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* 7.45 follow-up
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10TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_SEQ_00When the land is at war, the meanest lodgings never lack for tenants who sleep fitfully and wake screaming.
21TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_SEQ_01The deputy postmoogle has a mysterious delivery for you. Perhaps the recipient, the hermit Drest of the Severed String, can shed some light on the puzzling letter.
32TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_SEQ_02Drest's reaction is not exactly what one would call enlightening, but it certainly lives up to the postmoogle's fanfare. Signed, “The Ones You Killed,” the letter calls the hermit “Dashing Drest” and asks a singular question: “Do you dream of rain?” Reflect on it while you retrieve Drest's precious leather sack from Raincatcher Gully.
43TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_SEQ_03You find the leather sack, though you can still make neither head nor tail of the message in the letter. Perhaps Drest will have something to say about it, when you deliver the sack with its hoard of gil.
54TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_SEQ_04Drest's hard-won gil is gone from the sack, replaced with a blood-caked helm of a Garlean legionnaire. The terrified hermit begs you to draw off any watchers outside the shack, then meet him near the House of Sticks in lower La Noscea to guard him on his flight.
65TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_SEQ_05You arrive at the appointed location and discover that the rendezvous has become a rescue mission. Save Drest from the Garlean legionnaires and see whether you can finally get to the bottom of this very strange delivery.
76TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_SEQ_06Drest is safe, and may yet find his way out of the thorn–wood of his heart. You suspect that what happened on a rainy night three years ago was but the last straw, and the tragedy began when Garlemald set its sights on Drest's homeland... But that story is for another day.
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2524TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_TODO_00Deliver the mysterious letter to Drest in eastern La Noscea.
2625TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_TODO_01Search for the leather sack.
2726TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_TODO_02Deliver the leather sack to Drest.
2827TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_TODO_03Rendezvous with Drest in lower La Noscea.
2928TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_TODO_04Rescue Drest.
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4948TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_LETTERMOOGLE_000_000My trusty Player! I have a delivery for you, addressed to Drest at the Severed String, over in Raincatcher Gully, kupo. But...
5049TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_LETTERMOOGLE_000_001I promised the Seedseers no more secrets, kupo! The letter was handed to me in a most curious way. Why, he seemed not to know of postmoogles, and was very furtive to boot.
5150TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_LETTERMOOGLE_000_002I introduced myself in a way that did credit to our kind, you can be sure! But when he asked me to deliver the letter in his stead, do you know what he said?
5251TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_LETTERMOOGLE_000_003“Don't deliver it now; wait a few days”! Have you heard the like before? I know how much you enjoy the strange and the suspicious, so here you are, kupo!
5352TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_LETTERMOOGLE_000_004This letter is for Drest at the Severed String, over in Raincatcher Gully. A very strange delivery in my opinion, kupo!
5453TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_010It's...you. Been a while. A letter...a letter from who? Nobody knows me...
5554TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_011"My dear Dashing Drest, Do you dream of rain? The Ones You Killed“
5655TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_012H-How did they know? Ghosts...ghosts that won't leave me in peace...!
5756TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_013Taunting me. Before they...kill me. No...no...no! I won't let them! I'll run─I'll start over somewhere else!
5857TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_014Help me! There's a leather sack hidden east of here. A peaceful spot...surrounded by rocks...trees...
5958TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_015My savings... Gil...gil to go home with. Home to...my family. Get it for me, help me!
6059TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_016Get my savings... A leather sack...hidden. A peaceful spot...surrounded by rocks...trees... East of here, help me!
6160TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_020Did...did you find it? Did you find the leather sack?
6261TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_021Thank the... But let me look inside─must be sure...
6362TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_100_021What...? No...no...no...
6463TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_022Just a dream...a dream! Let me wake...wake...wake... Oh gods, mercy, have *mercy*!
6564TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_023You see it too!? No...no dream... A bloody helm...black blood, old blood! Idem in me...by the majesty of Garlemald...never to desert...idem in me!
6665TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_024Ghosts...ghosts...ghosts. Three years, not a single night of peace and now...they rise.
6766TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_025Help me, they're watching right now. I...I have to get out of here. Go somewhere else...just a short while. Then I can...I can go home.
6867TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_026I'll go...out the back after you go out the front. Meet me...near the abandoned house in lower La Noscea. You know...the kobolds' squat. The House of Sticks.
6968TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_027Must...must be careful. I'll go...after you leave. The House of Sticks... Meet me near the House of Sticks.
7069TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_COLLEAGUE_000_037You'll clean that helm tonight, worm. Lick the blood and brains off of it while we drink the wine bought with your paltry hoard...
7170TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_COLLEAGUE_000_038Once a craven, always a craven. Flushed you out like a rabbit with that letter. Isn't that what desert conies do? *Dash*!?
7271TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_040You...died. You all died.
7372TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_COLLEAGUE_000_041Not all, just most. Three good soldiers survived...and *you*. Figured you for dead until I saw you skulking by the water a week ago.
7473TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_COLLEAGUE_000_042Do you think *we* don't dream of rain, worm? What honor in surviving an ambush, eh? Three years of disdain─that ends when we hand over a deserter to the cudgel–man.
7574TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_100_040I... I...
7675TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_COLLEAGUE_100_042Hm? You a *friend* to this scum? You ought to pick them more carefully!
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9695TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_POP_MESSAGE_000_060The soldiers fix you with a murderous gaze!
9796TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_BALLOON_000_061Your blood will paint my path to glory!
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10099TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_064<groan> I should have known...this would happen. Now I'll never go home...
101100TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_COLLEAGUE_000_065Look at it this way, Dashing Drest: this is an easier way to go than what they do to deserters back in Garlemald!
102101TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_070Thank...thank you. There's no one...knows I'm alive now. I'm...safe.
103102TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_100_070I was in a unit...of Garlean scouts. A Maelstrom ambush in heavy rain, three years ago.
104103TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_071I thought...I was the only survivor. It didn't feel like desertion. It felt like...dying.
105104TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_072You heard what they called me. Dashing Drest. I never tried to...run before that night. They...kill you for that. It's from...before...in the desert, I...
106105TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_073Why did you...protect me? We're not kin. Look at me, I'm barely...barely a man. A broken, craven thing...
107106TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_074You decided I should live. How...do you do that? I can't even decide some days...which foot to move first.
108107TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_076Do you think...I can be well again? Decide to live...not just be afraid to die?
109108TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_Q1_000_000What will you say?
110109TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_A1_000_001It all begins with the first step.
111110TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_A1_000_002...
112111TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_077True... I haven't thought things through in...in a long time. Not since my homeland fell to the Empire.
113112TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_100_077No...you don't have the answers either. But you─ You know that. And you can still...you can still decide. Without answers.
114113TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_078Home is─home isn't somewhere I can buy a fare to. It's not a sack of gil or answers I need but *questions*. Why does it hurt? How do I feel...
115114TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_DREST_000_080I will see my children again. But it's not the time yet. I think─I think, though, it will come. That's a start...
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118117TEXT_SUBPST021_00241_SYSTEM_000_083With your successful delivery, your reputation as a letter carrier has grown!