Chapter Redacted
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Chapter [Redacted] is the opening chapter of 1000xRESIST. This chapter is initially surreal and presented with very little explanation. The Player will be able to make much more sense of the events here after progressing through a good portion of the game. It covers the 'in medias res' opening where Watcher stabs Iris; the flooded area with streetlights where the player-controlled Watcher talks to a blind-folded Watcher; and Fixer's departure to the Other Side.
Summary[edit | edit source]
The story starts 'in medias res', with Iris reciting incantations. She is interrupted by Watcher's arrival. The player gains control of Watcher, picking one of three esoteric phrases from a dialogue wheel. Watcher then runs up in anger, and stabs Iris in the back. Iris falls over, bleeding and in shock. After asking Iris, "Why do you get to choose who lives and who dies?", Watcher turns to look at the camera, and the game cuts to the logo. A "chapter [redacted]" title-card is shown, followed by a brief scene that flashes red and blue, where a woman moves her hand away from her face, and slowly looking up at the camera, before cutting to black.
Fading in from blackness, the player is then back in control of Watcher, emerging in an enclosed, circular, flooded area with scattered street lights. Under each streetlight is a motionless person. When the player runs forward into the area encircled in light, a spotlight clicks on, and another Watcher (blind-folded) appears underneath. A conversation between the two Watchers plays out, with dialogue options appearing once for the Watcher on the left, and once for the blind-folded Watcher on the right. The blind-folded Watcher says "I want you to see from the beginning. There is a then and you'll receive it."
The scene then shifts to a different location, with the the player's Watcher standing infront of an encased statue of Iris. When Watcher turns around, she is greeted by Knower, who stands next to an entrance that descends downwards. Knower tells Watcher to put her grievances with someone aside and wish her farewell, and that "There is no feeling so strong it's worth getting incinerated over". If the player attempts to go elsewhere, Watcher stops and says "No, I can't run away from this."
Approaching the entrance, the player can see a sign (similar to those in train stations) that indicates that they are in "Centre" and are headed downstairs into "Old Town Platform 00". Down the stairs is a junction, with a sign pointing "Old Town Exit A" to the right, and "Platform 00" to the left. Watcher will not go to "Old Town Exit A", stating "I have to face this..."
Proceeding leftwards to "Platform 00", Watcher will come across Healer, who joshes at Watcher, remarking "Hey sister. On a warpath, are we?" Watcher reacts in annoyance, then apologizes. Healer takes it in stride, and offers words of encouragement. Continuing on, the platform leads to a chamber, the far side of which has an entrance with multiple (non-functional) escalators leading further down. Bang Bang Fire stands near the entrance to the escalators, and greets Watcher with a florid metaphor. With Watcher's apparent confusion, BBF explains, "Just as Fixer bids farewell to this existence, a new life blooms for her on the Other Side."
Finally, down the escalator and in-front of the train platform, stands Fixer. Fixer asks Watcher if she remembers their time running on the train tracks, when Fixer had intended to run all the way to "Her", only for the tracks to end up looping back to where they started.
They then share a heart-to-heart conversation. Watcher was saddened that Fixer had told everyone – except Watcher – that Fixer had been called to the Other Side. Fixer says that she's "not good at goodbyes" and that it's the result that counts, that Watcher is there to see her off.
(someone pls continue this for me im not good at writing abt emotional moments)
Watcher. There's no turning back from this.
WARNING! This page contains Spoilers for the rest of 1000xRESIST, as the context for the 'in media res' sequences will be discussed below. Do not proceed until finishing 1000xRESIST!
Details[edit | edit source]
Opening[edit | edit source]
IRIS: "There is an us with a pattern we are threading." ...
IRIS: "There is a nearness and its gravity is echoing." ...
IRIS: ......
IRIS: Sister... What are you doing out here?
IRIS: You mustn't interrupt the incantation... You know this is mother's time...
IRIS: ...
IRIS: What is it that cannot wait?
option dialogue red to blue WATCHER: Red to Blue, mother. I gave up everything to walk beside you. six to one WATCHER: Six to one, mother. Everything I've done... I've done for you. hair to hair WATCHER: Hair to hair, mother. I really am just like you. WATCHER: You...
WATCHER: You stole our immunity. You condemned us to this life.
WATCHER: ...
WATCHER: Why do you get to choose who lives and who dies?
The scenes surrounding this 'in media res' sequence happen in Chapter 5.
Blue can be briefly seen at the end of this sequence, watching Watcher. This likely means that this was the memory that Watcher was re-living, at the moment when Blue first loads into her communion – hence why Watcher in the next scene tells Blue, "I want you to see from the beginning."
IRIS: There is an us with a pattern we are threading.
IRIS: There is a nearness and its gravity is echoing
Watcher glares at Iris from behind with a large shard
IRIS: What is it that cannot wait?
Watcher glares off-screen with a dialogue selection wheel next to her
WATCHER: I gave up everything to walk beside you.
Watcher glares down at Iris
WATCHER: Why do you get to choose who lives and who dies?
Blue appearing for a brief moment
Streetlights[edit | edit source]
Youngest can be seen far in the distance, in Principal's office.
Watcher responds to Blue's appearance "I want you to see from the beginning. There is a then and you'll receive it."
Fixer's Departure[edit | edit source]
goodbye gaygirl
WATCHER: On the other side, promise me you won't be so reckless.
FIXER: Hahaha...hey, I was gonna live it up.
WATCHER: It'll be much easier to without me
FIXER: ...that's not what I said.
WATCHER: But it's what you meant. It's okay. I know I'm...not you.
WATCHER: ...
FIXER: ...
FIXER: I finally get to see how this train works. It's been driving me nuts this whole time. How does it switch? What makes it turn the right way? It seems simple from far away, but the closer you get, it keeps going and going.
WATCHER: You like that kind of problem, don't you?
FIXER: ...hahaha, it seems like it...
FIXER: I'll text.
WATCHER: You know you can't
FIXER: I'm not one for rules.
Fixer and Watcher's heart-to-heart conversation is later reprised in Chapter 5. Watcher apologizes to the memory of Fixer, to the last conversation they had in real life; Fixer's lines stay the same, as she is a memory.
FIXER: Don't forget to clean up that shit under your bed
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The flooded area in here is the same as the one in Chapter [Redacted], implying it is connected to Secretary somehow.