The Surgical Recording
- Template
- Document
- Status
- Canon
- Kind
- Video
- Author
- Unknown
- Found In
- D3 — Surgical Theater
- Hazard
- None
1. Summary
A surviving recording in D3's abandoned human surgical theater, in which doctors calmly discuss a procedure performed on a conscious patient without anesthesia.
2. Text
The footage initially resembles an ordinary scientific record.
Several doctors discuss a procedure.
Their conversation is calm and technical.
After a short period, Edmund realizes that the patient is conscious and that the procedure is being performed without anesthesia.
The patient begins pleading for the doctors to stop.
The researchers continue discussing their observations.
3. Context
The recording documents the unethical human experimentation conducted in restricted sectors of D3, including invasive surgery and procedures performed without anesthesia.
The researchers' emotional detachment is more disturbing than overt expressions of sadism.
See: Places › D3
4. Gameplay
During exploration of D3 in Chapter Six, Edmund may discover an abandoned human surgical theater, whose room is described with the place. Playing the recording, Edmund's reaction and the silence that follows belong to the chapter.
See: Places › D3