Transcript:Ritual of the Mahjarrat

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Note: Hazeel may or may not be present, depending on the player's actions during Hazeel Cult. His words and actions are in italics.

What is the Other inn?

  • Player: What is the other inn on Mos Le'Harmless?
  • Tiffy: The other inn? That's Joe's House of 'Rum'.
  • Player: And that's where Sir Tendeth will be?
  • Tiffy: What? No! Sir Tendeth will be in 'The Other Inn' - it's the name of a pub. There are two pubs on Mos Le'Harmless; you want the larger of the two. It's confusing, I know, but it amuses the pirates.

What attacked the town?

  • Player: Did you see what attacked this town?
  • Mama: No dearie, I was in here with you.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Stanky Morgan: There was a lot of noise and fire.
  • Player: Well, I know that much.
  • Stanky Morgan: Then I think we know about the same.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Bard Roberts: It looked like sky itself opened up and fire and Wrath rained upon us.
  • Player: Why would that happen?
  • Bard Roberts: Maybe someone around here annoyed the gods.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Pirate: Arr. Dragons, I tell ye.
  • Player: Dragons did this?
  • Pirate: Arr. Dragons!
  • Player: Did you see what attacked this town?
  • Patchy: Aye, they be bony dragons.
  • Player: What, like a wyvern?
  • Patchy: No, these stood tall like men. Taller. And I swear one of them said something.
  • Player: Where did they go?
  • Patchy: I don't know. I just hope it be a long way from here.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Pirate: I were walking along, minding me own business, when some scurvy dog chucked a ruddy-great fireball at me!
  • Player: Did you see who did it?
  • Pirate: No, I were too busy writhing in pain.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Pirate: It was some sort of magical giant bats, I tells ye.
  • Player: Bats? Are you sure?
  • Pirate: As sure as the corns on me feet. They've flown east out over the island.
  • Player: Hmm, I'd best go and check things out.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Pirate: Wasn't me, lad.
  • Player: I'd have been surprised if it was, but what did happen?
  • Pirate: Big, scary, firebreathing albatross. Now it's flown off into the jungle.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Pirate: We were attacked.
  • Player: I can tell that! What by?
  • Pirate: How should I know? It's not every day that the sky rains fire.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Pirate: There were a terrible shaking, then dragons garbed in robes appeared and blasted all round.
  • Player: And then they left?
  • Player: Aye, lad, over the gate and into the jungle.
  • Player: Hmm, I'd best go and check things out.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Pirate: well, there be nasty things in the jungle, but nothing as dreadful as what we've seen t'day.
  • Player: Something dreadful? What did they look like?
  • Pirate: They were like some kind of enormous vulture. They disappeared into the jungle beyond.
  • Player: Hmm, I'd best go and check things out.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Pirate: There were an attack! Some fearsome beasties rained fire down on us and then headed into the jungle.
  • Player: What did they look like?
  • Pirate: Not sure. I was too busy cowering, to be honest.
  • Player: Hmm, I'd best go and check things out.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Pirate: Ow, my bones! Arr, I'll likely be needing a peg-leg now.
  • Player: Oh, that's terrible.
  • Pirate: It ain't so bad - they be quite teh fashion with us pirates.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Pirate: Well, I jusht finished off me portion of 'rum'.
  • Player: Haven't you noticed that the town's been attacked?
  • Pirate: Nope, lad, but as I shay, I've jusht finished off me 'rum'.
  • Player: What just happened?
  • Pirate: Fiery doom! Come to destroy us all.
  • Player: Tell me more.
  • Pirate: Doom! Doom! A pox is apon us.

The Ritual Begins

  • Lucien: I grow tired of your pathetic attempts to stop me. You must realise by now that you can do nothing. Besides, there are more pressing matters: the ritual is upon us, and I must choose the sacrifice.
  • Enakhra: No, Lucien. You may well be the most powerful, but you do not decide who faces oblivion.
  • Lucien: Fool! That's exactly what it means! My power gives me the right to do as I please. No one can stop me! Dare you toil like these cretins have?
  • Enakhra: No...of course not! I...I wasn't questioning your power...merely suggesting we think this through. Who dies here affects us all.
  • Lucien: Oh, and whom might you suggest?
  • Akthanakos teleports in.
  • Akthanakos: Like we need to ask. She cannot defeat me herself, so seeks others to do it for her.
  • Zemouregal: Perhaps, but she's right to want rid of a Zarosian. You know this to be true, Lucien.
  • Azzanadra teleports in.
  • Azzanadra: Pathetic. I should have known you'd try to snub the power that will eventually destroy you.
  • Enakhra: I want it to be Akthanakos!
  • Akthanakos: Then it's a shame no one listens to you.
  • Zemouregal: Lucien, ignore this petty squabbling. Heed my wisdom - it must be one of the Zarosian scum. Pick one of these four in front of you.
  • General Khazard: Yes, any of these fools will suffice! Why not Wahisietel?
  • Hazeel teleports in.
  • Hazeel: Indeed.
  • Wahisietel: Ha! You two are lucky to have lived this long. We endure because we are strong. The four of us together could destroy you in the blink of an eye.
  • Sliske: Perhaps it IS time for one of these to meet their end...
  • Akthanakos: Yes, we stand together.
  • Azzanadra: Indeed, you have not felt Zaros's true strength for too long. Allow me to give you a remin-
  • Lucien: SILENCE! I DECIDE!
  • Lucien: You flit around like pathetic insects, clinging onto existence. Only one of us shall die today, to replenish us all...and it will be a Zarosian.
  • Lucien: But the answer lies not before me...
  • Lucien: ...it lies beneath!
    Lucien pulls Jhallan out of the ground.
  • Lucien pulls Jhallan out from the ground.
  • Zemouregal: Ah, a fair choice indeed - it may as well be the most useless of us!
  • Sliske: I never thought I'd agree with Zamorakian filth, but he may be right on this one. We would allow this.
  • Enakhra: No! I demand it be Akthanakos!
  • General Khazard: Jhallan is not worth it. Wahisietel is more trouble; I say we choose him instead!
  • Lucien: I control what happens here! Dare not question my command again!
  • Player: Wahisietel...
  • Wahisietel: No. There is more at stake here then you realise. It MUST be Lucien!
  • Wahisietel and Azzanadra attack Lucien.
  • Sliske: Time for some more backup!
  • Sliske summons the Barrows Brothers.
  • Zemouregal: Still the puppetmaster I see, Sliske. Let's see what your wights can do!
  • Sharathteerk: I come at your call, my lord.
  • Sharathteerk summons four Armoured zombies,
  • Sir Tiffy: We'll hold off Khazard. Get rid of those zombies, what?

The Ritual

  • Lucien: Enough fighting! The time is upon us, Jhallan will face the void, so that we may be rejuvenated!
    Jhallan faces the void.
  • Lucien Performs the Ritual of Rejuvenation, sacrificing Jhallan.
  • Lucien: That's more like it!
  • Sliske: We are reborn. I feel a power reawakened in me!
  • Azzanadra: As do I. Now to end you, Lucien. Behold the might of Zaros!
  • Azzanadra summons the power of Zaros and hits Lucien for 9001 and 4244 damage.
    Azzanadra hits Lucien for OVER 9000! damage.
  • Wahisietel: How does that feel, Lucien?
  • Lucien: I actually felt that one...but it's still not enough.
  • Lucien: I did not want to waste any more precious Mahjarrat blood today, but you have forced my hand.
  • Lucien summons the Stone of Jas and touches it.
  • Akrisae: The Stone of Jas!
  • Lucien: No! It is mine! Aligned to me! Useful to no other while I still live! None can stand against me! I AM A GOD!
  • Sithaph and Strisath scream.
  • Sithaph: You are no god, False User, just another fool who believes they can manipulate the power of the Stone, like other fools before!
  • Sir Tiffy: I say! Could these be dragonkin?
  • Idria: Whatever they are, it sounds like they're here for the same reason we are. We may be on the same side...
  • Sithaph: The False User does not know he called us?
  • Strisath: No, he is oblivious.
  • Sithaph: He still uses the Stone. I feel my rage growing.
  • Idria walks towards the Dragonkin and bows.
  • Idria: Excuse me, guardians of the Stone...
  • Strisath: It grows in me too. I feel the need to destroy the False User.
  • Sithaph: I am in agreement.
  • Idria bows again.
  • Idria: I beg your pardon, but we're here to stop him too. We could join forces..
  • Strisath: The little creature adresses us. It angers me. Her too?
  • Sithaph: Yes. Those before us should know that ALL will suffer now we are unleashed!
    Idria is killed by the dragonkin.
  • Sithaph and Strisath kill Idria.
  • Lucien: An interesting display of power, but it does not compare to my own.
  • Strisath: Beware False User, your power is taken from the stone, our power IS the Stone.
  • Lucien: You DARE mock the power of Lucien?
  • Sithaph: We dare.
  • Enakhra: We are rejuvenated. I have no wish to stay here and share Lucien's fate.
  • Enakhra and Akthanakos teleport away.
  • General Khazard: I too have um, matters to attend to.
  • Khazard teleports off.
  • Hazeel: Hmph.
  • Hazeel teleports away.
  • Zemouregal: So Lucien is dead. Good riddance, I say.
  • Zemouregal teleports back to his Fortress.
  • Azzanadra: Until the next ritual.
  • Azzanadra teleports away.
  • Strisath: False User is defeated.
  • Sithaph: Agreed. The pain subsides a little.
  • Sithaph: Know this watchers: we answer only to the Stone. All will pay the price for its misuse.
  • Strisath: The Dragonkin are awakened! This world will suffer as we do.

Akrisae the Doomed

  • Akrisae: All is lost. Lucien is dead, but we were too late. An even more powerful enemy is revealed! And Idria...
  • Sir Tiffy: Calm yourself, Akrisae. We all feel the loss for one of our own. We need to focus now, chaps, it's not over yet.
  • Player: Tiffy is right, we need to do something about the stone. It's clear the dragonkin are linked to its use and Lucien's lust for power is what brought them here.
  • Wahisietel: Yes, but the stone is still here. Perhaps we must hide it away, prevent its further use...or misuse.
  • Sliske: Good luck with that, my brother.
  • Wahisietel: Still here, Sliske? I thought you'd have left with the rest of them.
  • Sliske: I had a reason to stay...
  • Sliske: Player, I have been following your progress for some time now, watching from the shadows. You have grown most powerful,
  • Sliske: And now I am rejuvenated, I have an opportunity to expand my collection.
Sliske backstabs the player.
  • Player: Excuse me?
  • Sir Tiffy: Now, hold on there, sneak. Player's one of us, dont-cha-know?
  • Sliske: And now he is one of mine. Come with me to the Barrows, Player.
  • Sliske launches an attack at the player.
Akrisae's heroic sacrifice.
  • Akrisae: No!
  • Akrisae Jumps and takes the attack, becoming Akrisae the Doomed.
  • Akrisae the Doomed: I serve you, master.
  • Sliske: Ha ha ha! Well, you will do just as well, for now!
  • Sir Tiffy: You'll pay for that!
  • Tiffy walks up to Sliske.
  • Sliske: Not today.
  • Sliske teleports away.
  • Wahisietel: Sliske! I should have known he'd stay for some profit.
  • Sir Tiffy: You speak like he stole our gold, not one of us!
  • Wahisietel: I am sorry. He is a powerful ally, but his actions are his own. If nothing else, you can at least trust that you can't trust Sliske.
  • Player: There has been more then enough pain and torment for one day. Let's just get this finished.
  • Sir Tiffy: Of course, you are right, old boy. Let's get this stone hidden away.
  • Wahisietel: My use here has ended. I owe you enough to not betray you by watching what happens to the stone. I return to Nardah. Farewell.
  • Wahisietel teleports away.