Spoluprácu s Richardom Greyom opíše Harold v jednotke, rozpráva o ich spoločnej výprave do Mariposy - určite je to v jeho *.msg súbore.
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- {138}{HROLD11}{We mounted an expedition. God, Richard. Richard Grey. Led a small group of us up there.}
{139}{}{Richard Grey?}
{140}{}{Where exactly did you go?}
{141}{HROLD12}{Needed to see what was there. Maybe stop whatever was churnin them boogers out. We thought we were prepared. Were we wrong.}
{142}{}{What did you do?}
{143}{HROLD13}{I can't remember the route or anything. But I am damn sure it was northwest, though...I think.}
{145}{}{What about your leader?}
{146}{HROLD14}{Richard Grey was a doctor. Little older than me, and friend was he smart. He found the source.}
{147}{}{And what was that?}
{160}{HROLD18}{Some sort of old military base. We lost a lotta folks getting in there.}
{161}{}{How did you know this base was the cause?}
{162}{}{What were you running up against?}
{163}{HROLD19}{Robots and such. Lot of'em. Damn surprised they was still running after all this time, what with the war and all. Whooa boy they tore us a good one.}
{164}{}{What did you do once you got past the robots?}
{165}{HROLD20}{Because it was like someone went bargain shopping at mutantland! Geez! Cheaper by the dozens! Can't figure any other reason except that being the factory.}
{166}{}{Did you examine the base closely?}
{167}{HROLD21}{We got pretty far inside. Wasn't a lot of us left by then. Grey, me and couple of others.}
{168}{}{And then?}
{169}{HROLD22}{One of them robots got Francine. Mark was wounded, sent him back to the surface. Then it was just me and Grey.}
{170}{}{What ever happened to Mark?}
{171}{}{What happened then?}
{172}{HROLD23}{To this day, I don't know. He never made it back here, and...well I...couldn't face the wasteland again, so I...I never looked.}
{173}{}{What about you and Grey?}
{174}{HROLD24}{We made it to some sort of central core, like a plant of some sort. That's when it happened.}
{175}{}{What?}
{176}{HROLD25}{A robot crane crashed into us. Last I saw of Grey, he was flying through the air in-into some sort of acid bath. I was in bad shape and...well I passed out.}
{177}{}{How did you survive?}
{178}{}{And you never saw Grey again?}
{179}{hrold25a}{Didn't. Got killed...[Laughs then coughs] God, I love that joke.}
{180}{}{Yeah, I can tell.}
{181}{HROLD26}{Well, I have no idea. Woke up in the wasteland, barely hanging on. Got lucky and some traders I knew found me days later. Good thing, since I was already changing. They brought me here, and here I've been since.}
edit2:
Čítam si audio-deník z Chekyho postu a tento úryvok mi pripomenul poviedku Gene-hive od Aldissa:
Citace:
Myslím, že jsem dnes snědl jednu z těch mutovaných věcí, co tu okolo cupitají. Dříve, než jsem si stačil uvědomit co se děje, vymrštilo se z mého břicha nějaké chapadlo a chytilo toho ubohého tvorečka. A v okamžiku, kdy vtáhlo toho hlodavce do mých střev, pocítil jsem dotek jeho myšlenek.
U nás vyšla pod názvom Vzbura génov/Vzpoura genů, objavila sa napríklad v zbierke Experiment Človek. ^^