How do the Dreams follow-up on shooting me in the back? By taking an uncanny tonal shift, of course. Why not?
They have gone from being super serious, action packed, life or death to…I don’t know…comedy? Kind of? I feel like I'm the butt of a very elaborate drawn out cosmic joke.
I’m briefed about an attack by The Meta on a sim trooper base and receive new orders to investigate the whole Meta situation and in doing so I’m told to start at Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha, this random box canyon in the middle of ass-end nowhere. The sim troopers there apparently were the last people to come in contact with the Omega A.I., which apparently The Meta has now, how I don’t fucking know. So I arrive at Blood Gulch and find that there are only two troopers left there. One who apparently has been throwing raves in her empty base every night and is convinced I’m a cop and another who is, I swear to god, batshit insane. He's ignored his reassignment orders and has essentially gone AWOL all in order to…fulfill his orders to fight the Blues?
I knew the sim troopers were scraping the bottom of the recruitment barrel, but Jesus Christ. And the Project thought I was crazy...