BIOSHOCK audio diary location guide, plus audio diary script guide.
FAQ/Walkthrough
Author: ShadowsDieAway
Mike Merin
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FAQ first posted on 8/23/07
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This is a list of all 122 audio diaries to get the Historian achievement
*NOTE* the best way to view your audio diaries is to go to the
map/goals/messages/help screen (press back on the controller), scroll to the
messages tab, and go from the bottom to top. Also, the order presented here is
from my top to bottom list, so yours may be in a different order.
If you have any problems finding an audio diary, let me know.
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Use control+f to find the keywords in the brackets (include brackets in search)
1. [MP] Welcome to Rapture - - Medical Pavilion
2. [NB] Neptune's Bounty - - Smuggler's Hideout
3. [AC] Arcadia - - Farmer's Market
4, [FF] Fort Frolic
5. [HP] Hephaestus - - Rapture Central Control
6. [AS] Olympus Heights - - Apollo Square
7. [PP] Point Prometheus
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No. Audio Diary Name Speaker Location
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Welcome To Rapture - - Medical Pavilion (19)
Medical Pavilion Bathysphere [MP]
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VERY IMPORTANT
YOU MUST GET THESE TWO DIARIES BEFORE YOU USE THE BULKHEAD INTO THE MEDICAL
PAVILLION OTHERWISE YOU'LL NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN
1 New Year's Eve Alone Diane McClintock Kashmir Bottom Floor
on top of table
2 Hole in the Bathroom Wall Steve Barker Kashmir Restaurant
in the "Dames" bathroom
=============go to Medical Pavillion=============
3 Released Today Diane McClintock Medical Pavillion Foyer
on the reception desk
4 Adam's Changes Steinman Emergency Access
on the desk
5 Higher Standards Steinman Medical Pavillion Foyer
near entrance on wall
6 Parasite Expectations Andrew Ryan Medical Pavillion Foyer
near surgery on desk
7 Love for Science Tenenbaum Medical Pavillion Foyer
near health station
8 Limits of Imagination Steinman Medical Pavillion Foyer
by Eternal Flame's wall
9 Vandalism Andrew Ryan Medical Pavillion Foyer
near vending machines
10 Surgery's Picasso Steinman Eternal Flame
entrance near memorial
11 Freezing Pipes McDonagh Medical Pavillion Foyer
near bottom of stairs
12 Testing Telekinesis Suchong Dandy Dental
on the floor by
Gatherer's Garden
13 Useless Experiments Tenenbaum Dandy Dental
floor near entrance
14 Enrage Trial Suchong Kure All
corner of main room
15 Symmetry Steinman Surgery Foyer
wal by debris pile
16 Aphrodite Waking Steinman Surgery
desk in northern OR
17 Not What She Wanted Steinman Surgery
in the corpse on table
the doctor worked on
18 Gatherer's Vulnerability Steinman Lounge
on the floor by
Gatherer's Garden
19 Plasmids are the Paint Suchong Painless Dental
desk in the corner
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Neptune's Bounty - - Smuggler's Hideout (22)
Neptune's Bounty Bathysphere [NB]
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20 Bathysphere Keys Sullivan Lower Wharf
under south end of
the boardwalk
21 Timmy H. Interrogation Sullivan Lower Wharf
in the water of the
interrogation room
22 Fontaine Must Go Andrew Ryan Lower Wharf
crawl under the metal
grating by the pipes
after fighting the
spider splicer
23 Finding the Sea Slug Tenenbaum Upper Wharf
table by the
stairwell entrance
24 Picked Up Timmy H Sullivan Upper Wharf
from the lower wharf
to the upper wharf, when
you enter the upper,
make a left and it's in
the corner near Little
Sister in the corpse
25 Masha Come Home Marista Lutz Upper Wharf
from the lower wharf
to the upper wharf, when
you enter the upper,
make a left and it's in
the corner near corpse
on wall
26 Watch Fontaine Andrew Ryan Upper Wharf
next to the Circus of
values machine
27 Have My Badge Sullivan Wharfmaster's Office
on desk
28 Adam Discovery Tenenbaum Upper Wharf
in crate below the
wharfmaster's office
29 Eden Leaking McDonagh Upper Wharf
hallway going towards
Jet Postal
30 Fontaine's Smugglers Tenenbaum Jet Postal
bench in glass tube
31 Death Penalty in Rapture Andrew Ryan Jet Postal
desk by vending machine
32 Meeting Ryan McDonagh Fighting McDonagh
crawl through the water-
filled ventilation shaft
towards the Gene Bank
33 Smuggling Ring Sullivan Fighting McDonagh
center bar table
34 Working Late Again Andrew Ryan Fighting McDonagh
window bar table
35 Rapture Changing McDonagh Fighting McDonagh
desk in basement office
36 Saw Masha Today Marista Lutz Fighting McDonagh
room #7 upstairs
37 Arresting Fontaine McDonagh Fighting McDonagh
room #6 upstairs
38 Putting the Screws On Peach Wilkins Freezer Bottom Floor
next to safe
=============go to Smuggler's Hideout=============
39 Meeting With Fontaine Peach Wilkins Storage Cave
ground by crates
40 Kraut Scientist Frank Fontaine Control Room Lower Floor
in locked storage cave
41 Offered a Deal Peach Wilkins Submarine Bay
on dock towards Arcadia
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Arcadia - - Farmer's Market (25)
Arcadia Bathysphere [AC]
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42 Seeing Ghosts McDonagh Tea Garden
floor left of entrance
43 Arcadia Closed Langford Tea Garden
desk near Gene Bank
44 Big Night Out Dieter Sonnekalb Tea Garden
floor near ghost bench
45 Mass Producting Adam Tenenbaum Tea Garden
floor near chairs
46 The Market is Patient Andrew Ryan Waterfall Grottos
bench near U-Invent
47 Early Tests Promising Langford Waterfall Grottos
near water wheel
48 Offer a Better Product Andrew Ryan Waterfall Grottos
near water wheel
49 Heroes and Criminals Diane McClintock Waterfall Grottos
in locked machinery room
50 Shouldn't Have Come Mariska Lutz Lower Rolling Hills
bench near stairs
51 The Saturnine Langford Lower Rolling Hills
cave behind waterfall
52 Arcadia and Oxygen Langford Tree Farm
near crate at entrance
53 What Won't They Steal Langford Research Laboratories
near entrance
54 Teaching an Old Hound Langford Research Laboratories
table in second room
55 Lazarus Vector Langford Langford's Office
in Julie Langford's body
56 Lazarus Vector Formula Langford Langford's Office
in Julie's wall safe
57 Maternal Instinct Tenenbaum Tree Farm
on the steps towards
Farmer's Market
=============go to Farmers Market=============
58 Bee Enzyme Tasha Denu Farmers Market
ground near pneumo tube
59 Pulling Together Andrew Ryan Farmers Market
on meat market counter
60 First Encounter Andrew Ryan Farmers Market
near Bouncer corpse in
lower storage room
(for some reason, this
audio diary will be
located when you look
under the Neptune's
Bounty section)
61 Hatred Tenenbaum Farmers Market
lower storage room desk
62 Desperate Times Andrew Ryan Farmers Market
in freezer crawlspace
63 Water in Wine Pierre Gobbi Farmers Market
near winery sign
64 Adam Explained Tenenbaum Silverwing Apiary
on entrance counter
65 Functional Children Tenenbaum Winery
on the back table
=============go back to Arcadia=============
66 The Great Chain Andrew Ryan Arcadia Metro Station
bench right of entrance
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Fort Frolic (15)
Fort Frolic Bathysphere [FF]
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67 Stood Up Again Diane McClintock Upper Atrium
top of stairs near Fleet
Hall's entrance
68 Musical Insult Sander Cohen Projection Room
(take stairs in Fleet Hall
theater on NE side)
near guitar at top of
the stairs
69 Come to the Record Store Cobb Southern Mall
(Cocktail Lounge)
on table outside of
the restrooms next to
the burning chairs
70 Artist's Feud Sullivan Cocktail Lounge
on the bar
71 The Wild Bunny Sander Cohen Sophia Salon
(Cocktail Lounge)
in closet behind counter
72 Fancy Cigarettes Albert Milonakis Le Marquis D'Epogue
(Cocktail Lounge)
downstairs near corpse
73 The Doubters Sander Cohen Cohen's Collection
(Upper Atrium south room)
downstairs table
74 The Iceman Cometh Martin Finnegan Frozen Tunnel
left of entrance hall
75 Fontaine's Army McDonagh Sir-Prize
(north of Eve's Garden)
left of stairs in crate
76 Ryan's Stableboy Anna Culpepper Rapture Records
behind entrance counter
77 Bumb Culpepper? Sullivan Pharoah's Fortune
(near Sir-Prize)
on pool table upstairs
78 Pregnancy Jasmine Jolene Eve's Garden
under bed behind stage
79 Guns Blazing McDonagh Robertson's Tobaccoria
(Eve's Garden)
table near entrance
80 It's All Grift Hector Rodriguez Eve's Garden
on the bar
81 Requiem for Andrew Ryan Sander Cohen Projection Booth
(take stairs in Fleet Hall
theater on NE side)
on office table (must
do Cohen's quest first)
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Hephaestus - - Rapture Central Control (20)
Hephaestus Bathysphere [HP]
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82 Ryan Takes F Futuristics McDonagh Hephae. Bathysphere Station
crate near the Circus of
Values machine (same
room as Gene Bank)
83 Scoping the Gate Kyburz Outside Ryan's Office
(Central Control)
in between the Circus of
Values machine and the
Vita-Chamber
84 Stopping Ryan McDonagh Ryan's Office Hall
(Central Control)
inside first corpse on
right hanging on wall
85 Going to Heat Loss Anya Andersdotter Ryan's Office Hall
(Central Control)
inside third corpse on
right hanging on wall
86 A Man or a Parasite Andrew Ryan Ryan's Office Hall, Side
Area (Central Control)
desk next of bunks
right of office door
behind hanging bodies
87 Fontaine's Legacy McDonagh Hephaestus Core
near Vita-Chamber on
the walkway
88 Assassin Anya Andersdotter Hephaestus Core
near Gatherer's Garden
89 Running Short on R-34s Pablo Navarro Hephaestus Core
desk outside the
Workshops entrance
90 Impossible Anywhere Else Andrew Ryan Hephaestus Core
on desk at bottom of
walkway, E side of core
91 Kyburz Door Code Pablo Navarro Upper Heat Loss Monitoring
floor in the SW corner
(door code is Australia
Day, which is 01-26)
92 Getting a Break Pablo Navarro Lower Heat Loss Monitoring
on desk near tonic in
the W part of room
93 Genetic Arms Race McDonagh Lower Heat Loss Monitoring
on desk in flooded area
in the E part of room
(disable the electric
current first)
94 Device Almost Finished Kyburz Lower Workshops
office desk at bottom
of the stairs (room
with Gene Bank)
95 Great Chain Moves Slowly Andrew Ryan Kyburz's Office
desk in back of room
96 The Dream Kyburz Lower Workshops
corpse in middle of room
with the health station
97 Assembling the Bomb Kyburz Lower Workshops
secret crawlspace in SE
corner of room, on desk
next to tonic
98 Market Maintenance Code Pablo Navarro Lower Workshops
start with your back to
Kyburz's Office's door,
go down stairs and turn
right to find crawlspace
=============go to Rapture Central Control=============
VERY IMPORTANT
YOU MUST GET THESE THREE DIARIES BEFORE YOU GO UP AGAINST THE BOSS IN THIS AREA
OTHERWISE YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COME BACK TO THEM.
99 The Vita Chamber Suchong Control Room
desk left of entrance
next to vita-chamber
100 Mind Control Test Suchong Control Room
(after crawlspace)
on table beneath photos
101 Baby Status Suchong Control Room
(after crawlspace)
on table beneath photos
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Olympus Heights - - Apollo Square (12)
Apollo Square Bathysphere [as]
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102 Mozart of Genetics Suchong Olympus Heights
Bistro Square snack bar
near bulkhead to Apollo
Sqaure
103 Fontaine's Homan Jukebox Suchong Suchong's Apt. 1st floor
(west of main square)
on floor in south room
104 Mind Control Antidote Suchong Suchong's Apt. 1st floor
(west of main square)
on desk in the water,
next to tonic
105 Artist Woman Sullivan Culpepper's Apartment
on corner table in room
next to security camera
(music sheets on floor)
106 Fontaine's Breakup Paparazzi Mercury Suites
go up the stairs in
the main square to the
3rd floor, near U-Invent
machine on the walkway
(says that elevator
code is 5744)
107 Sad Saps Frank Fontaine Fontaine's Apartment
after the big hall, go
up the stairs and turn
right, go into room, on
coffee table near cigars
=============go to Apollo Square=============
108 What's Happening Here? Diane McClintock Apollo Square
on the ground near
Circus of Values by
Olympus Heights bulkhead
109 Atlas Lives Diane McClintock Apollo Square
near Gatherer's Garden
110 Protection Bond Suchong Artemis Suites 2nd Floor
(Suchong's office)
West room where you
obtain second dosage
of lot 192
111 Meeting Atlas Diane McClintock Hestia Chambers (Fontaine
Home for the Poor)
right of entrance
inside steamer trunk
112 The Longest Con Frank Fontaine Atlas' Headquarters
(Hestia 4th floor)
to get to 4th floor,
head to 5th floor's
room and go downstairs.
on desk next of tonic
113 Today's Raid Diane McClintock Atlas' Headquarters
(Hestia 4th floor)
to get to 4th floor,
head to 5th floor's
room and go downstairs.
in corpse near the safe
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Point Prometheus - - Proving Grounds (9)
Point Prometheus Bathysphere [pp]
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114 Why Just Girls? Tenenbaum Atrium Balcony
(Little Wonders)
on desk in second floor
of orphanage
115 Marketing Gold Andrew Ryan Test Subject Storage
(Optimized Eugenics W room)
on machine in right part
of room near water
116 Extra Munitions Suchong Optimized Eugenics)
(Plasmid Prototyping)
NE most room, on the
ground near RPG turret
(says Protector Lab
code is 1921)
117 Protecting Little Ones Suchong Suit Assembly Upper Floor
(Above Failsafe Armored
Escorts)
desk 2nd floor SE room
118 Mistakes Andrew Ryan Suit Assembly Upper Floor
(Above Failsafe Armored
Escorts)
next to Gene Bank
119 Protector Smell Suchong Suit Assembly Upper Floor
(Above Failsafe Armored
Escorts)
computer in center
pillar in SW room
120 Missing Boots Suchong Candidate Conversion Area
(Failsafe Armored Escorts)
desk in back of room
121 Cheap Son of a Bitch Suchong Failsafe Armored Escorts
the southern-most room
on the map, next to
Circus of Values machine
122 Changing Employers Suchong Main Hall 2nd Floor
(in-between Atrium Balcony
and Optimized Eugenics at
Circus of Values machine)
across from Circus of
Values: melt the ice,
enter the closet and
search the trash can
*none in proving grounds*
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Now the script guide of all 122 audio diaries. Enjoy!
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Welcome To Rapture - - Medical Pavilion (19)
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1 Diane McClintock - New Year's Eve Alone
Another New Year's, another night alone. I'm out, and you're stuck in
Hephaestus, working. Imagine my surprise. I guess I'll have another
drink... here's a toast to Diane McClintock, silliest girl in Rapture.
Silly enough to fall in love with Andrew Ryan, silly enough to- *sound
of a raid and people screaming* What... what happened... I'm bleeding...
oh, god... what's happening...
2 Steve Barker - Hole in the Bathroom Wall
Hey, Brenda- You care to tell me why you've had a hole in the wall the
size of Plymouth Rock coming out of your crapper going on three weeks
now? Now, I ain't saying I'm Shakespeare, but I'm trying to run a
respectable theater. I got working folk coming in from Port Neptune
trying to catch a little diversion... and all they can think about is
the stink coming out your shitter. Get it fixed.
3 Diane McClintock - Released Today
Dr. Steinman said he'd release me today. Ryan didn't come to see me
since the New Year's attack. Not once. But Dr. Steinman was very
attentive. He told me that once the scar tissue was gone, he was going
to fix me right up. Make me prettier than any girl I've ever seen. He's
sweet all right... and so interested in my case!
4 Steinman - Adam's Changes
Ryan and Adam, Adam and Ryan... all those years of study, and was I ever
truly a surgeon before I met them? How we plinked away with our
scalpels and toy morality. Yes, we could lop a boil here, and shave down
a beak there, but... but could we really change anything? No. But Adam
gives us the means to do it. And Ryan frees us from the phony ethics
that held us back. Change your look, change your sex, change your race.
It's yours to change, nobody else's.
5 Steinman - Higher Standards
Adam presents new problems for the professional. As your tools improve,
so do your standards. There was a time, I was happy enough to take off
a wart or two, or turn a real circus freak into something you can
show in the daylight. But that was then, when we took what we got, but
with Adam... the flesh becomes clay. What excuse do we have not to
sculpt, and sculpt, and sculpt, until the job is done?
6 Andrew Ryan - Parasite Expectations
On the surface, the Parasite expects the doctor to heal them for free,
the farmer to feed them out of charity. How little they differ from the
pervert who prowls the streets, looking for a victim he can ravish for
his grotesque amusement.
7 Tenenbaum - Love for Science
I was at German prison camp only of sixteen years old when I realize I
have love for science. German doctor, he make experiment. Sometime, he
make scientific error. I tell him of this error, and this make him
angry. But then he asks, 'how can a child know such a thing?' I tell
him, 'Sometimes, I just know.' He screams at me, 'Then why tell me?'
'Well,' I said, 'if you're going to do such things, at least you should
do them properly.'
8 Steinman - Limits of Imagination
I am beautiful, yes. Look at me, what could I do to make my features
finer? With Adam and my scalpel, I have been transformed. But is there
not something better? What if now it is not my skill that fails me...
but my imagination?
9 Andrew Ryan - Vandalism
It has been brought to my attention that some citizens have discovered
ways to... hack the vending machines. I should not need to remind each
and every citizen of Rapture that free enterprise is the foundation upon
which our society has been established. Parasites will be punished.
10 Steinman - Surgery's Picasso
When Picasso became bored of painting people, he started representing
them as cubes and other abstract forms. The world called him a genius!
I've spent my entire surgical career creating the same tired shapes,
over and over again: the upturned nose, the cleft chin, the ample
bosom. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could do with a knife what that old
Spaniard did with a brush?
11 McDonagh - Freezing Pipes
Steinman, I know Medical Pavilion is your manor, but you might want to
cogitate on this: ocean water is colder than a witch's tit. You don't
heat the pipes, the pipes freeze. Pipes freeze, pipes burst. Then
Rapture leaks. Now, I realize you're a posh sort of geezer, and,
frankly, I don't give a toss if you piss or go fishing. But once Rapture
starts leaking, the old girl's never gonna stop. And then I'll be sure
to tell Ryan he's got you to thank.
12 Suchong - Testing Telekinesis
Clinical Trial Lot 23 Dr. Suchong/Client Fontaine Futuristics. Work on
telekinesis plasmid proceeding well. Lifting objects at distance present
no problem. Moving objects through space, no problem. Cannot stop
speeding bullet, but can catch and throw fast moving object. Problem not
with plasmid. Problem with reaction time. ...Suchong just get new idea
for plasmid.
13 Tenenbaum - Useless Experiments
At the German prison camp they put me to work on genetic experiments on
other prisoners. They call me 'Das Wunderkind', the wonder child.
Germans, all they can talk about is blue eyes, and shape of forehead.
All I care about is why is this one born strong, and that one weak?
This one smart, that one stupid? All that killing, you think the Germans
could have been interested in something useful?
14 Suchong - Enrage Trial
Clinical Trial Lot 44 Dr. Suchong/Client Fontaine Futuristics. Subject
is white male, one Roland Wallace. Can you hear me, Mr. Wallace? 'Yes
sir, Mr. Suchong, sir' Very well. Right, I'm introducing lot 44 now...
We've codenamed Lot 44 'Enrage' because of its tendency to... *Mr.
Wallace starts screaming* Nurse, hold him down... nurse! Nurse!!!
15 Steinman - Symmetry
Today I had lunch with the Goddess, 'Steinman,' she said... 'I'm here to
free you from the tyranny of the commonplace. I'm here to show you a new
kind of beauty.' I asked her, 'What do you mean, goddess?' 'Symmetry,
dear Steinman. It's time we did something about symmetry...'
16 Steinman - Aphrodite Waking
Aphrodite is walking the halls - shimmering, like a scalpel...
'Steinman,' she calls, 'Steinman! I have what you're looking for! Just
open your eyes!' And when I see her, she cuts into me a thousand
beautiful pieces.
17 Steinman - Not What She Wanted
Steinman: Four-oh silk and ...done.
Nurse: The nose looks terrific, Doctor Steinman ...Doctor?
Steinman: You know, looking at it now... I didn't realize how much her
face sags... Scalpel...
Nurse: Excuse me?
Steinman: Scalpel!
Nurse: Uh, doctor, she's not booked for a face lift...
Steinman: Let's just come in here and... *starts whistling*
Nurse: Doctor... Stop cutting... Doctor, stop cutting... Get me the
chief of surgery! Get me the chief of surgery NOW!!!
18 Steinman - Gatherer's Vulnerability
Not only are those little girls veritable Adam factories, they're nearly
indestructible. They regenerate any wounded flesh with stem versions of
the dead cells. But their relationship with the implanted slugs is
symbiotic... if you harvest the slug, the hose will die. 'So you see
it's not like killing,' Tenenbaum said. 'It's more like removing a
terminal patient from life support.'
19 Suchong - Plasmids are the Paint
Tenenbaum... sometimes I pity the little freak. Such a tiny
imagination... Content to sit there with her tanks of Adam, tweaking
and optimizing. I need to create... Adam is a canvas of genetic
modification... but plasmids are the paint.
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Neptune's Bounty - - Smuggler's Hideout (22)
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20 Sullivan - Bathysphere Keys
We're putting all the bathyspheres in lockdown until further notice.
Ryan had us install some kinda genetic device into the things so only
Ryan and his inner circle will be able to use 'em without dispensation.
But the boys tell me the keys are pretty unreliable. Sisters, cousins-
anybody in the ballpark genetically will be able to come and go as they
see fit.
21 Sullivan - Timmy H. Interrogation
Sullivan: Mr. Ryan asked me personally to make this clear to you. You
give us Fontaine, and this whole filthy ring of his, and you'll
be knocking back pints up at the Fighting McDonaghs. But if you
prefer to play the mule... we'll treat you like a mule... Give
him a taste, Patrick... *Timmy screams from electrocution*
Sullivan: Oh, what's that? Change of heart, Timmy? Timmy? Ready to talk
now?
Timmy H: Go on, Sullivan... go on and do your dirty! ...whatever Ryan
thinks he can do to me, Fontaine can do double!
22 Andrew Ryan - Fontaine Must Go
Something must be done about Fontaine. While I was buying buildings and
fish futures, he was cornering the market on genotypes and nucleotide
sequences. Rapture is transforming before my eyes. The Great Chain is
pulling away from me. Perhaps it's time to give it a tug.
23 Tenenbaum - Finding the Sea Slug
I saw one of the smugglers having a game of catching on the docks today.
And this surprised me, because his hands were crippled during the war.
He was unloading the barge the other day when he was bitten from this
sea slug. He woke up the next morning and he found he could move his
fingers for the first time in years. I asked him if he still had that
sea slug. As luck would have it, he did...
24 Sullivan - Picked Up Timmy H
Now the eggs are in the scramble. We picked up Timmy H, right after
midnight. Either Ryan'll be taking down Fontaine, or Fontaine'll be
taking down Ryan. We'll be 'interviewing' poor Timmy 'neath Fontaine
Fisheries... if you're up for entertainment, the code's 5380.
25 Marista Lutz - Masha Come Home
Darling Masha- We don't know what has happened to you... Ryan's men have
taken you away and said you are needed to save Rapture. Who needs a
child to save a city? But I see these little girls crawling out of these
vents, and I only wonder if you might one day crawl out of this vent and
find this note. We look for you, but if you find this, come to us at the
fighting McDonaghs in room #7. The code to our room is 7533. We miss
you, our darling child.
26 Andrew Ryan - Watch Fontaine
This Fontaine fellow is somebody to watch. Once, he was just a menace,
to be convicted and hung. But he always manages to be where the evidence
isn't. He's the most dangerous type of hoodlum... the kind with vision.
27 Sullivan - Have My Badge
Hanging now, is it? That's what we've come to? Now look, I don't make
the laws here, I just enforce them. But I didn't come to Rapture to
string men up for running contraband. If Ryan and his crew have their
law, then they can have my badge.
28 Tenenbaum - Adam Discovery
This little sea slug has come along and glued together all the crazy
ideas I've had since the war... if doesn't just heal damaged cells,
it... resurrects them... I can bend the double helix... Black can be
reborn white, tall short. Weak, strong... But the slugs alone are not
enough... I'll need money... and one other thing...
29 McDonagh - Eden Leaking
If things weren't bad enough, it seems that even our water system's
sprung a leak. Yep, that's right. The irrigation system in Arcadia is
taking on sea water. I told Mr. Ryan when we were building this place
that either you build her like a bath tub, or she's gonna turn into a
sewer. No, McDonagh, he said, we're not gonna build no bathtub... we're
gonna build Eden.
30 Tenenbaum - Fontaine's Smugglers
As the respectable labs have all turned me away, I have turned to
Fontaine's smugglers in Port Neptune for supplies. Fontaine's men are
pigs. They spit, they stink. But they deliver and they don't ask
questions. They're all terrified of Fontaine... he reminds me a bit of
the Germans- so efficient. It wouldn't surprise me if he were soon
running things down here.
31 Andrew Ryan - Death Penalty in Rapture
The death penalty in Rapture! Council's in an uproar. Riots in the
streets they say! But this is the time for leadership. Action must be
taken against the smugglers. Any contact with the surface exposes
Rapture to the very Parasites we fled from. A few stretched necks are a
small price to pay for our ideals.
32 McDonagh - Meeting Ryan
I met Ryan the day me and the lads were installing the bathroom plumbing
up in his posh Park Avenue digs. 'Oi!' says he, 'what's with all the
brass fittings? General contractor had me down for the tin.' 'Well,' I
says, 'I supposed it's the contractor then who'll be bailing out your
loo once a fortnight, is it? If it's price you're worried about, I'll be
picking up the brass, so not to worry, squire.' 'And why would you be
doing that,' says he? 'Well, Mr. Ryan, profit or not, no man bails
water out of privies built by Bill McDonagh.' The next day I finds out,
I'm Ryan's new general contractor.
33 Sullivan - Smuggling Ring
I'm closing in on the whole ring. I'd pat myself on the back, but let's
face it... these aren't exactly bloodthirsty desperadoes we're talking
about. Rapture's full of poets, artists, and tennis players, not hired
gorillas. But this leader of theirs, this Fontaine... he seems to know
his way around a grift. He keeps his nose clean, but not so clean that
the right people don't know he's not to be trifled with...
34 Andrew Ryan - Working Late Again
Diane, my dear I'm sorry but I'll be late again tonight... Rosenberg is
demanding to speak about this Fontaine business. I'm trying to build a
proper financial market and this idiot keeps going on about Adam this
and genetic modification that. I'll go spend an hour pretending to pay
attention to the poor fellow and be home as soon as I can. -Andrei
35 McDonagh - Rapture Changing
Rapture's changing, but Ryan can't see the wolves in the woods. This
Fontaine fellow... he's a crook and a proper tea leaf, but he's got the
ADAM, and that makes him the guv'nor. He's sinking the profits back
into bigger and better plasmids, and building them Fontaine
Poorhouses... more like Fontaine recruiting centers... 'Fore we know it,
Bloke's gonna have an army of splicers, and we're gonna have ourselves
a whole heap of miseries.
36 Marista Lutz - Saw Masha Today
We saw our Masha today. We barely recognized her. That's her, Sam said.
You're crazy, I told him. That thing? that, that is our Masha? But he
was right. She was drawing blood out of a corpse by Fontaine Fisheries,
and when she was done, she walked off hand in hand with one of those
awful golems. Masha!
37 McDonagh - Arresting Fontaine
Mr. Ryan... I believe in Rapture. But that doesn't mean we always win.
Fontaine Futuristics is the biggest thing going in Rapture. So let me be
plain: when we arrest that toerag Fontaine for his thieving and
smuggling, we must make it clear that we won't touch his business
interests. We sit on the council because these poor sods trust us... not
because God gave us a chair.
38 Peach Wilkins - Putting the Screws On
Fontaine's putting the screws on us, and double. He's squeezing us out
80 points of our cut with the threat of turning us in to Ryan if we
don't play ball. Son of a bitch. Sammy G. comes and tells me he's
thinking of going to the constable, and the next day, Sammy G. was found
in a sack in the salt pond. We got no choice here. We stay on Fontaine's
crew, we're gonna catch the gallows. We take a powder, and we end up
like Sammy G. There's gotta be another way...
39 Peach Wilkins - Meeting With Fontaine
We all come down here, figured we'd all be part of Ryan's Great Chain.
Turns out Ryan's chain is made of gold, and ours are the sort with the
big iron ball around your ankle. He's up in Fort Frolic banging fashion
models... we're down in this dump yanking guts outta fish. Fontaine's
promising something better. He's like one-a us, you know, like he's
worked a day in his life. He says meet him at his fish-packing joint at
11. I'll go, bring a couple of guys. Hey, it's not like things could get
a lot worse.
40 Frank Fontaine - Kraut Scientist
Spent the morning jawing with that Kraut scientist. She's damaged goods,
all right. Just like all those chumps they scraped out of them prison
camps. But she's no crackpot... she's gonna make me the kinda scratch
that'll have Ryan look like he's runnin' a paper route. She just needs
some supplies to get the ball rolling... and a friend to watch her back.
41 Peach Wilkins - Offered a Deal
The Irish porkpie offered me a deal. I flip 'em Fontaine, and I walk out
of here. That simple. How do I know that fat fuck isn't Fontaine's guy?
How do I know they're not all Fontaine's guy? Fontaine's got Adam and
everybody wants it. Ryan's got a whole lot of talk and a nice suit. Even
down here, any idiot can see which way the wind is blowing.
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42 McDonagh - Seeing Ghosts
Seems like some poor blighters have started seeing ghosts. Ghosts! Ryan
tells me it's a side effect of this plasmid business. One poor sod's
memories getting passed on to another through genetic sampling. Leaks.
Lunatics. Rebellion. And now bleeding ghosts. Ain't life in Rapture
grand?
43 Langford - Arcadia Closed
Today Arcadia was closed off to all but paying customers. The man hires
me to build a forest at the bottom of the ocean, and then turns a walk
in the woods into a luxury. Ryan asked 'Should a farmer not be able to
sell his food?' 'Is a potter not entitles to a profit from his pots?' I
started to argue with the man and then I remembered who signed my
checks. Only thing worse than a hypocrite is an unemployed one.
44 Dieter Sonnekalb - Big Night Out
What a night I got lined up. Everything's ready. Flowers, bottle of
wine, even two tickets to the Tea Garden. Nothing gets the betties in
the mood like nighttime in Arcadia. Now I just gotta stop by the Thrifty
Care to pick up a med hypo, just to be safe. Word is this ain't
Angelina's first visit to the Tea Garden...
45 Tenenbaum - Mass Producting Adam
The augmentation procedure is a success. The slugs alone could not
provide enough Adam for serious work. But combined with the host... now
we have something. The slug is embedded in the lining of the host's
stomach and after the host feeds we induce regurgitation, and then we
have twenty, thirty times the yield of usable Adam. The problem now is
the shortage of hosts. Fontaine says, 'Patience, Tenenbaum. Soon the
first home for Little Sisters will be open, and that problem will be
solved...
46 Andrew Ryan - The Market is Patient
There has been tremendous pressure to regulate this plasmid business.
There have been side effects: blindness, insanity, death. But what use
is our ideology if it is not tested? The market does not respond like an
infant, shrieking at the first sign of displeasure. The market is
patient, and we must be too.
47 Langford - Early Tests Promising
Yes yes yes, I KNOW about the lockdown. It's absurd. Just give me a
minute! The early Lazarus tests are very promising. If the Rosa Gallica
bloom, then by God I'll know we're in business... Man in background:
'Hurry! The lockdown!!' Hm? Oh all right! I'm leaving! But somebody has
to find a way to come back to check on these samples. They're very
important!
48 Andrew Ryan - Offer a Better Product
Gregory, don't come whining to me about market forces. And don't expect
me to punish citizens for showing a little initiative. If you don't like
what Fontaine is doing, well, I suggest you find a way to offer a better
product.
49 Diane McClintock - Heroes and Criminals
I couldn't believe how much things had changed since I left Dr.
Steinman's office. It's like I don't even recognize Rapture no more. I
hear they've been rounding up people in 'pollo Square... I asked Ryan
how could he do such things to innocents. He said, 'Innocents? If they
haven't chosen to defend Rapture, they've chosen to side with Atlas and
his bandits. So there are no innocents. There are heroes, and there are
criminals.'
50 Mariska Lutz - Shouldn't Have Come
The minute we came here, Masha started screaming, 'Mama! Mama! What is
that? What is that!?' I thought she was having some kind of seizure and
then I realized... trees... trees! Never saw one before, thought they
were monsters. Oh, Sammy, maybe we never should have come to this
place...
51 Langford - The Saturnine
They dress up in leaves and call themselves the Saturnine. Please. They
drink human blood, and chant- 'Harness the flame, Harness the mist!' and
believe they are touched by the ancient gods. Hah. An aging bunch of
frat boys, tilting back goblets of plasmids and calling it ambrosia.
52 Langford - Arcadia and Oxygen
Now I'm a woman of science, but I'm also a woman who's not afraid of
turning a buck or two. Ryan said if I could boost profits in Arcadia,
part of the up would ride on my hip. So I get to thinking, we're paying
for oxygen when we got photosynthesizing trees... Hell, we can even sell
the extra to the rest of the city and undercut the other guys. Ryan will
like that for sure- Fontaine's people have moved into the O2 biz tooth
and claw.
53 Langford - What Won't They Steal
Isn't there anything in this damn place those pagans won't steal? Paper
towels, ink pots, witch hazel, chlorophyll solution, even my back issues
of National Geographic. They're feathering their disgusting little
shrines with it, I suppose. Sick bastards
54 Langford - Teaching an Old Hound
Who says you can't teach an old hound new tricks? This baffy plant woman
spends four years coming up with ways to defoliate trees in the Pacific
to scare out the Japs and now here I am down at the bottom of the
Atlantic trying to figure out how to do the same thing in reverse. Adam,
Adam, Adam... It's bathtub gin, times the atom bomb, times Eve with the
serpent. Let's go see what it can do.
55 Langford - Lazarus Vector
I've been killing trees for twenty-five years. At Berkeley, back in the
20's. On the Japs at Iwo Jima. But I never brought one back from the
grave before. I did, Becky. Momma's gonna build her first damn
Frankentree. I'm gonna call my little creating 'The Lazarus Vector.'
Maybe it'll bring the old gal's career back from the dead as well...
56 Langford - Lazarus Vector Formula
What's the point of being a damn genius if the only ones around to
appreciate it are a bunch of spliced up morons? I've cracked the Vector,
or at least I'm 99% certain I have. I just need a bud of Rosa Gallica to
confirm my analysis. Distilled water, a bit of chlorophyll, and enzymes
extracted from Apis Mellifera. That's right, sweethearts: honeybee spit.
57 Tenenbaum - Maternal Instinct
What makes something like me? I look at genes all day long, and never do
I see the blueprint of sin. I could blame the Germans, but in truth, I
did not find tormentors in the Prison Camp, but kindred spirits. These
children I brutalized have awoken something inside that for most is
beautiful and natural, but in me, is an abomination... my maternal
instinct.
58 Tasha Denu - Bee Enzyme
Julie, my dear, I am trying to run a business here. You wanna spend time
with my honey bees, well, I'm gonna have to start charging you for the
pleasure. If I come out one more time and find you lolling out there
amongst my hives, I'm grabbing my shotgun. As to your question, yes, my
days in beekeeping school are a blur, but I do seem to remember
something about that enzyme you keep blabbing on about.
59 Andrew Ryan - Pulling Together
The children with their very long needles, their tuneless songs, their
ghastly errands. Their ghoulish, Frankenstein fathers. But, we've all
placed our hand on the Great Chain of endeavor. My hand is on it,
Fontaine's is on it- We all pull it and are pulled by it. Yes, these
children are an abomination. But it is not my hand alone on the chain
that created them. No. Their little fingers were right there, next to
mine.
60 Andrew Ryan - First Encounter
On my walk today I had my first encounter with a pair of them... he, a
lumbering palooka in a foul smelling diving suit, and she, an unwashed
moppet in a filthy pink smock. Her pallor was off, green and morbid, and
there was a rather unpleasant aspect to her demeanor, as if she were in
an altogether different place than the rest of us. ...I understand the
need for such creatures, I just wish they could make them more
presentable.
61 Tenenbaum - Hatred
One of the children came and sat in my lap. I push her off, I shout,
'Get away from me!' I can see the Adam oozing out of the corner of her
mouth, thick and green. Her filthy hair hanging in her face, dirty
clothes, and that dead glow in her eye... I feel... hatred, like I never
felt before, in my chest. Bitter, burning, fury. I can barely breathe.
And suddenly, I know, it is not this child I hate.
62 Andrew Ryan - Desperate Times
Doctor Suchong, frankly, I'm shocked by your proposal. If we were to
modify the structure of out commercial plasmid line as you propose, to
have them make the user vulnerable to mental suggestion through
pheromones, would we not be able to effectively control the actions of
the citizens of Rapture? Free will is the cornerstone of this city. The
thought of sacrificing it is abhorrent. However... we are indeed in a
time of war. If Atlas and his bandits have their way, will they not turn
us into slaves? And what will become of free will then? Desperate times
call for desperate measures.
63 Pierre Gobbi - Water in Wine
In ten years in this dump, I've come to accept a very low standard of
life. But even at the bottom of this fish tank, a man must have
standards. The pathetic frou du cul down at Worley Winery has started
putting water to his terrible wine... water!!! When I confronted him
with this fact, he tells me, 'Pierre, this is not to worry, the water,
she is distilled. It would be worse... I would take it right from the
ocean...'
64 Tenenbaum - Adam Explained
Adam acts like a benign cancer, destroying native cells and replacing
them with unstable stem versions. While this very instability is what
gives it its amazing properties, it is also what causes the cosmetic and
mental damage. You need more and more Adam just to keep back the tide.
From a medical standpoint, this is catastrophic. From a business
standpoint, well... Fontaine sees the possibilities.
65 Tenenbaum - Functional Children
The children must remain functional to be effective producers of Adam. I
had hoped we place them into vegetative state, so they would be more
pliable. I find being around them very uncomfortable. Even with those
things implanted in their bellies, they are still children. They play,
and sing. Sometimes they look at me, and they don't stop. Sometimes
they smile.
66 Andrew Ryan - The Great Chain
I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something
more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great
Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our
own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The
chain is too powerful and too mysterious for ant government to guide.
Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a
pistol to your neck.
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67 Diane McClintock - Stood Up Again
Stood up! Again... Second time this week. Ever since my face was...
Steinman worked on me, but it was never the same since the blast...
Being alone so much gives a girl time to think. Who could hate me so
much they'd ruin me like this? What did I do to them? I keep thinking of
all them bandits and terrorists Ryan's got locked up in 'pollo Square
and I get so mad... sometimes I can hardly breathe... if I could only
confront them, tell them what they did to me, how they're ruining
everything for me, for Rapture... maybe I'd... well, maybe I'd feel
better.
68 Sander Cohen - Musical Insult
Regarding your review of Anna Culpepper's latest musical insult: Of all
of the worthy artists in Rapture, why you continue to devote column
inches to this musical gremlin is beyond my imagination. Where she is
not derivative, she's boring. Where she's not boring, she's obvious.
Where she's not obvious, she's dangerous.
69 Cobb - Come to the Record Store
You wanna lock us in, old man? Oh, that's fine with Cobbsie. I used to
love you. I Used you to think you were a musical genius. You know why?
Because you paid my rent, you ancient hack! Come on to the record store,
I'll show you what I think of your plinkily, plink, plink!
70 Sullivan - Artist's Feud
I worked the meatball beat in Little Italy, and even I'm shocked at the
cold blood that oozes out of these artistic types. This broad Culpepper
and that fruitjob Cohen are in some kind of feud, and Cohen's lookin'
for MY security detail to pick sides. The next thing I know I get called
into Ryan's office to talk about the whole mess. Goddamn nutjob artist.
71 Sander Cohen - The Wild Bunny
The Wild Bunny by Sander Cohen: I want to take the ears off, but I
can't. I hop, and when I hop, I never get off the ground. It's my curse,
my eternal curse! I want to take the ears off but I can't! It's my
fucking curse! I want to take the ears off! Please! Take them off!
Please!
72 Albert Milonakis - Fancy Cigarettes
Some hired Betty tried to sell me on those fancy Oxford Club ciggies.
Mmm- no thanks. I told her, I'm a Nico Time man, always will be. Why?
They smoke good, and don't cost half a damn. Who cares if the things are
made out of sea shells and fish eggs?
73 Sander Cohen - The Doubters
Rapture's going to hell, and why? Because of them... always behind the
scenes. At the Lyceum, at the galleries in SoHo, even down here, in this
so-called-Utopia. The Doubters. But Ryan understands. We're simpatico...
Yes, there's blood in the streets. Yes, people sometimes... disappear.
And those awful little girls... Well, I suppose the Doubters think you
can paint a picture without soiling your smock...
74 Martin Finnegan - The Iceman Cometh
You think you gonna finish me in here, you old fruit? The other saps you
tossed in this meat locker all panicked like rabbits. I just watched and
waited. And when they started to kick, I started to scavenge. Made
myself a little splicer cocktail I did. If you can't come in from the
cold, then you gotta grow ice over your heart. And the iceman cometh,
Sander baby. The iceman fucking cometh.
75 McDonagh - Fontaine's Army
Fontaine knew our blokes were coming. We were done over. Them splicers
come screaming out the woodwork. Burping fire, spitting ice... demons
out of the Bible they were. Never seen nothing like it. It wasn't a
business he was building, it was an army.
76 Anna Culpepper - Ryan's Stableboy
Cohen's not a musician. He's Ryan's stable boy. Ryan's corrupt policies
crap all over the place, and Cohen flutters around clearing it up. But
instead of using a shovel, like you would with a proper mule, Cohen
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how nicely it sounds, he can't really do anything about the smell...
77 Sullivan - Bump Culpepper?
I just got the word to put the bump on Anna Culpepper. This isn't some
gangster or hard-nosed political operative. We're talking about a dizzy
twist what wrote a song or two that got under Ryan's wig.
78 Jasmine Jolene - Pregnancy
That creepy Dr. Tenenbaum promised me it wasn't gonna be a real
pregnancy, they'd just take the egg out once Mr. Ryan and I had... I
needed the money so bad... But I know Mr. Ryan's gonna suss it out,
gonna know I wasn't being careful... gonna know I sold the... Mr. Ryan's
gonna be so mad at me...
79 McDonagh - Guns Blazing
The good people of Rapture didn't sign up to see up government-types
shutting down shops, killing their owners... even with a ponce like
Fontaine. But he brung it upon himself. 'Stead of copping it on the
chin, bugger gets into his 'ead that he's gonna go down guns blazing.
Who does he think he is? John bloody Wayne? We can get on top of this.
We can. Here's what we do: we find Fontaine's will and make what was his
go to where it was intended - and not into the pockets of us that put
'im into the ground.
80 Hector Rodriguez - It's All Grift
You know what? Art... music... poetry... It's all grift. Cohen's got
Ryan wrapped around his lil' pinky... and why? Because he tells him what
he wants to hear. 'Rise, Rapture, Rise!' Nuts! That stuff was stale
before it came out Cohen's pen. I'm through with the whole pinata. Let's
see that old fruit try an' keep me here...
81 Sander Cohen - Requiem for Andrew Ryan
I could have been the toast of Broadway, the talk of Hollywood. But,
instead, I followed you to this soggy bucket. When you needed my star
light, I illuminated you. But now I rot, waiting for an audience that
doesn't... ever... come... I'm writing something for you, Andrew Ryan...
it's a requiem.
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82 McDonagh - Ryan Takes F Futuristics
Ryan nationalized Fontaine Futuristics- he owns it now, lock, stock and
barrel. For the good of the city, he says. He'll break it up in due
time, he says. I've resigned from the council and lodged me letter of
protest, but that's just pissing in the wind. It'll be war, I say...
unless somebody stops Ryan and right fast.
83 Kyburz - Scoping the Gate
I spent the afternoon trying to get as close to Ryan's gate as possible
without making a spectacle of myself... He's got it shielded six ways
till Easter. There's no way into that place. All I got for my trouble
was the hairy eyeball from Ryan's splicer mates. That's the reward you
get for trying to outsmart the best electrical engineer of our
generation.
84 McDonagh - Stopping Ryan
I never killed a man, let alone a mate. But this is what things come to.
I don't know if killing Mr. Ryan will stop the war, but I know it won't
stop while that man breathes. I love Mr. Ryan. But I love Rapture. If I
have to kill one to save the other, so be it.
85 Anya Andersdotter - Going to Heat Loss
I had to go jungle-style with that filthy ape for three weeks, but he
finally spilled the beans on how to get to Andrew Ryan. Generate a
sympathetic overload in Harmonic Core #3. That's simple. Now all I gotta
do is figure out what the hell a sympathetic overload is, and for that
matter, a Harmonic Core #3! Piece of cake for an electrical engineer.
Too bad I design lady's shoes. Gonna go see the grease monkeys left
alive in Heat Loss monitoring, see what I can shake out of their trees.
86 Andrew Ryan - A Man or a Parasite
What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds. A
parasite asks 'Where is my share?' A man creates. A parasite says, 'What
will the neighbors think?' A man invents. A parasite says, 'Watch out,
or you might tread on the toes of God...'
87 McDonagh - Fontaine's Legacy
Strikes me that Fontaine wasn't overly inconvenienced by his own demise.
On New Year's Eve, his wretched splicers came streaming out of the poor
houses and stormed the proverbial barricades! The dead rot in the
streets, and Johnny and Janey Citizen are lined up round the block for
plasmids... anything to help fend off the rabble.
88 Anya Andersdotter - Assassin
Me. An assassin... that's rich. I could have gone along, I suppose.
Spliced up, forgot. I believed in this place. I believed in Ryan. But
when it got hard, Ryan didn't believe in Rapture, didn't believe in the
Great Chain. He believed in power. And now this place is busto. And my
girl is... gone... worse than gone... one of those... things. So am I an
assassin? ...Well, only one way to find out.
89 Pablo Navarro - Running Short on R-34s
Do you guys have any idea there's a war on? If you don't follow proper
maintenance on those Big Daddys, they burn through those R-34s like them
Eve's apple betties go through penicillin. I've got Atlas' goons hitting
us non-stop, and two dead mechanics just this week, we need to control
costs. If I wanted to deal with amateurs, I would have stayed on dry
land.
90 Andrew Ryan - Impossible Anywhere Else
To build a city at the bottom of the sea! Insanity. But where else could
we be free from the clutching hand of the Parasites? Where else could we
build an economy that they would not try to control, a society that they
would not try to destroy? It was not impossible to build Rapture at the
bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.
91 Pablo Navarro - Kyburz Door Code
Let me tell you something about Kyburz and all them university types...
they're so smart, except when they ain't. I put a couple of drinks in
him last week, and before I could say 'boo' he's telling me he's got the
code to his office keyed to the date of Australia Day. Nows every weeks,
I slip in real gentle and nick a buck or two from the till. The Aussie
never notices, and I ain't about to tell him. Seems like there's all
kind of crazy stuff back there. Maybe... maybe one day I'll get more
ambitious.
92 Pablo Navarro - Getting a Break
I didn't recognize the twist that come into the shop today... Stacked
like Sally and dressed to the nines. She's play her cards pretty close
to the vest, but you ain't gotta be no college yob to see that she's
into some bad china. She was asking about magnetic locks, and some such.
I played it coy, but she look wise. After she showed me 'round her
backyard, I gave her directions to Kyburz' tool shop. Rapture's gone to
hell, but sometimes the Great Chain still cuts you a break.
93 McDonagh - Genetic Arms Race
I begged Mr. Ryan to hand Fontaine Futuristics over to Atlas' boys as a
peace offering, but the stupid sod won't listen to reason. 'Stead he's
just splicing his mob up, giving them more and tougher plasmids. There's
an arms race on here in Rapture, but it's not about who can build the
best guns and the biggest bombs. It's about who can become less of a
man and more of a monster...
94 Kyburz - Device Almost Finished
Ryan's splicers are dragging the young woman off right now. I'm certain
she's one of Ryan's spies, sent to feel me out... I think she is... if
I'm wrong, an innocent girl'll end up on Ryan's bloody trophy wall. If
I'm right... well, I best be right. The device is almost finished. I
can't get soft now, I can't!
95 Andrew Ryan - Great Chain Moves Slowly
Is there blood in the streets? Of course. Have some chosen to destroy
themselves with careless splicing? Undeniable. But I will make no
proclamations, I will dictate no laws. The Great Chain moves slowly, but
with wisdom. It is our impatience that invites in the Parasite of big
government. And once you've invited it in, it will never stop feeding on
the body of the city.
96 Kyburz - The Dream
What a barmy dream... some kind of fruit tree, spinning like a top, and
it was pouring juice down Ryan's throat, choking the bastard. But it
wasn't a tree, really, when I looked closer, it was the core control,
the gizmo that feeds the mag locks on Ryan's gate. You can't cut off the
power, comes right from the volcanic vents... Ryan always gets his
juice. But I suppose you could drown the son of a bitch in it...
97 Kyburz - Assembling the Bomb
The basic casing is ready, I've got one charge of nitroglycerin in my
office, that will serve as a catalyst. Now I need four R-34 lead shield
wire stubs to pass the circuit. Then a half-can of Ionic Gel - that's
the pretty Betty of the mix. Should send the core into compensation
mode, push power down the line and trigger the circuit breaker on Ryan's
gate. That's the theory. It'll either work like a charm, or blow up half
of Rapture. Nothing ventured...
98 Pablo Navarro - Market Maintenance
I tracked the problem that was blocking the tubes here, and you'll never
believe where I ended up... the damn Farmer's Market, clear on the other
end of Rapture. I fixed it right up and installed some new gaskets...
oof, what a mess. Anyway, the code is 0512 if you ever need to get back
in there to do maintenance.
99 Suchong - The Vita Chamber
Initial Deployment, Vita Chamber/Client Ryan Industries Stage one is
complete. Sinclair and Alexander tried to explain the science to me, but
Suchong does not believe them. They keep saying plasmid reconstruction
this and quantum entanglement that, and then poof, dead people come back
to life. Bullshit! Of course, Ryan will only allow it to be tunes to his
genetic frequencies for the testing...
100 Suchong - Mind Control Test
Suchong: Is that your puppy? She's very pretty...
Little Boy: Thank you, Papa Suchong.
Suchong: Break her neck for me.
Little Boy: What?
Suchong: Break that sweet puppy's neck.
Little Boy: No... please...
Suchong: Break that puppy's neck- would you kindly...
Little Boy: No... no... *snap*
Suchong: Very good.
101 Suchong - Baby Status
Advanced Deployment, Lot 111 Dr. Suchong/Client Fontaine Futuristics.
Baby is now a year old, weighs 58 pounds, and possesses gross muscular
of a fit, 19 year old. The results are disappointing, but within
expected tolerances.
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102 Suchong - Mozart of Genetics
That's quite a little monster Fontaine's dug up. When she does speak,
which is almost never, her accent is thick and grating. Her hair is
filthy and she seems to wear the same mustard-stained jumper day after
day. But I've got to hand it to Frank: Tenenbaum is the all-time
diamond in the rough. No formal training, no experience... but put her
in front of a gene sequence, and she's Mozart at the harpsichord.
103 Suchong - Fontaine's Human Jukebox
All those years we thought we were making progress: with our Skinner
boxes and our electric shocks... what a waste of time. Until Adam, you
could no more domesticate a child than a boa constrictor... Fontaine
gives Suchong history for child that he wants to imprint into child
head. Kid not a person, he jukebox, ready to play whatever tune Fontaine
wants to hear.
104 Suchong - Mind Control Antidote
Fontaine's become some kind of boogeyman in Rapture, that myth gives him
power. But peel back flim-flam and the humbug, he's just another con
man. And like all con men, he worries he'll end up on the wrong side of
grift. That's why he commissioned Lot 192 - the antidote to the mental
control plasmid. Fontaine said I better not tell anybody about the
antidote, not even Tenenbaum. And Suchong is inclined to listen.
105 Sullivan - Artist Woman
When it was done with Culpepper, I left her as she was in the bathroom.
I seen she had a blanket half-knitted by her bed. It was nice, you know,
black and red, real pretty. So I took it, so I could, you know, have
somebody finish it. So it could be of use to someone. It just didn't
seem right to leave it lying there, lying there all by itself.
106 Paparazzi - Fontaine's Breakup
Looks like things have gone busto between Fontaine and his little German
beanpole. Why a guy like Fontaine would waste his time with that spooky
Kraut when he could be gettin' the gravy from any dish he chooses is
beyond the understanding of this paparazzi. Even reset the door code to
5744, maybe to be double-sure that beanpole don't sprout up in his yard
again...
107 Frank Fontaine - Sad Saps
These sad saps. They come to Rapture, thinking they're gonna be captains
of industry. But they all forget that somebody's gotta scrub the
toilets. What an angle they gave me- I hand these mugs a cot and a bowl
of soup, and they give me their lives. Who needs an army when I got
Fontaine's Home for the Poor?
108 Diane McClintock - What's Happening Here?
I was so angry when I came down here, but... my god... I had no idea...
there's armed men all over the place... I saw a woman climb over the
fence trying to escape... one of Ryan's guards pointed at her, and she
lit on fire... just like that. What's happening here?
109 Diane McClintock - Atlas Lives
I bribed one of the gorillas at the gate to let me in. It's awful in
here... to my right, I can see a dead woman lying in the street...
everybody's just walking by her, like she isn't there. But I noticed
something, spray-painted everywhere... 'Atlas lives.' I don't know what
it means, but something tells me it's important to these people...
110 Suchong - Protection Bond
Suchong: Clinical Trial Protector System Plasmid Lot 255 Dr.
Suchong/client Ryan Industries. Very frustrating day. I can't
seem to get the damn Big Daddies to imprint on the little brats.
The protection bond is just not forming...
Gatherer: Papa Suchong!
Suchong: Get, get away... maybe if I modify the genetic sequence to...
Gatherer: Papa Suchong!
Suchong: Shush, shoo... sequence to allow for...
Gatherer: Papa Suchong! Papa Suchong! Papa Suchong!
Suchong: Get away you filthy little shit! *smacks gatherer* *gatherer
starts to cry* ...What? *Big Daddy growls* What are you doing?
get back... get back!!! Argh!
111 Diane McClintock - Meeting Atlas
The people here have grown to trust me... Ryan's mistress, and still
they take me in! They finally brought me to Atlas. Without him, the
people of 'pollo Square would give up. I asked him if he was going to
lead the people in some kind of uprising against Ryan. He sighed and
said, 'I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. These people will
liberate themselves.' I thought Andrew Ryan was a great man. I was a
fool.
112 Frank Fontaine - The Longest Con
Frank Fontaine: Never play a man for the short con when you can play 'em
for the long one. Atlas is the longest con of all. Ryan wanted
Frank Fontaine Dead, I just gave him what he wanted. As Atlas,
I got a new face, a clean record, and a fresh start. Now it's
time to take back Rapture and-
Diane McClintock: ...Ryan did. I can't wait to tell Atlas. He'll be so
pleased...
Frank Fontaine: Uhh, Miss McClintock... what are you doing here? Let me
just turn this off...
113 Diane McClintock - Today's Raid
We went on a raid outside the wire today. We snagged 31 rounds of
buckshot, 4 frag grenades, a shotgun, and 34 Adam. We lost McGee,
Epstein and Vallette. We got one of those goddamn Big Daddies in the
bargain, though. It was something awful what they had to do to that
little girl to get the Adam, but we didn't start this thing. Ryan did. I
can't wait to tell Atlas. He'll be so pleased...
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114 Tenenbaum - Why Just Girls?
I know why it has to be children, but why just girls? This I cannot
determine why, but I know it is so. Fontaine says 'ah, one less bathroom
to build in the orphanage'. It is amazing to watch the effect of Adam on
their small bodies. Their own cells, replaced by the new stems the
instant they are damaged. These children are practically invulnerable.
It is a shame you could not do the same thing to an adult. There would
be quite a market for a man you could not kill.
115 Andrew Ryan - Marketing Gold
I'll admit Fontaine showed some foresight when he built up the plasmid
business, but the man really never understood sales. Hiding those little
girls beneath a bushel. I've just seen the preliminary design work on
the new plasmid machines, and they're exactly what I wanted. Mark my
words- presented property, those little sisters are marketing gold.
116 Suchong - Extra Munitions
Ryan sent over extra munitions. He must've suspected trouble. I've
locked them up near the Protector Labs and set the code to 1921. I don't
expect we'll ever be needing them though. Once Big Daddy is ready,
nobody cross the Big Daddy.
117 Suchong - Protecting Little Ones
War a terrible thing. Japanese kill every man in my city, except for
Suchong. Suchong have opium. Very good opium. This war, terrible thing,
too, but not for Suchong. Everyone scared now. Everyone need Adam. More
than Little Sisters can make. Good news is war makes lots of corpses.
Suchong knows way to recycle Adam from corpse. But can't send Little
Sister out to street unprotected. Suchong must think on this.
118 Andrew Ryan - Mistakes
Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided
by doubt. But can one govern in absolute certainty? I know that my
beliefs have elevated me, just as I know that the things I have rejected
would have destroyed me. But the city... it is collapsing before my...
have I become so convinced by my own beliefs that I have stopped seeing
the truth? Perhaps. But Atlas is out there, and he aims to destroy me,
and destroy my city. To question is to surrender. I will not question.
119 Suchong - Protector Smell
Big Daddy make a terrible stink, very smelly. Maybe something can be
done, but Little Sisters seem to like odor. Now we have to find
recruits... you become Big Daddy, it's a one way street. But Ryan says,
don't worry, recruits will be no problem. That Ryan- he's a good guy.
120 Suchong - Missing Boots
Goddamnit! The Big Daddy boots need to be shipped here, not to damn
library! What kind of idiots is Ryan hiring nowadays? This kind of
bullshit never happen under Fontaine.
121 Suchong - Cheap Son of a Bitch
Fontaine scary son of a bitch, but Ryan cheap son of a bitch. You can no
reuse protector suit. Take a man, graft skin and organs straight into
suit, otherwise suit not work. Ryan say Big Daddy too expensive. Ryan
can go suck egg.
122 Suchong - Changing Employers
Fontaine is dead. Hmmm. Bad for Fontaine. Good for Suchong. Play hard to
get for a bit, then Mr. Ryan get hungry for me. Tenenbaum gone, Fontaine
gone, Suchong only one who know all about Little Sisters. Like I said,
this very good for Suchong.
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Closing Stuff
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I hope you found this guide useful.
After reading all of these Audio Diaries, I hope you have a better understanding
of the deep story that goes into Rapture, as well as how you tie into it.
Thanks to Sam (samzam2060) for noticing I forgot to write the script for #66 and
for writing it up.
Thanks to Mike (Bigkingmic) for recognizing I the major typos in the Rapture
Control center section.
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