My lofty position wasn't always accompanied by the fear of office, and there was a time I could walk the streets or raise a glass in the tavern without concern for molestation. Faithful as the tide, one precocious village waif made it her hobby to shadow my every errand. It was charming then, troublesome later.

Quote	My lofty position wasn't always accompanied by the fear of office, and there was a time I could walk the streets or raise a glass in the tavern without concern for molestation. Faithful as the tide, one precocious village waif made it her hobby to shadow my every errand. It was charming then, troublesome later.
Quote Order	104
Description	This is a quote from Darkest Dungeon. This quote is from 'Starting an expedition to kill a boss.'
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Category	Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category	Cove
Sub-sub-category	Siren

Quote: Even the fiercest beast will lay down when it has not eaten. Steal their food.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Warrens

Even the fiercest...

Quote: My zeal for blood rituals and summoning rites had begun to ebb as each attempt invariably brought only failure, and disappointment. Progress was halting, and the rapidly accumulating surplus of wasted flesh had become... burdensome.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Warrens

My zeal for...

Quote: I employed a crew of particularly unsavory mariners, who, for a time, sailed the four corners at my behest - retrieving many valuable artifacts, relics and rare texts. Predictably, they increased their tariffs to counter my intense stipulations of secrecy. Such resources had long been exhausted, of course, and so I prepared an... alternative payment.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Cove

I employed a...

Quote: Eager to end the tiresome domestic distraction, I instructed my newly formed militia of hardened bandits, brigands and killers to go forth and do their work. Compliance and order were restored, and the noisome population of the Hamlet was culled to more... manageable numbers.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Weald

Eager to end...

Quote: Excise the fungal tumors and the land may yet live.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Weald

Excise the fungal...

Quote: The spasmodically squirming, braying, and snorting half-corpses were heaped each upon the other until at last I was rid of them. The Warrens became a landfill of snout and hoof, gristle and bone – a mountainous, twitching mass of misshapen flesh fusing itself together in the darkness.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Warrens

The spasmodically squirming,...

Quote: Mastery over life and death was chief among my early pursuits. I began in humility, but my ambition was limitless. Who could have divined the prophetic import of something as unremarkable as a twitch in the leg of a dead rat?
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Ruins

Mastery over life...

Quote: This raving creature had to be silenced, but, to my bafflement, doing so proved maddeningly impossible. How had he survived the stockades, the icy waters, and the knives I delivered so enthusiastically into his back? How had he returned time and time again to rouse the townsfolk with his wild speculations and prophecies?
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Ruins

This raving creature...

Quote: The Great Thing I had managed to bring through was brutish and stupid. Moreover, it required prodigious amounts of meat to sustain itself, but this was only a trifling concern – after all, I had a village full of it.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Warrens

The Great Thing...

Quote: While the greedy dogs slept off their revelry, I hexed their anchor with every twisted incantation I could muster - imbuing it with the weight of my ambition, and my contempt for their crude extortion. At the witching hour, the anchor pulled with preternatural force, dragging craft and crew down into the depths. They must have cried out, but no sound escaped the swirling black waters...
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Cove

While the greedy...

Quote: The flopping, fish-like things abhore the warding sigils. Let us claim this place anew!
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Coves

The flopping, fish-like...

Quote: The poor devils, chained and drowning for eternity...
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Coves

The poor devils,...

Quote: These salt-soaked caverns are teeming with pelagic nightmares - they must be flushed out!
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Coves

These salt-soaked caverns...

Quote: Corruption has soaked the soil, sapping all good life from these groves - let us burn out this evil.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Weald

Corruption has soaked...

Quote: Recover these lost shipments of rarities, that we may prevent them from falling into even less scrupulous hands...
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Coves

Recover these lost...

Quote: The ways and rituals of blood sacrifice are difficult to master. Those from beyond require a physical vessel if they are to make the crossing into our reality. The timing of the chants is imperative - without the proper utterances at precise intervals, the process can fail spectacularly.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Warrens

The ways and...

Quote: Finally, resigned to his uncommon corporeal resilience, I lured him to the dig. There, I showed him the Thing, and detailed the full extent of my plans. Triumphantly, I watched as he tore his eyes from their sockets, and ran shrieking into the shadows - wailing maniacally that the end was upon us all.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Ruins

Finally, resigned to...

Quote: In financial desperation, I struck a bargain with the ancient things that surfaced in search of sacrifice when the moon was right. Their price was the delivery of an obscure idol and one other item of more troubling portent. The pact struck, my newfound accomplices slipped silently beneath the brackish water. A fearful stirring at the edge of the torchlight betrayed a familiar witness, and gifted me with malign inspiration.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Cove

In financial desperation,...

Quote: Under the blood moon, I lured my wide-eyed prey to the pier’s edge. Before she could properly appreciate her position, I clamped on a manacle, chaining her to the leering idol. A small push was sufficient to send both into the icy waters. And when at length the tide receded, jewels of the most magnificent grandeur lay scattered upon the shore.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:

Under the blood...

Quote: Simple folk are by their nature loquacious, and the denizens of the Hamlet were no exception. It was not long before rumors of my morbid genius and secretive excavations began to fuel local legend. In the face of my increasingly egregious flaunting of public taboos, awe turned to ire, and demonstrations were held in the town square.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Weald

Simple folk are...

Quote: The thing is more terrible than I can describe - an incoherent jumble of organ, sinew and bone.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Warrens

The thing is...

Quote: Prying eyes had become a nuisance along the Old Road, and so I undertook to receive my most curious deliveries by way of marine shipments. A sheltered jetty was accessible by a narrow stone stair off the back of the manor, and a discreet system of pulleys could hoist even the heaviest prizes up the rock face from a securely tied dinghy below.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Cove

Prying eyes had...

Quote: My first attempts at summoning were crude and the results, disappointing. I soon found however, that the type and condition of the host's meat was a critical factor. The best results came from pigs, whose flesh is most like that of man.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Warrens

My first attempts...

Quote: As time wore on, her wild policy of self-experimentation grew intolerable. She quaffed all manner of strange fungii, herbs and concoctions, intent on gaining some insight into the horror we both knew to be growing beneath us. The change in her was appalling, and, no longer able to stomach it, I sent her to live in the Weald, where her wildness would be welcomed.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Weald

As time wore...

Quote: A nameless abomination, a testament to my failures - it must be destroyed!
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Warrens

A nameless abomination,...

Quote: I could not store such a prodigious amount of offal, nor could I rid myself of it easily, possessed as was by unnameable things from outer spheres. When excavations beneath the Manor broke through into an ancient network of aqueducts and tunnels, I knew I had found a solution to the problem of disposal.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Warrens

I could not...

Quote: The smell of rotting fish is almost unbearable...
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Coves

The smell of...

Quote: Excavations beneath the manor were well underway, when a particular ragged indigent arrived in the hamlet. This filthy, toothless miscreant boasted an uncanny knowledge of my ambitions and prognosticated publicly that left unchecked, I would soon unleash doom upon the world.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Ruins

Excavations beneath the...

Quote: The Swine draw power from their horrid markings and crude idols - tear them down!
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Warrens

The Swine draw...

Quote: Her knowledge of horticulturalism, and its role in various arcane practices impressed me greatly. My licentious impulse gave way to a genuine, professional respect, and together, we began to plant, harvest, and brew.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Weald

Her knowledge of...

My lofty position...

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