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== 3b - Hunger Strike ==
<small>Follows from [[The Binding of Oathkeeper/Transcription#2b - Understanding Oathkeeper|Chapter 2b - Understanding Oathkeeper]] if "Bluff Oathkeeper Into Finding A New Host" was picked.</small>

''Lady Geist enters [[Jezebel's]].''

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' Hello, Fern.

'''{{PageRef|name=Infernus}}:''' Always a pleasure to see you, Lady Geist. Usual booth?

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' Please.

'''[[Minor characters#Hank|Hank:]]''' [in the other room] GO TO HELL!

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' Is everything alright?

'''{{PageRef|name=Infernus}}:''' That's a great question... Do you mind if I...

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' Of course. I'll show myself up.

''Lady Geist sits in an isolated booth.''

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' I hunger, Geist.

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' You speak as if that's my concern.

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' By the day your beauty fades... I would say it's very ''much'' your concern.

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' I love it when you posture as if I don't have you under lock and key. You will be fed when I choose to feed you, and not a moment before.

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' My power -

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' Is weakening. You think I haven't noticed? Last year, I could kill a vagrant and enjoy the rest of swimsuit season. Now the same hobo would barely last me a drive to The Hamptons. At some point, ''le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle''.

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' Now who's posturing?

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' What good is eternal life if I spend it in an OSIC oubliette? And we both know that's ''exactly'' where I would end up if I gave in to your every whim. No. Your demands are too much... and so I'm given little choice but to... age gracefully.

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' So what? You toss me more scraps for the next 50 years?

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' My dear Oathkeeper... The scraps you are fed today will feel like a banquet compared to the crumbs you will be fed in the future.

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' Such conviction. I almost believe you.

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' Believe me, don't believe me... Either way, this dynamic of ours is not really benefiting either of us anymore, is it?

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' It sounds like you're about to propose a solution.

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' You don't want to be trapped in my arm. I don't want to be killed if I release you.

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' So pay off your debt to me.

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' Did you already forget the part where I said I had no intention of obeying your whims?

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' A deal made needs to be honored. It is my nature.

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' And it will be. Just not by me.

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' Hm, go on.

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' I don't release you. I ''transfer'' you. To someone I trust. You get a host for your... regular indulgences...

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' And I don't have a moment of freedom to kill you.

'''{{PageRef|name=Lady Geist}}:''' Exactly.

'''[[Oathkeeper]]:''' The idea has merit. Do you have someone in mind?<center>'''Followed by:'''
''[[The Binding of Oathkeeper/Transcription#4c - Decisions Decisions|"Decisions Decisions"]]''
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