Audio logs (23)

Every tape recorder you can play, in the order you reach them: what it says, who is speaking, and where it is. The transcripts are the game's own subtitles.

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Chapter 3: The Exotic Matter Laboratory (3)

Audio log 1 · 0:22
Hi Dr. [static], it's Devin from [static]...
Speaker
Devin
Area
The Exotic Matter Laboratory, The Magnetic Stabilizer
Checkpoints
3-4, 3-5, 3-6 · Instability at 99%
Where the curved track turns the corner of the room: a stack of dark grey crates stands there with a purple traffic cone in front. The tape recorder sits on top of the front crate, next to a green trolley with a brown helmet on it.
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1. 0:00Hi Dr. [static], it's Devin from [static]... uh, I wanted to call about [static].
2. 0:08We had to put one of the stabilizers in maintenance but, uhm...
3. 0:13without a way to stabilize Rift [static] things will get VERY [static]. Please call back asap!
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Audio log 2 · 0:40
Meg, it's Dr. Bowe. Just looking over your safety report,
Speaker
Dr. Kathleen Bowe
Area
The Exotic Matter Laboratory, Accelerator Targeting
Checkpoints
3-7, 3-8 · Accelerator Targeting
Next to the office with the purple carpet there is a small grey machine room (Octodoc #2 is in it). The tape recorder lies on the seat of the purple office chair in front of the cluttered desk, under the big grey pipe.
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1. 0:00Meg, it's Dr. Bowe. Just looking over your safety report,
2. 0:04and I think you're worrying over nothing.
3. 0:06Pop by my office sometime; let's have a little chat.
4. 0:11Hi Meg, it's me again.
5. 0:13Just a reminder that words like "armageddon" and "apocalypse"
6. 0:18really do carry negative connotations.
7. 0:20Happy to chat through some more appropriate language at your convenience.
8. 0:28Meg, Meg! What the hell are you people playing at down there!?
9. 0:32Hello? Hellooo? Meg, pick up the phone!
10. 0:37PICK UP THE PHONE, DAMNIT!
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Audio log 3 · 0:18
Hi [static], it's Devin [static] again and uhh...
Speaker
Devin
Area
The Exotic Matter Laboratory, The Control Room
Checkpoints
3-11 · The Control Room
In the Control Room, where the stairs go down beside one of the long green-and-white consoles. The tape recorder sits on the ledge under the old monitor screen at the end of that console, about chest height above the lower floor.
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1. 0:00Hi [static], it's Devin [static] again and uhh... just calling about the [static]!
2. 0:08Err... Collectors have shut down as a result, we uhh, we could REALLY use the extra hands here.
3. 0:14Uh, please call back when you get the chance!
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Chapter 4: The R&D Headquarters (1)

Audio log 4 · 0:58
I know this is hard, but I need you to focus.
Speakers
Dr. Kathleen Bowe, Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The R&D Headquarters, Crew Quarters
Checkpoints
4-2, 4-3, 4-4 · Crew Quarters
In the open hall with the green floor, at the angled cream desk piled with Norček invoices, next to the round blue planter with a purple alien plant. The tape recorder sits on the raised part of the desk, beside the telephone.
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1. Bowe0:00I know this is hard, but I need you to focus. What happened to Lewis and Sen?
2. Murray0:06It- It was dark. And there was something out there. I could hear it clicking - like bone on bone.
3. 0:12And there was some meaning to it, a pattern. I didn’t understand.
4. Bowe0:16Yes- Okay, okay...
5. 0:18Murray! Did you complete the test!?
6. Murray0:21We were prepping the theta splice for stabilisation.
7. 0:24It was hard to get readings, the soil, the plants - roots grew every time we
8. 0:29activated the machine, like iron drawn to a magnet, leaves crackling with sparks.
9. 0:34We thought we were safe beneath the forest canopy,
10. 0:37but our radiation badges went off, and we realised
11. 0:40the light we were seeing by wasn’t coming from the stars...
12. Bowe0:42Where is the splice now? Did you activate it?
13. Murray0:45There's something out there. It went from nothing to vast in the blink of an eye!
14. 0:50I’m not ashamed of running. Maybe if the others had run, they’d be here too...
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Chapter 5: The Temporal Research Centre (6)

Audio log 5 · 0:19
Now you want to organise a health and safety meeting? NOW?
Speaker
Dr. Elena Rodriguez
Area
The Temporal Research Centre, UtilitiesPresent
Checkpoints
5-1, 5-2 · The TRC
In a narrow grey maintenance passage with floor grates (a red toolbox and spanners lie at one end). At the far end, next to a small white door, the tape recorder sits on a dark crate.
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1. 0:00Now you want to organise a health and safety meeting? NOW?
2. 0:05What do you want, handrails around the anti-gravity core?
3. 0:08Compulsory hard hats in the temporal decontamination suite? Oh!
4. 0:13Or is this just going to be a lecture on the importance of
5. 0:16double-walled cardboard boxes again?
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Audio log 6 · 0:11
Sometimes these 'windows' appear in the lab.
Speaker
Dr. Elena Rodriguez
Area
The Temporal Research Centre, Temporal ResearchPresent
Checkpoints
5-2, 5-3, 5-4 · Fully Powered
From the red-carpeted corridor lined with potted plants, go through the doorway with the teal frame into the small white room with a red stripe along the walls. The tape recorder lies on top of the white pedestal in the middle of the room.
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1. 0:00Sometimes these 'windows' appear in the lab.
2. 0:02Looking through them, we see glimpses of the past,
3. 0:04the castle that stood here before us.
4. 0:06All very exciting, of course,
5. 0:08but a window looks both ways...
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Audio log 7 · 0:18
Are we on the cusp of unlocking time travel?
Speaker
Dr. Elena Rodriguez
Area
The Temporal Research Centre, Temporal ResearchPresent
Checkpoints
5-3, 5-4 · Thieves of Time
In the white office beside the large red-carpeted hall, where a block of desks surrounds a green rug with orange stripes. The tape recorder sits on the corner of the desks nearest the big potted palm, next to a desk lamp.
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1. 0:00Are we on the cusp of unlocking time travel?
2. 0:02No. Why?
3. 0:03Because I firmly believe that if we did travel through time,
4. 0:06the first thing I would do is come back to this exact moment, and tell myself,
5. 0:09"Elena, time travel breaks the world, stop it right now," and even if
6. 0:13no one else listened to me,
7. 0:16I would listen to myself.
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Audio log 8 · 0:16
Of all the rifts we have observed,
Speaker
Dr. Elena Rodriguez
Area
The Temporal Research Centre, Temporal ResearchPresent
Checkpoints
5-3, 5-4 · Thieves of Time
In the long white corridor lined with tall blue lockers (cardboard boxes are stacked at one end). The tape recorder lies on the padded teal bench between the lockers.
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1. 0:00Of all the rifts we have observed,
2. 0:01the temporal rift is most closely tied to the central Rift 0,
3. 0:04the beating heart of the Berg. And with every experiment we run,
4. 0:07Rift 0 becomes more unstable, and the probability of catastrophe -
5. 0:12global catastrophe - grows.
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Audio log 9 · 0:43
It wasn't a forest, it was a garden.
Speakers
Dr. Robert Murray, Dr. Kathleen Bowe
Area
The Temporal Research Centre, XenobotanyPresent
Checkpoints
5-4, 5-5 · Overgrown
On the raised office platform with the teal carpet, reached by the short stairs with teal railings. The tape recorder sits at the end of the angled desk covered in yellow notes, on the dark cabinet where the railing turns the corner.
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1. Murray0:00It wasn't a forest, it was a garden.
2. 0:03There was a path, spiralling towards a central point - a stone at its heart, pulsing with light.
3. 0:09The light became the roots, became the forest, and rose up to the sky.
4. Bowe0:13So? We're describing something alien, we don’t understand how this world behaves…
5. Murray0:18But the fundamental rules still apply.
6. 0:21Carbon bonded to oxygen, magnetic induction creates electrical flow...
7. 0:25...and if the basic rules of physics, why not the basic rules of nature? Competition, evolution.
8. 0:31What does a gardener do? She gives one part of nature an edge over another.
9. 0:36And I am telling you - something more than nature made that forest grow.
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Audio log 10 · 0:58
I know this is hard, but I need you to focus.
Speakers
Dr. Kathleen Bowe, Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The Temporal Research Centre, XenobotanyPresent
Checkpoints
5-4, 5-5 · Overgrown
In the teal-carpeted office whose long window looks out onto the overgrown greenhouse (the office of Octodoc #6). The tape recorder sits on the big angled desk in the middle of the room, at the end nearest the potted palm and the orange-striped chair.
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1. Bowe0:00I know this is hard, but I need you to focus. What happened to Lewis and Sen?
2. Murray0:06It- It was dark. And there was something out there. I could hear it clicking - like bone on bone.
3. 0:12And there was some meaning to it, a pattern. I didn’t understand.
4. Bowe0:16Yes- Okay, okay...
5. 0:18Murray! Did you complete the test!?
6. Murray0:21We were prepping the theta splice for stabilisation.
7. 0:24It was hard to get readings, the soil, the plants - roots grew every time we
8. 0:29activated the machine, like iron drawn to a magnet, leaves crackling with sparks.
9. 0:34We thought we were safe beneath the forest canopy,
10. 0:37but our radiation badges went off, and we realised
11. 0:40the light we were seeing by wasn’t coming from the stars...
12. Bowe0:42Where is the splice now? Did you activate it?
13. Murray0:45There's something out there. It went from nothing to vast in the blink of an eye!
14. 0:50I’m not ashamed of running. Maybe if the others had run, they’d be here too...
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Chapter 7: The World Beyond the Rift (13)

Audio log 11 · 0:09
WILL SOMEONE TURN THE ALARM OFF -
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Hub
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
In the hub, by the low wall that runs between the two round planters. The tape recorder sits on the small white desk at the end of that wall, with a stool beside it, half hidden by tall purple alien plants. The round pool with the big red tentacled creature is just past the wall.
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1. 0:00...WILL SOMEONE TURN THE ALARM OFF -
2. 0:01Emily find me a rune that stops it - slows it
3. 0:04YES I CAN SEE THAT IT'S SWALLOWED THE SPLICE THANK YOU SEAN.
4. 0:07Someone do SOMETHING!
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Audio log 12 · 0:14
Alan and Emily's 'runes' have got everyone excited.
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Hub
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
In the hub, against the wall across from the sunken square with the rune machines. The tape recorder lies on a small round stool among blue and purple alien plants, next to a whiteboard on wheels.
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1. 0:00Alan and Emily's 'runes' have got everyone excited.
2. 0:03Imagine it though -
3. 0:05a symbolic object producing real physical change.
4. 0:08I mean, even if we can't solve the energy crisis,
5. 0:12with these we could change the world...
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Audio log 13 · 0:15
I told her I shouldn't come back.
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Room four
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
Just inside room four from its airlock, in the corner with the big yellow rug patterned with brown paths. The tape recorder lies on the white desk with the fax machine and the computer, next to a stool.
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1. 0:00I told her I shouldn't come back.
2. 0:02I told her I wasn't ready.
3. 0:03After what happened to Lewis, Sen...
4. 0:06I should have just stayed behind.
5. 0:08Instead I'm here, letting my crew down.
6. 0:12I don't know how to fix this. I never did.
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Audio log 14 · 0:21
We're going to save the world.
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Room four
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
Just inside room four, on the other side of the airlock door from the yellow rug: a small office with a green carpet. The tape recorder lies on the white desk by the door, next to the fax machine and the computer.
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1. 0:00We're going to save the world.
2. 0:02What a pretentious thing for a botanist to say.
3. 0:06But here, with the energy of this planet... Maybe it's true.
4. 0:11Maybe our children won't have to freeze in another long winter,
5. 0:15the cupboards will be full again.
6. 0:17I just want my family to be safe. What else is there?
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Audio log 15 · 0:20
What is life, if not just ever longer chains of matter strung…
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Room one
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
In the middle of room one, rune machines line the walls around a sunken square with two long white tables in it. The tape recorder lies on the corner of one of those tables, next to a stool.
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1. 0:00What is life, if not just ever longer chains of matter strung together?
2. 0:04Carbon and hydrogen and oxygen, woven into ever more complex shapes.
3. 0:09At home - home - we take complexity for granted.
4. 0:14Here though, it's as if even the most complex organisms
5. 0:17constantly try to break into their simplest parts.
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Audio log 16 · 0:13
Day five of Emily's mad experiment.
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Room one
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
Outside the corner of room one, facing the yellow walkway that leads to the big glowing flower. The tape recorder lies on the low green console next to an old computer on wheels; the OBSERVATION DECK sign is across the way.
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1. 0:00Day five of Emily's mad experiment.
2. 0:02"It's all just electrons," she says,
3. 0:05"I'm confident we can safely interface" she says.
4. 0:08And I'm no engineer, but
5. 0:10even I know she's never going to be able to make her own runes.
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Audio log 17 · 0:10
Kathleen, you know I'm not the kind to make a fuss,
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Room three
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
Just inside room three: at the end of the narrow green-carpeted corridor, the tape recorder lies on the white desk under the whiteboard and cork pinboard, next to the fax machine.
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1. 0:00Kathleen, you know I'm not the kind to make a fuss,
2. 0:02but this isn't 'absent without leave'.
3. 0:04This is 'eaten alive on an alien world'!
4. 0:06This isn't a human resources issue - it's a digestive one!
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Audio log 18 · 0:23
Today was near-death experience uhm... Eleven, twelve?
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Room three
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
Just inside room three, through the yellow-framed airlock door into the small office with a green carpet. The tape recorder lies on the white desk in the corner by the door, next to the fax machine and the computer.
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1. 0:00Today was near-death experience uhm... Eleven, twelve?
2. 0:05This time it was nearly being devoured by one of the tentacle-monsters.
3. 0:09Funny thing though,
4. 0:11as it tried to swallow me whole, the thing that struck me most was the universality of teeth.
5. 0:16Even on another planet, evolution loves rows and rows of sharp, pointy teeth.
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Audio log 19 · 0:08
Sean, until I say stop looking at that plant,
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Room two
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
In room two, along the wall below the small office with the checkered floor. The tape recorder lies on the low ledge by the doorway, next to a row of tall dark red fern-like plants.
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1. 0:00Sean, until I say stop looking at that plant,
2. 0:02you will keep looking until your eyes plop out,
3. 0:05do you understand? We're too far along now.
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Audio log 20 · 0:15
I have never believed in intelligent design,
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Room two
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
In the office on the upper level of room two, about 12 m above the room's floor, with two round yellow rugs and orange-and-white chairs. The tape recorder lies on the corner of the long desk, next to a whiteboard on a stand.
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1. 0:00I have never believed in intelligent design,
2. 0:02but in this place, it-it has another meaning.
3. 0:04Here, everything is in symbiosis with everything else,
4. 0:08constantly changing...
5. 0:10It's as if the world wants to be seen, and in being seen, it evolves.
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Audio log 21 · 0:08
For every 50 runes Emily makes, 49 are failures.
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Room two
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
In the lab on the way out of room two, the one with two round pods side by side against the wall. A long lab bench stands in a sunken square in the middle; the tape recorder sits on it next to the glass jar with a purple plant, beside a stool.
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1. 0:00For every 50 runes Emily makes, 49 are failures.
2. 0:03But even one or two...
3. 0:06We could change the world.
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Audio log 22 · 0:14
Today Emily successfully fused organic alien tech
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Room two
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
In the wide corridor at room two's airlock, with square floor panels down the middle. The tape recorder lies on a green supply crate against the wall, between pink coral-like plants and a row of green lockers.
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1. 0:00Today Emily successfully fused organic alien tech
2. 0:03with our hardware, and made a rune.
3. 0:05The process is painful and slow, but still...
4. 0:08I hope she didn't take our bet seriously,
5. 0:11I really cannae afford to buy her tea for life.
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Audio log 23 · 0:12
When we first discovered the power of these 'runes',
Speaker
Dr. Robert Murray
Area
The World Beyond the Rift, Farpoint Outpost, Room three
Checkpoints
7-4 · Farpoint Outpost
In the green-carpeted locker room on the way into room three, where two round pods sit side by side. The tape recorder lies on the round wooden coffee table on the yellow rug, next to a potted palm and the open lockers.
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1. 0:00When we first discovered the power of these 'runes',
2. 0:02I thought we would re-define material science itself.
3. 0:05Instead Dr. Dahne made a hook and a goop gun.
4. 0:09Maybe it's just his process.
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