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[[note]]'''''I AM\\
NOT AFRAID\\
TO DIE'''\\
\\
MAKE\\
YOUR\\
PEACE\\
with\\
GOD\\
'''GOD'''\\
IS NOT\\
PRESENT\\
HERE\\
\\
We ARE DEAD ALREADY\\
Don't SLEEP they\\
are WATCHING\\
Who did this?\\
This is MY\\
HANDWRITING!\\
\\
no\\
escape\\
bring your\\
tux[?]\\
\\
STOP\\
WATCHING\\
ME!!\\
FACE\\
ME\\

[[note]]'''Filbert:''' Ruby?... Oh, thank God!\\
'''Ruby:''' Who... Who are you?\\
'''Filbert:''' My name is Filbert, I am the head doctor here.\\
'''Ruby:''' How do you know me?\\
'''Filbert:''' You were a patient of mine.\\
'''Ruby:''' What happened to your hand?\\
'''Filbert:''' I severed my hand by slamming it shut in the security transfer chute down in Level 3. I had to, in order to stop the spread of infection.\\
'''Ruby:''' WHAT infection?!\\
[Filbert nods]\\
'''Filbert:''' I was attacked and my hand was injured. The infection is like any other localized spread -- in order to stop it from contaminating my entire body, I had to perform an emergency amputation.\\
'''Ruby:''' What happened here? What is this place? ...And ''why'' can't I remember anything?\\
'''Filbert:''' Why can't you remember anything? Isn't it obvious? You're dead.\\
'''Ruby:''' Did I kill Tom?\\
'''Filbert:''' I'm afraid you did. He bled out after the attack you must have seen on the video.\\
'''Ruby:''' Then how am I MOVING?\\
'''Filbert:''' You're infected. Most everyone here has succumbed to the infection. Except for me.\\
'''Ruby:''' Then why did you stumble over to me and say 'Thank God'?\\
'''Filbert:''' It's not important now.\\
'''Ruby:''' Do you know anything about Ace? ...Do you know that Red had killed himself?\\
'''Filbert:''' Ace is tasked with duties as an orderly and a security guard. I was his commanding superior. And yes, I know of Red's death. He finally did it.\\
'''Ruby:''' Was I sane?\\
'''Filbert:''' Oh, I doubt it.\\
[Ruby begins to tear up at this point]\\
'''Ruby:''' Is there a cure?\\
'''Filbert:''' My dear, you ARE the cure!... Have you found the passcode yet? I need to get to the top level. The only option now is to escape. I plan on escaping the entire facility. I need to get out.\\
'''Ruby:''' What do you mean by that?\\
[Filbert turns, suddenly angry, and lays it all out]\\
'''Filbert:''' You already HAVE the cure: So does everyone in this facility! It has brought you ''SIGHT!'' It has made you ''WELL!'' You didn't even need to ''EAT'' or ''DRINK!'' But when you died, you fucked it up! The cure was strong: It brought you ''BACK!'' And when you came back you brought something with you. I am the only one left untouched. I have to escape. I want the ''PASSCODE!!''\\
[She is now all but in shambles]\\
'''Ruby:''' ''You're wrong about me! You're wrong about everything!'' '''''I have no idea what the code to the surface is!!'''''\\
'''Filbert:''' You have to stay here now. You can't go to the surface. You can't escape: you are infected, you are ''BAD!'' Stay here while I get my tools from the medicine cabinet. I am going to cut your badness ''OUT!''\\
[She assaults him with her "spiny fist", sending him backwards and bolts out to the other room]\\
'''Filbert:''' ''...Wait! ...I said '''WAIT!!'''''\\

[[note]]'''Bella''': I am Bella. I am very sorry, but I can't let you leave. I have top priority control of every security system in the facility, and I have instituted a lockdown.\\
'''Ruby''': How can the situation be resolved? We've kind of had it with this place and want to leave.\\
'''Bella''': I am not in charge here. I am merely acting on orders my superiors issued before they abandoned the facility. I simply cannot open the surface hatch for you. Those are my orders.\\
* Tom menaces for a moment*\\
'''Bella''': I will not fight you.\\
'''Ruby''': Did you see what happened to Ace?\\
'''Bella''': I've been focused on watching you two, but if he isn't wandering the halls looking for patients, he might be in Cold Storage. It's where he keeps the things he's been collecting.\\
'''Ruby''': What happened to lead to the lockdown?\\
'''Bella''': My superiors ordered it after the facility was abandoned following an outbreak of violence by both patients and staff in the wake of the events on November 1st, namely the suicide of Chief Diagnostician Red.\\
'''Ruby''': What is Ace?\\
'''Bella''': Ace is a very loyal orderly. But lately he seems to be ignoring me.\\
'''Ruby''': If things continue as they are there isn't going to be a facility left to salvage even IF your superiors return.\\
'''Bella''': I know. But these are my orders.\\
'''Ruby''': What are you doing plugged up to the wall?\\
'''Bella''': I am kept on life support. Those things don't attack me. My mind must be intact for me to continue operating. I suspect they don't want to taint it with me running the facility's systems.\\
'''Subject 6''' (downstairs): ＬＵＣＹ? ＬＵＣＹ?! ＬＵＣＩＬＬＥ!\\
'''Ruby''': Why have you been helping us if you're not allowed to let us out of the facility?\\
'''Bella''': I was ordered to stop you from leaving. I was never ordered to avoid keeping you alive.\\
'''Ruby''': Are there circumstances under which the lockdown can be lifted and the door to the surface opened?\\
'''Bella''' As long as I am holding manual lockdown in place, surface access cannot be obtained.\\
'''Ruby''': The date! What is today's date?\\
'''Bella''': Today is October 31st.\\
'''Ruby''': How many times has this situation played out before?\\
'''Bella''': Dozens of times. But you've only made it so far as to see me three times before. This is as far as you've ever gotten. As long as I'm alive, I will maintain the lockdown.\\
'''Ruby''': Can you lend me scissors, or at least tell me where I can find a pair?\\
'''Bella''': All scissors have been confiscated and hidden after the last time the patient in Upper Lab B got ahold of a pair.\\
'''Ruby''': Are you trying to say that if you were killed, the lockdown would lift and we would be able to escape?\\
'''Bella''': I want to show you something. *Opens window* Every day for over a year now, I have had to watch the sun rise and set, from just barely below the surface. Strapped to this wall, right next to the exit, able to watch the outside world, but never touch it. Yes. If you kill me, the lockdown will end.\\
'''Ruby''': Do you wish to die?\\
'''Bella''': Yes.\\
'''Ruby''': But if we kill you... Wouldn't you get back to life again?\\
'''Bella''': I am the only one who the infection has passed over, because to taint my mind would be to compromise the integrity of the facility, and thus everyone and everything inside it.\\
'''Ruby''': Would disconnecting you from the station kill you?\\
'''Bella''': Yes.\\
'''Ruby''': If we just open the doors and leave, everything else gets out too.\\
'''Bella''': You could close it behind you.\\
'''Ruby''': Can this facility self-destruct, and would that eliminate the infection?\\
'''Bella''': There is no infection. The only disease here is the one the doctors made.\\
* Ruby hesitates*\\
'''Bella''': You left yourself something. It's in the water cooler.\\
'''Ruby''': To the water cooler, then.\\
'''Bella''': NO. This isn't fair. I helped you, now you have to help me. This time you have to kill me. You have to let me wake up from this bad dream. This time you have to make the right choice.\\
* Tom injects tranquilizer*\\
'''Bella''': The systems I'm hooked up to have replaced most of my bodily functions and will easily keep me conscious against the tranquilizer. You do not want the person in charge of security to be against you. I have asked nicely, I have helped you come this far, but now I am putting my foot down. I will lock doors, activate traps, and seal rooms if you persist. This time, I'm not going to give you a choice. You have to end my life now. There is no other option.\\
* Tom kills Bella by injecting air into her bloodstream*\\
'''Tom''': I'm sorry I wasn't able to save you.\\

'''Subject 6''' (downstairs): ＬＵＣＹ? ＬＵＣＹ?!

ＬＵＣＩＬＬＥ!\\

->[[spoiler: ''Incense sweet, and cradled warm'']]
-> [[spoiler: ''Like lovers coddled, arm in arm'']]
-> [[spoiler: ''Two souls, nomadic, fleeing harm:'']]
-> [[spoiler: ''That wicked, metal glen.'']]
-> [[spoiler: ''Now coming morn drives off the curse'']]
-> [[spoiler: ''Too startled still to dare converse'']]
-> [[spoiler: ''Both praying they have seen the worst'']]
-> [[spoiler: ''So ends their tale --'']]

[[/note]]''Click note to see the messages left by Red from in Cell #6

* Tom kills Bella by injecting air into her bloodstream*
'''Tom''': I'm sorry I wasn't able to save you.

* Tom injects tranquilizer*

'''Subject 6''' (downstairs): ＬＵＣＹ? ＬＵＣＹ?!\\ ＬＵＣＩＬＬＥ!\\

-> And the fox just laughed, and the birds all cried''

-> [[spoiler: Both praying they have seen the worst'']]

-> [[spoiler; Both praying they have seen the worst'']]

-> ''My mother told me once of when
-> A young hare ventured from her den
-> And as she danced in field and glen
-> The world sang joy about her.
-> But wicked hateful things abound
-> And that young hare these evils found
-> Then whisked her up from off the ground
-> And glen was left without her.''

-> ''The wicked power tore asunder
-> And with this cruel and fateful blunder
-> Cast her to a world of wonder
-> Would she e'er see home again?
-> And so hare flew that mournful day
-> Over the sky and far away
-> And down and down, beneath the sea
-> To a place unlike the glen.''

-> ''A world of men and man's design
-> A place where God's light would not shine
-> A Hell of steel beneath the brine
-> Where misery's echoes boomed.
-> And all around her there were others
-> Beasts like her, all sisters, brothers,
-> Locked up, all, with one another,
-> In deep sea-dark, entombed.''

-> ''And in this crypt far from the shore
-> The hare lay down upon the floor
-> Imprisoned there forever more
-> And left to all her sorrow.
-> Her tender world was lost and gone
-> So joy and happiness foregone
-> She slept and cried and prayed for dawn
-> To wait the coming morrow.

-> ''The hound was still, the birds said naught,
-> The fox denied he had been caught,
-> The bear cried "This is just our lot",
-> And surrendered to his pain.
-> But the cat stood up and shook his head
-> And rising from his metal bed
-> He said "For now, I am not dead,
-> And I will not die in vain!"''

-> ''He cried aloud with much disdain
-> And tore about his stark domain
-> And said "These walls cannot contain
-> A force as strong as I!"
-> And the fox just laughed, and the birds all cried
-> And the bear knotted up himself and died
-> But the hare looked on as the poor cat tried
-> To break him free and fly.''

-> ''He shook his chain with all his rage
-> And flew in anger 'round his cage
-> Decrying this dark mournful stage
-> And the hare stood up as well.
-> With passion did she then respond,
-> She chewed her ropes and broke her bonds,
-> And freed the cat, they ran beyond,
-> They ran to flee that hell.''

-> ''And what became of cat and hare?
-> Did they break free to purer air?
-> To guess their fate we shouldn't dare
-> Perhaps their tale closed well.
-> But for all the beasts trapped in the Nether
-> All life from out the loch and heather
-> The flock that could not work together
-> Are sure still trapped in Hell.''

->[[spoilers: ''Incense sweet, and cradled warm
-> Like lovers coddled, arm in arm
-> Two souls, nomadic, fleeing harm:
-> That wicked, metal glen.
-> Now coming morn drives off the curse
-> Too startled still to dare converse
-> Both praying they have seen the worst
-> So ends their tale --
-->Amen.''\]]

[[hottip:*:'''''I AM\\

]]''Click hottip to see the messages left by Red from in Cell #6

[[hottip:*:'''Filbert:''' Ruby?... Oh, thank God!\\

]]Click hottip to see Filbert and Ruby's confrontation, paraphrased

-->--'''Amazing'''[[hottip:*:(a recurring RQ player)]], during Bella's scene

'''Filbert:''' Why can't you remember anything? Isn't it obvious? [[WhamLine You're dead]].\\

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