TheDarkFlame posted:

I was going to ask how the end-of-days timer works when you stop it but you guys covered that already. I would say I don't believe that you've instantly got another two pips of progress on the Avatar Project yet again, but given the course of this LP yeah I absolutely believe that.

On the Blacksite Vial, I think that the resulting cutscene it to tell you that the material in the vial is either melted-down essence of human, or just the distilled pure genetic formula, of millions of people. The gene treatments are apparently a motivation for everyone to submit themselves to some kind of genetic testing, which ends in some people being cured of terrible ailments, and some people being made into biofuel for whatever super-weapon or death machine the aliens are building.