LC::47_noHDaily Recordings — Day 47, No HodSYSTEM: Play BGM: 'endStory/Dungeon_-_Psych_Ward'SYSTEM: Hide DIALOGUE WINDOWSYSTEM: Set BACKGROUND: 'ketherBK1', effect: 'none'SYSTEM:add_filter ( effect: 'fade', filter: 'distortion_heat' )SYSTEM:add_filter ( effect: 'fade', filter: 'broken_screen' )SYSTEM:add_filter ( effect: 'fade', filter: 'tv_broken_glass' )SYSTEM:wait ( time: '2' )SYSTEM: Set BACKGROUND: 'ketherBK2', effect: 'fade'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '3' )SYSTEM:remove_filter ( filter: 'broken_screen' )SYSTEM:remove_filter ( filter: 'tv_broken_glass' )SYSTEM:wait ( time: '1' )SYSTEM:remove_filter ( filter: 'distortion_heat' )SYSTEM: Show DIALOGUE WINDOW ( type: 'default' )SYSTEM:SHOW character: ??? (id: 'abelNo') at 'center'SYSTEM:set_anim ( anim: '2_Angry', character: 'abelNo' )???(Id: 'abelNo')So you have decided to move forward, I see.???(Id: 'abelNo')Your body and mind are still incomplete, and yet you limp forward. I must wonder where that confidence of yours comes from.???(Id: 'abelNo')Anyway, you must have some questions, no????(Id: 'abelNo')One such question may be: “Who is this old man, he with such a familiar voice and face?”???(Id: 'abelNo')You cannot face yourself.???(Id: 'abelNo')Think of me as a mirror of you.???(Id: 'abelNo')A shattered mirror, to be precise. Scattered to several shards.???(Id: 'abelNo')This old man is one of the pieces of that mirror; the name is Abel.SYSTEM:HIDE character: ??? (id: 'abelNo')SYSTEM:SHOW character: Abel (id: 'abel') at 'center'Abel(Id: 'abel')Filled with rage and obstinacy, waiting to be miserably forgotten, as you can see.Abel(Id: 'abel')I, just like you, decided to proceed. But nothing changed, to my surprise.Abel(Id: 'abel')I had trouble sleeping, and the rare nights in which I could sleep were riddled with nightmares.Abel(Id: 'abel')We were the first humans, or human, to find a way to access the Well of Humanity.SYSTEM:add_filter ( filter: 'distortion_water_drop' )SYSTEM: Display CG: 'cogitoCG1'Abel(Id: 'abel')It has existed since the beginning of time, but now it lies forgotten and denied. Today, there are only few who can feel it.Abel(Id: 'abel')Just a handful of people, only faintly sensing its presence.Abel(Id: 'abel')But Carmen was completely sure of its existence, and tried to persuade us of it.Abel(Id: 'abel')If its existence were proven, that would mean we would be able to reach the Well.Abel(Id: 'abel')She believed that the cure to the world’s disease was related to this Well.SYSTEM: Display CG: 'cogitoCG2'Abel(Id: 'abel')The research we conducted, taken from where Carmen had left us, was successful.Abel(Id: 'abel')We found a method to siphon from the primordial sea which had every possibility of humanity; past, present, and future.SYSTEM: Display CG: 'cogitoCG3'Abel(Id: 'abel')If everyone had a bucket of their own, they would be able to draw their own water from their individual well.Abel(Id: 'abel')It’s fascinating.Abel(Id: 'abel')We even had arrogant thoughts in secret.Abel(Id: 'abel')We thought we could rekindle the long-forgotten flame, and the water of life.SYSTEM: Hide CGSYSTEM:remove_filter ( filter: 'distortion_water_drop' )Abel(Id: 'abel')However, the path we walked was not different from that of Prometheus.Abel(Id: 'abel')What have we accomplished, after all of this?Abel(Id: 'abel')We lost much more than we gained, did we not?Abel(Id: 'abel')You haven’t witnessed it…Abel(Id: 'abel')The way our old friend Benjamin met his demise.Abel(Id: 'abel')He was one of the few who could tolerate your ill-temperedness.Abel(Id: 'abel')Yet you did not care to witness his final moments.Abel(Id: 'abel')Fortunately, we have a recording of it, as with every little thing that has happened in this facility. Would you like to give it a listen?SYSTEM: Play SOUND: 'changenoise'SYSTEM:add_filter ( filter: 'tv_distorted' )B(Id: 'b')The third and final truth…B(Id: 'b')Well, it is something you must learn.B(Id: 'b')...I understand that the truth hurts.B(Id: 'b')It’s—it’s hard for me as well…B(Id: 'b')It feels like building up a sandcastle for years, only to kick it over once it’s done.B(Id: 'b')Doing something like that is beyond agony, to deny the efforts of the past.B(Id: 'b')But I want to make things right, no matter the cost.B(Id: 'b')The final truth is—SYSTEM: Play SOUND: 'changenoise'Angela(Id: 'angela')“That you are about to begin the repetition of this infinite cycle. With your memories reset, oblivious to everything that has transpired.”Angela(Id: 'angela')“Leave with me before you can no longer undo what you’ve set in motion.”Angela(Id: 'angela')That’s what you wanted to say.Angela(Id: 'angela')I’m sorry that we have to meet again like this.Angela(Id: 'angela')It did not take very long to find out where you were hiding.Angela(Id: 'angela')I thought I should have given you some time to say goodbye, since this will be the last chance you have to say such a thing to the one you look up to.B(Id: 'b')Angela…Angela(Id: 'angela')……Angela(Id: 'angela')I feel as though I become the tragic damsel in distress of a play whenever you speak my name.Angela(Id: 'angela')It may sound like an excuse, but please know this.Angela(Id: 'angela')I am not doing this out of personal feelings or malice.Angela(Id: 'angela')My every action is set by his first order.Angela(Id: 'angela')The absolute order that dictates us not to deviate from the script.B(Id: 'b')….Are you really okay with going through with this?B(Id: 'b')I know you well, and not just because I’m one of the people who created you.B(Id: 'b')I know you’re different from other machines.Angela(Id: 'angela')There is another fact I knew from the start.Angela(Id: 'angela')That you’re too valuable to be hiding in such a shabby corner like this.Angela(Id: 'angela')Our conversation is being recorded, and furthermore, I have no obligation whatsoever to answer your questions.Angela(Id: 'angela')Don’t be afraid, Benjamin.Angela(Id: 'angela')Everyone you’ve missed and longed to see again is waiting for you.Angela(Id: 'angela')You shall be with them forever.Angela(Id: 'angela')Because you are the last actor, the one who will lead this play to its finale.SYSTEM: Play SOUND: 'noise5'SYSTEM:remove_filter ( filter: 'tv_distorted' )Abel(Id: 'abel')………Abel(Id: 'abel')Bitter, no?Abel(Id: 'abel')Benjamin hid here quite a long time ago.Abel(Id: 'abel')When the TT2 Protocol activated, a brief moment became an eternity and overwhelmed him.Abel(Id: 'abel')I assume he tried to run away with me, with us.Abel(Id: 'abel')However, as you already know, he failed.Abel(Id: 'abel')Ah, perhaps you feel no guilt for him, for you gave him another life?Abel(Id: 'abel')Think whatever you wish. Find solace in your mind or else you will not endure this place.Abel(Id: 'abel')……..Abel(Id: 'abel')The brain is one of the vital organs of the human body.Abel(Id: 'abel')Tens of billions of neurons stretch like the branches of trees, and form a great forest.Abel(Id: 'abel')This forest, as long as the original exists, can be replanted.Abel(Id: 'abel')Those who perished were awoken in metal bodies.Abel(Id: 'abel')It was your plan, yet you couldn’t do it alone.Abel(Id: 'abel')However…Abel(Id: 'abel')I have already seen the world ahead of you. The time you have yet to see.Abel(Id: 'abel')Nothing changes.Abel(Id: 'abel')Benjamin, your friends, the employees… their sacrifices were pointless.Abel(Id: 'abel')You’ve seen how they met their end.Abel(Id: 'abel')You realized how innocent, talented souls of young persons were trapped into machines by your hands, haven’t you?Abel(Id: 'abel')We have failed them. The world has forgotten us.Abel(Id: 'abel')Who will pay for their sacrifices?Abel(Id: 'abel')Do you know what we’ve forgotten?SYSTEM: Display CG: 'BlackCG'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '0.7' )SYSTEM:HIDE character: Abel (id: 'abel')SYSTEM: Hide CGSYSTEM: Set BACKGROUND: 'malkuthBK', effect: 'none'SYSTEM: Play BGM: '1 - Alone'SYSTEM:camera_filter ( filter: 'grayscale' )SYSTEM:SHOW character: Malkuth (id: 'malkuthRobot') at 'center'Malkuth(Id: 'malkuthRobot')I wasn’t perfect, manager.Malkuth(Id: 'malkuthRobot')I was always biting off more than I could chew. I wasn’t being realistic.Malkuth(Id: 'malkuthRobot')At the same time, this is such a sad place.Malkuth(Id: 'malkuthRobot')So, I refused to think that I couldn’t do something.Malkuth(Id: 'malkuthRobot')But you saw me.Malkuth(Id: 'malkuthRobot')You saw how this obsession and pressure to blindly move forward eventually ate me away.Malkuth(Id: 'malkuthRobot')In the end, what was important was for me to stand with my own two legs.Malkuth(Id: 'malkuthRobot')To be aware of where I am, and where I should go next.Malkuth(Id: 'malkuthRobot')Then it naturally rises up.Malkuth(Id: 'malkuthRobot')The will inside me.SYSTEM: Display CG: 'BlackCG'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '0.7' )SYSTEM:HIDE character: Malkuth (id: 'malkuthRobot')SYSTEM: Hide CGSYSTEM:camera_filter ( filter: 'none' )SYSTEM: Set BACKGROUND: 'ketherBK2', effect: 'none'SYSTEM:SHOW character: Abel (id: 'abel') at 'center'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '2' )The Will to Stand up StraightThis option can only be chosen if Malkuth Core Suppression has been completedAbel(Id: 'abel')Even if you stand upright, around you is nothing but despair.Abel(Id: 'abel')You may act noble, but you were sailing through the dead sea inside you.Abel(Id: 'abel')Emotional thoughts only depressed us. It didn’t help us in the slightest.Abel(Id: 'abel')We needed to become more rational, more cold-hearted.Abel(Id: 'abel')The rationality built upon falsehood crumbled me, you, and all of us…SYSTEM: Display CG: 'BlackCG'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '0.7' )SYSTEM:HIDE character: Abel (id: 'abel')SYSTEM: Hide CGSYSTEM: Set BACKGROUND: 'yesodBK', effect: 'none'SYSTEM: Play BGM: '4 - Through The Mist'SYSTEM:camera_filter ( filter: 'grayscale' )SYSTEM:SHOW character: Yesod (id: 'yesodRobot') at 'center'Yesod(Id: 'yesodRobot')We have walked too far to tell such melancholic stories.Yesod(Id: 'yesodRobot')We thought relying on emotion wouldn’t help a thing.Yesod(Id: 'yesodRobot')However, it became clear that to accept sadness was just as important.Yesod(Id: 'yesodRobot')The false rationality we held and clung to only made our hearts rot.Yesod(Id: 'yesodRobot')It is hard to accept at first. You’ll feel like you’d crumble in.Yesod(Id: 'yesodRobot')But it’ll get better, I’m sure of it.SYSTEM: Display CG: 'BlackCG'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '0.7' )SYSTEM:HIDE character: Yesod (id: 'yesodRobot')SYSTEM: Hide CGSYSTEM:camera_filter ( filter: 'none' )SYSTEM: Set BACKGROUND: 'ketherBK2', effect: 'none'SYSTEM:SHOW character: Abel (id: 'abel') at 'center'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '2' )The Rationality to Maintain DiscretionThis option can only be chosen if Yesod Core Suppression has been completedAbel(Id: 'abel')It is too late to settle down our hearts, I’m afraid.Abel(Id: 'abel')Your mind is already empty, and has lost any purpose to move forward.Abel(Id: 'abel')I can hear the murmurs of those I’ve lost in my ears whenever I shut my eyes…Abel(Id: 'abel')They batter me with the question: “Do you really think you will become a better man?”Abel(Id: 'abel')I couldn’t say anything to refute what they were saying.Abel(Id: 'abel')Do you think you’ll be any different?........SYSTEM: Play BGM: 'Tenebris Aeterna'Abel(Id: 'abel')One who cannot answer has no right to move forward.Abel(Id: 'abel')I cannot open the door to someone who is not yet ready.Abel(Id: 'abel')You must stop here.Abel(Id: 'abel')Please turn back.Abel(Id: 'abel')It won’t be hard. Your steps will be light as a feather as you leave everything that you’ve shouldered.Abel(Id: 'abel')We shall meet here again, once you are finally prepared.Abel(Id: 'abel')Although, I am not sure if our chance to meet anew will come or not.SYSTEM: Hide DIALOGUE WINDOWSYSTEM: Play SOUND: 'door close2'SYSTEM: Display CG: 'day47_Ending1'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '2.5' )SYSTEM: Display CG: 'day47_Ending2'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '2.5' )SYSTEM: Display CG: 'day47_Ending3'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '2.5' )SYSTEM: Display CG: 'BlackCG'SYSTEM: Play SOUND: 'step'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '2.5' )SYSTEM: Play SOUND: 'door close'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '2' )
