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anemoi2012-06-13 01:09 am
trustycrowbar) wrote in anemoi2012-06-13 01:09 am
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Well, it seems Ky was right.
There's no reason in keeping it secret now. I worked for about two years at a classified, government-contracted research facility in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Black Mesa. Seems it's no coincidence that I started conducting anemoi research here so quickly; that's almost exactly what I was up to over there too! Anomalous materials research! It's almost as though I walked right out of that lab, and into this one!
Now I'm starting to wonder... is that it? Is this really ALL I have to remember? 'Cuz it could be. Those monsters I recognize could've just been escaped experiments. Everything ties together. I even threw more Anemoi into the refraction-coding analyzer to make sure and all I get are a little things, minutia, friends, co-workers, locker combination, spectroscopy settings, how many times I fried the microwave in the break room, the history of the company, stupid stories about Aperture and the stunts they used to pull before they... well... nothing huge and important, anyway.
I guess I could live with this... It'd be a relief to not have anything else to remember.
[It doesn't look like a relief. In fact he seems to be staring into the far distance more than the camera. Something about this is still not sitting right with him, and it shows.]
[2% on life at Black Mesa, 1% on general lore and propaganda about Aperture Science, 1% on friends and colleagues.]
There's no reason in keeping it secret now. I worked for about two years at a classified, government-contracted research facility in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Black Mesa. Seems it's no coincidence that I started conducting anemoi research here so quickly; that's almost exactly what I was up to over there too! Anomalous materials research! It's almost as though I walked right out of that lab, and into this one!
Now I'm starting to wonder... is that it? Is this really ALL I have to remember? 'Cuz it could be. Those monsters I recognize could've just been escaped experiments. Everything ties together. I even threw more Anemoi into the refraction-coding analyzer to make sure and all I get are a little things, minutia, friends, co-workers, locker combination, spectroscopy settings, how many times I fried the microwave in the break room, the history of the company, stupid stories about Aperture and the stunts they used to pull before they... well... nothing huge and important, anyway.
I guess I could live with this... It'd be a relief to not have anything else to remember.
[It doesn't look like a relief. In fact he seems to be staring into the far distance more than the camera. Something about this is still not sitting right with him, and it shows.]
[2% on life at Black Mesa, 1% on general lore and propaganda about Aperture Science, 1% on friends and colleagues.]
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That would be a verifiable way to make sure... and probably the only one we have available to us. I've got a few saved up to run tests on, but I go through them slower than that, and now they're just lying around. I may as well use 'em for something.
Oh, you got your swapped memories back too, right?
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Did that girl actually have wings like Mordin mentioned?
[Sure, it's not exactly classy to ask prodding questions about someone that obviously means a lot to Ky one way or the other, but... hell, wouldn't you be curious too?]
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She did, yes. One dark-colored wing and one light-colored wing. She also had a tail.
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I won't ask further, at least not until you've had a chance to sort things out. Thanks for your time, Ky.