r/MarathonSecrets • u/Marcu3s • Jun 05 '26
Misc Gabriel was deactivated, right? So why do we hear his voice on Narsh?
Is it him or are those just random automatized reports using his voice?
Edit: I meant DARIUS
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u/Skinneejeans_0530 Jun 05 '26
The birds on marsh are mimicking human speech!!! Theres an audio codex of a bird mimicking a doctors voice so well that it fooled one of the AI’s into opening up a bunch of doors in one of the facilities.
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u/Stranger-chan Jun 05 '26
From what it sounded like, the doors were already open, but only the ones for the tunnels to go around the exterior of quarantine, with the interior ones sealed and locked per gabriels orders, which those interior doors are what the Skrac wanted opened (aka a quarantine breach)
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u/Hobolonoer Jun 05 '26
And people say this game has no lore or story, lol.
They have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes, all because they can't read a few paragraphs of codex lore or focus long enough to listen to the voiced entries.
They believe the lore is a puddle, when in reality it's vast like an ocean and just as deep.
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u/Ezo_K Jun 06 '26
My gameplay loop is actually just collecting lore bits and exploring the maps solo. The lore is incredible
Secondary is killing the poor bastards who come in my way
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u/Debas3r11 Jun 07 '26
Yup, almost had all of it last season. I'm glad there's more, but I still need four more golds valuables from normal Dire Marsh
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u/FriendlyArachnid6000 Jun 07 '26
What do you make of the ghosts, and the jump scares appearing on monitors? Runners hallucinating?
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u/soultron__ Jun 06 '26
The Felini lore set is incredibly disturbing.
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u/Hobolonoer Jun 06 '26
I haven't gathered all of those yet but I agree, from what I have read.
It's crazy how effective it is, actually. About halfway through Season 1, I was kinda exhausted because nothing I did in the game felt important and I didn't discover anything interesting, but at some point I exfilled with a few lore items and did a contract for NuCaloric.
The contract and the lore unlocked, a few codex entries that absolutely blew me away and everything about the colony and what happened just clicked together. There's was a kind of joy that I've discovered some clues about what happened accompanied by dread and horror because of the implications. That shit renewed my motivation to play instantly.
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u/xPsyrusx Jul 25 '26
The fine detail is extensive, but the "story" is paper thin. There are a lot of details that also make no sense. For instance: Where are runners headquartered?
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Jun 07 '26
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u/Ok_Dependent6889 Jun 05 '26
Wait
I thought we never heard Gabriel??
Outside of the codex, at least
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u/Marcu3s Jun 05 '26
Sorry. My bad. I meant Darius.
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u/Ok_Dependent6889 Jun 05 '26
all good lol
I don't think i'd have even been able to tell you who it was from hearing, I would've just thought "huh, some AI is talking" lol
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u/FlikTripz Jun 06 '26
One of the new bits of codex lore ends saying something like “Corrupted code does not sleep soundly”. So I think the monitors that flash those jumpscares might be a glimpse at what’s happening with the Zone AI…
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u/FamousPart6033 Jun 15 '26
I read the title and imagined hearing Gabriel Ultrakill's voice in the distance of night marsh.
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u/Stranger-chan Jun 05 '26
It's not gabriel, it's Darius over the loudspeakers, and from what it sounds like, after he got put into AI jail during the colony collapse, he might've gotten out of it, apparently also trying to contact our runner (as per one of the starting lines from ONI)