Sunday, January 27, 2008

Last Mission: Rapture

Gordon was explaining on weapons he had handle. I was just listening with awed. Gordon has been with too many battles compared to me. His last mission was at Rapture (BioShock), in the middle of the north Atlantic, a lighthouse just out of the water. Inside waits a rusted bathysphere, which takes you deep under the ocean to Rapture, secretly built a city sprawling along the sea floor.

Rapture was entirely self-sufficient and powered by submarine volcanoes. Constructed by business magnate Andrew Ryan, Rapture was envisioned as the solution to what he saw as increasingly oppressive political and religious authority. The city was populated by those whom Ryan believed exemplified the best in humanity. It was revealed in an audio log that Ryan wanted Rapture to become an "Eden," a concept furthered by the resources ADAM and EVE, which are named after the biblical inhabitants of Eden.

Gordon remembered his scariest moment at Rapture. There was this one, at Fort Frolic. He entered a shop called Sinclaire Spirits and there were 3 cemented killing machines crawly splicers on each side of him, as he walked farther in towards a bar (Splicers are shells of the people they once were, mutated almost past any recognition of their former humanity). He found a button which after pressed opened a jammed door and entered through it. In the corner of the room there was a cemented splicer sitting in a chair. To the left there was a power for the weapon upgrader. After using it, as he turned around he saw the cemented splicer looking right at him in a frozen position after which it started attacking him and more and more splicers after that bla..bla..bla..bla..bla…so the story goes.

Yuna, don’t go there for a vacation..believe me!” convinced Gordon. The grand Art Deco architecture was at once futuristic and archaic, but as you step into Rapture, you find the city a shell of itself. The walls are crumbling and the ocean is seeping in. The hallways are littered with corpses, those who were once the best and brightest of the world above are now mutated and mad, roaming the corridors and waiting to ambush you at every turn. “Eeekkk..! then what were you there for?” wondering about his mission. “I was looking for little sister!” he explained. “What? I thought she’s in Bintulu?” I was shocked to hear the news. “Is she ok now? Did you get her?” Gordon was laughing his head off “Not that sister of mine la…I’m talking about the little sisters in there who would be helping me to rescue Atlas’ wife and child...oh man!” After hearing him about some cool weapons he had on and used, “I’d love to blast off some mutants”. “Yuna, this project was classified at UTHM…only meant for UTHM students k!” wakakakaka..he laughed. (What a jerk!)

The moral of the story, “Gordon loves to bully Yuna! Eeeekkk!”

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