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"I could've kept this place safe forever. I'm the only one who CAN guard this facility. I'm the KNIGHT OF THIS FACILITY-"
"Look at yourself. You're not even a human anymore. You're a bug. A monster. You wanted to kill us the moment you saw us." Wendy hisses out as Clover keeps his gun trained on the security head.
"Every person we met down here was a deranged lunatic or someone you tried to killed." Naomi states with a cold matter-of-fact tone. "No one was kept safe by your actions, Audie."
"Are those even your own thoughts?" Casey chirps out.
"Are you EVEN wearing your OWN SHELL?" Quentin can't even look Audie in the eye. "Humans don't have CHITIN and SEGMENTED LIMBS."
"Do you even remember your own name, Redd?" Kiara points out the fact he didn't even remember his own name.
There's that silence again.
"...Redd? Who's that?" Audie blankly stares at your group for a moment before it suddenly clicks for him. "Wait. Wait. Redd, Redd...Redd? Audie Redd. Who's...?" The old man is glancing around the hallway he's in with abject confusion. "Where am I? This isn't the facility I remembered."
None of your allies want to say anything so you decide to speak up. "It's 2255, Redd. I know you're smart enough to realize what's going on."
"I." He stares down at his many arms, at the chitin covering his body. At the many segments and joints on his arms and legs. "What am I? I felt so powerful until..." Seems like whatever perspective forced onto him has weakened to the point where he's snapped out of his high. "Wait. Why does this place smell like blood?"
Again, no one wants to say anything but no one needs to. He's clearly piecing the dots together. "No, no, wait. It's supposed to be 2198. I only wanted to use this armor to deal with the few anomalies that got out-" It's as the person you were talking to mere moments ago was replaced by someone else completely.
"Oh god. A PARADIGM restructuring. W-what did I do?" When he's answered with silence, all Audie can let out is a disappointed chuckle. "I knew those voices, that feeling, w-was too good to be true."
>WILLPOWER CHECK: PASS!
Clover lowers his gun, suppressing his urge to be his judge and executioner. "Ya weren't in control of yer actions. I can't fully blame ya for what ya did after the facility was sealed." Clover lets out an annoyed click from the back of his throat.
"Look. Ya know this place is being unsealed. It is raining like cats and dogs outside. Yer smart enough to piece the dots together. Please. Just." Clover holsters his revolver. "I don't want to kill ya if I don't gotta. We have a common goal now. To stop this place from being unsealed."
"Really...?"
"Ya. I don't get it much myself but this place is a pressure cooker now. If it unseals anymore, pop!"
"The energy already let out has caused notable ecology damage. A full unseal would drown the whole subdistrict we're in." Kiara nods along.
"...I really did just want to keep this place safe. Not to...cause damage like that."
