful jerks.

[crystal hollow]

yes

[crystal hollow]

Post died cause school is pounding all of our devs (me included)

[late pelican]

Is there a group for this?

is there is, can you give me link to it?

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:

Angelico Enterprises was founded on October 15th of 1968, only two days before the mountain home incident. In 1978 it became one of Northwestern’s closest competitors alongside ACL. In 1985 they created the Pyrochemical Heat Plant located in South Dakota, which heated up pyrochemicals to produce enough heat to boil enough steam to make insane amounts of energy, rivaling that of the Penrose reactor. However, in 1990 they tried to research nuclear energy to catch up to Northwestern as they began to fall behind, and they attempted to create an alternate fusion reactor that failed miserably and blew up half of the above-ground research building it was situated in.

The pyrochemical heat plant was decommissioned in 2002, but Angelico wasn’t. Angelico kept their head down with basic power plants like coal and hydroelectric, until the 2020s when their first successful nuclear power plants came out.

In the 2040s their entire business was blown out of the water with the PIR 02, and comfortably succeeded northwestern in 2052 alongside ACL when it shut down due to the Los Trios Explosion from only 1 year prior, which destroyed the PIR 02 in an explosion, the radiation fallout of which engulfing the entire globe.

[timber geyser]

someone get that one Skyrim waking up scene

https://tenor.com/view/skyrim-awake-discord-skyrim-intro-skyrim-intro-discord-gif-22633629

[crystal hollow]

Northwestern in a nutshell:

norman mcgowan assembles an idiot named Jeremiah McDowell and a nerd named Lewis Richwell and they make reactor but Richwell gets stabby-stabbed and McGowan gets backhand slapped by cancer and McDowell becomes leader and kills a couple guys for saying ‘your new reactor is too dangerous’ so they make the Penrose reactor anyways and then McDowell gets backhand slapped as well so David Newman becomes ceo and he low key evil so he sabotages the Penrose reactor for money but northwestern’s lord and savior Grayson MacQuoid gets him jailed and they do biofuel stuff till MacQuoid dies and Gary Varrick takes over and he makes a new reactor that also explodes

peak writing

[inland grail]

How am I only just finding this now? This looks amazing!

[fervent fog]

qserf but war

[vestal dock]

Damn its a huge cavern

[vestal dock]

And nice cool reactor

[foggy dagger]

DKR? how do you have that by your name?

[lament pumice]

older one has better layout

or at least doesnt melt together with the hundreds of qserf clone control rooms in my head

[crystal hollow]

This game’s development got roundhouse kicked by school

but we’re still trying to work on it

[crystal hollow]

[crystal hollow]

Yes we still exist

[spark willow]

Wow

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:

Los Trios PIR 02 reac ops director Adrian Petersson didn't bother running once the shutdown window expired, instead he stood at the window and awaited his death due to the explosion, as he A: thought it was his fault that this was happening, and B: knew that everyone in that control room had no hope of escaping the explosion

Everyone in the control room that day died, as the nearest blast shelter was undergoing maintenance and couldn't function.

[hexed torrent]

hi we are alive

somewhat

[dreamy pond]

is this just

pretty much a spin off

of qserf

from the pir to the seal to the meltdown to the lore

[hexed torrent]

maybe

[crystal hollow]

FROM THE PIR TO THE SEAL TO THE MELTDOWN TO THE LORE

WHERES MY CEO

THATS MY BLING

ALWAYS MELTDOWNS WHEN I RIIIING

[dreamy pond]

always DMR SUPERSTRUCTURE INTEGRITY DROPPING when i ring

or PIR

ehhh alr

[crystal hollow]

motivation hit us like a brick so we managed to make all this in the past 30 minutes or so

[modest ridge]

those decal safety rails lowkey scare me

[crystal hollow]

I promise we’ll get a better rail model sometime in the future 😭

[crystal hollow]

35

let’s go

[tiny pendant]

Maybe when the core melts down the fire alarm system can be activated?

[dawn knot]

[torpid laurel]

could i get a serv. inv by any chance? i'd love to see more progress :3

[hexed torrent]

"Fear not, the constant fog is simply just a byproduct of the air recirculation system! We take existing air from the caverns, use industrial grade disinfectant and air scrubbers, and once we're done we add a SMALL tinge of asbestos. Every man here should be fireproof by now!"
-David Newman, 07/12/1988

there is canonically an agreement that northwestern cannot be held responsible for any illnesses contracted in work environments

[crystal hollow]

I wonder why…

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:

In this universe, Northwestern invented the Universal Serial Bus (USB) in 1988.

[fervent fog]

F.B.M

[hexed torrent]

However, up until 1995 the USB was mainly known as the 'Newman Port', named after the CEO himself, David Newman citing "USB sounds long and stupid. People will forget what that's called so let's call them a Newman Port. Everybody loves Newman, right?"

[hexed torrent]

new fire bell

did not like the old one

[fervent fog]

make it a c4

[hexed torrent]

Wow!

[oak sparrow]

this is amazing work

[burnt hare]

Thank you for adding the clarification that it is indeed 4 studs 🙏

[quaint sage]

Its a lie! Its 4.00001 studs

[torpid laurel]

it's 4.00002 studs, actually...

[quaint sage]

Damn it, I knew I might have accidentally moved my measuring tape by 0.00001 studs

[torpid laurel]

you sure did

[crystal hollow]

That feeling when 4 studs

[crystal hollow]

you’re so lucky

mine was moved by 0.00003 studs

now my entire room that I built is 0.00003 studs off

[torpid laurel]

rip

[quaint sage]

Yeah 0.00001 you can sometiems ignore but 0.00003 is way too noticable

[hexed torrent]

you were ALL WRONG

IT WAS 4.00005

[hexed torrent]

hoping to get some genuine work done on the game once the paid alpha's out

get ready to see a lot more derelict and decrepit parts of the place

[quaint sage]

HOW DID WE MISS THIS! 4.00005 is so much more than 4.00002 that it should have been so easy to notice, damn it

[elder flame]

This actually balls

[elder flame]

Sir I applaude you, this is balling rn.

[crystal hollow]

What is this from

[hexed torrent]

so close ..

[hexed torrent]

miracle

[crystal hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/kang-the-conqueror-kang-variants-many-kangs-multiple-kangs-kangs-cheering-gif-13082239200333412930

[hexed torrent]

potentiality to go for 50

[crystal hollow]

we didn’t die

trust

[rugged lance]

Trust
-northestern corporation social media manager
(Follow us on twitter)

[frigid crater]

very much alive

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:

Newman calls interns the ‘Department of the Uneducated’. Mind you, Newman did NOT care how much he was offending anyone. And if anyone spoke up about it, they either worked dayshift and night shift for the rest of the week or disappeared off the face of the Earth.

[peak rover]

Peasants of the corporation

[hexed torrent]

Fun Fact:

Roughly 30% of the used space in the McDowell Energy Complex has been abandoned, vitrified or cordoned off for demolition

Some parts of the facility have been left untouched since the mid 1970s, mainly due to the slow introduction of the Automated Testing Complex (ATC)

[hexed torrent]

big

[hexed torrent]

Outer chunk of the Automated Testing Complex

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact: Not even Newman knew what the majority of the ATC was used for, as it was almost entirely designed by McDowell for a purpose no one except for him knew.

[rugged lance]

MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW THE TWITTER ACCOUNT!!!!

or x

or whatever tf u call it

[hexed torrent]

"It was stunning... the marvels of engineering and architecture from every nook and cranny of the Western world, tens of billions of dollars poured into an almost non-Euclidean cave network. Some say it shouldn't have been possible, I said it shouldn't have been possible, Carter, Nixon, Reagan... McGowan said otherwise..."
-Albert Heuermann, 06/29/1992

[white willow]

L

I mean h

[modest ridge]

if only one person knows about the automated zone how do maintenance stuff happen

by robots n such?

@crystal hollow

[hexed torrent]

yeah

maintenance robots

[crystal hollow]

automation is automation

The MEC used maintenance robots for some areas, while the LTEC had almost fully automated maintenance

[crystal hollow]

Cars used by the MEC (as in security/maintenance/civilian transport):

1981 Campbell Blackbuck (Sedan)
1985 Crosshair Bronzestar (SUV)
1981 Campbell Crest (Pickup truck)
Retired KSC Tourist Buses

(in universe, campbell is chevrolet and ford violently mashed together, and crosshair is just porsche if it was affordable with a small sprinkle of lincoln and toyota)

[hexed torrent]

IF YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE A CALL PLEASE HANG UP AND TRY AGAIN 🗣️ 🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️

[torpid laurel]

i love calling my relatives with the p h o n e

[dawn knot]

Someone will call OSHA and snitch all the safety hazards around the facility 🗣

[crystal hollow]

The number for OSHA actually just calls security to your location

[dawn knot]

Very smart.

[hexed torrent]

Newman Phones™ are specifically designed to explode and kill its user if they attempt to report any violations to OSHA

[dawn knot]

Thats what im talking about 🔥

[hexed torrent]

can we hit it

[oak sparrow]

yes

[hexed torrent]

yayaya

[torpid laurel]

its 50 now

(am i late)

[azure light]

51 now

[hexed torrent]

Fun Fact:
The first Northwestern game would've originally been its predecessor facility, the Bruneau Energy Complex set in 1968

[crystal hollow]

The BEC will now be the successor flagship game to the MEC.

[crystal hollow]

As you could probably tell, school kinda made development hit a roadblock.

We’re actively still trying to develop the game, albeit very slowly however.

[cyan imp]

Very cool @hexed torrent @crystal hollow

[cyan imp]

@hexed torrent

[fresh igloo]

reminds me of that mike klubnika game called Tartaus Engine

[hexed torrent]

MEC topside main facility access lifts

[cyan imp]

is there any other lore for it? like a google doc @hexed torrent

[cyan imp]

@hexed torrent please can i have it tpp

[cyan imp]

@hexed torrent

[dawn knot]

🗣🗣🗣

[hexed torrent]

the surface

you can also see the PIR's chamber ventilation dome from here

[hexed torrent]

what a place to relax

[hexed torrent]

Wow!

[crystal hollow]

shame that it’s all rubble now

[cyan imp]

why do you never respond vro

[hexed torrent]

because you ping me 3-4 times 💔💔

[cyan imp]

yeah but i ask you stuff and you just dont respond

@hexed torrent

[crystal hollow]

you already pinged him 3 times today

further proving his point

[spare flare]

is bro addicted

[hexed torrent]

change da world

my final message

goodby e

[hexed torrent]

we are back

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:

The Clockwork vault door, designed to withstand an internal blast from either side of it just like Cygnus, was instead put at a severe disadvantage in the event of a warhead detonation. The warhead was somewhat directly below the Clockwork vault door, and when it exploded, it was designed to get knocked off its hinges so that the warhead could destroy the entire facility.

[hexed torrent]

Fun fact:

Christian Darkwell intended to stop working for Northwestern Corporation after making the MK1 Warpdancer in 1988. However after several financial hardships and nearly ending up homeless was forced to rejoin the company in 1989, and Newman forced him to sign a contract which basically binded him to the company until he turned 60

[crystal hollow]

Mind you, he was only 32 in 1992.

[glossy tide]

this looks sick

[hexed torrent]

60 likes

amazing

[quartz pelican]

Me when no new leaks/images for McDowell Energy Complex, 1992 😭

Nah but this is the only thread I regularly look at. Nice work!

[hexed torrent]

keeping the thread alive, work's been slow

[glossy tide]

https://tenor.com/view/poop-convention-con-meme-rdr2-gif-18039556

[hexed torrent]

No

[oak sparrow]

osha violations my beloved

[crystal hollow]

Christian Darkwell lore is getting a rework

he’s no longer gonna go insane

just on a half PTSD, half rage-filled investigation on northwestern

[hexed torrent]

it's drink

[hexed torrent]

This is NEPC

[hexed torrent]

new blast doors !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"The fact that a majority of the underground portions of the facility need portable radiation scrubbers mounted on the walls tells me this place absolutely had some bribing work done for its Nuclear Safety Excellence awards..."

• Unnamed OSHA inspector, 01/14/1992

[oak sparrow]

wha do ya mean bribing, i mean it was only 5k

[cyan imp]

Can I have one too

[crystal hollow]

cough cough 500k cough cough

[wet sky]

what about asbestos

[wet sky]

hi

[crystal hollow]

saray you exist

no way

[wet sky]

yes

[crystal hollow]

the MEC beats out BWRF by asbestos levels

atleast in the reac ops cavern

[wet sky]

in flak & snack (up coming cafeteria) we will serve asbestos filled burgers to our customers for 0.5 cornflakes

i dont like personnel safety

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:

David Newman didn’t want to spend money replacing all the asbestos used in facility construction, so he painted over all the asbestos and tried to hide it from OSHA and other government agencies. All asbestos-related health issues were reported as either coincidence or some other health issue.

[oak sparrow]

ah yes the classic blame it coincidence

"i promise our workers are just getting asbestosis as coincidence"

[wet sky]

easton is typing a whole paragraph

Hi

[crystal hollow]

David Newman wasn’t the brightest person on the planet but he sure knew how to dodge responsibility

😭

[crystal hollow]

Lorem ipsum sit ador amet

[wet sky]

wow,,,

[crystal hollow]

a David Newman™️ excuse

[wet sky]

https://tenor.com/view/cs2-dance-gif-3888132965078281477

WOW

okay

[oak sparrow]

"psssst, hey kid do you wanna get paid $9 and hour and inhale asbestos 12 hours a day? i promise you'll get to see a cool reactor in the tour"

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Northwestern Energy Production Complex [Development Progress]

[oak sparrow]

[remote ravine]

radioactive particles in my lungs 🥰🥰🥰

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remaking outdoor warning sirens

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Fun Fact:

Just months before the activation of the Penrose Reactor approximately 234 early warning sirens were erected in the MEC's 30-mile wide Emergency Planning Zone, in tandem with the first fully automated television-radio-siren combined alerting system.

On June 28th, 1992 these sirens did not activate until mere minutes before the destruction of the MEC topside. Out of the 234 sirens installed only 80-90 sounded per result of large-scale power disruptions caused by severe wattage fluctuations during the Penrose Reactor's meltdown.

[oak pollen]

is there a link/

??

for this game?

[tiny pendant]

not out yet

[oak pollen]

😮‍💨

I Can't Wait For It To Be Out

[crystal hollow]

dawg what is this embed

[remote ravine]

American engineering at its finest

[cyan imp]

What is the Emergency Planning Zone

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A specified area defined by the radius of a nuclear power plant (in this case the McDowell Energy Complex) to facilitate evacuations in the event of a nuclear emergency

Most (if not all) nuclear power plants in the United States have Emergency Planning Zones

[opal dagger]

what does rhe reactor look like ahain

[crystal hollow]

This is the reactor

[opal dagger]

damn

[cyan imp]

Also what is FACRED because I saw it AGES ago

[cyan imp]

@crystal hollow do you know what facrred 9s

[crystal hollow]

facility readiness level

also known as redcon

basically just a danger level within the facility if I had to explain it in a short fashion

[remote ravine]

😍

[oak sparrow]

i read through like a third of this and i think i may have lost a few brain cells from the amount of lore i absorbed

[hexed torrent]

I’m pretty sure i switched to just calling it REDCON since i didn’t like FACRED

[restive mirage]

idea

add the

the aperture science innovators theme somewhere

[crystal hollow]

Would be a good Easter egg but I dunno

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact: Angelico Enterprises, a notable rival of Northwestern Corporation, filed for bankruptcy 3 times, but still managed to outlive Northwestern as a company, shutting down in the 2070s.

[brisk egret]

Indomitable corporation spirit

[stark vapor]

what the fuck

[hexed torrent]

no

[crystal hollow]

nuh uh

[hexed torrent]

CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wraith badger]

hell yeah

[crystal hollow]

motorized vehicle

[hazy pasture]

a vehicular!!1!

[hexed torrent]

new COF seal

[wraith badger]

peak

[hazy pasture]

🔥 🔥 🔥

[burnt igloo]

awesome :)

[hexed torrent]

TWO CARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wraith badger]

WOO

[hexed torrent]

state police

[burnt igloo]

good models, how long does it take for you to make these? (out of curiosity)

[hexed torrent]

usually about 3-4 hours if i feel good

on bad days it can take me upwards of like a day or two

i took these from a game i'm likely not going to complete so i basically just dressed them up and put them in NEPC

originally i intended for the dept of security to use gen 1 luminas and ford explorers

[wraith badger]

i thought those were 7th gen Impalas

[hexed torrent]

both the fourth gen caprice and seventh gen impala are built on the same body

literally the same car, the only difference being one was marketed as a sedan and the other as a performance car

[crystal hollow]

red state police

never seen that one before

[spark willow]

nice cats

[hexed torrent]

another car

i'm gonna make an suv next

idk if i wanna do a jeep cherokee or something like a chevy tahoe or ford explorer

[wraith badger]

peak omg

the lit up logo is so cool

[oak sparrow]

who parked their apc outside 💀

[crystal hollow]

“Folks, you can now feast your eyes on our beautiful topside building. And do wonder why I’m saying topside, cause the absolutely beautiful marble walls here aren’t even a fraction of what you’re going to see in this tour. Get ready, cause you’re about to see the experience of your lifetime.” - David Newman, 2/14/1991

[hexed torrent]

did'nt like the old lower obrysum cavern

[crystal hollow]

Fun Fact:

Angelico Enterprises, a close rival of northwestern, was known for the Delta-4 reactor unit, otherwise known as the Proton Fissionary Unit. The reactor had 3 consecutive partial meltdowns, with the third one destroying the reactor in a nuclear explosion. It never reached the surface however, and they managed to cover it up so the government never caught on.

[tiny pendant]

ltd crown victora when

[burnt igloo]

partial meltdown is i think a term you may be lookin for?

other than that, ooo

[hexed torrent]

keeping chat alive

[oak pollen]

hello

[crystal hollow]

hi

[crystal hollow]

accidentally spammed a few of them for a second lol

[crystal hollow]

Fun Fact:

Project Blackwater was a project led by freelance scientist Raymond Heath back in 1965 as a Northwestern funded project to invent a metallic alloy for heat optimization. After months of researching, a mercury-iron alloy was produced that was liquid and had an extremely low freezing point, but was so viscous it could be treated like a solid, and was almost 300x stronger than steel. It was used in the PIR 01 in the internal confinement to contain the heat and radioactivity of the reaction, but ended up partially melting and becoming liquid enough for radiation and heat to escape.

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Fun Fact:

There was an estimated 20-35 undercover US Marshals in the McDowell Energy Complex gathering evidence for a legal case against Northwestern Corporation on June 28th, 1992

Had the PIR not detonated it could've been one of the biggest sting operations of the 1990s

[hazy pasture]

damn

[crystal hollow]

PS: Only one survived the explosion, who then ‘mysteriously’ died in a car crash with the brakes cut 2 days later.

[faint pumice]

there was no nuclea rmeltdown incident at NEPC

what are you guys talking about!

[nova shoal]

idea

what if a bad storm was happening in minnesota at the time

and there's a possibility that a tornado warning can be issued

and that topside locks down just in case a tornado hits the building

[stark vapor]

your silly little decoder is gonna do its thing

[crystal hollow]

not a bad idea, but i dont think we're going to implement this

considering it might collide with other lore we have in place for the meltdown

[crystal hollow]

Fun Fact:
David Newman once tried to launch a Northwestern branded chocolate-caramel candy and sell it at the northwestern science museum at the topside to bring in more guests in 1987. Newman doesn’t exactly know how to make candy though, so the candy ended up being awful and a total failure.

[weak verge]

mmm forbidden chocolate,,,

[hazy pasture]

https://tenor.com/view/credit-card-smacking-credit-card-on-table-gif-21340324

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Something to note is that early on into the production of the candy a portion of the production line's ceiling collapsed and contaminated several chocolate bars with asbestos and other harmful carcinogenics
Northwestern Corporation was subsequently involved in a lawsuit with the Food and Drug Administration as a result

The Consumable Production Zone has been sealed off by a standard 10-foot cement wall and vitrified since the lawsuit

[spring tusk]

when can we play this 🙏🏻

this game looks super cool

[crystal hollow]

2064

/j

[spring tusk]

rahhh 😭

do you got a server

[crystal hollow]

we have no set release date but if development speeds up we might get a working playtest out by summer or fall of 2026

if I had to make an estimate

[spring tusk]

by next year ???

[hexed torrent]

it took them about 15-16 years to build the MEC (starting 1967, ending 1982)

[spring tusk]

this game gonna be world class or something lamo

[spring tusk]

damn

[hexed torrent]

expect NEPC by november of 2041

[spring tusk]

the people who run this place seem evil

[crystal hollow]

we have a winner

[hexed torrent]

it might seem crazy what im boutta say

[spring tusk]

fr

[spring tusk]

they seem like bad men

[spring tusk]

discord server i mean

[crystal hollow]

Yes

[crystal hollow]

are you

trying to make

a song reference

or are you collecting all the lore you can right now and getting ready to unleash paragraph upon paragraph

[spring tusk]

could you send link :3

[crystal hollow]

indeed

[hexed torrent]

yes

[crystal hollow]

Fun Fact:
June 29th, 1992 was a scheduled CoF inspection where all workers of the MEC would have the day off while safety inspections and site wide maintenance was performed. However, the date was pushed back to July 1st by Newman after the scheme for the PIR’s explosion was devised.

[faint pumice]

this game does not have enough radiation

we need more

[crystal hollow]

you heard them

MORE

RADS

[crystal hollow]

Fun fact:
David Newman HEAVILY revoked the budget of Northwestern’s security team, leading to them opting for Mac-10s as the standard issue security weapon. They were atleast given suppressors and allowed to fold out the stock.

[hexed torrent]

It was a common sight to see security guards carrying weapons they had purchased themselves or had taken from killed raiders.

Most of their higher-end vehicular equipment included stockpiles of APCs intended for use in the Vietnam War and a potential invasion of East Germany

[crystal hollow]

Note that most raiders carried something from the AK series or an AR, and the MP5 and UZI were common weapons bought and brought by security guards.

(we love the lore)

[modest ridge]

poor ass security department lmfao

[faint pumice]

holy lore drop

[crystal hollow]

yes glory to omega security I’m going to give them MP5s and glocks and Kevlar

[modest ridge]

fuck offington

[crystal hollow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/766624707201335296/1395059161552912575/caption.gif

[modest ridge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306144130497380354/1306406604811276299/attachment.gif

[crystal hollow]

hope yall like getting your steps in

[hexed torrent]

the patent-pending Newman Stairs™ are marked as exercise equipment so that he could put 'in-facility gym' on the workplace amenities list

[hazy pasture]

s t a i r s

[burnt hare]

I think there are not enough stairs in the building, please add more 🙏

[hexed torrent]

Fun fact:
From 1987 to 1992 Northwestern Corporation was the main sponsor of the #65 car in NASCAR racing

The #65 driver Gilbert Higgins was featured in a Top 10 Most Hated NASCAR Drivers of All Time list in 2023 at Number 2

[crystal hollow]

Coincidentally, in 2001 he was killed along with another generally disliked driver in a fatal racing accident, which due to multiple conspiracy theories was believed to be due to the brakes being cut, until 2002 when it was revealed the fuel tank had simply ignited at the previous pit stop leading to a delayed explosion.

[faint pumice]

Explosive Reactors

My favorite

[boreal beacon]

I just read EVERYTHING, and overall, THIS IS INSANE! Like the lore is yes dark, but perfect & for the building / modeling its just AMAZING, to every detail. This just might be the best I've seen yet, insane work!