gtfo-lore

[thick ridge]

How do we know? Is there a log for this

[raw terrace]

more so cause they don't seem to have anything

like

down there

[thick ridge]

Oh, I see

Does the mom have anything
...down there?

[raw terrace]

probably but she does it on her own so

[royal crow]

wtf was this convo

[thick ridge]

the birthing or the getting pregnant? She does seem to make her own babies.

Actually, I wonder if there is some lore that would confirms she creates her babies on her own because as far as I've known and learned from the game, we don't truly know

[royal crow]

she does make her own babies

[thick ridge]

Interesting

Hmm. Surely if a Mom has a mechanism to create babies, the Scout could have some kind of mechanism to get pregnant

[royal crow]

uuuuuuuuh

no?

i dont think the scout does

[next panther]

I hope so 😈

[royal crow]

where maid pics

[thick ridge]

But we don't know that for sure, though

I'm trying to find confirmation in the lore

[royal crow]

why would you want to do that

like

search for this and know

why

just why

[next panther]

Soontm

[thick ridge]

I'm just interested in the lore

[opaque crown]

Keep going this is very interesting

[thick ridge]

Looks like they can get pregnant AND experience loss

[honest summit]

[toxic wagon]

[feral shoal]

how many people do we think worked at Garganta? Im guessing 5000 but realistically idk, is there a source on this anywhere?

[royal crow]

5000 is way too low

keep in mind Garganta is the size of a city

[feral shoal]

had no idea - 10 000?

[tender berry]

Assuming the whole complex is as wide as the rural town, 20000+ isn't the overexaggerated numbers

[feral shoal]

okay cool

i had no idea it was so lorge

[tender berry]

I mean, we haven't is the habitant, Food/Luquid Supplies, the breakrooms and the other's, only the worksite was discovered by the prisoners

@feral shoal BTW wanna play?

[royal crow]

wdym

[feral shoal]

ah no, curently working on a video project for this game

[tender berry]

Assuming the the workers HAVE TO lived there like some BCS shit when they have to worked on the metrorite

[feral shoal]

fair enough

[royal crow]

btw its way more than 10k

[feral shoal]

its just for a model

[tender berry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Q33IOZk08

[feral shoal]

beg your pardon what lol

[royal crow]

KDS deep has around 24k KSOs in HSUs

so

[feral shoal]

wtf

[eternal talon]

a rural town, my brother in christ, you would not be wrong if use assumed 100k+

for reference, Merida, the giant city in the picture, has 1.2 MILLION residents

garganta is like the size of 4/5 meridas

and that is just horizontally, it goes over a thousand meters down

it is --insane-- how big garganta is

[eternal talon]

yeah, it is literally like a secret underground country

[eternal talon]

👆 total of 32,000 mind slaves

24k in DEEP, 8k spread about.

[tender berry]

sry, I'm taking about "rural" town like SEA

[royal crow]

Damn, Merida just got called rural town

😔

[tender berry]

No like, I mean something like Rural Province in Thailand lol

T /// . /// T don't publicly execute meh

[lilac dragon]

How do they get clothes on prisoners? They have no downtime between operations, and by extension how do they have gigantic weapons inside the pods with them?

[royal crow]

1st: the prisioners already had clothes before going into the HSU
2nd: i guess they have their weapons inside the HSU or the HSU has a comparment for them

[lilac dragon]

Yes but how did those clothes get on? You can change clothes between missions and such so does the warden wake them up and change them?

[royal crow]

Thats more of a gameplay thing

And not lore

Thats why lorewise You always see the 4 prisioners with the same set of clothes

[lilac dragon]

Oh

Makes sense

Who made the warden? Obviously someone had to design and manufacture the warden and the prison so who do you think did it? Also why are the prisoners tweaking tf out in the menu screen but when you get into a game their level headed?

[royal crow]

1st: Aliens known as Collectors Made the Warden
2nd: they are crazy

[lilac dragon]

Man wth, I thought you were just prisoners and facing punishment, where did the aliens come into play breh. And also, its cannon that some of the prisoners wear JORTS to rundowns?

[royal crow]

The Aliens crashed and wiped out the dinasours
Garganta was built as a mine site to get i forgot what then later discovered the Alien ship

NAM-V came from the Alien ship causing basically everything we see

[royal crow]

Yes
It's cannon lol

[lilac dragon]

WOOOOOO

[lilac dragon]

Of aliens are running the show why send prisoners down to collect stuff? If the material their collecting is a alien spaceship why would aliens need it?

[royal crow]

They are not collecting Alien stuff (they send us to recover the MWP and thats it)

Besides they are all dead

They send prisioners to do various tasks in the complex to get their objectives
Which later in R8 we discover the warden wants to save humanity

[lilac dragon]

Hmm interesting

[lilac dragon]

Is humanity completely wiped out?

[royal crow]

Outside of the complex, yes

As far as we know everyone is dead

NAM-V is extremely lethal

Nothing survives

[coral gorge]

well… akhtually

A bit of rich bastards survived in bunkers and whatnot

but they cant rly do shit

[royal crow]

They are not humans :3

They Will die eventually anyways

Who cares

[coral gorge]

so you’re telling me… If i eat the rich, im not a cannibal?

[royal crow]

Mhm

[eternal talon]

read the "for dummies" doc in the pins of this channel.

it covers pretty much everything.

[eternal talon]

also akhtually there are sleepers up there on the alt// worldline, so not really "dead"

[opaque crown]

Project rise is real

[random nymph]

Hmm...

[honest summit]

If Almost all secondaries and overloads are Cannon, then what the hell did we do in R8C1 secondary?

Its supposed to restart the Ventilation

But it Just doesnt Work since fog still appears and disappears as usual

[coral gorge]

I guess its one of the hundred secondaries that exist for flavor
Same as the one in R8B3. Why the fuck does Scheaffer need the vials? Like why?

is that his food?

[honest summit]

Its for His Hormone Therapie 🏳️‍⚧️

[coral gorge]

Gay Scheaffer confirmed

[honest summit]

Explains why He piped Henrikson from the Back 💀

[warped bloom]

f

how did ppl figure out the r8a2 sec passcodes ahead of time

[loud urchin]

Codes are just a hash function of a date or something

So if you reverse engineer to figure out what transformation is used you can apply that to every future date

[raw terrace]

i saw in a comment- idk if this is true- but those hormones suppress appetite

so it could be something for him to not die of hunger or maybe for other hsu personnel to survive longer missions idk

r8 secondaries and overloads are just, volatile and u can make arguments for them being canon or not

the only ones we know for sure are a2 and e2 hit the rest u can just say shure and justify it or not

[royal crow]

yeah thats right

[raw terrace]

:D

i didnt misinfo weeeee

[tranquil sentinel]

Wouldn't suppressing your appetite for a while just slowly kill you either way

Schaeffer should invest in cigarettes instead 👍

[unborn wharf]

im sure this has been asked a million times, and just redirect me to where it was said. What is da deal with R8A2 secondary

[royal crow]

a little easter egg

there isnt any clear explanation

we actually die there
or we play as another team in Nightmare dimension
or is just Hammerstein experiments

[regal olive]

curiosity killed the cat team

hammerstein was doing some very fucked up things to advance his understanding of the creatures and get a nobel prize or something

he ended up dying horribly

this seems to be just one of those experiments

which one was the log where an employee is trying to write a speech and ends up ranting about hammersten for a line or two and is extremely happy that he died in horrible agony being torn apart by the monsters

[raw terrace]

hammerstein in alts and og is very funky wunky but yeh a2 is just like an omega "what if hammerstein got all the power he wanted"

[warped bloom]

I think its just a peek at a certain team in a certain timeline.. so not alt or original... like nightmare right

Like how it says on the pinned image

[honest summit]

It was already confirmed by devs that its Just a "What If" If our Team Made a wrong Turn and is Not related to cannon

[raw terrace]

we just very completionist :[

[warped bloom]

well theres infinite timelines

[raw terrace]

but we teleport there

so what sense would it make that we are just suddenly other people

[warped bloom]

yea well maybe the teleport is just a fake out and we continue with the main

[raw terrace]

that seems weird to have after every other tp has just been, the characters teleporting

[toxic wagon]

Theoretically. By that logic. Modded rundowns are also potentially canon

[honest summit]

We are still in the secondary room, doing fent folds

[raw terrace]

i mean yes

[warped bloom]

if it doesnt somehow conflict with the story i suppose

[cobalt mulch]

imagine r8a2 without teleport .. most of the end wave monsters frozen to a ladder somewhere while ppl extract.. 🙂

[feral shoal]

lol where do i post a lore video

[fresh gyro]

here media reviews idk

[feral shoal]

can i post a video link here lol

[fresh gyro]

uhm

i mean

yea?

theres media perms

so itl even embed

[feral shoal]

bet

[eternal talon]

5 seconds in, wasn't an asteroid

smooth animations so far though

2:00 a quarantine was placed, two scientists just ignored it because they were lazy.

[royal crow]

🍿

[eternal talon]

Although there was no reason to suspect any biological or viral threat in quadrant 18, the SMC Operations Manual clearly states that any “unexpected volumes” or “uncharted regions” are to be evaluated under Hazard Level 3 Quarantine restrictions (yellow tag). Namely:

During the incident detailed in report #G06-A3-181, no such measures were taken.

2 researchers from the team reported minor flu-like symptoms in the weeks following the incident.

[fresh gyro]

oh god

frostty

torn asunder

[eternal talon]

4:50 keep in mind, it also escaped into the atlantic and reached as far as the UK via ocean currents, so it wasn't soley the one escapee responsible

(this was due to santonian relaxation camps on the coast, made to relieve stress for the workers)

[fresh gyro]

have mercy

[eternal talon]

the parasite's origins are technically unknown... true... but they both came from the ship

the parasite being the "main form of transmission" for nam-v isn't really accurate when nam-v infects through literally fucking everything except the vaccum of space where there is nothing to infect through

"without the parasite being present outside of garganta, it shouldn't be able to spread"

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

[royal crow]

Damn

[fresh gyro]

please

its dead

no more

[eternal talon]

"it is still unknown how the virus spreads"
i know you are telling it from the surface world's point of view here, but you have to think at least some people would notice at least one of the EVERY SINGLE methods

6:32 ah so you did mention england... but not the ocean currents or how it got there.
iirc the US and the UK were both infected pretty much simultaneously

6:44 "mortality = 100%" love to see it.
not if you are infected of course... but for its correctness

7:50 the vector for transmission is still everything

[fresh gyro]

tbh i did offer up this sacrifice

[eternal talon]

just note im not doing this out of malice, but out of a love for the lore. so far i haven't seen a single perfectly accurate YT gtfo lore video... ever

[fresh gyro]

i know

<3

[royal crow]

Why You don't try to make one?

[fresh gyro]

the sacrifice was worth it

[fresh gyro]

wait have you not ?

[royal crow]

What

[eternal talon]

no, i made the for dummies doc that has been in the pins for years

[fresh gyro]

ah

[coral gorge]

jesus i think i just read a murder

several even

[fresh gyro]

^

execution

in the name of lore

[crisp lance]

What is the kraken?

[raw terrace]

alien

[crisp lance]

Thats it? Just an alien that creates other wildlife. Also, ||Why was it in the complex during R8E2?||

[coral gorge]

Wordline spaghetti

prolly got warped in during the R8 merge

[queen gazelle]

Matter wave collapse that zone looks like the r6d1 starting terminal

The markers are the same

[crisp lance]

Interesting

[feral shoal]

Yeah I know it’s an alien ship but I didn’t see the need to go off on a tangent and then explain all the collector lore
My bad maybe I shouldn’t have placed it here it’s more of a story telling than an this is the lore - trying to tell it from the perspective at the time

[eternal talon]

^

Your editing style was by far the best I've ever seen in the context of a gtfo lore video

Personally I just feel it's really hard to skip a couple things and get the whole picture given how segmented the lore of this game is

A lot of it relies on itself in different places

[feral shoal]

That’s true, when I started the idea I wanted to try and cover an entirely science based approach before quickly realising that there wasn’t enough information for that and I also was not a big fan of the idea of making a 40 minute video so I tried to compromise by making a sort of story video instead. I had debated on mentioning the crashed ship but decided not to for story telling sake and trying to push it more to the real world

[eternal talon]

personally, I would go it via a timeline sort of thing, and start vaguely trillions of years ago in the butterfly nebula, talking about the collectors, the virus, the parasite, how they were exiled from their people under unknown circumstances, the countless universes they visited and collected specimens from, before having the virus and parasite break out aboard their ship and crash into the earth in whatever worldline they happened to be traveling through, then i'd go from there.

[eternal talon]

i would also most likely discuss how they were able to do that, what the MWP is, what worldlines are, how it/they work(s), and how they were using it.

I like being extremely fucking dense. a 1+ hour long video is just about what this game demands tbh.

[royal crow]

make one

:3

you are the only one that has the power and knowledge to do it

[coral gorge]

oh frosty, speaking of the exile thing - Scaler in his lore video brought up an interesting thing, he said that the time the collectors were apparently exiled for is also the amount of time that has passed since they crashed on earth. So is it possible thet werent actuallt „exiled” and instead more like „stranded”?

[eternal talon]

I'm not the one calling them exiles... the collectors themselves, through the conduit, verbatim, call themselves exiles.

I'm sure they'd know the definition of the word and not just... I don't know... stranded?

Besides, they didn't crash because any political thing as far as we know, -- the virus and the parasite just happened to break out of the collection and infected the crew, leaving the ship to drift.

On that note though, it wouldn't surprise me, and would be quite nice actually, if at some point 10cc discuss or make it known how that whole debacle went down on the vessel

Maybe in DoW given the multiverse they(10cc) have created?

[tender berry]

Ah fuck yes...

Dark Souls Ahhh ending shit right there, Fuck you Schaffer

[tender berry]

Silk song when?

[coral gorge]

game end yourself, now

[eternal talon]

not quite...
65,481,256 years in exile.

[coral gorge]

isnt the asteroid about 65 million years ago?

[eternal talon]

uh.... oh no

retroactive exile?

[coral gorge]

huh

yeahhh

they crashed

and their buddies said "skill issue guys, go fuck yourselves"

[eternal talon]

only after not hearing from them for 500 thousand years

[coral gorge]

that too

[eternal talon]

yeah, they probably dead

[coral gorge]

but i guess space travel is slow

[eternal talon]

i mean yeahhhhh relativity and all that...

except MATTER WAVE PROJECTOR

[coral gorge]

lol

lets just say it doesnt actually move you, it just moves the universe around you

then everything *might * make sense

[eternal talon]

did you forget about the destination sand, plants, and crystals in garganta in r8?

[coral gorge]

eeeeeeeeee

[eternal talon]

when destination is in the butterfly nebula 3k light years away

[eternal talon]

https://tenor.com/view/euu-gif-25682408

[coral gorge]

i mean i guess the sand is from a diffrent destination?

[eternal talon]

are you implying in that worldline destination is where earth is and earth doesn't exist?

then how were there coords in the mwp for it to corrupt?

[coral gorge]

...i guess thats what im implying

i hate multiverse

[eternal talon]

https://tenor.com/view/bts-hyyh-theory-bts-hyyh-bu-gif-21562060

[coral gorge]

why cant no one make a coherent dimension travel system

that doesnt have you dabble in quantum physics

FUCK IT, give me quantum physics but atleast have them make sense!

[eternal talon]

makes me wonder if the time dilation inherent to destination is due to the worldline specifically, or destination's proximity to the central cluster of the BN

[coral gorge]

i feel like 10cc didnt even thing that hard on it ngl

i just hope DoW is coherent

[eternal talon]

well i mean they are game devs, not physicists

[coral gorge]

thats it

[coral gorge]

looks at outer wilds
well they could be both

[eternal talon]

mobius digital are fucking gods though

[coral gorge]

real

[eternal talon]

(its on sale 40% off rn to anyone reading this in chat, get it fr!)

[coral gorge]

outer wilds best game of all time

change my mind

[eternal talon]

dont want to.

[royal crow]

I got outer wilds for free

[coral gorge]

go and give them money

n o w

[eternal talon]

play echoes of the eye!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_WrhBeFikw

[coral gorge]

echoes is ngl my favorite horror experience

[eternal talon]

it is truly amazing, ties up the entire game in a neat bow

[coral gorge]

like ever

[eternal talon]

prisoner as a gtfo prisoner?

[coral gorge]

its a gtfo reference

always has been

[eternal talon]

gtfo released into early access in 2019... covid went global in 2020.... covid GTFO marketing scheme

[coral gorge]

lol

i do have to wonder - did the writers come up with nam-v before the pandemic or did they do it mid pandemic and instantly threw it into the lore

like... surely they had an idea for the virus before covid

cause gtfo released in early access in what month?

[eternal talon]

way back then we were still theorizing about space spores that were locked away in the meteor for millions of years.

[coral gorge]

the covid shenanigans began in like december

[eternal talon]

we didnt even really know anything about infectivity

or hell, anything much really.

[coral gorge]

i mean hey, that wasnt that far off

[eternal talon]

i think space spore was like the thing behind a bunch of zombie movies

not really a direct connection to sleepers in that.

[coral gorge]

yeah

didnt the backrooms have something to do with spores too?

its overall a decently popular concept

[eternal talon]

i have no idea, i don't follow the backrooms/liminal space trend at all

[coral gorge]

same, i saw something like that ages ago

so i may be very much wrong

[tender berry]

deadass fit the pfp character

[toxic wagon]

[fresh gyro]

lore is back

[eternal talon]

"Lore is back"

[fresh gyro]

i was wrong

i admit it

[coral gorge]

lore was back

[craggy widget]

Interesting

[honest summit]

The Lore of the lore

[clever junco]

could i get a short answer for if they are zombies?

[fresh gyro]

no

short enough?

@eternal talon

[royal crow]

no they are not zombies

they are sleepers

a combination of NAM-V and a parasite

[fresh gyro]

eviscerate them please

[clever junco]

so... zombies then

ty

[royal crow]

Not zombies

More like

Interdimensional creatures

Made from an interdimensional virus

[fresh gyro]

no

[clever junco]

honestly dont see the difference. but also honestly just messing with ya

[fresh gyro]

:3

[fresh gyro]

wow

how could you do that

</3

i would never do something like that

[next panther]

cap

[royal crow]

Dont mess in lore chat
Or You Will have an essay

[fresh gyro]

frostty

eviscerate please

[next panther]

i dont know who youre talking to but im not frostty

[fresh gyro]

not you

bitch

[next panther]

okay CUNTs

[fresh gyro]

<3

ly

[clever junco]

k

[next panther]

SHUT UP

[fresh gyro]

wow frosty

toxic much?

reported

[toxic wagon]

Calling a Symbiotic alien parasite/virus abomination a Zombie is wild.

[eternal talon]

Zombies are per definition, the dead, Risen again or reanimated. Sleepers are not. This is one of the core reasons they are so terrifying.

Some variants destroy or heavy damage your brain... but not all do... it is entirely possible for you to be conscious and aware as the parasite puppets, mutates, and contorts your body. Snapping bones and tearing muscle as it mutates.

-- and given NAM-V's symbiosis with the parasite and the parasite's host, you won't die either. If not killed from physical trauma, you will stay that way forever. Think about the floaters on destination. They have been infected for billions of years.

If you are turned into a sleeper, death would be the greatest mercy. Why do you think sleepers don't kill us in game, but only "down" us? It is so we can be infected later and turned into a part of the hive.

If you die to a swarm of zombies, that bullet that puts down your rotting corpse would mean nothing to you. If you were infected by parasitidae garganta and NAM-V, you'd be begging for that bullet... if you still had control over your voice, that is.

@fresh gyro is that good?

For a medical answer: sleepers are fauna infected and puppeted by parssitidae garganta, often in symbiosis with the nam-v virus.

also I've been at work all day, that is why I have been exceptionally late to reply to this posting

(also yes, this is TOTALLY a short answer. You should see my other reply chains)

[warped bloom]

ssh.. zombies

theyre like clickers from last of us

they even got the clicking part

[eternal talon]

THATS A FUNGUS

[warped bloom]

except that part of course

[royal crow]

zombie

zombie fungus

the last of us?

[warped bloom]

no

[royal crow]

yes

[raw terrace]

i don't know ur voice but that had such a clear voice in my head

i could hear that perfectly

[fresh gyro]

tyty

[regal olive]

i wonder how sleepers can even function

all their vital organs are replaced with eggs

it's just a shell of muscle ontop of eggs

[honest summit]

Flesh automatons animated by Neurotransmitters

[toxic wagon]

the funny part is. clickers aren't undead.

[fresh gyro]

lmao

[royal crow]

Hmmmmmm

HMMMMMMMMMMM

.mh

Lore

[eternal talon]

Lore is temporarily canceled, out camping with no signal.

[fresh gyro]

noooooo

lore...

[frozen whale]

if you had no signal, how exactly did you post this?

[royal crow]

Blame the worldline shenanigans

[eternal talon]

One bar, and it intermittently goes out completely.

[fresh gyro]

rip

[eternal talon]

Slow as fuck to post or even scroll reddit

[fresh gyro]

reddit...

[coral gorge]

Out of all things to use the 1 bar on

you chose reddit?

[fresh gyro]

lmao

[regal olive]

bro is tracking patient zero out in florida

[eternal talon]

Oregon, pacific northwest

12 miles, 11 hundred feet of elevation gain.

[raw terrace]

how close are u
are u on like gravity falls yet

[fresh gyro]

real?

[eternal talon]

opposite side of Portland.

Tillamook state forest

[raw terrace]

:O

[coral gorge]

omg grass

[eternal talon]

touch

I am home now though, I was gone friday-sunday.

Friday night was a very dark and painful slog.

[fresh gyro]

Impossible

[regal olive]

damn nature is out here thriving even with namv

[eternal talon]

yes mods, this is totally lore related...

[royal crow]

Photoshop a sleeper in the picture

:3

[eternal talon]

on an unrelated note, a trip to the yucatan would be FIRE.

[toxic wagon]

Oregon hiking trails / nature is nice

[coral gorge]

But it is, you are searching for more ARG elements

[honest summit]

Whoever you are, do NOT move. You have entered a restricted zone. There are traps everywhere. If you move...

[coral gorge]

Yeah, frosty is looking for Durant, thats it

everything is lore related

[fresh gyro]

frosty did e2 irl...

[next panther]

no i didnt

[regal olive]

Don't lie

[toxic wagon]

[warped bloom]

is there like an order on the expeditions in rundown 6

[royal crow]

They are in order

[warped bloom]

r6a1 -> r6b1 -> what

theres r6b2 and r6c1

[royal crow]

All A's first
Then all B's

Then all C's

Then all D's

[warped bloom]

well the yellow expeditions seem story related

[royal crow]

Yes

They are

[warped bloom]

so r6ax is after r6a1?

[royal crow]

Im pretty sure the X levels are it's own thing

Cause they were added after the rundown release

[loud urchin]

Yeah the X levels are from the extension

But plenty of rundowns had an extension

R4 A3 B3 C3 E1 were extension levels, r5 had an extension

It doesn't really matter much

[warped bloom]

how come r6 has white levels in the middle (so not important to story?)

[loud urchin]

How come R7 has the same?

like I'm sure you can find a reasonable explanation

[warped bloom]

they must just not be lore focused or something

just more content

[royal crow]

They are just more content

[gray bone]

@olive shadow Here's da lore

[honest summit]

I think the difference is that the yellow ones are where Plot Happens, while in White ones we are Just setting everything Up so that the further story Missions Could Take place

At First i thought that yellow ones are Just Missions with voice acting, since og R6 did have voice acting that was moved into Terminal logs with ALT://R6

But R7C3 is a White Mission even though Henriksson keeps talking to us

[olive shadow]

ooooo

[honest summit]

@olive shadow #gtfo-lore message Here Something to read before you Go to sleep

The Chart is wrong tho, ignore it

[royal crow]

Is it tho

[honest summit]

There is No Nightmare Squad and OG Team was Not in B2

[royal crow]

Oh yeah B2 lol

[royal crow]

Also how do You know there is no Nightmare squad

We dont know of they exist or they didnt

[honest summit]

It was confirmed by devs

[royal crow]

Damn

[honest summit]

#gtfo-lore message

[royal crow]

Breh

It would have been more cooler if they did something different

But oh well
The writing in this Game is already an interesting shit show here and there

[honest summit]

We need the Secret Secret ending where we fight that Giant Biomass that was inside of the collectors ship

The E1 roar would be so much cooler If it was tied to it

[royal crow]

They missed the perfect oportunity to throw a giant ass monster in the end of E1

A unique monster

[honest summit]

Combine 3 Tanks into the Patriarch

[royal crow]

Didnt a modded rundown had a massive flying meatball?

They could have done something like that

Man

😔

[coral gorge]

fuck you 10 chambers

you make a game with extremely confusing writing atleast let us have some fun with it

and dont confirm/deny the one fucking thing that isnt really important

[opaque crown]

We need to go deeper

[olive shadow]

omnomonomnomonom

what a wiley bunch of guys. I love it here.

[warped bloom]

unconfirmed by me

[olive shadow]

can we get spin off games about the four characters?

please.

I wanna know what happened to these poor souls

[quick plank]

Bishop and Dauda for Smash Bros

[olive shadow]

lmao

[fresh gyro]

gtfo 2 when...

[honest summit]

they touched grass. the end

[olive shadow]

nooo

bfore they get podded

[honest summit]

imagine splinter cell esc mission of bishop installing spyware

[olive shadow]

or a final stand as woods.

or dauda trying to escape the clutches of an evil mega corp only to get black bagged in a welcom to the game esque sequence

release it as 60$ dlc for the game as a single player campaigne experience for the players so they can understand the idiosynchresies of the characters

[coral gorge]

id say Bishop would make more sense for that

but yeah it’d be cool to see more of them

I will forever believe in GTFO 2, whatever and whenever it may be

[olive shadow]

I got a little further into the lore and for dauda it seems more like a cult and new member relationship. he'd get to directly witness the horrors of the drilling operations and how everyones morale would change as the story develops

[coral gorge]

I mean

he was responsible for some of the horryfing things in garganta

cough cough, human experiments

[olive shadow]

haven't got there yet but that's wild.

[coral gorge]

Overall, none of the characters are exactly… morall

you could make an argument for bishop

but even then theres no telling what kinda shit he did to survive the civil war

and tbh i kinda like it

[olive shadow]

there's a civil war?!

what

[coral gorge]

oh you dont know a lotttt

[raw terrace]

i mean where are there not in the world

in general

[coral gorge]

yeah that too

well when the game takes place there isnt one anymore but… i wont spoil

[honest summit]

divided we stand 🇺🇸 🦅

[coral gorge]

Lmao

[olive shadow]

bro no.. don't

[coral gorge]

wait anyone remember what sorta hole Bishop got sent to?

i forgot the countries name

[olive shadow]

brazil???

[coral gorge]

lol

it all ends in brazil

[olive shadow]

actually?

fr?

[coral gorge]

no

[olive shadow]

lmao

[coral gorge]

i dont think so atleast

[olive shadow]

new spoilers

[coral gorge]

that saying… the ending does remind me of the amazon

[raw terrace]

u got something ordered or

[coral gorge]

frog you slendi.
frog. you.

the worst part is i fully expected someone to make that joke and i still hate it

[warped bloom]

yes

[raw terrace]

:3

[olive shadow]

this game is crazy. I love it

[valid phoenix]

yes it is

[olive birch]

Does anyone remember which log talks about patient zero?

Actually I'm not interested in the log itself. But I'm trying to remember the dates of the events of the game

[royal crow]

ALT Rundown 5
Log: 7JR-T7U-780
On June 12th, 2057, Aaron broadcasts a message indicating that the expedition had found "patient zero" — a 33 year old male employee of Santonian Mining Company and member of Project Insight. Patient Zero had fled Garganta on 28th December, 2052 and "made it as far as Florida," the location of the first cluster in January, 2053

I copied that from the wiki long ago it's the short version

Here is the full thing if someone needs it:
This is Matthew Aaron, operations lead for the Daylight Mission. It's... June 12th, 2057. We've found him. Patient Zero. We've got him! Or a record of him, at least. NAM-V originated here, and now we have the proof. He was an employee of the Santonian Mining Company, he was 33 at the time he contracted the virus. He fled Garganta on... shit where is it... on 28th December 2052. Santonian were tracking him, well, Kovac were, and they believe he may have made it as far as Florida, which is where the CDC issued its first alert on January 11th 2053. This has to be him! It has to be. And they knew it all along! My god. They knew it all along. We found an internal email saying as much. Santonian knew about the virus and said nothing. Then they let it escape. It's not clear how the patient caught the virus. We don't have the medical records yet. He was working on something called Project Insight. We're still working on getting into that database. The network segmentation limits access to particular terminals. I think we're going to have to bite the bullet and go deeper into the facility. We've only made it down about 300 meters and... well none of us want to go any deeper. The mind plays tricks on you down there. I'm sure there's no one left alive here but I keep hearing things. The echoing and reverb is so distorted it's easy to get paranoid. You think someone is following you only to turn around and realize it's your own footsteps. Listen. Hello! Yeah. Matthew Aaron out.

[honest summit]

Wall of Text jumpecare

[regal olive]

https://tenor.com/view/table-gif-10609686680826070523

[ruby lake]

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[warped bloom]

is this the level with the generators

[steel spire]

R2B2

Also has the log that's 30,831 rows long

[eternal talon]

The excel spreadsheet log?

[warped bloom]

the log with all the duplicate names of like idk the hsu clones

[steel spire]

000-000-000 yeah lol

[full stump]

Do we know what a neural frame is and why we devote so much effort to sticking a baby in it?

[fresh gyro]

@eternal talon

[warped bloom]

its like a house frame but you put the neural pathways in it

[honest summit]

N frame is Just a Processing Tool that is able to inject/extract Data from the dataspheres.

Neonate was modded by warden to fit into the N frame to extract certain Data that Warden needs. What Kind of Data? Idk. But looking at how the Main Goal of Warden till R6 was to enable the Project Rise, i Could speculate that its somehow related to it

R3 was kinda about studying birthers, so maybe Warden did some studies on how to improve the Clones for them to Not die Off imedietly

Could also be the opposite and it was infected with some Sort of Data to create the conduit Shaeffer was talking to

We only dont know If it was left there or Warden sent another Team to Pick it Back Up or If it is still sitting there

[eternal talon]

no idea.

[fresh gyro]

<3

ty

[warped bloom]

are there like duplicate logs..? i just found a new log that wasnt tracked on my tracker but remember reading it

[queen gazelle]

Ye

[royal crow]

Bravo is like

a year later

[drowsy roost]

Yes, quite a few. https://gtfo.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Log_Comparisons

[warped bloom]

well those seem to be the same as the logs from older rundowns

[drowsy roost]

Do you mean the same log in the same rundown? There's a few duplicate logs across rundowns -- or minor variations/changes.

[eternal talon]

iirc r6 or r7 (don't remember which) also had a couple of the same logs in different levels.

r7e1 even had the same log in two zones, didn't it? in the first customprefab and in the pablo zone? the dauda experimentation one?

[warped bloom]

i forgot

[royal crow]

Lore

Loreeeee

[raw terrace]

lore uh hackett kisses well

[fresh gyro]

HUH

[royal crow]

I can confirm this

[honest summit]

Dauda can confirm it aswell

[coral gorge]

wait wasnt bishop the one thats canonically gay

[craggy widget]

Haaa

[honest summit]

Isnt that based on Hacketts voiceline?

[coral gorge]

Yeah

he calls bishop gay

truly peak lore

[honest summit]

You are gay. Now you are also canonically gay

[coral gorge]

cant wait for DoW where the characters are just gonna call every enemy „gay” or say they have a „skill issue”

[honest summit]

You are in the Den...of Skibidi

[tough wave]

Is there greater lore on Kovac and Santonian?

All I really know is Kovac is a security company and Santonian is the Umbrella Corporation/Weyland-Yutani of GTFO

[eternal talon]

read the "for dummies" doc in the pins.

[tough wave]

Ty

[eternal talon]

it will always be the answer for everything.

(and if its not, i'd be happy to further explain)

[tough wave]

Alright, am I gonna spoil myself on what made the big hole we go down if I read this? Someone told me we naturally figure out what that was and I want to naturally figure that out.

[eternal talon]

well have a look at the top of your screen... adding this channel in the first place is a big spoiler -- thats why its not enabled by default.

[tough wave]

Someone pinged me down here ages ago about something and I just have it now lmao

Same as the actual spoiler chat, I normally avoid both

[tough wave]

So, don't read the doc yet, gotcha

[eternal talon]

the doc was made to cover everything. from the collectors trillions of years ago, to the events surrounding the apocalypse a decade before the game begins, to during the game.

it has been a universal quick-reference guide for over a year. Mostly just because reading one .txt is a million times faster than going through 248+ logs.

[tough wave]

And I assume it isn't like, bullet pointed for specific little things such as Kovac/Santonian

I'll read it whenever I finish the game then, in like another 400 hours

[eternal talon]

no, it goes date by date, in chronological order, talking about the stuff that is going on

sort of like a timeline

[tough wave]

Gotcha, I'm still in the lore light part of GTFO from what I can tell

[eternal talon]

but it also has segments discussing other lore not directly related to the order of events

yeah... gtfo lore is insanely convoluted. basically impossible to learn without community resources...

[tough wave]

It can't be worse then like

[eternal talon]

not to mention the fact that many of the logs have just been entirely removed from the game

[tough wave]

MGS

[eternal talon]

and several are in ARG style codes that took hundreds of people weeks to solve

that none of that is to mention the out-of-game logs and ambassador emails, which you cant really go back-in-time to sign up for now that game dev has ended.

[tough wave]

Now I miss not getting into this game sooner tbh

I love a good ARG

[eternal talon]

the lore has been a really slow burn over the past half decade.

at this point, its the community here and our resources... or... gtfo

[tough wave]

So, as a more nebulous question is it good lore?

Or do we like it cause we like GTFO?

[eternal talon]

personally, i'd give it like a 7/10. originally the first five rundowns didnt have much, then ogr6 exploded with tons of new lore

then r7 continued with that, then the alt// rundowns came out and threw a wrench in the works, but otherwise slowed it down again

and r8 went back to super dense.

[tough wave]

Yeah I'm on R4 rn, I jumped to R7 to do an A level real quick and some crazy man started using the PA system to talk to me

Which was new

R1-4 have seemed really light on lore compared to whatever that was

[eternal talon]

I should mention! rundown 7 is the only rundown left in the game from the original universe

the alt// ones are different, in some (like alt//r6), in significant ways.

gameplay is mostly the same across the board, but lore is very diff.

[tough wave]

I always found that to be a neat way of explaining balance changes tbh

[eternal talon]

unless you mod, you won't be able to play those original rundowns either.

just the alt// variants.

[tough wave]

I heard that one universes crazy dude isn't actually that bad and one of em is just totally and completely unhinged

[eternal talon]

so chronoligically you should start at r7, then all of alt//, then r8

[tough wave]

I intend on it at some point tbh, wanna try 5 shot BC

[eternal talon]

since og r1-r6 is unplayable and their logs either rewritten, or in the case of r6-in-level-dialogue from schaeffer, completely removed.

[coral gorge]

tbh i think only an insane person would play R7, alts and then R8

[eternal talon]

in the original worldline schaeffer was a maniac.
alt// schaeffer was much calmer and collected.

r8 is simply explained as " a fuckton of universes/worldlines merging into one

that is why there are multiple schaeffers in r8, etc.

[coral gorge]

Atleast if we are talking of a new player, maybe if its someone who played OGs

[eternal talon]

hence why i specified chronologically

[eternal talon]

yeh

[tough wave]

Nah guys I'm about to go complete R7 then go back to R4 for the true GTFO lore experience

[coral gorge]

I was about to ask wtf do you mean theres multiple and then it hit me alt and og are infact multiple

[eternal talon]

did you not complete r8 yet?

[coral gorge]

L o r e i s r e a l

[tough wave]

GTFO is a complicated game, huh?

I'll enjoy the lore aspect later tho

I like games with stories that aren't immediately apparent

[eternal talon]

||you literally drown both schaeffers in the same room and find their corpses when you go down there||

[coral gorge]

i did im just re*arded and didnt realise ALT and OG are 2

[eternal talon]

VERY

[coral gorge]

My brain thought there were more for a sec when i read your message

[coral gorge]

hahahahhahahaahhahahahahah
Me when multiverse + aliens + god knows what

[eternal talon]

i've been here for longer than pretty much anybody in the lore channel at this point, and i've seen basically all of the highs-and-lows.

many-a-clusterfuck

[tough wave]

I will say I like the cosmic horror angle I've gathered from it so far

It's quite ambitious imo

[coral gorge]

It is cool

[eternal talon]

.... yeah that fits...

[coral gorge]

Overall if you ignore the way the story is conveyed ingame (and some of its weirder parts) you get a pretty cool storyline

[eternal talon]

thats basically the entire schtick with the collectors

[tough wave]

It's one of my favorite brands of horror but it's really hard to pull off well

[eternal talon]

one of the biggest breaks is trying to understand and comprehend worldline theory.

infinite infinities of universes

of which, we visit like 12

[coral gorge]

the collectors kinda remind me of the aliens in Lovecrafts „Mountains of madness” (i think that was the title, its the arctic one)

[eternal talon]

our earth
alt//earth
destination
r6d4 (three more earths)
nightmare dimension
... i feel like i am forgetting a couple...

[coral gorge]

durants destination

as in ALTs

[eternal talon]

ah, yeah! jungle world

[tough wave]

"Nightmare dimension" you mean that isn't the one we're in rn in game?

[eternal talon]

and we do indeed visit that one.

[coral gorge]

lol

R8 holds worse

[eternal talon]

nah

its one of the ones we visit in r8

[tough wave]

I'll get there eventually then

I'm excited for mew environments

[coral gorge]

wait wouldnt R8B2 count as several too?

[eternal talon]

every worldline we have been to (aside from jungle planet) have had the infection and sleepers.

[coral gorge]

with whatever the fuck goes on there

[eternal talon]

i do not remember.

[coral gorge]

Cause like B2 is weird

with the fucking sand appearing

[tough wave]

Alright I'm done being here before I ultra spoil myself for something

[coral gorge]

and crystals growing

[tough wave]

I appreciate both of your time

Thank you

[coral gorge]

BISHOP IS GAY

[eternal talon]

sand is from destination though, no?

[coral gorge]

yeah but like the fact the earth level changes a lot

and then reverts at the end

[tough wave]

DaudaXBishop confirmed

[coral gorge]

it was always meant to be

[eternal talon]

when you've got teammates like that...

[coral gorge]

bishop was gay before it was popular

[eternal talon]

surprising it wasnt more obvious

[coral gorge]

lol

but yeah coming back to R8B2

that level is very weird with dimensions

[eternal talon]

you are playing with so much fire

[coral gorge]

like it basically has fucking time travel

[coral gorge]

i know

luckily i can always flee to the DoW discord

theyll never find me there

[tough wave]

I hope I enjoy DoW half as much as I've enjoyed GTFO so far

[eternal talon]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-stephens-vsauce-mind-on-isolation-gif-26028082

[eternal talon]

personally i'm not too interested in it. only really interested in any possible connections to the worldlines

given the way they've written it... even IRL is a worldline

(the irl where we play gtfo within the gtfo universe)

[tough wave]

Lore aside I just hope the moment to moment gameplay and tension is as well done if not better since they've got more experience now

[eternal talon]

every possible world, every variant big bang, every change regardless how small splits into two outcome worldlines.
every grain of sand that became glass instead, is another set of worldlines created

[tough wave]

So to beat GTFO you commit an Owlman and nuke the multiverse?

[eternal talon]

just wait until you meet snatchers.

(not spoilers, this was 10cc's official teaser image)

[tough wave]

Not my kink but go off

[eternal talon]

VORE

[eternal talon]

eh... not really

it gets into the nam-v virus and all that.

we were trying to escape.

cant really say much more without spoiling you.

[tough wave]

Gotcha

I have one more stupid question if you do not mind

Does the name Nam-V mean anything special or is it just "Nam-V"

Is it V or 5?

[eternal talon]

** What are Sleepers?

Sleepers are the final product of a NAM-V - Parasite infestation. NAM-V is extremely infectious and has a lethality rate of 100%.
Sleepers are created by the Parasite with NAM-V present. The Parasite was originally a victim of NAM-V and over time they have formed a Symbiotic relationship, with the Virus keeping the Parasite alive and active for undefined lengths of time, perhaps forever.
This allows NAM-V to maintain its hyper lethality without burning itself out of food or fuel to continue spreading, often hibernating for tens of thousands if not millions of years between outbreaks.
NAM-V also has a multipronged attack strategy, making it incredibly difficult to fight against and lending credence to the idea that it is not natural in origin and was some form of creation or bioweapon.

What are Giants? Hybrids?

Specialized variants of Sleepers are created by the Parasite to fill a niche in its hive. A great example of this would be the Scout, designed to keep watch while other Sleepers hibernate to keep a hive from being exterminated.
Another example would be the giant, created by an infected host that has a large quantity of muscle mass, this infected individual was mutated into a role more fitting by its genetic code and purpose the Parasite needed to support the hive.
It is this reason that nearly all Shooter variants appear to be female in origin, and nearly all Strikers being male.
Chargers appear to grow large nests with biomass (usually on ceilings), and are highly aggressive brutes, most likely derivative of big strikers, though they have their own big striker variant.
**

from the "for dummies" doc.

and it is "v" yes, not five.

[tough wave]

I appreciate you

[coral gorge]

nam-5 sounds stupid ngl

[tough wave]

Doesn't sound anymore or less stupid then Nam-V imo

[coral gorge]

rip no more frosty lore dump in DoW

[eternal talon]

nam-v is like, god mode infectivity. it can survive for months on surfaces, and can transmit through literally any vector except for the vaccum of space where there is literally nothing to transmit through. if you catch it, it is a 100% death sentince too.

with no cure. it has countably infinite variants.

[coral gorge]

ehhh nam-v is better in my opinion

[eternal talon]

it will mutate to hard counter you

[coral gorge]

super covid

[tough wave]

Oh, no, there is infact a cure Frosty

[coral gorge]

d e a t h

[eternal talon]

like 11 higher r-naught than covid

(i dont remember the actual number)

[coral gorge]

still not enough r-naught to kill the fucking mayans

[eternal talon]

they were true fucking gigachads.

[coral gorge]

biggest chads in gtfo

[eternal talon]

somehow tanked and even won against a planet destroyer.

(because the world didnt go extinct back then)

[coral gorge]

they were just better

[eternal talon]

they did what neither the modern 2060s humans, OR THE COLLECTORS could

and the collectors make us look like specs of dust

spears and bows be pog.

[coral gorge]

i mean tbf the mayan plothole only exists cause it would appear that both nam-v and the parasite got out

All that 10cc had to do was have only 1 of them show up

[eternal talon]

because "flea demons" and parasitidae is a type of flea/mite.

[coral gorge]

actually… is it possible mayans only fought the parasite?

like doesnt the parasite also mutate its host without nam-v, albeit into a much weaker form?

[eternal talon]

yeah, its like the husk in barotrauma.

lemme check the logs rq

[coral gorge]

then perhaps we are overthinking it

and there is no plothole

there are no holes on the plot, just holes in your understanding

[eternal talon]

**>>EBDT FRAGMENT 01BE1 START

ENC: Mambo Media Services news wire
//Translation complete//
A Fractured History
Las Noticias Central, Science Desk
June 3rd 2050

As the cleanup continues after the devastating Merida quake, a team of scientists from the Instituto Geológico are trying to figure out when the Merida faultline appeared, and if the seismic shift was a sign of things to come, or a forgotten history.

Their research has not been limited to the Yucatan. In their quest for answers they have sought archeological societies as far north as the Texas Independence and as far south as Honduras. The answers they were seeking turned up at the Lamanai Archaeological Project in Belize. The team uncovered ancient Mayan records of several earthquakes in the region, with the most recent one being in the mid 13th century.

Researchers at the Lamanai project studied scores of tablet inscriptions from their extensive library and discovered reference to a series of catastrophic population declines that occurred in the Yucatan between 800 and 1300 CE. Until the Merida quake, these population fluctuations were assumed to be related to the frequent outbreaks of disease in the region.

Now, with the context of the newly discovered fault line it seems like the ancient Mayan scribes were giving us more information than we knew. While disease is still almost certainly the reason for the massive drop in Mayan population during the 9th century, the cause of the disease is now much clearer. Earthquakes.

Earthquakes are not a major cause of casualties in the ancient world. Structures were too small and the population was too widely dispersed to inflict mass casualties even from the most powerful of quakes. It is the famine and disease, and the hardship which follows that claims the most number of lives. There have been man [Corrupted]

Encryption checksum mismatch – contact your IT administrator**

**Mambo Media Services search query
Keywords: virus, Mayan, Maya, historic, flea
6,724,158 results returned. Filtered by relevance:

“Where did the Mayans go?” - Our Earth magazine 9/25/43

A new theory regarding the sudden demise of Mayan culture has been presented by Dr. Yvette Hernandez at the Anthropology Forum convention. Dr. Hernandez’s research posits that the Mayans were almost completely wiped out several times by an illness they referred to as “Flea Demons”. Though the interpretation of hieroglyphic stelae leaves much room for interpretation, Dr. Hernandez believes she has discovered conclusive references to mass deaths related to the illness on three separate occasions, right up to the 16th century during the occupation of Mayan territory by the Spanish Conquistadors…

“Superman, Superbug” - Medical Examiner 12/3/44

We’re at war. Right now. All of us. Our entire species. We’ve always been at war, and until recently we’ve been winning the fight. No quarter has been given to our adversary, yet no matter how often we drive the opponent back, they return with greater power and more tactical strength to assault us once again. Who is this arch-nemesis? What has been attacking our species since we first came down from the trees? Who is this enemy we cannot vanquish? Bugs. Bacteria. Viruses. Microorganisms. From the black death, to the Mayan Flea Demons, to Ebola and the SARS Covid outbreaks in the early part of the century, the Superbug always returns stronger and more resilient than before; so, what are we doing to fight them?...**

“Nightmare Neighbours” - Deep Fields 06/14/44
The idea of an interstellar virus that could survive an environment as hostile as space is a mystery that has captivated the imagination of both scientists and the general public for decades. A recent biochemical analysis of those remarkably robust yet unassuming tardigrades is once again forcing us to question the origin of some of earth's oldest viruses. If the lowly tardigrade is capable of withstanding being frozen, irradiated, desiccated, asphyxiated, starved, battered and all around abused, what about the viruses it carries? Are they too...

[coral gorge]

Oh hey

covid reference

didnt know thats a real thing

also frosty pls chill

no more text walls

[eternal talon]

thats literally all i do tho

[coral gorge]

uhhhh rebrand

Well either way

id say its possible the mayans got hit with parasites

and not the virus

ez plothole fix

just 50 more to go

[eternal talon]

schaeffer discrepancy staring back at you.

t'was literally never answered

[coral gorge]

scheaffer isnt real

he is a psyop

actually

yknow what?

YKNOW WHAT

new theory time

[eternal talon]

https://tenor.com/view/mike-smith-trailer-park-boys-bubbles-glasses-blink-gif-4011183380204339784

a NEW theory???

this late in the game??
lets hear it.

[coral gorge]

The entire game is a psyop. A simulation of sorts. There is no end of humanity. We have been lied to by everyone. The warden is an FBI/CIA agent and the entire point of the game is to find a god squad. A squad that wont lose its mind without wardens babysitting, a squad that wont die. Scheaffer was never trying to escape. He was an american agent all the time testing us! The ALT squad isnt a version of the main squad its just a random ass squad made to look like us with… fucking ai! THE WHOLE GAME IS A GIANT LIE

[eternal talon]

ah, an it was all a dream theory

[coral gorge]

Not rly a dream

more like

the entire game is a tutorial theory

A carefully prepared obstacle course to find the best squad possible

[eternal talon]

a theory so perfect... i cant even use logs to disprove it because those logs could be a part of the simulation.

[coral gorge]

EXACTLY

[eternal talon]

you could start a religion out of this

like the rest of them

[coral gorge]

THE LOGS WERE PLACED THERE TO DECEIVE US

after all these years i believe we have cracked it

GTFO holds no more secrets

the ultimate real plot that 10cc crafted so well only a fucking insane and tired person could come up with it

aka every swedish writer

and also me apparently

[eternal talon]

alt// reality time:

during the events involving deciphering the coords, they pointed to two locations. the butterfly nebula...
and here, on earth, in the middle of the atlantic. if the coords were not pointing to space and you were a developer, what would you have placed here?

[coral gorge]

its the fucking base from the SCP universe

wtf was its name

[eternal talon]

hm?

[coral gorge]

the GOC base, final stronghold of humanity

i think it was a super secret military base on the atlantic

[eternal talon]

from scp 5000?

[coral gorge]

yeah

scp is real scp is real scp is real

and also swedish for some reason

[honest summit]

the dream theory

[warped bloom]

Whats with the eggs in the sleepers, are they parasite eggs

What does the parasite look like

[coral gorge]

probably

[coral gorge]

we have a few vague descriptions… and i dont remember any of them
I think it was like a worm?

[eternal talon]

ITS IN THE NAME
PARASITIDAE
it's a family of mites here on earth.
They are small multi-legged bugs.

Google images is your friend.

[coral gorge]

yeah no im not googling that

id rather save my sanity

[raw terrace]

it's mostly images of the movie u baby

[eternal talon]

no?

[raw terrace]

oh idk then

[eternal talon]

LMAO first page is gtfo!

we've made it to google

[tranquil sentinel]

Big win for GTFO players all over the globe ⬆️

[regal olive]

so

what's at the bottom of the hole

[royal crow]

what hole

[regal olive]

the hole in my heart

[royal crow]

you dont have a heart

[regal olive]

https://tenor.com/view/pepe-sad-pepe-crying-pepe-the-pepe-gif-21617046

[eternal talon]

if this was meant to be a serious question...
long answer: have a read of the "for dummies" doc in the pins of this channel.
short answer: an alien spaceship.

[regal olive]

why is there a conveniently placed elevator for convicts at the top of this hole that was nuked into the complex

also are there multiple holes each with a drop system

[royal crow]

people made it after the virus broke out didnt them?

[regal olive]

the nukes happened after the virus broke out

the laser 🅱️eams

[eternal talon]

long answer: have a read of the "for dummies" doc in the pins of this channel.
short answer: the alien spaceship sent out lazers to destroy things. after that, it was just easier using said holes the lazers made for infrastructure rather than digging new ones ourselves. 2 thousand meters is a looooong way down.

[royal crow]

they saw an oportunity and took them

Lol

[regal olive]

wait isn't the spaceship 4000 meters down

( i am not going to read the for dummies doc )

[raw terrace]

fish reacted for not reading it

[royal crow]

hey Slendo

[eternal talon]

-- and the beams reached all the way to the surface. they would have kept going, too, except they were somehow programmed to stop just before they breached the surface and/or the sea floor.

[raw terrace]

hello :]

[regal olive]

i know you've used steganography to insert f-35c instructions into the file so i get raided by the FBI

you think this is my first rodeo

[royal crow]

theres worse things than F-35 insturctions in the document

see for yourself

:)

[regal olive]

i am already on several watch lists

for cinema, obviously

[raw terrace]

also yes the spaceship was deep underground but we never go past 1300~ meters in the base game anyways

i think the deepest levels is r7e1 with 1400 or so

[regal olive]

yeah

i wonder if it's safer under that

[eternal talon]

its not.

it is SO much worse.

[regal olive]

like below a certain point there would be no more people

therefore no sleepers

[eternal talon]

no

[raw terrace]

the sleepers actively go down

[royal crow]

theres sleepers we never see below

[eternal talon]

then you'd have alien sleepers

from the collection the collectors had archived in their ship.

[regal olive]

how do you know they're alive

[royal crow]

sleepers dont die

[regal olive]

no sleepers die

source sledgehammer

[eternal talon]

the floaters on destination have been flying around without food for 7 trillion years.

[regal olive]

yeah i mean through injury

[royal crow]

you think someone hammer thousand of sleepers down there?

[eternal talon]

NAM-V & Paraisitidae Garganta are just super OP.

the sleepers down there would most likely either be:

[regal olive]

i think the collision with the earth qualifies as injury

if my sledgehammer can do what it does

[eternal talon]

a; collectors
b; ancient mayans
c; species from the collection that got infected and killed the collectors when their ship crashed.

[regal olive]

extiction level impact probably would

[royal crow]

but those sleepers arent the same we encounter

[regal olive]

eeh

[regal olive]

anything that isn't a microorganism probably experienced 1 jillion g force and got turned into ramen

i don't think anything baby sized or above would have survived that impact

microorganisms sure

since well, the events of gtfo happened

[eternal talon]

as far as we know, the overwhelming majority of the ship is still intact.
hammerstein and others from Insight made full on expeditions into the ship to recover specimens

including all of the artifacts, least of all, the MWP

[regal olive]

specimens as in alive organisms?

or artifacts

[eternal talon]

both

[regal olive]

i am uninstalling this videogame

[eternal talon]

he describes entire corridors and such.

[regal olive]

would be cool if he took pictures

[eternal talon]

the ship is not dust. it may not be very structurally sound anymore, but it is still there.

[eternal talon]

alas, logs rarely even have voice acting.

and we never get to go there in-game sadly.

[regal olive]

the ship fine

that's alien magic material

[eternal talon]

cretasum-77a, yes.

[regal olive]

but biological things surviving that deceleration

[royal crow]

they are

aliens

[eternal talon]

like i said, the virus and the parasite are op op

and the things they infect (sleepers) are also op.

[regal olive]

yeah but sleepers aren't the virus and parasite

[royal crow]

they are

the fuck you mean

[regal olive]

the fuck you mean

[eternal talon]

sleepers are the virus and the parasite both infecting a host.

[regal olive]

when you get cancer, do you become cancer

sleepers are not the virus

fuck you talkin bout

[royal crow]

they are the virus and the parasite

[eternal talon]

if just parasites infect a host, you'd get something like the husks in barotrauma.
if just the virus, 100% certain death.
if both, immortality and incredible resilience.

[royal crow]

in a host

[regal olive]

they are infected by the virus and the parasite

they are not the virus or the parasite

[royal crow]

im going to game end myself

[regal olive]

can we do it together

[royal crow]

sure

[regal olive]

yay

[regal olive]

i love barotrauma

[eternal talon]

they heavily mutate infected hosts. the virus a ton, as seen here:
and the parasite even more so

[regal olive]

yeah i mean that sleepers are a seperate category of thing

by the way in r8, we don't go in hydrostasis right

[eternal talon]

sleepers are really just parasites with nam-v controlling and mutating a host.

[eternal talon]

no, we teleport to a "clean" worldline, thus infecting it, and dying a lonely and painful death weeks later after dooming the only clean worldline ever encountered.

[regal olive]

at least after c1

not that

[royal crow]

in the first couple missions we do

after D1-C2 we dont

[regal olive]

i mean that we stop getting orders from the warden and then anyone, so we don't go into hydrostasis

[eternal talon]

correct.

[regal olive]

but at the start of levels we still wake up in hydrostasis and drop

[eternal talon]

we are on our own post-removal of our chips.

[eternal talon]

gameplay schmameplay.

[royal crow]

im pretty sure even ALT team on D1 doesnt go into hydro

they walk to KDS Deep too

[eternal talon]

the drop down sequence is a glorified loading screen that realistically can't be edited on a per-level basis

not even in modding.

its either as-is, or wholly replaced.

[regal olive]

aha

[eternal talon]

(believe me, i would have removed it for PT. doesn't fit the story)

[regal olive]

so sorry i wasn't paying attention, are there multiple holes

[royal crow]

yes

[regal olive]

okay interesting

[eternal talon]

the game has a lot of plot holes. least of all being the schaeffer discrepancy.

[royal crow]

what if

[regal olive]

w h at about the h o l e s though

[royal crow]

schaeffer was a collector all this time

[regal olive]

scheaffer is the warden

[eternal talon]

M A D E B Y T H E L A Z E R S

[eternal talon]

the warden is an alien.

[regal olive]

a r e m u l t i p l e H S U e l e v a t o r s i n o p e r a t i o n

[eternal talon]

Y E S

[royal crow]

Y E S

[regal olive]

O K A A Y

[eternal talon]

T H E R E A R E 3 2 0 0 0 K S O S

[royal crow]

D O Y O U U N D E R S T A N

[regal olive]

I TH I NK

[eternal talon]

W E A R E O N L Y F O U R O F T H E M

[regal olive]

i think it's crazy how fucking efficient our group is

[royal crow]

perfect squad

:)

[fresh gyro]

I'm gonna lose it what is going on here

[royal crow]

we are a perfect squad
the best of the best

[eternal talon]

across the multiverse, we are literally, as pable said, the perfect squad.

we always first try everything.

[regal olive]

wait truly?

[royal crow]

yeah

we are

[eternal talon]

yes.

[royal crow]

at least OG team is

[fresh gyro]

Well if you don't first try it don't you just die

[royal crow]

ALT team who knows
fuck them

[eternal talon]

yes, alt// die in r8 so...

clearly not.

[regal olive]

i know we first try things lore wise but how do we know this is something special out of millions

[eternal talon]

how do we know "what" is special out of millions?

(so i can give a proper answer)

[regal olive]

you said our squad is perfect across the multiverse

[eternal talon]

yes.

[regal olive]

how do you know that

[eternal talon]

kovac, more specifically, insight, were in contact with a fuckton of alternate earths. the excell spreadsheet is... extensive, to say the least. pable can post it while i am typing

[royal crow]

What spreadsheet

LMAO

[eternal talon]

as they were communicating, kovac was working on replacing the legion project with what you likely know as the failed RISE project. well, in one of their logs, they discuss their search for the perfect squad, that being us...

[royal crow]

Im in the toilet right now

[eternal talon]

one sec, i'll link it...

[regal olive]

Oh snap

Btw your profile picture goes hard for some reason

[eternal talon]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16oVY__ZK6RrR3nVQlqmOBgwZxADNjtwHNgweUOHKty0/edit?usp=sharing

the log make take a couple minutes to load on your device.

it is several thousand lines long

[regal olive]

What does it contain

[eternal talon]

membrane ids (worldline identifiers for different worldlines)
the names of employees
their local employee ids
their hsu locations
and their local status