1st Audio Diary: Surfacing

[raptureblues]

[There's a bewildered laugh, when Grace finally manages to figure out how to work the audio. Her voice sounds considerably older than most you've heard here, smooth, slow and smoky, a St. Louis drawl. Here is a woman who takes her sweet time with words...with an austere sincerity.]

Seems audio recording has come an awful long way up here on the

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[happenagain]

...It can't be. Aunt Gracie? Is that you?

[raptureblues]

Eleanor...

No, it can't be...

Miss Eleanor Lamb?! My little lamb! Oh glory...Child, I thought I'd never hear from you-

What's gone on, Ellie? What are we doing up here?

[happenagain]

It is you. Oh, I can't believe it. You and Father are both-

We're in a place called World's End. I'm not sure where it is - nowhere in the Atlantic - and things aren't adding up.

Where are you? Are you all right?

[raptureblues]

Father? You mean him. So he did find you! ...Hnh. That big Delta Daddy of yours come and tear you right from your mother's arms?

Still not convinced this isn't some fool-dream. How many nights have I laid up wondering how you've grown, how your recovery's been going...

This could be some mad old fever dream. I've had quite the day.

I'm by the shore, honey. Watching the sun sink. Set up on a rock, waiting for the tide to slip out. Dropped my cane, and these critters rolling in the surf don't look none too friendly.

[thinkin_man]

..Ms. Holloway?

Just how many of us are they taking here?

[raptureblues]

I thought you were movin' on, Delta-man. On out of my life.

[thinkin_man]

Not calling me monster anymore?

I did move on. Then I was..brought here, by something or someone.

[raptureblues]

You gonna give me another reason to?

Funny shakes, Tin Daddy. Suspicious...but I'll take your word.

[dragon_savior]

You and Atlas are from the same place?

How did so many people come to live under the ocean?

[raptureblues]

Atlas...where'd you hear that name, son?

I've come up from Rapture. City down under the water, miles down. A whole city! Though it didn't turn out all the best shape it was intended to be.

[dragon_savior]

Another new arrival, calling himself Atlas. Is he a friend of yours?

I've been on the road a long time, walked through a volcano, fell down a mountain, but I've never seen an entire city underwater!

[raptureblues]

Atlas was a man fixing to organize the people...but he died, they say, sometime around the same time Tyrant Ryan bit it.

It was something of a hush hush project. Private invitations, the brightest and the best. Middle of the sea. Like Atlantis! Lots of people hearing rumors set out lookin' for it, back in the early days.

[vaultpaladin]

You okay?

[raptureblues]

Should be fine in time, just...getting my bearings. Are you a local here?

[vaultpaladin]

That's right. I'm Evelynn. Eve for short, if you'd like. I can tell you where to go, if you're stuck outside. Are you safe?

[raptureblues]

Eve...do you mind if I use Evelynn, all the same? That's a beautiful name.

Safe? This place seems safer than my own neighborhood. If you can just point me in the right direction?

[withoutsorrow]

Life without sun? Dear woman, under what mountain did you live?

[raptureblues]

You mean what ocean, son.

[withoutsorrow]

The ocean~! Now that is better, or more fascinating, I think, and a better place to be if one must be in a place without sun! What kind of life is it, ma'am, in the briny deep? A sailor must ask!

[raptureblues]

Guess you never heard rumor about Rapture, huh? Andrew Ryan's pipe dream?