PP: How do you keep going? Everyday. From what I understand, almost everyone you know is gone, your hope has been crushed multiple times, and you are all alone. What keeps you going?

BW: I would say I don't know, but its just that there's too many dead people. How am I going to face them and tell them that I couldn't do it? It just seems like the easy way out for me.

BW: But don't try to take this as if I'm bashing on those who did. It's just not the right decision for me.

PP: Why do I feel like you are not telling me everything?

BW: It's also because my weapon is incredibly ineffective at self-harm. It would be like trying to shoot myself with a bayonetted rifle. I'm more likely to accidentally stab myself before I'd even be able to pull the shot off. That, and I haven't done anything too dishonorable in order to merit ritual suicide.

PP: I recall that you ate people? Is it possible that am I misremembering things?

BW: Let's also say that my standards of honor have dropped severely this past year.

PP: Why were you trying so hard to survive?

BW: The rest of the world didn't know if Atlas had fallen yet. Or at least the part of the world I was in. I wanted to find an intact Atlas, and ask them for help, letting them know that there are still slivers of humanity out there, struggling to stay alive. Turns out those slivers looked awful plump in comparison to Atlas.

PP: Are you sure on that note? Many of the alarms have been noted as acknowledged as false alarms on the Atlas end. I understood what you meant by fallen, but are you sure that there is no one left?

BW: There shouldn't be anyone left. No one Atlassian, that is.

PP: What do you mean by that?

AS: He means that if there's someone on the other end, then that means that they're probably an agent of Salem. Hi, my name is Private 508. I am your Atlas Support personnel for the next however, until my sergeant kills me.

PP: Why would your sergeant kill you?

AS: Very simple: I'm an annoying piece of garbage.

BW: So the 508 is just coincidence?

AS: Correlation versus Causation. Maybe its just a coincidence, maybe the number is why I'm like this.

BW: If you've managed to hide yourself for this long, why expose yourself now?

PP: He was never hidden.

BW: Then why didn't you say anything!? I thought we talked about the alarm at the other end and why we shouldn't be doing the alarm thing!?

PP: I thought it was just another person trapped in a bunker, equally unable to help.

AS: That would be where you're wrong. While I am a servant of Salem, I got to say, you two are depressing as heck. One of you is literally falling apart at the seams, and the other mentally. I've yet to figure out who's who, specifically.

BW: Are you doing this just to taunt us? Knowing that you've been lurking in all of our most private moments, watching us expose ourselves to each other?

AS: While yes, I do enjoy a bit of good taunting, what was that language?

PP: I do not see the issue in what Dove said. What is the issue?

AS: It sounds like you two flashed yourselves to each other. Showed each other your privates.

PP: Yes, Dove has seen my most private server towers, and my most vulnerable parts.

BW: Give up, there's no winning this one.

AS: I'll concur on that front. However, before we get too off track, I have decided to inform you that, yes, I do have the ability to talk in this chat, and yes, I believe I have an offer to make to you.

PP: What offer would we accept from you?

BW: And what reasons would we have for doing so. There's basically nothing we'd want.

AS: Not even a body? Not even surgery? Not even a new identity? A way out?

PP: What do you think Dove?

BW: This guy is sketchy. Doesn't even have a name. Just a number.

AS: We are all simply numbers to lord Salem.

BW: What would you even get out of this?

AS: Entertainment. Also, the deal would have been having you knock off my boss or something. So many people suck so much, that frankly, anything I can get to make work less garbage would be fantastic?

BW: Better the enemy you know than the one you don't? That the right phrase Penny?

PP: Technically. The idiom is "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't".

BW: Thank you. That.

AS: Maybe. Maybe I just wish to be entertained. Maybe I actually have pity for you, Dove Dumbwing. It would be a shame after all if you died in some pit in the ground due, even after all of your heroic acts.

BW: Like what?

AS: Don't know, I've actually never heard of you before these logs. Now, Penny is well documented, and I would like to know if she's ever figured out what her semblance is. If it's anything like her father's, then that'll be a real hootenanny. A real boon, if you understand my drift.

BW: So you're asking for Penny. No deal.

AS: I'm afraid I was misinterpreted. That is not what I implied. Though this does make it a bit more interesting.

PP: If I can help save you, then what is the problem with me giving myself up Dove.

BW: It's not right Penny.

PP: It is my choice Dove. If I wish to save you, it should be my choice, and not yours.

AS: Both of you, calm down. That's not what I've asked for. Yet. I think it's best if I gave you two a day or two to stew on this.

BW: It would be best if you did so. Leave. Don't read the chat logs.

AS: If you insist. Penny, is he always like this?

PP: I believe my friend asked you to leave. Please, do so.

AS: Kill joys.