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• Hang on. Where's Dessa? How did she get away from us? Unless she has a way to baffle the gate, she—oh. Wait.
• She said you can't bring people out of the Fractals. Maybe her observatory is just another slice of the Mists?
• But that would mean Dessa is trapped there, like the technicians we couldn't rescue. Or maybe...she's worse than trapped.
• Poor Dessa. At least we learned a few things about Thaumanova. And I've got something new to press the Consortium about.
• Thanks again for all your help and hard work. If you ever need a friend on the Captain's Council, I'm it.
• That's a promise. And I intend to keep delivering on my promises.
• Thanks for the save, but I've got to get to central control.
• You're not going to evacuate?
• It's too late. We'd never make it. Our only chance now is to slow the reactor down and buy everyone more time to reach minimum safe distance.
• That's remarkably noble of you. Can I ask you another question?
• Good luck. And on behalf of everyone here who's still alive, thanks.
• If you make it fast. I've got work to do. Poor Saxx... One of us has to uphold the old krewe's standards. I also wonder if Chibb is all right.
• Why did the reactor go critical?
• Who is Saxx?
• Who is Chibb?
• Speaking of the old krewe, do you know a researcher named Dessa?
• All right. Good luck. I've got a job to do.
• He's a colleague of mine. We've been working together for years on various krewes. He's around here somewhere...if he's still alive.
• Are you going to evacuate now?
• Good luck finding him. And thanks for sticking around to help.
• He's a friend and a long-time collaborator. He is...was my partner in this section. He didn't make it. The radiation got him.
• I'm sorry to hear that, but I have a job to do. Good luck.
• Sure do. Dessa was on the same krewe with me, Chibb, and Saxx back in the old days. She left to take part in some sort of super-secret project right before we came to work here.
• I saw her recently. She still speaks highly of you all.
• Sorry, but this situation is deteriorating and I've got a job to do.
• Really? No one I know has heard from Dessa for quite a while now. If you live through this and see her again, tell her we miss her.
• I will.
• The Inquest brought in a specialist to help them understand the magical energy being generated and processed here. She insisted it was tied to the Elder Dragons somehow, and they believed her.
• How did that cause this disaster?
• The bosses were obsessed with this "breakthrough." They dedicated all available resources to generating as much magical energy as possible. This place ran hotter and hotter until it failed.
• Who was the specialist?
• A sylvari named Scarlet. She has experience with the Inquest and advanced theoretical magic. If you ask me, she's just an obsessive loon, but her advice got the results the Inquest was after.
• It wasn't worth it. Excuse me now. I've still got work to do.
• This catastrophe just got extremely personal. No hyperactive, magical light show is going to kill me. I'm heading for the control center. I'll help if I can.
• There's no point. At this rate, we'd be puddles of glowing slime long before we reached minimum safe distance. But if I can decelerate the chain reaction, some of us might make it.
• You're very brave. Can I ask you a quick question?
• If you're actually quick, yes. I owe it to Saxx and Greeza. Once upon a time, we were all part of a great krewe that made breakthroughs without endangering everyone and everything around us.
• Who is Greeza?
• Did you also work with a researcher named Dessa?
• Sorry you got mixed up in this, but I've got to do what I came here to do.
• Don't quote me, but she's the smartest of us. She's the problem solver, the lateral thinker. Give her a conundrum, and she finds a way around it. Guaranteed.
• Are you going to evacuate now?
• Good luck finding her. And thanks for sticking around to help.
• He's the most ambitious of us. The way he talks about his legacy and the permanent contributions he wants to leave behind to advance mecha-magical theory, you'd think he was a norn.
• I hope he's all right, but I have a job to do.
• I did. She loved exploring and discovering. So much so that when we took this job, she didn't come with us because she didn't like the idea of being stuck in one place for too long.
• Hmm. I'm not calling you a liar, but that's hard to believe. As far as I know, no one's heard from Dessa recently. Still, if you see her again, tell her the old krewe said, "Felicitations."
• I blame the specialist the Inquest brought in to study the reactor's magical energy. She tied the reactor's output to the Elder Dragons. It was just what the krewe chiefs wanted to hear.
• Thanks. We'd better get moving again.
• This conceptual "breakthrough" turned everything upside down. All available resources were turned toward generating as much of the magical energy as possible. Simply put: we overloaded the system.