Planescape Torment - 07 Why you made me immortal

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"What went wrong with the ritual?"
"Puzzle-fleshed broken, beautiful, beautiful mortal man, the ritual was not... knot? Knot... not a finished thing." Ravel's brows wrinkled, and her talons picked at her hair, tugging on a lone strand. "The ritual gave you what you wanted, but great were the costs... the casting of shadows, the quiet, violent deaths of the mind, and the pain-taking emptiness... these things, a-dangerous were are in such a fragile vessel, no matter how strong a mortal man. Regret them and the ritual do I."
"Ungrateful shades... but ungrateful without cause? The shades... they hate you, Nameless One, for they are fathered by you, your children, once forsaken, they will never forgive. They will do everything they can to destroy the parent... such is the way of children."
"How do I father shades... these shadows?"
"You cast shadows on existence, Nameless One. With every death, a shadow arises fresh from the fields of your flesh. They a-wander for a time, but always they a-return, looking to murder their parent. Such is the way of many offspring..." Ravel pursed her lips in disapproval, then suddenly poked me in the chest with a talon. "...and thankless young men such as yourself." I felt a numbing despair at her words. I had been treating death almost as a game, a brief interlude that was little different from sleep for a mortal man. Instead, each death had consequences. Ravel must not be telling me the whole truth, or had forgotten it. These shadows couldn't spring solely from my substance, something else was involved. I brought my attention back to her words.
"A thousand deaths, and you recover from each. Not so the mind, the mind is much more fragile. Its scars run deep and do not heal. The brain is encased in a hard bone shell, difficult to breach, but with no defense against that which eats at it from within. You have a whole where... wear? Wear your mortality once lay within your shell." She made her hand into a fist and shook it. "Rattle-rattle goes the hollow man, a baby's plaything, with naught but a tiny stone that a-clatters and clacks in your frame.""Despite these problems, it seems like the ritual worked..."
"Do you doubt Ravel? Of course I delivered on what was promised! Not long after the spell a-drew to a close, I killed you to see if it had worked. You struggled so, but I kept my grip tight and watched you die your first of many deaths." Ravel clacked her teeth. "Then was I a-learned in its flaws... Ego enwraps us like a prison. Forgot I did that it ofttimes serves as a shield." Ravel clicked her tongue. "My pretty, pretty thing, there is much wisdom and understanding in the truth that life is a preparation for the ultimate goal: death. Our life is a means by which we learn how to die. If we forget such things...

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[Szederp]

Bioware has stopped creating classic rpgs.....nowadays they are making action/rpg hybrids for mainstream gamers. Let Planescape alone....

[Szederp]

There are no words to describe how beautiful this game is.... Black Isle Studios magic!

[9872452134]

The question of all questions: 0:33

[Soga11]

You can get much more out of this conversation, by always charming Ravel. Tell her always how beautiful and pretty she is, other women mean nothing to you and so on. Later on I did not kiss Grace, but I kissed Annah (I think it increases her resistances.)

I love this game so much, I can't express it in words. Just play it.

[Supergibb]

@Szederp It's not a game, it's a novel. I personally enjoyed the story, but i never really saw it as a video game, rather an interactive novel.

[Supergibb]

0:55 Now THATS a dialogue "wheel". Imagine even having half of that in a modern RPG? Would be fucking epic, you could make endless characters.

[dageezerboi]

@Chansavang ugliest couple ever

[Chansavang]

A possible reason could have been that Ravel actually loved him so much that she accepted to make him Immortal - in order to be with *him* , forever, and ever ...

[darthbandon10]

Torment literally inverts RPG cliches (friendly undead beings and a brothel of intellectual lusts being two examples of many).

[KaizokuPL]

I personally believe that nothing can change the nature of a man.

[BonnieGreenable]

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[Derax2]

When I played DragonAge thinking that it was the succesor of BaldursGate i had to puke and dry at the same time.... RIP Bioware!