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McDonagh - Ryan Takes F Futuristics |
| "Ryan nationalized Fontaine Futuristics - he owns it now, lock, stock and barrel. For the good of the city, he says. He'll break it up in due time, he says. I've resigned from the council and lodged me letter of protest, but that's just pissing in the wind. It'll be war, I say... unless somebody stops Ryan and right fast." |
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Kyburz - Scoping The Gate |
| "I spent the afternoon trying to get as close to Ryan's gate as possible without making a spectacle of myself... He's got it shielded six ways till Easter. There's no way into that place. All I got for my trouble was the hairy eyeball from Ryan's splicer mates. That's the reward you get for trying to outsmart the best electrical engineer of our generation." |
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McDonagh - Stopping Ryan |
| "I never killed a man, let alone a mate. But this is what things come to. I don't know if killing Mr. Ryan will stop the war, but I know it won't stop while that man breathes. I love Mr. Ryan. But I love Rapture. If I have to kill one to save the other, so be it." |
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Anya Andersdotter - Going To Heat Loss |
| "I had to go jungle-style with that filthy ape for three weeks, but he finally spilled the beans on how to get to Andrew Ryan. Generate a sympathetic overload in Harmonic Core #3. That's simple. Now all I gotta do is figure out what the hell a sympathetic overload is, and for that matter, a Harmonic Core #3! Piece of cake for an electrical engineer. Too bad I design lady's shoes. Gonna go see the grease monkeys left alive in Heat Loss monitoring, see what I can shake out of their trees." |
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Andrew Ryan - A Man Or A Parasite |
| "What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds. A parasite asks 'Where is my share?' A man creates. A parasite says, 'What will the neighbors think?' A man invents. A parasite says, 'Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God...'" |
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McDonagh - Fontaine's Legacy |
| "Strikes me that Fontaine wasn't overly inconvenienced by his own demise. On New Year's Eve, his wretched splicers came streaming out of the poor houses and stormed the proverbial barricades! The dead rot in the streets, and Johnny and Janey Citizen are lined up round the block for plasmids... anything to help fend off the rabble." |
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Pablo Navarro - Running Short on R-34s |
| "Do you guys have any idea there's a war on? If you don't follow proper maintenance on those Big Daddys, they burn through those R-34s like them Eve's apple betties go through penicillin. I've got Atlas' goons hitting us non-stop, and two dead mechanics just this week, we need to control costs. If I wanted to deal with amateurs, I would have stayed on dry land." |
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Andrew Ryan - Impossible Anywhere Else |
| "To build a city at the bottom of the sea! Insanity. But where else could we be free from the clutching hand of the Parasites? Where else could we build an economy that they would not try to control, a society that they would not try to destroy? It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else." |
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Anya Andersdotter - Assassin |
| "Me. An assassin... that's rich. I could have gone along, I suppose. Spliced up, forgot. I believed in this place. I believed in Ryan. But when it got hard, Ryan didn't believe in Rapture, didn't believe in the Great Chain. He believed in power. And now this place is busto. And my girl is... gone... worse than gone... one of those... things. So am I an assassin? ...Well, only one way to find out." |
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Pablo Navarro - Kyburz Door Code |
| "Let me tell you something about Kyburz and all them university types... they're so smart, except when they ain't. I put a couple of drinks in him last week, and before I could say 'boo' he's telling me he's got the code to his office keyed to the date of Australia Day. Nows every weeks, I slip in real gentle and nick a buck or two from the till. The Aussie never notices, and I ain't about to tell him. Seems like there's all kind of crazy stuff back there. Maybe... maybe one day I'll get more ambitious." |
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McDonagh - Genetic Arms Race |
| "I begged Mr. Ryan to hand Fontaine Futuristics over to Atlas' boys as a peace offering, but the stupid sod won't listen to reason. 'Stead he's just splicing his mob up, giving them more and tougher plasmids. There's an arms race on here in Rapture, but it's not about who can build the best guns and the biggest bombs. It's about who can become less of a man and more of a monster..." |
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Pablo Navarro - Getting A Break |
| "I didn't recognize the twist that come into the shop today... Stacked like Sally and dressed to the nines. She's play her cards pretty close to the vest, but you ain't gotta be no college yob to see that she's into some bad china. She was asking about magnetic locks, and some such. I played it coy, but she look wise. After she showed me 'round her backyard, I gave her directions to Kyburz' tool shop. Rapture's gone to hell, but sometimes the Great Chain still cuts you a break." |
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Kyburz - Device Almost Finished |
| "Ryan's splicers are dragging the young woman off right now. I'm certain she's one of Ryan's spies, sent to feel me out... I think she is... if I'm wrong, an innocent girl'll end up on Ryan's bloody trophy wall. If I'm right... well, I best be right. The device is almost finished. I can't get soft now, I can't!" |
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Pablo Navarro - Market Maintenance Code |
| "I tracked the problem that was blocking the tubes here, and you'll never believe where I ended up... the damn Farmer's Market, clear on the other end of Rapture. I fixed it right up and installed some new gaskets... oof, what a mess. Anyway, the code is 0512 if you ever need to get back in there to do maintenance." |
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Andrew Ryan - Great Chain Moves Slowly |
| "Is there blood in the streets? Of course. Have some chosen to destroy themselves with careless splicing? Undeniable. But I will make no proclamations, I will dictate no laws. The Great Chain moves slowly, but with wisdom. It is our impatience that invites in the Parasite of big government. And once you've invited it in, it will never stop feeding on the body of the city." |
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Kyburz - The Dream |
| "What a barmy dream... some kind of fruit tree, spinning like a top, and it was pouring juice down Ryan's throat, choking the bastard. But it wasn't a tree, really, when I looked closer, it was the core control, the gizmo that feeds the mag locks on Ryan's gate. You can't cut off the power, comes right from the volcanic vents... Ryan always gets his juice. But I suppose you could drown the son of a bitch in it..." |
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Kyburz - Assembling the Bomb |
| "The basic casing is ready, I've got one charge of nitroglycerin in my office, that will serve as a catalyst. Now I need four R-34 lead shield wire stubs to pass the circuit. Then a half-can of Ionic Gel - that's the pretty Betty of the mix. Should send the core into compensation mode, push power down the line and trigger the circuit breaker on Ryan's gate. That's the theory. It'll either work like a charm, or blow up half of Rapture. Nothing ventured..." |
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