1.Bachelor: Well, one thing is clear: You are a very, very lucky man. Which means you need to take care of yourself! You are so careless, Vorakh. It's Artemy Vorakh, right?
2.Haruspex: Burakh. Artemy Burakh.
3.Bachelor: Apologies. Oh, and may I ask... Is it true that your actions have already resulted in four deaths?
4.Haruspex: I'm not in the habit of spilling my guts to strangers. Especially when they can't even remember my name.
5.Bachelor: Daniil Dankovsky, Bachelor of Medicine, at your service. But before we speak any further, I'd like to clarify a rather crucial thing: Just how highly do you hold your sense of duty?
6.Haruspex: Too highly, clearly, since it brought me back to this wretched town...
6.Haruspex: Why do you ask?
6.Haruspex: All Burakhs are guided by duty. It runs in the family.
7.Bachelor: Well, from this point on, you-ahem-<owe me.> I just saved you from a rather grisly fate!
8.Haruspex: I don't remember seeing a rescue team.
9.Bachelor: Your Rubin has utterly murderous intents. Isidor meant quite a lot to him! Your father was his mentor. Rubin even considers himself old Burakh's true son... Unlike you. Anyway, he thinks you're to blame for your father's death.
10.Haruspex: What a load of...!
11.Bachelor: I managed to convince him that you didn't actually kill Isidor. Well, not empirically! But I'm under the impression that, in Rubin's mind, you still caused your father's death. You did, after all, take your sweet time getting here... while Isidor was counting on your help. Is that true?
12.Haruspex: ...It is. I've thought about that myself.
12.Haruspex: No, it's not. And I sense some foul play in your valiant attempt to save me from my best friend.
12.Haruspex: Trying to guilt-trip me, huh? That's clever. What a learned man you are.
13.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
14.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
15.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
15.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
16.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
10.Haruspex: Wait... My father is dead?
11.Bachelor: Oh, he was killed tonight. Didn't you know?
12.Haruspex: No...
12.Haruspex: Liar! Everything you've said is a lie!
13.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
14.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
15.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
15.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
16.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
8.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll repay you in kind someday.
9.Bachelor: Oh, I doubt it. I'm much more cautious than you. And attentive. And heedful. For example, I've managed to establish a friendly relationship with Rubin, your so-called friend.
10.Haruspex: But Rubin <is> my friend.
10.Haruspex: And was that hard?
11.Bachelor: Your Rubin has utterly murderous intents. Isidor meant quite a lot to him! Your father was his mentor. Rubin even considers himself old Burakh's true son... Unlike you. Anyway, he thinks you're to blame for your father's death.
12.Haruspex: What a load of...!
13.Bachelor: I managed to convince him that you didn't actually kill Isidor. Well, not empirically! But I'm under the impression that, in Rubin's mind, you still caused your father's death. You did, after all, take your sweet time getting here... while Isidor was counting on your help. Is that true?
14.Haruspex: ...It is. I've thought about that myself.
14.Haruspex: No, it's not. And I sense some foul play in your valiant attempt to save me from my best friend.
14.Haruspex: Trying to guilt-trip me, huh? That's clever. What a learned man you are.
15.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
16.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
17.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
17.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
18.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: Wait... My father is dead?
13.Bachelor: Oh, he was killed tonight. Didn't you know?
14.Haruspex: No...
14.Haruspex: Liar! Everything you've said is a lie!
15.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
16.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
17.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
17.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
18.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
4.Haruspex: Three.
5.Bachelor: That's what I thought.
6.Haruspex: And who the hell are you, buddy?
7.Bachelor: Daniil Dankovsky, Bachelor of Medicine, at your service. But before we speak any further, I'd like to clarify a rather crucial thing: Just how highly do you hold your sense of duty?
8.Haruspex: Too highly, clearly, since it brought me back to this wretched town...
8.Haruspex: Why do you ask?
8.Haruspex: All Burakhs are guided by duty. It runs in the family.
9.Bachelor: Well, from this point on, you-ahem-<owe me.> I just saved you from a rather grisly fate!
10.Haruspex: I don't remember seeing a rescue team.
11.Bachelor: Your Rubin has utterly murderous intents. Isidor meant quite a lot to him! Your father was his mentor. Rubin even considers himself old Burakh's true son... Unlike you. Anyway, he thinks you're to blame for your father's death.
12.Haruspex: What a load of...!
13.Bachelor: I managed to convince him that you didn't actually kill Isidor. Well, not empirically! But I'm under the impression that, in Rubin's mind, you still caused your father's death. You did, after all, take your sweet time getting here... while Isidor was counting on your help. Is that true?
14.Haruspex: ...It is. I've thought about that myself.
14.Haruspex: No, it's not. And I sense some foul play in your valiant attempt to save me from my best friend.
14.Haruspex: Trying to guilt-trip me, huh? That's clever. What a learned man you are.
15.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
16.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
17.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
17.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
18.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: Wait... My father is dead?
13.Bachelor: Oh, he was killed tonight. Didn't you know?
14.Haruspex: No...
14.Haruspex: Liar! Everything you've said is a lie!
15.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
16.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
17.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
17.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
18.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
10.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll repay you in kind someday.
11.Bachelor: Oh, I doubt it. I'm much more cautious than you. And attentive. And heedful. For example, I've managed to establish a friendly relationship with Rubin, your so-called friend.
12.Haruspex: But Rubin <is> my friend.
12.Haruspex: And was that hard?
13.Bachelor: Your Rubin has utterly murderous intents. Isidor meant quite a lot to him! Your father was his mentor. Rubin even considers himself old Burakh's true son... Unlike you. Anyway, he thinks you're to blame for your father's death.
14.Haruspex: What a load of...!
15.Bachelor: I managed to convince him that you didn't actually kill Isidor. Well, not empirically! But I'm under the impression that, in Rubin's mind, you still caused your father's death. You did, after all, take your sweet time getting here... while Isidor was counting on your help. Is that true?
16.Haruspex: ...It is. I've thought about that myself.
16.Haruspex: No, it's not. And I sense some foul play in your valiant attempt to save me from my best friend.
16.Haruspex: Trying to guilt-trip me, huh? That's clever. What a learned man you are.
17.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
18.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
19.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
20.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
21.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
22.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
23.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
24.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
24.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
22.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
22.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
18.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
18.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
19.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
20.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
20.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
21.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
22.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
23.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
24.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
24.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
22.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
22.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: Wait... My father is dead?
15.Bachelor: Oh, he was killed tonight. Didn't you know?
16.Haruspex: No...
16.Haruspex: Liar! Everything you've said is a lie!
17.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
18.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
19.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
20.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
21.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
22.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
23.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
24.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
24.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
22.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
22.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
18.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
18.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
19.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
20.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
20.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
21.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
22.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
23.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
24.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
24.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
22.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
22.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
4.Haruspex: Are you a detective?
5.Bachelor: Daniil Dankovsky, Bachelor of Medicine, at your service. But before we speak any further, I'd like to clarify a rather crucial thing: Just how highly do you hold your sense of duty?
6.Haruspex: Too highly, clearly, since it brought me back to this wretched town...
6.Haruspex: Why do you ask?
6.Haruspex: All Burakhs are guided by duty. It runs in the family.
7.Bachelor: Well, from this point on, you-ahem-<owe me.> I just saved you from a rather grisly fate!
8.Haruspex: I don't remember seeing a rescue team.
9.Bachelor: Your Rubin has utterly murderous intents. Isidor meant quite a lot to him! Your father was his mentor. Rubin even considers himself old Burakh's true son... Unlike you. Anyway, he thinks you're to blame for your father's death.
10.Haruspex: What a load of...!
11.Bachelor: I managed to convince him that you didn't actually kill Isidor. Well, not empirically! But I'm under the impression that, in Rubin's mind, you still caused your father's death. You did, after all, take your sweet time getting here... while Isidor was counting on your help. Is that true?
12.Haruspex: ...It is. I've thought about that myself.
12.Haruspex: No, it's not. And I sense some foul play in your valiant attempt to save me from my best friend.
12.Haruspex: Trying to guilt-trip me, huh? That's clever. What a learned man you are.
13.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
14.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
15.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
15.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
16.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
10.Haruspex: Wait... My father is dead?
11.Bachelor: Oh, he was killed tonight. Didn't you know?
12.Haruspex: No...
12.Haruspex: Liar! Everything you've said is a lie!
13.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
14.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
15.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
15.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
16.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
8.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll repay you in kind someday.
9.Bachelor: Oh, I doubt it. I'm much more cautious than you. And attentive. And heedful. For example, I've managed to establish a friendly relationship with Rubin, your so-called friend.
10.Haruspex: But Rubin <is> my friend.
10.Haruspex: And was that hard?
11.Bachelor: Your Rubin has utterly murderous intents. Isidor meant quite a lot to him! Your father was his mentor. Rubin even considers himself old Burakh's true son... Unlike you. Anyway, he thinks you're to blame for your father's death.
12.Haruspex: What a load of...!
13.Bachelor: I managed to convince him that you didn't actually kill Isidor. Well, not empirically! But I'm under the impression that, in Rubin's mind, you still caused your father's death. You did, after all, take your sweet time getting here... while Isidor was counting on your help. Is that true?
14.Haruspex: ...It is. I've thought about that myself.
14.Haruspex: No, it's not. And I sense some foul play in your valiant attempt to save me from my best friend.
14.Haruspex: Trying to guilt-trip me, huh? That's clever. What a learned man you are.
15.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
16.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
17.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
17.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
18.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: Wait... My father is dead?
13.Bachelor: Oh, he was killed tonight. Didn't you know?
14.Haruspex: No...
14.Haruspex: Liar! Everything you've said is a lie!
15.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
16.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
17.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
17.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
18.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
2.Haruspex: And you are...?
3.Bachelor: Daniil Dankovsky, Bachelor of Medicine. At your service.
4.Haruspex: But where's Rubin? This place used to belong to a friend of mine.
5.Bachelor: My dear fellow, Rubin is no friend of yours! Quite the opposite, actually. Any observer could deduce that your hypothetical meeting would have... little to no chance of ending well.
6.Haruspex: What? Why?
7.Bachelor: Your Rubin has utterly murderous intents. Isidor meant quite a lot to him! Your father was his mentor. Rubin even considers himself old Burakh's true son... Unlike you. Anyway, he thinks you're to blame for your father's death.
8.Haruspex: What a load of...!
9.Bachelor: I managed to convince him that you didn't actually kill Isidor. Well, not empirically! But I'm under the impression that, in Rubin's mind, you still caused your father's death. You did, after all, take your sweet time getting here... while Isidor was counting on your help. Is that true?
10.Haruspex: ...It is. I've thought about that myself.
10.Haruspex: No, it's not. And I sense some foul play in your valiant attempt to save me from my best friend.
10.Haruspex: Trying to guilt-trip me, huh? That's clever. What a learned man you are.
11.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
12.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
13.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
14.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
13.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
14.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
15.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
16.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
16.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
14.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
14.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
13.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
14.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
14.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
8.Haruspex: Wait... My father is dead?
9.Bachelor: Oh, he was killed tonight. Didn't you know?
10.Haruspex: No...
10.Haruspex: Liar! Everything you've said is a lie!
11.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
12.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
13.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
14.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
13.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
14.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
15.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
16.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
16.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
14.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
14.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
13.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
14.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
14.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
6.Haruspex: But he's not just a friend. He's my best friend.
7.Bachelor: Your Rubin has utterly murderous intents. Isidor meant quite a lot to him! Your father was his mentor. Rubin even considers himself old Burakh's true son... Unlike you. Anyway, he thinks you're to blame for your father's death.
8.Haruspex: What a load of...!
9.Bachelor: I managed to convince him that you didn't actually kill Isidor. Well, not empirically! But I'm under the impression that, in Rubin's mind, you still caused your father's death. You did, after all, take your sweet time getting here... while Isidor was counting on your help. Is that true?
10.Haruspex: ...It is. I've thought about that myself.
10.Haruspex: No, it's not. And I sense some foul play in your valiant attempt to save me from my best friend.
10.Haruspex: Trying to guilt-trip me, huh? That's clever. What a learned man you are.
11.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
12.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
13.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
14.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
13.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
14.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
15.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
16.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
16.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
14.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
14.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
13.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
14.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
14.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
8.Haruspex: Wait... My father is dead?
9.Bachelor: Oh, he was killed tonight. Didn't you know?
10.Haruspex: No...
10.Haruspex: Liar! Everything you've said is a lie!
11.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
12.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
13.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
14.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
13.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
14.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
15.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
16.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
16.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
14.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
14.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
13.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
14.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
14.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
6.Haruspex: And what the hell are you doing here, buddy?
7.Bachelor: Well, from this point on, you-ahem-<owe me.> I just saved you from a rather grisly fate!
8.Haruspex: I don't remember seeing a rescue team.
9.Bachelor: Your Rubin has utterly murderous intents. Isidor meant quite a lot to him! Your father was his mentor. Rubin even considers himself old Burakh's true son... Unlike you. Anyway, he thinks you're to blame for your father's death.
10.Haruspex: What a load of...!
11.Bachelor: I managed to convince him that you didn't actually kill Isidor. Well, not empirically! But I'm under the impression that, in Rubin's mind, you still caused your father's death. You did, after all, take your sweet time getting here... while Isidor was counting on your help. Is that true?
12.Haruspex: ...It is. I've thought about that myself.
12.Haruspex: No, it's not. And I sense some foul play in your valiant attempt to save me from my best friend.
12.Haruspex: Trying to guilt-trip me, huh? That's clever. What a learned man you are.
13.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
14.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
15.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
15.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
16.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
10.Haruspex: Wait... My father is dead?
11.Bachelor: Oh, he was killed tonight. Didn't you know?
12.Haruspex: No...
12.Haruspex: Liar! Everything you've said is a lie!
13.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
14.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
15.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
15.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
16.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
17.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
18.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
18.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
16.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
16.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
14.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
15.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
16.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
16.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
8.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll repay you in kind someday.
9.Bachelor: Oh, I doubt it. I'm much more cautious than you. And attentive. And heedful. For example, I've managed to establish a friendly relationship with Rubin, your so-called friend.
10.Haruspex: But Rubin <is> my friend.
10.Haruspex: And was that hard?
11.Bachelor: Your Rubin has utterly murderous intents. Isidor meant quite a lot to him! Your father was his mentor. Rubin even considers himself old Burakh's true son... Unlike you. Anyway, he thinks you're to blame for your father's death.
12.Haruspex: What a load of...!
13.Bachelor: I managed to convince him that you didn't actually kill Isidor. Well, not empirically! But I'm under the impression that, in Rubin's mind, you still caused your father's death. You did, after all, take your sweet time getting here... while Isidor was counting on your help. Is that true?
14.Haruspex: ...It is. I've thought about that myself.
14.Haruspex: No, it's not. And I sense some foul play in your valiant attempt to save me from my best friend.
14.Haruspex: Trying to guilt-trip me, huh? That's clever. What a learned man you are.
15.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
16.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
17.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
17.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
18.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
12.Haruspex: Wait... My father is dead?
13.Bachelor: Oh, he was killed tonight. Didn't you know?
14.Haruspex: No...
14.Haruspex: Liar! Everything you've said is a lie!
15.Bachelor: Look, you have my condolences, Vorakh. But since we've established that you owe me, let me explain how you'll repay your debt. Things are about to get a little tense, and I need only one thing: Just do <exactly as I tell you.> You're a doctor, right?
16.Haruspex: Burakh. How are things going to get tense?
17.Bachelor: Today's tragedy won't be the last. I was blessed with a naturally high intelligence, and my observations indicate that a very deadly visitor has come to this god-forsaken town. That's all I can say for now.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. A good one, too.
17.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
18.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
19.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
20.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
20.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
18.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
18.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
16.Haruspex: We haven't "established" that I owe you anything, buddy.
17.Bachelor: Qui habet aures, audiat... As the saying goes.
18.Haruspex: ...I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
18.Haruspex: Amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one.
19.Bachelor: Allow me to sum up. Rubin told me he's the only decent doctor in town, but you're a competent surgeon! I need you alive, healthy, and quiet. Close at hand. Spare me any wild improvisations-I'll be the one handling the situation. Medicum morbo adhibere.
20.Haruspex: How about you just shut up? I'll deal with Rubin myself. No middlemen required. Where is he?
21.Bachelor: Gone to carry out my orders! From now on, your Rubin does what I tell him to do. He entered my service of his own accord. I suggest that you do the same. It will help everyone.
22.Haruspex: I just hate big-city dandies who think they know best.
22.Haruspex: Stubbornness is my guiding star, second only to my sense of duty. I suggest you put your high intelligence to good use and get out of my way, Bachelor.
20.Haruspex: I always sucked at this stupid language. I'll assume that was an apology.
20.Haruspex: I need to see if you're any good first. For now, cheers.
1.Bachelor: Back so soon, Burakh? I hope there's a good reason.
2.Haruspex: The kids outside told me that three of their friends are at death's door... and you refused to help.
3.Bachelor: My dear fellow, that sounds like your area of expertise. You're welcome to offer them your services! I have better things to do than waste my time on a bunch of mangy mutts.
4.Haruspex: "Better things to do"? You took the oath-now do your duty!
5.Bachelor: My duty is quite different. And if you keep wasting my time, I might fail to perform it.
6.Haruspex: I'm not wasting your time!
6.Haruspex: We have a very different idea of what duty is.
4.Haruspex: "Mutts," huh? Well, now I know where you stand. I'd break your jaw, buddy, if my hand didn't hurt so much...
5.Bachelor: You have a kind heart, Burakh.
6.Haruspex: No, but I do have <a> heart, at least.
6.Haruspex: Leave this town, Bachelor. We were better off without you.
1.Bachelor: Why are you here?
2.Haruspex: Wrong question. Why are <you> here?
3.Bachelor: Well, I come bearing a sanitary order. So I'm here to examine and quarantine the place.
4.Haruspex: You won't like it in there.
5.Bachelor: Really? Why?
6.Haruspex: It's a bit untidy.
6.Haruspex: The air inside is... unhealthy, somehow. It might irritate your tender skin.
6.Haruspex: Something's wrong in there.
6.Haruspex: Because this is my house, and I'm not letting you in.
7.Bachelor: Is that so? Still, with your kind permission, I insist on examining the place. Even your unkind permission would do. But if you struggle to provide even that, I'll do fine without your consent at all. I hope I don't need to threaten you at gunpoint?
8.Haruspex: To hell with you. Do whatever you want.
8.Haruspex: I warned you.
8.Haruspex: Go ahead, then. Examine the place. And if you can explain what's going on here, be so kind as to tell me, too.
9.Bachelor: And by the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses often get scabs around these parts?
10.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
10.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
10.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
4.Haruspex: Hospitality is an important tradition in my family. But to you, I'll deny it.
5.Bachelor: Why?
6.Haruspex: I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
7.Bachelor: Daniil Dankovsky, at your service.
8.Haruspex: Just get lost.
9.Bachelor: Is that so? Still, with your kind permission, I insist on examining the place. Even your unkind permission would do. But if you struggle to provide even that, I'll do fine without your consent at all. I hope I don't need to threaten you at gunpoint?
10.Haruspex: To hell with you. Do whatever you want.
10.Haruspex: I warned you.
10.Haruspex: Go ahead, then. Examine the place. And if you can explain what's going on here, be so kind as to tell me, too.
11.Bachelor: And by the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses often get scabs around these parts?
12.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
12.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
12.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
6.Haruspex: This just isn't the right moment for it.
7.Bachelor: Wrong. This is the critical moment. I would actually go so far as to say that this house needs to be locked down immediately. Every minute counts.
8.Haruspex: Bullshit.
9.Bachelor: Is that so? Still, with your kind permission, I insist on examining the place. Even your unkind permission would do. But if you struggle to provide even that, I'll do fine without your consent at all. I hope I don't need to threaten you at gunpoint?
10.Haruspex: To hell with you. Do whatever you want.
10.Haruspex: I warned you.
10.Haruspex: Go ahead, then. Examine the place. And if you can explain what's going on here, be so kind as to tell me, too.
11.Bachelor: And by the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses often get scabs around these parts?
12.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
12.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
12.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
2.Haruspex: I live here.
3.Bachelor: Well, I come bearing a sanitary order. So I'm here to examine and quarantine the place.
4.Haruspex: You won't like it in there.
5.Bachelor: Really? Why?
6.Haruspex: It's a bit untidy.
6.Haruspex: The air inside is... unhealthy, somehow. It might irritate your tender skin.
6.Haruspex: Something's wrong in there.
6.Haruspex: Because this is my house, and I'm not letting you in.
7.Bachelor: Is that so? Still, with your kind permission, I insist on examining the place. Even your unkind permission would do. But if you struggle to provide even that, I'll do fine without your consent at all. I hope I don't need to threaten you at gunpoint?
8.Haruspex: To hell with you. Do whatever you want.
8.Haruspex: I warned you.
8.Haruspex: Go ahead, then. Examine the place. And if you can explain what's going on here, be so kind as to tell me, too.
9.Bachelor: And by the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses often get scabs around these parts?
10.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
10.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
10.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
4.Haruspex: Hospitality is an important tradition in my family. But to you, I'll deny it.
5.Bachelor: Why?
6.Haruspex: I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
7.Bachelor: Daniil Dankovsky, at your service.
8.Haruspex: Just get lost.
9.Bachelor: Is that so? Still, with your kind permission, I insist on examining the place. Even your unkind permission would do. But if you struggle to provide even that, I'll do fine without your consent at all. I hope I don't need to threaten you at gunpoint?
10.Haruspex: To hell with you. Do whatever you want.
10.Haruspex: I warned you.
10.Haruspex: Go ahead, then. Examine the place. And if you can explain what's going on here, be so kind as to tell me, too.
11.Bachelor: And by the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses often get scabs around these parts?
12.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
12.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
12.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
6.Haruspex: This just isn't the right moment for it.
7.Bachelor: Wrong. This is the critical moment. I would actually go so far as to say that this house needs to be locked down immediately. Every minute counts.
8.Haruspex: Bullshit.
9.Bachelor: Is that so? Still, with your kind permission, I insist on examining the place. Even your unkind permission would do. But if you struggle to provide even that, I'll do fine without your consent at all. I hope I don't need to threaten you at gunpoint?
10.Haruspex: To hell with you. Do whatever you want.
10.Haruspex: I warned you.
10.Haruspex: Go ahead, then. Examine the place. And if you can explain what's going on here, be so kind as to tell me, too.
11.Bachelor: And by the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses often get scabs around these parts?
12.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
12.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
12.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
2.Haruspex: Do you really want to know?
3.Bachelor: I'd prefer to, yes.
4.Haruspex: I was examining the scene of my father's death.
4.Haruspex: This is my house.
4.Haruspex: Just wanted to make sure nobody was... nosing around the place.
5.Bachelor: Well, I come bearing a sanitary order. So I'm here to examine and quarantine the place.
6.Haruspex: You won't like it in there.
7.Bachelor: Really? Why?
8.Haruspex: It's a bit untidy.
8.Haruspex: The air inside is... unhealthy, somehow. It might irritate your tender skin.
8.Haruspex: Something's wrong in there.
8.Haruspex: Because this is my house, and I'm not letting you in.
9.Bachelor: Is that so? Still, with your kind permission, I insist on examining the place. Even your unkind permission would do. But if you struggle to provide even that, I'll do fine without your consent at all. I hope I don't need to threaten you at gunpoint?
10.Haruspex: To hell with you. Do whatever you want.
10.Haruspex: I warned you.
10.Haruspex: Go ahead, then. Examine the place. And if you can explain what's going on here, be so kind as to tell me, too.
11.Bachelor: And by the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses often get scabs around these parts?
12.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
12.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
12.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
6.Haruspex: Hospitality is an important tradition in my family. But to you, I'll deny it.
7.Bachelor: Why?
8.Haruspex: I don't like you, Bachelor Whatever.
9.Bachelor: Daniil Dankovsky, at your service.
10.Haruspex: Just get lost.
11.Bachelor: Is that so? Still, with your kind permission, I insist on examining the place. Even your unkind permission would do. But if you struggle to provide even that, I'll do fine without your consent at all. I hope I don't need to threaten you at gunpoint?
12.Haruspex: To hell with you. Do whatever you want.
12.Haruspex: I warned you.
12.Haruspex: Go ahead, then. Examine the place. And if you can explain what's going on here, be so kind as to tell me, too.
13.Bachelor: And by the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses often get scabs around these parts?
14.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
14.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
14.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
8.Haruspex: This just isn't the right moment for it.
9.Bachelor: Wrong. This is the critical moment. I would actually go so far as to say that this house needs to be locked down immediately. Every minute counts.
10.Haruspex: Bullshit.
11.Bachelor: Is that so? Still, with your kind permission, I insist on examining the place. Even your unkind permission would do. But if you struggle to provide even that, I'll do fine without your consent at all. I hope I don't need to threaten you at gunpoint?
12.Haruspex: To hell with you. Do whatever you want.
12.Haruspex: I warned you.
12.Haruspex: Go ahead, then. Examine the place. And if you can explain what's going on here, be so kind as to tell me, too.
13.Bachelor: And by the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses often get scabs around these parts?
14.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
14.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
14.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
1.Bachelor: Unfortunately, this house is sealed off. I'm sorry, Burakh... It <is> Burakh, isn't it?
2.Haruspex: Let me guess. You were the one who sealed it off?
3.Bachelor: Yes, I bear the unfortunate burden of this responsibility. But lighten up! This is all for the best.
4.Haruspex: Where is my father's body?
5.Bachelor: I don't have that information.
6.Haruspex: ...So where do I go now?
7.Bachelor: Well, take a look at these. I found some papers inside, and a key. I suppose they belong to you now. Hopefully the papers can explain what the key unlocks.
8.Haruspex: That's something, I guess.
8.Haruspex: I could definitely use a roof over my head...
9.Bachelor: By the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses get scabs around these parts?
10.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
10.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
10.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
6.Haruspex: Screw you.
7.Bachelor: By the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses get scabs around these parts?
8.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
8.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
8.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
4.Haruspex: "For the best"? <For the->well, up yours! This is <my> house, you insufferable fop, and-
5.Bachelor: -and yet, for the reasons that I cannot currently disclose to you, the house is still under a temporary quarantine.
6.Haruspex: ...So where do I go now?
7.Bachelor: Well, take a look at these. I found some papers inside, and a key. I suppose they belong to you now. Hopefully the papers can explain what the key unlocks.
8.Haruspex: That's something, I guess.
8.Haruspex: I could definitely use a roof over my head...
9.Bachelor: By the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses get scabs around these parts?
10.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
10.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
10.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
6.Haruspex: Screw you.
7.Bachelor: By the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses get scabs around these parts?
8.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
8.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
8.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
2.Haruspex: Quite.
3.Bachelor: Well, take a look at these. I found some papers inside, and a key. I suppose they belong to you now. Hopefully the papers can explain what the key unlocks.
4.Haruspex: That's something, I guess.
4.Haruspex: I could definitely use a roof over my head...
5.Bachelor: By the way, what is this strange... mold, I guess? Is it mold? That thing your house is covered in? Do houses get scabs around these parts?
6.Haruspex: I don't know. Never seen these before.
6.Haruspex: What mold? What on earth are you talking about?
6.Haruspex: They're lentigines. I've seen stranger things around here.
1.Bachelor: I have to admit, this is the last thing I expected. I'm dead weight to her. I expected respect, or maybe <loathing,> but... she takes me for a useless dreamer. Assigned me to take care of the Town's corpses, instead of any other thing I could be doing! No matter. Someone needs to do this job, too. A doctor can't shy away from dirty work.
2.Haruspex: "She"? You mean the Inquisitor?
3.Bachelor: Yes.
4.Haruspex: What does she want you to do?
5.Bachelor: I need to solve the problem of mass graves once and for all. Oh, and we need to choose which part of the Town to designate as the new graveyard. Because the old one currently refuses to entertain new guests.
6.Haruspex: Refuses to entertain new guests? What do you mean?
6.Haruspex: A man of vision, then. Way to go, emshen.
7.Bachelor: Do you know who manages the graveyard? A minor. The cretins Saburov assigned to be my helpers-<my helpers,> I'd like to emphasize, subordinates-stopped working because something is bothering the girl. I'm starting to think that brain atrophy is what's really killing this town.
8.Haruspex: I know her. Her name is Grace.
8.Haruspex: What's bothering her?
9.Bachelor: I really couldn't care less. What matters is that right now, we lack a place to bury the dead. Thoughts? You are, after all, a local.
10.Haruspex: Cremation?
11.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
12.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
13.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
14.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
14.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
14.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
12.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
10.Haruspex: Digging is not exactly popular here. Living earth cult. Nothing but the graveyard will do.
11.Bachelor: Very funny, Burakh. But enough joking... Now I have to really think about solving this issue.
12.Haruspex: Burn the corpses.
13.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
14.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
15.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
16.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
16.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
16.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
14.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
12.Haruspex: Stop the epidemic. That solves everything.
10.Haruspex: You said it yourself, emshen. A new graveyard right in the middle of town. Quite a story for you to tell back at the Capital.
11.Bachelor: Very funny, Burakh. But enough joking... Now I have to really think about solving this issue.
12.Haruspex: Burn the corpses.
13.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
14.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
15.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
16.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
16.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
16.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
14.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
12.Haruspex: Stop the epidemic. That solves everything.
2.Haruspex: What's wrong with our corpses?
3.Bachelor: I need to solve the problem of mass graves once and for all. Oh, and we need to choose which part of the Town to designate as the new graveyard. Because the old one currently refuses to entertain new guests.
4.Haruspex: Refuses to entertain new guests? What do you mean?
4.Haruspex: A man of vision, then. Way to go, emshen.
5.Bachelor: Do you know who manages the graveyard? A minor. The cretins Saburov assigned to be my helpers-<my helpers,> I'd like to emphasize, subordinates-stopped working because something is bothering the girl. I'm starting to think that brain atrophy is what's really killing this town.
6.Haruspex: I know her. Her name is Grace.
6.Haruspex: What's bothering her?
7.Bachelor: I really couldn't care less. What matters is that right now, we lack a place to bury the dead. Thoughts? You are, after all, a local.
8.Haruspex: Cremation?
9.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
10.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
11.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
12.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
12.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
12.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
10.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
8.Haruspex: Digging is not exactly popular here. Living earth cult. Nothing but the graveyard will do.
9.Bachelor: Very funny, Burakh. But enough joking... Now I have to really think about solving this issue.
10.Haruspex: Burn the corpses.
11.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
12.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
13.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
14.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
14.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
14.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
12.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
10.Haruspex: Stop the epidemic. That solves everything.
8.Haruspex: You said it yourself, emshen. A new graveyard right in the middle of town. Quite a story for you to tell back at the Capital.
9.Bachelor: Very funny, Burakh. But enough joking... Now I have to really think about solving this issue.
10.Haruspex: Burn the corpses.
11.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
12.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
13.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
14.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
14.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
14.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
12.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
10.Haruspex: Stop the epidemic. That solves everything.
2.Haruspex: This isn't the first time you've had to manage the Town's business, oynon. You're good at it.
3.Bachelor: I need fifty clear-headed people armed with spades. A tall order, I know. Spades and common sense don't mix in your prehistoric dump of a town. Fifty spades I can manage, but gathering a dozen thinking men is impossible. Either that, or they can't dig. Like me.
4.Haruspex: Why so many?
5.Bachelor: I need to solve the problem of mass graves once and for all. Oh, and we need to choose which part of the Town to designate as the new graveyard. Because the old one currently refuses to entertain new guests.
6.Haruspex: Refuses to entertain new guests? What do you mean?
6.Haruspex: A man of vision, then. Way to go, emshen.
7.Bachelor: Do you know who manages the graveyard? A minor. The cretins Saburov assigned to be my helpers-<my helpers,> I'd like to emphasize, subordinates-stopped working because something is bothering the girl. I'm starting to think that brain atrophy is what's really killing this town.
8.Haruspex: I know her. Her name is Grace.
8.Haruspex: What's bothering her?
9.Bachelor: I really couldn't care less. What matters is that right now, we lack a place to bury the dead. Thoughts? You are, after all, a local.
10.Haruspex: Cremation?
11.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
12.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
13.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
14.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
14.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
14.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
12.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
10.Haruspex: Digging is not exactly popular here. Living earth cult. Nothing but the graveyard will do.
11.Bachelor: Very funny, Burakh. But enough joking... Now I have to really think about solving this issue.
12.Haruspex: Burn the corpses.
13.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
14.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
15.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
16.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
16.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
16.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
14.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
12.Haruspex: Stop the epidemic. That solves everything.
10.Haruspex: You said it yourself, emshen. A new graveyard right in the middle of town. Quite a story for you to tell back at the Capital.
11.Bachelor: Very funny, Burakh. But enough joking... Now I have to really think about solving this issue.
12.Haruspex: Burn the corpses.
13.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
14.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
15.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
16.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
16.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
16.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
14.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
12.Haruspex: Stop the epidemic. That solves everything.
4.Haruspex: I'm not a digger, either. I'm a surgeon.
5.Bachelor: Do you know who manages the graveyard? A minor. The cretins Saburov assigned to be my helpers-<my helpers,> I'd like to emphasize, subordinates-stopped working because something is bothering the girl. I'm starting to think that brain atrophy is what's really killing this town.
6.Haruspex: I know her. Her name is Grace.
6.Haruspex: What's bothering her?
7.Bachelor: I really couldn't care less. What matters is that right now, we lack a place to bury the dead. Thoughts? You are, after all, a local.
8.Haruspex: Cremation?
9.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
10.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
11.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
12.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
12.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
12.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
10.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
8.Haruspex: Digging is not exactly popular here. Living earth cult. Nothing but the graveyard will do.
9.Bachelor: Very funny, Burakh. But enough joking... Now I have to really think about solving this issue.
10.Haruspex: Burn the corpses.
11.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
12.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
13.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
14.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
14.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
14.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
12.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
10.Haruspex: Stop the epidemic. That solves everything.
8.Haruspex: You said it yourself, emshen. A new graveyard right in the middle of town. Quite a story for you to tell back at the Capital.
9.Bachelor: Very funny, Burakh. But enough joking... Now I have to really think about solving this issue.
10.Haruspex: Burn the corpses.
11.Bachelor: Spot on, Burakh. If the morning report can be believed, the factory furnaces are spacious enough to solve our little problem. But the locals refuse to burn the dead. And if we generously call their babbling an "argument," it always boils down to referencing that deranged girl.
12.Haruspex: Look, I can't make heads or tails of what you want from <me.>
13.Bachelor: From you? Oh, nothing. I was just sharing. From the local authorities, though, I want a lot. I want them to make sure that the burial business is supervised by someone a bit older than fifteen, and far more rational! I'll make sure it happens!
14.Haruspex: Wait, emshen. Don't bother the girl. Perhaps I can talk sense into her.
14.Haruspex: You do that. It's... tough for her in the cemetery.
14.Haruspex: ...I wonder if <you're> the threat looming over her, emshen. Don't be rash. Let me talk to her.
12.Haruspex: I'll see what I can do.
10.Haruspex: Stop the epidemic. That solves everything.
1.Bachelor: Burakh. The situation is regretful. I just didn't have time to warn you.
2.Haruspex: This was ugly of you.
2.Haruspex: I understand. Forget it.
2.Haruspex: You shouldn't have started the meeting without me.
3.Bachelor: Well, let's get down to business. We have three doctors in town. Four, if we count the deranged girl who claims to have a healing touch-rubbish, of course. But she has a lot of energy, and she knows a thing or two, so it won't hurt to let her work. And Burakh, allow me to be frank?
4.Haruspex: Shoot.
5.Bachelor: Where did you graduate? What are your qualifications? Do you have a degree?
6.Haruspex: I don't have a degree.
6.Haruspex: I'm a surgeon. And a damn good one.
6.Haruspex: Medical school.
7.Bachelor: Burakh, I want you to become my aide. Our primary goal is developing a vaccine. You're a local, and... enterprising. I need your help.
8.Haruspex: Vaccines aren't my area of expertise.
9.Bachelor: They are mine. Our goal is to stall the epidemic... and prevent a worldwide pandemic.
10.Haruspex: My goal is survival. We're each on our own, emshen.
10.Haruspex: A worldwide... huh. You're pretty honest about your ambitions, aren't you?
11.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
12.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
13.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
14.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
15.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
16.Haruspex: So what?
16.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
17.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
18.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
18.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
19.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
20.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
20.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
14.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
13.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
14.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
14.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
15.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
16.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
17.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
18.Haruspex: So what?
18.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
19.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
20.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
20.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
21.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
22.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
22.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
16.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: That's your goal. Mine is to protect my hometown.
11.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
12.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
13.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
14.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
15.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
16.Haruspex: So what?
16.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
17.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
18.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
18.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
19.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
20.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
20.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
14.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
13.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
14.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
14.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
15.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
16.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
17.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
18.Haruspex: So what?
18.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
19.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
20.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
20.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
21.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
22.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
22.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
16.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
8.Haruspex: A vaccine? We wouldn't finish that until after the whole town is extinct. But what an amazing breakthrough for your resume, right?
9.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
10.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
11.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
12.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
13.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
14.Haruspex: So what?
14.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
15.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
16.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
16.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
11.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
12.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
12.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
13.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
14.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
15.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
16.Haruspex: So what?
16.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
17.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
18.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
18.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
19.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
20.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
20.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
14.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
11.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
12.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
12.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
8.Haruspex: A vaccine is something you create for the future, not for people who are sick now! You just want to protect your buddies in the Capital if the plague spreads, huh?
9.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
10.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
11.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
12.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
13.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
14.Haruspex: So what?
14.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
15.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
16.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
16.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
11.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
12.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
12.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
13.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
14.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
15.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
16.Haruspex: So what?
16.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
17.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
18.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
18.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
19.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
20.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
20.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
14.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
11.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
12.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
12.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
4.Haruspex: We're wasting time.
5.Bachelor: Burakh, I want you to become my aide. Our primary goal is developing a vaccine. You're a local, and... enterprising. I need your help.
6.Haruspex: Vaccines aren't my area of expertise.
7.Bachelor: They are mine. Our goal is to stall the epidemic... and prevent a worldwide pandemic.
8.Haruspex: My goal is survival. We're each on our own, emshen.
8.Haruspex: A worldwide... huh. You're pretty honest about your ambitions, aren't you?
9.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
10.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
11.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
12.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
13.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
14.Haruspex: So what?
14.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
15.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
16.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
16.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
11.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
12.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
12.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
13.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
14.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
15.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
16.Haruspex: So what?
16.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
17.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
18.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
18.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
19.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
20.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
20.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
14.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
11.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
12.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
12.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
8.Haruspex: That's your goal. Mine is to protect my hometown.
9.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
10.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
11.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
12.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
13.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
14.Haruspex: So what?
14.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
15.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
16.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
16.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
11.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
12.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
12.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
13.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
14.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
15.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
16.Haruspex: So what?
16.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
17.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
18.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
18.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
19.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
20.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
20.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
14.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
11.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
12.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
12.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
6.Haruspex: A vaccine? We wouldn't finish that until after the whole town is extinct. But what an amazing breakthrough for your resume, right?
7.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
8.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
9.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
10.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
11.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
12.Haruspex: So what?
12.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
13.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
14.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
14.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
11.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
12.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
12.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
8.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
9.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
10.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
10.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
11.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
12.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
13.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
14.Haruspex: So what?
14.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
15.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
16.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
16.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
8.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
9.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
10.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
10.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
6.Haruspex: A vaccine is something you create for the future, not for people who are sick now! You just want to protect your buddies in the Capital if the plague spreads, huh?
7.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
8.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
9.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
10.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
11.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
12.Haruspex: So what?
12.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
13.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
14.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
14.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
11.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
12.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
12.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
8.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
9.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
10.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
10.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
11.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
12.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
13.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
14.Haruspex: So what?
14.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
15.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
16.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
16.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
8.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
9.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
10.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
10.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
4.Haruspex: ...Wait a second, you mean the girl in the wool cap, with needles for eyes?
5.Bachelor: Yes... I guess she wears a cap. And she does have... a presence. You've met?
6.Haruspex: We have... but it doesn't matter.
6.Haruspex: Don't ever let her close to you! We... we don't need her.
6.Haruspex: Forget her. What did you want to talk about?
7.Bachelor: Burakh, I want you to become my aide. Our primary goal is developing a vaccine. You're a local, and... enterprising. I need your help.
8.Haruspex: Vaccines aren't my area of expertise.
9.Bachelor: They are mine. Our goal is to stall the epidemic... and prevent a worldwide pandemic.
10.Haruspex: My goal is survival. We're each on our own, emshen.
10.Haruspex: A worldwide... huh. You're pretty honest about your ambitions, aren't you?
11.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
12.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
13.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
14.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
15.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
16.Haruspex: So what?
16.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
17.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
18.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
18.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
19.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
20.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
20.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
14.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
13.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
14.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
14.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
15.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
16.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
17.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
18.Haruspex: So what?
18.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
19.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
20.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
20.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
21.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
22.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
22.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
16.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: That's your goal. Mine is to protect my hometown.
11.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
12.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
13.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
14.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
15.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
16.Haruspex: So what?
16.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
17.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
18.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
18.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
19.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
20.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
20.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
14.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
13.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
14.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
14.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
15.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
16.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
17.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
18.Haruspex: So what?
18.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
19.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
20.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
20.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
21.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
22.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
22.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
16.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
8.Haruspex: A vaccine? We wouldn't finish that until after the whole town is extinct. But what an amazing breakthrough for your resume, right?
9.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
10.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
11.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
12.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
13.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
14.Haruspex: So what?
14.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
15.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
16.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
16.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
11.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
12.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
12.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
13.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
14.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
15.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
16.Haruspex: So what?
16.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
17.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
18.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
18.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
19.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
20.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
20.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
14.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
11.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
12.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
12.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
8.Haruspex: A vaccine is something you create for the future, not for people who are sick now! You just want to protect your buddies in the Capital if the plague spreads, huh?
9.Bachelor: Other towns like this one exist, you know. If this disease is half as lethal as the outbreak five years ago, this place is doomed. Other people can still be saved. Or perhaps you have better suggestions?
10.Haruspex: I'll think of something. I won't let you just give up on the sick.
11.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
12.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
13.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
14.Haruspex: So what?
14.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
15.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
16.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
16.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
17.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
18.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
18.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
12.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
13.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
14.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
14.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: How can you know that? You weren't here five years ago. You weren't here five days ago!
11.Bachelor: Neither were you. But I've been collecting evidence-since yesterday, when you were dashing around the steppe. My explorations have actually been successful. And mind your tone, Burakh. I don't take kindly to rudeness.
12.Haruspex: Familiarity breeds affection. I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate it.
12.Haruspex: Yes, I wasn't here for the First Outbreak. But this is my hometown.
13.Bachelor: So what do you have in mind, Burakh?
14.Haruspex: I need to find a way to... save people.
15.Bachelor: And you're calling me ambitious? If this is the same disease that broke out here five years ago, then plague is like mumps compared to it!
16.Haruspex: So what?
16.Haruspex: We don't know what really happened during that outbreak!
17.Bachelor: Think about it. A curative serum for an unknown disease? This contagious, and this lethal? On such short notice? What a utopian thought. A vaccine, on the other hand, can protect the healthy-the people who still have a chance.
18.Haruspex: I'd rather take care of those who are already suffering.
18.Haruspex: Go to hell, emshen.
19.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
20.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
20.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
14.Haruspex: I don't know yet.
15.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
16.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
16.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
10.Haruspex: Just say it. What do you want from me?
11.Bachelor: I will make the vaccine, but I can't do it without you. All you need to do is be at hand and do as I say. I will take full responsibility for the situation.
12.Haruspex: Perhaps I'll drop by... if I have the time.
12.Haruspex: No deal. I am responsible for my actions, no one else. Family tradition.
1.Bachelor: It's hard to admit, but I think arrogance is my undoing. This damn microbe is a shapeshifter, a proteus. It eludes me. The vaccine doesn't work. Burakh, this is a dead end.
2.Haruspex: It is a dead end, erdem. I've tried all the obvious components, but none of them work.
2.Haruspex: Accepting that one is lost... That's a breakthrough all on its own.
3.Bachelor: I have extracted a microbial culture. I weakened it-it's doable even without all the tools I'm used to. But it's ever-changing! Like a person first sick with pox, then with cholera, then with typhoid fever! What do I do?
4.Haruspex: Hm... A sickness like this needs unique antibodies. What kind of creature could produce them?
4.Haruspex: This cure... It needs some sort of special tissue. It needs to be more than human...
4.Haruspex: There are more kinds of life in the world than it seems at first glance... Could this be the answer?
5.Bachelor: And yet, there is a wholeness to this disease. There must be some commonality between all those heinous shapes. What do they share? If I understand that, I could catch it by the tail! The answer must be so close...
6.Haruspex: But who says that this creature is beyond reach? Human or not... Who cares.
6.Haruspex: It's not even about immunity. The tissue must fight back, not defend... <overcome> the enemy, not just protect itself!
6.Haruspex: When something fights back... that's not a rejection, that's something else. Yes... the answer must be close...
7.Bachelor: The scientific method has never failed me. I've always walked the path it showed me. But science is... a minx. You need to keep her fascinated, to change yourself, invent new things. I need to think outside the box...
8.Haruspex: The scientific method... no. Hand-me-down answers won't help me here.
8.Haruspex: Searching for answers in one's specialty... in the fields one has unique access to... Hmm...
8.Haruspex: Thinking outside the box... Yes! That's the approach this problem needs!
9.Bachelor: ...Which means that I need to approach the problem from a very unusual angle. But it's challenging. The fuller one's memory, the more active the brain, the more limits it imposes upon itself.
10.Haruspex: Correct. When you're at a dead end, perhaps what you need is to rise upwards.
10.Haruspex: Yes. When it seems like a dead end, that might be an illusion. Just walk through walls.
1.Bachelor: No vaccine yet... Another fruitless attempt. But there must be a solution to this problem! There must!
2.Haruspex: I guess.
3.Bachelor: Anyway, how's it going? Any progress?
4.Haruspex: I got something. Bulls can't get infected.
5.Bachelor: Are you sure? I had the same line of thinking. At least that's the first thing I checked.
6.Haruspex: And?
6.Haruspex: No, I'm not sure. That's why I came to you.
7.Bachelor: The whole bull thing... I had one delivered to me. I injected it with a strain, intending to collect a blood sample the next day. But the beast disappeared in the night! Any idea who could be behind it?
8.Haruspex: Here, take a look. A sample of bull blood.
9.Bachelor: ...Are you a mind reader?
10.Haruspex: Sometimes. A bit.
10.Haruspex: No. It's just that you have experience with this. You're a scientist. I'm a surgeon.
8.Haruspex: No, I don't.
9.Bachelor: Damn this town... I feel I'm trapped in a nightmare. The absurdity of it all... There's no one to talk to. Everyone's so volatile. They all seem to want to help, but... their help is worse than hostility.
10.Haruspex: I can genuinely help you, erdem. Examine this. It's bull blood.
11.Bachelor: ...Are you a mind reader?
12.Haruspex: Sometimes. A bit.
12.Haruspex: No. It's just that you have experience with this. You're a scientist. I'm a surgeon.
8.Haruspex: If you get a new one, have it guarded.
9.Bachelor: Damn this town... I feel I'm trapped in a nightmare. The absurdity of it all... There's no one to talk to. Everyone's so volatile. They all seem to want to help, but... their help is worse than hostility.
10.Haruspex: I can genuinely help you, erdem. Examine this. It's bull blood.
11.Bachelor: ...Are you a mind reader?
12.Haruspex: Sometimes. A bit.
12.Haruspex: No. It's just that you have experience with this. You're a scientist. I'm a surgeon.
8.Haruspex: Funny, I had something similar happen. Lost the whole bull...
9.Bachelor: Damn this town... I feel I'm trapped in a nightmare. The absurdity of it all... There's no one to talk to. Everyone's so volatile. They all seem to want to help, but... their help is worse than hostility.
10.Haruspex: I can genuinely help you, erdem. Examine this. It's bull blood.
11.Bachelor: ...Are you a mind reader?
12.Haruspex: Sometimes. A bit.
12.Haruspex: No. It's just that you have experience with this. You're a scientist. I'm a surgeon.
4.Haruspex: None.
5.Bachelor: Damn this town... I feel I'm trapped in a nightmare. The absurdity of it all... There's no one to talk to. Everyone's so volatile. They all seem to want to help, but... their help is worse than hostility.
6.Haruspex: I can genuinely help you, erdem. Examine this. It's bull blood.
7.Bachelor: ...Are you a mind reader?
8.Haruspex: Sometimes. A bit.
8.Haruspex: No. It's just that you have experience with this. You're a scientist. I'm a surgeon.
2.Haruspex: You look exhausted, erdem. Get some sleep. Twyre is in bloom.
3.Bachelor: Tell that to Rubin. He doesn't sleep at all-though, he's well aware of that twyre of yours.
4.Haruspex: Is he, I wonder?
4.Haruspex: I will if I get a chance. It's like he has a death wish.
5.Bachelor: Anyway, how's it going? Any progress?
6.Haruspex: I got something. Bulls can't get infected.
7.Bachelor: Are you sure? I had the same line of thinking. At least that's the first thing I checked.
8.Haruspex: And?
8.Haruspex: No, I'm not sure. That's why I came to you.
9.Bachelor: The whole bull thing... I had one delivered to me. I injected it with a strain, intending to collect a blood sample the next day. But the beast disappeared in the night! Any idea who could be behind it?
10.Haruspex: Here, take a look. A sample of bull blood.
11.Bachelor: ...Are you a mind reader?
12.Haruspex: Sometimes. A bit.
12.Haruspex: No. It's just that you have experience with this. You're a scientist. I'm a surgeon.
10.Haruspex: No, I don't.
11.Bachelor: Damn this town... I feel I'm trapped in a nightmare. The absurdity of it all... There's no one to talk to. Everyone's so volatile. They all seem to want to help, but... their help is worse than hostility.
12.Haruspex: I can genuinely help you, erdem. Examine this. It's bull blood.
13.Bachelor: ...Are you a mind reader?
14.Haruspex: Sometimes. A bit.
14.Haruspex: No. It's just that you have experience with this. You're a scientist. I'm a surgeon.
10.Haruspex: If you get a new one, have it guarded.
11.Bachelor: Damn this town... I feel I'm trapped in a nightmare. The absurdity of it all... There's no one to talk to. Everyone's so volatile. They all seem to want to help, but... their help is worse than hostility.
12.Haruspex: I can genuinely help you, erdem. Examine this. It's bull blood.
13.Bachelor: ...Are you a mind reader?
14.Haruspex: Sometimes. A bit.
14.Haruspex: No. It's just that you have experience with this. You're a scientist. I'm a surgeon.
10.Haruspex: Funny, I had something similar happen. Lost the whole bull...
11.Bachelor: Damn this town... I feel I'm trapped in a nightmare. The absurdity of it all... There's no one to talk to. Everyone's so volatile. They all seem to want to help, but... their help is worse than hostility.
12.Haruspex: I can genuinely help you, erdem. Examine this. It's bull blood.
13.Bachelor: ...Are you a mind reader?
14.Haruspex: Sometimes. A bit.
14.Haruspex: No. It's just that you have experience with this. You're a scientist. I'm a surgeon.
6.Haruspex: None.
7.Bachelor: Damn this town... I feel I'm trapped in a nightmare. The absurdity of it all... There's no one to talk to. Everyone's so volatile. They all seem to want to help, but... their help is worse than hostility.
8.Haruspex: I can genuinely help you, erdem. Examine this. It's bull blood.
9.Bachelor: ...Are you a mind reader?
10.Haruspex: Sometimes. A bit.
10.Haruspex: No. It's just that you have experience with this. You're a scientist. I'm a surgeon.
1.Bachelor: Well, seems like you were right. But it's of no use to either of us.
2.Haruspex: Why is that?
2.Haruspex: So bulls are indeed immune to sand pest?
3.Bachelor: Indeed, they produce antibodies. A lot of them. But they're useless to us.
4.Haruspex: Tell me more.
4.Haruspex: Maybe to you, erdem. Not to me.
5.Bachelor: How well are you versed in raw sample hyperimmunization for xenogeneic serums? Do you know how immunoglobulins are extracted from a native serum?
6.Haruspex: No.
6.Haruspex: Say it once more, slowly.
6.Haruspex: We didn't learn that in any of my courses.
7.Bachelor: Sand pest evolves and mutates in human blood. Fast. It doesn't do that in bulls. It's as though bulls are of no interest to it. But their antibodies <could> theoretically be useful...
8.Haruspex: But?
9.Bachelor: Unless the disease is weakened, we can't inject a person with those antibodies. It's too risky. Children, for example, definitely wouldn't survive the procedure. We're too different from bulls. Meaning what we need is...
10.Haruspex: ...A minotaur. A creature that combines man and bull.
10.Haruspex: You want me to wait while you find a way to weaken the disease? No way.
10.Haruspex: So it's a dead end. I see. Thanks, erdem.
8.Haruspex: Of no interest, you say? ...Wait a second!
9.Bachelor: What?
10.Haruspex: No, nothing. Just thinking...
11.Bachelor: Unless the disease is weakened, we can't inject a person with those antibodies. It's too risky. Children, for example, definitely wouldn't survive the procedure. We're too different from bulls. Meaning what we need is...
12.Haruspex: ...A minotaur. A creature that combines man and bull.
12.Haruspex: You want me to wait while you find a way to weaken the disease? No way.
12.Haruspex: So it's a dead end. I see. Thanks, erdem.
1.Bachelor: What is this girl doing here?
2.Haruspex: How should I know?
3.Bachelor: Forget it. Do you have any immunity boosters?
4.Haruspex: I do.
4.Haruspex: I don't.
5.Bachelor: She needs medicine. In an infected district, everyone's in danger. Immunity boosters can help.
6.Haruspex: I know. I'll take care of her.
2.Haruspex: This is Grace. She's the cemetery caretaker.
2.Haruspex: Where's that... artist?
3.Bachelor: He's an architect, and I have no idea. I came here for him, not the girl...
4.Haruspex: Damn it! Why do they keep going outside? Do they want to get infected?
5.Bachelor: Forget it. Do you have any immunity boosters?
6.Haruspex: I do.
6.Haruspex: I don't.
7.Bachelor: She needs medicine. In an infected district, everyone's in danger. Immunity boosters can help.
8.Haruspex: I know. I'll take care of her.
1.Bachelor: I think... all these plague days have been leading to me doing something like this. I've been accused of all sorts of crimes-but I was innocent. There were rumors that I was a looter, that I walked around with a revolver killing people. I guess... I had to prove them right.
2.Haruspex: Did <you> do it?
3.Bachelor: Yes.
4.Haruspex: What for?
5.Bachelor: The Army is leaving, dragging their ungodly cannons with them. The general needs to make one final shot. He is loathe to shoot people, but <something> must be destroyed.
6.Haruspex: And?
7.Bachelor: I won't let them shoot the Polyhedron. I'll do anything within my power to stop it. It's the only living thing around here, if you think about it.
8.Haruspex: You would know, oynon. Shifting the boundary between death and life is, like, your whole shtick, isn't it?
9.Bachelor: Why are you here?
10.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
11.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
12.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
12.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
13.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
14.Haruspex: I would have.
15.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
16.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
17.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
18.Haruspex: What for?
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
14.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
15.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
16.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
17.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
18.Haruspex: What for?
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
14.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
15.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
16.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
8.Haruspex: Why did you kill him?
9.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
10.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
10.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
11.Bachelor: Why are you here?
12.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
13.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
14.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
14.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
15.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
16.Haruspex: I would have.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
17.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
18.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
6.Haruspex: You are mistaken, oynon. There's dissent among the soldiers. If the orders are not delivered, there will be no bombardment at all.
7.Bachelor: So there won't be.
8.Haruspex: We'll see about that.
9.Bachelor: I won't let them shoot the Polyhedron. I'll do anything within my power to stop it. It's the only living thing around here, if you think about it.
10.Haruspex: You would know, oynon. Shifting the boundary between death and life is, like, your whole shtick, isn't it?
11.Bachelor: Why are you here?
12.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
13.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
14.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
14.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
15.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
16.Haruspex: I would have.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
17.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
18.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
10.Haruspex: Why did you kill him?
11.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
12.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
12.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
13.Bachelor: Why are you here?
14.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
15.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
16.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
16.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
17.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
18.Haruspex: I would have.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
19.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
20.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
8.Haruspex: But killing a person...
9.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
10.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
10.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
11.Bachelor: Why are you here?
12.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
13.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
14.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
14.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
15.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
16.Haruspex: I would have.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
17.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
18.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
4.Haruspex: He was delivering Aglaya's papers to the soldiers. Her orders.
5.Bachelor: Exactly. And he would have done it, too. Stubborn. Devoted. Selfless. Like all of us... September is heady this year, as you people like to say.
6.Haruspex: Then why...
7.Bachelor: The Army is leaving, dragging their ungodly cannons with them. The general needs to make one final shot. He is loathe to shoot people, but <something> must be destroyed.
8.Haruspex: And?
9.Bachelor: I won't let them shoot the Polyhedron. I'll do anything within my power to stop it. It's the only living thing around here, if you think about it.
10.Haruspex: You would know, oynon. Shifting the boundary between death and life is, like, your whole shtick, isn't it?
11.Bachelor: Why are you here?
12.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
13.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
14.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
14.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
15.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
16.Haruspex: I would have.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
17.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
18.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
10.Haruspex: Why did you kill him?
11.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
12.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
12.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
13.Bachelor: Why are you here?
14.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
15.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
16.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
16.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
17.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
18.Haruspex: I would have.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
19.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
20.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
8.Haruspex: You are mistaken, oynon. There's dissent among the soldiers. If the orders are not delivered, there will be no bombardment at all.
9.Bachelor: So there won't be.
10.Haruspex: We'll see about that.
11.Bachelor: I won't let them shoot the Polyhedron. I'll do anything within my power to stop it. It's the only living thing around here, if you think about it.
12.Haruspex: You would know, oynon. Shifting the boundary between death and life is, like, your whole shtick, isn't it?
13.Bachelor: Why are you here?
14.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
15.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
16.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
16.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
17.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
18.Haruspex: I would have.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
19.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
20.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
12.Haruspex: Why did you kill him?
13.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
14.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
14.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
15.Bachelor: Why are you here?
16.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
17.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
18.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
18.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
19.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
20.Haruspex: I would have.
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
21.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
22.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
23.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
24.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
25.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
26.Haruspex: What for?
27.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
28.Haruspex: I don't think so.
29.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
30.Haruspex: Were you successful?
30.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
31.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
32.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
33.Bachelor: Precisely.
34.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
34.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
32.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
33.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
34.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
34.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
28.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
10.Haruspex: But killing a person...
11.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
12.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
12.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
13.Bachelor: Why are you here?
14.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
15.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
16.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
16.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
17.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
18.Haruspex: I would have.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
19.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
20.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
6.Haruspex: Heady indeed.
7.Bachelor: Do you condemn me?
8.Haruspex: Does it matter, emshen? We've known each other for a week. You've got blood on your hands. So do I.
8.Haruspex: No.
8.Haruspex: First, tell me why. Then I'll think.
9.Bachelor: The Army is leaving, dragging their ungodly cannons with them. The general needs to make one final shot. He is loathe to shoot people, but <something> must be destroyed.
10.Haruspex: And?
11.Bachelor: I won't let them shoot the Polyhedron. I'll do anything within my power to stop it. It's the only living thing around here, if you think about it.
12.Haruspex: You would know, oynon. Shifting the boundary between death and life is, like, your whole shtick, isn't it?
13.Bachelor: Why are you here?
14.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
15.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
16.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
16.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
17.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
18.Haruspex: I would have.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
19.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
20.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
12.Haruspex: Why did you kill him?
13.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
14.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
14.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
15.Bachelor: Why are you here?
16.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
17.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
18.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
18.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
19.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
20.Haruspex: I would have.
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
21.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
22.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
23.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
24.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
25.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
26.Haruspex: What for?
27.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
28.Haruspex: I don't think so.
29.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
30.Haruspex: Were you successful?
30.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
31.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
32.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
33.Bachelor: Precisely.
34.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
34.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
32.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
33.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
34.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
34.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
28.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
10.Haruspex: You are mistaken, oynon. There's dissent among the soldiers. If the orders are not delivered, there will be no bombardment at all.
11.Bachelor: So there won't be.
12.Haruspex: We'll see about that.
13.Bachelor: I won't let them shoot the Polyhedron. I'll do anything within my power to stop it. It's the only living thing around here, if you think about it.
14.Haruspex: You would know, oynon. Shifting the boundary between death and life is, like, your whole shtick, isn't it?
15.Bachelor: Why are you here?
16.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
17.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
18.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
18.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
19.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
20.Haruspex: I would have.
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
21.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
22.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
23.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
24.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
25.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
26.Haruspex: What for?
27.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
28.Haruspex: I don't think so.
29.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
30.Haruspex: Were you successful?
30.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
31.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
32.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
33.Bachelor: Precisely.
34.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
34.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
32.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
33.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
34.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
34.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
28.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
14.Haruspex: Why did you kill him?
15.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
16.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
16.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
17.Bachelor: Why are you here?
18.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
19.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
20.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
20.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
21.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
22.Haruspex: I would have.
23.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
24.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
25.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
26.Haruspex: What for?
27.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
28.Haruspex: I don't think so.
29.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
30.Haruspex: Were you successful?
30.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
31.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
32.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
33.Bachelor: Precisely.
34.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
34.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
32.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
33.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
34.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
34.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
28.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
23.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
24.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
25.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
26.Haruspex: What for?
27.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
28.Haruspex: I don't think so.
29.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
30.Haruspex: Were you successful?
30.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
31.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
32.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
33.Bachelor: Precisely.
34.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
34.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
32.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
33.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
34.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
34.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
28.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
23.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
24.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
25.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
26.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
27.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
28.Haruspex: I don't think so.
29.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
30.Haruspex: Were you successful?
30.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
31.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
32.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
33.Bachelor: Precisely.
34.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
34.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
32.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
33.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
34.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
34.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
28.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
27.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
28.Haruspex: What for?
29.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
30.Haruspex: I don't think so.
31.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
32.Haruspex: Were you successful?
32.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
33.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
34.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
35.Bachelor: Precisely.
36.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
36.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
34.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
35.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
36.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
36.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
30.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
31.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
32.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
33.Bachelor: Precisely.
34.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
34.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
32.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
33.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
34.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
34.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
27.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
28.Haruspex: I don't think so.
29.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
30.Haruspex: Were you successful?
30.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
31.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
32.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
33.Bachelor: Precisely.
34.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
34.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
32.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
33.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
34.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
34.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
28.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
12.Haruspex: But killing a person...
13.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
14.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
14.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
15.Bachelor: Why are you here?
16.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
17.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
18.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
18.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
19.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
20.Haruspex: I would have.
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
21.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
22.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
23.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
24.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
25.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
26.Haruspex: What for?
27.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
28.Haruspex: I don't think so.
29.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
30.Haruspex: Were you successful?
30.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
31.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
32.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
33.Bachelor: Precisely.
34.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
34.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
32.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
33.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
34.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
34.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
28.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
2.Haruspex: That was my line, emshen.
3.Bachelor: Do you condemn me?
4.Haruspex: Does it matter, emshen? We've known each other for a week. You've got blood on your hands. So do I.
4.Haruspex: No.
4.Haruspex: First, tell me why. Then I'll think.
5.Bachelor: The Army is leaving, dragging their ungodly cannons with them. The general needs to make one final shot. He is loathe to shoot people, but <something> must be destroyed.
6.Haruspex: And?
7.Bachelor: I won't let them shoot the Polyhedron. I'll do anything within my power to stop it. It's the only living thing around here, if you think about it.
8.Haruspex: You would know, oynon. Shifting the boundary between death and life is, like, your whole shtick, isn't it?
9.Bachelor: Why are you here?
10.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
11.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
12.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
12.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
13.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
14.Haruspex: I would have.
15.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
16.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
17.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
18.Haruspex: What for?
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
14.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
15.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
16.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
17.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
18.Haruspex: What for?
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
14.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
15.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
16.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
8.Haruspex: Why did you kill him?
9.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
10.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
10.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
11.Bachelor: Why are you here?
12.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
13.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
14.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
14.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
15.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
16.Haruspex: I would have.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
17.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
18.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
6.Haruspex: You are mistaken, oynon. There's dissent among the soldiers. If the orders are not delivered, there will be no bombardment at all.
7.Bachelor: So there won't be.
8.Haruspex: We'll see about that.
9.Bachelor: I won't let them shoot the Polyhedron. I'll do anything within my power to stop it. It's the only living thing around here, if you think about it.
10.Haruspex: You would know, oynon. Shifting the boundary between death and life is, like, your whole shtick, isn't it?
11.Bachelor: Why are you here?
12.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
13.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
14.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
14.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
15.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
16.Haruspex: I would have.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
17.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
18.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
10.Haruspex: Why did you kill him?
11.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
12.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
12.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
13.Bachelor: Why are you here?
14.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
15.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
16.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
16.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
17.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
18.Haruspex: I would have.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
19.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
20.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
8.Haruspex: But killing a person...
9.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
10.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
10.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
11.Bachelor: Why are you here?
12.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
13.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
14.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
14.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
15.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
16.Haruspex: I would have.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
17.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
18.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
2.Haruspex: Spare me, oynon. Don't pretend you haven't done all those things.
3.Bachelor: Do you condemn me?
4.Haruspex: Does it matter, emshen? We've known each other for a week. You've got blood on your hands. So do I.
4.Haruspex: No.
4.Haruspex: First, tell me why. Then I'll think.
5.Bachelor: The Army is leaving, dragging their ungodly cannons with them. The general needs to make one final shot. He is loathe to shoot people, but <something> must be destroyed.
6.Haruspex: And?
7.Bachelor: I won't let them shoot the Polyhedron. I'll do anything within my power to stop it. It's the only living thing around here, if you think about it.
8.Haruspex: You would know, oynon. Shifting the boundary between death and life is, like, your whole shtick, isn't it?
9.Bachelor: Why are you here?
10.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
11.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
12.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
12.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
13.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
14.Haruspex: I would have.
15.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
16.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
17.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
18.Haruspex: What for?
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
14.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
15.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
16.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
17.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
18.Haruspex: What for?
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
17.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
18.Haruspex: I don't think so.
19.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
20.Haruspex: Were you successful?
20.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
19.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
20.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
21.Bachelor: Precisely.
22.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
22.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
20.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
21.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
22.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
22.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
14.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
15.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
16.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
8.Haruspex: Why did you kill him?
9.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
10.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
10.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
11.Bachelor: Why are you here?
12.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
13.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
14.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
14.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
15.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
16.Haruspex: I would have.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
17.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
18.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
6.Haruspex: You are mistaken, oynon. There's dissent among the soldiers. If the orders are not delivered, there will be no bombardment at all.
7.Bachelor: So there won't be.
8.Haruspex: We'll see about that.
9.Bachelor: I won't let them shoot the Polyhedron. I'll do anything within my power to stop it. It's the only living thing around here, if you think about it.
10.Haruspex: You would know, oynon. Shifting the boundary between death and life is, like, your whole shtick, isn't it?
11.Bachelor: Why are you here?
12.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
13.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
14.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
14.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
15.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
16.Haruspex: I would have.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
17.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
18.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
10.Haruspex: Why did you kill him?
11.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
12.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
12.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
13.Bachelor: Why are you here?
14.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
15.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
16.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
16.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
17.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
18.Haruspex: I would have.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
19.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
20.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
21.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
22.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
23.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
24.Haruspex: What for?
25.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
26.Haruspex: I don't think so.
27.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
28.Haruspex: Were you successful?
28.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
29.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
30.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
31.Bachelor: Precisely.
32.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
32.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
30.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
31.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
32.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
32.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
26.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
8.Haruspex: But killing a person...
9.Bachelor: I tried to ask him nicely, but he wouldn't give me the papers. A zealot. I wonder what she did to him...
10.Haruspex: Well... she's good at convincing people.
10.Haruspex: Frightened him, of course. What else?
11.Bachelor: Why are you here?
12.Haruspex: Where are the papers?
13.Bachelor: Why do you want them?
14.Haruspex: I have my own plans for my hometown.
14.Haruspex: I want to keep them. As a memory of the commissar.
15.Bachelor: See the ashes over there, on the floor? Barely managed to do it before you arrived. Smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, I think. You're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut.
16.Haruspex: I would have.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: Unlike you, I don't kill people for papers.
17.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
18.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
19.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
20.Haruspex: What for?
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
18.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
19.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
20.Haruspex: I don't think so.
21.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
22.Haruspex: Were you successful?
22.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
21.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
22.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
23.Bachelor: Precisely.
24.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
24.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
22.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
23.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
24.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
24.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
16.Haruspex: But why? Why burn them?
17.Bachelor: If there are no papers, there is no bombardment. The mutiny is doomed-most of the soldiers adore their general. And Block, like me, is a man of formality. He wouldn't waste ammo without proof.
18.Haruspex: So what shall we do now?
19.Bachelor: This tower is the only valuable thing around here. Perhaps all three hundred years of this wretched town's history happened just so that this flower could bloom atop this pile of shit.
20.Haruspex: Mind your tongue, oynon.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Three hundred years? It's much older. Several thousand, maybe. The Abattoir has been its head since time immemorial.
21.Bachelor: Once, maybe, but now the Abattoir has become the Town's putrid ass. The head is elsewhere. That head is what we must preserve.
22.Haruspex: What for?
23.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
24.Haruspex: I don't think so.
25.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
26.Haruspex: Were you successful?
26.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
27.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
28.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
29.Bachelor: Precisely.
30.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
30.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
28.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
29.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
30.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
30.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
24.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
20.Haruspex: Why do you care so much? The Tower is deranged. It's lunacy.
21.Bachelor: I'll tell you. I will-the way I'd tell a close, intimate friend. Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?
22.Haruspex: I don't think so.
23.Bachelor: Then listen. I had a lab in the Capital. We studied the dynamics and progression of death. If you pardon the big words, we tried to defeat it. Or at least figure it out enough that people could decide for themselves whether their time has come-or not.
24.Haruspex: Were you successful?
24.Haruspex: Big words indeed.
25.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
26.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
27.Bachelor: Precisely.
28.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
28.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
26.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
27.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
28.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
28.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
22.Haruspex: I've heard it was shut down by the government.
23.Bachelor: I can't share the details. We don't have time. And anyway-you'd have to be me, and live there two weeks with my head on your shoulders to notice and realize all that I have. Trust me. Destroying the Tower would delay our triumph over death indefinitely.
24.Haruspex: So in order to defeat death, it must be preserved?
25.Bachelor: Precisely.
26.Haruspex: I understand, oynon. I'll think about what you said.
26.Haruspex: No. I can see that you believe what you say, but you haven't convinced me.
24.Haruspex: I don't care about the outside world. We have to sacrifice the Tower so that my town can live-and give birth to more towers like this one in the future. You hear me, emshen?
25.Bachelor: I hear you. Loud and clear. But you're an idiot, Artemy Burakh. A skilled surgeon, maybe, but a lousy doctor. And a terrible player, as well. You waste your final move sucking the poison from the wound, when you could have strangled the snake once and for all.
26.Haruspex: You heard me loud and clear.
26.Haruspex: I may be myopic, yes. I'm always thinking with my heart... or my hands.
1.Bachelor: Emshen.
2.Haruspex: Oynon.
2.Haruspex: Erdem.
2.Haruspex: Bachelor.
3.Bachelor: Did I say it right? "Emshen"?
4.Haruspex: Not exactly. You need to swallow the vowels, like you can't open your mouth... Oh, forget it.
4.Haruspex: You did.
4.Haruspex: Just call me by name. We don't want you to break your jaw.
5.Bachelor: Well... this is it, I guess.
6.Haruspex: This is it, erdem.
6.Haruspex: It's just the beginning, oynon.
7.Bachelor: This pursuit of immortality will cost me my life. I doubt the Powers That Be in the Capital ever cared whether or not I could defeat death. They just threw the heretic into the fire, hoping he'd never return. Excuse the pathos.
8.Haruspex: Cost you your life? Come now.
9.Bachelor: And not just mine. Back in Thanatica, we fought for life. For the right to live. For a chance to... to never let death <veto> people. That's what we were robbed of. This tower... Ah, what is there to say. It's gone. And so is hope.
10.Haruspex: I understand it's hard for you.
10.Haruspex: ...
11.Bachelor: A scientist, thrown into the jaws of Death, hoping against hope to defeat Death. Welcomed by Death, ridiculed by Death, taunted by Death, and... fooled by Death. It's as if this heretic spat into a tower of flame, expecting, somehow, to put it out. This whole place is far too crowded with Deaths.
12.Haruspex: You've aged over these last few days. Or are you just resigned, now?
12.Haruspex: There is no death.
13.Bachelor: Imperare sibi maximum imperium est.
14.Haruspex: I told you already... I don't speak that barbaric tongue.
14.Haruspex: Nookherni... Nүnehen zayla. It'll be fine.
14.Haruspex: Stay here. A new tower will grow, just you wait. I say this as... a friend.
8.Haruspex: Did someone send you here? I thought you came on your own accord.
9.Bachelor: Yeah... You're right, I'm confused. I haven't been so drunk since my student years. Then again, it's hard to knock a doctor off their feet. I can still think, just... not straight.
10.Haruspex: So... Cheers, I guess?
10.Haruspex: ...
11.Bachelor: A scientist, thrown into the jaws of Death, hoping against hope to defeat Death. Welcomed by Death, ridiculed by Death, taunted by Death, and... fooled by Death. It's as if this heretic spat into a tower of flame, expecting, somehow, to put it out. This whole place is far too crowded with Deaths.
12.Haruspex: You've aged over these last few days. Or are you just resigned, now?
12.Haruspex: There is no death.
13.Bachelor: Imperare sibi maximum imperium est.
14.Haruspex: I told you already... I don't speak that barbaric tongue.
14.Haruspex: Nookherni... Nүnehen zayla. It'll be fine.
14.Haruspex: Stay here. A new tower will grow, just you wait. I say this as... a friend.
1.Bachelor: We need an isolation ward. A huge building-"spacious," yes, that's the word I used. The Kains suggested the Cathedral. That's it. Nothing surprises me anymore. Then again, all a quarantined person has left is prayer.
2.Haruspex: But it's a single space. No separate rooms.
3.Bachelor: Precisely. No separate rooms. No running water. No heat. No beds. And yes, it is spacious-vertically! I suppose Victor expects me to build eight-story bunk beds there? And add hanging ropes so that people from the upper layers can descend to the toilet?
4.Haruspex: You should suggest that to the Kains, erdem. They'll appreciate your imagination. Building one's spirit, training their will, asking the perennial questions...
5.Bachelor: Questions, questions, questions... Always questions, never answers.
6.Haruspex: I have a question for you too, erdem.
7.Bachelor: By the way, what does "erdem" mean? Obviously it's a steppe word, but what's the translation? "Arrogant fool," maybe?
8.Haruspex: No. It's a polite way to address a person of knowledge.
8.Haruspex: "Erdem," "oynon," and "emshen" are the words people use for doctors.
8.Haruspex: Sort of.
9.Bachelor: So?
10.Haruspex: Okay, don't laugh at me. Have you heard that five years ago, during the First Outbreak, kids made these-
11.Bachelor: -horrible mixtures from ground pills, yes. "Shmowders." They can cure the plague. Yes... I've heard. Worse, I've checked. So don't laugh at me either, dear colleague. What's the word... "erdem"?
12.Haruspex: Holy shit... Sorry, excuse my language. So you've checked, then?
13.Bachelor: You don't have to watch your tongue with me. Yes, I've checked. But if you wonder how it works, I don't know. I'm not a pharmacologist, and anyway, this place doesn't have a lab. If you ask me, it was ten thousand monkeys at a typewriter... Oh, I don't want to delve too deep into this. "There are more things in heaven and earth..." What we need is a process that follows the scientific method.
14.Haruspex: Fair enough.
14.Haruspex: Pity. I wondered how that was possible... Thought you might know.
12.Haruspex: I'm no erdem. "Emshen" would be more accurate... but not especially humble. Usually, we call surgeons "yargachins," as in butchers.
13.Bachelor: All right, Burakh. Now's not the time for steppe linguistics... We'll talk later, colleague.
14.Haruspex: Godspeed, oynon.
14.Haruspex: If we meet again, that is.
6.Haruspex: All right. I'll leave you to it. Although, I think we're better off without an isolation ward at all.
2.Haruspex: They say you can tell who's infected immediately. That it shows.
3.Bachelor: We don't know anything for certain yet... anything! The vaccine is a disaster... People are dropping like flies... Not a single patient recovered. Not a single one!
4.Haruspex: I'm sorry.
4.Haruspex: An oak isn't felled in one stroke.
5.Bachelor: Questions, questions, questions... Always questions, never answers.
6.Haruspex: I have a question for you too, erdem.
7.Bachelor: By the way, what does "erdem" mean? Obviously it's a steppe word, but what's the translation? "Arrogant fool," maybe?
8.Haruspex: No. It's a polite way to address a person of knowledge.
8.Haruspex: "Erdem," "oynon," and "emshen" are the words people use for doctors.
8.Haruspex: Sort of.
9.Bachelor: So?
10.Haruspex: Okay, don't laugh at me. Have you heard that five years ago, during the First Outbreak, kids made these-
11.Bachelor: -horrible mixtures from ground pills, yes. "Shmowders." They can cure the plague. Yes... I've heard. Worse, I've checked. So don't laugh at me either, dear colleague. What's the word... "erdem"?
12.Haruspex: Holy shit... Sorry, excuse my language. So you've checked, then?
13.Bachelor: You don't have to watch your tongue with me. Yes, I've checked. But if you wonder how it works, I don't know. I'm not a pharmacologist, and anyway, this place doesn't have a lab. If you ask me, it was ten thousand monkeys at a typewriter... Oh, I don't want to delve too deep into this. "There are more things in heaven and earth..." What we need is a process that follows the scientific method.
14.Haruspex: Fair enough.
14.Haruspex: Pity. I wondered how that was possible... Thought you might know.
12.Haruspex: I'm no erdem. "Emshen" would be more accurate... but not especially humble. Usually, we call surgeons "yargachins," as in butchers.
13.Bachelor: All right, Burakh. Now's not the time for steppe linguistics... We'll talk later, colleague.
14.Haruspex: Godspeed, oynon.
14.Haruspex: If we meet again, that is.
6.Haruspex: All right. I'll leave you to it. Although, I think we're better off without an isolation ward at all.
1.Bachelor: Burakh.
2.Haruspex: The issue with the water keeps bothering me...
3.Bachelor: Colleague, this is nonsense. You're stuck in the Middle Ages... I suppose I just have to accept this. Whenever an outbreak strikes, the rumor mill spins its wheels. Someone poisoned the wells! Who? Gypsies, heathens, witches, foreigners... I won't act without proof. Which doesn't exist.
4.Haruspex: What's this, then?
5.Bachelor: What's this? Where did you get it?
6.Haruspex: Something's wrong with this water.
6.Haruspex: From a barrel in the Middle Town.
7.Bachelor: No. No... For god's sake... Damn it! What have we done to deserve... ...All right. I apologize for that outburst. Leave it to me. I'll examine it. Today... It won't take long.
8.Haruspex: ...And if it's infected?
9.Bachelor: No ifs. Consider it infected. Then... Well, it's not like I have a choice! We'll follow the plan and destroy all the water barrels in the Middle Town. Effective immediately. We simply can't take any risks here. I can't shake this sense of dread... As if fate itself acts against us.
10.Haruspex: Damn it... Lara!
11.Bachelor: What?
12.Haruspex: No... Nothing.
12.Haruspex: I made a mistake. But it's my concern, not yours.
10.Haruspex: Great. So I robbed half the Town of water with my own hands.
4.Haruspex: Good. Without water, we're done for.
2.Haruspex: Yup. That's my name.
1.Bachelor: Leave it with me, I'll study it. Will only take a few hours. In that time, I suggest you hit the cot somewhere. I've seen corpses prettier than you.
2.Haruspex: I can't. I have a lot on my plate. I'll just drop by later.
2.Haruspex: All right. Thanks, erdem.
1.Bachelor: Leave it with me, I'll study it. Will only take a few hours. While I'm busy, you may hit the cot over there, by the folding screen. You need it. I've seen corpses prettier than you.
2.Haruspex: I can't. I have a lot on my plate. I'll just drop by later.
2.Haruspex: All right. Thanks, erdem.
1.Bachelor: We need to set up the facilities... An isolation ward, a real hospital... We need control over corpse disposal... Tell me, how's it possible this town has never had a proper hospital? Don't women give birth here? Don't people get sick? I'm serious...
2.Haruspex: We managed somehow. And no one complained.
2.Haruspex: Can I help you somehow?
3.Bachelor: No. Not now... Though, can you tell me what's going on with your water delivery system? Is it true the water's only for industrial purposes? Seriously...
4.Haruspex: I don't know. We didn't have all this infrastructure back when I left. All the water was brought in from steppe springs.
4.Haruspex: Gorkhon water is unsuitable for drinking. The Abattoir's too close.
4.Haruspex: Why do you ask?
5.Bachelor: No reason... Hopefully those are only silly rumors. Forget it, Burakh. I have a splitting headache. If you have no urgent business, then we'll talk later. Later, later... Qui non proficit, deficit.
6.Haruspex: Fair enough. Good luck, emshen.
6.Haruspex: Be oylgono үgyb...
1.Bachelor: Yes, Burakh?
2.Haruspex: What's going on with the water, emshen?
3.Bachelor: And a grave one.
4.Haruspex: As in...?
4.Haruspex: I know that. But what's the plan?
5.Bachelor: Water will now be given to people drop by drop, in a controlled fashion. Some luddites destroyed your water pipes tonight. Claimed it was contaminated by the river water. Granted, the Gorkhon <is> terribly polluted... but what if there was no contamination? Where are we supposed to get water now? For sanitary use, if nothing else...
6.Haruspex: So those guards simply protect the barrels from the common people? To stop them from taking too much?
7.Bachelor: One well-wisher came here today, reporting that someone infected the water barrels in the Middle Town. Certainly, it'd be nice to investigate. But when am I supposed to do that? How many barrels are in that area? Twenty? Thirty?
8.Haruspex: But what if we do find an infected barrel?
8.Haruspex: Fewer.
9.Bachelor: Overriding my authority, Saburov issued an order: All barrels in the Middle Town are to be destroyed. Those are his people guarding them... And, well, I'm powerless to challenge his orders.
10.Haruspex: Why only the Middle Town?
10.Haruspex: But you could check them.
11.Bachelor: I've received samples from the Upper and Lower Town. All clear. And the Middle Town is clear, too! It's all nonsense. An idiotic craze, a crowd mad with paranoia! I have too much to do to go chasing shadows...
12.Haruspex: But I thought...
12.Haruspex: But what if it's true?
13.Bachelor: Colleague, this is nonsense. You're stuck in the Middle Ages... I suppose I just have to accept this. Whenever an outbreak strikes, the rumor mill spins its wheels. Someone poisoned the wells! Who? Gypsies, heathens, witches, foreigners... I won't act without proof. Which doesn't exist.
14.Haruspex: What's this, then?
15.Bachelor: What's this? Where did you get it?
16.Haruspex: Something's wrong with this water.
16.Haruspex: From a barrel in the Middle Town.
17.Bachelor: No. No... For god's sake... Damn it! What have we done to deserve... ...All right. I apologize for that outburst. Leave it to me. I'll examine it. Today... It won't take long.
18.Haruspex: ...And if it's infected?
19.Bachelor: No ifs. Consider it infected. Then... Well, it's not like I have a choice! We'll follow the plan and destroy all the water barrels in the Middle Town. Effective immediately. We simply can't take any risks here. I can't shake this sense of dread... As if fate itself acts against us.
20.Haruspex: Damn it... Lara!
21.Bachelor: What?
22.Haruspex: No... Nothing.
22.Haruspex: I made a mistake. But it's my concern, not yours.
20.Haruspex: Great. So I robbed half the Town of water with my own hands.
14.Haruspex: Good. Without water, we're done for.
6.Haruspex: There is talk of infected barrels...
7.Bachelor: Drivel. I don't believe it for a second.
8.Haruspex: Who started the rumor?
9.Bachelor: One well-wisher came here today, reporting that someone infected the water barrels in the Middle Town. Certainly, it'd be nice to investigate. But when am I supposed to do that? How many barrels are in that area? Twenty? Thirty?
10.Haruspex: But what if we do find an infected barrel?
10.Haruspex: Fewer.
11.Bachelor: Overriding my authority, Saburov issued an order: All barrels in the Middle Town are to be destroyed. Those are his people guarding them... And, well, I'm powerless to challenge his orders.
12.Haruspex: Why only the Middle Town?
12.Haruspex: But you could check them.
13.Bachelor: I've received samples from the Upper and Lower Town. All clear. And the Middle Town is clear, too! It's all nonsense. An idiotic craze, a crowd mad with paranoia! I have too much to do to go chasing shadows...
14.Haruspex: But I thought...
14.Haruspex: But what if it's true?
15.Bachelor: Colleague, this is nonsense. You're stuck in the Middle Ages... I suppose I just have to accept this. Whenever an outbreak strikes, the rumor mill spins its wheels. Someone poisoned the wells! Who? Gypsies, heathens, witches, foreigners... I won't act without proof. Which doesn't exist.
16.Haruspex: What's this, then?
17.Bachelor: What's this? Where did you get it?
18.Haruspex: Something's wrong with this water.
18.Haruspex: From a barrel in the Middle Town.
19.Bachelor: No. No... For god's sake... Damn it! What have we done to deserve... ...All right. I apologize for that outburst. Leave it to me. I'll examine it. Today... It won't take long.
20.Haruspex: ...And if it's infected?
21.Bachelor: No ifs. Consider it infected. Then... Well, it's not like I have a choice! We'll follow the plan and destroy all the water barrels in the Middle Town. Effective immediately. We simply can't take any risks here. I can't shake this sense of dread... As if fate itself acts against us.
22.Haruspex: Damn it... Lara!
23.Bachelor: What?
24.Haruspex: No... Nothing.
24.Haruspex: I made a mistake. But it's my concern, not yours.
22.Haruspex: Great. So I robbed half the Town of water with my own hands.
16.Haruspex: Good. Without water, we're done for.
6.Haruspex: There are steppe springs. Water carriers bring water from there.
7.Bachelor: "Water carriers"? Seriously, Burakh? We're quarantined! Although, I suppose we'll have to send someone-with proper security, of course... Where, by the way, are those springs? Far from here?
8.Haruspex: Quite. Still, erdem, about the water...
9.Bachelor: Colleague, this is nonsense. You're stuck in the Middle Ages... I suppose I just have to accept this. Whenever an outbreak strikes, the rumor mill spins its wheels. Someone poisoned the wells! Who? Gypsies, heathens, witches, foreigners... I won't act without proof. Which doesn't exist.
10.Haruspex: What's this, then?
11.Bachelor: What's this? Where did you get it?
12.Haruspex: Something's wrong with this water.
12.Haruspex: From a barrel in the Middle Town.
13.Bachelor: No. No... For god's sake... Damn it! What have we done to deserve... ...All right. I apologize for that outburst. Leave it to me. I'll examine it. Today... It won't take long.
14.Haruspex: ...And if it's infected?
15.Bachelor: No ifs. Consider it infected. Then... Well, it's not like I have a choice! We'll follow the plan and destroy all the water barrels in the Middle Town. Effective immediately. We simply can't take any risks here. I can't shake this sense of dread... As if fate itself acts against us.
16.Haruspex: Damn it... Lara!
17.Bachelor: What?
18.Haruspex: No... Nothing.
18.Haruspex: I made a mistake. But it's my concern, not yours.
16.Haruspex: Great. So I robbed half the Town of water with my own hands.
10.Haruspex: Good. Without water, we're done for.
8.Haruspex: It'll take them roughly three days to fetch the water.
2.Haruspex: Why are the water barrels being guarded?
3.Bachelor: Water will now be given to people drop by drop, in a controlled fashion. Some luddites destroyed your water pipes tonight. Claimed it was contaminated by the river water. Granted, the Gorkhon <is> terribly polluted... but what if there was no contamination? Where are we supposed to get water now? For sanitary use, if nothing else...
4.Haruspex: So those guards simply protect the barrels from the common people? To stop them from taking too much?
5.Bachelor: One well-wisher came here today, reporting that someone infected the water barrels in the Middle Town. Certainly, it'd be nice to investigate. But when am I supposed to do that? How many barrels are in that area? Twenty? Thirty?
6.Haruspex: But what if we do find an infected barrel?
6.Haruspex: Fewer.
7.Bachelor: Overriding my authority, Saburov issued an order: All barrels in the Middle Town are to be destroyed. Those are his people guarding them... And, well, I'm powerless to challenge his orders.
8.Haruspex: Why only the Middle Town?
8.Haruspex: But you could check them.
9.Bachelor: I've received samples from the Upper and Lower Town. All clear. And the Middle Town is clear, too! It's all nonsense. An idiotic craze, a crowd mad with paranoia! I have too much to do to go chasing shadows...
10.Haruspex: But I thought...
10.Haruspex: But what if it's true?
11.Bachelor: Colleague, this is nonsense. You're stuck in the Middle Ages... I suppose I just have to accept this. Whenever an outbreak strikes, the rumor mill spins its wheels. Someone poisoned the wells! Who? Gypsies, heathens, witches, foreigners... I won't act without proof. Which doesn't exist.
12.Haruspex: What's this, then?
13.Bachelor: What's this? Where did you get it?
14.Haruspex: Something's wrong with this water.
14.Haruspex: From a barrel in the Middle Town.
15.Bachelor: No. No... For god's sake... Damn it! What have we done to deserve... ...All right. I apologize for that outburst. Leave it to me. I'll examine it. Today... It won't take long.
16.Haruspex: ...And if it's infected?
17.Bachelor: No ifs. Consider it infected. Then... Well, it's not like I have a choice! We'll follow the plan and destroy all the water barrels in the Middle Town. Effective immediately. We simply can't take any risks here. I can't shake this sense of dread... As if fate itself acts against us.
18.Haruspex: Damn it... Lara!
19.Bachelor: What?
20.Haruspex: No... Nothing.
20.Haruspex: I made a mistake. But it's my concern, not yours.
18.Haruspex: Great. So I robbed half the Town of water with my own hands.
12.Haruspex: Good. Without water, we're done for.
4.Haruspex: There is talk of infected barrels...
5.Bachelor: Drivel. I don't believe it for a second.
6.Haruspex: Who started the rumor?
7.Bachelor: One well-wisher came here today, reporting that someone infected the water barrels in the Middle Town. Certainly, it'd be nice to investigate. But when am I supposed to do that? How many barrels are in that area? Twenty? Thirty?
8.Haruspex: But what if we do find an infected barrel?
8.Haruspex: Fewer.
9.Bachelor: Overriding my authority, Saburov issued an order: All barrels in the Middle Town are to be destroyed. Those are his people guarding them... And, well, I'm powerless to challenge his orders.
10.Haruspex: Why only the Middle Town?
10.Haruspex: But you could check them.
11.Bachelor: I've received samples from the Upper and Lower Town. All clear. And the Middle Town is clear, too! It's all nonsense. An idiotic craze, a crowd mad with paranoia! I have too much to do to go chasing shadows...
12.Haruspex: But I thought...
12.Haruspex: But what if it's true?
13.Bachelor: Colleague, this is nonsense. You're stuck in the Middle Ages... I suppose I just have to accept this. Whenever an outbreak strikes, the rumor mill spins its wheels. Someone poisoned the wells! Who? Gypsies, heathens, witches, foreigners... I won't act without proof. Which doesn't exist.
14.Haruspex: What's this, then?
15.Bachelor: What's this? Where did you get it?
16.Haruspex: Something's wrong with this water.
16.Haruspex: From a barrel in the Middle Town.
17.Bachelor: No. No... For god's sake... Damn it! What have we done to deserve... ...All right. I apologize for that outburst. Leave it to me. I'll examine it. Today... It won't take long.
18.Haruspex: ...And if it's infected?
19.Bachelor: No ifs. Consider it infected. Then... Well, it's not like I have a choice! We'll follow the plan and destroy all the water barrels in the Middle Town. Effective immediately. We simply can't take any risks here. I can't shake this sense of dread... As if fate itself acts against us.
20.Haruspex: Damn it... Lara!
21.Bachelor: What?
22.Haruspex: No... Nothing.
22.Haruspex: I made a mistake. But it's my concern, not yours.
20.Haruspex: Great. So I robbed half the Town of water with my own hands.
14.Haruspex: Good. Without water, we're done for.
4.Haruspex: There are steppe springs. Water carriers bring water from there.
5.Bachelor: "Water carriers"? Seriously, Burakh? We're quarantined! Although, I suppose we'll have to send someone-with proper security, of course... Where, by the way, are those springs? Far from here?
6.Haruspex: Quite. Still, erdem, about the water...
7.Bachelor: Colleague, this is nonsense. You're stuck in the Middle Ages... I suppose I just have to accept this. Whenever an outbreak strikes, the rumor mill spins its wheels. Someone poisoned the wells! Who? Gypsies, heathens, witches, foreigners... I won't act without proof. Which doesn't exist.
8.Haruspex: What's this, then?
9.Bachelor: What's this? Where did you get it?
10.Haruspex: Something's wrong with this water.
10.Haruspex: From a barrel in the Middle Town.
11.Bachelor: No. No... For god's sake... Damn it! What have we done to deserve... ...All right. I apologize for that outburst. Leave it to me. I'll examine it. Today... It won't take long.
12.Haruspex: ...And if it's infected?
13.Bachelor: No ifs. Consider it infected. Then... Well, it's not like I have a choice! We'll follow the plan and destroy all the water barrels in the Middle Town. Effective immediately. We simply can't take any risks here. I can't shake this sense of dread... As if fate itself acts against us.
14.Haruspex: Damn it... Lara!
15.Bachelor: What?
16.Haruspex: No... Nothing.
16.Haruspex: I made a mistake. But it's my concern, not yours.
14.Haruspex: Great. So I robbed half the Town of water with my own hands.
8.Haruspex: Good. Without water, we're done for.
6.Haruspex: It'll take them roughly three days to fetch the water.
1.Bachelor: Totum revolutum. "TO-tum re-vo-LU-tum." No... Damn it... "re-VO-lu-tum"...
2.Haruspex: What's wrong with you, emshen?
3.Bachelor: Hush, you'll destroy my focus. Scientia potentia est. "Ski-EN-ti-a"...
4.Haruspex: Enunciate that "ski" more crisply, maybe?
4.Haruspex: I never thought you... rehearsed all that.
2.Haruspex: Tenegh...
1.Bachelor: Hey... I don't know what to do. I'm at a loss.
2.Haruspex: You're a disgrace, oynon.
2.Haruspex: You're scared, aren't you? I see it in your eyes.
2.Haruspex: Me too.
3.Bachelor: Do you know what the inquisition is?
4.Haruspex: A church investigation.
5.Bachelor: What the hell are you talking about, Burakh? What church? This isn't funny!
6.Haruspex: Are you scared?
6.Haruspex: I mean, this whole situation falls in their department. There's an outbreak. We're all dying. What else is there to do?
7.Bachelor: I carry this cross willingly. I found myself in your damn town by accident. When hell broke loose... I tried. I tried to fight this wretched plague! I took responsibility, I did everything I should have. Do you understand?
8.Haruspex: Arrogant as always, oynon. You're not the only person responsible.
8.Haruspex: You've done a lot.
9.Bachelor: The Inquisitor will take the one who bends reality. They'll twist them, break them. The person responsible won't even understand how they decided to put a bullet in their own head. That's their method. Do you consider yourself free, Burakh?
10.Haruspex: Yes.
10.Haruspex: No.
10.Haruspex: Any choice is right, so long as it's willed.
11.Bachelor: I don't know where this girl came from, but their inquisition is up next. Our current situation is exactly the kind they're tailored to solve. Have you ever considered angels, Burakh? How do you imagine them?
12.Haruspex: I don't imagine them. They don't exist.
12.Haruspex: Chubby cherubs with wings and golden curls. Why?
12.Haruspex: Why even ask? You don't believe in God, oynon.
13.Bachelor: An angel is a nightmare. Their purpose is to instill primal, oppressive horror. I think if angels existed, they'd resemble a divine pillar of light-from the heavens to the earth. Devoid of anything remotely human.
14.Haruspex: But inquisitors are people.
14.Haruspex: Get a hold of yourself, oynon.
14.Haruspex: ...You're drunk, aren't you?
4.Haruspex: I've heard about it.
5.Bachelor: I carry this cross willingly. I found myself in your damn town by accident. When hell broke loose... I tried. I tried to fight this wretched plague! I took responsibility, I did everything I should have. Do you understand?
6.Haruspex: Arrogant as always, oynon. You're not the only person responsible.
6.Haruspex: You've done a lot.
7.Bachelor: The Inquisitor will take the one who bends reality. They'll twist them, break them. The person responsible won't even understand how they decided to put a bullet in their own head. That's their method. Do you consider yourself free, Burakh?
8.Haruspex: Yes.
8.Haruspex: No.
8.Haruspex: Any choice is right, so long as it's willed.
9.Bachelor: I don't know where this girl came from, but their inquisition is up next. Our current situation is exactly the kind they're tailored to solve. Have you ever considered angels, Burakh? How do you imagine them?
10.Haruspex: I don't imagine them. They don't exist.
10.Haruspex: Chubby cherubs with wings and golden curls. Why?
10.Haruspex: Why even ask? You don't believe in God, oynon.
11.Bachelor: An angel is a nightmare. Their purpose is to instill primal, oppressive horror. I think if angels existed, they'd resemble a divine pillar of light-from the heavens to the earth. Devoid of anything remotely human.
12.Haruspex: But inquisitors are people.
12.Haruspex: Get a hold of yourself, oynon.
12.Haruspex: ...You're drunk, aren't you?