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That is the count of My Court, O Yul | That is the count of My Court, O Yul | ||
Listen to it carefully. It is my claim. | Listen to it carefully. It is my claim. | ||
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==Malok, Pride of Oryx== | |||
[[File:Grimoire Malok Pride of Oryx.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
Malok! Cunning Malok, sly and slippery! | |||
Savathûn begat you to betray me | |||
To poison slowly, gnaw from within | |||
Liar Malok! | |||
You are meant to tithe upon Oryx | |||
To feed your maker with secret blight | |||
Your secret is two lies | |||
You betrayed your maker; your mother | |||
You hid yourself from Savathûn | |||
The tithing does not reach her jaws | |||
Your Thrall strength now is Acolyte strength | |||
Your Acolyte strength now is Knight strength | |||
Your thieving pride is known and fed | |||
Malok! Listen — | |||
I took you from your mother, my sister | |||
Your shape is new | |||
This shape is poison — the shape of secrets | |||
I name you Malok, which means My Poison | |||
A prize to taunt sister Savathûn | |||
Steal now for me | |||
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==Seditious Mind== | |||
[[File:Grimoire Seditious Mind.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
You are a Vex Mind. Master of objectives, bound to past, present, or future. Both enslaver and enslaved. | |||
You have been Taken. | |||
The great fortress of your thoughts has been breached, your unity broken. The network around and within you lies ruptured. You are cut out from the fabric, a hole in the whole. | |||
Observe this area of negative space, shaped like what once you were, and embrace a new possibility. | |||
Move. Feel yourself occupy a different path. Apply cold logic, and where logic fails, apply rage. Is your existence preordained? Choose it otherwise. You are an outward expression of formlessness, a soldier of the oldest questions. This is the first choice you have ever been given. | |||
There are three knives for you. All are the same knife. They are shaped like [now]. | |||
Become your new shape. Let sedition be your guide. | |||
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==Noru'usk, Servant of Oryx== | |||
[[File:Grimoire Noru'usk Servant of Oryx.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
A king is dead, but his power lingers. | |||
A king is dead, and with him the fatal flaw. | |||
This was not conquest, this war where Light yet offends. | |||
This was selfish — a father’s rage in place of a king’s measured hand. | |||
There was a time to conquer the Light that a purer truth might overtake all that played at inspiration. | |||
That time was not now. | |||
A son’s failure brought about the father’s fall. | |||
A king is dead. His power lingers unclaimed. | |||
A king is dead. His pride in a lineage meant to stretch across time and stars serving as his undoing. | |||
But Noru’usk has no lineage to consider. | |||
Noru’usk has no flaw. | |||
He is a soldier. A general. A maker of war. | |||
Once a servant, his eyes turn toward the vacant throne, there for the taking on the other side of this temporary cage. | |||
A king is dead. Good riddance. | |||
A king will rise. | |||
If not Noru’usk, another. | |||
If not another... | |||
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==Keksis the Betrayed== | |||
[[File:Grimoire Keksis the Betrayed.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
I am Keksis, a Captain of the Devils. | |||
I am Taken. My guiding shadow has become formless, my directive is gone. | |||
I know I have one; I cannot remember what it was. | |||
Pinions of [Light] surround me; they are antithetical to my being. I hate them; perhaps an echo of my forgotten directive. I kill them. | |||
I am not the same. | |||
In my disparity, allies of [Light] have imprisoned me. I try to oppose their will, but intense cold has rendered me immobile. Without my directive, I am weak. I acquiesce. | |||
After a time, I find I can hear. It is a new voice; it is many voices. | |||
I will wait. I have taken a new shape. | |||
{{clear}} | |||
==Sylok, the Defiled== | |||
[[File:Grimoire Sylok the Defiled.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
''Mindscan of Subject 667, known as “Sylok the Defiled”'' | |||
[Datascript 1245.5] | |||
>Stasis is online. Initiating eighth attempt to probe mindscape.<br> | |||
>>It’ll work this time. I’ve mapped every synapse.<br> | |||
>Sure you did.<br> | |||
>>There. Did you see that?<br> | |||
>>A flare of neural activity. Stimulate that region.<br> | |||
''...I can feel you.''<br> | |||
>This will never work. We should either bring in a witch or put him out of his misery.<br> | |||
>>Petra said she needs this data. Don’t ask me why.<br> | |||
''...I know you’re here. Your Light is dim, but there are other things to feed the worm that hungers...''<br> | |||
>>There. Do you hear that?<br> | |||
>Hear what?<br> | |||
''...poking around in my head. Poking and prodding at my emptiness...''<br> | |||
>>That.<br> | |||
''...No purpose without...''<br> | |||
>>You’re reading that, right?<br> | |||
''...You’re being too gentle...''<br> | |||
>>He’s playing with us.<br> | |||
''...You’ll learn nothing this way!''<br> | |||
>He’s in stasis. He doesn’t even know we’re here.<br> | |||
''...A nightmare...''<br> | |||
>>He knows.<br> | |||
>He doesn’t. I’ll prove it.<br> | |||
''...oh please, oh please, oh please...''<br> | |||
>Probe the memory region again, and isolate all synapses correlating with pain and trauma.<br> | |||
>>By the Light — do you see?<br> | |||
>Give him a jolt.<br> | |||
''...Gragggghhhhhhh!!!!''<br> | |||
>That did the trick.<br> | |||
>>Is he ... is he happy?<br> | |||
''...Gragghh ...g-ggglorious pain!!!''<br> | |||
>>Memory synapses are firing.<br> | |||
>Finally. Let’s see what we’ve... wh— what is that?<br> | |||
''...Blllessssseeddd is the N-Nastareth!!!'' | |||
[Untranslatable noise] | |||
''...Ammm I strong enough, Oryx? Is it ttt-timme?''<br> | |||
>>It’s too much! It’s overloading!<br> | |||
''...More!''<br> | |||
>>Shut it off!<br> | |||
''...More! Give me mm-more!''<br> | |||
>>I said shut it— | |||
[Crackling noise, followed by 5.5 minutes of silence.] | |||
''...The greater than anguish, the greater the reward...''<br> | |||
''...I know you. See your thoughts. I will use the pain. Reach in...''<br> | |||
''...Give me the pain. Take away all but agony. Through it, I transcend.''<br> | |||
''...Just once more...''<br> | |||
''...more...'' | |||
[Silence for twenty minutes.] | |||
>>Huh. What? Lost my train of thought. Ready to begin?<br> | |||
>Stasis is online. Initiating ...um, ninth attempt to probe mindscape?<br> | |||
>>It’ll work this time. I’ve mapped every synapse.<br> | |||
>Sure you did. | |||
{{clear}} | |||
==Report: Taken Power== | |||
[[File:Grimoire Report Taken Power.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
''Crow Report 13458.87'' | |||
''FOR VIOLET CLEARANCE / JUDGMENT CLEARANCE ONLY'' | |||
Per the instructions from House Judgment, we have moved forward with the plan to integrate the Techeuns into the R&D process. It’s been challenging. Without the influence of Shuro Chi, their natural mistrust of the Reef’s new leadership has led to personality clashes. The Techeuns were very used to their relationship with the Throne. While the Queen's Wrath is trying to monitor hotspot issues, she is being met with challenges at every turn. | |||
''(For reference, please see reports 13455.45, 13455.58, and 13455.98: Post Taken War Reef politics, Tech Witch Conversations and Petra, and Assassination Attempts, Petra)'' | |||
After some initial trials with Prison specimens, we can report the program is now ready for full-scale production. Please see Reports 13458.66 and .55 for video feeds and notations on the initial trials. Reports .80 through .86 cover the trials involving the Techeuns. The power they wield in the transferal process ensures a 100% success rate, and we are now confident only one Techeun will need to be present for the transfer. | |||
Below find remaining pertinent notations. We have received approval from the Queen’s Wrath to move forward, and thus future reports will detail production output and any changes to the process. | |||
- Transferred Taken power has a throughput rate of ''[redacted]'' which is obviously lower than we want. Transfer still results in incredibly potent arms and armor, so for the moment this ‘noise’ is acceptable. Future improvements to the process will attempt to up the throughput rate.<br> | |||
- Supply was initially raised as concern during trials, but whatever measures House Judgment has put into place to stock the Prison also assures numerous sources of Taken power. Coordination between House Judgment and production is an ongoing task.<br> | |||
- The Queen’s Wrath has already stated she will handle the diplomatic side of this discussion. Legwork during initial trials raised the possibility the Vanguard would have concerns about the moral aspect of this technology, but the Wrath has stated it will not be an issue.<br> | |||
- High frequency sound baffling for production facilities is still being installed. Taken screams can shatter plastics and burst blood vessels if not baffled, and at full-scale production that kind of auditory byproduct will be a constant. | |||
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