[IC] Bioshock - Left Behind

[Myst]

Maya - Medical Pavilion - Splicers / Bart

The girl turned away from the window. She had been watching the sea life swim by, sometimes seeing a massive shark. But it didn't pay to watch the scenery too long in Rapture. The great underwater city was a city of death and horror. If you didn't understand that, you didn't last long.
She heard the lunatic screams of a female splicer and shrugged. Picking up a piece of pipe, she readied herself. Scavenging wasn't easy, especially in the Medical Pavilion. That crazy doctor's patients and coworkers were still running around. A few even had grenades which they tossed around like confetti-

BOOM

Like that.
Maya sighed and rolled her eyes. At least she could tell when they were coming.
Sure enough, one of the crazy freaks came around the corner and spotted her. He shouted something at her she didn't even try to understand anymore. He tossed one of his grenades at her, but she dived behind and counter and avoided the debris as it went off. She heard him coming and pulled out her knife. She wasn't going to waste the little ammo she had on this guy.
Before she could even move to attack she heard a loud groan and the splicer start choking. Smiling, she came out from under the counter to see a Big Daddy choking the life from her would-be attacker. When his face turned purple the Big Daddy threw him across the room, slamming him into a wall. He slid to the floor and didn't move.
"Thanks Bart," she said, patting the old Big Daddy on the arm. He made a noise that she always assumed was a hum of approval and the color of the lights on his helmet when from angry red to neutral yellow.

While he kept watch Maya examined the grenade box the splicer had been carrying. It didn't have much in it : two grenades, some chips and a few dollars. She could use the money in a vending machine for some food she supposed. She'd add it to her stash.

The odd pair headed out of the Medical Pavilion, the giant metal man lumbering slowly behind her. Several splicers saw them, but didn't dare attack the girl. They didn't want to risk the wrath of a Big Daddy, especially one with a large drill for an arm.
Maya stopped along their path and Bart stopped with her, waiting patiently. Pulling out her knife, Maya did what she always did when she left an area : she scratched a message into the wall.
She had left the same message her multiple times so she just deepened the words so that anyone who came across them knew they were fresh. She didn't know why she left the message. Maybe a feeble hope that some day someone who wasn't a crazy spliced up psycho would see them and find her. A cured Little Sister perhaps, or maybe someone who was like her, struggling to survive down here. Someone she hadn't come across yet. Either way, it was a habit now. One that she hoped would pay off one day.

The message:

I AM ALIVE
- M

[Myst]

EDITED
DOUBLE POST

[Voltus_Ventus]

Archibald - Kashmir Restaurant - Brenda and Charlie's body

Quiet. The only sounds that could be heard were the light groans of old metal and the spinning of a film camera's tape, 'remarkable' thought Arch to himself as he slowly panned the camera across the large atrium showing it in all it's decayed glory. Bringing the camera to look at the ceiling he let out a shuddering breath, 'beautiful', the roof was made out of three large glass arches giving him a view of the ocean above and the impossibly tall skyscrapers. He switched the camera to picture mode by pushing a button and slipped it back into a satchel, looking to his right he saw a large neon light that made him squint, it's harsh light stinging his eyes.
"Kashmir Restaurant," he mumbled to himself as he approached the door, "why not?", he approached the door casually and walked through as it hissed open, amazed that they still functioned after so long in dormancy -it's long sleep evident by the light coat of dust. In front of him was a dimly lit room, one side of exposed to the large atrium by a balcony, in front of him was a what must have been a cashier's desk, the register sitting there open. Archy being an "opportunist" decided to check it's contence, "empty," he grumbled to himself, moving past it. He approached the corner of the room where there was a table, a bottle of whiskey sat on top of it, he reached for the bottle of alcohol and picked it up, bring it to his lips so he could savor the golden liquid.
"Charlie!", Arch dropped the bottle fright, the shrill voice echoed through the room making it sound even more terrifying, He slipped his hand into his coat and pulled out his revolver, moving ti the source of the sound and more sobbing. "Why did you make me do it, Charlie?" the screechy female voice sighed as Archibald approached the stairs from where the voice echoed up from. In the voice arch could detect the accent that can be easily pinned on someone from new jersey, he moved to face the stairway and saw it at the bottom of the stairs before he could even raise his gun the thing had it's up first, "drop it, Fresh Meat!" she barked snapping her cat masked face to him. Archy didn't need to be told twice, he dropped the pistol and put his hands up in submittion, "who the hell are ya?"
"Names Archibald," he called down the stairs as he slowly made his way down, step by step, "Archibald Fell.", she raised her gun more menacingly this time.
"what's in the bag," she spat, resting the body she was cradling gently on the floor, "Archibald?" she said his name with spite as she moved up the stairs, dropping her gun and picking up a crowbar to replace it. She came up to him until they were inches away from eachother, raising her Melee weapon she gently brushed it against his cheek, "is it something for me?", she cracked a smile that showed an intense lunacy, magnified by the dilation of her eyes.
"i-it's me camera, m-miss." he squeaked as he leaned as far away from her as was possible without falling down. Her eyes seemed to lose some insanity when Archy said camera and her terrifying smile turned into a slightly expression.
"Can I see it?", Arch nodded slightly and opened his satchel, pulling the camera out slowly and handing it to her, "wow..." was all she muttered before she bolted down the stairs and out of sight.
"Hey!" he called after her, running down the stairs and almost slipping, "where ya going?!", he took a hard right and found her sitting on the floor at the far end of the room, leaning against the glass window. He went towards her and was about to demand his camera back when she grabbed his hand and pulled him to the floor, making him think his head on the glass.
"how does it work?" she asked the question before Arch could protest and suddenly he found himself with the unnatural urge to want to explain, so he did. After an hour or so he had exhausted his fount of knowledge and they just sat there, in awkward silence, "can you take pictures of me?", at first he was shocked at the question then a smile crept on to his face, 'this us a good opportunity to get dome good shots of raptures inhabitants' he told himself as he stood up and switched his camera on.
"certainly, miss.", she got off the ground and leaned against the glass window and smiled, this time a less creepy smile, he snapped the photo and she proceeded to a bar counter and sat on top with her legs crossed, giving a softer less toothy smile. Minute after minute passed and the pictures became funnier and more playful and they started to laugh and swap turns being pictured, enjoying each second of it.
"I got to thank you Fresh M- Arch, you do know how to have a good time." she said as he started to pack up his camera, "I guess I owe you something in return," she ran off into what must gave been the kitchen and brought something back with her and handed it over to him, "it's a radio thing," she explained "you can use it to talk to other people around the city, he looked down at it and looked up and was startled to see no one there.
"thank you!" he called out to the empty room, still bewildered on where she went.

[Jangel13]

Angelo Ortega-lighthouse 26-bathasphere

Angelo was getting transported to a lighthouse off the pacific ocean. Angelo was a great mechanic and he was recognized as such by the state and as a result he was told he would be fixing an important lighthouse in the ocean, obviously Angelo was hesitant in doing so but they pushed his buttons saying he was to young for the job and of course Angelo felt he needed to prove he was just as good if not better then any federal mechanic. Angelo was being dropped off by a speed boat and all his repair supplies were in the bag next to him they kept saying that their was a problem with both its bulb and its support in the oceans current so he needed to work on a way to keep it afloat so he needed to go to its basement and check to see if the water was going in.

Once Angelo got onto its small dock which in reality was just some wood going out towards the sea from the stairs leading inside the lighthouse he started walking inside seeing the large metal doors and at first Angelo knocked then it just creepily opened "ah now this is classic" Angelo said softly sighing a little as he took out his shotgun from his bag obviously being suspicious of whatever was in the shadows he started walking up the stairs to the top of the lighthouse and he was seeing some memorabilia about a place of freedom and where all men were left to their own devices, obviously Angelo couldn't care less as long as he did his job. Angelo got to the top and he found the light bulb not shinning in the sky so he found the fuse box nearby and he changed a few wires and turned on the power to the entire lighthouse and Angelo believed they just sent him to do an idiots job.

Angelo soon went all the way back down towards the basement and Angelo could see a submarine or some sort of sphere in a small pool, obviously this lighthouse was used for more then just lighting a way for the ships that would pass and was probably used by divers in the 70s considering how old it looked. Angelo looked around and used some plastering mold on the walls where it sprung a leak and Angelo curiosity got to him since it seemed so old it may be a good relic to take to a museum. Angelo walked into the bathosphere and saw it close behind him Angelo tried to get out but then it did a scan and it said unidentified user, unidentified user Angelo thought that seemed pretty advanced for something so old so Angelo walked to a small panel and Angelo started to twist some wires and it did a scan again and this time said welcome Mr. fontaine please enjoy the ride Angelo said "what the hell I wanted you to let me out!" Angelo groaned but sat down as the bathosphere started to take him down where Angelo started to see a city at the bottom of the sea...

[Myst]

First Recording

[Jangel13]

Angelo Ortega-bathosphere docking station-audio log

Angelo looked out to the sea bottom seeing the beautiful rapture the sea shinning off the city was a beautiful sight. Angelo looked at one of the tubes that he thought are very good highways considering they were underwater and Angelo saw some weird abominations with masks and bleeding like crazy from their masks, they started to shoot each other and Angelo passed by them before he could see the outcome but Angelo foolishly thought it was just a civil dispute when he doesn't realize, nothing is civil in rapture. Angelo watched as he started to go inside a docking station seeing the welcome to rapture [i] Rapture? who would name a place after the end of the world? who would make a place with such mechanical prowess?[/b] Angelo wondered thinking that this was an engineers dream.

Angelo soon got docked seeing some of the abominations passing by the docking area not really looking like they even noticed Angelo and Angelo waited till they passed before he got up and forced the hatch open with only the sound of the air releasing the latch. Angelo knew he had to find information about this place and Angelo looked around seeing what looked like an old recording so Angelo played it...... he heard what he thought was a woman's voice and Angelo could only wonder what this Adam was and was everything in here insane in some way? So Angelo couldn't trust anyone and apparently this place must be a real rapture for it to fall. Still this was Angelo only lead so Angelo needed to find this girl who he can only hope is still alive and will help him get back out and report this to the real world....

[Phloem]

Silas Hope - Pauper's Drop - Splicer's Corpse

"Well, hello, beautiful."

A dead Splicer was sprawled on the ground; in perfect condition apart from the caved-in skull. Kneeling down beside the cadaver, Silas retrieved a set surgical tools from his leather knapsack. He didn't bring everything along, of course, wandering around Rapture with numerous jangling test tubes and pipettes was surely a disaster waiting to happen. The scalpel made the first cut, a deep line through dead flesh, black blood oozing out of the wound and onto the floor. Three more incisions were made similar to the first, before Silas retrieved a small square of flesh from the cadaver. He carefully dropped the sample into a sealable plastic bag with a pair of tweezers, whistling a merry little tune as he did so. Sure, it was as macabre as Rapture was a fucking shithole, but one good thing was that fresh samples were literally everywhere. In the week he'd been here, Silas realised that this place was even more of a dog-eat-dog world than up there. Not that he had any problem with it, all he had to do was hole up in King Pawn until they'd all killed each other, and then swoop in to collect the goods.

Tucking the ziploc bag safely away, Silas got back up onto his feet. The place was completely quiet apart from the occasional periodic dripping of water, which he found just the slightest bit worrying. Usually, there was some nutter rattling on and on about the most asinine bullshit, but today, there was only silence. Silas unholstered his semi-automatic pistol, eyes darting around and around to check for any potential danger, but he found none. The last thing he wanted was to die down here, but he refused to leave until he collected enough data to make it big. Recognition was all he ever wanted, and he wasn't about to let his nerves stop him.

This... ADAM he found in the bloodstreams of Splicers was more than a little intriguing - something like this was bound to cause a flurry in the scientific world. Silas kept his gun at the ready, determined to collect at least a couple more blood and tissue samples before calling it a day.

[Myst]

Maya - the tunnel between the Medical Center and the Welcome Center - Bart

Why was she here? She had been through this place a million times already. Maybe she was hoping for new bodies to loot? Or perhaps she'd find a vending machine that hadn't been hacked yet and try her hand at it. She had been practicing and was getting better at it. If only she was better at fixing things, like Bart's inner workings. Even now as he walked she could see the slight jerk in his step that was getting worse.
Maybe it was time to look into the plasmids... find one that was for mechanical knowledge...

No! No! She didn't want to become like them! The crazy lunatic splicers. Adam had done that to them, turned them into the... things they were now. She refused to become like that.
But what if it meant losing Bart.....?
It was a question she didn't like to think about. It made her want to cry.

Bart suddenly went on alert. He had heard or seen something ahead. Maya got slightly behind Bart, ready to hide behind him and get out of his way should she need to.

[Jangel13]

Angelo Ortega- hallway towards the medical pavilion- first big daddy (Bart)

Angelo walked through the welcome center and started to walk through the hallway to what was called the medical pavilion, at least that's what the signs were saying. Angelo walked around holding his shotgun tight in his grip ready to fire at a moments notice. Angelo walked around and he saw a human or whatever was considered a human down here and it tried to charge him with a wrench and Angelo quickly pulled the trigger seeing the blood splatter on the wall nearby and Angelo was panting loudly from shock, he never killed anyone before even if it was some sort of monstrosity like that! Angelo was shocked and shook up to say the least but Angelo couldn't go chicken now he needed to get out of here and tell everyone about this and what he saw here and hopefully bomb this place or send real people to change it back to a real utopia and this hell hole.

Angelo started to scrounge around for whatever he could use and especially bullets. Angelo walked around to see something huge! it was made of metal and looked like armor with legs! Angelo quickly ducked behind a wall carefully looking behind the wall and looked and now that Angelo got a better look at the thing it kind of looked like a deep sea diver with a drill on its arm. In retrospect it did make some sense to have a deep sea diver with a drill in case of coral but Angelo saw it had blood on it and Angelo didn't want to kill anyone he didn't need to so Angelo tried to think fast and he decided to just ask "uh, im friendly. I don't want to kill you if I don't have to I am Angelo an engineer, I don't know how I got here with one of those submarines but I just want a way out and if you help me and promise not to kill me ill repair whatever you need" Angelo offered hoping that the machine wasn't mindless like that abomination he killed earlier....

[Voltus_Ventus]

Archibald - Tunnel Between Welcome Center and Medical Pavilion - Crawl Space and People Above

He stood alone in the room still a bit befuddled, awkwardly clutching the radio and looking at it with no clue to operate it, so he did what any sane man would do, stick it in his bag and wait for Brenda to call first. Archy went back towards the stairs, splashing through uncomfortably large puddles fumbling with his bag to make space for the radio, then he slipped and went face first into the cold puddle of sea water. 'just my luck' he thought to himself as he sat up in the water, spitting out a mouthful of brine, he stuck his Gand into the shallow pool and felt around for what slipped him up, pulling the object out he was relieved to find it was his pistol and not a bomb or something. He stood up and proceeded to the sta-
"SHI-", when he tripped again, "Flippity Flap!" he yelled out in frustration as he fumbled around the puddle again and pulled out the object he suddenly despised, it was another pistol, howevr this one was painted red instead of being plane metal and had a name jaggedly carved on top, "BRENDO!" he chuckled to himself as he pocketed the woman's handgun, "Brendo, what a la-"

THUNK!

He gave a little eep of fright at the noise, it came through a door behind him, he slowly approached it and it hissed open quietly despite the magnitude of it's rustiness. He found himself in a large tube with what looked to be two tunnels connecting to it, one of the tunnels was blocked with debris but the other was open, from what he could see at that angle it was a glass tube stretching into the ocean, deciding ti take a better look he stuck to the walls and crept towards the entrance, he glanced inside and got a heart attack. It was a giant metal hulk about to smash someone's skull by the looks of it, he snapped his head away and looked desperatly for a way out. Arch tried the door he entered in ti find out that the rust finally got to it and that it couldn't open, his head frantically shot around looking for a way out when he saw it, a panel in the floor in the center of the room. He got down ok his stomach and started to crawl his way to it, upon arrival he found it unlocked and easy to open so he dropped himself down. Once ge was safely in he closed the panel above him and looked forward, giving himself another miny heart attack, the floor of the crawl space was glass and gave him a frightening view of the infinite blackness below him. He tried to put it out of his mind as he squeezed himself under the hallways floor, then he got stuck. Listening above him he heard the whiting of machinery and gulped, the machine was above him.

SCREEEECH!

"HEY ARCHY, YOU THERE? I GOT MY RADIO WORKING!"

[Myst]

Maya - Hallway - Bart, Stranger (aka Angelo)

Maya hid behind Bart as a man started talking. He was definitely a stranger. He wasn't crazy like the splicers. Not yet anyway. Then he spoke of coming on a submarine. Was the welcome center still operational? She hadn't really thought to look since that place was pretty much picked clean.
Then he said something that really got her attention. He was an engineer! He could fix Bart! She didn't have to lose him!

Forgetting to be careful in her excitement at the thought of Bart being fixed.
"You can fix him?!" she exclaimed hopefully.
Bart, being the protective Big Daddy that he was, moved his drill in front of her, daring the man to try and approach.
"It's okay Bart," she said, patting his arm above the drill. "It's okay. He can help us."
The thing seemed to think about her words. Her gentle calm tone help calm him down as well. He slowly lowered the drill, but still seemed weary of the stranger before them. If he so much as tried to touch Maya the Big Daddy would not hesitate to kill him.

"I'm Maya," she told the dark haired man carefully, still not going any closer to protect herself and him.

[Jangel13]

Angelo Ortega-Hallway-big daddy (Bart) and Maya

My name is Angelo Ortega and as about your friend im 19 and im certified by the state as an engineer if theirs something I can fix ill gladly do it." Angelo said the last part softly remembering how he always used repairing things as a way to cope with his parents divorce and he did become on of the youngest state engineers in history where he came from but she was asking Angelo to fix the guy with the drill while Angelo knew he could fix the outside of the suit if their was someone inside then their were things that Angelo couldn't use like a drill for fear he might hurt the person inside. Although their hasn't been a thing Angelo hasn't learned to fix so this might actually be a repair job to work in his favor if he can have those two escort him out of this place or at least give him directions " I can fix your friends suit but I cant do it if he is going to put that drill into my gut and kill me if I touch him. I will fix anything if I can" Angelo said simply looking at them from his corner hoping that he wont get shot or the big guy will try to charge him with that giant drill, since he was still afraid though he wouldn't be able to put his gun down without some assurance he wont be kill when he does....

[Myst]

Maya - hallway - Angelo, Bart

Maya looked at the man cautiously. She bit her lip. What choice did she really have? Either let this man try to fix Bart or let Bart break down and die. But this stranger could always shut Bart down and attack her once she had no protection.

A loud hysterical laugh in the distance made her decision for her. "Come on," she told him. "Follow me. Quickly."

She led the way, with Bart following, down the hallway and into a cross section of tunnels. She knew her way around the labyrinth maze of tunnels, she had explored them multiple times. She at least knew how to get somewhere relatively safe.

They climbed onto the underwater train and rode it to Pauper's Drop. Getting out, she led the stranger past the diner and the red light district. There were a lot of dead hookers lying around, pieces of human body parts everywhere. They climbed what seemed to be an endless flight of stairs, up and down numerous corridors and reached a hole in the wall. It was large enough for Maya and the stranger, but not Bart. He groaned in protest.
"Go around Bart," she told the large metal man. "I'll meet you at home."
She waited until he had turned away to beckon to the stranger to follow her. She led him through the gap between the walls, climbing down in places where the floor had collapsed. It would be difficult for anyone to follow her unless they knew where they were going.

Finally they ended up at some kind of storage room. "I have to come through this way alone," she explained. "No one would follow a Big Daddy, no matter how crazy they are."
Inside the room was a makeshift bed on the floor, some boxes that served as storage and tables, a safe that was missing the door with packets of food and bottles of water stacked inside and a small bench that had bits and pieces of parts and tools spread over it.
"I tried to fix him myself," she explained, waving a hand at the tools. "But I don't know how. Bart is my only friend here. He protects me from the Splicers. He'll be here in a few minutes, he had to take the long way around. Just keep your distance from me. He doesn't see you as a friend yet, but I'll try and fix that once he gets here. He doesn't want to hurt you," she added quickly. "He's just protecting me. He thinks anyone who comes near might want to hurt me. And frankly, most people here do."

She peered at the stranger. "You don't look like you've been down here for long. Where did you come from? How did you get here?"

[Jangel13]

Angelo Ortega-hallway- big daddy and maya
Angelo heard the laugh and had no choice but to listen to the girl when she said to follow her, every minute Angelo's heart was pounding in his chest and if it weren't for the so called big daddy's stomping they would have heard his heart beating. This girl really knew her way around that was for sure leading Angelo towards a red dinner district and Angelo had to struggle not to puke at the sight of the discarded and decaying body parts around him knowing from now on nothing would scare him more then where he was now, as he followed the girl and she started talking to the diver in the suit but it seemed like the diver could only speak in grunts or moans. Angelo followed the girl till they got to a storage area or what was one and was now turned into a home for the girl and Angelo wondered how she could live like this with Mr. tin man with her all the time until she explained that the metal man was a "big daddy" and that Angelo just had to keep his distance from her to make sure he was safe then he looked at the tools she had at her disposal and he walked over to it as she explained and Angelo looked at them in disgust, most of them were rusted or in the process of starting to rust and whatever wasn't was already breaking.

Angelo started to take out his own tools which looked brand new and might as well have been considering how he takes care of them as she asked her questions about where he came from all he could really say was "well ive only been here an hour, and I came from the surface where the real land is. I lived in a place called Florida which is considered a state in the United states. Like I said before I got here by one of the submarine things and ended up in a welcome center of some sort." Angelo said before he started to take a breath and get focused on the job at hand and get ready to fix up a deep sea diver.....or a big daddy as she called it. "okay well I need to ask a few questions about, "Bart" as you called him. First is their an actual person inside that suit or is it automated cause some of the things I would need can hurt the guy inside the suit. Second please make sure he doesn't hurt me as I try to fix him, I need to look everywhere and check up and every part to see whats working and what needs to be fixed. Finally if I need to gather parts I need him to protect me as well so I can actually grab whatever he may need"

[Voltus_Ventus]

Archibald - Pauper's Drop Train - Brenda

The train rattled along as it grount across the underwater rail, shuddering and shaking as it slid along the sea bed. Arch was sat in one of the back carages, twiddling his thumbs as he waited for the train ride to end. He'd gotten on the train after discovering that the crawl space lead nowhere, it was just parked there the door was open and the auto-pilot on so 'what the heck' he thought to himself getting in. As he sat there mindlessly doing nothing a screech emulated through the cabin, it's source in his bag.

SCREECH!

"HEY ARCHY, YA THERE?!", he had his ear on the radio when she screamed through and recoiled in pain, dropping the device in favor of covering his ears from the high pitched, vocal onslaught. Grumbling he picked it back up and held it to his ear, pushing the button that allowed him to speak.
"Yes I am here Brenda," he said trying to relax during the ride, "Is there something wrong?", he asked her sincerely, sitting up and paying a bit more attention.
"WELL... I'M KINDA OUT OF ADAM AND WAS WONDERING IF YOU COULD GET ME SOME." she said in what he presumed was sheepishness -though a tad loud. He held the radio away from his head as she yelled through it, massaging his ear from the audio abuse.
"I'll get some if you don't mind shouting less," he replied quickly before she had the chance to permanently defen him, "what is ADAM?" he asked absent mindedly as he got off his seat and turned around, trying to appreciate the view of the under water city.
"ADA- Adam," she corrected trying not shout as violently, "is a drug I'm kinda hooked," she explained, the sound of rustling on her end betraying her sitting up straighter to explain, "it's a wonder, makes you feel good about yourself, you know? Well you get them off these little girls you can find around rapt-"
"Hold on a second, little girls are hauling around drugs?!" he hissed back incredulously through the radio.
"it's fine! It's not like they are dealers, they're addicted," before Archy could protest she cut him off, "if you get me some and put it in one of those Pnumatubes, I'll send you a present, or maybe I'll let you take more pictures me," she said seductivly, the last few words more like whispers then normal talking, "but it's up to you, just get me some Adam.", then the radio died on her end. He found himself strangely aroused as he put the device back, then suddenly the train stopped and he flew to the other end of the cabin.

"Welcome to Pauper's Drop Station," a tinny voice said from the speakers in the cabin as the doors hissed open, "you may depart the train."