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* 7.45 follow-up
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0,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_00","Biggs has been reflecting on your final confrontation."
1,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_01","Having successfully escaped from the heart of the colossus, you share a moment of relief and reflection with Biggs, who remains somewhat rattled by what he saw within. The moment is short-lived, however, as a sudden linkpearl transmission from Cid reveals that Roundrox has gone missing from the Shortstop. Fearing for the child's safety─and state of mind after losing her best friend─you agree to split up and go in search of her, with Biggs tasking you to investigate the Collectors' Quarter, where Roundrox and Mide often traveled together."
2,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_02","You find Roundrox standing at a lookout point in the Collectors' Quarter, where─as the goblin child explains it─she came to do some thinking. She then shows you a stone fragment that somehow fell into her possessions as she was fleeing the colossus. It is one of her precious glowstones─a shattered fragment of the <Emphasis>Enigma Codex</Emphasis>─and yet, she explains wistfully, it glows for her no more. Cid and Y'shtola arrive, and upon hearing the story, the former posits that Roundrox's experiences inside the colossus have fundamentally changed the girl─she is no longer a naive child, but one who has seen both the wonders and horrors that technology can give rise to in the single-minded pursuit of an ideal of perfection. Roundrox, her eyes firmly fixed on the future, expresses her desire to deliver the codex shard back to Mide and Dayan, a sweet gesture which Y'shtola laments as impossible, as the barrier surrounding the colossus is now all but impenetrable. With uncanny timing, the coeurl kitten Shanoa returns to the scene, mewing as if she were offering to carry out Roundrox's wish. Thinking that it wouldn't be the strangest thing to have happened in recent days, you look on as Roundrox entrusts the codex shard to Shanoa, who happily bounds away. The threat of the primal now passed, Cid and Y'shtola take their leave, the latter entrusting you with a weathered tome to be delivered to Backrix. And so you set off back to the Shortstop."
3,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_03","Backrix's eyes light up at the sight of the tome, which he explains is a Sharlayan book of legends he had requested of Y'shtola. He reads from a chapter containing the legends of the Hotgo, a tribe of blue-haired Au Ra. According to their myth of creation, the Hotgo trace their ancestry back to two children─a boy and a girl─who emerged from the belly of a great steel giant in days of yore. All present are astounded when Backrix further reveals that, according to the legend, the two children were named Dayan and Mide, and that they are said to have emerged from the giant holding a curious black stone that glowed at the touch of a hand. Though you can only speculate as to the wrinkles and twists of time that have brought such implausible events to pass, you can once again look to the future knowing that the primal threat has been subdued, and history set back on its proper course."
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24,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_TODO_00","Search for Roundrox."
25,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_TODO_01","Deliver the weathered manuscript to Backrix."
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48,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_000","Just what do you think is happening inside the barrier? Perhaps I'll head down and take a closer─on second thought, maybe not."
49,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_050","Phew! I'm still not sure how we managed it, but I'm just happy to be out of that godsforsaken place in one piece. 'Course, it's a damn shame what happened to Mide..."
50,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_051","...Hold on a moment, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>.
0,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_00,Biggs has been reflecting on your final confrontation.
1,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_01,"Having successfully escaped from the heart of the colossus, you share a moment of relief and reflection with Biggs, who remains somewhat rattled by what he saw within. The moment is short-lived, however, as a sudden linkpearl transmission from Cid reveals that Roundrox has gone missing from the Shortstop. Fearing for the child's safety─and state of mind after losing her best friend─you agree to split up and go in search of her, with Biggs tasking you to investigate the Collectors' Quarter, where Roundrox and Mide often traveled together."
2,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_02,"You find Roundrox standing at a lookout point in the Collectors' Quarter, where─as the goblin child explains it─she came to do some thinking. She then shows you a stone fragment that somehow fell into her possessions as she was fleeing the colossus. It is one of her precious glowstones─a shattered fragment of the *Enigma Codex*─and yet, she explains wistfully, it glows for her no more. Cid and Y'shtola arrive, and upon hearing the story, the former posits that Roundrox's experiences inside the colossus have fundamentally changed the girl─she is no longer a naive child, but one who has seen both the wonders and horrors that technology can give rise to in the single-minded pursuit of an ideal of perfection. Roundrox, her eyes firmly fixed on the future, expresses her desire to deliver the codex shard back to Mide and Dayan, a sweet gesture which Y'shtola laments as impossible, as the barrier surrounding the colossus is now all but impenetrable. With uncanny timing, the coeurl kitten Shanoa returns to the scene, mewing as if she were offering to carry out Roundrox's wish. Thinking that it wouldn't be the strangest thing to have happened in recent days, you look on as Roundrox entrusts the codex shard to Shanoa, who happily bounds away. The threat of the primal now passed, Cid and Y'shtola take their leave, the latter entrusting you with a weathered tome to be delivered to Backrix. And so you set off back to the Shortstop."
3,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_03,"Backrix's eyes light up at the sight of the tome, which he explains is a Sharlayan book of legends he had requested of Y'shtola. He reads from a chapter containing the legends of the Hotgo, a tribe of blue-haired Au Ra. According to their myth of creation, the Hotgo trace their ancestry back to two children─a boy and a girl─who emerged from the belly of a great steel giant in days of yore. All present are astounded when Backrix further reveals that, according to the legend, the two children were named Dayan and Mide, and that they are said to have emerged from the giant holding a curious black stone that glowed at the touch of a hand. Though you can only speculate as to the wrinkles and twists of time that have brought such implausible events to pass, you can once again look to the future knowing that the primal threat has been subdued, and history set back on its proper course."
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24,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_TODO_00,Search for Roundrox.
25,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_TODO_01,Deliver the weathered manuscript to Backrix.
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48,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_000,"Just what do you think is happening inside the barrier? Perhaps I'll head down and take a closer─on second thought, maybe not."
49,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_050,"Phew! I'm still not sure how we managed it, but I'm just happy to be out of that godsforsaken place in one piece. 'Course, it's a damn shame what happened to Mide..."
50,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_051,"...Hold on a moment, Player.
She's what!? Aye, aye, Chief─leave it to us!"
51,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_052","Bloody hells, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>─Roundrox's gone missing! I've been worried sick about the poor lass ever since we got back. I mean, how would <Emphasis>you</Emphasis> feel if you saw your best friend throw herself into a running engine?"
52,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_053","I'll wager she's run off somewhere the two of them used to frequent together. Wedge and I will have a look around here. Why don't you search the Collectors' Quarter? Come on, let's find her before she gets herself into any more trouble!"
53,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_200","Pshkohhh... Oh, it is uplander. Why does uplander come to this place?"
54,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_201","Roundrox is sorry for worrying uplanders. Roundrox just wants to go to quiet place, and do some backthinking..."
55,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_210","Running out of giant of whirlycogs, Roundrox feels something rattling in pocket. So Roundrox reaches in and cannot believe what she finds. Rattling thing is glowstone...Roundrox's favoritest treasure."
56,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_211","Pshkohhh... But it is dark. Even with many tryings, glowstone does not glow for Roundrox...not anymore."
57,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_212","There you are, child! We were worried sick about you. What's that, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>? Is aught amiss?"
58,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_213","...The codex no longer responds to her touch? Intriguing...if not entirely surprising. Were I to guess, I would hazard that it's because this experience has served to open her eyes."
59,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_214","The <Emphasis>Enigma Codex</Emphasis> was born from one man's all-consuming pursuit of perfection, its knowledge sealed off from any who harbored even a sliver of doubt as to the merits of the ideals it espoused."
60,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_215","Quickthinx. Mide in her youth. Roundrox. Though their reasons might differ─arrogance, youthful idealism, childish innocence─none thought to question the words within, and so the codex opened itself to them. But now Roundrox has seen with her own eyes what blind devotion to ideals can bring."
61,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_216","...And she is not the naive child she was before."
62,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_217","Aye. It's all well and good to dream of building something perfect, but sooner or later you have to stop dreaming and start doing─hammering it together by your own hand, with your own blood, sweat, and tears."
63,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_218","In so doing, you are forced to confront your own failings, and deal with your frustration at the world's unfortunate habit of falling below expectations. Hells, there may come a time when you just want to tear the whole bloody thing apart and start again. But more often than not, you emerge from it all with something you can hold on to, and carry with you into the future. And <Emphasis>that</Emphasis> will do a damn sight more for you than any starry-eyed ideal."
64,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_219","Pshkohhh... Roundrox understands! Roundrox will collect more and more junk! Build city of great treasures, with own hands!"
65,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_220","Roundrox has just one wish... Not-glowing glowstone is piece of Mide's dream. Roundrox would give back to Mide..."
66,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_221","A noble wish, child...would that we could grant it. But I fear the steel giant─and all that lies within that barrier─is far beyond the reach of mortal hands."
67,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_222","Frozen in a single moment until the end of time. That's a fate I'd not wish on anyone..."
68,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_223","(-???-)...Mew!"
69,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_224","Well, look who it is! You have a real knack for turning up underfoot, don't you?"
70,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_225","I am reminded of the apparent ease with which this little coeurl seemed to slip in and out of the colossus. Were it not for the small matter of time having stopped in there, I'd send her in with Roundrox's glowstone without a moment's hesitation."
71,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_226","(-Shanoa-)Mew mew!"
72,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_227","Two mews...? Might that suggest a willingness to try?"
73,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_228","(-Shanoa-)Mew! Meeeeeew!"
74,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_229","Giving a stone to a cat, in hopes of delivering it to two souls trapped in time─now I think we've seen everything. Do you think those two will ever be free of that place?"
75,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_230","Mayhap one day, when the perfect future they sought to bring about becomes a reality. In that sense, one might even say their fate is in our hands."
76,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_231","Pshkohhh... Leave to Roundrox! Roundrox works hard! Builds sparklyshining future for Mide!"
77,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_232","...As shall we, child.
And with that, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, we must take our leave. For all you have done to stave off yet another primal threat, you have our gratitude."
78,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_233","I contacted Biggs and Wedge to let them know that they can call off the search. Needless to say, they were relieved to hear that Roundrox is safe. There was also a matter they were looking to discuss with you. They said they'd be waiting for you back at the Shortstop."
79,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_234","If you will be returning to the Shortstop, I would ask a small favor of you as well. Pray deliver this volume to Backrix, and tell him I believe it is that which he seeks. Till next we meet, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>."
80,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_250","Thank goodness Roundrox is safe! With all the Illuminati stragglers running about, I feared the worst. The girl could at least have the courtesy to tell someone before she goes wandering off like that!"
81,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_260","Here we are then, at the end of yet another harrowing journey! And still with all our important bits, to boot! I─ Wait, my favorite wrench! Oh dear, I hope it isn't lost in time and space somewhere..."
82,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_270","Pshkohhh... Roundrox is sorry for making troubles. Roundrox will be good gobbie, play here with bittybobs."
83,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_400","Pshkohhh... Now Roundrox is safe at Shortstop, and Backrix is easybreathing. Uplanders have thanks of Backrix. Hm? Uplanders bring present for Backrix?"
84,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_410","This... This is Sharlayan legendbook from Y'shtola! Backrix has waited for legendbook for long time!"
85,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_411","Backrix has been reading about many, many things. About <Emphasis>Enigma Codex</Emphasis>, and blue-haired uplander that writes it. Maybe these knowings will save gobbieflock from giant of whirlycogs, thinks Backrix."
86,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_412","Now giant of whirlycogs sleeps, and gobbieflock is safe. But still, Backrix would fill braincase with knowings! Fill pages of watcherbook with data! Let Backrix see..."
87,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_413","Yes, yes... It is just as Backrix─ Pshkohhh! Are Backrix's eyes playing tricks on him!?"
88,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_414","Oi, are you feeling all right, there? You look like you've seen a ghost!"
89,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_415","Page tells faerielegend of Hotgo tribe, uplanders of blue hair. Many, many years ago in oldtimes, two children─boy and girl─outstep from belly of great steel giant. Two children grow to man and woman, becoming father and mother of great people of Hotgo..."
90,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_416","Names of two are...Dayan and Mide! Look at handdrawing! Even faces are same-looking!"
91,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_417","Ye gads! If that's <Emphasis>our</Emphasis> Mide and Dayan, why, that means that one day they'll be freed from their fate, and reborn far, far in the past!"
92,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_418","So after searching for near an eternity, they finally found the perfect world they were searching for? It may be just a faerie tale, but I, for one, would like to believe it!"
93,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_419","And faerielegend goes on... Two children step out of steel giant holding small stone. Stone is dark when sitting on ground, but hold stone in hand and shinylights!"
94,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_420","Glowstone of Roundrox!"
95,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_421","Let me see if I have this straight: the codex fragment you gave to that coeurl a few moments ago now features in a legend from ages past. That <Emphasis>can't</Emphasis> be possible─can it?"
96,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_422","At this point, I'm about ready to believe bleedin' anything. But that reminds me. There was something I wanted to ask you, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>. Remember when we went into the core, and almost got our arses fried by that colossus-inside-a-colossus? Well, I felt the strangest sensation then─a feeling that chilled me to the bone. As if something terrible had happened that I couldn't for the life of me remember..."
97,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_423","I-I felt it, too! So tell us─did you see anything when you were going in and out of time? Do you have any idea what happened to us while Quickthinx was spinning the hands of the clock?"
98,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_Q1_100_423","What will you say?"
99,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_A1_101_423","I'm afraid I do..."
100,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_A1_102_423","I'm afraid I don't..."
101,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_424","Y-You're <Emphasis>afraid</Emphasis> you do!? Well, <Emphasis>that's</Emphasis> not ominous in the least! On second thought, how about you <Emphasis>don't</Emphasis> tell us, thank you very much."
102,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_425","You'll get no arguments from me. There are some secrets better left secret, and from the look on <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>'s face, I reckon this is one of 'em."
103,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_100_424","Y-You don't know!? Well, excuse me if that doesn't exactly put my heart at ease. Would it have killed you to say, “But of course! I saw plenty of alternate realities, Wedge, and I can say without a sliver of a doubt that in <Emphasis>none</Emphasis> of them were you and Biggs blasted to smithereens!”"
104,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_100_425","Wedge! I know we were both <Emphasis>thinking</Emphasis> the worst, but you didn't have to go and bleedin' <Emphasis>say</Emphasis> it. Look, as far as I'm concerned, what <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/> doesn't know can't hurt us, so why don't we just forget we ever asked?"
105,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_426","Anyway, it'd seem this long and thoroughly mind-boggling battle of ours has finally come to an end. 'Course, there's still plenty of work to be done, but now that Quickthinx is out of the picture, I've got high hopes that Roundrox and her friends will one day build their shining kingdom of rubbish and refuse."
106,"TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_427","Speaking of work, we'd better get back to it before the chief catches us chattering. Always a pleasure, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>─till next time!"
51,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_052,"Bloody hells, Player─Roundrox's gone missing! I've been worried sick about the poor lass ever since we got back. I mean, how would *you* feel if you saw your best friend throw herself into a running engine?"
52,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_053,"I'll wager she's run off somewhere the two of them used to frequent together. Wedge and I will have a look around here. Why don't you search the Collectors' Quarter? Come on, let's find her before she gets herself into any more trouble!"
53,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_200,"Pshkohhh... Oh, it is uplander. Why does uplander come to this place?"
54,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_201,"Roundrox is sorry for worrying uplanders. Roundrox just wants to go to quiet place, and do some backthinking..."
55,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_210,"Running out of giant of whirlycogs, Roundrox feels something rattling in pocket. So Roundrox reaches in and cannot believe what she finds. Rattling thing is glowstone...Roundrox's favoritest treasure."
56,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_211,"Pshkohhh... But it is dark. Even with many tryings, glowstone does not glow for Roundrox...not anymore."
57,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_212,"There you are, child! We were worried sick about you. What's that, Player? Is aught amiss?"
58,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_213,"...The codex no longer responds to her touch? Intriguing...if not entirely surprising. Were I to guess, I would hazard that it's because this experience has served to open her eyes."
59,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_214,"The *Enigma Codex* was born from one man's all-consuming pursuit of perfection, its knowledge sealed off from any who harbored even a sliver of doubt as to the merits of the ideals it espoused."
60,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_215,"Quickthinx. Mide in her youth. Roundrox. Though their reasons might differ─arrogance, youthful idealism, childish innocence─none thought to question the words within, and so the codex opened itself to them. But now Roundrox has seen with her own eyes what blind devotion to ideals can bring."
61,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_216,...And she is not the naive child she was before.
62,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_217,"Aye. It's all well and good to dream of building something perfect, but sooner or later you have to stop dreaming and start doing─hammering it together by your own hand, with your own blood, sweat, and tears."
63,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_218,"In so doing, you are forced to confront your own failings, and deal with your frustration at the world's unfortunate habit of falling below expectations. Hells, there may come a time when you just want to tear the whole bloody thing apart and start again. But more often than not, you emerge from it all with something you can hold on to, and carry with you into the future. And *that* will do a damn sight more for you than any starry-eyed ideal."
64,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_219,"Pshkohhh... Roundrox understands! Roundrox will collect more and more junk! Build city of great treasures, with own hands!"
65,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_220,Roundrox has just one wish... Not-glowing glowstone is piece of Mide's dream. Roundrox would give back to Mide...
66,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_221,"A noble wish, child...would that we could grant it. But I fear the steel giant─and all that lies within that barrier─is far beyond the reach of mortal hands."
67,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_222,Frozen in a single moment until the end of time. That's a fate I'd not wish on anyone...
68,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_223,(-???-)...Mew!
69,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_224,"Well, look who it is! You have a real knack for turning up underfoot, don't you?"
70,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_225,"I am reminded of the apparent ease with which this little coeurl seemed to slip in and out of the colossus. Were it not for the small matter of time having stopped in there, I'd send her in with Roundrox's glowstone without a moment's hesitation."
71,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_226,(-Shanoa-)Mew mew!
72,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_227,Two mews...? Might that suggest a willingness to try?
73,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_228,(-Shanoa-)Mew! Meeeeeew!
74,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_229,"Giving a stone to a cat, in hopes of delivering it to two souls trapped in time─now I think we've seen everything. Do you think those two will ever be free of that place?"
75,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_230,"Mayhap one day, when the perfect future they sought to bring about becomes a reality. In that sense, one might even say their fate is in our hands."
76,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_231,Pshkohhh... Leave to Roundrox! Roundrox works hard! Builds sparklyshining future for Mide!
77,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_232,"...As shall we, child.
And with that, Player, we must take our leave. For all you have done to stave off yet another primal threat, you have our gratitude."
78,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_233,"I contacted Biggs and Wedge to let them know that they can call off the search. Needless to say, they were relieved to hear that Roundrox is safe. There was also a matter they were looking to discuss with you. They said they'd be waiting for you back at the Shortstop."
79,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_234,"If you will be returning to the Shortstop, I would ask a small favor of you as well. Pray deliver this volume to Backrix, and tell him I believe it is that which he seeks. Till next we meet, Player."
80,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_250,"Thank goodness Roundrox is safe! With all the Illuminati stragglers running about, I feared the worst. The girl could at least have the courtesy to tell someone before she goes wandering off like that!"
81,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_260,"Here we are then, at the end of yet another harrowing journey! And still with all our important bits, to boot! I─ Wait, my favorite wrench! Oh dear, I hope it isn't lost in time and space somewhere..."
82,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_270,"Pshkohhh... Roundrox is sorry for making troubles. Roundrox will be good gobbie, play here with bittybobs."
83,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_400,"Pshkohhh... Now Roundrox is safe at Shortstop, and Backrix is easybreathing. Uplanders have thanks of Backrix. Hm? Uplanders bring present for Backrix?"
84,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_410,This... This is Sharlayan legendbook from Y'shtola! Backrix has waited for legendbook for long time!
85,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_411,"Backrix has been reading about many, many things. About *Enigma Codex*, and blue-haired uplander that writes it. Maybe these knowings will save gobbieflock from giant of whirlycogs, thinks Backrix."
86,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_412,"Now giant of whirlycogs sleeps, and gobbieflock is safe. But still, Backrix would fill braincase with knowings! Fill pages of watcherbook with data! Let Backrix see..."
87,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_413,"Yes, yes... It is just as Backrix─ Pshkohhh! Are Backrix's eyes playing tricks on him!?"
88,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_414,"Oi, are you feeling all right, there? You look like you've seen a ghost!"
89,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_415,"Page tells faerielegend of Hotgo tribe, uplanders of blue hair. Many, many years ago in oldtimes, two children─boy and girl─outstep from belly of great steel giant. Two children grow to man and woman, becoming father and mother of great people of Hotgo..."
90,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_416,Names of two are...Dayan and Mide! Look at handdrawing! Even faces are same-looking!
91,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_417,"Ye gads! If that's *our* Mide and Dayan, why, that means that one day they'll be freed from their fate, and reborn far, far in the past!"
92,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_418,"So after searching for near an eternity, they finally found the perfect world they were searching for? It may be just a faerie tale, but I, for one, would like to believe it!"
93,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_419,"And faerielegend goes on... Two children step out of steel giant holding small stone. Stone is dark when sitting on ground, but hold stone in hand and shinylights!"
94,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_420,Glowstone of Roundrox!
95,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_421,Let me see if I have this straight: the codex fragment you gave to that coeurl a few moments ago now features in a legend from ages past. That *can't* be possible─can it?
96,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_422,"At this point, I'm about ready to believe bleedin' anything. But that reminds me. There was something I wanted to ask you, Player. Remember when we went into the core, and almost got our arses fried by that colossus-inside-a-colossus? Well, I felt the strangest sensation then─a feeling that chilled me to the bone. As if something terrible had happened that I couldn't for the life of me remember..."
97,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_423,"I-I felt it, too! So tell us─did you see anything when you were going in and out of time? Do you have any idea what happened to us while Quickthinx was spinning the hands of the clock?"
98,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_Q1_100_423,What will you say?
99,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_A1_101_423,I'm afraid I do...
100,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_A1_102_423,I'm afraid I don't...
101,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_424,"Y-You're *afraid* you do!? Well, *that's* not ominous in the least! On second thought, how about you *don't* tell us, thank you very much."
102,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_425,"You'll get no arguments from me. There are some secrets better left secret, and from the look on Player's face, I reckon this is one of 'em."
103,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_100_424,"Y-You don't know!? Well, excuse me if that doesn't exactly put my heart at ease. Would it have killed you to say, “But of course! I saw plenty of alternate realities, Wedge, and I can say without a sliver of a doubt that in *none* of them were you and Biggs blasted to smithereens!”"
104,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_100_425,"Wedge! I know we were both *thinking* the worst, but you didn't have to go and bleedin' *say* it. Look, as far as I'm concerned, what Player doesn't know can't hurt us, so why don't we just forget we ever asked?"
105,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_426,"Anyway, it'd seem this long and thoroughly mind-boggling battle of ours has finally come to an end. 'Course, there's still plenty of work to be done, but now that Quickthinx is out of the picture, I've got high hopes that Roundrox and her friends will one day build their shining kingdom of rubbish and refuse."
106,TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_427,"Speaking of work, we'd better get back to it before the chief catches us chattering. Always a pleasure, Player─till next time!"
1 key 0 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_00 1 Biggs has been reflecting on your final confrontation.
2 # 1 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_01 Having successfully escaped from the heart of the colossus, you share a moment of relief and reflection with Biggs, who remains somewhat rattled by what he saw within. The moment is short-lived, however, as a sudden linkpearl transmission from Cid reveals that Roundrox has gone missing from the Shortstop. Fearing for the child's safety─and state of mind after losing her best friend─you agree to split up and go in search of her, with Biggs tasking you to investigate the Collectors' Quarter, where Roundrox and Mide often traveled together.
3 int32 str 2 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_02 str You find Roundrox standing at a lookout point in the Collectors' Quarter, where─as the goblin child explains it─she came to do some thinking. She then shows you a stone fragment that somehow fell into her possessions as she was fleeing the colossus. It is one of her precious glowstones─a shattered fragment of the *Enigma Codex*─and yet, she explains wistfully, it glows for her no more. Cid and Y'shtola arrive, and upon hearing the story, the former posits that Roundrox's experiences inside the colossus have fundamentally changed the girl─she is no longer a naive child, but one who has seen both the wonders and horrors that technology can give rise to in the single-minded pursuit of an ideal of perfection. Roundrox, her eyes firmly fixed on the future, expresses her desire to deliver the codex shard back to Mide and Dayan, a sweet gesture which Y'shtola laments as impossible, as the barrier surrounding the colossus is now all but impenetrable. With uncanny timing, the coeurl kitten Shanoa returns to the scene, mewing as if she were offering to carry out Roundrox's wish. Thinking that it wouldn't be the strangest thing to have happened in recent days, you look on as Roundrox entrusts the codex shard to Shanoa, who happily bounds away. The threat of the primal now passed, Cid and Y'shtola take their leave, the latter entrusting you with a weathered tome to be delivered to Backrix. And so you set off back to the Shortstop.
4 0 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_00 3 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_03 Biggs has been reflecting on your final confrontation. Backrix's eyes light up at the sight of the tome, which he explains is a Sharlayan book of legends he had requested of Y'shtola. He reads from a chapter containing the legends of the Hotgo, a tribe of blue-haired Au Ra. According to their myth of creation, the Hotgo trace their ancestry back to two children─a boy and a girl─who emerged from the belly of a great steel giant in days of yore. All present are astounded when Backrix further reveals that, according to the legend, the two children were named Dayan and Mide, and that they are said to have emerged from the giant holding a curious black stone that glowed at the touch of a hand. Though you can only speculate as to the wrinkles and twists of time that have brought such implausible events to pass, you can once again look to the future knowing that the primal threat has been subdued, and history set back on its proper course.
5 1 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_01 4 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_04 Having successfully escaped from the heart of the colossus, you share a moment of relief and reflection with Biggs, who remains somewhat rattled by what he saw within. The moment is short-lived, however, as a sudden linkpearl transmission from Cid reveals that Roundrox has gone missing from the Shortstop. Fearing for the child's safety─and state of mind after losing her best friend─you agree to split up and go in search of her, with Biggs tasking you to investigate the Collectors' Quarter, where Roundrox and Mide often traveled together.
6 2 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_02 5 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_05 You find Roundrox standing at a lookout point in the Collectors' Quarter, where─as the goblin child explains it─she came to do some thinking. She then shows you a stone fragment that somehow fell into her possessions as she was fleeing the colossus. It is one of her precious glowstones─a shattered fragment of the <Emphasis>Enigma Codex</Emphasis>─and yet, she explains wistfully, it glows for her no more. Cid and Y'shtola arrive, and upon hearing the story, the former posits that Roundrox's experiences inside the colossus have fundamentally changed the girl─she is no longer a naive child, but one who has seen both the wonders and horrors that technology can give rise to in the single-minded pursuit of an ideal of perfection. Roundrox, her eyes firmly fixed on the future, expresses her desire to deliver the codex shard back to Mide and Dayan, a sweet gesture which Y'shtola laments as impossible, as the barrier surrounding the colossus is now all but impenetrable. With uncanny timing, the coeurl kitten Shanoa returns to the scene, mewing as if she were offering to carry out Roundrox's wish. Thinking that it wouldn't be the strangest thing to have happened in recent days, you look on as Roundrox entrusts the codex shard to Shanoa, who happily bounds away. The threat of the primal now passed, Cid and Y'shtola take their leave, the latter entrusting you with a weathered tome to be delivered to Backrix. And so you set off back to the Shortstop.
7 3 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_03 6 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_SEQ_06 Backrix's eyes light up at the sight of the tome, which he explains is a Sharlayan book of legends he had requested of Y'shtola. He reads from a chapter containing the legends of the Hotgo, a tribe of blue-haired Au Ra. According to their myth of creation, the Hotgo trace their ancestry back to two children─a boy and a girl─who emerged from the belly of a great steel giant in days of yore. All present are astounded when Backrix further reveals that, according to the legend, the two children were named Dayan and Mide, and that they are said to have emerged from the giant holding a curious black stone that glowed at the touch of a hand. Though you can only speculate as to the wrinkles and twists of time that have brought such implausible events to pass, you can once again look to the future knowing that the primal threat has been subdued, and history set back on its proper course.
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49 45 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_TODO_21 48 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_000 Just what do you think is happening inside the barrier? Perhaps I'll head down and take a closer─on second thought, maybe not.
50 46 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_TODO_22 49 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_050 Phew! I'm still not sure how we managed it, but I'm just happy to be out of that godsforsaken place in one piece. 'Course, it's a damn shame what happened to Mide...
51 47 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_TODO_23 50 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_051 ...Hold on a moment, Player. She's what!? Aye, aye, Chief─leave it to us!
48 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_000 Just what do you think is happening inside the barrier? Perhaps I'll head down and take a closer─on second thought, maybe not.
49 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_050 Phew! I'm still not sure how we managed it, but I'm just happy to be out of that godsforsaken place in one piece. 'Course, it's a damn shame what happened to Mide...
50 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_051 ...Hold on a moment, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>. She's what!? Aye, aye, Chief─leave it to us!
52 51 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_052 51 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_052 Bloody hells, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>─Roundrox's gone missing! I've been worried sick about the poor lass ever since we got back. I mean, how would <Emphasis>you</Emphasis> feel if you saw your best friend throw herself into a running engine? Bloody hells, Player─Roundrox's gone missing! I've been worried sick about the poor lass ever since we got back. I mean, how would *you* feel if you saw your best friend throw herself into a running engine?
53 52 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_053 52 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_053 I'll wager she's run off somewhere the two of them used to frequent together. Wedge and I will have a look around here. Why don't you search the Collectors' Quarter? Come on, let's find her before she gets herself into any more trouble! I'll wager she's run off somewhere the two of them used to frequent together. Wedge and I will have a look around here. Why don't you search the Collectors' Quarter? Come on, let's find her before she gets herself into any more trouble!
54 53 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_200 53 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_200 Pshkohhh... Oh, it is uplander. Why does uplander come to this place? Pshkohhh... Oh, it is uplander. Why does uplander come to this place?
55 54 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_201 54 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_201 Roundrox is sorry for worrying uplanders. Roundrox just wants to go to quiet place, and do some backthinking... Roundrox is sorry for worrying uplanders. Roundrox just wants to go to quiet place, and do some backthinking...
56 55 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_210 55 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_210 Running out of giant of whirlycogs, Roundrox feels something rattling in pocket. So Roundrox reaches in and cannot believe what she finds. Rattling thing is glowstone...Roundrox's favoritest treasure. Running out of giant of whirlycogs, Roundrox feels something rattling in pocket. So Roundrox reaches in and cannot believe what she finds. Rattling thing is glowstone...Roundrox's favoritest treasure.
57 56 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_211 56 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_211 Pshkohhh... But it is dark. Even with many tryings, glowstone does not glow for Roundrox...not anymore. Pshkohhh... But it is dark. Even with many tryings, glowstone does not glow for Roundrox...not anymore.
58 57 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_212 57 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_212 There you are, child! We were worried sick about you. What's that, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>? Is aught amiss? There you are, child! We were worried sick about you. What's that, Player? Is aught amiss?
59 58 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_213 58 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_213 ...The codex no longer responds to her touch? Intriguing...if not entirely surprising. Were I to guess, I would hazard that it's because this experience has served to open her eyes. ...The codex no longer responds to her touch? Intriguing...if not entirely surprising. Were I to guess, I would hazard that it's because this experience has served to open her eyes.
60 59 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_214 59 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_214 The <Emphasis>Enigma Codex</Emphasis> was born from one man's all-consuming pursuit of perfection, its knowledge sealed off from any who harbored even a sliver of doubt as to the merits of the ideals it espoused. The *Enigma Codex* was born from one man's all-consuming pursuit of perfection, its knowledge sealed off from any who harbored even a sliver of doubt as to the merits of the ideals it espoused.
61 60 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_215 60 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_215 Quickthinx. Mide in her youth. Roundrox. Though their reasons might differ─arrogance, youthful idealism, childish innocence─none thought to question the words within, and so the codex opened itself to them. But now Roundrox has seen with her own eyes what blind devotion to ideals can bring. Quickthinx. Mide in her youth. Roundrox. Though their reasons might differ─arrogance, youthful idealism, childish innocence─none thought to question the words within, and so the codex opened itself to them. But now Roundrox has seen with her own eyes what blind devotion to ideals can bring.
62 61 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_216 61 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_216 ...And she is not the naive child she was before. ...And she is not the naive child she was before.
63 62 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_217 62 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_217 Aye. It's all well and good to dream of building something perfect, but sooner or later you have to stop dreaming and start doing─hammering it together by your own hand, with your own blood, sweat, and tears. Aye. It's all well and good to dream of building something perfect, but sooner or later you have to stop dreaming and start doing─hammering it together by your own hand, with your own blood, sweat, and tears.
64 63 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_218 63 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_218 In so doing, you are forced to confront your own failings, and deal with your frustration at the world's unfortunate habit of falling below expectations. Hells, there may come a time when you just want to tear the whole bloody thing apart and start again. But more often than not, you emerge from it all with something you can hold on to, and carry with you into the future. And <Emphasis>that</Emphasis> will do a damn sight more for you than any starry-eyed ideal. In so doing, you are forced to confront your own failings, and deal with your frustration at the world's unfortunate habit of falling below expectations. Hells, there may come a time when you just want to tear the whole bloody thing apart and start again. But more often than not, you emerge from it all with something you can hold on to, and carry with you into the future. And *that* will do a damn sight more for you than any starry-eyed ideal.
65 64 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_219 64 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_219 Pshkohhh... Roundrox understands! Roundrox will collect more and more junk! Build city of great treasures, with own hands! Pshkohhh... Roundrox understands! Roundrox will collect more and more junk! Build city of great treasures, with own hands!
66 65 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_220 65 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_220 Roundrox has just one wish... Not-glowing glowstone is piece of Mide's dream. Roundrox would give back to Mide... Roundrox has just one wish... Not-glowing glowstone is piece of Mide's dream. Roundrox would give back to Mide...
67 66 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_221 66 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_221 A noble wish, child...would that we could grant it. But I fear the steel giant─and all that lies within that barrier─is far beyond the reach of mortal hands. A noble wish, child...would that we could grant it. But I fear the steel giant─and all that lies within that barrier─is far beyond the reach of mortal hands.
68 67 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_222 67 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_222 Frozen in a single moment until the end of time. That's a fate I'd not wish on anyone... Frozen in a single moment until the end of time. That's a fate I'd not wish on anyone...
69 68 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_223 68 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_223 (-???-)...Mew! (-???-)...Mew!
70 69 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_224 69 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_224 Well, look who it is! You have a real knack for turning up underfoot, don't you? Well, look who it is! You have a real knack for turning up underfoot, don't you?
71 70 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_225 70 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_225 I am reminded of the apparent ease with which this little coeurl seemed to slip in and out of the colossus. Were it not for the small matter of time having stopped in there, I'd send her in with Roundrox's glowstone without a moment's hesitation. I am reminded of the apparent ease with which this little coeurl seemed to slip in and out of the colossus. Were it not for the small matter of time having stopped in there, I'd send her in with Roundrox's glowstone without a moment's hesitation.
72 71 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_226 71 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_226 (-Shanoa-)Mew mew! (-Shanoa-)Mew mew!
73 72 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_227 72 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_227 Two mews...? Might that suggest a willingness to try? Two mews...? Might that suggest a willingness to try?
74 73 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_228 73 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CHANOIR_000_228 (-Shanoa-)Mew! Meeeeeew! (-Shanoa-)Mew! Meeeeeew!
75 74 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_229 74 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_229 Giving a stone to a cat, in hopes of delivering it to two souls trapped in time─now I think we've seen everything. Do you think those two will ever be free of that place? Giving a stone to a cat, in hopes of delivering it to two souls trapped in time─now I think we've seen everything. Do you think those two will ever be free of that place?
76 75 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_230 75 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_230 Mayhap one day, when the perfect future they sought to bring about becomes a reality. In that sense, one might even say their fate is in our hands. Mayhap one day, when the perfect future they sought to bring about becomes a reality. In that sense, one might even say their fate is in our hands.
77 76 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_231 76 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_231 Pshkohhh... Leave to Roundrox! Roundrox works hard! Builds sparklyshining future for Mide! Pshkohhh... Leave to Roundrox! Roundrox works hard! Builds sparklyshining future for Mide!
78 77 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_232 77 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_232 ...As shall we, child. And with that, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, we must take our leave. For all you have done to stave off yet another primal threat, you have our gratitude. ...As shall we, child. And with that, Player, we must take our leave. For all you have done to stave off yet another primal threat, you have our gratitude.
79 78 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_233 78 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_CID_000_233 I contacted Biggs and Wedge to let them know that they can call off the search. Needless to say, they were relieved to hear that Roundrox is safe. There was also a matter they were looking to discuss with you. They said they'd be waiting for you back at the Shortstop. I contacted Biggs and Wedge to let them know that they can call off the search. Needless to say, they were relieved to hear that Roundrox is safe. There was also a matter they were looking to discuss with you. They said they'd be waiting for you back at the Shortstop.
80 79 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_234 79 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_YSHTOLA_000_234 If you will be returning to the Shortstop, I would ask a small favor of you as well. Pray deliver this volume to Backrix, and tell him I believe it is that which he seeks. Till next we meet, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>. If you will be returning to the Shortstop, I would ask a small favor of you as well. Pray deliver this volume to Backrix, and tell him I believe it is that which he seeks. Till next we meet, Player.
81 80 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_250 80 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_250 Thank goodness Roundrox is safe! With all the Illuminati stragglers running about, I feared the worst. The girl could at least have the courtesy to tell someone before she goes wandering off like that! Thank goodness Roundrox is safe! With all the Illuminati stragglers running about, I feared the worst. The girl could at least have the courtesy to tell someone before she goes wandering off like that!
82 81 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_260 81 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_260 Here we are then, at the end of yet another harrowing journey! And still with all our important bits, to boot! I─ Wait, my favorite wrench! Oh dear, I hope it isn't lost in time and space somewhere... Here we are then, at the end of yet another harrowing journey! And still with all our important bits, to boot! I─ Wait, my favorite wrench! Oh dear, I hope it isn't lost in time and space somewhere...
83 82 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_270 82 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_270 Pshkohhh... Roundrox is sorry for making troubles. Roundrox will be good gobbie, play here with bittybobs. Pshkohhh... Roundrox is sorry for making troubles. Roundrox will be good gobbie, play here with bittybobs.
84 83 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_400 83 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_400 Pshkohhh... Now Roundrox is safe at Shortstop, and Backrix is easybreathing. Uplanders have thanks of Backrix. Hm? Uplanders bring present for Backrix? Pshkohhh... Now Roundrox is safe at Shortstop, and Backrix is easybreathing. Uplanders have thanks of Backrix. Hm? Uplanders bring present for Backrix?
85 84 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_410 84 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_410 This... This is Sharlayan legendbook from Y'shtola! Backrix has waited for legendbook for long time! This... This is Sharlayan legendbook from Y'shtola! Backrix has waited for legendbook for long time!
86 85 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_411 85 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_411 Backrix has been reading about many, many things. About <Emphasis>Enigma Codex</Emphasis>, and blue-haired uplander that writes it. Maybe these knowings will save gobbieflock from giant of whirlycogs, thinks Backrix. Backrix has been reading about many, many things. About *Enigma Codex*, and blue-haired uplander that writes it. Maybe these knowings will save gobbieflock from giant of whirlycogs, thinks Backrix.
87 86 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_412 86 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_412 Now giant of whirlycogs sleeps, and gobbieflock is safe. But still, Backrix would fill braincase with knowings! Fill pages of watcherbook with data! Let Backrix see... Now giant of whirlycogs sleeps, and gobbieflock is safe. But still, Backrix would fill braincase with knowings! Fill pages of watcherbook with data! Let Backrix see...
88 87 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_413 87 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_413 Yes, yes... It is just as Backrix─ Pshkohhh! Are Backrix's eyes playing tricks on him!? Yes, yes... It is just as Backrix─ Pshkohhh! Are Backrix's eyes playing tricks on him!?
89 88 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_414 88 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_414 Oi, are you feeling all right, there? You look like you've seen a ghost! Oi, are you feeling all right, there? You look like you've seen a ghost!
90 89 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_415 89 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_415 Page tells faerielegend of Hotgo tribe, uplanders of blue hair. Many, many years ago in oldtimes, two children─boy and girl─outstep from belly of great steel giant. Two children grow to man and woman, becoming father and mother of great people of Hotgo... Page tells faerielegend of Hotgo tribe, uplanders of blue hair. Many, many years ago in oldtimes, two children─boy and girl─outstep from belly of great steel giant. Two children grow to man and woman, becoming father and mother of great people of Hotgo...
91 90 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_416 90 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_416 Names of two are...Dayan and Mide! Look at handdrawing! Even faces are same-looking! Names of two are...Dayan and Mide! Look at handdrawing! Even faces are same-looking!
92 91 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_417 91 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_417 Ye gads! If that's <Emphasis>our</Emphasis> Mide and Dayan, why, that means that one day they'll be freed from their fate, and reborn far, far in the past! Ye gads! If that's *our* Mide and Dayan, why, that means that one day they'll be freed from their fate, and reborn far, far in the past!
93 92 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_418 92 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_418 So after searching for near an eternity, they finally found the perfect world they were searching for? It may be just a faerie tale, but I, for one, would like to believe it! So after searching for near an eternity, they finally found the perfect world they were searching for? It may be just a faerie tale, but I, for one, would like to believe it!
94 93 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_419 93 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BACKRIX_000_419 And faerielegend goes on... Two children step out of steel giant holding small stone. Stone is dark when sitting on ground, but hold stone in hand and shinylights! And faerielegend goes on... Two children step out of steel giant holding small stone. Stone is dark when sitting on ground, but hold stone in hand and shinylights!
95 94 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_420 94 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_ROUNDROX_000_420 Glowstone of Roundrox! Glowstone of Roundrox!
96 95 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_421 95 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_421 Let me see if I have this straight: the codex fragment you gave to that coeurl a few moments ago now features in a legend from ages past. That <Emphasis>can't</Emphasis> be possible─can it? Let me see if I have this straight: the codex fragment you gave to that coeurl a few moments ago now features in a legend from ages past. That *can't* be possible─can it?
97 96 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_422 96 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_422 At this point, I'm about ready to believe bleedin' anything. But that reminds me. There was something I wanted to ask you, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>. Remember when we went into the core, and almost got our arses fried by that colossus-inside-a-colossus? Well, I felt the strangest sensation then─a feeling that chilled me to the bone. As if something terrible had happened that I couldn't for the life of me remember... At this point, I'm about ready to believe bleedin' anything. But that reminds me. There was something I wanted to ask you, Player. Remember when we went into the core, and almost got our arses fried by that colossus-inside-a-colossus? Well, I felt the strangest sensation then─a feeling that chilled me to the bone. As if something terrible had happened that I couldn't for the life of me remember...
98 97 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_423 97 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_423 I-I felt it, too! So tell us─did you see anything when you were going in and out of time? Do you have any idea what happened to us while Quickthinx was spinning the hands of the clock? I-I felt it, too! So tell us─did you see anything when you were going in and out of time? Do you have any idea what happened to us while Quickthinx was spinning the hands of the clock?
99 98 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_Q1_100_423 98 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_Q1_100_423 What will you say? What will you say?
100 99 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_A1_101_423 99 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_A1_101_423 I'm afraid I do... I'm afraid I do...
101 100 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_A1_102_423 100 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_A1_102_423 I'm afraid I don't... I'm afraid I don't...
102 101 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_424 101 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_424 Y-You're <Emphasis>afraid</Emphasis> you do!? Well, <Emphasis>that's</Emphasis> not ominous in the least! On second thought, how about you <Emphasis>don't</Emphasis> tell us, thank you very much. Y-You're *afraid* you do!? Well, *that's* not ominous in the least! On second thought, how about you *don't* tell us, thank you very much.
103 102 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_425 102 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_425 You'll get no arguments from me. There are some secrets better left secret, and from the look on <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>'s face, I reckon this is one of 'em. You'll get no arguments from me. There are some secrets better left secret, and from the look on Player's face, I reckon this is one of 'em.
104 103 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_100_424 103 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_100_424 Y-You don't know!? Well, excuse me if that doesn't exactly put my heart at ease. Would it have killed you to say, “But of course! I saw plenty of alternate realities, Wedge, and I can say without a sliver of a doubt that in <Emphasis>none</Emphasis> of them were you and Biggs blasted to smithereens!” Y-You don't know!? Well, excuse me if that doesn't exactly put my heart at ease. Would it have killed you to say, “But of course! I saw plenty of alternate realities, Wedge, and I can say without a sliver of a doubt that in *none* of them were you and Biggs blasted to smithereens!”
105 104 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_100_425 104 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_100_425 Wedge! I know we were both <Emphasis>thinking</Emphasis> the worst, but you didn't have to go and bleedin' <Emphasis>say</Emphasis> it. Look, as far as I'm concerned, what <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/> doesn't know can't hurt us, so why don't we just forget we ever asked? Wedge! I know we were both *thinking* the worst, but you didn't have to go and bleedin' *say* it. Look, as far as I'm concerned, what Player doesn't know can't hurt us, so why don't we just forget we ever asked?
106 105 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_426 105 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_BIGGS_000_426 Anyway, it'd seem this long and thoroughly mind-boggling battle of ours has finally come to an end. 'Course, there's still plenty of work to be done, but now that Quickthinx is out of the picture, I've got high hopes that Roundrox and her friends will one day build their shining kingdom of rubbish and refuse. Anyway, it'd seem this long and thoroughly mind-boggling battle of ours has finally come to an end. 'Course, there's still plenty of work to be done, but now that Quickthinx is out of the picture, I've got high hopes that Roundrox and her friends will one day build their shining kingdom of rubbish and refuse.
107 106 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_427 106 TEXT_HEAVNR305_02339_WEDGE_000_427 Speaking of work, we'd better get back to it before the chief catches us chattering. Always a pleasure, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>─till next time! Speaking of work, we'd better get back to it before the chief catches us chattering. Always a pleasure, Player─till next time!
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