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Synopsis:

The Dark Urge is subject to a powerful healing spell (Heal) and recovers some lost memories.

This is just the Dark Urge being told by the narrator about their past.

How to trigger:

Cast Heal on the Dark Urge.

2.
Narrator
: *With a start, a moment floods back - the gaping knife-hole in your brain seems to have briefly knitted together.*ORI_DarkUrge_State_BhaalResisted, ORI_DarkUrge_Event_AteMushroom = False
- 39.
  Narrator
  : *Children darting their way through the city streets of the Gate, chasing one another. While you hunt like a lion, your tag touch is gentle.*
  - 21.
    Narrator
    : *Play. Friends. Fun. A time before Bhaal. *
    
    4.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Wonder who you were, before you were drawn to Bhaal's Temple.
    
    6.
    Narrator
    : *Foster parents who cared for a lost Bhaalspawn? Dreams of your own future, before the awakening of the Urge?*
    
    36.
    Narrator
    : *How many loved ones died?*
    End
    
    5.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Mourn: why did that sweet child have to suffer so?
    
    22.
    Narrator
    : *Mayhaps that child was already a murderer.*
    End
    
    32.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Ignore the memory: You've won, your own life is back.
    
    34.
    Narrator
    : *Freedom. Friends. Life. A time after Bhaal.*
    End
3.
Narrator
: *As you snaffle the pungent mushroom, a lone memory unfolds in your rancid cortex.*NIGHT_DarkUrge_ButlerIntro = False, ORI_DarkUrge_Event_AteMushroom
- 27.
  Narrator
  : *A babe. Brained by your hand.*<br>
  - 11.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Wince: you wish to remember no further.
    
    13.
    Narrator
    : *Waah! Waah! Boo hoo hoo!*^devnote
    End
  - 8.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Delve: why did it die?
    
    20.
    Narrator
    : *Better to die than live on an earth walked by you. Each of your deaths is a mercy.*
    End
  - 28.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Salivate: the carcass would make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat.
    
    33.
    Narrator
    : *The fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day. Especially in winter.*
    End
10.
Narrator
: *The mangled meat-pile Orin turned your brain to at last deigns to send you a memory.*ORI_DarkUrge_State_BhaalResisted = False, ORI_DarkUrge_Knows_BrainDamage, ORI_DarkUrge_Event_AteMushroom = False
- 17.
  Narrator
  : *A little Urge - not even an adolescent - stands with a tiny dagger atop a bloody heap.*
  - 40.
    Narrator
    : *Two-bedroom cottage. Relative squalor. Poor part of the city. Indiscriminate whole-family kill. Baby's first murder spree.*
    
    9.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Shudder. Might that family have taken you in?
    
    Link to Node 15
    
    0.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Swell with pride.
    
    15.
    Narrator
    : *Words creep from the darkness...*
    
    41.
    GROUP_SoundsLikeDUButler
    : Young Master, precious fledgling, follow ever your heart. In time, your true family will find you.
    End
    
    19.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Sneer. A pathetic first outing.
    
    Link to Node 15
    
    24.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : [ActiveRoll] Roll (Strength, ) vs 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 (0)
    
    16. [RollResult] True
    
    Link to Node 41
    
    29. [RollResult] False
    
    Link to Node 41
12.
Narrator
: *With a start, the spell knits your mind together - just about long enough for you to recall a single image.*ORI_DarkUrge_State_BhaalResisted = False, ORI_DarkUrge_Knows_BrainDamage = False, ORI_DarkUrge_Event_AteMushroom = False
- Link to Node 17
23.
Narrator
: *As you choke down the acrid mushroom, a memory hounds you.*ORI_DarkUrge_State_BhaalResisted, NIGHT_DarkUrge_ButlerIntro, ORI_DarkUrge_Event_AteMushroom
- 38.
  Narrator
  : *You see a grand collection: shelves of jarred floating pickled organs neatly labelled. Taxidermied beasts and men, elegantly displayed from your killings.*<br>
  - 18.
    Narrator
    : *A study no doubt arranged neatly by your gentleman's gentlegoblin.*
    
    31.
    Narrator
    : *As you and your Butler perform a vivisection, Sceleritas' claw slips, calipers cutting the aorta of the living, screaming victim...*
    
    30.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Scream: 'Useless Butler!'
    
    1.
    Narrator
    : *With a hiccough, you discover him to be drunk yet again from imbibing the tonsil stone pickling water.*
    
    25.
    Narrator
    : *As the memory begins to clears away, one thing is certain: the Butler lies not about his past service.*ORI_State_DarkUrge_KnowsBhaalspawn = False
    End
    14.
    Narrator
    : *The memory fades... and you are left alone.*ORI_State_DarkUrge_KnowsBhaalspawn
    End
    
    26.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Drown the Butler in the victim's open bladder-cavity.
    
    37.
    Narrator
    : *His tears mingle in with the golden fountain.*
    
    Link to Node 25
    
    Link to Node 14
    
    7.
    GROUP_ORI_DU
    : Hold the trembling artery closed with your bare fist, dissecting onwards with the other.
    
    42.
    Narrator
    : *This is not your first time unravelling a long intestine left-handed, but each time you swear up a storm, hoping it will be your last.*
    
    Link to Node 25
    
    Link to Node 14
35.
Narrator
: *As you choke down the acrid mushroom, a memory embraces your unlovable carcass.*ORI_DarkUrge_State_BhaalResisted = False, NIGHT_DarkUrge_ButlerIntro, ORI_DarkUrge_Event_AteMushroom
- Link to Node 38