Eternal
Decena’s heart is in the right place, but you’d rather not waste anymore time. You can’t imagine that if Zana was up to something sinister that you wouldn’t have caught it by now, let alone that she wouldn’t have acted by now. There are countless times she probably could’ve made an attempt on your life since she’s been here.
However you do agree to Decena’s insistence that she at least not be involved in the final process. If it’ll make her a little less worried about the situation then you don’t see the harm.
While Elam tells you up and down that he can’t perform the procedure without Zana’s assistance, Zana is actually fine with not being there and tells you that she understands that the Empress is just concerned for her husband’s well being. Zana also says that despite Elam’s insistence, she isn’t excessively needed for the procedure. She says that for the final procedure; her main job was going to be reading gauges, monitoring dials and such. She says that the other safety supervisor Gregory can take over for her since he should be familiar with everything as well.
With everything settled, you spend your remaining two days enjoying your time with Decena who seems a little more at ease with the upcoming procedure due to your compromise about Zana. The time you spend with Decena, puts you in a more relaxed mood as well and you’re definitely feeling more positive about it. You almost don’t even know why you were concerned to begin with.
Eventually the day comes and Elam has everything ready (With Gregory standing by to monitor the machine and you return with Decena to complete the task you originally set out to do.
You’re strapped to a table. Elam still says he’d feel more comfortable with Zana helping him, but reassures you that everything will go smoothly.
As you are prepared, you and Decena exchange one kiss for what will be the last time.
“Know that whatever happens, I’ll always love you.” She says.
“And I will always love you.” You respond.
Elam injects you with a powerful reagent that knocks you out and the process begins.
The blackness takes you experience absolute nothingness…
And that is the last thing you ever experience for you never wake up from the procedure, which was successful at least for a moment.
When your brain was transferred everything was going well at first and steps were being taken to gradually wake you back up, but unfortunately it was during this process that the machine began to fail, break down and eventually explode.
The initial explosion killed Gregory who was already freaking out when the machine started acting outside the safety parameters. It also killed most of the supporting staff; including Elam who was desperately attempting to fix what he thought was wrong.
Decena survived the initial explosion, but only at a great cost. She ended up losing a part of her arm, a foot and most of her body and face heavily injured. She managed to hang on long enough to declare that Warrick and Brenda were officially in charge of the Empire when Kivan and others found her dying.
With her last breath to Kivan she told him:
“Have that…(cough wheeze) bitch Zana executed…I know…(wheeze) she did this…”
Warrick and Brenda’s first course of action was to indeed track down Zana, who by this time had long escaped. Klemto and all the other gnomes insisted they knew nothing of this plan, but someone had to pay and unfortunately it was them.
The gnomes of New Dessel didn’t go without a fight however and it took months before the mountain city was finally taken and even then groups of gnomes had managed to escape or even lock themselves in secret passages within the mountain to conduct guerilla attacks. Eventually Warrick had the airship fleet continually blast the mountain until it collapsed on itself making it useless to all and killing anyone still hiding inside.
As for Zana, she never was caught, but that was the least of the Empire’s problems.
Her success of killing you (and Decena) along with New Dessel’s extended siege inspired another rebellion. Warrick and Brenda might’ve been up to the task had they been a little younger, but when Warrick died of natural causes suddenly a few years later, it was a great blow to both the Empire and Brenda who took the death of a second husband hard. She eventually joined him a year later via suicide.
From there the downward spiral of the Empire was inevitable and in time records of the old regime were erased from history.
However you do agree to Decena’s insistence that she at least not be involved in the final process. If it’ll make her a little less worried about the situation then you don’t see the harm.
While Elam tells you up and down that he can’t perform the procedure without Zana’s assistance, Zana is actually fine with not being there and tells you that she understands that the Empress is just concerned for her husband’s well being. Zana also says that despite Elam’s insistence, she isn’t excessively needed for the procedure. She says that for the final procedure; her main job was going to be reading gauges, monitoring dials and such. She says that the other safety supervisor Gregory can take over for her since he should be familiar with everything as well.
With everything settled, you spend your remaining two days enjoying your time with Decena who seems a little more at ease with the upcoming procedure due to your compromise about Zana. The time you spend with Decena, puts you in a more relaxed mood as well and you’re definitely feeling more positive about it. You almost don’t even know why you were concerned to begin with.
Eventually the day comes and Elam has everything ready (With Gregory standing by to monitor the machine and you return with Decena to complete the task you originally set out to do.
You’re strapped to a table. Elam still says he’d feel more comfortable with Zana helping him, but reassures you that everything will go smoothly.
As you are prepared, you and Decena exchange one kiss for what will be the last time.
“Know that whatever happens, I’ll always love you.” She says.
“And I will always love you.” You respond.
Elam injects you with a powerful reagent that knocks you out and the process begins.
The blackness takes you experience absolute nothingness…
And that is the last thing you ever experience for you never wake up from the procedure, which was successful at least for a moment.
When your brain was transferred everything was going well at first and steps were being taken to gradually wake you back up, but unfortunately it was during this process that the machine began to fail, break down and eventually explode.
The initial explosion killed Gregory who was already freaking out when the machine started acting outside the safety parameters. It also killed most of the supporting staff; including Elam who was desperately attempting to fix what he thought was wrong.
Decena survived the initial explosion, but only at a great cost. She ended up losing a part of her arm, a foot and most of her body and face heavily injured. She managed to hang on long enough to declare that Warrick and Brenda were officially in charge of the Empire when Kivan and others found her dying.
With her last breath to Kivan she told him:
“Have that…(cough wheeze) bitch Zana executed…I know…(wheeze) she did this…”
Warrick and Brenda’s first course of action was to indeed track down Zana, who by this time had long escaped. Klemto and all the other gnomes insisted they knew nothing of this plan, but someone had to pay and unfortunately it was them.
The gnomes of New Dessel didn’t go without a fight however and it took months before the mountain city was finally taken and even then groups of gnomes had managed to escape or even lock themselves in secret passages within the mountain to conduct guerilla attacks. Eventually Warrick had the airship fleet continually blast the mountain until it collapsed on itself making it useless to all and killing anyone still hiding inside.
As for Zana, she never was caught, but that was the least of the Empire’s problems.
Her success of killing you (and Decena) along with New Dessel’s extended siege inspired another rebellion. Warrick and Brenda might’ve been up to the task had they been a little younger, but when Warrick died of natural causes suddenly a few years later, it was a great blow to both the Empire and Brenda who took the death of a second husband hard. She eventually joined him a year later via suicide.
From there the downward spiral of the Empire was inevitable and in time records of the old regime were erased from history.
