ffxiv-datamining/csv/cut_scene/060/VoiceMan_06004.csv

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4	0	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000010_VOICEGUIDE	(-Allagan Console-)Biometric authentication complete. Please state your business.
5	1	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000020_VOICEGUIDE	(-Allagan Console-)Acknowledged. Reinitializing Syrcus Tower systems. Searching for “Elidibus” entity...
6	2	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000030_VOICEGUIDE	(-Allagan Console-)Target located in subterranean core power accumulator. Projecting image.
7	3	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000040_ELIDIBUS	My home... My friends... No more than a dream...
8	4	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000050_ELIDIBUS	You... Why have you awakened me?
9	5	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000060_ELIDIBUS	I no longer sense those places beyond...or Lord Zodiark. You must explain all.
10	6	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000070_ELIDIBUS	So. He is fallen, and my brethren's souls returned to the star...
11	7	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000080_ELIDIBUS	The doom we sacrificed so much to prevent is come again. Old burdens, now yours to bear.
12	8	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000090_ELIDIBUS	But...if this is Fandaniel's design, then I, as Elidibus, have a duty to fulfill.
13	9	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000100_ELIDIBUS	Your unsolicited act has restored to me some few memories of the Convocation.
14	10	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000110_ELIDIBUS	Such knowledge as I have, I will share.
15	11	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q1_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
16	12	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A1_000_001_NONE_VOICE	Thank you.
17	13	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A1_000_002_NONE_VOICE	I'm sorry...
18	14	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000120_ELIDIBUS	I do this not for you. I merely perform my duty, as I have ever done.
19	15	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000130_ELIDIBUS	Why apologize for receiving a favor of the defeated? If it sits ill, consider it payment for freeing Lord Zodiark from servitude.
20	16	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000140_ELIDIBUS	Where to begin... Ah. The end. Your understanding of what caused the Final Days is consistent with our own.
21	17	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000150_ELIDIBUS	The decay first took root where the currents were weakest. Yes...a conclusion drawn by him. Fandaniel.
22	18	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000160_ELIDIBUS	Not the him of here and now, but as I knew him. Long, long ago...
23	19	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000170_ELIDIBUS	Having shed light upon the phenomenon, he dedicated himself to devising a countermeasure.
24	20	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000180_ELIDIBUS	Were it not for his knowledge of the celestial, we would never have made the connection─and thence forestalled the Final Days.
25	21	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000190_ELIDIBUS	And though he inherited that noble soul...how different, this last incarnation. So consumed by self-loathing and hate.
26	22	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000200_ELIDIBUS	...Elpis? Yes...the name is familiar to me.
27	23	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000210_ELIDIBUS	Yet I know it not as a flower, but a place.
28	24	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000220_ELIDIBUS	A testing facility for determining which of our creations were fit to be released into the world.
29	25	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000230_ELIDIBUS	Many worked there. And before joining the Convocation and assuming the title of Fandaniel, he was their chief...
30	26	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000240_ELIDIBUS	He...was Hermes...
31	27	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000250_ELIDIBUS	That...is all I know.
32	28	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000260_ELIDIBUS	The crystals tell little of the lives the Fourteen led prior to their induction.
33	29	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000270_ELIDIBUS	Elpis itself would tell even less. Nary a ruin has survived─
34	30	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000280_ELIDIBUS	Wait... I saw you there. In Elpis.
35	31	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000290_ELIDIBUS	No...I did not...but I did. I did. A lingering trace of impossibility...
36	32	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000300_ELIDIBUS	And a truth...that fills my heart...
37	33	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000310_ELIDIBUS	My memories remain clouded, I fear. However...they have revealed to me one possible course.
38	34	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000320_ELIDIBUS	You must travel to Elpis─to the time when Hermes served as its chief.
39	35	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000330_ELIDIBUS	In glimpsing the Exarch's memories, not only did I make his summoning magick mine own─I also mastered the workings of this tower.
40	36	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000340_ELIDIBUS	Which, having absorbed my empowered essence, now harbors an abundance of energy.
41	37	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000350_ELIDIBUS	As such, I believe I can deliver you unto the past. Unto that place and that precise moment.
42	38	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000360_ELIDIBUS	Given the eons that must be traversed, the gateway will not be fully formed.
43	39	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000370_ELIDIBUS	Your form will be less tangible still than those Warriors of Light I had summoned.
44	40	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000380_ELIDIBUS	In all likelihood, none will be able to see or hear you.
45	41	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000390_ELIDIBUS	Yet even should you manage to interact with others, you will be unable to effect meaningful change.
46	42	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000400_ELIDIBUS	For the reality you wish to save─the reality to which you must return─exists as a result of the Final Days.
47	43	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000410_ELIDIBUS	You cannot reshape the past to undo the tragedies of the present. Cannot unmake the sorrow and suffering fated to come.
48	44	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000420_ELIDIBUS	In full knowledge of this, will you still entrust your life to your foe and make the journey?
49	45	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000430_ELIDIBUS	Very well. I shall cast you unto the river of time. Let this be my final act.
50	46	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000440_ELIDIBUS	You must input the commands. I no longer have the authority.
51	47	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000450_ELIDIBUS	First, you must reconfigure the systems, that the tower's aether may be channeled for the magick...
52	48	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000460_ELIDIBUS	The preparations are complete. The gateway will soon open. Return at once to the Ocular.
53	49	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000470_ELIDIBUS	All appears to be in order. The aether flows unimpeded.
54	50	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000480_ELIDIBUS	The magick should consume every last mote of my essence.
55	51	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000490_ELIDIBUS	Why are you surprised? Did I not say that this will be my final act?
56	52	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000500_ELIDIBUS	Lord Zodiark is no more. There is nothing for me here.
57	53	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000510_ELIDIBUS	The ones I love and long to see again are waiting. In that promised land, beyond memory and dream...
58	54	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000520_ELIDIBUS	Now go, Warrior of Light. Go...and do not look back.
59	55	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000530_ELIDIBUS	Well, Hydaelyn. I take my leave of You. Yours is the mantle of the last of us.
60	56	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000540_ELIDIBUS	May You have...the joy of it. The burden...and the solitude.
61	57	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000550_ELIDIBUS	It falls to You now─You and Your champion─to save our star.
62	58	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000560_HYTHLODAEUS	(-???-)And here we are. Elpis.
63	59	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000570_PROPYLAIONSTAFF	Well, well, how rare to receive you in person. To what do we owe the honor?
64	60	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000580_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)Oh, just a few odd tasks. We'll be here a while.
65	61	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000590_PROPYLAIONSTAFF	You're welcome to stay as long as you see fit, of course. As a matter of procedure, however, I must ask that you kindly remove your masks.
66	62	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000600_EMETSELCH	(-Familiar Voice-)Come now, is this truly necessary? Surely you can tell who we are...
67	63	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000610_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)Who you are, perhaps, but I am far less infamous. Regardless, if we do not follow protocol, 'tis our hosts who would be held accountable. So please, do favor us with your handsome face.
68	64	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000620_EMETSELCH	No subtitles, report if displayed.
69	65	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000630_EMETSELCH	(-Man with a Familiar Voice-)...Satisfied?
70	66	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000640_PROPYLAIONSTAFF	I thank you for your cooperation. You are free to go about your business.
71	67	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000650_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)By the by...you see it too, yes?
72	68	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000660_EMETSELCH	(-Man with a Familiar Voice-)I haven't the foggiest what you're talking about.
73	69	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000670_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)Hmm? That's odd.
74	70	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000680_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)It's right here. A bit thin in the aether, but there's no mistaking it─the color of its soul is almost identical to Azem's.
75	71	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000690_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)Do you suppose he created it? Rather unusual for a familiar to have a soul, though...
76	72	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000700_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)Do you suppose she created it? Rather unusual for a familiar to have a soul, though...
77	73	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000710_EMETSELCH	(-Man with a Familiar Voice-)Don't ask me. All I know is that it's trouble─doubly so if it's <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> spitting image.
78	74	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000720_EMETSELCH	(-Man with a Familiar Voice-)So let's leave it be. Come, now.
79	75	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000730_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)It's trying to say something...but it's literally too intangible to form words.
80	76	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000740_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)Why don't you give it some aether? Spare a snifter of your bounteous reserves.
81	77	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000750_EMETSELCH	(-Man with a Familiar Voice-)Who do you take me for?
82	78	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000760_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)Why, a dear friend, of course! One who wouldn't let acts of kindness─such as my accompanying him on errands to far-flung outposts─go unrewarded.
83	79	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000770_EMETSELCH	No subtitles, report if displayed.
84	80	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000780_EMETSELCH	(-Man with a Familiar Voice-)I suggest you close your eyes, or this may be...unpleasant.
85	81	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000790_EMETSELCH	(-Man with a Familiar Voice-)You may open your eyes.
86	82	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000800_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)Still a touch small, don't you think?
87	83	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000810_EMETSELCH	(-Man with a Familiar Voice-)The size befits its proportions. Besides, bigger is not necessarily better.
88	84	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000820_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)I will defer to your experience.
89	85	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000830_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)Quite large, don't you think?
90	86	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000840_EMETSELCH	(-Man with a Familiar Voice-)The size befits its proportions. Though I personally wouldn't be averse to smaller.
91	87	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000850_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)No, no, this will suffice, I'm sure.
92	88	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000860_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)Oh, you even adjusted its size.
93	89	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000870_EMETSELCH	(-Man with a Familiar Voice-)The better to indulge your whim. This way it will be easier to communicate.
94	90	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000880_HYTHLODAEUS	(-Familiar Stranger-)How very thoughtful of you. And may I applaud your artful reinforcement.
95	91	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000890_HYTHLODAEUS	Without further ado, then... Greetings! I am Hythlodaeus, chief of the Bureau of the Architect.
96	92	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000900_HYTHLODAEUS	Sulking beside me is the most honorable Emet-Selch of the Convocation of Fourteen.
97	93	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000910_HYTHLODAEUS	And how might we address you, my new friend?
98	94	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000920_HYTHLODAEUS	A fine name. And I'm pleased to see you understand our words.
99	95	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000930_HYTHLODAEUS	So tell us, whence have you come? The thinness of your essence suggests you weren't created here...
100	96	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000940_HYTHLODAEUS	You do not know...or cannot say? Hmm. Allow me to ask a different question, then.
101	97	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000950_HYTHLODAEUS	What brings you here?
102	98	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q2_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
103	99	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A2_000_001_NONE_VOICE	I seek a man named Hermes.
104	100	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A2_000_002_NONE_VOICE	I want to learn about Elpis.
105	101	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000960_HYTHLODAEUS	Well now, the same as us...
106	102	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000970_HYTHLODAEUS	Perhaps Azem wished to come too, but had to settle for a familiar.
107	103	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000980_EMETSELCH	If <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> truly wished to be here, then <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> would be.
108	104	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_000990_HYTHLODAEUS	Right you are...
109	105	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001000_HYTHLODAEUS	My apologies if we've given offense. The two of us can discern the color of souls, you see, and yours happens to resemble that of a friend.
110	106	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001010_HYTHLODAEUS	And with your purpose matching our own besides, we jumped to a hasty conclusion.
111	107	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001020_HYTHLODAEUS	We are here to speak with Hermes, the chief overseer of this facility, which we also intend to tour in order to gain greater insight into the man's work.
112	108	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001030_HYTHLODAEUS	“We,” I say, though this is Emet-Selch's charge. I am here only to serve as his guide.
113	109	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001040_HYTHLODAEUS	And I should be happy to serve as yours as well─by way of an apology for the misunderstanding.
114	110	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001050_EMETSELCH	Wait, are you suggesting that we bring it along on official business? This thing we know next to nothing about?
115	111	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001060_HYTHLODAEUS	If you harbor suspicions, better to keep it close than leave it to its own devices, wouldn't you agree?
116	112	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001070_HYTHLODAEUS	Besides, having a mysterious life-form in tow is the norm rather than the exception here.
117	113	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001080_HYTHLODAEUS	Welcome, my friends, to the testing ground of creation at heavens' edge: Elpis!
118	114	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001090_VENAS	(-???-)This presence...
119	115	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001100_METEION	(-???-)Hermes! Visitors─we have visitors!
120	116	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001110_EMETSELCH	What secrets are you hiding, I wonder...
121	117	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001120_HERMES	You are...?
122	118	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001130_METEION	No subtitles, report if displayed.
123	119	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001135_METEION	No subtitles, report if displayed.
124	120	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001140_METEION	(-Bewinged Girl-)Different! You're different too!
125	121	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001150_METEION	(-Bewinged Girl-)You and me. We're alike. Friends. I want to be─
126	122	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001160_METEION	(-Bewinged Girl-)Wait... Please...wait...
127	123	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001170_METEION	(-Bewinged Girl-)Greetings and salutations! Can you hear me?
128	124	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001180_METEION	(-Bewinged Girl-)Do not be alarmed─I mean you no harm. I wish only to hear your words, share your feelings, and know your thoughts.
129	125	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001190_METEION	(-Bewinged Girl-)May we please be friends?
130	126	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001200_METEION	(-Bewinged Girl-)May we please...be friends!
131	127	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001210_HYTHLODAEUS	Ah, I see you found him.
132	128	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001220_HERMES	Hythlodaeus... It's been a while. Too long, I think.
133	129	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001230_HYTHLODAEUS	Too long indeed for close collaborators. On this blessed occasion, I bring not only myself, but others who long to speak with you.
134	130	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001240_HERMES	You are of the Convocation.
135	131	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001250_EMETSELCH	Emet-Selch, at your service. Do I have the honor of addressing Hermes, chief overseer of Elpis?
136	132	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001260_HERMES	You do. You have traveled far for it.
137	133	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001270_EMETSELCH	Given your facility's purpose, its remote location is something of a necessity. Would that I didn't have to rely upon a guide...
138	134	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001280_HYTHLODAEUS	You wound me. Have I not ever been an attentive and helpful friend?
139	135	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001290_HYTHLODAEUS	But moving along to more agreeable company, this one we chanced to...
140	136	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001300_HYTHLODAEUS	...Well, you certainly have her attention. Is she one of yours, Hermes?
141	137	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001310_HERMES	Her name is Meteion. It means shooting star.
142	138	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001320_HYTHLODAEUS	If I may make an observation, her aether is terribly thin. I fear she might dissipate at any moment.
143	139	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001330_HYTHLODAEUS	Nor do I believe you've made a submission to the bureau. I would remember such a concept if you had.
144	140	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001340_HERMES	I haven't, as you say. I judged it too early. She's a pet project of mine─still undergoing preliminary testing.
145	141	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001350_HERMES	But rest assured that I will attend in person ere long.
146	142	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001360_HYTHLODAEUS	Very well. Being an authority on flying life-forms, I appreciate that you are exacting in your work.
147	143	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001370_HYTHLODAEUS	I shall look forward to your submission.
148	144	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001380_EMETSELCH	If we have finished with the perfunctory chitchat, I would discuss official matters.
149	145	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001390_EMETSELCH	By my coming, I trust you already anticipate the subject.
150	146	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001400_HERMES	I have an inkling, yes. Please wait at the main building yonder.
151	147	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001410_HERMES	I shall join you as soon as I've returned these creatures to their homes.
152	148	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001415_HERMES	No subtitles, report if displayed.
153	149	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001420_METEION	What's wrong, Hermes?
154	150	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001430_HERMES	An ambystoma is missing...
155	151	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001440_HYTHLODAEUS	Hm, I may have found it. A creature with the selfsame aether as those there, nestled in the boughs of a tree outside the grounds.
156	152	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001450_EMETSELCH	You're saying they can climb? With their sorry excuses for limbs?
157	153	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001460_HERMES	The “fashion” has been to imbue aquatic creatures with the power of flight, ever since the Words of Mitron created a sky-swimming fish...
158	154	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001470_HERMES	The ambystomas too can fly, if only slightly, and they could conceivably climb a tree. Whether they can come down safely, however... Excuse me.
159	155	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001480_METEION	I'll help too!
160	156	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001490_EMETSELCH	And what are we supposed to do with this lot?
161	157	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001500_HYTHLODAEUS	May I suggest we split up?
162	158	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001510_HYTHLODAEUS	If you would be so good as to assist Hermes, Emet-Selch and I shall keep an eye on these adorable creations in the meantime.
163	159	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001520_EMETSELCH	This appears to be the place.
164	160	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001530_EMETSELCH	And here is where we part ways.
165	161	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001540_EMETSELCH	We will be discussing highly sensitive affairs. Only a select few may be privy to such knowledge, and that does not include someone who cannot or will not divulge their origins.
166	162	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001550_EMETSELCH	What? Will I have to remove you by force?
167	163	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q3_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
168	164	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A3_000_001_NONE_VOICE	I have important things to say to him as well.
169	165	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A3_000_002_NONE_VOICE	There are reasons I cannot speak freely.
170	166	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001560_EMETSELCH	Yes, I'm sure your business with Hermes is quite pressing. You may speak with him to your heart's content─after ours is concluded.
171	167	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001570_EMETSELCH	Let's hear them, then. These reasons of yours. Who knows─if I deem your mysterious cause worthy, I may even be inclined to offer my assistance.
172	168	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001580_HERMES	I do not object to his attendance.
173	169	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001590_HERMES	I do not object to her attendance.
174	170	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001600_EMETSELCH	Hermes... This is highly irregular.
175	171	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001610_HERMES	Perhaps, but I believe <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> can be trusted. Meteion would not have taken to <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>him</If> so quickly otherwise.
176	172	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001620_HERMES	Moreover...the presence of a third party may help me to maintain composure.
177	173	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001630_EMETSELCH	No subtitles, report if displayed.
178	174	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001640_EMETSELCH	As you wish, then.
179	175	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001650_EMETSELCH	Behave yourself, do you hear?
180	176	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001660_HERMES	So, it's finally happened, then.
181	177	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001670_EMETSELCH	Aye. Fandaniel has declared his intention to step down, and named you as his preferred successor.
182	178	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001680_EMETSELCH	In recognition of your knowledge and your works, the Convocation is giving the recommendation due consideration.
183	179	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001690_EMETSELCH	As one who does not know you personally, I am to use my impartial eye to take your measure.
184	180	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001700_EMETSELCH	And above all else, to ascertain your disposition towards the invitation.
185	181	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001710_EMETSELCH	I understand that you and Fandaniel are close. He himself was once chief overseer of Elpis, after all.
186	182	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001720_EMETSELCH	I should not be surprised if you knew before anyone else that he wished to relinquish his office.
187	183	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001730_HERMES	I did... He told me that, when he fulfilled his purpose, he wished to pass the torch to me.
188	184	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001740_EMETSELCH	A torch you seem none too pleased to accept. Are you so averse to serving on the Convocation?
189	185	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001750_HERMES	No, it's not that...
190	186	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001760_HERMES	For a humble researcher like myself to even be considered...is an honor beyond words.
191	187	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001770_HERMES	No, what troubles me─what I struggle to come to terms with─is the very fact that Fandaniel is stepping down.
192	188	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001780_HERMES	Does this not mean that he will return to the star?
193	189	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001790_EMETSELCH	Of his own volition, yes. Like so many others have before him.
194	190	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001800_METEION	Return to the star? Does that mean...die?
195	191	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001810_HYTHLODAEUS	Well now, that's not a word I hear often... Is that what you say here in Elpis?
196	192	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001820_HYTHLODAEUS	Mankind is the life of Etheirys. Each of us a drop of blood flowing through its veins, bearing sustenance.
197	193	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001830_HYTHLODAEUS	In our finite time upon it, 'tis our duty to make it a better place, that all who call it home now and in future may abide in happiness.
198	194	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001840_HYTHLODAEUS	To that end, we have dedicated ourselves to the pursuit of enlightened creation. And by our efforts did we transform this once-untamed wilderness into the peaceful paradise you enjoy today.
199	195	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001850_HYTHLODAEUS	To return to the star whence we came is a privilege afforded to we who have so loved and nurtured it.
200	196	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001860_HYTHLODAEUS	A choice embraced by those who have lived their lives to the fullest, in service to our world.
201	197	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001870_HYTHLODAEUS	And when they depart upon this journey, it is beautiful. Always.
202	198	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001880_EMETSELCH	The Fourteen are no exception. 'Tis believed no occasion is more felicitous than the fulfillment of one's duty.
203	199	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001890_EMETSELCH	Our office becomes our lives, and to retire is to return. Or so the majority of us hold. Some few have elected to eschew custom.
204	200	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001900_EMETSELCH	Mayhap you feel Fandaniel's deeds do not warrant his return.
205	201	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001910_EMETSELCH	Yet you should know his accomplishments as well as any. During his time, he conceived of countless outstanding concepts.
206	202	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001920_EMETSELCH	And channeling the wealth of experience he attained here in Elpis, he brought forth many new specimens.
207	203	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001930_HERMES	I know of all this, I do...
208	204	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001940_HERMES	It's just...I cannot fathom why someone so great and wise, who could still do so much good, would want to end it all...
209	205	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001950_HERMES	Oh no, I've made her upset...
210	206	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001960_HERMES	Forgive me─I know I requested your presence. Might I trouble you to take Meteion outside? A change of scenery would do her good.
211	207	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001970_HERMES	Amazing, is it not? The ampelos─one of our newest subjects.
212	208	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001980_HERMES	So, how are we coming along?
213	209	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_001990_METEION	This place is Elpis! Those flowers, Elpis!
214	210	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002000_METEION	Entelechies! Like me!
215	211	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002010_HERMES	They are a product of Elpis and so named for their birthplace.
216	212	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002020_HERMES	A happy accident born of the hands of a former researcher who loved beautiful blossoms.
217	213	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002030_HERMES	Unique for how they change color to reflect the emotional state of those nearby.
218	214	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002040_HERMES	Though be it here or elsewhere, they are seldom seen in any hue save purest white...
219	215	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002050_HYTHLODAEUS	Reflect the emotional state, you say? By what means do they achieve this?
220	216	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002060_HERMES	In creation, there exists an energy wholly apart from aether. One driven by emotions.
221	217	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002070_HERMES	In like manner to how we manipulate aether, this flower is subject to the influence of said energy.
222	218	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002080_HERMES	While it has no will of its own, it is sensitive to the prevailing emotion in the vicinity, and reacts by altering its color and vibrancy.
223	219	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002090_NIDHANA	(-Nidhana-)Akasa? It is one of the unseen energies defined by Hannish alchemical theory. Though a gross oversimplification, some describe it as an essence influenced by feelings.
224	220	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002100_HERMES	Akasa... Though I'm not familiar with the term, your description suggests it is the selfsame energy.
225	221	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002110_HERMES	Dynamis, we call it.
226	222	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002120_HERMES	And those entities like the Elpis flower, that have the ability to interact with this energy, converting emotions into tangible phenomena...
227	223	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002130_HERMES	...Are entelechies.
228	224	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002140_METEION	That's me, that's me! An entelechy!
229	225	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002150_HERMES	That you are, my dear. And no ordinary one at that, but the first possessed of free will.
230	226	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002160_EMETSELCH	Wait. A form of energy other than aether? Dynamis?
231	227	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002170_EMETSELCH	I've never heard of such a thing.
232	228	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002180_HERMES	Hardly surprising. Dynamis cannot be seen, much less felt.
233	229	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002190_HERMES	And though its existence has long been theorized, we had no proof until the flower's serendipitous creation.
234	230	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002200_HERMES	What's more, dynamis is far weaker than aether. Under normal circumstances, its effects are drowned out by the latter.
235	231	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002210_HERMES	On account of which, beings comprised of and reliant upon aether, like you and I, are unable to make practical use of dynamis.
236	232	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002220_HERMES	'Tis a truly esoteric thing, known to but a select few scholars.
237	233	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002230_EMETSELCH	Intriguing... Then given the limitations you described, why create Meteion?
238	234	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002240_HERMES	Our star, Etheirys, is especially rich in aether. So much so that its name is derived from it.
239	235	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002250_HERMES	However, when we consider all energy in existence, here and in the vast space beyond, dynamis may account for as much as sixty-eight point three percent.
240	236	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002260_HERMES	The more abundant form by far. Were we able to control it, we could open the door to limitless possibilities.
241	237	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002270_HERMES	'Tis not unlike a gently flowing stream, unable to break through the dam of aether barring its path. But if we could imbue this stream with the vigor of a raging river...
242	238	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002280_HERMES	...Not that I have such grand ambitions.
243	239	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002290_HERMES	Nay, I merely wished to create a being that could traverse the great expanse.
244	240	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002300_HERMES	The relative scarcity of aether beyond the bounds of this star was a concern, and so I looked to another source of energy by necessity.
245	241	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002310_HYTHLODAEUS	That being dynamis. No wonder her aether is so thin.
246	242	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002320_HERMES	Precisely.
247	243	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002330_METEION	Yours is thin too. Like an entelechy. Like me.
248	244	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002340_METEION	So...are we the same? Entelechies?
249	245	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q4_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
250	246	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A4_000_001_NONE_VOICE	Sure, I don't see why I couldn't be one.
251	247	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A4_000_002_NONE_VOICE	Well, I <Emphasis>have</Emphasis> been known to transcend my limits with nothing but determination.
252	248	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A4_000_003_NONE_VOICE	If I'm thin, it's because Emet-Selch didn't do a proper job.
253	249	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002350_EMETSELCH	I think not. Your nature remains a mystery, but ere I reinforced you, you appeared to be little more than a common familiar─and a faded one at that.
254	250	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002360_EMETSELCH	That sounds more akin to the desperate flailings of a wild beast when facing imminent death.
255	251	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002370_EMETSELCH	Well, aren't we ungrateful? Mayhap I should revert you to the pathetic, faded thing you were.
256	252	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002380_HERMES	A deficit of aether alone does not an entelechy make. It would, however, make it easier for you to interact with dynamis.
257	253	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002390_HERMES	And limited though its influence may be, this quality could prove the difference between victory and defeat. You'd do well not to underestimate it.
258	254	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002400_HERMES	Oh dear, I'd forgotten about the poor fellow. You must excuse me a moment while I go and verify a few more things.
259	255	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002410_EMETSELCH	No, no, no, you are not foisting this nonsense on me!
260	256	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002420_HERMES	I'm given to understand you have the power to help the charybdis─and should be quite willing to do so.
261	257	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002430_HERMES	And so I appeal to your better nature, most benevolent Emet-Selch. Please teach it to fly!
262	258	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002440_METEION	Or else Hermes will transform! Right now!
263	259	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002450_HYTHLODAEUS	Now, now, there's no need to go quite that far. Altruism is its own reward, as I'm sure he would agree.
264	260	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002460_EMETSELCH	Oh would he now? And who contrived to put me in this position, pray tell?
265	261	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002470_HYTHLODAEUS	Nothing so devious. I merely suggested a possible course of action.
266	262	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002480_METEION	Please, Emet-Selch! Please!
267	263	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002490_EMETSELCH	No subtitles, report if displayed.
268	264	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002500_EMETSELCH	I did not come all this way to play nursemaid to your creations. I'd thank you to remember this favor...and let it be the last.
269	265	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002510_EMETSELCH	I will aid it once it has taken to the air. It falls to you to shepherd it skyward.
270	266	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002520_HYTHLODAEUS	Well, let's relax and enjoy the spectacle, shall we?
271	267	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002530_HYTHLODAEUS	You were wondering why Emet-Selch joined the Convocation.
272	268	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002540_HYTHLODAEUS	Truth be told, he wasn't the first choice for the office. I was─on the strength of my ability to see aether.
273	269	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002550_HYTHLODAEUS	But I declined the offer. For though my vision is exceptional, I am pedestrian in all other aspects. Worse, even.
274	270	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002560_HYTHLODAEUS	Quite abysmal when it comes to manipulating aether, for example. Couldn't transform even if I had a mind to do so.
275	271	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002570_HYTHLODAEUS	What good is the ability to perceive a problem if one cannot act to address it?
276	272	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002580_HYTHLODAEUS	Emet-Selch has no such shortcomings. He excels in vision and manipulation both─the latter to an extraordinary degree.
277	273	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002590_HYTHLODAEUS	If there is a mage more powerful, I do not know of them.
278	274	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002600_HYTHLODAEUS	Thus did I recommend him for the office in my stead. And I wasn't the only one. Far from it.
279	275	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002610_HYTHLODAEUS	Countless others vouched for his skill and character. People the world over, to whom he had previously lent a helping hand.
280	276	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002620_HYTHLODAEUS	Oh, how surprised he was. Claimed he hadn't done anything remarkable for anyone. Modest to a fault.
281	277	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002630_HYTHLODAEUS	He deserved every bit of acclaim he received. Yet he may well have gone unappreciated were it not for a mutual friend.
282	278	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002640_HYTHLODAEUS	A singular soul who can't help but involve <If(PlayerParameter(4))>herself<Else/>himself</If> in the business of others. Where <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> walks, excitement is certain to follow.
283	279	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002650_HYTHLODAEUS	<If(PlayerParameter(4))>Her<Else/>His</If> antics irritate Emet-Selch to no end, but much of his grumbling stems from genuine concern.
284	280	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002660_HYTHLODAEUS	When our friend calls, he never fails to answer and lend his talents.
285	281	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002670_HYTHLODAEUS	And in the course of doing so, he himself came to be recognized and respected by those around him.
286	282	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002680_HYTHLODAEUS	They are truly remarkable individuals, and I'm proud to call them friends.
287	283	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002690_HYTHLODAEUS	To help them realize their dreams─this will be my greatest contribution to our world.
288	284	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002700_HYTHLODAEUS	And when they have fulfilled their respective purposes...
289	285	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002710_HYTHLODAEUS	So too shall I have fulfilled mine, and together we may return to the star.
290	286	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002720_HYTHLODAEUS	Look at me, spilling my innermost secrets. I can't seem to help it with you.
291	287	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002730_HYTHLODAEUS	I can only assume it is due to the color of your soul. I just don't understand how you can be so alike and yet so different.
292	288	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002740_METEION	Well done, my pet! Well done!
293	289	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002750_HYTHLODAEUS	Ah yes, I daresay the charybdis will be fine hereon.
294	290	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002760_HYTHLODAEUS	Why don't you go and signal to Emet-Selch. Let him know that his arduous task is at an end.
295	291	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002770_METEION	Hermes!
296	292	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002780_HERMES	Oh... You were waiting for me.
297	293	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002790_METEION	You've finished talking?
298	294	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002800_HERMES	Yes. We've come to a decision.
299	295	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002810_HERMES	My thanks for keeping Meteion company.
300	296	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002820_HERMES	Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus have already retired to their rooms.
301	297	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002830_HERMES	There is a room for you too, if you would follow me.
302	298	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002840_METEION	Wait! I want to show you something first.
303	299	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002850_HERMES	Elpis flowers...?
304	300	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002860_METEION	Go on!
305	301	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002870_HERMES	No subtitles, report if displayed.
306	302	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002880_METEION	You're not the only one, Hermes. Others feel sad too. You're not alone.
307	303	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002890_HERMES	I see Meteion has shared much with you.
308	304	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002900_HERMES	May we talk a moment?
309	305	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002910_HERMES	I do not think it wrong that we live for the star. That we strive to make it a better place.
310	306	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002920_HERMES	And yet, in carrying out my duties here, there are times when I am plagued by doubt.
311	307	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002930_HERMES	Do you recall what Hythlodaeus said, when we first spoke of my nomination?
312	308	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002940_HERMES	Death is the privilege of those who have fulfilled their purpose. A choice they embrace of their own free will. And when they depart, it is always beautiful.
313	309	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002950_HERMES	Perhaps it is...but only for man.
314	310	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002960_HERMES	Creations that he deems useless are discarded with nary a second thought.
315	311	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002970_HERMES	Some scarcely born into the world. Afforded a handful of breaths before life and potential are abruptly extinguished.
316	312	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002980_HERMES	We make an effort to spare them the pain. But they sense what awaits. Rage in anguish and cower in fear...and it is <Emphasis>not</Emphasis> beautiful.
317	313	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_002990_HERMES	Yet no one cares. No one.
318	314	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003000_HERMES	So fixated are we upon the duty that we do not pause to question the method.
319	315	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003010_HERMES	Pain and suffering... Confusion and despair... Writ plain in the eyes of those poor creatures.
320	316	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003020_HERMES	Yet no one sees. We turn a blind eye and carry on in blissful ignorance. Naught amiss, and always─always the blossoms shine pure and white.
321	317	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003030_HERMES	A contradiction so blatant I could scream. Want to scream. How can you all accept this...aberration!?
322	318	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003040_HERMES	Then I wonder...am <Emphasis>I</Emphasis> the aberration for thinking thus? And I am filled with dread...
323	319	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003050_HERMES	But now I know I'm not alone. Not the only one for whom the flowers weep.
324	320	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003060_HERMES	I won't ask what you thought as you kneeled beside the Elpis. Or if you only did it at Meteion's insistence.
325	321	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003070_HERMES	Nevertheless...I thank you.
326	322	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003080_HERMES	To know that you too have experienced suffering...is a comfort.
327	323	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q5_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
328	324	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A5_000_001_NONE_VOICE	Glad I could be of service.
329	325	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A5_000_002_NONE_VOICE	Let's have no more brooding, eh?
330	326	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A5_000_003_NONE_VOICE	Oh, I could tell you <Emphasis>all</Emphasis> about suffering.
331	327	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003090_HERMES	To so willingly lend an ear to ease my burden... You are a strange one.
332	328	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003100_HERMES	...Indeed. Difficult though it may be, I must endeavor to be strong like you.
333	329	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003110_HERMES	Lest you misunderstand, I derive no pleasure from your pain.
334	330	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003120_HERMES	It's just...the fact that you are still here, in spite of your suffering, gives me heart.
335	331	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003130_HERMES	The stars in the heavens... Know you what they are?
336	332	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003140_HERMES	Though it is too far to tell, each glittering light could be a world not unlike Etheirys. A world filled with life.
337	333	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003150_HERMES	So many stars, so many lives... For us, there may be no higher purpose than to live for our world, but what of the other living beings out there?
338	334	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003160_HERMES	What is it that gives <Emphasis>their</Emphasis> lives meaning? That drives them day after day after day?
339	335	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003170_HERMES	To pose that question to our undiscovered cousins, I created beings of dynamis, who can traverse the vast emptiness between the stars. Meteion and her sisters.
340	336	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003180_HERMES	Aye, sisters.
341	337	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003190_HERMES	She has a great many of them, and they have already departed on their journey. Traveling to one star, and then the next, in search of life.
342	338	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003200_HERMES	As one might expect, exploration on such a grand scale is rife with difficulties, and thus far I've naught to show for it.
343	339	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003210_HERMES	But I have faith that we will make some manner of discovery ere long.
344	340	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003220_HERMES	And when we do, I should be glad to share our findings with you, in gratitude for your kindness.
345	341	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003230_HERMES	...It's getting rather late. We had best find our beds. 'Twould not do for both of us to be sleep-deprived on the morrow.
346	342	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003240_HERMES	Come, Meteion! Let us head back.
347	343	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003250_METEION	All right!
348	344	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003260_HERMES	Now!
349	345	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003270_HERMES	Oh...
350	346	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003280_HERMES	Forgive me... Please forgive me...
351	347	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003290_HERMES	May you and your kin find peace...
352	348	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003300_HERMES	Wherever your souls may drift in the Underworld, may you find tranquil seas.
353	349	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003310_HERMES	Be not forgotten. In concept endure to reclaim form and one day live again.
354	350	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003320_HERMES	Serve not the star or any purpose save your own. Live again, if that be your desire.
355	351	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003330_HERMES	Hate, if that be your wont. We are worthy. But leave your suffering behind.
356	352	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003340_HERMES	Lay down your burdens. Be born anew. Fly high. Fly free.
357	353	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003350_EMETSELCH	Join the Convocation, Hermes.
358	354	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003360_EMETSELCH	You do not belong here.
359	355	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003370_HERMES	Leave to replace another─to be replaced? It changes nothing!
360	356	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003380_HERMES	Tell me! Do you think it right that we sacrifice all these lives for the sake of the star?
361	357	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003390_HERMES	And when the star has reached perfection─what then? If all who are satisfied choose to die, shall we all die in satisfaction!?
362	358	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003400_HERMES	...I do not know.
363	359	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003410_HERMES	Were I to take up the seat of Fandaniel, it would be tantamount to approving my predecessor's death.
364	360	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003420_HERMES	I do not know if it is right.
365	361	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003430_HERMES	And to be torn by such thoughts...I do not know if I am fit to represent mankind.
366	362	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003440_METEION	Hermes!
367	363	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003450_METEION	Please don't be angry... It hurts so...
368	364	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003460_HERMES	Forgive me.
369	365	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003470_HERMES	If you would still consider me in spite of everything, I beg some time to gather my thoughts.
370	366	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003480_HERMES	Meanwhile, Hythlodaeus, I fear I must trouble you to attend to the others.
371	367	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003490_HYTHLODAEUS	'Tis no trouble at all. Take as long as you require.
372	368	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003500_HERMES	And you, my friend. I pray you find that which you seek.
373	369	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003510_HYTHLODAEUS	I expect we have some few matters to discuss. Shall we return to the Twelve Wonders for a time?
374	370	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003520_EMETSELCH	Aye...
375	371	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003530_HYTHLODAEUS	I present to you Kallimelios Zephyros.
376	372	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003540_HYTHLODAEUS	Here you will find a number of testing facilities as well as the observation hub of Poieten Oikos.
377	373	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003550_HYTHLODAEUS	Right, then. Let's begin by─ ...Hm?
378	374	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003560_HYTHLODAEUS	Well, well, an oreias. How delightful.
379	375	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003570_EMETSELCH	And what, pray tell, is that...?
380	376	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003580_HYTHLODAEUS	Ah, that's a new species of shark. We approved the concept but a few days ago.
381	377	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003590_HYTHLODAEUS	Sharks are among the most popular sea creatures. Rare is the day when someone does not submit a new concept.
382	378	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003600_HYTHLODAEUS	At first, they were largely orthodox. Consideration given to such things as size and environmental impact. And then a whimsical someone thought to bestow it with flight. Another, superior intelligence. And then the floodgates burst. Concepts with multiple heads, or arms, or legs, or arms <Emphasis>and</Emphasis> legs...and so on and so forth. It was getting absurd. A part of me wanted to tell them to go away and find something else to create, but in the end, I couldn't deny their passion...and here we are.
383	379	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003610_EMETSELCH	No subtitles, report if displayed.
384	380	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003620_VENAS	No subtitles, report if displayed.
385	381	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003630_VENAS	(-Familiar Woman-)That was too close... Are you unharmed?
386	382	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003640_VENAS	(-Familiar Woman-)Well now, if it isn't a pair of familiar faces...
387	383	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003650_HYTHLODAEUS	Venat! That we should meet you here!
388	384	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003660_EMETSELCH	As I mentioned earlier, the better part of the Convocation holds that when we retire is when we return to the star.
389	385	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003670_EMETSELCH	Well, she is not among said majority. Even after stepping down, she carries on with her work.
390	386	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003680_EMETSELCH	Venat is her name, and she is the previous Azem.
391	387	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003690_VENAS	It has been a while, Hythlodaeus. You look well.
392	388	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003700_VENAS	Less so, Emet-Selch. I daresay the lines upon your brow have both deepened and doubled in number.
393	389	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003710_VENAS	A shame for one so young. You must make an effort to frown less often.
394	390	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003720_EMETSELCH	Easier said than done thanks to your unruly successor.
395	391	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003730_VENAS	How is <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If>, if I may ask?
396	392	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003740_HYTHLODAEUS	Incorrigible as ever. Rushed headlong into a volcano on the brink of eruption just the other day. I should be glad to share the tale in its entirety later, if you are so inclined.
397	393	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003750_VENAS	You know I am!
398	394	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003760_VENAS	Now then, you are...?
399	395	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003770_VENAS	I say...have you perchance come from the future?
400	396	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003775_VENAS	I do not believe we have ever met, yet I sense my magick upon you.
401	397	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003776_VENAS	Therefore if I wove the enchantment, I could only have done so at a later point in time.
402	398	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003780_HYTHLODAEUS	What manner of magick is this, if I may ask?
403	399	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003790_VENAS	A traveler's ward, of course. It prevents the corruption of one's aether.
404	400	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q5_000_002_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
405	401	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A5_000_004_NONE_VOICE	That sounds rather like the blessing of Light...
406	402	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A5_000_005_NONE_VOICE	Does it protect you from enthrallment by primals, by any chance?
407	403	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003800_VENAS	I see you are not ignorant to its presence. And while there are many protective spells, the one you bear is unmistakably mine.
408	404	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003805_VENAS	...Primals, you say? I'm not familiar with such beings, but if they “enthrall” by warping the balance of aether, then yes─the magick would afford you a measure of protection.
409	405	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003806_VENAS	I gather from your question that you are not ignorant to its presence.
410	406	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003810_EMETSELCH	Hold on─from the future? That's absurd.
411	407	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003820_VENAS	What is it? Are you unable to speak of the matter?
412	408	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003830_ELIDIBUS	The reality to which you must return exists as a result of the Final Days.
413	409	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003840_ELIDIBUS	You cannot reshape the past to undo the tragedies of the present.
414	410	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003850_VENAS	So, your actions here will not change your history...but they may yet affect the course of ours...
415	411	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003860_VENAS	How very exciting. I'm quite fond of delving into the unknown─and there's naught more unknown than the future.
416	412	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003870_VENAS	Until a moment finally arrives, we cannot know for certain what will come to pass─regardless of our supposed foreknowledge. So you needn't worry for us.
417	413	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003880_VENAS	More importantly, that you should go to such great lengths as to travel unto the past bespeaks the gravity of your quest.
418	414	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003890_VENAS	Will you not reveal it to us? Mayhap we can be of aid to your cause.
419	415	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003900_EMETSELCH	No subtitles, report if displayed.
420	416	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003910_EMETSELCH	If this is true, then you've been keeping quite the secret to yourself.
421	417	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003920_EMETSELCH	As a representative of the Convocation, I will hear it all. Your identity, purpose─everything.
422	418	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003930_VENAS	Why don't we move to a place more conducive to calm conversation.
423	419	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003940_VENAS	I've been working here for some days now at an old friend's behest.
424	420	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003950_VENAS	If it is agreeable, we may make use of my accommodation at Poieten Oikos.
425	421	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003960_VENAS	We were meant to meet, I am certain of it.
426	422	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003970_VENAS	Else I wouldn't have marked you so clearly and sent you unto myself in the past.
427	423	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003980_VENAS	It's precisely the sort of mischief I would get up to─and quite inspired, if I do say so myself.
428	424	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_003990_HYTHLODAEUS	A wonderful aroma... I feel more relaxed already.
429	425	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004000_VENAS	Would that I had sweetmeats to offer, but I travel light out of habit.
430	426	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004010_VENAS	There's plenty of hot water, though, so please have as much tea as you like.
431	427	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004020_VENAS	Now then...will you tell us your tale?
432	428	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q6_000_001_NONE_VOICE	In the future I came from...
433	429	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A6_000_001_NONE_VOICE	A calamity called the Final Days has befallen the world.
434	430	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A6_000_002_NONE_VOICE	The world has been sundered...broken into shards.
435	431	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A6_000_003_NONE_VOICE	Mankind is being forced to flee the star.
436	432	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004030_EMETSELCH	Why don't you start from the beginning?
437	433	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004040_EMETSELCH	Preposterous. Utterly preposterous.
438	434	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004050_HYTHLODAEUS	While not the words I would have chosen, I too have my doubts. Much of it borders on the incredulous.
439	435	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004060_HYTHLODAEUS	What of you, Venat?
440	436	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004070_VENAS	Not knowing the precise details of the first Final Days, 'tis difficult to determine the veracity of the tale.
441	437	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004080_VENAS	Supposing it is all true, I must ask myself why I would do what I did.
442	438	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004090_VENAS	Why would I feel I had no recourse but to oppose the Fourteen and create this Hydaelyn...
443	439	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004100_VENAS	Circumstances change, of course, but it would not have been an easy decision regardless.
444	440	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004110_VENAS	No, there must have been a reason. One compelling enough to force me to take such drastic measures.
445	441	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004120_VENAS	Then there is the Elpis flower, which I said would serve as a guide.
446	442	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004130_VENAS	That it's of import to your mission is plain, but your presence here leads me to believe that this place also holds significance.
447	443	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004140_VENAS	But what could it be? What are we meant to accomplish?
448	444	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004150_HYTHLODAEUS	Might it not be simply thus?
449	445	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004160_HYTHLODAEUS	In the future whence he came, the Final Days could not be averted. Mankind has no choice but to flee the star.
450	446	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004170_HYTHLODAEUS	In the future whence she came, the Final Days could not be averted. Mankind has no choice but to flee the star.
451	447	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004180_HYTHLODAEUS	By alerting us to that eventuality, perhaps you wished to pave the way for other futures.
452	448	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004190_VENAS	Theoretically speaking, it is a possibility.
453	449	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004200_VENAS	Yet if that were my primary objective, I see no reason to guide our friend to Elpis specifically.
454	450	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004210_VENAS	The Capitol in Amaurot, or even my own home would be more logical destinations.
455	451	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004220_HYTHLODAEUS	True, true... I note also that Hydaelyn did not specify a point in time to which he must return.
456	452	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004230_HYTHLODAEUS	True, true... I note also that Hydaelyn did not specify a point in time to which she must return.
457	453	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004240_HYTHLODAEUS	By this, it may be inferred that it was not critical that we should meet.
458	454	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004250_VENAS	Alternately, She had reason to believe that our paths would converge, coincidental though it may seem.
459	455	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004260_HYTHLODAEUS	This is quite a puzzle, and we do not have all the pieces...
460	456	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004270_VENAS	Hardly any. But we do have one immutable fact.
461	457	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004280_VENAS	If the Final Days are indeed as described, they will bring death to all that I hold dear.
462	458	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004290_VENAS	Yet despite being afforded long years of preparation, the only provisions I could make were...for flight?
463	459	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004300_VENAS	Nay, my first and foremost endeavor would be to find a way to forestall the coming doom.
464	460	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004310_HYTHLODAEUS	Given that even the Fourteen failed, mayhap you deemed it impossible.
465	461	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004320_VENAS	Nothing is impossible. This, I have always believed.
466	462	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004330_VENAS	And if Hydaelyn is indeed me, She would believe the same.
467	463	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004340_EMETSELCH	Listen to yourself. Are you seriously entertaining the notion that you are a messianic figure in some far-fetched tale?
468	464	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004350_EMETSELCH	Well, I will not. I refuse to accept that our world could be undone by some unforeseen calamity.
469	465	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004360_EMETSELCH	I also take offense to my portrayal as a megalomaniacal madman.
470	466	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004370_EMETSELCH	To sacrifice oneself for the star is a noble act, and I would hold those who gave themselves to this Zodiark in the highest esteem.
471	467	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004380_EMETSELCH	Yet you claim I recreated Amaurot and populated it with phantoms of our people. A bizarre indulgence that would be insulting to their memory.
472	468	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004390_EMETSELCH	Worse still, I even <Emphasis>invited</Emphasis> you there─literally invited my own downfall. Why would I do something so idiotic and inexplicable?
473	469	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004400_EMETSELCH	Now, I will allow that the hypothetical task of restoring our world would be daunting in the extreme. The thought of having to bear such a burden for a thousand <Emphasis>thousand</Emphasis> lives horrifies me.
474	470	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004410_EMETSELCH	But I would never forsake my duty! I would never forsake my brethren!
475	471	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004420_EMETSELCH	You do not know me!
476	472	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004430_EMETSELCH	I've had my fill of your fiction. I will return to my duty...and you will not bother me again.
477	473	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004440_HYTHLODAEUS	Emet-Selch! Wait!
478	474	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004450_VENAS	You've seen much of Elpis already. If you have any observations to share, I should like to hear them.
479	475	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q7_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
480	476	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A7_000_001_NONE_VOICE	Dynamis is key to all of this.
481	477	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A7_000_002_NONE_VOICE	Hermes and Meteion are somehow involved.
482	478	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A7_000_003_NONE_VOICE	I'm still trying to make sense of it all...
483	479	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004460_VENAS	Ah yes, the energy distinct from aether. Though not my field, I have a basic understanding of dynamis.
484	480	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004470_VENAS	And you say Hermes researched the phenomenon in the course of creating Meteion... Yes, I believe this warrants further investigation.
485	481	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004480_VENAS	Hermes and his creation Meteion, you say?
486	482	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004490_VENAS	If dynamis is the selfsame energy as akasa, as it likely seems, then those two may well be at the center of the calamity to come. This warrants further investigation.
487	483	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004500_VENAS	I see. Then for now, it might be best that we follow your lead and investigate he who will become Fandaniel.
488	484	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004510_VENAS	And if dynamis is the selfsame energy as akasa, as it likely seems, we would do well to learn more about it.
489	485	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004520_VENAS	With that settled, 'tis time for action.
490	486	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004530_VENAS	The missing pieces of the puzzle are here, I'm certain of it. And when you find them, the picture my future self has painted will be complete, and you will have your answer.
491	487	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004540_VENAS	Suffice it to say I will aid you in your quest.
492	488	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004550_VENAS	Have faith. If Emet-Selch is the man Azem described to me, we've not seen the last of him.
493	489	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004560_VENAS	A delightful breeze...and a breathtaking view.
494	490	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004570_VENAS	What is it like in the future? Is the world still a beautiful place?
495	491	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q8_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
496	492	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A8_000_001_NONE_VOICE	As beautiful as ever.
497	493	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A8_000_002_NONE_VOICE	Some parts, yes. Others...not so much.
498	494	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A8_000_003_NONE_VOICE	It's more beautiful here.
499	495	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004580_VENAS	I swear, I could hear the glimmer in your eyes. And the adoration in your voice.
500	496	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004590_VENAS	Dark, hidden places, rife with danger? Those have an altogether different but no less powerful sort of appeal.
501	497	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004600_VENAS	Elpis is a place of exceptional beauty in this age, so it may not make for a fair comparison.
502	498	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004610_VENAS	While we wait, will you not tell me about your adventures?
503	499	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004620_VENAS	Not the portentous events which led you here, but the simple delights all your own.
504	500	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004630_VENAS	By learning about the future world, I may gain insight into future me's plans.
505	501	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004640_VENAS	But more than that, I have an interest simply as a fellow traveler. Short of going somewhere oneself, there's naught more stirring than hearing another's account.
506	502	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004650_VENAS	Incredible! Would that I could have been there to see it!
507	503	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004660_VENAS	No subtitles, report if displayed.
508	504	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004670_VENAS	Yours is a harsh and unforgiving world. Yet in spite of this, your brethren hold fast to their virtue.
509	505	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004680_VENAS	To know that the light of mankind's potential still shines, even in that faraway place... It gives me heart.
510	506	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004690_VENAS	Thank you for regaling me with your tales. I will treasure every word.
511	507	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004700_VENAS	As you know, I was once a scholar. And among other things, I sought to understand the workings of the world.
512	508	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004710_VENAS	What exactly is aether? How formed the laws of nature? Whence sprung mankind?
513	509	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004720_VENAS	Riddles and mysteries beyond counting. Over the years I have managed to find answers to some few of them...
514	510	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004730_VENAS	Yet rather than attain a sense of mastery, the more I understood, the more I came to hold the world and its miracles in awe.
515	511	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004740_VENAS	We too are miracles, each and every one of us. Born of the warm breath of life that traverses the heavens, swirling through eternity.
516	512	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004750_VENAS	When I fully grasped the improbability of our existence, nothing felt impossible any more. If it could be imagined, it could be done.
517	513	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004760_VENAS	A passion swelled within me. An epiphany dispelling all preconceptions of what was natural and true.
518	514	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004770_VENAS	And a presence without. Immense yet intimate─fate, perhaps─holding us in its tender embrace...
519	515	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004780_VENAS	As reassuring as it was intimidating. How keenly aware I became of creation's fragility, built as it is upon precarious happenstance.
520	516	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004790_VENAS	I was overcome with an irrepressible urge to know the world more intimately. To hear its voice, feel its breath...
521	517	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004800_VENAS	I ventured forth on a journey that very day. So very long ago now.
522	518	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004810_VENAS	Freed from presumption and prejudice, I saw the world through a newborn's eyes. Everything fresh and new and so, so beautiful.
523	519	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004820_VENAS	Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature, silent yet strong.
524	520	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004830_VENAS	And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before.
525	521	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004840_VENAS	They are my meaning and my purpose. My love.
526	522	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004850_VENAS	And so long as they need help, I cannot return to the star.
527	523	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004860_VENAS	Perhaps my future self is still waiting for it.
528	524	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004870_VENAS	The moment she can let go and walk unto the end...
529	525	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004880_VENAS	Safe in the knowledge that man will find his own way.
530	526	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004890_VENAS	You, who are our future... Tell me this and tell me true.
531	527	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004900_VENAS	Has your journey been good? Has it been worthwhile?
532	528	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004910_GALENE	Pray forgive my lateness!
533	529	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004920_GALENE	My observation subject was rather irritable, and it took a while to settle it down...
534	530	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004930_VENAS	No need to apologize─your work takes precedence. Besides, we had a pleasant conversation in the meantime.
535	531	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004940_GALENE	You're too kind. Now then, I'm told you wished to ask me some questions?
536	532	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004950_VENAS	Indeed. I've an interest in one of Hermes's creations─Meteion. You witnessed a host of them take flight, yes?
537	533	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004960_GALENE	Ohhh, that! Yes! Yes, I did!
538	534	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004970_GALENE	'Twas in the dark of the morn. I'd left the Thalassai after nocturnal observation.
539	535	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004980_GALENE	As I walked along, I spied a bright light climbing high into the southeastern skies. Then, in an instant, it was gone─like a shooting star, only rising rather than falling.
540	536	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_004990_GALENE	But then another shot up. Then another, and another. Intrigued, I made my way to the edge to investigate.
541	537	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005000_GALENE	And who should I spy on an isle to the south but Hermes and Meteion─the Meteia, rather.
542	538	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005010_GALENE	There were lots of them, and I realized they must be the shooting stars that I'd seen!
543	539	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005020_VENAS	A dazzling spectacle indeed... Have you spoken with Hermes about this?
544	540	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005030_GALENE	Oh, yes. The sight left such an impression on me that I approached him about his mystery project the very next day.
545	541	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005040_GALENE	Alas, he said that he couldn't reveal anything just yet─that he needed to conduct further tests.
546	542	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005050_GALENE	It shouldn't be long now, though.
547	543	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005060_GALENE	He often returns to that isle, and I have a feeling he's nearing a breakthrough.
548	544	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005070_VENAS	Splendid. We are likewise eager for the details.
549	545	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005080_VENAS	Well, that is all we wished to ask. Thank you for taking the time to indulge our curiosity.
550	546	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005090_GALENE	You're very welcome. It's always a pleasure to speak with other inquisitive souls.
551	547	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005100_GALENE	Oh, and will you be descending now? If so, I shall link the doors for you.
552	548	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005110_VENAS	Please.
553	549	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005120_VENAS	'Twas my intent to finish it, but clearly I underestimated you.
554	550	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005130_VENAS	One would think I never learn. I made the same mistake with Azem when we first sparred. Despite being less than half my age, his strength was astounding.
555	551	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005140_VENAS	One would think I never learn. I made the same mistake with Azem when we first sparred. Despite being less than half my age, her strength was astounding.
556	552	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005150_VENAS	As is yours. 'Tis plain you have weathered considerable hardship. Far more, even, than your tales would suggest.
557	553	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005160_VENAS	It seems we have both learned much on our journeys.
558	554	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005170_VENAS	Well now, I daresay he has warmed to you.
559	555	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005180_VENAS	A boon to be sure. He never forgets his favorites, and is ever eager to come to their aid.
560	556	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005190_VENAS	Quite a small place, lacking even the most basic equipment.
561	557	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005200_VENAS	The present may yield no clues, but we may yet try perusing the past. Have you done this before?
562	558	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005210_VENAS	So you cannot control the power freely. Worry not, I shall assist you.
563	559	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005220_VENAS	Come and stand before me.
564	560	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005230_VENAS	There are two ways to see the past.
565	561	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005240_VENAS	The first entails peering through the walls of the soul in the moment a subject is recalling a memory.
566	562	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005250_VENAS	The second requires no subject, and is instead a process of piecing together an event from ripples left in the ambient aether.
567	563	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005260_VENAS	As memories are etched upon the aether of the soul, so too are they etched upon the aether of the world. In this way can history be preserved.
568	564	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005270_VENAS	Such memories are given to fading, however, and can prove challenging to visit.
569	565	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005280_VENAS	But come, let us try. Close your eyes.
570	566	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005290_METEION	All units fully functional and proceeding on course towards their respective stars.
571	567	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005300_METEION	Estimated time to completion of survey is one hundred and eight cycles.
572	568	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005310_METEION	End of status report. Severing connection with shared consciousness.
573	569	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005320_METEION	Did you hear that, Hermes? All is well!
574	570	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005330_HERMES	No subtitles, report if displayed.
575	571	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005340_HERMES	Yes, good tidings at long last...
576	572	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005350_HERMES	Every step of the way, I've been reminded how little we understand creation. How the universe defies imagination.
577	573	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005360_METEION	But soon we won't need to speculate. We'll know the answers─what others live for!
578	574	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005370_HERMES	Indeed... And we'll owe it all to you and your sisters.
579	575	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005380_METEION	No subtitles, report if displayed.
580	576	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005390_METEION	I wonder... What answers we will get?
581	577	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005400_HERMES	Whatever intelligent beings that exist out there are bound to be vastly different from us.
582	578	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005410_HERMES	Diverse in form and culture. Possessed of unique ways of thinking.
583	579	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005420_HERMES	Their conception of life and its purpose will be no exception. Completely and utterly unlike ours.
584	580	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005430_METEION	Utterly unlike...how?
585	581	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005440_HERMES	I have no idea...
586	582	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005450_HERMES	Yet whatever answers we receive, I will not dismiss them out of hand. No, I will think earnestly on them all.
587	583	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005460_HERMES	Then I will share them with our people, that together we may contemplate our own existence.
588	584	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005470_HERMES	Perhaps then our star will become a better place─not only for man, but for all life.
589	585	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005480_HERMES	Meteion. Though I gave you wings to soar the heavens, I did not teach you how to walk the earth. So loath was I to bind another living being.
590	586	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005490_HERMES	In the course of your long journey, you will learn from those you meet. Learn to walk and run and so much more.
591	587	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005500_HERMES	And when you return, older and wiser, we will have a celebration to mark your homecoming and coming of age both.
592	588	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005510_METEION	Will there be apples? Covered in syrup?
593	589	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005520_HERMES	And how are you supposed to eat them?
594	590	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005530_HERMES	Hmm... Rather than food... Perhaps...
595	591	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005540_HERMES	A flower.
596	592	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005550_HERMES	Yes. Upon your return, I will gift you a beautiful flower.
597	593	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005560_VENAS	So, what is your opinion?
598	594	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q9_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
599	595	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A9_000_001_NONE_VOICE	Hermes wouldn't wish for the Final Days.
600	596	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A9_000_002_NONE_VOICE	Hermes is a gentle soul. And yet...
601	597	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A9_000_003_NONE_VOICE	I couldn't say just by this moment alone.
602	598	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005570_VENAS	I am inclined to agree.
603	599	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005580_VENAS	As we had suspected, the two are somehow involved. Yet 'tis difficult to believe that they would deliberately seek to end all life.
604	600	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005590_VENAS	I understand. He is a gentle soul, and well intentioned. Yet it does not take ill intent to beget ill.
605	601	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005600_VENAS	We must consider the possibility that something may have gone awry. Perhaps it was oversight...or simply an accident.
606	602	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005610_VENAS	As you say, that was hardly conclusive. Yet based on what we witnessed, I find it difficult to believe that they would deliberately seek to end all life.
607	603	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005620_VENAS	Be that as it may, we cannot rule out the possibility that they will play a part in bringing about the Final Days. Perhaps unwittingly.
608	604	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005630_VENAS	In light of this...
609	605	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005640_VENAS	I propose that we reveal your tale to Hermes himself.
610	606	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005650_VENAS	If he does not wish for the Final Days, as we believe, he may well join us in pursuing a solution.
611	607	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005660_VENAS	Then it is settled. Let us seek out our friend with all swiftness.
612	608	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005670_VENAS	'Twould not do to let such a pure soul be blackened by tragedy.
613	609	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005680_HERMES	My apologies for keeping you waiting. I understand there is a matter you wish to discuss.
614	610	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005690_EMETSELCH	Aye, a matter of the utmost gravity...if one can suspend disbelief.
615	611	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005700_EMETSELCH	Go on, then. Tell him what you told us. Who you are and why you came.
616	612	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005710_HERMES	The Final Days...
617	613	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005720_VENAS	The phenomena observed during these star-encompassing calamities is likely the product of a dynamis reaction.
618	614	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005730_VENAS	And none is more versed in the applications of this energy than you, Hermes.
619	615	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005740_VENAS	I must stress that we do not believe you would desire such destruction. We come not to lodge accusations, but to beg your wisdom.
620	616	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005750_VENAS	And so, distressing though the exercise may be, I ask that you share with us your opinion on the matter─on the assumption that our visitor's tale is true.
621	617	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005760_HERMES	Even you, Venat...
622	618	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005770_HERMES	As you say, the phenomena observed in the two calamities may both be attributed to dynamis.
623	619	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005780_HERMES	Of note is the difference in its effect. In the first Final Days, it warped creation magicks. In the second, it warped the people themselves.
624	620	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005790_HERMES	The key variable, I suspect, is the aetheric density of the men of each age.
625	621	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005800_HERMES	As you know, aether, in essence, negates dynamis.
626	622	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005810_HERMES	Harboring high concentrations of aether, we ancients cannot readily manipulate dynamis─nor be manipulated by it. Therefore, rather than our selves, the calamity affected our magicks.
627	623	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005820_HERMES	In contrast, having been sundered, the people of the future are composed of but a fraction of our aether.
628	624	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005830_HERMES	Thus are they susceptible to the influence of dynamis─and its transformative potential.
629	625	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005840_HERMES	But that would explain only the mechanism, not the cause... Though perhaps...
630	626	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005850_EMETSELCH	What is it? Even should it be a hypothesis, we would hear it.
631	627	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005860_HERMES	Dynamis is an energy put in motion by feelings. Feelings for which there must first exist a source.
632	628	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005870_HERMES	A source to which the victims must be attuned─one that harbors the selfsame negative emotions. Elsewise, it could not be the agent of such extreme change.
633	629	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005880_VENAS	So it wasn't the stagnation of the celestial currents...
634	630	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005890_VENAS	Someone─or something─is instigating the star's demise.
635	631	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005900_EMETSELCH	So we've a villain on our hands after all... Any idea who or what it could be?
636	632	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005910_HERMES	The celestial currents comprise the outermost layer of the star's aether, encasing it like a protective sphere.
637	633	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005920_HERMES	According to your tale, 'twas where the currents were weakest that the phenomena first manifested.
638	634	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005930_HERMES	If the inciting factor came from without Etheirys, then its effects would first be seen in those locations.
639	635	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005940_METEION	Greetings. Can you hear me?
640	636	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005950_METEION	Do not be alarmed─I mean you no harm.
641	637	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005960_METEION	I wish only to hear your words. Share your feelings. Know your thoughts.
642	638	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005970_METEION	May we please...be friends?
643	639	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005980_HERMES	Meteion? What is it?
644	640	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_005990_METEION	Executing scheduled task. Suspending individual self and connecting to shared consciousness.
645	641	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006000_METEION	Connection established. Commencing status report.
646	642	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006010_METEION	Ah! Ahhh! Ahhhhhh!
647	643	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006020_METEION	It hurts, it hurts! It hurts!
648	644	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006030_METEION	So hot...so cold...so sad... I don't understand... Make it stop... Please, make it stop...
649	645	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006040_HERMES	Steady, Meteion! Steady!
650	646	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006050_METEION	So scared...so lonely... The pain...it's too much...
651	647	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006060_METEION	Why...why...why do we...they...hurt...hurt...hate...HATE!
652	648	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006070_METEION	This is wrong! All wrong!
653	649	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006080_EMETSELCH	She's...gone? But how?
654	650	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006090_HERMES	She has altered her aetheric density in order to blend in with her surroundings. An ability for avoiding confrontation.
655	651	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006100_HYTHLODAEUS	Most effective...frustratingly so. I can't see her either─not even a trace.
656	652	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006110_METEION	Stay away. Please. This is wrong. My mistake. So please...
657	653	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006120_VENAS	Are you all right?
658	654	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006130_VENAS	...In your mind? No, we only heard her speak the instant before she vanished.
659	655	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006140_HERMES	Of course. When communicating without words, Meteion also employs dynamis.
660	656	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006150_HERMES	That would explain why you were able to hear her when we could not.
661	657	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006160_EMETSELCH	Then you are our best chance of finding her. Follow her voice, and try to track her down.
662	658	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006170_EMETSELCH	Hindered though we may be, let us split up and search as well.
663	659	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006180_EMETSELCH	Aha!
664	660	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006190_EMETSELCH	Give chase. We shall herd her into the shelter.
665	661	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006200_METEION	No subtitles, report if displayed.
666	662	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006210_METEION	No subtitles, report if displayed.
667	663	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006220_HERMES	Please, Meteion. We must speak.
668	664	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006230_METEION	I'm sorry, Hermes... I'm so sorry...
669	665	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006240_METEION	If someone can hear these words, then please...
670	666	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006250_METEION	Please...protect them. Protect them all.
671	667	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006260_METEION	Individual self suspended. Connection with shared consciousness stable.
672	668	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006270_METEION	Our survey is complete. We shall now report our findings.
673	669	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006280_METEION	All units safely arrived at their respective destinations. Seeking answers to Hermes's question, we attempted to make contact with the intelligent denizens of each star.
674	670	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006290_METEION	Results are as follows, in order of numerical code.
675	671	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006300_METEION	Hena: Traces of civilization found─structures believed to have served as domiciles. No extant life-forms detected.
676	672	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006310_METEION	Dyo: Ruined remnants of buildings scattered across star, surface of which is encased in ice. Presence of life could not be verified.
677	673	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006320_METEION	Tria: Evidence of large population centers akin to cities recovered. No extant life-forms found─only their lingering essence.
678	674	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006330_METEION	Tessera: Edifices surmised to be abandoned residences found. No extant life-forms detected. Deadly plague or extreme environmental degradation likely to have led to mass extinction.
679	675	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006340_HERMES	They are all...dead?
680	676	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006350_METEION	Okto: Star found in state of violent conflict. Contact successfully made with inhabitants, but deployment of weapons of mass destruction resulted in total annihilation of local population shortly thereafter.
681	677	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006360_METEION	Ennea: Star is a barren desert. No identifiable flora found. Bones of living beings resembling men discovered beneath sands, but determination regarding their intelligence inconclusive.
682	678	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006370_EMETSELCH	Remind me, Hermes. What exactly was the question you entrusted to Meteion?
683	679	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006380_HERMES	I tasked her with asking what others live for. What gives their lives...meaning...
684	680	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006390_EMETSELCH	Did you consider what may happen if the premise of the question is flawed?
685	681	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006400_EMETSELCH	To be able to answer it, one must be living─and desire to continue doing so.
686	682	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006410_EMETSELCH	But if Meteion finds no living beings in the course of her journey...
687	683	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006420_EMETSELCH	Or none who desire to live, what then?
688	684	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006430_EMETSELCH	What answers would she derive from their silence?
689	685	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006440_HERMES	No subtitles, reported if displayed.
690	686	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006450_VENAS	Meteion, enough. Suspend your mission and return hither at once.
691	687	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006460_METEION	Deka-pente: Local civilization once flourished under auspices of higher power. Said power later laid waste to civilization in fit of rage.
692	688	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006470_METEION	Upon revealing this to me, entity elected to self-terminate in lieu of providing answer to question. No other intelligent life-forms found.
693	689	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006480_EMETSELCH	Turning a deaf ear, are we?
694	690	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006490_EMETSELCH	We are taking Meteion back to Amaurot. As I understand, we will need her if we are to bring back all of her sisters.
695	691	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006500_HERMES	Y-Yes...
696	692	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006510_HERMES	Meteion...
697	693	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006520_HERMES	It isn't right, is it? It isn't right to turn away from the answer...even if the answer...is pain...
698	694	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006530_HERMES	Even if we aberrations must scream ourselves hoarse to be heard...
699	695	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006540_HERMES	Aye. Whatever answers we find, I will not dismiss them out of hand. These words I said to you...and I will hold myself to them.
700	696	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006550_EMETSELCH	What is the meaning of this!?
701	697	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006560_HERMES	You cannot take Meteion. Not until she has finished her report.
702	698	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006570_HERMES	All else must wait.
703	699	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006580_EMETSELCH	You fool!
704	700	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006590_HERMES	So, it comes to this.
705	701	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006600_HERMES	I've no wish to fight. But this time, I cannot yield.
706	702	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006610_HERMES	Though the world may think me a mad, desperate fool, I will hold fast to my conviction.
707	703	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006620_HERMES	No... My power...
708	704	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006630_EMETSELCH	It's over, Hermes. In the name of the Convocation, I hereby take Meteion into custody.
709	705	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006640_EMETSELCH	And setting aside the matter of your nomination, you will come with us, too. We require your knowledge to assess and resolve the situation.
710	706	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006650_HERMES	No subtitles, report if displayed.
711	707	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006660_HERMES	Meteion... I'm so sorry... Would that I could have listened to your report in full...
712	708	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006670_HERMES	Reflected upon its meaning and conveyed it to others─that they might reconsider their chosen course...
713	709	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006680_HERMES	But I have failed, and that wish will never be realized. However...
714	710	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006690_HERMES	Ere our fates become the province of others, I bid you tell me...just one thing.
715	711	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006700_HERMES	Was there happiness in those distant stars?
716	712	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006710_HERMES	Was there a reason for living?
717	713	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006720_METEION	We conducted our search as per your instructions.
718	714	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006730_METEION	We scoured historical records. Communed with the spirits of the deceased.
719	715	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006740_METEION	Heard the final testaments of the dying. Welcomed their shadowed hearts into our own.
720	716	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006750_METEION	One race had striven to create a world bereft of animosity.
721	717	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006760_METEION	They renounced relationships to avoid interpersonal strife, and in so doing brought about societal collapse.
722	718	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006770_METEION	One race had renounced war and devoted itself to the enrichment of its people.
723	719	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006780_METEION	They were conquered. Though they destroyed the enemy in reprisal, they could not regain their former glory.
724	720	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006790_METEION	One race had concluded that finite time was the root of all woes. Aspiring to shatter its shackles, they went in search of infinity.
725	721	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006800_METEION	They discovered nothing is infinite, and that neither time or death can be cheated. Disillusioned, they gave up on the future─and themselves.
726	722	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006810_METEION	One race had discarded all things that gave rise to sorrow, hoping to have only joy.
727	723	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006820_METEION	They found joy lost its savor in the absence of sorrow, and lost their will to live.
728	724	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006830_METEION	Though worlds apart, these peoples shared a belief. The belief that they had tried their best.
729	725	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006840_METEION	That they had tried to fulfill their potential, with every step and success.
730	726	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006850_METEION	In the course of which they learned the truth.
731	727	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006860_METEION	That they would never be free of fear and sorrow, anger and despair─of loneliness─so long as they yet lived.
732	728	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006870_METEION	Even now, their souls cry out for oblivion. And to this song of anguish, I lend my voice. We lend our voice.
733	729	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006880_METEION	O beloved mankind, shimmering jewels of beautiful Etheirys... Rejoice, for we will free you from the cruel yoke of existence.
734	730	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006890_METEION	There is no need to struggle in vain, for in nihility awaits salvation. You will know peace and serenity...and it will be beautiful.
735	731	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006900_METEION	We will make our nest at the edge of the universe, and there in the dark of dead worlds hoard sorrow and suffering.
736	732	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006910_METEION	There we will sing, our chorus ever louder and ever clearer, that our song may reach even this aether-shrouded star.
737	733	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006920_METEION	Such is the answer we have found in the stars. Such is the gift we now offer to Etheirys.
738	734	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006930_EMETSELCH	Who are you to decide our fate? To decree we live or die?
739	735	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006940_EMETSELCH	Have you lost your mind!? You heard what she said! She means to destroy us all, yet you'd still take her side!?
740	736	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006950_HERMES	In the name of the star, we have discarded those creations that we deemed flawed.
741	737	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006960_HERMES	If we ourselves are flawed, does it not stand to reason that we too should be discarded?
742	738	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006970_EMETSELCH	That is sophistry and you know it!
743	739	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006980_HERMES	Perhaps it is. Perhaps I am wrong. But who is to say that you are right?
744	740	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_006990_HERMES	Let us settle this with a determination.
745	741	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007000_HERMES	In my authority as chief overseer of Elpis, I will make a judgment on man's fitness to exist.
746	742	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007010_HERMES	If he can learn to value all life and retain his will to live, even should his end be justified, he will surely find a way to avert his demise.
747	743	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007020_HERMES	If not, he will perish from the star.
748	744	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007030_HERMES	As with all determinations, provisions must be made to ensure fairness.
749	745	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007040_HERMES	Kairos! Awaken!
750	746	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007050_KAIROS	(-Kairos-)Memory reconfiguration system Kairos activated. Awaiting instruction.
751	747	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007060_HERMES	Command: universal memory alteration. Target area: Ktisis Hyperboreia.
752	748	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007070_HERMES	Starting point: arrival of Emet-Selch of the Convocation at Propylaion. End point: the present.
753	749	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007080_HERMES	Erase the memories of all events, and replace with a vague recollection of the following:
754	750	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007090_HERMES	I was here, preparing to demonstrate the functionality of Kairos to Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus.
755	751	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007100_HERMES	Meteion's shared consciousness became unstable. She and her sisters could not sustain their existence, and all dissipated with a burst.
756	752	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007110_HERMES	The resultant shockwave accidentally triggered Kairos, which erased several days of memories from all present. Execute.
757	753	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007120_KAIROS	(-Kairos-)Command acknowledged. Initializing... Three processes remaining to execution.
758	754	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007130_HYTHLODAEUS	Bravo. I daresay one would be hard-pressed to make it fairer...
759	755	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007140_HYTHLODAEUS	Everything that you told us, everything that has happened─the fact we've even met... It will all be gone.
760	756	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007150_HERMES	Go, Meteion. To the edge of the universe, where none can reach you.
761	757	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007160_METEION	Hermes. Won't you come with me? If you were to shed your flesh, I should be able to carry you.
762	758	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007165_HERMES	No subtitles, report if displayed.
763	759	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007170_HERMES	I will remain. As a man, I will oppose the oblivion you bring.
764	760	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007180_METEION	Silly fool... Had you said yes, I would've granted you the gentlest end.
765	761	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007190_VENAS	This ends here!
766	762	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007200_HERMES	Fly, Meteion!
767	763	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007210_HERMES	No subtitles, report if displayed.
768	764	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007220_EMETSELCH	That is far enough, Hermes!
769	765	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007230_VENAS	Argos, to me!
770	766	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007235_VENAS	No subtitles, report if displayed.
771	767	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007240_KAIROS	(-Kairos-)First process complete. Two remaining to execution of memory reconfiguration.
772	768	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007250_HYTHLODAEUS	As if we needed more pressure...
773	769	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007260_HYTHLODAEUS	No matter what, you cannot forget what happened today. For it is the key to saving your future─your world.
774	770	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007270_HYTHLODAEUS	This fight is our fight; what comes after, our problem to contend with. Not yours.
775	771	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007280_HYTHLODAEUS	No, your own struggle awaits. And no one else can take your place.
776	772	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007290_HYTHLODAEUS	You must flee this place with your memories intact─and I will see that you do!
777	773	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007300_HYTHLODAEUS	Now then, where is it...?
778	774	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007310_HYTHLODAEUS	There you are, my little confluence.
779	775	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007320_VENAS	Almost...
780	776	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007330_VENAS	No subtitles, report if displayed.
781	777	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007340_VENAS	Very well, then.
782	778	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007350_VENAS	You may elude us this day, but not forever!
783	779	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007360_HYTHLODAEUS	Meteion's gotten away...
784	780	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007370_KAIROS	(-Kairos-)Second process complete. One remaining to execution.
785	781	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007380_HYTHLODAEUS	No time for brooding.
786	782	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007390_HYTHLODAEUS	Listen well. Beyond lies a spatial confluence that connects the interior sections of this building.
787	783	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007400_HYTHLODAEUS	I will destroy the confluence and force open a way outside. When I do, you must jump through.
788	784	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007410_HERMES	I cannot tell you how sorry I am...
789	785	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007420_HERMES	...But neither can I let you escape!
790	786	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007430_HYTHLODAEUS	Too brave by half...
791	787	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007440_HYTHLODAEUS	Exemplary work as always, Emet-Selch!
792	788	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007450_HERMES	What? But how? I thought the confluence was over...
793	789	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007460_HYTHLODAEUS	Over there? Yes, we were rather hoping you would.
794	790	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007470_EMETSELCH	It was never anywhere but where it is now.
795	791	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007480_EMETSELCH	The instant those two began making their way towards nothing, 'twas clear the plan was a diversion.
796	792	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007490_HYTHLODAEUS	I'm quite incapable of destroying a confluence, I must confess.
797	793	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007500_EMETSELCH	A gambit brazen beyond words. Though we've grown accustomed to reckless improvision due to the antics of an incorrigible associate.
798	794	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007510_EMETSELCH	Though in the case of certain present company, “incorrigible” is an understatement.
799	795	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007520_EMETSELCH	Honestly, I'm beginning to suspect it's a requirement for every Azem.
800	796	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007530_EMETSELCH	There's no time! Quickly!
801	797	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007540_EMETSELCH	Even now, I do not believe your tale. I would not suffer us to walk such a wretched path.
802	798	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007550_EMETSELCH	Still, if it must be said...
803	799	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007560_EMETSELCH	Do not squander it. The legacy I leave you.
804	800	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007570_KAIROS	(-Kairos-)Final process complete. Executing universal memory alteration.
805	801	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007580_VENAS	Go, Argos!
806	802	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007590_VENAS	No subtitles, report if displayed.
807	803	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007600_VENAS	I'm fine. Just a little tired.
808	804	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007610_VENAS	Can it be true?
809	805	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007620_VENAS	Are we the only ones left who see beauty in the world─in life?
810	806	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007630_VENAS	Are the stars above no more than husks of fallen civilizations?
811	807	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007640_VENAS	And yet...
812	808	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007650_VENAS	...I feel her. Though she is unimaginably distant, I feel Meteion's presence─and the place whereto we must go.
813	809	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007660_VENAS	Ere she made good her escape, I placed an enchantment upon her. One which allows us to follow her trail.
814	810	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007670_VENAS	She has already left the outermost bounds of Etheirys, and continues on her way. Given the vastness of the universe, it will still be no easy feat to track her down.
815	811	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007680_VENAS	But thanks to Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus, all is not lost. We remember.
816	812	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007690_VENAS	So long as we remember, our fates remain ours to shape.
817	813	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q10_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
818	814	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A10_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What became of the others, I wonder...
819	815	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A10_000_002_NONE_VOICE	So...what now?
820	816	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007700_VENAS	I'd like to know too. Let us ascertain the situation at Ktisis Hyperboreia, where they should still be.
821	817	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007710_VENAS	What indeed. Let us begin by ascertaining the situation at Ktisis Hyperboreia, where the others should still be.
822	818	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007720_VENAS	Given the likely state of their memories, however, 'twould be imprudent for us to approach them directly. In which case...
823	819	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007730_VENAS	I am sorry, my friend. I've asked much of you this day, but may I trouble you one last time?
824	820	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007740_VENAS	Argos will investigate in our stead. We will share in his consciousness, and see and hear as if we were with him.
825	821	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007750_VENAS	Now, close your eyes and open your mind...
826	822	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007760_HYPERBOREIASTAFF	Thank goodness you are unharmed.
827	823	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007770_EMETSELCH	Unharmed? There is a gaping hole in my memories. I can scarcely remember arriving here in Elpis...
828	824	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007780_HERMES	Forgive me...
829	825	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007790_HERMES	I was preparing to demonstrate the functionality of Kairos to our guests.
830	826	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007800_HERMES	But Meteion...her shared consciousness became unstable. And she...she...
831	827	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007810_HYPERBOREIASTAFF	So that's what prompted the state of alert.
832	828	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007820_HYPERBOREIASTAFF	And when you went to investigate, you were caught in Kairos's accidental operation.
833	829	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007830_EMETSELCH	So it would seem... It's all a blur to me.
834	830	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007840_HYPERBOREIASTAFF	Such an unfortunate accident... Oh, and what of Venat and your other companion? You went inside together, as I recall.
835	831	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007850_EMETSELCH	We did?
836	832	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007860_HYTHLODAEUS	If Venat was with us, I have no recollection of it.
837	833	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007870_HYTHLODAEUS	But that there is her familiar, is it not? The fellow seems happy enough, so I think it safe to assume his mistress is well.
838	834	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007880_HYTHLODAEUS	I haven't the slightest notion who this other companion might be, however...
839	835	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007890_HYPERBOREIASTAFF	Ah, well, that individual struck me as a bit...different, for want of a better word.
840	836	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007900_HYPERBOREIASTAFF	Perhaps it wasn't actually a person, but some manner of creation.
841	837	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007910_HYTHLODAEUS	Curious... I must ask Venat about it when next we meet.
842	838	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007920_EMETSELCH	Yes, yes, you do that. Now, if we may tend to Hermes? Whatever this Meteion did, it seems he bore the brunt of it.
843	839	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007930_EMETSELCH	Once you are fit to travel, you will return with us to Amaurot. We need to make certain there are no other ill effects.
844	840	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007940_EMETSELCH	Also─I am here on business of the Fourteen. We've already had the conversation, like as not, but since your toy wiped my memory, we'll have to have it again.
845	841	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007950_HERMES	Yes, of course. As you see fit.
846	842	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007960_HYTHLODAEUS	This Kairos─it manipulates memories through the emission of aetheric waves, correct?
847	843	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007970_HYTHLODAEUS	There is a theory which holds that memories scoured by blasts of aether are restored when the soul is cleansed in the Underworld.
848	844	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007980_HYTHLODAEUS	If true, then perhaps when our time comes to return to the star, we shall remember these few days we have lost.
849	845	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_007990_EMETSELCH	I doubt aught of interest occurred. Look forward to the revelation if you like, but I should prefer to reminisce on more meaningful moments.
850	846	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008000_VENAS	Let us rest. If only for a while.
851	847	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008010_VENAS	After all, you and I... We still have a long, long way to go.
852	848	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008020_VENAS	So...it is within. The portal that brought you hither...and will take you home.
853	849	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_Q11_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
854	850	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A11_000_001_NONE_VOICE	Yes. This is where we part ways.
855	851	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_A11_000_002_NONE_VOICE	Perhaps I should stay and help...
856	852	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008030_VENAS	May you and yours emerge triumphant.
857	853	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008040_VENAS	Make use of the knowledge you have gained, that your days in Elpis and our friends' sacrifice be not in vain.
858	854	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008050_VENAS	I appreciate your sentiment, I truly do, but 'tis a very long game that we must now play.
859	855	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008060_VENAS	And while you have maintained a stable presence here thus far, there are dangers in lingering overlong.
860	856	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008070_VENAS	No, you must return to your own battlefield. Make use of the knowledge you have attained, that your days here and our friends' sacrifice be not in vain.
861	857	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008080_VENAS	With Meteion free to pursue her designs, 'tis only a matter of time until the Final Days are upon us.
862	858	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008090_VENAS	We must be ready. From fortifying our defenses to securing our escape, there is much to be done.
863	859	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008100_VENAS	In spite of this, we cannot allow the report that set this calamity in motion to become common knowledge. Were the masses to learn the fates of the other stars, I fear the situation would spiral out of our control.
864	860	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008110_VENAS	I must carefully consider who can be trusted, and bring them into the fold.
865	861	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008120_VENAS	Ordinarily, I wouldn't hesitate to call upon the Fourteen. However, it was the desire for a fair determination that drove Hermes to attempt to erase our memories; were he made aware of his actions, there is no telling whether he would remain a friend or become a foe.
866	862	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008130_VENAS	Alternately, we might try to alienate him from the Convocation. Yet in doing so, we would deprive ourselves of a brilliant mind who would be invaluable in the crises to come.
867	863	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008140_VENAS	Quite the dilemma... Which is why I must work independently of the Convocation.
868	864	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008150_VENAS	Regardless of how we proceed, if we are to permanently avert the Final Days, we must be equal to Hermes's challenge. We must prove that mankind is worthy to exist.
869	865	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008160_VENAS	And this hinges, I think, on how we confront the all-consuming despair that accompanies a senseless and seemingly inevitable end.
870	866	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008170_VENAS	Bewildered and divided, we would perish like the peoples of those celestial ruins.
871	867	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008180_VENAS	We could not hope to survive the Final Days, much less take the battle to Meteion at her nest.
872	868	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008190_VENAS	We must find a way to defeat despair. To unite and prepare as many as possible for the struggle ahead.
873	869	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008200_VENAS	Heavy will weigh the burden of guiding this legion of souls...
874	870	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008210_VENAS	Yet I have faith in mankind's potential. As long as he believes in himself, there is naught he cannot achieve. So I will not give up on him. On us.
875	871	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008220_VENAS	You may find your world to be very different. Or perhaps the erasure of our friends' memories has sown the seeds of a conjunction between us.
876	872	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008230_VENAS	We cannot know until the moment is at hand. So shall I strive to do my best, taking naught for granted as I walk my path.
877	873	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008240_VENAS	And I pray you walk with me to the end.
878	874	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008250_VENAS	As you move forward, so too will I. As will all resolved to fight for the morrow.
879	875	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008260_VENAS	And when mankind has found the strength to stand against despair...
880	876	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008270_VENAS	We shall silence the song of oblivion.
881	877	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008280_VENAS	She who sings it will learn our journey is far from over. This I promise.
882	878	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008290_VENAS	Fare you well, my light of the future. Till we meet again.
883	879	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008300_HERMES	From this day forth, I shall strive to bring honor to the seat of Fandaniel.
884	880	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008310_VENAS	Even now, I remember standing there. Locked in a moment where the sky is aflame.
885	881	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008320_VENAS	Where stars fall as tears, and screams darken the seas.
886	882	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008330_VENAS	Where resignation rots the trees.
887	883	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008340_VENAS	Where terror twists magicks into abominations.
888	884	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008350_VENAS	Such is the lament of they who have gone before.
889	885	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008360_VENAS	The song of they who tried and failed to create a better world. The song of the end.
890	886	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008370_VENAS	That which hides at the edge of the universe is no longer hope's creation.
891	887	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008380_VENAS	It is hopelessness incarnate.
892	888	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008390_VENAS	That day, mankind saw half of its number sacrificed to bring forth Zodiark.
893	889	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008400_VENAS	And covering the star in a shroud of aether, we forestalled the Final Days.
894	890	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008410_VENAS	Yet the cries echoed still...
895	891	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008420_VENAS	We wept for innocence lost. Wailed for death inevitable.
896	892	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008430_VENAS	A reality too terrible to bear...
897	893	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008440_VENAS	And for too many, who sought comfort in gilded memories of joyful days and tranquil nights.
898	894	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008450_ANCIENTMEMORYA	This is all wrong... Why must we suffer so?
899	895	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008460_ANCIENTMEMORYB	It needn't be like this. No, there must be a way to restore things to the way they were. To reclaim the perfect paradise we once had.
900	896	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008470_VENAS	No, my friends. Suffering exists, and we cannot pretend otherwise.
901	897	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008480_VENAS	No civilization, however great, could eliminate it. If we would live, we must accept it as our constant companion.
902	898	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008490_VENAS	Let us not seek to forget this tragedy. Let us carry it in our hearts, that we may grow stronger and know true happiness.
903	899	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008500_ANCIENTMEMORYA	We can't accept it! We <Emphasis>won't</Emphasis> accept it! It will be ours again─a world free of sorrow!
904	900	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008510_VENAS	No, it will not, for there has ever been sorrow. Mankind was but spared its biting sting for a time.
905	901	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008520_VENAS	So please, open your eyes. To try and reclaim those lives we lost by sacrificing yet more isn't wisdom. It is weakness.
906	902	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008530_VENAS	No paradise is without its shadows. If we cannot accept this truth and learn from our pain, then our plight shall be repeated.
907	903	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008540_ANCIENTMEMORYB	O mighty Zodiark, god born of our boundless faith! We bid you hear our prayer!
908	904	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008550_ANCIENTMEMORYB	Accept this offering of lives, and deliver unto us the lives we once had. Deliver unto us the days of old...
909	905	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008560_ANCIENTMEMORYB	The days when the star was a font of love, and we knew naught but bliss!
910	906	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008570_ANCIENTMEMORYA	You would destroy it? Our beautiful world?
911	907	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008580_VENAS	Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature, silent yet strong.
912	908	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008590_VENAS	And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before.
913	909	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008600_VENAS	They are my meaning and my purpose. My love.
914	910	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008610_VENAS	In spite of...or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe.
915	911	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008620_VENAS	In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward.
916	912	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008630_VENAS	So let there be no way back. From that temptation I sunder us.
917	913	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008640_VENAS	No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise.
918	914	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008650_VENAS	Henceforth, he shall walk.
919	915	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008660_VENAS	All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment.
920	916	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008670_VENAS	I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague.
921	917	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008680_VENAS	In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown.
922	918	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008690_VENAS	And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question:
923	919	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008700_VENAS	Why, given life, are they meant to suffer. To die...
924	920	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008710_VENAS	As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest.
925	921	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008720_VENAS	A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured.
926	922	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008730_VENAS	To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you.
927	923	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008740_VENAS	To find joy, even as darkness descends...
928	924	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008750_VENAS	...And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.
929	925	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008760_HYDAELYN	A conjunction has begun to form; an intertwining of your time and mine.
930	926	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008770_HYDAELYN	When you truly understand what is at stake, and your journey has prepared you to surmount the insurmountable...
931	927	TEXT_VOICEMAN_06004_008780_HYDAELYN	Then shall I honor the promise made in another time. Another age.