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24,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_TODO_00","Speak with the relaxing researcher in Sharlayan Hamlet."
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48,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_000","Pray see that it is done. Thank you for your unwavering service."
49,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_001","...Oh! Thaliak be good, I didn't see you there."
50,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_002","I trust you have been well? And the twins?"
51,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_003","...Er, perhaps I should reintroduce myself. Our first meeting was passing brief, after all."
52,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_004","My name is Theopauldin, and I oversee the researchers in Labyrinthos."
53,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_005","During the Final Days, you and the Leveilleur children assisted me in exchange for stories about their mother and father. Although, I'm sure the issue of the aetherburner weighed heavier on <Emphasis>your</Emphasis> mind than personal anecdotes at the time."
54,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_006","You Scions truly managed to do the impossible. Our star owes you its salvation."
55,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_007","Moreover, your spectacular voyage through the great expanse has driven our researchers to pursue greater heights of development and innovation."
56,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_Q1_000_008","What will you say?"
57,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_A1_000_009","...We don't have another apocalypse scheduled, do we?"
58,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_A1_000_010","Oh, are you building more toy boats─er, starfaring vessels?"
59,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_100_010","Not so far as I'm aware! No, for a blessing, what we currently concern ourselves with in Labyrinthos is far less dire."
60,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_011","While I can't deny <Emphasis>something</Emphasis> of the sort, the scope of our current work extends far beyond interstellar travel."
61,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_012","Would you care to join me below? You can see for yourself what our researchers have been busying themselves with these days."
62,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_013","Our gleaners have just delivered some missives that I must distribute, and I would be greatly honored by your company."
63,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_014","Marvelous. I have no doubt your presence will brighten many a day."
64,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_015","In that case, where might we begin..."
65,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_016","Ah, yes! Why don't we pay Margrat a visit first? Quite gregarious, that one. Always eager to share her opinions."
66,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_017","Her laboratory is on the eastern side of Sharlayan Hamlet, so let us be off."
67,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_020","This is the place. Let's see if she's in."
68,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_RESEARCHER04815_000_030","Can I help you with something?"
69,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_031","Yes, in fact. My apologies for intruding upon your break, but is Margrat available for a chat?"
70,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_RESEARCHER04815_000_032","Oh, er... No, she, er... Left for Thesauros, I think."
71,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_RESEARCHER04815_000_033","She mentioned something about a request...or getting something off her chest, I couldn't say for sure..."
72,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_034","Thesauros is a collective that oversees the allocation of research materiel, so naturally they have a branch here in Sharlayan Hamlet."
73,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_035","From quills to guildship commissions, Thesauros is a one-stop provider of countless invaluable services. They are committed to ensuring our researchers have what they need to perform their work effectively and efficiently."
74,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_036","I am sure Margrat will be kind enough to expound upon their offerings in <Emphasis>exhausting</Emphasis> detail when we find her. It's the building just across the plaza."
75,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_RESEARCHER04815_000_040","Well, this doesn't bode well... Godsspeed, Margrat..."
76,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_050","Here we are. I assume we'll find Margrat with our receptionist."
77,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_051","...That I should have to <Emphasis>explain</Emphasis> is an affront to common sense, but our development of Labyrinthos's infrastructure has been <Emphasis>painstakingly</Emphasis> rational, as befits this intellectual community."
78,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_052","We have <Emphasis>never</Emphasis> shirked our duty to share the returns of our research, be they informational or monetary, and Aporia's ledgers can surely attest to the equitable distribution of such dividends."
79,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_053","Since this <Emphasis>rational</Emphasis> system is designed to create a self-sustaining cycle of funding for our research, it is only <Emphasis>logical</Emphasis> to conclude that nothing is rotten in the state of Sharlayan Hamlet."
80,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_054","But do you know what <Emphasis>is</Emphasis> rotten, Hodge? What is hastening our decay, body and soul?"
81,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_055","The godsdamned <Emphasis>chairs</Emphasis>, Hodge! The blank, soulless walls! The complete inability to requisition anything deemed “irrelevant” to our research despite the <Emphasis>abundant</Emphasis> benefits they may provide─the sustainment of the <Emphasis>sanity</Emphasis> and well-being of us researchers!"
82,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_056","Tell me, is the mighty Labyrinthos bereft of wealth or <Emphasis>compassion</Emphasis>? I'd like to know, Hodge!"
83,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_057","...When I said she was eager to share her opinions, I confess this was not what I had in mind. Margrat, would you kindly stop berating Hodge for doing his job?"
84,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_058","B-Berating? No, I'm...I am merely submitting a request for answers regarding systemic failures whilst offering my assessment of the situation. But now that you're here, sir, perhaps you can use your authority to remedy this latest injustice!"
85,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_059","Would that I could, Margrat. Sadly, our resources have their limits, but I assure you that our associates at Thesauros will continue to make every effort to ensure each request receives due consideration."
86,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_060","Furthermore, in light of the correspondence I just received from your collaborators, you have more pressing matters to attend to. They say, and I quote:"
87,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_061","""We appreciate your concerns regarding the current schedule. Nevertheless, we wish to proceed according to initially scheduled projections. Respectfully yours, etc.“"
88,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_062","Hyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Why!? Why does this <Emphasis>always</Emphasis> happen!?"
89,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_063","What about the word “impossible” is so difficult to comprehend!? Do they think we're exaggerating!? Or is the air too thin at the mountaintops of <Emphasis>privilege</Emphasis> from which our superiors deign to issue commandments!?"
90,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_064","Why is it that when we dare to hope that perhaps this time, <Emphasis>this</Emphasis> time it will be different─it always ends in the same catastrophe of unlearned lessons!?"
91,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_065","Do it again, but <Emphasis>faster</Emphasis>! Sacrifice health, hygiene, and personal happiness as you feed the furnace, its hunger for your labor insatiable! O minion, render up your everything on the altar of glorious progress!"
92,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_066","Oh, I can't stand it anymore... Take my life, my liberty, just leave me my fluffy bed! I've only just remembered its gentle caress... <sob>"
93,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_067","But no! After ripping us from the bosom of what meager comforts our servitude affords, they now expect us to bruise our buttocks upon chairs harder than the heads of the whole Forum combined!"
94,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_068","Upon the slags that greedy gil-pinchers refuse to replace on the grounds they are not <Emphasis>essential</Emphasis> for our work, despite the cries of our lower backs for succor, mournful and ceaseless and distracting, stifling genius and innovation...!"
95,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_Q2_000_069","What will you say?"
96,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_A2_000_070","Er...can I help somehow?"
97,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_A2_000_071","I swear to you, here and now, that I will make you a new chair if you stop talking."
98,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_072","Wait a moment... I've seen you somewhere before..."
99,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_073","Aether tanks! That's right, aether tanks, I remember!"
100,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_074","...Truly, you wish to help? Because even if I am more indebted to you than you to me, I am prepared to impose upon your goodwill if it will yield us even an onze of respite."
101,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_075","Tell me, are you an artisan? An aspiring gleaner? Someone willing to do what it takes?"
102,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_076","...Wait, you'd <Emphasis>make</Emphasis> me a chair? So in other words, you're an artisan!?"
103,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_077","And a humorist too, I see. Your jest is most welcome in these trying times. I doubt I was half the help to you as you would be to me, but I am prepared to impose upon your goodwill if it will yield us even an onze of respite. May I?"
104,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_078","Oh, I knew it! You exude a kindness that other people in our immediate vicinity decidedly lack!"
105,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_079","I'll get straight to the point: our bums are sore and our backs are curled like finger shrimp. Anything to help alleviate our pains would be greatly appreciated. Cushions, massage instruments, herbal supplements, <Emphasis>anything</Emphasis>."
106,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_080","Oh, and should you fear that a surplus of generosity might go to waste, know there is no shortage of achy researchers in my laboratory, so all donations will be put to good use."
107,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_081","Rest assured you <Emphasis>will</Emphasis> be compensated with more than our glowing gratitude, too! You adventuring types like those colorful scrips, don't you? Well, I have a veritable tonze of them left over from an old project, so they are yours should they bring you joy."
108,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_082","...While your gesture humbles us, I would hate to think Margrat is pressuring you with her, er, <Emphasis>overzealousness</Emphasis>. Are you sure this arrangement would not be an imposition?"
109,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_083","Well, it's your prerogative, and I am sure your efforts will be appreciated by all."
110,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_084","Hodge, coordinate with the distributors of Margrat's scrips so we may establish a provisional exchange in these offices for our new partner's convenience."
111,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_HODGE_000_085","...Understood."
112,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_100_085","R'dhyanki at the far desk will see that you are furnished with whatever supplies you require. Do not hesitate to make use of her services."
113,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_086","I have other missives in need of delivery, so I shall leave you to it, but please...take care not to overexert yourself."
114,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_087","Be advised that I will hold <Emphasis>you</Emphasis> responsible if <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> does!"
115,"TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_088","Right! To avoid Theopauldin's wrath, why don't we start with three items or so? Your best materiel for backaches in exchange for my colorful scrips. I look forward to seeing what you deliver!"
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52 48 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_000 Pray see that it is done. Thank you for your unwavering service.
53 49 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_001 ...Oh! Thaliak be good, I didn't see you there.
54 50 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_002 I trust you have been well? And the twins?
55 51 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_003 ...Er, perhaps I should reintroduce myself. Our first meeting was passing brief, after all.
56 52 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_004 My name is Theopauldin, and I oversee the researchers in Labyrinthos.
57 53 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_005 During the Final Days, you and the Leveilleur children assisted me in exchange for stories about their mother and father. Although, I'm sure the issue of the aetherburner weighed heavier on <Emphasis>your</Emphasis> mind than personal anecdotes at the time.
58 54 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_006 You Scions truly managed to do the impossible. Our star owes you its salvation.
59 55 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_007 Moreover, your spectacular voyage through the great expanse has driven our researchers to pursue greater heights of development and innovation.
60 56 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_Q1_000_008 What will you say?
61 57 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_A1_000_009 ...We don't have another apocalypse scheduled, do we?
62 58 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_A1_000_010 Oh, are you building more toy boats─er, starfaring vessels?
63 59 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_100_010 Not so far as I'm aware! No, for a blessing, what we currently concern ourselves with in Labyrinthos is far less dire.
64 60 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_011 While I can't deny <Emphasis>something</Emphasis> of the sort, the scope of our current work extends far beyond interstellar travel.
65 61 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_012 Would you care to join me below? You can see for yourself what our researchers have been busying themselves with these days.
66 62 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_013 Our gleaners have just delivered some missives that I must distribute, and I would be greatly honored by your company.
67 63 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_014 Marvelous. I have no doubt your presence will brighten many a day.
68 64 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_015 In that case, where might we begin...
69 65 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_016 Ah, yes! Why don't we pay Margrat a visit first? Quite gregarious, that one. Always eager to share her opinions.
70 66 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_017 Her laboratory is on the eastern side of Sharlayan Hamlet, so let us be off.
71 67 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_020 This is the place. Let's see if she's in.
72 68 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_RESEARCHER04815_000_030 Can I help you with something?
73 69 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_031 Yes, in fact. My apologies for intruding upon your break, but is Margrat available for a chat?
74 70 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_RESEARCHER04815_000_032 Oh, er... No, she, er... Left for Thesauros, I think.
75 71 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_RESEARCHER04815_000_033 She mentioned something about a request...or getting something off her chest, I couldn't say for sure...
76 72 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_034 Thesauros is a collective that oversees the allocation of research materiel, so naturally they have a branch here in Sharlayan Hamlet.
77 73 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_035 From quills to guildship commissions, Thesauros is a one-stop provider of countless invaluable services. They are committed to ensuring our researchers have what they need to perform their work effectively and efficiently.
78 74 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_036 I am sure Margrat will be kind enough to expound upon their offerings in <Emphasis>exhausting</Emphasis> detail when we find her. It's the building just across the plaza.
79 75 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_RESEARCHER04815_000_040 Well, this doesn't bode well... Godsspeed, Margrat...
80 76 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_050 Here we are. I assume we'll find Margrat with our receptionist.
81 77 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_051 ...That I should have to <Emphasis>explain</Emphasis> is an affront to common sense, but our development of Labyrinthos's infrastructure has been <Emphasis>painstakingly</Emphasis> rational, as befits this intellectual community.
82 78 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_052 We have <Emphasis>never</Emphasis> shirked our duty to share the returns of our research, be they informational or monetary, and Aporia's ledgers can surely attest to the equitable distribution of such dividends.
83 79 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_053 Since this <Emphasis>rational</Emphasis> system is designed to create a self-sustaining cycle of funding for our research, it is only <Emphasis>logical</Emphasis> to conclude that nothing is rotten in the state of Sharlayan Hamlet.
84 80 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_054 But do you know what <Emphasis>is</Emphasis> rotten, Hodge? What is hastening our decay, body and soul?
85 81 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_055 The godsdamned <Emphasis>chairs</Emphasis>, Hodge! The blank, soulless walls! The complete inability to requisition anything deemed “irrelevant” to our research despite the <Emphasis>abundant</Emphasis> benefits they may provide─the sustainment of the <Emphasis>sanity</Emphasis> and well-being of us researchers!
86 82 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_056 Tell me, is the mighty Labyrinthos bereft of wealth or <Emphasis>compassion</Emphasis>? I'd like to know, Hodge!
87 83 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_057 ...When I said she was eager to share her opinions, I confess this was not what I had in mind. Margrat, would you kindly stop berating Hodge for doing his job?
88 84 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_058 B-Berating? No, I'm...I am merely submitting a request for answers regarding systemic failures whilst offering my assessment of the situation. But now that you're here, sir, perhaps you can use your authority to remedy this latest injustice!
89 85 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_059 Would that I could, Margrat. Sadly, our resources have their limits, but I assure you that our associates at Thesauros will continue to make every effort to ensure each request receives due consideration.
90 86 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_060 Furthermore, in light of the correspondence I just received from your collaborators, you have more pressing matters to attend to. They say, and I quote:
91 87 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_061 "We appreciate your concerns regarding the current schedule. Nevertheless, we wish to proceed according to initially scheduled projections. Respectfully yours, etc.“
92 88 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_062 Hyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Why!? Why does this <Emphasis>always</Emphasis> happen!?
93 89 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_063 What about the word “impossible” is so difficult to comprehend!? Do they think we're exaggerating!? Or is the air too thin at the mountaintops of <Emphasis>privilege</Emphasis> from which our superiors deign to issue commandments!?
94 90 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_064 Why is it that when we dare to hope that perhaps this time, <Emphasis>this</Emphasis> time it will be different─it always ends in the same catastrophe of unlearned lessons!?
95 91 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_065 Do it again, but <Emphasis>faster</Emphasis>! Sacrifice health, hygiene, and personal happiness as you feed the furnace, its hunger for your labor insatiable! O minion, render up your everything on the altar of glorious progress!
96 92 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_066 Oh, I can't stand it anymore... Take my life, my liberty, just leave me my fluffy bed! I've only just remembered its gentle caress... <sob>
97 93 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_067 But no! After ripping us from the bosom of what meager comforts our servitude affords, they now expect us to bruise our buttocks upon chairs harder than the heads of the whole Forum combined!
98 94 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_068 Upon the slags that greedy gil-pinchers refuse to replace on the grounds they are not <Emphasis>essential</Emphasis> for our work, despite the cries of our lower backs for succor, mournful and ceaseless and distracting, stifling genius and innovation...!
99 95 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_Q2_000_069 What will you say?
100 96 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_A2_000_070 Er...can I help somehow?
101 97 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_A2_000_071 I swear to you, here and now, that I will make you a new chair if you stop talking.
102 98 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_072 Wait a moment... I've seen you somewhere before...
103 99 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_073 Aether tanks! That's right, aether tanks, I remember!
104 100 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_074 ...Truly, you wish to help? Because even if I am more indebted to you than you to me, I am prepared to impose upon your goodwill if it will yield us even an onze of respite.
105 101 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_075 Tell me, are you an artisan? An aspiring gleaner? Someone willing to do what it takes?
106 102 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_076 ...Wait, you'd <Emphasis>make</Emphasis> me a chair? So in other words, you're an artisan!?
107 103 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_077 And a humorist too, I see. Your jest is most welcome in these trying times. I doubt I was half the help to you as you would be to me, but I am prepared to impose upon your goodwill if it will yield us even an onze of respite. May I?
108 104 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_078 Oh, I knew it! You exude a kindness that other people in our immediate vicinity decidedly lack!
109 105 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_079 I'll get straight to the point: our bums are sore and our backs are curled like finger shrimp. Anything to help alleviate our pains would be greatly appreciated. Cushions, massage instruments, herbal supplements, <Emphasis>anything</Emphasis>.
110 106 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_080 Oh, and should you fear that a surplus of generosity might go to waste, know there is no shortage of achy researchers in my laboratory, so all donations will be put to good use.
111 107 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_081 Rest assured you <Emphasis>will</Emphasis> be compensated with more than our glowing gratitude, too! You adventuring types like those colorful scrips, don't you? Well, I have a veritable tonze of them left over from an old project, so they are yours should they bring you joy.
112 108 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_082 ...While your gesture humbles us, I would hate to think Margrat is pressuring you with her, er, <Emphasis>overzealousness</Emphasis>. Are you sure this arrangement would not be an imposition?
113 109 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_083 Well, it's your prerogative, and I am sure your efforts will be appreciated by all.
114 110 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_084 Hodge, coordinate with the distributors of Margrat's scrips so we may establish a provisional exchange in these offices for our new partner's convenience.
115 111 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_HODGE_000_085 ...Understood.
116 112 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_100_085 R'dhyanki at the far desk will see that you are furnished with whatever supplies you require. Do not hesitate to make use of her services.
117 113 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_086 I have other missives in need of delivery, so I shall leave you to it, but please...take care not to overexert yourself.
118 114 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_THEOPAULDIN_000_087 Be advised that I will hold <Emphasis>you</Emphasis> responsible if <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> does!
119 115 TEXT_SUBCTS605_04815_MARGRAT_000_088 Right! To avoid Theopauldin's wrath, why don't we start with three items or so? Your best materiel for backaches in exchange for my colorful scrips. I look forward to seeing what you deliver!