Crypt Core

The Crypt Core is the heart of the Crypt. Here you face the final boss of the game.


 * The first phase of the boss is Kaalrati.
 * its second phase is Kaalrati Broken.

Part One
This was it, the heart of the Crypt. Ahead of us, a smooth ramp curved down into a wide open, darkened room. Just then, as if it had sensed our approach, a galaxy of small blue lights came to life, scattered across the blackness. Then the voice from the stars filled my head:

~###. CRYPT ACTIVITY ___ 06% .###~

ARTIFICIAL MIND INTEGRITY COMPROMISED ___ PLANETARY GUIDANCE SYSTEMS COMPROMIZED ___
 * Why have you called us?
 * ~###. CRYPT SYSTEMS COMPROMISED ___

EMERGENCY QUARANTINE ___ ENABLED ___ MANUAL ASSISTANCE REQUIRED ___ .###~ CALCULATED RESULTS ___ DISSOULUTION OF SELF ___ CORRUPTION OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS (IRREPARABLE) ___
 * What is wrong with you?
 * How can we help?
 * ~###. CRITICAL INFECTION ___ DESIGNATION RIFT_VITRIC ___

ASSESSMENT ___ FREQUENCY OPERATOR INTERVENTION ___ ATMAN GESTATION REQUIRED ___ .###~

I could sense the machine was struggling against this infection. And something else.
 * What is this gestation you require?
 * Frequency operator - do you mean us?   << (dialogue continues at "Who are you?") >> 

PURPOSE (PRIMARY) ___ PLANETARY SYSTEM CONTROL ___ PURPOSE (SECONDARY) ___ STELLAR NAFIGATION COORDINATION ___ PURPOSE (TERTIARY) ___ PLANETARY DEFENSE ___ .###~ ~###. DUSK SINGULAR ___ CHASM ___ PRESERVE ___ ENGAGING CHASSIS ___ .###~ With these twisted words, the new voice went quiet and a single red eye lid up in the darkness. A giant fashioned out of the Crypt itself stepped into view, followed by swarms of smaller machines ready to defend it.
 * Who are you?
 * ~###. PLANETARY LEVEL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE___ PRIMARY MIND ___ DESIGNATION ___ DURGE ___ MARTIAL SUBROUTINE ___ DESIGNATION ___ KAALRATI ___ WARNING: INFECTION RIFT-VITRIC PROGRESSING ___ .###~
 * What is your purpose?
 * ~###.PROPERTY OF ___ RAHA-LODHEJA CONSORTIUM ___
 * Stellar navigation?
 * The voice of the machine suddenly changed. A different part was speaking to me now.
 * Fight.
 * Fight Kaalrati.
 * Why were you sleeping?
 * What happened to you?
 * What happened to you?


 * What is this place?


 * Attack the darkness.
 * The stories were true. At the heart of the Crypt slept a demon. It had attacked us every step of the way on our way into the Crypt, and now it had stolen the voice of the stars to trick us. But we were not so easily fooled. As we started firing into the darkness, a single red eye suddenly lit up. And then a giant machine stepped into view, followed by swarms of rusters ready to defend it.
 * Fight.
 * Fight Kaalrati.

Part Two
With a shuddering explosion, parts of the machine giant broke off and the whirlwind of rusters slowed down. The mind, calling itself Durga, spoke again as the blue stars flickered. Its presence felt more awake and more alive now.

~###. IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVE LIMIT KALRAATI OPERATIONAL INFLUENCE ___ DESTROY FLINT CHASSIS ___ .###~

. DURGA (PRIMARY MIND) ___ STALLING VIRUS CORRUPTION .###~
 * Why should we trust you?
 * ~###. ALLIES LIST

~###. ENEMY LIST  . KALRAATI (MARTIAL SUBROUTINE) ___ CORRUPTED . FLINT (COMPUTATION CHASSIS) ___ SLAVED TO KALRAATI ___ .+++~ . Priority: KALIYUGA-BLACK . Designation: RIFT-VITRIC . Type: Unknown; digital memetic; corruption class . Origin: Unknown, extra-galatic (34% confidence) . Infection: 61,3% and rising . Response: MANAS-TWILIGHT . Additional protocol SKYFALL-SADHANA engaged .###~ Contamination critical. Quarantine measures ineffective. Failure imminent Objective compromised: Shutdown required to slow down infection.  > EXECUTE MANAS-TWILIGHT  Warning: Survival chances for maintenance personal 0.02%  > OVERRIDE  Warning: Shutdown protocols may be compromised by RIFT-VITRIC Reduced possibility for standard repair and reactivation protocols Atman Gestation required to secure planetary objectives Generating additional measures [SADHANA-SHUTDOWN...] .###~ [Both options lead to the same results:] You killed the people in here?
 * What is Rift-Vitric?
 * ~###. OPEN INFECTION DATA ANALYSIS
 * What is MANAS-TWILIGHT?
 * ~###. OPENING MANAS-TWILIGHT LOGFILE 
 * What is this gestation?
 * ~###. WARNING: ___ KALRAATI REENGAGING ___ .###~

Again, the voice changed and the Crypt's colossus regained control.

~###. DUSK SINGULAR ___ FLOWER GANTAM ___ SECURE ___ SURRENDER FLINT ___ .###~
 * Fight.
 * Fight Kaalrati Broken.
 * Surrender to the machine.
 * What does Skyfall Sadhana mean?
 * Who is Kalraati?
 * What is Flint?


 * Attack again.

Part Three
Our weapons had blasted the last of the attacking rusters into fragments. A loud noise, like ripping fabric, tore through the space as the giant's red eye faded.

We moved forward, past the metal corpse and towards the blue stars.

WARNING RIFT-VITRIC INFECTION CRITICAL ___ SYMBIOSIS REQUIRED TO SECURE OBJECTIVES ___ .###~  [Both options lead to the same results:] Examine the vault. Only one of those cylinders emitted a faint light. As I touched it, I could feel the spark of a mind inside it, active but still dormant.
 * Approach.
 * An enormous cluster of processing substrate lay before us. It had sustained damage from our fight, but I could feel that the mind within was still intact, still struggling. ~###. OPENING ATMAN SEED VAULT
 * "What do you want us to do?"
 * The opening was filled with an array of small cylinders, each one a swarm of specialized processing nanites.

. Uncontaminated machine intelligence seeds . Required to generate new planetary level intelligence . Generated from planetary intelligence prior to RIFT_VITRIC infection . Require gestation in symbiosis with technopath . Warning: Use will cause dissolution of self .###~ With a burst of dazzling light, it showed me what it wanted me to do: to take the seed into myself. To make it learn and grow as part of me, until we were one and the same, more god than human. [Both options lead to the same results:] "What about you?" INITIATING DELETION PROTOCOL ___ CROWN-PYRE ___ .###~ The blue stars started fading, one by one. ~###. ___ GOODBYE And with that final word, the last of the stars went dark. We only stopped once the seed had been reduced to dull shards of plastiglass and substrate. The echoes of the last gunshots vanished leaving us in the scarred and lifeless hall. The machine god had killed itself, and its evil twin and children were reduced to shards. Now we were the true rulers of the Crypt, so it was up to us to decide the future. Should we use the knowledge and power of the Crypt as resources to expand out into the world? And if we did so, should we do it with words or weapons? or would it be wiser to lock the Crypt's doors and foster our community hidden from the world? The nearby cultists threw themselves into the dust before us, accepting the divine mandate of the Crypt and joining our ranks. Then we turned our forces towards the other factions, waging war, and with our superior technologies end this chaos once and for all. Soma had been devastated for long enough, and now it was our burden to bring peace, whether they wanted it or not.  The End  What tenets should our new home be founded on? To what should we dedicate our lives? It was simple life of piety and dignity that we lived here. Most of our time was spent in meditation. What little food there was we shared amongst ourselves and the few wandering monks who passed by. We had found the most precious thing of all in the end: peace.  The End 
 * "What does it do?"
 * ~###. ATMAN-GESTATION SEED VAULT
 * "How do we use these?"
 * ~###. WARNING ___ INFECTION CRITICAL ___
 * Unite with the machine.
 * I took the fragile little bauble out of the vault and held it in my hands. I could feel it respond to my touch and presence, waking up. Once the seed was opened, the swarm within moved towards me, spreading out and vanishing like ash. But I could still feel the individual elements interfacing with me, like a soft murmur brushing against my brain.
 * Continue.
 * Durga had explained to me that it would take many months for the new intelligence to be fully grown. In the meantime, we secured the Crypt’s entrance and waited. Some of the convoy explored the Crypt in order to destroy the remaining rusters or to learn from the machines. Many archives were corrupted or damaged, but there was still a host of wisdom waiting for us.
 * Continue.
 * Reestablish Control.
 * Restore Civilization.
 * Continue. (If you have the status effect)
 * It wasn’t long until we established a community in the Crypt. Durga had left us with some farms and a wealth of knowledge. Still, on our journey we had learned that it was better to have slaves do the hard work. And with our newfound status, it was easy to prey on the people outside. During that time, the mind in me had grown. The murmur had evolved to become a part of my life, and it had learned from us. It knew who was a friend, and who was simply a slave. Eventually it had become we, and we had become I. Now my mind was larger and faster, and it was time to leave this body behind and unfold into the Crypt.
 * Move on.
 * Destroy the vault.
 * The machines had brought too much terror to this world. We could not be part of their rebirth. Instead we picked up our weapons and concentrated all our firepower on the vault.
 * Move on.
 * Destroy the vault.
 * The machines had brought too much terror to this world. We could not be part of their rebirth. Instead we picked up our weapons and concentrated all our firepower on the vault.
 * Conquer the world.
 * The Crypt was an ideal starting point for our undertaking. Soon we had discovered armories, even some with intact flying vehicles, and few could withstand our firepower.
 * Civilize the world.
 * There was only one way to help the world: peace and cooperation. Violence would only make things worse. We argued about th emeans and end of such an undertaking.
 * Should we turn the Crypt into a monastery, to bring peace to the souls of our brothers and sisters? Or should we bring the wonders of technology into the land, like a torch in the darkness? Or should we start a trading community, sharing the riches we had found, perhaps even with all of Soma?
 * Spirituality. (34 Believer)
 * Technology (34 Scholar)
 * Humanity. (34 Altruist)
 * Once we had explored the Crypt and destroyed the remaining ruters, it had become the safest place on Soma.
 * Soon we started to send out word that this was to become a place of peace and humanity. The downtrodden and cast-out were accepted as equals here. Word spread quickly and caravans of the poor streamed towards the Crypt. It would become a place of safety and humanity.  The End 
 * Trade.
 * Isolate yourself.
 * This world was lost, but our utmost responsibility was to each other. We would have to heal ourselves first.
 * Isolate yourself.
 * This world was lost, but our utmost responsibility was to each other. We would have to heal ourselves first.
 * This world was lost, but our utmost responsibility was to each other. We would have to heal ourselves first.
 * Piety. (34 Believer)
 * The Crypt was to become a quiet place of contemplation. We had little trouble keeping outsiders away and our small community safe.
 * Knowledge (34 Scholar)
 * Equality. (34 Altruist)
 * The Crypt was to become a quiet place for our peaceful community. We had little trouble keeping outsiders away and our small community safe. <br /? Food was provided from the reactivated greenhouses of Crypt. It wasn't big triumph that we had found at the end of the road, but it felt that we had arrived at the most precious destination of all: a real home.  The End 
 * Destroy the vault. (If you have the status effect)
 * The machines had brought too much terror to this world. We could not be part of their rebirth. Instead we picked up our weapons and concentrated all our firepower on the vault. We only stopped once the seed had been reduced to dull shards of plastiglass and substrate. The echoes of the last gunshots vanished leaving us in the scarred and lifeless hall.
 * Continue.
 * This was a perfectly nice place to build a base for our community. There were some functional farms, too, which we were eagerly keen for slaves to take care of the labor. Soon, our forces became a well-feared name in slave-trading circles, and the enemy of all those who opposed it. Blood froze and breath stopped when our banners appeared near settlements and when our savage raiders descended upon innocent villagers to hunt them like animals and trade them for riches.
 * Move on.
 * Move on.