History Quotes / GeniusLoci

-->-- ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'', '''Planet''', "Conversations With Planet" (Accompanies discovery of the "Secrets of Alpha Centauri" tech)

[[spoiler:{{hell}}]] is alive. it breathes. [[ItCanThink it thinks]]. the entire area is a massive intelligent superorganism and [[{{sadist}} it is harsh and it is cruel]]. just by watching us it has learned how our systems and machines work. it has not only begun to deconstruct our technology but also assemble it in perverse ways, attaching parts to the creatures it tortures, making them into an aimless army of death and destruction. it warps them across itself to get them past our security. it locks our doors to trap us with them.\\

->ive figured it out. i know why the creatures are suddenly and undetectably appearing inside our facilities. i know why spare parts and pieces of machines keep disappearing. i know why the doors seem to malfunction and suddenly lock themselves. it's not a glitch in the system. its...\\

a n o t h e r d i e s . b r i n g m e m o r e . i h u n g e r.

this is not an attack. this is not a defence. [[ItAmusedMe this is entertainment]]. this is an exhibition of death and cruelty and suffering for its own sake. it had grown tired of what it has and we unwillingly just offered ourselves up as new playthings.\\

->''"Torvendis can never be fully mapped. The deserts change to forest, the glaciers to rivers of lava, the mountains to ocean troughs and the cities to plains of dust. Trying to chart it seems to make the landscape change even faster, as if Torvendis takes exception to any attempt to unravel its secrets with compass and map. No one on Torvendis ever wakes up to the same world twice, and in a world where even the colour of the sky mutates from hour to hour nothing ever stays the same.\\
But even the land never changes as much as the patterns of power that have played across Torvendis for aeons, like wildfires flaring and burning out."''
-->-- ''[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Daemonworld]]''

->'''The Doctor:''' I see. This asteroid is sentient.\\
'''Auntie:''' We walk on his back, breathe his air. Eat his food...\\
'''Amy:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Smell its armpits?]]\\
'''House:''' ''[through Auntie and Uncle]'' And do my will. You are most welcome, travelers.\\
'''Amy:''' Doctor... that voice, that's the asteroid talking?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Yes. So you're like a... sea urchin; hard outer surface -- that's the planet we're walking on -- [[BuffySpeak big, squashy, oogly thing]] inside -- that's you?\\
'''House:''' That is correct, Time Lord.
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]"

->''"Observe the Razorbeak as it tends so carefully to the fungal blooms; just the right bit from the yellow, then a swatch from the pink. Follow the Glow Mites as they gather and organize the fallen spores. What higher order guides their work? Mark my words: someone or something is '''managing''' the ecology of this planet."''
-->-- ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'', '''Lady Deirdre Skye''', "Planet Dreams" (Accompanies discovery of the "Centauri Empathy" tech)

->''"You waited so long to heed us, earthdeidre,\\
Almost we pruned you, as we may yet prune your branches."''
-->-- ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'', '''Planet''', "Conversations With Planet" (Accompanies discovery of the "Secrets of Alpha Centauri" tech)

->'''Mike Enslin:''' ''[Into his tape recorder]'' General Manager claims that the phantom in room interferes...\\
'''Gerald Olin:''' I have ''never'' used the word "phantom."\\
'''Mike Enslin:''' Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, spirit? Specter?\\
'''Gerald Olin:''' No, you misunderstand. Whatever's in 1408 is nothing like that.\\
'''Mike Enslin:''' Then what is it?\\
'''Gerald Olin:''' It's an evil fucking room.
-->-- ''Film/FourteenOhEight''

->'''Big Barda:''' But the Dark Age had not just changed the world, they say. It had not only driven the seas to vapor and burned the cities of Man. No. It had also changed '''him'''. Stripped him of his famous face. Destroyed his home. And so, they say, he came to the crossroads here... and became a new one. Welcome to the '''Canyons of Clay'''.\\
'''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:''' Whoa! You're telling me this place is '''alive'''?\\
'''Silver Banshee:''' No. This place is '''death'''.
-->-- ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage''

->''"HELLO, TEST SUBJECT. [[ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud Echo, echo]]. WELCOME TO YOUR FIRST TEST. I'M YOUR OVERSEER, CAVE JOHNSON, AND I THINK IF YOU KEEP TESTING, YOU MIGHT FIND SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING ABOUT THIS PLANET... ''[chuckling]'' It's me. I'm the planet, you live on me! Wanted to save it for later, but it's just too darn good. You really wouldn't have seen it coming. Do me a favor -- don't tell any of the other test subjects.\\
''[{{Beat}}]''\\
Also, [[GreenAesop don't pollute]]."''
-->-- '''Planet Cave Johnson''', ''VideoGame/Portal2: Perpetual Testing Initiative''

->"What is this place?"\\
The face stirred again. "Myself," it sang. "Metamorphosis. [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascension]]. I am that I am." The face broke up again into dozens of whirring birds.\\
A clump of vines twitched, rolled in on itself and coalesced into a leaf-green wolf. It said "I am the land, awakened by blood," and loped away.\\
"No longer a larva," an orchid-mouth said. "The pupal stage ends, for [[AssimilationPlot myself and the others]]."\\
The flesh beneath Ruthven writhed into a gigantic face. It whispered "Did I not promise to rejoin you at [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Gehenna?]]" then vanished into the meat again.
-->-- Lambach Ruthven meets the Tzimisce Antediluvian, ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade -- Nights Of Prophecy''

->The fabric of [[BedlamHouse Bishopsgate]] is literally alive, a vast complex web of flesh. Tendons run through cavities in walls. Nerve endings and blood vessels thread through narrow fissures in the mortar and brickwork. Eyes and ears sit behind glass panels, and in the lowest sub-basement, at the head of the so-called Labyrinth, a vast maw waits to be fed. Was this always the way? Was this the intention of the asylum's original designers? Or has the thing that lived below grown into the walls over the years? Worse: what if [[PsychoPsychologist Matthew Gorlay]] had an occult plan? What if it were he who threaded the flesh into the fabric of the building, making the madness of the dead into a [[AnthropomorphicPersonification living personification of madness]] that projected its own insanity into the patients and doctors who lived here?
-->-- ''[[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness Asylum]]''

->[[EldritchAbomination I am Father]]. I am the life of this planet. All that is here comes from me, belongs to me, is a part of me. [[BadassBoast All power is mine]].
-->-- ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} - The Ellimist Chronicles''

->''"I bring word from the Sibling! They don't remember inviting you in. And considering that they aren't merely the master of this house, they literally are this house, your actions are quite the insult."''
-->-- '''Kaladin Stormblessed''', ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'' (fourth book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'')

->''"It won, Roger. It tricked me. I didn't think it could, but it did. It's going to trick you too, Roger. This house knows everything about you. Leave while you can!"''
-->-- '''Elizabeth Cobb''', ''Film/{{House}}''

->''"I have served on five ships, man. [[SeenItAll I have seen stuff]]. One time I got trapped in a sentient cave for weeks. You ever been trapped in a sentient cave? That's a dark place that ''knows'' things."''
-->-- '''Ensign Beckett Mariner''', ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E01SecondContact Second Contact]]"

->''"Oh, my dear, Fiddler's Green is not a 'who', it is a where. I was not a person. I was a place."''
-->-- '''Fiddler's Green''', ''Series/TheSandman2022'', "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E10LostHearts Lost Hearts]]"