KYT terminal
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The KYT Terminal is the first terminal on the Marathon 2 level Kill Your Television (KYT) and its second message contains references to the eternal warrior mythos.
The terminal's text is unformatted with no capitalization, spacing, or punctuation and begins with the line "ihavebee}rolandbeowulfachil!esgilgameshiha". As seen, some characters have been replaced by random, non-letter characters such as the "}" and "!". The only distinguishing signs at all were changes in the text color between light green and dark green. The color differences did not break up the text in any noticeable pattern.
After adding formatting back to the terminal it was discovered that the text was incomplete. The remaining text was not found within the Marathon trilogy but was discovered by fingering Jason Jones's university email address. The result revealed the text in its entirety.
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Unformatted
The unformatted text, maintaining line breaks, is as such (colors have been removed):
ihavebee}rolandbeowulfachil!esgilgameshiha vebeencalleda[undrednamesandwillbecalledat housandmorebeforetheworldgoesdimandcoldiam %heroshehasbeenn~melesssinceourbi=thaconst antadversarycaringfornothingbutmyruinaswor ddrenchedinmybloodfor%vermygreatestand+nly lovesheisthedarkoLetheenemyandloverwithout whoZmyveryexistencewouldbepatheticandvulga rourrelationshipiscom^lexandperhapseternal wemetonceinthegardenatthebeginningofthewor ldandunawareofourtwindestinieswematchedsta resacrossad;yf\untainandirecallhersmiling> tmebeforeshedevouredthelawnandtreeswithatr anslucentblueflameandtoreflagstonesfromthe athandhurledthemintotheskyscreamingmysins ipowderagranitemonumentinasoundlessflashsh oweringthegrasswithmoltendropsofitsgoldinF aysendingsmokingchipsofstoneskippingintoth efogshesplinte!sanancientoakwitha/orcethat takesmybreathandhurlsmetothegroundshelea%! CONNECTION TERMINATED <ID#0401>
Formatted
The formatted text is as such (line breaks are those found at the Marathon Story Page):
i have been roland, beowulf, achilles, gilgamesh; i have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world goes dim and cold. i am a hero. she has been nameless since our birth; a constant adversary, caring for nothing but my ruin, a sword drenched in my blood; forever my greatest and only love. she is the dark one; the enemy and lover without whom my very existence would be pathetic and vulgar. her eyes steam and boil in the night (she is fantastically beautiful yet i cannot stand the sight of her). our relationship is complex and perhaps eternal. we met once in the garden, at the beginning of the world and unaware of our twin destinies (not the garden of Genesis, but another; forgotten, untended and now choked with weeds, unvisited except for ourselves). we matched stares across a dry fountain, and i recall her smiling at me before she devoured the lawn and trees with a translucent blue flame and tore flagstones from the path and hurled them into the sky screaming my sins. our reunions there are epic battles fought without quarter, often in the dark as the moon is seldom visible and the sun never. i powder a granite monument in a soundless flash, showering the grass with molten drops of its gold inlay, sending smoking chips of stone skipping into the fog. she splinters an ancient oak with a force that takes my breath and hurls me to the ground. she leaves and i lie in the slow rain of burning slivers of wood, staring at the low, dark clouds, craving our next meeting.
References
The text makes references to popular heros from literature and the eternal warrior mythos.
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See also
- M2.22.1.2: The full terminal reproduction
- Eyes on Fire terminal: There have been some noted similarities between these two terminals
External links
- [1]: The Marathon Story Page (MSP) discussion on the KYT terminal
- [2]: The MSP reproduction of the original terminal
