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[IV] Tyranny - Verse (Dialogue) · Brave-Smoke Plays

• 1:28
  What do you need? The Scarlet Chorus is mostly for madmen and peasants with rusty daggers,
• 7:19
  but it's also a little niche of freedom that I never had. Once I survived training and met my
• 7:25
  Scarlet Fury sisters, I saw a different side of the howling mob. What do you need to know?
• 9:54
  For new recruits shoved to the front lines, training means surviving the first battle.
• 10:01
  Anything beyond that is for the fighters who show potential, whether as blade dancers or arcane
• 10:07
  madmen. There's nothing in the world like getting put through the paces as a Scarlet Fury. Every day
• 10:15
  is a test of your commitment and passion. Failure means death. The first few weeks were the
• 10:22
  hardest, but also the most rewarding. I earned my name, picked up some quality weapons,
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  and met my sisters. The elite fighters of the Scarlet Chorus. Your typical horde recruit fights
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  with a rusty spoon and a chip on his shoulder, but the Scarlet Furies are, well, different.
• 12:01
  We focus our madness. We coordinate. We kill. We dance. It's like art. Imagine a sculpture
• 12:09
  that twisted in weird, beautiful angles and then gutted you too fast for you to realize
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  what was happening. It is, as I remind myself all the time. The most important day of my life
• 12:28
  was when the voices of Narott recognized my potential and sent me to Scarlet Fury training.
• 12:35
  What do you need to know? What do you need to know? If you insist, I'm a Scarlet Fury.
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  That should raise some flags for you. It means that I'm good at killing and,
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  more importantly, that I enjoy it. What I won't enjoy are the pleasures of
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  funerary rites packed with weeping mourners. Someday I'll fall in battle and then they'll
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  roll me into a mass grave or heat me atop a shit-stained wagon. One more anonymous,
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  knife-riddled piece of meat. Until then, I plan to take whatever I can from life and
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  have a little fun along the way. Call me intrigued.
• 23:31
  You already know that I memorize the moves of my Scarlet Fury sisters.
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  If it seems like a total mystery to me, I don't know how you could have arrived at any conclusions,
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  but I'm open to ideas. If you want to split hairs over it, you could argue that I took
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  their instincts, their reactions, but I failed to see... Wait. Are you trying to compare me to
• 24:03
  the voices of Narott? The voices of Narott is a monster. We both know that Taradis has never
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  seen a creature more despicable than him. Never mind that he's kind of my boss. Well, I don't
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  want to fucking think about it. Didn't you consider for a second that the thought had occurred
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  to me already? I've traveled with the Chorus for years. I've seen what the voices
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  can do, and it scares me, all right? The idea that everything I am could be reduced to... to that.
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  If I had that kind of power, if I could become like him, I don't know how I could live with myself.
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  I'd rather drown myself in a campletrain.
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  Because the voices isn't... I mean, can you even call him human anymore?
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  Everything I am has led me to this point. I joined the Chorus, fought to survive, grew stronger than
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  I ever knew I could be. I never needed to steal anything that made me me. I don't want to be
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  better by being someone else. The voices is stronger than anyone, and terrifying enough
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  to lead the Chorus, but he's also an overgrown parasite, and someday he'll stuff himself
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  so full of voices that he'll burst.
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  I'm sure he had the same idea when he got started. But you know what they say about power?
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  It's usually wielded by assholes. My sisters died. You should have seen us. We're amazing together.
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  I didn't mean to take away what made them special, but I did it all the same.
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  And let me tell you, it felt terrible.
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  If I lived a century, I might never figure out how to make that happen again.
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  And more importantly, I don't want to.
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  What did you have in mind? Go ahead, Fatebinder.