Experiment 1166 Weekly Check-Up was a document found in the Recover window as a part of the Chapter 4 Icepick ARG. It served no purpose besides being used as a way to tease Chapter 4 while it was in development.
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TBA
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Weekly Check-Up
Subject: 1166
Original Procedure Date: 08/90
Week Ending 10/16/1994
Reason(s) for Observation:
● Noting behavioral changes
● Progression
Observation:
This report will ultimately serve as an echo of those prior. I report no change in the subject. He eats little, lazes about in his cell, and performs substandard on all physical tests.
With the removal of his master, 1166 appears lost. Despite Sawyer's apathy, the subject formed an attachment of sorts. Without whatever sense of comfort or stability that brought him, his motivation has been sapped.
He sits, stares, listens, and only acts with aggression whenever I approach him. He truly just doesn't care anymore.
Conclusion:
The mind of an animal does not process grief in the same way as people. If a dog's master dies, it waits around at the same places and wonders where the scent is strong, thinking someday its master has to return. A hole forms in their life, and without higher processing, they must walk around it forever, or simply allow themselves to fall in. But 1166 is NOT fully an animal, even if his mannerisms and behavioral characteristics suggest as much.
Whatever boy there is deep inside, I think he's scared, broken down by isolation over too long a time for us to salvage much from what's still there. He was designed for one purpose, and one purpose only, a design made flawed by paranoia and ego. In that, he's a failure by design.
Someone above my pay grade can decide what to do with him. For now, he can sulk, and spend his days wishing for a master that, I can guarantee you, didn't care for him at all.
Signature:
Dr. Carmine McKabe