Undercover in the Fellowship is an autobiographical narrated story of an ARDA double agent infiltrating the Harmonic Fellowship.
These in-game tapes can only be found in the junctions of the Whispers in the Woods DLC, but otherwise are found in a similar way to Frequency File, with Zone Receivers having a chance to spawn when loading into a junction. They can be stored in the Fax Machine.
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Undercover in the Fellowship #1
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Three years, seventeen days, and finally, I've done it. You're looking at a freshly-minted, tree-hugging, card-carrying member of the Harmonization Fellowship. Praise the Wave, as they say!
Took damn well long enough. The way they run their whole selection and initiation process? You'd think this was a country club for millionaires or something.
ARDA's been throwing double agents at this lil' shindig for ages, and I'm the only one to make it through. If ARDA doesn't hand over that raise as promised, I'm blowing my cover and they can start this whole study from scratch.
Undercover in the Fellowship #2
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The Fellowship is, well, in my professional opinion, I'd describe them as a bunch of dedicated nut jobs. But best I can tell, their whole thing is bizarre experiments involving what they call the Wave.
Still figuring out what that is, exactly. They're tight lipped on details on just about everything, especially to nosy new members like me. Though I am the first to join all year. And they're no more than 50, maybe 100 active members?
Hard to hazard a guess; gatherings are small and rare, and I don't often see the same members twice.
And oh boy, they do not like ARDA. I'm gonna have to tighten my opsec, lest they sniff me out and feed me to the Anomalies.
Undercover in the Fellowship #3
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It's taken me an entire year, but I've completed their so-called Rite of Acceptance, and finally, I got my first lookie-loo at that Steward of theirs.
Edward Bishop. That guy's bad news. A bona fide nut job to lead the nut jobs. I hate to say it, but he's a damn charming one. Pretty easy on the eyes, too.
There isn't an ounce of this guy that doesn't believe what he's saying. All that gobbledygook about the Wave and Rituals and Anomalies having brains and all? It's no con job. He really thinks he's cracked the Zone's code, and he's staking people's lives on it.
Undercover in the Fellowship #4
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I can't find a thing about this Edward Bishop guy in the ARDA database. he seems like he's lived here a spell, but there ain't a whiff of him in any official record. TBD on that dead end.
I've been spending time trying to parse what their little Rituals actually do.
Most of the time, they gather in circles and wave sticks around and nothing happens. But other times, they'll put an Anomaly in the circle, it grows a new arm or changes shapes a little, and then starts acting real strange.
I've seen them throw paint on a canvas and wait until it rearranges itself into patterns. The Steward claims to be able to read it.
If that was all they did, I'd have turned in my report and booked myself a vacation. The part that worries me, is when they have people in the center of their little ritual circles.
I haven't been able to see what happens to them after that. I haven't gotten deep enough in their ranks for that yet, but I'm working on it.
I ain't ever been religious, but if you're listening to this and you happen to be, do me a favor. Send up a little prayer for me. Something doesn't smell right here.
Undercover in the Fellowship #5
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Two years and 150 days in. I'm not sure I can do this anymore.
The Olympic Exclusion Zone may be the most fertile ground for sociological study in the entire world right now. Heck, possibly even then entirety of human history on the planet. That's why I chucked my tenured professorship to the wind and took ARDA's shoddy salary to come here.
My commitment, above ARDA's orders and even my own morality, is my commitment to impartiality: I will not interfere with existing social systems. I will only observe. I will only document. I will record my finding of the most fascinating human study I've ever seen.
And yet, when I see what the Harmonic Fellowship is doing here, I question whether I can stand by and bear witness to it. It's no longer a question of scientific integrity; it's a challenge on the weight that my soul can bear.
Undercover in the Fellowship #6
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I've filed my request to ARDA for my extraction. As soon as they get me out, this will be my final act as an ARDA employee, and, if I'm being honest, my final report as a sociologist.
After this, I don't want to see any more of what humans are capable of.
The Steward, Edward Bishop, is a dangerous man. The Harmonic Fellowship's current practices stem entirely from him. He keeps the Fellowship small, and yet they're always recruiting, and I rarely see the same members twice. It's members are consumed in Ritual as experimental specimens.
As many members are devoted to the cause, I believe just as many are held against their will. The Steward leads with an iron fist, and allows no questioning of his authority.
Undercover in the Fellowship #7
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As deranged as the Steward is, I look upon his devoted wife with greater fear. May was born to-and possibly bred within-the Fellowship. When the Steward falters, she fans the flames of her husband's fervor. And they have brought a child into this world. A second-generation Harmonic Fellowship spawn.
They claim their daughter was born in Ritual. That she took in the Wave with her very first breath. There's something different about that child, and I'm not about to stick around to find out what that is.
Great change is coming to the Harmonic Fellowship, and we'd all do well to stay far out of it's way.
Damn it, ARDA. If you don't extract me from this assignment soon, I'm going to have to force my way out.
Undercover in the Fellowship #8
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Sorry, ARDA. I wasn't messing around when I said I'd force my way out. I'm packing it up and getting away from these crazies.
But I'm not one to leave without a parting gift. I've smuggled all the paperwork I could get my hands on, and I'm leaving it at the drop point on my way out. Along with this message.
So long to all of this. Forward my last paycheck to my sisters place, would you? Oh, and you can have all this-
Oh, crap.
The Steward:
Don't bother pretending you're not home. I'll wait as long as I need to.
Undercover in the Fellowship #9
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Edward Bishop. Should I be flattered that you came personally?
The Steward:
Oh, good. We can drop all the pretense and talk candidly.
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How long have you known?
The Steward:
A little while. But it didn't really matter what ARDA knew about us, so I didn't see a reason to disrupt your work.
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I'm glad you understand that my job here was purely academic. If you'll excuse me, I'll be on my way and out of that gorgeous hair of yours in a manner of 30 minutes.
The Steward:
Actually, I come bearing a gift. Consider it the capstone to your research. For three years, you've tried to weasel you way into our inner circles. Well, today you get a first hand perspective of what it is we do in Ritual. Today, you will become your own primary source.
Yes, for I have finally found the perfect use for an instrument like you. Long have we placed Anomalies at the center of the Ritual, to see what the Wave does to them. Long have we done the same to humans.
But never before have we placed a human and an Anomaly at the center of the Ritual at the same time.
There's nothing to worry about. We've gotten so much more efficient with the Rituals. The Anomaly may chew through most of you, but by the time the Ritual is underway, you should still have your wits about you.
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Oh, stop all the theater. Just kill me. I've seen you do it to plenty of your subjects already.
The Steward:
Come now. You've studied me for long enough. You know the only killing I do is in service to the Wave And now, I've got a much better use for you than your death.