Demon Within/Nightmares Transcript

==Opening Cutscene==
An image and flashes of a tree with lightning is seen as it slowly gets closer.
F. Player: This is wrong, this is all wrong. You said opening the Gateway would save humanity, it was the only way to defeat Deimos and send him back to Malum... But opening the Gateway would let the forces of evil through, allow them to conquer Earth, enslave us.
F. Player: Wait, wait - we didn't meet at Ramses Station, that didn't happen. You're feeding me false memories.
Dr. Salim: Be careful, my child. Tread lightly, or you're liable to offend me.
F. Player: We contacted Khalil, inquired about you, he... he said you were dead, you died some time ago. I saw you die... when I was with Hall - inside her mind, she showed me the truth. Who are you really, "Doctor"?
==Level Briefing==
Encryption# 74-2C-20-44. Protocol: Tango
The Demon Within our midst must be stopped to ensure the security of the Accord
Target has been tracked to Egypt, Kebechet
==Gameplay==
Hendricks and the Player are in a VTOL above a street in Kebechet, Egypt.
F. Player: Deimos was going to open the Gateway. He needed the demons of Malum to enslave Earth for the battle against Dolos. We didn't know what he had planned. 
While the Player speaks, Hendricks looks towards her.
F. Player: But we had Sarah Hall, her signal tracing to Kebechet.
While Dr. Salim speaks, the Player looks outside of the VTOL's door as it opens. 
Dr. Salim: You didn't think it odd that her signal appeared? After years of absence?
The Player looks down at the LZ below. While the Player speaks, the VTOL sweeps around the LZ as she looks out the other door.
F. Player: There wasn't time to think about it. But if we got her, we could find Taylor and decipher Deimos's plan. We had no idea we were being baited for a trap.
The Player looks down as street as a mech piloted by Hall breaks through a building and latches onto the VTOL. The VTOL then heads crashing down towards the LZ.
F. Player: She was waiting, she knew we were coming...
Hendricks crash lands the VTOL at the LZ and the Player and Hendricks exit the VTOL wreckage. The Egyptian Army and the Deadkillers begin to open fire on the Manticore, as the Player readies her KN-44.
F. Player: Deimos was using Taylor to open the Gateway. If we were gonna find him, we needed to take Hall down and Interface with her.
Everyone tries to deal with Hall as well as her Talons. As they damage the mech, Hall jump towards to a building several times throughout the fight for higher ground as she shoots her Spikes or Javelin Missiles at the team. As Hall jumps into another building, the team finally defeat her and her mech falls from the building back onto the battlefield.
The Player then opens the hatch to the mech to find a wounded Hall in the cockpit.
F. Player: I'd Interfaced before. I knew how it worked. 
The Player looks at Hendricks then back to Hall.
F. Player: It's a memory retrieval, an info dump, a lethal procedure...
The Player interfaces with Hall.
F. Player: But this was different, she begged me to do it.
The intel is received. However, a System Failure message appears as an explosion happens. The Player comes to in a blacked out world with trees with a white light glowing on them.
F. Player: Interfacing with someone is opening a portal to their mind, their darkest thoughts and desires. But this was her deep subconscious. This wasn't supposed to happen.
Dr. Salim: Because the deep subconscious is more than that. It is the Gateway, the portal... to Malum. The subconscious hides your fears, your doubts. It's the most primal version of you, it's what you run from. And by running, you persevere in life. But - what if you embrace the subconscious... How do you think I opened the Gateway? 
F. Player: But... you said to open the Gateway, I had to relive my memories.
Dr. Salim: No. I told you to take me to the start of your journey. The journey into the depths of your fears. You chose to relive your memories. So tell me, what do you fear?
The Player then follows the trees with bodies surrounding them. A baby crying can be heard as well.
The Player passes by the first tree with NRC corpses, the second tree with 54 Immortal corpses, the third tree with the Doctor corpses, and the fourth tree with JSOC corpses.
The final tree is seen with the baby. The Player arrives at the final tree with the baby in a cradle crying.
F. Player: Please. Why are you doing this?
The Player picks up the baby.
F. Player: Why are you scrambling my mind? Don't make me do this!
Dr. Salim: You don't have a choice. You haven't had one since you picked up that child... 
The baby begins to digitally vaporize. 
Dr. Salim: ...since you embraced Sarah's fear.
The Player looks up as the screen fades white.
==Cutscene==
While Dr. Salim speaks, a closeup of a man is seen as the camera then pans out more to reveal another man.
Dr. Salim: Lead me to the depths. What did Sarah want you to see?
The camera reveals the room where the Singapore Disaster accorded.
F. Player: Project Corvus. 2060...
The scientists check on the test subjects.
F. Player: ...the day of the Coalescence Disaster. Sarah could feel Deimos coursing through her veins, her mind, the fabrics of her soul.
The scientists notice the patients aren't acting right. While the Player speaks, the main screen shows brain activity of the subjects becoming unstable.
F. Player: He knew everything about her... and she knew everything about him.
A scientist with a flashlight looks at a test subject. While the Player speaks, the test subject suddenly begins to shake along with the other test subjects hooked up to the mainframe.
F. Player: She learned the Disaster wasn't an accident, but that means...
Dr. Salim: Well... I did what had to be done. This cold war...
While Dr. Salim speaks, the lab starts to fall apart and as the scientists try to escape the labs, but Nova 6 flooded the room, killing everyone inside and around the facility.
Dr. Salim: ...the Winslow Accord and Common Defense Pact had split the world in two. I saw humanity destroy itself. But in the lab, I saw... I saw... truth. 
While Dr. Salim speaks, the scene then shows the lab as time goes on, with the bodies decaying over time as well as the lab becoming flooded and destroyed before the screen turns white.
Dr. Salim: I saw peace. I saw Malum. A way to unite the world against an enemy greater than themselves.
Smoke then passes by the screen as it turns to Sarah Hall talking to the Player, unheard, with a fire in the background in Kebechet.
Dr. Salim: I saw... Deimos.
F. Player: You?... You did this? You opened the Gateway. You brought Deimos here.
Dr. Salim: I brought mankind's Savior here.
Smoke then passes by the screen again. The scene returns to the destroyed Coalescence lab as Taylor's Team enters.
Dr. Salim: After many years, I realized opening the portal wasn't enough. With Deimos trapped in the server room...
The team sweeps the room.
Dr. Salim: ...Man had not yielded as I had hoped. I had to incentivize progress.
Taylor and Diaz look at a deceased test subject's skeleton.
F. Player: You?? You created the disturbance that sent Taylor's Team there?!
While Dr. Salim speaks, Taylor and Diaz walk to Hall and Maretti at the labs' exit.
Dr. Salim: His undead servants could only do so much. Humans with DNI... Deimos could use them to walk the Earth.
The scene goes black before going back to Hall and the Player's unheard conversation in Kebechet.
F. Player: Hall told me that she had no idea what they were getting into, but they had to follow standard operating procedure, which meant locking down the site... And interfacing with the locations primary systems in the server room below...
Smoke once again covers the screen as the scene goes back to Taylor's Team entering the server room of the old Coalescence facility.
F. Player: We were built to be invincible. Our DNI let us interface with systems in dangerous environments and upload information.
Taylor and Hall then walk to the center of the room. While the Player speaks, Taylor then interfaces with the central server, but upon interfacing, he is infected by Deimos and Hall notices this.
F. Player: We created the very opportunity for Deimos to leave the server room.
Dr. Salim: He was a prisoner... with no way to expand humanity's horizon.
F. Player: We were vehicles for his transportation.
Dr. Salim: That makes it sound so cold...
While Dr. Salim speaks, Hall begins to re-calibrate Taylor before she gets infected by Deimos as well.
Dr. Salim: ...this is for the good of humanity.
==Gameplay Two==
The Player spawns in Server Room of the Facility as the floor beneath her falls apart and she falls into a snowy forest.
Dr. Salim: Tell me... what did Sarah fear?
Hall then appears before the Player.
F. Player: Failure. At the academy, she studied the battles of World War 2.
Hall turns around.
F. Player: The bravery of these men, she feared she could never match their heroism. She feared she didn't have real courage, she ran from it. She had nightmares of Bastogne. As she entered her subconscious, she gave into fear, let it pull her away...
Hall flies into the battlefield as time unfreezes and American Troops resume fighting the Zombies.
F. Player: I followed her. Deep within her mind, there had to be a way to save her.
The Player moves up and follows Hall while the Zombies spawn in and the destroyed trees & rocks are repaired.
After pushing through the Undead and reaching Hall, Bastogne suddenly turns into nighttime.
F. Player: The world began to fall apart, we heard his voice... Deimos.
As the Player follows Hall...
Deimos: Sarah... listen to the sound of my voice. I will have my army... and my kingdom. All that remains is her sacrifice.
F. Player: He was trying to consume her. And he wasn't about to let me stop him.
More Undead spawn in and the ground, ahead and next to the Player, starts to rise & fall. If the Player falls off, she will not die and spawn near where she had fallen. The Player kills all the Undead and as she approaches Hall, the Dire Wolves appear and go after the Player.
The Player kills all the Dire Wolves that went after her and as she reaches Hall, the latter falls down to the ground from the pain.
F. Player: Her mind was fracturing, stretched between our dimension and his. She warned me to turn back... to let Deimos take her. I told her I'd stay with her, I'd see it to the end. I asked her what happened after Coalescence.
Dr. Salim: You were deep within her subconscious, at the threshold of another dimension.
Hall disappears.
Dr. Salim: You seemed to embrace the journey.
While the Player speaks, the dead end starts to drift away and reveals a hidden tunnel.
F. Player: You think I wasn't scared? I was terrified. There was no way to make up for what I had done, but I had to try.
Some large rocks float from below for the Player to use to reach the other side. The Player navigates inside the hidden tunnel, reaches and enters in a bright white room, fading to black.
==Cutscene Two==
The scene returns to Hall speaking the Player again, unheard, in Kebechet.
F. Player: From the moment she was possessed, Hall became a passenger in her own body, a witness unable to intervene as Deimos began using her for his purpose. He wanted them to go to the Black Station. He... he wanted to find you, to meet the man who'd given him his freedom.
Smoke again passes by the screen as the scene shows Taylor's Team in the CIA Black Station in Singapore. The scene shows an agent being killed and another being stabbed in the gut by Taylor.
While the Player and Dr. Salim speak, another agent held down while he's sitting in his chair covered in blood as he's being killed, a wounded agent having his mouth pulled back by Taylor, another wounded agent having his head smashed on a table and his ear being cut off with a knife by Maretti, another wounded agent being strangled with a fiber wire while Diaz watches, and Hall holding another wounded agent & stabbing him in the face with her knife.
F. Player: He slaughtered the staff... ravaged them. Why did he kill them?
Dr. Salim: I wasn't there. He was upset. And he wasn't happy to learn of the documentation of his existence. 
While Dr. Salim speaks, the scene shows Taylor positioning the remaining dead bodies in their seats while Hall repeatedly stabs a dead agent in his face with her knife as her eyes show her under the influence of Deimos.
Dr. Salim: It was not time for his big reveal, his masterpiece. He was angry. When he found the data drives, he couldn't access them - part of the drive was missing. 
The screen cuts to black.
==Gameplay Three==
The Player spawns in the Black Station.
Dr. Salim: He couldn't purge the information as he hoped.
Taylor's Team double check the bodies to make sure it's done and positioned right. 
F. Player: The piece Hendricks and I recovered from the docks, someone had hidden them from him. Someone knew he would come. Someone was trying to stop him.
While the Player speaks, the roof suddenly breaks apart and pulls her back into World War 2 as she falls through the roof, into a building.
F. Player: Deimos didn't want Sarah divulging his secrets to us either, he ripped us from that memory...
The Player sees Hall again.
F. Player: We were in Foy. I didn't just see fear in Sarah's eyes anymore, I saw admiration. The longer I stayed, the stronger she became... the more she actually believed she had a chance. She told me to follow her, there was something she wanted me to see. Something she wanted to tell me...
The destroyed wall starts to be repaired and the three dead people turned into Zombies, which the Player killed. She heads outside and follows Hall as the Player pushes through more Undead and repaired environment & buildings to keep up with Hall. Once the Player reaches Hall inside a building, the screen briefly goes white as the Player and Hall are now in the rotated environment. 
F. Player: There was a chapel ahead of us. Hall told me to follow her there. But to get to Hall, we had to get through the Tiger Tank first.
As the Player heads outside, the Tiger Tank comes out from a building. The Player finds an XM-53 and uses it to destroy the Tiger Tank. The Player pushes through and follows Hall inside a chapel, who is on her knees and disappears.
F. Player: I found her in the chapel, I tried to approach her...
Another Tiger Tank destroys the walls of the chapel and everything stops moving, with the exception of the Player.
F. Player: But Deimos had other ideas.
While the Player speaks, a ball of light grows from the Tiger Tank's cannon and the screen goes white.
F. Player: He was desperate to separate us and evict me from her mind. He wanted her and I was getting in his way.
The chapel is repaired and expanded as the Tiger Tank, inside the chapel, transforms into an A.S.P. and more Zombies spawn in. The Player eventually destroys the A.S.P. and all Zombies disappear.
F. Player: She told me to approach her, she wanted me to understand.
The Player approaches to Hall, who reappears in the chapel again.
Dr. Salim: Sarah couldn't understand. She only saw how it ended. Humans are obsessed with beginnings and ends. The journeys between, they become filler. Life becomes filler. She tried to fight the voice in her head that had given her the ultimate gift.
F. Player: The ultimate gift?! Deimos was controlling her.
Dr. Salim: Relinquishing control is the ultimate gift. Free of choice, free of pressure, free of consequence, her actions dictated for her with greater purpose. 
Hall disappears. While Dr. Salim and the Player speaks, the chapel floor falls apart and she falls into a deep water with some objects from the chapel.
Dr. Salim: She was granted the greatest gift of all and she fought-
F. Player: You're insane.
Dr. Salim: No. Humanity is insane. You asked her to help you find Taylor. Where did she take you next?
F. Player: Deimos needed Taylor to open the Gateway, so I had to know how, had to know what Deimos was planning.
The screen fades to black.
==Cutscene Three==
The scene returns to the Player and Hall speaking with each other, unheard, in Kebechet.
F. Player: The Aquifers. Sarah told me this was their Fortress in the Sand. Their FOB for years. Deimos couldn't access the intelligence at the Singapore Black Station. 
F. Player: He couldn't locate you. So they hid here - waiting for their moment. She took me there.
Once again, the Smoke passes by the screen.
==Gameplay Four==
The Player spawns in a place where Taylor and Maretti are having a conversation while Hall is carving a picture of a large tree on a column, with more large trees already curved, with her knife.
F. Player: There's something I don't get. You made this happen, you've pushed for the annihilation of Earth... But Deimos wasn't using you. You weren't his puppet. What's in this for you? Why are you doing this? Are you an Undead Sympathizer?
Dr. Salim: No, my child. Dr. Salim was not a Sympathizer. He was so much less than that. He was so much more insignificant than that.
F. Player: ...Was? Wait - what do you mean, "Was"?
The screen fades to black and the Player spawns in the building at Kebechet with Taylor performing the interrogation, Maretti keeping an eye out for hostiles, Hall standing behind Taylor and watching the interrogation, and Dr. Salim sitting down on a chair.
Dr. Salim: I must say... I'm impressed with how delusional you've become, you had completely forgotten this memory.
F. Player: They found you... they tortured you for information, but... this doesn't make any sense. You were an ally, you enabled him, freed him.
Hall heads over, gets on, and pilots the Manticore under Taylor's order.
Deimos: Dr. Salim was no ally... he was a tool - an instrument I enabled. He was a blind idealist, believing he could make the world a better place, that I could save humanity, that he could save humanity. Hmph, he thought I'd found him to thank him. Me. A god? Thank a Mortal?? I found him to seize power from him.
F. Player: NO...
Deimos: [Laughs] Even now, you still hide from the truth. Corvus had been destroyed in Singapore, I needed it to open the Gateway. That was why I had kept Salim alive. He worked with a colleague, Krueger, and they built me a new Corvus at Coalescence Headquarters in Zürich, one which I could use to open the Gateway.
Taylor pulls out his MR6 and executes Dr. Yousef Salim as the screen then goes white.
==Cutscene Four==
The scene returns to a denial Hall speaking with the Player, unheard, in Kebechet.
Deimos: So I had no further need for the Doctor. She knew what was coming. All that remained was her sacrifice... 
While Deimos speaks, Hall's face turns to realization.
Deimos: ...for her to join my ranks and eternal damnation under my command.
The screen goes white.
Deimos: I am humanity's salvation...
==Gameplay Five==
While Deimos speaks, the Player and Hall spawns in the middle of nowhere in a snowy area at nighttime. 
Deimos: ...a savior giving purpose to a lost species that deserves far less. I. Am. Deimos.
While the Player speaks, she ends up in a torn, burning building that's surrounding her, the environment has destroyed & torn up buildings rise up, a large tree with a lot of branches begins to grow, and Hall is outside near the Player.
F. Player: The tree... I've seen it before... the entrance to Malum.
Deimos: Tell me. What do you fear?
Hall looks at the tree and the screen flashes with the sound of thunder when suddenly, the Zombies can be heard, as well as Der Eisendrache's starting round theme, as they spawn in and go after the Player. The Player must survive and kill all the Zombies.
Deimos: You don't fear the undead, you've thrown yourself against insurmountable odds as if you had a death wish. As if you were trying to escape. Is it failure? Is it life? No... you fear your mistakes, your past. Your greatest fear is the memory that haunts you.
F. Player: You awaited her sacrifice, she wanted me to stop you. She wanted me to end it. To deny you her offering.
While holding off the Zombies, the fire starts to spread in the building. Eventually, the Zombies stop spawning in. But as Hall looks at the Player and at the tree again, the screen flashes with the sound of thunder again as the Zombies spawn in again. The Player holds off all the Zombies and they stop spawning again.
While Deimos and the Player speak, Hall move towards and ascends halfway up to the tree.
Deimos: You... you wouldn't give up. You wouldn't let me have her.
F. Player: If she offered herself... she'd give you what you wanted. The only way to deny you... was to kill her.
The Player puts Sarah Hall out of her misery as the tree shrinks back down into the ground.
Deimos: You denied me my prize.
A nuclear explosion is seen as the blast radius moves towards the Player.
Deimos: It was time to send you back to your world. You must know how this ends. This ends... 
The screen cuts to black.
Deimos: ...with your sacrifice.
==Cutscene Five==
The scene returns to Kebechet as the Player exits the Interface with a now deceased Hall.
Deimos: But now I had you. I passed from Hall's mind to your own. Slowly, I would work my way through you. Sarah may have told who I was and what I was planning... 
While Deimos speaks, Hendricks walks away as the Player fell down on her knees from the toll and experience of Hall's DNI.
Deimos: ...but none of that mattered, because now I had you. But you were strange. 
While Deimos speaks, Kane walks to the Player to check on her as the two speak with each other.
Deimos: I tried to seize control, but something pushed back, something... fought me.
F. Player: They located Taylor. He was being held at Lotus Towers - run by a man named Hakim, an Undead Sympathizer who would get you out of Cairo. I told Kane we had to hurry. We had to hurry if we were going to stop you... but there was something we needed to know. The data drives, how did Kane know they were split up? Was she the one who separated the drives? Why? 
While the Player speaks, Kane looks around to make sure no one's nearby or watching, and she speaks to the Player.
F. Player: She said there was much we didn't know, but we would in time... we had to trust her. We had to get to Lotus Towers.
The screen fades to black and the mission ends.
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