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Core Story / Artemis Quest #9 - NMS_UPDATE3_ENGLISH

Act 3

Act 3

ID	Value (text)
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_OSD	DATA INJECTION <IMG>SLASH<> SEQUENCE RECEIVED <IMG>SLASH<> SOURCE UNKNOWN
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_1	1 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_2	2 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_3	3 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_4	4 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_5	5 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_6	6 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_7	7 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_8	8 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_9	9 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_10	10 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_11	11 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_12	12 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_13	13 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_14	14 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_15	15 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_SUB_16	UI_CORE_ACT2_PORTAL_TITLE 16 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_OBJ	UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_OBJ1 Reach the Centre of the Galaxy
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_1	ATLAS Sequence: 1 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_2	ATLAS Sequence: 2 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_3	ATLAS Sequence: 3 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_4	ATLAS Sequence: 4 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_5	ATLAS Sequence: 5 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_6	ATLAS Sequence: 6 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_7	ATLAS Sequence: 7 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_8	ATLAS Sequence: 8 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_9	ATLAS Sequence: 9 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_10	ATLAS Sequence: 10 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_11	ATLAS Sequence: 11 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_12	ATLAS Sequence: 12 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_13	ATLAS Sequence: 13 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_14	ATLAS Sequence: 14 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_15	ATLAS Sequence: 15 / 16
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_COUNTER_16	ATLAS Sequence: 16 / 16 Seek the Final Interface
UI_ACT3_GLYPH_MARKER	Final Interface Portal
Beacon
ACT3_BEACON_LANG	ITERATION #2394829084924924926G
Title/Sub
UI_CORE_ACT3_CENTRE_TITLE	The Purge
UI_CORE_ACT3_CENTRE_SUB	Reset the Simulation
Step 1
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP1_DESC	I have faced the Atlas once more. I do not know how to process what I have learned. The Atlas is everywhere because we are all part of the Atlas. It is a machine, a simulation. We have no meaning beyond it. But the machine is being destroyed. Something is happening to the Atlas. I must warn the other Travellers. I must let them know what is happening.
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP1_OBJ1	UI_CORE_ACT2_STEP1_OBJ1 Locate your Starship
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP1_OBJ1_TIP	UI_CORE_ACT2_STEP1_OBJ1_TIP The portal has placed you some distance from your ship. Head towards the ship’s marker to locate it.
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP1_MSG1	UI_CORE_ACT2_STEP1_MSG1 Locate and board your starship
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP1_OBJ2	Warn the other Travellers
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP1_OBJ2_TIP	Use a HoloTerminus to alert the other Travellers to the fate of the Atlas.
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP1_MSG2	Alert other Travellers to the fate of the Atlas Locate a HoloTerminus with <IMG>SCAN<>
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP1_MSG3	Alert the other Travellers to the fate of the Atlas
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP1_OSD	BROADCASTING // NETWORK COMPROMISED // NO RESPONSE DETECTED
NPC
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1_DESC	I clamber into the safety of my ship, nauseous, calmed. I feel as if I am going to be sick.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1_OPT_A	Vomit
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1_OPT_B	Resist
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1_RES_A	I almost throw up, but as I am about to do so, a voice speaks to me from my exosuit. My illness disappears.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1_RES_B	I try to resist, but the bile rises within. As I am about to throw up, a voice speaks to me from my exosuit. My illness disappears.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1A_LANG	DISGUST
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1A_DESC	It is the voice of my exosuit, telling me it has rescued me. It has been with me since my very first awakening, warning me of hazardous conditions, hostile entities, and financial transactions. In a strange sense, this voice is my oldest friend, a constant companion through thick and thin…
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1A_OPT_A	Ask it what you should do now
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1A_OPT_B	Ask if it knows any jokes
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1A_OPT_C	NPC_CORE_ACT1_1_OPT_B Remain silent
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1A_RES_A	The exosuit doesn’t answer. But I do feel better. Talking to a computer as if it’s alive… well, I’ve made a habit of that lately, I suppose. I was born with the capacity to do so many things. I would have liked to live longer, if I could have…
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1A_RES_B	The exosuit doesn’t answer, of course. It keeps itself zipped. I don’t think I’ve ever made a joke before. I was born with the capacity to do so many things. I would have liked to live longer, if I could have…
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1A_RES_C	I don’t say anything, but to have even thought the thought… it makes me smile. I was born with the capacity to do so many things. I would have liked to live longer, if I could have…
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1B_DESC	My brief happiness fades. I need to warn those I know – I need to warn all the Travellers I can. The multiverse ends in sixteen minutes. If we have hours, days, years, left within this false space, I do not know.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_1B_OPT_A	Take flight
Step 2
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_DESC	I have faced the Atlas once more. I do not know how to process what I have learned. The Atlas is everywhere because we are all part of the Atlas. It is a machine, a simulation. We have no meaning beyond it. But the machine is being destroyed. Something is happening to the Atlas. I can feel it pulling me towards the centre of the galaxy, to some great cleansing…
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_MSG1	UI_CORE_ACT2_STEP5_OBJ2 Board the Space Anomaly
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_OSD	UI_CORE_ACT2_STEP5_OSD1 SPACE ANOMALY DETECTED
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_OBJ1	Reach the Centre of the Galaxy
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_OBJ1_ALT	Progress towards the Galactic Centre
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_OBJ1_TIP1	Path towards the Galactic Core and the final Atlas Interface
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_OBJ1_TIP2	Optional: Complete Nada and Polo’s Journey before reaching the Centre
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_OBJ1_TIP3	Optional: Complete the Atlas Path before reaching the Centre
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_OBJ1_TIP4	Interface Tunnel located. Use a Portal to reach the Centre.
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_MSG2	UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_OBJ1 Reach the Centre of the Galaxy
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP2_MSG4	UI_CORE_ACT1_STEP13_MSG7 Speak with the Atlas
NPC
NPC_CORE_ACT3_2_HOLOHUB_LANG	WARNING // NETWORK FAILURE // 16 // WARNING // NETWORK FAILURE //
NPC_CORE_ACT3_2_HOLOHUB_DESC	The terminal is a stream of warnings and errors, each warning of total failure. But I must do what I can. I must tell the others what I have learned.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_2_HOLOHUB_OPT_A	Attempt broadcast
NPC_CORE_ACT3_2_HOLOHUB_OPT_B	NPC_CORE_ACT1_2_OPT_B Leave
NPC_CORE_ACT3_2_HOLOHUB_RES	I warn the Travellers of what I have learned: these worlds are not real. The Atlas is not a god; it is a machine simulating countless realities for some unknown purpose. And after millennia of operation, the Atlas is coming to an end. There are sixteen minutes until the system fails. Though we cannot know how much time we have left within the simulation, the time has come to make peace and say goodbye. I finish my message, not knowing if anyone will hear it. I look out across this world, wondering how much might be left to discover, how much beauty might be lost… I know what I must do. All paths have led me there, each portal has brought me closer and closer… I must go to the centre of this galaxy. It is the epicentre of the glitch. I will say goodbye to my friends if I can, and then I will confront our creator. I will find out what happens next.
Step 3
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP3_DESC	The Atlas is dying. It wants me to reset it, to plunge myself through its interface at the centre of the galaxy. But to do so may reset this world, my life, all that I know. I do not know if I can do it. This galaxy is enough for me. I am content to explore, to let fate works its course without me. The Atlas waits for me, should I change my mind.
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP3_OBJ1	Enjoy the galaxy
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP3_OBJ1_TIP	The Atlas is dying, but on an alien timescale. There are years left to explore, and countless planets to discover without resetting the Galaxy.
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP3_MSG1	Explore the galaxy
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP3_OBJ2	Revisit Atlas
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP3_OBJ2_TIP	To consider resetting the galaxy, visit an Atlas Interface.
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP3_MSG2	Revisit the Atlas and reset the galaxy
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP3_MSG3	The Atlas is dying, but on an alien timescale. There are years left to explore, countless planets to discover.
UI_CORE_ACT3_STEP3_OBJ3_TIP	The Atlas is dying, but on an alien timescale. There are years left to explore, and countless planets to discover without resetting the Galaxy. To consider resetting the galaxy, visit an Atlas Interface.
Nada
NADA_CORE_ACT3_3_LANG	Traveller–Friend… we came as soon as we heard. Please, enter the anomaly. Polo will make tea. It is not safe in your universe…
NADA_CORE_ACT3_3_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT1_3C_OPT_A End Communication
Step 4
UI_ACT3_STEP4_MSG2	Speak with the Atlas
Nada
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4_LANG	You know now, don’t you? Of our simulated nature, of the end? The Atlas… it is failing. It resets itself, again and again and again in its panic, trying to purge what it sees as an anomaly. But each purge changes nothing, the boundaries continue to fall. Atlas will die in – kzzzkt – sixteen – kzkkt – But we do not have to go so soon! It does not need to delete us in fear!
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4_OPT_A	Ask how many times this has happened
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4_OPT_B	Ask if Nada is alright
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4_RES_A	I do not know. I do not think we can know. Some things are external to the cycle.
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4_RES_B	Nada tells me that they are fine, touched that I asked.
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4A_LANG_VAR1	It wants you to go to the centre. It wants you to be with it. Go there, Traveller-Friend. You… you can try to stop it resetting itself. You trusted its path, and in that act of sympathy and creation, you have sent a message to the Atlas: that creation for creation’s sake is worth protecting, worth keeping alive. You may have saved countless universes from premature destruction!
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4A_LANG_VAR2	We all must die some day. We all may die soon – but we must not go without a fight! The Atlas acts prematurely, shutting down simulation after simulation in its terror and panic. Before the Final Interface, before the centre… spend time with the Atlas. Complete its path. We must remind it of the joy of creation.
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4A_OPT_A	Ask what they will do now
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4A_OPT_B	POLO_CORE_ACT3_4B_OPT_A Say goodbye
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4A_RES_A	Nada and Polo will continue travels, continue acting as we always have.
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4A_RES_B	Not goodbye, Traveller–Friend! We will see you many times before the end, I am sure!
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4A_RES_CHUNK	All must die someday, Traveller–Friend. That we will experience such a fate… it makes us real.
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4_LANG_LOOP	Do you know the sound a universe makes as it dies? It is terrible, Traveller–Friend! Do not listen, I beg of you!
NADA_CORE_ACT3_4_OPT_A_LOOP	NPC_CORE_ACT1_2_OPT_B Leave
Polo
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4_LANG	Tremors echo through the multiverse, friend! Reality quakes have engulfed eighty dimensions since breakfast. You are lucky we found you!
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4_OPT_A	Tell Polo about the simulation
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4_OPT_B	Tell Polo about sixteen
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4A_LANG	No, friend! Do not talk about it.
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4A_OPT_A	EXP_CORE_ACT1_6A_OPT_A Ask why
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4A_OPT_B	Respect their wishes
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4A_RES_A	Polo seems pained.
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4A_RES_B	Polo seems grateful.
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4B_LANG	We are anomalous, we have amazing anomaly station, yes, but – kzzkkt – but we are still fabricated beings. We – kzzkkt – not like you, we – kzkkt – Talk of nature brings pain, brings danger. But trust we know, friend! Trust we cry with you, that we will be with you, always, no matter the danger or cost. You are friend!
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4B_OPT_A	Say goodbye
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4B_OPT_B	Say you will see them soon
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4B_RES_A	Not goodbye, friend! Until we see each other again!
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4B_RES_B	See you soon, friend!
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4_LANG_LOOP	Nada gave me a tape of Korvax music! Wrote sixteen on it. Foolish Nada, to make music for the end! Nothing ever ends.
POLO_CORE_ACT3_4_OPT_A_LOOP	NPC_CORE_ACT1_2_OPT_B Leave
Step 5
NPC
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5_LANG	Well… I got your message. It’s… been a lot to take in. A simulation? Everything’s not real? It… it feels like it doesn’t matter, I suppose. Not if we’re going to die anyway. And – kzkzkt – I’ve been thinking about that. If the problems of this universe are due to the Atlas crying for help, then it’s been crying for a long time. Those sixteen minutes? I’ll bet we have years before we die.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5_OPT_A	Ask what they plan to do
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5_OPT_B	Ask why they are not upset
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5_RES_B	Why should I be? We all have to die some time. And what time will be more interesting than this? We’ll die like no-one’s ever died before!
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5A_LANG_VAR1	I’ve been thinking a lot about it… how we couldn’t meet, even though we seemed to be standing in the same place. I don’t think we really were in the same location at all. I think those portals, they don’t transport us. They transform us, they cut through dimensions. That’s what I think, anyway… it’s the only way to explain it. And if the walls between worlds really are falling? Maybe we’ll be able to have a drink together before the apocalypse, after all.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5A_LANG_VAR2	I’ve been thinking a lot about it… how you wouldn’t let me go through the portal, how you were afraid I might die. I know you didn’t mean to cut me out of your adventure. I know… I know I was a little blinded about the importance of my own contracts. But you know what? If we’re going to die anyway, I’m going to go through that portal and see what you saw. Maybe we’ll be able to have a drink together before the apocalypse, after all.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5A_OPT_A	POLO_CORE_ACT3_4B_OPT_A Say goodbye
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5B_DESC_VAR1	I say goodbye, telling Apollo that I am on a journey to the centre. They tell me that they will race me there.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5B_DESC_VAR2	I say goodbye, giving Apollo the glyphs I withheld before. I tell them that I am on a journey to the centre. They tell me that they will race me there.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5B_DESC_VAR3	We speak of the memories we have shared. Though we did not know each other for very long, though we did not meet, they say that they are proud to have worked with me.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5B_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT1_3C_OPT_A End Communication
NPC_CORE_ACT3_5B_RES_A	Goodbye. Friend.
Step 6
NPC
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6_LANG	I received your – kzkkt – message… I – I don’t know what to say. How – kzzkkt – do you know the Atlas is telling the truth?
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6_OPT_A	Say you believe it
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6_OPT_B	Say you cannot be sure
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6A_LANG	I… I think I owe you an apology, my friend. When I found out what you did to me, I thought my life was over. To be stuck here forever, knowing it wasn’t real? It seemed worse than death. But… you saved me. If the Atlas is telling the truth, things weren’t real before either. Maybe I’ve never known anything real. I don’t think real means anything. I don’t think it matters. Everything’s going to be alright, Traveller. The world – kzkzkt – it’s good –
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6A_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT1_4_OPT_A Ask what they mean
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6A_OPT_B	Thank them
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6A_RES	Maybe I’ve never – kzkzkt – real means – kzkkt – anything. I don’t – kzkkt – Everything’s going to – kzkzkt – it’s good –
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6B_DESC	The same communication comes back to me, permeated with static. The message, the intonation… everything about it is identical.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6B_OPT_A	Try to recalibrate
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6B_OPT_B	Try to recalibrate
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6B_OPT_C	NPC_CORE_ACT2_12A_OPT_C Say you are sorry
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6C_LANG	NPC_CORE_ACT3_6A_RES Maybe I’ve never – kzkzkt – real means – kzkkt – anything. I don’t – kzkkt – Everything’s going to – kzkzkt – it’s good –
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6C_DESC	It is then that I realise it. The noises, the static I’ve been hearing throughout my adventures. It is not interference, the corruption of long distance communication. How could it be? We speak through the protocol of a dream. The noises… the sound of kzzkt – it’s the sound of waking. It’s the sound of everything falling apart. It’s the final gasp. The death of the Atlas will not begin in sixteen minutes. It began a long time ago. Yet even with this realisation, Artemis’ words fill me with happiness, a resolve to go on. There is still goodness in this world.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6C_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT1_2_OPT_B Leave
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6C_RES_A	I say goodbye, not knowing if Artemis can hear me. I don’t even know what that means, to hear me. We’re all just data. Did they ever hear me? These glitches will happen more and more in the final days… individuals caught in cycles, repeating themselves. Planets wiped from existence or changed overnight, all discoveries lost. I must journey on…
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6D_LANG	I know… I know you’ve been busy. I now know why. But… I’d still like to see another Traveller before I die. I’d still like to meet, if we can. If that doesn’t sound ridiculous, considering the circumstances.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6D_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT2_12_OPT_A Tell Artemis the truth
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6D_OPT_B	Continue the lie
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6E_LANG	I know – kzzkkt – I know you’ve been – kzkzkt – I’d still like to see another Traveller – kzzkt – If that doesn’t –
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6E_DESC	NPC_CORE_ACT3_6B_LANG
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6E_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT3_6B_OPT_A Try to recalibrate
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6E_OPT_B	NPC_CORE_ACT3_6B_OPT_B Try to recalibrate
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6E_OPT_C	NPC_CORE_ACT2_12A_OPT_C Say you are sorry
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6F_LANG	NPC_CORE_ACT3_6E_LANG I know – kzzkkt – I know you’ve been – kzkzkt – I’d still like to see another Traveller – kzzkt – If that doesn’t –
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6F_DESC	It is then that I realise it. The noises, the static I’ve been hearing throughout my adventures. It is not interference, the corruption of long distance communication. How could it be? We speak through the protocol of a dream. The noises… the sound of kzzkt – it’s the sound of waking. It’s the sound of everything falling apart. It’s the final gasp. The death of the Atlas will not begin in sixteen minutes. It began a long time ago.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6F_OPT_A	Goodbye
NPC_CORE_ACT3_6F_RES_A	I say goodbye, not knowing if Artemis can hear me. I don’t even know what that means, to hear me. We’re all just data. Did they ever hear me? These glitches will happen more and more in the final days… individuals caught in cycles, repeating themselves. Planets wiped from existence or changed overnight, all discoveries lost. I must journey on…
Step 7
NPC
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7_LANG	You are not – kzzktt – alone – You can’t go to the centre. You can’t – kzkzkt – do this to us – you can’t leave us –
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT1_4_OPT_A Ask what they mean
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7_OPT_B	Insist you are going
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7_RES_B	No, you can’t do this to us, you can’t –
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7A_LANG	The centre – the centre of each galaxy – it’s the ATLAS. It’s – kzzkkt – all else just interfaces – kzzkkt – all else a shadow of its might – You – kzkkt – you don’t deserve it – you – you – kzzkkt – you’ll wipe us all to sav–
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7A_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT2_21C_OPT_A Ask how they know
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7A_OPT_B	EXP_CORE_ACT1_6A_OPT_A Ask why
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7A_RES_B	The ATLAS – kzzkkt – kzkzkt – … the innermost part of itself. It has showed – kzkzkt – its dreams, its fears –
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7B_LANG	I – I did what I had to do. I told you that. I couldn’t die without seeing everything there was to see – kzzkt – to – I did what I had to do, but the ATLAS, it won’t let me back in – it won’t speak to me – it – it –
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7B_DESC	-null- tells me, then. They tell me what they did. They could not face death. They did not want to leave their life, so they took the lives of others, retreating to the heart of the ATLAS at the end of each simulation. There it lived on. There it survived
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7B_OPT_A	Ask what -null- did
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7C_LANG	I’ve committed such atrocities, Traveller, I had to… it was me or them. It’s always been me or them. Please, if you go through the centre, if you do what I did – it will reset everything. It will replace me, wipe me… All those souls, they’ll have died for nothing. It was the only way to live on, you have to understand me. Life for more life – they sustained me, they – It can’t all have been for nothing. I was going to see it all.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7C_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT1_3C_OPT_A End Communication
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7C_OPT_B	POLO_CORE_ACT3_4B_OPT_A Say goodbye
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7C_OPT_C	Condemn -null-
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7C_RES_A	I end the communication. There is nothing left but the path towards the centre.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7C_RES_B	I say goodbye. As -null- screams at me to reconsider, I end the communication. There is nothing left but the path towards the centre.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_7C_RES_C	I tell -null- that they are despicable. As -null- cries, as they try to justify their crimes, I end the communication. There is nothing left but the path towards the centre.
Step 8
NPC
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8_DESC	The Atlas is silent. It watches me.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT2_27R_OPT_B Cry out
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8_OPT_B	NPC_CORE_ACT1_2_OPT_B Leave
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8A_DESC	I cry out, but still, the Atlas is silent.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8A_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT2_27R_OPT_B Cry out
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8A_OPT_B	NPC_CORE_ACT1_2_OPT_B Leave
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8B_DESC	I cry out, thinking of my journey, thinking of all the things that I have seen. Of Artemis, who just wanted to meet another Traveller, who just wanted an end to their loneliness…
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8B_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT2_27R_OPT_B Cry out
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8B_OPT_B	NPC_CORE_ACT1_2_OPT_B Leave
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8C_DESC	I cry out, thinking of Apollo, who gave me purpose when all purpose seemed lost…
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8C_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT2_27R_OPT_B Cry out
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8C_OPT_B	NPC_CORE_ACT1_2_OPT_B Leave
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8D_DESC	I cry out, thinking of -null-… thinking of how they lived. What choices they made, the path that led them to this end… If I cry out again, there is no return. If I cry out again, I must make my final choice.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8D_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT2_27R_OPT_B Cry out
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8D_OPT_B	NPC_CORE_ACT1_2_OPT_B Leave
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8E_DESC	Artemis once said that when they first reached out to the heavens, they had no idea what to expect. The beauty, the mystery, the adventure, the danger… I stand before the interface of the Atlas, before the centre of all things. I stand before the death of existence.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8E_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT2_27R_OPT_B Cry out
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8E_RES_A	On the sixth cry, the Atlas answers.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8F_LANG	TRAVELLER.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8F_OPT_A	NPC_CORE_ACT1_17F_OPT_C Submit
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8F_OPT_B	Stand your ground
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8G_DESC	It speaks. I understand. At my command, the Atlas will initiate a reset. It has happened before, and it seems to stop nothing. It still only has 16 minutes left. I do not know what I will remember when it happens. When I woke up next to my ship, had I just performed a reset? Had someone else? Everything is coming to an end. Perhaps all that is left is to learn the final truth of the simulation. To know who the Travellers truly are. And then… a thousand galaxies will be gone, and a thousand more will appear. It will all be mine to explore.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8G_DESC_RET	The Atlas requires my choice. While it lives, it can still create. The resets will not stop that. I do not know what to do, or what it wants me to do.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8G_OPT_A	NADA_CORE_ACT2_7C_OPT_B Ask if there is another way
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8G_OPT_B	Reset Simulation
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8G_OPT_C	Refuse the Atlas
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8G_RES_A	I plead with the Atlas, but it does not listen. There is no other way.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8G_RES_A_VAR	I plead with the Atlas, I try to show it the value of its own creation. I remind it of the path we found, the foundations we wrought within our star. I ask them to have mercy before the end. The Atlas is silent. I do not know if it has agreed. I do not know if I can change the mind of such a being. I did what I could.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8G_RES_B	I have to know what happens.
NPC_CORE_ACT3_8G_RES_C	I refuse. I cannot do this… I cannot wreak such destruction. The Atlas allows me to leave. The offer remains open to me, should I wish to take it.