Authority
- S S Yashvanti Soyhas quoted5 years ago
The Southern Reach called the last expedition the twelfth, but Control had counted the rings, and it was actually the thirty-eighth iteration, including six “eleventh” expeditions. - Krestik _has quoted3 months ago
until now it was simply known as Island X at the Southern Reach, although some called it “Island Y,” as in “Why are we bothering to research this?” - Krestik _has quoted3 months agoWhat kind of psycho gave a kid a gun, even unloaded? This was the thought that occurred now. Perhaps the kind of psycho who wouldn’t mind coming out of retirement at his remote cabin to work for Central again as the Voice, to run his own grandson.
Oooh
- Krestik _has quoted3 months agothe end of their conversation, for no good reason, he told a joke. “What’s brown and sticky?”
“I know that one,” the Voice said. “A stick.”
“A turd.”
Click.lol what? XD when people are at their wits end they sometimes become a child.
- Krestik _has quoted3 months agowith each item the security clearance fluctuated from secret to top secret to what-the-fuck-is-this-secret
- Krestik _has quoted3 months agoShe smiled at him. A genuine smile. He could tell the difference, having suffered so many times under the dull yellow glow of a fake one that tried to reheat his love for her. When she really smiled, when she meant it, his mother’s face took on a kind of beauty that surprised anyone who saw it, as if she’d been hiding her true self behind a mask.
- Krestik _has quoted3 months agojust evaporated into their constituent atoms, possibly returned to their most primeval state in agonizing pain.
I think even if that happened, judging from the footage the disappearance happened extremely fast, so they probably dies so fast that their brain could even register any pain.
- Krestik _has quoted3 months agoBut mostly because the Southern Reach had sent expedition after expedition in through a door they hadn’t created, into God knew what—hoping that everything would be all right, that they would come home,
Trial and error. That’s what you do if you are at the end of your knowledge. Just go for it and test things out and hope for the best. That’s how most scientific breakthroughs happened dude. Many scientists died for answers.
- Krestik _has quoted3 months agowhat I mean is—there’s no evidence that the … presence … in Area X also generated the border.”
Maybe something is trying to shield humans from destruction of the something that is changing organisms in Area X. So we have two extraterrestrial forces that came to earth with two different goals/behaviours. A nice theory.
- Krestik _has quoted3 months agoThe Voice was, as ever, gruff and disguised by a filter. Disguised purely for security or because Control might recognize it?
Hmmm not him talking about his mother and then wondering if the voice might be hide their identity bc of him… so is it his mother who sent him there to report back to her? In wouldn’t be surprised. From what I understand of her, her career/passion is more important to her than family/any sentiments
