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Hmph. They're easy enough to handle once you know what you're dealing with. |
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Quite. These Charons behave more simpler and more systematically than the ones on campus. |
Styx Staff A |
You're...you're those subjects! |
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Subjects? I think you mean your saviors. You owe us, so how about taking us to your precious acting director? |
Styx Staff A |
Eek! Stay away from me, you monsters! |
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Did you just call us monsters? |
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And here I just aided you in the spirit of benevolence. What a thing to say! |
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No kidding. Look, we're just a group of poor, lost little lambs who can't find our way.
So take us lost kids to the control room already—that's where the adults are, right? Well? |
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In what world would a lost child have such a sinister glint in their eye? Or act so high-handed? |
Styx Staff A |
No! I don't wanna go anywhere near the central block! That's where Tartarus is!
The Cerberus System's been hijacked. Once the Phantoms start pouring out, the island's finished! |
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Wait, what do you mean by hijacked? |
Styx Staff A |
I don't have time to stand around explaining things to you!
Step aside! I've got to get to the escape terminal! |
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Good grief... Fine, so be it.
Just calm down. We know you want to escape, but it wouldn't be wise to go by yourself.
Allow us to escort you. |
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Heh... There's that eye contact.
The one you behold is your master. When I ask you a question, you will answer. When I give you a command, you will assent.
Snake Charmer. |
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You have an ID card, I presume. Open the door for us, would you? |
Styx Staff A |
Yes... Master... |
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I have to hand it to you, Jamil. That was smoothly done. |
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He said the Cerberus System's been hijacked.
Can you get him to tell us what's going on with that? |
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Snake Charmer simply allows control over a target's will.
it's not like Jade's signature spell.
It would be difficult to extract very specific information from a target.
If done a certain way, I might be able to get a similar result, but that's neither here nor there... |
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Oh yeah? The Octavinelle vice housewarden has a signature spell that can do that? Scary stuff. |
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Oh dear, I said something I shouldn't have. I'm fairly certain he wouldn't want me sharing that, so please do keep it to yourself. |
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Don't worry, Leona.
Jade's signature spell would hardly be a threat to a mage as capable as yourself.
Tch... I was trying to keep that secret as my ace in the hole.
You let it slip on purpose, didn't you, Jamil? |
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Why, I have no idea what you're talking about. |
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This isn't a school bus, boys. Enough with the chitchat.
With this staffer's ID and guidance, we'll be able to reach the control room without getting lost. |
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Right. And once we're there, we can assess the situation. |
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All right, let's move on. |
Styx Institute - Control Room
Technician A |
All Charon power armors are active and on autopilot. Ortho's got control of their admin rights!
We've received reports of them attacking and capturing our own personnel! Several people have been injured. |
Technician B |
R&D, what's the status of the weapons in the hangars? |
Engineer A |
All weapons with Styx-made technomantic circuitry remain offline! |
Technician B |
That's all of our weapons! Get them working, even if you have to disassemble them to do it! |
Technician C |
We've had no response to the distress signal we sent to the outside!
And we've lost communication with the staff who were heading to the power stations and emergency escape terminals. |
Technician A |
An analysis of the River Lethe's configuration data and stored energy has been started! |
Technician D |
I'm trying to run a brute-force attack program to get Cerberus restarted...
But he keeps overriding the activation codes! his processing speed's way beyond ours! |
Technician C |
Tartarus freezing system disengaged. It'll be fully thawed in 6 hours and 16 minutes!
It's going faster on the upper levels. The thaw should reach sector four in another three hours. |
Technician A |
Tower 1 has already started to unfreeze, all the way down to sector 12. |
Technician B |
Sector 12?! That's where the original Phantoms are!
So it's only a matter of time before the Titans awaken?! |
Technician A |
Blot density is rising throughout HQ! Sounding the contamination alarm! |
Technician B |
We're simply no match for Ortho's computing power...
Is there nothing we can do? |
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Come now. Don't tell me you're giving up that easily. |
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