Talk:Allen Marks

slowly ran out of air
the paragraph intends to convey the meaning that the reason he shot himself was due to running out of air. no one would shoot themselves because they will some time in the future run out of air. on the holotape he was barely breathing. that's why I phrased it that way. Eydryan 02:01, October 24, 2010 (UTC)

How can he "run out of air"? There is no indication that the building is airtight, so even if he did somehow get trapped inside the building, he would starve rather than die from lack of oxygen.173.67.40.111 23:37, November 1, 2010 (UTC)

The only thing I can figure is that the ceiling cave-in that blocked off the room from being accessed from the first floor happened right after he went in there, preventing him from leaving and significantly reducing the amount of air he had available. The other ceiling cave-in that allows the Courier to drop down into the prize area must have happened -after- Alan Marks had already expired.

That doesn't really explain why his audio log cuts off mid-sentence though. Did he just decide to stop talking? I can't really imagine someone shooting themself in the head mid-sentence. Also a mystery is why he wouldn't have at least tried to clear away the rubble by hand or shooting his way out with his laser pistol.

Supporting my theory about the building collapse is Mr. Brody's termainal (behind a very hard locked door). The terminal has collected status message reports from the robots. Near the end they mention an intruder, then 'major structural damage', then that the intruder has been injured, then more 'major structural damage'.

I assume that, as he was injured, he died from his wounds on the holotape. He never says, as a far as a remember, that he was running out of air. So he probably cut off mid sentence from his injuries, not loss of air or shooting himself.

Uh, the first thing he says on the Holotape is something like "Not much air left."

And there's a blood stain on the wall near his head, and the laser pistol is left on the ground near his hand.

Why there would be a blood stain from an exit wound if he shot himself with a laser pistol, I have no idea.

Given the visual and text evidence, it would appear he was injured in the collapse that blocked off his escape. He was apparently too weak to try and dig his way out or crawl through the gap between the rubble and the ceiling (there appears to be room).

Given the gap, I don't see how he could have run out of air, yet he does say so in the holotape. I assume what Bethesda was intending was that the cave-in injured him and completely blocked off his air supply from the rest of the building, and he shot himself to keep from dying from suffocation. Why he stopped talking mid-sentence on the holotape is a mystery.

Apart from hwo there's not shooting noise, and Pew Pew makes one. The door was locked remember, so he could have got locked in there. As you can tell form the holo, he's either in intence pain or struggling to struggling to breathe, either are likely causes of his death. 19:10, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

Allen Marks died from his wounds he got from either all the killing or when he was on his way to the "treasure", he must have died while recording. /JA