Favorite Quotes

[eiron]

"You will pay for your lack of vision." -Emperor Palpatine

"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" -The Spanish Inquisition

"Screw the rules, I have money." -Seto Kaiba. Sort of.

"Man, we ain't found shit." Random dude from Spaceballs

"It takes a man to kill a monster, you're nothing but a dog!" -Alucard

"I was trying to be warm and compassionate, how'd I do?" -Legato Bluesummers

"I been a referee! I been a doctor! You ever seen a plunger, IN THESE, HANDS!?" -Mario. Kinda.

[Dobs]

Sept 25, 2009 22:34:17 GMT -5 @eiron said:

"I been a referee! I been a doctor! You ever seen a plunger, IN THESE, HANDS!?" -Mario. Kinda.

<3

[ness11]

"Shame on you, ungrateful cow." - Psychonauts

"Tank beats Ghost. Tanks beats Hunter. Tank beats everything!" - Random Soldier that got killed when you weren't looking, Halo 3

"If they (Mario and Luigi) can ride them (Yoshis) so can we!" - Marcus Fenix, Gears of War 2

"Parkour.....! *jumps into cardboard box*" - Andy, The Office

"Shu'em agheen!" ("What, I didn't understand that?") "I said shoot him again, but I said it piratelike." - Peter Griffin, Family Guy

"Wake up Stanely *in a coma*, Barack Obama is president! YOU ARE BLACK STANLEY!" - Michael Scott, The Office

"I can see Russia from my house!" - Sarah Palin. Sort of.

"Lone Star, there is something I must tell you. I am your father's, uncle's, brother's, cousin's former roomate. You know what that makes us? Absolutely nothing!" - Dark Helmet, Spaceballs.

[eiron]

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

[Creddie Fan <3]

Its not how much you sparkle that makes you like a star its what inside you heart that tells you who you are~ - Strawberry Shortcake

[serraskai]

"Tumbling, burning with white-hot fire, I plunged into the depths of the abyss. Unspeakable pain... relentless agony... ... time ceased to exist... ... only this torture... and a deepening hatred of the hypocrisy that damned me to this hell.
"An eternity passed, and my torment receded, bringing me back from the precipice of madness. The descent had destroyed me... and yet I lived."

Kain:
At last. I must say, I’m disappointed in your progress. I imagined you would be here sooner. Tell me - did it trouble you to murder your brothers?

Raziel:
Did it trouble you when you ordered me into the abyss?

Kain:
No - I had faith in you. In your ability to hate. In your self-righteous indignation.

Raziel:
Lies. You cannot have foreseen all of this.

Kain:
Eternity is relentless, Raziel.

When I first stole into this chamber, centuries ago, I did not fathom the true power of knowledge. To know the future, Raziel... to see its paths and streams tracing out into the infinite... As a man, I could never have contained such forbidden truths... But each of us is so much more than we once were... Gazing out across the planes of possibility, do you not feel with all your soul how we have become like gods? And as such, are we not indivisible? As long as a single one of us stands, we are legion... That is why, when I must sacrifice my children to the void, I can do so with a clear heart...

Raziel:
Very poetic, Kain - but in the end, you offer no more than a convenient rationalization for your crimes.

Kain:
These chambers offer insight for those patient enough to look - in your haste to find me, perhaps you have not gazed deeply enough. Our futures are predestined - Moebius foretold mine a millennium ago. We each play out the parts fate has written for us. We are compelled ineluctably down pre-ordained paths.
Free will is an illusion.

Raziel responds by changing the subject -

Raziel:
I have been to the Tomb of Sarafan, Kain. Your dirty secret is exposed. How could you transform a Sarafan priest into a vampire?

Kain:
How could I not? One must keep his friends close, Raziel - and his enemies even closer.
Can you grasp the absurd beauty of the paradox? We are the same - Sarafan and vampire. With our holy wars... our obsession with Nosgoth’s domination... Who better to serve me than those whose passion transcends all notions of good and evil?

Raziel:
I will not applaud your clever blasphemy. The Sarafan were saviors, defending Nosgoth from the corruption that we represent. My eyes are opened, Kain - I find no nobility in the unlife you rudely forced on my unwilling corpse.

Kain:
You may have uncovered your past, but you know nothing of it. You think the Sarafan were noble, altruistic? Don’t be simple. Their agenda was the same as ours.

Raziel:
You are lost in a maze of moral relativism, Kain.
These apparitions and portents... what game are you playing now?

Kain:
Destiny is a game, is it not? And now you await my latest move...

If Raziel is defeated in the battle, then upon his return:

Kain:
Have you returned to embrace your destiny, Raziel?

After Raziel lands his third and final Soul Reaver attack, Kain throws the final switch, and materializes in front of the star portal on the upper floor of the Chronoplast. Visibly exhausted, he addresses Raziel -

Kain:
You nearly had me, Raziel... But this is not where - or how - it ends. Fate promises more twists before this drama unfolds completely.

NEXT.


Raziel reaches the Pillars clearing, the site where Moebius told him Kain would be waiting. Raziel pauses momentarily, struck by the beauty of the Pillars – he has only previously seen them in their dilapidated state. In this era, the columns stand straight and rise infinitely into the sky, their white marble gleaming in the sunlight.

Raziel Narrating:
The Pillars of Nosgoth... pristine, whole, and uncorrupted.
I had never beheld them in this undefiled state - yet something profound and indelible resonated within me at the sight.
(then, seeing Kain)
And there, waiting at the very heart of the Pillars, was the canker that was destined to destroy them.

Kain stands in the center of the Pillars platform, his back to the clearing’s entrance. He appears to be surveying the Pillars calmly, waiting for something.
Raziel stalks up behind him, readying the wraith-blade.
Kain addresses Raziel without turning around, completely composed, and slightly amused.

Kain
(calmly, smirking to himself)
I know you are there, Raziel.

Raziel
Moebius led me to you, Kain – though I might have guessed you’d meet me here.

Kain continues to speak with his back turned to Raziel, turning his head only slightly.

Kain
And if Moebius told you I was hidden on the underside of hell, would you throw yourself into oblivion to pursue me?
(pause)
Moebius trawls for the ignorant and unwary, hauling his gasping prey from the streams of their destinies.
Stay out of his net, Raziel –

Raziel interrupts – he is impatient and tired of this chase.

Raziel
Spare me your elaborate metaphors, Kain.
I have pursued you here for one purpose - you will pay for your betrayal, and Balance will thus be restored to Nosgoth.

Kain
And whose will is satisfied then, the will of Raziel, or Moebius?

Raziel
Would I be better manipulated by you, Kain?
Now turn and face me; the chase is over.

Rather than turning, Kain starts to walk slowly forward, gently placing his hand on the central Balance Pillar while he speaks.

Kain
This isn’t a chase, Raziel – we are merely passengers on the wheel of destiny, describing a perfect circle to this point. We have been brought here for a reason.
I have seen the beginning and the end of our story, however - and the tale is crude and ill-conceived.
We must rewrite the ending of it, you and I.

Raziel
(frustrated)
Face me, Kain. Even you shouldn’t die a coward’s death.

Kain finally turns to respond; he has delayed Raziel as long as he needed to.

Kain
Isn’t it customary to grant the condemned a final request?

Raziel
I recall no such courtesy from you.

Kain
Indulge me, Raziel.
All I ask is that you listen.

At this moment, an unearthly wailing begins to be audible, increasing in volume as it fills the clearing.

Kain
This is the sublime moment of our undoing, Raziel – the ineffable fulcrum upon which swings the entirety of our history.
This is where all of Nosgoth is betrayed.
In this instant, Ariel – the Balance Guardian – is murdered by dark forces bent on overthrowing the Pillars.
Her spirit is just now tearing free, lost in the ether, trying to find its way here.
You have already seen how she comes to haunt these Pillars –

Raziel
(interrupting; angry)
– bound here by your refusal to die. You are the reason this land becomes diseased – as long as you remain alive you condemn Nosgoth to an eternity of decay.

Kain gently raises his hand to silence Raziel, and intently urges him –

Kain
Be still, Raziel. See this.

The sky darkens, the wind begins to gust, and birds scatter from the clearing in alarm. A low, nearly sub-audible rumble swells, as though a massive storm is gathering.
Kain continues, with some urgency –

Kain
As Ariel dies, I am being born to take her place as Balance Guardian.
Such is my destiny.

Suddenly, the entire clearing is rocked by an indescribable force – A telepathic blast bursts across the landscape with a thunderous rumble, and distorting waves of energy ripple across the clearing.
Kain visibly tenses as he absorbs the onslaught of this psychic attack.
The Pillars, initially white and pristine, begin to crack and corrode as they turn gray with corruption.

Raziel
...my god...

Kain begins to speak again as the telepathic assault recedes.

Kain
At the moment of my first cry, Ariel’s beloved – the Guardian Nupraptor – finds her corpse.
Wracked with grief and tormented by suspicions of treachery, Nupraptor plunges into a madness which overflows and infects all of the Guardians, who are symbiotically bound.
Including me.
The repercussions of Ariel’s assassination were expertly calculated...
The entire Circle descends into madness, and I am tainted at the moment of my birth - instantly rendered incapable of fulfilling the role destiny has prepared for me.

Raziel
Shall I show you the same mercy you showed the rest of the Circle, then?
You blithely murdered them to restore their Pillars, yet your hand faltered when it came to the final sacrifice.
What makes you exempt, Kain? You’re merely the last man standing.
Why condemn me for simply carrying out what you hadn’t the courage to do yourself?

Kain
(getting angry)
Let’s drop the moral posturing, shall we? We both know there’s no altruism in this pursuit.
Your reckless indignation led you here – I counted on it.

Kain sees that Raziel is bristling at this insult.

Kain
There’s no shame in it, Raziel – revenge is motivation enough. At least it’s honest.
Hate me, but do it honestly.

Kain resumes his account of Nosgoth's history –

Kain
Thirty years hence, I am presented with a dilemma – let’s call it a two-sided coin.
If the coin falls one way, I sacrifice myself and thus restore the Pillars.
But as the last surviving vampire in Nosgoth, this would mean the annihilation of our species. Moebius made sure of that.
If the coin lands on the reverse, I refuse the sacrifice and thus doom the Pillars to an eternity of collapse.
Either way, the game is rigged.


Raziel
We agree then that the Pillars are crucial, and must be restored?

Kain
(weary)
Yes, Raziel – that’s why we’ve come full-circle to this place.

Raziel
(incredulous)
So after all this you make my case for me. To end this stalemate, you must die so that new Guardians can be born.


Kain
The Pillars don’t belong to them, Raziel...
On “them,” Kain gestures derisively, indicating humanity in general.
...they belong to us.

Raziel pauses briefly, absorbing what Kain is saying.

Raziel
(disgusted)
Your arrogance is boundless, Kain.

Kain
(chuckles softly)
There’s a third option - a monumental secret, hidden in your very presence here. But it’s a secret you have to discover for yourself.
Unearth your destiny, Raziel. It’s all laid out for you here.

Raziel
You said it yourself, Kain – there are only two sides to your coin.

Kain
Apparently so. But suppose you throw a coin enough times...
...suppose one day, it lands on its edge.

Kain dematerializes, leaving Raziel standing in the clearing alone.

[kunekune]

Kai wins ^^;

"You fight like a pregnant cow!" - random Oblivion enemy exclamation.

[Angel]

You cannot lead strangers, you can only coerce or bribe them. - Vitaly, Enders Exile by Orson Scott Card.

"You don't shit in your own soup. Can I put it any plainer than that?" = Sel, Enders Exile by Orson Scott Card.

[serraskai]

Vea Victous!

"They call me Chaos for a reason boy, don't be ridiculous! As of late I've found that time itself is rather meticulous! I am immortal, I have inside me blood of kings! You and your friends will DIE here and I'll destroy everything!"

"Up in the sky, ten miles high. A man stands above the city- he will destroy. Built from air plane parts, his propeller spins as he thinks to himself "I will destroy these people."
"Built from pieces of SR-71! And planes that crashed in WWII! They'll be a tombstone with the planet EARTH ENGRAVED ON IT!
"For if I can't walk among them... then I will walk this world alone."

[serraskai]

"Roxas. That's a stick."

[lloydexphere]

"You're too slow"~Sonic The Hedgehog

[Doomflame]

there is a right way, a wrong way, and my way to do everything

[Ominish]

"The mind will corrupt the heart, yet the heart can blind the mind. It's up to you: Which will you follow? .... You know, I think I should've ordered fries..." - My dad

"Odd? Odd is Benjamin Franklin playing tetherball with Van Helsing. Odd is a big-toed tadpole tainted by the tides of a donsens bass. ODD is a 40 year old senior officer who cries himself to sleep every night dreaming of life on the road as a traveling naked contortionist never returning home, never stopping or breaking his stride! Unless he saw a ... T.G.I. Fridays. F*ucking loves that place." -Senior Officer of The Lazer Collection 3

"DOCTOR OCTAMOTHERFUHKINGONAPUS B-B-B-B-B-BLLLAAAAHHHHHH" -Dr. Octagonapus

[lloydexphere]

I still like mine. The sonic one, oh.. and this...

[smashbro]

From LoZ Ocarina of Time:
"Without a fairy, you're not even a real man!"

From Firefly (amazing tv show, cancelled):
(Wash is at his station on the bridge, playing with plastic dinosaurs.)
Wash: (as Stegosaurus) Yes...yes. This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it...this land.
Wash: (as Allosaur) I think we should call it...your grave!
Wash: (as Stegosaurus) Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Wash: (as Allosaur) Ha ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh! Now DIE!
Wash: (as Stegosaurus) Oh no, God, oh dear God in heaven..

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(After Badger abruptly backs out of the deal, Mal, Zoe and Jayne discuss where they can sell the cargo.)
Zoe: So the border planets?
Mal: I'm thinking Whitefall, maybe talk to Patience.
Zoe: Sir, we don't want to deal with Patience again.
Mal: Why not?
Zoe: She shot you.
Mal: Well, yeah, she did a bit.
...
Mal: Been a long time since Patience shot me, and that was due to a perfectly legitimate conflict of interest. I got no grudge.
...
Mal: Did you send word to Patience?
Wash: Yeah, ain't heard back yet. Didn't she shoot you one time?
Mal: Everyone's makin' a fuss!

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Mal: Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! Wife or no, you are no one's property to be tossed aside. You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.

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(Mal discusses the problem of unknowingly marrying a girl who claims to be his wife with Shepherd Booke. Mal admits to finding her physically attractive.)

Booke: If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
Booke: [walking away, pauses and looks at Mal] ...the...special...hell.