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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1h

ENDURANCE - Protect the Suzerainty, clean up the city, revive disco music, and get her back? You could save Revachol. You could be the *man*, bröther.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 4h

SHIVERS - The great district hums with the noise of human habitation: A chessboard of wooden houses, 80,000 living souls. Firetraps as far as the eye can see -- from Main Street to Grand Couron, from Precinct 41 to Boogie Street forking into the distant horizon…

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 7h

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Now that you've acquired some stimulants, it's time for a little pick-me-up.

YOU - What…but right here? Now?

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - See, that's your problem -- a lack of confidence. Speed can help you with that *and* Kim. It can help you with EVERYTHING.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 10h

VOLITION - You clearly have issues you need to address.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Later when you get the chance, you should address these issues -- by getting *drunk*. That'll show them!

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 13h

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Don't forget the *moustache*.

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Right. Like all Samaran men above the age of 40, President Knezhinisky wears a truly spectacular walrus moustache.

disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 16h

YOU - “A tiny hole…in reality. It may be connected with pale, an origin point of sorts.”

PLAISANCE - “But…but…*that's* not in any of the ancient texts! How am I supposed to protect my bookstore from *that*?!”

HALF LIGHT - She's too afraid to even say the word.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 19h

YOU - Okay…well, let me re-consider.

ENDURANCE - Good boy.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 22h

HALF LIGHT - You feel your legs shaking under you and your gun hand rise instinctively…

YOU - “I've finally gone insane…”

KIM KITSURAGI - You feel the lieutenant's hand on your back. And then you hear him say four words:

KIM KITSURAGI - “I can see it.”

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - What is beyond the Couron?

SHIVERS - A silvery curtain of rain over the houses. The class divide.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - Looks like this is my new home -- wonder where the old one went?

SHIVERS - Far away, on the corner of Perdition and Main, a nondescript building, obscured in a haze. It's vacant and lost, just like its tenant.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - Thanks, coach!

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Don't thank *me*, you did this!

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

PAIN THRESHOLD - Memories…

disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - All the muscles in your body harden. Time to *enter* him.

YOU - Wriggle in…

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

VOLITION - Do it for the city. Go.

SHIVERS - Do it for the wind.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - Keep nodding, goddamn it!

KIM KITSURAGI - A small bead of sweat runs down the side of the lieutenant's face as he maintains his nodding…

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - It's too much! You can feel your vertebrae starting to crack, your muscles groaning…

YOU - Just one more nod.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - I've been secretly thinking about it all this time!

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - There he is, the old boy the devil! You rascal, you!

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - PARTY WITH MISS PAGE-THREE ALL THE WAY TO DISCO ZERO!

YOU - Yeah…I want to get into the groovy. Let's disco, baby.

disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

CUNO - “Cuno's got plans. Get the fuck out of here.”

CUNOESSE - “Yeah, we got plans.”

SHIVERS - Six metres underground—the collapsed remains of the Martinaise storm drain system. There are two stolen flashlights with piles of batteries next to them, beside two bedrolls.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

SHIVERS - THE WORLD IS A COLD SINK.

SHIVERS - YOU ARE IN ITS ARMS.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

SHIVERS - Frisson covers your entire body. A feeling of cold.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

PERCEPTION (SMELL) - The air is cold and scented with petrichor.

SHIVERS - There are rain circles on water all around, humidity crawls up your back like a piano trill.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

SHIVERS - Every day, the wind shifts the reeds and whatever was left in them: tambourines and condom wrappers, plastic and glass bottles, the smell of decay.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

SHIVERS - THE WORLD IS A SUZERAINTY

SHIVERS - OF REVACHOL.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 2d

YOU - What's in the north?

SHIVERS - Capeside apartments -- tower blocks crowd one another, 4.46 mm bullets still lodged in their war-torn stone walls. Hallways collapsed from the mortar hits of a war that was lost long ago.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 3d

YOU - I'm not like that! I'm still romantic.

ENDURANCE - Sure, *inside*. But outside it's a tough world. You've got to do whatever it takes to survive.

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