Upper containment field failed. Other fields intact. Recommended course of action is to disable sacrifical containment pillars to allow maintenance of containment field. All 4 pillars must be disconnected before work can begin. The priestess must be on standby to act immediately to ensure personnel are not needlessly converted.
This section of the facility will remain in lockdown until containment is resolved. Confirm containment here once maintenance is complete.
The divine entity is dead. How many souls had it claimed up to now? I can still feel the odd feeling of it trying to get into my head lingering around here, but I can't just leave yet. We have stuff we need to find. There might even be someone it captured who can still be saved.
I found where it kept many of its victims. Most of them... the best I can do is destroy what little is left.
But it wasn't completely hopeless. There were a few that it hadn't fully consumed yet. It definitely had its hooks in them. They continue to pray to their dead captor. Even after taking them away from here, the constant prayer from the three of them would keep reinforcing the conditioning.
I found Hermit not too far from the way outta here. "You have been busy." She gave a curious look towards the trio I was pulling along. "There was a divine entity deep down here. I managed to kill it." "The Divine Maiden prevails." She sounds incredibly pleased, there's not even a hint of doubt in her voice. "Just like that, you believe me?" Somehow her taking me at my word without any other proof feels even more unbelivable than what I did. She shrugs. "You don't want to see it or anything?" "Absolutely, I want to." She shrugs again. "But is it safe? I am not divine." "I'm not either." "Indulge me, Divine Maiden. You have killed gods." I really can't tell if she's messing with me, and it's getting on my nerves. "If it'd help you. I will go see." She's volunteering to go into a contaminated area for my sake? This whole thing feels backwards. "If you believe me, there's no point going in." "Then it won't happen." I'm sure it's the effects of being around that divine entity, but I really don't wanna deal with this anymore. Hermit must have read my mind as she leads the way back to the car. She already found the XM-8 or whatever so we left immediately.
All hail He Who Consumes! Those who grace his maw will be born again into a better, divinely ordained form! For too long has this god been restrained and exploited by blind greed! The whore priestess will die, and with her, the leash around our Lord will be broken!
They're not coming back for any of us. I'm sure of it. Even I'm not worth recovering after the last theological weapon I shepherded was annihilated. The Night hasn't passed over us yet, but that won't last, I bet. They must be desperate for materials, as we've been doing rituals and sacrifices nonstop. They haven't been letting me sleep. Using a divine entity as much as this is a bad idea, and it's even worse to have just one priestess and no other supporting personnel around.
The braver workers asked if I knew how long we were going to stay here. It's a good thing everyone thinks we're weird and aloof because I can't look them in the eyes as I give them some vague faithful nonsense like I'm supposed to. I need to sleep. Something's going to leak out from the divine entity here if I can't get some rest.
It took my legs. Why didn't it finish the job? Is it just toying with me? Or does it want a new worshipper? If I could find something else I can try and get out of here. The doors out are locked but it can get around. Who am I lying to? It's hopeless. Any hole that gets around the locks was made by it and it'd easily grab me again. The best I can do is hope it chokes on me. Maybe I can scrounge up the stuff for a bomb. Whoever ends up finding this, tell everyone at LV-7 that Emily went out with a bang.
DRUG EATERS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE FACILITY! No pets has been the standard policy this whole time. It doesn't matter if you say they're really well behaved and can vouch that they haven't been compromised by dissidents. They're not allowed. They're undead. They can't starve to death. They'll survive a few days without you being around and when the "all clear" is given you can do whatever you want to make it up to them. I'm not joking, you can end up on the altar if you're caught bringing one in. It isn't worth it.
You are the product of everything you've been through before now, yet all that is lost. You are not you because if you were you, you'd be different. Yet things reach in from outside for you, yet you refuse them. Why? Are you so sure that you would if you weren't you now instead of you then? Who deserved your prayers back when you were you? You take it back but can you be forgiven for disloyalty to you? Even now, you reject what you made.
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