Sister of the Unlost
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"Private Note. It's undeniable that operations at Cascade are being monitored by external forces. This much the Cascade Executive committee have been permitted to know. Exactly who has been infiltrating our communications, and to what ends, remains unknown." - Dr. Derek Manse |
Sister of the Unlost is a Gatekeeper Witch and a member of the Unlost found at the door to the Security Sector and later at the end of the Spillway leading to Reactors. She appears again in Reactors along with the Jotun of the Unlost and the Mystagogue of the Unlost.
Dialogue
Security Entrance
| Beckon | (Humming) The vril shall cease, abeyant hope ... The deep, the dark ...The fence, the moat ... The vril shall cease, abeyant hope ... The deep, the dark ... The fence, the moat ... (Singing) |
| Initial | A reprieve, be grateful. I perceive you've come far, and seek escape, from the depths, the shadow lair, where our kinds cannot co-exist ... But the way is blocked ... for now. |
| Return | You are of our kith, but not our kin, and I came with a warning, which is a gift. Halt here, and no worse shall befall you.
It was ever so, that we struggled at the edge of the light, knowing not whether we stepped towards darkness or day, so I say to you, stop, and be safe for a time, and soon enough the way will open, and darkness will rise. You have come far, but you will halt here, before the darkness, the water, the nexus, an egress ... perhaps, but not yet. You hear me, but do you understand? You perhaps are the true anomaly here ... |
Reactors Entrance
| Beckon | (Humming ...) The core, the deep, the wires that weep ... the heart, the eye, unbring the sky ... the hearth in flight, the shackled sight ... you keep the lock and leave the light ... (Humming ...) |
| Initial | Ah, we converge at the cusp, this boundary of dust ... Ask yourself, has the moment arrived ... or will it wait? This impasse shields you, now, for dark energy lies below ... |
| Return | What awaits will wait, what comes will come, what is not done remains undone until the fetters fall ... and the time is not yet come ... So halt, or return, but proceed no further ... for now.
The world is a wheel that crushes the weak, the wary ... the unwise ... Be sure of which you are before you seek the depths of this ... nexus ... Beneath is power, and fire ... Beneath is life, and fury, and all that flows from wars uncounted ... You are learning, your aura is shifting, but some doors open in their own time ... and that is for fate to decide ... When the way opens, judge your course with what wisdom you can, for there is no return to unknowing ... You think you understand, but your mind dwells in the shallows ... |
Reactors Unlost Camp
| Beckon | (Humming ...) The ear, the cry ... Your sight begone ... The deep, the night ... Unhear the song ... (Humming ...) Bestill the dance ... Embrace or flight ... The water low ... The spirit lies ... (Humming ...) |
| Initial | You seek with sight and stumble in silence. A dance to music unheard, for it one hears a note, the dance undoes itself. Yes, we have heard that music and dance no further. But for you, the dance remains. So let its silent sound move you. And waste no time wondering whether you will persist, for that is decided. |
| Return | All this which passes, has passed before.
It is not how or why, but when. You seek the way, but fail to comprehend the way seeks you. You delay fate--move on. |
Residences Botanical Wing
Before entering Arch:
| Beckon | (Humming) What now is done, must first begin... To leave we come... And cease again... For songs to end, they will be sung... The tune that dies... Shall be begun...(Humming) |
| Initial | I have seen you before, and sung all of this again. No origin, no end. But a loop in which we spin... The wheel rolls on, the compass turns, the words we speak like echoes... So... you will go, because you shall come back... You are here, so you are there, and all seems new, and none is true. |
| Return | You went because you returned. This is how these rifts truly work. A question asked because it is answered. We are visions of ourselves, at best.
There is nothing to be done. The ancient one is loose. Freed, because she escaped. This is the way of things. The Seeker awaits. And we will join you there, not by volition, for the choice was made before we opened our eyes to the beasts and their maker... There is no other path. For it was always so. We are the Unlost, the unfound, who seek not, nor discover, for this always was, and ever shall be. |
After entering Arch:
| Initial | What you saw, others have seen and emerged no wiser. So do not mourn. All that resolves deceives, so we trust that which pretends not to truth, but reports what we already know... which is this, all is folly. |
| Return | Time is neither wheel, nor wave - no river, nor arrow. It cannot be named, for in naming is lost. Time is only that which undoes all else. So be consoled, for it has not yet had it's way with you. |
Albatross
Before defeating IS-0117:
| Beckon | The wheel turns.
A powerful nexus. Do you feel it? |
| Initial | You cannot see the peak from the trough, nor the depths from the peak. Such is the way of the world as it unravels and reforms, forever changing, reforged over and again, until nothing remains but the memory of having known something different, perhaps once... |
| Return | A commanding view of nothing.
An end, a beginning, one is the other. All will reveal. |
After defeating IS-0117:
| Initial | A million beings from a thousand worlds pour forth, emerging from these ruptures to engulf the world in its slumber. Save your regret, for it could never have been otherwise, from the blazing start of all things, to now, the path was set. When all is change, behold the fixedness of all things. |
| Return | You gaze to the heavens and see hell.
The end of the world, at the end of the world. A perfect stage for a final dance. Yet the music has not ceased. Do not presume to know what fate intends. Your part is played, for now... and all that was persists. Final answers, ends, effects and resolutions remain the pale dreams of hopeless men for whom the world will never reveal its few, faint truths. |
Trivia
- "The vril shall cease, abeyant hope" may refer to The Night Realm, as "vril" is an occult reference to spiritual power or life force (popularized by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the book of the same name), and "abeyant" means suspended or dormant. The Shades have lost their life force and their hope.
- "The deep, the dark, the fence, the moat" may refer to the darkness of the Security Sector and watery depths of the Reservoir in the Hydroplant.
- "The core, the deep, the wires that weep" refer to the entirety of Reactors. "The heart, the eye" refer to the Heart of Corruption and Flickering Eye. "The shackled sight" refers to IS-0117 contained in Shadowgate.
Media
Security - Side profile
Security - Close profile
Reactors
Reactors Camp
