Lobotomy Corporation - First Warning, Second Warning, Third Warning | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

Lobotomy Corporation is the first game in Project Moon's "verse," so to speak, which is followed by Library of Ruina and then Limbus Company. It's all one big storyline, set up in the same universe, with Lobotomy Corporation focusing on the exploits of one corporation trying to manage these supernatural, nightmarish, eldritch beings called Abnormalities and harvest energy from them. These creatures are locked up in tight containment units and are capable of widespread destruction if unleashed. To give some examples of the most dangerous ones: -A sentient mass of corpses that kills others to add to its collection and become even stronger. -An orchestra conductor who plays a literally deadly symphony. -A grotesque, fleshy monster that mimics other people and wears other people's skin. -A monster so nightmarish that all of its appearances and sounds are censored from your eyes to prevent total loss of sanity. -A fallen angel who brainwashes others into becoming its servants and preaches a dark form of salvation... which naturally involves a lot of death. And your job is to _manage_ these beings. I would say the Abnormalities are one of the most iconic parts about Project Moon's games, and they've been present in every one of their games. But about the music. The warnings play in response to well the Abnormalities are contained. There is a peaceful version that plays when everything is going smoothly, usually called Neutral or No Warning. But when Abnormalities start breaching their containment units and wreaking havoc, First Warning plays, and then Second Warning starts playing when things descend into chaos and you have to scramble to get the creatures contained. Third Warning is glorified Game Over music. It plays when a crapton of employees die and the facility is in such a state of destruction that it's nearly impossible to come back from the brink. So you're right on that front. Second Warning is just about everyone's favorite, but I'm that weird one who actually likes First Warning the best. There's something about the way the music communicates the danger the Abnormalities pose that I'm really fond of. Just the subtle way the ominous instrumentation gets more and more prominent with time, as if the danger is creeping up on you, almost poisoning your veins. And then it caps off with the climax, which has what I always thought of as deranged laughter filling your ears, representing the facility spiraling further and further into insanity as these deadly _things_ roam the halls. First Warning sells the horror of the situation better than even Third Warning for me, and it's the theme that I think of when I remember Lobotomy Corporation. Aside from No Warning as I mentioned above, Library of Ruina also has its own versions of First, Second, and Third Warning. All very much worth listening to, as well.

1st: There's nothing there to worry about 2nd: There's Nothing There to worry about 3rd. There's nothing to worry about

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Yeah, the third warning is rather a funeral requiem than a warning. Technically, it is possible to salvage the game after the third warning, but you already suffered too much losses that you'd rather start over.

"Sounds like an underground lab/bunker" You literally got it spot on. Shows how well it's designed.

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Lobotomy Corporation used to be a hidden gem, grew a cult following from it's unique concept and notorious difficulty. The story writing for Project Moon's games are absolutely amazing as well. Most players first reaction to hearing the first Warning play during gameplay is typically immediate panic lol. The BGM does a weirdly great job of immersing you into the gameplay, even while various alterations of the same track play through out a 'Day'. The 'Warning' tracks themselves trigger dynamically, as others have pointed out, sometimes circumstances will circumvent warnings and go straight to 'Second' or 'Third' depending on the situation. If you have the time or someone's able to send a clip your way of what a typically in-game reaction to the warnings are like, I'd think you'd have a good laugh lol.

So the actual crazy thing about Lobotomy Corporation that I haven't seen anyone mention is that the game will actually calculate which of these themes to play based on A) The number of and threat level of Abnormalities that have escaped into the facility, B) the number of Employees in the facility that could be used to suppress said Abnormalities, C) the average strength/level of gear across your employees and D) how many times an Abnormalityhas breached. Late into the game you can force breaches of easy to suppress Abnormalities that can work in your favor and if your gear is strong enough, it won't even play First Warning, OR you can breach the Scarecrow repeatedly enough times that it will play Third Warning. The calculations and programming going into that mechanic of the game alone are like some strange form of fascinating black magic to me.

so in the project moon verse, there are actually 7 warnings, also known as trumpets, of which we only hear three, slowing indicating more and more danger toward the facility or outer world, 1 indicating a simple threat that can cause slight damage but should cause no real problems. 2 indicating a much more dangerous threat that can cause major damage in the facility, but the situation is still salvageable. 3 indicating there is a danger that can cause mass casualties and damage in the facility, all though there is still a very slim possibility to come back. 4 indicates that everything in the facility is done for, everyone is dead, and the manager (the player) is all but done for. 5 plays when multiple lobcorp facilities are dealing with 4. 6 plays when lobcorp as a whole is destroyed, or no longer a "wing" (one of the major players in the world) 7 plays when everything in the world is destroyed, weather by abnormalities, or by something else entirely

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First warning: there's a leak, go fix it please Second warning: everything is going wrong, let's hope we survive Third warning: well it was nice knowing you. We'd be lucky if one person lives through the next 5 minutes.

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First Warning is when your standard fare of monsters break out, but your clerks can take them out pretty easily. Second Warning is when something breaks out that can kill a good majority of your staff, but can still be contained. Third Warning is when you're DOOMED. There's a good amount of nice boss themes in Lobo, so hopefully they'll show up later to hear!

In regards to your last question: There arent any other related songs in Lobotomy Corporation specifically, but Library of Ruina has new versions of all 3 songs.

Love how LobCorp manual points out the Third Warning is just "shit is going badly but we can take it if we sacrifice enough resources" even when ingame most of the time its a complete defeat. The Manual points out the worse case would be a level Seven Warning which is pretty much the end of humankind and reality. And yes, the game is a gigant underground facility.

I highly recommend you listen to the Library of Ruina version of the 3 warnings! In Library of Ruina, the 3rd warning has a different vibe and feels like you are fighting against a God. In Lob Corp, all is lost when the 3rd warning plays. But in Library, there is slightly hopeful sounding vibe to it, making it feel like you might just be able to kill it before it kills you

I do so love trains. The warning themes are excellent, its a special kind of fun when they start playing and you have nod idea why. Gods i hate trains.

The songs can either be seconds, minuets, or hours. You pretty much hit it on the mark. First warning is "huh. i better fix that i guess". Second warning is "Oh I NEED to fix that now". Third warning is "Well I guess its over". They can either play in sequence, or you can jump straight to a later warning if its bad enough, fast enough.

People expecting third warning being even faster than second and being bamboozled.

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Chill beats to Distort/Manifest E.G.O. to

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First Warning: Right, Everyone keep your distance from the Exploding Child. Second Warning: Magical Girl PTSD. (If you know, you know.) Third Warning: *Train Noises Intensify*

so... some things to point out The 3 warnings are based on 3 out of the 7 trumpets of the apocalypse, in-universe is explained that there are more warnings, but you only get to hear 3 because 4 onwards implies your character, the manager, irrovacably dies, so technically there is a 4th warning if one ragequits so hard, they uninstall the game... but well... you don't get to hear it... onether thing to note is that, you asked if there are any followup to the warnings... and boi I have news to you... aside from Neutral, a song that has 4 variations, this game has a little surprise for the genere the game has 2 kinds of bossfights, not one kind... TWO kinds... one is the event bosses, two catastrophically dangerous entities capable of ripping the world apart...... and the second kind, and important one here: The "Core Supressions" each Core Supression starts with the 2nd warning locked in, meaning you can never return to Neutral (the song)... after a while, depending on which of the 9 Core Supressions are you doing, the music changes, usually with some special SFX, like wind, distortion, reverb, rain... (in that sense... if you want to react to the songs, ask for a version with the SFXs, because they are part of the experience, and some channels just uploaded the clean versions of the songs, without said SFXs) I will list down below the songs played on each of the core Supressions in the "intended" order: First: - Violation of Black Colors - Red Dots Second: - untitled9877645623413123325 - Faded Third: - Retro Time ALT - Retro Time ALT (Distorted) Forth: - Abandoned - Blue Dots Fifth: - Eternal - Dark Fantasy Scene Sixth: - Distorted Night - Insignia Decay Seventh: - Battle - Urgent Encounter Eight: - Jukai - Haunted Streets Ninth: - 090909090 - Circle Rombed Oxygen

Face the Fear! Save the E.G.O. To piggyback on what some of the other commentors said, these songs play based on how bad things are in the game. Funnily enough, things that trigger these warning can STOP triggering these if you deal with them, successfully, often enough. Particularly things that might trigger First Warning early on in a run might not trigger it at all later because, by then, it's small potatoes. Your staff are so used to this particularly Abnormal situation that it doesn't even register on the "F**ked Up" scale anymore.

PM sleeper agents have been summoned. I myself have never played Lob Corp only Library of Ruina and Limbus, but I do plan to try it. Anyway, we in the community look forward to your futher exploration of the PM verse and it's music.

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The Warnings actually go up to 7 in-universe , but anything past the 3rd means you were fired/Killed and your Structure has been completely breached. 7 is the end of humanity as we know it. That aside , there is something so uncanny about 1st Warning's Drop...dunno , sounds like a sampled human voice or something. Might just be me tho.

man im loving that you're doing multiple songs now,appreciate it

Yeah, Third Warning is basically a game over most of the times. Imagine the Corp, it has hundreds of employees, agents and clerks, when Third Warning kicks in, there's probably just like 5 or less, the total falling of the corporation you are managing. (Thus better to just restart the day, which is a Canon thing that happens lol) Also, Lobotomy Corporation is the prequel to Library of Ruina, which is the prequel of Limbus Company, a live service game that's yet expanding the series. Also also, to answer your last question, the only songs I can think of that are related to the Warnings are the Neutral songs (what plays regularly, when things are doing fine. They go from 1 to 4, they play depending on what Day you are, basically progress based.) and the Meltdown themes (there's Boss Battles in this management sim, God I love this game xd). From first to last, with "or" when you get to choose which to fight at the moment: Malkuth, Yesod, Hod or Netzach, Tiphereth, Gebura or Chesed, Hokma or Binah.

There are also three other versions of the warning ost, although they are from the sequel to lobotomy corporation, library of Ruina.

There’s some factors that determine which warnings play. 1.) how many monsters have escaped into the hallways of the facility. 2.) how many employees have been killed by these monsters. 3.) how many employees are panicking 4.) the strength of the monster that has escaped. Typically, the higher the warning number, the more dire and dangerous the situation is. Since the employees are the ones that suppress the escaped monster these themes represent the dire circumstances of the situation, and their lives being on the line. That said, Only one monster in the entire game instantly triggers third warning when it escapes. Third warning is supposed to give the sense of hopelessness or devastation.

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The artist for these tracks is Dr.ReB in case you were curious

First warning has a feeing of focus. It draws your attention to the situation at hand so you can work to control it. Second warning is panic as things start to fall out of your control. Things are still salvagable, but only just. Third warning is failure. There's not that much left to salvage even if you do manage to get things under control, may as well reset the day.

Keep calm and graze the grass.

Well we would love you to react to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd warnings for Project Moon's sequel game, Library of Runia. Lots of musical easter eggs since you are familiar with Lob Corp's warnings.

people describe how you get to the warnings, but the equivalent feeling of getting hit by a warning is: 1st: the teacher calls you out to answer a question when you haven't been paying attention 2nd: finding out there is a test in five minutes that you have never studied for 3rd: F, restart the year

my favourite of the three is first warning for sure, i love the moment where it finally drops, and the build-up to it is so much fun

Library of Ruina brings back the warnings but makes remixes out of them. The remixes have a totally different vibe from the originals thanks to the game focusing on other themes and characters.

I believe the First Warning plays when something escapes in Lobotomy, Second Warning plays when pawns (not clerks) start dying, and 3rd Is I believe when everyones dead. I dont quite remember. But they are very cool. The game itself is fantastic, one of my favs.

This warning tracks are massive invasion events. Really challenging and tensive.

long have we awaited

There aren't any more warnings than these three, but these songs are used as elevated emergency states in the game. So, tied to them is the music that plays when there's no emergency going on, called Neutral, rather than a numbered warning.

I had whiplash when he said it feels like one song with three MOVEMENTS DEAR GOD WERE LOSING ALL ENERGY AGAIN.

So I picked this up last year after learning about Project Moon from the music and comments on this channel. Its the first their three games that I'm aware of, with the second being Library of Ruina and the third being Limbus Company. Lobotomy Corporation is a sort of underground secret monster research facility management game. I loved the game, but its not for everyone. I like to describe it as Anxiety the Video Game. Every "day" in the game, your juggling a ton of relatively simple tasks, but if you mess up you can start a cascading mess of a situation. First Warning still triggers something in my brain, because its the song that starts playing when you've messed something up. You have to drop everything and find out whats going wrong. Second Warning is my favorite song of the three and it plays when things are starting to get real bad, but maybe you can still recover. When Third Warning starts playing, though, its basically time to give up and watch all your hard work burn to the ground before hitting the reset button.

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Here you go for PM fan posting wall of texts about the lore again. But yeah, good as usual :)

Your feeling on the songs is almost dead on. The setting is indeed an underground lab/bunker. The first is the "warning" that things are starting to get rough. The second? Shit is getting crazy, this warning is all hands on deck, you fucked up. The third? Indeed death. It's very hard, if not impossible to return from there. If you get to the "third trumpet" you likely lost, because everything is hell and most of your people are dead. A finale, almost a dirge. In the game, they play based on how you are doing in the game. If you stay with no battles or outbreaks, then you don't hear these. The songs escalate as things get worse or you fail to contain the matters based on deaths, strength, what has escaped, etc.

After 3rd trumpet, their are others, but nobody in the facility would still be alive to activate it. And before long nobody on earth would be alive either.

If you're still looking for feedback on doing multiple songs in one video, I'd suggest listening to each, doing a mini thoughts section between each one, then move to the next, then the main thoughts section at the end. That way you don't forget details you heard or lose thoughts etc by the end of all the tracks your listening to

Beyond lore and thematic usage of the warnings, they serve an interesting gameplay purpose as basically an immediate way to assess the current situation in the facility. Lobotomy Corporation is a highly intense management sim, there's a lot of plates to juggle, sometimes you can't even have the camera in certain places without risking pissing off certain abnormalities, and you need to give most of your orders manually while constantly assessing who is best for what job. And that's before other things to worry about like combat, keeping agents healed/sane, manual actions like shooting healing bullets, etc. In this environment one of the most notable things about the way the Warnings work is how they change depending on the scale/severity of the monsters that have broken out. If the music shifts from calm to first warning, something minor/manageable has breached; maybe it'll even solve itself depending on what it is. But if second warning plays, then you should probably be standing at attention, and working to stem the tide. In this context third warning is actually the most interesting because it's actually "hard" to hear in a manageable context. You spend your time in a bad situation mostly in second warning, and third warning signifies that it's gotten out of hand and is going to require some serious skill to pull back. It's a cool, natural feeling system that serves a gameplay as well as a thematic purpose.

i love project moon osts, they all very cool

Yeah, I feel like the warnings embody the act of crossing a metaphorical line First Warning: actual warning Second Warning: consequence Third Warning: aftermath It's possible to stop a meltdown and breach before you get to the third warning, but not without a heavy loss of some kind. By the time you've hit Third Warning, it's already over and you're just watching the facility crumble before your eyes. You can quit and restart the day at this point, or continue to watch it play out until all staff have inevitably died and the abnormalities escape. It's not IMPOSSIBLE to turn the situation around, but at that point you lose so many resources that it isn't worth it, unless you're doing a no restart challenge run or something.

The future games in the series use Leitmotifs of these songs in some of their music. The warnings are also referred to as trumpets, in reference to the trumpets of the apocalypse from the Book of Revelations. Canonically there are 7 warning levels total, but three is the highest you can reach in game.

First Warning: "There is nothing there..." Second Warning: *"THERE IS NOTHING THERE!"* Third Warning: "There is Nothing There."

Something to note about how these songs are played: The game chooses the song to best represent what is happening. The game may play the music in order if the threat level of the situation is escalating, but it may also skip songs if there is immediate escalation or de-escalation in the threats. I think one of the best things they did with this music is have it almost change tune over time. First Warning starts off with a more anxious tone, as typically the problem isnt *supposed* to be that difficult to handle, but if it isnt dealt with in a timely manner then the music will eventually boil over to represent that this is more dangerous than it should be. Likewise, Third Warning starts off with a absolutely hopeless theme, but starts to lighten up the longer it plays, understanding that you're still hanging on to this desperate situation despite all logic and reason telling you to reset the day and that everything is over. Its an excellent way to adapt music to the circumstances without actually making more than 1 song.

Hell yeah!

The first warning tends to play when only a few creatures have escaped containment, especially if they're lower in danger rating. Could snowball into a bigger threat if gone unchecked. Second warning is the most common theme to hear when shit's actually going down; aside from specific bosses that have their own themes, second warning is the most common theme you'll hear when fighting off more dangerous threats. Third, like you guessed, generally only plays when things have spiraled so out of control that your odds of recovering from the situation are low--and, even if you do, you'll have lost so much in the process it may not be worth it.

These songs are literally why I'm going to buy lobotomy corporation

If you get a chance, try taking a look at the "Sephirah Meltdown" themes as well! These are sort of like the boss battle music for Lobotomy Corporation (You've covered Realization battle music from Library of Ruina, which is somewhat close in how it's used).

in third warning, all you could see is nothing but your dead employees, multiple aleph abnormalities roaming around and the restart the day button on top.

Each alarm correspond to a level of chaos in the facility. If everything’s fine, you just hear the neutral music playing, a mostly relaxing tune. However, depending of how dangerous the situation is (generally, when they are monsters/SCPs rooming in your facility), it plays an alarm music. The intensity goes from the first to the third. When you’re hearing the third, most of the time, it means you’re doomed and you better off restarting the level/day, which explains the slow pace and depressing tone. To clarify, It’s a SCP management game basically.

the only directly related song(s) to the warnings is "neutral" (theres a few numbered versions of neutral, each one getting a bit more busy, but its mostly the same base song) its the music that plays when everything is going fine

Third warning: "lol you let the train out, didn't you?"

YES

First Warning is: Hey, you might want to take a look at that. Second Warning is: Sh*t has hit the fan. Situation is salvageable but you will take massive casualties. Third Warning is: You're done. Enjoy the carnage.

Second Warning es todo un temazo ✋🗿🤚

Nice video

1단계 - 수습 가능 2단계 - 최악은 아니다. 수습해라 3단계 - 여기까지 올때까지 뭐했냐.

I don’t know if I should say that it’s the best or the worst part of the game, but it’s not that hard to trigger a second or third warning, it’s really easy to get a dangerous abnormality escape from its containment unit and absolutely wreck havoc in your facility, or you commit a small mistake which snowballs into a massive problem, killing all of your employees in the process. There’s way too many ways to fuck up a day, there’s a reason why even though every level should be around 10-20 minutes long and there’s only 50 levels, people still take from 160-240~ hours to finish the game, my time was 226 hours. Edit: I just wanted to share a funny quote from a lobotomy Corp art book: “the 9mm guns provided to the clerks are not special in anyway and are not meant for self defence, even though the clerk manual suggests otherwise. The clerks will come to know the true meaning of the gun once driven to the edge” accompanied by a drawing of a clerk pointing a gun at its own head. Btw, clerks do commit suicide once every agent in a department is dead.

Oh yeah. The game had awesome music for simple thing like breaches. Depending on the breach the game will dynamically change the music based how bad the situation is. Warning 1: Carefull now. Warning 2: It is getting dicy. Act now. Warning 3: Situation is beyond saving. This theme works as a Dirge for the player's failure.

WHOAH WTF LOBOTOMY CORPORATION?

I like "lobotomy corporation: ost and the game so stresseful💀, i love "library of ruina" for the story and the ost and the gameplay😄, and the last game "limbus company" is good but not as good as the 2 first games but the ost is good 😀

A lot of Lobotomy Corp's soundtrack is not original to the game and is purchased from asset stores iirc, though the tracks have been so intrinsically linked to Lobotomy Corp that they're as part of the game's identity as a truly original soundtrack could've been. I believe the Warnings (also called Trumpets) are composed by Dr.ReB.