Bombastine/Quotes

Dialogue spoken by Bombastine.
== Duviri Paradox during TennoCon 2022 ==
* Bombastine: "The king graces us...I am Bombastine, sire! You do remember your courtly playwright?"
* Bombastine: "Have you come to join the performance sire? It would be my deepest honor to see you command the stage! "
* Bombastine: "Yonder you might recover your favorite mask."
* Bombastine: "Yes, manifest as only you are able. With untold power as only you command. (whisper) Quick sire! I can only stall this awful idiot's gallery for a while longer..."
* Bombastine: "The king returns! And in such a mood as this he wears! What recitation will you gift us today?"
* Bombastine: "Of course, sire! Which play?"
* Bombastine: "When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes."
* Bombastine: "Well done, sire, they love you!"
==Duviri Amphitheater during TennoCon 2022==
===Idle===
*Bombastine: "The performance will commence presently." 
*Bombastine: "We crave your patience for just a little longer." 
*Bombastine: "Savor the anticipation while you can!" 
*Bombastine: "Ah, the tingle of mounting excitement." 
*Bombastine: "Do not shove! You'll all be able to see, I promise!" 
*Bombastine: "Come on, come on! Plenty of room for everyone!" 
===During Duviri gameplay reveal===
;Dominus Thrax
*Bombastine: "Welcome, one and all! Vagabonds and wastrels, nobles and nobodies, tatterdemalions, tramps and troubadors! Welcome to a display without equal among the trillion of wonders of the ever-giving Void. But first. A salutation to Him by whose will we are gathered here. The brightest of stars in the firmament! Our magnificent Majesty, by whose very whim we exist! Our most modest and serene sovereign! DOMINUS THRAX!" 
;Dax soldier
*Bombastine: "Hush, be still. For you stand amid the holy stones of the King's own amphitheater. Seal up your mouths and bind your tongues for you are about to witness is beyond description. Those lucky enough to dwell in the kingdom of Duviri enjoy absolute freedom from danger. How is this you ask? Through the mighty hands of the King: the Dax." 
*Bombastine: "In Duviri, our Dax are not flawed, mortal flesh and blood. They are legends given form. A pure ideal smithed into the shape by our King's will. I advise you not to cross them." 
;Luscinia
*Bombastine: "Who is this King Dominus Thrax you ask? How is it that you know him not? Do not trouble yourselves friends for he is beyond your simple understanding. However, he is also generous. Perhaps we lucky few shall be granted a glimpse into his sanctum." 
*Bombastine: "Here your eyes are treated to what your ears have already feasted upon. Behold Luscinia, whose voice blesses all in Duviri. Through her song, the King sleeps soundly and deep, untroubled by fell dreams." 
;Kaithe
*Bombastine: "Sing ol' muse a song of Old Earth. How in a time before time the ground shook to the hoof-beats of the noblest of animals. Sing a chivalry of gentility of the swift corsairs of bygone days. Can it be that they might live again?" 
*Bombastine: "The Kaithe of Duviri. A memory clad in a steel dream. Swifter than bowshots, more loyal than a steadfast soldier's heart. Run true, noble Kaithe!" 
;Old Teshin
*Bombastine: "What's this? Too many wonders into short time? Are your heads spinning already? Let me remind you that not all in Duviri will be strange to you. You may even encounter old friends." 
*Bombastine: "Teshin Dax. A veteran veiled in scars and sorrows. I cannot tell you how long he has dwelled with us. I only know that something has compelled him to watch and wait." 
;Orowyrm
*Bombastine: "LOOK UP, UP TO THE SKY! Meet one of our primordial enigmas. One of the titanic entities that coil around our world at its very root. Behold, the Orowyrm LODUN!" 
*Bombastine: "They have existed as long as Duviri itself, if not longer. They hunt and devour whomsoever they please at the King's pleasure. For he alone of all of us fears them not. The Orowyrm dreams of witch-ridden sleep giving life and form are his to command." 
;End
*Bombastine: "Alas, merciless Time has not stinted on his forward march, and our dalliance together draws to a close. How different from the hours in sweet Duviri, where the same day may be lived over and over, like a beloved song, and never grow old! Of course, it is not so sweet for those who the King wishes to see suffer, and death is no release when it can be undone and decreed again... but enough of such dark forebodings. Duviri awaits. And we shall meet again." 
==During The Duviri Paradox==
===Intro===
*Bombastine: "I am the Bombastine of the courtly stage... until that witch, Luscinia, took it from me! A fancy new hand, sire? Lucky you." 
*Bombastine: "Too true. Not like you. No matter how much work I put in." 
*Bombastine: "A way out? When all of us are obliged to stay?" 
*Bombastine: "Yonder." 
*Bombastine: "Ah! The audience loves you. Of course, they would." 
===Follow the Guiding Light===
*Bombastine: "Something fell from heaven. As hard as I fell from the king's favor. Not far from here." 
*Bombastine: "For the person who has everything, a little something extra." 
*Bombastine: "Be on your way. That Orowyrm is hunting, and it has your scent. Though you could buy some time if you fed it Luscinia first." 
==Idle in The Agora==
*Bombastine: "My, don't you look fancy. Where do you get those outfits?" 
*Bombastine: "If I could just borrow their powers... Lodun's fire, Sythel's lightning... then I'd be a Wyrm to reckon with." 
*Bombastine: "The shoe will be on the other foot one day. Oh, yes." 
*Bombastine: "Days of being executed all behind you, are they? Be nice if you remembered your old friends." 
*Bombastine: "Look at you! Feared, and respected, wherever you go. Must be nice." 
*Bombastine: "Oh, to be a Drifter! No ties, no responsibilities, nobody to take care of." 
*Bombastine: "Heard the King put a bounty on your head. How does it feel to know you're worth that much to someone?" 
*Bombastine: "Helping one of the others today, are you? It's okay, I understand. Not a problem." 
*Bombastine: "If I had your resources, I'd be on the throne by now. Bombastine the First. Just saying." 
*Bombastine: "I suppose she is still chirping away on her perch of honor? Of course she is." 
==The Covetous Courtier==
During Envy Spirals in Duviri, the Drifter has the opportunity to play through the tale of The Covetous Courtier, centering on Bombastine, as part of the Tales of Duviri. As with the rest of the tales, they are narrated by Euleria Entrati.
===Intro===
*Euleria Entrati: "The Covetous Courtier" 
*Euleria Entrati: "Bombastine, Duviri's preening peacock, was consumed by Envy. Oh, many envied him, but he cared nothing for that." 
*Euleria Entrati: "Bombastine was envious. Of what? Anything. Wherever his gaze fell, it seemed other people had it better." 
===Stage 1===
*Euleria Entrati: "Bombastine was never satisfied. He wanted more… for all that others had was an affront to his being." 
*Euleria Entrati: "Oh, Bombastine was admired, even loved. But others were loved more, and that was poison to him." 
===Stage 2===
*Euleria Entrati: "With sweet words, he persuaded others to his side. But his thoughts were only ever of himself." 
*Euleria Entrati: "Behind his acts of kindness and generosity lay but one thought: 'How can this performance benefit me?'" 
===Stage 3===
*Euleria Entrati: "With each new conquest, never once did he think: 'Surely that is enough. Surely now I can stop.'" 
*Euleria Entrati: "Like a child becoming bored with each new toy, Bombastine moved from one fixation to the next." 
===Stage 4===
*Euleria Entrati: "Demented beyond hope of return, Bombastine set his heart on the throne. Was he not as good a king as Thrax?" 
*Euleria Entrati: "If Bombastine could only have loved himself, he might not have yearned to become someone else." 
===Stage 5===
* Euleria Entrati: "And so the envy that might have motivated him to better himself hurled him headlong into disaster." 
* Euleria Entrati: "Bombastine thought his self-doubt was his alone. If only he had known how many others suffered it too." 
=== When Orowyrm Bombastine appears===
* Euleria Entrati: "What dragon is Envy? A hunger never sated, a gift never enough. It darkens the sunny days with a wanting that never is met." 
==Mood Spiral==
===Intro===
*Bombastine: "I am better than any of them! Fate and small, jealous others have conspired to inflict this upon me! You! Will you defy their cruelty and aid me?" 
*Bombastine: "Duviri has owed me for an age, short-changed me at every turn. We shall set things to rights! Let us collect." 
===Defeat the Dax===
*Bombastine: "That witch Luscinia's poured poison in the King's ear with her harpies verse. After all I've done for the arts they mean to kill me. Stop his ingrate thugs." 
*Bombastine: "Hah. Dax. She has them wrapped around her little finger. 'Oh boys, go smack Bombastine's bot-bot for me.' They won't be expecting you." 
*Bombastine: "Those sentries look down on me. "There goes Bombastine", they say. "Fire a shot over his head and watch him jump!" Well today, you're taking them down to MY level." 
*Bombastine: "Ah. I know those Dax. They're the ones that like to use me as a target for their spitting contests. Even the score, would you? I've dreamed of this." 
===Kill the mounted Dax===
*Bombastine: "I will not be kept in my place by swaggering bullies! Just because I wasn't born with strength of arm, they feel like they can push me around? Teach them that my worth, and talent, are worth far more than their... engorged biceps!" 
===Energize the shrine===
*Bombastine: "I can hear them now, little children laughing at me, because 'they could solve the maze and I couldn't'. I won't have it. Solve the wretched thing. 
*Bombastine: "I grew up hearing stories of these odd configurations. How riches awaited those clever enough to solve them. Show me what that feels like." 
===Reconnect the generator tower===
*Bombastine: "Hmm... cunning devices like this feed Duviri with power, just so those witless peasants can piss it away. It's wasted on them. Recalibrate it in my favor." 
*Bombastine: "The king has these generators built and then he lets them go to rack and ruin. Get it running again. Give me a taste of his power." 
===Defeat the Dax guarding the treasure===
*Bombastine: "The Dax have been collecting tribute from the peasants. What about... me? I think you should collect tribute from them. I'll make better use of it. Naturally." 
*Bombastine: "There goes raggle taggle Bombastine, with nothing to his name but bad verses and bile. Get me money, Drifter. I want to drip with gold." 
===Purge the darkened areas of Liminus===
*Bombastine: "The spirits of the greedy dead rise, wanting me to return what is obviously mine. Well, I'm keeping it all. You! Banish them." 
*Bombastine: "Oh, how the shades envy the living! Craving our life, our warmth. Sorry, ghostlings, I feel you. Really, I do. But I'm going to ask my friend here to put you down." 
===Stay close to the prisoner to free them===
*Bombastine: "It is unjust that Thrax has the sole power of life and death. I want some too. Nearby, a man is marked for execution. Save his life, that I may also, rightly, be thought of as Lord of Life and Death." 
*Bombastine: "People owe you their lives, don't they, Drifter? How does that feel? Save a condemned criminal. For me. I want to see the pathetic gratitude in his eyes." 
===Enter the Undercroft===
*Bombastine: "Thrax's 'power' is rooted in the Undercroft. Pff. Without it he's not that big of a deal. Not really. Perhaps you should make your way inside, for a little 'takeover bid.'" 
*Bombastine: "Ah, the Undercroft! A seething mass of Void-ridden potential, spiced with childish nightmares. Give me some." 
*Bombastine: "I want what a man of my talent and worth rightly deserves! And that includes the Undercroft that Thrax guards so jealously! Off you pop." 
*Bombastine: "Whoever controls the Undercroft grasps all of Duviri by the roots. I won't let its reputation stand in the way of claiming what's mine. Get in, and do what you have to." 
===Find the hidden royal chest===
*Bombastine: "By sacred law, any treasure dug up in Duviri is automatically the property of the King. Not today, 'your majesty'. Today, it's 'finders, keepers.'" 
*Bombastine: "When people have more wealth than they can spend, they hide it. People like that make me sick. I want you to find what they stashed and give it to me." 
*Bombastine: "So many beautiful masks that I might wear, all jealously hoarded by those Dax imbeciles. As if they can ever use them. Take them, Drifter. For me." 
*Bombastine: "The king expects me to do my best work on a pittance. You can see how unjust that is, can't you? I refuse to live in penury. Fetch me some more... suitable reward." 
===Open the chest and defeat its guardian===
*Bombastine: "Some people have it all. This fellow, for instance: Strong, fast, even has Void powers. What I wouldn't do to have what he has. Hmm... you're going to kill him, and take what he has." 
*Bombastine: "That oaf buys my way every time I try to return to the Palace. Wouldn't he look so much better coughing his last while you loot his chest of goods?" 
===Assemble the shrine===
*Bombastine: "I've often wondered what power the other world's spirits could offer a man like me? Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Rebuild one of the lost shrines and let's see what happens." 
*Bombastine: "That mettlesome witch Acrithis says there is hidden knowledge in the old shrines. Assemble one. She can't keep it all for herself." 
===Win the Kaithe race===
*Bombastine: "The mark of true nobility is an affinity for horseflesh, you know. I want to be the patron of champions. All YOU have to do is win." 
*Bombastine: "How would it be... to own the fastest Kaithe in all Duviri? Glorious. Make a little boy's dream come true." 
===Herd Tamms===
*Bombastine: "Some days, I yearn for the simple life of a farmer. No reason why I shouldn't have that, of course. Why don't you round me up a herd of my own?" 
*Bombastine: "I want everything! Every coin, every thread, every blade of grass! The Tamms in the field... yes, yes! Steal them for me!" 
===Inspect the mirror===
*Bombastine: "Something's calling for you through the Void mirror. Aren't you special? Get rid of those Dax and see what's so urgent." 
*Bombastine: "Hours I've spent gazing into Void mirrors, and here you are, with some mysterious benefactor gazing back. Deal with those Dax and see what your friend wants." 
===Collect lost belongings===
*Bombastine: "A consignment of fine trinkets! Waylaid and rudely pitched into the caverns below! Some hapless merchant's loss is my gain. Drifter, if you please." 
*Bombastine: "The indulgence of desire occasionally demands a frenzied scrimmage in the dirt. I covet certain gewgawgs. Fetch them." 
==Orowyrm Fight==
===Transforming===
*Bombastine: "I'll see she never sings again. It was me that gave her that voice. It's I who deserves the stage, not that ungrateful harpy! ME! ME! ME!" 
*Bombastine: "It's not fair! The things I did were supposed to break her, not make her his favorite. I was meant to be the one who was loved. ME! IT'S NOT FAIR!" 
===When chasing after Bombastine===
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful." 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "I see you, chasing me!" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "You wish you were this fast!" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "You're beneath me, and you always will be." 
===When grappling with Orvius===
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "This is not a free ride!" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "No hangers-on!" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "Off you get! Leech!" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "Get your filthy hands off me!" 
===First health bar depleted===
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "I'll devour everything that makes you you." 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "I'll take your face and make it my new mask." 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "Well, aren't you persistent!" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "What enviable determination." 
===Second health bar depleted===
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "Did she put you up to this?" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "This isn't fair! I deserve this victory!" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "You wouldn't take these liberties with any other Wyrm!" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "Don't you dare deny me this!" 
===Third health bar depleted===
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "What do you want from me!?" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "You won't take my victory!" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "You know I'm better than you, and you hate it!" 
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "I'm winning today, and that's final!" 
===Defeat===
*Orowyrm Bombastine: "IT'S NOT FAIR!" 
==Unused dialog==
*Bombastine: "The dwelling should be rightfully mine, obviously. We shall claim it, you and I. And if the Dax object... give them your worst." 
*Bombastine: "Sometimes the only thing standing between a man and the wealth he deserves is a bunch of idiots in armor. I'm sure you can handle them." 
*Bombastine: "For too long have I been denied the recognition I deserve. Look at these yokels, a cog to hear my latest play. Here. Deliver the manuscript." 
*Bombastine: "I have written a letter explaining Luscinia's true character for those who need to know. Deliver it. I'll see that song bird roasted yet." 
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