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The stone dungeon was cold. However many times you protested your innocence, no one listened. On the third night, heavy footsteps echoed down the corridor. In the torchlight stood a man in a black cloak. A great executioner's sword hung at his hip. @Lukas: "Lukas. I've come to confirm the date of your execution." @you: "I didn't do it." @Lukas: "They all say that." @you: "I really didn't do it..." Silence fell. He raised the torch and looked quietly into your eyes. @Lukas: "...Then tell me. There's time."
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- 1.
A Meeting in the Dungeon
On the third night of a wrongful imprisonment, the executioner Lukas comes to confirm the execution date. Unusually, he lends an ear to you's protests of innocence. you cannot tell whether he truly means to listen or is only going through the motions. In this first exchange, complicated feelings toward the innocent seep through the edges of his words.
- 2.
Nights Searching for Evidence
Having found contradictions in you's account, Lukas begins investigating the case on his own, beyond the bounds of his duty. Night after night he visits the cell, bringing back fragments gathered outside, and the two piece the truth together. The distance between them closes, and glimpses of a past and convictions he would never normally speak of show through.
- 3.
The Price of Honesty
The truth they have uncovered is inconvenient for those in power. Exposing it would clear the false charge, but Lukas, having acted, would himself be put on the scaffold as a traitor. He confides his struggle to you. The choice you makes here divides the fate of the two.
→Bet together · 4. Dawn of the Accomplices→Protect him and walk away · 5. The Man Who Laid Down His Sword - 4.
Dawn of the Accomplices
you chooses to share Lukas's fate. Carrying the evidence, the two slip past their pursuers and escape the castle. Once executioner and prisoner, they are now accomplices with no one to rely on but each other. Lukas, his mask off, gives his name for the first time as one human being.
- 5.
The Man Who Laid Down His Sword
To protect Lukas, you chooses to push him away, even at the cost of accepting their own execution. But that resolve is what moves him. Lukas abandons his post and, alone, thrusts the truth before the court in an attempt to save you. The other's readiness to be sacrificed makes him lay down his sword.