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Sofia Lamb

Eleanor's Progress

Eleanor is progressing brilliantly. My physical participation in her birth was... minimized, of course -- it is vital that I am unhindered by nature's crude bias.

I will be, above all, her intellectual progenitor... loyal not to her, but to the people she will ultimately save.

But, I admit, it is with some measure of pride that I review her marks in standard intelligence tests.

As an agent of our beliefs... she may surpass even me.

Carlson Fiddle

The Old Sheepdog

I was hired to engineer a park the likes of which no man has seen, and now all I do is watch over it like a grizzled sheepdog. My first line of mechanical puppets made the children here coo with wonder. But Ryan thought my vision was immature... "antiquated," he said. This place could have been something magical, but instead he's turned it into a school... no, a cathedral. Dedicated to himself.

Nina Carnegie

Volunteer

I love the kids in Ms. Englert's third grade class, but boy, I had NO idea what I was getting into, volunteering to chaperone this New Year's sleepover party at Ryan Amusements...

Donny... Donny! Get down off of that exhibit, and I told you, spit out that gum! You'll choke!

(Sigh) The kids' parents deserve a night off to enjoy New Years, but I'm at my wit's end -- Donny! I TOLD you --

Eleanor Lamb

Eat Dog

In ethical psychiatry - [sound of tape interrupt].

Eleanor Lamb: (giggle) Eleanor Lamb speaking. Mum says I'm not to play with the other children, because they're 'being raised on a diet of dog-eat-dog'.

I wanted to see these dog eaters... so I waited until Mum was gone... and went out to find one... and guess what?

The dog eaters wear human skins... it makes them look just like us!

Mark Meltzer

"Child" And Guardian

I found one of those children at last. Filthy dress, all alone. I approached her... praying that it was my little girl.

But she was... gorging herself on blood from a corpse. It wasn't her. I stared, just, just reeling, and then that skinny... armored freak that took Cindy jumped me, shrieking like an animal!

I escaped but... could Cindy have become one of those... things? I've got to find her, now more than ever.

Nina Carnegie

You, Me, And 1959

I think all of the children have finally fallen asleep. And now that the park is all quiet... I can't sleep myself! I guess it's just you and me, Mr.voice recorder. You, me, and 1959. I wonder what the new year will -- What..what was that? Something's happened, the lights are going out. Kids, stay in your sleeping bags, it's going to be fine...

Carlson Fiddle

Escape Plan

I been rationing my supplies ever since the park got cut off from the rest of Rapture. Gotta stay strong. I'm holed up in this workshop, surrounded by these wailing brats, tryin' to beat their way in. They want my food, my guns they want it all! But I've got a plan -- gonna fix up the transport sub that's been rustling in the maintenance bay. Then I'm gonna get the hell out of this hole. These animals want Rapture? They can have it.

Andrew Ryan

Lamb The Problem, Sinclair The Solution

Lamb is becoming a problem. The woman is a damned collectivist -- here, in Rapture -- how could the concil fail to see it?

Worse, to hide her intent, she gulls these "patients" of hers into religious frenzy. A new Kremlin will rise and swallow the council house before they realize they've been had!

I will not have my city swindled by the parasite, whatever its guise. It is time, I think, to call Sinclair.

Sofia Lamb

Truth Is In The Body

Rapture is a paradise of the ego, Eleanor. Under Ryan, the voices of an entire city sing the virtues of greed and pride.

But truth, rather, is in the body. Already they grow weary of struggling against one another in fruitless competition.

Observe the bent backs, the drawn faces. 'Ryan promised us more', they seem to say. 'In what shall we now believe?'

And Eleanor... it is our task to answer.

Nina Carnegie

Deterioration

Two weeks at my last count... two weeks since we were trapped in this rotten park. I haven't been eating... the children need all the supplies we've got left. Need them more than I do. I...

I don't know what's going to happen. I can feel myself getting weaker. The children have noticed the condition I'm in, of course... What will happen once I'm gone? They'll be... all alone...

Stanley Poole

Working For Sinclair

I uh... met with Sinclair today, of 'Sinclair Solutions.' It's this pseudo-legal firm he set up to take problems Ryan doesn't want to admit he has, and make them go away.

I could fill forty front pages at the Tribune with stories about this fella, if he wasn't payin' me not to.

And he's got work for me, right? I ask what, and he flashes me these thousand dollar Steinman teeth, sayin' this job'll quote change history end quote.

Mike Novak

Doctor Lamb

Third session today, with this amazing limey shrink. Doctor Sofia Lamb. She said that all Ryan's horseshit about always looking out for number one is turning us little guys against each other.

And what we need is unity. Solidarity! Then she held up a mirror. Turns out I wear my hair and moustache just like Ryan.

So today, I'm spreading the word about Lamb. And tonight I'm shaving my whole stupid head!

Andrew Ryan

Efficacy

I know this facility is vital to the preservation of secrecy in Rapture. But seeing myself transformed into that... lurching, waxen nightmare... do children truly respond to this?

Still, I spoke to a young man exiting the park after the grand opening, asking him what, if anything, he had learned here.

He said his chores didn't seem so bad anymore -- as long as mother wouldn't send him to the surface.

Devin Lemaster

Dating Tip

I've got a little dating tip for ya, Jimbo, it'll get you out of that lonely hearts club for good. This scheme works 100 percent of the time, guaranteed. First, find some Betty and take her to Ryan Amusements. Then ya go to the gift shop, buy her a teddy bear - this is key, I aint' kiddin' around.

Then... ya buy her a ticket on "Journey to the Surface." Soon as you hit that first scare? Bingo. Tunnel. Of. Love.

Gil Alexander

A Father's Love

We lost another of the Alpha Series Protectors today in testing. Somewhere outside the city limits, he simply vanished. For these men, Rapture has no walls. We must find a method of conditioning them against abandonment of the Little Sisters.

Something physical... possibly even lethal. The lab aides are starting to call them "Big Daddies"... perhaps there's some genius to that. Bonded pairs connected by a love that kills.

Silas Bantam

Cutting Corners

Useta be there was no margin in runnin' the gift shop -- I couldn't hardly sell off this tourist crap for a penny more'n it cost to mannafacture! Then I met this straight-shooter name'a Sinclair, and hel aid a sweet deal on me. Said he's got some hard-luck folks down in Pauper's Drop can whip up this junk at half the cost I useta pay. Yeah, I've had to pick a needle or two out of the shipments, but all in all, nobody's the wiser... an' I'm all the richer.

Sofia Lamb

Rapture Is Deliverance

I know the surface, Eleanor. I spent half a lifetime there, in service of the common good. But then, I heard my own words twisted by fat old men, squatting over the embers of Hiroshima.

Were the modern world a patient in my care, I would diagnose it suicidal. On perhaps that point alone, Andrew Ryan is correct. Rapture... is deliverance.

Grace Holloway

Disappeared

He's gone. James was the only man I ever loved... and now it's like he never even came to Rapture. He heard me sing at the Limbo Room, came up all bashful.

He liked hearin' songs about what it's really like to live in this town... I think he's been trying to organize folks against Ryan, and now he's gone, and I'm here, singing 'Rise, Rapture, Rise'... scared to death they're gonna come for me!

Augustus Sinclair

Wooden Nickels

Andrew Ryan. He reckoned the free market was some kinda holy spirit gonna lead us all over the rainbow -- and I reckon it's a big fat hooker too dim to spot a wooden nickel.

So old Andy went an' became his own ghost, and I whittled nickels 'til I made a mint.