I'm stupid, but i need to ask..

[bluel0bster]

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Well, that explains the part about him picking up something nasty.

So it may not be the machine? I was so sure about that is actually was the machine talking..

Also, i guess the chldren did die.. or they got slaghtered?

-- Sorry for poor english :3

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I believe it was the machine talking. Not sure who through though, whoever was in the coffin at the end. Possibly the professor.

As for the children, they were sacrificed by Mandus ripping their hearts out so that they would avoid the horrors of the "coming century." The antagonist, in his final monologue, says something about seeing them dead along a particular river. I believe he's saying they'll die in WWI/WWII, and to avoid their fate, Mandus killed them himself to protect them.