CEV:343 Guilty Spark

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343 Guilty Spark
Game:	Halo: Campaign Evolved
File name (?):	C10
Player:	John-117
Date:	September 20, 2552
Location:	Installation 04
Objective(s):	Investigate what happened to Captain Keyes
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Creep through a swamp to meet the only enemy the Covenant fear.

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343 Guilty Spark is the sixth campaign level in Halo: Campaign Evolved. It is a remake of a level of the same name originally in Halo: Combat Evolved.

Plot summary

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Rally points

The following rally points can be used on this level to spawn in at a later point in the mission.

Rally point	Description	Start location	Equipment	Notes
Alpha	It's not the heat, it's the humidity.	Mission start.	1x Assault Rifle, 1x Magnum, 4x Frag Grenade	N/A
Bravo	Surprise party.	At the bottom of the first elevator shaft.	1x SMG, 1x Magnum, 4x Frag Grenade
Charlie	Parasites all the way down.	At the bottom of the second elevator shaft.	1x Shotgun, 1x SMG, 4x Frag Grenade	All of the enemies that typically spawn in this room are absent.

Transcript

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From an overhead view of a rainy swamp forest in the black of the night, Pelican Echo 419 descends into the forest. The Pelican is seen from the ground shining a light, revealing a crashed Pelican with a small fire near its crew bay. Cut to the outer view of Echo 419's cockpit, where Flight Captain Carol Rawley and her co-pilot Frye are visible, with John-117's back facing them as he stands at the rear of the passenger bay.

• Flight Captain Carol Rawley (COM): "The last transmission from the Captain's drop ship was from this area. That was over 12 hours ago... when you locate Captain Keyes, radio in and I'll come pick you up."

Echo 419 descends, lowering a ramp. The Master Chief disembarks. Directly ahead of him is the crash site of the Pelican Victor 933 transmitting a distress call, distorted by static. The front of the drop ship is buried into a tree and in flames. There are weapons and supplies but no sign of survivors or death.

• Dropship Victor 933's Pilot (Recording): "Dropship Victor 933-(static)-Pillar of Autumn-(static)-need assistance. We are under att-(static)-attack by some new kind of hostile-(static)-isn't Covenant. (Static) Captain Keyes has been captured by hostiles. (static) -dug in at a large structure in a swamp-(static)-We need to pull out. Please-(static)-I will set this message to repeat at-(static)-regular intervals. Dropship Victor 933, clear."

The Master Chief proceeds through the swamp, and hears distant gunfire from UNSC weaponry. Soon he is able to see the gunfire, as Unggoy and Kig-Yar flee in his direction. A Spirit drop ship is wrecked above him, tangled in a tree which has small flames burning on it, the drop ship burns with blue plasma. He proceeds past and crosses a small gap on a fallen tree, where he sees a bipedal figure running away, though it does not appear on his motion tracker. He sees the entrance to a small Forerunner structure where more Kig-Yar and Unggoy are fleeing from assault rifle gunfire and an exploding M9 fragmentation grenade, which destroys a Shade turret. He proceeds inside after eliminating the hostiles, seeing large amounts of Covenant blood. The entry room has a central elevator, which is sent presumably by its previous users. The Master Chief enters and activates it, descending down.

In the next chamber, he finds a squad of Unggoy and Kig-Yar crowded around a door as if waiting for an attack. At this point, there is no presence of any Sangheili After eliminating this squad, he proceeds into a large platformed room, taking a right on the lower floor of it. The hallway leads into a large rectangular room where a sickly, fungus-like light brown growth is gathering on a central platform far beneath a glass case, and Kig-Yar guard the next door. A lone Kig-Yar lies dead in the next hallway, filled with large amounts of purple blood. To the right is a small room with five dead Unggoy surrounded by blood and their weapons, evidently having unsuccessfully barricaded themselves behind crates. After passing through another room and hallway, he finds a live marine up against a wall, frantically watching behind him. Startled, the marine drops to the ground and scrambles against the wall, where a path of blood trails around the corner. He begins firing an M6D magnum at the wall near the doorway and yells at the Master Chief.

• Crazy Marine: " Stay back! Stay back, you're not turning me into one of those things! I'll blow your brains out! Get away from me! Gaaaaahh! Aaaaaahh! Don't touch me, you freaks! I won't be like you, I'll die first! They won't get me! Find your own hiding place, the monsters are everywhere! Play dead! That's what I did...played dead. They took the live ones... Oh God, I can still hear them! (sobbing) Monsters... Ahhhhhh! Ahhhhaaahhh...Just leave me alone! Sarge? Mendoza? Bisenti? Oh God...the things took them. Away, away, away, they went away... (mumbles and cries) They're gone! Get it? Gone! Oh God... Oh God, I don't want to be like them. Please, please no, nooo..."

The paranoia-stricken trooper remains here and continues firing annd occasionally loudly breathing in a panic, and the Master Chief has no choice but to continue. More of the yellowish brown matter can be seen, this time in a similar platform still surrounded by glass. He proceeds up a walkway to the next room. John-117 enters a large chamber and activates a light bridge, a massive window with an ominous orange glow is visible, with an orange Forerunner glyph on each side. Through a damaged doorway, a small amount of mysterious biomass is gathered under a small nook in the center of the next room, where a large pool of human blood is to the left. Even more blood is present down the ramp, where a lone marine lays dead, the blood reaching the bottom. The next room is obscured by an observation window and appears foggy. John-117 proceeds down the ramp.

John-117 reaches a heavily damaged door at the bottom of the ramp, a UNSC Spoofer is still intact. He takes a knee and punches in a code to open the door before being startled by a strange sound, raising his assault rifle to alert. He then stows his gun on his back and uses both hands to pry open the door through the gap, and is faced with the face of a dead marine, his face frozen in