A glass window in Sector 4 with the numbers seen near the bottom. These numbers correspond to "busy monster."
In Sector 4 of the Facility, there are 3 glass windows with a different sequence of numbers written on them. These numbers are a cipher and are able to be decrypted using a Polybius square. Translated, and put in order, it says "Pity this busy monster manunkind."
Poem[]
The translated cipher is a reference to a famous poem by E. E. Cummings. This free-verse poem (shown below) expands on the central theme of the game; one perspective is about how humanity's technological progress undermines nature and individuality, which should be mourned as a "loss."
"pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)
plays with the bigness of his littleness
—- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born —- pity poor flesh
and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical
ultraomnipotence. We doctors know
a hopeless case if —- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go."