Tapes

Up to 17 labelled tapes discovered by Collie in the Weird Blood Room. Each tape transcript is accompanied by comments from both the Narrator and Collie. The page is protected by the password "**blodtake**".

## Tape 01

### Transcript

**Time of recording: unknown**

**Discovered 28.07.2018 (sc update 0062)**

COLLIE: You there?

NARRATOR: Yeah. What do you mean, tapes?

COLLIE: I found a tape recorder and a bunch of tapes stashed in the back of the weird blood room.

COLLIE: I don't know what else you want me to say, honestly!

COLLIE: They're pretty weird...

NARRATOR: I love found footage.

NARRATOR: hahaha.

COLLIE: Here, I'll play the first one.

**—log, day…uh…fuck. I don't know what day it is. We’ll just say it's number one. Project log, tape one. The older ones all got destroyed anyway, so might as well start over.**

**It's been a long time since I recorded one of these…but I kinda have to. I feel like my brain’s rotting. Like I can't really retain this stuff if I don't record it.**

**[silence]**

**The project is going a little slowly. It's not terrible, but it's not amazing either. Feels like every breakthrough just brings up more complications.**

**I'm gonna have to try … [inaudible] … difficult with A and R breathing down my neck. But maybe results will be different if I do it this way. Speed things up a bit. You know. Umm…**

**[inaudible] … we need more blood. So little of it is usable. It's basically a gamble though. I have to…we need more. Whatever way we can. Australis isn't complete. It needs more blood.**

**[silence]**

**If worst comes to worst, R has the blood I need.**

**[silence]**

**[end of transcript]**

NARRATOR: The quality is kind of bad.

COLLIE: Even if this was a high quality recorder, anything you leave in this room gets eroded away.

COLLIE: I'm sure some of these tapes aren't even playable.

NARRATOR: How many are there?

COLLIE: They're labeled up to 17, but like I said...

NARRATOR: I don't really like the sound of it...but hey.

NARRATOR: It's not like I'm doing anything right now. Just waiting around.

NARRATOR: Let's hear number two.

### Unofficial Speculation/Theories

* A log of the creation of Australis - Possibility that Bluejay is recording

* The creation of Australis requires blood

* A and R are other creations? Colleagues? Supervisors?

* Specific blood is needed - R is suitable whereas A is not?

## Tape 02

### Transcript

**Time of recording: unknown**

**Discovered 28.07.2018 (sc update 0062)**

COLLIE: Here's the next tape...

NARRATOR: I'm kind of apprehensive.

COLLIE: Just imagine standing down here in the dark blood room, alone with them, like I am.

NARRATOR: Oooh, I'd be even more apprehensive! I don't like that at all!

**Log tape two. It's been a couple days since I saw the sun, I think. It's too dark down here to know for sure how long it's been, and the blood’s gotten to my clock. This analog piece of shit tape recorder is the only reliable tech down here right now. [inaudible] I'll have to figure out how to contain it before it takes all the freezers offline.**

**Umm…**

**Blood supply is still low, but we're running on vapors down here, making it work anyway. It's fog. Heavy in the air. I feel like I'll never be able to smell anything but copper ever again. [inaudible] … too much wild blood in one place.**

**I'm going to talk with Dove about acquiring more freezers.**

**[silence]**

**I had to split the embryo. Kinda did a clone, I guess. There wasn't enough blood to foster Australis up healthy. So I split it. [inaudible] … really gross.**

**I had to split their attributes…so neither will be fully complete. But hopefully they'll live until I can…like, figure something out.**

**[silence]**

**Manus and Sceptrum.**

**[end of transcript]**

COLLIE: Oh, I see...

NARRATOR: Oh, gross.

### Unofficial Speculation/Theories

* Something is stopping technology from working - Only the analog tape recorder works (related to the creation process?)

* First mention of a name, "Dove"

* Lack of blood necessitates the splitting of the embryo into two - Manus (meaning hand/limb below the forearm) and Sceptrum (meaning sceptre in Latin)

* The splitting separates attributes

## Tape 03

### Transcript

**Date of recording: unknown**

**Discovered 28.07.2018 (sc update 0062)**

COLLIE: I guess there's no need to stop there.

NARRATOR: I don't like this, actually.

**… tape three. Winter is dying. Be nice to finally have some heat down here that doesn't reek like copper. The blood room was like a fuckin’ swamp over winter. That stuff just gives off humidity and warmth.**

**Manus and Sceptrum hatched and are thriving decently. Once we have blood good enough, they'll catalyze and be born. Truly, this time.**

**I have Collie taking care of them for now.**

**Manus likes the blood room. I think it knows. Its fate, and purpose. … [inaudible] …**

**[silence]**

**…A and R are getting restless after what happened to B. Poor thing. She’s still in the hospital after … [inaudible] … limbs missing. They want to follow M, but I can't let that happen. The trail has to go cold. If I have to, I'll make Dove see to it. Sounds like something she’d be into.**

**[end of transcript]**

NARRATOR: I REALLY don't like this!

### Unofficial Speculation/Theories

* Manus and Sceptrum, although "hatched", still need to be "born"

* Collie is taking care of them - Possibly Alba and Enca?

* M possibly Mallory?

* B possibly Bunny due to loss of limbs?

## Tape 05

### Transcript

**Date of recording: unknown**

**Discovered: 03.12.2018 (sc update 0068)**

COLLIE: …Yeah, I can’t get #4 to work. Totally busted.

NARRATOR: We already have to skip one, huh?

COLLIE: It’s the air down here, I think. It’s fucking weird. Bad air.

NARRATOR: Yeah, I can’t really see much.

COLLIE: It’s not that bad!

COLLIE: Oh, wait, I think this one works.

**Log tape five.**

**B told me in confidence about what happened to her. She saw a fucking—those idiots—let her see a god damn—…that thing shouldn't have been out of the base to begin with. Am I surrounded by idiots here? Who let one of the big ones out where it was seen? [inaudible] … They killed it, anyway, so I guess cleanup isn't as bad as it could have been. The problem is witnesses.**

**I need to make sure B stays quiet. Problem is, she's not scared of anything anymore.**

**[silence]**

**I think I've figured something out.**

**[end of transcript]**