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    Synopsis:

    Player and Astarion met Sebastian, one of Astarion's victims, in Cazador's Prison. Astarion is shocked.


  • 63.
    Astarion
    : Gods above - he kept Sebastian.LOW_CazadorsPalace_Cells_OM_Astarion_State_DidFollowUp = False, ORI_Astarion_IPRD_SebastianLOW_CazadorsPalace_Cells_OM_Astarion_State_DidFollowUp
    • 16.
      Astarion
      : The children I can understand - leverage against their parents - but Sebastian?LOW_CazadorsPalace_Cells_Knows_GurChildren
      • 14.
        Astarion
        : I should have known what Cazador was capable of. He's played us for such fools.NIGHT_Astarion_RaphaelsRevelation, ORI_Astarion_Knows_RitualsPurpose, ORI_Astarion_Act3_WantsRitualComplete
        • 6.
          Astarion
          : Not just seven spawn to placate the devil. Seven spawn, and seven thousand souls bound to them in blood.
          • 66.
            Astarion
            : Everyone who ever trusted me enough to let down their guard... Innocents, idiots, and the unlucky.
            • 67.
              Astarion
              : It doesn't matter. I will need to sacrifice them all if I want to perform the ritual.
              • 61. Player: You can save them.
                • 32.
                  Astarion
                  : What's the point? They're as good as dead. I thought they were dead.
                  • 26.
                    Astarion
                    : If they are unleashed, they will cause incredible carnage. They will be ravenous. They must die. Better they serve a purpose.
                    • 52. Player: In another life, you'd have led me to this crypt, and not that pretty clearing in the forest.ORI_State_PartneredWithAstarion
                      • 34.
                        Astarion
                        : Gods, I can't say you're wrong. I can only say I'm so glad we didn't meet then.
                        • 54.
                          Astarion
                          : I don't even want to think what would have happened to you...
                          • 50. Player: Don't avoid it. Face it. You would have killed me.
                            • 38.
                              Astarion
                              : I would have killed you...
                              End
                          • 0. Player: Many of these people are just fools like me, who wanted to love you.
                            • 58.
                              Astarion
                              : Many of them are petty criminals, street drunkards and brothel-goers.
                              • 25.
                                Astarion
                                : But from time to time, there was a Sebastian...
                                End
                          • 55. Player: To care again is to live again. What now?
                            • 3.
                              Astarion
                              : We have to kill Cazador. That has to come first.devnote
                              End
                    • 7. Player: There's still hope for them. You got out. You got better.
                      • 8.
                        Astarion
                        : They're in a state far beyond anything that ever happened to me.
                        • 45.
                          Astarion
                          : Decades of hatred will have piled up inside of them. I can't even begin to imagine.
                          • 18. [Jump] Jump to Node 23 (1)
                    • 31. Player: This isn't you, Astarion. Not really.
                      • 47.
                        Astarion
                        : It should be. I don't want to be like them... They're pathetic, horrible...
                        • 22. Player: So you will kill them all, just because they remind you of yourself?
                          • 17.
                            Astarion
                            : They do not. That weakness in me is dead. It's dead. I have a higher purpose.
                            End
                        • 27. Player: It's your fault they're that way.
                          • 5.
                            Astarion
                            : Don't hate me. I just did what I had to. I swear, I did what I had to.
                            End
                        • 57. Player: Show them the kindness you never saw. No one deserves this fate.
                          • Link to Node 5
                        • 39. Player: Say nothing.
                          • 37. [Jump] Jump to Node 23 (1)
                    • 2. Player: In the moment they die, they will hate you as much as they hate him - you will never forget that.
                      • 20.
                        Astarion
                        : I know they will. I know I won't.
                        End
                    • 12. Player: Don't you feel for them?
                      • 59. [Jump] Jump to Node 29 (1)
                    • 13. Player: Perhaps there isn't a point...
                      • 23.
                        Astarion
                        : We must find Cazador. This must end.
                        End
              • 43. Player: It is Cazador's cruelty, not yours, to have kept them alive in this way.
                • Link to Node 56
              • 19. Player: Don't think about them. Focus on yourself.
                • 56.
                  Astarion
                  : Thank you... Yes... this will all be over soon.
                  • 29.
                    Astarion
                    : It's just sickening, seeing them again. I don't know what else.
                    End
              • 60. Player: It's going to be glorious. You're almost worse than me.REALLY_DARK_URGE
                • Link to Node 29
      • 33.
        Astarion
        : I feel ill. All the fools and villains who ever fell for my ploys... they're here.
        • 24. Player: If what you've told me is true... that's a colossal sum of souls.
          • 41. [Jump] Jump to Node 65 (2)
        • 53. Player: Did Sebastian hurt you in some way?
          • 65.
            Astarion
            : He didn't do anything at all... I can't say the same of all my victims...
            • 11.
              Astarion
              : But why, why does he need them alive? What possible use could they have in this ruined state?CAMP_VampireAmbush_State_AmbushStarted = False, NIGHT_Astarion_RaphaelsRevelation = False, WYR_VampireSpawns_State_IntroHappened = False
              • 35. Player: I have a horrible feeling about this.
                • 30.
                  Astarion
                  : All the blood he demanded... I thought he was gorging himself on... He never could have finished half of it.
                  • 49.
                    Astarion
                    : He never let us drink, he never wanted us to know. I had no idea there was worse than drainage and death at his hand. I couldn't imagine.
                    • Link to Node 36
              • 40. Player: He didn't need them to feed on?
                • Link to Node 30
              • 48. Player: Let's get them safe.
                • 46.
                  Astarion
                  : I could care less about that... I wonder if they'll tear me apart for what I did...
                  • 36. [Jump] Jump to Node 23 (1)
              • 9. Player: They're beasts now. Feral rats. Leave it.
                • 62. [Alias]
                  • Alias to Node 5
                  • Link to Node 36
            • 4.
              Astarion
              : There's only one reason they'd all still be here... he must need them for the ritual.
              • 51.
                Astarion
                : Each of the seven... we must have brought in a thousand over the decades...
                • 44.
                  Astarion
                  : They're all lambs for his slaughter. And if I was to take his place... they'd all die by my hand.
                  • 1. [Jump] Jump to Node 66 (1)
        • 28. Player: Are you going to be all right?
          • 42.
            Astarion
            : I don't know anymore. I thought these people were drained and buried. They should be dead.
            • 15. [Jump] Jump to Node 65 (2)
        • 64. Player: It's grotesque. They're kept like animals.
          • 10.
            Astarion
            : And I thought the nests in the kennels were bad... This lurked below...
            • 21. [Jump] Jump to Node 65 (2)