Had a strong glass of bourbon and crashed hard tonight, despite the noise on the street. I guess you get used to it after a while living in Freeport, but something was definitely different out there. No – peculiar is more like it. That’s what must have caused my strange dream. Man, was that a weird one. I want to get it down on paper but it’s so tough to put into words. It sounds dramatic an’ all but man, it was so friggin’ real.
The moment I threw off my specs and pressed my palms against
my burning eyelids, it felt like it was the calm before the storm.
And then I passed out.
All was quiet except for a faint but noticeable murmur
of a power generator. I took a slow step out of the shadows,
looking to my right and left down each corridor for any
potential danger. But this wasn’t a usual route around the
sector looking to bust armed U4 pushers. This was a real war
for some reason, but there was nothing here but very subtle
screams in the distance, gun blasts, explosions,
then more screams.
Then it kicked in: that adrenaline rush from hell. I bolted
down the metallic hallway with a 1000 years of rage on my
shoulders and seven hand-held CB-22 rockets in my backpack
for each of the souls I’ll take in the next half hour. The lives
I’ll devour to make me stronger and impenetrable.
As I ran, fitted in armor and conviction,
the familiar war sounds become louder and fed into my fury.
The screams were almost unbearable at this point.
The moment I turned the corner into a room with
this powerful blue light, blood and chunks of flesh sprayed onto my
pants from the poor disemboweled ‘Corps soldier to my right, opened by a shot from an above tier and a keen eye.
A hoard of mutated bodies without faces eclipsed the light
and turned to me, armed with guns, bombs, and claws.
And the chase was on. I pulled a quick 180 and leapt across
the separation in the floor, only to duck behind a crate to
turn around and open fire. Four down. Time to move.
I quickly scrambled outside under the angered sky with
bullets darting past both my ears. One gets me in the
shoulder but proves tolerable. I found myself cornered
with nowhere to go except into a sea of death, already a
graveyard for many dead soldiers. I dove in while more bullets
burrowed into my suit and skin and bone. Just as I thought I was
safe,
I heard a splash only to look over my shoulder and see three
desperate beasts, but these…animals…had faces. And they were
scared, too.
Were they after me or were they running from fear themselves?
I immediately unleashed four more demons from my barrel, three
meeting their destiny. Although victorious, I choked on the thick water,
blood, and flesh that surrounded me, and died just the same.
As I floated slowly to the surface, a woman’s laughter came from
somewhere above, as if I was part of an experiment or something,
like I was in a test tube. And then I woke up in a cold pool of sweat.
It is the calm before the storm.
My God, it is the calm before the storm.
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:34 Helicopter
00:04:48 Freeport City Bank
00:17:45 Abandoned Buildings
00:30:36 Construction Zone
00:44:35 Abandoned Subway
01:00:59 SinTEK Chemical Plant - part one
01:05:16 SinTEK Chemical Plant - part two
01:20:25 SinTek Warehouse - part one
01:27:20 SinTek Warehouse - part two
01:47:59 Biomecha. Biomech Factory - part one
02:01:36 Biomechb. Biomech Factory - part two
02:18:44 Missile Silo
02:36:34 Freeport Sewers - part one
02:44:12 Freeport Sewers - part two
02:50:44 Freeport City Dam
03:04:57 Freeport Waterworks - part one
03:16:49 Freeport Waterworks - part two
03:19:59 SinTek Oilrig
03:31:14 Underwater Passage - part one
03:45:08 Underwater Passage - part two
03:59:31 Hidden Docks - part one
04:13:54 Geothermal Plant - part one
04:24:23 Geothermal Plant - part two
04:34:24 Jungle Pass - part one
04:40:01 Mountain Gorge
04:49:51 Containment Area 57
04:52:27 Biomass Reclamation Center
05:00:18 Xenomorphic Laboratory - part one
05:06:06 Xenomorphic Laboratory - part two
05:15:27 Estate Sinclaire - part one
05:23:05 Estate Sinclaire - part two
05:30:28 Munt Phoenix
05:35:01 Thrall Master
05:43:21 Outro
05:47:08 Credits
Paradox (bonus level)
