Go and have a chat with a particularly talky faceless commander, you know the one. His dialogue had few unreachable branches before the experimental patches earlier this year. You've probably missed those. You might also want to try taking a less antagonistic stance with the institute tchortists someday, just to get a bit wider perspective to what happened there right before your descent.
Ah, perhaps I should have been more specific. I always killed Eidein to get the keycard during the
Faceless invasion. For role-play purposes, I would ally with him up until the point when
he refuses the player entry into the Deep Caverns while standing right in front of the elevator, and then I would choose the *Attack!* dialogue option and focus on killing Eidein and Samuel while the other Tchortists are distracted by the invading Faceless. This way I can preserve my alliance with the Faceless, too.
As silly as it sounds, I had never considered the possibility that
the Faceless had just collected Eidein's body for observation, obvious as it sounds. I really feel like quite an idiot, as that makes by far the most sense! For some reason I always assumed that he somehow got up and walked away. But of course
the Faceless would want to take him apart to see how he works.
I had actually already seen that particular bit of dialogue from the commander, too, when I went back to it on the experimental patch. I guess I just totally forgot that I had even read it!
Regardless, thanks for the help, epeli. It is much appreciated.
So maybe this is already explained by the guy you are referring to Epeli, but my last bossfight I noticed how incredibly uncanny a resemblance the Mouth of Tchort had to Eidein.
There is a portait on the wiki of him appearently, just take a look if you want to see what I mean.
Yeah, I definitely see what you mean, but given the info presented by the Faceless Commander (that is:
that the Faceless collected his body), I think it's safe to say that they are not the same person. Although, maybe it was the physical appearance of
the Mouth of Tchort which inspired Eidein's costume?
Oh, and sorry for derailing this thread so much.