Cascadia terminal entries

A transcription of terminal entries in Cascadia.

## Southern Gate Terminal

**Location**: This terminal is located by the door of the eastern side of the bridge connecting the two halves of Cascadia.

Due to emergency precautions, the Rizzo Bridge to Success™ has been sealed. For your safety and the safety of others, all access is closed until further notice.

### Enter Access Code

**Note:** This entry only becomes available after reading the entry, "March 11th, 2344", on the Sales Terminal in the back room of the westernmost building in Cascadia.

Access gate unlocked. Please be advised that harm to company assets or personnel as a result of the bridge being opened will be divided and taken from every Cascadia employee's pay.

## Northern Gate Terminal

**Location**: This terminal is located in a booth on the bridge, right next to the elevator leading to Cascadia Bridge Safehouse.

Welcome to Rizzo's Gate Control System!

Chasm generators... 32% capacity

Please select an option:

## Sumner's Terminal

**Location**: This terminal is located in the first room upon entry from the first floor of the Cascadia Bottling Plant in Cascadia.

# Rizzo, Inc. Distributed Messenger Terminals
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Please note that unauthorized access of Rizzo, Inc message content is a felony.

### Public Notice #117

HALCYON HOLDINGS CORPORATE BOARD

PUBLIC NOTICE #117: ON THE ISSUING OF A HAZARD CLAUSE FOR TERRA ONE

This notice, issued on January 12th, 2343, serves as the public denouncement of Terra 1 as a feasible workplace environment.

Due to the hostile and aggressive nature of the wildlife, as well as the unsustainability of its natural flora for use in human consumption, the Halcyon Holdings Corporate Board has officially enacted a Hazard Clause covering the entirety of Terra 1.

After an evacuation period of no more than six (6) months, Terra 1 will be officially considered illegal territory. As this is a unanimous decision, any corporation caught operating on Terra 1 after the evacuation period will face fines and possible disbarment, as defined in Halcyon Code 22.1.

### TO: Theodore, T.; Pauline, B., SUBJECT: Re: re: The Hazard Clause

From: Sumner Z.
To: Theodore T.; Pauline B.
Subject: The Hazard Clause
Date: January 12th, 2343

I've received confirmation that Rizzo will soon abandon Terra 1 with the rest of the corporations. We are expected to maintain our exports until the day we leave.

All teams will continue to operate until told otherwise.

As of this time, I don't see the need to inform anyone outside the three of us of the Board's decision. We don't want our workers thinking they're going to be reassigned. Just let them do what they do best: Their jobs.

Thanks.
# Sumner
From: Theodore T.
To: Sumner Z.; Pauline B.
Subject: Re: The Hazard Clause
Date: January 12th, 2343

Does this change our priorities at all? Should we begin scuttling research and focusing more on the exports?

# Ted
From: Sumner Z.
To: Theodore T.; Pauline B.
Subject: Re: Re: The Hazard Clause
Date: January 12th, 2343

No. We'll hit our export quotas for the next seven months at least. Project Ptero is still our number one priority.

### FROM: Rizzo-Directorate, SUBJECT: Re: Re: Shuttle Redistribution

From: Rizzo-Directorate
To: Sumner Z.
Subject: Shuttle Redistribution
Date: March 7th, 2343

Mr. Ziegler,

We regret to inform you that the shuttles en route to the bottling facility at Cascadia have been re-routed. The evacuation effort is prioritized in order of profitability (measured chiefly by export volume), and as of this time, other facilities have proven themselves either more profitable or more efficient.

The distribution system will send the minimum one (1) shuttle for evacuation purposes. If you have more personnel than can fit on a standard shuttle, Rizzo recommends establishing a priority system so that the loading and preparation of that shuttle can proceed smoothly. Please be advised that any attempt to load more than the maximum amount of human resources onto the shuttle will be met with forceful intervention.

Warm regards,
# Your friends in the Rizzo, Inc. Directorate
From: Sumner Z.
To: Rizzo-Directorate
Subject: Re: Shuttle Redistribution
Date: March 7th, 2343

# What of Project Ptero? Surely it warrants additional resources.
From: Rizzo-Directorate
To: Sumner Z.
Subject: Re: Re: Shuttle Redistribution
Date: March 8th, 2343

Mr. Ziegler,

Research projects are not taken into consideration when calculating the profitability of any given settlement. Project Ptero's importance may place it higher on your priority list, but we are still unable to send more than one (1) shuttle for evacuation. We suggest you balance your resources accordingly.

Warm regards,
Your friends in the Rizzo, Inc. Directorate

### TO: Theodore T,; Pauline B., SUBJECT: Re: Re: Re: Bad news

From: Sumner Z.
To: Theodore T.; Pauline B.
Subject: Bad news
Date: March 8th, 2343

We get one shuttle. By my estimate, the Project Ptero assets, both human and otherwise, will take up approximately two-thirds of our available space. That leaves us and a couple more people we can take with us.

# We need to decide how we're going to decide who else to take. Perhaps a subcommittee to draft a decision-making plan?
From: Theodore T.
To: Sumner Z.; Pauline B.
Subject: Re: Bad news
Date: March 8th, 2343

You know me, Sumner. I love subcommittees. But any decision we make is going to end up with pissed off workers.

# Let's just ride out with the Ptero crew. We'll enjoy a bit of extra leg room. Once we're safe on T2, we can see about getting another shuttle sent out.
From: Pauline B.
To: Sumner Z.; Theodore T.
Subject: Re: Re: Bad news
Date: March 8th, 2343

# Seconded. What will we tell the workers?
From: Sumner Z.
To: Theodore T.; Pauline B.
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Bad news
Date: March 8th, 2343

We tell them that we're going to get them out. They just won't know it'll be one shuttle at a time. It's fine.

DO NOT tell them about the Hazard Clause. Our goal is to get out of here peacefully. No incidents. I don't want panic. I don't want a riot or - Law forbid - a strike. Once we're out, we'll send word back with further plans. Until then, keep this among us.

## HR Terminal

**Location**: This terminal is located on the first floor of the Cascadia Bottling Plant in Cascadia, in a back room.

**Note**: An entry within it is needed to convince Sanjar Nandi to work with Zora Blackwood in the quest Canid's Cradle.

# Executive Reviews

Here to assess your progress? Grab a can of Rizzo's Purpleberry Punch, sit back, and learn how YOU can sweeten your career!

Note: All employee reviews are property of Rizzo. Misuse of data may result in fines, loss of employee perks and negative reviews.

# Executive Review for ZORA BLACKWOOD

Zora is a top-notch sawbones with a good head for working under pressure. She knows how to assimilate large amounts of detailed information to make quick decisions. Her competence and decisiveness have allowed her to restore more than a few limbs and digits lost to carelessness around the machinery.

RECOMMEND FOR EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH

# Executive Review for CECIL MCCLURE

Cecil's enthusiasm for Rizzo's products is unmatched, and he displays an impressive knowledge of company products.

He's exactly the kind of worker we need to keep at our storefronts.

DO NOT PROMOTE BEYOND STORE MANAGER

#### Export Executive Review for BLACKWOOD, ZORA to External Datapad

**Note:** Becomes available after reading entry "Executive Review - BLACKWOOD, ZORA". Gain Zora's Executive Review.

Printing...

Please remove your datapad from the transfer socket.

## Violette's Terminal

**Location**: This terminal is located on the second floor of the Cascadia Bottling Plant in Cascadia.

Welcome to the offices of Rizzo, a wholly-owned subsidiary of East West Company

#### TO: C. McClure

To: Cecil M.
From: Violette H.
Subject: Approved metaphors
Date: April 17th, 2342

Cecil,

I have received multiple complaints about your interactions with customers. According to these reports, the following phrases have been used when describing Rizzo products being sold at your storefront:

- "If that ain't savings, just call me a raptidon [expletive deleted]!"
- "The latest batch is gonna Knock You Out like a nose full of sulfur!"
- "... the north end of a south-bound wooly cow"

These--and others--are not approved metaphors. Please refer to your employee handbook for the list of metaphors allowed when working.

Much obliged,
Violette Humbert
Human Resources Department
Rizzo, Inc.

#### FROM: C. McClure

To: Violette H.
From: Cecil M.
Subject: Violation appeals
Date: June 20th, 2342

Violette,

I have received notices of the following violations:

- Consumption of Non-Approved Lunch Material
- Failure to Volunteer for Voluntary Overtime
- Sale of Restricted Goods

I contest these violations on the following grounds:

- I'm allergic to Purpleberry. Making one of our pre-approved Purpleberry Lunch meals will literally kill me. To be candid, it is a miracle I have lived here this long without incident.
- I can't volunteer for overtime because I've already been assigned overtime shifts!
- OK, I'll fess up to selling restricted goods. You got me there. Selling soap to a man who stinks so bad I can't smell the sulfur around him is
against the rules. Fine. I won't do it anymore.

- Cecil

#### TO: P. Bartleby

To: Pauline B.
From: Violette H.
Subject: Raptidon sightings
Date: September 1st, 2342

Ms. Bartleby,

I am writing to inform you that multiple employees have filed Form R-441, Perceived Danger to Human Resources, through my office.

It appears that raptidon sightings are growing more and more frequent. As Rizzo, Inc. has not responded to our requests for safety equipment, a level of concern and--dare I say it-- restlessness grows among the workers.

Any indication as to the truth of these sightings, or of the rumors that Rizzo, Inc. is no longer supporting our efforts here, would go a long way toward improving company morale.

Thank you,
Violette

#### FROM: Z. Blackwood

To: Violette H.
From: Zora B.
Subject: Simon needs soap
Date: September 17th, 2342

Violette. Please. We are all begging you. For the love of all that is good and just, please let Cecil sell soap to Simon again.

He's got some kind of condition. I don't rightly know what it is. But I've smelled corpses with a finer odor than his.

- Zora

## Cecil's Terminal

**Location:** This terminal is located on the first floor of the building by the door that leads out of Cascadia on the eastern half of the town.

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

Employee (McClure, Cecil]
You have been on shift for [88,536] hours.

You (have) earned a five-minute break.
Why not enjoy a Knock You Out bar?

Main menu

### Supervisor Override

**Note**: This option disappears after the correct password is entered during the quest Space-Crime Continuum.

#### Enter Password: ANTEDILUVIAN

Override accepted. Welcome, doctor.

Activating Backup Generators...
...
...
Enabling Elevator...
...
Opening Secure Door...

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

Password "g[dh09gfiobslz" not recognized.

Please try again.

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

Password "2cqrc[ ga8f9g{A" not recognized.

Do you have the UPPERCASE LOCK key on?

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

Password "w3fbc[#g'AGH" not recognized.

Would you like a hint?

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

HINT: your password is NOT "w3fbc[#g'AGH."

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

Password "80g4AQF8qgcFG-AVP" not recognized.

Would you like to reset your password?

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

In order to reset your password, you must enter your password.

Please enter password.

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

Did you greet the customer by saying:

"Welcome to Rizzo's Sweet Shoppe. We've got your candy handy! How can I sweeten your day?"

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

Have you offered the customer a Slapp?

Sales of Lemon Slapp are down. Remind our customers how refreshing a good Slapp is.

Try saying:

"Thirsty, friend? Nothing beats a zesty Slapp!"

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

Retrieving inventory data...

Error retrieving current inventory.

Transaction cancelled.

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

Please greet the customer using the approved Rizzo Sweet Shoppe greeting.

Have you done so?

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

Reminder: all employees must meet their weekly product recommendation quota.

Records indicate that you have not recommended a product in [3689 days].

Your file has been flagged for performance review.

# Welcome to Rizzo's Point-of-Purchase operating system!

Dark Matter Bar: 0 in stock
Purpleberry Bunch: 0 in stock
Purpleberry Crunch: 0 in stock
Purpleberry Jelly: 0 in stock
Purpleberry Lunch: 0 in stock
Purpleberry Munch: 0 in stock
R&B Tubes: 0 in stock
## Retro Rockets: 0 in stock
Lemon Slapp: 0 in stock
Nanner Spank: 0 in stock
## Purpleberry Punch: 0 in stock
Mock Apple Cider: 0 in stock
Rum and Somethin': 0 in stock
Spectrum Vodka: 0 in stock

## Howard's terminal

**Location**: This terminal is located at the center of the Cascadia Bridge Safehouse.

# Rizzo, Inc. Personal Equipment
This terminal is the sole property of [Buckwalter, H]. Access by any person other than [Buckwalter, H] is unauthorized. Consult your Rizzo employee handbook for the fines corresponding to the unauthorized access of personal-use terminals.

### Journal Entries: Buckwalter, H.

#### Preparations

Dearest Margaret,

I fear that when you wake you'll think I've abandoned you like Rizzo has.

I assure you of the opposite. I have commenced preparations to ensure you and Herbert survive until you are both rescued.

As for myself, I fear the worst. I will make every attempt to survive the coming months, but the bites I suffered while fleeing from the raptidons show no signs of healing.

I can only hope that you wake before I pass, but in the worst case, know that I love you both.

Yours, now and well after my atoms have been consigned to the aether,
Howard

#### Rationing

Dearest Margaret,

Our quarters here may be tiny, but Herbert continues to investigate its every nook and cranny with utter delight. I am pleased to report that he shows no signs of distress following our sojourn into this humble new home.

I have brought with me everything I can take from the surface. Our ex-colleagues continue to try and live above ground, though they have barred the north gate from the encroaching raptidons.

They remain unaware as to the existence of this hideaway, and I aim to keep it so. If they found my store of food, they'd surely seek to divide it amongst themselves.

Recalling my emergency training, though it was years ago, I have managed to secure intubation to sustain you while you sleep so peacefully.

Properly rationed, our supplies here will last some years - surely enough that Rizzo will come to rescue us. At the very least, Herbert shall survive well through his adolescent years - with proper rationing, perhaps even into adulthood.

As for myself, my wounds have begun to smell. Herbert pretends not to notice but the way his nose crinkles reminds me of how you used to laugh.

How he grows with each passing day.

Yours, now and well after my atoms have been consigned to the aether,
Howard

#### Engineering a Mother

Dearest Margaret,

I hope you will not take offense, should you one day wake to find an automechanical preparing Herbert's meals or adjusting your intake tubes.

It has taken quite an effort - and many failures, to which my new burns can attest - to engineer an automechanical to take care of any person, much less one infant and one comatose woman.

With any luck, should the infection in my leg continue to grow, these machines will handily replace my fatherly duties and maintain the loving care required to raise Herbert and nurse you back to health. To my surprise, the cooking model is even capable of limited tutoring services.

Yours, now and well after my atoms have been consigned to the aether,
Howard

#### Underwear

Dearest Margaret,

The automechanicals are working splendidly; their fervor reminds me of my youth, years ago, before I became the exhausted husk I am today.

Part of me is thankful that you cannot see me in such a state, with one useless leg and ominous streaks of black racing along my veins.

I will leave you with a word of advice - in the absence of proper undergarments, I have taught the automechanicals to wash tanned raptidon hides for reuse. With the last vestiges of my strength, I collected a few from the surface.

Should you wake, I beg you: Do not go up there. Remain here until rescued. Our colleagues have perished and only monsters now remain.

Yours, now and well after my atoms have been consigned to the aether,
Howard

### Journal Entries: Buckwalter, D.

#### Letters

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

father insists i practice my letters so here we are

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

#### Rizzo

rizzos purple berry crunch ready to eat

tripicale flakes purple berry flavored power nuggets

rizzos purple berry lunch non organic purpleberries crackers cheese p free nuts

theres always time for purple berry lunch

new

net wt 3 2 oz 90g

rizzos knock you out ccn76 milk chocolate with caramel p free nuts its time for a kyo

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

#### Scythe

today father finally let me use the candy cane

it is called a "scythe"

he showed me how to be safe so i do not burn myself

maybe i can use it to capture another wooly friend and make him proud

#### Father

howard has not moved this morning

his tummy is very still and he is very quiet like mother was when howard took her tubes out and cried all night

i think white hat is my father now

i don't know if it is able to be proud but i will try my best

## Zora's Terminal

**Location**: This terminal is located within the bar located opposite of the Constable building on the western half of Cascadia.

This terminal is the sole property of [BLACKWOOD, Z]. Access by any person other than [BLACKWOOD, Z] is unauthorized. Consult your Rizzo employee handbook for the fines corresponding to the unauthorized access of personal-use terminals.

### Access Journal Entries

Error: Centralized storage is offline. The latest four entries are available below.

### April 27th, 2343

Something stinks about these evac prep procedures. I know the pteros were expensive, but shipping them out of here isn't going to be easy. Even the hunters are recommending we let 'em loose outside the gates.

I don't get why we're taking them with us, anyway. Someone up the chain must really believe in the project.

### April 28th, 2343

I'm copying my meeting notes for posterity. Still can't shake this feeling that they're hiding something.

TOWN MEETING: 4/28/2343
- Sumner: called the meeting to discuss preparations for our imminent departure
- Pauline: platitudes, assurance that nobody is being fired
- Pauline: explains that jobs await us all on terra 2
- Pauline: more platitudes, top management is very pleased with project ptero and wants to ensure its assets are preserved
- C. McClure: so the project isn't being scuttled?
- Sumner: no, just moved off terra 1
- Violette: but how will we transport the pteros
- Ted: hunters will assist us in safely moving them onto the shuttle
- Violette: it was hard enough getting them into the cages in the first place
- Me: what about the raptidons? we've seen more and more around town
- Sumner: assurances that the raptidons are not interested in the pteros
- Me: but the hunters are saying-
- Sumner: no more about the pteros, floor is now open to general questions
- M. Cicero: how many shuttles are incoming?
- Pauline: we don't know. at least one
- Me: one isn't enough for all of us plus the damn pteros
- Sumner: let's worry about that when the evac arrives
- Sumner: looks like we're out of time. thanks for coming, everyone, and keep up the great work

### May 4th, 2343

We're fucked.

Shuttle landed on the pad. We started moving ptero cages. Some of them broke. Birds everywhere. Talons everywhere. Even the clipped ones--turns out they can run. Who knew?

Then the rapts got in. I don't know how. Must be a hole in the wall somewhere. Maybe they can dig. Fuck. They were all over the pteros at first, and then us.

Sumner and the other upper management were already on the shuttle. Rapts got near the pad.

Someone panicked.

They left us.

Void take their black hearts, they left us.

### May 7th, 2343

Got a few homes stabilized, but it isn't going to last. Rapts everywhere. They caught scent of what's in the bottling plant and now they're nesting.

We need to move. Going to have to book it south across the bridge. Cordon off half the town.

I've been trying to hail corporate, but none of my messages are getting through. I don't think help's coming.

Cecil insists corporate wouldn't abandon us, but... I saw that shuttle. There wasn't enough room for us and the birds. Someone up there made a decision and it wasn't for our well-being.

Rotten bastards. I make it out of this mess, I'm coming for them.

## Cascadia Landing Pad Terminal

**Location**: This terminal is located on the Cascadia Landing Pad and can be used to summon the Unreliable.

## Argos Traffic Systems
Status: Operational

Insert Captain's Identification Cartridge to Initiate Remote Landing

## Argos Traffic Systems

Verifying Captain's ID Cartridge....
Verified!

Designated Captain: Hawthorne, A.
Designated Vessel: Unreliable, The

Initiating Remote Landing Protocol....
.....
Confirmation received from Autonomous Digital Astrogator....
.....
Remote Landing Status: Success

## Sales Terminal

**Location**: This terminal is located in the back room of the westernmost building in Cascadia.

# Rizzo, Inc. Point-of-Sale Interface
Authorized users: Cecil McClure; Ira Boyd

Error: Unable to establish connection to Rizzo, Inc. monetary processing. This terminal is now in its default log and message viewing mode.

### February 4th, 2344

Law help me. Help us all.

I saw one. Frothing at the mouth, barely able to string a word or two together. Walking at me as if to devour me whole.

Zora was right. There ARE monsters here. We need to get out if we want to live.

### February 5th, 2344

Cecil -

You aren't insane. They were people once. I don't know what they are now.

- Zora

### March 11th, 2344

Cecil -

These crazy assholes don't know how to use a keypad. I took one from my clinic office and installed it on the bridge gate.

Be safe.

- Zora