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Encounter Conditions
Only if you have listened to the Vigilante Recording talk about the sewers, have already encountered the cul-de-sac and are etheric.
Initial Text
You turn a corner away from the dead end you saw earlier, then remember what the Vigilante's recording said, and head back that way to see if anything has changed. The tunnel has grown a short distance, looking every bit as ancient as the rest of the buried subway, stretching on another few dozen meters.
You wait for a while longer, pointedly not watching the tunnel. You feel a strange prickle along the back of your neck. Eventually, when you turn back around, it has grown to match the other nearby tunnels, terminating in a small room.
The walls unfold around a bandaged man who seems either unconcerned or blissfully unaware of what just happened. He hunches over an an exposed electrical conduit, using the heat to char some food. He looks up at you leerily and you see a strange green light reflected in his eyes.
Summary of Choices
- Talk to him - Fight a Subway Dweller OR (if you have Writhing Flesh active and are wearing the ratty top hat, ratty suit pants and one of filthy duster, ratty suit coat or stained bandages)
- Where's the Vigilante? - Allows you to find the Vigilante's mask by digging in the dumpster
- Didn't I just kill you? (only if you have won against him before) - Learn that cutting them makes more Sewer Mutants
- What's going on? - Learn that the Subway is growing
- Who are you? - Suggestion that people "up top" are broken people
- Sorry, gotta run
- Charge him - Fight a Subway Dweller
- Leave him be
Choice Text and Results
Talk to him
(if you have Writhing Flesh active and are wearing the ratty top hat, ratty suit pants and one of filthy duster, ratty suit coat or stained bandages)
He looks up from his lunch, sizing you up as you approach. "You wanna talk? Talk."
(Otherwise)
You approach the man, your arms calmingly at your sides. He hisses "outsider!" and drops his meal to lunge at you.
(Fight a Subway Dweller)
Where's the Vigilante?
He cocks his head up to look at you directly. "The… Vigilante was here, yes. Not anymore, though. The others got him. Tossed him aside. We buried him… in a trash pile. Best we could do."
He sighs. "The Vigilante helped us… not enough, though. Too late, I guess."
(allows you to find the Vigilante's mask in the Dumpster with digger choice encounter)
Didn't I just kill you?
He looks around. "Maybe. There are a lot of us. Just look alike, except for the others. The others are us, just smaller. Have to not get cut or there'll be more of them."
What's going on?
He shakes his head, as though to clear it. "Oh, sewer's growing. Never when you're looking. This wasn't here last month. Hope I live to see it grow up."
He pats the ground lovingly. "Forgot places up top don't do this. Must be boring."
Who are you?
"What am I?" he stares off into the distance. "A person, I guess. But I heard people up top don't grow more people if you cut them in half. That's weird."
He looks thoughtful for another moment. "So maybe we're people and the up top folks are broken people. Maybe we could send medicine."
Sorry, gotta run
"As you turn, you see the man glancing down at his meal, then back up at you. Whatever he decided in the end, he doesn't seem to follow you."
Charge him
The figure drops his meal as you approach and glares at you, his eyes burning with green fire. Tiny droplets of black oil bead up on his skin like sweat.
(Fight a Subway Dweller)
Leave him be
As you turn, you see the man glancing down at his meal, then back up at you. Whatever he decided in the end, he doesn't seem to follow you.