Head Researcher’s Note: RPC-364-1 had been unable to locate for two winters before this message was received by Installation-016.
AUDIO LOG
00:00 - 05:24 [ Five seconds of trees swaying are heard before RPC-364-1 cuts in. ]
RPC-364-1: Hello? … Hello?
[ A long pause. RPC-364-1 sounds sullen. ]
RPC-364-1: It’s me. The ice… freak.
[ Another pause. RPC-364-1 is heard heavily breathing. ]
RPC-364-1: I’m sorry. I am so, so sorry about ██████. I got really mad when I shouldn’t have and now he can’t talk anymore and I wish I could just go back in time and just slap myself before I did what I did. Then everyone gets rightfully angry at me and I’m like, “I hate you all,” and I… I turned into a monster. I killed them all.
[ As RPC-364-1 talks, it gets more and more distraught, ranting faster and faster until it stops and pauses for several seconds. When it comes back in, it sounds as though it’s crying. ]
RPC-364-1: I… I hate myself.
[ RPC-364-1 sobs quietly for ten seconds. It starts talking again with a sniffle. ]
RPC-364-1: I don’t want to be here anymore. I want to leave but I can’t. I want to cuddle with my dog again. I don’t even know how long it’s been since I got here. Every time I try to leave this place I get dizzy and black out and I wake up at the foot of another one of these freaking trees. I see birds flutter by outside but I can’t talk back to them. They don’t even notice me.
[ RPC-364-1 remarks to itself. ]
RPC-364-1: … Nobody does.
[ Another long pause, the longest in the recording. RPC-364-1 starts begging. ]
RPC-364-1: I just… want to talk to someone again. Please, send someone. Anyone. Please.
[ RPC-364-1 repeats, with extra emphasis. ]
RPC-364-1: Please.
[ Another pause. RPC-364-1 is now softly weeping. ]
RPC-364-1: … I don’t want to be alone again.
[ A soft crunch is heard, assumed to be RPC-364-1 placing the transponder back into the snow. RPC-364-1 is then heard sulking away. ]
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