Fragments from the Vault #029: The Citadel

When the communes and sepulchres are laid to sleep, 

Know from the comedy whose spoils you reap.

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Game: Bioshock

Location: Rapture, the Atlantic

More information: Rapture | Bioshock Wiki | Fandom 

Welcome to Rapture. Photo credit: FetchQuester

...Yet all that remains of that colossal tomb

And its blustering furnace are the fragments 

Of an antique plaque, cast about the nexus of the stage:

The gods, the kings, the flailing thralls of men -

That "great" chain of enterprise and prosperity,

Spliced from its pillars and promenades to be

Snuffed by the fathoms of a restless deep.

Underwater thoroughfare. Photo credit: FetchQuester

The sentinel. Photo credit: FetchQuester

- Lucy A.

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Sources: 

Bioshock (2K Boston/2K); fandom.com; with influences from Percy B. Shelley's "Ozymandias"

*Dedicated to those who fall prey to their own hubris.