“Some of the things I did not to lose my cover will haunt me to the grave. But do you know what? Sad as it is, the world needs people like me. All these do-gooders who think they could ’fight evil’ without getting their hands dirty are self-righteous idiots. The monsters of this world, the murderers, the tyrants... you need to speak their language if you want to be a threat to them. Everything else is a delusion.”

Tharael Narys from Enderal: Forgotten Stories, originally written by Nicolas Lietzau

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[ LLMs fail to understand the concept of a Mortal Kombat mask. I gave up on this; he doesn't wear one anymore. Not mentioned in the prompt, that is. But you can clarify this (and watch him drinking straight through it). ]

Russian Circles — 1777

"Artist"