Heh, I was expecting an objection...
This time, however, he simply leads you straight through. And when the door at the other side opens, you hear no music. In fact, it is deathly quiet, and all you can hear is the faint ssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhh... of Melitus breathing.
The Butler leads you in to Meltius' room, where he is alone with his iron lung.
"Ah, you have returned," Melitus says. "Though less of a crowd this time. Thankyou, you may go."
You assume he is referring to the Butler with that, as the Butler turns and leaves the room.
"You decieved us pal, not the other way around. We lost some good people because we werent able to Jack Out. From what I have deduced thats your fault. Jericho knew we were coming, he had ot have.....how'd he find out....lets see....how about Meltius....This place struk me as suspicious as soon as I stepped in. Theres some fishy stuff going on here and I think you owe us an explaination...."
"You are upset that Jericho knew you would be there?" asks Melitus. "I don't see why. You did not tell me not to tell him you..."
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"...would be there. On the contrary, you said you specifically wanted to meet him, so I made sure he would know you were coming. I do remember warning you..."
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"...that he would not want to be found and would try to kill you, but you insisted on me helping you find him anyway. That I did, and the consequences are down to Jericho, not me. Do I assume he was..."
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"...violent?"
"I warned you he would be violent," says Melitus. "You forced me to tell you where he was anyway. Did you want to meet him or not? I made sure that..."
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"... that meeting took place. If you did not want to fight, which I said would be a certainity, why did you go to see him at all? Do not blame me for your own folly. And you could do with learning a little..."
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"...patience. Did Jericho have any message for you?"
"I dont think your getting this....WHY CANT WE JACK OUT...I know you know .... Jericho didnt say anything to us becaus eheiddnt want to see us...DUH...can you please answer my question."
Castors eyebrow began to twitch under his sunglasses, he simply ran his hand through hsi hair.
"Please just answer the question..."
"Well now, that is hardly the patience I asked for," says Melitus, "If I were you, and suspected that I had anything to do with..."
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"... any such problems you describe, I imagine I would be very, very polite indeed with the way I presented myself, lest I anger the person who would presumably hold total control over me. Now. Did Jericho kill any..."
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"... of you himself?"
"Whats your deal man, why do you want to know so much about Jericho. Hes your minion, why donynuo just call him up and ask. Why do you have to be so dramatic about a question whose answer is easily within your grasp, without our involvement? It stikes me as odd...Jericho did not kill any of my group or the other face to afce as far as I know. He blew the toher up...along with the CCC building......"
"I'm just curious, and Jericho doesn;t talk much about his professional life," says Melitus. "Somehow I doubt he blew up the building; it is his workplace. What exactly did happen? If you remember, that was our deal. I would betray Jericho's..."
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"...location, on condition that if you survived you would come back and tell me what happened, remember?"
"We entered the buildign asked for Jericho, they told us where to go then we went only to meet agents and SWAT teams. We held our own and were able to esscape the agent. Unfortunately someone blew up the building and out other team was unaware of the danger. They perished in the explosion. I dont think I could mistake an explosion.
"They died and we knew that you had to have told him. So we put two and two together and came back here. You see the code here is different, and eversince we left weve had trouble Jacking out of the matrix. Only an idiot wouldnt be able to see the connection eh? (No rudeness intended by the word idiot Ush, lol. BTW mind telling em where this is oging...or giving me a hint XD)
Ah well, you don't get easy answers around here...
"Ah, I see," says Melitus. "Interesting; I thought that Jericho would have taken you on himself. He is the sort who would have appreciated the challenge involved. Still, that explains why there are rather less of you now. And..."
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"... I imagine this all brings this rather silly episode to a close. You know now that you can neither kill nor recover Jericho, so your task is at an end. Now you have more personal problems to deal with."