Memories Awoken
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Memories Awoken was a virtual representation of one of Kassandra's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.
Description
TBA
Dialogue
Kassandra departed the lair of the Cult of Kosmos, making her way to Thermopylai to meet with Herodotos at the Lion of Leonidas.
- Kassandra: Thermopylai... They say you can't walk this battlefield without getting blood on your toes. This is where Leonidas was laid to rest. I wish I had known him.
- Herodotos: If you close your eyes, you can hear them. Their final war cries, before every last one of those brave Spartans perished. Their voices were silenced that day, but their story will be sung for an eternity.
(If players choose "Tell me why we're here.")
- Kassandra: You didn't bring me here to talk about dead Spartans. What's on your mind, Herodotos?
- Herodotos: The battle of Thermopylai still echoes in out hearts, but to stand here is to feel it in your bones.
- Kassandra: There's nothing here but ghosts. My concerns are with the living.
- Herodotos: Hold out your spear.
- Kassandra: My spear? What for?
- Herodotos: I need to know something.
Kassandra did as she was told, and at Herodotos's touch, memories flooded them both of the battle. In it, Leonidas was on the field of battle, watching his soldiers get cut down around him. One, Dienekes, is stabbed from behind. Leonidas ran to him, quickly avenging his death.
- Leonidas: Dienekes!
Leonidas took several arrows to his body, but refused to die, even after having to break off the tip of his spear. Falling to his knees, he looked to the rising sun, only for it to be blocked by a Persian soldier. Taking off his helm, the soldier revealed himself to be the traitor Spartan that had enabled Xerxes to claim victory. The soldier ran Leonidas through with his sword, but Leonidas stabbed him with the tip of the spear. Herodotos and Kassandra were then thrust back into the present, where Herodotos collapsed into her arms.
- Herodotos: Uh...
- Kassandra: Herodotos!
- Herodotos: I'm fine. I'm fine. The stories are true. This is the spear of Leonidas. The hero's blade.
(If players choose "Why was Sparta alone that day?")
- Kassandra: Where were Sparta's allies?
- Herodotos: The Spartans weren't alone in facing Xerxes and his hoards. Many from across the Greek world were armed and ready to fight alongside Leonidas and his three hundred. But when the mighty king looked into their eyes and saw fear, he sent them home.
- Kassandra: That sounds like madness, not bravery.
- Herodotos: It was foretold by the Pythia that Sparta would lose either its freedom or its king to the Persians. Leonidas made his choice.
(If players choose "What happened to Leonidas?")
- Kassandra: What happened to Leonidas after the battle?
- Herodotos: Xerxes was famous for honoring warriors who fought valiantly against the Persians. But Leonidas infuriated him so much, he cut off his head and impaled it on a pike. A bloody battle ensued, and his remains were reclaimed by the Spartans and buried here. Now, however, he rests where he belongs.
- Kassandra: In Sparta.
(If players choose "What happened to the traitor?")
- Kassandra: What happened to the traitor, Ephialtes?
- Herodotos: King Xerxes paid him well, but treachery breeds treachery. A contract was put on his head, and he died as he lived - a coward.
(If players choose "You knew the spear would do that.")
- Kassandra: You knew this would happen.
- Herodotos: I didn't know - but I did suspect. There is a place I'd convinced myself was a dream... until now. A peculiar structure on the island of Andros - mysterious shapes carved in stone. Like nothing I've ever seen.
- Kassandra: You want to sail to Andros so you can show me shapes?
- Herodotos: In my travels I heard whispers of an ancient civilization, a people who came... before. Your spear and that place are connected.
(If players choose "Who are the people who came before?")
- Kassandra: You mentioned a people that came before. Who were they?
- Herodotos: They were not gods, but they lived longer than any mortal and were far more intelligent. I've seen carvings, strange symbols that suggest it was this ancient civilization that created humankind... and provided them with fire.
- Kassandra: But Zeus blamed Prometheus.
- Herodotos: Yes. Well perhaps his eagle has been feasting on the wrong liver.
(If players choose "We sail to Andros.")
- Kassandra: The spear awakened to you, Herodotos. I trust you.
- Herodotos: You understand... I will do everything in my power to help you find your mother, I promise. But first we must sail to the island of Andros.
- Kassandra: I'll meet you at my ship.
Outcome
TBA