Second Sight Diaries Part Seven

This is my exploration of Second Sight, where I will chronicle my playthrough like a text-based Let’s Play. Now let’s begin…

After escaping from a hospital and rescuing a friend, John Vattic had managed to track down Col. Joshua Starke, looking for answers…

Inside Starke’s apartment, I found a table covered in paperwork about “Project Zener” — then a gun was put to my head. It was Starke! He recognised me and was surprised that I was alive. He said that the WinterICE squad had been wiped out in Dubrensk, which gave me a migraine…

Teamwork was a flashback to 22nd of February at 0930hrs, at a deserted town in Tyumen Oblast, Siberia. Abandoned, that is, except for enemy forces who opened fire on us! I shot three of them, then Starke told Anthony Cortelli to set up his radio equipment.

Cortelli reported that his equipment was damaged, so Martha Franklin suggested that we head into the town and check out a building on the hill which had a satellite dish. Starke ordered me, Cortelli, and Juan Carlos Verdes to head on up, so we did.

Soldiers began to attack while Cortelli worked, so JC and I held them off. When they flanked us, one of them managed to kill JC, and everything faded to black. I woke up being wheeled along a hallway with fluorescent lights, then saw photos of the bodies of WinterICE on a table. It was in the interrogation room that Vattic kind of remembered after first waking with amnesia. A voice — the mysterious man that I kept seeing — confirmed that they were all dead, and that it was my fault, and that I was making things up? This caused me to have a migraine, which made the table to move by itself, which the man took specific note of…

Returning to the house being flanked, we kept the equipment safe until Cortelli told me to report back to Starke about the new frequency, as the one he wanted to use was jammed up with static. I returned to the squad and told Starke to change to 48.3 MHz, code two.

We checked out the railway tunnel just past the town, but a shutter had closed it off. William Robert Jackson suggested using plastic explosives, but Starke didn’t want to risk setting off a landslide. He ordered Jackson to stay there while the rest of us looked for another route, and we headed back towards the house.

Enemies began firing at us from our previous position, so I took them out while everyone else ran past. When I caught back up with the squad, Starke gave me grief for “sightseeing”, which made me regret staying back…

We killed two more soldiers guarding a house built into the hillside, but were approached from behind by a steady stream of enemies. Starke told me and Franklin to find a way through the house. She took up position in a window while I tried to discover where a civilian’s voice was coming from — unfortunately, by the time I located it, they had already been shot.

Through a door to her left, two troopers complained to each other about the civilians having discovered that they were shipping research materials through town, then activated a laser security grid. Oh, and the “materials” were children.

Using my Projection ability, I possessed one of the Russians and shot another, then pulled a handle. It appeared to do something but I was unsure quite what, but returned to the squad and healed them. Back in the house with Franklin, I realised that the door to her right was now open, so I went through and killed a soldier.

I killed several more, but some on an elevated gantry were quickly replaced every time I possessed one and shot the rest, so I returned to Starke and reported that we had a way through. We fought a pitched battle to reach the base, and Jackson rejoined us after the shutter raised.

A large door blocked our access into the base, but Franklin had found a key and told us to split up and look for what it opened. However, I had already located a locked gate just past the laser grid, so I told Starke about it.

Upon entering the passage past the lock, we heard gunfire and Starke took Verdes to check it out. Jayne Wilde demanded that I follow them quickly, in quite some distress, so I hurried off and helped kill the soldiers. The civilian whom they had been firing at was still alive, and Wilde said that she was “the key” to our objective, so we shouldn’t leave even if Cortelli could get through whatever was jamming his equipment.

However, I returned to the present in Breakout, where it was 1940hrs on 7th October, and I was still in Starke’s apartment in Queens, New York. I told him that the squad was alive, and despite his statement moments ago that they were all dead, he confirmed that they had done well to survive.

Starke was bitter that, despite their survival, WinterICE had been used as a scapegoat. When I asked what “they” were covering up, Starke was surprised that I didn’t remember the facility beneath the village and Grienko’s experiments on children. I realised that it was the Zener Project — repeatable results for psychic powers — and Starke said that Hanson, the director of tactical weapons research for the National Security Executive, had begun experiments in America!

The police arrived and called to me with a megaphone, telling me to surrender. Starke grabbed the Project Zener files and shoved them into my hands, telling me to get to the NSE building. We exited his apartment and fought off some agents in the hallway and another couple in the next-door apartment. He took the hall key from his now-deceased neighbour, and we exited onto the fire escape.

A steady stream of enemies shot at us from across the way, and I had to activate an elevator using my Telekenesis to access an open window and kill the agent who had blocked a door. Starke joined me and we switched sides with the enemies, as we took over their stairs and they took ours! I provided covering fire before joining Starke on the ground floor.

We fought off more agents (possessing people to shoot their friends is quite useful) and I escaped out through the third door on the left. Starke, however, remained behind as I got to the safety of the street.

I found the car which Wilde had been driving, but it was up on the curb and the driver’s door was open. Inside was only her unchained fob watch, and as I found that, an SUV sped out of the garage, which I’d been hiding in earlier, and tore off down the street! She had clearly been kidnapped…