UNTO THE BREACH

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Strauss: Oskar Strauss. Personal log. May 12th, 1985.
Strauss: It is late. My insomnia has returned for the first time in years. I try counting sheep, but I end up counting sins instead.
Strauss: Weaver says our conflict with Omega is coming to a head. The tipping point approaches. One final battle.
Strauss: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more...
Strauss: Two sides in the mix: Requiem, Omega -- each desiring to destroy the other. One wild card in the deck: the Dark Aether, desiring to destroy us all.
Strauss: I cannot say what outcome East and West will bring, but with the Forsaken, there is no doubt: extinction.
Strauss: There is only one way to stop it -- close the gateways. Sever our connection to the Dark Aether. Forever.
Strauss: That would mean the end of my research. The end of Aetherium. But if we do not act, it could mean the end of the world.
Strauss: I recently found myself reviewing old records in Requiem's archive. From the war. I found documentation about a man who faced a similar conundrum. Professor Krafft.
Strauss: A Demonologist. Studier of the occult. A man forced to work for a great evil.
Strauss: Krafft's choice was not unlike my own. His life's work versus potential calamity. His choice speaks for itself, since we are here now to read the story of what he endured and accomplished.
Strauss: I hope I choose as wisely as he did.