NPCA horrible stench reaches your nostrils long before you see its source — a corridor where punctured pipes are disgorging streams of murky sludge. In the distance, you see the lever that opens the doors leading outside. The only way to reach it is by submerging yourself in the sludge.
YOU"Yrliet, the honour of pulling the lever falls to you."
YrlietYrliet shrugs and silently enters the stream.
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YOU"Idira, I have a mission for you!"
Idira"It doesn't take a fortune-teller to figure out the specifics of that mission..."
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YOU"Heinrix, if you don't mind..."
HeinrixWith a slight bow, Heinrix departs for the murky waters with a stoic expression.
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YOU"Cassia, even delicate nobles can benefit from learning of the darker sides of life. Please proceed to the lever."
CassiaCassia looks at you like she cannot believe in such villainy. "I... I... very well! I will go learn... of the darker sides..."
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YOU"As everyone knows, the person who does all the dirty work for the Rogue Trader is his/her Seneschal..."
Abelard"I serve House von Valancius!" Abelard salutes you and marches onward with dignity.
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YOU"Jae, that lever is your destiny."
Jae"Sure thing, shereen! And I just finished scrubbing off the last bits of the soup!"
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YOU"Argenta, how about a stroll through this delightful muck?"
Argenta"I'm no prissy noble afraid to get her hands dirty!" Argenta advances through the putrid waters like a voidship.
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YOU"Kibellah, you are my shield. My shadow. My blade. My puller of levers."
KibellahKibellah shrugs and gracefully wades into the current of filth.
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YOU"Solomorne, could Glaito jump far enough to reach the lever?"
Solomorne"It's slippery, he might fall in the sewage. I'd better go myself." And the Proctor stoically sets out to assail the stinking stream.
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YOU"Eogunn, you have been granted a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the study of Footfall's wastewater."
NPC(sequence)
NPCThe Manipulus mimics Pasqal's demeanour with uncanny accuracy, casting a sly glance at his opponent. "Request acknowledged, Rogue Trader."
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Eogunn"Nuncius believes that the necessity of an in-depth analysis of this stream is dramatically exaggerated." Eogunn's gravitic core surges with power, and the Tech-Priest ascends majestically above the sloshing sewage.
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YOU"Pasqal, matters of technology are your forte. Which means you're going for that lever."
PasqalAfter studying the substance closely, Pasqal says firmly, "Request denied. I cannot defile my Ferrum Sanctum by making contact with this substance."
YOU"Yrliet, the honour of pulling the lever falls to you."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Idira, I have a mission for you!"continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Heinrix, if you don't mind..."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Cassia, even delicate nobles can benefit from learning of the darker sides of life. Please proceed to the lever."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"As everyone knows, the person who does all the dirty work for the Rogue Trader is his/her Seneschal..."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Jae, that lever is your destiny."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Argenta, how about a stroll through this delightful muck?"continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Kibellah, you are my shield. My shadow. My blade. My puller of levers."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Solomorne, could Glaito jump far enough to reach the lever?"continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Eogunn, you have been granted a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the study of Footfall's wastewater."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Pasqal, matters of technology are your forte. Which means you're going for that lever."continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Enter the malodorous sludge yourself] "Hard choices are the lot of any leader."
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NPC(sequence)
Idira"Hang on, you can just say no?"
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Jae"What if I told you there was a sunken stash of smuggled xenodevices in there?"
PasqalPasqal hesitates briefly before responding, "I reject this hypothesis."
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YOU[Enter the malodorous sludge yourself] "Hard choices are the lot of any leader."continues where this line first appears above
NPC(sequence)
Abelard"I'm too old for this sh— ahem."
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CassiaCassia brings the corner of a perfumed shawl to her nose. "I think I am going to be sick."
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Jae"Looks like the utility folks have really let themselves go; they've got shi— ahem, sewage spilling out right under the central square, but they just — eugh, so that's what I smelled last time I was in Vladaym's palace! Ha ha, the stench suits him."
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Yrliet"Is this filth somehow unusual for mon-keigh settlements?"
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Heinrix"Do I understand the reason for this deliberation correctly: we are deciding which one of us should plunge into the mire to open the door?"
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Idira"Someone's gotta go and pull the lever, right? I propose our holy sister as a candidate! A seeker after spiritual purity shouldn't be put off by a little bit of ordinary muck, after all."
Argenta"Hardy. Har. Har."
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EogunnThe Manipulus extends a thin auspex-analyser probe toward the malodorous waters. "Remarkable! The organic specimens in the water are so diverse that, in a manner of speaking, they lay bare the entire way of life on Footfall."