Outlast (2013 Video Game)

Marcel Jeannin: Wernicke

Quotes 

• Interviewer : ...exit interview recorded December 27th, 1985 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Clearance Sierra Alpha. Subject Dr. Rudolf Wernicke. 14866.

  Wernicke : The films are real.

  Interviewer : There was no alteration to the footage at all? No trickery?

  Wernicke : None.

  Interviewer : In June of 1943 you recorded three instances of spontaneous bleeding. A half dozen test subjects began to develop brain tumors.

  Wernicke : Yes. The autopsies revealed that the tumors were pure lead.

  Interviewer : It killed them? Can you explain why the results could not be reproduced in the United States?

  Wernicke : I have my theories. My homeland, in those years. It's impossible to understand the things we felt. What we believed. The overwhelming fear. Ecstatic rage and... English words are insufficient. More than hope. A human mind in that environment is capable of extraordinary things.

  Interviewer : You're saying the experiment needed...

  Wernicke : A proximity to death. To overwhelming madness. Only a test subject who had witnessed enough horror was capable of activating the engine.

  Interviewer : Do believe your test subjects achieved something supernatural?

  Wernicke : No.

  Interviewer : Do you think they contacted something supernatural?

  Wernicke : Nothing is supernatural.

  Interviewer : Then what was it? You said Project Walrider was a gateway. A gateway to what?