Rounding Error

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Mann is a brilliant scientist, but he can be moody. He's either a charismatic leader who'll convince you to go to the ends of the earth, or he'll get depressed and leave despairing transmissions on the Network. He's the one holding this place together, but now he's turned his back on us and wandered off. He went to the snorox pens outside. Said something about retrieving an escaped research animal. Honestly, there are more important things for him to be doing right now. Do what you can to convince him to come back.

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Our famous friend returns from the hunt, unbroken from the force of the storm. In the grand contest of mortals verses the fury of nature's wrath, [%he_she] returns victorious. [%HIS_HER] adventure yields not treasure but a tale of horror of what became of our snorox escapee. My fears and instincts, put to empirical test, are validated. When the current crisis is resolved, we must talk at greater length of your first hand account of the transformation. The path to knowledge is seldom pretty, but ignorance can only lead to a darker reality.