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0,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000010_THANCRED","Now then..."
1,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000020_THANCRED","'Tis I. The situation may be more complicated than we anticipated."
2,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000030_URIANGER","Indeed. I shall remain watchful."
3,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000040_URIANGER","Ere thou goest─another matter requireth thine attention. A young maiden, full eager to─"
4,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000050_URIANGER","Wherefore inquirest thou of her fairness!? Very well. Be she damsel or devil, I shall direct her steps to Revenant's Toll."
5,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000060_URIANGER","...Save thine insinuations for one given to such impropriety. Thou shalt not find me amenable."
6,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000070_YUGIRI","(-???-)Far across the sea, from the land of Doma, have we traveled. We seek audience with the ruler of these lands. Who here speaks for you?"
7,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100010_YUGIRI","We have traveled some several thousand malms across the sea, from the nation of Doma, in hopes that we might find sanctuary in these lands."
8,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100020_ALPHINAUD","Sanctuary, Lady Yugiri?"
9,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100030_YUGIRI","Aye. Lying within Othard, Doma was under the dominion of the Garlean Empire, as I am sure you are aware."
10,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100040_YUGIRI","When the war of succession broke out in Garlemald, we espied an opportunity to free ourselves from the yoke of imperial oppression, and took up arms."
11,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100050_YUGIRI","...Only to be crushed. And so I gathered what few Domans escaped the reckoning, and guided them hither to your shores."
12,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100060_ALPHINAUD","A war of succession...? Then the Emperor... Forgive me, you said that Doma “was” under imperial rule, did you not?"
13,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100070_YUGIRI","Doma is gone. Razed to the ground as an example to the other provinces."
14,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100080_ALPHINAUD","Twelve have mercy... And your people?"
15,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100090_YUGIRI","On a ship anchored in Vesper Bay, flying borrowed colors."
16,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100100_YUGIRI","Many were complicit in the rebellion, or are kin to those who were. They will not come ashore until I send word that it is safe to do so."
17,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100110_YUGIRI","I sought an audience with your rulers, but was summarily refused."
18,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100120_ALPHINAUD","The lords of Ul'dah are not wont to entertain foreign refugees without suitable encouragement."
19,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100130_YUGIRI","Mayhap I was foolish to expect otherwise. But our supplies run low, and we have young ones in urgent need of care."
20,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100140_YUGIRI","I have seen the tents outside the gates, however. We are not the first to seek asylum, nor will we be the last."
21,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100150_ALPHINAUD","...Be that as it may, Ul'dah is no friend to Garlemald. Your tale would stir the hearts of many men and women here."
22,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100160_ALPHINAUD","The sultana and the Syndicate will not be so easily swayed─but I shall see that you are granted an opportunity to plead your case."
23,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100170_YUGIRI","This is within your power?"
24,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100180_ALPHINAUD","Well...far be it from me to boast, but I do have the ear of certain influential individuals."
25,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100190_YUGIRI","I am in your debt."
26,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100200_ALPHINAUD","Lady Yugiri, forgive me for observing, but...your choice of attire seems like to evoke feelings of mistrust."
27,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100210_YUGIRI","Men are wont to fear the unfamiliar. We know this from experience."
28,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100220_YUGIRI","We seek only to spare the people of Ul'dah unnecessary disquiet."
29,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100230_ALPHINAUD","I shall defer to your experience, then."
30,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100240_YUGIRI","I thank you for your understanding."
31,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100250_ALPHINAUD","It seems I have urgent business with the Flame General. I leave our guests in your capable hands."
32,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200000_YUGIRI","I, Yugiri of Doma, am honored to meet you at last, Your Grace. To mark this auspicious occasion, I should like to present to you the finest treasures our humble nation has to offer..."
33,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200010_YUGIRI","Alas, the circumstances which have brought me here today have divested me of both time and dignity. I come before you as a pauper in direst need of aid─to request that you grant my people asylum."
34,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200020_NANAMOULNAMO","I, Nanamo, seventeenth in the line of Ul, welcome you to our city. Be at ease, Lady Yugiri."
35,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200030_NANAMOULNAMO","Although I myself have heard the tale of your misfortune, I would ask that you recount it once more for the benefit of the others here present."
36,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200040_YUGIRI","As you wish, Your Grace. For many years, my nation, Doma, suffered under the yoke of imperial rule, and my people yearned to be free. Thus, when a war of succession broke out in Garlemald, we sought to take advantage of the chaos and reclaim our liberty."
37,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200050_YUGIRI","Alas, our enemy proved less preoccupied than we had hoped, and our rebellion was put down in the most brutal fashion."
38,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200060_RAUBAHN","Those who survived─how many do they number?"
39,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200070_YUGIRI","More than two hundred souls huddle within the cramped confines of our own galleon's hold. Yet this figure accounts for but one of a number of ships which escaped the purge."
40,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200080_YUGIRI","It is my hope that you will allow us all to dwell within your walls. Should that prove unfeasible, however, I humbly ask that you accept as many of my people as your resources allow."
41,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200090_YUGIRI","Pray understand, we do not beg a boon, but propose instead an arrangement. We would serve─as soldiers or tradesmen─until our debt is repaid."
42,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200100_RAUBAHN","What are the Syndicate's opinions on this matter?"
43,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200110_TELEDJIADELEDJI","I, for one, think it's a marvelous idea. Lady Yugiri and her people strike me as an industrious lot, and there are parts of the city which have yet to be fully restored. If they are willing to work, I see no reason not to let them."
44,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200120_ALPHINAUD","The head of the Mirage Trust is not known for his generosity. He sees profit in this."
45,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200130_RAUBAHN","I agree. That said, these are foreign refugees. To admit them would require a formal resolution. Shall we call a vote?"
46,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200140_LOLORITO","The law is the law."
47,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200150_TELEDJIADELEDJI","Lord Lolorito?"
48,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200160_LOLORITO","Tell me: are you blind or willfully ignorant? Even now, our streets are choked with the displaced victims of the Calamity and Ala Mhigan refugees."
49,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200170_LOLORITO","They live hand-to-mouth, subsisting on aid provided by the Immortal Flames─the cost of which grows ever higher!"
50,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200180_LOLORITO","The wealth of Ul'dah is not without limits, my friends."
51,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200190_LOLORITO","And need I remind you that these refugees are prone to violence and criminal activity? You have all read the reports, I think?"
52,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200200_LOLORITO","Without homes or employment, it is only a matter of time before men grow desperate and take that which they imagine has been unjustly denied them. Yet, knowing this, you would have us swell their ranks. Mayhap you think the Brass Blades and the Flames are not hard-pressed enough?"
53,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200210_ALPHINAUD","Some say the chairman of the East Aldenard Trading Company passes gil thrice daily. This may explain how he came to be the wealthiest man in Ul'dah. Or it may simply be that he's ruthless beyond reckoning."
54,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200220_NANAMOULNAMO","Surely the sultanate can support the few hundred Domans Lady Yugiri represents? That our resources have been taxed I do not deny, but we are hardly in danger of financial collapse."
55,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200230_NANAMOULNAMO","I move that an exception be made."
56,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200240_LOLORITO","An exception, Your Grace? I am suddenly reminded of a similar debate some years ago, regarding a number of Ala Mhigan refugees, if memory serves."
57,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200250_LOLORITO","What were your words that day? Ah, yes: “The law is the law.” And so our visitors remained in Little Ala Mhigo."
58,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200260_LOLORITO","Mayhap our wise and benevolent sultana would be so good as to enlighten us as to which other of our laws should not be upheld?"
59,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200270_RAUBAHN","Mind your tongue, Lolorito."
60,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200280_TELEDJIADELEDJI","My lord, I share your concern for the welfare of our great nation, but we must endeavor to take a longer view. You know as well as I that people can be a resource still more precious than gil."
61,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200290_LOLORITO","Precious or not, they were never yet so reliable. And unlike those who frequent your establishment, I have no desire to gamble with my future."
62,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200300_LOLORITO","Ul'dah's greatest asset is, and has ever been, her material wealth. We risk this at our peril."
63,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200310_LOLORITO","One need only look to Teledji Adeledji's example for evidence of the danger in allowing sentiment to dictate policy."
64,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200320_LOLORITO","How far the vaunted Mirage hath fallen, both in repute and profitability, since he began employing refugees..."
65,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200330_TELEDJIADELEDJI","How I choose to conduct my affairs is not your concern, my lord!"
66,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200340_RAUBAHN","A proposal has been tabled. Given its urgency, I move we forgo further debate and call a vote."
67,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200350_RAUBAHN","To accept the Doman refugees or not. Those in favor, I bid you remain. Those opposed, I bid you leave."
68,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200360_NANAMOULNAMO","Would that it were within my power to welcome you and your people, Lady Yugiri. As you have observed, however, my authority in such matters is regrettably limited."
69,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200370_NANAMOULNAMO","Without the consent of the Syndicate, I cannot act."
70,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200380_YUGIRI","I understand, Your Grace. And I appreciate all that you have done on our behalf."
71,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200390_TELEDJIADELEDJI","The nerve of the man... If that bastard had not forsaken the eastern trade route, Little Ala Mhigo would now be thriving."
72,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200400_TELEDJIADELEDJI","That you should have traveled so far, under such dire circumstances, only to be refused in this manner is utterly unconscionable. Pray accept my sincerest apologies."
73,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200410_RAUBAHN","Now that the Empire no longer poses an immediate threat, they see little reason to maintain the pretense of unity."
74,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200420_RAUBAHN","The Monetarists have grown especially defiant of late─Lord Lolorito most of all."
75,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200430_RAUBAHN","But this is neither the time nor place for that discussion."
76,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300010_THANCRED","How goes the fishing? Caught anything slippery?"
77,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300020_YSHTOLA","Aye. Our suspicions were well founded. The Serpent Reavers are indeed the culprits."
78,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300030_THANCRED","The plot thickens..."
79,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300040_YSHTOLA","Has there been any movement in Thanalan?"
80,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300050_THANCRED","It has been blessedly quiet. Which is to say the Amalj'aa are being no more or less of a nuisance than usual, summoning Ifrit with such crystals as they have hoarded."
81,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300060_THANCRED","Urianger, too, reports naught out of the ordinary."
82,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300070_YSHTOLA","Then we have our explanation."
83,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300080_MINFILIA","Your explanation for what, pray tell?"
84,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300090_YSHTOLA","For the recent spate of crystal thefts in Thanalan. We naturally assumed that the trail would lead us back to the Amalj'aa."
85,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300100_YSHTOLA","Yet it did not. It led us across the sea unto Vylbrand."
86,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300110_MINFILIA","Vylbrand...?"
87,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300120_MINFILIA","There <Emphasis>have</Emphasis> been reports of increased Sahagin activity of late..."
88,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300130_MINFILIA","Oh gods...they mean to summon Leviathan?"
89,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300140_YSHTOLA","That is the way of it, I fear."
90,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300150_YSHTOLA","Whilst conducting our investigation on behalf of the Mineral Concern, we came upon evidence implicating the Serpent Reavers."
91,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300160_YSHTOLA","With the aid of the Maelstrom, I was able to verify our suspicions. 'Tis only a matter of time before Leviathan returns to harrow the seas."
92,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300170_YSHTOLA","But there is more. One of the Sahagin─an elder, by my judgment─spoke of attaining the “gift and knowledge of eternity.”"
93,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300180_MINFILIA","<moan>"
94,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400010_YSHTOLA","Such a disturbance in the aether... If I did not know better, I should think this device defective."
95,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400020_YSHTOLA","And there is the explanation..."
96,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400030_WUUR","Soon! Sssoon it shall begin! Our Lord shall rise 'midst sssurging waves to wash away the finless ones!"
97,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400040_WUUR","And I shall be granted the gift and knowledge of eternity, and with the emissary ssstand equal! Then shall I know no cesssation, no oblivion!"
98,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400050_YSHTOLA","...Whence comes this promise of immortality? The emissary?"
99,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400060_YSHTOLA","We have outstayed our welcome."
100,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500010_MINFILIA","“The gift...and knowledge.”"
101,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500020_YSHTOLA","Are the two of you quite well?"
102,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500030_MINFILIA","You...you shared that vision, did you not?"
103,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500040_MINFILIA","Even before the Sahagin made mention of the emissary, I recognized Elidibus's words. <Emphasis>He</Emphasis> is behind this."
104,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500050_MINFILIA","But surely it is not within his power to grant the Echo?"
105,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500060_YSHTOLA","My lady─unless we act swiftly, Leviathan will rise again. The Admiral has already requested that we intervene to prevent this. Failing that, we are to attend to the primal's extermination."
106,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500070_MINFILIA","She will have our full cooperation. Let us make haste to Limsa Lominsa."
107,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500080_MINFILIA","I mean to play a part in this mission. Tataru─pray take charge in my absence."
108,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500090_THANCRED","My lady, are you sure this is wise?"
109,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500100_MINFILIA","I am aware of the risks. But there is something I must see with mine own eyes."
110,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500110_MINFILIA","...The true nature of the Echo."
111,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500120_THANCRED","Very well. I shall not stand in your way...on the condition that you permit me to accompany you as bodyguard."
112,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500130_MINFILIA","Your company is ever welcome, Thancred."
113,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500140_YUGIRI","I take it something ill is afoot?"
114,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500150_YSHTOLA","Aye. A primal is about to be loosed upon Eorzea."
115,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500160_YUGIRI","A...primal?"
116,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500170_YSHTOLA","A godlike being whose very existence is a bane upon the land. We Scions of the Seventh Dawn are sworn to put an end to their kind."
117,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500180_YUGIRI","I see. Know then that I am learned in the arts of war. In return for the kindness you have shown my people, I would lend you my blade."
118,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500190_YSHTOLA","It would be most welcome. When contending with a primal, one can never have too many able allies."
119,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500200_YSHTOLA","If you crave a more intimate understanding of the problems facing Eorzea, this experience is like to provide it. Be sure to come well prepared."
120,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600010_YSHTOLA","Damn them... They have made thralls of soldiers and civilians both..."
121,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600030_THANCRED","Did I miss much?"
122,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600040_YUGIRI","Hah."
123,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600050_YUGIRI","Yah."
124,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600060_THANCRED","So that is how you fight in the Far East? Mental note: pick no quarrel with Domans."
125,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600070_THANCRED","But seriously: if I am to keep up, I must needs forsake elegance for efficiency."
126,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600080_THANCRED","Yah."
127,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600090_THANCRED","Hah."
128,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600100_YUGIRI","Hmmm..."
129,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600110_THANCRED","To the aetheryte!"
130,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700010_MERLWYB","You'll forgive me my lateness."
131,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700020_THANCRED","I've been something of a liability of late, I know. 'Tis high time I set about making amends."
132,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700030_WUUR","Pshhh! Long have you shriveled shhhorewalkers tormented our kind!"
133,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700040_WUUR","But no more! Your time is at an end!"
134,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700050_WUUR","You shall perish with sssalt in your wounds and sssea in your lungs!"
135,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700060_WUUR","Lord of the Whorl, hearken to our plea!
0,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000010_THANCRED,Now then...
1,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000020_THANCRED,'Tis I. The situation may be more complicated than we anticipated.
2,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000030_URIANGER,Indeed. I shall remain watchful.
3,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000040_URIANGER,"Ere thou goest─another matter requireth thine attention. A young maiden, full eager to─"
4,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000050_URIANGER,"Wherefore inquirest thou of her fairness!? Very well. Be she damsel or devil, I shall direct her steps to Revenant's Toll."
5,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000060_URIANGER,...Save thine insinuations for one given to such impropriety. Thou shalt not find me amenable.
6,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000070_YUGIRI,"(-???-)Far across the sea, from the land of Doma, have we traveled. We seek audience with the ruler of these lands. Who here speaks for you?"
7,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100010_YUGIRI,"We have traveled some several thousand malms across the sea, from the nation of Doma, in hopes that we might find sanctuary in these lands."
8,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100020_ALPHINAUD,"Sanctuary, Lady Yugiri?"
9,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100030_YUGIRI,"Aye. Lying within Othard, Doma was under the dominion of the Garlean Empire, as I am sure you are aware."
10,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100040_YUGIRI,"When the war of succession broke out in Garlemald, we espied an opportunity to free ourselves from the yoke of imperial oppression, and took up arms."
11,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100050_YUGIRI,"...Only to be crushed. And so I gathered what few Domans escaped the reckoning, and guided them hither to your shores."
12,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100060_ALPHINAUD,"A war of succession...? Then the Emperor... Forgive me, you said that Doma was under imperial rule, did you not?"
13,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100070_YUGIRI,Doma is gone. Razed to the ground as an example to the other provinces.
14,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100080_ALPHINAUD,Twelve have mercy... And your people?
15,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100090_YUGIRI,"On a ship anchored in Vesper Bay, flying borrowed colors."
16,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100100_YUGIRI,"Many were complicit in the rebellion, or are kin to those who were. They will not come ashore until I send word that it is safe to do so."
17,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100110_YUGIRI,"I sought an audience with your rulers, but was summarily refused."
18,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100120_ALPHINAUD,The lords of Ul'dah are not wont to entertain foreign refugees without suitable encouragement.
19,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100130_YUGIRI,"Mayhap I was foolish to expect otherwise. But our supplies run low, and we have young ones in urgent need of care."
20,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100140_YUGIRI,"I have seen the tents outside the gates, however. We are not the first to seek asylum, nor will we be the last."
21,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100150_ALPHINAUD,"...Be that as it may, Ul'dah is no friend to Garlemald. Your tale would stir the hearts of many men and women here."
22,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100160_ALPHINAUD,The sultana and the Syndicate will not be so easily swayed─but I shall see that you are granted an opportunity to plead your case.
23,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100170_YUGIRI,This is within your power?
24,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100180_ALPHINAUD,"Well...far be it from me to boast, but I do have the ear of certain influential individuals."
25,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100190_YUGIRI,I am in your debt.
26,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100200_ALPHINAUD,"Lady Yugiri, forgive me for observing, but...your choice of attire seems like to evoke feelings of mistrust."
27,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100210_YUGIRI,Men are wont to fear the unfamiliar. We know this from experience.
28,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100220_YUGIRI,We seek only to spare the people of Ul'dah unnecessary disquiet.
29,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100230_ALPHINAUD,"I shall defer to your experience, then."
30,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100240_YUGIRI,I thank you for your understanding.
31,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100250_ALPHINAUD,It seems I have urgent business with the Flame General. I leave our guests in your capable hands.
32,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200000_YUGIRI,"I, Yugiri of Doma, am honored to meet you at last, Your Grace. To mark this auspicious occasion, I should like to present to you the finest treasures our humble nation has to offer..."
33,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200010_YUGIRI,"Alas, the circumstances which have brought me here today have divested me of both time and dignity. I come before you as a pauper in direst need of aid─to request that you grant my people asylum."
34,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200020_NANAMOULNAMO,"I, Nanamo, seventeenth in the line of Ul, welcome you to our city. Be at ease, Lady Yugiri."
35,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200030_NANAMOULNAMO,"Although I myself have heard the tale of your misfortune, I would ask that you recount it once more for the benefit of the others here present."
36,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200040_YUGIRI,"As you wish, Your Grace. For many years, my nation, Doma, suffered under the yoke of imperial rule, and my people yearned to be free. Thus, when a war of succession broke out in Garlemald, we sought to take advantage of the chaos and reclaim our liberty."
37,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200050_YUGIRI,"Alas, our enemy proved less preoccupied than we had hoped, and our rebellion was put down in the most brutal fashion."
38,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200060_RAUBAHN,Those who survived─how many do they number?
39,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200070_YUGIRI,More than two hundred souls huddle within the cramped confines of our own galleon's hold. Yet this figure accounts for but one of a number of ships which escaped the purge.
40,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200080_YUGIRI,"It is my hope that you will allow us all to dwell within your walls. Should that prove unfeasible, however, I humbly ask that you accept as many of my people as your resources allow."
41,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200090_YUGIRI,"Pray understand, we do not beg a boon, but propose instead an arrangement. We would serve─as soldiers or tradesmen─until our debt is repaid."
42,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200100_RAUBAHN,What are the Syndicate's opinions on this matter?
43,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200110_TELEDJIADELEDJI,"I, for one, think it's a marvelous idea. Lady Yugiri and her people strike me as an industrious lot, and there are parts of the city which have yet to be fully restored. If they are willing to work, I see no reason not to let them."
44,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200120_ALPHINAUD,The head of the Mirage Trust is not known for his generosity. He sees profit in this.
45,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200130_RAUBAHN,"I agree. That said, these are foreign refugees. To admit them would require a formal resolution. Shall we call a vote?"
46,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200140_LOLORITO,The law is the law.
47,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200150_TELEDJIADELEDJI,Lord Lolorito?
48,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200160_LOLORITO,"Tell me: are you blind or willfully ignorant? Even now, our streets are choked with the displaced victims of the Calamity and Ala Mhigan refugees."
49,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200170_LOLORITO,"They live hand-to-mouth, subsisting on aid provided by the Immortal Flames─the cost of which grows ever higher!"
50,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200180_LOLORITO,"The wealth of Ul'dah is not without limits, my friends."
51,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200190_LOLORITO,"And need I remind you that these refugees are prone to violence and criminal activity? You have all read the reports, I think?"
52,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200200_LOLORITO,"Without homes or employment, it is only a matter of time before men grow desperate and take that which they imagine has been unjustly denied them. Yet, knowing this, you would have us swell their ranks. Mayhap you think the Brass Blades and the Flames are not hard-pressed enough?"
53,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200210_ALPHINAUD,Some say the chairman of the East Aldenard Trading Company passes gil thrice daily. This may explain how he came to be the wealthiest man in Ul'dah. Or it may simply be that he's ruthless beyond reckoning.
54,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200220_NANAMOULNAMO,"Surely the sultanate can support the few hundred Domans Lady Yugiri represents? That our resources have been taxed I do not deny, but we are hardly in danger of financial collapse."
55,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200230_NANAMOULNAMO,I move that an exception be made.
56,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200240_LOLORITO,"An exception, Your Grace? I am suddenly reminded of a similar debate some years ago, regarding a number of Ala Mhigan refugees, if memory serves."
57,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200250_LOLORITO,"What were your words that day? Ah, yes: “The law is the law.” And so our visitors remained in Little Ala Mhigo."
58,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200260_LOLORITO,Mayhap our wise and benevolent sultana would be so good as to enlighten us as to which other of our laws should not be upheld?
59,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200270_RAUBAHN,"Mind your tongue, Lolorito."
60,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200280_TELEDJIADELEDJI,"My lord, I share your concern for the welfare of our great nation, but we must endeavor to take a longer view. You know as well as I that people can be a resource still more precious than gil."
61,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200290_LOLORITO,"Precious or not, they were never yet so reliable. And unlike those who frequent your establishment, I have no desire to gamble with my future."
62,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200300_LOLORITO,"Ul'dah's greatest asset is, and has ever been, her material wealth. We risk this at our peril."
63,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200310_LOLORITO,One need only look to Teledji Adeledji's example for evidence of the danger in allowing sentiment to dictate policy.
64,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200320_LOLORITO,"How far the vaunted Mirage hath fallen, both in repute and profitability, since he began employing refugees..."
65,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200330_TELEDJIADELEDJI,"How I choose to conduct my affairs is not your concern, my lord!"
66,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200340_RAUBAHN,"A proposal has been tabled. Given its urgency, I move we forgo further debate and call a vote."
67,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200350_RAUBAHN,"To accept the Doman refugees or not. Those in favor, I bid you remain. Those opposed, I bid you leave."
68,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200360_NANAMOULNAMO,"Would that it were within my power to welcome you and your people, Lady Yugiri. As you have observed, however, my authority in such matters is regrettably limited."
69,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200370_NANAMOULNAMO,"Without the consent of the Syndicate, I cannot act."
70,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200380_YUGIRI,"I understand, Your Grace. And I appreciate all that you have done on our behalf."
71,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200390_TELEDJIADELEDJI,"The nerve of the man... If that bastard had not forsaken the eastern trade route, Little Ala Mhigo would now be thriving."
72,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200400_TELEDJIADELEDJI,"That you should have traveled so far, under such dire circumstances, only to be refused in this manner is utterly unconscionable. Pray accept my sincerest apologies."
73,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200410_RAUBAHN,"Now that the Empire no longer poses an immediate threat, they see little reason to maintain the pretense of unity."
74,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200420_RAUBAHN,The Monetarists have grown especially defiant of late─Lord Lolorito most of all.
75,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200430_RAUBAHN,But this is neither the time nor place for that discussion.
76,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300010_THANCRED,How goes the fishing? Caught anything slippery?
77,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300020_YSHTOLA,Aye. Our suspicions were well founded. The Serpent Reavers are indeed the culprits.
78,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300030_THANCRED,The plot thickens...
79,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300040_YSHTOLA,Has there been any movement in Thanalan?
80,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300050_THANCRED,"It has been blessedly quiet. Which is to say the Amalj'aa are being no more or less of a nuisance than usual, summoning Ifrit with such crystals as they have hoarded."
81,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300060_THANCRED,"Urianger, too, reports naught out of the ordinary."
82,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300070_YSHTOLA,Then we have our explanation.
83,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300080_MINFILIA,"Your explanation for what, pray tell?"
84,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300090_YSHTOLA,For the recent spate of crystal thefts in Thanalan. We naturally assumed that the trail would lead us back to the Amalj'aa.
85,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300100_YSHTOLA,Yet it did not. It led us across the sea unto Vylbrand.
86,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300110_MINFILIA,Vylbrand...?
87,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300120_MINFILIA,There *have* been reports of increased Sahagin activity of late...
88,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300130_MINFILIA,Oh gods...they mean to summon Leviathan?
89,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300140_YSHTOLA,"That is the way of it, I fear."
90,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300150_YSHTOLA,"Whilst conducting our investigation on behalf of the Mineral Concern, we came upon evidence implicating the Serpent Reavers."
91,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300160_YSHTOLA,"With the aid of the Maelstrom, I was able to verify our suspicions. 'Tis only a matter of time before Leviathan returns to harrow the seas."
92,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300170_YSHTOLA,"But there is more. One of the Sahagin─an elder, by my judgment─spoke of attaining the “gift and knowledge of eternity.”"
93,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300180_MINFILIA,<moan>
94,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400010_YSHTOLA,"Such a disturbance in the aether... If I did not know better, I should think this device defective."
95,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400020_YSHTOLA,And there is the explanation...
96,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400030_WUUR,Soon! Sssoon it shall begin! Our Lord shall rise 'midst sssurging waves to wash away the finless ones!
97,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400040_WUUR,"And I shall be granted the gift and knowledge of eternity, and with the emissary ssstand equal! Then shall I know no cesssation, no oblivion!"
98,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400050_YSHTOLA,...Whence comes this promise of immortality? The emissary?
99,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400060_YSHTOLA,We have outstayed our welcome.
100,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500010_MINFILIA,“The gift...and knowledge.”
101,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500020_YSHTOLA,Are the two of you quite well?
102,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500030_MINFILIA,"You...you shared that vision, did you not?"
103,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500040_MINFILIA,"Even before the Sahagin made mention of the emissary, I recognized Elidibus's words. *He* is behind this."
104,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500050_MINFILIA,But surely it is not within his power to grant the Echo?
105,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500060_YSHTOLA,"My lady─unless we act swiftly, Leviathan will rise again. The Admiral has already requested that we intervene to prevent this. Failing that, we are to attend to the primal's extermination."
106,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500070_MINFILIA,She will have our full cooperation. Let us make haste to Limsa Lominsa.
107,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500080_MINFILIA,I mean to play a part in this mission. Tataru─pray take charge in my absence.
108,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500090_THANCRED,"My lady, are you sure this is wise?"
109,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500100_MINFILIA,I am aware of the risks. But there is something I must see with mine own eyes.
110,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500110_MINFILIA,...The true nature of the Echo.
111,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500120_THANCRED,Very well. I shall not stand in your way...on the condition that you permit me to accompany you as bodyguard.
112,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500130_MINFILIA,"Your company is ever welcome, Thancred."
113,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500140_YUGIRI,I take it something ill is afoot?
114,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500150_YSHTOLA,Aye. A primal is about to be loosed upon Eorzea.
115,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500160_YUGIRI,A...primal?
116,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500170_YSHTOLA,A godlike being whose very existence is a bane upon the land. We Scions of the Seventh Dawn are sworn to put an end to their kind.
117,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500180_YUGIRI,"I see. Know then that I am learned in the arts of war. In return for the kindness you have shown my people, I would lend you my blade."
118,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500190_YSHTOLA,"It would be most welcome. When contending with a primal, one can never have too many able allies."
119,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500200_YSHTOLA,"If you crave a more intimate understanding of the problems facing Eorzea, this experience is like to provide it. Be sure to come well prepared."
120,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600010_YSHTOLA,Damn them... They have made thralls of soldiers and civilians both...
121,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600030_THANCRED,Did I miss much?
122,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600040_YUGIRI,Hah.
123,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600050_YUGIRI,Yah.
124,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600060_THANCRED,So that is how you fight in the Far East? Mental note: pick no quarrel with Domans.
125,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600070_THANCRED,"But seriously: if I am to keep up, I must needs forsake elegance for efficiency."
126,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600080_THANCRED,Yah.
127,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600090_THANCRED,Hah.
128,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600100_YUGIRI,Hmmm...
129,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600110_THANCRED,To the aetheryte!
130,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700010_MERLWYB,You'll forgive me my lateness.
131,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700020_THANCRED,"I've been something of a liability of late, I know. 'Tis high time I set about making amends."
132,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700030_WUUR,Pshhh! Long have you shriveled shhhorewalkers tormented our kind!
133,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700040_WUUR,But no more! Your time is at an end!
134,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700050_WUUR,You shall perish with sssalt in your wounds and sssea in your lungs!
135,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700060_WUUR,"Lord of the Whorl, hearken to our plea!
Lord of the Whorl, deliver us from our misery!"
136,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700070_MERLWYB","Do you feel that!?"
137,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700080_MINFILIA","I know this sensation... It's the Echo!"
138,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700090_MERLWYB","What!?"
139,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700100_WUUR","Pshhh! Sssuch power! It is...<Emphasis>transcendent</Emphasis>!"
140,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700110_MERLWYB","Seven hells..."
141,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700120_WUUR","Pshhhahahahahaaa! Ssstrike me down if you will! It is futile! I have massstered the gift! I am...<Emphasis>eternal</Emphasis>!"
142,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700130_WUUR","O mighty Leviathan, ruler of the ssseas, born of waters primordial! I offer unto You this frail fleshhh, that You might grant Your faithful servants deliverance!"
143,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700140_WUUR","I beseech You! Come forth!"
144,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700150_MERLWYB","Die, damn you!"
145,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700160_WUUR","Foolishhh shorewalker! You cannot kill that which is eternal!"
146,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700170_YUGIRI","Heavens forfend..."
147,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700180_MERLWYB","Damn it all!"
148,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700190_WUUR","Pshhh!? My being...ebbs away... B-But it should by rightsss be infinite!"
149,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700200_WUUR","Am I not...immortal? Curse you, Emissary! You promised me...everlasssting... Pshhh..."
150,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700210_MINFILIA","Wh-Where did he go!?"
151,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700220_MERLWYB","What say you? Nary a single ship!? Hells take that sea demon!"
152,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700230_MERLWYB","Gather the survivors and get to shore. Leave the wrecks for the pirates."
153,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700240_MERLWYB","Leviathan wastes no time. The diversionary squadron is lost."
154,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700250_MERLWYB","For a mercy, 'twould seem the primal now makes for open sea. But why does he not press his advantage? Unless..."
155,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700260_MERLWYB","Gods save us, he means to unleash a tidal wave!"
156,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800010_MERLWYB","There used to be a hamlet beyond South Tidegate in western La Noscea. Halfstone, 'twas called."
157,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800020_MERLWYB","Some years prior to the Maelstrom's founding, Leviathan rose from the briny depths, and set about unleashing watery hell upon us. On that occasion, the Company of Heroes put him down before he could do too much damage."
158,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800030_MERLWYB","But when the bastard came next, this time in the wake of the Calamity, we were not so fortunate. Weary of ravaging our shoreline, he summoned a tidal wave which fair leveled Halfstone, and washed the soil away for good measure."
159,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800040_YSHTOLA","The area was subsequently occupied by the Sahagin."
160,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800050_MERLWYB","Aye, the thrice-damned creatures transformed it into a spawning ground for their brood."
161,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800060_MERLWYB","Given the quantity of crystals stolen to feed him and his legion of thralls, we can be fairly sure that Leviathan is stronger now than in his previous incarnations."
162,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800070_MERLWYB","If that sea demon is left to wreak havoc, what befell Halfstone may well befall a larger settlement─even Limsa."
163,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800080_MERLWYB","That <Emphasis>cannot</Emphasis> happen. The primal must be stopped."
164,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800090_THANCRED","That was ever our objective, Admiral. But how are we to achieve it?"
165,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800100_THANCRED","The sea is Leviathan's uncontested domain. The ships of the Third Squadron could not close to within a hundred yalms of the primal, nor could their cannons pierce his defenses."
166,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800110_MERLWYB","I have read the reports, Master Thancred. Our warships may as well have been bloody pleasure barges for all the good they did. Seven hells... Is there no way that we might strike back?"
167,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800120_YSHTOLA","The Company of Heroes defeated Leviathan having first lured him into an inlet, but we must needs contend with him upon the open sea. It will avail us little to consult past experience."
168,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800130_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN","Admiral, if I may."
169,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800140_MERLWYB","Speak freely, Marshal."
170,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800150_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN","By all accounts, Leviathan's most formidable weapon is the very sea itself. Waves and whirlpools, tides and currents─all these things are his to command. The key to victory, I believe, lies in disarming our foe."
171,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800160_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN","This, in effect, is what the Company of Heroes achieved with their ruse. We cannot lure Leviathan from the sea a second time, but what if we could weaken his hold upon the element of water? I have heard of devices capable of such wonders. They draw upon the power of corrupted crystals, I am told."
172,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800170_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN","If mounted upon a ship, such a device might be used to prevent Leviathan from bringing the full force of the sea to bear against us, rendering him no more dangerous than any other sea serpent."
173,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800180_MINFILIA","Of course... Cid built a similar device to grant the <Emphasis>Enterprise</Emphasis> safe passage through Garuda's tempest, did he not?"
174,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800190_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN","Begging your pardon, my lady, but to give credit where it's due, this is something I heard from an old arcanist friend of mine."
175,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800200_MERLWYB","It makes little difference who thought of it first, so long as it works. Beg the specifications of this device from your friend, and I shall pass them on to our people at Naldiq & Vymelli's."
176,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800210_MERLWYB","But before we proceed any further, I would voice one concern: piercing Garuda's defenses is one thing, suppressing Leviathan's attacks quite another."
177,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800220_MERLWYB","In matters of science, I am as a babbling babe, but I cannot well imagine that such a feat would be possible without a veritable mountain of corrupted crystals."
178,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800230_MERLWYB","The question being: do we have a ship big enough to bear such a burden?"
179,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800240_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN","Mayhap not, Admiral. But two might. Recall you the tale of Mistbeard's greatest haul? It is said that he lashed two ships together, side by side, the better to bear his plunder."
180,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800250_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN","By your leave, we might attempt to repeat the trick. The gods know, it would be quicker than building a new vessel."
181,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800260_MERLWYB","Mistbeard did this? Truly, Marshal, upon the subject of the pirate king, you are as a scholar."
182,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800270_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN","Now, from what I have gleaned of these matters, the device will need to be in close and constant proximity to the target. To wit, we must lash our twin vessel to Leviathan."
183,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800280_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN","This in itself will be no small feat. Ramming speed will be required, but given the weight of the cargo, that will only be attainable with the aid of a towing vessel..."
184,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800290_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN","Suffice it to say, the task of piloting said vessel will entail considerable danger, and I would not ask it of another. I volunteer myself."
185,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800300_MERLWYB","'Twill be dangerous for all involved...but we have no better recourse. Very well."
186,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800310_MERLWYB","Commodore. Assemble the remnants of the fleet at Moraby Bay."
187,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800320_MERLWYB","Give priority to our soundest vessels. The repairs can wait."
188,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800330_MERLWYB","Storm Marshal Slafyrsyn, command of the operation is yours. I want that twin vessel ready to sail posthaste."
189,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800340_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN","At once, Admiral!"
190,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800350_MERLWYB","And then there is the small matter of slaying the beast... The fate of Limsa Lominsa rests upon your shoulders once again. Go well, Warrior of Light."
191,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900010_MERLWYB","We Lominsans are sworn to strive “Till sea swallows all”─and swallow all it would have, had Leviathan prevailed. That we still strive now, we owe in no small part to you."
192,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900020_MERLWYB","Not for the first time, you have delivered Limsa Lominsa from the wrath of a primal. Never has our nation known a stouter ally."
193,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900030_MERLWYB","On behalf of my people, I give you my humblest thanks."
194,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900040_MERLWYB","'Tis meet that I give thanks to old Mistbeard, too, for his fine solution. Whatever else he may have been, 'tis clear he was a resourceful soul. Would that I had a man like him in my service."
195,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900050_YUGIRI","Before I set foot in these lands, I had no inkling that the people of Eorzea contended with such mighty foes. Suffice it to say, their existence came as something of a shock─as did the idea that they could be defeated."
196,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900060_YUGIRI","This experience has served to remind me of the vastness of the world...and the boundless potential of man."
197,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900070_YUGIRI","Though I am but a refugee in this realm, I would fain be of use to you in your fight."
198,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900080_YUGIRI","Know that I am tutored in one of the foremost combat arts of the Far East. It may seem...outlandish to the Eorzean eye, but should any of your people care to learn, I would be pleased to initiate them."
199,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900090_MERLWYB","And I will see to it that they are grateful. I have no doubt that your knowledge and skills will serve us well."
200,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900100_MERLWYB","Besides, your art is not so outlandish as you think. Would you not agree, Master Thancred?"
201,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900110_THANCRED","Naught escapes your searching eye, Admiral."
202,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900120_THANCRED","Few are privy to this information, but Limsa Lominsa is home to a certain...secret fraternity. Its members are trained in a form of combat not unlike your own."
203,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900130_THANCRED","By my judgment, it should not be beyond such individuals to adapt to the techniques I witnessed you employing with such admirable deftness."
204,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900140_YUGIRI","I am heartened to hear this. I, too, noted a kinship between your style and mine own. Though it seemed to me that you fought differently in the beginning."
205,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900150_THANCRED","A-Aye, I suppose I did... What can I say? I am a man of many talents. Hahaha..."
206,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900160_YSHTOLA","Though you may labor to believe it, Thancred was once something of a scoundrel, who fraternized with the criminal class in these parts."
207,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900170_THANCRED","Y-Y'shtola! You jest, of course!"
208,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900180_MINFILIA","But for a chance encounter with Alphinaud's grandsire, he might never have left Limsa Lominsa; or received an education in Sharlayan; or taken up his post in Ul'dah─which is where he trained in the blade, lest you wonder."
209,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900190_THANCRED","Minfilia─please!"
210,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900200_YUGIRI","It would seem there is more to you than meets the eye, Master Thancred."
211,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900210_MERLWYB","Lady Yugiri─I am told that you and yours came to Eorzea seeking permanent resettlement, and that many Domans have since been engaged as frontier hands at Revenant's Toll. Mor Dhona is many things, but a place of refuge it is not."
212,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900220_MERLWYB","Know that I would like nothing better than to furnish your people with a new home here on Lominsan soil. Alas, racked by instability as we are, our nation is in no fit state to take you in."
213,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900230_MERLWYB","Yet I'll not have it said that we turned a blind eye to your suffering. Until such time as we can do more, I pledge to send provisions."
214,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900240_YUGIRI","We are in your debt, Admiral. I realize that it scarce qualifies as repayment, but if it please you, I shall set about sharing my martial knowledge with your people at once."
215,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900250_MERLWYB","You wished a word in private."
216,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900260_YSHTOLA","The better not to spoil the festive mood."
217,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900270_YSHTOLA","History repeats itself, Admiral. As the kobolds did before them, the Sahagin resorted to summoning their god over a territorial feud. They acted in self-preservation."
218,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900280_YSHTOLA","It may be that the Sahagin initiated this particular clash, but how it begins does not interest me so much as how it ends."
219,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900290_MERLWYB","I have not forgotten our conversation, Y'shtola. I am aware that man bears part of the blame for the primals' existence."
220,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900300_MERLWYB","Nor am I ignorant of the Sahagin's reason for acting. They sought to secure a place to breed and multiply, that their kind might survive. Self-preservation, as you say."
221,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900310_MERLWYB","But we have as much right to live and thrive as they. If our own survival is threatened, are we to lay down our arms and welcome oblivion? Nay."
222,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900320_YSHTOLA","And so you kill, that you might live. Yet if living is a right, then that right belongs to all peoples, be they men or beastmen."
223,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900330_MERLWYB","I'll not deny your reasoning. But when a storm gathers, it falls to me to see my people safely through it. That is my duty, and I shall do it."
224,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900340_YSHTOLA","As must we all, Admiral. Stay the course, then, but know that it will lead to no good end."
225,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900350_YUGIRI","Man has ever put himself first and foremost."
226,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900360_YUGIRI","To justify his actions, he clads himself in the armor of righteousness─though it be a fancy of his own making. In this, mayhap the Garleans and we Domans are not so different..."
227,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900370_MERLWYB","Eorzea has become as a raging sea. If we are to keep our heads above the waves, we cannot scruple to drown the man next to us."
228,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900380_MERLWYB","When hopes of coexistence founder, strength must determine who has the greater right to live."
229,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00010_MINFILIA","I have been reflecting upon the events which took place during our visit to Vylbrand."
230,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00020_MINFILIA","If you have a moment, I would share my conclusions with you. Please bear with me."
231,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00030_MINFILIA","When the Sahagin elder summoned Leviathan, he employed the power we have come to know as the Echo."
232,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00040_MINFILIA","Though I cannot well explain the how of it, it would seem he became immortal in so doing."
233,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00050_MINFILIA","When the Admiral subsequently slew him, his spirit emerged from his lifeless flesh, a consciousness shorn of physical form."
234,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00060_MINFILIA","Thus transfigured, he took up residence in the body of his minion with the ease of a man donning a favorite glove."
235,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00070_MINFILIA","Long have I known that the Echo allows one to pass through the walls of a man's soul."
236,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00080_MINFILIA","But never did I imagine that it could free us from our own flesh, nor less that our souls could then occupy the next corporeal vessel to take our fancy."
237,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00090_MINFILIA","It was of this that Elidibus spoke─an existence which knows neither cessation nor oblivion."
238,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00100_MINFILIA","And yet, though the Sahagin had mastered his gift and thereby become immortal, he was by no means invulnerable."
239,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00110_MINFILIA","As we both bore witness, he was ultimately absorbed into Leviathan."
240,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00120_MINFILIA","And the import of this observation? If the Ascians' mode of existence is indeed the same, it can be inferred that they, too, are not invulnerable─that they <Emphasis>can</Emphasis> be destroyed."
241,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00130_MINFILIA","There exists a legend which tells of souls who are reborn upon the cusp of each Umbral Calamity, that they might stay the encroaching Darkness."
242,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00140_MINFILIA","To most, it is but a faerie tale, yet recent events have given me cause to wonder: could the legend in fact refer to the Echo?"
243,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00150_MINFILIA","Much and more yet remains unknown, but I am confident that all will become clear in time."
244,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00160_MINFILIA","For the present, however, what matters is that the key to defeating the Ascians may at last be within sight."
245,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00170_MINFILIA","With Urianger's aid, it is my hope that I shall fathom this matter ere long."
246,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00180_MINFILIA","Ah! I was just about to send for you, my friend.
136,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700070_MERLWYB,Do you feel that!?
137,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700080_MINFILIA,I know this sensation... It's the Echo!
138,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700090_MERLWYB,What!?
139,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700100_WUUR,Pshhh! Sssuch power! It is...*transcendent*!
140,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700110_MERLWYB,Seven hells...
141,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700120_WUUR,Pshhhahahahahaaa! Ssstrike me down if you will! It is futile! I have massstered the gift! I am...*eternal*!
142,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700130_WUUR,"O mighty Leviathan, ruler of the ssseas, born of waters primordial! I offer unto You this frail fleshhh, that You might grant Your faithful servants deliverance!"
143,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700140_WUUR,I beseech You! Come forth!
144,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700150_MERLWYB,"Die, damn you!"
145,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700160_WUUR,Foolishhh shorewalker! You cannot kill that which is eternal!
146,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700170_YUGIRI,Heavens forfend...
147,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700180_MERLWYB,Damn it all!
148,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700190_WUUR,Pshhh!? My being...ebbs away... B-But it should by rightsss be infinite!
149,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700200_WUUR,"Am I not...immortal? Curse you, Emissary! You promised me...everlasssting... Pshhh..."
150,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700210_MINFILIA,Wh-Where did he go!?
151,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700220_MERLWYB,What say you? Nary a single ship!? Hells take that sea demon!
152,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700230_MERLWYB,Gather the survivors and get to shore. Leave the wrecks for the pirates.
153,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700240_MERLWYB,Leviathan wastes no time. The diversionary squadron is lost.
154,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700250_MERLWYB,"For a mercy, 'twould seem the primal now makes for open sea. But why does he not press his advantage? Unless..."
155,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700260_MERLWYB,"Gods save us, he means to unleash a tidal wave!"
156,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800010_MERLWYB,"There used to be a hamlet beyond South Tidegate in western La Noscea. Halfstone, 'twas called."
157,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800020_MERLWYB,"Some years prior to the Maelstrom's founding, Leviathan rose from the briny depths, and set about unleashing watery hell upon us. On that occasion, the Company of Heroes put him down before he could do too much damage."
158,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800030_MERLWYB,"But when the bastard came next, this time in the wake of the Calamity, we were not so fortunate. Weary of ravaging our shoreline, he summoned a tidal wave which fair leveled Halfstone, and washed the soil away for good measure."
159,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800040_YSHTOLA,The area was subsequently occupied by the Sahagin.
160,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800050_MERLWYB,"Aye, the thrice-damned creatures transformed it into a spawning ground for their brood."
161,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800060_MERLWYB,"Given the quantity of crystals stolen to feed him and his legion of thralls, we can be fairly sure that Leviathan is stronger now than in his previous incarnations."
162,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800070_MERLWYB,"If that sea demon is left to wreak havoc, what befell Halfstone may well befall a larger settlement─even Limsa."
163,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800080_MERLWYB,That *cannot* happen. The primal must be stopped.
164,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800090_THANCRED,"That was ever our objective, Admiral. But how are we to achieve it?"
165,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800100_THANCRED,"The sea is Leviathan's uncontested domain. The ships of the Third Squadron could not close to within a hundred yalms of the primal, nor could their cannons pierce his defenses."
166,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800110_MERLWYB,"I have read the reports, Master Thancred. Our warships may as well have been bloody pleasure barges for all the good they did. Seven hells... Is there no way that we might strike back?"
167,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800120_YSHTOLA,"The Company of Heroes defeated Leviathan having first lured him into an inlet, but we must needs contend with him upon the open sea. It will avail us little to consult past experience."
168,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800130_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN,"Admiral, if I may."
169,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800140_MERLWYB,"Speak freely, Marshal."
170,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800150_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN,"By all accounts, Leviathan's most formidable weapon is the very sea itself. Waves and whirlpools, tides and currents─all these things are his to command. The key to victory, I believe, lies in disarming our foe."
171,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800160_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN,"This, in effect, is what the Company of Heroes achieved with their ruse. We cannot lure Leviathan from the sea a second time, but what if we could weaken his hold upon the element of water? I have heard of devices capable of such wonders. They draw upon the power of corrupted crystals, I am told."
172,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800170_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN,"If mounted upon a ship, such a device might be used to prevent Leviathan from bringing the full force of the sea to bear against us, rendering him no more dangerous than any other sea serpent."
173,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800180_MINFILIA,"Of course... Cid built a similar device to grant the *Enterprise* safe passage through Garuda's tempest, did he not?"
174,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800190_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN,"Begging your pardon, my lady, but to give credit where it's due, this is something I heard from an old arcanist friend of mine."
175,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800200_MERLWYB,"It makes little difference who thought of it first, so long as it works. Beg the specifications of this device from your friend, and I shall pass them on to our people at Naldiq & Vymelli's."
176,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800210_MERLWYB,"But before we proceed any further, I would voice one concern: piercing Garuda's defenses is one thing, suppressing Leviathan's attacks quite another."
177,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800220_MERLWYB,"In matters of science, I am as a babbling babe, but I cannot well imagine that such a feat would be possible without a veritable mountain of corrupted crystals."
178,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800230_MERLWYB,The question being: do we have a ship big enough to bear such a burden?
179,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800240_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN,"Mayhap not, Admiral. But two might. Recall you the tale of Mistbeard's greatest haul? It is said that he lashed two ships together, side by side, the better to bear his plunder."
180,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800250_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN,"By your leave, we might attempt to repeat the trick. The gods know, it would be quicker than building a new vessel."
181,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800260_MERLWYB,"Mistbeard did this? Truly, Marshal, upon the subject of the pirate king, you are as a scholar."
182,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800270_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN,"Now, from what I have gleaned of these matters, the device will need to be in close and constant proximity to the target. To wit, we must lash our twin vessel to Leviathan."
183,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800280_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN,"This in itself will be no small feat. Ramming speed will be required, but given the weight of the cargo, that will only be attainable with the aid of a towing vessel..."
184,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800290_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN,"Suffice it to say, the task of piloting said vessel will entail considerable danger, and I would not ask it of another. I volunteer myself."
185,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800300_MERLWYB,'Twill be dangerous for all involved...but we have no better recourse. Very well.
186,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800310_MERLWYB,Commodore. Assemble the remnants of the fleet at Moraby Bay.
187,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800320_MERLWYB,Give priority to our soundest vessels. The repairs can wait.
188,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800330_MERLWYB,"Storm Marshal Slafyrsyn, command of the operation is yours. I want that twin vessel ready to sail posthaste."
189,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800340_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN,"At once, Admiral!"
190,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800350_MERLWYB,"And then there is the small matter of slaying the beast... The fate of Limsa Lominsa rests upon your shoulders once again. Go well, Warrior of Light."
191,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900010_MERLWYB,"We Lominsans are sworn to strive “Till sea swallows all”─and swallow all it would have, had Leviathan prevailed. That we still strive now, we owe in no small part to you."
192,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900020_MERLWYB,"Not for the first time, you have delivered Limsa Lominsa from the wrath of a primal. Never has our nation known a stouter ally."
193,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900030_MERLWYB,"On behalf of my people, I give you my humblest thanks."
194,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900040_MERLWYB,"'Tis meet that I give thanks to old Mistbeard, too, for his fine solution. Whatever else he may have been, 'tis clear he was a resourceful soul. Would that I had a man like him in my service."
195,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900050_YUGIRI,"Before I set foot in these lands, I had no inkling that the people of Eorzea contended with such mighty foes. Suffice it to say, their existence came as something of a shock─as did the idea that they could be defeated."
196,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900060_YUGIRI,This experience has served to remind me of the vastness of the world...and the boundless potential of man.
197,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900070_YUGIRI,"Though I am but a refugee in this realm, I would fain be of use to you in your fight."
198,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900080_YUGIRI,"Know that I am tutored in one of the foremost combat arts of the Far East. It may seem...outlandish to the Eorzean eye, but should any of your people care to learn, I would be pleased to initiate them."
199,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900090_MERLWYB,And I will see to it that they are grateful. I have no doubt that your knowledge and skills will serve us well.
200,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900100_MERLWYB,"Besides, your art is not so outlandish as you think. Would you not agree, Master Thancred?"
201,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900110_THANCRED,"Naught escapes your searching eye, Admiral."
202,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900120_THANCRED,"Few are privy to this information, but Limsa Lominsa is home to a certain...secret fraternity. Its members are trained in a form of combat not unlike your own."
203,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900130_THANCRED,"By my judgment, it should not be beyond such individuals to adapt to the techniques I witnessed you employing with such admirable deftness."
204,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900140_YUGIRI,"I am heartened to hear this. I, too, noted a kinship between your style and mine own. Though it seemed to me that you fought differently in the beginning."
205,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900150_THANCRED,"A-Aye, I suppose I did... What can I say? I am a man of many talents. Hahaha..."
206,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900160_YSHTOLA,"Though you may labor to believe it, Thancred was once something of a scoundrel, who fraternized with the criminal class in these parts."
207,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900170_THANCRED,"Y-Y'shtola! You jest, of course!"
208,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900180_MINFILIA,"But for a chance encounter with Alphinaud's grandsire, he might never have left Limsa Lominsa; or received an education in Sharlayan; or taken up his post in Ul'dah─which is where he trained in the blade, lest you wonder."
209,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900190_THANCRED,Minfilia─please!
210,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900200_YUGIRI,"It would seem there is more to you than meets the eye, Master Thancred."
211,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900210_MERLWYB,"Lady Yugiri─I am told that you and yours came to Eorzea seeking permanent resettlement, and that many Domans have since been engaged as frontier hands at Revenant's Toll. Mor Dhona is many things, but a place of refuge it is not."
212,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900220_MERLWYB,"Know that I would like nothing better than to furnish your people with a new home here on Lominsan soil. Alas, racked by instability as we are, our nation is in no fit state to take you in."
213,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900230_MERLWYB,"Yet I'll not have it said that we turned a blind eye to your suffering. Until such time as we can do more, I pledge to send provisions."
214,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900240_YUGIRI,"We are in your debt, Admiral. I realize that it scarce qualifies as repayment, but if it please you, I shall set about sharing my martial knowledge with your people at once."
215,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900250_MERLWYB,You wished a word in private.
216,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900260_YSHTOLA,The better not to spoil the festive mood.
217,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900270_YSHTOLA,"History repeats itself, Admiral. As the kobolds did before them, the Sahagin resorted to summoning their god over a territorial feud. They acted in self-preservation."
218,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900280_YSHTOLA,"It may be that the Sahagin initiated this particular clash, but how it begins does not interest me so much as how it ends."
219,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900290_MERLWYB,"I have not forgotten our conversation, Y'shtola. I am aware that man bears part of the blame for the primals' existence."
220,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900300_MERLWYB,"Nor am I ignorant of the Sahagin's reason for acting. They sought to secure a place to breed and multiply, that their kind might survive. Self-preservation, as you say."
221,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900310_MERLWYB,"But we have as much right to live and thrive as they. If our own survival is threatened, are we to lay down our arms and welcome oblivion? Nay."
222,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900320_YSHTOLA,"And so you kill, that you might live. Yet if living is a right, then that right belongs to all peoples, be they men or beastmen."
223,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900330_MERLWYB,"I'll not deny your reasoning. But when a storm gathers, it falls to me to see my people safely through it. That is my duty, and I shall do it."
224,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900340_YSHTOLA,"As must we all, Admiral. Stay the course, then, but know that it will lead to no good end."
225,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900350_YUGIRI,Man has ever put himself first and foremost.
226,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900360_YUGIRI,"To justify his actions, he clads himself in the armor of righteousness─though it be a fancy of his own making. In this, mayhap the Garleans and we Domans are not so different..."
227,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900370_MERLWYB,"Eorzea has become as a raging sea. If we are to keep our heads above the waves, we cannot scruple to drown the man next to us."
228,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900380_MERLWYB,"When hopes of coexistence founder, strength must determine who has the greater right to live."
229,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00010_MINFILIA,I have been reflecting upon the events which took place during our visit to Vylbrand.
230,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00020_MINFILIA,"If you have a moment, I would share my conclusions with you. Please bear with me."
231,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00030_MINFILIA,"When the Sahagin elder summoned Leviathan, he employed the power we have come to know as the Echo."
232,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00040_MINFILIA,"Though I cannot well explain the how of it, it would seem he became immortal in so doing."
233,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00050_MINFILIA,"When the Admiral subsequently slew him, his spirit emerged from his lifeless flesh, a consciousness shorn of physical form."
234,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00060_MINFILIA,"Thus transfigured, he took up residence in the body of his minion with the ease of a man donning a favorite glove."
235,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00070_MINFILIA,Long have I known that the Echo allows one to pass through the walls of a man's soul.
236,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00080_MINFILIA,"But never did I imagine that it could free us from our own flesh, nor less that our souls could then occupy the next corporeal vessel to take our fancy."
237,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00090_MINFILIA,It was of this that Elidibus spoke─an existence which knows neither cessation nor oblivion.
238,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00100_MINFILIA,"And yet, though the Sahagin had mastered his gift and thereby become immortal, he was by no means invulnerable."
239,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00110_MINFILIA,"As we both bore witness, he was ultimately absorbed into Leviathan."
240,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00120_MINFILIA,"And the import of this observation? If the Ascians' mode of existence is indeed the same, it can be inferred that they, too, are not invulnerable─that they *can* be destroyed."
241,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00130_MINFILIA,"There exists a legend which tells of souls who are reborn upon the cusp of each Umbral Calamity, that they might stay the encroaching Darkness."
242,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00140_MINFILIA,"To most, it is but a faerie tale, yet recent events have given me cause to wonder: could the legend in fact refer to the Echo?"
243,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00150_MINFILIA,"Much and more yet remains unknown, but I am confident that all will become clear in time."
244,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00160_MINFILIA,"For the present, however, what matters is that the key to defeating the Ascians may at last be within sight."
245,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00170_MINFILIA,"With Urianger's aid, it is my hope that I shall fathom this matter ere long."
246,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00180_MINFILIA,"Ah! I was just about to send for you, my friend.
...Is aught amiss?"
247,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00190_URIANGER","Grave tidings from the Sharlayan motherland, my lady."
248,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00200_URIANGER","It doth concern our distant allies, the Students of Baldesion."
249,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00210_MINFILIA","What of them?"
250,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00220_URIANGER","My lady...the Isle of Val, which for many years hath been the order's home, is no more."
251,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00230_MINFILIA","No more? Whatever do you mean?"
252,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00240_URIANGER","I relate only that which hath been conveyed unto me by our agents. An aetheric wave of the highest magnitude was recorded in the region. Soon thereafter, 'twas observed that the isle had ceased to be."
253,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00250_URIANGER","'Tis postulated that a magick was evoked, like in power to Ultima."
254,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00260_MINFILIA","Twelve preserve..."
255,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00010_LOLORITO","If there are no other matters, I move that today's meeting be adjourned."
256,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00020_FOLLOWEROFTELEDJI","It is done, my lord."
257,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00030_FOLLOWEROFTELEDJI","I... <cough> F-Forgive my impertinence, my lord, but these orders... I am uncertain as to what end they serve."
258,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00040_TELEDJIADELEDJI","Revolution."
259,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_C00010_GILGAMESH","Um. Well, then!"
260,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_C00020_GILGAMESH","That's enough of a beating for now!"
247,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00190_URIANGER,"Grave tidings from the Sharlayan motherland, my lady."
248,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00200_URIANGER,"It doth concern our distant allies, the Students of Baldesion."
249,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00210_MINFILIA,What of them?
250,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00220_URIANGER,"My lady...the Isle of Val, which for many years hath been the order's home, is no more."
251,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00230_MINFILIA,No more? Whatever do you mean?
252,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00240_URIANGER,"I relate only that which hath been conveyed unto me by our agents. An aetheric wave of the highest magnitude was recorded in the region. Soon thereafter, 'twas observed that the isle had ceased to be."
253,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00250_URIANGER,"'Tis postulated that a magick was evoked, like in power to Ultima."
254,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00260_MINFILIA,Twelve preserve...
255,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00010_LOLORITO,"If there are no other matters, I move that today's meeting be adjourned."
256,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00020_FOLLOWEROFTELEDJI,"It is done, my lord."
257,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00030_FOLLOWEROFTELEDJI,"I... <cough> F-Forgive my impertinence, my lord, but these orders... I am uncertain as to what end they serve."
258,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00040_TELEDJIADELEDJI,Revolution.
259,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_C00010_GILGAMESH,"Um. Well, then!"
260,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_C00020_GILGAMESH,That's enough of a beating for now!
1 key 0 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000010_THANCRED 1 Now then...
2 # 1 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000020_THANCRED 'Tis I. The situation may be more complicated than we anticipated.
3 int32 str 2 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000030_URIANGER str Indeed. I shall remain watchful.
4 0 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000010_THANCRED 3 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000040_URIANGER Now then... Ere thou goest─another matter requireth thine attention. A young maiden, full eager to─
5 1 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000020_THANCRED 4 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000050_URIANGER 'Tis I. The situation may be more complicated than we anticipated. Wherefore inquirest thou of her fairness!? Very well. Be she damsel or devil, I shall direct her steps to Revenant's Toll.
6 2 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000030_URIANGER 5 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000060_URIANGER Indeed. I shall remain watchful. ...Save thine insinuations for one given to such impropriety. Thou shalt not find me amenable.
7 3 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000040_URIANGER 6 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000070_YUGIRI Ere thou goest─another matter requireth thine attention. A young maiden, full eager to─ (-???-)Far across the sea, from the land of Doma, have we traveled. We seek audience with the ruler of these lands. Who here speaks for you?
8 4 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000050_URIANGER 7 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100010_YUGIRI Wherefore inquirest thou of her fairness!? Very well. Be she damsel or devil, I shall direct her steps to Revenant's Toll. We have traveled some several thousand malms across the sea, from the nation of Doma, in hopes that we might find sanctuary in these lands.
9 5 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000060_URIANGER 8 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100020_ALPHINAUD ...Save thine insinuations for one given to such impropriety. Thou shalt not find me amenable. Sanctuary, Lady Yugiri?
10 6 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_000070_YUGIRI 9 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100030_YUGIRI (-???-)Far across the sea, from the land of Doma, have we traveled. We seek audience with the ruler of these lands. Who here speaks for you? Aye. Lying within Othard, Doma was under the dominion of the Garlean Empire, as I am sure you are aware.
11 7 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100010_YUGIRI 10 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100040_YUGIRI We have traveled some several thousand malms across the sea, from the nation of Doma, in hopes that we might find sanctuary in these lands. When the war of succession broke out in Garlemald, we espied an opportunity to free ourselves from the yoke of imperial oppression, and took up arms.
12 8 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100020_ALPHINAUD 11 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100050_YUGIRI Sanctuary, Lady Yugiri? ...Only to be crushed. And so I gathered what few Domans escaped the reckoning, and guided them hither to your shores.
13 9 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100030_YUGIRI 12 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100060_ALPHINAUD Aye. Lying within Othard, Doma was under the dominion of the Garlean Empire, as I am sure you are aware. A war of succession...? Then the Emperor... Forgive me, you said that Doma “was” under imperial rule, did you not?
14 10 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100040_YUGIRI 13 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100070_YUGIRI When the war of succession broke out in Garlemald, we espied an opportunity to free ourselves from the yoke of imperial oppression, and took up arms. Doma is gone. Razed to the ground as an example to the other provinces.
15 11 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100050_YUGIRI 14 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100080_ALPHINAUD ...Only to be crushed. And so I gathered what few Domans escaped the reckoning, and guided them hither to your shores. Twelve have mercy... And your people?
16 12 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100060_ALPHINAUD 15 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100090_YUGIRI A war of succession...? Then the Emperor... Forgive me, you said that Doma “was” under imperial rule, did you not? On a ship anchored in Vesper Bay, flying borrowed colors.
17 13 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100070_YUGIRI 16 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100100_YUGIRI Doma is gone. Razed to the ground as an example to the other provinces. Many were complicit in the rebellion, or are kin to those who were. They will not come ashore until I send word that it is safe to do so.
18 14 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100080_ALPHINAUD 17 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100110_YUGIRI Twelve have mercy... And your people? I sought an audience with your rulers, but was summarily refused.
19 15 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100090_YUGIRI 18 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100120_ALPHINAUD On a ship anchored in Vesper Bay, flying borrowed colors. The lords of Ul'dah are not wont to entertain foreign refugees without suitable encouragement.
20 16 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100100_YUGIRI 19 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100130_YUGIRI Many were complicit in the rebellion, or are kin to those who were. They will not come ashore until I send word that it is safe to do so. Mayhap I was foolish to expect otherwise. But our supplies run low, and we have young ones in urgent need of care.
21 17 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100110_YUGIRI 20 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100140_YUGIRI I sought an audience with your rulers, but was summarily refused. I have seen the tents outside the gates, however. We are not the first to seek asylum, nor will we be the last.
22 18 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100120_ALPHINAUD 21 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100150_ALPHINAUD The lords of Ul'dah are not wont to entertain foreign refugees without suitable encouragement. ...Be that as it may, Ul'dah is no friend to Garlemald. Your tale would stir the hearts of many men and women here.
23 19 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100130_YUGIRI 22 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100160_ALPHINAUD Mayhap I was foolish to expect otherwise. But our supplies run low, and we have young ones in urgent need of care. The sultana and the Syndicate will not be so easily swayed─but I shall see that you are granted an opportunity to plead your case.
24 20 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100140_YUGIRI 23 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100170_YUGIRI I have seen the tents outside the gates, however. We are not the first to seek asylum, nor will we be the last. This is within your power?
25 21 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100150_ALPHINAUD 24 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100180_ALPHINAUD ...Be that as it may, Ul'dah is no friend to Garlemald. Your tale would stir the hearts of many men and women here. Well...far be it from me to boast, but I do have the ear of certain influential individuals.
26 22 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100160_ALPHINAUD 25 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100190_YUGIRI The sultana and the Syndicate will not be so easily swayed─but I shall see that you are granted an opportunity to plead your case. I am in your debt.
27 23 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100170_YUGIRI 26 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100200_ALPHINAUD This is within your power? Lady Yugiri, forgive me for observing, but...your choice of attire seems like to evoke feelings of mistrust.
28 24 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100180_ALPHINAUD 27 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100210_YUGIRI Well...far be it from me to boast, but I do have the ear of certain influential individuals. Men are wont to fear the unfamiliar. We know this from experience.
29 25 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100190_YUGIRI 28 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100220_YUGIRI I am in your debt. We seek only to spare the people of Ul'dah unnecessary disquiet.
30 26 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100200_ALPHINAUD 29 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100230_ALPHINAUD Lady Yugiri, forgive me for observing, but...your choice of attire seems like to evoke feelings of mistrust. I shall defer to your experience, then.
31 27 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100210_YUGIRI 30 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100240_YUGIRI Men are wont to fear the unfamiliar. We know this from experience. I thank you for your understanding.
32 28 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100220_YUGIRI 31 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100250_ALPHINAUD We seek only to spare the people of Ul'dah unnecessary disquiet. It seems I have urgent business with the Flame General. I leave our guests in your capable hands.
33 29 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100230_ALPHINAUD 32 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200000_YUGIRI I shall defer to your experience, then. I, Yugiri of Doma, am honored to meet you at last, Your Grace. To mark this auspicious occasion, I should like to present to you the finest treasures our humble nation has to offer...
34 30 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100240_YUGIRI 33 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200010_YUGIRI I thank you for your understanding. Alas, the circumstances which have brought me here today have divested me of both time and dignity. I come before you as a pauper in direst need of aid─to request that you grant my people asylum.
35 31 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_100250_ALPHINAUD 34 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200020_NANAMOULNAMO It seems I have urgent business with the Flame General. I leave our guests in your capable hands. I, Nanamo, seventeenth in the line of Ul, welcome you to our city. Be at ease, Lady Yugiri.
36 32 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200000_YUGIRI 35 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200030_NANAMOULNAMO I, Yugiri of Doma, am honored to meet you at last, Your Grace. To mark this auspicious occasion, I should like to present to you the finest treasures our humble nation has to offer... Although I myself have heard the tale of your misfortune, I would ask that you recount it once more for the benefit of the others here present.
37 33 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200010_YUGIRI 36 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200040_YUGIRI Alas, the circumstances which have brought me here today have divested me of both time and dignity. I come before you as a pauper in direst need of aid─to request that you grant my people asylum. As you wish, Your Grace. For many years, my nation, Doma, suffered under the yoke of imperial rule, and my people yearned to be free. Thus, when a war of succession broke out in Garlemald, we sought to take advantage of the chaos and reclaim our liberty.
38 34 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200020_NANAMOULNAMO 37 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200050_YUGIRI I, Nanamo, seventeenth in the line of Ul, welcome you to our city. Be at ease, Lady Yugiri. Alas, our enemy proved less preoccupied than we had hoped, and our rebellion was put down in the most brutal fashion.
39 35 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200030_NANAMOULNAMO 38 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200060_RAUBAHN Although I myself have heard the tale of your misfortune, I would ask that you recount it once more for the benefit of the others here present. Those who survived─how many do they number?
40 36 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200040_YUGIRI 39 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200070_YUGIRI As you wish, Your Grace. For many years, my nation, Doma, suffered under the yoke of imperial rule, and my people yearned to be free. Thus, when a war of succession broke out in Garlemald, we sought to take advantage of the chaos and reclaim our liberty. More than two hundred souls huddle within the cramped confines of our own galleon's hold. Yet this figure accounts for but one of a number of ships which escaped the purge.
41 37 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200050_YUGIRI 40 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200080_YUGIRI Alas, our enemy proved less preoccupied than we had hoped, and our rebellion was put down in the most brutal fashion. It is my hope that you will allow us all to dwell within your walls. Should that prove unfeasible, however, I humbly ask that you accept as many of my people as your resources allow.
42 38 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200060_RAUBAHN 41 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200090_YUGIRI Those who survived─how many do they number? Pray understand, we do not beg a boon, but propose instead an arrangement. We would serve─as soldiers or tradesmen─until our debt is repaid.
43 39 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200070_YUGIRI 42 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200100_RAUBAHN More than two hundred souls huddle within the cramped confines of our own galleon's hold. Yet this figure accounts for but one of a number of ships which escaped the purge. What are the Syndicate's opinions on this matter?
44 40 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200080_YUGIRI 43 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200110_TELEDJIADELEDJI It is my hope that you will allow us all to dwell within your walls. Should that prove unfeasible, however, I humbly ask that you accept as many of my people as your resources allow. I, for one, think it's a marvelous idea. Lady Yugiri and her people strike me as an industrious lot, and there are parts of the city which have yet to be fully restored. If they are willing to work, I see no reason not to let them.
45 41 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200090_YUGIRI 44 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200120_ALPHINAUD Pray understand, we do not beg a boon, but propose instead an arrangement. We would serve─as soldiers or tradesmen─until our debt is repaid. The head of the Mirage Trust is not known for his generosity. He sees profit in this.
46 42 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200100_RAUBAHN 45 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200130_RAUBAHN What are the Syndicate's opinions on this matter? I agree. That said, these are foreign refugees. To admit them would require a formal resolution. Shall we call a vote?
47 43 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200110_TELEDJIADELEDJI 46 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200140_LOLORITO I, for one, think it's a marvelous idea. Lady Yugiri and her people strike me as an industrious lot, and there are parts of the city which have yet to be fully restored. If they are willing to work, I see no reason not to let them. The law is the law.
48 44 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200120_ALPHINAUD 47 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200150_TELEDJIADELEDJI The head of the Mirage Trust is not known for his generosity. He sees profit in this. Lord Lolorito?
49 45 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200130_RAUBAHN 48 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200160_LOLORITO I agree. That said, these are foreign refugees. To admit them would require a formal resolution. Shall we call a vote? Tell me: are you blind or willfully ignorant? Even now, our streets are choked with the displaced victims of the Calamity and Ala Mhigan refugees.
50 46 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200140_LOLORITO 49 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200170_LOLORITO The law is the law. They live hand-to-mouth, subsisting on aid provided by the Immortal Flames─the cost of which grows ever higher!
51 47 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200150_TELEDJIADELEDJI 50 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200180_LOLORITO Lord Lolorito? The wealth of Ul'dah is not without limits, my friends.
52 48 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200160_LOLORITO 51 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200190_LOLORITO Tell me: are you blind or willfully ignorant? Even now, our streets are choked with the displaced victims of the Calamity and Ala Mhigan refugees. And need I remind you that these refugees are prone to violence and criminal activity? You have all read the reports, I think?
53 49 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200170_LOLORITO 52 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200200_LOLORITO They live hand-to-mouth, subsisting on aid provided by the Immortal Flames─the cost of which grows ever higher! Without homes or employment, it is only a matter of time before men grow desperate and take that which they imagine has been unjustly denied them. Yet, knowing this, you would have us swell their ranks. Mayhap you think the Brass Blades and the Flames are not hard-pressed enough?
54 50 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200180_LOLORITO 53 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200210_ALPHINAUD The wealth of Ul'dah is not without limits, my friends. Some say the chairman of the East Aldenard Trading Company passes gil thrice daily. This may explain how he came to be the wealthiest man in Ul'dah. Or it may simply be that he's ruthless beyond reckoning.
55 51 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200190_LOLORITO 54 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200220_NANAMOULNAMO And need I remind you that these refugees are prone to violence and criminal activity? You have all read the reports, I think? Surely the sultanate can support the few hundred Domans Lady Yugiri represents? That our resources have been taxed I do not deny, but we are hardly in danger of financial collapse.
56 52 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200200_LOLORITO 55 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200230_NANAMOULNAMO Without homes or employment, it is only a matter of time before men grow desperate and take that which they imagine has been unjustly denied them. Yet, knowing this, you would have us swell their ranks. Mayhap you think the Brass Blades and the Flames are not hard-pressed enough? I move that an exception be made.
57 53 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200210_ALPHINAUD 56 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200240_LOLORITO Some say the chairman of the East Aldenard Trading Company passes gil thrice daily. This may explain how he came to be the wealthiest man in Ul'dah. Or it may simply be that he's ruthless beyond reckoning. An exception, Your Grace? I am suddenly reminded of a similar debate some years ago, regarding a number of Ala Mhigan refugees, if memory serves.
58 54 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200220_NANAMOULNAMO 57 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200250_LOLORITO Surely the sultanate can support the few hundred Domans Lady Yugiri represents? That our resources have been taxed I do not deny, but we are hardly in danger of financial collapse. What were your words that day? Ah, yes: “The law is the law.” And so our visitors remained in Little Ala Mhigo.
59 55 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200230_NANAMOULNAMO 58 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200260_LOLORITO I move that an exception be made. Mayhap our wise and benevolent sultana would be so good as to enlighten us as to which other of our laws should not be upheld?
60 56 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200240_LOLORITO 59 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200270_RAUBAHN An exception, Your Grace? I am suddenly reminded of a similar debate some years ago, regarding a number of Ala Mhigan refugees, if memory serves. Mind your tongue, Lolorito.
61 57 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200250_LOLORITO 60 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200280_TELEDJIADELEDJI What were your words that day? Ah, yes: “The law is the law.” And so our visitors remained in Little Ala Mhigo. My lord, I share your concern for the welfare of our great nation, but we must endeavor to take a longer view. You know as well as I that people can be a resource still more precious than gil.
62 58 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200260_LOLORITO 61 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200290_LOLORITO Mayhap our wise and benevolent sultana would be so good as to enlighten us as to which other of our laws should not be upheld? Precious or not, they were never yet so reliable. And unlike those who frequent your establishment, I have no desire to gamble with my future.
63 59 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200270_RAUBAHN 62 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200300_LOLORITO Mind your tongue, Lolorito. Ul'dah's greatest asset is, and has ever been, her material wealth. We risk this at our peril.
64 60 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200280_TELEDJIADELEDJI 63 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200310_LOLORITO My lord, I share your concern for the welfare of our great nation, but we must endeavor to take a longer view. You know as well as I that people can be a resource still more precious than gil. One need only look to Teledji Adeledji's example for evidence of the danger in allowing sentiment to dictate policy.
65 61 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200290_LOLORITO 64 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200320_LOLORITO Precious or not, they were never yet so reliable. And unlike those who frequent your establishment, I have no desire to gamble with my future. How far the vaunted Mirage hath fallen, both in repute and profitability, since he began employing refugees...
66 62 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200300_LOLORITO 65 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200330_TELEDJIADELEDJI Ul'dah's greatest asset is, and has ever been, her material wealth. We risk this at our peril. How I choose to conduct my affairs is not your concern, my lord!
67 63 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200310_LOLORITO 66 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200340_RAUBAHN One need only look to Teledji Adeledji's example for evidence of the danger in allowing sentiment to dictate policy. A proposal has been tabled. Given its urgency, I move we forgo further debate and call a vote.
68 64 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200320_LOLORITO 67 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200350_RAUBAHN How far the vaunted Mirage hath fallen, both in repute and profitability, since he began employing refugees... To accept the Doman refugees or not. Those in favor, I bid you remain. Those opposed, I bid you leave.
69 65 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200330_TELEDJIADELEDJI 68 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200360_NANAMOULNAMO How I choose to conduct my affairs is not your concern, my lord! Would that it were within my power to welcome you and your people, Lady Yugiri. As you have observed, however, my authority in such matters is regrettably limited.
70 66 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200340_RAUBAHN 69 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200370_NANAMOULNAMO A proposal has been tabled. Given its urgency, I move we forgo further debate and call a vote. Without the consent of the Syndicate, I cannot act.
71 67 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200350_RAUBAHN 70 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200380_YUGIRI To accept the Doman refugees or not. Those in favor, I bid you remain. Those opposed, I bid you leave. I understand, Your Grace. And I appreciate all that you have done on our behalf.
72 68 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200360_NANAMOULNAMO 71 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200390_TELEDJIADELEDJI Would that it were within my power to welcome you and your people, Lady Yugiri. As you have observed, however, my authority in such matters is regrettably limited. The nerve of the man... If that bastard had not forsaken the eastern trade route, Little Ala Mhigo would now be thriving.
73 69 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200370_NANAMOULNAMO 72 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200400_TELEDJIADELEDJI Without the consent of the Syndicate, I cannot act. That you should have traveled so far, under such dire circumstances, only to be refused in this manner is utterly unconscionable. Pray accept my sincerest apologies.
74 70 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200380_YUGIRI 73 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200410_RAUBAHN I understand, Your Grace. And I appreciate all that you have done on our behalf. Now that the Empire no longer poses an immediate threat, they see little reason to maintain the pretense of unity.
75 71 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200390_TELEDJIADELEDJI 74 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200420_RAUBAHN The nerve of the man... If that bastard had not forsaken the eastern trade route, Little Ala Mhigo would now be thriving. The Monetarists have grown especially defiant of late─Lord Lolorito most of all.
76 72 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200400_TELEDJIADELEDJI 75 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200430_RAUBAHN That you should have traveled so far, under such dire circumstances, only to be refused in this manner is utterly unconscionable. Pray accept my sincerest apologies. But this is neither the time nor place for that discussion.
77 73 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200410_RAUBAHN 76 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300010_THANCRED Now that the Empire no longer poses an immediate threat, they see little reason to maintain the pretense of unity. How goes the fishing? Caught anything slippery?
78 74 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200420_RAUBAHN 77 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300020_YSHTOLA The Monetarists have grown especially defiant of late─Lord Lolorito most of all. Aye. Our suspicions were well founded. The Serpent Reavers are indeed the culprits.
79 75 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_200430_RAUBAHN 78 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300030_THANCRED But this is neither the time nor place for that discussion. The plot thickens...
80 76 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300010_THANCRED 79 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300040_YSHTOLA How goes the fishing? Caught anything slippery? Has there been any movement in Thanalan?
81 77 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300020_YSHTOLA 80 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300050_THANCRED Aye. Our suspicions were well founded. The Serpent Reavers are indeed the culprits. It has been blessedly quiet. Which is to say the Amalj'aa are being no more or less of a nuisance than usual, summoning Ifrit with such crystals as they have hoarded.
82 78 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300030_THANCRED 81 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300060_THANCRED The plot thickens... Urianger, too, reports naught out of the ordinary.
83 79 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300040_YSHTOLA 82 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300070_YSHTOLA Has there been any movement in Thanalan? Then we have our explanation.
84 80 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300050_THANCRED 83 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300080_MINFILIA It has been blessedly quiet. Which is to say the Amalj'aa are being no more or less of a nuisance than usual, summoning Ifrit with such crystals as they have hoarded. Your explanation for what, pray tell?
85 81 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300060_THANCRED 84 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300090_YSHTOLA Urianger, too, reports naught out of the ordinary. For the recent spate of crystal thefts in Thanalan. We naturally assumed that the trail would lead us back to the Amalj'aa.
86 82 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300070_YSHTOLA 85 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300100_YSHTOLA Then we have our explanation. Yet it did not. It led us across the sea unto Vylbrand.
87 83 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300080_MINFILIA 86 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300110_MINFILIA Your explanation for what, pray tell? Vylbrand...?
88 84 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300090_YSHTOLA 87 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300120_MINFILIA For the recent spate of crystal thefts in Thanalan. We naturally assumed that the trail would lead us back to the Amalj'aa. There *have* been reports of increased Sahagin activity of late...
89 85 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300100_YSHTOLA 88 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300130_MINFILIA Yet it did not. It led us across the sea unto Vylbrand. Oh gods...they mean to summon Leviathan?
90 86 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300110_MINFILIA 89 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300140_YSHTOLA Vylbrand...? That is the way of it, I fear.
91 87 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300120_MINFILIA 90 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300150_YSHTOLA There <Emphasis>have</Emphasis> been reports of increased Sahagin activity of late... Whilst conducting our investigation on behalf of the Mineral Concern, we came upon evidence implicating the Serpent Reavers.
92 88 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300130_MINFILIA 91 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300160_YSHTOLA Oh gods...they mean to summon Leviathan? With the aid of the Maelstrom, I was able to verify our suspicions. 'Tis only a matter of time before Leviathan returns to harrow the seas.
93 89 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300140_YSHTOLA 92 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300170_YSHTOLA That is the way of it, I fear. But there is more. One of the Sahagin─an elder, by my judgment─spoke of attaining the “gift and knowledge of eternity.”
94 90 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300150_YSHTOLA 93 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300180_MINFILIA Whilst conducting our investigation on behalf of the Mineral Concern, we came upon evidence implicating the Serpent Reavers. <moan>
95 91 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300160_YSHTOLA 94 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400010_YSHTOLA With the aid of the Maelstrom, I was able to verify our suspicions. 'Tis only a matter of time before Leviathan returns to harrow the seas. Such a disturbance in the aether... If I did not know better, I should think this device defective.
96 92 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300170_YSHTOLA 95 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400020_YSHTOLA But there is more. One of the Sahagin─an elder, by my judgment─spoke of attaining the “gift and knowledge of eternity.” And there is the explanation...
97 93 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_300180_MINFILIA 96 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400030_WUUR <moan> Soon! Sssoon it shall begin! Our Lord shall rise 'midst sssurging waves to wash away the finless ones!
98 94 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400010_YSHTOLA 97 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400040_WUUR Such a disturbance in the aether... If I did not know better, I should think this device defective. And I shall be granted the gift and knowledge of eternity, and with the emissary ssstand equal! Then shall I know no cesssation, no oblivion!
99 95 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400020_YSHTOLA 98 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400050_YSHTOLA And there is the explanation... ...Whence comes this promise of immortality? The emissary?
100 96 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400030_WUUR 99 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400060_YSHTOLA Soon! Sssoon it shall begin! Our Lord shall rise 'midst sssurging waves to wash away the finless ones! We have outstayed our welcome.
101 97 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400040_WUUR 100 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500010_MINFILIA And I shall be granted the gift and knowledge of eternity, and with the emissary ssstand equal! Then shall I know no cesssation, no oblivion! “The gift...and knowledge.”
102 98 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400050_YSHTOLA 101 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500020_YSHTOLA ...Whence comes this promise of immortality? The emissary? Are the two of you quite well?
103 99 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_400060_YSHTOLA 102 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500030_MINFILIA We have outstayed our welcome. You...you shared that vision, did you not?
104 100 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500010_MINFILIA 103 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500040_MINFILIA “The gift...and knowledge.” Even before the Sahagin made mention of the emissary, I recognized Elidibus's words. *He* is behind this.
105 101 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500020_YSHTOLA 104 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500050_MINFILIA Are the two of you quite well? But surely it is not within his power to grant the Echo?
106 102 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500030_MINFILIA 105 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500060_YSHTOLA You...you shared that vision, did you not? My lady─unless we act swiftly, Leviathan will rise again. The Admiral has already requested that we intervene to prevent this. Failing that, we are to attend to the primal's extermination.
107 103 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500040_MINFILIA 106 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500070_MINFILIA Even before the Sahagin made mention of the emissary, I recognized Elidibus's words. <Emphasis>He</Emphasis> is behind this. She will have our full cooperation. Let us make haste to Limsa Lominsa.
108 104 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500050_MINFILIA 107 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500080_MINFILIA But surely it is not within his power to grant the Echo? I mean to play a part in this mission. Tataru─pray take charge in my absence.
109 105 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500060_YSHTOLA 108 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500090_THANCRED My lady─unless we act swiftly, Leviathan will rise again. The Admiral has already requested that we intervene to prevent this. Failing that, we are to attend to the primal's extermination. My lady, are you sure this is wise?
110 106 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500070_MINFILIA 109 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500100_MINFILIA She will have our full cooperation. Let us make haste to Limsa Lominsa. I am aware of the risks. But there is something I must see with mine own eyes.
111 107 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500080_MINFILIA 110 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500110_MINFILIA I mean to play a part in this mission. Tataru─pray take charge in my absence. ...The true nature of the Echo.
112 108 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500090_THANCRED 111 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500120_THANCRED My lady, are you sure this is wise? Very well. I shall not stand in your way...on the condition that you permit me to accompany you as bodyguard.
113 109 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500100_MINFILIA 112 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500130_MINFILIA I am aware of the risks. But there is something I must see with mine own eyes. Your company is ever welcome, Thancred.
114 110 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500110_MINFILIA 113 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500140_YUGIRI ...The true nature of the Echo. I take it something ill is afoot?
115 111 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500120_THANCRED 114 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500150_YSHTOLA Very well. I shall not stand in your way...on the condition that you permit me to accompany you as bodyguard. Aye. A primal is about to be loosed upon Eorzea.
116 112 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500130_MINFILIA 115 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500160_YUGIRI Your company is ever welcome, Thancred. A...primal?
117 113 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500140_YUGIRI 116 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500170_YSHTOLA I take it something ill is afoot? A godlike being whose very existence is a bane upon the land. We Scions of the Seventh Dawn are sworn to put an end to their kind.
118 114 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500150_YSHTOLA 117 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500180_YUGIRI Aye. A primal is about to be loosed upon Eorzea. I see. Know then that I am learned in the arts of war. In return for the kindness you have shown my people, I would lend you my blade.
119 115 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500160_YUGIRI 118 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500190_YSHTOLA A...primal? It would be most welcome. When contending with a primal, one can never have too many able allies.
120 116 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500170_YSHTOLA 119 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500200_YSHTOLA A godlike being whose very existence is a bane upon the land. We Scions of the Seventh Dawn are sworn to put an end to their kind. If you crave a more intimate understanding of the problems facing Eorzea, this experience is like to provide it. Be sure to come well prepared.
121 117 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500180_YUGIRI 120 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600010_YSHTOLA I see. Know then that I am learned in the arts of war. In return for the kindness you have shown my people, I would lend you my blade. Damn them... They have made thralls of soldiers and civilians both...
122 118 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500190_YSHTOLA 121 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600030_THANCRED It would be most welcome. When contending with a primal, one can never have too many able allies. Did I miss much?
123 119 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_500200_YSHTOLA 122 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600040_YUGIRI If you crave a more intimate understanding of the problems facing Eorzea, this experience is like to provide it. Be sure to come well prepared. Hah.
124 120 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600010_YSHTOLA 123 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600050_YUGIRI Damn them... They have made thralls of soldiers and civilians both... Yah.
125 121 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600030_THANCRED 124 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600060_THANCRED Did I miss much? So that is how you fight in the Far East? Mental note: pick no quarrel with Domans.
126 122 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600040_YUGIRI 125 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600070_THANCRED Hah. But seriously: if I am to keep up, I must needs forsake elegance for efficiency.
127 123 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600050_YUGIRI 126 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600080_THANCRED Yah. Yah.
128 124 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600060_THANCRED 127 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600090_THANCRED So that is how you fight in the Far East? Mental note: pick no quarrel with Domans. Hah.
129 125 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600070_THANCRED 128 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600100_YUGIRI But seriously: if I am to keep up, I must needs forsake elegance for efficiency. Hmmm...
130 126 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600080_THANCRED 129 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600110_THANCRED Yah. To the aetheryte!
131 127 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600090_THANCRED 130 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700010_MERLWYB Hah. You'll forgive me my lateness.
132 128 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600100_YUGIRI 131 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700020_THANCRED Hmmm... I've been something of a liability of late, I know. 'Tis high time I set about making amends.
133 129 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_600110_THANCRED 132 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700030_WUUR To the aetheryte! Pshhh! Long have you shriveled shhhorewalkers tormented our kind!
134 130 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700010_MERLWYB 133 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700040_WUUR You'll forgive me my lateness. But no more! Your time is at an end!
135 131 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700020_THANCRED 134 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700050_WUUR I've been something of a liability of late, I know. 'Tis high time I set about making amends. You shall perish with sssalt in your wounds and sssea in your lungs!
136 132 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700030_WUUR 135 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700060_WUUR Pshhh! Long have you shriveled shhhorewalkers tormented our kind! Lord of the Whorl, hearken to our plea! Lord of the Whorl, deliver us from our misery!
133 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700040_WUUR But no more! Your time is at an end!
134 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700050_WUUR You shall perish with sssalt in your wounds and sssea in your lungs!
135 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700060_WUUR Lord of the Whorl, hearken to our plea! Lord of the Whorl, deliver us from our misery!
137 136 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700070_MERLWYB 136 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700070_MERLWYB Do you feel that!? Do you feel that!?
138 137 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700080_MINFILIA 137 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700080_MINFILIA I know this sensation... It's the Echo! I know this sensation... It's the Echo!
139 138 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700090_MERLWYB 138 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700090_MERLWYB What!? What!?
140 139 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700100_WUUR 139 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700100_WUUR Pshhh! Sssuch power! It is...<Emphasis>transcendent</Emphasis>! Pshhh! Sssuch power! It is...*transcendent*!
141 140 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700110_MERLWYB 140 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700110_MERLWYB Seven hells... Seven hells...
142 141 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700120_WUUR 141 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700120_WUUR Pshhhahahahahaaa! Ssstrike me down if you will! It is futile! I have massstered the gift! I am...<Emphasis>eternal</Emphasis>! Pshhhahahahahaaa! Ssstrike me down if you will! It is futile! I have massstered the gift! I am...*eternal*!
143 142 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700130_WUUR 142 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700130_WUUR O mighty Leviathan, ruler of the ssseas, born of waters primordial! I offer unto You this frail fleshhh, that You might grant Your faithful servants deliverance! O mighty Leviathan, ruler of the ssseas, born of waters primordial! I offer unto You this frail fleshhh, that You might grant Your faithful servants deliverance!
144 143 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700140_WUUR 143 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700140_WUUR I beseech You! Come forth! I beseech You! Come forth!
145 144 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700150_MERLWYB 144 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700150_MERLWYB Die, damn you! Die, damn you!
146 145 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700160_WUUR 145 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700160_WUUR Foolishhh shorewalker! You cannot kill that which is eternal! Foolishhh shorewalker! You cannot kill that which is eternal!
147 146 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700170_YUGIRI 146 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700170_YUGIRI Heavens forfend... Heavens forfend...
148 147 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700180_MERLWYB 147 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700180_MERLWYB Damn it all! Damn it all!
149 148 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700190_WUUR 148 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700190_WUUR Pshhh!? My being...ebbs away... B-But it should by rightsss be infinite! Pshhh!? My being...ebbs away... B-But it should by rightsss be infinite!
150 149 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700200_WUUR 149 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700200_WUUR Am I not...immortal? Curse you, Emissary! You promised me...everlasssting... Pshhh... Am I not...immortal? Curse you, Emissary! You promised me...everlasssting... Pshhh...
151 150 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700210_MINFILIA 150 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700210_MINFILIA Wh-Where did he go!? Wh-Where did he go!?
152 151 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700220_MERLWYB 151 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700220_MERLWYB What say you? Nary a single ship!? Hells take that sea demon! What say you? Nary a single ship!? Hells take that sea demon!
153 152 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700230_MERLWYB 152 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700230_MERLWYB Gather the survivors and get to shore. Leave the wrecks for the pirates. Gather the survivors and get to shore. Leave the wrecks for the pirates.
154 153 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700240_MERLWYB 153 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700240_MERLWYB Leviathan wastes no time. The diversionary squadron is lost. Leviathan wastes no time. The diversionary squadron is lost.
155 154 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700250_MERLWYB 154 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700250_MERLWYB For a mercy, 'twould seem the primal now makes for open sea. But why does he not press his advantage? Unless... For a mercy, 'twould seem the primal now makes for open sea. But why does he not press his advantage? Unless...
156 155 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700260_MERLWYB 155 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_700260_MERLWYB Gods save us, he means to unleash a tidal wave! Gods save us, he means to unleash a tidal wave!
157 156 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800010_MERLWYB 156 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800010_MERLWYB There used to be a hamlet beyond South Tidegate in western La Noscea. Halfstone, 'twas called. There used to be a hamlet beyond South Tidegate in western La Noscea. Halfstone, 'twas called.
158 157 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800020_MERLWYB 157 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800020_MERLWYB Some years prior to the Maelstrom's founding, Leviathan rose from the briny depths, and set about unleashing watery hell upon us. On that occasion, the Company of Heroes put him down before he could do too much damage. Some years prior to the Maelstrom's founding, Leviathan rose from the briny depths, and set about unleashing watery hell upon us. On that occasion, the Company of Heroes put him down before he could do too much damage.
159 158 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800030_MERLWYB 158 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800030_MERLWYB But when the bastard came next, this time in the wake of the Calamity, we were not so fortunate. Weary of ravaging our shoreline, he summoned a tidal wave which fair leveled Halfstone, and washed the soil away for good measure. But when the bastard came next, this time in the wake of the Calamity, we were not so fortunate. Weary of ravaging our shoreline, he summoned a tidal wave which fair leveled Halfstone, and washed the soil away for good measure.
160 159 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800040_YSHTOLA 159 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800040_YSHTOLA The area was subsequently occupied by the Sahagin. The area was subsequently occupied by the Sahagin.
161 160 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800050_MERLWYB 160 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800050_MERLWYB Aye, the thrice-damned creatures transformed it into a spawning ground for their brood. Aye, the thrice-damned creatures transformed it into a spawning ground for their brood.
162 161 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800060_MERLWYB 161 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800060_MERLWYB Given the quantity of crystals stolen to feed him and his legion of thralls, we can be fairly sure that Leviathan is stronger now than in his previous incarnations. Given the quantity of crystals stolen to feed him and his legion of thralls, we can be fairly sure that Leviathan is stronger now than in his previous incarnations.
163 162 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800070_MERLWYB 162 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800070_MERLWYB If that sea demon is left to wreak havoc, what befell Halfstone may well befall a larger settlement─even Limsa. If that sea demon is left to wreak havoc, what befell Halfstone may well befall a larger settlement─even Limsa.
164 163 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800080_MERLWYB 163 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800080_MERLWYB That <Emphasis>cannot</Emphasis> happen. The primal must be stopped. That *cannot* happen. The primal must be stopped.
165 164 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800090_THANCRED 164 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800090_THANCRED That was ever our objective, Admiral. But how are we to achieve it? That was ever our objective, Admiral. But how are we to achieve it?
166 165 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800100_THANCRED 165 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800100_THANCRED The sea is Leviathan's uncontested domain. The ships of the Third Squadron could not close to within a hundred yalms of the primal, nor could their cannons pierce his defenses. The sea is Leviathan's uncontested domain. The ships of the Third Squadron could not close to within a hundred yalms of the primal, nor could their cannons pierce his defenses.
167 166 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800110_MERLWYB 166 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800110_MERLWYB I have read the reports, Master Thancred. Our warships may as well have been bloody pleasure barges for all the good they did. Seven hells... Is there no way that we might strike back? I have read the reports, Master Thancred. Our warships may as well have been bloody pleasure barges for all the good they did. Seven hells... Is there no way that we might strike back?
168 167 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800120_YSHTOLA 167 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800120_YSHTOLA The Company of Heroes defeated Leviathan having first lured him into an inlet, but we must needs contend with him upon the open sea. It will avail us little to consult past experience. The Company of Heroes defeated Leviathan having first lured him into an inlet, but we must needs contend with him upon the open sea. It will avail us little to consult past experience.
169 168 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800130_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN 168 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800130_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN Admiral, if I may. Admiral, if I may.
170 169 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800140_MERLWYB 169 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800140_MERLWYB Speak freely, Marshal. Speak freely, Marshal.
171 170 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800150_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN 170 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800150_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN By all accounts, Leviathan's most formidable weapon is the very sea itself. Waves and whirlpools, tides and currents─all these things are his to command. The key to victory, I believe, lies in disarming our foe. By all accounts, Leviathan's most formidable weapon is the very sea itself. Waves and whirlpools, tides and currents─all these things are his to command. The key to victory, I believe, lies in disarming our foe.
172 171 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800160_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN 171 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800160_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN This, in effect, is what the Company of Heroes achieved with their ruse. We cannot lure Leviathan from the sea a second time, but what if we could weaken his hold upon the element of water? I have heard of devices capable of such wonders. They draw upon the power of corrupted crystals, I am told. This, in effect, is what the Company of Heroes achieved with their ruse. We cannot lure Leviathan from the sea a second time, but what if we could weaken his hold upon the element of water? I have heard of devices capable of such wonders. They draw upon the power of corrupted crystals, I am told.
173 172 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800170_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN 172 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800170_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN If mounted upon a ship, such a device might be used to prevent Leviathan from bringing the full force of the sea to bear against us, rendering him no more dangerous than any other sea serpent. If mounted upon a ship, such a device might be used to prevent Leviathan from bringing the full force of the sea to bear against us, rendering him no more dangerous than any other sea serpent.
174 173 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800180_MINFILIA 173 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800180_MINFILIA Of course... Cid built a similar device to grant the <Emphasis>Enterprise</Emphasis> safe passage through Garuda's tempest, did he not? Of course... Cid built a similar device to grant the *Enterprise* safe passage through Garuda's tempest, did he not?
175 174 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800190_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN 174 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800190_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN Begging your pardon, my lady, but to give credit where it's due, this is something I heard from an old arcanist friend of mine. Begging your pardon, my lady, but to give credit where it's due, this is something I heard from an old arcanist friend of mine.
176 175 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800200_MERLWYB 175 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800200_MERLWYB It makes little difference who thought of it first, so long as it works. Beg the specifications of this device from your friend, and I shall pass them on to our people at Naldiq & Vymelli's. It makes little difference who thought of it first, so long as it works. Beg the specifications of this device from your friend, and I shall pass them on to our people at Naldiq & Vymelli's.
177 176 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800210_MERLWYB 176 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800210_MERLWYB But before we proceed any further, I would voice one concern: piercing Garuda's defenses is one thing, suppressing Leviathan's attacks quite another. But before we proceed any further, I would voice one concern: piercing Garuda's defenses is one thing, suppressing Leviathan's attacks quite another.
178 177 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800220_MERLWYB 177 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800220_MERLWYB In matters of science, I am as a babbling babe, but I cannot well imagine that such a feat would be possible without a veritable mountain of corrupted crystals. In matters of science, I am as a babbling babe, but I cannot well imagine that such a feat would be possible without a veritable mountain of corrupted crystals.
179 178 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800230_MERLWYB 178 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800230_MERLWYB The question being: do we have a ship big enough to bear such a burden? The question being: do we have a ship big enough to bear such a burden?
180 179 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800240_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN 179 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800240_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN Mayhap not, Admiral. But two might. Recall you the tale of Mistbeard's greatest haul? It is said that he lashed two ships together, side by side, the better to bear his plunder. Mayhap not, Admiral. But two might. Recall you the tale of Mistbeard's greatest haul? It is said that he lashed two ships together, side by side, the better to bear his plunder.
181 180 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800250_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN 180 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800250_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN By your leave, we might attempt to repeat the trick. The gods know, it would be quicker than building a new vessel. By your leave, we might attempt to repeat the trick. The gods know, it would be quicker than building a new vessel.
182 181 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800260_MERLWYB 181 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800260_MERLWYB Mistbeard did this? Truly, Marshal, upon the subject of the pirate king, you are as a scholar. Mistbeard did this? Truly, Marshal, upon the subject of the pirate king, you are as a scholar.
183 182 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800270_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN 182 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800270_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN Now, from what I have gleaned of these matters, the device will need to be in close and constant proximity to the target. To wit, we must lash our twin vessel to Leviathan. Now, from what I have gleaned of these matters, the device will need to be in close and constant proximity to the target. To wit, we must lash our twin vessel to Leviathan.
184 183 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800280_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN 183 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800280_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN This in itself will be no small feat. Ramming speed will be required, but given the weight of the cargo, that will only be attainable with the aid of a towing vessel... This in itself will be no small feat. Ramming speed will be required, but given the weight of the cargo, that will only be attainable with the aid of a towing vessel...
185 184 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800290_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN 184 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800290_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN Suffice it to say, the task of piloting said vessel will entail considerable danger, and I would not ask it of another. I volunteer myself. Suffice it to say, the task of piloting said vessel will entail considerable danger, and I would not ask it of another. I volunteer myself.
186 185 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800300_MERLWYB 185 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800300_MERLWYB 'Twill be dangerous for all involved...but we have no better recourse. Very well. 'Twill be dangerous for all involved...but we have no better recourse. Very well.
187 186 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800310_MERLWYB 186 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800310_MERLWYB Commodore. Assemble the remnants of the fleet at Moraby Bay. Commodore. Assemble the remnants of the fleet at Moraby Bay.
188 187 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800320_MERLWYB 187 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800320_MERLWYB Give priority to our soundest vessels. The repairs can wait. Give priority to our soundest vessels. The repairs can wait.
189 188 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800330_MERLWYB 188 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800330_MERLWYB Storm Marshal Slafyrsyn, command of the operation is yours. I want that twin vessel ready to sail posthaste. Storm Marshal Slafyrsyn, command of the operation is yours. I want that twin vessel ready to sail posthaste.
190 189 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800340_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN 189 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800340_EYNZAHRSLAFYRSYN At once, Admiral! At once, Admiral!
191 190 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800350_MERLWYB 190 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_800350_MERLWYB And then there is the small matter of slaying the beast... The fate of Limsa Lominsa rests upon your shoulders once again. Go well, Warrior of Light. And then there is the small matter of slaying the beast... The fate of Limsa Lominsa rests upon your shoulders once again. Go well, Warrior of Light.
192 191 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900010_MERLWYB 191 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900010_MERLWYB We Lominsans are sworn to strive “Till sea swallows all”─and swallow all it would have, had Leviathan prevailed. That we still strive now, we owe in no small part to you. We Lominsans are sworn to strive “Till sea swallows all”─and swallow all it would have, had Leviathan prevailed. That we still strive now, we owe in no small part to you.
193 192 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900020_MERLWYB 192 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900020_MERLWYB Not for the first time, you have delivered Limsa Lominsa from the wrath of a primal. Never has our nation known a stouter ally. Not for the first time, you have delivered Limsa Lominsa from the wrath of a primal. Never has our nation known a stouter ally.
194 193 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900030_MERLWYB 193 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900030_MERLWYB On behalf of my people, I give you my humblest thanks. On behalf of my people, I give you my humblest thanks.
195 194 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900040_MERLWYB 194 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900040_MERLWYB 'Tis meet that I give thanks to old Mistbeard, too, for his fine solution. Whatever else he may have been, 'tis clear he was a resourceful soul. Would that I had a man like him in my service. 'Tis meet that I give thanks to old Mistbeard, too, for his fine solution. Whatever else he may have been, 'tis clear he was a resourceful soul. Would that I had a man like him in my service.
196 195 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900050_YUGIRI 195 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900050_YUGIRI Before I set foot in these lands, I had no inkling that the people of Eorzea contended with such mighty foes. Suffice it to say, their existence came as something of a shock─as did the idea that they could be defeated. Before I set foot in these lands, I had no inkling that the people of Eorzea contended with such mighty foes. Suffice it to say, their existence came as something of a shock─as did the idea that they could be defeated.
197 196 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900060_YUGIRI 196 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900060_YUGIRI This experience has served to remind me of the vastness of the world...and the boundless potential of man. This experience has served to remind me of the vastness of the world...and the boundless potential of man.
198 197 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900070_YUGIRI 197 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900070_YUGIRI Though I am but a refugee in this realm, I would fain be of use to you in your fight. Though I am but a refugee in this realm, I would fain be of use to you in your fight.
199 198 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900080_YUGIRI 198 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900080_YUGIRI Know that I am tutored in one of the foremost combat arts of the Far East. It may seem...outlandish to the Eorzean eye, but should any of your people care to learn, I would be pleased to initiate them. Know that I am tutored in one of the foremost combat arts of the Far East. It may seem...outlandish to the Eorzean eye, but should any of your people care to learn, I would be pleased to initiate them.
200 199 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900090_MERLWYB 199 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900090_MERLWYB And I will see to it that they are grateful. I have no doubt that your knowledge and skills will serve us well. And I will see to it that they are grateful. I have no doubt that your knowledge and skills will serve us well.
201 200 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900100_MERLWYB 200 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900100_MERLWYB Besides, your art is not so outlandish as you think. Would you not agree, Master Thancred? Besides, your art is not so outlandish as you think. Would you not agree, Master Thancred?
202 201 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900110_THANCRED 201 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900110_THANCRED Naught escapes your searching eye, Admiral. Naught escapes your searching eye, Admiral.
203 202 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900120_THANCRED 202 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900120_THANCRED Few are privy to this information, but Limsa Lominsa is home to a certain...secret fraternity. Its members are trained in a form of combat not unlike your own. Few are privy to this information, but Limsa Lominsa is home to a certain...secret fraternity. Its members are trained in a form of combat not unlike your own.
204 203 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900130_THANCRED 203 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900130_THANCRED By my judgment, it should not be beyond such individuals to adapt to the techniques I witnessed you employing with such admirable deftness. By my judgment, it should not be beyond such individuals to adapt to the techniques I witnessed you employing with such admirable deftness.
205 204 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900140_YUGIRI 204 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900140_YUGIRI I am heartened to hear this. I, too, noted a kinship between your style and mine own. Though it seemed to me that you fought differently in the beginning. I am heartened to hear this. I, too, noted a kinship between your style and mine own. Though it seemed to me that you fought differently in the beginning.
206 205 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900150_THANCRED 205 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900150_THANCRED A-Aye, I suppose I did... What can I say? I am a man of many talents. Hahaha... A-Aye, I suppose I did... What can I say? I am a man of many talents. Hahaha...
207 206 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900160_YSHTOLA 206 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900160_YSHTOLA Though you may labor to believe it, Thancred was once something of a scoundrel, who fraternized with the criminal class in these parts. Though you may labor to believe it, Thancred was once something of a scoundrel, who fraternized with the criminal class in these parts.
208 207 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900170_THANCRED 207 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900170_THANCRED Y-Y'shtola! You jest, of course! Y-Y'shtola! You jest, of course!
209 208 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900180_MINFILIA 208 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900180_MINFILIA But for a chance encounter with Alphinaud's grandsire, he might never have left Limsa Lominsa; or received an education in Sharlayan; or taken up his post in Ul'dah─which is where he trained in the blade, lest you wonder. But for a chance encounter with Alphinaud's grandsire, he might never have left Limsa Lominsa; or received an education in Sharlayan; or taken up his post in Ul'dah─which is where he trained in the blade, lest you wonder.
210 209 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900190_THANCRED 209 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900190_THANCRED Minfilia─please! Minfilia─please!
211 210 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900200_YUGIRI 210 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900200_YUGIRI It would seem there is more to you than meets the eye, Master Thancred. It would seem there is more to you than meets the eye, Master Thancred.
212 211 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900210_MERLWYB 211 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900210_MERLWYB Lady Yugiri─I am told that you and yours came to Eorzea seeking permanent resettlement, and that many Domans have since been engaged as frontier hands at Revenant's Toll. Mor Dhona is many things, but a place of refuge it is not. Lady Yugiri─I am told that you and yours came to Eorzea seeking permanent resettlement, and that many Domans have since been engaged as frontier hands at Revenant's Toll. Mor Dhona is many things, but a place of refuge it is not.
213 212 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900220_MERLWYB 212 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900220_MERLWYB Know that I would like nothing better than to furnish your people with a new home here on Lominsan soil. Alas, racked by instability as we are, our nation is in no fit state to take you in. Know that I would like nothing better than to furnish your people with a new home here on Lominsan soil. Alas, racked by instability as we are, our nation is in no fit state to take you in.
214 213 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900230_MERLWYB 213 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900230_MERLWYB Yet I'll not have it said that we turned a blind eye to your suffering. Until such time as we can do more, I pledge to send provisions. Yet I'll not have it said that we turned a blind eye to your suffering. Until such time as we can do more, I pledge to send provisions.
215 214 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900240_YUGIRI 214 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900240_YUGIRI We are in your debt, Admiral. I realize that it scarce qualifies as repayment, but if it please you, I shall set about sharing my martial knowledge with your people at once. We are in your debt, Admiral. I realize that it scarce qualifies as repayment, but if it please you, I shall set about sharing my martial knowledge with your people at once.
216 215 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900250_MERLWYB 215 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900250_MERLWYB You wished a word in private. You wished a word in private.
217 216 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900260_YSHTOLA 216 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900260_YSHTOLA The better not to spoil the festive mood. The better not to spoil the festive mood.
218 217 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900270_YSHTOLA 217 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900270_YSHTOLA History repeats itself, Admiral. As the kobolds did before them, the Sahagin resorted to summoning their god over a territorial feud. They acted in self-preservation. History repeats itself, Admiral. As the kobolds did before them, the Sahagin resorted to summoning their god over a territorial feud. They acted in self-preservation.
219 218 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900280_YSHTOLA 218 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900280_YSHTOLA It may be that the Sahagin initiated this particular clash, but how it begins does not interest me so much as how it ends. It may be that the Sahagin initiated this particular clash, but how it begins does not interest me so much as how it ends.
220 219 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900290_MERLWYB 219 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900290_MERLWYB I have not forgotten our conversation, Y'shtola. I am aware that man bears part of the blame for the primals' existence. I have not forgotten our conversation, Y'shtola. I am aware that man bears part of the blame for the primals' existence.
221 220 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900300_MERLWYB 220 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900300_MERLWYB Nor am I ignorant of the Sahagin's reason for acting. They sought to secure a place to breed and multiply, that their kind might survive. Self-preservation, as you say. Nor am I ignorant of the Sahagin's reason for acting. They sought to secure a place to breed and multiply, that their kind might survive. Self-preservation, as you say.
222 221 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900310_MERLWYB 221 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900310_MERLWYB But we have as much right to live and thrive as they. If our own survival is threatened, are we to lay down our arms and welcome oblivion? Nay. But we have as much right to live and thrive as they. If our own survival is threatened, are we to lay down our arms and welcome oblivion? Nay.
223 222 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900320_YSHTOLA 222 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900320_YSHTOLA And so you kill, that you might live. Yet if living is a right, then that right belongs to all peoples, be they men or beastmen. And so you kill, that you might live. Yet if living is a right, then that right belongs to all peoples, be they men or beastmen.
224 223 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900330_MERLWYB 223 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900330_MERLWYB I'll not deny your reasoning. But when a storm gathers, it falls to me to see my people safely through it. That is my duty, and I shall do it. I'll not deny your reasoning. But when a storm gathers, it falls to me to see my people safely through it. That is my duty, and I shall do it.
225 224 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900340_YSHTOLA 224 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900340_YSHTOLA As must we all, Admiral. Stay the course, then, but know that it will lead to no good end. As must we all, Admiral. Stay the course, then, but know that it will lead to no good end.
226 225 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900350_YUGIRI 225 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900350_YUGIRI Man has ever put himself first and foremost. Man has ever put himself first and foremost.
227 226 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900360_YUGIRI 226 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900360_YUGIRI To justify his actions, he clads himself in the armor of righteousness─though it be a fancy of his own making. In this, mayhap the Garleans and we Domans are not so different... To justify his actions, he clads himself in the armor of righteousness─though it be a fancy of his own making. In this, mayhap the Garleans and we Domans are not so different...
228 227 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900370_MERLWYB 227 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900370_MERLWYB Eorzea has become as a raging sea. If we are to keep our heads above the waves, we cannot scruple to drown the man next to us. Eorzea has become as a raging sea. If we are to keep our heads above the waves, we cannot scruple to drown the man next to us.
229 228 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900380_MERLWYB 228 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_900380_MERLWYB When hopes of coexistence founder, strength must determine who has the greater right to live. When hopes of coexistence founder, strength must determine who has the greater right to live.
230 229 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00010_MINFILIA 229 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00010_MINFILIA I have been reflecting upon the events which took place during our visit to Vylbrand. I have been reflecting upon the events which took place during our visit to Vylbrand.
231 230 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00020_MINFILIA 230 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00020_MINFILIA If you have a moment, I would share my conclusions with you. Please bear with me. If you have a moment, I would share my conclusions with you. Please bear with me.
232 231 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00030_MINFILIA 231 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00030_MINFILIA When the Sahagin elder summoned Leviathan, he employed the power we have come to know as the Echo. When the Sahagin elder summoned Leviathan, he employed the power we have come to know as the Echo.
233 232 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00040_MINFILIA 232 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00040_MINFILIA Though I cannot well explain the how of it, it would seem he became immortal in so doing. Though I cannot well explain the how of it, it would seem he became immortal in so doing.
234 233 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00050_MINFILIA 233 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00050_MINFILIA When the Admiral subsequently slew him, his spirit emerged from his lifeless flesh, a consciousness shorn of physical form. When the Admiral subsequently slew him, his spirit emerged from his lifeless flesh, a consciousness shorn of physical form.
235 234 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00060_MINFILIA 234 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00060_MINFILIA Thus transfigured, he took up residence in the body of his minion with the ease of a man donning a favorite glove. Thus transfigured, he took up residence in the body of his minion with the ease of a man donning a favorite glove.
236 235 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00070_MINFILIA 235 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00070_MINFILIA Long have I known that the Echo allows one to pass through the walls of a man's soul. Long have I known that the Echo allows one to pass through the walls of a man's soul.
237 236 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00080_MINFILIA 236 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00080_MINFILIA But never did I imagine that it could free us from our own flesh, nor less that our souls could then occupy the next corporeal vessel to take our fancy. But never did I imagine that it could free us from our own flesh, nor less that our souls could then occupy the next corporeal vessel to take our fancy.
238 237 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00090_MINFILIA 237 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00090_MINFILIA It was of this that Elidibus spoke─an existence which knows neither cessation nor oblivion. It was of this that Elidibus spoke─an existence which knows neither cessation nor oblivion.
239 238 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00100_MINFILIA 238 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00100_MINFILIA And yet, though the Sahagin had mastered his gift and thereby become immortal, he was by no means invulnerable. And yet, though the Sahagin had mastered his gift and thereby become immortal, he was by no means invulnerable.
240 239 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00110_MINFILIA 239 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00110_MINFILIA As we both bore witness, he was ultimately absorbed into Leviathan. As we both bore witness, he was ultimately absorbed into Leviathan.
241 240 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00120_MINFILIA 240 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00120_MINFILIA And the import of this observation? If the Ascians' mode of existence is indeed the same, it can be inferred that they, too, are not invulnerable─that they <Emphasis>can</Emphasis> be destroyed. And the import of this observation? If the Ascians' mode of existence is indeed the same, it can be inferred that they, too, are not invulnerable─that they *can* be destroyed.
242 241 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00130_MINFILIA 241 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00130_MINFILIA There exists a legend which tells of souls who are reborn upon the cusp of each Umbral Calamity, that they might stay the encroaching Darkness. There exists a legend which tells of souls who are reborn upon the cusp of each Umbral Calamity, that they might stay the encroaching Darkness.
243 242 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00140_MINFILIA 242 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00140_MINFILIA To most, it is but a faerie tale, yet recent events have given me cause to wonder: could the legend in fact refer to the Echo? To most, it is but a faerie tale, yet recent events have given me cause to wonder: could the legend in fact refer to the Echo?
244 243 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00150_MINFILIA 243 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00150_MINFILIA Much and more yet remains unknown, but I am confident that all will become clear in time. Much and more yet remains unknown, but I am confident that all will become clear in time.
245 244 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00160_MINFILIA 244 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00160_MINFILIA For the present, however, what matters is that the key to defeating the Ascians may at last be within sight. For the present, however, what matters is that the key to defeating the Ascians may at last be within sight.
246 245 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00170_MINFILIA 245 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00170_MINFILIA With Urianger's aid, it is my hope that I shall fathom this matter ere long. With Urianger's aid, it is my hope that I shall fathom this matter ere long.
247 246 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00180_MINFILIA 246 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00180_MINFILIA Ah! I was just about to send for you, my friend. ...Is aught amiss? Ah! I was just about to send for you, my friend. ...Is aught amiss?
248 247 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00190_URIANGER 247 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00190_URIANGER Grave tidings from the Sharlayan motherland, my lady. Grave tidings from the Sharlayan motherland, my lady.
249 248 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00200_URIANGER 248 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00200_URIANGER It doth concern our distant allies, the Students of Baldesion. It doth concern our distant allies, the Students of Baldesion.
250 249 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00210_MINFILIA 249 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00210_MINFILIA What of them? What of them?
251 250 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00220_URIANGER 250 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00220_URIANGER My lady...the Isle of Val, which for many years hath been the order's home, is no more. My lady...the Isle of Val, which for many years hath been the order's home, is no more.
252 251 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00230_MINFILIA 251 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00230_MINFILIA No more? Whatever do you mean? No more? Whatever do you mean?
253 252 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00240_URIANGER 252 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00240_URIANGER I relate only that which hath been conveyed unto me by our agents. An aetheric wave of the highest magnitude was recorded in the region. Soon thereafter, 'twas observed that the isle had ceased to be. I relate only that which hath been conveyed unto me by our agents. An aetheric wave of the highest magnitude was recorded in the region. Soon thereafter, 'twas observed that the isle had ceased to be.
254 253 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00250_URIANGER 253 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00250_URIANGER 'Tis postulated that a magick was evoked, like in power to Ultima. 'Tis postulated that a magick was evoked, like in power to Ultima.
255 254 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00260_MINFILIA 254 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_A00260_MINFILIA Twelve preserve... Twelve preserve...
256 255 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00010_LOLORITO 255 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00010_LOLORITO If there are no other matters, I move that today's meeting be adjourned. If there are no other matters, I move that today's meeting be adjourned.
257 256 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00020_FOLLOWEROFTELEDJI 256 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00020_FOLLOWEROFTELEDJI It is done, my lord. It is done, my lord.
258 257 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00030_FOLLOWEROFTELEDJI 257 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00030_FOLLOWEROFTELEDJI I... <cough> F-Forgive my impertinence, my lord, but these orders... I am uncertain as to what end they serve. I... <cough> F-Forgive my impertinence, my lord, but these orders... I am uncertain as to what end they serve.
259 258 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00040_TELEDJIADELEDJI 258 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_B00040_TELEDJIADELEDJI Revolution. Revolution.
260 259 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_C00010_GILGAMESH 259 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_C00010_GILGAMESH Um. Well, then! Um. Well, then!
261 260 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_C00020_GILGAMESH 260 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02200_C00020_GILGAMESH That's enough of a beating for now! That's enough of a beating for now!
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