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{{NPC Text|title=The Grand Show: Act 1|text= | {{NPC Text|title=The Grand Show: Act 1|text= | ||
'''Before Combat:''' | '''Before Combat:''' | ||
| − | :'''Malaise:''' {{ | + | :'''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|Ah! {{Character}}! Welcome to the grand show! I assume that Aurora dragged you into this?}} |
:'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|MALAISE! Stop this, NOW!}} | :'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|MALAISE! Stop this, NOW!}} | ||
| − | :'''Malaise:''' {{ | + | :'''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|Oh, you say stop, but what does the little piece of Aurora that you have TRAPPED in your mind say?}} |
:'''Aurora Borealis?:''' I say it's time to change things around, for Psyche to see how it feels to be kept prisoner in someone ELSE'S mind. | :'''Aurora Borealis?:''' I say it's time to change things around, for Psyche to see how it feels to be kept prisoner in someone ELSE'S mind. | ||
| − | :'''Malaise:''' {{ | + | :'''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|Lovely! Do you understand what is happening here, {{Character}}? This woman is not the same Aurora Borealis from the outside...}} |
:'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|Malaise, you freak!}} | :'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|Malaise, you freak!}} | ||
| − | :'''Malaise:''' {{ | + | :'''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|Heh heh...}} |
| − | :'''Malaise:''' {{ | + | :'''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|No, this is the portion of Aurora that has been trapped within Psyche's mind...}} |
| − | :'''Malaise:''' {{ | + | :'''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|Ever since Psyche used her little mind riding ability to leap in and out of Aurora's body...}} |
:'''Aurora Borealis?:''' I had a brief bit of freedom once... but I've been trapped, all these years. In darkness... In -nothingness-. | :'''Aurora Borealis?:''' I had a brief bit of freedom once... but I've been trapped, all these years. In darkness... In -nothingness-. | ||
:'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|You were a mistake! You're not real, and you're NOTHING like the real Aurora!}} | :'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|You were a mistake! You're not real, and you're NOTHING like the real Aurora!}} | ||
:'''Aurora Borealis?:''' Your little prison has made sure that I am QUITE different from Aurora, I assure you! | :'''Aurora Borealis?:''' Your little prison has made sure that I am QUITE different from Aurora, I assure you! | ||
| − | :'''Malaise:''' {{ | + | :'''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|Ladies! Please, I'm trying to conduct a reasonable conversation with our antagonist...}} |
| − | :'''Malaise:''' {{ | + | :'''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|Now, {{Character}}, let's see just how far you're willing to go to save Psyche!}} |
:'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|I can barely hold onto my mind, {{Character}}! You have to fight off these manifestations!}} | :'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|I can barely hold onto my mind, {{Character}}! You have to fight off these manifestations!}} | ||
'''First Ambush:''' | '''First Ambush:''' | ||
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:'''Minor Image of Malaise:''' The story isn't yours to change, only to observe, to follow! | :'''Minor Image of Malaise:''' The story isn't yours to change, only to observe, to follow! | ||
'''Combat End:''' | '''Combat End:''' | ||
| − | :'''Malaise:''' {{ | + | :'''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|Impressive! Let's see what our antagonist can do in the next part of our story!}}}} |
{{NPC Text|title=The Grand Show: Act 2|text= | {{NPC Text|title=The Grand Show: Act 2|text= | ||
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{{NPC Text|title=The Grand Show: Finale|text= | {{NPC Text|title=The Grand Show: Finale|text= | ||
| − | '''Malaise:''' {{ | + | '''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|What?! This isn't... You're ruining the entire plot!}}<br /> |
'''Aurora Borealis?:''' No matter, I might not have total control, but I AM free, Psyche! You can't put me back in that prison!<br /> | '''Aurora Borealis?:''' No matter, I might not have total control, but I AM free, Psyche! You can't put me back in that prison!<br /> | ||
'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|MALAISE! I WILL NOT LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS!}}<br /> | '''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|MALAISE! I WILL NOT LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS!}}<br /> | ||
| − | '''Malaise:''' {{ | + | '''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|Yes! I knew I would still have my moment of glory!}}<br /> |
'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|I tried to help you...}}<br /> | '''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|I tried to help you...}}<br /> | ||
'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|I stood up for you...}}<br /> | '''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|I stood up for you...}}<br /> | ||
'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|I put myself on the LINE for you!}}<br /> | '''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|I put myself on the LINE for you!}}<br /> | ||
'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|NO MORE! You end HERE, Malaise! HERE AND NOW!}}<br /> | '''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|NO MORE! You end HERE, Malaise! HERE AND NOW!}}<br /> | ||
| − | '''Malaise:''' {{ | + | '''Malaise:''' {{WhiteonThistle|This will be my masterpiEAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHH!!!}}<br /> |
'''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|It's up... to you now... {{Character}}... to stop... all of this...}}}} | '''Sister Psyche:''' {{WhiteonGreen|It's up... to you now... {{Character}}... to stop... all of this...}}}} | ||
Latest revision as of 01:21, 10 March 2016
Finale: The Artist's Debut
Briefing
Sister Psyche's lapsed into a coma, Character. She and Aurora were fighting Malaise in her mind, and then she just... she just collapsed. Aurora had to push herself out of Psyche's mind before being trapped in there, but she said that Malaise and the Aurora trapped in there are running wild in her mind.
They're tearing Sister Psyche's mind apart, Character! Someone needs to stop them and save Sister Psyche's life!
- How? And what about Manticore?
Aurora said Manticore can't go in there. Psyche has too many memories associated with him, he's likely to get tossed up into the storm that's going on in her mind the minute he steps in. You have to be the one to go in there and stop whatever Malaise is doing.
Aurora Borealis can get you inside of Psyche's mind. From there, you need to help Sister Psyche get back into our reality. She needs someone to act as her guardian, her mind's new mental defender. If you can get Psyche back up to speed, she'll be able to force Malaise out of there and the fake Aurora into her own mind. We've got a Longbow agent stationed nearby who can take you to Aurora and Psyche.
Unnecessary Solicitation
We don't have time, Character, Sister Psyche's life is hangin' by a thread!
Mission Objective(s)
- Save Sister Psyche's Life
Briefing
We've got no time to lose, Character. Aurora is inside trying to keep a stable link up with Sister Psyche's mind.
It's going to be up to you to act as Sister Psyche's mental defenses and fight off all the attacks by Malaise and the Aurora that's inside of her mind.
- Alright, send me in.
Mission Objective(s)
You're violently flung into Sister Psyche's mind, travelling through various passageways and tubes before you arrive in what seems to be the heart of her mind.
- Save Sister Psyche's Life
- Fight off Malaise and Aurora's manifestations
- Find Sister Psyche in her Rikti memory
- Defeat the Powerful Image of Malaise to weaken the Rikti
- Defeat the Rikti Commander
- ???
You helped Sister Psyche overcome Malaise and ultimately destroy him. However, the Aurora that's in her mind is free, and shows no signs of going back to her previous state.
Enemies
Notable NPCs
Briefing
You see Sister Psyche curled up on the ground, staring out into the distance. Looking around the area, it seems like this is her memory of the first Rikti invasion.
Can't... can't do anymore... can't shut out the screaming... the pain... did everything I could to stop the Rikti... losing control... losing my mind... went too far... all alone now... all... all alone...
- Snap out of it! You're not alone!
Who... who are you? Not Manticore... not Synapse... not Positron...
- I'm Character, your new mental guardian, Malaise is trying to weaken you!
Malaise... no hope... no hope...
Help will never come... the Rikti will destroy everything... I couldn't stop them... even with all my power...
All alone, in the end, the end coming to destroy...
- You are NOT alone, snap out of it! Look at me!
Sister Psyche looks at you with dawning recognition on her face. You hear a loud explosion in the distance - someone's here!
- Malaise!
Briefing
I'm terribly sorry for Ms. Tilman's outburst, Ms. Orosco. We'll take good care of her, don't worry.
- I'll break this, Malaise.
Briefing
Please, Ms.Orosco, head back to your room. Shalice needs her treatment. We'll make sure she stops calling you Character.
- I am Character!
Briefing
This is no place for you to be, Ms. Orosco. Ms. Tilman will need constant care to be nursed back to health.
- I know what's going on here, Malaise! I'll stop this!
Briefing
A much different version of Sister Psyche stands before you. You realize that this must be one of her deepest fears, that everything she's experiencing isn't real, that it's all a massive hallucination.
Malaise has managed to drag Sister Psyche down into her worst fear. You'll have to somehow bring Sister Psyche back from the brink of destruction!
I'm sorry... Ms. Orosco, I... I thought it was all real... I could've sworn.
- It is real! Remember the Freedom Phalanx, you're part of them!
- I don't... the Freedom Phalanx... it seems so familiar... but then they feel so distant...
- I can barely remember their faces, the ones who were all in there. I think of them, and their faces begin to vanish, as if waking up from a dream...
- I don't even remember... the heart of the Phalanx... the one who helped get us all... get us all together...
- It was Positron.
- Positron... I remember... he helped to save me from those villains. He wanted... he wanted to reform the Phalanx in the 80's, to help fight crime on the streets of Paragon.
- All of us scoffed at him, said it couldn't be done, but he won us all over, including Statesman. I... remember, but... was it real?
- It was real, you're seeing it!
- I don't know... isn't this real? The other world I thought I was in... it was all too crazy, too unbelievable to be true.
- Remember your husband, Manticore!
- This selection loops to another branch of this conversation which is already documented.
- -I'm- real, I'm Character, and this is all a trick by Malaise!
- This selection loops to another branch of this conversation which is already documented.
- It was Statesman.
- No... no, none of that is right...!
- Listen!
- I don't know... isn't this real? The other world I thought I was in... it was all too crazy, too unbelievable to be true.
- Remember the Freedom Phalanx, you're part of them!
- This selection loops to another branch of this conversation which is already documented.
- Remember your husband, Manticore!
- This selection loops to another branch of this conversation which is already documented.
- -I'm- real, I'm Character, and this is all a trick by Malaise!
- This selection loops to another branch of this conversation which is already documented.
- Remember your husband, Manticore. It was all real!
- Manticore... Dr. Sinclair...? No, it was all just me... pushing some vivid daydream I had about the doctor into that reality. Manticore is a ridiculous name, I would've never... never been married to Sinclair.
- But yet... something seems wrong about that. As if I was... but... it can't be true. I remember though, fights... we were fighting about something recently... I can't remember what it was...
- It was probably about Ms. Liberty and working with her.
- No... no, none of that is right...!
- Listen!
- This selection loops to another branch of this conversation which is already documented.
- It was probably about Malaise and trying to redeem him.
- I remember... you're right! He said it was all for nothing, that he couldn't be redeemed. I yelled at him, said I wasn't a fool, that I could do it...
- I was so angry, but only because his opinion matters to me. I wanted him to see what I saw, to feel the mercy that I... that I had. That mercy though, it went away... it went away because...
- Because of what he's doing NOW! Wake up!
- I don't know... isn't this real? The other world I thought I was in... it was all too crazy, too unbelievable to be true.
- -I'm- real, I'm Character, and this is all a trick by Malaise!
- This selection loops to another branch of this conversation which is already documented.
- -I'm- real, I'm Character, and this is all a trick by Malaise!
- Malaise... I hear that name and I get angry, but I can't remember why. But when I hear Character... for some reason, I associate that with some sort of defender. Like, Character was a protector...
- It doesn't make sense though, I don't have any sort of vast history with Character, but yet... I don't know.
- Why would Character seem so close to me now, more than my own husband or my friends?
- Because I'm here trying to save your mind!
- Yes... that's right. I remember yelling for you to help, it was all recent... seconds ago!
- Trapped in my mind, trying to get out, no strength left to defend myself...
- Then you appeared and attacked Malaise... attacked the Aurora inside of me...
- You're not just a patient, you ARE Character!
- That's right, you're remembering!
- You're right... This isn't real! My LIFE outside is real!
- You remember!
- Because of a link Aurora set up between the two of us.
- No... no, none of that is right...!
- Listen!
- This selection loops to another branch of this conversation which is already documented.
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Darrin Wade: You do realize the danger you'll be in, going inside of Sister Psyche's mind. Positron: The doctors have confirmed that Malaise is dead. There's no coming back for him. |
Debriefing
Great work, Character! Aurora Borealis told us everything that happened in Sister Psyche's mind. You're a real hero, you know that?
Malaise has been confirmed to be dead. Sister Psyche destroyed every last bit of him within her mind. His heart supposedly stopped beating seconds after she wiped him out. A better man would say it's a shame he's dead, but I ain't a better man, Character, not by a long shot.
Now, we still got a ton of issues that need settling, like goin' after Darrin Wade and curing Sister Psyche. The FBSA and Longbow are investigating both as we speak, along with the Freedom Phalanx. The city needs you in the meantime, though. When we get word about what's goin' on next, you're gonna be the first person to know. Until then, Character, keep up the good work. For all of us.
