gtfo-lore

[minor thicket]

thanks for the E1 carry i finally got that cool mask 🥳

[fervent lagoon]

you guys still play the game?

I genuinely thought most of the vet teams stopped

[somber gazelle]

i dont have a dedicated team no but i been here since R1 XD

[tame goblet]

thx 4 carry, got my sick mask now

[craggy hollow]

rly is the best mask if u think about it

[warm pike]

Its the kid from Backyard Baseball all grown up.

Feel old yet?

[crisp sage]

The thing is right

Everyone calls them different names

Chickens, fuckin PABLO, shit like that

And it seems to be really common but I have never heard a single person in my 100+ hours of game time call them anything of such a sort?

Also, tf is an Immortal?

[somber gazelle]

@crisp sage the immortal tank in E1....which just so happens to be immortal and unkillable XD

[crisp sage]

BREH

[minor thicket]

whats a tank?

[somber gazelle]

@minor thicket dangnabbit, HYDRA

[pearl wave]

new enemies always are either jerry or pablo ^^

[eternal talon]

can we please not do this in #gtfo-lore

[rugged hornet]

As someone who bought this game in Early Access, played Beta, and then didn't play the full game until last week - I know jack shit about the origins of the rundowns or the characters we play as.

Why are we prisoners? Who is the Warden? How did the infected come to be?

[real pewter]

check pin

[rugged hornet]

Pretty groovy stuff. Now I just need to know how our characters escape from D2 lol

[real pewter]

by injecting the trojan, it trip a "restart button" and the warden want to do a restart on the reactor in E1

so basically, after D2, you go straight to E1

lore people will come in and fix any mistake i have, but that's the jist of it

[stuck aspen]

is that why the objective stack looks scuffed in e1

[eternal talon]

if e1 is the very next level after d2, then yes. it is entirely linear.

[stuck aspen]

so lets say if schaf didnt brake the drop

does that mean we would just go on continue our mission for u23

now that i read d2 intel

[harsh saffron]

I would assume U23 is already good to go and "new seeds" implies that we are sent to getting started with U24, U25 and so on

[tulip pebble]

Ok so I basically know nothing except for two 10 minute YouTube videos on the absolute basics. Is there a Google sheet or doc or something that has the lore

[burnt wren]

There is a document in the pins

Basically quick rundown for dummies

[tulip pebble]

Neato dorito

Thanks a bunch

[crimson night]

While editing a video regarding the Mérida earthquake, I noticed that one of the State of Truth logs said the event happened in March.
Yet, an older text log from R3 states it instead took place the 4/15/2049: https://www.notion.so/BREAKING-NEWS-4a31480780fb472cbc178f2d11810c2a#94abb045da98432a95cc994d7622c51d

Am I correct in assuming this is either a mistake or that the devs decided to change the date for some reason? I guess this would be kinda confusing to have multiple 9.8 earthquake in the story : )

[eternal talon]

can you link both logs?

[crimson night]

• This one's from R3 : https://www.notion.so/BREAKING-NEWS-4a31480780fb472cbc178f2d11810c2a
• And the SoT log from R7: https://gtfo.fandom.com/wiki/Rundown_7.0_Logs#CJ9-GVT-ERB (Audio + transcript w/ timestamp where the host says March: https://youtu.be/SExVs8-L3ns?t=35 )

[solar nova]

This was brought up some time ago, but I don't think we got an answer.

[eternal talon]

@dull crest

anyway, i'd probably tend to say that the one from r7 would be correct. as a retcon, or otherwise

[dull crest]

I can check

But most probably just a mistake

[lilac island]

is doorbug lore accurate

i think schaeffer did that during his r5e1 kds deep solo

otherwise he might be spawncapping giants

[finite vine]

nah he “crawled through the vents”

as to why we aren’t doing that idk

[burnt wren]

Backpacks.

[dull crest]

Checks out

[eternal talon]

Schaeffer just playing half-life 2 instead

[dull crest]

"The Reuters news wire is wrong - it should say 3/15/2049." says Adam

[crimson night]

Thank you for this clarification 🙂

[eternal talon]

Ty as always, Calle

[devout geyser]

fixed!

[dull crest]

No problem 🙂

[toxic wagon]

I always knew he was the imposter.

sus

[eternal talon]

can you link your vid? would love to see it 🙂

[eternal talon]

Are we sure we aren't missing any logs? Was binging content on yt and found a data mining channel. Two of the logs (which shall not be named) were pretty damn long and seemed kinda important.

Though cut content is cut content and isn't canon, still figured I'd ask.

I haven't ran gtfo in a while

So not sure if I might be out of the loop. I don't think I am, but y'know.

Honestly, I don't understand why people datamine for lore. That stuff clearly isn't canon, yet there are so many channels that do it.

Edit: I realized you can't know if we have the logs I'm talking about if you don't know what they are. In as little detail as possible, if that's okay with you guys @mods, (if not feel free to delete this portion of this text-block), one of them is Schaeffer talking about the stuff he needed to revive Maddox and flipping through paper talking about doing stuff manually, the other one was a teale log talking about Edgar being doomed and more ancient Allen mumbo jumbo

[harsh saffron]

If we are thinking about the same Schaeffer log, then it's just a log from R7A1:
https://gtfo.fandom.com/wiki/Rundown_7.0_Logs#209-K3R-5TV
Not sure about the Teale log but is it this one?
https://gtfo.fandom.com/wiki/Rundown_7.0_Logs#D3T-INI-FNI

[crimson night]

Oh yeah, sure! 🙂
It's basically the audio log we previously talked about, combined with its transcript and some background clips from in-game.
In this case, the clips themselves aren't relevant to the subject, but for other logs it can help in having some context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SExVs8-L3ns

[green burrow]

Thanks for creating these videos for those who want to replay some logs or missed them. Great channel.

[eternal talon]

It was

[eternal talon]

Oh shit you run this channel?

Neato

[eternal talon]

What level is that teale log on?

[harsh saffron]

C2 and I think as a duplicate in another level as well

[eternal talon]

i still wanna know what the deal is with these dust bowls

um

is it just me or is this mountain in b3 emitting a smoke plume?

full pic

could just be clouds but i cant tell

[burnt wren]

Who knows. Inb4 we'll have to fight in a sandstorm.

[eternal talon]

sigh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3mZJ_8Wl9M @0:22

[lilac island]

Hi guys, returned to play GTFO after a long break i thibk i missed a lot of the story leading to this rundown. Is there a recap to bring me up to speed?

I guess there is no way to play the earlier rundows?

[honest sky]

The pinned messages have very good summarizing documents.
There is a modding community that you could have a look at.

[wanton fossil]

This for Lore before the Events of the Game #gtfo-lore message

This for Rundown Information #gtfo-lore message

But yes, also check the pins

[lilac island]

Thanks a lot

[modern vigil]

read the doc

that explained a lot

esp. the RISE project and destination

[dark valve]

GIVE ME THE NERDIEST CAPS LOCK SUMMARY OF THE GTFO LORE

I'll post the best ones on our socials

[burnt wren]

Cringe

[still ether]

something about a desert... or something

[clever night]

SO YOU SEE, THESE GUYS GOT ENROLED AGAINST THEIR WILL TO GET SENT IN A HUGEASS UNDERGROUND MINING COMPLEX FILLED WITH NAKED MONSTERS SLEEPING OR RUNNING AROUND DOING SONIC MOVES OR MOONWALKING. AND THESE MONSTERS ARE JUST MUTATED HUMANS DUE TO SOME COVID MK2 VIRUS. BAD THING I TELL YOU. ALSO THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT TELEPORTING TO A DIFFERENT PLANE OF EXISTENCE ON A DESERTIC PLANET WHERE THE VIRUS COMES FROM OR SOMETHING. THE GUYS JOB IS TO DO SOME TASKS FOR THAT WARDEN ENTITY THAT CAN BE VERY MEAN SOMETIMES, BUT IT'S FOR THE GREATER GOOD I GUESS. ALSO WE GOT BEST PAL SCHAEFFER WHO IS TRYING TO RECRUTE OUR GUYS TO START A REVOLUTION AGAINST THE WARDEN, HE BROUGHT BACK SOME GUY CALLED MADDOX BUT FUCKED IT UP SO HE KILLED HIM AND THEN CHECKED HIS NOTES AND GOT HENRIKSSON THE FUCKING HACKER BACK TO STASIS THINGY BUT PROPERLY THIS TIME.

Clearly not the best but first

[still ether]

4 PRISONERS VS SEXY MONSTERS

I win?

[topaz flare]

nerdiest? oh boy give me a minute

[dull crest]

Yes

And also no

[still ether]

win in my book

[topaz flare]

OK SO WE START WITH A METEOR CRASHING DOWN IN MEXICO CAUSEING ONE OF THE BIGGEST EARTHQUICKS EVER BUT SADLY THIS METEOR HIT WAS SEND UNDERCOVER SO THE PUBLIC DOESN'T FIND OUT ABOUT IT AFTER FEW MONTHS A COMPANY NAMED SANTONIAN MINING COMPANY GOT A CONTRACT TO START DIGGING THE SITE THE METEOR CRASHED AND WHEN THEY GOT THERE THEY FOUND ALOT AND I MEAN ALOT OF IRIDIUM AND SOME STRANGE BIOMASS WITH IT BUT THEY DIDN'T CARE CAUSE IRIDIUM BRINGS ALOT OF A MONEY FEW YEARS GO BY AND SANTONIAN MINING COMPANY STARTS INVESTING IN RESEARCH OF THIS STRANGE BIOMASS AND THEY FIND OUT OH SHIT ITS SOME KIND OF A VIRUS THAT IS CARRIED BY A PRASITE AND THEY GO AND THINK ITS A GOOD IDEA TO START EXPEREMENTING ON HUMAN TEST SUBJECTS WITH THIS VIRUS
AND AFTER AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF YEARS THE VIRUS FINALLY BREAKS OUT AND KILLS MOST/ALL OF THE COMPLEX AND NOW AFTER 2 TO 10 YEARS LATER WE START WITH THE GAME EVENTS.
WE START WITH OUR FOUR MAIN CHARECTERS AKA THE DIAMOND CREW DROPING DOWN INTO A GIANT MAGIC HOLE AND SOMEHOW KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THE DEAD INFECTED HUMANS THAT KNOWN AS SLEEPERS AND BECAUSE OF THE WARDEN AND THE BIOCOM VISORS THEY KNOW WHERE TO GO AND WHAT DO YOU
DID I MENTION WHAT BIOCOM IS? NO...
BIOCOM IS AN AI RESPONSEBAL FOR MAKING SURE EVERYTHING WORKS IN THE COMPLEX AND EVERYTHING RUNS THROUGH IT AND NOTHING CAN'T HIDE
BACK TO THE STORY AFTER OUR DIAMOND CREW MANAGES TO GET DOWN TO THE MAIN REACTOR OF SECTOR 1 (RUNDOWN 1) ONLINE THEY MOVE DOWN TO ANOTHER WORK LOAD AKA RUNDOWN 2
IN THIS RUNDOWN THEY START DOING MAITNENCE AND CLEARING A PATH TO THE LABS AT SECTOR 3 TO FIND A NEONATE BABY TO REVIVE AND EJECT TO SOMEWHERE ALSO THE WARDEN SENDS US DOWN IN A VERY INFESTED AREA OF SECTOR 2 TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE BUT SOMEHOW WE SURVIVED AND THE WARDEN+ SUPERVISOR WENT WTF....
RUNDOWN 3 STARTS WITH THE WARDEN TELLING US TO GRAB THE NEONATE AND ACTIVATING IT AFTER WE DO WE MOVE DOWN TOWARDS THE NEST LIKE AREA TO MOVE THE BABY TO AN UNKNOWN AREA OF THE COMPLEX OH ALSO

[rocky wraith]

When did it get mentioned that the meteorite was recent?

[topaz flare]

IN THE WAY WE KILL A GIANT NEST CRULING ENEMY CALLED THE PRIME BIRTHER OR AS THE DIAMOND CREW CALLS IT THE P-MOM THE SUPERVISORS AT THIS POINT TOUGHT WE WON'T SURVIVE BUT LOOK AT US WE SURVIVED AND KICKED THE P-MOMS ASS AS A BOUNES AND AFTER WE DONE WITH THAT WE MOVED DOWN TO SECTOR 4 TO DO SOME MAITNESNCE AND AS WE WERE DOING THIS THE WARDEN SAID HEY YOU GUYS ARE GOOD AT STAYING ALIVE GO AND DO ALL THIS OTHER SUB SECTORS THAT ARE VERY SCARY AND INFESTED IM SURE YOU WONT DIE WINK WINK SPOILER ALERT WE DIDN'T DIE AND AS A BOUNESS WE FOUND A CRAZY ASS MAN IN THE NAME OF SCHEAFFER THAT SOMEHOW MANAGED TO ESCAPE THE WARDEN AND IS NOW TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO DESTROY THE WARDEN AND GET HIMSELF OUT OF THERE AND FOR THIS GOAL HE THINKS WE DO A PERFECT JOB AS WE SURVIVED EVERYTHING THE COMPLEX SEND US
ALSO THE WARDEN ONCE AGAIN SEND US TO A VERY INFESTED AREA THINKING WE DIE BUT WE WON'T IN THE PROSSES WE ALSO TURNED ON THE POWER REACTOR TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS WORKING CURRECTLY AND AFTER THAT THE WARDEN SENDS US DOWN INTO THE GARDENS OF SECTOR 5 TO FIND PLANT SAMPLES FOR UNKNOWN REASONS ALSO I SWEAR HE ACTIVALLY TRYING TO KILL US ANYWAY AFTER FINDING SOME PLANTS WE ALSO GET TO KNOW SCHEAFFERS OBJECTIVE AT THE TIME AND THAT IS TO GET OUT OF THE COMPLEX HE ALSO WANTS US TO REMEMBER WHO WE ARE AND NOW WE GET TO THE CHARECTERS INHALES
WOODS IS A RELIGIOUS PERSON THAT WANTED TO FIND GOD AND IN A MOMENT OF THINKING HE TOUGHT ITS A GOOD IDEA TO GO INTO A MILITARY CHURCH AND KILL 12 PERSONAL WITH A 12 GAGE SHOTGUN LOOKING FOR GOD
DUADA WAS A DR THAT WAS INSIDE THE COMPLEX WHEN THE OUTBREAK BEGAN BUT THE SAD PART IS HE HAD TO GO INSIDE A HSU SYSTEM THAT WOULD WIPE ALL YOUR MEMORY OR PUTS THEM IN A LOCK WE DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT HIM OTHER THAN HE IS ONE OF THE PPL THAT EXPEREMNTED ON OTHER HUMAN BEINGS
HACKETT CAN BE DESCRIBED IN A 2 WORDS : WAR CRIME
HE KILLED A WHOLE VILLAGE BECAUSE HE WAR ORDERED TO NOT LET THEM OUT OF A CHURCH AND HE DIDN'T FEEL ANYTHING SO HE SAID

[burnt wren]

This is actually unreadable

Why did it had to be in caps

[rocky wraith]

I don't know how long they want it

[dull crest]

'It's part of the meme format

[burnt wren]

Unsightly

You probably should've made a separate room for this

This just looks like spam

Oh, and not a single punctuation sign either

No wonder its unreadable

Im fairly certain they wanted a short single sentence, not entire essays

[eternal talon]

65 million years ago isn't recent

[topaz flare]

FUCK IT AND JOINED THE LEGION PROGRAM ON HIS OWN PUTEN INSIDE A HSU SYSTEM AND HAVE HIS MEMORY LOCKED
BISHOP IS A HACKER AND A GOOD WORKER THAT FOUND SOMETHING HE SHOULDN'T HAVE FOUND
NOW WE GO BACK TO SECTOR 5 WHERE NOTHING REALLY HAPPENS OTHER THAN SOME HINTS OF THE WORLD OUTSIDE.
IN SECTOR 6 WE ARE TASKED TO GO AND FIND ARTEFACT 7 SOMETHING THAT CAN LET US TRAVEL BETWEEN LANDS AND WE HAVE TO DOWNLOAD A SHIT TON OF DATA ALSO THE WARDEN HAS GIVEN UP ON TRYING TO KILL US AT THIS POINT CAUSE HE KNOWS WE ARE IMMORTAL AT THIS POINT ALSO WE GET TO KNOW SCHEAFFER MORE AND HIS PLANS ON HOW TO BREAK OUR PROGRAMMING AT THE END OF SECTOR 6 WE ALSO HAVE TO GO INSIDE ALPHA 2 A OUTPOST IN THE OTHER LAND THAT WAS DESTROYED BY UNKNOWN MEANS AND WHEN WE GOT THERE WE HAD TO FIGHT A MASSIVE BIOFORM THAT DIAMOND CREW CALLS THE NEMESIS THAT WE RESPECTFULLY KICKED HIS ASS AND I THINK EVERYONE IS SCARED OF US NOW
AFTER THAT WE GET NEW WORK LOADS IN ANOTHER PART OF SECTOR 6 THAT WE FIND THE PERSON I LIKE TO CALL SKINLESS SPOILER ALERT THIS SKINLESS IS THE BABY WE BROUGHT ALIVE IN SECTOR 3 AND NOW IS ROAMING AROUND WITHOUT SLEEPERS NOTICEING IT FOR RANDOM REASONS ALSO AT THE END OF THE NEW WORKLOAD SCHEAFFER SHOOTS IT IN THE HEAD AND KILL IT EVEN THO IT WAS TRYING TO BE VERY FRIENDLY (MAN SCHEAFFER IS A DICK) ANYWAY NOW WE GO TO SECTOR 7 WHERE SCHEAFFER SAYS FUCK IT AND WAKES UP HENRIKSON AN HACKER THAT DOESN'T KNOW WTF IS GOING ON BUT STILL WORKS FOR SCHEAFFER ANYWAY AND THIS 2 TOGHTER MANAGE TO TAKE OVER THE WARDEN BY THE HELP OF THE DIAMOND CREW AND THATS WHERE THE STORY ENDS FOR NOW
SIDE NOTES: THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS MOST LIKELY KILLED ALSO THIS IS A SUMMERY NOT THE FULL LORE

[solemn kraken]

Rey went all out

[topaz flare]

OK SO WE START WITH A METEOR CRASHING DOWN IN MEXICO CAUSEING ONE OF THE BIGGEST EARTHQUICKS EVER BUT SADLY THIS METEOR HIT WAS SEND UNDERCOVER SO THE PUBLIC DOESN'T FIND OUT ABOUT IT AFTER FEW MONTHS A COMPANY NAMED SANTONIAN MINING COMPANY GOT A CONTRACT TO START DIGGING THE SITE THE METEOR CRASHED AND WHEN THEY GOT THERE THEY FOUND ALOT AND I MEAN ALOT OF IRIDIUM AND SOME STRANGE BIOMASS WITH IT BUT THEY DIDN'T CARE CAUSE IRIDIUM BRINGS ALOT OF A MONEY FEW YEARS GO BY AND SANTONIAN MINING COMPANY STARTS INVESTING IN RESEARCH OF THIS STRANGE BIOMASS AND THEY FIND OUT OH SHIT ITS SOME KIND OF A VIRUS THAT IS CARRIED BY A PRASITE AND THEY GO AND THINK ITS A GOOD IDEA TO START EXPEREMENTING ON HUMAN TEST SUBJECTS WITH THIS VIRUS
AND AFTER AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF YEARS THE VIRUS FINALLY BREAKS OUT AND KILLS MOST/ALL OF THE COMPLEX AND NOW AFTER 2 TO 10 YEARS LATER WE START WITH THE GAME EVENTS.
WE START WITH OUR FOUR MAIN CHARECTERS AKA THE DIAMOND CREW DROPING DOWN INTO A GIANT MAGIC HOLE AND SOMEHOW KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THE DEAD INFECTED HUMANS THAT KNOWN AS SLEEPERS AND BECAUSE OF THE WARDEN AND THE BIOCOM VISORS THEY KNOW WHERE TO GO AND WHAT DO YOU
DID I MENTION WHAT BIOCOM IS? NO...
BIOCOM IS AN AI RESPONSEBAL FOR MAKING SURE EVERYTHING WORKS IN THE COMPLEX AND EVERYTHING RUNS THROUGH IT AND NOTHING CAN'T HIDE
BACK TO THE STORY AFTER OUR DIAMOND CREW MANAGES TO GET DOWN TO THE MAIN REACTOR OF SECTOR 1 (RUNDOWN 1) ONLINE THEY MOVE DOWN TO ANOTHER WORK LOAD AKA RUNDOWN 2
IN THIS RUNDOWN THEY START DOING MAITNENCE AND CLEARING A PATH TO THE LABS AT SECTOR 3 TO FIND A NEONATE BABY TO REVIVE AND EJECT TO SOMEWHERE ALSO THE WARDEN SENDS US DOWN IN A VERY INFESTED AREA OF SECTOR 2 TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE BUT SOMEHOW WE SURVIVED AND THE WARDEN+ SUPERVISOR WENT WTF....
RUNDOWN 3 STARTS WITH THE WARDEN TELLING US TO GRAB THE NEONATE AND ACTIVATING IT AFTER WE DO WE MOVE DOWN TOWARDS THE NEST LIKE AREA TO MOVE THE BABY TO AN UNKNOWN AREA OF THE COMPLEX OH ALSO

IN THE WAY WE KILL A GIANT NEST CRULING ENEMY CALLED THE PRIME BIRTHER OR AS THE DIAMOND CREW CALLS IT THE P-MOM THE SUPERVISORS AT THIS POINT TOUGHT WE WON'T SURVIVE BUT LOOK AT US WE SURVIVED AND KICKED THE P-MOMS ASS AS A BOUNES AND AFTER WE DONE WITH THAT WE MOVED DOWN TO SECTOR 4 TO DO SOME MAITNESNCE AND AS WE WERE DOING THIS THE WARDEN SAID HEY YOU GUYS ARE GOOD AT STAYING ALIVE GO AND DO ALL THIS OTHER SUB SECTORS THAT ARE VERY SCARY AND INFESTED IM SURE YOU WONT DIE WINK WINK SPOILER ALERT WE DIDN'T DIE AND AS A BOUNESS WE FOUND A CRAZY ASS MAN IN THE NAME OF SCHEAFFER THAT SOMEHOW MANAGED TO ESCAPE THE WARDEN AND IS NOW TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO DESTROY THE WARDEN AND GET HIMSELF OUT OF THERE AND FOR THIS GOAL HE THINKS WE DO A PERFECT JOB AS WE SURVIVED EVERYTHING THE COMPLEX SEND US
ALSO THE WARDEN ONCE AGAIN SEND US TO A VERY INFESTED AREA THINKING WE DIE BUT WE WON'T IN THE PROSSES WE ALSO TURNED ON THE POWER REACTOR TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS WORKING CURRECTLY AND AFTER THAT THE WARDEN SENDS US DOWN INTO THE GARDENS OF SECTOR 5 TO FIND PLANT SAMPLES FOR UNKNOWN REASONS ALSO I SWEAR HE ACTIVALLY TRYING TO KILL US ANYWAY AFTER FINDING SOME PLANTS WE ALSO GET TO KNOW SCHEAFFERS OBJECTIVE AT THE TIME AND THAT IS TO GET OUT OF THE COMPLEX HE ALSO WANTS US TO REMEMBER WHO WE ARE AND NOW WE GET TO THE CHARECTERS INHALES
WOODS IS A RELIGIOUS PERSON THAT WANTED TO FIND GOD AND IN A MOMENT OF THINKING HE TOUGHT ITS A GOOD IDEA TO GO INTO A MILITARY CHURCH AND KILL 12 PERSONAL WITH A 12 GAGE SHOTGUN LOOKING FOR GOD
DUADA WAS A DR THAT WAS INSIDE THE COMPLEX WHEN THE OUTBREAK BEGAN BUT THE SAD PART IS HE HAD TO GO INSIDE A HSU SYSTEM THAT WOULD WIPE ALL YOUR MEMORY OR PUTS THEM IN A LOCK WE DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT HIM OTHER THAN HE IS ONE OF THE PPL THAT EXPEREMNTED ON OTHER HUMAN BEINGS
HACKETT CAN BE DESCRIBED IN A 2 WORDS : WAR CRIME
HE KILLED A WHOLE VILLAGE BECAUSE HE WAR ORDERED TO NOT LET THEM OUT OF A CHURCH AND HE DIDN'T FEEL ANYTHING SO HE SAID

FUCK IT AND JOINED THE LEGION PROGRAM ON HIS OWN PUTEN INSIDE A HSU SYSTEM AND HAVE HIS MEMORY LOCKED
BISHOP IS A HACKER AND A GOOD WORKER THAT FOUND SOMETHING HE SHOULDN'T HAVE FOUND
NOW WE GO BACK TO SECTOR 5 WHERE NOTHING REALLY HAPPENS OTHER THAN SOME HINTS OF THE WORLD OUTSIDE.
IN SECTOR 6 WE ARE TASKED TO GO AND FIND ARTEFACT 7 SOMETHING THAT CAN LET US TRAVEL BETWEEN LANDS AND WE HAVE TO DOWNLOAD A SHIT TON OF DATA ALSO THE WARDEN HAS GIVEN UP ON TRYING TO KILL US AT THIS POINT CAUSE HE KNOWS WE ARE IMMORTAL AT THIS POINT ALSO WE GET TO KNOW SCHEAFFER MORE AND HIS PLANS ON HOW TO BREAK OUR PROGRAMMING AT THE END OF SECTOR 6 WE ALSO HAVE TO GO INSIDE ALPHA 1 A OUTPOST IN THE OTHER LAND THAT WAS DESTROYED BY UNKNOWN MEANS AND WHEN WE GOT THERE WE HAD TO FIGHT A MASSIVE BIOFORM THAT DIAMOND CREW CALLS THE NEMESIS THAT WE RESPECTFULLY KICKED HIS ASS AND I THINK EVERYONE IS SCARED OF US NOW
AFTER THAT WE GET NEW WORK LOADS IN ANOTHER PART OF SECTOR 6 THAT WE FIND THE PERSON I LIKE TO CALL SKINLESS SPOILER ALERT THIS SKINLESS IS THE BABY WE BROUGHT ALIVE IN SECTOR 3 AND NOW IS ROAMING AROUND WITHOUT SLEEPERS NOTICEING IT FOR RANDOM REASONS ALSO AT THE END OF THE NEW WORKLOAD SCHEAFFER SHOOTS IT IN THE HEAD AND KILL IT EVEN THO IT WAS TRYING TO BE VERY FRIENDLY (MAN SCHEAFFER IS A DICK) ANYWAY NOW WE GO TO SECTOR 7 WHERE SCHEAFFER SAYS FUCK IT AND WAKES UP HENRIKSON AN HACKER THAT DOESN'T KNOW WTF IS GOING ON BUT STILL WORKS FOR SCHEAFFER ANYWAY AND THIS 2 TOGHTER MANAGE TO TAKE OVER THE WARDEN BY THE HELP OF THE DIAMOND CREW AND THATS WHERE THE STORY ENDS FOR NOW
SIDE NOTES: THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS MOST LIKELY KILLED ALSO THIS IS A SUMMERY NOT THE FULL LORE

[eternal talon]

Alpha two is almost entirely intact though, just abandoned

No fucking way you type this fast

Wtf

[burnt wren]

"BRAINWASHED LADS FOLLOW ORDERS OF FORGOTTEN AI IN A DOOMED WORLD"
this is much better

[topaz flare]

i copy pasted the other 2 halfs (there up)

@dark valve SOOOOO

want something else?

[burnt wren]

Instructions unclear, should've clarify if you wanted a shot sentence or entire essay

[eternal talon]

I'm going to need a solid 15 minutes to read all that

[burnt wren]

Reap what you sow I suppose

I'm not even gonna bother

[eternal talon]

I didn't start it

[burnt wren]

Why would you submit yourself to such suffering

not a single punctuation sign

[eternal talon]

To fact-check

[burnt wren]

To gulag, now

[burnt wren]

That's actually autistic

[eternal talon]

Then submit my own caps lock response

[topaz flare]

@dull crest sooo do i win for real now?

[eternal talon]

I do have autism, so..... technically correct

[topaz flare]

take your time

i got some headcannon also there but most of it is still game focus

[eternal talon]

Why you think I have the patience to be in this channel 24/7?

[rocky wraith]

SO LIKE THE DINOSAUR EVAPORATOR SECRETLY ALIEN SPACESHIP. SANTONIAN MAKE AN INVERTED TOWER OF BABYLON TO DISCOVER THE SECRETS AND SEND IN SLAVE ARMY TO MAKE MONEY BUT GOD RELEASES VIRUS FOR NOT FOLLOWING SAFETY PROTOCOLS. MILLIONS DEAD. BIG EXPLOSION. FACILITY LOCKED DOWN. SLEEPERS EVERYWHERE INSIDE. WRDN TAKES OVER BIOCOM. SENDS IN MIND WIPED PRISONERS FOR NEFARIOUS PURPOSES. NEOTNATE IS A BABY. TURN OFF YOUR FLASHLIGHT. MEMORIES ARE FUZZY. REBEL REVOLUTIONARY PIT BOSS BRAINSTORMS DURING SCHIZOPHRENIC MENTAL BREAKDOWN. BIG IDEA. BIG PLAN. DEEPER. DEEPER. MORE SLEEPERS. MORE DARKNESS. WARDEN CAN'T SEE US. MATTER WAVE PROJECTOR WINNER WINNER DESERT RESORT WITH TENTACLES. FIGHTING ELDRITCH CUTTLEFISH FOR GENOME SEQUENCE. SPECIMEN 22 WHAT ARE YOU? INSANE MAN KILLS CHILD LIVE (WITH GRAPHIC AUDIO) AND THREATENS THE VOICES IN MY HEAD. WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH 23? WE ARE ALL NOT WHO WE SEEM. WHAT DID YOU DO DAUDA? SHAFER CONTROLS WARDEN CONTROLS US. PARASITE GET OUT OF MY HEAD.

[eternal talon]

it's not recent, it was the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago. SMC got involved because of the merida 9.8 earthquake, finding some strange biomass, i guess, they just said they didn't know what killed the red cross people there. they found out the stuff about the parasite and virus far, far later. game starts in about 2063, or shortly before in the prior year. we know how to kill them because we are ksos. biocom had ksos killing sleepers for quite a while before garganta shut down. we know what they knew, like how in one log a kso never exposed to c-foam knew how to use it and what it was. not neccessarily nothing can hide, it runs hearsay, sure, but it's primary job is to command ksos as the private army of kovac.

[topaz flare]

no it wasn't that one

[rocky wraith]

@dark valve

[topaz flare]

if you listion to state of truth logs

you find out there was a new resent one that dropped on Mexico

[rocky wraith]

which log?

[eternal talon]

he is not actually trying to kill us. at least he wasn't before r7d2, after that, i don't know. he might now.

[topaz flare]

that was suppose to be a joke segment

sorry xd

[topaz flare]

don't remember which one but i think i heard it (i may have dreamed of it but that's the info i have in my hand at the time if its wrong sorry?)

[eternal talon]

alpha two (b1) is remarkably intact, you are probably thinking of alpha one (d1). the outside world is calculated from state of truth statistics to be 100% dead by the year 2059. it is currently 2064. we know it most likely isnt 100% dead, but it is still basically nothing up there. not even sleepers.

[eternal talon]

don't apologize, just asking to go double check. you may be right

that's why we ask

[rocky wraith]

its because the mayan disease remember is caused by leakage from the meteorite after an earthquake

[topaz flare]

ah thanks i change it than

[eternal talon]

to see if maybe WE fucked up

[topaz flare]

i see thanks

i go change the alpha number

[eternal talon]

dx and bx are alpha 3 also.

they aren't in order

we go 2 1 3

for some reason

[topaz flare]

2 was to get to 1 i think

and 3 well idk

[eternal talon]

yeah

3 was for us to go get more info related to the genome database we collected in 1

that's what the staircase of death terminals were for

[topaz flare]

i go drink a cup of water

that took alot out of me

[rocky wraith]

4 LETTER WORDS GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[eternal talon]

ALLENS CREATE/ENCOUNTER NAM-V + THE PARASITE ON DESTINATION, IT WIPES THEM OUT, THEY USE THE METEOR TO FLEE TO EARTH, THEIR SHIP IS INFECTED BECAUSE THEY FUCKED UP AND THEY ARE ALL TURNED INTO THE FIRST SLEEPERS AND THE METEOR CRASHES INTO EARTH, WITH THESE SLEEPERS HIBERNATING. EVENTUALLY, EARTHQUAKES OPEN ITS SURFACE LEVEL UP TO THE MAYANS, AND THE VILLAGE OF IXIL IS WIPED OUT. MAAAAAAAANY YEARS LATER, A 9.8 EARTHQUAKE OPENS THE SURFACE LEVELS AGAIN. HUGE DISASTER. RED CROSS GO TRY TO HELP, BUT ALL MYSTERIOUSLY ARE DEAD. SMC GOES IN WITH APPROVAL BY THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO GO TRY AND HELP THE SITUATION, ASK THEIR BOSS DREYFUS INDUSTRIES, AND BURN ALL THE RED CROSS PEOPLE. THEY CONDUCT SCANS, AND FIND A MASSIVE VEIN OF IRIDIUM, MEANWHILE, KOVAC HEARS OF THIS AND DOES A JOJO AND SAYS WE GOT YOUR INFO, LET US WORK WITH YOU OR BAD STUFF (ISNT BLACK MAIL, BUT C'MON). SMC STARTS DIGGING AND SETTING UP GARGANTA, THEY EVENTUALLY CRACK INTO A CHAMBER AND DISCOVER ARTIFACTS. DR. RICHTOFER (YES I REMEMBERED HIS NAME) LOSES AN EYE DUE TO AN ARTIFACT IN A HYDRAULIC CRUSHER, THEY GET SENT OFF TO TEAM INSIGHT TO BE EXAMINED. MEANWHILE, THE EXCAVATED CHAMBER IS QUARANTINED, BUT TWO IDIOTS DIDN'T FOLLOW QUARANTINE PROCEDURE AND THE ENTIRE SITE GETS INFECTED WITH NAM-V. PEOPLE START TO GO CRAZY, AND SMC SETS UP A RELAXATION CAMP ON THE COAST. NAM-V GETS INTO THE OCEAN, AND STARTS TO INFECT THE WORLD STARTING WITH FLORIDA, THEN MARICOPA, AND THE UK. DOWN IN THE COMPLEX, THEY FIND MORE CHAMBERS, KOVAC SETS UP SHOP IN KDS DEEP, BIOCOM IS INSTALLED, AND INSIGHT MOVES IN TO TAKE OVER FROM SMC. INSIGHT CONDUCT RESEARCH ON THE ARTIFACTS AND GO FIND MORE AND MORE AND EVENTUALLY MAKE THE HAMMERSTEIN COLLECTION, NAMED AFTER DR. GALLUS HAMMERSTEIN, THE HEAD OF TEAM INSIGHT. MEANWHILE ALL OF THIS, SMC IS STILL DIGGIN' AWAY.

EVENTUALLY, THEY DISCOVER THE CORPSE OF AN INFECTED ALLEN, BUT BEFORE THEY CAN CONDUCT AN AUTOPSY, KOVAC TAKES THE CORPSE AWAY AND DENIES ANY LIFE FORM WAS FOUND AT ALL. IT IS NEAR THIS POINT THAT THE PARASITE GETS INTO GARGANTA AND STARTS MAKING THE FIRST (HUMAN) SLEEPERS. INSIGHT DOES RESEARCH IN THE INNER AND DISCOVER A MASSIVE COLLECTION OF INFECTED SPECIES, WHILE ABEO DAUDA DOES HUMAN TESTING WITH NAM-V. THE VERY NEXT FUCKING DAY, HAMMERSTEIN PLAYS SOME STRANGE SOUNDS AND CAUSES THE EXPLOSION, THAT SHOOTS HOLES ALL THE WAY TO THE SURFACE, THOUGH THOUSANDS OF METERS OF ROCK, OBLITERATING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING IN THEIR WAY. KOVAC IS FIGHTING OFF SLEEPERS LEFT AND RIGHT, AND INSIGHT STARTS TO DO TESTING WITH THE MWP TO GO TO DESTINATION, THE ALLEN'S HOMEWORLD.

THEY FIND SOME WEIRD WACKY SHIT IN RELATION TO IT'S WORLD LINE AND HOW TIME WORKS THERE, AS CONTACT WITH THE FIRST TEAM, EF01, IS LOST FOR EVERYONE ASIDE FROM BISHOP. EVENTUALLY GARGANTA GOES UNDER, AND ALL KSOS ARE RECALLED TO BIOCOM HQ.

there ya go

i didn't add the wrdn bit because we don't have a date for it.

we just know the wrdn protocol got injected... sometime

[lucid crescent]

I hope this gets pinned

[eternal talon]

why? the for dummies doc is by far and away the best intro for new people to gtfo lore

and that is in far more detail than this is, and i quote the logs in that, with dates and accurate into

[rocky wraith]

I completely forgot about the time wimy stuff

[lucid crescent]

Bro I haven't seen have the chats yet but I like your explanation so I hope it gets pinned so I can find easy

[eternal talon]

85:1

[eternal talon]

it already is pinned

it's on the 4th revision. i've been writing it and having it pinned since about the midpoint of r6

[rocky wraith]

GTFOGTFOGTFO

[lucid crescent]

I heard about an explosion that shot to the surface but what exactly caused it or is it still unknown

[eternal talon]

well, kinda

we know it's most likely related to the sound frequencies hammerstein way playing down in the inner

since the explosion happened the very next day

but we dont know specifically what caused it

[lucid crescent]

I see

Do you know what's going on with memory cube teleportation or when we went to surface in R6?

[eternal talon]

no idea. it's very weird

same thing as the teleport when we first pick up the mwp in r6a1

the only relavant log was insight losing an entire lab to it

[rocky wraith]

Memory cubes? you mean the data keys?

[eternal talon]

but we dont know the why or how

[eternal talon]

*data cubes, and yeah, i think thats what he means

[lucid crescent]

Y'a my bad

Anyways i must get to class, thank you for the intel gamerZ

[rocky wraith]

ye the data cubes contain specific coordinates and quantum frequences that we accidentally jump to upon picking them up

[lucid crescent]

Coordinates still on earth?

[rocky wraith]

no

we never go to earth

[eternal talon]

butterfly nebula, 3k light years away

thats where destination is

[lucid crescent]

This is very cool but strange considering the enemy types look exactly the same on r7 B3 secondary.

[eternal talon]

.

that's because they ARE infected humans

insight had done extensive expeditions to destination before garganta went under

even creating massive mining facilities like this one

or isolated research outposts like alpha two

to make it a bit easier to understand...

the ef01 mission took about a week on earth

but bishop was on destination for TWO YEARS

between ef01 and right now, it has been 760 years on destination

destination's world-line (quantum physics stuff) is 85:1 seconds faster than earth's

the fundamental laws of the universe are different there

[lilac island]

i just did A1, how exactly did we get in direct contact with Schaeffer? And what does he want with us?

[eternal talon]

so schaeffer first got in contact with us in r4

essentially, he wants us to break free from the warden, like he did

in a1, he spoke to us over the intercom (hearsay) network

[lilac island]

right, i heard him talking about some kind of revolt or revolution

which is why he wanted to wake Maddox for weaponry

[eternal talon]

we are KSOs. mindless slaves to the AI biocom network

he doesn't wanna be a slave no more

is his story arc

[lilac island]

thats fair

why did Maddox freak when he woke up though?

[eternal talon]

so, the way hydrostasis works,

we know that you need a very specific chemical cocktail while you awake, or your brain starts to melt

[oak lance]

damn this guy knows all the it

[eternal talon]

schaeffer didn't have the stuff.

[eternal talon]

i write the "for dummies" doc in the pins, i'm in here basically all day everyday. love the lore

thats what the "COLLECTION_CASE" was in b1

its the chemicals he needed to wake henrikkson

[oak lance]

dope. the lore is rad, i just came along late and whatnot

[eternal talon]

we've got plenty of community resources in the pins if you want to catch yourself up

the "for dummies" is pre-apocalypse, the "summary of expeditions" is post-apocalypse

[oak lance]

yeah watched a few videos, gotta dive into details with all that sometime. think i read through all the pre apoc docs on the terminal site

[near mason]

fucking beatiful

[eternal talon]

not really many good videos on the lore i'm affraid. a lot of stuff gets thrown out as out of date every single rundown

so keeping them up-to-date is nigh impossible

why we have so many txt documents

[oak lance]

yeah the videos really cut it down for the most part. wiki good for getting a fuller picture? or just hit up the docs here

[eternal talon]

for summaries, the "for dummies" would be a good start

to read the logs, we have the notion.so database

also in the pins, that archives all past and present logs

[oak lance]

then thats how my day is gonna start i guess

[clever night]

speaking of txt documents, there's been a lot of text logs, and a few audio logs, but I believe there isn't much, if any, image as log except maybe schaffer's file ?

[eternal talon]

i'll be here if you or anybody else has any questions

[eternal talon]

well, technically we have 2 now but it is a big "technically"

[clever night]

I love technicality

but yeah we don't have much at the moment

[eternal talon]

which is also a log but not on a use-able terminal

[dark valve]

You caps lock people have outdone yourselves, I fucking love this community

[rocky wraith]

whoop whoop!

[eternal talon]

we are crazy enough to delve into 16th century mayan medical documents, what do you expect from us?

anything less than overkill is too little

[near mason]

the amount of lore that just inscribed itself in my brain by some all caps people is insane

[eternal talon]

yeah, there is a reason we don't go over that stuff like that. it's way too much

that's why we have the docs in the pins

to try and make it in any way.. readable

because it is very fucking complicated, especially some of the new stuff we got relating to world lines and mutli-dimensional travel

its a bit much for a paragraph

[burnt wren]

Doing lore videos on GTFO is just as silly as doing playthrough guides

Shit gets outdated so quick

Unless you have nothing better to do than do same video with extra 5 min added at the end every 4 months

[eternal talon]

don't be sad duck, yours is really really good and is up-to date. for now...

[burnt wren]

Because that's basically what it comes down to, right? You just reupload same video, but with extra content edited at the end.

Unless you're dedicated enogfh to remake it every time.

Ill be sick by 4th remake

[eternal talon]

if your trying to keep a yt video up-to-date, yeah

[harsh saffron]

I would probably make extra videos for each rundown and quickly cover things that changed before talking about new stuff

[eternal talon]

it'd take significantly longer than just updating a txt or a pdf

[burnt wren]

Or you make a playlist!

One video per rundown

With new developments

That probably would be a better way to handle it.

[harsh saffron]

yup

just have to wait if we get an extension ^^

[eternal talon]

given we have for all recent rundowns afik, we most likely will

[harsh saffron]

expected the ext announcement on gamescom but they already said that R7 will be what is playable there (I guess R7//EXT ist still R7 technically)

[celest pagoda]

Couldn't find any word on if these logs had been corrected. Anyone know? For context, this log seems unfinished as it appears to be Anders Johanson pitching BIOCOM to himself, with Anders then responding to that pitch (while the system appears to have sent the response to Andre Piros)

I know ray mentioned it some time ago

[eternal talon]

i don't understand the problem

it's anders sending an email to piros, the piros telling someone else who emails anders.

the -------------------------- are two separate emails

[celest pagoda]

read the bottom portion closely. The email is addressed to Anders, and signed by Anders

[eternal talon]

the top email is signed by anders

the bottom one is TO anders, from someone who was informed by piros

it says nowhere that the bottom is from anders

[celest pagoda]

Frosty the 2 images are simply 1 log cut into 2 images. The last line of the log is signed by Anders simply using his full name

[eternal talon]

oh wait, two seperate images, hold on

that just seems like a typo where the wrong name was inserted.

@dull crest

[celest pagoda]

Yep, thats what I mean

But also, it would be odd for someone to pitch BIOCOM to Anders as he i s the head of KDS, the owners of BIOCOM

[eternal talon]

the owners, yes, but think about it from a company standpoint

the ceo isn't usually the egg-head in the labs coming up with the new tech

he's pitching to the ceo for investment into the project under the company

like hey, we found x in our research and can do y with more funding, then the ceo decides if they want to go down that route

[celest pagoda]

while i would get that, a log of near identical structure from R6 points to this intending to be a variation of said log

[solar nova]

I don't believe we've gotten an update on what this log is supposed to be.

It appears to be intended to be talking about either Igor or Schaeffer, hard to know which, but becomes an older log partway through.

"[...] hydrostasis storage area" and everything above it is a part of the "true" log.

[celest pagoda]

Ah, I see

odd

[eternal talon]

how do you know its supposed to be talking about one of those two?

[solar nova]

It could be anyone, but those are the only two characters we know of "entering the wrong area" or entering some kind of HSU storage. Dauda might be possible as well.

[eternal talon]

if it were them though, they'dve been killed.

this is after kovac exclusion zone

[celest pagoda]

Regardless, I hope this gets fixed, maybe we get some info weve not yet seen

[solar nova]

Igor, does in-fact, die.

[eternal talon]

yeah, but he didn't really have the mental capacity. the man was breaking down so much his psychiatrist couldn't even help him

[solar nova]

Edgar != Igor.

[solar nova]

Where was this log btw?

[eternal talon]

ah, mb

[solar nova]

It's possible it will be fixed on the website.

[eternal talon]

igor rostok (i think?)

i don't remember how he died in the logs

or if its said

was he the one who got shot?

[solar nova]

Yes.

[eternal talon]

for entering a restricted area?

it could be that.

[celest pagoda]

IRC, it was on B2 near the first blood door. Wiki states it as on B2 as well

[solar nova]

R7?

[celest pagoda]

yep

[solar nova]

Ah. We might be waiting a while, then.

[eternal talon]

i'm still waiting to have an explanation for the schaeffer discrepancy, and that's from an r6.5 log issue

[celest pagoda]

given how Schaeffers story has been told, I cant imagine we wont get an answer. It doesn't seem like a mistake

[eternal talon]

it's just really fucking weird. him going to kds deep, causing the lockdown that we lift in r5 to give the wrdn access to it, yet his is in wrdn hands before r4.

[celest pagoda]

Exactly, I think this mystery is intentional.

Hes been with us since R4 and was with us through R5

[eternal talon]

it's gotta have something to do with the allens

the wrdn couldn't access it yet

and there's nobody else down there cus it's still infested when we clear house

[celest pagoda]

Also, the whole "Brain tissue collapsing when not administered hydrokinetic fluid" part ruling out the idea that he somehow freed himself.

[eternal talon]

that wasn't even a part of the lore when the discrepancy came up

the brain melting is a whole nother problem with it

[celest pagoda]

well yes, but i mean that further proves that Schaef couldnt of got out on his own

[eternal talon]

oh yeah, no way.

[dull crest]

What was the question? Not really following:)

[solar nova]

There is an R7 log that cuts off partway and transitions to an old, pre-existing log.

So the question is if this is an error, and, if so, will the true log be revealed at some point (either via hotfix or the website come R8).

[dull crest]

Ah! If you could provide the number (I am lazy on Saturdays) I can check

[solar nova]

Serious question, what does the "number" mean?

SVN-QAS-XPO

[dull crest]

Log number? Or other identifikation

[solar nova]

It's on B2 iirc.

[solar nova]

^

[final sentinel]

my friend just made a great point: 100% infect resist isn't getting boosted - it's replacing the water-damaged filters in your masks after being in hydro for so long

[eternal talon]

not that kind of masks.

the masks we have in-game are respirators for dust/n' stuff. not for defending against anything like airborne nam-v.
*like nam-v that has multiple ways to infect via the air

given how.. infectious nam-v is, we'd need full-skin coverage at minimum

besides, if it was oxygen filters we'd have died from that long ago, they dont last forever and do occasionally need to be changed

so while yes, they'd certainly be more useful, nam-v is not something you can really combat that easily

here is a relevant cdc article https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/elastomeric-respirators-strategy/index.html

[south lake]

Full skin coverage would be a temporary measure anyway as well, since IIRC it also eventually breaches hazmat suits, doesn't it?

[eternal talon]

yes, "parasites are still finding ways in"

[south lake]

I wonder what level of protection that is

[eternal talon]

Punkthulhu knows

[south lake]

If they're breaching Level A/Type 1 suits then yeah, no matter what's used it would be a matter of time

Probably a "Use once, destroy after" situation

[eternal talon]

@subtle verge

[south lake]

Which sucks because those suits are expensive IIRC

[eternal talon]

something like the new storax kimble is just asking to get yourself killed.

which is ironic because of how much of the rundown you have to clear to get it

[south lake]

I did a very quick dig, Level A SCBA is the gear used, I think

Which for reference would be something like this

Basically as close to a totally self-contained, sterile bubble as you can get

[eternal talon]

yeah, we 100% dont have nothing like that

we are running out here sleeveless, in shorts, with our necks/heads exposed.

[south lake]

Yeah, though don't take the lack of skin exposure as a necessity

Those are specifically designed to cover all possible scenarios

Skin exposure could be fine provided you go through a sterilization shower afterwards

[eternal talon]

still, at least those would protect you against the fog

(unless a single tumor spit at you and did damage to pierce your suit)

[south lake]

I thought the fog had to be inhaled?

Level A suits have the SCBA unit inside the suit

The suit itself is just a second layer of respiratory protection

Underneath that you still have a sealed SCBA mask

[eternal talon]

what i mean is the tumors do damage, so it's probably penetrating skin

[subtle verge]

Hi, yes, greetings. What may I do for you, good buddy?

[south lake]

Fair

[eternal talon]

at that point it wouldn't matter your respiratory protection

[eternal talon]

"eating through hazmat" what level suits did they use

yous's a professional

[south lake]

My guess is Level A or B, but you'd have more insight into something like that

[subtle verge]

SCBA-A class (alternatively known as 'Tier 4' and 'Bubble Bags').

[eternal talon]

not really, i think it's only mentioned in that one log

[south lake]

That was directed at Punk

[eternal talon]

oh mb

[south lake]

No worries

[subtle verge]

SCBA-A is a completely self-contained, aka a completely isolated, variant of PPE.

Which is the suits that the scientists used that were being eaten thru by the parasite.

[south lake]

Oh, do we have confirmation that the parasite was doing it, and that NAM-V isn't just corrosive to that particular kind of material?

[subtle verge]

In the biz, it's the "nothing gets in, nothing gets out" variant.

Per the log that I'm aware of, it's stated that the parasite is able to eat through the Class A plastic.

Hence people in self-contained suits still getting infected.

[south lake]

Though, I suppose if NAM-V were corrosive to SCBA-A material that would pretty much cement it in the "Bioweapon" category

[eternal talon]

i don't know how much you've been keeping up with the lore, we got a really really good log about nam-v this rundown in e1

[south lake]

I haven't touched GTFO lately, my crew all fucked off

And I'm not the kind of person to want to run with randoms

[subtle verge]

I've kept up with what I could. I just got back not too long ago from a 4-month job, and have been busy helping my dad recover from a heart attack & surgery.

[eternal talon]

i gotchu bro

i archive everything

[south lake]

That sucks Punk, I hope he's doing okay

[eternal talon]

and been updating the "for dummies" with it

even the new.. world line stuff

which is a bitch

[south lake]

I'm going in for an across-the-board basic heart screening myself in a few days, been getting some tightness in my chest

Like, "Feels like my chest cavity is being squeezed" tightness

[solar nova]

Concerning.

[south lake]

Mhm

Hope your dad makes a quick recovery, Punk

[subtle verge]

He's doing fairly well! Post surgery, he says he feels better than he has in months, which is to be expected when you have serious blockages for months on end, I suppose. He ended up w/ 2 stints after a 100% and an 80% blockage. He gets to come home earliest Monday, latest Wednesday should things continue as they have been.

[south lake]

Ah I remember that log, vaguely

[subtle verge]

But yeah, I'm up to date on the logs this run down, though they're not necessarily fresh in my memory.

[south lake]

We used that "Virus is piggybacking off the Parasite" bit to make our "NAM-V is probably a Bioweapon" argument

[eternal talon]

im worried a bit how far they are going to go with the world-line stuff

it already took me a solid day and a half to proccess, and that's with both me and beanz going through it

[solar nova]

That's a good thing imo.

[south lake]

Probably goes without saying, but make sure he drops the fatty, junky diet, if he was on one beforehand!

[solar nova]

It's the most interesting log to come to the game in recent memory.

[eternal talon]

it was a set of two

[subtle verge]

I've not kept up with the theories and arguments, so I'll have to fill myself up on that at a later date.

[south lake]

Frankly, I still think that NAM-V is likely a bioweapon

It's just too convenient that it's so incredibly infectious in every possible scenario

[solar nova]

yep.

[eternal talon]

almost certainly

that was beanz' conclusion also.

[subtle verge]

Yeah, we're for sure switching up a lot of lifestyle things. Healthier diet, he's kicking smoking & sugary beverages, etc. etc.

[south lake]

Like, it achieves infection in mere hours after coming into contact with an area that had NAM-V present four weeks ago?

Then goes on to completely saturate the host body, making almost every kind of fluid infectious?

On top of the absolutely ridiculous R0

[eternal talon]

what was the r-naught? i forgot

[south lake]

And is able to infect VIA fluid, aerosolization, and physical contact?

I forget the exact number, but it was just below..

..Of course my brain forgets it right as I go to use the information.

One second.

[eternal talon]

even if you manage to subdue it temporarily, it stays in your system until it eventually kills you

[south lake]

R0 of 17

So 17 people infected per 1 carrier

For reference, Measles had an R0 of between 12 and 18

So look at pre-vaccination Measles outbreaks for an idea of how quickly that shit spreads

[subtle verge]

Ebola also ranks at an R0 of 16.

[south lake]

Going off the 2014 outbreak, Ebola's R0 is around 1.8

[solar nova]

R0 is contextual, from my understanding.

[south lake]

Fair

Ebola also kills quite fast

IIRC

[solar nova]

In the U.S., it's going to be barely infectious, but in an impoverished nation, it becomes considerably harder to control.

Same for Covid, pre-counter-measures and post-coutner-measures my understanding is that the R0 is not the same.

[eternal talon]

didn't it break out initially somewhere isolated in north-west africa?

[subtle verge]

R-naughts are really only meant to be used when in reference to an unvaccinated populace versus a vaccinated populace, etc. Also has a lot to do with general population and more.

[solar nova]

And then the victims are used to fuel a complicated colony structure that proceeds to establish control over large areas and aggressively expand to new ones.

The parasite (presumably) side of things is pretty out there itself.

[eternal talon]

it literally says no to death. it can't even die from eating all it's food, so long as it infected one guy with the parasite during the entire outbreak

that's what happened in the meteor

fuckin' allens down there sleeping for 65 million years

[south lake]

I think Measles would be a better comparison model for just sheer spread, given the comparatively low lethality rate to Ebola

Since Ebola's lethality rate, while lower than NAM-V, is still about 50% on average, and anywhere from 25-90% in actuality

Plus speed of death

[solar nova]

In general, it's pretty hard for nature to produce viruses that are both transmissible and virulent. It's even hard for a bioengineer to manufacture something with those properties.

[south lake]

Aye

[eternal talon]

part of the thing though is it was asymptomatic for the first few months

[south lake]

So either it's an extremely, improbably rare alien Hypervirus of some kind

Or it's a bioweapon

[eternal talon]

(in terms of killing and severe symptoms)

thing is like a game of plague inc

waiting until it's amassed enough infected to flip the switch

[south lake]

Mm, depends. We have at least one example of a virus that can incubate for literal years before showing symptoms.

Rabies.

In that regard it's a lot alike, because once you show symptoms, there's no helping you.

You're dead. End of.

[eternal talon]

same as nam-v

[south lake]

Not exactly the same

People don't go (literally) rabid, frothing at the mouth, becoming impossibly hydrophobic, etc.

[eternal talon]

once your isolated with nam-v, you stay isolated

[south lake]

But yeah

[eternal talon]

they did infect a giant cuttlefish so there's that

[south lake]

I wouldn't be surprised if the thing had some kind of randomized, biological "timer"

So the whole thing doesn't go off at once

Metaphorical time-delayed detonations.

But yeah, if it's not a bioweapon, I'll be legitimately shocked

And probably call bullshit

Because the concerted, global effort it would take to make a near-perfect hypervirus evolve naturally like that would be unfathomable

[eternal talon]

and given what hammerstein found, it's also proven to infect species from different planets and universes

so mutating to infect humans wasn't a fluke

[south lake]

That's

Actually more natural than you would think

It's why we have extremely strict sanitation protocols for people coming back from space trips and shit

You don't wanna bring some unknown pathogen back to Earth that our immune systems have literally zero experience with, historical or otherwise

[eternal talon]

we have statistics from state of truth for the first year or so and how many died.

by those calculations, entire world gone by 2059

[south lake]

Same idea as Spanish Flu, if your immune system doesn't know what it is, it can't fight it

[eternal talon]

it's 2064 rn

[south lake]

Meaning, even though it's "just" the flu

It'll kill you as if you were bleeding from every orifice

[eternal talon]

gross

[south lake]

(The flu can be and is still lethal under the correct circumstances by the way, and was until the advent of penicillin IIRC)

[late raven]

where did we find out the current year?

[eternal talon]

oh bishop you maniac, how the fuck did you survive two years here

[eternal talon]

1 log that mentions the events that take place during r3 and give a timestamp, and from using that date and the canon rundown dates from the wrdn twitter

wrdn twitter just doesnt give years

we have the dates of every rundown

past and present

[south lake]

But yeah

Given NAM-V's alien origins, it's not that unrealistic that it'd be so horrendously lethal to us

Our immune systems literally don't know what it is

[eternal talon]

was just as lethal to them, given the wasteland that is destination

[south lake]

And by the time it figures out "Hey hold the fuck up, this is a pathogen"

It's too late

And our body can only overcompensate

[eternal talon]

and they were mountains more advanced than us

[south lake]

Yeah but you're missing the point I'm making, Frostty.

[eternal talon]

all this land gone, cleansed of civilization

[south lake]

And I'm not saying it's not a bioweapon either

[eternal talon]

and all thats left of them is a boulder.

[eternal talon]

i'm know, i'm just adding on

i'm just sayin' that it was just as lethal to them

weither they found it or they made it, we know the result.

fuck, what'd it mean if they found it

[south lake]

You're adding on stuff that's completely irrelevant to the point. It's like focusing on "OH MY GOD XYZ CAUSES THIS AND THIS" while glossing over the little snippet that says "Easily treatable with proper medications"

[eternal talon]

the same way we did

[eternal talon]

nam-v's not easily treatable though

[south lake]

🤦

Forget it.

[eternal talon]

what

i know what you said, you were talking about how our immune system wouldn't know what the fuck to do

and i was saying we weren't the only ones fucked by it

[harsh saffron]

Welcome back @subtle verge

[lofty warren]

Hi guys, is there a place were all the R7 lore is collected?

[lofty warren]

I mean all the logs

[burnt wren]

wiki and whatever frossty uses

[subtle verge]

Hey, there! Check the pins! The notion.so link will take you to the timeline & database of every log available from R1 to now. The wiki also has all of the logs, as well. :)

[subtle verge]

Thanks, Duck!

[lofty warren]

Hey! Thanks, should’ve checked the pins! I’ll be reading up now. Gracias!

[eternal talon]

I have my own collection of all the text logs as screenshots. Audio logs, i just use the notion.so like everybody else

[lilac island]

What's a Neonate and why are they so important?

What's our business with them?

[burnt wren]

In short: they are artificial humans. Not clones, straight up "make your own at home".
Warden is trying to grow them to replace us. His goal in Rundown 6 was to find a way to make them invisible to sleepers, so that Neonates could roam the complex freely without having to expand weekly supply of ammunition just to get through a single security door.

We know for a fact that he almost succeed: he created a neonate invisible to normal sleepers, but scouts could still detect them. Warden is currently trying to patch that.

[lilac island]

So they're basically artificial replacements for us

Do they look like us? Like humans?

@lilac island cool video with the log of schaeffer's encounter with one(unit 22) and some visuals of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvUV3jQDV_8

[eternal talon]

(note this is a unit, created by the warden, not how they originally looked under team insight)

originally they were just "normal" dudes that grew to adult size in about a couple days. problem being, they still had the mental capacity of children, so fuckers abandoned the project

wrdn used the scraps along with whatever from nam-v he used to make his units that are invisible to sleepers

https://www.notion.so/ab68b94496bd4b27bec291de65ebd510?v=9c98784771d740f3b605ff63763b4963&p=bd87743403c54cd3a931792bbf13480e&pm=s -> here is the push for faster growth log, this log gives us most of the information we know on the specifics of the rise project.

[lilac island]

Interesting, thanks guys

[clear furnace]

So when we are teleported in R6 and R7, where do we go?

[stuck aspen]

alpha sector

[burnt wren]

Short answer: alien planet.

Long answer: to a different dimension where time is 80 times slower than ours, and ALSO to a different planet.
The scientists managed to pull out coordinates from one the data cubes and they point to a Butterfly Nebula.

But the problem is those coordinates might mean absolutely nothing in our universe, so they kinda wasted time on that.

[clear furnace]

So was the complex built to study teleportation or something else and teleportation was just a byproduct?

[eternal talon]

no

[burnt wren]

Initially it was a mining facility.

[eternal talon]

read the "for dummies" doc pls

it explains the basics

[wanton fossil]

^

[burnt wren]

It was later repurposed into a research facility also when they realized they found not what they expected.

[eternal talon]

it's pinned in this channel

anything that it doesn't answer or any additional questions you have we'd be happy to answer

[eternal talon]

where'd you get alpha sector from?

[stuck aspen]

nowhere

throwing it there as a bait

[eternal talon]

we have no official name for the planet, and it's jumped around in the community alot before eventually ending up with the name "destination"

[stuck aspen]

i love misleading people by spreading incorrect information

[eternal talon]

like the allens, we have no canon name

[eternal talon]

please look up and read the channel description

[clear furnace]

Man the lore to this game is fucking awesome

[eternal talon]

it is quite the mountain, yes.

[finite vine]

yea it’s sick

[lucid crescent]

Do you guys know if the prisoners know they respawn or is there voice lines after you die alluding to your previous interaction or a bug

[burnt wren]

Please clarify. What do you mean by Respawn and by previous interactions?

[lucid crescent]

Well when I respawn sometimes a voice line comes up like "that was a close one". And also the sound effect when you teleport to the sand dunes plays. So I was curious if they knew we respawn or is this a bug with the voice lines.

[eternal talon]

no, respawn mechanics/checkpoints aren't canon

the voice lines are just flavor

[solemn kraken]

In the lore, the characters basically never die and do every mission first try.

I mean R4E1 first try, they are basically immortal at this point.

[celest pagoda]

Friend noticed Archive007 has been added to the website and the corrupted folder is clear

[eternal talon]

that's normal. it means they are preparing to eventually start adding 7.5 leaks into the corrupted folder

other than "keep an eye on the corrupted folder from now on" not much interesting.

[lucid crescent]

Cool thank you very much

[lucid crescent]

Noice thanks gamer

[harsh saffron]

Iirc they changed that pretty much directly after R7 release (or even shortly before that)

[celest pagoda]

Ach, ya right. Let's hope gamescom teases something

[harsh saffron]

would be pretty neat ^^

[south lake]

Damn, Frostty getting called out in the tweets lol

[eternal talon]

they asked me to write that

[eternal talon]

^

[livid grotto]

Lmao frostty

[burnt wren]

I still believe it was cringe

All of it, starting with the request

[still ether]

my lore wasn't good enough :(

[merry frost]

@livid grotto

😀

[livid grotto]

hi!

[merry frost]

I am learning about the lore!

[eternal talon]

the "for dummies" in the pins is a really good place to start! 🙂

[merry frost]

I'm not a dummy....

[eternal talon]

its not meant specifically for dummies,

it is a summary of all pre-apocalypse lore

as a sort of intro to cover a lot of information in an informative manner

better than mass-messages

as the lore is quite dense

[merry frost]

I'm not dense...

[eternal talon]

the lore is

it is a looooot of information

and is quite difficult to get into and learn for the first time

given how it is structured in about ~200 or so logs

some of which we don't have specific dates for

[merry frost]

@livid grotto pls summarize loar for me

[eternal talon]

just reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeead

[toxic wagon]

Read

[eternal talon]

What are you guys most excited for/expecting in 7.5?

[livid grotto]

read smh my head 😔

[eternal talon]

Shake my head my head

Lel

[burnt wren]

Don't expect much. Probably a proper objective from Schaeffer for once. All others were opportunistic by Schaeffer interfering with our main objective and E1 was a test.
So maybe we'll ACTUALLY do something he wants us to do.

Either that, or we'll see Warden trying to fight back. Maybe even BIOCOM...

[winged tangle]

Do you think the immortal appearing inside of a matter wave room has any importance

[burnt wren]

No idea. I didn't pay attention where he came from...

I guess it impliest how he got in

And then he also appears again planetside

So i guess he can teleport around?

Or something teleports him around...

[eternal talon]

In e1?

In the finale one of the immortals spawns on the pad of a teleporter

[eternal talon]

I've got a problem

Schaeffer monster log #1. How does he remember the fires?

Wasn't he hired way after SMC burned the bodies of the locals and the red cross?

[harsh saffron]

We got this one log in R7 where they kinda implied that KSOs share memories through Biocom, so I would assume there could have been another KSO present. (or it's just a different body-bonfire)

[eternal talon]

there is no way it is the same one, it is at least two immortals. the first immortal would arrive on destination days after we've already come and gone if it showed up with us, but the one we encounter there is only minutes.

it's very weird but it makes sense. since durant's plants were sent to destination before he left but when he got there they were already completely dried

so when we went there and came back, it'd arrive after we'd already have been gone, and would have missed us

we also dont encounter it where we teleported back to.

so it'd likely have wandered off somewhere

the one we encounter at the end likely is the one we fought on destination that used the teleporter to get back to earth because that way actually makes sense, since it just has to catch a portal back and there is no delay in the 85-1 time ratio

the difference in time is weirdly one-way

[burnt wren]

We're still unclear on this one actually.

They could be sharing memories, or Warden could be sharing "KSO tips and tricks to survive in the complex" with them, which makes sense for him to do.

[harsh saffron]

Good point, haven't thought of that tbh.
Memory sharing sounds likely to me tho, with Schaeffer talking about different memories in R6D1 for exmaple.

could just be stuff he forgot but w/e

[toxic wagon]

The crazy man

And also he forgets many things

[obtuse mist]

name of the viruis

that infects everyone in the complex

[toxic wagon]

Nam-V?

[obtuse mist]

thank you

[winged tangle]

I got two questions what do you mean by 85-1 time ratio? I found the log made by Durant referencing the plants they sent 3 days prior being rotted/dead for some time. But I can’t find anything referencing the 85-1 time ratio. My second question is since the parasite that causes Nam-V was located inside the egg of Cretasium 77A and it’s theorized that whatever crash landed on the planet knew how to utilize the data blocks with the MWP; is it possible we are dealing with a “GraveMind” situation in regards to the immortal? The humans don’t understand how to control the jumps really but what if this immortal does?

[eternal talon]

its one of the two new stokes logs. will link in a moment.

it is not a hive mind, it is simply a hive.

the allens were a completely separate species that were infected by nam-v and the parasite.

the immortal is undoubtably human in origin

https://www.notion.so/Timeline-0e93a62e8cfd44b3a36beb4ab245a2d0?p=ec970edd9bf540bb8b3067bcd84ccc45&pm=s
It's not a relativity issue. This is a calculable change in the quantum frequency. Durant's time was running faster than our time. And not by a little - by a lot. Back of the envelope math is 1 second in our quantum frequency is about 85 seconds in Durant's quantum frequency. I mean I
[4.4 second silence]
STOKES
I want to scream but I don't have the energy. There are places that pass through time at a different rate. This is multi-dimensional physics. This is a change in our fundamental understanding of the universe, or it's another universe, or there are multiple versions of this universe and we happened to pick up the trace of a different universe or
[6.7 second silence]

[winged tangle]

I found the logs

Oop lol thanks

[eternal talon]

o7

if you have any more questions at any time, i am always here

[winged tangle]

I understand as much but the parasite isn’t. A hive can also still learn from its host no? So what if when they assimilate a species they learn from them? Or do you think they’re just beast? Just a predator hunting for food.

[eternal talon]

we know whatever variants or allens they encountered on destination exhibited hunting tactics

the sleepers dont do this

the scouts are a self-preservation method

a hive.. it depends. they don't have a central intelligence

the parasites use existing host genetic mateiral to create the different variants.

striker, shooter, giant, whatever

based on what would be best based on the individual host

they dont talk or communicate in like a language

they are very primal creatures

only yelling

so most likely no, they are probably not intelligent at all

you may have a couple specifically intelligent parasites controlling hosts, but it'd still be limited to those several.

[winged tangle]

And how do we know they’re just a hive?

And not a hive mind

On a different note how cool would it be if the neural implants in the humans were still active in the immortal? Meaning that the WARDEN was trying to stop us. There’s nothing to help sustain this idea just spit balling. I assume there’s lore that refutes the implants working after infection?

[burnt wren]

Because they act like it.

Their behavior is not much different from ants of bees, and they use conventional means of sound to transfer information.
They wouldn't need to scream to wake up others if they had some kind of telepathic link.

There is also no evidence of any sort of central mind or anything like that. We had Kraken in R6, but he didn't seem to have anything to do with sleepers apart from just being another unholy mutation.

[winged tangle]

Ahh duh that makes sense sorry

That make me chuckle

Bees: Dance Ants: Pheromones Sleepers: Fucking yell

But thanks for the info and a fun conversation both of you

[eternal talon]

new picture of sleeper tongue on a dead model. very different to intestines, also shown on model. could possibly be a parasite?

also stalks in b3 are either made of stone, or petrified wood. they aren't alive, though due to texture it leads me to believe it to be some kind of petrified wood.

also, a pond. so that's water on the surface sorted.

here is another picture of the stalks, very weird angles.

[solar nova]

With the petrified forest idea, I think that could imply that sleepers can destroy ecosystems.

Also possible that this was happening anyway, or is seasonal or something.

[eternal talon]

what's the calculation on that?

how long a season is on destination

because of the 85:1 thing

how the fuck do you solve for

7948800 seconds in summer ?

---

1 second 85 seconds

i remember doing it in high-school but i can't remember the process for the life of me

[clever night]

isn't it just 1948800 * 85 in this case ? are you talking about rule of 3 ?

[eternal talon]

i fixed the numbers

it's 85x faster on destination on earth

if you multiply the seconds it'd take longer

i tried division, but got something crazy like 1 day.

[clever night]

well no you are correct, if 7948800 is the number of seconds in summer, then divided by 85 gives about a day

hold on

[eternal talon]

so the entire season of summer would last a single day?

you get what i mean? it makes no sense

[clever night]

Hold on let's recap

What is the value we're looking for

what does it mean

[eternal talon]

earth is 85:1 seconds faster than earth

summer on earth lasts 92 days

[clever night]

time goes 85x faster on Destination, right

[eternal talon]

how long is summer on destination

85 seconds on destination for 1 second on earth

[clever night]

But nothing says a summer on destination is a long as earth's summer on the same time unit

the further a planet is from it's star, the longer the seasons are compared to the other planets nearby

[eternal talon]

yeah, but rayalot mentioned seasonal

so i'm trying to find the plausibility of that

the distance of the sun is about the same as ours. 1 second

(assuming it is the same size as ours)

[winged tangle]

I think you guys are thinking about it weirdly. So when one second on Earth passes 85 seconds pass in destination. So summer would still last the 4 months but while we're in the first month of summer theyre done with summer on destination

[eternal talon]

why gtfo why. different ways time works in different plains of existence is always a headache

[clever night]

there is other variables to take into account such as the time to do a full revolution, it doesn't depending only on the distance I think

also depends on mass

[eternal talon]

who is dusty?

i dont understand the fanclub thing

[eternal talon]

i think its weither a: destination is faster relative, and time would seem normal while we are there for an extended period of time, or b) everything is super fast and every day it is a different season

fuck it can't be b

imagine how fast a day would be

the entire sky would be constantly flickering

of daynightdaynightdaynightdaynightdaynightdaynightday

the MWP is black-magic.

that is the answer.

[clever night]

dusty is a server member that is regularly active in #general and the club thingy is just a joke

[winged tangle]

So with the 85-1 ratio heres what I calculated. If we sent supplies to Destination on Monday and planned on going there Thursday there are 72 Earth hours in between those dates. So if 24 hours is 1440 minutes and 86,400 seconds. That would mean in those 72 hours. 7,344,000 seconds/122,400 minutes/2,040 hours/85 days would have passed at destination

[eternal talon]

Alternatively, during ef01 bishop was on destination for about a week earth-time, but he was on destination for 2 years, yes.

So he survived there, without supplies, somehow, for two years.

Because he came back alive a week later.

[winged tangle]

yes that maths out correctly

assuming about a week equals 8.5 days

[eternal talon]

It's rough numbers, yes. But we already knew it to be true, long before this conversation

Between ef01 and r7e1 it has been 762 years

On destination

And only ~9 on earth

If I remember correctly

I did the calculations quite a while ago

[winged tangle]

so 2 years there equals 730 days/17520 hours/1,051,200 seconds. Divide that by 85 you get 12367 seconds/306 hours/8.5 days

dimensional analysis is helping me RIP

i hated chemistry. still passed with an A tho lmao

[eternal talon]

Between June 5th 2055 (ef01) and an unknown month and day in 2064 (r7)

[winged tangle]

you want me to try the math

[eternal talon]

I know what it is

It's about ~760

[winged tangle]

you know the month and day

[eternal talon]

No

We won't know the month and the day, ever

Well,

For e1 we will

[winged tangle]

i think we could lol

it would suck tho

[eternal talon]

When r7 stats are published on the wrdn twitter

Because that is the set end date of that rundown

R3 was in 2063

[winged tangle]

ahh i see what youre saying

[eternal talon]

We've been doing rundown in Canon for about two years

[winged tangle]

so what are you saying lol

[eternal talon]

We know the exact date of the end of every rundown.

[winged tangle]

ahh ok

[eternal talon]

(That is published on the twitter)

We don't have dates for any of the levels

Only the year

[winged tangle]

i see what youre mathing

[eternal talon]

Since all levels are unlocked at the same time

We don't know how long it took us for certain ones, just that we beat all of them between two set dates.

https://twitter.com/GTFO_The_Warden

so for example, r5 ended may 4th

[winged tangle]

yeah and i just got 765 years with my calculations

[eternal talon]

r3 ended november 5th 2063

[winged tangle]

so i see what youre saying that from start to now 765 years have passed on Destination

[eternal talon]

using maths, you can find the year for every rundown

we don't have the end date for r6 yet on the twitter tho

[eternal talon]

from ef01 to now

from humanity's very first steps on destination (aside from scientists going missing) to now.

[winged tangle]

unless they tell us we're teleporting to a point in time in Destination

[winged tangle]

yeah that what i meant i should've clarified sorry

[eternal talon]

don't apologize

we all good here

in r7e1 we go to the same site we do in r6b1

if we had the published dates on the twitter, we could find out how long it's been since these two pics

[winged tangle]

I noticed that

i was like : 0

[eternal talon]

did we play together earlier today? your name seems familiar

[winged tangle]

Im on a lot

but i dont think so

[merry frost]

why the monsters tongue so long?

[eternal talon]

multiple theories, but most likely is it is the repurposed intestines of the infected host

and well.. your intestines are quite long.

[winged tangle]

I agree with frosty but instead of a tongue i thought is was like the proboscis of a blood worm.

[eternal talon]

yeah, intestines was the leading theory for a very long time but this find has me questioning it

[toxic wagon]

also Scouts Tendrils

many of them and long

[finite vine]

nah, time is relative. when you are on destination, you experience time normally. the same with earth. the only difference is, on destination, time passes 85 times quicker relative to earths time.

[dense obsidian]

Bro, where the cafeteria at in the complex

[burnt wren]

Good question. Been a problem since forever. Not a single toiler too.

[dense obsidian]

and not even 1 couch dude

[eternal talon]

Ik

[burnt wren]

After thinking about it for the last 20 minutes - I think that the main issue with gtfo lore is that you don't really engage with it directly through the game.

Say what you want about Dark Souls lore, but one of the things about is that you often engage with various mythical creatures from it in the actual game, or you meet a creature fist and then later you find out how it came to be, why it was there of all places, shit like that.

GTFO, in that sense, is very lacking.
The only notable entities with contact with is the Warden who just gives us orders that we don't understand, and sleepers about whom we still know disgustingly little. The best thing we have so far are Shaff and Klaus, and even then we haven't seen them once.

One can hope that we'll get something better soon, but I don't know... The best "interactive" thing we had was Kraken, and with him we only know his name.

[finite vine]

well the devs want to keep the game going, which is probably why they are slowly releasing all the lore. and it’s taking a while., 6 months for a new rundown is brutal.

also they only really tell story through the logs and environment. it’s not like there are “quests” that you have to go complete that reveal more of the story and characters to you, or cutscenes to watch.

[south lake]

I dunno, I feel like they're leaning on the environmental storytelling too heavily for what the game is

You can only give so many variations of "Something Awful Happened Here" before it becomes old hat

[solemn kraken]

yeah but Dark Souls is PEAK storytelling. you don't want to compare it to that

[rocky wraith]

The bucket

[winged tangle]

You know what we need. Mecha WRDN.

I’m joking

[edgy hearth]

No no

Mecha wrdn r3-
End me

[ocean lake]

Bishop is a twink

[brisk brook]

recently watched 1982 "The Thing" and i wonder if dev team got some ideas from the creature when it was in that dog cage with all of its tendrils

[cobalt mulch]

if they ever breach the inner, do u think they'll find any allen tech or allen tools in there? like..

... wow, i have a coat just like that! what are the odds..

[ocean lake]

how dare you think the devs might be unoriginal

[toxic wagon]

[burnt wren]

The Thing might've inspired many a thing. It's pretty much the best cosmic body horror has to offer. No one ever managed to replicate the vibe of that movie since.
...
Maybe Dead Space.

[compact osprey]

i could not think of a single tonal commonality between the thing and dead space to be honest

[eternal talon]

Not even the 2011 sequel. 1982 movie still holds up today due to the incredible practical effects

[compact osprey]

yeah the fx on the thing are fucking incredible

[eternal talon]

That's where insight got the matter wave projector and the data cubes, so it's extremely likely

[burnt wren]

I bet old rundowns will be brought back in some time travelling shenanigans.

Either that, or HSU nightmares.

[harsh saffron]

could also just be like the alpha level was re visited in R3C1

but that would probably change too much idk

[final sentinel]

Maybe fixing the reactor from R5D2?

[eternal talon]

yooooooo, was using midjourney AI for pictures of the inner, used the prompt "mining underground complex, yucatan, monsters, alien technology"
these are the results. 10/10

[burnt wren]

Pretty good indeed

AI terrifies me

[marsh axle]

looks like it could've been GTFO concept art

[eternal talon]

Schaeffer being under wrdn control in r4 and only being obtained in r5.

They might be planning on trying to do some time travel stuff in relation with the Allens to revisit past rundowns, yes

Maybe at the end of r8 or whatever we meet living Allens and get access to whatever tech they have to do that, or they could send us to different rundowns at different points of time to do new secondary objectives that weren't initially in those rundowns

Maybe to even pre-collapse to try and fix the problem at the source?

Or even back to the waaay past on destination, to see their civilization ourselves, though that'd bring in new problems, as time travel always does

[shut mountain]

I mean you can also just do retrospective story telling of Schaeffer and his gang

[devout geyser]

[tawny vector]

I heard someone say that we hacked into the warden for Schaffer in e1, this true?

[eternal talon]

False

We inserted a chip into a biocom mainframe for Schaeffer and henrikkson

[final sentinel]

Welp I’m wrong :3

[eternal talon]

They have partial control of biocom, but they still do not have control of wrdn. Wrdn is like an invasive file or virus, he isn't the system itself.

Best described as

"Two puppeteers controlling the same set of strings"

[celest pagoda]

Well worded, damn.

[eternal talon]

Ty

Also it wasn't e1, it was d2

[tawny vector]

Ah gotcha

Man the warden is such a fascinating part of the lore, I wish we knew more about him/her/they/it

[burnt wren]

Shaff refers to him as "him" so there's no need to be guessing at the moment.

Which actually reminded me of something... How did Shaff knew it's an AI?

Actually he probably doesn't know... He just treats it for what it is - the objective stack giver. Wether it's an AI or a person typing orders on a keyboard makes no difference to him, nor to how to battle it - hack the order-giving system.

[tawny vector]

Is there a link to all the in game logs compiled by in game date? I've been reading up on the logs but by rundown, and in reverse

[burnt wren]

probably notion

[eternal talon]

the notion.so has a timeline of all of the logs in order.

[tawny vector]

The notion.so?

[eternal talon]

yes.

[tawny vector]

What is that

[eternal talon]

it is a community database in the pins here

it is maintained by chasetug and rayalot

#gtfo-lore message

[tawny vector]

Woah nice!!!

[eternal talon]

we have many community resources in the pins here.

[tawny vector]

😔🤌

👌

[toxic wagon]

Where Liquid Ocelot

[tawny vector]

BRB getting my hand cut off by ninja cyborg

[edgy hearth]

Memories broken
The truth goes unspoken I've even forgotten my name

Inb4 I referenced the wrong game

[quick grove]

Hmmm and so i lurke

I haven't spotted anything interesting

Whats new boys

[burnt wren]

New from which point onward?

All the lore was found in the first 2 weeks of rundown, now there's nothing to discuss again until they release new update.

[heavy lodge]

does "revisiting old rundowns" mean prisoners are gonna send back to those previous levels to do some new objectives again?

[burnt wren]

They did say there's gonna be a lore twist on it, so probably not so simple.

Possibility #1: Reliving experience. Either through HSU nightmares, or some training program... Maybe just Schaeffer trying to get some info.

Possibility #2: We'll play as Schaeffer and his squad doing those objectives instead. Makes no sense lore wise though.

Possibility #3: We will actually be just sent straight back. But there's no way the objectives will be the same - it'll make no sense.

In short: flashback / diffeent PoV / same place, difeerent job

[eternal talon]

Possibility #4: Allen time travel and us doing the same objectives to not break the timeline

[lilac island]

Quantum eldritch time-travel aliens *snorts another line*

[celest pagoda]

Honestly, nightmare flashbacks or the time fuckery seems the most likely.

[final sentinel]

Possibility #5: We play 10 different versions of Crypto

I could see us coming back to Cryptomnesia in some way

[burnt wren]

I'm still horrified by a realisation that discrepant / random audio logs could be the hint at some kind of multiverse or whatever.

[solemn kraken]

Just please do not change the previous rundowns too much. (Except R5B2 just delete that one)

[burnt wren]

Don't care either way, just give me game to play.

[lilac island]

Would it make sense to view playing older rundowns as playback of an old cortex interface log recording or something like that?

[burnt wren]

Except, you know... Optimisation, balance, reasonable objectives, yadi yada.

[solemn kraken]

Technically game is already there to play

[solemn kraken]

Reasonable objectives 😂

[burnt wren]

I will not survive another fucking C2 PE

[solemn kraken]

in GTFO where picking up a box sounds the alarm of the apocalypse

[solemn kraken]

Huh? that one was not to bad. I found C3PE more difficult

[burnt wren]

Just not a fan of poisonous crap

[solemn kraken]

Ah in that case ....

[burnt wren]

Actually, what's the correct term here? Poisnous Fog, Toxic Fog, Infectious Fog?

[solemn kraken]

I thought infectious but ...

I thought pablo was also canon for the immortal. apparently I was wrong stupid game

[burnt wren]

Tank Prime

I'm still bothered by the fact that he looks like a heart from certain angles ❤️

It's very weird

[solemn kraken]

Leave transformers out of this

[eternal talon]

Infectious because it is nam-v particulates.

Infection fog

[eternal talon]

That entirely depends if biocom keeps, or deletes objective stacks when completed. Erasing or archiving them. That would also require it to be somehow able to scan through our memories or what we have explicitly seen in those levels like a video

And I don't think but not 100% memories work like that

And as far as I'm aware we have neither a cybernetic eye or one of those helmets from halo combat evolved with a video headpiece

[burnt wren]

warden could always record visual data straight from our eyes, considering the chip in our neck

if he can transfer objective stacks to us, surely the feedback is two-sided?

[agile oriole]

lore is shoot zombie n die

[eternal talon]

not technically zombies

[burnt wren]

No, that's gameplay

[eternal talon]

everyone involved is still technically alive, if not human anymore.

[agile oriole]

i read the entire red stone minecraft book
ik what im talkinga but

[eternal talon]

send me a graph of a simple 2x3 redstone door then

[clever night]

Warden seeing us completing tasks of a madman who took over

[agile oriole]

basic redstone

[eternal talon]

best he can do is just issue conflicting orders, which no doubt would lead us to going back-n-forth over and over

[lilac island]

dauda.exe has stopped working

[clever night]

Yeah warden doesn't get much choice, right in A1 it updated our objective stack with "do the command thingy" and in B1 "go get him the collection case, i'm unable to can to open the door"

I like the sort of compromising nature this brought

[burnt wren]

That was actually a genius move on Schaeffer's part as well

He can't just ask us to do stuff, he had to actively interject with our mission first by blocking doors and what not, leaving us no choice

[clever night]

But yeah i'm wondering if the warden is just observing and hatching a plan, cause it certainly does not want to lose the team, and given it updated the objective stacks, it means it's listening to Schaeffer talking to us, which means it knew about waking up some other guy and most importantly get to the mainframe

[burnt wren]

That being said, the transition to D2 was too quick

Like really? It was that easy to make us ignore Warden?

[clever night]

I agree, it's kinda confusing

Do you think C3 happens before or after D1 ? I'd say before because that's what the order is, but i'm wondering if the D1 -> D2 step goes through the proxy step in C3

[lilac island]

they forgor 💀
fugeddaboudid ayy

[burnt wren]

the chronological events are always letter>number so

[clever night]

Yeah that's what I was thinking of

[eternal talon]

bruh.. what happened to your graphics

[burnt wren]

wtf was even our objective in c3...

i don't remember anymore

and i just beat it too

[eternal talon]

get.. ammo?

[honest sky]

Modded Minecraft Andy

[burnt wren]

wtf did hendrikson was asking of us?

[eternal talon]

java>bedrock
edit: i make my own modpacks

[eternal talon]

upload somethin'somethin' into a terminal that caused a 20 minute alarm on accident

[burnt wren]

ah, okay i rewatched it

the uplink was our original objective from warden

hendrikson just used it as opportunity install a "...sniffer?..."

[eternal talon]

did he have us upload a different command instead

ah.

[burnt wren]

at which point why did he even contacted us, he didn't need to

[eternal talon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_analyzer

[burnt wren]

he was hoping the uplink would "hide" his hacking shenanigans

[eternal talon]

this is what he had us install

[burnt wren]

it didn't

[eternal talon]

this is a "sniffer"

basically a tap into all data sent over a network

[clever night]

Given that we as a player don't do anything like that, I'd say he did the sniffer remotely (if that's possible, I'm not really versed into the networking side of thing)

[eternal talon]

i have no idea.

[clever night]

And the uplink was the cover

Oh yeah it does seem to be doable remotely

Especially on wireless networks

[eternal talon]

they could have snuck by there and left it for us if they saw the warden sending us to this zone.. but they couldn't know that without the sniffer.. (assuming hardware)

its a mystery.

[celest pagoda]

The Warden sent us for 1 small uplink, given the short objective we were granted no supplies. However due to Schaef and Henriksons "Reckless" actions, we are forced to push forward and wait for them to override the now locked doors.

[burnt wren]

At least Warden was kind enough to point us to the nearest armory

[merry frost]

@livid grotto how do the zombies have babies?

[livid grotto]

what the fuck

[stuck aspen]

what

[livid grotto]

you mean the SLEEPERS?!

how dare you call them zombies...

[solemn kraken]

Birthers

[merry frost]

why do the zombies turn black and spiky?

[livid grotto]

don't talk to me after what you said in the other GTFO server 😡

[solemn kraken]

Cause they live in the hood

[merry frost]

how did aliens live under the desert of quebec all along and humans didnt find them?

[merry frost]

who's the daddy then

[solemn kraken]

The tanks

[merry frost]

[ocean lake]

I mean they aren't too far off

[livid grotto]

what the

HERETIC

[ocean lake]

mutated from a virus and now just lives to kill and reproduce mindlessly

[solemn kraken]

Or big chargers but they never stay around to look after the babies ....

[eternal talon]

What in the fuck kind of trolling

1. not zombies, I've told you this before
   2)the mothers create more sleepers by using.. natural methods it would seem. Just using normal human reproductive systems to boost its numbers, albeit a bit differently, since most women irl don't tend to have ~60 children at once.
   3)the chargers are mutations derived from existing genetic material in the hosts. The black armor they have is some kind of natural plating, like chitin is for bugs.
2. destination is not on earth and we are nowhere near Quebec, at all. We are in Mexico.
   5)not necessarily. It could be any sleppers not just tanks, or depending on the levels of mutation, it may not require other sleepers at all and only the mother.