User blog:WeareVenom16/Interviewer Log VNM-16-A

The following transcript is a record of an interview with Ethan, a leading JCJenson systems engineer, responsible for modifying Disassembly Drone Serial Designation VNM-16.

BEGIN LOG

Footsteps are heard before the sound of a door creaking, the interviewer steps inside the room where Ethan is sitting, organizing their papers before sitting down.

"Hello Ethan, how are you feeling?"

"Kind of nervous, never been called in for an interview before."

"There is no need to be nervous, we just wanted to ask questions to verify a couple of things. As you know, VNM-16 is rather... unique."

"Of course."

Ethan is heard taking a deep breath to compose himself

"So, what do you want to know?"

"You were the Leading Engineer in charge of the Disassembly Drone line that involved VNM-16, correct?"

"Yes, the line was an experiment in of itself, we were trying to look for ways to improve upon the already efficient current Disassembly Drone model. Unfortunately, Serial Designation VNM-16 had defective and damaged software and hardware, which we theorized to be a factory mistake, but are still unsure about. Of course, we never noticed that anything was wrong with him until after he was deployed."

"What happened when he was deployed?"

Ethan is heard chuckling grimly before continuing

"I assume you already know, but I'll repeat it for the record. We deployed VNM-16 alongside a couple of other prototype Disassembly Drones to Copper 9 a couple of months after the first squad was sent that involved Serial Designation's J,V, and N. The pod landed in the old city area, about a few miles from the Corpse Spire that the other squad was building. The other members of the squad we had just sent out began hunting a nearby group of Rogue Worker Drones who were trying to develop weapons to fight back."

"Yes, we have a log detailing the Worker Drones perspective's, but according to the log, it was recorded 3 hours after the initial landing, and yet the group wasn't that far away. Which leads us to the question we wanted to ask, you said the other members were beginning to hunt the Worker Drones, but what about VNM-16? What was he doing during this time?"

"We...…. don't know, we noticed that his camera feed was offline. At first we thought the storm was somehow affecting it, but then we realized that the other two Disassembly Drones feeds were perfectly fine, it was only VNM-16's video feed that wasn't working. His audio receptors were still operational though, and we heard him walk a bit before deploying his wings and flying. We were so focused on VNM-16's screen to try and listen for sounds, that we didn't pay attention to the other two, more specially, CRM-05's feed.

"What happened next?"

"We just listened to VNM-16 flying around for a few minutes, after a while, we figured he was just joining up with the rest of his squad before we heard something haunting over both VNM-16's and CRM-05's audio recordings."

"What was it?"

"At first it sounded like an impact, like metal banging on metal, before we heard this inhuman scream blaring from the speakers and tearing sounds, like all hell was breaking loose. The scream only last for 10 seconds before it stopped abruptly. Then we turned and noticed that CRM's feed had gone offline, a FATAL ERROR showed up on his screen, telling us that he was dead."

"We had no idea what just happened, we notified the other Disassembly Drone, KRS-14, that CRM-05 was offline and to head to his location in order to recover his remains. However, it was at that moment when we realized something chilling."

"What did you realize?"

"We heard the impact, the tearing, the SCREAMING, from both CRM-05 and VNM-16's audio receptors, yet, while CRM was offline, there wasn't a FATAL ERROR on VNM's screen, just static.

While CRM had died, VNM was still active,

and we didn't see what happened on HIS screen."

END OF LOG 1