Metroplexity

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Greeting (¹)

Thank you! As you can see, my recovery's coming along nicely. Wouldn't be here without you.

Greeting (³)

Man… I just don't know. I always kind of expected her to outlive us all.

She was always so careful, you know. Just sitting in her lab, working on security.

Didn't help much in the end… we need to take out the Third Eye. Which, if I don't miss my guess means understanding Eclipse.

Wheels within wheels… it'd be a fantastic puzzle if it weren't so close to home.

Greeting (²), before fix

Hel's back! That's wonderful news.

With her experience on the ground and, if you don't mind me saying, Lo and I's brilliance, we should have this cracked in no time.

Greeting (²)

Hel's back! That's wonderful news.

With her experience on the ground and, if you don't mind me saying, Lo's and my brilliance, we should have this cracked in no time.

¹ After his rescue, if Lo and Dr. Amundsen are both alive
² After rescuing Hel
³ After his rescue and talking to him, if Dr A has then died.

Did you hear anything?

Lo was talking about getting Hel back, which is probably our best course of action for now. We'll need to go back into hiding, especially after what's happened to… all of us, but we have to compare notes first.

In particular the connection between the Slags, Midgard, and Eclipse. I guess we'll just have to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

The Slags?

Well, south of the docks right along the lake, there used to be an industrial district. Lo and I used to work at a lab there, top secret.

While we were out one day, something went wrong. None of us are exactly sure what, but we were still close enough to the explosion… well, my arm had to be amputated, let's keep it at that.

Still, I think I got the best end of that deal. If we had been in the lab…

How do you know Lo?

We go way back. Lo and I worked together for years as scientists.

Something went pretty badly awry and our employer doesn't seem interested in having us around anymore. I have to suspect they're behind those gangers. They knew I used to be a scientist. Nobody knew that.

I met this Ghoul King.

Really? That's fantastic! And… I suppose I mean that in the "unbelievable," "like a fairy tale," and "great" senses of the word.

I've been searching for… lord, years now, for some sign of intelligent life in the ether. I knew there was something at the Docks.

There's so much I'd like you to do, but we need to focus right now. I'm working with Lo to figure out what our next move should be. You'll be the first to know when we know where we're headed with this thing.

Your role?

Wow… I mean, what the hell? Actually, if Special Projects… fuck, that totally makes sense.

Okay, sorry let me start from the top.

Back when I worked under Lo in Special Projects, there was a lot of drug testing. That was actually what Lo did, mostly, drug trials and synthesizing new chemicals to trial.

Regulations were…. pretty lax. Most of the test subjects were either bums we paid a few creds and a warm meal or volunteers among the staff. I'm not proud about it.

Anyway, during one trial I remember tripping hard, way harder than Eclipse or anything else I've had. There was this void… not even a vacuum, just nothing.

And I opened my mouth to explain what I was experiencing to the monitor. But these winged lights like butterflies just starting pouring out of my mouth… and when they moved it sounded like bells.

I remember I was so pissed… the test had to be cut short because one of the guard drones went haywire.

But that must be it. Whatever we were testing on me there must have had something to do with Eclipse… maybe an early test or the pure source or something.

Which would have to bring it all back to Special Projects and Midgard. Fuck.

Contact

You get David as a contact during the University Quest if you manage to save him. He tells you about Dr. Amundsen and the Boiler Room.

Notes

You get a unique conversation topic with him if you finished Problems on the Docks. May lead to a side quest?