Conversation 1376: TRIBUNAL / I GOT TO KNOW THE HANGED MAN

"Look, I've gotten to know the hanged man too a bit over the course of this investigation..."

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
0 None
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1 None
2 You I should talk to him about the hanged man.
3 Kim Kitsuragi
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4 Kim Kitsuragi Variable["plaza.tribunal_esprit_RC"]
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5 Kim Kitsuragi (Variable["plaza.tribunal_esprit_RC"]) == false
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6 Suggestion Dangerous! Ask about him first. You don't want personal facts about his dead friend coming out of your mouth -- *he* has to start it.
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7 Suggestion Of course! Nothing bad will happen. Talk about his dead friend! He seems stable enough to take it.
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8 You "I knew you weren't a god damn scab leader!" Variable["gates.scableader_greeting_done"] == true
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9 You "Who are you?"
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10 Kortenaer "Sergeant Major Raul Kortenaer -- reporting in to burn this fucking mud hut to the ground!" He points at the Whirling-in-Rags...
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11 Kortenaer "Yeah, I don't fucking *act* so well. Lely had a hard-on for making faces for you natives. Fucking food-aid shit..." He wipes his mouth. "That shit is done now. Trigger time."
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12 Perception (Hearing) As he moves, the interlocking pieces of his armour click, softly.
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13 None
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14 Kim Kitsuragi
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15 Kim Kitsuragi Variable["tc.lely_is_ellis_kortenaer"] == true
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16 Kim Kitsuragi (Variable["tc.lely_is_ellis_kortenaer"] == true) == false
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17 Logic ...click, click, click! The realization comes to you, like a picture puzzle coming together: His name is Raul Kortenaer -- the dead man's name is Ellis Kortenaer. He's *brothers* with the deceased!
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18 Empathy No -- probably foster brothers! Ellis was put into a foster home, remember...
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19 Logic Korty -- Kortenaer. Major Raul *Korty* Kortenaer. Friends with Lely. Raul and Lely.
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20 You "Kortenaer -- I know that name." Variable["tc.lely_is_ellis_kortenaer"] == true
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21 You "His parents left him in a fucking leaf compactor." Variable["tc.lely_is_ellis_kortenaer"] == true
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22 You "Listen, your Lely -- everyone says good things about him. He was a talker."
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23 You (Conclude.) "Your colonel did not deserve to go out like that. I promise -- I *will* find his killer."
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24 Kortenaer He sways from left to right, inspecting you.
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25 You "Raul and Ellis Kortenaer..." Look him in the eye. "I'm sorry about your brother, Raul."
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26 Kortenaer "He wasn't my fucking brother! We just grew up on the same farm and got beat into place by the same sick fuck..."
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27 You "And then went to the same military academy. And the same unit. And the same war..."
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28 You "You were foster brothers. I know that."
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29 Kortenaer "Same fucking mudhut town too..." he looks around, then wipes his face with his armoured glove.
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30 Half Light Beaten by a foster parent, or someone on the farm?
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31 Kortenaer "Who... Lely?"
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32 You "Yes. When he was small... just an infant."
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33 Kortenaer "Fuck do you mean *talker*?"
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34 Kim Kitsuragi "We've heard testimony. People say he was charismatic. A nice guy to be around."
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35 Kortenaer "Yeah, he liked to chat up the natives. Share leaflets, squeeze a bit of kipt ass here and there. Great fucking idea that turned out to be..." He points toward the yard.
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36 Kortenaer "If Lely was here, he would spare the lot of you. Maybe shoot one for show. But me..." He points to himself. "I'm not a big fan of public affairs, clay-monkey. I'll gun every one of you down for what you did."
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37 De Paule "Ready to open fire, major. At your command."
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38 None
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39 None
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40 Kortenaer "You don't *know* shit. Lance Corporal, why don't you.." He turns to the radio officer on this right...
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41 Suggestion You lost him. Quick!
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42 Reaction Speed Don't let him finish the sentence!
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43 Kim Kitsuragi "We researched him. We contacted the ICP and looked at his birth records. That was in there. And other things..."
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44 Kortenaer "They fucking put Lely in a leaf compactor and now these cunts finished the job..." He waves at the gang huddled by the doors.
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45 De Paule "It's a mind-fuck, Korty. He wasn't put it a leaf compactor. They're making it up to fuck with us." She glances at him. "Major, permission to..."
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46 Pain Threshold There's real anguish in his voice. A drunken sadness suddenly engulfs him. Memories...
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47 Suggestion ...open fire -- we can't have that. Interfere, now!
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48 You "Banaital, '41... that really happened didn't it?" Variable["plaza.tribunal_kortenaer_weakened_by_the_shadows_of_the_past"] == true
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49 You "He had blue eyes didn't he -- your colonel." Variable["whirling.klaasje_mentioned_blue_eyes"] == true or Variable["yard.hanged_perception_blue_eyes"] == true
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50 Kortenaer "Baby blue, yeah... Like someone fucked up and put a baby's eyes on a grown man." He smiles, pulling his face in a strange way.
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51 Kortenaer "Our colonel did what he had to do. It was either one cunt, or a hundred of them. Ruud here..." He points to him.
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52 Ruud Hoenkloewen "... in your shit-pipes, right..." Indecipherable mumbling.
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53 Kortenaer "He likes to fire mortars at random coordinates. Wipe out mud-huts like that. When he gets *bored*. Lely knew how to command."
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54 Kim Kitsuragi "He was a good commander. I can see you miss him."
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55 Kortenaer "Oh yeah, he would have commanded this fuck-hell way better than I did. But that didn't happen, because Hayseed Bill and Kipty the Kipt here..." he points to Titus and Eugene.
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56 Kortenaer "...fucking murdered him. Had him stink the village up for two weeks after. And you fucks did nothing." He points at you.
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57 Alain "Listen, man. We told you we..."
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58 Kortenaer "Told us WHAT?!" He staggers forward. "What did you say? Who said that? Tattoo-fuck -- you'll die FIRST."
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59 None
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60 Kortenaer "It was creepy, but bitches... bitches like that shit, I guess. Or... I don't know what bitches like. I just know how to mow down *cloths*."
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61 None
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62 Kim Kitsuragi
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63 Kim Kitsuragi Variable["plaza.tribunal_gardener_shot"]
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64 Kim Kitsuragi (Variable["plaza.tribunal_gardener_shot"]) == false
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65 The Gardener "They... they didn't..." The woman holds on to her side, teeth rattling.
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66 Kortenaer "Find his killer?! Cop, his killer stands right there!" He waves at the men behind you. "Shitting his pants -- and *you're* standing in the way protecting them."
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67 Kortenaer "Find his killer?! Cop, his killers stand right there!" He waves at the men behind you. "Shitting their pants -- and *you're* standing in the way protecting them."
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68 Kortenaer ...and then he bellows: "For killing, maiming and humiliating our commanding officer -- you're all sentenced to death by lead!"
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69 Kortenaer "Shush..." He squints at her. "Blood's all gone out now. Not long to go till the rattle starts. One down, girl -- seven to go..."
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70 Kortenaer "I know what this tactic is, Silo Sam." He stares at you, eyes pink from the alcohol -- fingers tapping the pistol. "You're gonna die for them. Right here. Today."
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71 Kim Kitsuragi
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72 Kim Kitsuragi Variable["plaza.tribunal_gardener_shot"]
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73 Kim Kitsuragi (Variable["plaza.tribunal_gardener_shot"]) == false
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74 Kortenaer "Told us WHAT?!" He staggers forward. "What did you say? Tattoo-fuck, you'll die NEXT. Right when the she-kipt's out..."
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75 Kim Kitsuragi
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76 Kim Kitsuragi Variable["plaza.tribunal_leaf_compactor_reminded"] == true or Variable["plaza.tribunal_suggestion_bad_leadership"] == true
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77 Kim Kitsuragi (Variable["plaza.tribunal_leaf_compactor_reminded"] == true or Variable["plaza.tribunal_suggestion_bad_leadership"] == true) == false
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78 Kim Kitsuragi
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79 Kim Kitsuragi Variable["plaza.tribunal_leaf_compactor_reminded"] == true
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80 Kim Kitsuragi (Variable["plaza.tribunal_leaf_compactor_reminded"] == true) == false
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81 Half Light This did nothing. You think you were on to something?! You *just* wasted time... please, act.
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82 Suggestion Big talk, but that leaf compactor won't leave his mind any time soon. It's a small thing -- but it got him off centre...
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83 Suggestion Big talk, but you got him to admit he's a bad leader. It's a small thing -- but it got him off centre...
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84 None
External:
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85 You He doesn't seem stable at all....
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86 You "I feel like I got to know your dead friend. During our investigation."
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87 Suggestion Ever better! It will further destabilize him -- costing time and maybe even lives!
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88 Kortenaer "You don't fucking TALK TO ME about my brother, loincloth!" He squeezes the words out from between clamped lips, his hand on the pistol...
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89 Logic Uhm... this might be a *very* bad moment to come up with this, but he's *Korty* right?
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90 Suggestion Okay, yes. Immediate failure. Things are worse now. He's observing your every motion carefully...
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91 Kim Kitsuragi
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92 Kim Kitsuragi Variable["tc.lely_is_ellis_kortenaer"]
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93 Kim Kitsuragi (Variable["tc.lely_is_ellis_kortenaer"]) == false
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94 You Yes, go on. I don't want to do anything but say that thing down there.
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95 Logic The man he's mourning was called Ellis *Kortenaer*. Korty could be short for Kortenaer? Could they be brothers? Ask him that. What could go wrong. It's a discovery!
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96 You "Hey... I don't mean to pry but the hanged man -- was he your brother?"
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97 Suggestion Yes. This will be good. It will calm him down and won't cost any lives. Lives that could have been otherwise spared.
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98 Rhetoric And if not -- lives aren't *that* important anyway (including yours). There are billions of them, being lived.
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99 Kim Kitsuragi
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100 Kim Kitsuragi Variable["plaza.tribunal_logic_korty_remembered"] == true
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101 Kim Kitsuragi (Variable["plaza.tribunal_logic_korty_remembered"] == true) == false
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102 Kortenaer "You don't fucking TALK TO ME about my brother, loincloth!" He squeezes the words out from between clamped lips, his hand on the pistol...
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103 Suggestion Okay, yes. Immediate failure. Things are worse now. He's observing your every motion carefully...
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104 None
External:
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105 Suggestion Okay. Good.
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106 Kim Kitsuragi
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107 Kim Kitsuragi Variable["plaza.tribunal_gardener_shot"] == true
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108 Kim Kitsuragi (Variable["plaza.tribunal_gardener_shot"] == true) == false
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109 Suggestion Yes. This will be good. It will calm him down and won't cost any more lives. Lives that could be spared.
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110 Endurance This one isn't used to being suited this long. She's uncomfortable; will open fire just to hurry things along.
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