User:Blood Ox/Dialogue/Lady Boyle's Last Party

Arrival
Samuel Beechworth and Corvo Attano approach the Estate District by boat.

"Good grief, the Lord Regent's pulling out all the stops for the Boyle family. I didn't think there'd be tallboys patrolling here tonight. Watch yourself, Corvo, they don't fool around.

The good news is, once you get to the party, that mask of yours will let you blend right in.

''Enjoy your evening out with the folk of quality. Better you than me."''

The boat docks.

"I think that old woman they call Granny Rags used to live around here. Makes sense that a lunatic like her would be neighbors with Lady Boyle."

"If half the stories about the Boyle family are true, I wouldn't want to step foot onto the Boyle estate."

"The streets'll be hostile until you get to the party itself."

"Good luck in there. Don't let them fool you. These people are rich, but they're cutthroats just the same."

Scary old ladies
A City Watch Officer and a survivor are on Barcroft Court.

Survivor: "This place gives me the creeps. Didn't old Granny Rags used to live right here?"

Officer: "Who? That crazy old lady?"

Survivor: "They say she used to be a noblewoman until her whole family died off. They say she sold them to the Outsider."

Officer: "How about this: You do your damn job, and I'll watch out for scary old ladies."

Mattie and Harold
Mattie, Harold and a third aristocrat are talking near the entrance to the Boyle Mansion.

Harold: "Why, it's a fortress! Have you ever been inside?"

Mattie: "Never."

Female aristocrat: "Oh, I have. Last year Waverly threw a garden party and we slipped in after the Estermonts cancelled."

Mattie: "Well, it's an ill wind and so forth."

Female aristocrat: "Do you know about tonight's game?"

Harold: "Oh yes. They're going to wear the same costume in different colors, and we're meant to guess. Another of their eccentric fancies. I suppose we've no choice but to play."

Mattie: "It's going to be brilliant."

Harold: "It's going to be inexpressibly tiresome."

Female aristocrat: "If you're not going to have fun maybe you should go home."

Harold: "I'll struggle on, once we locate the wine."

Mattie: "Harold takes pride in being difficult."

Harold: "As much as you take in being easy."

Female aristocrat: "Shall we go in?"

Harold: "Emma insisted we meet her out by the curb."

Mattie: "Well I'm going to catch the plague and die waiting out here."

Harold: "I'm sure she'd like that."

Mattie: "Why don't you wait here, as any gentleman would, and we'll go inside and make nasty remarks about Emma's style, or lack of it."

Harold: "Well we know I'm no gentleman so you may as well make them here."

Female aristocrat: "You have to feel sorry for her, she's only here to ask for a handout."

Mattie: "She must be desperate. When have the Boyles ever given anything away? Maybe she hopes she'll win the game? Life is so boring. I'd die without gossip."

Female aristocrat: "We'll probably die anyway waiting for Emma."

Harold: "I'll drink to that."

Mattie: "Which part?"

Harold: "Any of it. By damn, I want some wine."

Lost invitation
Mattie's invitation gets blown away when Corvo comes closer to the entrance.

Mattie: "Oh! There went my invitation!"

Harold: "Mattie! Don't chase after that! You don't know what's in those buildings."

Mattie: "No place is safe any more. I don't understand what's happened to this city."

Guests talk about the party game
Female aristocrat: "Another party game. (Hmf!) It was fun for a season, but now?"

Male aristocrat: "What is it tonight?"

Female aristocrat: "Guess which is which. Their hair and makeup are identical, but one's in red, one's in black, one's in white. There's a prize, at the end – the Boyle Cameo."

Male aristocrat: "As if they don't get enough attention. Then again, the cameo is worth a lot."

Female aristocrat: "Doesn't Esma's bedroom have a balcony? If you could get up there I bet you could find something."

Male aristocrat: "More likely I'd end up in Coldridge Prison. The City Watch is everywhere tonight. But at least you're thinking."

Female aristocrat: "There must be another way. Waverly likes to be seen in red…"

Male aristocrat: "Which everyone knows. Too obvious. You know, I hear there are other ways into Esma's bedroom."

Female aristocrat: "Oh, don't flatter yourself."

Male aristocrat: "Just thinking out loud, dear."

Jane Blair and company
Jane Blair and two other aristocrats are talking in the Foyer.

Jane Blair: "Careful, we tried for a peek upstairs and the man on duty is an ass."

Male aristocrat: "I should have taught him some manners. This party is a sham!"

Female aristocrat: "I'm sure he's just doing his job. A party like this, anyone might have crept in."

Jane Blair: "Excuse me, my cousin is a marquis!"

Female aristocrat: "Of course I don't mean you. But people are desperate, and the Boyles are awfully wealthy these days."

Male aristocrat: "Nonsense. Waverly just hires officers from the Watch to impress people."

Female aristocrat: "Your obsession with the Boyle women, will it never end?"

Gossip about the Brimsleys
Female aristocrat: "Did you hear about Mrs. Brimsley? You'll never believe this."

Male aristocrat: "What is it now?"

Female aristocrat: "She had her jobber pick up a boy in the street, barely sixteen years old, no family left."

Male aristocrat: "I thought her interests were confined to her family."

Female aristocrat: "I think she ran out of family a while ago."

Male aristocrat: ""

Female aristocrat: ""

Male aristocrat: ""