Lo seems to have a new conversation choice after failing to rescue David. I clicked out of it too quickly to remember what it said though. To check next run.
Lo / Discussion
This is the discussion related to the wiki page Lo.
Good work… fantastic work, getting Hel back. We've been talking and I think her paranoia might have some grounding.
She suspects that we've been targeted for our old work because it somehow relates to Eclipse. It seems unlikely at best, honestly. There were no other survivors and all the records were vaporized during the Incident that created the Slags.
But at the same time, it fits together. If you'd be interested, I'd like to ask for your help confirming her suspicions.
"What did you do?"
It's not something I talk about a lot… but you of all people should know what you're dealing with.
Right after I got my degree Midgard recruited me for a Research and Development posting. It's been almost thirty years… how time flies, I suppose.
Eventually I moved up to a project lead in Test Facility One. That's where I met David, Dr. Amundsen, and Hel. We all worked there. Although I knew David and the good doctor as Baldur and Sif at the time.
As you can probably guess from the code names, it was a very secure facility. We were working on things a decade ago that still haven't hit the market.
Baldur was working on my project, the analysis of a strange flower from southeast asia that appeared to have strong psychoactive properties. We were basically given free reign, but could barely isolate the active ingredient, let alone find any use for it.
But I spent years poring over analyses of that flower and the chemical makeup of Eclipse looks very similar. That's what I'd like to investigate.
"What happened then?"
Ah… I thought Hel might have filled you in on the rest. The four of us, we were friends… or at least friendly acquaintances.
We had lunch every Wednesday, usually downtown at a nice little tea place. Almost everyone else took their lunches at their desks or in the cafeteria, so they didn't have to come back through security. Hel always waved us back through.
Anyway, one Wednesday… poof. The whole section of the city around TF1 was gone. We could hear the explosion from downtown, of course. The shockwave broke all the windows that were still glass and the debris was so thick, you couldn't see the sun. More people died of lung failure or cancer than in the explosion.
The four of us made it, but nobody else did. My boss, all the other researchers, all of Sif and Hel's employees…
Hel says there's a crater now where TF1 used to be. I helped the relief effort, but I never had the heart to go look.
"What's in it for me?"
What's in it for you? Not enough, that's for certain.
Last time I tried to puzzle something like this out, we had a ten-figure budget, a team of PhDs, and a private army. Not to denigrate your help… quite the contrary. The progress we've made so far is extraordinary.
I suspect you're in this too far to back out now. The attacks on Bal… David and Dr. Amundsen prove what we know already is dangerous. We've got to see this thing through.
And… I'm not sure if you care, but… if I'm right about where this stuff comes from, I'm partially responsible and I'd like the chance to make amends.
"All right, I'm in"
I'm sorry to lean on you so much, but there isn't really anyone else to turn to. Most of my old contacts are dead or gone to ground. Not that I blame them.
As I was saying, though, I'd like to confirm what Eclipse is made of. If I'm right, and I hope I'm not, Midgard is probably mass-producing it somehow. If I'm wrong, we'll probably have to scour the criminal underground.
I mentioned certain enzymes before that looked familiar in Eclipse. Those weren't the active ingredient in the flower we were examining, just a chemical signature that looked familiar.
The only way we were able to isolate the active ingredient was… David's idea actually. He wanted to try a Eurasian device. They called it a protein analyzer, but that's a euphemism for vaporizing something with high energy radiation and sorting through the remains.
Anyway, if we could get our hands on one of those, we could verify it pretty easily. Of course, you probably guessed when I said "high energy radiation" that they're not easy to get ahold of.
My best lead is that there's a Eurasian arms dealer who runs a small operation out of a bar called the Happy Hour, near Metroplex University. He might be able to get us in touch with someone who can smuggle one into the city.
In the beginning, men were mortal.
Greeting from Lo if you've rescued David but not yet rescued Dr. Amundsen:
Thank you! Thank you!
He should be healing up nicely. I'm even more concerned now about Dr. Amundsen. But, I suppose, we can hope they took her prisoner too… rather than killing her.
I have a bunch of text from him from the end of the Survivors quest that I'll edit in here when I get a chance.
I am too lazy to revamp this whole page, but since I just got some text I'm not in a hurry to get again, I'll record it for posterity. Talking to Lo after getting David killed:
Please, take a look for him. He should be able to hold his own, but if they've started… well, I want to know if they've started to pick us off.
"Tell me more about him"
"I've got some bad news"
"No worries"
"I've got some bad news":
He's dead?
God help us all. Well, that makes finding Dr. Amundsen even more important.
It seems their captors don't like moving their prisoners, so I'd look for an abandoned section of the doctor's building. The basement or some storage area.
(end conversation)
This text becomes his greeting after you've gotten it once.
I wonder if some of the text for Lo's quest changed at some point? I just tried checking How's our status? with him after turning in fine hound dust and ghoul protein, and got this:
Well, neither the crystalline sample nor the near-human one had any Eclipse in it… which implies Hel might be wrong. See if you can find a few more, though.
If the samples do turn up Eclipse, whatever Midgard's doing should be easy to track chemically. If not… well, we're back to old-fashioned investigation.
Then after turning in a protein database:
Well, the samples have shown some… well, downright impossible traits. It's like they're insulting scientific understanding on purpose.
None of them showed any sign of Eclipse. It seems unlikely that the patchwork, crystalline, and near-human samples would all come back zero if Eclipse was the mechanism at work.
We're venturing into unknown territory, but I'd feel pretty comfortable reaching a conclusion with one more sample. I doubt even Hel could argue in the face of that evidence.
new text - unable to chose Lo as contact (even though doing his quest)
"I'm glad we've gotten this figured out. I still had some questions, but I think Hel's approach is the right one. I'll investigate things scientifically while you handle the rest with someone else."
Before chosing a definite contact. (I could chose Hel or…in theory… Lo)
Got that today. Huh.
Unfold
new text - unable to chose Lo as contact (even though doing his quest) by 
DerMagus, 14 Dec 2012 14:20
Very interesting find! I wonder if this is related to the new Andrea content (have you done anything with it?) or if you've managed to stumble on an undiscovered quest path. Any idea what you did to convince him that Hel was right?
/forum/t-195795/lo#post-