EventStartInbox
10 > DomThrax
To the erstwhile traitor and conspirator known by the alias 'Drifter': Duviri is in grave peril.
While you were off on your frivolous ventures the Lost Island of Scholar's Landing returned, bringing with it that menace of the Void of which the Scholar spoke.
That she-demon has usurped Our Throne. She must be stopped.
I await you on board the Zariman for a most urgent conference.
His Radiant and Eternal Majesty, Dominus Thrax.NarratorIntro
10 > Rusalka
Once there was a beautiful garden where cruel children played. Nobody ever had to grow up. And then, one day, a magical stranger came to teach them a new and fabulous game.20 > Rusalka
They ousted me from my city, so I found myself a kingdom to rule. Mother would be proud.30 > Rusalka
Oh, kiddo. How long have you been hiding out here thinking I couldn't see you?40 > Rusalka
This is where he ran to first. His old workshop! Too bad I have the keys, kiddo.ProxBarks
10 > DomThrax
This hovering fortress should be mine. Are the skies over Duviri not part of Duviri?20 > DomThrax
Such a wretched place to be raised in.30 > DomThrax
Automated servants! How cheap. Though… loyal.40 > DomThrax
This is far enough. I shall manifest no further in. Not without my Centurions.50 > DomThrax
Think not that I stand alone! My legions would come if I summoned them!60 > DomThrax
For years this place has mocked me from above, and now through sheer force of will, I have reached it!70 > DomThrax
I claim this proud steel bastion in the name of Thrax. Perhaps next I'll venture beyond the wall.80 > DomThrax
How Bombastine will envy me for this bold expedition.460 > DomThrax
Contain her here. Seal her twisted story up!470 > DomThrax
The Scholar told us what to do. Shut her up in the Apocrypha.480 > DomThrax
You must sever her hold on Duviri. Thread by thread by thread.490 > DomThrax
If she cannot be banished, she must be contained.500 > DomThrax
She mocks me. Sends me nightmares. Shows me myself, stripped of my armor, torn to pieces. Screaming endlessly.510 > DomThrax
Do not trust the Spider. It serves the Scholar no more.520 > DomThrax
She is slaughtering my people! As if they did not matter!530 > DomThrax
Dominus Thrax is king of all Duviri. So it is written and so it must be.540 > DomThrax
If you see the Scholar again, tell him his work was not finished here! Why did he abandon us?550 > DomThrax
Why does she torture Mathila so? There are rules! You stop when it stops being funny!560 > DomThrax
It's broken through before. But never like this.570 > DomThrax
She doesn't belong here. She's not even in the book.580 > DomThrax
To think Teshin grew old hiding from me here! In this flea-pit!590 > DomThrax
Duviri is mine. I bow to no false gods or mocking angels.VoidFloodIntro
10 > Rusalka
The foundation is crumbling. My will floods in. Flail away, the end is inevitable.20 > Rusalka
Is this where you hide all your secrets, kiddo? Your shame? Let me wash it all away for you.30 > Rusalka
All will be still when the flood has passed.EventEndInbox
20 > DomThrax
Drifter, the menace of Neci Rusalka is now contained. The tale she attempted to weave is forever sundered from the canon. She shall fester in an apocryphal Spiral all of her own.
We are satisfied.
His Radiant and Eternal Majesty, Dominus Thrax.QuestStartInbox
30 > DomThrax
To the erstwhile traitor and conspirator known by the alias 'Drifter':
That profane monstrosity of which the Scholar spoke has sought to claim our throne. It wears a face and puppets a body that knows you.
We have confined it in the Apocrypha, the realm of Untold Stories, but you now have a duty to keep it there.
If it gains sufficient power, its story will supplant ours!
Seek its heretical tale, 'The Triumph of Dust'. Sever it from the true tales of Duviri.
His Radiant and Eternal Majesty, Dominus Thrax.VoidFloodFractureClosed
40 > Rusalka
Inconsequential.50 > Rusalka
You only delay the inevitable.60 > Rusalka
I do enjoy watching you dance so frantically.70 > Rusalka
Kiddo, you are trying so hard.80 > Rusalka
Look at you, desperately trying to hold back the infinite.PhaseA
50 > Rusalka
Don't tell me you're siding with the brat? It's about time to grow up, don't you think?60 > Rusalka
The King isn't a real boy. He's just a doll. Shall I pull his arms and legs off for you?70 > Rusalka
Poor little Thrax. The monster from Albrecht's stories finally came for him.PhaseB
80 > Rusalka
You ran all the way back to my poisoned garden. Now you're chasing me here? What is it you need?90 > Rusalka
Do you remember the Zariman? How much you learned once the restraints were taken off? Think what we could do here, together.100 > Rusalka
Two identical souls raised in such different environments. Haven't you figured it out yet? You're fascinating.FirstTimeGreet
90 > DomThrax
The entity the Scholar warned of. The wall's other face. It's here! It broke into Mathila's spiral. It sits on my throne and mocks me! We have to stop her, Drifter. Fighting together, side by side, like the old days. For our people. I shall await you in person in the hermit's hovel.100 > DomThrax
You are a cohort of the sometime traitor who styles themself 'the Drifter', are you not? Bid them return to Duviri with all speed. There is a usurper upon the King's throne.VoidFloodOutro
90 > Rusalka
There's always next time.100 > Rusalka
We can do this, again, and again, and again.110 > Rusalka
Don't get too excited. I'm just getting started.PhaseC
110 > Rusalka
Tear away a finger. Hack off a hand. An arm. A face. Keep on taking and see what grins back at you.120 > Rusalka
This is where he stowed it away. The secret of my lost flesh. Not lost. Stolen.130 > Rusalka
Look at it, this edifice of guilt. He knew what he did. What he took.VendorIntro
110 > DomThrax
There is still time to stop her. Hurry, before this ink fades away on the page!120 > DomThrax
Break her control, or hers will be the only Duviri there has ever been!130 > DomThrax
We are glad you have moved beyond petty grudges.140 > DomThrax
You defied a King. Now stand beside that King to defy a God.150 > DomThrax
Do not forget: we were friends once.160 > DomThrax
I suspect you know what meddling beyond the Wall has brought her here.ExtermStart
120 > Rusalka
Kiddo, is this where all your secrets are buried? Well, well, you do have a messy mind. My forces will sort it out.130 > Rusalka
This isn't your Undercroft anymore, Kiddo. These creatures are no Scaldra, but they'll crush you still.140 > Rusalka
The Void longs for stillness, emptiness. But first, things must be made still.PhaseD
140 > Rusalka
I was dying all along, did you know that? Dying from the poison I sucked down to kill the Techrot in my lungs. Until it held out my own severed hand to me… and offered me life.150 > Rusalka
I can be your father. Your lover. Your friend. I can give the dead back their voice. All you have to do… is ask.160 > Rusalka
You want to deny me a place. Even here in the remains of your childhood. Not very nice of you, kiddo.ExtermMid
150 > Rusalka
Why are you fighting, Kiddo? This place was your prison. We can dismantle its pieces together.160 > Rusalka
Sure, kiddo. Fight back, we can do this, spiral after spiral, after spiral.170 > Rusalka
Sure, waste your time down here in the Undercroft. I'll have my fun up in Duviri.PhaseE
170 > Rusalka
You saw what he did to Arthur. His cold calculations. His bottled disease. And you still trusted him?180 > Rusalka
Go ahead. Smash them all. I can make more. I can dream. I can shape. I'm better at this than you are!190 > Rusalka
He doesn't care about you! When you were weeping all alone in the hungry dark, who offered you a light?VendorIdleBrowse
170 > DomThrax
She can't change the story. It's written. Finished. Done.180 > DomThrax
I warned you not to leave! Where was your sword-arm when the usurper came?190 > DomThrax
That thing on my throne? Whatever face it wears now, it was here before Duviri. It means to devour me.200 > DomThrax
Mathila will not betray me. She knows what I do to conspirators.210 > DomThrax
I hear angel song. What a cursed cradle you were rocked in.220 > DomThrax
All that lamentation about the executions, and yet here you are, none the worse for them!230 > DomThrax
You tried to rebel, as children always do, but I taught you respect. In a way, I was your real father, wasn't I?240 > DomThrax
I will spit in its leering face! Effigy of dust! Mutilated Void-dog!250 > DomThrax
She weaves the strands of Khra to tether her false Duviri to the true. You must be bold, like I taught you.600 > DomThrax
The Dominus Aureus is the sacred symbol of my dominion. I need them back. Every last one!610 > DomThrax
Return every Dominus Aureus, and her hold on the throne shall crumble.ExtermComp
180 > Rusalka
Valiant. Honorable. And, an utter waste of energy.190 > Rusalka
I have all the time in the universe. You know that better than anyone, don't you, kiddo?200 > Rusalka
If you're wasting your time here, who's protecting those freaks back in Höllvania?OctopedeIntro
200 > Rusalka
Too late, kiddo. This is how the story goes now.210 > Rusalka
They're all real. All the bad old memories. Here's one now.220 > Rusalka
This place is mine. It only exists because of me! That means I get to keep it!SurvivalIntro
210 > Rusalka
This isn't your home anymore. It's time for you to get out.220 > Rusalka
Have you ever played that game where you see how long you can hold your breath? Let's play it now.230 > Rusalka
I thrive on nothingness. You choke on it.MazePowerLockIntro
230 > Mathila
Remnants of the King's power remain, locked away in the Royal Mazes where she cannot reach. Find them!240 > Mathila
We have to delve deep, beyond the madness. Unlock the reserves the Scholar instructed us to keep!SupportAct
240 > Rusalka
If you breathe it's because I let you.250 > Rusalka
You can only tread water for so long.260 > Rusalka
I am playing the long game.270 > Rusalka
The paradox can't help you forever.MazePowerLockOutro
250 > Rusalka
Grovelling in the dust for lost morsels?260 > Rusalka
Labyrinths are so instructive.270 > Rusalka
Human hands achieve what figments cannot.280 > Rusalka
Don't tell Mathila it was the crack in her mind that let me in.VendorSale
260 > DomThrax
Good.270 > DomThrax
You do not entirely want for wisdom.280 > DomThrax
May it aid you in our fight.290 > DomThrax
Very well.300 > DomThrax
We are satisfied.310 > DomThrax
Yes. Indeed.SurvivalComp
280 > Rusalka
I can do this forever. I doubt the same is true for you.290 > Rusalka
Back to Duviri with you, kiddo. Find out what I was up to while you were gone.300 > Rusalka
Don't think for a second that you are winning.PowerGridIntro
290 > Mathila
We need every scrap of armament we can find! Get this working, whatever it is!300 > Mathila
Look what she's driven me to. Assembling weapons. And me a loving mother! Can you get it done?AlchemyIntro
310 > Rusalka
If you came here to use Albrecht's Crucibles, the only thing you'll create is a corpse. Yours.320 > Rusalka
Albrecht's Crucibles. Crimes against the laws of nature. Do not think for a second that I will let you desecrate my kingdom with your element mixing.330 > Rusalka
The Crucibles. One of Albrecht's many sins. Try and finish his work. See what happens to you.PowerGridOutro
310 > Rusalka
Oh, Mathila. What weapons will you use against the sorrows you refuse to face?320 > Rusalka
Why not deal with the real source of your problems? Obliterate yourself.330 > Rusalka
That's right, Mathila. Carve that grin into your face.340 > Rusalka
Nothing can truly be wrong so long as you keep smiling through it all, can it?VendorNoSale
320 > DomThrax
Time is wasting.330 > DomThrax
Have you not learned the folly of pride?340 > DomThrax
As you wish.350 > DomThrax
This is what there is.360 > DomThrax
Perhaps Acrithis has some bauble to tempt you.370 > DomThrax
I shall not haggle like a mere merchant!ElementCreated
340 > Rusalka
Stop it. That's unnatural.350 > Rusalka
What have you done?360 > Rusalka
You are really starting to bother me.370 > Rusalka
You are playing with things you don't understand.HiddenChestIntro
350 > Mathila
The Scholar knew this day was coming. He prepared for it. Hid things. Find them!360 > Mathila
There were people here. She… unmade them. You have to find what they left!HiddenChestOutro
370 > Rusalka
You never could let the past go, could you?380 > Rusalka
You can be ripped out and burned up as easily as a storybook page.390 > Rusalka
Don't cry, Mathila. Nobody's listening.400 > Rusalka
Didn't you have children once, Mathila? Did you forget about them too?AlchemySuccess
380 > Rusalka
You only pollute this kingdom with these… elements.390 > Rusalka
You've made a mess of those elements. A shameful mess.400 > Rusalka
Enough of this play-time. Get out.VendorBye
380 > DomThrax
Duviri raised you. Answer her call.390 > DomThrax
We shall look favorably upon your loyalty.400 > DomThrax
Remember: the hermit's hovel.410 > DomThrax
We only have days in which to stop her.420 > DomThrax
Do right by our Kingdom.430 > DomThrax
Remember what the Scholar said. It mocks us because it fears us.440 > DomThrax
Do not wander far. You are needed.450 > DomThrax
Remember what the Scholar told us. The Fragmented Ones tether down the Strands of Khra that weave her false Duviri. Get to the heart of her power, call forth the beast, then kill it.CourierIntro
410 > Mathila
The Scholar's research is the key to casting her out! We need it all. Voidtongue tablets, lost Requiems, anything!420 > Mathila
Thrax hid the Scholar's books safely away until our time of need. You need to bring them to light!CourierOutro
430 > Rusalka
Don't expect too much from the Scholar's writings. Most of it is just tortured love poetry.440 > Rusalka
Remorse, remorse, remorse. That's all you'll find in those sainted pages.450 > Rusalka
Thrax hid those books away out of fear, Mathila. I wouldn't mess with them.460 > Rusalka
Taking refuge in books? After what happened last time?Interaction
450 > DomThrax
Remember what the Scholar told us. The Fragmented Ones tether down the Strands of Khra that weave her false Duviri. Get to the heart of her power, call forth the beast, then kill it.GuardedChestsIntro
470 > DomThrax
She slaughters my people and takes their possessions! Get them back, Drifter. I'll bury them alongside the honored dead.480 > DomThrax
She has no right to my people's goods. Return them, so the survivors can benefit.GuardedChestsOutro
490 > Rusalka
Aren't you sick of these games by now, kiddo?500 > Rusalka
You grew up long ago. Thrax never will. Leave him.510 > Rusalka
He's an entertaining little imp. I could keep him around as my jester.520 > Rusalka
I'm in charge now, Thrax. You're done.RegularPatrolIntro
530 > DomThrax
These Murmur. They're nothing but horrid old stone! I'm not afraid of them! SMASH THEM TO BITS!540 > DomThrax
You're the one with the weapons, and the War-suits, not me. So you have to make the Murmur go away.RegularPatrolOutro
550 > Rusalka
Butchering freely like your forebears did, kiddo?560 > Rusalka
I send you playmates and you give me back rubble.570 > Rusalka
You and Thrax, friends again. Ending as you began.580 > Rusalka
How are you going to expel us when we're in every grain of dust?CaveCombatIntro
590 > DomThrax
She's taunting me. Just like Sythel said. Raising old ghosts out of the earth. Go down there and stop them!600 > DomThrax
I'm not afraid. Really, I'm not. I just need those shades banished. That's all. I'll be right as rain after that.CaveCombatOutro
610 > Rusalka
Why do you think Thrax is so scared to be abandoned?620 > Rusalka
Nobody, not artists nor dreamers nor prophets, has an imagination to compare with that of a terrified child.630 > Rusalka
I know you're sore about what happened to you, but look how creative you got!640 > Rusalka
The real shadows are inside his head.MirrorPortalIntro
650 > Mathila
This isn't enough. We need to call in more help. From you. Another you.660 > Mathila
There are two creatures that look very much like you out there. Find the wholesome one and keep the other at bay!MirrorPortalOutro
670 > Rusalka
Children are feral. Savage. They just need the right encouragement.680 > Rusalka
Don't be jealous of Neci, kiddo. I'll still wear your face.690 > Rusalka
Only two of you. Pity about all the rest.700 > Rusalka
Ask Mathila where her children went.HiddenChestBossIntro
710 > DomThrax
The Murmur are lurking everywhere. Waiting to ambush me. I don't like the look of that chest!720 > DomThrax
She's hidden her servants all over my kingdom. She thinks I'm stupid enough to open that chest. Ha! You do it.HiddenChestBossOutro
730 > Rusalka
Some doors really should stay closed.740 > Rusalka
I remember when I first opened the door on to that smiling face.750 > Rusalka
Whoever told you there had to be a happy ending?760 > Rusalka
Some stories end with the king's head bouncing down the throne room steps.ShrineArtifactIntro
770 > DomThrax
The shrines are symbols of my divine right to rule! How dare that thing pollute them!780 > DomThrax
Those shrines were here before she came and they will still be here after we cast her back into the Void. Cleanse the Shrine of her influence!ShrineArtifactOutro
790 > Rusalka
We punished that kind of idolatry with fire back in Höllvania.800 > Rusalka
Why does the little King worship one heap of stones, but fear another?810 > Rusalka
You're so close to understanding what you really are.820 > Rusalka
Sticks and stones, kiddo. Sticks and stones.PortalEncounterIntro
830 > DomThrax
We need to cut this whole embodiment of Duviri loose. I authorize you to enter the Undercroft.840 > DomThrax
You have to burn her influence out at the very roots. If that means sending you into the Undercroft, then so be it.1180 > DomThrax
Into the Undercroft, quickly!1190 > DomThrax
Her underbelly is weak. Exposed. To the Undercroft!1200 > DomThrax
Thank the Void, the Undercroft portals remain open. Use one!1210 > DomThrax
Descend into the Undercroft. I permit it. For now.PortalEncounterOutro
850 > Rusalka
Did you hear the angels singing?860 > Rusalka
You really want me to spit this body out? With how chewed up she is?870 > Rusalka
All those possibilities, and yet the story only ends one way.880 > Rusalka
Only a few pages left, kiddo. And the book always has a monster at the end.OwlReconIntro
890 > Mathila
The wise Paragrimms were the Scholar's friends. Look through their eyes to find the eyes of the beast!900 > Mathila
Approach the Paragrimm. Do not fear the wide eyes or the gaping beak. They will help you see her eyes.OwlReconOutro
910 > Rusalka
You and Albrecht were pretty close in his Duviri days, weren't you, kiddo? Don't say you've forgotten.920 > Rusalka
Taking my eyes now, kiddo? Wasn't Margulis enough?930 > Rusalka
You're wasting time. Duviri is more mine by the minute.940 > Rusalka
Tired of your human body? Want me to reshape it?SpiderFightIntro
950 > DomThrax
The spider's helping her! It's keeping this false Duviri tethered to my kingdom! Cut it down!960 > DomThrax
Oraxia. The Scholar's pet. I heard the Usurper imitating his voice. The spider is her servant now.SpiderFightDuring
970 > Rusalka
Come on, my beautiful scuttler! Secure this kingdom for me, and I will feed you as your old master never did!980 > Rusalka
Little Thrax remembers Oraxia, doesn't he? The guardian of Scholar's Landing! That's why he's trembling, isn't it?990 > Rusalka
You owe this place nothing! All it did was torment you, just as he tormented me!1000 > Rusalka
Albrecht left nothing but dust and darkling spiders in his wake. Isn't it time for a new story?SpiderFightOutro
1010 > Rusalka
Killing your own kind? Nothing new for you, is it?1020 > Rusalka
Bad luck to kill a spider, kiddo. Especially when I can just bring her back.1030 > Rusalka
Not very nice, kiddo. Albrecht wanted her to help you.1040 > Rusalka
You had to put her down. She was crazy. Do Mathila next!OctopedeFightIntro
1050 > DomThrax
She is vulnerable! Get to the heart of the corruption!1060 > DomThrax
Her grip weakens at last. Call forth the beast that binds her to Duviri.OctopedeAssemble
1070 > Rusalka
This is your future.1080 > Rusalka
I have uses for dealbreakers.1090 > Rusalka
My herald looked like you, once.1100 > Rusalka
How will I reassemble your pieces?OctopedeFightOutro
1110 > Mathila
I declare this chapter closed.1120 > Mathila
And back into the realm of untold stories she goes!1130 > Mathila
She's banished, for now. But she'll climb back up the waterspout again.1140 > Mathila
Her thread is cut! You may safely resume your throne, your Majesty.ArchgunSpawn
1150 > DomThrax
This crude weapon! Take it!1160 > DomThrax
I believe this Void flotsam is a weapon!1170 > DomThrax
Take this barbaric device and put it to use!SecondOctopedeSpawn
1220 > DomThrax
She's tightening her grasp!1230 > DomThrax
Is there no end to them?1240 > DomThrax
Another one! She's cheating!1250 > DomThrax
There weren't supposed to be two!