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Area: The Ziggurat Refuge (Past)NPC: Doryani Modifying the Device: Using the cleansed Corruption you retrieved, I was able to modify the device to accommodate your request. You should find things somewhat different next time you venture out.Doryani Cult of the Purple Flame: I had a suspicion that the Cult of the Purple Flame was dangerous. They did not know the true nature of the forces they beseeched. I'm not certain anyone will ever know the breadth of what lies beyond this world... but Chayula alone kept his word, in what little dealings were had. Perhaps one day, we will find out what happened to create this... Xesht.Doryani [DNT] Find Corruption Nexus: So, these densely Corrupted regions contain an active source. Despite the risks, you must venture within. Find the source of Corruption. When you have identified it and dealt with any danger, call for me. I will cleanse what remains.Doryani Stability: The current situation is finally stable. We have done enough to ensure humanity's survival, however meager our dignity may be. We should continue cleansing Corruption, however. It is true that we have ensured the future. Now, we should begin {improving} it.Doryani Cleanse Corruption: You have done well. That area has been cleansed, and the land may now return to its original state. By all means, continue.Doryani Source of Corruption: The source of Corruption was a creature? I wish I could perform a detailed autopsy of its corpse, but its passive emanations alone would quickly kill us. It looks to be significantly more mutated than other beings we've encountered. I don't like having insufficient data on new threats... we are vulnerable until we know more.Doryani Cleanse Corruption: The device still functions, despite the damage the Cataclysm caused. Good. Now, using the device, you must seek out major sources of Corruption for us to cleanse.Doryani Base of Operations: I believe it unwise to base our operations outside of the Ziggurat. This seems like an unnecessary risk to take. And Atalui is constantly complaining about the lack of facilities. However, I will make this concession, since you have done such critical work. Doryani Cleanse Corruption: You don't look sick or injured. Why are you lingering here? Continue your work.Doryani Cleanse Corruption: Keep up your work. It is a long and dangerous task, but there is an end in sight.Doryani Cleanse Corruption: Why are you wasting time here? Continue clearing Corruption!Doryani Cleanse Corruption: Continue clearing Corruption. It is the only thing we can do right now.Doryani Fear: There is something... a secret horror that hides in the broken puzzle pieces we possess... a pattern that even my intellect cannot quite grasp. Not with such limited information. It may surprise you to discover that a man like me can feel fear. I admit it. Fear is healthy. I feel fear when I know I am in danger, but do not have enough information. It is impossible to act with precision unless we know, so I have always sought the truth...but in this instance, for the first time in my life, I fear {knowing,} too... and I don't yet know why... Doryani Cleansed Regions: Cleansed regions of Wraeclast are still dangerous, but only in the ways with which we are familiar. The demon you know, as they say. These regions should also contain substantial amounts of neutralised Corruption, which may manifest as orbs or crystals of anomalous material. Collect them if you see them. They may prove useful.Doryani 关于腐化: Corruption, at a fundamental level, is a form of energy. Much of Vaal technology was based on using that energy, because it is freely available in the environment... My piece of the Weapon cannot destroy that energy, only render it inert, in the form of crystalline precipitate. In that form, it cannot hurt us, and might even be put to new uses.Doryani The Flame Seed: I understand that... something... stole the Flame Seed as your battle drew to a close. This is concerning. There is little we can do until we know more.Doryani Cataclysm's Corruption: In a time of minimal sentience—and most of it mad—what you encounter out there can be quite malleable. What we expect to find can shape things. The energies we use in our translocation device can influence outcomes. That device was made possible, after all, by a very special patron. They are likely watching us even now, and finding great humour in our travails...Doryani Guardian of the Flame Seed: From what you've told me, the guardian of the Flame Seed seems to have been purposely molded for his task. The Precursors created him, but he is not one of them. I can only theorise as to his purpose...Doryani Our Work: There was some damage but while you were unconscious, we worked to repair the machine. I believe it will function as desired... But it must be tested. That is where you come in. By placing Waystones in the machine, they will help calibrate the journey. The Corruption at the destination will respond to both the energies we use, and that we ourselves expect to find. Let us use this malleability to our advantage... Let us see if the machine is still capable.Doryani Patron: I was told many cryptic things. I was asked to—no, I shouldn't say. I don't understand, at least not yet. I was told this was the only way, yet still, I fought to find another path. I believe we make our own fates, but... here we are. If only I had the full picture...Doryani Precursor Towers: The sheer force of the Cataclysm scoured away much of the surface, and disrupted what remained. Sturdier than most, ancient Precursor towers have been left exposed. You should find one, and secure it for our research.Doryani Precursor Tower Network: I believe that the Precursor towers are part of a network created specifically to alter terrain and biomes. This may have been to make Wraeclast more habitable initially... or perhaps it had a larger purpose, later in their era. These ideas are just conjecture, of course.Doryani Precursor Tablets: Now that you have secured a Precursor tower, it has quickly become clear that it requires some sort of tablet to activate. Find a Precursor tablet, and let us take a calculated risk by activating that tower.Doryani A Word of Warning: I should warn you... in my search for ways to stop the Cataclysm, I entreated the ultimate wisdom in this world, and I paid a terrible price. That price is out there, still—and he is even more cunning and dangerous than I am, for he does not have my purity of purpose. When you meet him, destroy him utterly, and do not trouble yourself with your usual moral quandaries.Doryani The Weapon: On its own, my piece of the Precursor Weapon can only neutralise {passive} Corruption. That is why you must destroy the {active} source in each deadly region first. If we were to... somehow... someday... find the other pieces, we would be able to directly drain Corruption from the most volatile of sources... even the Beast itself. If I'd had the Weapon in hand, I could have saved my people...Doryani What now?: We {are} living the worst possible outcome, but I did anticipate {every} contingency... Before us is a translocation device, which {should} allow us to open portals to a wide range of coordinates across Wraeclast. With this, we can reclaim the world from the grasp of Corruption, so that civilisation can one day return to its former heights. Doryani Shelter: So, you are mostly unscathed. That is good. Unfortunately, Wraeclast was not so lucky. It has been devastated by the Cataclysm and is no longer habitable. Grieving would only be a waste of precious time - we must face reality, and make difficult choices.Doryani The Weapon: I have invested considerable resources and many years of effort in the search, but my knowledge of the Precursors still remains scarce. They are as ancient to us as we are to you. On such time scales, geological events tend to obscure remnants of civilisation. There is evidence of great fires. Eruptions. Impacts from the sky. All I know is that they, too, delved into the secrets of this world. Corruption was just one of many forms of energy that they mastered. I have come across simple pictographs in their ruins, intended as a contingency, should others come without knowledge of their language. Most pictographs were quite clear: {'Death lies within.'} One, however, held faded instructions for what we should do if that death should ever escape; if it should ever plague the land. That is how I know the Weapon exists, and... generally... how to find it. Someone in the past wanted us to know about it, in case the worst should ever happen... and clearly, it has...Doryani Corruption Cleansing: I have had time to increase the capabilities of the machine. We have a few choices to make.Doryani Corruption Cleansing: Valuable resources were located in the area you cleared. We can augment our capabilities.Doryani Corruption Cleansing: The space you cleared allowed us to reclaim several important tools. We can now upgrade our machine.Doryani Corruption Cleansing: With each success, we grow closer to our goal.Doryani Corruption Cleansing: A renowned scientist was... recovered... from the area you cleared. His acumen will add to our own.Doryani Corruption Cleansing: We found a handful of survivors in the area you cleared. We'll put them to work.Doryani Source of Corruption: This creature is far different from the type you defeated before. It looks to be the center of a hive mind. A legion of mutated creatures, without brains, acting as one. I never even considered such a thing possible, or we would have experimented with it at Aggorat... In any case, I will continue my dissections... There is something very disturbing about the arc of these mutations...Doryani [DNT] Seek Corrupted Biome: Wraeclast is wounded and broken. We must reshape its future, and heal it anew. The initial Cataclysmic event is over, but Corruption is still radiating from certain locations. From these points, it spreads like a disease. Travel to one of these regions and investigate. We must know why it is still spreading. Report back to me with your findings, and we will plan our next move.Doryani [DNT] See Monolith (pinnacle): There is a tremendous amount of energy radiating from that new structure. If it was Corruption, I would understand, but it's like nothing I have ever seen before. My intuition tells me that you must absolutely be the first to reach it. If it should fall into the hands of the Corrupted, there is no telling what may happen.Doryani [DNT] See Tower: This is the first Precursor tower we've seen. You should take control of it, so that we may research its properties. There may be considerable foes in proximity... these towers channel forces we do not yet understand. If you see any sort of 'central tower' or nexus to the network, be sure to let me know...Doryani Source of Corruption: A third stratum of creatures, different yet again... I am starting to see a pattern here, one that bodes ill for us, but I cannot quite discern the meaning yet. Worse, these creatures appear to have been sentient. The mindless ravagers we first encountered could be outsmarted, and the hive-mind had an obvious weak point. But these ones can actually think. We are in grave danger...Doryani Gaining a Foothold: You must start with the areas of least Corruption. They are still deadly, but should be survivable for short spans. Cleanse enough of them to give us an outside foothold.Doryani Precursor Beacon Activated: Ah, a Tower has been secured? Timely. While you were out, we discovered that an artefact from our archives might be related to its function. Take this Tablet. You should be able to use it at the Tower to transform the surrounding area.
Doryani Altered Landscape: The tower... the surrounding landscape has indeed been altered. This could be of great use to us. These towers are part of some long ago experiment on a grand scale...or perhaps, a {contingency...} I will do more research while you continue to explore. Doryani Corrupted Wastelands: Out in the Corrupted wastelands, you will no doubt encounter 'survivors.' Do not fall victim to the trap of empathy. Though their bodies do not yet know it, they are {dead.} They sicken and taint everything they touch. They would slowly kill us by their very presence. They have no future. It would have been a mercy for them to die in the initial devastation. They will slowly waste away, and in their wasting, they will become disoriented... and then, enraged. They will seek to survive as long as possible, even if that means they doom the rest of us. They will be drawn to resources, and to power. {You} cannot allow them to possess that which we need. If you see them, kill them, and do not hesitate for even a moment.Doryani Understanding the Wastelands: In the wake of the Cataclysm, reality is not what it used to be. There are far fewer of us now, and the mad outnumber the sane. You will see things out there that you will not understand. As much as I despise this truth as a man of science, it is quite possible they cannot {be} understood. Carry on with what must be done, and eventually, Wraeclast will... calm.Doryani Tainted Survivors: As I predicted, the Corrupted 'survivors' out in the wastelands have banded together like primal animals. They refuse to accept their own doom. You must become proactive in your approach. Their warlords are perverse figments of reality that the Cataclysm has distorted. Find these tainted realities and cut the head off the snake, so to speak.Doryani Modifying the Device: Using the cleansed Corruption you retrieved, I was able to modify the device to accommodate your request. You should find things somewhat different next time you venture out.Doryani Cult of the Purple Flame: I had a suspicion that the Cult of the Purple Flame was dangerous. They did not know the true nature of the forces they beseeched. I'm not certain anyone will ever know the breadth of what lies beyond this world... but Chayula alone kept his word, in what little dealings were had. Perhaps one day, we will find out what happened to create this... Xesht.Doryani [DNT] Find Corruption Nexus: So, these densely Corrupted regions contain an active source. Despite the risks, you must venture within. Find the source of Corruption. When you have identified it and dealt with any danger, call for me. I will cleanse what remains.Doryani Stability: The current situation is finally stable. We have done enough to ensure humanity's survival, however meager our dignity may be. We should continue cleansing Corruption, however. It is true that we have ensured the future. Now, we should begin {improving} it.Doryani Cleanse Corruption: You have done well. That area has been cleansed, and the land may now return to its original state. By all means, continue.Doryani Source of Corruption: The source of Corruption was a creature? I wish I could perform a detailed autopsy of its corpse, but its passive emanations alone would quickly kill us. It looks to be significantly more mutated than other beings we've encountered. I don't like having insufficient data on new threats... we are vulnerable until we know more.Doryani Cleanse Corruption: The device still functions, despite the damage the Cataclysm caused. Good. Now, using the device, you must seek out major sources of Corruption for us to cleanse.Doryani Base of Operations: I believe it unwise to base our operations outside of the Ziggurat. This seems like an unnecessary risk to take. And Atalui is constantly complaining about the lack of facilities. However, I will make this concession, since you have done such critical work. Doryani Cleanse Corruption: You don't look sick or injured. Why are you lingering here? Continue your work.Doryani Cleanse Corruption: Keep up your work. It is a long and dangerous task, but there is an end in sight.Doryani Cleanse Corruption: Why are you wasting time here? Continue clearing Corruption!Doryani Cleanse Corruption: Continue clearing Corruption. It is the only thing we can do right now.Doryani Fear: There is something... a secret horror that hides in the broken puzzle pieces we possess... a pattern that even my intellect cannot quite grasp. Not with such limited information. It may surprise you to discover that a man like me can feel fear. I admit it. Fear is healthy. I feel fear when I know I am in danger, but do not have enough information. It is impossible to act with precision unless we know, so I have always sought the truth...but in this instance, for the first time in my life, I fear {knowing,} too... and I don't yet know why... Doryani Cleansed Regions: Cleansed regions of Wraeclast are still dangerous, but only in the ways with which we are familiar. The demon you know, as they say. These regions should also contain substantial amounts of neutralised Corruption, which may manifest as orbs or crystals of anomalous material. Collect them if you see them. They may prove useful.Doryani 关于腐化: Corruption, at a fundamental level, is a form of energy. Much of Vaal technology was based on using that energy, because it is freely available in the environment... My piece of the Weapon cannot destroy that energy, only render it inert, in the form of crystalline precipitate. In that form, it cannot hurt us, and might even be put to new uses.Doryani The Flame Seed: I understand that... something... stole the Flame Seed as your battle drew to a close. This is concerning. There is little we can do until we know more.Doryani Cataclysm's Corruption: In a time of minimal sentience—and most of it mad—what you encounter out there can be quite malleable. What we expect to find can shape things. The energies we use in our translocation device can influence outcomes. That device was made possible, after all, by a very special patron. They are likely watching us even now, and finding great humour in our travails...Doryani Guardian of the Flame Seed: From what you've told me, the guardian of the Flame Seed seems to have been purposely molded for his task. The Precursors created him, but he is not one of them. I can only theorise as to his purpose...Doryani Our Work: There was some damage but while you were unconscious, we worked to repair the machine. I believe it will function as desired... But it must be tested. That is where you come in. By placing Waystones in the machine, they will help calibrate the journey. The Corruption at the destination will respond to both the energies we use, and that we ourselves expect to find. Let us use this malleability to our advantage... Let us see if the machine is still capable.Doryani Patron: I was told many cryptic things. I was asked to—no, I shouldn't say. I don't understand, at least not yet. I was told this was the only way, yet still, I fought to find another path. I believe we make our own fates, but... here we are. If only I had the full picture...Doryani Precursor Towers: The sheer force of the Cataclysm scoured away much of the surface, and disrupted what remained. Sturdier than most, ancient Precursor towers have been left exposed. You should find one, and secure it for our research.Doryani Precursor Tower Network: I believe that the Precursor towers are part of a network created specifically to alter terrain and biomes. This may have been to make Wraeclast more habitable initially... or perhaps it had a larger purpose, later in their era. These ideas are just conjecture, of course.Doryani Precursor Tablets: Now that you have secured a Precursor tower, it has quickly become clear that it requires some sort of tablet to activate. Find a Precursor tablet, and let us take a calculated risk by activating that tower.Doryani A Word of Warning: I should warn you... in my search for ways to stop the Cataclysm, I entreated the ultimate wisdom in this world, and I paid a terrible price. That price is out there, still—and he is even more cunning and dangerous than I am, for he does not have my purity of purpose. When you meet him, destroy him utterly, and do not trouble yourself with your usual moral quandaries.Doryani The Weapon: On its own, my piece of the Precursor Weapon can only neutralise {passive} Corruption. That is why you must destroy the {active} source in each deadly region first. If we were to... somehow... someday... find the other pieces, we would be able to directly drain Corruption from the most volatile of sources... even the Beast itself. If I'd had the Weapon in hand, I could have saved my people...Doryani What now?: We {are} living the worst possible outcome, but I did anticipate {every} contingency... Before us is a translocation device, which {should} allow us to open portals to a wide range of coordinates across Wraeclast. With this, we can reclaim the world from the grasp of Corruption, so that civilisation can one day return to its former heights. Doryani Shelter: So, you are mostly unscathed. That is good. Unfortunately, Wraeclast was not so lucky. It has been devastated by the Cataclysm and is no longer habitable. Grieving would only be a waste of precious time - we must face reality, and make difficult choices.Doryani The Weapon: I have invested considerable resources and many years of effort in the search, but my knowledge of the Precursors still remains scarce. They are as ancient to us as we are to you. On such time scales, geological events tend to obscure remnants of civilisation. There is evidence of great fires. Eruptions. Impacts from the sky. All I know is that they, too, delved into the secrets of this world. Corruption was just one of many forms of energy that they mastered. I have come across simple pictographs in their ruins, intended as a contingency, should others come without knowledge of their language. Most pictographs were quite clear: {'Death lies within.'} One, however, held faded instructions for what we should do if that death should ever escape; if it should ever plague the land. That is how I know the Weapon exists, and... generally... how to find it. Someone in the past wanted us to know about it, in case the worst should ever happen... and clearly, it has...Doryani Corruption Cleansing: I have had time to increase the capabilities of the machine. We have a few choices to make.Doryani Corruption Cleansing: Valuable resources were located in the area you cleared. We can augment our capabilities.Doryani Corruption Cleansing: The space you cleared allowed us to reclaim several important tools. We can now upgrade our machine.Doryani Corruption Cleansing: With each success, we grow closer to our goal.Doryani Corruption Cleansing: A renowned scientist was... recovered... from the area you cleared. His acumen will add to our own.Doryani Corruption Cleansing: We found a handful of survivors in the area you cleared. We'll put them to work.Doryani Source of Corruption: This creature is far different from the type you defeated before. It looks to be the center of a hive mind. A legion of mutated creatures, without brains, acting as one. I never even considered such a thing possible, or we would have experimented with it at Aggorat... In any case, I will continue my dissections... There is something very disturbing about the arc of these mutations...Doryani [DNT] Seek Corrupted Biome: Wraeclast is wounded and broken. We must reshape its future, and heal it anew. The initial Cataclysmic event is over, but Corruption is still radiating from certain locations. From these points, it spreads like a disease. Travel to one of these regions and investigate. We must know why it is still spreading. Report back to me with your findings, and we will plan our next move.Doryani [DNT] See Monolith (pinnacle): There is a tremendous amount of energy radiating from that new structure. If it was Corruption, I would understand, but it's like nothing I have ever seen before. My intuition tells me that you must absolutely be the first to reach it. If it should fall into the hands of the Corrupted, there is no telling what may happen.Doryani [DNT] See Tower: This is the first Precursor tower we've seen. You should take control of it, so that we may research its properties. There may be considerable foes in proximity... these towers channel forces we do not yet understand. If you see any sort of 'central tower' or nexus to the network, be sure to let me know...Doryani Source of Corruption: A third stratum of creatures, different yet again... I am starting to see a pattern here, one that bodes ill for us, but I cannot quite discern the meaning yet. Worse, these creatures appear to have been sentient. The mindless ravagers we first encountered could be outsmarted, and the hive-mind had an obvious weak point. But these ones can actually think. We are in grave danger...Doryani Gaining a Foothold: You must start with the areas of least Corruption. They are still deadly, but should be survivable for short spans. Cleanse enough of them to give us an outside foothold.Doryani Precursor Beacon Activated: Ah, a Tower has been secured? Timely. While you were out, we discovered that an artefact from our archives might be related to its function. Take this Tablet. You should be able to use it at the Tower to transform the surrounding area.
Doryani Altered Landscape: The tower... the surrounding landscape has indeed been altered. This could be of great use to us. These towers are part of some long ago experiment on a grand scale...or perhaps, a {contingency...} I will do more research while you continue to explore. Doryani Corrupted Wastelands: Out in the Corrupted wastelands, you will no doubt encounter 'survivors.' Do not fall victim to the trap of empathy. Though their bodies do not yet know it, they are {dead.} They sicken and taint everything they touch. They would slowly kill us by their very presence. They have no future. It would have been a mercy for them to die in the initial devastation. They will slowly waste away, and in their wasting, they will become disoriented... and then, enraged. They will seek to survive as long as possible, even if that means they doom the rest of us. They will be drawn to resources, and to power. {You} cannot allow them to possess that which we need. If you see them, kill them, and do not hesitate for even a moment.Doryani Understanding the Wastelands: In the wake of the Cataclysm, reality is not what it used to be. There are far fewer of us now, and the mad outnumber the sane. You will see things out there that you will not understand. As much as I despise this truth as a man of science, it is quite possible they cannot {be} understood. Carry on with what must be done, and eventually, Wraeclast will... calm.Doryani Tainted Survivors: As I predicted, the Corrupted 'survivors' out in the wastelands have banded together like primal animals. They refuse to accept their own doom. You must become proactive in your approach. Their warlords are perverse figments of reality that the Cataclysm has distorted. Find these tainted realities and cut the head off the snake, so to speak. |
