#[ai.pur.barni]

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((Flashing Lights Warning))

[As the cart is finally delivered to the test chamber, “Barni’s” hands shake nervously while pushing the cart.]

“It’s fine…it’s fine…it’s fine…”

[The Sample enters the laser, orange changes to green, becoming brighter and erratic.]

>> BARNI! GET AWAY FROM THE BEAM!

‘Shutting down! Attempting shut down…it’s not…it’s not shutting down! It’s not-!’

>> COME’ON CALARTS!!!

[The chamber doors remain sealed shut. Barni and Odin cannot escape, both are struck down with scorching hot beams of radiation.]

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Tjey’re waiting for you Barni!!!

in the TEST champberrrrr

“Tjey’re.”

>> Tjey’re.

>> Tjey’re.

>> Oh, grow up. They spelled it wrong, so what?

>> Tjey’re!!!

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They’re wait for you Barni. I n the TEST Chamberrrrr

“OH SHIT THE TEST CHAMBERRRRR!”

>> Race you to the Observation Room, kid!

“Nooooooo!!! No race! I can’t run good!”

>> You’d better catch up, Calarts!

“Wait uuuuup!”

[Lydia doesn’t seem interested in waiting, she even jumps down the elevator shaft instead of waiting with Odin. How bold.]

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Hey Lydia watch this

._. /: .-. :/ ._.

Pretty cool cartwheel right

[Lydia popped out from wherever she was hiding to watch!]

>> HELL YEAH! CARTWHEELS! I CAN DO THAT TOO!

>> H’YUP!

“Woah! Both of those cartwheels looked real intense.”

>> Woah! Let’s be careful, now! This is a cramped hallway!

>> Heheh! Still got it! And they said I couldn’t keep kicking ass at 42!

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> HELL YEAH YET ANOTHER PURPLE WOMAN! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

>> Purple’s a good color!

“It really is!”

“But uh…aren’t you worried that wearing purple will defeat the purpose of blending into the dark?”

>> Nope! Historically accurate ninjas wore blue! And purple is pretty close to blue, and being a black op is close enough to being a ninja…

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I guess I should be in-character, huh?

…

“Oh man…I am so late for work. And now I’ve been redirected to the Anomalous Materials Lab!!!…”

“…”

“AND PROM IS TOMORROW!!!!!”

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Any last words, Barni?

“…I just realized I’m not wearing my helmet.”

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“Well…here goes nothing.”

[The air is tense, both in the game and outside of it. This moment is inevitable, but that doesn’t make it any less stressful for the person that has to let history unfold.]

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if anything happens we are!!! Here!!

“Thank you…I uh…I’m just so nervous…alright, we’re going in.”

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Test Chamber?

*sigh* “Test Chamber…”

>> Don’t worry Calarts. I’ll be in the chamber with you in case there’s any problems.”

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Barni doesn’t need to hear all of this he’s a highly trained professional

“I am in no way qualified to be doing this test!”

>> I thought you were excited about pushing rocks into lasers. Why the cold feet now?

“……What if I fuck it up?”

>> LANGUAGE!!!

“Sorry! Uh…what if I Wick it up?”

>> You gotta admit doc, that’s a new one!

>> Indeed…Who on Earth is Wick?

>> Wicker moment!

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come on, i'm sure not even the base game ai would shoot a *child* or something. nor the aliens or whatever..

Hrrrrrnggggg…you’re probably right.

I know that Custom AI has the Stalemate Trait as one of the defaults if you don’t alter anything. And that trait infamously makes it so that the enemy can’t harm that AI, with the drawback being that the AI can’t harm the enemy back, either…hold on.

[Console Commands turned on.]

………I don’t know how the game created Ellie, but according to her AI details, she does have Stalemate. So I guess I’m taking your word for it.

“Okay gang, I’m gonna head inside now.”

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Maybe we should return Ellie to her parents before we go to the test???

>> Nooooope! Not getting rid of me! I wanna see rocks and lasers!

>> There’s layers of wall up here, she’ll be fine.

>> This window doesn’t have any protection…

>> It’ll be fine!

“Sigh…guess we can’t argue when them.”

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can we hit birdwell with hammers

>> No!!!

“Pleeeeease be nice to Gampa.”

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ohh.. child???

>> HE-LLOOOOOOO THERRRRE!!!

…y…you’re……not the AI I programmed…

“Hey there…who…what’s your name?”

>> “Legally-Distinct Version of Child Alyx Vance.”

“O-oh…”

>> Buuuuuut YOU can call me Ellie!

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you could blow up the ladders

“We KINDA need those!!!”

>> Don’t worry Calarts. This is a multi-million dollar facility! I’m sure the administration team put some of that cash into the sturdiest and safest materials necessary for a building like this!

>> Have you SEEN the safety budget of this building? The whole infrastructure could fall apart if you so much as SNEEZED in the wrong place!

“Yaaaay! Dr. Birdwell’s back!”