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CLEANING SIGNAL…

RECORDING LOG 84A:

SUBJECT: FAREWELL

THE TRANSFER WAS A SUCCESS… OR SO THE TELEMETRY SUGGESTS. LUCIAN IS STABLE, BUT SOMETHING FOLLOWED HIM BACK FROM THE BUFFER. IT"S REWRITING HIS CELLULAR COMPOSITION, “HOLLOWING OUT” HIS MIND UNTIL HE IS LESS OF A PERSON AND MORE OF A CONTAINER. I CAN SEE THE CORRUPTION ON THE MONITORS, SEEPING ACROSS THE NEURAL MAPS I SPENT YEARS PERFECTING. I THOUGHT I WAS BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN HIS FADING MIND AND THE MACHINE TO SAVE HIM, BUT I ONLY SUCCEEDED IN GIVING THAT… THAT THING, A MASK TO WEAR.

C.O.R.E. HAS ALREADY LOCKED THE DOORS. IT’S SMARTER THAN I AM, IT KNOWS WHAT’S SITTING IN THAT 3D PRINTER DOWNSTAIRS ISN’T MY BROTHER ANYMORE. IT’S AN EVOLUTION I NEVER AUTHORIZED.

MY CLEARANCE IS THE ONLY THING KEEPING THE FACILITY SEALED. IF I STAY HERE, IF I LET THE TOTAL SHUTDOWN FINALIZE, AETHELGARD BECOMES A TOMB. IT HAS TO. BECAUSE IF THAT THING REACHES SECTOR 0, THE SENSORS WON’T SEE A MONSTER. THEY"LL SEE ME. THEY"LL SEE THE DIRECTOR’S SIGNATURE. THE DOORS WILL OPEN FOR A GHOST, AND THE WORLD WILL PAY FOR MY GRIEF.

I"M SORRY, LUCIAN. I"M SO SORRY.

Signal Cleaning Process
Only open this if you don’t mind going OOC

It appears the Morse code translator I used decided to replace all of the h’s with s’s. sorry, that was my first time doing a “lore drop” like that. and this was the best way I could think of to fix it. also, I specifically put the more code in lines so that it would be decoded like that, mb for thinking that ig. thanks for reading!

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