oo2. VIDEO

[oversear]

[ It's late at night and another video by Armand pops up. But instead of asking for animal sacrifices this time, he's got a bit of art show horror going on. Armand is pointing the camera in first person view and it settles directly on the oven that is in his kitchen. The oven light is on, but shadows are being cast by whatever is actually sitting inside. Once the camera focuses on the oven window, there appears to be a head sitting on the rack. It will quickly become obvious it is not a human head but one of the Working Joes that occupy the caves. ]

They do not melt or smoulder. It is truly impressive technology.

[ A stark white hand reaches out from behind the camera and turns up the temperature on the oven. He goes back to filming the head for several minutes, nothing but silence that is occasionally interrupted by a dull thumping sound somewhere off screen. It sounds like someone is walking into a wall.

The head does not melt. There might be a bit of a disappointed air as he terminates the feed. ]

Comments

voice

[oversear]

[ Is this a trick question? He's obviously roasting a head. ]

I am testing a theory. These are not monsters but machines. I was curious of their limits.

voice

[64th]

Huh.

And what did you decide about it?

voice

[oversear]

Someone designed them specifically to be hard to destroy. I do not think it was the gods. These as well as the monsters in the tunnels must have all come from the door.

I wonder if any of the original inhabitants of this place remain.

voice

[64th]

I don't know. I think if any of them are alive, they're not here anymore. We would have seen them by now.

voice

[oversear]

I am hoping they'll be resurrected with a god.

[ That's probably not how it works, but. ]

Maybe they would be more willing to tell us what happened here.