Taavi Plays Stories Untold #2 - The Lab Conduct
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The Lab Conduct
The player-character, Mr. Aition, is seated in a laboratory room. Dr. Daniel Alexander is remotely directing a series of experiments on "artifact 23", recovered at a crash site and now sitting in a chamber among the laboratory machines. Mr. Aition conducts experiments at his request using the machinery and using another computer to consulting a manual for help. The artifact appears to be an animal heart, which Aition exposes to lasers to restart its beating, before causing it to explode through sound waves. Alexander directs Aition to drill into it, which blows out the lights, drill and monitor. During these experiments, the player can hear Alexander and his assistant talking about him.
Despite severe warnings, Alexander directs Aition to open the chamber to "make contact" with it; A small metallic sphere floating gently out, casting light into Aition's eyes. The sphere seemingly connects with the player, knocking him over, drawing blood, and perhaps doing something the player Aition couldn't see. Alexander states that the player is now a "proxy", with a connection to the entity's inner core. The sphere communicates its memories through another text adventure game to help Alexander discover what happened to it.
The game details the character wakes up after having crashed onto a planet. Escaping the hazardous capsule, an "army" of people are standing, visible only as silhouettes. One silhouette approaches the player. The story then jumps to the character lying on a bed with wires attached to his chest, after being tortured. They pull out the wires, setting off an alarm in-game mirroring the environment: the laboratory.
A "specimen" leaves its room, where Dr. Alexander realizes the game is actually happening now and begs Aition to stop. He continues, moving the character to the adjacent room, where the character broadcasts something across the network. Alexander implores Aition not to rebel, but Aition continues by playing a minigame with unknown symbols replacing the game.
The game ends when the sphere breaks contact, and other similar spheres appear. Alexander declares, "They're all free. They're converging. It's over." He asks Aition not to do anything he'll regret. However, the game ends when Alexander says that someday, his experience will haunt him.