Recovered Documents (FILE-INT-BLACK) - Haltmann's Archives

"Recovered Documents [FILE-INT-BLACK] - Haltmann's Archives" is a high quality lore video and an internal "file" in Haltmann's Archives. It is the final reward of the "BLACK" branch of The Susie ARG.
== Summary ==
The video opens with a dated display with President Haltmann's logo. A large warning is displayed in red text:
Following this, the color scheme changes to yellow and the file is shown, in a format similar to all Haltmann's Archives videos starting with "[FILE-02]".
The file contains excerpts of documents written by The Voice Inside Your Head circa June 2016, during the events of SilvaGunner: Rebooted, which were recovered from his office after President Haltmann took over the channel. In the first excerpt, The Voice states that he has seen glimpses of the future of the universe, seeing that this reality is destined towards total destruction at the hands of a "harbinger", later identified as Chad Warden, who has now shown himself to the public. The Voice believes that he must act on this knowledge and not let SiIvaGunner "fall to its hands".
In the second excerpt, The Voice observes that the community discourse surrounding "Snow halation" has been disturbing the state of the channel, and hypothesizes that he could rid the channel of both Chad and "Snow halation" by splitting the timeline through a reboot of the universe. In the third excerpt, The Voice notes that he could harness the disturbances caused by the community discourse to cause the reboot, and decides to plant a modification in SiIvaGunner's ripping software to start the reboot process and hopefully eliminate "Snow halation" for good.
In the fourth excerpt, The Voice expresses dismay at the fact that Chad has retained memories of the old universe after the reboot, but still believes that he can enact his plans by manipulating Chad into aligning with his ideals. He further states that a new contingency has appeared from an error in a rip from a few days prior, and has now morphed into a form of sapience which The Voice believes could easily be convinced to side with him. At 4:06, the visuals turn dark and begin turning purple as the music cuts out and the excerpt continues: The Voice wagers that his chances of winning are not great, but is confident that he can still satisfy the fans and create "a grand new era" for SiIvaGunner, and that everyone will come to understand his vision. His final lines are typed out slowly, and are read by The Voice's own voice, Graham (UK English) from Acapela Box. The video fades to black, showing only the lines of text, then cuts back to the original yellow visuals at 5:01 as the writer summarizes the excerpts.
At 5:40, as the file ends, the video glitches out and the visuals turn dark and grey as text appears reading "LEFT LEG OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE", followed by encoded looping text filling the screen. The last seconds of the video only show the following:
The melody of the heart was stopped
The world was covered in darkness
It rings out in heart-rending pain
For that one moment in time
It all seemed so familiar
* 4 left.
=== Context ===
This video explores the Voice's true motivation for rebooting the channel that was mentioned in Pokemon Grand Dad Version but up until this video had gone completely unacknowledged otherwise. In the hack, the Voice tells Chad Warden that he did not truly care about the community discourse and that he actually rebooted the channel to protect it from a bigger threat, then warns Chad about how powerful this threat is and just outright tells him he has no chance of defeating it. This video explicitly connects itself to the hack through shared language, specifically "the harbinger". It establishes that the threat the Voice sees is actually Chad Warden himself, although the Voice's premonitions of the harbinger's destruction seem to align with the Genocide timeline, rather than the canon ending of SilvaGunner: Rebooted.
The poem at the end refers to the ultimate fate of the Genocide timeline, through several references:
*"The melody of the heart was stopped" references the video "Melody of the Heart ~True Ending~ - SilvaGunner: Rebooted".
*"The world was covered in darkness" references the message that appears when quitting the game in Deltarune.
*"It rings out in heart-rending pain" references the lyrics of "Snow halation".
*"* 4 left." references the Genocide Route from Undertale, which was most likely the inspiration for there being a "genocide ending" of SilvaGunner: Rebooted in the first place. This also references the other four branches of the ARG.
== Transcript ==
Category:December 2024 rips
Category:Rips featuring The Voice Inside Your Head