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| ===Animus Anomalies===
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| The modern day talking is not especific to location, but the Isu stuff is.
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| ====Modern day====
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| =====First anomaly=====
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| *'''Layla Hassan:''' ''Becs, are you seeing this?''
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| *'''Rebecca Crane:''' ''Yeah, it's weird. An anomaly of some kind. The rest of your simulation is frozen.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I can see a loose data package close by. I'll see if I can reach it.''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Okay, but take it slow. We don't know what this thing is.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Becs, I'm closing in on the data packet.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Got it.''
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| =====Second anomaly=====
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| *'''Layla Hassan:''' ''Becs, I found another anomaly.''
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| *'''Rebecca Crane:''' ''Is that what we're calling them?''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''And another data packet. Should I get it?''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''If it's anything like the last one, absolutely.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Hey, are you two hearing the same voices I'm hearing?''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Not sure what you mean. It's all quiet on our end.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Dammit. Well, I'm at the second packet. You ready?''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''I'm ready.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I got the data. Sending it now.''
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| =====Third anomaly=====
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| *'''Rebecca Crane:''' ''Your signal is flickering. Another anomaly?''
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| *'''Layla Hassan:''' ''Yeah. Are you losing touch with me when I find these?''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Yeah, unfortunately. For a few minutes at a time.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Damn. Try to stay with me if you can. I need you to hear these.''
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| *'''Shaun Hastings:''' ''Hey, Becs! Layla's back! I see her here ... blipping and bleeping on your monitor.''
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| *'''Shaun:''' ''Layla, hey. Becs is fiddling with the back end. Trying to get a fix on you.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''No luck?''
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| *'''Shaun:''' ''No luck. But she did show me how to decrypt your data packets. I just click a button when you've grabbed the data bits.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Got it.''
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| =====Fourth anomaly=====
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| *'''Layla Hassan:''' ''Anomaly four. Becs, you really have to hear this in here. Two voices, definitely Isu. One of them is Aletheia, I think.''
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| *'''Rebecca Crane:''' ''From the staff?''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Yeah. But I don't think these are contemporary. They feel candid. Accidental.''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''I'll keep trying.''
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| *'''Shaun Hastings:''' ''Layla, it's Shaun. I'm sifting through the videos you've been finding. This is an absolute gold mine, I hope you realize.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Feels like it.''
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| *'''Shaun:''' ''This is literally the clearest raw memory-stream footage we've ever seen from the Isu era. Only question is, who's feeding them to you?''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Got it.''
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| =====Fifth anomaly=====
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| *'''Layla Hassan:''' ''Here we go again.''
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| *'''Shaun Hastings:''' ''Hey, it's Shaun here. Hum... Becs is trying to cook up a trace of some kind. Hoping to find out where this raw data is coming from.
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| *'''Layla:''' ''It's not in Eivor's DNA is it?''
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| *'''Shaun:''' ''Can't be. Feels too deliberate. Like someone wants you to see it.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Becs, any progress?''
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| *'''Rebecca Crane:''' ''Nothing yet. Whoever put these here made a surgical incision into our server. They dumped this data and backed out before anyone noticed.''
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| *'''Shaun:''' ''Oddly enough, that's how Rebecca describes our wedding night. Which I find rude...''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Hasting, get off the mic.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I got it. Be ready.''
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| =====Sixth anomaly=====
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| *'''Rebecca Crane:''' ''Layla. How are you holding up?''
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| *'''Layla Hassan:''' ''Not bad, actually. These anomalies feel second nature now.''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Any ghosting effects? Double-identity syndrome? Occipital shock signs?''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Hey hey, you trying to freak me out? My God, just let me work.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''All right, closing in on another one.''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Sorry to freak you out earlier. It's just, the Animus can be dangerous. Prolonged exposure is hard on a brain.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I know. I just ... I wanna finish this.''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Yes. Definitely. Jump out whenever you feel worn down.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I got the data. Here it comes.''
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| =====Seventh anomaly=====
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| *'''Layla Hassan:''' ''Anomaly number seven, if I'm counting right.''
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| *'''Rebecca Crane:''' ''You are. Just a few more to go. Ten in total.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Ten. Okay, I can do ten. Does the Animus give achievements for stuff like this?''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Sorry? Does it what?''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Forget it.''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''You're getting good at these, Layla.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I'm an engineer. These puzzles are child's play.''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Still, it's physical and mental. That can't be easy.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''That's true. I never had to swim through any fluid dynamics equations to solve them.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I got the data. Here it comes.''
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| =====Eight anomaly=====
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| *'''Layla Hassan:''' ''Shaun. These memory-stream fragments I'm finding ... are they adding up to anything?''
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| *'''Shaun Hastings:''' ''Nothing coherent so far. Just random clips. Hard to say how they all fit together.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Damn.''
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| *'''Shaun:''' ''I think there's more here than meets the eye. Just keep going.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Almost there. Eight down, two to go.''
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| *'''Shaun:''' ''Good. And here comes another kaleidoscopic gemstone of gibberish.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Not bad, Shaun. Working on your kennings?''
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| *'''Shaun:''' ''As a matter of fact, I am, yes. Thank you for noticing, data-wrangler.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I got the data. Here it comes.''
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| =====Ninth anomaly=====
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| *'''Rebecca Crane:''' ''Anomaly number nine. Feeling okay? Any adverse effects?''
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| *'''Layla Hassan:''' ''I'm a little tired, that's all. Why? You expecting something worse?''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Expecting the unexpected. It's hard to fully trust these things.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I'll be careful.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Number nine in sight. And the voices are still with me.''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''That's strange. We're still not hearing anything.''
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| *'''Shaun Hastings:''' ''Are you still sure they aren't coming from somewhere else? Like... from you?''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''God, no. How would that be possible?''
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| *'''Shaun:''' ''Sorry, just asking.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I got the data. Here it comes.''
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| =====Tenth anomaly=====
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| *'''Layla Hassan:''' ''Last anomaly. This is it.''
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| *'''Rebecca Crane:''' ''I'm keeping a close watch on you. Don't do something weird or sudden, okay?''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I won't. And pull me out if you see anything strange. Anything at all.''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Gotcha.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Becs, I'm almost at number ten. Anything happening on your end?''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''Nothing. I'm decrypting the last data packet now. Here we go.''
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| *'''Shaun Hastings:''' ''Hold on, hold on. The fragment's unpacking itself. Gigs of compressed data. I think... hold on... I think we're in for something bigger than we bargained for. Get ready...''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''I got the data. Here it comes.''
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| *'''Layla:''' ''Holy shit. What is that?''
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| *'''Rebecca:''' ''I have a few guesses, and all of them are wild. I'll upload this to the server.''
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| =====If layla ded=====
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| *'''Basim Ibn Ishaq:''' ''Yes, here we are. My anomalies. Let's see how these turned out.''
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| *'''Basim Ibn Ishaq:''' ''And here... the fragment of an ancient memory.''
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| ====Data====
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| |-|Kildesbig=
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''Wake, my love, wake! Soldiers at our door. They've come for you! For us.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''Let them take me. I have no more fear. Let me air my wrath in the courts.''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''They'll kill you before they let you speak!''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''I'll appeal to the Council. They must know what the Mad One has done.''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''They're upon us! Now is not the time!''
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| |-|Aqueduct=
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''The Mad One is away, wandering in lands afar. He searches for a way to ressurect his son. Asking every leaf and stone for answers.''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''We can use this to our advantage. To steal the seventh, the seal and its catalist.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''It should be ours. For all the suffering he has wrought.''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''Our minds are attuned, love. As sympathetic strings.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''When the time is right, just right, we'll go.''
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| |-|Needham Lake=
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''Be still, love. And let the current flow. Let it take you.''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''Is this...? This is dangerous. It may not work.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''Until we have the serum, this is all we can manage.''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''Will you not ask the Mad One for me? Ask him for the serum. Beg him for it.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''He would not listen. And I would sooner see our world obliterated before I gave that man a view of me on my knees.''
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| |-|Quartzite Ridge=
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''My love, what happened? You are flushed, trembling.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''An eye for an eye. A son for a son. For if ours must suffer needlessly to the end of his life, so too will his tormentor.
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''What ... what have you done?''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''The poor boy collapsed so suddenly. Felled by the faintest taste of mistel-berry. With his father standing over him, weeping!''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''Reckless, foolish! Were you seen? Do they know it was you?''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' (laugh)
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| |-|Basilica Ruins=
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''Ah! Stop ... stop!''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''Keep still, love. You're injured. Now let me see...''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''Ah! No ... no more, please. Let me ... let me die. Here. Where all is quiet.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''No! This is ... this is NOT your end. There is a way. A Piece of Eden, a staff attuned to this method of transfer. It may work!''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''Or I may end up like the outcast's husband. A beating heart without a mind. But do what you must ... I see no other way.''
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| |-|Seven Sisters=
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''My love, are you there? Speak and tell me you live.''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''I ... I live. If this is living. A mind without a body.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''And do you feel?''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''I feel myself. My sense of being. Nothing more. Nothing less. No pain or ... or joy ... or passage of time.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''And yet, you are with me. And I with you. And together we will endure.''
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| |-|Thornburg Henges=
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''Curse that Mad One, that one-eyed wretch! He has taken our son! Imprisoned him for invented crimes and locked him away!''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''As he said he would, love. Do you not remember his threats? You should have been more careful.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''Have we no power to stop him? To save our son? No recourse?''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''What can we say? And to whom? Must the world know about our children? Must your wife learn of us? Is that a risk you want to take?''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''I must do something! Anything!''
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| |-|Briudun Hill=
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''Have you heard? The High Council has stripped the Mother of her title. For gifting our tormentor her seventh method of salvation.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''The seventh method? Is it viable? Why were we not told?''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''I've heard whispers and rumors. It seems the seventh requires a human host.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''A human host? Do you mean ... rebirth? As one of them?''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''Yes. But it's a small loss for a greater gain. A risk we must be willing to take.''
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| |-|Hlutrholt=
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''I've spoken with the Mother, the Father, the Sacred Voice. They have assured me their success is imminent. Our people will survive the cataclysm.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''Six times they have tried to save us. Six times they have failed. Forgive me if I have my doubts.''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''The mother is working on a seventh. A bold solution ... risky. But she is confident it can work.
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''And what does the Father say? Or the Voice? They are strangely silent these days...''
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| |-|The Needles=
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''My love, the time is now. The cataclysm is upon us. The Mad One has gathered his trusted eight to his secret hall.''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''Remember the calculations. You must act with precision. Every small step must be accounted for.''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''I'll remember. They are burned into my brain.''
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| *'''Unknown Female Voice:''' ''How long till your rebirth?''
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| *'''Unknown Male Voice:''' ''A long time, love. Ypu must wait in your endless present, and I will sail the black sea of nonbeing. But if all goes well, I'll find you again. On the far side of our doom. We'll be together. Again.''
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| ===Offering Altars=== | | ===Offering Altars=== |
