>>5326395Clad in a FutureLabs prisoner uniform, the shirt he’s wearing is far-too-large for his frame, wiry arms clasped around his legs.
You can’t see the rest of his face, but there’s something about the head of bedraggled hair that rings a bell in your mind.
<span class="mu-i">“Hello, Kelpie...”</span> The intruder doesn’t move his mouth when he turns to face you, and, when he tilts his head to look up at you, you see fractals dance in his eyes– eyes that are attached to a face with sunken-in cheeks. Though he looked far healthier the first time you met him, you recognize the mutant sitting before you.
“Conduit?!” You exclaim, beholding the familiar face of your intruder. The whole time you’d been here, you wholly expected someone else– anyone but the Crux’s former bombmaker.
Now, you have far more questions than answers.
>What do you say? (Pick one/multiple)>He’s the one that’s been trying to contact you this whole time? Is he the one who’s been sending you all those painful, weird dreams?>Now that you beat the guardian, he’ll send you back, right? Why’d he make that guardian anyhow?>Last time you checked, his power only had a range of a couple of floors. What gives?>He kept saying lots of stuff about memories and forgetting stuff before. Is... FutureLabs making him lose his memory?>Write-in>(2/3)