"Who do you want to be?" "Those words rang in my head, it was a question I'd asked myself every day of my life when I was younger. What did I want to do, who did I want the world to

"Deathrow." "The end of the line, the place where the interned go to die at either the blades of Zeus' loyal, or to the hands of one another. It's said once you're down there, you've signed your death warrant, there's no

"Do you know what it's like to be locked up?" "To be surrounded on all sides by nothing but cold steel while you toil away, your only company being the thoughts scratching at you from the back of your head?" "I've put

"I've been to more funerals in my life than any sane man should ever have to attend." "A hundred lives lived, a thousand tears shed, and the entire time I sat back thinking about just how much I could have done

Slam. "The door landed in my face with a thud, the sounds of my failure echoing against the walls of passageways. Anyone could have heard that conversation, heard as I begged and plead." "As I failed to convince Pegg of my intentions." "But as I

"When I was a kid, I spent my days in an arcade down in the Agora district." "I was young, I was stupid, and I was absolutely obsessed with this one game. It was simple, a side scroller where you move

Years ago. The Bleak. Jackson Cade stands in front of a dirty alleyway, service pistol at the ready as he peers into the darkness, unable to see into the shadows. He points his weapon into the shadows but stops where he stands,

"When I joined the APD, Riggs told me that the only way to the Eagle's Nest was to go step by step upon the career ladder." "No skipping to the top. No shortcuts." "I may be at the bottom, but once you're

"As I look at the photograph in my hand, all I can think about is what its worth to me. In this photo? I don't see what Harold sees, I don't see what the crowd sees." "I see somebody." "I see Joey." "You

Officer Name: Jackson Cade Badge Number: 4432 Date of Incident: 7/13/XX Level: The Bleak Description of Events: I tailed the suspect through the blood drenched jungle we call The Bleak. He was adapted to the environment, molded by the cold stone walls and blood stained iron that

Officer Name: Jackson Cade Badge Number: 4432 Date of Incident: 6/18/XX Level: The Gallery Description of Events: Thirty days. I was surrounded by death on all sides, trapped in the Gallery for thirty days. To my left, my right, and standing right in front of me. You

"Having a partner isn't just something you're assigned, you know." "It's a responsibility, an oath that the person standing by your side is more than just a body to you. You need to rely on him, to believe in him." "To sacrifice

"In Arcadia we hear the legends of mythical heroes that vanquished the wicked." "Defended the innocent." "Let me tell you the story of one of them." "A man named Perseus." "He was chosen by the gods, by Zeus himself, to slay a terrible creature." "A

"Gunshots ring out through the streets of Arcadia." "On all sides rival gangs fight it out in the middle of a dirty alleyway. A wayward bullet pierces brain, a shotgun shreds a man's throat." "As bodies fall all around you, you realize

"Allow me to paint you a picture." "There's a lonesome road, and on it walks a singular hound. It's separated from its litter, no one to help him as he limps down the street. Blood leaks from a wound on its

"Let's say your sink has run a leak." "There's water pouring everywhere, your towels are drenched, and you've all but run out of buckets to fill. You need help, you need someone to fix this problem." "So who do you go to

"In the depths of Arcadia sits the most terrifying place in the whole world." "The Killing Floor." "Where Zeus sends men to die." "Once you walk in, you don't walk out." "We call the walk down to the floor the Red Mile. It's the

"Have you ever heard the phrase 'one bad apple ruins the bunch'? "Take a barrel full of apples, all nice, shiny and delicious. They have a future, they could be eaten, be used for pies, make juice." "Given enough time, these apples

"Allow me to tell you the story of a girl named Pandora and of the box left within her care." "The box, you see, was crafted by an evil, terrible force. Its walls were made to contain something frightful, so terrible

"There's an infestation within the walls of a man's home." "Everywhere he turns he sees these tiny, bioluminescent insects that flash their lights in his face, crowding him and forcing their ways into his personal life with their endless chittering." "We call

"Home is where the heart is, the place one feels safest in Arcadia." "A haven away from the evils of the world around it." "Until the day that home gets invaded." "I once responded to a breaking and entering, five men attempting to

"There's a song that plays through Arcadia every night. A chorus of sharp, broken tones echoing off of the ramshackle shacks and plays long into the night." "It's a terrifying piece of music, one where every note could bring a life

"When I look around Arcadia all I can see is the horrors that go on within its walls." "Pain, death, desolation, poverty." "But what if I closed my eyes?" "Refused to look at the pained, to glance upon the damned?" "While I wouldn't be

"Everyone knows Humpty Dumpty." "An egg  who sat high upon the wall, looked up to by quite literally by all who could see him." "And people loved Humpty." "As he balanced on the bricks and waved to those below he believed he had

"Have you read the Odyssey?" "In the end, there is a massive feat, a labor, that is set out to crown the new king of Ithaca." "To become the leader of the land, one simply had to string Odysseus' bow and fire

"Everyone sees the world just a bit differently." "Imagine someone showed you a spreadsheet with a thousand numbers on it, each one slightly changing every second in accordance with the numbers around it." "As the numbers go up, the person who made