(TENTATIVE) SINGULARITY DEAD SPACE / SHODAN EVENT TIMELINE
MARCH 3 - Dead Space portion of the event begins.
"Something big has dropped into Zone 0. It’s a small section of a ship, badly damaged, the inside almost completely inaccessible. Amongst the other debris, it probably hardly would be of any note, but it’s what’s inside it that makes it different: a Marker. A huge, alien monolith covered in symbols. These markings are DNA and anyone who decodes the symbols would realize it’s apparently ‘human’ DNA. However, the Marker also broadcasts a ‘pulse’ code that is also DNA. This is a different DNA pattern than what is etched on it, and is necromorph DNA. This pulse can be detected by most geological recorders/machinery.
As it begins to pulse, it drags Hypatia’s attention to it; the pulse does not undetected by her systems. Curiosity has gotten the better of her, and she’s salvaged the Marker and brought the monolith to a research facility in Zone 08 for further study.
Starting 03/03, the pulse begins to strengthen enough to be felt by characters."
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DEAD SPACE EVENT)
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MARCH 3 - THURSDAY
Garrus Vakarian (
Normandy Channel; Audio), Soundwave (
VOICE), and Obi-Wan Kenobi (
hologram;) all note a sense of unease.
Vriska Serket ever-so-subtly loses her shit in public, which prompts Sollux Captor, Obi-Wan, and Three-Eight to go investigate. They manage to get John Egbert out while Vriska makes a break for it through the back door. (
[CLOSED] > John and Vriska: Hallucin8)
Michael Altman recognizes the source of all the batshit and flips out, drawing attention to it. (
VIDEO)
Commander Jane Shepard identifies the location of the Marker and sends Zaeed Massani in to scout it out. Kasumi Goto goes with him. (
Video; encrypted)
After an hour, Zaeed returns from checking out the Marker, completely loses his shit, and kills Garrus Vakarian. (
[ CLOSED ])
HALO cast is already on that shit: Carter and Kat go to investigate the Marker. Complete mindfuck ensues: Carter attacks Kat and ends up shooting himself instead of injecting himself with a sedative like he thought he was. Noble Six and Seven lead the Spartans while they wait for him to respawn (
[ CLOSED ])
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SHODAN realizes that Hypatia is preoccupied with studying the Marker, which leaves her defenses lowered. She disguises herself as Janice Polito and enlists Sarah Connor's help in liberating an entire sector from Hypatia's control. (
2:\POLITO\100% ENCRYPTION\PRIVATE TO SARAH CONNOR)
Sarah is paranoid about being followed, however, and takes a side-trip into Zone 08 to throw anyone off her trail. This leads to crazy fun-times where she hallucinates seeing Kyle Reese alive. (
Video; unfiltered)
T-800 steals Freelancer York's armor (and intelligence program Delta), and poses as him in order to get close to her before snapping her neck to induce a reset, because if she passed through any more teleporters, her Marker-affected condition would have been saved. John Connor sees this and promptly flips the fuck out. The Terminator sends Delta and the armor through a teleporter so York can recover it. He also retrieves Sarah's body. (
[ CLOSED ])
Sarah loses two hours before finally meeting up with SHODAN. After they break into Zone 07, SHODAN betrays Sarah, and assumes direct control of Stross. Sarah is understandably pissed, and despite busting a cap into the ass of everything that moves, she is eventually overwhelmed.
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MARCH 4 - FRIDAY
RED Medic (
Zwei [voice]) and Marjorie Pots (
voice;) feel unwell.
Thane Krios begins to see his dead wife but uses his eidetic memory remind himself that she's actually gone in order to combat the hallucinations. (
Audio)
The Lone Wanderer becomes paranoid and shoots an unidentified creature on camera. (
video ☢ 3).
Kasumi records footage of the marker and begins to hallucinate Keiji. Shepard requests a copy and resolves to get this shit done herself because obviously her team is completely FUBARed. (
[ video : failed Normandy encryption])
Samus Aran, Jack Spicer, and Shockwave investigate Zone 08. (
Investigating! Investigating This, Investigating That ... [OPEN])
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SHODAN invites CLU 2.0, GLaDOS, HAL 9000, and 686 Ebullient Prism to join her crazy AI party. All but Prism accept; he has his own facility in Zone 01. She also asks Sollux Captor for his help in "a little programming project" of hers. (
1:\SHODAN\HOLOGRAM)
Sollux leaves a message to his housemates that he might be gone for a while before going to meet SHODAN. (
[text] 05.1 | you just seemed like the right one to talk to about it)
Once there, body horror and brainwashing ensue, and he becomes her system administrator. (
subthread in [SEMI-OPEN] listen to the mission, i'm telling the tradition)
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MARCH 5 - SATURDAY
Shepard posts a message to the network ordering people to shoot Zaeed on sight. (
Video.)
Garrus fondly regards his own corpse before heading up to the roof, where he is approached by a delusion of Shepard from before the Collector attack. He is convinced the Shepard he's been with for the past few months is just a Cerberus clone. (
I just can't get you out of my mind.)
Later, real Shepard takes Kaidan Alenko and Garrus with her to Zone 08. Garrus begins to flip out, Kaidan WTFs, and Shepard can't bring herself to shoot him and sends him back to the base. (
Video, Encrypted 90%.)
A few hours after returning to the base, Garrus puts a gun under his chin and pulls the trigger. Shepard hallucinates him speaking to her and abandons her wearable. (
video; I know, I know I've let you down...)
Jun also begins to see dead people from his childhood. (
Accidental Audio)
Twosix-six, like so many others on the station, is affected by the marker. He declares there's been an outbreak and that the area needs to be quarantined (
video)
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SHODAN lures Grid and RC-1138 to Zone 07. (
1:\SHODAN\VOICE\)
HAL quietly and ever-so-politely takes the crazy train to Jupiter. (
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS)
Bro Strider, TV Motoko Kusanagi, and Geordi La Forge all arrive in GLaDOS' shiny new Testing Facility. Arkady shows up some time later as well. Bro and Motoko eventually escape; he ends up captured again by CLU while she makes her way to SHODAN. (
Welcome To The Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center (OPEN))
CLU begins partying like it's 1989. He creeps on Kevin Flynn and throws bitchfits until Flynn Zen-ninjas him into behaving himself. Kaylee Frye, Pyro, Lavernius Tucker and Junior, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Samus Aran, Freelancer Agent Washington and Epsilon, and Toothless are kidnapped there. (
[MOSTLY.OPEN] We Built this City on Rock 'n' Roll)
Alec Hardison realizes something is going down in Zone 07. He, Edward Dillinger, and movie Motoko Kusanagi make plans to check it out. He also shares a touching moment with Parker, if by touching I really mean awkward and adorable. Awkardorable. (
Webcam up in here.)
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MARCH 7 - MONDAY
Legion realizes several of its subroutines have been compromised and requests assistance. GLaDOS offers to help. (
AUDIO | GETH ENCRYTION 100% FROM NORMANDY CREW)
Private O'Brien also begins hallucinating and threatens to shoot anyone who comes near him. (
video)
Shockwave asks if anyone has found a way to deal with the headaches caused by the Marker. (
☢ VOICE)
Atlas quietly begins following the example of so many others on the station and loses his shit, activating Code Yellow on Jack Ryan and killing him. (
[AUDIO])
TV Motoko approaches Thane, who sees her as his dead wife. She leads him into Zone 07 to get his lungs replaced to cure his Kepral's Syndrome. He is also changed to be no longer affected by the Marker's influence. (
a surgerical task)
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TV Motoko arrives in SHODAN's lair and agrees to work for her. (
Monday Evening subthread in [SEMI-OPEN] listen to the mission, i'm telling the tradition)
Davesprite flies over Zone 07 and heads down to investigate, only to be caged. Sollux begins hacking him, and SHODAN finishes by ripping out his heart, tearing through his Sburb programming, and repurposing him into her loyal Knight. (
Monday? subthread in [SEMI-OPEN] listen to the mission, i'm telling the tradition)
Batou notices she has dropped into autistic mode and alerts movie Motoko. (
[audio, Cybercomm])
John Egbert proposes that everyone work as a team, because shit is getting real. (
John Egbert ≈ Third Windy Thing ≈ [AUDIO] [NO ENCRYPTION, DIS* FILTER])
Pino calls for help, but the interference from Zone 07 makes her message garbled. (
004: [video] margin of error / lockdown)
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MARCH 8 - TUESDAY
Shepard heads to Zone 08 to study the Marker. Garrus tries to convince her to commit suicide. Later, Thane comes to escort her back to Normandy Haus. Shepard dies shortly after she goes to sleep, and her corpse mutates into a necromorph. It attacks Thane when he returns to check in on her, and he traps it under a bed frame before escaping. (
Sitting in the dark. [OPEN])
Kat completely and utterly loses her shit. She writes about Convergence in her own blood and literally punches Jun's face in, killing him. (
[ SEMI - CLOSED ])
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Eleanor Lamb arrives in Zone 07. SHODAN attempts to capture her and is thwarted by Eleanor's teleportation powers until she is finally shot with a tranquilizer dart (
Tuesday Morning? subthread in [SEMI-OPEN] listen to the mission, i'm telling the tradition).
Vriska has another 8r8k breakdown over the network, convinced that her spider lusus is going to eat her if she falls asleep. She calls Davesprite for help. (
> Vriska: 8r8k down.)
Dave leads her straight to SHODAN, and she does not handle it well at all. Dave winds up hacking her arm off and SHODAN alters her body to be have eight limbs and eyes while trying to break into her mind. Vriska resists by manipulating herself and ultimately escapes by committing suicide (
Tuesday subthread in [SEMI-OPEN] listen to the mission, i'm telling the tradition).
Sollux checks in on Dave, and they discuss getting Davesprite a new body. He also tells Terezi they need to talk and invites her to Zone 07 (
[text] 5.2 | 222222222222222222222222222222).
Once she's there, he tells her he has something to show her and lures her into one of the labs. Sollux draws her into cyberspace so she won't feel pain while SHODAN modifies her body to be like that of a dragon. (
subthread in [SEMI-OPEN] listen to the mission, i'm telling the tradition)
SHODAN pretends to be Nepeta and sends a message to Equius telling him to come to Stross. He is infected by a parasite worm, bisected, and outfitted with robohorse legs. (
So late, Tuesday night? subthread in [SEMI-OPEN] listen to the mission, i'm telling the tradition)
Sarah wanders Zone 07. She has some degree of autonomy, though the nanites infecting her body prevent her from leaving or fighting. Sollux makes contact with her. Delta helps lessen SHODAN's influence over her, but he is unable to completely free her before being detected. (
LOG)
Edward Dillinger asks if anyone has seen Sam Flynn. (
> 02_ [ text/audio > open access ])
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MARCH 9 - WEDNESDAY
John Connor makes a post to the network asking if anyone has seen York, still thinking he was the one who killed Sarah. York and Delta explain that it was actually T-800 in the armor, and John goes to confront his robobuddy about what happened. (
[Audio])
Now out of surgery, Thane warns the network to stay the fuck out of Zones 07 and 08. (
[VOICE])
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Kanaya assembles the residents of the treehive in Zone 14 for an emergency meeting to discuss the whereabouts of their friends. (
When you made me feel joy it made you smile)
Davesprite and Sollux hang out. Both confess to feeling unsettled by something, though neither of them are able to pinpoint the source of their worry. (
[CLOSED])
SHODAN lures Eridan Ampora in Zone 07 as a "present" to her herald. Sollux tortures Eridan, cutting off his face fins and sewing his gills shut. (
NETWORK POST: PRIVATE TO ERIDAN AMPORA, 100% encrypted subthread in [SEMI-OPEN] listen to the mission, i'm telling the tradition)
Sollux eventually loses it and posts a warning that Zone 07 is on lockdown. (
[text] 5.3 | 00000000000000000000000000000000000000_0)
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MARCH 10 - THURSDAY
Thane flips punches tables and requests assistance in dealing with necromorph!Shepard. Snapping its neck and shooting it does nothing. Isaac Clarke advises him to dismember it. (
[VIDEO])
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Edward Dillinger searches for volunteers to infiltrate Zone 07. A LOT OF PEOPLE SIGN UP. (
> 03_ [ text > encrypted away from all Zone 07 transmission signals: 100% ])
Dave breaks into Zone 07 on his own to get Sollux out and gets infected by a parasite worm. Feeling him through the hivemind wakes Sollux up, and he directs Dave to where his physical body is being cyborgified. Once free, he removes the parasite worm from Dave, but not before he has already grown a horn, gills, and fangs. (
locked to dave)
Once they're out of Stross, they post a warning for everyone to stay out of there. Trollkids, for the most part, flip the fuck out. (
joint; audio/video; filtered from zone 7 residents, 100%; escape)
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MARCH 11 - FRIDAY
Commander Jamison Shepard publicly PTSDs on camera. (
Video [Normandy Encryption, 20%])
Arkady psychically screams in the minds of everyone aboard the station and Spartan-naps Thom. (
[Video/Action] 02)
EDI advises the residents of Normandy Haus to return to the base and locks everyone in. She also banishes Joker to the couch. (
audio, open; (both Network and Normandy channel))
Noble Six demonstrates on camera why you do not fuck with Spartans and asks for the location of her teammates. (
[Video/Action] 02)
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Vriska respawns and announces her triumphant return. She is invited to go live at the Strider pad until the business in Zone 08 blows over. Once there, she honksmooches engages in an interspecies cultural exchange with Dave. Unbeknownst to either of them, John sees the entire thing. SHIT GETS UNBELIEVABLY AWKWARD. Also, Davesprite creeps all over her and Sollux, wanting to bring them back to SHODAN. (
[AUDIO] > Vriska: Regener8!)
Terezi becomes the dragon-cyborg equivalent of That One Guy (YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT) who suddenly gets fanatically religious and then starts trying to convert all her friends. ALSO AWKWARD. (
[private text(s) | 006 | SHODAN encryption])
Feferi Solid Snakes her way into SHODAN's lair and busts Eridan out. (
Feferi and Eridan subthread in [SEMI-OPEN] HERE IN ROBOT HELL)
Not long after dropping him off somewhere safe, Feferi returns to see if she can find any more of her friends and promptly runs into Terezi. Terezi gets knocked out in the ensuing fight and gets dragged off to Sollux to remove the brainwashing. (
Terezi and Feferi subthread in [SEMI-OPEN] HERE IN ROBOT HELL)
Team Rescue busts onto the Grid to kick ass and chew bubblegum rescue prisoners. Kickassery ensues. Presumably, everything that occurs here takes place all on the same day. (
░▒ [ SEMI-OPEN ] ▓ INVADERS MUST DIE ░▒▓█▛▟▛▙▚▞▗ ▘)
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MARCH 12 - SATURDAY
Shepard's necromorph eventually works its way out from under the bed frame and escapes into the vents. Too bad those things are Thane and Parker's natural habitat. (
A series of unfortunate vents. (Open))
Alejandro roasts several necromorphs with his flamethrower arm, officially establishing his position as the coolest cyborg ever. (
[VIDEO])
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CLU and Rinzler recover from their smackdown; creepy fluff shenanigans ensue. (REMEMBER TO UPDATE SUMMARY AS LOG CONTINUES.) (
THE.SUN.ALSO.RISE [CLOSED])
BLUE YOU ARE A LOVELY PERSON FOR GIVING ME A DEFINITE DATE FOR THIS LOG, BRB SOBBING WITH HAPPINESS AND JOY
MARCH 13
Prism flips out and announces the entire station will be purged to contain a Flood infection. Raptor Red and T-800 are ordered to clear their areas. (
✖ AUDIO » 010)
Jun respawns. With cat eyes. (
video :: Encrypted to Carter and Thom, 65%)
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Davesprite asks when Sollux is coming "home." (
[TEXT])
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MARCH 14
Freelancer Agent Maine dies on camera. (
video :: someone grab the popcorn!)
Axel has no idea what the fuck is going on anymore. At this point, neither do I. (
AUDIO;)
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Davesprite, now free from SHODAN's brainwashing, reemphasizes the importance of staying away from Zone 07. He and Vriska confirm their romance as moirails. (
Text.)
Bro, now free from GLaDOS and CLU's fuckery, asks what the fuck happened to his kids. Striderpad braces for impact. (
6th Beat [voice])
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MARCH 15 - TUESDAY
Thane casually shows off his latest kill streak, courtesy of the buzzsaw strapped to his arm. He offers to help Noble Six. (
[VIDEO])
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Jack Wyland, Cindy Meltzer, John 117, and Subject Delta bust into the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center to rescue Geordi La Forge and Eleanor Lamb.
Your specimen has been processed. (Closed))
Rose Lalonde realizes death isn't that big a deal on the space station and offers to glub about feelings in the horn pile have a hardcore feelings jam be there and listen to both Daves, if they want. (
Second Stitch [Audio])
Equius warns people away from Zone 07, despairs over his candy red blood, and wants to know where he can find a new pair of sunglasses. This guy's priorities are clearly in order. (
002 | Text -> Video)