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"He plays by my rules. Don't worry about him, uh, whatever your name is."
[CAPTAIN'S COMMAND] I hate to admit you're right. For now. <span class="mu-b">Vessel.</span>
"D-Do you HaVe...?"
"Yeah, yeah." You dig into your pocket for the PULSATING GEAR. The both of you sit down in front of the anomaly fragment with the gear in hand. Maybe this is why the ADMIRAL even found the damn thing at.
<span class="mu-b">You then remember you bought the ANCIENT TOOLBOX for Adam. You still have it in your inventory so why not use it now?</span>
It takes a while to pry the damn thing open but with a set of tools AND the gear's anomalous ability to interface with technology, you begin the long and arduous task of patching the anomaly fragment up. As much as you can given it's a sentient pile of clockwork gears that's probably held together through A-ENERGY.
Yet your <span class="mu-s">P-CORP ENERGY COUNTER isn't working.</span> Well, as you slowly piece the gears Wendy knocked back off onto it, a barely audible buzz begins to trickle out of the counter. So it seems like this thing is BARELY even anomalous in its current state. Or barely itself.
Seems like the 'echo' metaphor was apt. This seems to oddly calm Wendy despite her general bloodlust against the anomalous.
"Do you remember anything from when you were bigger?" Wendy has picked up on the fact this thing isn't remotely what it once was.
"Colors. Noises. Shovels. Cries. Nothing more than that." Its speech gets more cognizant and understandable as you meddle with its parts. It'll take a while to see how well your work actually helps the entity later.
"Hm. Well, don't surgeons talk to their patients while operating on them for brain surgery? To make sure they're still aware of themselves? Let's talk."
"Z-Corp does that a lot, actually. Once saw a man having a completely normal conversation while he was nothing but a head attached to some fancy machine!" Wendy chimes in with her own story. "It was freaky."
"Could. Imagine."
>"Where does the RIVER lead?"
"Up, towards an old hospital that the men were exploring, some ways off in the distance. They have part of the GREAT RIVER flowing through the hospital from some greater source."
"Down, down, down. That's where those who rob the graves of my fathers perform their religious worship. So far underground, right under their foul village."
"Into the water? <span class="mu-b">Well, they made a lot of mistakes, We did Yes, yes, yes. 11:25, the reactor melted and we saw something we shouldn't.</span>" IT doesn't feel like enlightening you beyond that. A shortcut to the Graverobber Village and the Hospital, though? That's useful.
>TELL ME ABOUT THE MEN YOU SAW
"They were here to find something left behind by my Mother country. Something to remember, something to put up on a wall. Archeologists tasked with preserving the past."
"They said they were from T, M, and D-Corp. I do not what those are but they hold no desire other than recording and preserving anything interesting they see."