Tallum Broadhand's dialogue

6 1 1 6 7 0 1 1 0,9,0,2,0 1 0,9,0,6,0 Who are you? 1 1 0 A reaper of thieves. What are you doing here? If you are seeking the grailstone in the dock. You are going the wrong way. Ta1_1 0 0 0 55 2 0,9,0,2,0 0,9,0,0,0 1 0,9,0,6,0 What do you want? 1 1 0 The blood of thieves. It is my holy charge to protect the grail from the likes of you. Ta1_55 0 1 0 56 1 0,9,0,0,0 1 0,9,0,6,0 OK. OK. I've stopped. I don't want to fight. 1 1 0 What are you doing here? If you are seeking the grailstone in the dock. You are going the wrong way. Ta1_56 0 0 0 57 0 1 0,9,0,6,0 Back off. I've no time for an argument. 1 1 0 Neither have I. So I'll waste no time in goring you. Ta1_57 0 1 0 58 0 2 0,9,0,0,0 0,9,0,2,0 Grailstone? What grailstone? What are you talking about? Let me pass! 1 1 0 You lying dog. I can smell Edgar about your clothing. He always begins to sweat when his greed takes over. Ta1_58 0 1 0 59 0 2 0,9,0,0,0 0,9,0,2,0 Yes, I am trying to find my way to the docks. Which way are they? 1 1 0 I knew that greedy maggot Edgar would trade us all in secret to save himself. Which way is the dock good sir? Straight downward. To hell. Ta1_59 0 1 0 A 0 0 DO NOT DISPLAY 1 1 0 You! Thief! Stop where you are! I warn you, I have no faith in Tobias' dreams. Ta1_A 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 A 0 0 DO NOT DISPLAY 1 1 0 Oh Lord. Forgive me. Oh God, can you not give me a sign that I am forgiven for the foul deeds I have done. I have long renounced Maal. Will you not let me sleep easy. Give me a sign that my friend forgave me for my betrayal. Ta2_A 0 0 0 2A 1 7 8 0 92 1 0,9,2,1,0 1 0,9,2,7,0 I'm sorry. I wasn't spying. I just didn't want to disturb you. 1 1 0 Liar. You were sent by Tobias, weren't you? He sees himself as the vengeful hand of God, and if that is God's will, then so be it. But the likes of a common thief won't deliver me into his hands while I can still draw breath. Ta2A_92 0 1 0 93 0 1 0,9,2,7,0 What do you mean spying. You're somewhat paranoid aren't you? 1 1 0 What do you mean 'paranoid'? Ta2A_93 0 0 0 94 1 0,9,2,1,0 1 0,9,2,7,0 You seem to me to be a man with a lot of guilt. Why not share the burden by talking about it? 1 1 0 What? Share my burden and open my soul to a soulless, self serving thief such as you? I will first cut the heart from your body and smear your face in your own death! Ta2A_94 0 1 0 95 1 0,9,2,1,0 1 0,9,2,7,0 Your reaction suggests to me, you've got a lot to hide. 1 1 0 Indeed? You are quite right thief. And since I have so much hidden already, I feel sure I shall soon be hiding your dismembered corpse within the belly of a theo. Ta2A_95 0 1 0 96 0 1 0,9,2,1,0 I mean simply that I intend no offence. And I apologise for disturbing your meditation. And for any misunderstanding when we met earlier. 1 1 0 Hmm. You are surprisingly well mannered for a thief. But why should I trust what you say? Ta2A_96 0 0 1 9 3 97 0 1 0,9,2,1,0 It means, quite simply, that you're a barking lunatic. 1 1 0 (he just screams in rage) Ta2A_97 0 1 0 98 0 1 0,9,2,1,0 I'm sorry. The word 'paranoid' is probably a lot newer than this place. It means you suspect me needlessly. That your mind is creating the illusion that people are spying on you. 1 1 0 You think me the victim of a brain fever? Well, my friend. Let me remove your brain from your skull and discover whether you too are suffering. Ta2A_98 0 1 0 A 0 0 DO NOT DISPLAY 1 1 0 (he suddenly whirls round, standing, realising you are there) You. What did you hear? Why are spying on me? Ta2A_A 0 0 0 2B 0 7 0 100 1 0,9,3,1,0 0 Because you are the only one I have met down here who seems to be worthy of trust. 1 1 0 You too seem to be trustworthy. But, I'm afraid I cannot allow you to live with what you have heard. Ta2B_100 0 1 0 118 0 1 5,330 Because I have seen Guy! He succeeded in his pursuit of Malik. But only for long enough to gain sufficient grailstone to survive. Then the dog escaped him. He sent me down here knowing full well that outside of the influence of Malik, the knights good and true would return to their straight mind. In all truth, those were his very words to me. 1 1 0 How shall I know this to be true. Do not seek to play tricks on me thief. Why would Guy send you here. Ta2B_118 0 0 0 119 0 1 0,9,3,1,0 He sent me because Malik intends to try for the grail any day now. He said to remind you of the battle of Corinth. The two against many. 1 1 0 I believe you friend. We cannot let the grail leave the temple while Mallik lives. Tell me your task. Oh Lord. (falls to his knees). Then I am forgiven. Guy has forgiven me? Ta2B_119 0 0 0 120 1 0,9,3,2,0 1 0,9,3,1,0 He sent me to fetch the grail and take it to a safer place that he has prepared. 1 1 0 What? There is no safer place than Aeternis. Mallik could not get it before. You are a silver tongued devil. For a moment I almost believed you. Ta2B_120 0 1 0 121 0 1 0,9,3,2,0 There is nothing to forgive. My task is to guard the weakest access to the grail. 1 1 0 Why there is no better place than here. This part of the test gives access to the deeper level of Aeternis wherein lies the cathedral. Beneath this altar, there is an accessway that opens when a pianola roll is placed in the organ and the second shield is beneath the orrery. You must guard here. There is only one other way through the guardians own passageways. I will watch that. Is there anything else I might tell that will aid our holy cause? Ta2B_121 0 0 1 9 4 122 0 1 0,9,3,2,0 He has forgiven you of course. My task is not to defend the grail, however, but to remove it elsewhere within the temple. 1 1 0 What? But it is in the safest place there is in the temple. Guy would know this. (Sudden anger) You are lying to me! Ta2B_122 0 1 0 99 1 0,9,3,1,0 0 Because I could have just killed you from behind while you were praying. 1 1 0 I heard you behind me and turned in time I suspect, to save myself. Ta2B_99 0 1 0 2C 0 28 0 102 2 0,1,3,1,0 0,5,5,1,0 1 5,434 Do you know anything about alchemical experiments that were conducted in the temple? 1 1 0 Yes.The alchemist was summoned as part of unholy attempts to unlock the secrets of the substance that is grailstone. All attempts were doomed to failure by the will of God. The stuff is holy. No science of man can know it. Ta2C_102 0 0 0 12 0 0 What do you know of the nature of grailstone? 1 1 0 It is of God. I ask no further questions than that. It tests the will of man. We knights were the most highly trained and the most pious of men, but still it has tortured and warped us all beyond endurance. Not one of us is guiltless in its light. Ta2C_12 0 0 0 13 1 0,9,4,12,0 4 5,312 5,446 0,8,1,18,0 0,3,4,17,0 What can you tell me of someone called Geffrye? Is he one of the guardian knights? 1 1 0 You do not know? You claim to know Guy, yet he has never mentioned Geffrye. (BREAK) You have lied to me. You have never seen Guy. I will split your skull. Ta2C_13 0 1 0 15 0 0 There are dangerous animals down here. What are they? How did they get here? 1 1 0 Guy did not warn you of them? He would not have sent an ally into Aeternis unwary of the beasts. What manner of trickster are you. I fully believed you. Ta2C_15 0 1 0 16 0 0 How many others like me have you seen down here? 1 1 0 I have dealt with one thief. I have seen at least two others, but they evaded me. We must ward well against these thieves. It would be a cruel fate indeed if one were to deliver the grail into the hands of Mallik. Ta2C_16 0 0 0 162 1 0,9,4,17,0 3 0,8,1,8,0 0,8,1,10,0 0,8,1,17,0 Apparently there is a spy amongst the knights. What do you know about this? 1 1 0 Yes. Cobweb he calls himself. I wondered when first I hear of him if he were spying for Malik. Ta2C_162 0 0 0 19 4 5,445 0,7,3,8,0 0,7,3,11,0 5,326 1 5,316 I found a parchment that mentioned the Templar's plans to infiltrate the Scottish Freemasons. Did they succeed? 1 1 0 I know nothing of these machinations. Over the decades I have grown weary of the greed driven politics of mankind. Ta2C_19 0 0 0 20 3 0,10,1,8,0 0,1,3,9,0 0,7,3,9,0 1 0,6,0,10,0 I saw what I think was a ghost by an old well. 1 1 0 Indeed, the ghost of Niamh. It seems strange that Guy would not have mentioned the power of Aeternis and grailstone to bind the dead here. Ta2C_20 0 0 0 22 0 1 6,70 There's some kind of creature in the water here. I've never seen anything like it. What was it? 1 1 0 A creature from hell come for cooler waters I suspect. It is lethal. Beware of it at all times. Ta2C_22 0 0 0 23 4 0,7,1,0,0 0,7,1,1,0 0,7,2,0,0 0,9,4,12,0 6 5,447 0,10,1,27,0 0,4,2,14,0 0,1,3,14,0 0,3,4,33,0 0,3,4,17,0 What can you tell me about Philip? 1 1 0 You do not know of him? You claim to know Guy, yet he has never mentioned Philip. (BREAK) You have lied to me. You have never seen Guy. I will paint the wall with your treacherous blood. Ta2C_23 0 1 0 24 4 5,316 5,445 0,7,3,11,0 0,7,3,8,0 1 5,447 I read something in a parchment I found about 'brothers above ground.' Can you tell me anything about this? 1 1 0 I know nothing of this. Perhaps it is to do with the power hungry plots of Tobias. I am so tired of the endless hunger for power of that fallen man. Ta2C_24 0 0 0 25 0 0 What can you tell me of the test? The knowledge may assist me in stopping any thieves getting to the grail. 1 1 0 Indeed. If any thief should pass the impedimenta of this room and descend beneath the altar, he will enter a drain. If you are able follow him and push him out the other end. A fearsome beast waits below. It will consume him utterly. Ta2C_25 0 0 0 26 0 0 Tell me more about the guardians. 1 1 0 Since Mallik and Guy left the temple, things have been much as they were at that time. Edgar and Philip maintain their obsession with keeping the faction alive, while Tobias lives as always amongst his books, worshipped by the fool Geffrye and his twisted little dog Lurka. Meanwhile I have wandered the temple having little to do with them. I occupy most of my time keeping and training to the best of my ability the Theos and other beasts of the temple. I do this for Tobias. It is his punishment for my past foolishness in being a party to Mallik's dreams of power. Ta2C_26 0 0 0 39 3 0,7,3,16,0 0,1,3,16,0 0,5,5,16,0 1 6,9 The well is very ancient. Do you know who may have built it? 1 1 0 In ancient times an evil group of men called the Byzantines, worshippers of Daemons built a temple of their own deeper in the caves here. Little remains of it now and nothing of them at all. Ta2C_39 0 0 0 41 1 0,6,1,20,1 1 0,9,4,7,0 What happened to Niamh's lover Oisin? 1 1 0 I don't know. It is clear he never came back. I suspect he aged and died on leaving the temple. The same fate I thought I had condemned Guy to. I am so glad you have come stranger. My mind is relieved of a great weight of madness. Ta2C_41 0 0 0 46 1 0,7,3,19,0 1 0,6,1,23,0 What do you know about a Sasha? 1 1 0 She was the sister of the ghost Niamh. She spent much time in the lower caves. Perhaps she got lost and stumbled ever downward into hell. Ta2C_46 0 0 0 48 3 0,7,3,20,0 0,5,5,20,0 0,3,4,24,0 3 5,353 5,445 5,346 Who is Baphomet? 1 1 0 The bearded head of God according to legend. Ta2C_48 0 0 0 53 1 0,9,4,5,0 4 5,345 0,10,1,26,0 0,8,1,9,0 0,5,5,7,0 Do you know who Cobweb is? 1 1 0 No. He is too wily to allow himself to be discovered by any. Ta2C_53 0 0 0 54 1 0,9,4,12,0 3 0,7,1,0,0 0,7,1,1,0 0,7,2,0,0 What can you tell me about Philip? 1 1 0 You do not know of him? You claim to know Guy, yet he has never mentioned Philip. (BREAK) You have lied to me. You have never seen Guy. I will paint the wall with your treacherous blood. Ta2C_54 0 1 0 60 0 3 0,5,1,0,0 0,5,4,0,0 5,346 Lurka's an odd little creature. What do you know about him? 1 1 0 You know nothing of him? But Guy would assuredly have told you of him. (BREAK) You have lied to me. You have never seen Guy. I will cut your soul from your body. Ta2C_60 0 1 0 65 0 3 5,447 5,345 0,8,1,15,0 What can you tell me about the Prieure? 1 1 0 They were a sister order to the Templars. Even we guardians knew little of them. But they turned out to be as greed ridden and power hungry as any other men when they made an attempt on the grail. Ta2C_65 0 0 0 66 3 0,7,3,26,0 0,5,5,25,0 0,1,3,25,0 1 5,322 Do you know if the pasture cavern is still accessible? 1 1 0 No. It collapsed long ago. Ta2C_66 0 0 0 67 0 5 5,323 5,330 0,7,3,2,0 0,1,3,30,0 0,5,5,30,0 Tell me all about Malik. 1 1 0 He was a charismatic. And not one of the kind blessed by God. Rather by Satan. He had an uncanny ability to expose the deepest thought in the head and twist it, turning it to a reason for betrayal and worship of him. (BREAK) He was not always that way. He was once a holy knight. But his origins were not European. He was perhaps a Saracen by birth. This would explain his turning to evil. Ta2C_67 0 0 0 68 0 2 5,323 0,7,3,27,0 Can you tell me about Malik's court? 1 1 0 Forgive me, but I cannot talk of that place. It will haunt my dreams to the end of my cursed days. Please, ask something else of me. Ta2C_68 0 0 0 69 0 3 5,326 5,346 0,1,3,13,0 What can you tell me about the 'vision of the holy thief'? 1 1 0 Tobias foresaw the coming of the thieves into the temple. (Chuckles) Perhaps the strange garbed one he saw in his delusion was Mallik. That would be a callous fate indeed. Ta2C_69 0 0 0 80 0 0 What more can you tell me of Tobias? 1 1 0 He was once a great man. But in the end his preoccupation with his deluded visions and his books were the cause of Mallik's attempt to destroy everything holy here. And yet still he has not learnt. He still dreams. (BREAK) He spends all his time within the library. But he will not engage you in conversation. (sarcasm) In case it disturbs his precious test. Ta2C_80 0 0 0 81 1 0,9,4,12,0 10 0,7,1,2,0 0,7,1,3,0 0,9,0,4,0 0,9,0,5,0 0,7,3,13,0 0,7,3,24,0 0,4,2,14,0 0,4,4,4,0 0,1,1,0,0 0,3,4,17,0 What do you know of someone called Edgar? 1 1 0 You do not know of him? You claim to know Guy, yet he has never mentioned Edgar. (BREAK) You have lied to me. You have never spoken to Guy. I wil paint the wall with your treacherous blood. Ta2C_81 0 1 0 999 0 0 I really don't think we should waste any further time talking. 1 1 0 Perhaps you're right my friend. I will go to the other pathway Malik might use. Ta2C_999 0 1 0 3 1 0 1 0 A 0 0 DO NOT DISPLAY 1 1 0 No. Not you Claude. As God is my witness; I am contrite. (BREAK) No. Keep back. Do not force me to fight you! Ta3_A 0 1 0