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0,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_00","Lina Mewrilah appears to have been awaiting your arrival for quite some time."
1,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_01","Alma Lexentale has summoned Lina Mewrilah (and you) to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> to discuss recent findings concerning the auracite. As before, a word with the shuttle pilot will see you quickly and safely to the Lexentale airship."
2,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_02","It would seem that Cid has invited an Archon to join him on the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>─a Student of Baldesion by the name of Mikoto."
3,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_03","Gamely endeavoring to speak in words of fewer than five syllables, the Archon shares her theories on the auracite, prompting a new debate─if the Otius is not a naturally occurring crystal, then who created it and why? Before a consensus can be reached, Ramza foments new tension with his sister by questioning her commitment to the family mission. It is during this fraternal spat that an uninvited guest enters stage right."
4,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_04","Seeking admission to their theater company, Montblanc, desert moogle from Dalmasca, petitions the Majestic with all the blustery gusto of a born drama queen. Ramza is quick to dismiss him, but in doing so, inadvertently presents Montblanc with a challenge─slay a beast, and earn apprenticeship aboard the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>. Eager to prove his worth, the sorely overmatched and under-armored moogle marches out into the wilds to meet his prey...and most likely his maker."
5,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_05","Hurdy and Lina have set off in pursuit of Montblanc. Their first stop? Pier #2."
6,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_06","You learn that Montblanc may have found his way onto a falcon porter bound for the One River in Yanxia. Residents of the Glittering Basin might know more regarding the mole-bat's whereabouts."
7,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_07","As expected, you find Montblanc in urgent need of rescue, his attempt at slaying a ferocious beast (in this case, a fiery red chocobo) ending just about as well as everyone imagined─that is, in defeat, in case you imagined otherwise."
8,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_08","Having survived his misguided adventure, Montblanc begins the long journey back to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> in high spirits."
9,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_09","Upon your return, you find the theater barge has visitors─a band of Bangaa, weapons drawn. Only Jenomis might know how to diffuse a situation this volatile."
10,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_10","Hostage-taking apart, the Bangaa mean those of the Theater Company no harm, and merely seek aid in locating their missing captain. After hearing their tale, Mikoto believes that there is a chance Ba'Gamnan may have been manipulated by the Duma in the same manner as the late Argath Thadalfus. With no leads, however, the captain's rescue seems impossible...until Jenomis discovers a mysterious addition on the final page of his journal. Intent on discovering its significance, he returns at once to his research, promising to send for you as soon as the riddle is solved."
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24,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_00","Ride the transport shuttle to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>."
25,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_01","Ride the transport shuttle to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>."
26,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_02","Speak with the newly arrived moogle."
27,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_03","Speak with Hurdy."
28,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_04","Speak with Lina Mewrilah or Hurdy on Pier #2."
29,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_05","Search for Montblanc in the Glittering Basin."
30,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_06","Speak with Montblanc."
31,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_07","Return to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>."
32,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_08","Speak with Jenomis Lexentale."
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48,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_000","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>! Where in the world have you been? Did you not receive Alma's summons? Principal Lexentale's research into the auracite may finally have borne fruit!"
49,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_001","We must hurry to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> before they embark on some grand and perilous adventure without us!"
50,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_010","In her message, Alma mentioned a guest from Sharlayan. Someone your companion Cid Garlond believed might be able to assist the Principal's research. An “archetype,” I think is the term she used."
51,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_AIRSHIPGUIDE03003_000_020","If you would follow me to the shuttle, good <If(PlayerParameter(4))>lady<Else/>sir</If>."
52,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_Q1_000_000","Board the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>?"
53,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_100","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, Lady Mewrilah. Thank you for answering my summons. Master Garlond was kind enough to send for an Archon from Sharlayan, and I thought it only right that you be present to hear her findings."
54,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_101","To be frank, summoning Mikoto was more Y'shtola's idea. I simply came along to see what light she could shed on this mystery."
55,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_102","I am Mikoto of House Jinba─a Doman, though my years in Sharlayan have made me a stranger here. You must be <Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>─fabled liberator of men. Slayer of false gods. Warrior of Light...
I thought you'd be taller."
56,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_103","Let us speak of the crystal."
57,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_104","Ahem..."
58,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_100_104","The <Emphasis>Otius</Emphasis>─one of but many <Emphasis>auracite</Emphasis> shards that aided noble Delita's rise to regent."
59,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_105","My apologies. The <Emphasis>Otius</Emphasis> is no ordinary crystal, even discounting its obvious historical importance. The specimen is more than a simple manifestation of elementally aspected energies─it is, rather, an aetherial lodestone whose facilitation of both the absorption and transmission of distinct-frequency NRR–type harmonic vibrations has been observed to promote aetherial amplification."
60,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_106","The resultant neuro-harmonic disturbance allows for a highly unique emittance of CPRS waves that, instead of radiating outward with a determinate factor of dispersal, instead resonate <Emphasis>inward</Emphasis> at a frequency so labored, my estimates place the rate of VRT decay at upwards of several <Emphasis>centuries</Emphasis>...though I must admit I lack sufficient variates to complete a truly comprehensive graphical assessment."
61,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_107","...Hmph. While that explanation may elicit admiring nods from your professors at the academy, it will earn you only blank looks here. Take a deep breath and try again─this time in a language those of us <Emphasis>without</Emphasis> the Echo might comprehend."
62,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_108","My apologies. I merely thought─"
63,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_109","Apologies will see us no nearer to an answer. A simpler explanation will."
64,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_110","Simpler... Right... Um... Aether is not only the building block of all things material, but those immaterial as well. Thoughts, memories, feelings, one's very will are all understood to be aetherial phenomena, and can be measured as such. Unlike most crystals, which only can emit elemental energies, auracite is tuned not only to absorb aether, but aether specific to the immaterial. That aether is then stored and multiplied within its crystalline confines until external stimuli precipitate release."
65,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_111","Try again."
66,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_112","Uh... Ahem. Under appropriate conditions, a strong will or desire can become imprinted upon the auracite and stored until fomentation, at which time the desire becomes manifest─"
67,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_113","Fomen...tation?"
68,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_114","What my studious young friend is <Emphasis>trying</Emphasis> to say is that the Otius takes one's deepest fantasies and makes them reality."
69,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_115","Ah. Yes. Yes, that is...simpler. You...may choose to think of it as a process akin to that of summoning a primal."
70,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_116","There being one marked difference─primal summoning requires a supplemental energy source, such as a hoard of elementally charged crystals. Auracite, on the other hand, has the capacity to serve as its own source of power."
71,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_117","We know from the Durai Papers that Argath was never king of Ivalice. He was slain in battle during the War of the Lions."
72,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_118","Yet the Argath encountered during the recent expedition carried himself as if he had been crowned regent. I believe this was merely the auracite in his possession making manif─uh, realizing his desire to rule."
73,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_119","I am informed that he uttered the same words over and over again for the duration of the confrontation which unfolded. If that is the case, it is possible that it was not actually Argath who uttered them, but the auracite itself."
74,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_120","If the Durai Papers are accurate, Argath was a weak and petty noble who believed that his blood entitled him to power. The auracite took that belief and twisted it into the abomination we─uh, <Emphasis><Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/></Emphasis> put to the sword."
75,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_121","Then you are saying the crystal could prove a threat?"
76,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_122","The <Emphasis>auracite</Emphasis>, Alma. And not necessarily. Ramza seemed to fare well enough. There is no record of the young regent being manipulated by the artifacts he gathered."
77,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_123","In the hands of the just, the auracite should prove harmless, even beneficial!"
78,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_124","To paraphrase: “It is not the weapon that kills, but the one who wields it”?"
79,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_100_124","Now where have I heard that before..."
80,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_125","Oh, yes. It was Emperor Galvus's justification for taking the marvels of magitek and applying them to the manufacture of arms. Where, after all, was the harm if it allowed him to “bring order” to the Three Great Continents?"
81,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_126","You draw an intriguing parallel, Master Garlond... The properties of these crystals are so singular, I do begin to wonder if they, like magitek, are products of <Emphasis>science</Emphasis> and not nature. That they were created by someone to─"
82,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_127","But who? What manner of person would even be capable of such a feat?"
83,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_128","Now <Emphasis>that</Emphasis> is an interesting question─the answer to which I look forward to hearing. Regrettably, I have pressing matters to attend to elsewhere. Fear not, however: Mikoto's insight will prove far more beneficial than anything I might accidentally contribute. Good day to you all."
84,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_129","What I don't understand is..."
85,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_130","If the Duma was imprinted with Argath's deepest desires, then whose desires are rattling about inside the Otius?"
86,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_131","I had the selfsame question, and thus conducted a thorough inspection of the crystal upon my arrival. The results were...inconclusive. Traces of aetherial activity were present, but to all intents and purposes, the vessel was empty."
87,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_132","Empty? But what of the voices I heard?"
88,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_133","Voices? I heard nothing of the sort. The only voices you heard, Alma, were in your stubborn head!"
89,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_134","Ramza, why won't you─"
90,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_135","Shall we speak of “voices,” then? What of yours, Alma? Our resident voice of dissent. You have done naught but question the wisdom of our research from the moment we left Garlemald. Would you put your petty worries above our family's calling?"
91,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_136","No! I would never─"
92,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_137","You would never!? Then why involve a gossipmonger, a goody two-shoes, and this...this...flying mole!?"
93,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_100_137","Please tell me you can see that."
94,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_150","A moogle! And a decidedly dusty one at that! Might this be one of <Emphasis>your</Emphasis> acquaintances, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>?"
95,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_155","Most intriguing... Is it alive?"
96,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_160","Don't just stand there, get rid of the thing! You're the liberator. Liberate this vessel of that pest!"
97,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_165","It's like nothing I have ever seen before... Can we keep it?"
98,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_170","Ah. A moogle. Yes."
99,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_300","Am I interrupting? Oh, please <Emphasis>do</Emphasis> go on. My acceptance into your fine troupe's ranks can wait until all have said their piece, kupo."
100,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_301","Guards! Get this, this, this─"
101,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_302","(-Montblanc-)Montblanc. The name is Montblanc. Denizen of Dalmasca's deserts, seeker of thrills, adventurer extraordinaire. But you may call me Montblanc, kupo."
102,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_303","Dalmasca has long been known as a melting pot for myriad cultures─where minor races such as the Seeq, the Bangaa, and the Viera might live in relative harmony with Hyur, Elezen, and others."
103,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_304","Yet there is no record of a prominent moogle population."
104,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_305","(-Montblanc-)Most likely because we are neither prominent nor populous! My people are nomadic by nature, ever drawn to the elusive frontier and the freedom she promises, kupo!"
105,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_306","A...moogle?"
106,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_307","(-Montblanc-)Of course I'm a moogle, kupo. You'd think the adorable wings and the fluffy pom would have given it away. Now, about my admission to the Majestic─"
107,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_308","I will allow no such thing! The Majestic is the Empire's premier theater company. We will not sully its good name by granting refuge to a fluttering ball of fur!"
108,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_309","And furthermore, how in the world did this abomination board the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> in the first place!?"
109,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_310","By means of his <Emphasis>wings</Emphasis>, were I to guess. As for his admission to our company, I do not seem to recall race, creed, or allegiance on <Emphasis>my</Emphasis> list of prerequisites, do you?"
110,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_311","...No, Father."
111,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_312","Very well, then. Montblanc, what is it exactly that calls you to the stage─our stage?"
112,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_313","(-Montblanc-)What else? <Emphasis>The Zodiac Brave Story</Emphasis>, kupo! Never before have I witnessed something so amazing. So moving."
113,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_314","(-Montblanc-)Sitting─well, technically <Emphasis>hovering</Emphasis> there in the audience as the story unfolded around me...I knew I was witnessing something special. Something positively transcendental, kupo! It was then that I realized I either had to be a part of it...or go to my grave a bitter and broken moogle."
114,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_315","Was this realization before or after you swore you simply had to become the realm's greatest marauder, kupo!?"
115,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_316","(-Montblanc-)Hurdy!? How did you─"
116,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_317","Perhaps you'd have more success at running away if you didn't reveal your grand designs to every other fool you happen to meet, kupo."
117,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_318","Was it not but two score nights ago you took up the axe, kupo!? Now here you are professing your passion for the stage before carving even a single notch in your haft? Do you not remember, “to he who churns the butter goes the sweetest bread”?"
118,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_319","(-Montblanc-)But how is one to savor said buttered bread if his head is in the belly of a fearsome beast? You accuse me of giving up when I merely came to the realization that continuing would end in failure. Only through a change of course could I reach my final destination, kupo."
119,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_320","And that destination is what? Mummer? Are you sure it is not geomancer? Arithmetician? Templar? Do not bother answering, kupo─we all know you'll be singing a different tune come cockcrow!"
120,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_321","(-Montblanc-)That is where you are mistaken, Hurdy. I was destined to be a thespian! I can feel it in my fur. The role of Delita was made for me! Made for me, kupo!"
121,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_322","Kupo kupo kupo kupo! Enough!"
122,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_323","The actors in our company trained at the Empire's finest institutes. They represent the pinnacle of the profession not only in Garlemald, but across the entire world."
123,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_324","A vagrant <Emphasis>bat-mole</Emphasis> like you could never hope to share a stage with such artists, let alone play the part of a hero like Delita! You yourself admitted you were too craven to face a solitary beast─how do you imagine you would fare against a pack of theater critics!? Any troupe would need proof of valor before it could even consider─"
124,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_325","(-Montblanc-)Craven!? Call me a cheat and call me cur, but do not, sir, call me craven! I accept your challenge: slay but one foul beast by mine own hand, and the Majestic Theater Company will accept me into its ranks, kupo."
125,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_326","Wait, I issued no such─"
126,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_327","(-Montblanc-)You are all here witnesses, kupo! When I return with the head of a terrible beast in my gore-stained hands, you will be honor-bound to welcome me, Montblanc the Mummer, into the fabled ranks of the Majestic! Good day!"
127,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_328","Wonderful. What do we do now?"
128,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_329","What do <Emphasis>we</Emphasis> do? <Emphasis>We</Emphasis> do nothing. If that bat-mole wishes to throw himself on the horns of a stampeding dzo, I will not stand in his way."
129,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_330","I believe the proper term of derogation is “mole-bat,” and I should warn you: moogles do not take kindly to those who use it."
130,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_331","Why must you always put yourself above others, Brother? Did you learn nothing from Argath's wretched example?"
131,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_332","Montblanc would never have set off on this fool's errand had you not made the challenge. If anything befalls my brother, his blood will be on your hands!"
132,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_333","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>... You are the only one among us capable of locating Montblanc and preventing disaster. On behalf of my brother, I beg your assistance."
133,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_335","However did Ramza come to be so thoroughly obnoxious? He and his sister couldn't be more different."
134,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_336","Moogles are prominent players in Ivalician legend, but none of the tales mention their capacity for flight. Something lost in translation, perhaps?"
135,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_337","I...I apologize. I must learn to control my anger. But sometimes...it can be difficult."
136,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_338","You saw the poor moogle. He won't last a day on his own. You must find him and bring him back! I beg of you!"
137,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_340","My brother can be rather...simpleminded when it comes to such matters. Thinking to impress the Warrior of Light and <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> companions, Montblanc would likely choose the scene of your recent exploits to prove his worth─meaning Rabanastre, if I am not mistaken."
138,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_341","Pardon my language, but that Ramza really is an incurable little prick, is he not? How dare he speak to his sister and the moogle in that manner. I couldn't decide which was worse─the things he said, or the way the principal sat back and let him say them."
139,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_342","But I suppose it is none of our concern. For now, let us concentrate on the task at hand─finding that moogle before he does something we'll all regret. What say we start nearby. Pier Two, perhaps?"
140,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_430","The falcon porter tells us that he set a traveling blacksmith away to Yanxia not a bell past. And why would that be of interest to us, you ask?"
141,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_431","Because said peddler of iron and steel was seen to be carrying a bag stuffed to the brim with, and I quote, “albino mole fur and purple bat wings”!"
142,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_432","Montblanc!"
143,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_433","...Not that we look like that, kupo!"
144,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_434","The quickest route into Dalmasca is via the One River and its western tributaries. If Montblanc is bound for Rabanastre, he will seek passage from the Glittering Basin."
145,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_500","Montblanc! What were you thinking!?"
146,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_501","Have you any idea what you put your brother through!? He has been worried sick!"
147,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_502","Both Hurdy and Ramza were right all along. I am a failure. A flop. A flailing flapping foppish failure, kupo. How could <Emphasis>I</Emphasis> play the part of a hero if I cannot even ruffle the feathers of a single measly bird. The audience would see right through me like the spineless jellyfish I am."
148,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_503","Now wait, Montblanc. Not everyone can be a hero...not even most heroes! Yes, the bards sing of the man who deals the final blow, but what of his cadre of loyal companions? Do you think Delita united Ivalice on his own? Do you think <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/> here was alone when <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> liberated Ala Mhigo?"
149,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_Q2_000_000","What will you say?"
150,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_A2_000_001","You're never alone on the battlefield."
151,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_A2_000_002","Not all wars are won on the front lines."
152,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_510","Never alone...? So you're saying you'll always be there for me? For Montblanc?"
153,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_511","Uh... I think <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> was speaking metaphorically..."
154,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_515","But of course they are not! Every campaign needs its brilliant architect─the mastermind who moves the pieces across the board! <Emphasis>I</Emphasis>, Montblanc, can be that mastermind!"
155,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_516","That was quick..."
156,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_530","Let us not dwell on the details. The day is saved, and Montblanc has escaped sans scratch or singe to show for it. We should return to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> before our luck runs out."
157,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_600","Please! This ship is a place of peace!"
158,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_601","Release my sister or you will answer to me!"
159,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_602","When the cat's away..."
160,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_603","Put that damnable thing down, Ramza. You're not helping matters!"
161,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_604","We have no quarrel with you or yours. We only seek aid in finding our leader, Ba'Gamnan."
162,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_605","You seek our help!? You who threatened to kill my father? Who stole his work and made fools of us all!? Never!"
163,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_606","Silence, Ramza! They have Alma. We will hear what they have to say."
164,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_607","As I said, we have no quarrel with you. We only did what was necessary to secure an audience. We surrender our weapons and offer your journal as an act of good faith."
165,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_608","...This is all rather a lot to digest. But your claims do coincide with what we have learned about the auracite."
166,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_609","You're saying that crystal did something to our captain?"
167,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_610","After being emptied of Argath's will, the Duma sought that of another to sate its appetite for aether."
168,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_611","You're saying that crystal <Emphasis>ate</Emphasis> our captain!?"
169,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_612","Not his body, no. Only his soul."
170,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_613","His <Emphasis>soul</Emphasis>!?"
171,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_614","Tell me...what in your opinion was your leader's deepest desire? What was it that he longed for above all else in the world?"
172,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_615","Why waste your breath reasoning with these...these...<Emphasis>lizards</Emphasis>? They showed themselves for the beasts they are when they put a knife to your throat!"
173,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_616","First mole-bats, now lizards? This one's tongue is pure poison."
174,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_617","The boy can call us what he pleases. For our past failings, we deserve no better."
175,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_618","Your failings?"
176,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_619","Thirty summers have come and gone...yet not a night goes by that I do not wake in sweat at the memory."
177,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_620","We were fusiliers in the Dalmascan army, stationed in the royal stronghold at Nalbina."
178,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_621","Nalbina Fortress was reputed to be impenetrable. Its fall to the IVth Legion proved a turning point in the imperial campaign, dealing a crushing blow to Dalmascan morale and ultimately marking the beginning of the kingdom's end."
179,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_622","Ba'Gamnan was our captain, and once it was clear the day would not be ours, Prince Rasler, commander of the garrison at Nalbina, tasked him with one final mission."
180,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_623","Our unit was to escort His Highness's twin sister, the Princess Ashelia, away from the fortress and thence to safety. But...things did not go as planned..."
181,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_624","I still remember the words she uttered as she lay dying in the captain's arms but a stone's throw from where the Garamsythe Waterway drains into the sea."
182,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_625","Even as the fog of death descended upon her, she smiled and told us─the very people who had failed her─to survive, for as long as even a single Dalmascan stood, our nation would never truly perish."
183,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_626","But it should not have been us who survived. By failing to protect our charge, we betrayed the princess and her memory, and brought shame upon our race. So yes, we are naught but cold-blooded lizards deserving of whatever scorn you deign to heap on us."
184,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_627","Hmm... I think we may safely assume a deep-seated hatred towards the invaders of his homeland, coupled with self-loathing born from a sense of powerlessness."
185,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_628","The darkness that lurks in the heart of Ba'Gamnan is little different from that which drove Argath─the selfsame emotions that were to nourish the Duma."
186,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_629","Stop speaking in riddles, Sharlayan."
187,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_630","She's saying your <Emphasis>brave captain</Emphasis> will eventually turn into a monster...or rather, more of one."
188,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_631","Garlean lies!"
189,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_632","What they say is true. If we do not find Ba'Gamnan and the Duma soon, none of us are safe, present company included."
190,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_633","Do you have any idea where he might have gone? Any at all?"
191,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_634","Wait, look at this! Something has been added to the final page of my journal!"
192,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_635","Then the captain must have put it there. Only he had access to it─until we found it in the pack he left behind, that is."
193,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_636","Is this...Dalmascan?"
194,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_637","Indeed it is! It says “Ridorana.”"
195,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_638","The lighthouse? Why would he write that, and in the old man's journal no less?"
196,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_639","There is a place on the Valnard Sea, far to the south of Rabanastre, where the ocean tumbles into a gaping maw more than a malm across─the Ridorana Cataract."
197,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_640","Legend would have us believe that it is the entrance to the Hell of Water."
198,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_641","Many a scholar seeking to prove otherwise has descended into the chasm─some even by airship─but not a one has returned."
199,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_650","Tell me, is Ridorana truly as magnificent as they say? ...Hm? You have never been there? And there I was thinking you might have something to contribute."
200,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_680","I must admit to knowing little of Ridorana save that which Lady Mikoto shared with us. Before we expend valuable time and resources traveling to so remote a place, I must review my notes and see if there is any mention of the abyss."
201,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_681","We shall send for you as soon as we learn aught of interest."
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0,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_00","Lina Mewrilah appears to have been awaiting your arrival for quite some time."
1,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_01","Alma Lexentale has summoned Lina Mewrilah (and you) to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> to discuss recent findings concerning the auracite. As before, a word with the shuttle pilot will see you quickly and safely to the Lexentale airship."
2,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_02","It would seem that Cid has invited an Archon to join him on the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>─a Student of Baldesion by the name of Mikoto."
3,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_03","Gamely endeavoring to speak in words of fewer than five syllables, the Archon shares her theories on the auracite, prompting a new debate─if the Otius is not a naturally occurring crystal, then who created it and why? Before a consensus can be reached, Ramza foments new tension with his sister by questioning her commitment to the family mission. It is during this fraternal spat that an uninvited guest enters stage right."
4,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_04","Seeking admission to their theater company, Montblanc, desert moogle from Dalmasca, petitions the Majestic with all the blustery gusto of a born drama queen. Ramza is quick to dismiss him, but in doing so, inadvertently presents Montblanc with a challenge─slay a beast, and earn apprenticeship aboard the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>. Eager to prove his worth, the sorely overmatched and under-armored moogle marches out into the wilds to meet his prey...and most likely his maker."
5,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_05","Hurdy and Lina have set off in pursuit of Montblanc. Their first stop? Pier #2."
6,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_06","You learn that Montblanc may have found his way onto a falcon porter bound for the One River in Yanxia. Residents of the Glittering Basin might know more regarding the mole-bat's whereabouts."
7,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_07","As expected, you find Montblanc in urgent need of rescue, his attempt at slaying a ferocious beast (in this case, a fiery red chocobo) ending just about as well as everyone imagined─that is, in defeat, in case you imagined otherwise."
8,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_08","Having survived his misguided adventure, Montblanc begins the long journey back to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> in high spirits."
9,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_09","Upon your return, you find the theater barge has visitors─a band of Bangaa, weapons drawn. Only Jenomis might know how to diffuse a situation this volatile."
10,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_10","Hostage-taking apart, the Bangaa mean those of the Theater Company no harm, and merely seek aid in locating their missing captain. After hearing their tale, Mikoto believes that there is a chance Ba'Gamnan may have been manipulated by the Duma in the same manner as the late Argath Thadalfus. With no leads, however, the captain's rescue seems impossible...until Jenomis discovers a mysterious addition on the final page of his journal. Intent on discovering its significance, he returns at once to his research, promising to send for you as soon as the riddle is solved."
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24,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_00","Ride the transport shuttle to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>."
25,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_01","Ride the transport shuttle to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>."
26,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_02","Speak with the newly arrived moogle."
27,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_03","Speak with Hurdy."
28,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_04","Speak with Lina Mewrilah or Hurdy on Pier #2."
29,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_05","Search for Montblanc in the Glittering Basin."
30,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_06","Speak with Montblanc."
31,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_07","Return to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>."
32,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_08","Speak with Jenomis Lexentale."
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48,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_000","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>! Where in the world have you been? Did you not receive Alma's summons? Principal Lexentale's research into the auracite may finally have borne fruit!"
49,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_001","We must hurry to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> before they embark on some grand and perilous adventure without us!"
50,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_010","In her message, Alma mentioned a guest from Sharlayan. Someone your companion Cid Garlond believed might be able to assist the Principal's research. An “archetype,” I think is the term she used."
51,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_AIRSHIPGUIDE03003_000_020","If you would follow me to the shuttle, good <If(PlayerParameter(4))>lady<Else/>sir</If>."
52,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_Q1_000_000","Board the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>?"
53,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_100","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, Lady Mewrilah. Thank you for answering my summons. Master Garlond was kind enough to send for an Archon from Sharlayan, and I thought it only right that you be present to hear her findings."
54,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_101","To be frank, summoning Mikoto was more Y'shtola's idea. I simply came along to see what light she could shed on this mystery."
55,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_102","I am Mikoto of House Jinba─a Doman, though my years in Sharlayan have made me a stranger here. You must be <Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>─fabled liberator of men. Slayer of false gods. Warrior of Light...
I thought you'd be taller."
56,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_103","Let us speak of the crystal."
57,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_104","Ahem..."
58,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_100_104","The <Emphasis>Otius</Emphasis>─one of but many <Emphasis>auracite</Emphasis> shards that aided noble Delita's rise to regent."
59,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_105","My apologies. The <Emphasis>Otius</Emphasis> is no ordinary crystal, even discounting its obvious historical importance. The specimen is more than a simple manifestation of elementally aspected energies─it is, rather, an aetherial lodestone whose facilitation of both the absorption and transmission of distinct-frequency NRR–type harmonic vibrations has been observed to promote aetherial amplification."
60,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_106","The resultant neuro-harmonic disturbance allows for a highly unique emittance of CPRS waves that, instead of radiating outward with a determinate factor of dispersal, instead resonate <Emphasis>inward</Emphasis> at a frequency so labored, my estimates place the rate of VRT decay at upwards of several <Emphasis>centuries</Emphasis>...though I must admit I lack sufficient variates to complete a truly comprehensive graphical assessment."
61,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_107","...Hmph. While that explanation may elicit admiring nods from your professors at the academy, it will earn you only blank looks here. Take a deep breath and try again─this time in a language those of us <Emphasis>without</Emphasis> the Echo might comprehend."
62,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_108","My apologies. I merely thought─"
63,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_109","Apologies will see us no nearer to an answer. A simpler explanation will."
64,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_110","Simpler... Right... Um... Aether is not only the building block of all things material, but those immaterial as well. Thoughts, memories, feelings, one's very will are all understood to be aetherial phenomena, and can be measured as such. Unlike most crystals, which only can emit elemental energies, auracite is tuned not only to absorb aether, but aether specific to the immaterial. That aether is then stored and multiplied within its crystalline confines until external stimuli precipitate release."
65,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_111","Try again."
66,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_112","Uh... Ahem. Under appropriate conditions, a strong will or desire can become imprinted upon the auracite and stored until fomentation, at which time the desire becomes manifest─"
67,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_113","Fomen...tation?"
68,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_114","What my studious young friend is <Emphasis>trying</Emphasis> to say is that the Otius takes one's deepest fantasies and makes them reality."
69,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_115","Ah. Yes. Yes, that is...simpler. You...may choose to think of it as a process akin to that of summoning a primal."
70,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_116","There being one marked difference─primal summoning requires a supplemental energy source, such as a hoard of elementally charged crystals. Auracite, on the other hand, has the capacity to serve as its own source of power."
71,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_117","We know from the Durai Papers that Argath was never king of Ivalice. He was slain in battle during the War of the Lions."
72,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_118","Yet the Argath encountered during the recent expedition carried himself as if he had been crowned regent. I believe this was merely the auracite in his possession making manif─uh, realizing his desire to rule."
73,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_119","I am informed that he uttered the same words over and over again for the duration of the confrontation which unfolded. If that is the case, it is possible that it was not actually Argath who uttered them, but the auracite itself."
74,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_120","If the Durai Papers are accurate, Argath was a weak and petty noble who believed that his blood entitled him to power. The auracite took that belief and twisted it into the abomination we─uh, <Emphasis><Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/></Emphasis> put to the sword."
75,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_121","Then you are saying the crystal could prove a threat?"
76,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_122","The <Emphasis>auracite</Emphasis>, Alma. And not necessarily. Ramza seemed to fare well enough. There is no record of the young regent being manipulated by the artifacts he gathered."
77,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_123","In the hands of the just, the auracite should prove harmless, even beneficial!"
78,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_124","To paraphrase: “It is not the weapon that kills, but the one who wields it”?"
79,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_100_124","Now where have I heard that before..."
80,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_125","Oh, yes. It was Emperor Galvus's justification for taking the marvels of magitek and applying them to the manufacture of arms. Where, after all, was the harm if it allowed him to “bring order” to the Three Great Continents?"
81,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_126","You draw an intriguing parallel, Master Garlond... The properties of these crystals are so singular, I do begin to wonder if they, like magitek, are products of <Emphasis>science</Emphasis> and not nature. That they were created by someone to─"
82,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_127","But who? What manner of person would even be capable of such a feat?"
83,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_128","Now <Emphasis>that</Emphasis> is an interesting question─the answer to which I look forward to hearing. Regrettably, I have pressing matters to attend to elsewhere. Fear not, however: Mikoto's insight will prove far more beneficial than anything I might accidentally contribute. Good day to you all."
84,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_129","What I don't understand is..."
85,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_130","If the Duma was imprinted with Argath's deepest desires, then whose desires are rattling about inside the Otius?"
86,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_131","I had the selfsame question, and thus conducted a thorough inspection of the crystal upon my arrival. The results were...inconclusive. Traces of aetherial activity were present, but to all intents and purposes, the vessel was empty."
87,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_132","Empty? But what of the voices I heard?"
88,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_133","Voices? I heard nothing of the sort. The only voices you heard, Alma, were in your stubborn head!"
89,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_134","Ramza, why won't you─"
90,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_135","Shall we speak of “voices,” then? What of yours, Alma? Our resident voice of dissent. You have done naught but question the wisdom of our research from the moment we left Garlemald. Would you put your petty worries above our family's calling?"
91,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_136","No! I would never─"
92,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_137","You would never!? Then why involve a gossipmonger, a goody two-shoes, and this...this...flying mole!?"
93,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_100_137","Please tell me you can see that."
94,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_150","A moogle! And a decidedly dusty one at that! Might this be one of <Emphasis>your</Emphasis> acquaintances, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>?"
95,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_155","Most intriguing... Is it alive?"
96,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_160","Don't just stand there, get rid of the thing! You're the liberator. Liberate this vessel of that pest!"
97,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_165","It's like nothing I have ever seen before... Can we keep it?"
98,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_170","Ah. A moogle. Yes."
99,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_300","Am I interrupting? Oh, please <Emphasis>do</Emphasis> go on. My acceptance into your fine troupe's ranks can wait until all have said their piece, kupo."
100,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_301","Guards! Get this, this, this─"
101,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_302","(-Montblanc-)Montblanc. The name is Montblanc. Denizen of Dalmasca's deserts, seeker of thrills, adventurer extraordinaire. But you may call me Montblanc, kupo."
102,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_303","Dalmasca has long been known as a melting pot for myriad cultures─where minor races such as the Seeq, the Bangaa, and the Viera might live in relative harmony with Hyur, Elezen, and others."
103,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_304","Yet there is no record of a prominent moogle population."
104,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_305","(-Montblanc-)Most likely because we are neither prominent nor populous! My people are nomadic by nature, ever drawn to the elusive frontier and the freedom she promises, kupo!"
105,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_306","A...moogle?"
106,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_307","(-Montblanc-)Of course I'm a moogle, kupo. You'd think the adorable wings and the fluffy pom would have given it away. Now, about my admission to the Majestic─"
107,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_308","I will allow no such thing! The Majestic is the Empire's premier theater company. We will not sully its good name by granting refuge to a fluttering ball of fur!"
108,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_309","And furthermore, how in the world did this abomination board the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> in the first place!?"
109,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_310","By means of his <Emphasis>wings</Emphasis>, were I to guess. As for his admission to our company, I do not seem to recall race, creed, or allegiance on <Emphasis>my</Emphasis> list of prerequisites, do you?"
110,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_311","...No, Father."
111,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_312","Very well, then. Montblanc, what is it exactly that calls you to the stage─our stage?"
112,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_313","(-Montblanc-)What else? <Emphasis>The Zodiac Brave Story</Emphasis>, kupo! Never before have I witnessed something so amazing. So moving."
113,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_314","(-Montblanc-)Sitting─well, technically <Emphasis>hovering</Emphasis> there in the audience as the story unfolded around me...I knew I was witnessing something special. Something positively transcendental, kupo! It was then that I realized I either had to be a part of it...or go to my grave a bitter and broken moogle."
114,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_315","Was this realization before or after you swore you simply had to become the realm's greatest marauder, kupo!?"
115,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_316","(-Montblanc-)Hurdy!? How did you─"
116,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_317","Perhaps you'd have more success at running away if you didn't reveal your grand designs to every other fool you happen to meet, kupo."
117,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_318","Was it not but two score nights ago you took up the axe, kupo!? Now here you are professing your passion for the stage before carving even a single notch in your haft? Do you not remember, “to he who churns the butter goes the sweetest bread”?"
118,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_319","(-Montblanc-)But how is one to savor said buttered bread if his head is in the belly of a fearsome beast? You accuse me of giving up when I merely came to the realization that continuing would end in failure. Only through a change of course could I reach my final destination, kupo."
119,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_320","And that destination is what? Mummer? Are you sure it is not geomancer? Arithmetician? Templar? Do not bother answering, kupo─we all know you'll be singing a different tune come cockcrow!"
120,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_321","(-Montblanc-)That is where you are mistaken, Hurdy. I was destined to be a thespian! I can feel it in my fur. The role of Delita was made for me! Made for me, kupo!"
121,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_322","Kupo kupo kupo kupo! Enough!"
122,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_323","The actors in our company trained at the Empire's finest institutes. They represent the pinnacle of the profession not only in Garlemald, but across the entire world."
123,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_324","A vagrant <Emphasis>bat-mole</Emphasis> like you could never hope to share a stage with such artists, let alone play the part of a hero like Delita! You yourself admitted you were too craven to face a solitary beast─how do you imagine you would fare against a pack of theater critics!? Any troupe would need proof of valor before it could even consider─"
124,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_325","(-Montblanc-)Craven!? Call me a cheat and call me cur, but do not, sir, call me craven! I accept your challenge: slay but one foul beast by mine own hand, and the Majestic Theater Company will accept me into its ranks, kupo."
125,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_326","Wait, I issued no such─"
126,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_327","(-Montblanc-)You are all here witnesses, kupo! When I return with the head of a terrible beast in my gore-stained hands, you will be honor-bound to welcome me, Montblanc the Mummer, into the fabled ranks of the Majestic! Good day!"
127,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_328","Wonderful. What do we do now?"
128,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_329","What do <Emphasis>we</Emphasis> do? <Emphasis>We</Emphasis> do nothing. If that bat-mole wishes to throw himself on the horns of a stampeding dzo, I will not stand in his way."
129,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_330","I believe the proper term of derogation is “mole-bat,” and I should warn you: moogles do not take kindly to those who use it."
130,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_331","Why must you always put yourself above others, Brother? Did you learn nothing from Argath's wretched example?"
131,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_332","Montblanc would never have set off on this fool's errand had you not made the challenge. If anything befalls my brother, his blood will be on your hands!"
132,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_333","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>... You are the only one among us capable of locating Montblanc and preventing disaster. On behalf of my brother, I beg your assistance."
133,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_335","However did Ramza come to be so thoroughly obnoxious? He and his sister couldn't be more different."
134,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_336","Moogles are prominent players in Ivalician legend, but none of the tales mention their capacity for flight. Something lost in translation, perhaps?"
135,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_337","I...I apologize. I must learn to control my anger. But sometimes...it can be difficult."
136,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_338","You saw the poor moogle. He won't last a day on his own. You must find him and bring him back! I beg of you!"
137,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_340","My brother can be rather...simpleminded when it comes to such matters. Thinking to impress the Warrior of Light and <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> companions, Montblanc would likely choose the scene of your recent exploits to prove his worth─meaning Rabanastre, if I am not mistaken."
138,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_341","Pardon my language, but that Ramza really is an incurable little prick, is he not? How dare he speak to his sister and the moogle in that manner. I couldn't decide which was worse─the things he said, or the way the principal sat back and let him say them."
139,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_342","But I suppose it is none of our concern. For now, let us concentrate on the task at hand─finding that moogle before he does something we'll all regret. What say we start nearby. Pier Two, perhaps?"
140,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_430","The falcon porter tells us that he set a traveling blacksmith away to Yanxia not a bell past. And why would that be of interest to us, you ask?"
141,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_431","Because said peddler of iron and steel was seen to be carrying a bag stuffed to the brim with, and I quote, “albino mole fur and purple bat wings”!"
142,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_432","Montblanc!"
143,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_433","...Not that we look like that, kupo!"
144,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_434","The quickest route into Dalmasca is via the One River and its western tributaries. If Montblanc is bound for Rabanastre, he will seek passage from the Glittering Basin."
145,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_500","Montblanc! What were you thinking!?"
146,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_501","Have you any idea what you put your brother through!? He has been worried sick!"
147,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_502","Both Hurdy and Ramza were right all along. I am a failure. A flop. A flailing flapping foppish failure, kupo. How could <Emphasis>I</Emphasis> play the part of a hero if I cannot even ruffle the feathers of a single measly bird. The audience would see right through me like the spineless jellyfish I am."
148,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_503","Now wait, Montblanc. Not everyone can be a hero...not even most heroes! Yes, the bards sing of the man who deals the final blow, but what of his cadre of loyal companions? Do you think Delita united Ivalice on his own? Do you think <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/> here was alone when <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> liberated Ala Mhigo?"
149,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_Q2_000_000","What will you say?"
150,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_A2_000_001","You're never alone on the battlefield."
151,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_A2_000_002","Not all wars are won on the front lines."
152,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_510","Never alone...? So you're saying you'll always be there for me? For Montblanc?"
153,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_511","Uh... I think <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> was speaking metaphorically..."
154,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_515","But of course they are not! Every campaign needs its brilliant architect─the mastermind who moves the pieces across the board! <Emphasis>I</Emphasis>, Montblanc, can be that mastermind!"
155,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_516","That was quick..."
156,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_530","Let us not dwell on the details. The day is saved, and Montblanc has escaped sans scratch or singe to show for it. We should return to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> before our luck runs out."
157,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_600","Please! This ship is a place of peace!"
158,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_601","Release my sister or you will answer to me!"
159,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_602","When the cat's away..."
160,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_603","Put that damnable thing down, Ramza. You're not helping matters!"
161,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_604","We have no quarrel with you or yours. We only seek aid in finding our leader, Ba'Gamnan."
162,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_605","You seek our help!? You who threatened to kill my father? Who stole his work and made fools of us all!? Never!"
163,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_606","Silence, Ramza! They have Alma. We will hear what they have to say."
164,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_607","As I said, we have no quarrel with you. We only did what was necessary to secure an audience. We surrender our weapons and offer your journal as an act of good faith."
165,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_608","...This is all rather a lot to digest. But your claims do coincide with what we have learned about the auracite."
166,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_609","You're saying that crystal did something to our captain?"
167,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_610","After being emptied of Argath's will, the Duma sought that of another to sate its appetite for aether."
168,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_611","You're saying that crystal <Emphasis>ate</Emphasis> our captain!?"
169,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_612","Not his body, no. Only his soul."
170,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_613","His <Emphasis>soul</Emphasis>!?"
171,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_614","Tell me...what in your opinion was your leader's deepest desire? What was it that he longed for above all else in the world?"
172,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_615","Why waste your breath reasoning with these...these...<Emphasis>lizards</Emphasis>? They showed themselves for the beasts they are when they put a knife to your throat!"
173,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_616","First mole-bats, now lizards? This one's tongue is pure poison."
174,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_617","The boy can call us what he pleases. For our past failings, we deserve no better."
175,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_618","Your failings?"
176,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_619","Thirty summers have come and gone...yet not a night goes by that I do not wake in sweat at the memory."
177,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_620","We were fusiliers in the Dalmascan army, stationed in the royal stronghold at Nalbina."
178,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_621","Nalbina Fortress was reputed to be impenetrable. Its fall to the IVth Legion proved a turning point in the imperial campaign, dealing a crushing blow to Dalmascan morale and ultimately marking the beginning of the kingdom's end."
179,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_622","Ba'Gamnan was our captain, and once it was clear the day would not be ours, Prince Rasler, commander of the garrison at Nalbina, tasked him with one final mission."
180,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_623","Our unit was to escort His Highness's twin sister, the Princess Ashelia, away from the fortress and thence to safety. But...things did not go as planned..."
181,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_624","I still remember the words she uttered as she lay dying in the captain's arms but a stone's throw from where the Garamsythe Waterway drains into the sea."
182,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_625","Even as the fog of death descended upon her, she smiled and told us─the very people who had failed her─to survive, for as long as even a single Dalmascan stood, our nation would never truly perish."
183,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_626","But it should not have been us who survived. By failing to protect our charge, we betrayed the princess and her memory, and brought shame upon our race. So yes, we are naught but cold-blooded lizards deserving of whatever scorn you deign to heap on us."
184,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_627","Hmm... I think we may safely assume a deep-seated hatred towards the invaders of his homeland, coupled with self-loathing born from a sense of powerlessness."
185,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_628","The darkness that lurks in the heart of Ba'Gamnan is little different from that which drove Argath─the selfsame emotions that were to nourish the Duma."
186,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_629","Stop speaking in riddles, Sharlayan."
187,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_630","She's saying your <Emphasis>brave captain</Emphasis> will eventually turn into a monster...or rather, more of one."
188,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_631","Garlean lies!"
189,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_632","What they say is true. If we do not find Ba'Gamnan and the Duma soon, none of us are safe, present company included."
190,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_633","Do you have any idea where he might have gone? Any at all?"
191,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_634","Wait, look at this! Something has been added to the final page of my journal!"
192,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_635","Then the captain must have put it there. Only he had access to it─until we found it in the pack he left behind, that is."
193,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_636","Is this...Dalmascan?"
194,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_637","Indeed it is! It says “Ridorana.”"
195,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_638","The lighthouse? Why would he write that, and in the old man's journal no less?"
196,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_639","There is a place on the Valnard Sea, far to the south of Rabanastre, where the ocean tumbles into a gaping maw more than a malm across─the Ridorana Cataract."
197,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_640","Legend would have us believe that it is the entrance to the Hell of Water."
198,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_641","Many a scholar seeking to prove otherwise has descended into the chasm─some even by airship─but not a one has returned."
199,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_650","Tell me, is Ridorana truly as magnificent as they say? ...Hm? You have never been there? And there I was thinking you might have something to contribute."
200,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_680","I must admit to knowing little of Ridorana save that which Lady Mikoto shared with us. Before we expend valuable time and resources traveling to so remote a place, I must review my notes and see if there is any mention of the abyss."
201,"TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_681","We shall send for you as soon as we learn aught of interest."
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4 0 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_00 Lina Mewrilah appears to have been awaiting your arrival for quite some time.
5 1 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_01 Alma Lexentale has summoned Lina Mewrilah (and you) to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> to discuss recent findings concerning the auracite. As before, a word with the shuttle pilot will see you quickly and safely to the Lexentale airship.
6 2 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_02 It would seem that Cid has invited an Archon to join him on the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>─a Student of Baldesion by the name of Mikoto.
7 3 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_03 Gamely endeavoring to speak in words of fewer than five syllables, the Archon shares her theories on the auracite, prompting a new debate─if the Otius is not a naturally occurring crystal, then who created it and why? Before a consensus can be reached, Ramza foments new tension with his sister by questioning her commitment to the family mission. It is during this fraternal spat that an uninvited guest enters stage right.
8 4 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_04 Seeking admission to their theater company, Montblanc, desert moogle from Dalmasca, petitions the Majestic with all the blustery gusto of a born drama queen. Ramza is quick to dismiss him, but in doing so, inadvertently presents Montblanc with a challenge─slay a beast, and earn apprenticeship aboard the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>. Eager to prove his worth, the sorely overmatched and under-armored moogle marches out into the wilds to meet his prey...and most likely his maker.
9 5 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_05 Hurdy and Lina have set off in pursuit of Montblanc. Their first stop? Pier #2.
10 6 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_06 You learn that Montblanc may have found his way onto a falcon porter bound for the One River in Yanxia. Residents of the Glittering Basin might know more regarding the mole-bat's whereabouts.
11 7 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_07 As expected, you find Montblanc in urgent need of rescue, his attempt at slaying a ferocious beast (in this case, a fiery red chocobo) ending just about as well as everyone imagined─that is, in defeat, in case you imagined otherwise.
12 8 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_08 Having survived his misguided adventure, Montblanc begins the long journey back to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> in high spirits.
13 9 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_09 Upon your return, you find the theater barge has visitors─a band of Bangaa, weapons drawn. Only Jenomis might know how to diffuse a situation this volatile.
14 10 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_SEQ_10 Hostage-taking apart, the Bangaa mean those of the Theater Company no harm, and merely seek aid in locating their missing captain. After hearing their tale, Mikoto believes that there is a chance Ba'Gamnan may have been manipulated by the Duma in the same manner as the late Argath Thadalfus. With no leads, however, the captain's rescue seems impossible...until Jenomis discovers a mysterious addition on the final page of his journal. Intent on discovering its significance, he returns at once to his research, promising to send for you as soon as the riddle is solved.
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28 24 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_00 Ride the transport shuttle to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>.
29 25 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_01 Ride the transport shuttle to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>.
30 26 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_02 Speak with the newly arrived moogle.
31 27 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_03 Speak with Hurdy.
32 28 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_04 Speak with Lina Mewrilah or Hurdy on Pier #2.
33 29 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_05 Search for Montblanc in the Glittering Basin.
34 30 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_06 Speak with Montblanc.
35 31 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_07 Return to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>.
36 32 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_TODO_08 Speak with Jenomis Lexentale.
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52 48 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_000 <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>! Where in the world have you been? Did you not receive Alma's summons? Principal Lexentale's research into the auracite may finally have borne fruit!
53 49 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_001 We must hurry to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> before they embark on some grand and perilous adventure without us!
54 50 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_010 In her message, Alma mentioned a guest from Sharlayan. Someone your companion Cid Garlond believed might be able to assist the Principal's research. An “archetype,” I think is the term she used.
55 51 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_AIRSHIPGUIDE03003_000_020 If you would follow me to the shuttle, good <If(PlayerParameter(4))>lady<Else/>sir</If>.
56 52 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_Q1_000_000 Board the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis>?
57 53 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_100 <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, Lady Mewrilah. Thank you for answering my summons. Master Garlond was kind enough to send for an Archon from Sharlayan, and I thought it only right that you be present to hear her findings.
58 54 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_101 To be frank, summoning Mikoto was more Y'shtola's idea. I simply came along to see what light she could shed on this mystery.
59 55 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_102 I am Mikoto of House Jinba─a Doman, though my years in Sharlayan have made me a stranger here. You must be <Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>─fabled liberator of men. Slayer of false gods. Warrior of Light... I thought you'd be taller. I am Mikoto of House Jinba─a Doman, though my years in Sharlayan have made me a stranger here. You must be <Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>─fabled liberator of men. Slayer of false gods. Warrior of Light... I thought you'd be taller.
60 56 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_103 Let us speak of the crystal.
61 57 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_104 Ahem...
62 58 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_100_104 The <Emphasis>Otius</Emphasis>─one of but many <Emphasis>auracite</Emphasis> shards that aided noble Delita's rise to regent.
63 59 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_105 My apologies. The <Emphasis>Otius</Emphasis> is no ordinary crystal, even discounting its obvious historical importance. The specimen is more than a simple manifestation of elementally aspected energies─it is, rather, an aetherial lodestone whose facilitation of both the absorption and transmission of distinct-frequency NRR–type harmonic vibrations has been observed to promote aetherial amplification.
64 60 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_106 The resultant neuro-harmonic disturbance allows for a highly unique emittance of CPRS waves that, instead of radiating outward with a determinate factor of dispersal, instead resonate <Emphasis>inward</Emphasis> at a frequency so labored, my estimates place the rate of VRT decay at upwards of several <Emphasis>centuries</Emphasis>...though I must admit I lack sufficient variates to complete a truly comprehensive graphical assessment.
65 61 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_107 ...Hmph. While that explanation may elicit admiring nods from your professors at the academy, it will earn you only blank looks here. Take a deep breath and try again─this time in a language those of us <Emphasis>without</Emphasis> the Echo might comprehend.
66 62 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_108 My apologies. I merely thought─
67 63 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_109 Apologies will see us no nearer to an answer. A simpler explanation will.
68 64 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_110 Simpler... Right... Um... Aether is not only the building block of all things material, but those immaterial as well. Thoughts, memories, feelings, one's very will are all understood to be aetherial phenomena, and can be measured as such. Unlike most crystals, which only can emit elemental energies, auracite is tuned not only to absorb aether, but aether specific to the immaterial. That aether is then stored and multiplied within its crystalline confines until external stimuli precipitate release.
69 65 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_111 Try again.
70 66 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_112 Uh... Ahem. Under appropriate conditions, a strong will or desire can become imprinted upon the auracite and stored until fomentation, at which time the desire becomes manifest─
71 67 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_113 Fomen...tation?
72 68 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_114 What my studious young friend is <Emphasis>trying</Emphasis> to say is that the Otius takes one's deepest fantasies and makes them reality.
73 69 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_115 Ah. Yes. Yes, that is...simpler. You...may choose to think of it as a process akin to that of summoning a primal.
74 70 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_116 There being one marked difference─primal summoning requires a supplemental energy source, such as a hoard of elementally charged crystals. Auracite, on the other hand, has the capacity to serve as its own source of power.
75 71 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_117 We know from the Durai Papers that Argath was never king of Ivalice. He was slain in battle during the War of the Lions.
76 72 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_118 Yet the Argath encountered during the recent expedition carried himself as if he had been crowned regent. I believe this was merely the auracite in his possession making manif─uh, realizing his desire to rule.
77 73 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_119 I am informed that he uttered the same words over and over again for the duration of the confrontation which unfolded. If that is the case, it is possible that it was not actually Argath who uttered them, but the auracite itself.
78 74 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_120 If the Durai Papers are accurate, Argath was a weak and petty noble who believed that his blood entitled him to power. The auracite took that belief and twisted it into the abomination we─uh, <Emphasis><Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/></Emphasis> put to the sword.
79 75 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_121 Then you are saying the crystal could prove a threat?
80 76 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_122 The <Emphasis>auracite</Emphasis>, Alma. And not necessarily. Ramza seemed to fare well enough. There is no record of the young regent being manipulated by the artifacts he gathered.
81 77 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_123 In the hands of the just, the auracite should prove harmless, even beneficial!
82 78 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_124 To paraphrase: “It is not the weapon that kills, but the one who wields it”?
83 79 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_100_124 Now where have I heard that before...
84 80 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_125 Oh, yes. It was Emperor Galvus's justification for taking the marvels of magitek and applying them to the manufacture of arms. Where, after all, was the harm if it allowed him to “bring order” to the Three Great Continents?
85 81 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_126 You draw an intriguing parallel, Master Garlond... The properties of these crystals are so singular, I do begin to wonder if they, like magitek, are products of <Emphasis>science</Emphasis> and not nature. That they were created by someone to─
86 82 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_127 But who? What manner of person would even be capable of such a feat?
87 83 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CID_000_128 Now <Emphasis>that</Emphasis> is an interesting question─the answer to which I look forward to hearing. Regrettably, I have pressing matters to attend to elsewhere. Fear not, however: Mikoto's insight will prove far more beneficial than anything I might accidentally contribute. Good day to you all.
88 84 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_129 What I don't understand is...
89 85 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_130 If the Duma was imprinted with Argath's deepest desires, then whose desires are rattling about inside the Otius?
90 86 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_131 I had the selfsame question, and thus conducted a thorough inspection of the crystal upon my arrival. The results were...inconclusive. Traces of aetherial activity were present, but to all intents and purposes, the vessel was empty.
91 87 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_132 Empty? But what of the voices I heard?
92 88 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_133 Voices? I heard nothing of the sort. The only voices you heard, Alma, were in your stubborn head!
93 89 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_134 Ramza, why won't you─
94 90 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_135 Shall we speak of “voices,” then? What of yours, Alma? Our resident voice of dissent. You have done naught but question the wisdom of our research from the moment we left Garlemald. Would you put your petty worries above our family's calling?
95 91 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_136 No! I would never─
96 92 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_137 You would never!? Then why involve a gossipmonger, a goody two-shoes, and this...this...flying mole!?
97 93 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_100_137 Please tell me you can see that.
98 94 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_150 A moogle! And a decidedly dusty one at that! Might this be one of <Emphasis>your</Emphasis> acquaintances, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>?
99 95 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_155 Most intriguing... Is it alive?
100 96 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_160 Don't just stand there, get rid of the thing! You're the liberator. Liberate this vessel of that pest!
101 97 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_165 It's like nothing I have ever seen before... Can we keep it?
102 98 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_170 Ah. A moogle. Yes.
103 99 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_300 Am I interrupting? Oh, please <Emphasis>do</Emphasis> go on. My acceptance into your fine troupe's ranks can wait until all have said their piece, kupo.
104 100 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_301 Guards! Get this, this, this─
105 101 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_302 (-Montblanc-)Montblanc. The name is Montblanc. Denizen of Dalmasca's deserts, seeker of thrills, adventurer extraordinaire. But you may call me Montblanc, kupo.
106 102 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_303 Dalmasca has long been known as a melting pot for myriad cultures─where minor races such as the Seeq, the Bangaa, and the Viera might live in relative harmony with Hyur, Elezen, and others.
107 103 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_304 Yet there is no record of a prominent moogle population.
108 104 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_305 (-Montblanc-)Most likely because we are neither prominent nor populous! My people are nomadic by nature, ever drawn to the elusive frontier and the freedom she promises, kupo!
109 105 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_306 A...moogle?
110 106 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_307 (-Montblanc-)Of course I'm a moogle, kupo. You'd think the adorable wings and the fluffy pom would have given it away. Now, about my admission to the Majestic─
111 107 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_308 I will allow no such thing! The Majestic is the Empire's premier theater company. We will not sully its good name by granting refuge to a fluttering ball of fur!
112 108 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_309 And furthermore, how in the world did this abomination board the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> in the first place!?
113 109 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_310 By means of his <Emphasis>wings</Emphasis>, were I to guess. As for his admission to our company, I do not seem to recall race, creed, or allegiance on <Emphasis>my</Emphasis> list of prerequisites, do you?
114 110 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_311 ...No, Father.
115 111 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_312 Very well, then. Montblanc, what is it exactly that calls you to the stage─our stage?
116 112 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_313 (-Montblanc-)What else? <Emphasis>The Zodiac Brave Story</Emphasis>, kupo! Never before have I witnessed something so amazing. So moving.
117 113 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_314 (-Montblanc-)Sitting─well, technically <Emphasis>hovering</Emphasis> there in the audience as the story unfolded around me...I knew I was witnessing something special. Something positively transcendental, kupo! It was then that I realized I either had to be a part of it...or go to my grave a bitter and broken moogle.
118 114 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_315 Was this realization before or after you swore you simply had to become the realm's greatest marauder, kupo!?
119 115 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_316 (-Montblanc-)Hurdy!? How did you─
120 116 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_317 Perhaps you'd have more success at running away if you didn't reveal your grand designs to every other fool you happen to meet, kupo.
121 117 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_318 Was it not but two score nights ago you took up the axe, kupo!? Now here you are professing your passion for the stage before carving even a single notch in your haft? Do you not remember, “to he who churns the butter goes the sweetest bread”?
122 118 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_319 (-Montblanc-)But how is one to savor said buttered bread if his head is in the belly of a fearsome beast? You accuse me of giving up when I merely came to the realization that continuing would end in failure. Only through a change of course could I reach my final destination, kupo.
123 119 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_320 And that destination is what? Mummer? Are you sure it is not geomancer? Arithmetician? Templar? Do not bother answering, kupo─we all know you'll be singing a different tune come cockcrow!
124 120 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_321 (-Montblanc-)That is where you are mistaken, Hurdy. I was destined to be a thespian! I can feel it in my fur. The role of Delita was made for me! Made for me, kupo!
125 121 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_322 Kupo kupo kupo kupo! Enough!
126 122 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_323 The actors in our company trained at the Empire's finest institutes. They represent the pinnacle of the profession not only in Garlemald, but across the entire world.
127 123 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_324 A vagrant <Emphasis>bat-mole</Emphasis> like you could never hope to share a stage with such artists, let alone play the part of a hero like Delita! You yourself admitted you were too craven to face a solitary beast─how do you imagine you would fare against a pack of theater critics!? Any troupe would need proof of valor before it could even consider─
128 124 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_325 (-Montblanc-)Craven!? Call me a cheat and call me cur, but do not, sir, call me craven! I accept your challenge: slay but one foul beast by mine own hand, and the Majestic Theater Company will accept me into its ranks, kupo.
129 125 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_326 Wait, I issued no such─
130 126 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_327 (-Montblanc-)You are all here witnesses, kupo! When I return with the head of a terrible beast in my gore-stained hands, you will be honor-bound to welcome me, Montblanc the Mummer, into the fabled ranks of the Majestic! Good day!
131 127 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_328 Wonderful. What do we do now?
132 128 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_329 What do <Emphasis>we</Emphasis> do? <Emphasis>We</Emphasis> do nothing. If that bat-mole wishes to throw himself on the horns of a stampeding dzo, I will not stand in his way.
133 129 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_330 I believe the proper term of derogation is “mole-bat,” and I should warn you: moogles do not take kindly to those who use it.
134 130 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_331 Why must you always put yourself above others, Brother? Did you learn nothing from Argath's wretched example?
135 131 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_332 Montblanc would never have set off on this fool's errand had you not made the challenge. If anything befalls my brother, his blood will be on your hands!
136 132 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_333 <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>... You are the only one among us capable of locating Montblanc and preventing disaster. On behalf of my brother, I beg your assistance.
137 133 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_335 However did Ramza come to be so thoroughly obnoxious? He and his sister couldn't be more different.
138 134 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_336 Moogles are prominent players in Ivalician legend, but none of the tales mention their capacity for flight. Something lost in translation, perhaps?
139 135 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_337 I...I apologize. I must learn to control my anger. But sometimes...it can be difficult.
140 136 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_ALMALEXENTALE_000_338 You saw the poor moogle. He won't last a day on his own. You must find him and bring him back! I beg of you!
141 137 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_340 My brother can be rather...simpleminded when it comes to such matters. Thinking to impress the Warrior of Light and <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> companions, Montblanc would likely choose the scene of your recent exploits to prove his worth─meaning Rabanastre, if I am not mistaken.
142 138 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_341 Pardon my language, but that Ramza really is an incurable little prick, is he not? How dare he speak to his sister and the moogle in that manner. I couldn't decide which was worse─the things he said, or the way the principal sat back and let him say them.
143 139 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_342 But I suppose it is none of our concern. For now, let us concentrate on the task at hand─finding that moogle before he does something we'll all regret. What say we start nearby. Pier Two, perhaps?
144 140 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_430 The falcon porter tells us that he set a traveling blacksmith away to Yanxia not a bell past. And why would that be of interest to us, you ask?
145 141 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_431 Because said peddler of iron and steel was seen to be carrying a bag stuffed to the brim with, and I quote, “albino mole fur and purple bat wings”!
146 142 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_432 Montblanc!
147 143 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_433 ...Not that we look like that, kupo!
148 144 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_434 The quickest route into Dalmasca is via the One River and its western tributaries. If Montblanc is bound for Rabanastre, he will seek passage from the Glittering Basin.
149 145 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_500 Montblanc! What were you thinking!?
150 146 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_501 Have you any idea what you put your brother through!? He has been worried sick!
151 147 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_502 Both Hurdy and Ramza were right all along. I am a failure. A flop. A flailing flapping foppish failure, kupo. How could <Emphasis>I</Emphasis> play the part of a hero if I cannot even ruffle the feathers of a single measly bird. The audience would see right through me like the spineless jellyfish I am.
152 148 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_503 Now wait, Montblanc. Not everyone can be a hero...not even most heroes! Yes, the bards sing of the man who deals the final blow, but what of his cadre of loyal companions? Do you think Delita united Ivalice on his own? Do you think <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/> here was alone when <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> liberated Ala Mhigo?
153 149 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_Q2_000_000 What will you say?
154 150 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_A2_000_001 You're never alone on the battlefield.
155 151 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_A2_000_002 Not all wars are won on the front lines.
156 152 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_510 Never alone...? So you're saying you'll always be there for me? For Montblanc?
157 153 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_511 Uh... I think <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> was speaking metaphorically...
158 154 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_515 But of course they are not! Every campaign needs its brilliant architect─the mastermind who moves the pieces across the board! <Emphasis>I</Emphasis>, Montblanc, can be that mastermind!
159 155 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_516 That was quick...
160 156 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_530 Let us not dwell on the details. The day is saved, and Montblanc has escaped sans scratch or singe to show for it. We should return to the <Emphasis>Prima Vista</Emphasis> before our luck runs out.
161 157 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_600 Please! This ship is a place of peace!
162 158 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_601 Release my sister or you will answer to me!
163 159 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_602 When the cat's away...
164 160 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_603 Put that damnable thing down, Ramza. You're not helping matters!
165 161 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_604 We have no quarrel with you or yours. We only seek aid in finding our leader, Ba'Gamnan.
166 162 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_605 You seek our help!? You who threatened to kill my father? Who stole his work and made fools of us all!? Never!
167 163 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_606 Silence, Ramza! They have Alma. We will hear what they have to say.
168 164 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_607 As I said, we have no quarrel with you. We only did what was necessary to secure an audience. We surrender our weapons and offer your journal as an act of good faith.
169 165 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_608 ...This is all rather a lot to digest. But your claims do coincide with what we have learned about the auracite.
170 166 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_609 You're saying that crystal did something to our captain?
171 167 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_610 After being emptied of Argath's will, the Duma sought that of another to sate its appetite for aether.
172 168 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_611 You're saying that crystal <Emphasis>ate</Emphasis> our captain!?
173 169 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_612 Not his body, no. Only his soul.
174 170 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_613 His <Emphasis>soul</Emphasis>!?
175 171 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_614 Tell me...what in your opinion was your leader's deepest desire? What was it that he longed for above all else in the world?
176 172 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_615 Why waste your breath reasoning with these...these...<Emphasis>lizards</Emphasis>? They showed themselves for the beasts they are when they put a knife to your throat!
177 173 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_616 First mole-bats, now lizards? This one's tongue is pure poison.
178 174 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_617 The boy can call us what he pleases. For our past failings, we deserve no better.
179 175 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_618 Your failings?
180 176 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_619 Thirty summers have come and gone...yet not a night goes by that I do not wake in sweat at the memory.
181 177 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_620 We were fusiliers in the Dalmascan army, stationed in the royal stronghold at Nalbina.
182 178 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_621 Nalbina Fortress was reputed to be impenetrable. Its fall to the IVth Legion proved a turning point in the imperial campaign, dealing a crushing blow to Dalmascan morale and ultimately marking the beginning of the kingdom's end.
183 179 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_622 Ba'Gamnan was our captain, and once it was clear the day would not be ours, Prince Rasler, commander of the garrison at Nalbina, tasked him with one final mission.
184 180 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_623 Our unit was to escort His Highness's twin sister, the Princess Ashelia, away from the fortress and thence to safety. But...things did not go as planned...
185 181 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_624 I still remember the words she uttered as she lay dying in the captain's arms but a stone's throw from where the Garamsythe Waterway drains into the sea.
186 182 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_625 Even as the fog of death descended upon her, she smiled and told us─the very people who had failed her─to survive, for as long as even a single Dalmascan stood, our nation would never truly perish.
187 183 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_626 But it should not have been us who survived. By failing to protect our charge, we betrayed the princess and her memory, and brought shame upon our race. So yes, we are naught but cold-blooded lizards deserving of whatever scorn you deign to heap on us.
188 184 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_627 Hmm... I think we may safely assume a deep-seated hatred towards the invaders of his homeland, coupled with self-loathing born from a sense of powerlessness.
189 185 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_628 The darkness that lurks in the heart of Ba'Gamnan is little different from that which drove Argath─the selfsame emotions that were to nourish the Duma.
190 186 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_629 Stop speaking in riddles, Sharlayan.
191 187 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_630 She's saying your <Emphasis>brave captain</Emphasis> will eventually turn into a monster...or rather, more of one.
192 188 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_GIJUK_000_631 Garlean lies!
193 189 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_632 What they say is true. If we do not find Ba'Gamnan and the Duma soon, none of us are safe, present company included.
194 190 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_633 Do you have any idea where he might have gone? Any at all?
195 191 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_634 Wait, look at this! Something has been added to the final page of my journal!
196 192 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_BWAGI_000_635 Then the captain must have put it there. Only he had access to it─until we found it in the pack he left behind, that is.
197 193 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_636 Is this...Dalmascan?
198 194 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MONTBLANC_000_637 Indeed it is! It says “Ridorana.”
199 195 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RINOK_000_638 The lighthouse? Why would he write that, and in the old man's journal no less?
200 196 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_639 There is a place on the Valnard Sea, far to the south of Rabanastre, where the ocean tumbles into a gaping maw more than a malm across─the Ridorana Cataract.
201 197 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_640 Legend would have us believe that it is the entrance to the Hell of Water.
202 198 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_MIKOTO_000_641 Many a scholar seeking to prove otherwise has descended into the chasm─some even by airship─but not a one has returned.
203 199 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_RAMZALEXENTALE_000_650 Tell me, is Ridorana truly as magnificent as they say? ...Hm? You have never been there? And there I was thinking you might have something to contribute.
204 200 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_680 I must admit to knowing little of Ridorana save that which Lady Mikoto shared with us. Before we expend valuable time and resources traveling to so remote a place, I must review my notes and see if there is any mention of the abyss.
205 201 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_JENOMISLEXENTALE_000_681 We shall send for you as soon as we learn aught of interest.
206 202 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_400
207 203 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_401
208 204 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_420
209 205 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_425
210 206 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_440
211 207 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CHIGUSA_000_441
212 208 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_CHIGUSA_000_442
213 209 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_443
214 210 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_450
215 211 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_455
216 212 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_LINAMEWRILAH_000_480
217 213 TEXT_STMBDI201_03089_HURDY_000_485
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