TYPE: VANGUARD SURVEILLANCE REPORT
DESCRIPTION: Conversation between persons of interest
PARTIES: Three [3]. One [1] Cabal-type, designate Emperor Calus [CAL] (VIP #3801); One [1] Guardian-type, Class Warlock, designate Wahei Ohr [WO]; One [1] Nightmare-type [u.1]
ASSOCIATIONS: Calus; Crown of Sorrow; Darkness; Haruspex; Leviathan (Cabal Ship); Nightmares; Ohr, Wahei (POI #0247); Pyramid (Lunar); Savathûn; Scorn; Scryer; Witness
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//TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS...//
[CAL] Ah, Voidwalker. I had hoped you would find your way back to me.
[WO] I'm not here for you.
[CAL] No? You and your brethren are trying so very hard to find me. If only they knew how to look properly, like you, my dear.
[WO] Not your dear! [pause] I thought I made that clear to you the last time I was here.
[CAL] [chuckling] Ah, but you are so very dear to me, O Warlock mine. You see things others do not. You saw the potential in the Crown, once the Witch's traps were removed.
[WO] If I had known then what your intentions were, I would never have given you my report.
[CAL] Come now. I would have learned the possibilities soon enough. Nothing you could have done would have stopped this.
[WO] I should have destroyed the Crown the second it fell from Gahlran's head.
[u.1] Lies.
[WO] Shut up!
[u.1] We both know you wanted to delve into its secrets. In the never-ending quest for insight.
[WO] It was a mistake. I shouldn't have-- I didn't--
[u.1] But what knowledge you gained! Mapping out the nature of the Crown's function, its connection to the Darkness, the way it links to the consciousness of the wearer...
[WO] No one could have withstood opening their mind it. No one.
[CAL] Unless someone had a connection to the Darkness already. Like my Scorn. But such a tenuous connection. It needed to be stronger. If I could bind that wisp of Darkness in each of them together... [chuckles] And then I remembered the Egregore, and it all fell into place.
[WO] Yes. Well, now we have the Crown. And we'll use it against you to sever your connection to the Pyramid.
[u.1] And who made sure you had the Crown? Who made sure that it was recovered and kept safe?
[WO] Osiris...
[u.1] No. Not Osiris. The Witch, wearing a trusted face. She made sure you had the tools to hand. Because she has insight that you lack.
[WO] Shut up!
[u.1] And just think: the Vanguard has her body sealed away in a vault deep beneath the City. Even after you killed her again, she knew that the day might come when they might need her help--
[WO] Stop. Talking!
[a burst of static as of paracausal radiation]
[sound of Nova Bomb detonation]
[sound of rubble falling]
[pause]
[CAL] Please, my dear, do watch where you throw those. I would not like my Leviathan to suffer too much damage--
[WO] You shut up, too!
[u.1] You know what awaits. Maybe not today, nor tomorrow, nor months from now. But the end result is the same. Darkness will come to swallow the Traveler. The Light will fall. And you, you will stand on the blackened edge so that you may bear witness.
[WO] No...
[u.1] Use your Scryer as much as you like. Every time you do, you still see the same outcome. There are variables, to be sure, but the constants are clear, as is what awaits.
[WO] You're not her! Don't try to make it sound like you are! You're just... a psychic manifestation of my own insecurities!
[u.1] Perhaps. But what you're also afraid of is that maybe, just maybe, I am more than that.
[WO] [softly] No...
[u.1] That I am like the Scryer. That every time you look upon me, you feel a face with a horned crown watching you and whispering, "I see you."
[WO] NO!
[sound of multiple Nova Bomb detonations]
[continuing static as of paracausal radiation]
[WO] No...
[pause]
[WO] Vizier? Get me out of here. I ...I need to clear my head.
[sound of transmat departure]
[CAL] [chuckling] It appears I am not the only one undergoing a transmogrification, my dear.
[u.1] Not your dear.
[CAL] Ah, I do hope I have a chance to see what she becomes.
[u.1] Indeed? Come and see.
[CAL] Wonderful. You are truly ... majestic.
[u.1] Majestic.
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