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• Command: Maddox: He's not stable, so don't freak him out. However, you should point out to him that not all of us have given up hope. Furthermore, he's one man. We can't beat this... Whatever it is, on our own. Only the combined efforts of every available person can overcome this.

  If he doesn't comply despite further efforts, try to figure out where he is, ignore his words from there on out, then apprehend him.



Loeb already told them that he's in the CORE SECTION, so that's one command down and done. And Maddox agreed that Loeb is tad flinchy and unhinged from what he suffered and that explosion in Chapter 4 may have pushed him to extreme instability. So time to call for his SUAVE CHARISMA!


<MADDOX>

Loeb, I understand that you tried. Heck, you're not the only one that tried and failed. But we have a concrete plan now!


<ENER>

Thanks to us.


<MADDOX>

Instead of trying to reach the Bridge as individual, we can try to reach the Bridge as a team! Surely with your helps, we can penetrate the Bridge and activate the...


<LOEB>

WRONG!!! I did damn well fucking tried as a TEAM and we still couldn't reach the damn Bridge! Oh how we tried for days, maybe weeks, just to come within the main doors and only to have fucking barrage of lasers disemboweling us! Then the Dimming came... oh how macabre the realm could turns and have Death gazing down at our eyes, mocking us of our pathetic existences before the Carnage even begins.


<MADDOX>

You're talking as if...


<ENER>

But we have THE ENGINEER on our side!


<LOEB>

So noble yet so fucking blind.

Blind blind blind blind.

BLIND!!!


Blind to what's happening around you lots. Now shut up and let me help you rest in...





<ELOUF>

Repeat after me.


<ENER + ELOUF>

I LOVE SPIDER NOW :3


<MADDOX>

So what say you now?


<LOEB>

HEY, SCREW YOU!!!

You forget that I am in the CORE SECTION now with my finger hovering above the... I dunno... STABILIZER INTERFACE?


<MADDOX>

Oh.


<ELOUF>

Fuck.


<ENER>

Not if I can come over there and bite your charred ass!


<LOEB>

You might want to bloody well check and stitch and zip your mouth shut. You might need it when I whisk us away to Heaven or Beyond Infinity or whatever the fuck you want to call it.

Theta

• alright who's this guy

Wayward Raxas

• Command: Maddox: If this newcomer has no way to suppress Loeb's efforts to destroy the station, strike an ultimatum with him; Loeb will assist us in our efforts to get the ship out of the anomaly, and if our efforts fail, he is free to destroy the ship in the manner that best suits his needs, and will be met with no resistance.

  Unless this newcomer (engineer?) has something better, in which case just do your thing.

Azareus

• COMMAND: HAL 9000: Reveal yourself.

  COMMAND: EVERYONE: Don't get the reference.

• COMMAND: HAL 9000: Reveal yourself.

  COMMAND: EVERYONE: Don't get the reference.



Such a poor timing, mate. So NO.

• 
alright who's this guy

Command: Maddox: If this newcomer has no way to suppress Loeb's efforts to destroy the station, strike an ultimatum with him; Loeb will assist us in our efforts to get the ship out of the anomaly, and if our efforts fail, he is free to destroy the ship in the manner that best suits his needs, and will be met with no resistance.

  Unless this newcomer (engineer?) has something better, in which case just do your thing.



<LOEB>

Dammit! More of you?!


<MADDOX>

And who's barging in now?


<ELOUF>

Reinforcement, yo.


<ENER>

AN ALLY! YAY!!!


<LOEB>

Oh will you fucking reveal yourself, already?







<ENER + MADDOX>

DOCTOR DODD?!?!


<ELOUF>

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!


<LOEB>

YOU?!


<DOCTOR DODD!?>

Aren't the reactions really necessary? I guess it is to be expected when someone "dead" reappears right out of the left field at this perfect moment.


<MADDOX>

But… I… you... I burned you to ashes!


<LOEB>

I should be the one to say WHAAAA THAA HEEEECK?!?! I crushed you flat!!!


<DOCTOR DODD>

Yes. You crushed me to death, Loeb. That was until I came back to life and met my end once more at their hands by makeshift flamethrower.


<KA-LEY>

Unable to deny that this is somewhat unexpected...


<ENER>

What's gnarl-wrapping fec is going on with this place?!


<ELOUF>

I'm getting more and more disturbed of this Light Void now.


<DOCTOR DODD>

Didn't I tell you that you cannot hope to resist our abstract fate without any threads of understanding what's happening to us? That you cannot survive what's yet to be encountered? You STILL don't understand the gravity of this Situation. The Light Void is much more than you think it is.


<LOEB>

More like a close imitation of HELL!


<DOCTOR DODD>

As if there is such a thing as Hell. And you might want to CALM DOWN or lest you kill us all and destroy our only chance to escape from this realm.


<LOEB>

I have a feeling that this is gonna be an ultimatum, properly.


<MADDOX>

DODD! What are you doing?!


<DOCTOR DODD>

Aggressive negotiation, of course. And as for YOU…



<DOCTOR DODD>

The time of playing as sympathetic heroes is finished. You're just as flawed and corrupted as he is, trying to appease to his warped sense of righteousness instead of making him looks at the larger picture.


<ENER>

Like trying to get everyone out, FREAKSHOW.


<DOCTOR DODD>

And to survive what's yet to come, precisely.


<LOEB>

I have seen what had come and there's no escaping it! This damn scrap is making sure of it!

<DOCTOR DODD>

You have to believe that there's always a chance to be found, depriving the Light Void's its chance to swallow us. Without the CORE, that chance will be gone and we all will be at mercy of this realm. We will be locked in cycle of life and death without any true eternal rest.


<LOEB>

NO NO NO NO!!! Can't you chaps understand any fucking thing, like you said so yourself! Oh wait, you don't so I have to make this obvious for you simple lots:

- Doors opening and closing at inopportune moments

- Sections drifting and disappearing randomly

- Warping of spaces to hinder our endeavors!

- Why do you think the fucking monsters are thriving here?

- Why do you think we're suffering with our erratic transformations?

- Why do you think we're seeing people that shouldn't be here at all?

- Why do you think the ship is keeping us trapped?!


<KA-LEY>

This is to be respected and noted.


<ELOUF>

I too have noticed this...


<MADDOX>

Again, you're talking as if...


<LOEB>

As if this very ship is alive?


Yes, you heard me right.





<LOEB>

This bloody ship is playing with us as if we're proper trashes, scorning us of our vicious fates by keeping us both alive and dead! We have to destroy the Of Empathy so we can escape its mechanical plots!


<DOCTOR DODD>

And where will we go? The ship have nothing to do with this and you would have forced all of us to dwell in this predicament far longer than we have the wills to.


<LOEB>

BULLSHIT!!! The ship is all part of this!


<DOCTOR DODD>

You're delusional.


<LOEB>

YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! I told you again and again and again again again that this blasted ship wouldn't let us leave! After years of oppression by us flesh-sacks… why else you think the Of Empathy want us to suffer?





<LOEB>

What do you expects when I keep getting swarmed by you troublesome mates?


<DOCTOR DODD>

If you expect us to slip away quietly, then you will find quite a few more people aiming their targets right at your head. Either you help yourself and all of us or we will be forced to ELIMINATE YOU.


<ENER>

Bye bye, diplomatic solution.


<MADDOX>

Dodd! Don't push him to...


<LOEB>

So this is how it is. Lot of you chaps and the ship against me. You're seriously underestimating the severity of this Situation.


<DOCTOR DODD>

As are you.



Wayward Raxas

• Command: Team Alpha: Share an uncomfortable re-introduction with Doctor Dodd.

Kiebur

• caught up! =D

  i will never assume anyone whos been killed will remain dead. Except from being eaten by tentagib, that seems pretty final. . .

  Command: Dodd, i hope you know what youre doing O_O'

jomarcenter

• command:contact the intergalactic police or something he is wanted for illegal experiment...

• Command: Team Alpha: Share an uncomfortable re-introduction with Doctor Dodd.



  Command: Dodd, i hope you know what youre doing O_O'



<MADDOX>

What the hell?! You're making this worst!


<ENER>

Probably already inevitable, for this poor sap is far too gone in his head.


<ELOUF>

More like poorly pathetic sap.


<DOCTOR DODD>

Will you quit with your… Gah, it really can't be helped, can it?



<DOCTOR DODD>

What I am doing is necessary for Loeb and the rest of you to see that the Situation is far larger than any one of you hope to overcome on your own. Even myself.


<ENER>

Something that your previous life weren't able to figure out, I take it. And looks like your negotiation went rather well. GOOD JOB.


<MADDOX>

We're gonna be crispy soon. And tasty too, Elouf.


<ELOUF>

I was gonna say that!!!


<DOCTOR DODD>

Still, you haven't grasp our plight entirely. The Engineer and few of his cohorts are actively pinning down Loeb's capabilities to destabilize the CORE. Hopefully they can prolong the meltdown long enough for one of our teams to apprehend Loeb and stabilize the CORE.


<KA-LEY>

A dire circumstance to be properly approached, I presume?


<DOCTOR DODD>

Precisely. This is where you come in and...


<ENER>

HOLD IT! You killed Quall and 32 others!!! I wouldn't let you forget your blood-filled fatalism and escapes from my KEEN INSTINCTS to rip you apart!


<MADDOX>

And to say that your words hold no grains in my eyes, Dodd. Even considering that we almost became your lab-rats back then. No offense, Elouf.


<ELOUF>

None taken, ape.


<DOCTOR DODD>

We may have shared our professional disagreement in the past, but you're forgetting that I'm not the only one who had experienced resurrection.


CASE IN POINT:





<QUALL!!!>

And why are they screaming, Dodd?


<DOCTOR DODD>

Because they're unnecessarily ignorant. And they're surprised to see you.


<ENER + ELOUF>

YOU'RE ALIVE!!! ❤


<MADDOX>

But we saw you died!


<QUALL>

Oh yeah, I was.

Hey, Doctor.

That was you gutting me in your Lab back then?


<DOCTOR DODD>

That's the one. And will you calm down with your hyperactive reaction? I told you we're stuck in perpetual loop of…


Ah screw this, I am going to make this simple.


Remember during your awakening when you had no recollection of any previous moments in your life? That was when you died and got revived.


<ENER + ELOUF>

Meep.


<KA-LEY>

Such it is to be rational.


<MADDOX>

Oh shit, you're saying...


<DOCTOR DODD>

Regretfully, yes. Perhaps gruesomely, just to add. And it's not just you, either. EVERYONE on the ship suffers this cruel fate that we have set upon ourselves.



<DOCTOR DODD>

There's no telling how long we been stranded in this Light Void, living and dying in trapped infinity. It is critical that we must abscond from this blighted realm in order to escape whatever fate that may yet to come.


<QUALL>

Mathematically:


SHIP

– CORE

––––––––––––––

Infinite Doom


<ELOUF>

Heh. Doom.


<ENER>

What's with you and doom?!


<MADDOX>

So how do we stop Loeb?


<DOCTOR DODD>

Finally, the fools descend back to reality.


<ENER>

SHUT UP!!!

<MADDOX>
So you say...

<ELOUF>

What did he say? I missed that while I was...


<DOCTOR DODD>

The Engineer, Quall, and others may not be able to stop Loeb purely by hacking, so there are at least 2 teams heading toward the CORE as we speak.


This is where lot of you come in.


I need you to race to the CORE SECTION to neutralize Loeb and stabilize the CORE. This is in case the other teams failed to arrive and stop his plans. Under NO circumstances should you kill him and...



Kiebur

• Under NO circumstances should you kill him and...



  Starting to wonder if we even could XP
  
Command: 25 minutes to get to the core? BRING IT.

Theta

• And what?
  
Command: Doctor Dude: finish your sentence; Everbody else: get to the core

Wayward Raxas

• Command: Maddox: "Oh for the sake of all fuck not this shit again."

• Command: Maddox: "Oh for the sake of all fuck not this shit again."



  Command: Doctor Dude: finish your sentence



<MADDOX>

Oh for the sake of all fuck, not this shit again!


<KA-LEY>

And yet supplemental time gained caters not to your whim?


<MADDOX>

We're still getting blown up!


<ENER>

Dodd! What was that thing you saying?


<DOCTOR DODD>

Don't kill Loeb for he may know the significance of our supposed immortality as well as his understanding of the nature within the Light Void. Even in his defiance, he may still be of use to all of us. Now I must shut up for our time is critical!

• 

Command: 25 minutes to get to the core? BRING IT.



  Everybody else: get to the core

Kiebur

• Command: Use the ladder? O_O Maybe best to have a look around. .

Sublevel 102

• Command: Team Alpha: Climb upstairs.

arkla

• hmm, ok...

  >examine other side of light voided corridor,

  then

  arachnid kal-ey> head up inside access shaft
  
maddox+ener> climb up behind her

  elouf> hide from the fel

  and guard your spleen

Azareus

• Command: Rocket Ladder: Do your thing.

Theta

• Command: Guys: go up into that shaft in the ceiling to see where it takes you

• Command: Rocket Ladder: Do your thing.



It had fulfilled its purpose in this Chapter. We will see it again later 


• >examine other side of light voided corridor



  O_O Maybe best to have a look around.

  

elouf> hide from the fel
and guard your spleen



<MADDOX>

Whoa, is it...?


<ENER>

Yep. Just like Chapter 3.


<KA-LEY>

Entangled it is to be for it is determined not to be idling.


<MADDOX>

I can't nail on her specifics... Ener, can you see anything over there?!


<ENER>

Hmmmm...





<ENER>

Nope.

• 
Command: Use the ladder?

  Command: Guys: go up into that shaft in the ceiling to see where it takes you



  arachnid kal-ey> head up inside access shaf
  t
maddox+ener> climb up behind her



  Command: Team Alpha: Climb upstairs.

<MADDOX>

Then the only way out is this CEILING LADDER! You see it, Ka-Ley?


<KA-LEY>

It is fairly disappointing of thee to attempt the materialization of REALIZATION OF STUPIDITY, is it not?


<MADDOX>

Oh, you perceptive spider...


<ENER>

Your silk! THE SILK!!!


<KA-LEY>

Indeed. Thy are to be held and climbed. One moment!



Kiebur

• Command: Please dont eat our only way up -_-'

  also, look behind you.

Sublevel 102

• Command: Maddox: Be not afraid and strike her on a muzzle by your Steel Leg!

  (Sorry again for my stupidity and carelessness)

Wayward Raxas

• Command: Maddox: Up the ladder up the ladder up the ladder up the ladder and drag Ener if you have to.


  Command: Maddox: Be not afraid and strike her on a muzzle by your Steel Leg!



  Also under no circumstances should this suggestion be used.

Theta

• Command: Maddox: Be not afraid and strike her on a muzzle by your Steel Leg!
  
(Sorry again for my stupidity and carelessness)



  We're standing on maybe less than 15 square feet of ground and you're suggesting we attack someone that we have seen from previous experience that we CAN'T beat?

  Think, man! This will never work!

Sublevel 102

• Well, I am fool. You may think that my previous command is invalid.
  
Then I don't know what to do.

  Or... Can we use the bottle of ACID again? Or it won't work on supermutated Yeyni?

Theta

• We'll have to do something more permanent. Since people in this universe tend to come back to life and Yeyni is obviously a very disturbed individual, killing her will do no good I think, so the best course of action would have to be to do something that would keep her completely trapped. How we are going to do this, I don't know :/