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QuoteJust post the text from your favorite confrontation. It can be from a book, a movie, a game, anything! I'll start with mine.
This is from Planescape: Torment when The Nameless One finally faces The Transcendent One (AKA, his mortality). Since you can pick multiple dialogue paths, I just chose the one that I really liked.
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SO YOU HAVE COME. YOU ARE UNWELCOME HERE, BROKEN ONE.
"What have you done to my friends?"
ARE THEY DEAD? YES. UNLIKE YOU THEY HAVE BUT ONE LIFE. AND THEY WASTED IT FOR YOUR SAKE. THEY DIED FOR YOU AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE. SUCH IS THE WAY OF ALL MORTAL THINGS. IT IS THE FATE OF ALL THAT FOLLOW YOU, BROKEN ONE. YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN MUCH.
"Why did you do it?"
THEY TRIED TO HARM ME. HERE OF ALL PLACES. I DEFENDED MYSELF. IN SO DOING, MORTALITY CLAIMED THEM. THEIR DEATHS WERE BY THEIR OWN HAND. I GAVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEPART THIS PLACE, BUT THEY SEEMED DETERMINED TO HELP YOU, DESPITE THE COST TO THEMSELVES.
"So you killed them."
THE TIEFLING GIRL WAS ESPECIALLY FIERCE IN YOUR DEFENSE. HER FEELINGS FOR YOU BURNED BRIGHTer THAN ELYSIUM'S FIRES. AND THE TANAR'RI... SHE WAS QUITE STRONG. HER TOLERANCE FOR PAIN WOULD HAVE SHAMED THE BAATEZU THEMSELVES. I TOOK NO PLEASURE IN THEIR DEATHS.
"Then why did you do it?"
IT WAS NOT MY WILL. IT WAS NOT I THAT BROUGHT THEM HERE. ALL OF THEM HAD A CHOICE. AND THEY CHOSE TO DIE FOR YOU. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE WAY OF ALL THAT FOLLOW YOU. FOR THEY ARE TORMENTED SOULS, SEEKING A RELEASE. BUT THEY KNOW NOT WHY. YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THIS. AND YOU SHALL AGAIN.
"I know you for what you are - you are my mortality Your armor - it is twisted like tree branches. Such things speak of Ravel's magicks."
YES. I AM THAT WHICH WAS SPLIT FROM YOU BY THE HAG'S POWER. I AM THAT WHICH WALKS WITH ALL LIFE. MY VOICE IS A DEATH RATTLE, A LAST BREATH IN THE THROAT, THE WHISPER OF A DYING MAN. I HAVE BEEN FREED FROM THE PRISON OF YOUR FLESH.
"Freed from me?"
THE MOMENT I WAS SPLIT FROM YOUR CANCEROUS SHELL, I KNEW LIFE. I KNEW FREEDOM. I SHALL NOT SURRENDER IT TO YOU.
"We were not meant to be seperated. And the Planes have suffered because of our separation."
YOU KNOW NOTHING OF MEANING AND SEPERATION. BEFORE YOUR MEMORY DIES AGAIN, KNOW THAT WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE AS ONE. THIS SHALL BE THE LAST TIME YOU AND I SPEAK, BROKEN ONE.
"Then there is something I would know, spirit - I have traveled far, and there are many questions you can answer."
I WILL INDULGE YOU THIS ONE LAST TIME. THEN THIS FORTRESS SHALL BE SILENT AGAIN.
"Then my questions are these"
ASK YOUR QUESTIONS. BUT KNOW YOU SHALL NEVER REMEMBER THE ANSWERS.
"I may be immortal, but Ravel told me the ritual was flawed: Whenever I die, I lose a fraction of my mind. In time, after many deaths, I shall lose the ability to even think for myself."
IT IS OF NO MATTER. YOU CANNOT DIE. YOUR MIND MAY BE LOST, BUT YOUR FLESH WILL LIVE ON. THAT IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED.
"'Needed?' Why?"
WE SHARE A LINK, YOU AND I, HOWEVER SMALL. I DO NOT WISH YOU DESTROYED, ONLY FAR FROM ME.
"Then why have you been trying to kill me all this time?"
IT IS OF NO CONSEQUENCE.
"Wait... those shadows you sent against me – they never succeeded in killing me... but that was never their purpose, was it? They only 'kill' me to make me forget."
THERE IS NOTHING IN YOUR SHELL OF A MIND THAT IS OF CONSEQUENCE, BROKEN ONE.
"Except that – from what the Pillar of Skulls told me, there were only three that knew where you could be found and how to reach you – one is Trias, one’s you, and the other is me. If you kill Trias and I, they’ll be no one who knows who you are and how to find you."
YES, THE ANGEL THAT SHIELDS ITSELF WITH GOLDEN LIES. YOU LED ME TO HIM AT LAST. LIKE YOU, THE BETRAYER WAS DIFFICULT TO FIND. HE WILL DIE THE FINAL DEATH.
"So you used me to find him? You wanted me to kill him, didn’t you, so that his knowledge would die – and then you tried to kill me so I would forget where to find you."
I SEE TIME’S BLADE HAS NOT BLED YOUR MIND OF ALL REASON. MY PURPOSE WAS ALWAYS SUCH: TO MAKE YOU FORGET.
"But why? Why do-"
BECAUSE I NEVER AGAIN WISH TO SUFFER YOUR PRESENCE, BROKEN ONE. YOU ARE AN IRRITATION, A REMINDER OF WHAT LIFE ONCE WAS, AND I DETEST SUCH REMINDERS. I WISH TO BE LEFT IN PEACE IN MY FORTRESS. AS YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ME, I WISH TO FORGET YOU. FOREVER.
"But I no longer forget things when I die. Perhaps once, but no longer."
YOU LIE. YOU HAVE ALWAYS FORGOTTEN. AND I HAVE ALWAYS REMEMBERED. IT WAS ALWAYS SUCH.
"'Always' doesn't mean what it once did. I have died, time and again, and my memories have returned to me."
YOUR DECEPTIONS WILL NOT SHIELD YOU HERE, BROKEN ONE.
"It is the truth. Killing me won’t stop me – because killing me doesn't make me forget anymore. I’ll know you always, I’ll remember everything you’ve done, how to reach here, and eventually how to destroy you."
THEN I SHALL IMPRISON YOU, NAMELESS ONE. IF YOU WILL NOT FORGET, THEN I SHALL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE FREE.
"But I already escaped from that crystal prison you threw in my path. You can’t kill me, you can’t hold me, and you can’t make me forget myself any longer."
THEN I WILL FEED YOU TO THE SHADES. I WILL DEFEAT YOU HERE, THEN CAST YOU INTO THE SHADOW GALLERIES, WHERE THEY MAY FEED ON YOU. THEY WILL KILL YOU ACROSS THE SPAN OF SEVERAL ETERNITIES. YOU SHALL NEVER WALK THE PLANES AGAIN.
"Then this is my final question: What can change the nature of a man?"
THE QUESTION IS MEANINGLESS
"Nevertheless, before there is an ending between us, I will hear your answer."
THEN THIS IS MY ANSWER, AND YOU ARE THE PROOF. NOTHING CAN CHANGE THE NATURE OF A MAN.
"If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can."
THEN YOU LEARNED A FALSE LESSON, BROKEN ONE.
"Have I? I've seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle. This entire Fortress has been constructed from belief. Belief damned a woman, whose heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not. Once, it made a man seek immortality and achieve it. And it has made a posturing spirit think it is something more than a part of me."
YOUR DEFIANCE WILL HURT YOU MORE THAN ANY WOUND IN THIS PLACE. BELIEF CANNOT CHANGE THE NATURE OF A MAN.
"I think it can. I think belief could even unmake me, if I believed it enough."
YOU DO NOT POSSESS THE FORCE OF WILL FOR SUCH A THING.
"So you admit it's possible."
DO YOU TRY MY PATIENCE BROKEN ONE.
<focus your will inwards, centering on yourself.>
YOU ARE A FOOL TO THINK YOU CAN ACHIEVE SUCH A THING. YOU CAN BARELY KEEP YOUR OWN TATTERED MIND INTACT. THERE IS NOWHERE LEFT FOR YOU TO FALL, BROKEN ONE.
<keep focusing.>
STOP. YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU DO.
"I know what I do. You have tormented me enough, and now it ends."
IF YOU DO THIS THING, WE SHALL BE UNDONE. THERE IS NO ONE FATE HERE. YOU DESTROY US BOTH.
"As I see it, I have two choices - either I kill us both, or I let you kill me again and again, losing what few pieces of my mind I have left. I thing I'd prefer we both die - unless you have a third solution."
THERE IS NO OTHER RESOLUTION TO THIS MATTER.
"I think there is - we can become one again, as we were meant."
YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU DO. IF WE ARE RE-UNITED, THEN IT SHALL BE AN ENDING. THERE SHALL BE NO FUTURE FOR US. WE SHALL GO ON TO FURTHER TORMENTS.
"It is better that happen than the multiverse continues to suffer because of us."
IF WE BECOME ONE, WE SHALL SUFFER. THERE IS TOO MUCH OF THE NATURE OF THE FIRST ONE IN US FOR US TO BE SAVED. WE SHALL BE DAMNED. YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU DO.
"No, I know very well what I do. And I think this is the only answer. Prepare yourself."
KNOW THAT I HAVE ALWAYS HATED YOU, BROKEN ONE. WHEN WE ARE ONE, I WILL CONTINUE TO HATE YOU. WHEN YOUR SHELL DIES AT LAST, KNOW THAT I SHALL TAKE PLEASURE IN YOUR DEATH.
"I can live with that - and so can the planes."
KNOW THAT MY HATRED FOR YOU WILL UNMAKE THE PLANES. PREPARE YOURSELF. WE SHALL BE AS ONE AGAIN -- UNTIL YOUR LAST MOMENTS OF LIFE.
"Before we do, what of my friends? Is it possible to save them?"
I AM MORTALITY ITSELF. THE NATURE OF LIFE AND DEATH IS SOMETHING I KNOW... WELL. WHEN WE ARE ONE, MY KNOWING SHALL BE YOURS.
"Very well. I am ready to become mortal again."
SO YOU HAVE COME. YOU ARE UNWELCOME HERE, BROKEN ONE.
"What have you done to my friends?"
ARE THEY DEAD? YES. UNLIKE YOU THEY HAVE BUT ONE LIFE. AND THEY WASTED IT FOR YOUR SAKE. THEY DIED FOR YOU AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE. SUCH IS THE WAY OF ALL MORTAL THINGS. IT IS THE FATE OF ALL THAT FOLLOW YOU, BROKEN ONE. YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN MUCH.
"Why did you do it?"
THEY TRIED TO HARM ME. HERE OF ALL PLACES. I DEFENDED MYSELF. IN SO DOING, MORTALITY CLAIMED THEM. THEIR DEATHS WERE BY THEIR OWN HAND. I GAVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEPART THIS PLACE, BUT THEY SEEMED DETERMINED TO HELP YOU, DESPITE THE COST TO THEMSELVES.
"So you killed them."
THE TIEFLING GIRL WAS ESPECIALLY FIERCE IN YOUR DEFENSE. HER FEELINGS FOR YOU BURNED BRIGHTer THAN ELYSIUM'S FIRES. AND THE TANAR'RI... SHE WAS QUITE STRONG. HER TOLERANCE FOR PAIN WOULD HAVE SHAMED THE BAATEZU THEMSELVES. I TOOK NO PLEASURE IN THEIR DEATHS.
"Then why did you do it?"
IT WAS NOT MY WILL. IT WAS NOT I THAT BROUGHT THEM HERE. ALL OF THEM HAD A CHOICE. AND THEY CHOSE TO DIE FOR YOU. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE WAY OF ALL THAT FOLLOW YOU. FOR THEY ARE TORMENTED SOULS, SEEKING A RELEASE. BUT THEY KNOW NOT WHY. YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THIS. AND YOU SHALL AGAIN.
"I know you for what you are - you are my mortality Your armor - it is twisted like tree branches. Such things speak of Ravel's magicks."
YES. I AM THAT WHICH WAS SPLIT FROM YOU BY THE HAG'S POWER. I AM THAT WHICH WALKS WITH ALL LIFE. MY VOICE IS A DEATH RATTLE, A LAST BREATH IN THE THROAT, THE WHISPER OF A DYING MAN. I HAVE BEEN FREED FROM THE PRISON OF YOUR FLESH.
"Freed from me?"
THE MOMENT I WAS SPLIT FROM YOUR CANCEROUS SHELL, I KNEW LIFE. I KNEW FREEDOM. I SHALL NOT SURRENDER IT TO YOU.
"We were not meant to be seperated. And the Planes have suffered because of our separation."
YOU KNOW NOTHING OF MEANING AND SEPERATION. BEFORE YOUR MEMORY DIES AGAIN, KNOW THAT WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE AS ONE. THIS SHALL BE THE LAST TIME YOU AND I SPEAK, BROKEN ONE.
"Then there is something I would know, spirit - I have traveled far, and there are many questions you can answer."
I WILL INDULGE YOU THIS ONE LAST TIME. THEN THIS FORTRESS SHALL BE SILENT AGAIN.
"Then my questions are these"
ASK YOUR QUESTIONS. BUT KNOW YOU SHALL NEVER REMEMBER THE ANSWERS.
"I may be immortal, but Ravel told me the ritual was flawed: Whenever I die, I lose a fraction of my mind. In time, after many deaths, I shall lose the ability to even think for myself."
IT IS OF NO MATTER. YOU CANNOT DIE. YOUR MIND MAY BE LOST, BUT YOUR FLESH WILL LIVE ON. THAT IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED.
"'Needed?' Why?"
WE SHARE A LINK, YOU AND I, HOWEVER SMALL. I DO NOT WISH YOU DESTROYED, ONLY FAR FROM ME.
"Then why have you been trying to kill me all this time?"
IT IS OF NO CONSEQUENCE.
"Wait... those shadows you sent against me – they never succeeded in killing me... but that was never their purpose, was it? They only 'kill' me to make me forget."
THERE IS NOTHING IN YOUR SHELL OF A MIND THAT IS OF CONSEQUENCE, BROKEN ONE.
"Except that – from what the Pillar of Skulls told me, there were only three that knew where you could be found and how to reach you – one is Trias, one’s you, and the other is me. If you kill Trias and I, they’ll be no one who knows who you are and how to find you."
YES, THE ANGEL THAT SHIELDS ITSELF WITH GOLDEN LIES. YOU LED ME TO HIM AT LAST. LIKE YOU, THE BETRAYER WAS DIFFICULT TO FIND. HE WILL DIE THE FINAL DEATH.
"So you used me to find him? You wanted me to kill him, didn’t you, so that his knowledge would die – and then you tried to kill me so I would forget where to find you."
I SEE TIME’S BLADE HAS NOT BLED YOUR MIND OF ALL REASON. MY PURPOSE WAS ALWAYS SUCH: TO MAKE YOU FORGET.
"But why? Why do-"
BECAUSE I NEVER AGAIN WISH TO SUFFER YOUR PRESENCE, BROKEN ONE. YOU ARE AN IRRITATION, A REMINDER OF WHAT LIFE ONCE WAS, AND I DETEST SUCH REMINDERS. I WISH TO BE LEFT IN PEACE IN MY FORTRESS. AS YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ME, I WISH TO FORGET YOU. FOREVER.
"But I no longer forget things when I die. Perhaps once, but no longer."
YOU LIE. YOU HAVE ALWAYS FORGOTTEN. AND I HAVE ALWAYS REMEMBERED. IT WAS ALWAYS SUCH.
"'Always' doesn't mean what it once did. I have died, time and again, and my memories have returned to me."
YOUR DECEPTIONS WILL NOT SHIELD YOU HERE, BROKEN ONE.
"It is the truth. Killing me won’t stop me – because killing me doesn't make me forget anymore. I’ll know you always, I’ll remember everything you’ve done, how to reach here, and eventually how to destroy you."
THEN I SHALL IMPRISON YOU, NAMELESS ONE. IF YOU WILL NOT FORGET, THEN I SHALL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE FREE.
"But I already escaped from that crystal prison you threw in my path. You can’t kill me, you can’t hold me, and you can’t make me forget myself any longer."
THEN I WILL FEED YOU TO THE SHADES. I WILL DEFEAT YOU HERE, THEN CAST YOU INTO THE SHADOW GALLERIES, WHERE THEY MAY FEED ON YOU. THEY WILL KILL YOU ACROSS THE SPAN OF SEVERAL ETERNITIES. YOU SHALL NEVER WALK THE PLANES AGAIN.
"Then this is my final question: What can change the nature of a man?"
THE QUESTION IS MEANINGLESS
"Nevertheless, before there is an ending between us, I will hear your answer."
THEN THIS IS MY ANSWER, AND YOU ARE THE PROOF. NOTHING CAN CHANGE THE NATURE OF A MAN.
"If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can."
THEN YOU LEARNED A FALSE LESSON, BROKEN ONE.
"Have I? I've seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle. This entire Fortress has been constructed from belief. Belief damned a woman, whose heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not. Once, it made a man seek immortality and achieve it. And it has made a posturing spirit think it is something more than a part of me."
YOUR DEFIANCE WILL HURT YOU MORE THAN ANY WOUND IN THIS PLACE. BELIEF CANNOT CHANGE THE NATURE OF A MAN.
"I think it can. I think belief could even unmake me, if I believed it enough."
YOU DO NOT POSSESS THE FORCE OF WILL FOR SUCH A THING.
"So you admit it's possible."
DO YOU TRY MY PATIENCE BROKEN ONE.
<focus your will inwards, centering on yourself.>
YOU ARE A FOOL TO THINK YOU CAN ACHIEVE SUCH A THING. YOU CAN BARELY KEEP YOUR OWN TATTERED MIND INTACT. THERE IS NOWHERE LEFT FOR YOU TO FALL, BROKEN ONE.
<keep focusing.>
STOP. YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU DO.
"I know what I do. You have tormented me enough, and now it ends."
IF YOU DO THIS THING, WE SHALL BE UNDONE. THERE IS NO ONE FATE HERE. YOU DESTROY US BOTH.
"As I see it, I have two choices - either I kill us both, or I let you kill me again and again, losing what few pieces of my mind I have left. I thing I'd prefer we both die - unless you have a third solution."
THERE IS NO OTHER RESOLUTION TO THIS MATTER.
"I think there is - we can become one again, as we were meant."
YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU DO. IF WE ARE RE-UNITED, THEN IT SHALL BE AN ENDING. THERE SHALL BE NO FUTURE FOR US. WE SHALL GO ON TO FURTHER TORMENTS.
"It is better that happen than the multiverse continues to suffer because of us."
IF WE BECOME ONE, WE SHALL SUFFER. THERE IS TOO MUCH OF THE NATURE OF THE FIRST ONE IN US FOR US TO BE SAVED. WE SHALL BE DAMNED. YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU DO.
"No, I know very well what I do. And I think this is the only answer. Prepare yourself."
KNOW THAT I HAVE ALWAYS HATED YOU, BROKEN ONE. WHEN WE ARE ONE, I WILL CONTINUE TO HATE YOU. WHEN YOUR SHELL DIES AT LAST, KNOW THAT I SHALL TAKE PLEASURE IN YOUR DEATH.
"I can live with that - and so can the planes."
KNOW THAT MY HATRED FOR YOU WILL UNMAKE THE PLANES. PREPARE YOURSELF. WE SHALL BE AS ONE AGAIN -- UNTIL YOUR LAST MOMENTS OF LIFE.
"Before we do, what of my friends? Is it possible to save them?"
I AM MORTALITY ITSELF. THE NATURE OF LIFE AND DEATH IS SOMETHING I KNOW... WELL. WHEN WE ARE ONE, MY KNOWING SHALL BE YOURS.
"Very well. I am ready to become mortal again."
EDIT: Here's hoping the quote tags work this time.
Edited by Mega X.exe on July 1, 2006 at 0:03:10.
Edited by Mega X.exe on July 1, 2006 at 0:07:48.
