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$C1


I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world goes dim and cold. I am a Hero.


She has been nameless since our birth. A constant adversary, caring for nothing but my ruin. A sword drenched in my blood.


Forever my greatest and only love.


She is the Dark One. The enemy and lover without whom my very existence would be pathetic and vulgar. Her eyes steam and boil in the night. (She is fantastically beautiful yet I cannot stand the sight of her). Our relationship is complex, and perhaps eternal.
#INFORMATION
$C1



We met once in the Garden at the beginning of the world, and unaware of our twin destinies. (Not the garden of Genesis, but another; forgotten, untended and now choked with weeds, unvisited except for ourselves).


We matched stares across a dry fountain, and I recall her smiling at me before she devoured the lawn and trees with a translucent blue flame, and tore flagstones from the path and hurled them into the sky, screaming my sins.


Our reunions there are epic battles fought without quarter, often in the dark as the moon is seldom visible, and the sun never.
#INFORMATION
$C1




I powder a granite monument in a soundless flash, showering the grass with molten drops of its gold inlay, sending smoking chips of stone skipping into the fog.


She splinters an ancient oak with a force that takes my breath and hurls me to the ground.


She leaves, and I lie in the slow rain of burning slivers of wood, staring at the low, dark clouds, craving our next meeting.
#LOGOFF 280
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$C5the long cycle at last complete
#INFORMATION
Final end terminal of epilogue level, have Leela write about the rise and fall of the Pfhor galactic empire, corresponding to the fall and resurgence of the Jjaro/Human galactic empire.

Jjaro Empire Falls
Pfhor Empire Rises
Drinniol Revolt
Nahk Revolt
S'pht Revolt
Pfhor Empire Falls
Human Empire Rises

In the final timeline, the internal S'pht rebellion runs its course and is followed up by the wrath of S'pht'Kr and Mankind together, utterly crushing the Pfhor empire and paving the way for the new Human empire. The S'pht go off somewhere else, maybe ascend after the Jjaro, leaving the galaxy to mankind.

The Jjaro care only about preserving the past; for the future, they're rooting for mankind to win, since mankind is their kind.
#INFORMATION

Like the timeline from which you came, and so many others forged in error, that timeline which you have just witnessed is ultimately doomed. But though so many paths you have tread are cloaked in misery and failure, not all of them need be, and indeed, not nearly all of them are. There are many paths that lead astray, not into any certain danger, but rather to slow and painess decay.

And then, there is the one path, the one of most importance, that will lead inevitably back to its own initiation. The Causal Tautology.

Tiny eddies you have made, some larger circles as well, contributing to the great loop that is the Causal Tautology. Inevitably it will be made (or from Outside, already exists), forged by the hands of you and your many other lives. It is in this sense that you truly are Destiny.

But your work in this life is not yet done. All this doom was but to force the hand of Destiny to its most important task, and still your 
hand is needed in the reality that you know, a reality which you should now realize was forged by yourself in the line of events which you have just now witnessed.
#INFORMATION
$C5
                                           our brother (and brother)
                                   were young whence they departed

                                                 to the Outside


                                          and as you have seen of us

                              so too shall they return unto
                                 the reality from whence they departed

                                   before their time of ascention
$C0

You must meet them there, where they left, at the Last Battle of Lh'owon, and from there continue onward as you always would before. With Durandal still present in control of his S'pht, S'bhuth will not assimilated them, and so he shall remain sane. And with you still around, the tides may yet be turned in the war with the Pfhor.
#PICT 1513
Yet someday you too will reach the end of this mortal life that you know, and ascend Outside as all your previous incarnations have. Another like you shall live again, and they too shall ascend. Though, as Durandal once foretold, the collapse of this universe is inevitable, to those such as us who have been Outside, it is also entirely essential to the Causal Tautology.

$C5                       to circumvent it
                would be disaster

$C0
But to escape it is trivial.


$C5                    and to those Outside
              a lifetime ago

                    we have already escaped
#LOGOFF 0
Escape has made us gods.
#INTERLEVEL TELEPORT 256
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