Pequod's Terminal Entries

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Pequod's Terminal Entries is a mini-series, a complimation of diaries written by a character that comes from Valenguard, "Pequod". The mini-series takes place inside of an old Valenguard Laboratory, which had been abandoned a year after it had went live. The series is an insight into Valenguard's backstory and what it was like when it was still a small militia, as opposed to the large military it is now. Overtime, Peqoud and his crew become less sane and lose morale, slowly going insane the more they stay in the lab, as they remember what had happened back then.

## Pequod

Pequod himself is an old Valenguard member, having been an attack helicopter pilot for many years of his service in the military. However, he was hand-picked by Valentine to go on this mission, as Valentine felt as if there was only very few people that could go on this mission without instantly backing out. Peqoud thought this was easy at first and had accepted the challenge, his mind having repressed what had went down and he saw it as an old, rundown lab at the time. Until, he came face to face to it.

## The Lab (Station Pi)

The lab, known as Station Pi, was constructed within the first few months of the Military's operation and had been active for an entire year after that. Station Pi had been known as the "Terror Factory" by many and only few were allowed to enter, primarily Valentine and a disbanded Division, known as the "Searchers", a slightly shortened version of researcher.

Station Pi got it's infamous status for being scarring to individuals after rumors started to spread about what went on inside, mechanical horrors, jigsaw-style constraptions, mutations & chemical warfare. However, these were only rumors and what had been going on inside, were much worse.

## Searchers

Searchers was a divison of Valenguard that was disbanded shortly after Station Pi was abandoned, Searchers were responsible for the creation of weaponry and new technology, to stay on top of the food chain of other armies. Due to this, Searchers were responsible for the creation of the first power armor & exo skeleton prototypes, however Power armor came first. Searchers were never a combat unit, but of course, an R&D unit.

## Sanity & The Shadow Realm

Overtime, the squad loses their sanity and cant regain most of it. Squad members have different versions of going insane, whereas pequod slowly gets more and more paranoid & gets panicked more easily. The less sanity the members have, the more "Sightings" and "Paranormal Activities" occour inside of the laboratory. However, what Valenguard never knew is that the Laboratory was built on ground that was partially infected by the shadow realm a long time ago.

These Sightings vary in intensity, from non-lethal "Stalkers" to ones that kill by shutting down the mind entirely. However, none of these creatures are real, they are created by the imagination of the ones that see them, only swayed by the infected air & ground of the shadow realm. Creatures that attack the main characters are also not-real, however the mind sees them as real, being able to deal real damage to the ones that see them, even if others don't see the damage done to the one that saw the creature.

The only way these Phantoms can kill is by dealing damage to the point where the mind itself believes that it's dead, as to which it shuts all of it's systems down completely, stopping the user from breathing, stopping the heart, etc etc, usually leading the user to suffocate & slowly die whilst awake, as the mind only stops one system at first, however shuts all of them down after about a minute, to three minutes at maximum.

## The Terminal Itself

Pequod's Terminal Entries takes place on a downloadable emulator, which the default version can be downloaded from https://zetoris.info/terminal/. However, the Terminal Entries cannot be downloaded at this time, as they aren't fully complete, but will be downloadable once finished. As it is "Pequod's" terminal, the username would be "Pequod".

However, the password itself isn't too hard to guess, but the hacking minigame (set terminal inquire) included can be used to find the password if you are unable to guess.

The "Terminal" is meant to immerse the user in the world itself, to get the user to believe that they are reading the entries of a real person that went through the circumstances that was written. The terminal's backup was uploaded to the Valenguard's server, where only those with Pequod's login can view. The user (you) is seen as a higher-up that has permission to view these files and has permission to use the engineering protocols (hacking minigame).