(no subject)
004409
Four bodies today. The same M.O., skulls crushed, torn limb from limb. Even the skeptics have been won over, and the self-appointed ‘police force’ is talking about taking everything made out of metal into custody.
They’re fools to try. What rogue machine would turn itself in, and why would any machine submit to being dismantled to look for the cause?
There’s more of them than there are of us, now.
004415
Another disappearance. Lockdown. No one to leave the secure zone without armed escort, and no metal allowed in.
Miss Ice Queen claims her security has been compromised. Lev says she’s lying, but he always says that. The machines are still blaming a hypothetical computer virus and saying they “don’t have any logs” of the incidents.
We’re running out of population.
004418
Two bodies, one a patrol guard. Three machines shot to hell. Ice Queen can’t or won’t seal the zones.
004412
Two machines volunteered to be experimented on and dismantled today. They asked us to “spare the others” until a cure can be found.
What a crock of shit.
Lev's pet redhead keeps trying to mediate. Wants to be present for the experiments, says he can do anything our scientists can without dismantling the subject. He appealed to Hypatia for permission to come up to the station.
The tunnel rats locked him up for it.
We're on our own for this.
004413
The human-looking ones even bleed. Cogs and wires and blood fucking everywhere.
The science guys didn’t find any virus or evidence of tampering. Go fucking figure, when you shoot the ‘patient’ in the face the second he walks into the room. Not much left to sift through for evidence.
Some experiments.
The others are talking about a last resort. The Resistance says there's only one way to be certain. They still think Hypatia is behind it, some kind of machine conspiracy.
They're offering an EMP.
004417
The date is set.
The tunnel rats were persuasive. Of course they were, they want volunteers for their war. They said metal killed those people, metal can’t be suffered to live, by the way you guys should sign up with us when you’re done.
The redhead called us a lynch mob. But he’s not up here losing friends to things that go clank in the night. We didn't ask for this.
We’ve been crammed in this bunker for three weeks. It’s us or them, and we can’t live like this.
004427
They’re dead.
Melted down, every last one. The last few were hiding in the gardens.
No more gardens.
Hypatia didn’t comment, for once.
This city is a no metal zone, now. Anything that boards the station without flesh won’t be staying long.
004434
Lights didn’t turn on today. Think someone’s pissed at us. Or she’s mourning the dead metal we poured all over her streets.
004435
Back up systems seem to be running, but this is fucking ridiculous. You can see your breath steam. There's something wrong with the gravity, too.
I'd say we were being spanked, but there's been no word from her.
004436
Something’s in the city. It got past the guards at Zone 00, no one knows how, but they’re dead and Ice Queen is AWOL and the Resistance isn’t picking up the goddamn phones. We’re back in the bunkers and there’s something in here with us.
004439
Lost contact with the other group. Fifteen left.
They look human, but they’re not. They wear masks. They fucking eat people.
We’ve been quarantined. The tunnel rats are just going to leave us up here.
004441
Nine left.
004442
Five left.
004443
Three.
004444
They’re outside the door.