As there are no stupid questions, here’s the situation: Flood spores are coming to get you and the only other way leads to Composer’s beam. Composer is controlled by Didact which means composing will be painful and you’ll end up in Composer’s abyss (as seen in Escalation #8). What would you choose?
I will thankfully be composed maybe I can have a little chitchat with the didact then
We should all submit to our flood overlords. It is the only way to unite the galaxy!
Well, after watching successive layers of Dr Tillson’s face melt off, I think I’d go with the Flood. Lie down, put some music in, take a few deep breaths, and become part of an ultra-ancient galaxy-spanning superconsciousness.
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> Well, after watching successive layers of Dr Tillson’s face melt off, I think I’d go with the Flood. Lie down, put some music in, take a few deep breaths, and become part of an ultra-ancient galaxy-spanning superconsciousness.
That’s just the shock. Although realistically, it only takes only a few seconds to be reduced the ash. Transmutating into a Flood combat forms looks much more painful because it’s radically changing, decaying and rearranging all of your organs and tissues instead of immediately disintegrating you. During the Interstellar stage it only takes about five seconds, but it could take much longer in the Coordinated and Feral stages. And going by what I read during Halo: The Flood about Jenkins’ and Keyes’ infection, they both retained some of their consciousness and had to witness their bodies being used to attack their allies as well as watch themselves slowly fade away as the Flood slowly stole their identities.
We don’t know much about the experiences of Promethean Knights except that they do retain memories of their former lives but have become hardwired to obey the Didact. But honestly, that sounds far more preferable than becoming a rotting, animated corpse that’s being used by demigods as a catalyst to inflict pain and suffering.
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> We don’t know much about the experiences of Promethean Knights except that they do retain memories of their former lives but have become hardwired to obey the Didact. But honestly, that sounds far more preferable than becoming a rotting, animated corpse that’s being used by demigods as a catalyst to inflict pain and suffering.
Well, those people in Composer’s abyss didn’t looked happy… And they’re about to be kept that way for hundreds of thousands years. At least with Flood your consciousness fades away with time, giving some hope for lesser suffering.
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> > Well, after watching successive layers of Dr Tillson’s face melt off, I think I’d go with the Flood. Lie down, put some music in, take a few deep breaths, and become part of an ultra-ancient galaxy-spanning superconsciousness.
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> That’s just the shock. Although realistically, it only takes only a few seconds to be reduced the ash. Transmutating into a Flood combat forms looks much more painful because it’s radically changing, decaying and rearranging all of your organs and tissues instead of immediately disintegrating you. During the Interstellar stage it only takes about five seconds, but it could take much longer in the Coordinated and Feral stages. And going by what I read during Halo: The Flood about Jenkins’ and Keyes’ infection, they both retained some of their consciousness and had to witness their bodies being used to attack their allies as well as watch themselves slowly fade away as the Flood slowly stole their identities.
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> We don’t know much about the experiences of Promethean Knights except that they do retain memories of their former lives but have become hardwired to obey the Didact. But honestly, that sounds far more preferable than becoming a rotting, animated corpse that’s being used by demigods as a catalyst to inflict pain and suffering.
Don’t they have the memories, but they don’t have access to them? That’s how I interpreted it.
Flood. If my existence as I know it will end, might as well go Flood rather then spend an eternity in the composers abyss (the closest thing to a literal hell).
A very painful physical change leading to eternal suffering? Or… Having my essence ripped out of my body and placed into a metal shell and forced to fight?
I’ll take the second one. Eternal suffering doesn’t sound too fun.
For those who don’t know: this is how Composer’s abyss looks like. Some of these folks were composed more than 100000 years ago. On the other hand, what do we know about being infected by the Flood? From my understanding your conciousness eventually fades out, as your body turns into rotten pulp.
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> > Well, after watching successive layers of Dr Tillson’s face melt off, I think I’d go with the Flood. Lie down, put some music in, take a few deep breaths, and become part of an ultra-ancient galaxy-spanning superconsciousness.
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> That’s just the shock. Although realistically, it only takes only a few seconds to be reduced the ash. Transmutating into a Flood combat forms looks much more painful because it’s radically changing, decaying and rearranging all of your organs and tissues instead of immediately disintegrating you. During the Interstellar stage it only takes about five seconds, but it could take much longer in the Coordinated and Feral stages. And going by what I read during Halo: The Flood about Jenkins’ and Keyes’ infection, they both retained some of their consciousness and had to witness their bodies being used to attack their allies as well as watch themselves slowly fade away as the Flood slowly stole their identities.
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> We don’t know much about the experiences of Promethean Knights except that they do retain memories of their former lives but have become hardwired to obey the Didact. But honestly, that sounds far more preferable than becoming a rotting, animated corpse that’s being used by demigods as a catalyst to inflict pain and suffering.
Take a look at the Abyss. That’s what awaits you as a Knight - it’s pretty much a literal Hell. I think I’ll stick with the Flood.
Though honestly, this whole scenario only serves to remind me why you should always save one bullet for yourself when you’re fighting zombies.
Id rather get stabbed by an energy sword but beeing composed is second.
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> Well, after watching successive layers of Dr Tillson’s face melt off, I think I’d go with the Flood. Lie down, put some music in, take a few deep breaths, and become part of an ultra-ancient galaxy-spanning superconsciousness.
well that made being consumed by the flood really relaxing
They are both horrible. Composer takes your soul and essence and turns you into a knight who can’t think for him/her self, and your body becomes all charred and burnt and left to fade away in the abyss. The flood mutilates your body Into something else, while you get mind -Yoinked!- and you see your memories slowly being destroyed until ‘YOU’ die, and what is left of your mind is only told to consume others into your hive, and to make them suffer the same way you did. I rather be decapitated by an Elite, but i guess composer if had to choose. But the abyss looks horrifying. Worse than any flood creation put together. Probably due to the art team though.
The Composer’s Abyss is silly because it has no reason to be that horrible apart from being EVUL!!11! I mean, if you’ve been composed you might as well be stored as a file in a giant hard drive, blissfully frozen in a state of unconsciousness. There’s absolutely no need for the over-dramatic hallway of tortured souls.
In fact, Primordium suggests that the Lord of Admirals’ composed existence up until he woke in Chakas’ head was just that: his consciousness was simply rendered inert for thousands of years. Then Brian Reed who came along with the nonsensical Abyss concept, because apparently the Composer wasn’t evil enough already.
My headcanon for the Abyss is that it’s just the Didact’s choice of holographic decoration (because he’s into that sort of thing) and the human essences are, in fact, just stored somewhere as files.
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> The Composer’s Abyss is silly because it has no reason to be that horrible apart from being EVUL!!11!
There are several answers why is it happing.
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There’s a difference between being composed by qualified Lifeworker or being composed by mad Didact. Just like there there’s difference if files on laptop/phone are extracted and stored by qualified programmer or drunk grandpa who never used computer by himself. From what I understand from books ancient humans were composed very smoothly, while when Ur Didact does it, it literally burns down flesh layer by layer. Just like there’s difference if files on harddrive are stored in original, uncompressed form, or converted and then compressed by some strange program (.arj anyone?). Except that these “files” are now humans’ conciousnesses.
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Didact wants not only to have more soldiers, but also punish his enemies in process. You know, he’s a villain after all.
Knowing my luck both would happen to me. I’d have a composed head and torso and a Flood backside.
I would prefer a robotic body than a zombified, fungi-like body.