gtfo-lore

[worn rivet]

So yeah alot

[eternal talon]

It eventually crashes into the earth, and wipes out the dinosaurs

[cunning light]

Now. Could this split group just be a sentient ship, with its own persona, which crashed onto earth and tried to salvage the situation ?

(yes, the latest, fairly abrupt, stream might have gotten me thinking about it)

[eternal talon]

The ship and it's infected crew remain dormant for millions of years, before earthquakes open caves allowing them to escape to the surface

The 16th century mayans combat it, and successfully keep it contained.

The caves seal

[worn rivet]

Yeah those mayans are fucking incredible for doing that

[eternal talon]

Now in the 2000s earthquakes open the caves again

This ship, the vessel, is what is buried thousands of meters below garganta

[cunning light]

Do we have any indication that it had any crew left ? Did it not release some earlier form of the virus and the mayans dispatched the creatures they had infected, somehow ?

[worn rivet]

Umm

[eternal talon]

Other than the warden? We don't know

[cunning light]

I blame Simon for putting these thoughts into my head ...

[eternal talon]

There was the Edgar teal creature that didn't immediately attack which is UNLIKE SLEEPER BEHAVIOR, but we don't know for certain

[eternal talon]

Imagine being contradicted by your own logs

[cunning light]

Classic "what if..." scenario

[worn rivet]

Okay so we never see any mayan or collector sleepers in the game, but there are mentions in some of the logs of abnormal sleepers

[eternal talon]

He was clearly distracted or forgot about those logs during the QA

[cunning light]

True

I can definitely agree on that

[worn rivet]

That look entirely inhuman which some if not most sleepers we know of keep at least part of human anatomy

Like faces or arms and legs

[eternal talon]

Hammerstein also mentions finding a ton of the specimens from different worlds/universes while exploring the vessel

[worn rivet]

Or wombs

[worn rivet]

Huh, wouldn't he be infected almost immediately or be ripped apart by the sleepers

[cunning light]

Those could have been "collected" by the ship from different planets (or even worldlines)

[eternal talon]

His expeditions had KSO escorts

He has a bunch of expeditionary logs

[worn rivet]

Kso escorts hmm, just shows how god damm efficient they are

[eternal talon]

I can't tell if you are trolling (the qa response) or are being genuine...

I suck at reading people, even worse in text

[worn rivet]

Hmm

[cunning light]

I am going through a very hard day, personally. Hence my human sensitivity is numbed to the fullest

Expect full-on honesty for once.

[worn rivet]

It could have been collected from them or just the armies of mayans/collectors

[cunning light]

I have been genuinely digging the sentence "Is the Collectors the ship name, or something ?"

(I do not recall the exact transcript, even though you went through the pain of putting it here)

[eternal talon]

you don't plural a ship's name though

[gray bone]

Just assume stupidity
Tech support's taught me that much

[cunning light]

I do thank you for the distraction, wholeheartedly, however

[eternal talon]

^

[cunning light]

Thank you

[eternal talon]

I @ed you the day of

[cunning light]

I remember

[worn rivet]

The devs contradict parts of stuff

Like doors

[eternal talon]

oh god not the doors

not again

[worn rivet]

Ah yes my personal tortue

[cunning light]

Yeah, better not get started on the door locking part

[gray bone]

...Should I ask?
I genuinely don't know

[worn rivet]

No it wasnt that, it was part of me trying to figure out how many fucking sleepers were outside of a blue door during a dauda log.

[royal crow]

GUYS

LORE AND GAMEPLAY ARE NIT ALWAYS ACURRATE IN VIDEOGAMES

[worn rivet]

It was 2 to 3 hours of pure fucking math

[royal crow]

Holy shit

How many times need to say it

[worn rivet]

It was in a lore log, I was just using the in game time with the things you hear in the background of it to simplify it

[royal crow]

We are not

Going to talk

About the door

Again

[worn rivet]

Time travel is technically possible using the MWP

[royal crow]

It's not time travel

You are simply going to another world before X or Y event happens

But since its another different world from yours

Its can't be consider time travel

[eternal talon]

this ^

it is steins;gate esque.
they both use the same multiverse theory, worldline theory

ala john titor

[royal crow]

Also events are different from world to world

[cunning light]

In any case, there is no such thing as time travel. Because just by the fact that you move yourself in this new place, you have altered, in some way, the future of this reality. Which creates a new branch

[worn rivet]

Using worldlines different time speed, a different worldine with a MWP could do it

[royal crow]

Yeah

You described it perfectly

[eternal talon]

very action makes a split for more worldlines. you can't change yours, just make a new almost identical copy

except in GTFO the mwp doesn't explore the whole concept

the mwp, unlike the phone wave, can't go back

only sideways

[cunning light]

It does give a decent try at it

It's not, by any means, perfect

[eternal talon]

there is nothing wrong with how gtfo does it, its just a different interpretation of the same theory

its still valid

[worn rivet]

Hmm

[royal crow]

Have you guys seen Tenet? Can that be consider time travel?

🤔

[cunning light]

Like, whenever people come BACK from EF01 or similar missions. Is it really the same people who parted ? Or are them just from some alternate reality ?

[eternal talon]

unless a worldline has time flowing backwards, no. because when we go to destination, which is 85x faster, we return at the same relative time

[royal crow]

Bishop is different

[eternal talon]

i guess we don't know for durant's, who was slower,

because the game ended

and because we prolly weren't going back to spaghetti

[cunning light]

Not just him. Presumably, anyone coming back could be different

You just have no way to know for certain

[eternal talon]

i have not.

[royal crow]

Spooky

[cunning light]

It's quite decent

(Tenet, that is)

[eternal talon]

iirc alt:// bishop isnt the bishop that returned from their ef01, (the masks)

[royal crow]

You SHOULD see it

[worn rivet]

It could, with which ever worldlines time speed is, depending on how long they were there, they could be a different age then when they arrived

[royal crow]

It does a new different take on time travel/manipulation

[cunning light]

My point is that even in the OG one, the crew that comes back could be from a completly different worldline, and happened to come back to that spot

[eternal talon]

bishop was on destination for 2 years (destination time), but returned in ~2 weeks (earth time)

[royal crow]

Bro ate sand to survive

[worn rivet]

Or whatever plant life could be there

[royal crow]

(nothing)

[eternal talon]

mmmmm....
inedible thistle

[royal crow]

Food is food

[worn rivet]

Or the flesh of the sleepers there

[eternal talon]

question

[eternal talon]

why the fuck is this plant flowering if destination doesn't have bees?

[worn rivet]

Simple, different worldline plant bulshit

[gray bone]

Maybe the beehives are just not around
That or the pollen just flows in the air and magically floats into the buds

[royal crow]

Fliers are bees

Thats my case

[cunning light]

Maybe it does not know that this place doesn't have bees, and could have been brought by another worldline contamination, then proceeded to evolve (drastically) but kept the vestigial flowers

Unless the meatballs can somehow act as polen distributers ? (joking, I highly doubt that)

[worn rivet]

Or genetic evolutionary destination developed has due to it being at the centre of a nebula

[eternal talon]

but ef01 was june 2055...

[royal crow]

As far as we know múltiple people could be walking in Destination at the same time

Who knows

[cunning light]

It was OURS june 2055

[eternal talon]

that is 680 years

[worn rivet]

Or alternatively an underground water deposit that it has roots in

[royal crow]

Maybe there was 10 or more expeditions each one from a different worldline

That went to the same destination as ours

Thats whats ChO is trying to say

(i think)

[cunning light]

Yup (for instance if they had come from a worldline where time flows much faster compared to ours)

[eternal talon]

680 is not a long time evolution wise though, is it?

[cunning light]

But in any case, this is all unproven theory

Still funny to theorize about.

[tough wave]

Depends on the pressure tbh, you can see evolution in fish species in Lake Michigan over the last 100 tbh, they've been growing denser scales as the pollution clears as it's easier for predators to see em

[worn rivet]

The virus is a functional mess

Of body and eldritch horror

Mixed with a bit of psychological damage

Oh and whales

[drowsy adder]

I want to know about the door

[eternal talon]

@worn rivet

Yam wants a dose of your insanity pills

[worn rivet]

the voices make good company

[worn rivet]

essantily i spent 1-2 hours calculating how many enemies were breaking down a door using how long a blue door took to break in a dauda log

[plush nest]

I thought it was and we just played as the nightmare quad which canonically die during that

[eternal talon]

i'm not sure

we enter the mission from OG's point of view

OG don't die during it. that's all i can say.

[oblique plume]

hi! curious about the lore, on which rundown does the actual story telling begins?

[loud urchin]

active story elements are found in levels from r6-r8, though its possible to avoid those in r6

r7 and r8 the active story elements are unavoidable

[eternal talon]

depends.

the overwhelming majority of the story takes place before the game even starts.

if you are talking about what we are doing during gameplay, it is always in the background.

as goat said, it becomes more front and center in r6 and r7,

with r8 entirely being story related.

[oblique plume]

so r1-r5 are buildups leading to the “story” to r6 onwards?

[eternal talon]

r1 really isn't much other than accessing r2.
r2 really isn't much until e1.
r3 is proccessing the neonate for the warden (purpose unknown, likely related to the conduits)
r4 isn't much.
r5 in its entirety is built around accessing KDS-DEEP for the warden so it can get more KSOs.
r6 is collecting the matter wave projector, data cubes, and genome database, though those plans are put on hold in OG.
r7, OG exclusive, is us remaking the conduit schaeffer piped until he manages to hack into the warden, then that is also put on perpetual hold.
r8 is the matter wave projector finally collapsing, dragging a dozen worldlines together, and us collectively trying to escape.

the writing/story in gameplay seemingly became much more important during OGr6.

rundowns before that, ignoring outliers, wasn't really much other than new levels for people to play

but all throughout the lore from before gameplay has been the bigger focus

after OG r6 and r7, they significantly toned down in-gameplay lore because of community backlash

(which i fundamentally disagree with)

people complaining about being forced to listen to the story, and such

so alt mostly mirrored OG except for alt://r6 and r8

its kind of counterintuitive to think about, that the majority would not want story in gtfo.

[oblique plume]

oh wow really

i mean.. I did forced my friends to play the game because I caught a glimpse of the story 😂

[eternal talon]

in the remade r6, all of the logs that would play mid-mission over intercoms were either removed or converted into terminal logs

[eternal talon]

the story has its faults, but i really enjoy it.

if you want to read more deeply into it and the history of the world, feel free to check out the for dummies docs in the pins of this channel.

neither of the docs contain spoilers for in-gameplay expeditions.

it is entirely pre-appocalypse and general lore, like what the warden and sleepers are

[royal crow]

Yeah but the door is more important

I don't see the door in the doc

[eternal talon]

that is RT's mathmatical addiction, not mine.

(don't worry about the door pable is talking about sammi, it is an inside joke in this channel)

[oblique plume]

have yet to see the entire story/lore. But generally speaking I do love how the content designers did their job for this game.

[eternal talon]

by all means then, check out the LFD.

its very dense. combining current and removed in-game logs, email logs, args, the santonian website... there are over 200

[oblique plume]

Will do!! Thanks for answering and giving suggestion

[eternal talon]

if you have further questions, I am always here.

[north obsidian]

how old is schaeffur

[eternal talon]

he was born april 12th, 2022.

[royal crow]

around 40-45

[eternal talon]

the current year is ~2063

math it.

[north obsidian]

so hes 2years old

[royal crow]

Around 30 years + idk how many on hydro

He is biologically speaking like 30

[eternal talon]

hydro shouldn't count because corpse

[royal crow]

Yeah thats why i said biologically speaking

[eternal talon]

he's gen alpha

also fun fact: because it is 2025, gen betas a currently being born

feel old yet?

[royal crow]

He grew up with skibidi toilet

[eternal talon]

cocomelon

[royal crow]

That explains why he is crazy

[eternal talon]

he has two DUIs

he's a drunk

[north obsidian]

schaeffur will fullfill the prophecy

[eternal talon]

his license was permanently suspended

[north obsidian]

in 40years

[eternal talon]

he rode a bike to work

[eternal talon]

what prophecy?

bro OG warden couldn't read.

[north obsidian]

gtfo will happen

in real life

[eternal talon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILLnzOReqU
(soundtrack video)

8yrs ago

sounds like a completely different game

[cunning light]

Is it also the music that plays on the credits after E2 ? Such a nice track...

[eternal talon]

i have no idea.

[cunning light]

Sounds like it

(excuse my poor recording of in-game sound from the first time I completed it)

[royal crow]

Who could have imagined games change over time

Oh my gooooooood

[eternal talon]

i mean just listen to it

its like, sounds like a completely different thing

maybe even a different genre

[royal crow]

Yeah usually the inicial ideas of games never survive first contact

[eternal talon]

why does this look SO MUCH BETTER than what we have now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjqaiyIWsiI

the tilesets alone are gorgeous!

[royal crow]

I actually like a lot more that HUD

[eternal talon]

look at the fucking minimap!

why did this game devolve so much?

and i thought the lighting engine change was bad

this compared to my first experience, ogr1, makes ogr1 look bad

[cunning light]

Those early Scout sounds were quite good.

[royal crow]

We will never know

Game development is really weird and complicated

[eternal talon]

not an acceptable justification. you don't dev backwards to "improve"

[cunning light]

Also, this was likely a very small fake expedition just made for the purpose of demonstration

[royal crow]

Thats not how it works

[eternal talon]

nah, i recognize a couple of the tiles

like the dig site ladder with the elevated area

[royal crow]

Its not going backwards to improve
Its seeing what you want to do and adjusting the game for what you want to achieve

[cunning light]

The tiles are still in the pool

[eternal talon]

well then in my opinion they should have just not updated the game

[royal crow]

For one reason or another they decided to make massive changes
We will never know why and we dont need to know

[eternal talon]

if their vision is what we have now, clearly me and 10cc don't agree with what made gtfo good

[royal crow]

We are not game developers and even then each studio faces their own problems

[eternal talon]

you could always want to know. it is widely accepted among the playerbase that the lighting engine was a bad change.

[royal crow]

If they changed it is because they needed it to change

[eternal talon]

its their game, but as customers, we have the right to complain

[royal crow]

Yep

And i really like that old HUD

Thats the only thing i wish they kept

[eternal talon]

i don't think they ever said why the lighting engine was changed

it probably had something to do with unity versions...

but a lot of games still run on old versions

[royal crow]

Unity is a weird engine overall

It's not really made for this kind of games

And it surely wasnt any better 8 years ago

[eternal talon]

did you play during OG?

pre r6, i mean

gameplay footage can't do the lighting and environment moistness justice

[royal crow]

cough cough look at what date i joined cough cough

[eternal talon]

cough cough you dont have to buy the game to join the discord cough cough

[royal crow]

cough cough i know cough cough

[eternal talon]

and my join date is also at r6, though i was in the server before, left, and rejoined

[eternal talon]

oh. i just now actually looked at it.

[royal crow]

Lol

[eternal talon]

it says you joined in 2023. long after og. i figured you were being sarcastic, that you had.

i know the version with that old hud exists and is playable...

its just.. the forbidden methods

it was the alpha, pre ogr1

someone might have the files, not me though

modding server things.

[royal crow]

[raw terrace]

me when i lie

[eternal talon]

NAH

no cap.

I will die on the hill of older rundowns looking and feeling better.

i played them.

while i just barely missed out on the alpha that is that version, its what i loved from OG but more

[raw terrace]

extremely vague map, extremely useless friends hp [if u want that same thing make it hover over the heads], extremely bad weapon design and feeling [those scopes look so bad and they kinda play as badly too], very eh feeling on the bad font and also very simplistic objective, bad hp position

and does the minimap serve for something or is it just a round compass

og rundowns are a very different thing to the alpha

[eternal talon]

just accept that you and I are different people and like different things.
i loved the gritty, dark, slimy nature of OG, with jank weapons and gear that made it feel home-crafted (and i mean developer wise, not lore)

[raw terrace]

i mean im not critiquin the feeling, it just feels like og rundown but with a different hug and sort of a mix of the old and new light [idk if its me or the enemies look softer]

but i think og rundown feeling is better than prealpha feeling

[eternal talon]

some people like caviar and truffles, I like bread.

[raw terrace]

i never had any of those

[royal crow]

What are truffles

[raw terrace]

oh well i think a games a bit more thna the feel and that hud would just sort of suck ass for gameplay but

if its nice to look at

sure

i prefer the og hud even with that but thats me

[eternal talon]

its an expression

[raw terrace]

i kno :3

[eternal talon]

truffles are a type of extremely expensive fungus

like caviar, it is a rich people thing

truffles are primarily harvested in france via pigs.

they don't grow most places.

[eternal talon]

they look a lot less wet, if thats what you mean.

the earlier rundowns that I remember -- pretty much everything sleeper related was coated in slime

wet and shiny

[raw terrace]

yeah thats what i mean

og was a lot more oily

sleepers b all watered

[eternal talon]

actual environment textures were very grainy, almost like covered in a thick layer of dust

i still have no fucking clue how they managed to change that

[raw terrace]

ik you can edit the wetness of missions via a setting when making levels

did they maybe changed it

when releasin post r6

no thats thats stupid

nevermind

[eternal talon]

alt charger roof

[raw terrace]

the wet affected all surfaces

[eternal talon]

without the slime it just looks terrible

like it lost 2/3rds of its polygons

do modern rundowns still have all the dust floating in the air?

(i don't mean just near light sources)

it almost reminds me of how radiation appears on camera

hm, it looks like they do

that was a fast catch

automod?

[gray bone]

I believe it was everywhere

It just got deleted here relatively last

[eternal talon]

we never figured out what the deal was with these

or all the decapitated heads in the biocom server room

uhhhh

guys?

am i seeing things?

or is that a structure?

@royal crow @coral gorge

(just looking at old photos)

here is an obvious bridge

[raw terrace]

me when

[raw terrace]

enviromental storytelling

[raw terrace]

maybe the pools of weird liquid around the jumpgate

when ur about to do a tp

[eternal talon]

this was a funny bug

[raw terrace]

kiss?

[eternal talon]

new and old menus. wyt

i like the aesthetics of og, but the new one is undeniably more clean

[raw terrace]

color :D

[eternal talon]

one thing i can say about new is that they got really good slime on the kraken

[safe gale]

cool arby

[wanton moss]

@eternal talon , random question, but what causes the Sleepers to be invisible? Is it some mutation of the virus, or it it from something they get exposed to in the Complex?

[eternal talon]

we do not know. it is something left entirely unexplained in-game.

[wanton moss]

Welp. That’s depressing.

[amber viper]

Also why do they behave and sound so different? So many questions

[wanton moss]

I was ready for the Loremaster lecture 😞

[eternal talon]

Same answer. We actually have no information on shadows at all.

[warped bloom]

another one of schaffers experiemnts

[eternal talon]

Wdym "schaeffer's experiments"?

I don't know of a single experiment of his, let alone plural

[oblique plume]

@eternal talon helloo! I finished reading the lfd, but wanted to make sure i read the correct one 😂 its the v8.5.txt right?

[royal crow]

Yes

The one in pins

[oblique plume]

okay great thank you!

[eternal talon]

The .pdf contains a bit of the same information, rewritten. It was intended to be a replacement, but was never finished

[eternal talon]

any questions?

i am here now. was doing r3b1 with bots

[oblique plume]

nothing really, the lore was explained for a dummy like me. But if i had to bring up, what the heck are the shadows man

[worn rivet]

the alt/og crew would die of radation in GTFO

with the amount of damaged nuclear reactors and such we activate in the rundowns, it would be slow and painful. also we're incredibly lucky that none of the almost centurys old reactors that havent had repairs in years didnt detonate on activation

not thinking of all the stuff that could've gone wrong through out the facilty, or sleepers attacking the reactor or such

[coral gorge]

would they? we are talking of like 2050s tech afterall, and id assume the part of the reactors we see isnt the actual core, which itself is somewhere deeper so it doesnt irradiate all the staff

[royal crow]

Im 100% sure nowdays all of reactors have some sort of shield to avoid radiation getting out in case of shit going down

So again
Schaeffer plan was a bunch of nothing

[worn rivet]

During the years long gap between the fall of garganta and the events of gtfo, it would've degraded to a point that starting it would've had a massive chance of doing it

Add on how many we start up and all of the probability of it, both groups would've had to have insane amounts of luck and bullsbit

Not accounting for how during the events of r8 and all the matterwave collapse stuff, how many nuclear reactors would fuse into solid rock and such, hmm

[eternal talon]

That's not how nuclear reactors work.

[worn rivet]

Let me correct that, create elephants foots

[eternal talon]

Nuclear reactors can't explode. The closest you can get is the coolant system rupturing and having a localized hydrogen explosion

There is a reason why chernobyl and Fukushima daiichi aren't craters

[worn rivet]

Huh, that's a good point

[eternal talon]

They function the exact opposite of nuclear bombs.

Passive nuclear decay causes heat.

[eternal talon]

We don't know. There is no lore whatsoever regarding the shadows.

[eternal talon]

Even bigger than that, if a bunch of them did melt down, you wouldn't have half of garganta suddenly radioactive... because we are deep af underground. The rock would block it. You'd have a bunch of tiny localized zones with insta-death radiation and outside of that, very little if anything.

[worn rivet]

Hmm,

[plush nest]

wasnt there a mention of radation bulkheads in the one level?

[worn rivet]

in r8 with the alt team, we do a practise reactor thingy which opens the radition bulkheads if that's what you mean

[plush nest]

Think so

[worn rivet]

i dont remember if it's that or us opening a bunch of bulkheads in one of the alt teams r8 ones

[eternal talon]

I have no idea. I played r8 on release and haven't touched it since.

[coral gorge]

somehow doesnt remember a vital part of R8

wow

#notmyloremaster

[coral gorge]

in R8B3 OG team open the radiation bulkheads for scheaffer

[eternal talon]

i'm sorry, its only been two years

r8 released dec 8th, 2023

[eternal talon]

by "radiation bulkheads" i can only assume they mean the entry point into the reactor's containment building

i don't know what he would be planning in that regard...

you can't manually pull control rods..

he'd die before he left the zone

just... ugh

[jaunty cloak]

Was someone on the GTFO Reddit talking about biocom in the boot-up screen?

[eternal talon]

twas me

gimme a sec

[jaunty cloak]

Oh nice, I just came across the post

[eternal talon]

this is what biocom sees.

its a bit blury, but in this instance, the KSO is about to light up a striker with the pdw

[next panther]

what is the KSO?

[eternal talon]

the "eye" is the reflection of your retina

[jaunty cloak]

I can see it, interesting. Just like a live neural feed or something

[eternal talon]

exactly. the control chips are installed into the back of the head, brainstem area

~

[eternal talon]

wdym?

[next panther]

idk what kso is

[eternal talon]

Kovac Security Operative

[jaunty cloak]

I think it stands for Korvec (korvac?) security operative

[eternal talon]

have a read of the for dummies docs in the pins

they explain the basics of just about everything

[eternal talon]

kovac.

(sometimes spelt with a c, sometimes with a k)

[worn rivet]

Hmm, the amount of horror you could do with gtfo hmm

[eternal talon]

pretty much the entire pre-apocalypse

[worn rivet]

Or the first sighting of the sleepers by the scientists or gargantas fall or the pov of the bishop who got trapped on destination

[eternal talon]

i hate sand

[worn rivet]

Like the workers who didn't know about sleepers and what they are, finding out during the fall just watching as their friends are ripped apart by sleepers

[eternal talon]

trapped in garganta, because the warden, or what they think is biocom, sealed all the external bulkheads

completely cornered

it reminds me of this one log...

[worn rivet]

Or as the 4 of bishops group appearing on destination looking around and realising theres probably no way home. Or the scientists first reading the report on what those things down there look like, and just the fear of these humans dressed like mayans standing there or whatever the fuck collectors look like.

[eternal talon]

**../BIOCOM
audio intercept
meta3.date_stamp(561125.160643)
concern begins/..

//transcript follows…

D017
You’re not listening to me I am getting no response at all not a bounce back the message is getting there nothing is coming back so it

RESPONSE COORDINATOR
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D017
Right so is the network down on your end

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D017
I tried that I tried everything at my tier blast doors media [inaudible] temperatur con
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D017
yes temperature control I can’t even turn on the fucking lights

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D017
How the fuck do I do that when there is no elevator I have no power fuck are you even listening to me I am trapped down

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D017
You know as well as I do there is only one thing that can override every system in the place and that’s [biocom] but I can’t find any controllers down**

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D017
So it’s not even possible it could go wrong I am the one who is stuck here you fucking asshole oh no

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Oh jesus christ oh what the hell is that please come and get me please I am begging you

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D017
Oh no please you fucking assholes

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[inaudible]

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**D017
[inaudible]

../BIOCOM
personnel files updated
alert system flagged
concern ends/..**

[worn rivet]

Oh God

That guy is super dead

[eternal talon]

personnel files updated

so chill and uncaring

[worn rivet]

Wait even more terrifying to think of is the POV of the ones who managed to make it into the inner during gargantas fall, if they made it there, the horrifying look of hundreds of mayans and collectors stood in the forms of tanks and mothers with the other types.

Strewn throughout

[eternal talon]

unrelated, but souce for KDS escorting insight expeditions:
Kovac will provide escort teams to all Santonian mining crews as they continue to excavate and expand Garganta and will provide military support for Project Insight explorations into the Fossil.

DGV-788-OMG.log

[worn rivet]

Hmm, makes sense considering one of the 3 leaders were part of the exploration teams

[eternal talon]

i know that, i mentioned it a couple days ago. i just remembered

knowing hammerstein, he wouldn't even consider going without bodies to throw down as distractions so he could get away in the event of an emergency

[worn rivet]

Which by the way is kinda weird no one thought to stop hammerstein considering hes the fucking CEO

[eternal talon]

the guy wanted his name on everything

[eternal talon]

of insight, but isn't really isn't a company per se... they are a subsidiary of dreyfus, yes, like santonian is, but they are more like a research lab

[worn rivet]

Even with kso escorts, there were a shite ton of sleepers down there, enough to easily outnumber and overwhelm them

[eternal talon]

i'd imagine their total staffing would be incredibly small

(compared to smc)

[worn rivet]

That's a good point

[worn rivet]

Oh more mr truth lore

[worn rivet]

Wait that implies that garganta had connections with the fbi

[eternal talon]

KDS ran the yucatan

they had full governmental control

[royal crow]

Bro

The company in charge of the complex owns half of the world

[worn rivet]

Oh I didnt know that

[eternal talon]

it's literally the first sentence of the lfd...

[worn rivet]

Hmm

Interesting

Project insight was the ksos and them trying to clone people to make an army?

[eternal talon]

what?

no...

none of that sentence is true

its like i just got hit by a baseball bat...

[worn rivet]

I thought project insight was them trying to make cloning tech to make alot of kso's.

[eternal talon]

1: insight was a subsidiary of dreyfus tasked with researching the artifacts and exploring the vessel
2: KOVACsos are entirely related to KOVAC, which is not owned or operated by dreyfus. kovac is only in garganta because they blackmailed dreyfus.
3: the RISE project made by kovac explicitly did not use clones. they used existing genetic material, ala sperm and eggs.
4: kovac already had an army. Legion. RISE was intended to suppliment the legion program and give it more bodies/personnel

insight is hammerstein, stokes, durant...

any of this ring a bell?

[worn rivet]

Oh, got the two projects mixed up. I thought they were doing clone technology stuff and not genetic messary

Legion is a fun concept

[eternal talon]

B6A108AC43 #4913 - “... are not clones. RISE uses existing genetic material, but the resulting…” - flagged

HPF-4NP-UNK

[eternal talon]

depends on what you consider fun...

kidnapped, memories wiped, implanted with a control chip turning you into an unwilling slave without the mind to resist

[worn rivet]

Oh god

[eternal talon]

do... do you need to read the lfd?

you are concerning me, giving how much you have been around to this point

[worn rivet]

Yeah I might have to reread that, cause it was like 3 in the morning when I read it the first time

[eternal talon]

read the .pdf then the .txt

both are pinned.

[worn rivet]

I see, let me correct myself legion is fucking horrifying

[eternal talon]

the only slight way to moralize it was that the overwhelming majority of KSOs were obtained directly from prisons...

but then you have cases like bishop...

[worn rivet]

"Prisons" or you know the homeless and downtrodden or people they want getting rid of/kidnapped

[eternal talon]

or the innocent falsly convicted

[worn rivet]

Basically whoever

[eternal talon]

dave from accounting accidentally bumped into the boss at work and spilled his coffee.
INTO HELL WITH YOU!

[worn rivet]

At the very least, a few horrible criminals were probably put into the kso stuff

Hmm

[coral gorge]

”Hey boss, the employees are unionizing again.”
„They can unionize in the goddamn pods! Off with them!”

[eternal talon]

anybody wanna play through r3c1 and talk about lore along the way?

[raw terrace]

damn i wish :[

[nimble saddle]

same

[worn rivet]

Hmm there Is so much interesting lore

Destination being at the heart of a butterfly nebula and its implications, garagntas massive size, the krakens

[bright sphinx]

I would if you don't care about me being BAD (I also know 2% of the lore)

[eternal talon]

i just finished it with bots... perhaps another time.
in the meantime, why not read the GTFO Lore For Dummies in the pins of this channel, and bump that 2% to 92%?

and no, i wouldn't care about you being bad. I probably suck worse. #DoorCheese

[bright sphinx]

I play gtfo like it's a tac shooter 🙏

[wanton moss]

This isn’t Ready or Not, my friend. In this game we have a super cool sprint button 😉

Bask in its glory.

[long glacier]

let bro play how he wants

[wanton moss]

No sprint. Just peaking out of cover with flashbang in hand.

[bright sphinx]

I am aware

[wanton moss]

It gets me every time I switch off that game and I’m like “holy crap I can move”

[eternal talon]

I have two modes. Stealthing by running and smacking heads, they can't alert the room if they are dead,

And crawling around admiring the atmosphere and picking up stories from the rubble and corpses

[eternal talon]

You should try Rainbow Six 3

It is crawling, and despite having tons of guns, pretty much every one will 1-tap you.

It's an old game, but a classic

[cunning light]

Imagine being old enough to have enjoyed Rainbown Six 1, and Ghost Recon, when they came out.

They were far from perfect, but completing a mission felt quite satisfying still

[eternal talon]

30s?

I played rainbow six 3 as a kid, but it was already a fair bit old when I got it.

Born 2001

[eternal talon]

I had the rainbow six 3, ghost recon, splinter cell bundle.

It was an old hard case

No clue where I got it from

[royal crow]

Old people

[wanton moss]

Bro I’m totally a 25 year old PS2 nerd. Can I get that on there?

I used to play Syphon Filter as a kid.

[eternal talon]

What are you, some kind of child?

[eternal talon]

Idk. I know r63 is on steam, that's where I picked it up again. My original xbox died loooooong ago

[eternal talon]

It's named after its expansion, Athena *sword

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But it's probably time to stop talking about things unrelated to gtfo

Feel free to DM me if you want to continue this convo

[wanton moss]

Okie 🫡

[bright sphinx]

Ghost recon ❤️

[eternal talon]

r3d1 in ~20 minutes?

i've never played it before

lmk if you wanna join, talk lore/ask questions while playing.

[eternal talon]

anybody have any lore questions?

[jolly sail]

i did see a question a while back that was like "whyd the hsus in r4d1 tank room open" or smth

[eternal talon]

i actually answered this one on reddit.

let me point you over there

https://www.reddit.com/r/GTFO/comments/1iq4zub/comment/mcxkswu/

anybody wanna do r5c1? talk lore while we play

[raw terrace]

frosty 100% gtfo damns

[worn rivet]

hmm

[nimble saddle]

I'm guessing that chargers are some sleeper mutation right

Are nightmares like that too

Or are they something special like how were they even made Is it just evolution or something

[eternal talon]

so the way sleepers are created is a sort of multi-step proccess

first, a host gets infected with the virus. the mutations caused by the virus will eventually go on to kill the host.

[nimble saddle]

Oh yeah I read a bit about the infection process and the ways it affects them

I forgot the exact word

[nimble saddle]

Wouldn't that make sleepers some sort of zombies?

[eternal talon]

if a host dies due to the virus but not the parasite, this is the end stage of their mutations.

[eternal talon]

i was just getting to that -- sleepers aren't zombies.

the hosts are still alive, unable to control their bodies as the parasite puppets them

but anyway

[nimble saddle]

Yeah they don't behave too zombie like

It's more like a hivemind

[eternal talon]

if a host infected with the virus then becomes infected by the parasite, due to the symbiotic nature of the two, the host will not die.

the mutations initially caused by the virus would continue under the parasite, becoming more significant and with purpose.

the parasite essentially examines the biological makeup of the infected host, and determines a form best suited for the collective hive based on that information.

this is why the overwhelming majority of strikers are male, and shooters female

[nimble saddle]

So it basically picks what the person will end up as

[eternal talon]

a host that had a high abundance of muscle mass and size might end up as a charger or giant.

[nimble saddle]

Ye, that makes a lot of sense

[eternal talon]

depending on the needs of the hive, the parasite could turn a potential host into a shooter, scout, hybrid, or charger scout, etc

it is largely circumstantial.

[nimble saddle]

I wonder since the hydrostasis kills anything in it, if you put a sleeper in it would it die or would it kill the virus and parasite should they get woken up

Does this make sense?

I might be bad at wording

[eternal talon]

hydrostasis is able to identify foreign material and kill it, only resuscitating the intended recipient upon activation... it would most likely try to wake the sleeper as it would any other human, but fail.

hydrostasis kills whatever you put into it regardless... that is just how it works

people included.

[nimble saddle]

Yeah which is why it is the only way to get rid of the virus

It kills it because it kills everything in it

[eternal talon]

yes.

[long glacier]

the sleepers are so juicy

😋

[nimble saddle]

Dang I'm getting really invested into the lore

Also going back to the what sleepers people end us, are snatchers the same thing or different?

[eternal talon]

i'd reccomend reading the "for dummies" doccuments in the pins of this channel. start with the unfinished .pdf, then read the .txt.

[nimble saddle]

I did hear tanks and mothers are different but no idea about snatchers

[eternal talon]

they are potentially a bit more complicated... it is a bit of an unknown factor

tanks, mothers, and snatchers are hinted at not being entirely natural mutations by the parasite,

rather being coerced to mutate in that way

[nimble saddle]

I will definitely check it out

[eternal talon]

this is most evident with the snatcher, actually, with its first introduction being r7c1 with the room with the shattered experimentation tank

[nimble saddle]

So they could've been manipulated to evolve that way as you said

[eternal talon]

significantly larger than the tanks storying typical sleepers

[nimble saddle]

It does make sense they are just more strange than the normal enemies

[eternal talon]

if they were manipulated, which again we can't say with certainty that they were, rather than just studied, it would have been at the hands of Dr. Dauda and his human experimentation

[eternal talon]

they are filled with eggs so i'd imagine they'd pop like popcorn.

[nimble saddle]

Oh yeah I never knew what Dauda's lore is

Like the full one

[eternal talon]

so, the doc covers a bit of the official descriptions,

but in the case of dauda,

he worked in north africa for medicens sans frontiers

that is where he was when dreyfus picked him up

from there, he was placed in their subsidiary organization and sister to Santonian, Insight.

under insight, and in garganta, he conducted human experimentation largely with the goal of studying the virus and determining its capabilities

this accounted for more than just infected individuals, but experimenting with uninfected aswell

[nimble saddle]

I'm guessing this is what his log is about

The one about his nightmare

[eternal talon]

in the original worldline, he was one of the last surviving scientists in garganta. his lab was being overrun with sleepers, and he was forced to enter a hydrostasis unit to avoid being torn to pieces

[nimble saddle]

Of like putting needles into people and stuff

[nimble saddle]

Oh yeah there's a log for that I believe

[eternal talon]

in that unit he was implanted with a control chip, where the warden eventually found him

see, like schaeffer, he wasn't originally a KSO

just a civilian

[nimble saddle]

He basically went into hydrostasis to survive

[eternal talon]

in ALT, the other three members of our KSO team found him and forced him into a hydrostasis unit

[nimble saddle]

Can't blame him

[eternal talon]

essentially. you hear on the audio recording as the sleepers tear down the door

it was get shredded or enter stasis

[nimble saddle]

Wait Hackett, Dauda and woods?

[eternal talon]

yes.

[nimble saddle]

Yes, it sent shivers first time I heard it

[eternal talon]

hackett, bishop and woods

[nimble saddle]

Oh yeah I got it wrong

Why did they do that though

Were they ordered and under control

[eternal talon]

i'm not entirely sure.

[nimble saddle]

Sadly GTFO has a lot of unexplained things

Like with shadows

[eternal talon]

it likely wasn't their primary objective assigned by biocom, so they likely had enough leeway to get away with saving him

rather than shooting him on sight

because when it comes to orders, KSOs are essentially robots

they can't disobey

[nimble saddle]

There was a log about woods also being told that they can't have any beliefs in god and stuff

Something like that

[eternal talon]

that is mostly down to the memory wipe phase than the control chips, though.

in official canon, it didn't work anyway

quote: "some fires burn too deeply to smother"

or something along those lines.

[nimble saddle]

Oh yeah this reminds me too

[eternal talon]

so he still has his faith

[nimble saddle]

No way isn't there a gtfo level called smother no way

[eternal talon]

the actual quote is included in the doccument

[eternal talon]

yes

but it is unrelated, as far as i know

[nimble saddle]

Yeah just a coincidence but it reminded me

Also one more thing I wanted to ask in one log there was a mention of one of the prisoners doing self harm I think it was woods, was it caused by the chips or is it like a thing he has in general

It was in a chip related logs

Something along these lines

I think it was about one of the prisoners banging their head on the walls

[eternal talon]

**D-Lock Block Cipher

Sender: Ellis Carnegie
Receiver: Angela Klein A106
Date: June 8th 2052
Subject: Behavioral anomalies among Sigma gen

Ms. Klein,

I recommend only using Tau gen until we have fully investigated the
issue with Sigma gen. The Pretoria lab is running some tests on our
GOs and our remaining Sigmas to isolate the behaviors you mentioned.
A few questions:

1. Can you send photos of the self-harm you indicated with 0-2056?
   We need to confirm if the scarring is indiscriminate or
   definitely religious. Our records show this operative has
   exhibited similar behavior before, despite multiple resets.

2. The head banging behavior is known in toddlers, but we did not
   see that behavior in any of the Genesis Operatives. Does it start
   immediately after resuscitation, or after some period of time? I
   would like video evidence for the records and a more detailed
   report please.

3. Can you send me a list of the operatives you marked as faulty and
   sent to recycling? We track both organ and tissue stocks here so
   we can trace the history should we need it.

Ellis Carnegie

Kovac Research, Pretoria**

[nimble saddle]

I need to re-read the logs

Yes

That one

[eternal talon]

that is indeed woods' designation number

[nimble saddle]

I remember the "O" meant something

[eternal talon]

i don't believe it would have any relation to the chips

[nimble saddle]

Before the number

Like they were put into roles I think

[nimble saddle]

Then my bad

[eternal talon]

operative

[nimble saddle]

I wonder while on the topic of woods, does he have more lore not counting "I shot marines"

[eternal talon]

woods is actually class F, faulty

[nimble saddle]

Not my boi :[

He's meant to be like taken apart and used for organs and such

If I remember correctly

[eternal talon]

had garganta not fallen to the sleeper infestation, he would have been used for -- yeah

organ transplants

you are exactly right

[nimble saddle]

So I do remember something after all

[eternal talon]

class F is also used for units infected too deeply with the virus and aren't suited for redeployment,

but in the case of woods it is likely due to his faith

[eternal talon]

(even if hydrostasis kills the virus, the damage stacks up over time from missions outside of stasis)

[nimble saddle]

So in the end he wasn't really meant to be alive or anything but since the outbreak happened in the end he is used by the warden

[eternal talon]

yes.

the warden only had access to 8k KSOs prior to r5e1

[nimble saddle]

Yeah I can imagine they do have permanent damage from missions

[eternal talon]

so it didn't really have the liberty of choice

[nimble saddle]

Also just to confirm. The last room of R5E1 is the room we get deployed in during the drop animation right

[eternal talon]

nam-v is fatal within a measure of five weeks. i wasn't talking about physical damage like gunshot wounds and bruising/broken bones, i was talking about the damage of being infected every mission for the duration until you return. the minutes add up.

though normal damage could stack up too

[eternal talon]

r5e1 is the KDS-DEEP vault

[nimble saddle]

Oh

Thanks for clearing up ^^

[eternal talon]

consider how deeply garganta is infested, on every surface -- even the outside of the pods

[nimble saddle]

Ill ask for more tomorrow or someday else for now I need to go to sleep I have work tomorrow

[eternal talon]

we'd be reinfected the instant an expedition starts until the end

(its important to know the infection mechanic is NOT nam-v)

[nimble saddle]

They get out of the hydrostasis and begin the R5E1 simulator

Get it because max infection

From the start

[eternal talon]

i haven't played r5e1 myself, actually.

[nimble saddle]

Oh yeah I do know this one

[eternal talon]

i skipped r4 and r5

[nimble saddle]

Basically you drop into the mission with 100% infection

Have fun with surge alarms

And spitter infested zones

[eternal talon]

eh, if i did it, i'd be doing it with doorbug just for the completion/cosmetic

i don't really play much gtfo

i find the story far more interesting

[nimble saddle]

For me it's both really

I both like the game and the lore

I really enjoy both

[worn rivet]

the many kinds of sleepers and infected are intresting and fun to think of what kind of creatures they could've orignated from

[eternal talon]

mainly the floaters and kraken

their physiology is very strange.

[nimble saddle]

Everytime I hear floaters o get R6D2 PTSD

[nimble saddle]

I still remember shooting flyers with my shotgun and being unable to do shit 😭

[gray bone]

slug choke and reg can do decent against them

Not combat or hel shotty tho

[nimble saddle]

I didn't really know it back then

It was in the first encounter I had with em

Not R6D2 but that was horrible too

I can't aim at these meatballs

[worn rivet]

my theory for krakens are many infected merging together for space/interdemisonal travel, floaters being fishes or many animals fused together?, and chargers being a dog and humans fused by the virus.

[gray bone]

(I brought slug choke to the kraken fight on my first time)

(No idea why no one told me not to)

[nimble saddle]

I had hel and scatter

🥹

[eternal talon]

krakens to me just look like cuttlefish

just obviously way way large and with the striker torn head treatment.

[eternal talon]

chargers are definitively human.
they just have a shit ton of chitinous-esque spines, underneath all that mucus

[worn rivet]

that looks disgustingly horrific

[eternal talon]

pic is from GTFO steam trading cards.

[worn rivet]

huh

[eternal talon]

you can still see the faces.

it is morbidly fascinating

[worn rivet]

oh those designs are intresting

like that top ones pustils and orange bits look horrific, and that second ones face is just teeth

[eternal talon]

that one tooth is the size of the entire mouth

[worn rivet]

wait that's one tooth

[eternal talon]

have a look at the human mouth

one tooth is clogging the entire thing

the entire face is shifted off to the sides

[worn rivet]

fuck that's worse

[eternal talon]

imagine what the sleepers would look like in real life

genuine nightmare fuel.

incredible designs

[worn rivet]

if they didnt want to do any more levels or dlcs for gtfo, a horror themed book for it would work

[eternal talon]

also that striker clearly has an eye-- why not just open it and see the KSOs?

game over

[eternal talon]

pretty much any content would be great

[worn rivet]

huh that's a good point, maybe it's a thing to do with the virus's origns

[eternal talon]

wdym?

[worn rivet]

like due to it's origns as a bio weapon or something like that, from what we know, the sleepers cant do complex motor control or stuff like that

[eternal talon]

tell that to the scouts --

[worn rivet]

which could explain why they attack with tongues

or tentacles, that's just their heads tentacles coming out through their heads and sensing the area, and it could work considering they dont move them around to cover extra area

[bright sphinx]

Can't wait for next update where sleepers now pull off skateboard tricks mid wave

[worn rivet]

the sleepers shouldnt be able to move if not for NAM-V

their bodies and muscles should not be able to even function, after fuck off amounts of years and decay, they should be skeletons and fragments of melded flesh.

[raw terrace]

whats the first log of schaeffy in the ALTs?

cuz his first log in og is r4 but we kno he has logs before

[eternal talon]

Do you want a technicality?

Alt://r1d1 morse.

[raw terrace]

erm i guess ksmdkm

[sacred maple]

iirc ALT Schaeffer's first log is in R3C1 (Alpha)?

that's the one before he gets his chip out

[royal crow]

Yes

[wanton moss]

There’s a Schaeffer log in Alpha?

[raw terrace]

thats d1

but there is a log on c1

i just dont kno if its the first

but if say so it must

my internet died hyper hard

[eternal talon]

anybody wanna talk lore?

[raw terrace]

yes i wanna ask something

whats the r6 expand genome database thing

cuz we input the command for it in r6d1, but it also appears as the description of the mission in cx

[eternal talon]

well, we don't know because the ending of r6 got sidetracked by schaeffer's little rebellion.

as to alt, it just cuts to r8

so still no answer

its likely something to do with the creatures native to destination, as that is where we secure the database initially in d1.

perhaps the warden wanted to look into the destination fauna for one reason or another

[raw terrace]

it does say "potential to enhance unit masking" in cx so it could be related too makin a conduit

[eternal talon]

could be.

[raw terrace]

cuz the b2 description does say it is explicitally for one

[eternal talon]

schaeffer mentions the conduit walking through the sleepers like a ghost

[raw terrace]

we collect an HSU sample for it

[eternal talon]

-- they don't see it

could be pheremone masking

iirc the warden had multiple teams, including us, gathering redundant genome database samples in the second half of that rundown

i don't remember where that was mentioned, however

[raw terrace]

that could explain it
at the end alt or not the conduit died on both, so it was made one way or the other

[eternal talon]

ah

the r6ax description

"Multiple units dispatched to exceed success tolerance"

you wanna hop into r6b1 with me and explore destination for a bit?

i've studied that level from top to bottom

[raw terrace]

r6c3 is also technically a diversion

we dont know the objective the other team was on but probs was related to it

[eternal talon]

it is, yes.

[raw terrace]

me looking at all the money i had if my messages not sending was a job

[eternal talon]

the other team is (likely, unconfirmed) gathering the MWP we left in r6b1 so that we can use it in r6d1

[raw terrace]

still slendi no gtfo version :[

[eternal talon]

what does that mean?

[raw terrace]

im on a mac so no gtfo for me, my other pc died and i havent been able to have a replacement

[eternal talon]

oh no!

[raw terrace]

its been likee 10 or so months since no gtfo

[eternal talon]

Found this video a couple months ago. Has a couple errors (like the initial quarantine being ignored by the two scientists and methods of transmission) but is otherwise really solid.
https://youtu.be/xx-6NAzU2PU?si=VetiJOSdVJG8Q55V

[worn rivet]

Hmm

[brazen edge]

Does anyone have the fanmade image of timeline of each team of prisoners?

[eternal talon]

Check the pins

[brazen edge]

Thanks

[eternal talon]

Cubix posted it.

[ionic dune]

is the warden seen as the good or bad guy? (also is schaeffer a good/bad guy?)

[eternal talon]

the warden is an alien that had survived in the crashed ship for 65 million years. we don't really know if it is good or bad. We have little hints of both. Its more neutral than anything else, with its own goals and motivations, most of which are unknown.

[ionic dune]

oh ok

[eternal talon]

schaeffer from the original worldline is most def a bad buy.
schaeffer from the ALT:// worldline is an alright guy, but mostly neutral.

[ionic dune]

oh ok

[raw terrace]

my boy :[ i still believe hard the ||writting on r8 really changed him up from a goober to a lunatic||

[eternal talon]

Fun Scenario:
Who... are you?
Pick a name for your KSO.
What is their backstory?
How did they end up in the Legion Program?
Feel free to post a picture of your cosmetics!

[loud urchin]

sorry i don't oc

[eternal talon]

sorry, the eval is canon, and you don't play as one of four main characters...

so there is a canon expedition of your oc

[raw terrace]

gOD I HAD THE OUTFIT FOR THIs

slendi
i worked for santoniaan for 25 years as a mining head boss and got picked by kds for dedication
when kds needed more people to pull they chose some santonian workers that wouldnt be missed
cosmetics is full santonian apparel as it seems to calm me even if i dont remember the company

[eternal talon]

unironically i think i remember you posting about your fit at one point

[raw terrace]

i think i posted lobby pics but i never got the santonian helmet :[

[eternal talon]

really? out of all cosmetic drops?

or do you still have expeditions left?

[raw terrace]

i haaaad r5 and r4 e's left those were my chances
and r4d2 i think

[eternal talon]

DAMN THAT SUCKS ASS.
i was really worried about that with the hooded helmet, but i lucked out on one of my final ones

[raw terrace]

i hold hope, i did have the backpack after finishin r5d2 i think so

prays

[eternal talon]

hang on, which helmet?

i could have sworn there was a couple

[raw terrace]

:D

[eternal talon]

ah, the branded version of the r1 helm

you could do a full Kovac fit

[raw terrace]

theres the santonian skinwalker but thats just halloween helmet

[eternal talon]

peacekeeper included

[raw terrace]

but also santonian hdh

[eternal talon]

counterpoint: Kovac Sledgehammer

also apparently santonian made the mallet?

[raw terrace]

yeh :D

[eternal talon]

i looove the plate carrier. was one of the first cosmetics i unlocked.

the event exclusive camo one is even better

[worn rivet]

Hmm

[eternal talon]

i've noticed you sure do Hmm a lot.

[worn rivet]

It's me thinking on lore and for this it was me thinking on the backstory

[eternal talon]

lol, no biggie

was just pointing it out

[worn rivet]

Right let's a go:
*RT
*We worked at santoniaan for about 12 years as a Tech support worker, While helping on a falty computer, we snooped around and read through a series of company files, that were on the various shady and illegal deals that had been happening. Leading to us being put into the kso program to cover it up and to prevent us from leaking the info to the media. Most of the files had names of various employees and criminals that had missing in the past, strange.

*The presumed Kia bit is easy to explain, RT along with 3 other ksos were sent on a mission down to the lower parts of the complex by biocom or the warden, during this the 4 came under attack by sleepers and after the completion of the missions objective on our way to the extraction point . The group had to go through the vent system to reach the evac at which point, RT fell down a short vent shaft and got stuck with no way to contact outside help, now we sit and wait for death.

[warm bronze]

I actually have a gtfo version of my sona, and a few art pieces of him, but this is the outfit he's drawn in

in terms of backstory stuff i dont have much 😔 the backstory I usually use for him is he was created by artificial means but im pretty sure cloning and all that in gtfo failed horribly so, unsure

[raw terrace]

u can say it was like the one specimen that worked by just aging normally instead of the fast accelerated aging that the machines did

and that the warden doesnt use those cuz they just take too fucking long

and conduits are easy enough to make while only lasting a few days/weeks

[eternal talon]

imagine growing up in this shithole. something like Newt from Aliens

[raw terrace]

i mean its kinda a funny concept lmao

a baby that got like nurtured by fuckin sleepers megamind style

[eternal talon]

sadly nam-v makes that impossible, though

[raw terrace]

or nurtured by uh idk machinery

[raw terrace]

its an oc we can dream :3

what if this is the universe nam-v is only contagious per contact or something

[eternal talon]

infinity is infinite, I can't deny it.

[worn rivet]

Anyone that would grow up in garganta would've have been insane.

[eternal talon]

slender man pages except with sleepers

[worn rivet]

Or just dead

[warm bronze]

i wasnt entirely sure why they didnt work, but if its the aging process that kills the clones then that could def work!

[eternal talon]

GTFO Lore Quiz!

Answer: ||.....2063.....||

Answer: ||......Dean......||

Answer: ||......Maya......||

Answer: ||........Teale........||

Answer: ||......Artus......||

Answer: ||....32,000....||

Answer: ||........Florida........||

Answer: ||...2042...||

Answer: ||.Capreolatus.||

Answer: ||....NGC 6302....||

.
What was your score?
Leave your results below!

also I do hope you enjoy my efforts to keep the channel active

[raw terrace]

I GOT SO MANY then i fell out :[ 6

[eternal talon]

that's more than half, still pretty good

they get more and more obscure the farther down the quiz you go

[royal crow]

Now that i realize

House of Ashes has an extremely similar plot to GTFO

[eternal talon]

how so?

[royal crow]

Aliens crash on earth
Parasite infects thems and turns them into monsters (vampires)

Old civilization fights them

They fail

[eternal talon]

||mayans chad||

continue

[royal crow]

Parasite can turn humans into vampires too

(and probably other forms of life)

[eternal talon]

put it in spoilers, because quiz above has that as a question

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1281590/The_Dark_Pictures_Anthology_House_of_Ashes/ this?

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looks like until dawn

[royal crow]

Yeah

[royal crow]

Made by the same studio

Too bad they only have 2 actually good games

Until dawn and House of Ashes are the only good decent games they have

And maybe Little Hope

[royal crow]

I got all right LOL

[eternal talon]

damn

i figured the nebula question would stump anybody

[fresh gyro]

9

hsu count is

erm

[worn rivet]

Oh quix

[worn rivet]

I got 7

[drowsy adder]

i got 2 😦

need to retake a year of gtfo lore class

[warm bronze]

8/10

hsu count and the location of destination

[long glacier]

I got fucking 6/10

ggs

😭🙏 environmental story telling

got me out here studying lore like it's a college class

[worn rivet]

gtfo excels in many parts with the lore, but some of my favourite is the enviromental story telling. Dead legion teams telling of something gone awry, the hanging bodies marking sleeper rooms and of a dimension taken fully over by the virus NAM-V, tanks made of flesh and many bodies corrupted over, the hellish noises of far off gunfire letting you know of teams out there but with no way to contact them.

The little notes you get on missions from long dead legion teams as you drop into it about what or where your going, when you warp back from the sand dimension how you drag some back with you, the spores and green gas that markes an area where the virus has notably built up, how in r8e2 as your team is trying to hold off the last sleepers as your on the verge of winning there's fire and explosions going off above you as it pulls the last bits of power to get your team out of there and to the safe dimension, the horrorifying screams of sleepers.

[eternal talon]

*the infection mechanic isn't nam-v

[worn rivet]

wait it isnt

[worn rivet]

oh...that's alot of dead legion teams

[eternal talon]

https://gtfo.fandom.com/wiki/IIX_Syringe
OGR5C2 MAIL_INV_CNTR-445.LOG
is dated August 4th 2050, when they received a shipment of IIX syringes
OGR6C1 YTG-48A-GK3
describes first contact with NAM-V in Garganta, and is dated March 18th 2052
ALT://R3A1 EBD-T34-DG1
describes side effects with the I2-LP syringes, and though it is dated September 30th 2052, the log seems to have no relevance to NAM-V

the gas masks would be completely useless, as
OG and ALT://R5E1 LOCS-43W-MOA-D.LOG
describe the parasite (and virus by extension) being able to eat through SCBA-LevelA hazmat suits)

which looks like this...

[worn rivet]

huh the virus is essantily unstoppable with the teams

[eternal talon]

and our KSOs have a lot of exposed skin

[worn rivet]

they do

[eternal talon]

most of the corpses in the r7c1 monster room have split heads. they died from the virus, which is weird. why are all these infected gathering in this one zone to die?

additionally, none of them have guns, and some are missing clothes

[worn rivet]

i have a theory on that: which is that when the virus has enough not that corrupted corpes, it moves them all into one room and does something with them.

[eternal talon]

basically; the syringes give you infection, and this side-effect is mentioned in logs. the syringes however, were shipped in from off-site so should have no possible way to transmit it, especially being in new condition and still sealed, used by mining teams

[worn rivet]

huh, probably just a gameplay thijngy

[eternal talon]

i'm not sure the virus can do that though... influence them, sure, but controlling is more the parasite's deal.

[eternal talon]

what is?

[worn rivet]

the syringes giving infection

[eternal talon]

also don't forget disinfection stations

and packs

more evidence that the infection mechanic is not nam-v

they actually had a sleeper that gave infection, a shooter variant, but they scrapped it

despite already having poppers. imagine why

[worn rivet]

yeah, cause that would not work with how NAM-V operates]

[eternal talon]

and it isn't some new sci-fi chemical magic that they only found out too late, i had a german translate the textures

it is practically just rubbing alcohol

[worn rivet]

huh, so we kinda just rub alchol on us

[eternal talon]

practically, i don't remember exactly what it said, sorry

but i know it isn't no magic concoction

it was something simple and bland

[worn rivet]

while i used mostly horrifiic and bad examples here, there is good looking stuff: the vast sands of destination and it's skies, even parts of garganta can be good looking and cool at parts, how the krakens look and sound, the guns and how they feel to wield and sound, the characters designs.

(other parts also)

[worn rivet]

that's alot of sand.

[worn rivet]

also forgot to mention the lighting system they made for it, is beautiful and even after their overhaul parts of it still look good.

[raw terrace]

graaa mwp my beloved

[worn rivet]

that scene and how it is layed out is beautiful

[raw terrace]

:[ fav room

shouldve gone back there

at some point

shouldve been the 10 uplink place for r8b3 KMSDKM

[worn rivet]

where is that i wonder

[eternal talon]

i've got more, but i should prolly stop

[worn rivet]

that looks like a strange room

[worn rivet]

someone did theory making in there

[worn rivet]

those plants dont look like any kind of food ones that i know of, and that first one yeah someone did alot there

[eternal talon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athyrium_filix-femina

sometimes i think i know way too much

[worn rivet]

so that's a medicanal plant, hmm the meaning

[eternal talon]

not really. it's edible for cooking, but is mostly grown for decoration

[worn rivet]

yeah and if so, it's intresting that a place like garganta would concern with decor and that stuff

[eternal talon]

compare the picture

unlike garganta's destination's thistle, this one was an easy comparison

[worn rivet]

it's almost the exact same plant, just graphic stuff

also i know this sounds weird, but how do you do that line thingy

[eternal talon]

zoom in on the picture. it's low poly, but the texture is there

[eternal talon]

hm? what line thingy?