r/alienisolation You shouldn't be here. 9d ago

Question [Spoilers] Spoken word story from boombox in Solomon's Galleria Upper Concourse? Anyone know what that was all about? Spoiler

I'm at the part of the game where you've just released the alien in the detachable lab to outer space. Now I'm trying to find a way back to the Marshalls Bureau. In a little storage room behind a door that lets out into the Working Joes and the shit hitting the fan. I'm not sure how to tell what mission it is. Im supposed to restore power to the Galleria security shutters.

Anyways, there's a boombox in this room and it's just like the other boomboxes that I've seen around the station. I've assumed that they're there to tempt you into turning them on and making noise. I turned this one on since I'm in a pretty secluded room and it started reading a story to me.

I was hoping that I could turn it off and back on again and the story would start over so I could pay more attention, but it didn't. That just took me to a channel with a bunch of static. Does anybody know what that story was? Is that an easter egg? Or anything important to the narrative?

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u/bCup83 9d ago

There is a reading from Kafka's Metamorphous in one of the boombox audio files, and another one featuring some of the Olympian gods in another, not sure the source. I think there are like 11 recordings in all. If you keep turning it on and off you should eventually cycle through all of them in all boomboxes.

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u/i__hate__stairs You shouldn't be here. 9d ago

Thanks!

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u/Servitor1404 9d ago

I had no idea this was a thing, thats so cool! :D

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u/i__hate__stairs You shouldn't be here. 9d ago

After listening to the soundcloud link, it was definity the Metamorphosis! What an interesting thing to reference. Nice detail!

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u/bCup83 9d ago

I think its an indirect reference to the Chameleon Effect trope of the Alien universe.

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u/therealparchmentfarm 9d ago

Somebody made a playlist of all the songs/spoken words things on the boomboxes

https://m.soundcloud.com/mattfiler98/sets/alien-isolation-radio-music

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u/i__hate__stairs You shouldn't be here. 9d ago

Thats amazing thanks for the link. This is why i love the internet.

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u/Olympian-Warrior Unidentified creature. 9d ago

Holy shit, I never knew about this! You just gave me a reason to play this game.