gtfo-lore

[analog frigate]

^

here is somewhat where decoding into different ascii libraries started

if you go up you can see it decoded from brainfuck to the actual values

at least a couple attempts

[upbeat flare]

i saw the decimal values

13 appears too many time for it to be a normal character no?

so i assumed it was the same as 32 in that case

where it was just formatting

[analog frigate]

13?

[upbeat flare]

The carriage return

[analog frigate]

i don't see much 13

at least dictating from what mac got

ah i see

you are looking at the original one

he messed up the translation program he made

didn't adjust for the starting values

[upbeat flare]

Ahh gotchu

Appreciate it :)

[analog frigate]

no problem

[snow yarrow]

guess that's the other 4-man squad's info

[analog frigate]

4-man?

[lofty cave]

but i see only 3

[snow yarrow]

we are not the only squad that been send into the complex

there

[upbeat flare]

100% this before i go at it for like a couple days? xD

[snow yarrow]

I think that's more like biometric code of each member

[analog frigate]

well, not 100% but the best we have

[upbeat flare]

Well alright then :D

[analog frigate]

you can also check the pinned one

[upbeat flare]

Depression here i come

[fervent lagoon]

no, that one is still wrong

some chars are different

[analog frigate]

oh god

[fervent lagoon]

105 110 108 107 118 111 120 32 60 66 74 80 67 80 79 65 13 118 120 111 115 112 70 119 122 112 32 127 125 111 123 67 13 113 122 125 133 32 120 97 118 123 95 47 13 32 32 32 100 127 127 32 129 107 128 106 104 130 102 104 13 32 32 32 113 119 122 133 32 129 118 128 127 130 132 68 117 130 129 70 13 32 32 32 133 127 132 126 32 117 130 129 46 133 119 132 131 134 136 70 48 13 32 32 32 32 32 32 136 126 135 119 117 137 47 135 130 140 139 13 32 32 32 143 128 129 132 121 118 142 130 141 129 127 143 47 140 142 133 69 49 71 48 13 32 32 32 32 32 32 144 146 145 131 32 149 146 133 133 150 13 32 32 32 150 152 151 132 32 156 137 155 136 134 157 117 134 154 154 119

[upbeat flare]

Oh

[analog frigate]

well we need to get a full translation working

[upbeat flare]

OK

IS THIS ONE THE RIGHT ONE

[analog frigate]

god damnit i have to spend another 45 minutes translating this one

[fervent lagoon]

this is the right one

[analog frigate]

ah good then

you 100% sure?

[fervent lagoon]

yes lol

[agile plinth]

alright good

[upbeat flare]

sick.

[agile plinth]

then i will probably post the nordic ascii translation of this one

since that's the ascii they would have on their computers while writing the game

still contains a lot of a and e variations

i see a couple general lowercase english

above ~130 it's special letters

god I've spent so much time on this i have gotten a feel for the ascii table

[upbeat flare]

105 110 108 107 118 111 120  60 66 74 80 67 80 79 65 
118 120 111 115 112 70 119 122 112  127 125 111 123 67 
113 122 125 133  120 97 118 123 95 47 
   100 127 127  129 107 128 106 104 130 102 104 
   113 119 122 133  129 118 128 127 130 132 68 117 130 129 70 
   133 127 132 126  117 130 129 46 133 119 132 131 134 136 70 48 
      136 126 135 119 117 137 47 135 130 140 139 
   143 128 129 132 121 118 142 130 141 129 127 143 47 140 142 133 69 49 71 48 
      144 146 145 131  149 146 133 133 150 
   150 152 151 132  156 137 155 136 134 157 117 134 154 154 119 
```this seems to be the format

with decimal representation

[agile plinth]

seems isn't good enough

[upbeat flare]

yea well making the assumption that 13 is a special character

[agile plinth]

for this specifically there needs to be certainty

[upbeat flare]

and 32 is space

[agile plinth]

13?

[upbeat flare]

carriage return

[agile plinth]

ah

well send the non formatted versionas well and I'll correspond it with the table

[upbeat flare]

.

[agile plinth]

alright then

i might be able to do it and sleep

[fervent lagoon]

here it is with indents and stuff

118 120 111 115 112 70 119 122 112    127 125 111 123 67
113 122 125 133    120 97 118 123 95 47
         100 127 127    129 107 128 106 104 130 102 104
         113 119 122 133    129 118 128 127 130 132 68 117 130 129 70
         133 127 132 126    117 130 129 46 133 119 132 131 134 136 70 48
                  136 126 135 119 117 137 47 135 130 140 139
         143 128 129 132 121 118 142 130 141 129 127 143 47 140 142 133 69 49 71 48
                  144 146 145 131    149 146 133 133 150
         150 152 151 132    156 137 155 136 134 157 117 134 154 154 119```

[upbeat flare]

yeee

[agile plinth]

alright then

i should send them in about an hour or so

either that or in about 16 hours

[upbeat flare]

aight

[shadow igloo]

Is there a vid of d1 where people dont talk over schaeffer? Got the audio bug at the last second and im not replaying d1 to hear it

I guess a better question is. But not really fit for this channel. How do we have a needle disabler. In a horror game but no subtitles?

[dim scroll]

GTFO development in a nutshell

Subtitles for bot voicelines

but nothing for lore voicelines

amazing right

[solar nova]

Not really, Fireblade's clear is actually the only video I've seen of it at all.

Most people get the sound bug, sadly.

[shadow igloo]

I got it literally as i popped the last tumor

[lilac island]

pain

[ebon viper]

just realized when firing the burst rifle the ejected casings look like 9mm, wonder why we using such weak calibers for fighting monstrosities?

[graceful lotus]

were broke

[shadow igloo]

Its not exactly a military base

[leaden dagger]

^

[shadow igloo]

Were using scavenged supplies from a mine and lab

Frankly the shit we do have is a miracle

[ebon viper]

i see

was thinking it was to preserve the equipment in the lab, like the sniper using hollow point rounds and the mines using shaped charges

prevent too much overpenetration

[shadow igloo]

Nah its basically salvaged and modified civilian equipment

[lilac island]

🐧

[shadow igloo]

Consider our masks dont even really protect from much

Maybe the gases youd find in a mine, or certain chemical leaks.

[ebon viper]

well i was thinking gas masked protect you from chemicals but not so much biological threats if the air is saturated

[shadow igloo]

But they arent rated for the biohazards we encounter

If anything we wear them to protect our faces from the sleepers hits

The facility has active air filtration in most spots

[ebon viper]

big striker would probably cave your face in

or the tank

[shadow igloo]

I'd rather the mask take that than get blinded

[ebon viper]

ya

something over nothing

[shadow igloo]

Also keeps blood out of our eyes. Killing sleepers can have signifigant splash

[shadow igloo]

So how many prisoners do we think the warden has at its disposal?

[shut mountain]

Thanks

[shadow igloo]

Np

[shadow igloo]

Im leaning toward 8 originally 12.

Our 4 obviously. The other unnamed team we occasionally run interference for. And schaeffer whos now rouge and his KIA teammates

[leaden dagger]

don't forget all the KDS operatives we found at the end of R5E1

I forgot how many though

[shadow igloo]

I missed R5 so anything regarding that is new to me

[leaden dagger]

ah gotcha

[shadow igloo]

Only beat r5a1 before taking a break. Been here since r1 otherwise

[leaden dagger]

ah gotcha

oops

I'm an npx

npc*

[shadow igloo]

Lol

[leaden dagger]

it's ok I embrace it

I have 12 dialog options smh

straight outta skyrim

let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll?

[graceful lotus]

hello sir can I have 3 carrots

[leaden dagger]

sure that's 50 gold

you can sell them back to me for 3 gold if you want

eeeeeeverythings for sale my friend, everything! if I had a sister, I'd sell her in a second

oops this is lore channel

eh fuck it

[shadow igloo]

I just realized we leave the MWP in the slot at the end of b1

The mission to reclaim that must have been interesting

[supple gorge]

Yo

I'm here for the lore

[shadow igloo]

Welcome

[snow yarrow]

and take another one on d1 lol

[minor saffron]

Okay, I am attempting to decode the WRDN Log, and no one has mentioned the Japanese, Korean and Chinese yet, as when I translated the Brainfuck code i got - innnxrz <BKQCQQC#y{rvvH{~v ﾃﾃuﾂH#wﾂﾅﾍ ~a}ﾂa/# fﾆﾆ ﾈmﾈmlﾊln# w}ﾀﾍ ﾊﾊﾉﾌﾎIﾎﾍK# ﾍﾍﾍﾌ ﾍﾌ.ﾐﾁﾐﾏﾒﾔK0# ﾔﾌﾔﾁﾀﾖ0ﾕﾐﾚﾚ# ﾞﾏﾐﾓﾄﾄﾞﾒﾞﾒﾑﾠ0ﾠﾢﾗK2M1# ﾤﾦﾦﾖ ﾪﾩﾘﾘﾭ# ﾭﾯﾯﾘ ﾴﾝﾴﾝﾜﾶﾃﾜﾶﾶﾅ

I noticed other people just had boxes, does this help

?

[fervent lagoon]

maybe

the boxes are just characters that discord cant read, so this is definitely a step

[minor saffron]

I used a different Decoder for the code

the first one gave me boxes, but another gave me these

[clear furnace]

What is KDS deep?

[gilded vine]

A storage unit for KSOs

[clear furnace]

Whats a KSO?

[gilded vine]

Kovac Security Operative

[clear furnace]

It sounds like they would be more trained than us the prisoners

[gilded vine]

We are KSOs based on logs

[snow yarrow]

btw what's that black ore call?

tathun or ..?

I forgor the name[

[gilded vine]

Cretasium presumably

[snow yarrow]

I mean the thing that can teleport people

is that the Cretasium?

[gilded vine]

Idk if it was ever given a name

Cretasium prevents teleporting

[snow yarrow]

but what the thing that teleport people ?

[gilded vine]

See above

[snow yarrow]

the black ore inside the MWP

okey..lol

[shut mountain]

Its called Artifact 7, but I dont know if the matterial itself was named

[shadow igloo]

Probably just call it alpha material after the planet until told otherwise

[shut mountain]

If you check out the meatball enemies closer, you can tell they have a very similar structure on their backs that of Artifact 7

Could be basically a part of them that allows for teleportation maybe?

[shadow igloo]

I theorized its a reality anchor of some sort. Tied to a particular location or universe. Acting like a bridge

Touching it lets you step through.

Think of it like touching your reflection on a mirror

[languid walrus]

So are they trying to establish life on the new desert like environment?

[shadow igloo]

Research base i assume

Maybe that would have come later if shit didnt go down

[languid walrus]

I know in B1 a log commented that the plants they tried to bring along, died instantly during teleportation.

[shadow igloo]

Hmm

[languid walrus]

So what mainly got in the way of their efforts?

[shadow igloo]

Nam-v and the sleepers found around the 2km mark i imagine

[languid walrus]

So are the sleepers a result of NAM-V?

[shadow igloo]

They broke into a chamber and discovered sleepers and things went sideways

[leaden dagger]

no

[agile plinth]

yeah I've gotten this before

it makes no sense when translated with the full ascii library

[agile plinth]

i remember there being crudely around 300

maybe something like 30 across

and in columns of 10

i think there might have been a log actually that said how many were getting transported to KDS Deep

[agile plinth]

best thing to do is to translate it to the nordic ascii

I'll do it in about 8 hours

since we got a new and most correct version of the code

[silk tide]

I was listening to a player on a stream try to decode the numbers above while they were waiting in the lobby and I overheard them say that they thought some lines translated to the word 'long' ? When I first saw the indents (3 spaces each) I immediately assumed it was more code. Does that seem possible?

the player specifically was BavonZF

[agile plinth]

currently nothing translates to anything specific except speculation that the first word is initiate

[silk tide]

But what if the first line is the cipher?

each word is 7 characters

ignoring the >

[agile plinth]

this is what you should look at

[silk tide]

I've reproduced the values myself as well. I'm playing the numbers game with them in python.

[agile plinth]

well only thing we can do with them is painfully turn them into ascii until we learn the d-block cipher

[silk tide]

what is a d block cipher?

[agile plinth]

it's the cipher almost all logs have

they are in english of course

but transmission is made while being encoded

then they get decoded in the terminal

[silk tide]

So this a standard process that has occurred before?

sorry, I'm new

I heard that there was a decoding thing and I wanted to learn all about it because it's been a while since the last one I learned about live.

How far back in chat do I need to go to get up to speed?

[minor saffron]

Brainfuck code, doing some things, so far I have inlkvox <BJPCPOA
vxos
aV_dT"RANGE ERROR

having an issue with the 3rd line

[silk tide]

oh so you're changing the brainfuck code itself?

[minor saffron]

fixing

[silk tide]

I've been playing with this all evening ever since Digi introduced the link and I overheard you toying with it

[minor saffron]

Im in a thing called Execute Brainf**k Online

so the coding could actually be used for something

however it is not formatted right, so it needs to be fixed slightly (like the french kinda did)

I have a feeling if we solve it....E1 could be a Go?

---.<<<+++++.>>>>-.+++.<.<<<<<.>>>>>>+++++.--.<-.>--.<<<<--–.<<<.>>>>>>++.>-.+++.++++++++. after this, if I change anymore, the code breaks

[tawdry wind]

Hi guys I just finished D1 but we sped through the final voice log: ||Is the big reveal that the warden is an AI and what else did she say?||

[graceful lotus]

there is no confirmation of what the warden is

it's just sheaffer going insane

[minor saffron]

we do kind of know

[graceful lotus]

he's speculating if he's programmed to say this

and we may be the warden

if only my D1 audio didn't cut out >:(

[minor saffron]

Biocom was attacked and launched with the WRDN module

on the santonion website, in the Corrupted files

this code we are trying to decode is located at the bottom of the XXX-4-WRDN.LOG

[icy swift]

oh ye that was me
R5 had a couple of logs which pointed to that

[icy swift]

it was in thousands

[icy swift]

multiple logs in r5 indicated warden is BIOCOM and an AI.

[minor saffron]

Specifies Digital Intelligence

[icy swift]

yes

and it was indicated that BIOCOM was hacked/taken over by something

[desert flame]

Is there anywhere like a google doc or something with all the currently known logs/lore

[minor saffron]

https://www.notion.so/GTFO-Lore-Database-94aac69799e14948b3f9f418761c6cd0

[icy swift]

yep check the pinned messgaes

[desert flame]

Sick thanks

[minor saffron]

I dont think there is all of R6 in there

[desert flame]

Yeah I figured

[shadow igloo]

just a wild question

has anybody tried asking the peeps at r/arg for help with the code?

stuff like this is kinda their thing ya know

even if their not invested getting more minds in on it couldnt hurt

[minor saffron]

hmmmm.... maybe, but I would like to keep trying myself

[shadow igloo]

No reason we cant do both

[minor saffron]

Reading up on the use of Brainfuck, it appears to be a code that was probably used to help bypass some BIOCOM protocals and allow it to run WRDN

then remove the problems that BIOCOM would have for it being there, so it thinks WRDN is normal?

[shadow igloo]

No clue, anything regarding r5 is a mystery to me. But it makes sense. Imagine there would be some kind of backdoor that could be exploited

[minor saffron]

I could be rememebering wrong, there is an R6 log that does mention Andrew Clinton would have access to that.... however I don't think Andrew is behind it, arrows point to Anders and Andre

Devs probably watching us Suffer as they laugh at us go in the wrong direction.... or worried we gettin close!

[icy swift]

which level is this?

[solar nova]

C3

It's the last zone before the final unlock door.

[icy swift]

oh havent done it yet

[analog frigate]

there is, the warden is the BIOCOM

[analog frigate]

not digital

i remember someone specifying the type

but i don't remember what it was

[lilac island]

it was me

it's decision intelligence

an AI backed by a learning algorithm geared towards management, to distribute tasks and manage personnel based on information received on the circumstances of the situation they're in

[analog frigate]

ah yeah ty echo

[analog frigate]

first terminal d2

[leaden dagger]

yoooo epic

[surreal harbor]

So the log: EBDT-TYUF965.LOG (Found in R5A3) mentions running UnDoIt to find an article that was "wiped from the Mambo registry." Is there a real world equivalent that would help solve the brainf**k code? Or am I just grasping at straws?

[analog frigate]

the brainfuck code is actual real world code

it's not something invented by 10c

[analog frigate]

the code is some brainfuck code that then is corrupted or the output got messed up by the d-block cipher

[surreal harbor]

I was referring to the UnDoIt aspect. I am not familiar with software by that name, hence my question.. Though such an application may not be applicable in this situation.

[analog frigate]

could you post that log then?

[surreal harbor]

EBDT-TYUF965.LOG (Found in R5A3)

Mambo Media Services mail server
From: Franke Fische
To: Derek Larwood
Date: August 15th 2042
Attachment: UnDoIt Recovery file #B-10374-NXZ-06
RE: Hydrostasis article

Derek,
I had to run UnDoIt to find this article. I’m guessing Kovak didn’t want their name in the spotlight? It was wiped from the Mambo registry entirely. Well, not entirely…

Let me know if you need more,
Franke

Science Weekly
Friday November 2nd, 2035

Wake Me When We Get There
Report from Lance Overmars, ESA correspondent, Kourou Spaceport

With next month’s launch of the ESA’s Red Alpha manned mission to Mars, we take a look at the unexpected investors backing the historic flight to our celestial neighbor.

Red Alpha is scheduled to take flight on December 13th. Just a few weeks from now, the long journey to Mars will begin with a nerve-racking countdown from Mission Control, here at the Kourou Spaceport. Next, there will be a thunderous roar as the Phoenix Engines ignite their 400,000 kg payload of LOX and RP-2 fuel to send Red Alpha screaming up and out of the atmosphere. Finally, a riotous round of applause will be heard from mission control and the viewing gallery. At least, that’s what the ESA hopes will happen, and their recent track record suggests this launch will be as routine as their previous 14 missions, all of which have been executed without a hitch. They’re getting pretty good at it.

/* log continues with the rest of the article pertaining to the mars mission. Was omitted as it was too long and not relevant to my current point*/

[dim scroll]

What's exactly the name of the planet ?

Alpha one ?

[graceful lotus]

and two

[dim scroll]

That's what i'm not understanding

are alpha one & two supposed to be bases on the alpha planet ?

or are these two names for the same planet ?

[graceful lotus]

might just be referring to different locations

[warped wigeon]

Has anyone made progress with the output of the brainfuck program?

[analog frigate]

red alpha

alpha one and two are outposts

[analog frigate]

currently no

[dim scroll]

aight, thx

[analog frigate]

UnDolt has almost nothing to do with it

it's like the wayback machine

just a way to find an old version of the article

[fiery lance]

ey, anyone had any progress in cracking that cipher?

oh wait

someone asked the exact thing above me two hours ago

someone have a link to the latest progress then?

[analog frigate]

latest progress literally almost isn't progress

[analog frigate]

best we have is values from the brainfuck code

after that it's gone

we just haven't deciphered it further

someone started fixing it

but it didn't really go anywhere

only thing i've managed to do is a manual translation

[minor saffron]

It might have been the code used to get the WRDN into the BIOCOM

[analog frigate]

possibly

since the first word appearing to be initiate

[minor saffron]

and in some decodes it mentions E1GO

So if we solve it 10 chambers might bless us with E1

[analog frigate]

maybe

but i believe they will give us E1 no matter what

[dim scroll]

105 110 108 107 118 111 120 60 66 74 80 67 80 79 65
118 120 111 115 112 70 119 122 112 127 125 111 123 67
113 122 125 133 120 97 118 123 95 47
100 127 127 129 107 128 106 104 130 102 104
113 119 122 133 129 118 128 127 130 132 68 117 130 129 70
133 127 132 126 117 130 129 46 133 119 132 131 134 136 70 48
136 126 135 119 117 137 47 135 130 140 139
143 128 129 132 121 118 142 130 141 129 127 143 47 140 142 133 69 49 71 48
144 146 145 131 149 146 133 133 150
150 152 151 132 156 137 155 136 134 157 117 134 154 154 119

This one ?

[analog frigate]

yes

[dim scroll]

K

[analog frigate]

brainfuck values

mac got the correct value tranformation

[dim scroll]

So we have the value, now we have to figure out what each means

[analog frigate]

yes

[dim scroll]

What have been tried so far to decrypt it ?

[analog frigate]

turning it into ascii

only legible thing currently is the first word being initiate and there specifically being mentioned E1GO

could be random chance that we got that

but who knows

(except the devs)

[minor saffron]

And they wont confirm or deny if we get warmer

[dim scroll]

Well

[analog frigate]

yup

we don't want confirmation in any way

the more lore to figure out the better

[dim scroll]

the good thing about encryption is that you rarely get more than one valid message/sentence after decrypting

So we'll definitely know if what we get is correct or not

[analog frigate]

at least we know that it's most likely the d-block cipher

[minor saffron]

Knowing the first word is possibly key to deciphering the rest, I am working on something at the moment that might be able to crack it

[analog frigate]

hopefully

that would be amazing

[fiery lance]

@minor saffron what you using now?

[minor saffron]

Magic

[fiery lance]

Noted. I'll prepare my wizard hat.

Hmmm.

You know, the mention of the dblock cipher interests me

I wonder if there's a clue in the mentions of it in the logs.

Lot of ciphers operate off of keys, after all.

[minor saffron]

I am happy there is a 69 in the code

I've gotten it down to
inlkvox
<bj
pcpoa
vxospfwzp
DEL}o{c
qz}U
Xav{_/
dDELDEL
QkPjhRfh
qwzU
QvPDELRTDuRQF
UDELT~
uRQ.UwTSVXF0
X~WwuY/WR??
?PQTyv?R?QDEL?/??UE1G0
????
?????
????
??????uV??w

? = I dunno

DEL = Delete

[dim scroll]

ye DEL comes back often

also that WR??

might be WRDN

[minor saffron]

possibly

I'll see if I can relate those numbers to DN

[graceful kiln]

Can anyone point me in the direction good lore-rich playthrough videos for Rundowns 1-5? I just started playing 6, and I would like to see what has come before.

[minor saffron]

Not really playthrough, but you can read it all, the lore was never really a gameplay thing

[analog frigate]

i remember @white moth made a couple videos

don't have the links currently though

[graceful kiln]

On Youtube?

[analog frigate]

yes

[white moth]

I gotcha

This is my newest one going over R1-R4

I’m making one on R5-R6 but I can’t get my friends on to complete the level

https://youtu.be/NIN12HX-ebk

If you watch my other outdated video it goes over R5-R6 but the stuff talking about R1-R4 isn’t accurate

[graceful kiln]

Thanks. I'll check it out!

[graceful lotus]

oh I watched this the other day

it's very well made

[white moth]

Ty

I’m gonna get some people together hopefully tmr and complete the rest of the rundown

I got 6 to go

But only 5 and important

[white moth]

hey

im trying to put together a little meme video whilke im waiting to get D1-D4 done

anyone have any hints at what the prisoneers eat/drink?

[slim fractal]

Doritos and MT dew

For the meme video it’s got to be a meme

[white moth]

no

but like actual facts

i might @ the devs

i want to know

nobody has ever asked the question

wait

im just gonna email 10 chambers

they will answer

they like their community

right?

[slim fractal]

I’d assume it would be tubes within the HSU giving them nutrients and vitamins

[leaden dagger]

^

[white moth]

that

makes snese

[leaden dagger]

it's basically a medically induced coma state

they'd have to tube you

[slim fractal]

If not a tube then syringes hooked up elsewhere

[leaden dagger]

yuh

[white moth]

ok

thank you

i made a post on reddit

just in case

anyone has anything

Well contrary to Popular Belief, they do infact not eat Mountain Dew and Doritos. Instead it is not confirmed but highly likley that the prisoneers are tube fed when they go into Hydrostasis since it is basically a medically induced coma.

thats what i have

[leaden dagger]

sounds good bro

[white moth]

thanks

its just gonna be a short

[leaden dagger]

👍

[white moth]

i love this photo i made

perfect

it explains what they eat

[slim fractal]

Bro is that the 20 dollar 4foot long?

[lofty cave]

whats the point of project insight?

whats this about

[acoustic quest]

i just wondered why the EBDT-4QS-QVB.AUD file wasnt on the wiki but on notion / here

[agile plinth]

i'll add it today

i have to add a lot of r6 logs

just possibly compile them into one message

[agile plinth]

if i remember it was a project for tighter defense near the meteorite

not sure but i think that's what it is

[lilac island]

it's more than a medically induced coma, intubation would be needed, but more to maintain the water levels in their body over time, their metabolism is extremely low while in hydrostasis. it's an artificial form of cryptobiosis maintained by the HSU, where the body's functions are slowed down to the point where you can't measure a heartrate or blood pressure, and for all intents and purposes, they are "dead". prior to resuscitation, the front of an HSU is blank, but once resuscitated, the front of the HSU lists information on blood pressure, heart rate, vital signs. it being used for deep space travel means you could be in there for DECADES and only age maybe a day or two without needing to care about food or water. there's fake hormones that are directly tied to this, like OSIP, based on DSIP, a hormone used to keep the body in a very deep sleep, and the lowest brain function a human naturally has. OSIP would be lower than that.

[agile plinth]

yeah true, but they still have to get some nutrients and water since canonically we arr out of an HSU for a couple hours per expedition

if we truly didn't eat or drink in any way we would be dead of dehydration by r3

[minor saffron]

They could eat Military rations or something when they have check ups, like the second set of Lore logs

[river mantle]

Just think about the wrinkly fingers after exiting the HSU XD

[analog frigate]

which logs

[analog frigate]

probably no, since there is basically no moisture inside

i suppose they are wearing gloves which might do it

but it won't really matter seeing how slow their metabolism is

[river mantle]

Huh. I was under the impression that they were submerged with O2/nutrition intubation.

[analog frigate]

nope

not submerged in anything that is

[analog needle]

still trying to wrap my head on what the desert area was about all of a sudden

[analog frigate]

it's Red Alpha

a planet you get transported to

[analog needle]

we still dont know what they were doing over there do we

[analog frigate]

we do

[deft edge]

https://tenor.com/view/aliens-history-history-channel-meme-gif-10744300

[analog frigate]

after getting samples of the crystals from the meteorite, they accidentally learnt that touching them teleports you

[analog needle]

i guess i missed out something?

[analog frigate]

i suppose it's a lot

[analog frigate]

from then on they managed to make the wave form projector

(i believe using artifact 7 but i'm not sure)

then they managed to transport people and materials to Red Alpha

making Alpha 1 and Alpha 2

the outposts were then attacked by flyers and the kraken

that's a simple way to explain it

[heavy lodge]

...

👍

[lilac island]

Is the story in the Beta relevant to the release?

[analog frigate]

technically yeah

but there wasn't much in beta

unless by beta you mean early access

[celest pagoda]

Hey so, Hammerstein said the chambers in the fossil could not have been formed naturally, and could be made by something redacted.

Yall something was alive in that thing at some point and that's one hell of a reveal.

Also unrelated to above, yall think it's likely the spitters are an invasive species originating from Alpha Planet?

[analog frigate]

d2 terminal near the high bulk door

[dawn tangle]

Can someone explain to me the entire lore that we know rn? I play the game a lil but it’s about these 4 guys that were too cracked at life so they were brought underground to fix problems? Like are the electricians?? Pls explain

[lilac island]

lol that's a hell of a lot to explain

woods was a marine in a war in turkey who survived his group being wiped out and being hunted down for 17 days, but when he returned to duty as a clerk on the barracks for people to buy smokes and stuff, he snapped, turning a shotgun onto a lot of his fellow marines, killing them. he was an extreme religious fundamentalist, seeing his acts as one of jihad or holy war. for this, he was offered up into the legion program, where his memory was wiped, and he was brainwashed to work as a soldier for Kovac Defense Services

hackett was a kid growing up on a small island around ireland, who killed one of his brothers as a child, and grew up a sociopath. with no emotions, he joined Kovac as a soldier, but after having orders not to let a village leave or move, he killed dozens of women and children to achieve it. he felt nothing, and felt guilty that he felt nothing, volunteering for the legion program so as to wipe his memory, in the hopes he might come out of it a better man than he was before.

dauda was a doctor who was in hiding for his unethical practices and experimentation, before being hired by santonian mining corporation to do medical experiments and research on their behalf. he did so, but is wracked with incredible guilt and nightmares, and stuffed himself into a hydrostasis unit to avoid death as the complex was being destroyed. he was taken into the legion program because he was in that hydrostasis unit.

and bishop was an intern for santonian mining company who tried to blackmail someone in dreyfus, one Janson Davies. this led to him being stationed in venezuela, where tensions broke into civil war, with him expected to die for being a foreigner. he survived, and was instead inducted into the legion program, with all his personal history wiped away.

Question about interactions between prisoners. We've been playing a lot with the bishop bot lately as a three stack, but in our last run we got a bishop hackett interaction while having a dauda bot. Do the prisoners only interact if both of them are players?

[lilac island]

no, interactions are pretty few and far between and happen with certain things like killing scouts or taking fall damage

Yeah we had the one where bishop makes fun of someone for falling. Which had us all have to take a few minutes to recover from the line cause we weren't expecting it. Hackett started cracking back but that was the first time I ever noticed that they have unique interactions with eachother.

[dawn tangle]

That u chocolate swirl

Thank*

[austere apex]

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inherit <BIOCOM>
primeCore wrdn;
flow main/
arr threat[]
flow report<con>
with con.report>0
threat.plus
while\threat.lng<0>/
proc sleep
proc threat[all]

[leaden dagger]

epic that doesnt help very much but good work

a threat array tf does that mean

[lilac island]

it's code

allllll code

[leaden dagger]

yes

which language tho, i cant tell

[lilac island]

funky, i imagine the plaintext might be more code that could directly mention intentions or goals

[austere apex]

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inherit <BIOCOM>
primeCore wrdn;
flow main/
arr threat[]
flow report<con>
with con.report>0
threat.plus
while\threat.lng<0>/
proc sleep
proc threat[all]

slight update for formatting, think one of the replaces was off but message is the same

[lilac island]

it might be lua

[leaden dagger]

what a strange language to pick but maybe

i havent read in lua in years

so ive no clue anymore

[lilac island]

i'm not really sure, just reads like lua to me

had to check one of my ex girlfriend's code a few times, some sort of "test" or something, it kinda flows the same sort of way though

[leaden dagger]

could be, what languages are similar to lua?

[lilac island]

i'm not too familiar with any language, so what different functions are used and how they're used will be the tell as to what the code is in

[austere apex]

I am well out of my depth - just standing on the shoulders of giants, shout out to the French Discord guys as they did most of the work on this one

[lilac island]

how'd you parse the numbers into letters? what was the cipher there

[leaden dagger]

damn they're epic

[lilac island]

i knew they were close when you could see the frequency distribution match up with spaces and line breaks

[austere apex]

https://santonianindustries.com/backend/readFile/XXX-4-WRDN; the array setup is legitimate brainf*** code but the output uses —–… these need to be substituted
— -> ---
– -> --
&#8230 -> ...

[analog frigate]

oh god i haven't seen lua being used in years

[leaden dagger]

this is how it looks on mobile lmao

[lilac island]

actually reading through the code you posted earlier, it looks like wrdn is as we could have thought before, a process that was injected remotely into the BIOCOM system, inheriting it's functions, so all of it's managerial and decision making code, and then adding an array to read "threat" based on reports from the BIOCOM code

[analog frigate]

issue is that this still doesn't work out with it being lua

[leaden dagger]

nvm to long

[leaden dagger]

roblox uses it lmao

[analog frigate]

also how exactly did you change the code as to make it make sense somewhat

[analog frigate]

haven't played in years

[leaden dagger]

me either

[lilac island]

gmod too

[analog frigate]

never played gmod

kinda didn't have an opportunity to buy it :/

[lilac island]

and iirc unity supports it??? don't quote me on that though my dad has more time spent in unity than me

[leaden dagger]

unity supports most languages

[analog frigate]

it does

[lilac island]

unfortunately you missed out on it's golden age, it's a bit sad to look at it now

[analog frigate]

lua is supported

or it can be Nlua

[leaden dagger]

true

[analog frigate]

really funny how people censor the word brainfuck

[leaden dagger]

😂

[analog frigate]

also it might just be lua or a type of it

[leaden dagger]

been awhile since I've coded anything so I'm a bit rusty here

it's some type of loop function though

idc what proc sleep means

[austere apex]

I'm a native english speaker and I understand how offensive it can be, even in legitimate context. I work on the premise that I wouldn't say it to my Gran then I won't post it on a public forum!

[leaden dagger]

or con.report or

[analog frigate]

makes sense

[analog frigate]

check the line above

[leaden dagger]

faie point

[analog frigate]

it's an if statement

[leaden dagger]

yes I know that

[analog frigate]

if threat = 0
sleep

[leaden dagger]

con.report though raises the threat

so I'm wondering what it is

and what proc stands for

proc threat [all]

[analog frigate]

process

[leaden dagger]

threat process

is this the wakeup sequence for... hydrostasis?

don't remember the rest of the log

[analog frigate]

hmm

there might be some threat involved to the warden

[leaden dagger]

mayhap

[analog frigate]

alright so looking at the code, it appears to be a reaction process to outside threats

which put the warden in danger

so there could be different people trying to access the BIOCOM/warden

[leaden dagger]

ah could be

[lilac island]

i think it's inheriting biocom's detection systems of biological threats throughout the complex and using that information to create a threat level sort of heatmap of the complex to influence what the prisoners are sent to do

[leaden dagger]

that was my initial tought

thought

[analog frigate]

explains how it sorts them into danger ratings

like some C expeditions are deeper than some D

but D are harder

[leaden dagger]

yuh yuh

[analog frigate]

so it's not depth but threat level within garganta

[leaden dagger]

yuh I think that makes the most sense

[lofty cave]

does anyone have audio log from C2?

when the guy is speaking with something

[twilit girder]

i dont but it was a surprise

[lilac island]

where is the log?

like is it behind a bulkhead objective?

[graceful lotus]

One is near the start the other is near the bulkhead

[heavy lodge]

Is the Warden an AI confirmed? Is BIOCOM another AI that manages the complex operations?

[icy swift]

WArden is BIOCOM

BIOCOM was installed first then warden took over BIOCOM

[heavy lodge]

Okay.. but are there any other AI that manages the complex?

[icy swift]

not at the moment

[heavy lodge]

So I am thinking... in the future rundowns will the prisoners send down to some sort of central control centre to plug&connect the Warden into the complex system? 🤔

[icy swift]

the warden is already connected

so basically when the Garganta facility was started, Saitonian Mining approached Kovac Security for security services
Kovac recommended that they install BIOCOM in the facility to run the security and other things in the facility.
Later Warden infiltrates BIOCOM and takes over the whole thing

[heavy lodge]

Hmm but if it’s connected can’t it just turn off door alarms etc and why would it screw up the reactor R1D1 or get breach alarm when trying to create uplinks etc

[gilded vine]

R1d1 reactor goes off because "MANUAL override detected! Alarm triggered"

[icy swift]

from what I understand, Warden does not have the full access to all the areas

so

we still have to override certain alarm doors to access it

[heavy lodge]

Oh... alright. Thx for the info

[icy swift]

no problem

[jade vale]

sometime , i find some cocoon looks like a brain with a tail

or a cocoon with eyes

creepy

[agile plinth]

yeah because automatic would be from the internal garganta ststems

the warden is an outer system so any actions it does are manual

[agile plinth]

it had but not anymore

the BIOCOM had almost full access until it tried to reroute power to KDS Deep

if it did the whole electrical system would blow up

[agile plinth]

technically it's connected but not really

it loosely inserted itself into the internal systems

but it have no further access

kind of like the average user on a website

the admin can see and change the code while the user can only view

to change things you need to somehow break unto the administration system

[agile plinth]

I'll record it when i go do c2ex

[lofty cave]

Could you ping me when you do that maybe?

[agile plinth]

alright

[indigo gale]

I'm a bit curious, what if BIOCOM is like a living entity of sorts and not just some computer AI?

[agile plinth]

it's specifically mentioned that it's a military AI developed by Kovac and the US military

[indigo gale]

Ah, I see.

Kinda thought that since it was called BIOCOM, it'd maybe have some organic parts to it.

[agile plinth]

i think someone managed to figure out what the acronym was but don't remember

[solar nova]

I think BIO probably just refers to the fact that it's managing KSOs (who are biological humans).

I interpreted the logs as the WRDN being BIOCOM under a different protocol, it seems like the logs suggest that the WRDN has extremely limited access largely because BIOCOM had very limited access.

[agile plinth]

exactly

the warden us just the BIOCOM but with different tasks

same AI under the hood

[shadow igloo]

Biocom was for managing operatives right?

Maybe its short for BIOlogical asset COMmand or some such

[gilded vine]

Bio im not sure but com was almost certainly Combat Operations Management

[icy swift]

ahh yes i forgot about that

[agile plinth]

something close to that yeah

[sour hedge]

So… i just did B1.
I have a feeling we made life a lot harder now that the dimensional bridge is open and the floaty tentacle death monsters can enter the facility at will

Im assuming the floaty deathtacles are on friendly terms with the sleepers and will probably get confirmation of that in B2 or C1
Which leads me to believe they are somehow related

Since the running theory on sleepers seems to be that its a parasite caused mutation could it be that the sleeper is a first stage of sorts? That theres not enough biomass for the sleepers to continue growing and changing further along so they go into hibernation

Since tentacles seem to be a pretty coherent theme among the sleepers&Co i would go so far as to think about giants and scouts being further along the evolutionary path
Going from sleeper to giant to scout to deathtentancle

[icy swift]

they cant enter at their will I think
the only enter when we open the inter dimensional bridge

[graceful lotus]

why couldn't thr flyers theoretically float up the elevator shaft

[sour hedge]

I hope theres enough sentry guns up top to make that a non-issue

[graceful lotus]

welp the wardens problem not ours :3

[sour hedge]

On B1 when you get teleported back youre never told that the dimensional bridge cant be closed
Which leads me to believe its still open…..

[sour hedge]

not mah problem.

[shadow igloo]

Until it wakes us up to defend

Still i dont think its an issue. B team was likely sent in to retrieve the MWP after us

Without that the link was likely forcibly closed

[graceful lotus]

tfw r7b1 is a flyer only level

[agile plinth]

the bridge is permanently open

[agile plinth]

his issues are our issues

[agile plinth]

i imagine something related to air pressure

they are evolved to live in higher pressure conditions

[shadow igloo]

Considering we get the matter wave projector back in d1. Presumably the warden managed to shut it down and send another team to retrive it

[sour hedge]

Probably cut off the power

[graceful lotus]

so with the main story levels being a thing

are side levels still canon or just fun concept levels

[shadow igloo]

Cannon but not connected to the story

[sour hedge]

Maybe the side levels are just us running distraction while the other teams do things?

Like getting the matter wave thing back

[shadow igloo]

"Not enough power for nav data decryption. Start auxillery generator"

Its stuff that needs to be done, but dont directly involve the main story

[quick wind]

So I just started playing the game one of the main things I've wondered are the sleepers from another dimension or are they extra terrestrial in nature. I got like a million questions but this is the main one and I was wondering if any lore buffs could answer.

[raw island]

We don’t know anything for sure, but you can definitely see human features on their heads if you get up close. They appear to be the transformed bodies of people.

Some of the possible causes - extraterrestrial virus unearthed in meteor crater, human-engineered bioweapon, extradimensional invaders, ?????, and more!

[dim scroll]

It is implied that they are human beings infected by NAM-V

NAM-V that somehow managed to escape the complex & became a pandemic

There are mentions of a parasite as well

What is unclear is how there exists so many sleeper variations (especially mothers & tanks), what is the warden's final objective & what red alpha is (earth in future, a far away exoplanet, a planet in another dimension, etc...)

[sour hedge]

My personal theory is that the sleepers are infected humans that evolve further and further but lack the necessary nutrition to do so and go into hibernation
With red alpha being a habitable potentially earth planet in another dimension where the infection weither it be viral or parasitic originated from

[agile plinth]

the logs and such are connected lorewise

[agile plinth]

yeah mainly to assist other prisoners in other parts of garganta

[agile plinth]

sleepers appear to be mutated humans and the flyer ones are the originally evolved ones from red alpha

[agile plinth]

it's the meteorite

i can explain in detail if you want

[agile plinth]

currently nam-v causing sleepers is possible since they mention that they don't know the long term effects but we haven't seen earth's surface so we can't tell if that's the case

also there are no logs from the surface showing that there was any sleeper threat

[agile plinth]

they say that nam-v is a parasite that can go through a class A Hazmat Suit

[agile plinth]

first part is the most likely correct part but the second one still doesn't have enough proof to be a thing yet

[subtle verge]

Assuming, by OSHA standards, that would be a Level A hazmat suit? (I work with Hazmat all the time, just curious.)

[agile plinth]

good question

[subtle verge]

Sorry, when I think Class D I just think of like hard hats and safety harnesses

[agile plinth]

the answer is yes

[subtle verge]

Interesting, thanks!

[agile plinth]

i reversed them again

although don't mistake hazmat classes and hazmat suit classes

[subtle verge]

Haha no worries, I was like: "Oh no, am I going to have to learn video game terminology again?"

[agile plinth]

ah no

my mistake sorry

[agile plinth]

also the only cause is the meteorite that teleported and hit earth

and killed the dinosaurs if i remember

also i think I've deduced that the only cause of the meteorite to hit earth is to teleport accidentally through the crystals

otherwise the outer planets would've destroyed it

[agile plinth]

go ahead and ask anything you want

but for that question: the sleepers appear to be mutated humans while the kraken and flyers are the endemic species on red alpha

and regular sleepers are considered the same species

[agile plinth]

also for sleepers variations, thankfully we will learn a lot when we go to the meteorite at 2000m

[shadow igloo]

im not sure what rating our masks are in game but they dont seem to help with infection. so going through class a's would make sense to my uninformed self

[agile plinth]

the masks are class C if i remember

but by class A i mean the log that mentioned dealing with nam-v

not sure which one but i think it was by WHO

nam-v is a kind of airborne parasite that can go through class A hazmat suits

which means it can chew its way through the nylon

[frosty tide]

So basically the parasite can go through airtight seals?

[agile plinth]

yes

it can go through a suit specifically designed to keep someone isolated from the world

also it would be very helpful if someone posts the log that mentioned it since I can't

[shadow igloo]

r5 right?

[agile plinth]

not sure

either r5 or the santonian website terminal

[shadow igloo]

yeah im looking through the r5 archive for it right now

[agile plinth]

ty

[dim scroll]

Well i'm legit curious about the mother in particular

As it seems to "copy" human behaviors

[agile plinth]

people's behavior is highly dictated from their DNA

women have more of a motherly behavior since they evolved to have that role in life

[dim scroll]

Ye

it's more about its form actually

rather than the "spawn babies" part

[agile plinth]

the form is probably a thing about mutations

since we don't know about every type of sleeper as you said, there might be some quadrupedal variants

[dim scroll]

yeehaw

i wonder if we'll get a "big tank" soon

[agile plinth]

possibly

makes sense for it to exist seeing as the big mother does

although from an ecological and game development standpoint is seems weird

if it were to exist in the hive that are the sleepers, then it would be to protect something

[dim scroll]

the mothers ?

[agile plinth]

yes

[dim scroll]

also i don't know what their tumors are used for tbh

[shadow igloo]

yeah cant find anything regarding a parasite in the r5 archive but CDCX-1154-V.LOG is interesting. talking about the surface outbreak

[agile plinth]

if there would be a big tank, there should be a big mother

[agile plinth]

could you post it?

[dim scroll]

like are they fetuses or some sort of "growth hormone" ?

[subtle verge]

There was a big mother in R5, wasn't there?

[agile plinth]

could be

[dim scroll]

yeah

[agile plinth]

yes

[dim scroll]

in R5D1

there was one in R4E1 as well & R3D1

R4E1 had a tank alongside her

[agile plinth]

i expect to see one in R6E1

[shadow igloo]

CDC National Alert System ID-01123-DC086

YELLOW tag: sec-clr private: tier 2, .gov, Milit. Des. A7 and above. Read receipt required
.

14 cases of unknown contagion/virus in Dade Country, Florida. R0 > 9

Highly contagious. Patients present acute neuralgia, anaphylaxis and malacia. Note the r n
aught – extreme caution advised. Erroneous diagnosis of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome possible
. Full C-Lab/Chem testing required plus biopsy submission to CDC central (Atlanta).

Cellular mutation expected, correlated only. Mortality rate unknown, trench reports indica
te unresponsive to chemo/rad treatments, so >50% expected.

Drill wipe down procedures pending potential epidemic. Med drops standing by, request id:
NAM-V_G0.

[dim scroll]

i really expect a big tank

😳

[agile plinth]

hmm

so then it's not from r5 logs

probably is in the santonian website terminal

[shadow igloo]

i dont think its in r4, and corrupted just throws up nothing as expected

couldnt have beenn r3 could it?

[agile plinth]

corrupted gives nothing?

[shadow igloo]

nothing relevant

[agile plinth]

yeah most of them are just different stuff

then i have no idea who posted that log

i suppose I'll have to scroll up in chat for a couple hours and find it

during the waiting for 1.0 scraping at the bottom of the lore barrel time

[shadow igloo]

everything i can find refers to it as a virus

the only one that refers to who, is this one

Mambo Media Services news wire
Manchester Eye
Mar 18th, 2053

Growing Concern over NAM-V
by Duncan Keith

Saturday night at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Usually, the emergency room sees a stead
y influx of patients. It’s busy; but no more than they can handle. the Infirmary is well s
taffed and stocked and has a reputation for dealing with patients quickly and efficiently.

But not tonight. Tonight over 250 people crowd the waiting rooms. As one patient is seen,
treated, and released, 2 more take their place at the end of the line. There are no beds l
eft, not enough personal protective equipment for the medical staff, and a barely containe
d sense of panic among the cast-down faces of those waiting in hope that they don’t have “
the Stoops”. This is a hospital clinging on, desperately trying to weather the storm. The
storm of the NAM-V virus.

Since the WHO officially labeled the NAM-V virus as a pandemic, the number of reported cas
es has spiked. In part that is due to a more concerted testing effort, but it is also a si
gn of just how quickly this virus is spreading. Unlike previous pandemics (Hook, COVID19 –
21, Respo-Z2), this one debilitates its victims. There is no stay-at-home solution. If yo
u have NAM-V, you need medical support. The long-term effects of the virus are still unkno
wn, but once you start to feel the tightening in your bones and the persistent hallucinati
ons you will need medical supervision, or the end will be swift. Medical intervention is t
he only thing that can slow the decline. Even if the patient does manage to survive the in
itial onslaught of the virus, it will remain in their system and can strike again without
warning. Once you are isolated with NAM-V, you stay isolated.

… story continues on page 7

[agile plinth]

looking through the chat i remember everything and can see like topic eras

that's the image that made the whole thing

@rich blaze posted it and then we got no confirmation from anyone knowledgeable in lore

[agile plinth]

yeah that's the santonian terminal british hospital report

[shadow igloo]

i wont say its impossible. but looking through the most recent logs since it was confirmed to be a contagion. i personally cant find anything calling it a parasite

[rich blaze]

I did what?

[agile plinth]

that message without a source

[shadow igloo]

i remember the outbreak thing being a mild controversy back then, since covid was fresh on everybodies minds

[rich blaze]

Oh, sorry if I didn't source, but it's very much a log

lemme find it

[shadow igloo]

i'll keep looking after some food

[rich blaze]

Here is the original log : https://www.notion.so/ab68b94496bd4b27bec291de65ebd510?v=4330fedca48c4676b5fee1edafa15638&p=e42bda18f22a46df8d3efe49ededcfe3

[quick wind]

Thank you very much Im loving this game so far and the world is so cool

[agile plinth]

no problem

[agile plinth]

fucking yes thank you

alright very good

[shadow igloo]

must have glanced over it. thanks for finding that

seems two fold then

virus piggybacks on a parasite and spreads in the host

[agile plinth]

yup

kinda like the ruled out fog theory

[shadow igloo]

just strike me as odd the governmental agencies dont seem aware of the parasite

[agile plinth]

well

they aren't supported by the two richest companies in existance

[subtle verge]

They do though, don't they? I remember logs that state that their meant for higher end military eyes and required a confirmed read receipt sent back - unless I'm mistaken on that.

[agile plinth]

the US military worked with Kovak yes

[subtle verge]

At least it was the CDC log for NAM-V.

[agile plinth]

past that there is no written cooperation between anyone

any governments that is

[subtle verge]

Ahh, okay.

I haven't finished out R6 yet, still going through trying to find all of the lore bits.

[agile plinth]

have fun!

ah, nice to have more people ask questions

[raw island]

Oh nice, so it’s a parasite that spreads the virus.

[subtle verge]

I'm a lore geek, honestly. I bought this game when R1 launched, but I had school and stuff that I had to focus on, so I'm trying to play catch-up now lmao.

[agile plinth]

well ask anything you want

I've literally spent more hours figuring out lore with people than 2x my gtfo playtime

[subtle verge]

A vague TL;DR of what I know so far is:

We're prisoners being sent down by The Warden (which I personally speculate to be an AI akin to The Red Queen from Resident Evil) in the Chicxulub crater, in a place called The Complex owned by SSIC, to complete tasks to either retake or recover previous projects/research left behind after the outbreak of NAM-V/whatever it is that is causing the Sleepers to exist.

The current rundown being a ||research project gone wrong using the crystals researchers have found which opened up another plane of existence/paradoxical event which may have brought the parasite/virus to us through the creatures on the other side|| or something along those lines.

I don't know if I'm on the right track, but from what I've been able to piece together, that's what I'm more or less understanding.

[agile plinth]

oh boy that's quite incorrect and a lot missing

so:

[subtle verge]

Very well, I'm going off of what little I honestly know.

I haven't been able to get a lobby of people to be quiet during voice-acted moments.

[agile plinth]

the warden is the BIOCOM hacked with new protocols

the complex is called Garganta, owned by Santonian Industries

it was made as an iridum mine since prices rose up exponentially

they dig to 1.5km as the goal was

then during a DeepScan they found the large mass that is the sleeper origin meteorite

nam-v soon broke out after they started digging into it

the current rundown is just exploring another part of the complex

the crystals teleport someone to another dimension onto planet Red Alpha by using quantum entanglement only when touches

it didn't bring the sleepers here, the meteorite had them

if you want a detailed explanation of anything just ask

[subtle verge]

Gotcha, now my ignorance has been cast away.

[agile plinth]

that's the surface level lore of the game

there is a lot more that's super interesting

[subtle verge]

Though, I will say: isn't the Warden BIOCOM theory just that in it's current state (unless more is explained in R6 that I've yet to experience), being that there is only a single log that makes a vague statement about it?

[agile plinth]

people, general phenomena, biology, ecology ect

[agile plinth]

multiple logs

it was already basically confirmed in r5

before the warden BIOCOM takeover log appeared

[subtle verge]

Gotcha.

I'll go read through the logs in the pins to get more detailed info.

[agile plinth]

yeah chase has a good timeline

although a lot of r6 and santonian website terminal logs are missing as of the last time i checked

but as always you can just ask :)

[subtle verge]

Oh, is there an SSIC website??

[agile plinth]

anyway i have to sleep a bit

[agile plinth]

yes

[subtle verge]

Dope, I'll look it up.

[agile plinth]

https//santonianindustries.com

[subtle verge]

Thanks! I'll be sure to scour that, too.

[agile plinth]

well I didn't type the hyperlink correctly but you get it

cya for now

[solar nova]

Do we have the D3 audio log right before extreme?

Seemed neat, but fuck is it in a bad spot.

[rich blaze]

I don't have the Audio, but I can describe what it talks about if you need

[subtle verge]

Ha. Going through the logs, and I like that they're referencing the current Covid outbreak.

[solar nova]

Go for it.

[rich blaze]

Basically, local Fauna of the other world have been picking off the stranded expedition, with the fauna exhibiting signs of more coordination than random attacks.
KSO are next to useless because they are "only" patrolling the zone and occasionally Killing stuff. The recording somehow made it back to Graganta (With Bishop most likely) and a text part where you see that Stokes (C1 Audio Lady) asked for it, the sender expressed his condolences.

[solar nova]

RIP.

[lilac island]

nope, just coincidental

[shadow igloo]

No covid19 is name dropped several times

[grim flicker]

How are the prisoners' sustained? I assume they need to be fed at some point even with them only being out of stasis for rundowns.

[leaden dagger]

tubes

[supple gorge]

^

[grim flicker]

makes sense. i assume they have canteens or drinking tubes while doing tasks. while warden may be willing to use them for their bidding it would kinda be embarrassing for a failure to be caused by heat stroke or dehydration.

[frosty tide]

They meant iv tubes in the HSU units

[grim flicker]

More likely a feeding tube since you can't pump nutrients directly into the bloodstream. But yeah for food that makes sense.

But in mission i assume they have some sort of water supply so they dont kneel over half way through mission.

[shadow igloo]

Honestly they might not be. In hydrostatis your basically functionally dead and theorized to be kept in a syntheic amniotic fluid to prevent cell decay

According to the logs at least

[grim flicker]

Well i'm assuming there is something put in them for when they're out of stasis so they're not distracted by hunger.

[shadow igloo]

Maybe a feeding tube is used for the wake up process

But depending on the length of the mission that might not be needed all that often

[grim flicker]

And not sending them in with a water supply is just asking for failure.

imagine losing a team to heat stroke or dehydration

[shadow igloo]

The warden does not care about our long term survival is the thing

[grim flicker]

yeah but i assume they want to avoid stupid reasons for failure

[shadow igloo]

Were assets to be used, expended, and tossed aside

[solar nova]

They're probably going to be well fed.

I'd expect that wouldn't be very expensive in hydrostasis.

[shadow igloo]

Keep in mind were only active for hours at a time as well

Maximum 3 or 4 hours

[shadow igloo]

If were preserved in a amniotic fluid i imagine a nutrient solution is also infused at the same time actually

[grim flicker]

Hours of possibly high exertion/high stress
Beside providing water for during tasks would be a fairly easy thing to do if it did increase the chance of success.

[shadow igloo]

Pure nutrients delevered directly to the cells

[grim flicker]

But thats not how hydration or nutrition works

[unborn steppe]

you guys reckon it's a meta joke that the private military service is called Kovac when Kovaak's is an aim trainer on steam?

[shadow igloo]

We are medically dead for up to years at a time in HSU's were past the point of realism here

When im back at my pc i'll see if i can find the log that talks about it

[grim flicker]

you could hydrate someone via IV but nutrition has to be adsorbed through the intestines.

And Stasis isn't necessarily impossible at least on a theoretical level. Same thing with cryogenics (which are being actively researched in RL last i checked)

[shadow igloo]

The breakthrough that Kovac Research hopes will answer these questions is called Hydrostas
is – a process that allows humans to be held in a state of suspended animation for weeks,
months, even years at a time without suffering any ill-effects. The nuts and bolts of the
process are a closely guarded secret, but sources speculate that the procedure likely uses
a synthetic amniotic fluid to sustain and protect the body while it is in an induced coma
tose state. In this state, the body is – for all intents and purposes – dead, but no cell
deterioration or physical decay occurs. For the human in Hydrostasis, the heart, and time
, stops.

EBDT-LEX0378-EFL.LOG in archive005 on the santonian website

[grim flicker]

But regardless i think its fairly safe to assume prisoners have a supply of water on their person for use. otherwise heat stroke might be what might kill most teams, MOPP gear is hot sweaty uncomfortable bullshit, i imagine the outfits the prisoners have would be basically wearing a sauna .

[grim flicker]

exactly prisoners' are assets. My thoughts is that while warden is perfectly willing to use them to further their goals, i imagine losing an asset to something fairly easy to prevent would be pretty wasteful. regardless of wardens identity i imagine warden doesn't like to needlessly lose an asset.

[shadow igloo]

i dunno, that requires the assumption that the warden even thinks like us. its a hijacked military ai. that see's everything in the facility as a threat. i dont think it even factors in the potentiality that we survive long enough for that to matter

i mean the discription of D4 basically reads as. you will die, that is a risk i am willing to take

[grim flicker]

Well seeing as they have stasis pods, giving a prisoner a camelback or something would be fairly easy to do.

[shadow igloo]

assuming any are on site

its a mine, most of that stuff is likely already down there in well stocked panic rooms in the case of collapse

we already scavenge most of our shit and dont go down with a full pack of ammo

the warden likely just says "tough shit, if you need it you can find it"

[grim flicker]

who knows? either way i'm on the side of "lets give them water so they don't fall over dead before they even meet contact"

[shadow igloo]

im leaning toward "get fucked nerd, if you need it its down there" considering were not even given a full pack of civilian gear

somebody mentioned one of the machine gun appears to eject 9mm casings

were getting bottom shelf ramshackle crap and the bare minimum in equipment

not even our flashlights are standardized, and we dont even get masks rated for the infection it knows we'll encounter

remember 2% survival rate is considered good.(at least it was that might be retconned) you dont equip the goons meant to die for someone else with your best crap

[grim flicker]

lol to be fair i'm talking about a water container, not exactly hard to come by.

[shadow igloo]

Yeah but the world is supposedly dead

If the person carrying dies, its gone

Cant get more

The warden has to pick and choose what it gives out for the highest chance of success

And most of the time, were not it

You dont give an hours worth of ammo to someone you dont expect to last 15 minutes. Its why we get half our load and need to scavenege more

[subtle verge]

Check the 'Superman, Superbug' log:

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?...```

It might not be the *current* outbreak of SARS Covid, but a reference to the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak -- Now that I think about it, it might be referencing to the 02-04 timeline instead of our current outbreak.

Still, I enjoy it.

[shadow igloo]

Btoh are possible until they elaborate

Outbreaks plural though

[subtle verge]

For sure, I'm just going off of 'early century' which, I guess technically we are still in the early portion of the 21st century.

OH, you're right. I missed that.

Have been really enjoying reading over these logs, though. Looking forward to delving further in to the lore. Need to figure out how to use the official SSIC website.

[shadow igloo]

Click the santonian icon then missing image. And a terminal will open

Works just like the game

[subtle verge]

Right, just trying to figure out file names and stuff.

I am not the brightest crayon in the cookie jar when it comes to DOS. Lmfao.

[shadow igloo]

use list to get the archives

cd arichive00x accesses them

x being the number

and then read [filename].log

[shadow igloo]

blueprints of garganta?

good god

this place is massive

can you imagine how many rolls that would be if physical?

[subtle verge]

Oh man, now that I think about it...

So my mom used to be the zoning/planning head for a (small) town, and there was an ordinance where contractors or homeowners had to have plans for the entire build, and then a plan for each individual room on a separate piece of graph paper for each room.

A small town home was a small stack of paper. I can only imagine Garganta if it were that way.

[shadow igloo]

A small forest died just for that

Especially when you get into specifics like plumbing and electrical

I imagine there are seperate documentation for that alone

And physical sheets have to exist im sure, redundancy. They cant rely on just computers

[subtle verge]

All of the Jeffries Tubes, too (I love that this reference is made, btw).

Oh, I meant to ask this earlier: with the Legion project, is it safe to say that the prisoners have their memories wiped after each mission? I assume it's done to prevent PTSD or other psychological traumas from forming?

Or would it be something that no longer exists/is done?

[toxic moon]

is there somewhere I can listen to the audio logs from R6?

[subtle verge]

I know that most, if not all, of the text logs have been added to the notion.so link in the pins, but I think audio logs are still being gathered at the moment.

[grim flicker]

I'm waiting on the twist that warden is a dog like one of the endings in Silent hill.

[toxic moon]

i'm really just looking for the triggered audio logs up to C1, so far

[subtle verge]

I can't find anything on YouTube or through search engines. I'd assume we'll start seeing them pop up in the next couple of weeks.

[shadow igloo]

The memory whipes are just long term exposure to hydrostasis. I doubt its an actual procedure for the warden but is likely unavoidable

We probably remember the events of a rundown or two. But lose it inbetween

[subtle verge]

Understood. When I was listening to the audio logs for the characters, it sounded like their memories were being wiped through a mixture of narcotics when put in to hydrostasis.

But I think it makes more sense that the long term exposure is the actual culprit.

[shadow igloo]

Nah its just hydrostasis. Narcotics wouldnt have time to do their job because its literal suspended animation. Time stops for the suspendee.

There was a space mission implied to have failed because the astronaughts lost their memories in transit

[toxic moon]

they seem to still remember the enemies though

they're at least familiar with sleepers and scouts

[subtle verge]

Ah, okay, I misunderstood what was said in Bishop's log. I thought I heard "Ehh give him 10 cc's of ___ and we'll try him again in 3 months," when it was something completely different.

[shadow igloo]

Strong memories seem to survive

Woods is still religious

Stuff like muscle memory and strong defining characteristics ya know

Which makes sense considering we can still effectively use our guns

[subtle verge]

I'm still eagerly waiting to see what the brainFuck code ends up being. Hopefully it's not just a red herring.

Been trying to have a crack at it since I enjoy cyphers, myself.

But my biggest downfall is that I have zero programming knowledge outside of what conversion programs offer.

[plush knot]

I was just about to pop in here and say I was looking into the brainfuck code lol. My main questions is, why are there "em dashes" mixed in with the brainfuck code? They aren't a part of the language and my compiler just skips right past them, should they be replaced with regular hyphens for subtraction?

[solar nova]

You've seen the French transcription of it?

[subtle verge]

I've been taking a peek at that Google doc, yeah.

[solar nova]

Although I suppose converting the numbers into something intelligible will be the real hurdle.

It is possible, though it's hard to know, that we're expected to hold this information until we receive some sort of clue to decoding it.

[plush knot]

the output I get from just entering the text as it appears includes two sets of squigly brackets { } that properly close and nest each other, as if this is supposed to be some kind of script or program run on a computer

innnxrz <BKQCQQCy**{rvvH{~v ƒƒu‚Hw‚… ~a}‚a/f†† ˆmˆmlŠlnw}**€ ŠŠ‰ŒŽIŽKŒ Œ.’”K0”Œ”€–0•ššž“„„ž’ž’‘ 0 ¢—K2M1¤¦¦– ª©˜˜­­¯¯˜ ´´œ¶ƒœ¶¶

I bolded the brackets here

[subtle verge]

What exactly is your input to get that? I'm getting braces that are incomplete like what's shown in the google doc: '}o{'

Better way to ask that question: what did you change that your program was skipping?

OH nevermind, I see what you changed.

.. I think.

[plush knot]

copy pasting the code exactly how it appeared in the doc gave me that result I posted above, I just ctrl c ctrl v without changing anything yet

[subtle verge]

Interesting. When I paste the code in to a converter, I'm getting what the google doc is getting. I don't have any closed braces at all.

[plush knot]

send me a link to that doc

[subtle verge]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hgRdH-O_qTBwOZ-ADTdnS6-ozUsYQepk9vJjvTReces/edit?usp=sharing

[plush knot]

very possible there was a text formatting error in the copy of the log I'm using, that would account for the em dashes and elipses all over the code

[subtle verge]

They did convert the em dashes and ellipses in the doc.

[plush knot]

okay perfect, that's the difference. Must just be a coincidence that my code had properly nested brackets? I do wonder why the minus and dots were replaced by em dashes and elipses in the first place though

[subtle verge]

I'm not entirely sure. Is it possible that it's not exclusively brainFuck and has a bit of injected custom code?

Mind you, I have zero programming knowledge.

So I'm just throwing random ideas.

[plush knot]

they assume in the doc that the elipses correspond to three dots, and that the em dashes corespond to one hyphen, but what if an em dash is meant to represent two hyphens?

That's a good theory, I don't think that those elipses and hyphens were used for no reason

wait, there are both en dashes and em dashes in the code, but the doc assumes they are all just meant to represent a dash

[subtle verge]

It would make sense since most generic software uses two hyphens per em dash.

[plush knot]

but then what does the en dash mean?

[subtle verge]

Well, in a grammatical context, an em dash is twice the length of an en dash. Em dashes are used similarly to parenthesis or commas, where en dashes are used for complex adjectives or to show a range of time; for example '1945-1947'

Unfortunately Discord doesn't automatically apply the em/en dash.

[plush knot]

so an em dash is the length of the letter m, and google tellsme it can be represented as two hyphens, an en dash is the length of the letter n and has a particular grammatical use but the question is how many dashes does it represent

[subtle verge]

Technically, an en dash is half the length of an em dash.

[plush knot]

I don't believe it would represent one hyohen, as the text already includes regular hyphens by themselvfes

[subtle verge]

But an en dash is slightly longer than a hyphen.

[plush knot]

move the brainfuck pointer to fractional cells lol

[subtle verge]

Point me in the direction of what that means? I assume that would be Fractional Programming for Comm Systems?

[plush knot]

I'm just joking here, I'll show you

[subtle verge]

WAIT WAIT WAIT, I think I might have found something, but this could also be a red herring.

'Dashes' programming language.

[plush knot]

Brain fuck is all about manipulating a pointer through memory to change values on a line of cells that stretch infinitely. This is labeled here as "program memory" and the black cell is where the pointer is, the joke is that an en dash would bring the pointer in between two cells, doesn't mean anything tho just a dumb joke

ooh, dashes programming language?

[subtle verge]

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Dashes

"It's possible to convert any brainfuck program in to a Dashes program"

[plush knot]

wooooooaah that's awesome!

[subtle verge]

OH

Like I said, this could be a red herring, BUT...

[plush knot]

YO, I need to check if those combos appear in the code rn

[subtle verge]

I have only done a few changes so far in line 2, but:

I'm 99% sure I've messed this up already, so I might need to try a few times to make sure I haven't borked it.,

[plush knot]

Okay, I tried replacing the elipses with three dots and the en dashes and em dashes with their corresponding brainfuck character they represent in the dashes programming language and got complete nonsense still, a lot more unprintable characters so I think that's not working for now but worth looking more into, I'll try some other stuff

[leaden dagger]

the brainfuck was already solved guys

[subtle verge]

Was it? I've not seen anything about it.

[leaden dagger]

like 2 days ago ^

[subtle verge]

No pins/updates to anything.

[plush knot]

Still I had fun messing with it, you got a link? I'd love to see how it was done

[leaden dagger]

ill find it

[leaden dagger]

this

[subtle verge]

Oh.

Well, I at least had fun trying to figure it out myself.

[leaden dagger]

yessir

[plush knot]

same, and yeah it looks like it's in the lua scripting language, which is the language I have the most experience with so that's cool. Let me see what they changed to make it work

[subtle verge]

Guess I'll pay more attention to this channel from now on.

[leaden dagger]

😂

[plush knot]

he just replaced em dashes with three dashes and en dashes with two, I was about to try that too lol

man I hate having lore just exist in a discord channel where you have to scroll forever to find anything all listed in one huge topic. god I miss forums

[leaden dagger]

yuppp

[subtle verge]

GTFO forums when

Teasing.

[solar nova]

@shut mountain

Damn, missed this.

[shut mountain]

Thank uuu

love u big time

[solar nova]

What were the differences from what you did compared to the French analysis?

[solar nova]

Oh, I see, so some of the characters were misinterpreted.

[lilac island]

wait, an idea with what the french guys found

the biggest stuff they returned from the dashes section was numbers, almost all in 3 digit groupings

maybe it's AES encoded

[solar nova]

What's encoded?

We have the full message, no?

[lilac island]

the section of +, -, >, and whatnot

[solar nova]

Yes, the recent pin is the section of +, -, and > decoded.

[lilac island]

is that both the ciphertext and plaintext then?

[solar nova]

Yes, it's the brainfuck followed by the plaintext version.

[lilac island]

well that could have been a bit more clear lol

[solar nova]

Also, I'm pretty sure the 3 digit thing is literally just individual cells when the French decoded their transcription of it.

[lilac island]

what was the process by which it was cracked?

i'm not so sure about that

[solar nova]

?

[lilac island]

i've run into encrypted codes in the same fashion once or twice before, once in the code in this description for an album on youtube, all the code seems to be in the same sort of 3 digit structure

i don't know for sure though, i'd have to look deeper into that sort of thing to see what comes out

[solar nova]

I mean, it could be encoded that way, but it is also literally just the values for each cell.

Many of which are carriage return or indents iirc.

Talking about: [105, 110, 108, 107, 118, 111, 120, 32, 60, 66, 74, 80, 67, 80, 79, 65, 13, 118, 120, 111, 115, 112, 70, 119, 122, 112, 32, 127, 125, 111, 123, 67, 13, 113, 122, 125, 133, 32, 120, 97, 118, 123, 95, 47, 13, 32, 32, 32, 100, 127, 127, 32, 129, 107, 128, 106, 104, 130, 102, 104, 13, 32, 32, 32, 113, 119, 122, 133, 32, 129, 118, 128, 127, 130, 132, 68, 117, 130, 129, 70, 13, 32, 32, 32, 133, 127, 132, 126, 32, 117, 130, 129, 46, 133, 119, 132, 131, 134, 136, 70, 48, 13, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 136, 126, 135, 119, 117, 137, 47, 135, 130, 140, 139, 13, 32, 32, 32, 143, 128, 129, 132, 121, 118, 142, 130, 141, 129, 127, 143, 47, 140, 142, 133, 69, 49, 71, 48, 13, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 144, 146, 145, 131, 32, 149, 146, 133, 133, 150, 13, 32, 32, 32, 150, 152, 151, 132, 32, 156, 137, 155, 136, 134, 157, 117, 134, 154, 154, 119], right?

[lilac island]

yeah

cause from that album secret message dealio, it has this whole big block of encrypted text in it's description

[solar nova]

It's already been decoded though, so there's probably nothing more to it.

[lilac island]

yeah, you're right

[agile plinth]

you back on the brainfuck code?

yeah it's been finally decoded

[vague loom]

a medical student's assessment of the common infected:
Before i begin, there are three things to take note of

1. this infection bears similarity to other earth infections, just on a much grander, bigger scale.
2. It has some loopholes; how are they drawing nutrition? How does the Mother morph and Grandmother Morph work?
3. what are the flying balls?

• The common infected -
  Humanoid shape, significant trauma to hands, head, lower abdomen. Usually intact legs and arms. "fang-like" structures protruding from head of Striker Morphs, Black; egg-like protrusions from the heads of Shooter-Morphs.

Primary look-over shows many of them are unblemished on the sites normally shot or struck; many do not have the significant trauma signs shown from combat, or fighting, suggests a more insidious infection route.

Recommended Viral nature, but from comparisons to human parasites; specifically taenia solus and T.Saginata; neurocysticercoses and cysticercoses in general seem to explain both the brittleness and the tape-worm like attack appendage.

[agile plinth]

alright so

specify what infection exactly, they hibernate until awoken, the flyers are a big topic