Wake Writes a Beginning is one of the Collectibles in Control's AWE expansion. It is a Hotline message from the missing writer and Prime Candidate Alan Wake.
Transcript[]
The story needed many beginnings. Many springs. Streams that turned into a river, a flood, and then, an ocean. This was one. Wake used the materials he had. The connections he had. The people. The places. Wake put them in to make it true. His wife. The psychiatrist. His city. These connections, like magnets, moved things. Alice was a conduit. She'd been in the Dark Place. The Thing-that-Had-Been-Hartman sensed her near. Sensed Wake through her. Went berserk. Broke loose. Wake made sure Alice was already gone by then. Safe. The more springs, the more the story became real. The more people believed. Cause and effect. It was extremely delicate and hard work. It had to go through the path of least resistance. Where success was most likely. Where there was a connection already.
Wake felt the pressure grow in his head. Going mad. Wake had to escape. Write his escape. He was already out. He wanted to make it true. Wake needed a hero. A hero needed a crisis. For the part in the story about the government agency, Wake needed something special. Something to convey an alien force mimicking human intelligence. Something that can't be translated, translated. Wake channeled Burroughs and Bowie. He cut up sentences and words. "Orange peel." "You are home." "Insane." He put them in a shoebox. He pulled out the words. Wake created a Dadaist poem. He'd try anything once. Or had he tried this before?
Location[]
This Collectible is automatically obtained during the Oceanview Motel sequence in the AWE story mission It's Happening Again.
Behind the scenes[]
In this Collectible, Wake refers to American author William S. Burroughs and English singer-songwriter David Bowie, as well as the Dadaist art movement. Both artists were notable users of the cut-up technique, which first originated in Dadaism, in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a different text. Wake alludes to having used the cut-up technique to create the Hiss incantation.
Gallery[]
| Hotline | |
|---|---|
| Trench | The Coming Storm • Control Points • Hotline • Oceanview Motel • Management Team • Northmoor • Internal Lockdown • Panopticon • Prime Candidates • Ashtray Maze • Slidescape-36 • Endless Grind |
| Board | The Directorship • Board Countermeasures • The Hiss • Objects of Power • Astral Constructs • Control Points • Dissent • Foundation • Former • The Future • Rituals • Astral Entities • Departure |
| Marshall | The Foundation • Becoming Director • End of the World • Out of Options • Two Birds, One Bomb |
| Wake | Faden Rides the Elevator • Hartman's Final Act • The Third Thing • On Writing the Manuscript • Wake Writes a Beginning • Valhalla Nursing Home |