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| 4 | 0 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000010_TATARU | Look how many people there are! |
| 5 | 1 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000020_TATARU | Should we get to it, then? Pick up anything that seems the least bit “device” like, and we'll make ourselves a pile. |
| 6 | 2 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000030_BIGGS | Well if it isn't the hero of the hour! Maybe you'll change our luck─we've found bugger all without you. |
| 7 | 3 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000040_TATARU | Biggs! Wedge! |
| 8 | 4 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000050_BIGGS | Aye, aye, well we could hardly say no to a call for aid from the Scions. |
| 9 | 5 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000060_BIGGS | Jessie collared the chief for some other business, so we'll be working twice as hard to make up for his not being here. |
| 10 | 6 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000070_WEDGE | Thrice as hard, even! |
| 11 | 7 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000080_TATARU | Thank you─both of you! I'm sure we'll find that beacon in no time! |
| 12 | 8 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000090_BIGGS | Hm. I'm not seeing anything out here. |
| 13 | 9 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000100_BIGGS | D'you reckon you could squeeze in there, Wedge? |
| 14 | 10 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000110_WEDGE | And get stuck halfway!? No thank you. |
| 15 | 11 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000120_TATARU | I could try if you like! |
| 16 | 12 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000130_WEDGE | Tataru, no! We couldn't ask you to do that! |
| 17 | 13 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000140_TATARU | Oh, I'll be fine! This receptionist is not afraid to get her hands dirty! |
| 18 | 14 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000150_BIGGS | Sorry, I-I meant to say─the scholars haven't finished their preliminary assessment of the site yet, so we're not supposed to venture too far in. |
| 19 | 15 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000160_BIGGS | ...Hm, what's that you got there? |
| 20 | 16 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000170_BIGGS | Now <Emphasis>that</Emphasis> looks promising! |
| 21 | 17 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000180_WEDGE | Uhh...isn't that the Ironworks' symbol? ...Counterfeiters? |
| 22 | 18 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000190_MYSTERYVOICE | Now...<Emphasis>now</Emphasis> I have you! |
| 23 | 19 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000200_BIGGS | You all right? |
| 24 | 20 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000210_WEDGE | What's happening!? |
| 25 | 21 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000220_TATARU | (PANICKED WHIMPERING) |
| 26 | 22 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000230_MYSTERYVOICE | Stay with me! Focus on my voice! |
| 27 | 23 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000240_MYSTERYVOICE | Let expanse contract, eon become instant... |
| 28 | 24 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000250_TATARU | ...Wait, this must be it! The device! This is <Emphasis>supposed</Emphasis> to happen! |
| 29 | 25 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000260_MYSTERYVOICE | Throw wide the gates that we may pass! |
| 30 | 26 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000270_TATARU | Safe journey, Warrior of Light. Find our friends, and bring them home! |
| 31 | 27 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000275_MEMORY | 聞いて |
| 32 | 28 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000280_MINFILIA | Your time has not yet come. |
| 33 | 29 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000290_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | From endless dreams, I awake. |
| 34 | 30 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000300_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Something vague...yet urgent...calls me to action once more. |
| 35 | 31 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000310_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | Rare to meet someone out here who's not a peddler themself. What brings you into the wilds this time o' night? |
| 36 | 32 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q1_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 37 | 33 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A1_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What do you mean, “this time of night”? |
| 38 | 34 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A1_000_002_NONE_VOICE | But it's bright as day... |
| 39 | 35 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000320_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | (CHUCKLE) |
| 40 | 36 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000330_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | Well, if it ain't the oldest joke in the book. Me grandad─gods rest his soul─used to tell that one to the barman at kickin'-out time. |
| 41 | 37 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000340_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | "An' when, pray tell, did we last have a dark night? Ye rotten old drunk ye!“ he'd reply. |
| 42 | 38 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000345_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | (SIGH) |
| 43 | 39 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000350_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | "Over a hundred bleedin' years ago, that's when!“ |
| 44 | 40 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000360_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | Hm! You've got that look down to a tee. I'd almost think you meant it... |
| 45 | 41 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000370_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | Ahhh, got to you, did they? Poor beggar. That explains it, then. |
| 46 | 42 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000375_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | ごくり |
| 47 | 43 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000380_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | Well, I've roads to travel and wares to sell, but you─you'd best hurry along to the town nearby. |
| 48 | 44 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000390_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | Just head east through the trees, and aim for the shining tower. You'll find the place soon enough. 'Tis the biggest settlement for malms around. |
| 49 | 45 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000400_PEDDLEROFNORVRANDT | Go on, now, friend. They'll take good care of you in the Crystarium. |
| 50 | 46 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000410_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | To dizzying heights it rises, the gleaming spire, its tip threatening to pierce the blinding canopy. |
| 51 | 47 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000420_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | There it will all begin anew. Between Dark and Light, the pure and the corrupt─the one true struggle... |
| 52 | 48 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000430_LYNA | (-???-)Halt. |
| 53 | 49 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000440_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)Every face in this city I know. Yours I do not. |
| 54 | 50 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000450_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)This is the threshold of the Crystarium, stranger, and I am its gatekeeper. If you would enter, you will answer my questions. |
| 55 | 51 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000460_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)From where do you hail? |
| 56 | 52 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q2_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Where are you from? |
| 57 | 53 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A2_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Gridania. |
| 58 | 54 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A2_000_002_NONE_VOICE | Limsa Lominsa. |
| 59 | 55 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A2_000_003_NONE_VOICE | Ul'dah. |
| 60 | 56 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A2_000_004_NONE_VOICE | The Source. |
| 61 | 57 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A2_000_005_NONE_VOICE | ... |
| 62 | 58 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000470_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)Do you take me for a fool? No such place exists. |
| 63 | 59 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000480_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)"The Source“? What is this cryptic nonsense? |
| 64 | 60 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000490_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)You will not say? Then I have even less reason to trust you. |
| 65 | 61 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000500_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)Had you given me an honest answer, I would not have barred your way─we care little here for a person's place of origin. But instead you chose concealment, and I will not suffer you to pass... |
| 66 | 62 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000501_LYNA | Hah! |
| 67 | 63 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000510_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)That one had eaten. It must have gulped down the whole hand, ring and all... |
| 68 | 64 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000520_MYSTERYVOICE | (-???-)Everything all right, Captain? |
| 69 | 65 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000530_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)Quite all right, my lord. Just a stray sin eater, and a weak one at that. |
| 70 | 66 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000540_MYSTERYVOICE | I see. Weak or not, we should be on the lookout for more. |
| 71 | 67 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000550_MYSTERYVOICE | But I see you've met my guest. I will escort <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>him</If> to the Crystarium myself...if you've no objections? |
| 72 | 68 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000560_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)Another of your mysterious friends, is it? I should have known. |
| 73 | 69 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000570_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)Very well. I'll inform the others your guest is to be given the run of the city. |
| 74 | 70 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000580_LYNA | (-Curt Gateguard-)Pray forgive my less-than-cordial welcome. May the rest of your stay with us be a pleasant one. |
| 75 | 71 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000590_MYSTERYVOICE | Come with me. I will answer whatever questions you have when we are somewhere more private. |
| 76 | 72 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000600_MYSTERYVOICE | Right, then. Before we plunge into the wheres and wherefores, let me first thank you for answering my summons. |
| 77 | 73 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000610_MYSTERYVOICE | I had intended to bring you directly to my personal quarters, but I fear my aim was...slightly off. That you were still able to make the crossing unharmed is...a great relief. |
| 78 | 74 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000620_MYSTERYVOICE | And so we come to the question of where. The realm in which you now find yourself belongs to one of the thirteen reflections or shards─the First, to be precise─even if its inhabitants are largely oblivious to the fact. |
| 79 | 75 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000630_MYSTERYVOICE | As to wherefore... Having been awarded the rather grandiose title of “Crystal Exarch,” I─in my capacity as caretaker of the Crystarium─thought to seek the aid of you and your companions. |
| 80 | 76 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q3_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you ask? |
| 81 | 77 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A3_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Are the other Scions here? |
| 82 | 78 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A3_000_002_NONE_VOICE | Do you have any idea how much trouble you've caused? |
| 83 | 79 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000640_MYSTERYVOICE | Ah. That...is a question with no simple answer. But all shall be explained in due course, I promise you. |
| 84 | 80 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000650_MYSTERYVOICE | ...An inkling, yes. I can only beg your forgiveness─matters here forced my hand. But all shall be explained in due course, I promise you. |
| 85 | 81 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000660_MYSTERYVOICE | Let us begin with the glaring skies up above. |
| 86 | 82 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000670_MYSTERYVOICE | Here in the First, the world has been all but consumed by primordial Light. |
| 87 | 83 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000680_MYSTERYVOICE | It began a century ago, by this realm's reckoning. A luminous flood swallowing everything in its path. More than nine-tenths of this star was lost. |
| 88 | 84 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000690_MYSTERYVOICE | And the fortunate few who survived are hounded by abominations born of that catastrophe even now. |
| 89 | 85 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000700_MYSTERYVOICE | "Sin eaters,“ we call them. The creature you saw earlier was one such monstrosity. |
| 90 | 86 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000710_MYSTERYVOICE | It was to save the First from this menace that I learned to bridge the rift between worlds─that I might call upon the aid of the greatest of heroes. |
| 91 | 87 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000720_MYSTERYVOICE | Though it meant depriving a world of its champion, I had to try─for in saving the First, you would bring salvation to the Source as well. |
| 92 | 88 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000730_MYSTERYVOICE | But what manner of host harangues his guest in the middle of the road? Let us continue our talk within the Crystarium. |
| 93 | 89 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000740_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Such a proud and vibrant city... |
| 94 | 90 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000750_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | The sole sanctuary for the living in a world all but resigned to oblivion. |
| 95 | 91 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000760_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Each stone was laid with hope; the town itself a symbol, a monument to defiance in the face of death. |
| 96 | 92 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000770_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | No would-be hero could fail to answer its call. For who among us does not yearn for salvation? |
| 97 | 93 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000780_MYSTERYVOICE | Welcome to the Ocular, my private study. We can speak here without fear of being overheard. |
| 98 | 94 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000790_MYSTERYVOICE | I have much to explain, but the truths which I must touch upon in doing so would cause only distress and confusion to the people of this world. Pray keep that in mind. |
| 99 | 95 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000800_MYSTERYVOICE | Now, I am sure you are desperate to know the fate of your fellow Scions. |
| 100 | 96 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000810_MYSTERYVOICE | To put it simply, they are here in the First... |
| 101 | 97 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000820_MYSTERYVOICE | Their arrival, however, was not as recent as you may imagine. Here, time flows at a different pace from that of the Source. |
| 102 | 98 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000830_MYSTERYVOICE | In the space of a single hour in your home world, an entire year might pass in the First─and the reverse could also be true. The pace fluctuates without rhyme or reason, and it cannot be predicted. |
| 103 | 99 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000840_MYSTERYVOICE | That said, we seem to be entering a period of near-equivalence, and thus, for the moment, you need not overly concern yourself with the passage of time. |
| 104 | 100 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000850_MYSTERYVOICE | As for your companions, however... Y'shtola and Urianger have dwelled here for three winters all told, while Thancred's count stands at five. |
| 105 | 101 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000860_MYSTERYVOICE | Even our more “recent” arrivals, Alphinaud and Alisaie, have lived in the First for almost a year. |
| 106 | 102 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000870_MYSTERYVOICE | My intention had been to summon only you, but the art of reaching across worlds has proven exceedingly difficult to master. Thus it was that my <Emphasis>fumbling</Emphasis> hand closed upon those to whom your fate is most closely bound as well. |
| 107 | 103 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000880_MYSTERYVOICE | As they were not the object of my summons...their transference was...incomplete. Though they may appear to possess corporeal bodies, they are, in truth, merely spirits that one can see and touch. |
| 108 | 104 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000890_MYSTERYVOICE | Consequently, while you yourself will be able to pass between worlds with relative freedom, they will not. Much as it grieves me...they are stranded here, unable to return. |
| 109 | 105 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q4_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 110 | 106 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A4_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Then find a way to send them back. |
| 111 | 107 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A4_000_002_NONE_VOICE | What have they been doing all this time? |
| 112 | 108 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000900_MYSTERYVOICE | We spent every waking hour searching for a way to reverse the summoning. In the beginning, at least... |
| 113 | 109 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000910_MYSTERYVOICE | As you may have surmised, however, our efforts met with little success. And then we all but abandoned the endeavor once Urianger shared with us the vision he had witnessed during his journey through the rift. |
| 114 | 110 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000920_MYSTERYVOICE | In that chaotic no-man's-land between realms, time and space warp and blend in...unexpected ways. What Urianger saw...was the future. That which would one day come to pass. |
| 115 | 111 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000930_MYSTERYVOICE | In his vision of tomorrow, the First was rejoined with the Source... |
| 116 | 112 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000940_MYSTERYVOICE | This collision of worlds brought about the Eighth Umbral Calamity, and the deaths of countless multitudes. |
| 117 | 113 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000950_MYSTERYVOICE | Amongst those who perished, Urianger clearly saw the fall of the Scions' mightiest champion. He watched you die. |
| 118 | 114 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000960_MYSTERYVOICE | And thus did the Scions embrace their exile, and began searching this world for a means to forestall the coming catastrophe in yours. |
| 119 | 115 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000970_MYSTERYVOICE | Their souls are stranded in the First, yes, but they have fought on, desperate to save their home─and you─from destruction. |
| 120 | 116 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000980_MYSTERYVOICE | Nor have their efforts been in vain: for it was they who finally established that the elimination of the sin eaters will indeed serve to prevent the calamity. |
| 121 | 117 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_000990_MYSTERYVOICE | Considering the...circumstances of our meeting, you would be forgiven for doubting my version of events. |
| 122 | 118 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001000_MYSTERYVOICE | And so, before all else, I would suggest you track down your comrades, and hear the tale from their lips. |
| 123 | 119 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001010_MYSTERYVOICE | I shall, of course, be happy to assist in these reunions─and you need not make any decisions regarding your involvement until you are certain of where you stand. |
| 124 | 120 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001020_MYSTERYVOICE | Meanwhile, I promise I will not rest until I have found a way to help your friends return home. |
| 125 | 121 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001030_MYSTERYVOICE | What say you? Have I earned your trust for the moment, at least? |
| 126 | 122 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q5_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 127 | 123 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A5_000_001_NONE_VOICE | For the moment. |
| 128 | 124 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A5_000_002_NONE_VOICE | Aye, but I'll see you keep that promise. |
| 129 | 125 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A5_000_003_NONE_VOICE | For want of a better choice... |
| 130 | 126 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001040_MYSTERYVOICE | Excellent. You will not regret this. |
| 131 | 127 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001050_MYSTERYVOICE | With that settled, we shall have to see about getting you ready for the road. |
| 132 | 128 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001060_MYSTERYVOICE | Traveling across the rift has no doubt left you weary─I will arrange for a room where you might rest in comfort. While it's being prepared, perhaps I can show you around? |
| 133 | 129 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001070_MYSTERYVOICE | This is the Musica Universalis, the commercial heart of the Crystarium. Aught you might need to prepare for your journeys can be purchased here. |
| 134 | 130 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001080_MYSTERYVOICE | Ah, yes─you must be curious about the currency. Fear not! The gil you carry will serve you well enough. |
| 135 | 131 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001090_MYSTERYVOICE | Each nation once minted its own coins, but 'twas all a jumbled mess following the Flood. |
| 136 | 132 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001100_MYSTERYVOICE | After much debate, the local merchants eventually elected to revert to the old ways, wherein a coin's value was decided by the worth of its metal. |
| 137 | 133 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001110_MYSTERYVOICE | As for a unit of measurement, we agreed upon the term “gil.” A word borrowed from coins uncovered within the Crystal Tower here. |
| 138 | 134 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001120_MYSTERYVOICE | And as our traders peddled their wares across the land, so too did our usage of gil become common practice. |
| 139 | 135 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001130_MYSTERYVOICE | From what Y'shtola tells me, a standard coin from the Source equates to exactly one gil here─or near enough not to matter. |
| 140 | 136 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001140_MYSTERYVOICE | Our way of life has benefited greatly from the artifacts we recovered from the tower... |
| 141 | 137 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001150_MYSTERYVOICE | ...Some of which may be familiar to you. |
| 142 | 138 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001160_MYSTERYVOICE | But I fear it would not be practical for us to provide <Emphasis>everything</Emphasis> to which you are accustomed. You shall need a means to access the commodities of your home world... |
| 143 | 139 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001170_MYSTERYVOICE | [Are you there, my friend?] |
| 144 | 140 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001180_FEOUL | (-???-)Yes, I'm here, of course I'm here! What amusements do you have for me today? |
| 145 | 141 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001190_MYSTERYVOICE | My dear Feo Ul, paragon of pixie-kind. For you, I have the most vital task. |
| 146 | 142 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001200_MYSTERYVOICE | This fine gentleman is a friend from a distant realm. |
| 147 | 143 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001210_MYSTERYVOICE | This fine lady is a friend from a distant realm. |
| 148 | 144 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001220_MYSTERYVOICE | And we have need of a means to ferry things back and forth from <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> home. Might you be able to...assist us in this matter? |
| 149 | 145 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001230_FEOUL | You came from beyond, didn't you!? From beyond the rift! |
| 150 | 146 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001240_FEOUL | How wonderfully exciting! What a brave and reckless and marvelous thing you did! You've the heart of a pixie, you do! |
| 151 | 147 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001250_FEOUL | After careful consideration, I have decided to grant you my assistance. Make a pact with me, and the fun can begin! |
| 152 | 148 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001260_FEOUL | But answer me this, traveler: did your garments come with you when you crossed over? Your teeth? Your nails? |
| 153 | 149 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001270_FEOUL | Just as I thought! Then you've a good, stout connection with your home, through which all your belongings great and small may easily pass. |
| 154 | 150 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001280_FEOUL | From this moment forth, I will be your [beautiful branch], and you my [adorable sapling]. Like the branch which sprouts from the sapling, our bond will flow unbroken from one to the other! |
| 155 | 151 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001290_FEOUL | Raise your hand. |
| 156 | 152 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001300_FEOUL | 'Tis done! We are bound now, dearest sapling. |
| 157 | 153 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001310_FEOUL | Come, come, then! Make your request! Tell me your desire! I wish to visit this world of yours! |
| 158 | 154 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001320_MYSTERYVOICE | Mayhap a message to your friends in the Source to inform them of your safe arrival? |
| 159 | 155 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q6_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Who will you contact? |
| 160 | 156 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A6_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Send a message to Tataru. |
| 161 | 157 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A6_000_002_NONE_VOICE | Send a message to Krile. |
| 162 | 158 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001330_FEOUL | Consider it done! |
| 163 | 159 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001340_MYSTERYVOICE | As you heard, that was Feo Ul of the pixies. Their kind possess an affinity for magic akin to that of arcane beings. |
| 164 | 160 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001350_MYSTERYVOICE | They rarely show themselves in populated areas, but Feo is insatiably curious even by pixie standards, and seems to have taken a liking to the Crystarium. |
| 165 | 161 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001360_MYSTERYVOICE | Right, we were going to organize a room for you, weren't we? Come along. |
| 166 | 162 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001370_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE | |
| 167 | 163 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001380_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | (-???-)...You...? |
| 168 | 164 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001390_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | (-???-)I know you... You're the Warrior of Light from the Source! |
| 169 | 165 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q7_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 170 | 166 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A7_000_001_NONE_VOICE | The Warrior of Darkness...? |
| 171 | 167 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A7_000_002_NONE_VOICE | And who are you? |
| 172 | 168 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001400_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | (-???-)What? Did you just... You can hear me!? |
| 173 | 169 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001410_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | (-???-)Oh, gods, how long has it been...? |
| 174 | 170 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001420_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | (-???-)...Aye...aye, that was what I called myself in your world... The “Warrior of Darkness.” |
| 175 | 171 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001430_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | My real name is Ardbert. I used an alias in the Source. A daft one, looking back... |
| 176 | 172 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001440_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | (-???-)...“And who are you?” <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> says. An enemy not worth remembering, apparently... |
| 177 | 173 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001450_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | My name is Ardbert. In the First, I was a Warrior of Light, but in the Source you knew me as the Warrior of Darkness. |
| 178 | 174 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001460_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | If you recall my tale, it was my comrades and I who caused the Flood. |
| 179 | 175 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001470_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | We thought our home doomed. And so we listened to the Ascians─let them guide us to the Source, and tried to hasten their godsdamned Ardor. |
| 180 | 176 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001480_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | I remember when we fell, defeated by you and yours. I remember our audience with Minfilia─how she listened to our pleas, and returned our souls to the First. |
| 181 | 177 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001490_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | The Flood was poised to swallow Norvrandt... |
| 182 | 178 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001500_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Minfilia and my friends, they...they surrendered what little they had left to hold it back. Just faded away...leaving me to bear witness. |
| 183 | 179 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001510_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Tell me, do you know the year? How much time has passed since we caused the Flood? |
| 184 | 180 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001520_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | A hundred years... A hundred long years... |
| 185 | 181 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001530_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | My hands find no purchase. My gestures catch no eye. And my pleas, be they whispered or screamed, reach not a single ear... |
| 186 | 182 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001540_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | I am a shade, cursed to do naught but drift. |
| 187 | 183 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001550_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | I feel as if I've been walking forever... I hardly noticed when my mind and body began to fray at the edges. |
| 188 | 184 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001560_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Then “bang,” my senses were sharp again. I felt like a fish being reeled in, and before I knew it, I found myself in this room. |
| 189 | 185 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001570_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Why is it that <Emphasis>you</Emphasis> can see me? What are you even doing here, come to that? |
| 190 | 186 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001580_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | You were summoned to save the First? |
| 191 | 187 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001590_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | A waste of time. This world is beyond saving─like those who try to save it. |
| 192 | 188 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001600_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Muddled as my mind may be, I've not forgotten that. |
| 193 | 189 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001610_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | But if fate has brought me to you─the one person in this godsforsaken world who can see and hear me─then perhaps there is a reason I endured. |
| 194 | 190 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001620_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | If I can find out why I was left behind, then maybe...maybe I can bring this journey of mine to an end... |
| 195 | 191 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001630_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Well. I'll be watching, Warrior of Light. |
| 196 | 192 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001640_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | But do me a favor. Be careful out there. This world has had its fill of heroes. |
| 197 | 193 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001650_MYSTERYVOICE | Ah, how did you find your new quarters? I trust you were able to rest? |
| 198 | 194 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q8_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 199 | 195 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A8_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Well enough, thank you. |
| 200 | 196 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A8_000_002_NONE_VOICE | I had a ghostly visitor... |
| 201 | 197 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001660_MYSTERYVOICE | That is good to hear. Should you want for anything, pray let me know. |
| 202 | 198 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001670_MYSTERYVOICE | I...was not aware the room was haunted. And...you <Emphasis>were</Emphasis> rather tired... Well, should you receive another visitation, be sure to let me know. |
| 203 | 199 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001680_MYSTERYVOICE | Now, let us return to the subject of the Scions' whereabouts. |
| 204 | 200 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001690_MYSTERYVOICE | This map shows the lands of Norvrandt, the only area to be spared the Flood of Light. |
| 205 | 201 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001700_MYSTERYVOICE | The Crystarium is here, in the region known as Lakeland. |
| 206 | 202 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001710_MYSTERYVOICE | To the north is the faerie kingdom of Il Mheg. That is where you will find Urianger. |
| 207 | 203 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001720_MYSTERYVOICE | To the east lies the once-prosperous civilization of Rak'tika. Y'shtola is stationed there, in the heart of the forest. |
| 208 | 204 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001730_MYSTERYVOICE | Alas, neither location can be reached without considerable difficulty. |
| 209 | 205 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001740_MYSTERYVOICE | As such, I would suggest you first seek out one of the twins─each of whom is stationed but a short flight from the Crystarium. |
| 210 | 206 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001750_MYSTERYVOICE | Alphinaud is on Kholusia, an island off the western shore. It is home to a city called Eulmore, where the rich and privileged while away their days in idleness. |
| 211 | 207 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001760_MYSTERYVOICE | For his part in furthering our cause, Alphinaud journeyed there to meet with the citizenry and forge alliances. From what I hear, he has since kept himself busy gathering information around the main settlement. |
| 212 | 208 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001770_MYSTERYVOICE | Alisaie, meanwhile, traveled south to the arid wastes of Amh Araeng. |
| 213 | 209 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001780_MYSTERYVOICE | They lie upon the very edge of the inhabitable world, where the Flood of Light was halted. Those who dwell there live in constant fear of attack by the sin eaters. |
| 214 | 210 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001790_MYSTERYVOICE | In contrast to her brother, Alisaie felt that her energies would better be spent learning about the enemy. And thus she sells her services as a guard, both to hone her skills and gather information on our foe. |
| 215 | 211 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001800_MYSTERYVOICE | So, will it be Kholusia or Amh Araeng? It matters not which you choose to visit first. |
| 216 | 212 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001810_MYSTERYVOICE | Simply inform me once you have made your decision, and I will see to it that you are provided with a suitable mount. |
| 217 | 213 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001820_MYSTERYVOICE | Ah, but you must be wondering about Thancred. He has taken up with...a new companion, and is presently engaged as a wandering hunter of sin eaters. |
| 218 | 214 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001830_MYSTERYVOICE | Being ever on the move, his whereabouts are often difficult to ascertain, but I am certain your paths will cross ere long. |
| 219 | 215 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001840_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | The whistling breeze, mute. The pounding surf, frozen. Time itself takes a breath... |
| 220 | 216 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001850_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | At Light's edge, all is perfectly still. The world captured in a painting; locked in a moment. |
| 221 | 217 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001860_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Music, faint and fleeting, drifts coastward on the lifeless air... |
| 222 | 218 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001870_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | And in the distance, beyond the broken earth, a city beckons... |
| 223 | 219 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001880_ALPHINAUD | (-???-)And how is business today, Mistress Theva? |
| 224 | 220 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001890_THEVA | Oh, frenetic. Look. I have a new customer. |
| 225 | 221 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001900_ALPHINAUD | ...'Tis good to see you, my friend. |
| 226 | 222 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001910_ALPHINAUD | The barley seeds you wanted. They should produce a better harvest than the last. |
| 227 | 223 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001920_THEVA | What, just like that? Oh, Alphinaud, you really are a dear. |
| 228 | 224 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001930_THEVA | Well, I'd best be tidying up some of those empty shacks before the pests move in. Keep an eye on the place while I'm out, eh? |
| 229 | 225 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001940_ALPHINAUD | It seems an age since last we spoke. Not since the prisoner exchange in Doma. And Yotsuyu... |
| 230 | 226 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001950_ALPHINAUD | It has been even longer for me, of course, if you count the days I have spent here. But the time has only added to the relief I feel, seeing you safe and well. |
| 231 | 227 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q9_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 232 | 228 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A9_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Me? I was more worried about you. |
| 233 | 229 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A9_000_002_NONE_VOICE | We thought we'd lost you. |
| 234 | 230 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001960_ALPHINAUD | Hah! Alisaie said much the same thing. I don't think I've ever had such a scolding. |
| 235 | 231 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001970_ALPHINAUD | But I believe an exchange of news is in order. Come─tell me of your arrival, and all that came before! |
| 236 | 232 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001980_ALPHINAUD | I see. Both the Exarch and Alisaie told me what they knew of events, but I had stubbornly clung on to the hope that all-out war might yet be avoidable... |
| 237 | 233 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001990_ALPHINAUD | And poor Tataru─she must be sick with worry. We must endeavor to return as soon as we may... |
| 238 | 234 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_001991_ALPHINAUD | 'Twould be nice to bring her good tidings for a change. |
| 239 | 235 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002000_ALPHINAUD | But before we bid this world farewell, we must first ensure that it is not rejoined to the Source. We must prevent the Eighth Umbral Calamity. |
| 240 | 236 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002010_ALPHINAUD | Urianger's vision of the future has, I fear, every chance of coming true. |
| 241 | 237 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002020_ALPHINAUD | By his description, the catalyst for the Calamity was a formless and deadly weapon employed by the Garlean Empire. |
| 242 | 238 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002030_ALPHINAUD | Which can only mean one thing: Black Rose. Gaius was telling you the truth. When we were on the trail of the Ascians, we saw evidence that the gas was being manufactured once more. |
| 243 | 239 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002040_ALPHINAUD | Gaius was adamant that the project had been scrapped. But so long as there are wars to be waged, there will always be those determined to win by any means. |
| 244 | 240 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002050_ALPHINAUD | And thus simply destroying the existing stores of Black Rose would do little to alter fate's course. |
| 245 | 241 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002060_ALPHINAUD | In that sense, our involuntary journey here to the First was something of a boon. |
| 246 | 242 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002070_ALPHINAUD | Together with the Exarch, we've developed a theory as to how we believe the Rejoining will be set in motion. |
| 247 | 243 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002080_ALPHINAUD | I am sure Urianger himself will cover the subject in more detail... |
| 248 | 244 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002090_ALPHINAUD | But I can tell you the process requires that both worlds─the Source and the First─be facing an existential threat. |
| 249 | 245 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002100_ALPHINAUD | One being sin eaters, of course. |
| 250 | 246 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002110_ALPHINAUD | They are a menace that I would dearly love to remove, and not just to avert a calamity. |
| 251 | 247 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002120_ALPHINAUD | I may be a stranger to this world, but I will not stand idly by and let innocent people be slaughtered. |
| 252 | 248 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002130_ALPHINAUD | That is what brought me to the gates of Eulmore. Ignoring its pretentions as a kind of capital city to what remains of the world, it is nonetheless a center of power and authority. |
| 253 | 249 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002140_ALPHINAUD | If any solutions are to be found, I believe our search should begin there. What say you, old friend? Hungry for another adventure? |
| 254 | 250 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002150_ALPHINAUD | And so we take to the road once more! |
| 255 | 251 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002160_ALPHINAUD | That gate up ahead is known as the “Open Arms,” and Eulmore itself lies beyond. |
| 256 | 252 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002170_ALPHINAUD | This, meanwhile, is the aptly named “Gatetown.” The dwelling place of the many desperate souls who hope to be chosen to live in the city proper. |
| 257 | 253 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002180_GATETOWNMIDDLEAGE | Oh! I thought I recognized you. Brought a new friend, eh? |
| 258 | 254 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002190_GATETOWNMIDDLEAGE | Heh heh heh heh... I'll bet you've got a trick or two up your sleeve. Maybe even <Emphasis>three</Emphasis>! Care to show me? |
| 259 | 255 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002200_ALPHINAUD | He's not here to compete. Leave him be. |
| 260 | 256 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002210_ALPHINAUD | She's not here to compete. Leave her be. |
| 261 | 257 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002220_GATETOWNMIDDLEAGE | What!? I was only making conversation! |
| 262 | 258 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002230_CLOWNOFBLUE | (-???-)Ladies and gentlemen! Your attention pleeease! |
| 263 | 259 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002240_CLOWNOFRED | Greetings to our hopeful petitioners, one and all! Eulmore extends its warmest regards! |
| 264 | 260 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002250_CLOWNOFRED | Let it be known that a lady of distinction wishes to dine on fish divine! |
| 265 | 261 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002260_CLOWNOFBLUE | We seek a master culinarian who can guarantee seafood perfection! Dazzle the matron with your delicious dishes, and life in the city will be yours to enjoy. Even on days when fish is not on the menu! |
| 266 | 262 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002270_CLOWNOFRED | Who among you will answer the call? Name yourself or another, we mind not at all! |
| 267 | 263 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002280_GATETOWNMIDDLEAGE | Fish, is it? |
| 268 | 264 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002290_GATETOWNMAN | Was there anyone? |
| 269 | 265 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002300_GATETOWNWOMAN | What about that girl? |
| 270 | 266 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002310_ALPHINAUD | Do you recall how I said Eulmore was a center of power and authority? Well, that is not the only reason for its fame. |
| 271 | 267 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002320_ALPHINAUD | It is also known as the “city of final pleasures.” The noble and the wealthy who survived the Flood gathered here to live out the rest of their days in decadent abandon. |
| 272 | 268 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002330_ALPHINAUD | A poor man could sooner pass through the eye of a needle than Eulmore's gates. The only way the commonfolk can enter this perverted paradise is if they fulfill the whim of one of the privileged. And so they are picked over like market produce... |
| 273 | 269 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002340_CLOWNOFRED | Ohoho! What a catch! We'll not be throwing this one back! |
| 274 | 270 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002350_CLOWNOFRED | Having seen your all-too-obvious charms, we welcome you with open arms! Come, join us in the city of splendor, and live out your life in an ecstasy of endeavor! |
| 275 | 271 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002360_CLOWNOFBLUE | Ah, just look at those expectant faces! What could you <Emphasis>possibly</Emphasis> be waiting for!? |
| 276 | 272 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002370_CLOWNOFBLUE | Well, well, what have we here!? An extra share of meol to celebrate our newest resident! |
| 277 | 273 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002380_CLOWNOFRED | For you! |
| 278 | 274 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002390_CLOWNOFBLUE | Enjoy! |
| 279 | 275 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002391_GATETOWNMIDDLEAGE | Ah, at last! |
| 280 | 276 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002392_GATETOWNMAN | Thank goodness. |
| 281 | 277 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002393_GATETOWNWOMAN | Over here! |
| 282 | 278 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002400_ALPHINAUD | “Meol” is a foodstuff which Eulmore routinely doles out to the people of Gatetown, and apparently a staple for its citizens as well. |
| 283 | 279 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002410_ALPHINAUD | Many here rely on it to survive in these times of scarcity. Yet the whole arrangement just seems... |
| 284 | 280 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002411_ALPHINAUD | Well, let us just say it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. |
| 285 | 281 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002420_ALPHINAUD | There you are! |
| 286 | 282 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002430_ALPHINAUD | The thief who claimed the harvest on <Emphasis>my</Emphasis> behalf. Hand it over. |
| 287 | 283 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002440_KAISHIRR | (-Blue-haired Mystel-)Wha─ I...I... |
| 288 | 284 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002450_KAISHIRR | (-Blue-haired Mystel-)Forgive me, I just─ I have to get into the city! |
| 289 | 285 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002460_KAISHIRR | (-Blue-haired Mystel-)I have no family, and all my friends have already been chosen. |
| 290 | 286 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002470_KAISHIRR | (-Blue-haired Mystel-)No one here gives a damn about me. When the meol gets handed out, I'm lucky if I get a smell of it! |
| 291 | 287 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002480_KAISHIRR | (-Blue-haired Mystel-)No matter what I do, they won't call out my name! I'm so tired─I'm so <Emphasis>bloody</Emphasis> hungry... |
| 292 | 288 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002490_KAISHIRR | (-Blue-haired Mystel-)I thought maybe I could steal your idea─get in that way... |
| 293 | 289 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002500_ALPHINAUD | ...What is your name? |
| 294 | 290 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002510_KAISHIRR | Kai-Shirr... |
| 295 | 291 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002520_ALPHINAUD | Tell me then, Kai-Shirr─must it be Eulmore or nothing? |
| 296 | 292 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002530_ALPHINAUD | What of the Crystarium? They may not offer charity, but you would be fairly compensated for any work you did. |
| 297 | 293 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002540_KAISHIRR | No, no, it has to be Eulmore! |
| 298 | 294 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002550_KAISHIRR | That's where all my friends are. We made a promise that we'd live together in paradise... |
| 299 | 295 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002560_ALPHINAUD | ...I was to make my deal with the Ondo at the Clave. Listen carefully, and I shall tell you my plans for the business, and how best to arouse the Eulmorans' interest. |
| 300 | 296 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002570_KAISHIRR | You'll give me your place? Just like that? |
| 301 | 297 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002580_ALPHINAUD | I'm giving you a chance, nothing more. What comes of it is entirely up to you. |
| 302 | 298 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002590_KAISHIRR | ...I understand! Oh thank you, thank you! |
| 303 | 299 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002600_ALPHINAUD | This was but one path─there will be others. But for young Kai-Shirr, it was the difference between life and death. |
| 304 | 300 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002610_ALPHINAUD | I do not regret my decision...yet I will admit that a part of me wonders if it was for the best. |
| 305 | 301 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002620_ALPHINAUD | We strive to bring swift salvation to this world, that countless lives might be saved─not least your own. Even if it came at the cost of one man, should I have forged on regardless...? |
| 306 | 302 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q10_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 307 | 303 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A10_000_001_NONE_VOICE | That's not who you are. |
| 308 | 304 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A10_000_002_NONE_VOICE | Quite possibly. Meaning we'd better hurry up and think of a new plan. |
| 309 | 305 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002630_ALPHINAUD | I suppose not... Were Estinien here, he would most likely scoff at my soft-heartedness. “Same old Alphinaud. Ever the slave to sentiment.” |
| 310 | 306 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002640_ALPHINAUD | But I thank you for your kind words, nonetheless. Let us see to it that both these stories have a happy ending. |
| 311 | 307 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002650_ALPHINAUD | Indeed. We will find another way, I promise you. |
| 312 | 308 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002660_ALPHINAUD | Shall we return to Wright, then? |
| 313 | 309 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002670_ALPHINAUD | Is that...? |
| 314 | 310 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002680_ALPHINAUD | I can't be sure, but I-I think someone's in trouble! |
| 315 | 311 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002690_ALPHINAUD | Come on, they may need our help! |
| 316 | 312 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002700_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Redemption is beyond us. |
| 317 | 313 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002710_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | The lament of all but saints and fools...and the comfort of the lords and ladies of this accursed place. |
| 318 | 314 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002720_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Once, they held fast against the madness, only to embrace the coming cataclysm and delight in the end of days. |
| 319 | 315 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002730_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Perhaps in rapture they seek to lose themselves and the misery they share... |
| 320 | 316 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002740_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Or perhaps for them alone the promise of eternal pleasure really does hold true. |
| 321 | 317 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002750_DULIACHAI | Ooh? Who's this then? |
| 322 | 318 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002760_ALPHINAUD | Lord and Lady Chai, pray forgive our intrusion. I am given to understand you were in search...of an <Emphasis>artist</Emphasis>? |
| 323 | 319 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002770_CHAINUZZ | Ahh, you must be the new, uh... |
| 324 | 320 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002780_DULIACHAI | Oh, goodness me! What an adorable boy! |
| 325 | 321 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002790_DULIACHAI | That silken hair, those pearly cheeks...oh, and you even smell wonderful─like a bed of flowers! |
| 326 | 322 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002800_DULIACHAI | I approve of this one, dearest! I am <Emphasis>positive</Emphasis> he will paint us the most delightful pictures. |
| 327 | 323 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002810_CHAINUZZ | I, um, er, y-yes... Ahem. Well, as long as he paints better than that talentless wretch we sent packing last week... |
| 328 | 324 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002820_DULIACHAI | Wonderful, wonderful! Welcome to Eulmore...um, er... |
| 329 | 325 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002830_ALPHINAUD | Alphinaud, if it please you, my lady. And this...is my assistant. |
| 330 | 326 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002840_CHAINUZZ | Your...assistant? I've heard of folk bringing in family members, but this seems a bit irregular. Aren't you a little young to have a protégé? |
| 331 | 327 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002850_ALPHINAUD | We are family in all but name, my lord. Though we share no blood, we have stood by each other through life's many challenges, resolved to prevail together─or not at all. |
| 332 | 328 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002860_ALPHINAUD | Of all people, 'tis he who best understands my work. With his unique insight guiding my hand, the art I create is sure to satisfy your expectations. |
| 333 | 329 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002870_ALPHINAUD | Of all people, 'tis she who best understands my work. With her unique insight guiding my hand, the art I create is sure to satisfy your expectations. |
| 334 | 330 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002880_ALPHINAUD | Once the picture is begun, of course, I shall have no need of constant encouragement. |
| 335 | 331 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002890_ALPHINAUD | And so I wondered, rather than <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>him</If> being in your way, might it then be permissible for my assistant to explore the city <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> has so longed to see? |
| 336 | 332 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002900_ALPHINAUD | Out of gratitude for <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> <Emphasis>priceless</Emphasis> contribution to my art, I thought it only fair that I make this humble request on <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> behalf. |
| 337 | 333 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002910_DULIACHAI | Oooh, did you ever hear of such devotion! Of <Emphasis>course</Emphasis> your assistant must have <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> wish! <If(PlayerParameter(4))>She<Else/>He</If> shall be free to roam to <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> heart's content! |
| 338 | 334 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002920_DULIACHAI | ...Isn't that right, darling? |
| 339 | 335 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002930_CHAINUZZ | Uh... Oh, yes. Yes, of course, dearest. Q-Quite right. |
| 340 | 336 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002940_ALPHINAUD | That's him. That's Vauthry! |
| 341 | 337 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002950_ALPHINAUD | He is attended by sin eaters...? But how does he keep them from attacking? |
| 342 | 338 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002960_KAISHIRR | (-???-)Mercy... Mercy... |
| 343 | 339 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002970_ALPHINAUD | By the Twelve! |
| 344 | 340 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002980_ALPHINAUD | Kai-Shirr! What happened to you!? |
| 345 | 341 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_002990_VAUTHRY | Who are these impudent louts? I do not recall requesting their presence. |
| 346 | 342 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003000_ALPHINAUD | Lord Vauthry! What is the meaning of this? Why is this poor man bleeding to death on your floor!? |
| 347 | 343 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003010_VAUTHRY | Why? You ask me why? Because criminals must be punished, and this man is guilty of fraud. |
| 348 | 344 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003020_VAUTHRY | He came to us claiming to be a man of business, yet his subsequent conduct has shown him to be anything but! |
| 349 | 345 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003030_VAUTHRY | Eulmore is a city built on love for one's fellow man. Those who have naught to give and live only to take are a blight upon our society! |
| 350 | 346 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003040_VAUTHRY | To atone for this crime, I ordered that he fling himself from the balcony. |
| 351 | 347 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003050_VAUTHRY | And he had the <Emphasis>temerity</Emphasis> to weep! “Please, my lord! Anything but that!” |
| 352 | 348 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003060_VAUTHRY | What then is a man of mercy to do, but offer the sinner another way to show his contrition? |
| 353 | 349 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003070_ALPHINAUD | "Another way“ meaning what, exactly!? |
| 354 | 350 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003080_VAUTHRY | Sin eaters are part of Eulmore's society. But they must be fed with aether─<Emphasis>living</Emphasis> aether. |
| 355 | 351 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003090_VAUTHRY | So─I demanded an offering of flesh! Carved by his own hand, from his own hide! |
| 356 | 352 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003100_VAUTHRY | And still! <Emphasis>Still</Emphasis>, he could not do as I asked! |
| 357 | 353 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003110_VAUTHRY | A wholly unsatisfactory performance! |
| 358 | 354 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003120_ALPHINAUD | 'Tis true that Kai-Shirr won his place here by fraud. But his actions were driven only by a desire to share in your paradise. |
| 359 | 355 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003130_ALPHINAUD | That you would cast him out I could almost accept, but to humiliate him thus? To demand his very <Emphasis>life</Emphasis>!? Is this truly the way of Eulmore!? |
| 360 | 356 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003140_VAUTHRY | Oh, you dim, deluded child... Have you ever paused to consider what it takes to maintain such a paradise in this barren, broken world of ours? |
| 361 | 357 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003150_VAUTHRY | The guarantee of safety and stability. The knowledge that if one only abides by the rules, one has naught to fear. |
| 362 | 358 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003160_VAUTHRY | I alone can offer these things, for I alone can command the sin eaters. |
| 363 | 359 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003170_VAUTHRY | And thus am I alone the voice of justice─and any who oppose me villains to be punished! |
| 364 | 360 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003180_ALPHINAUD | And people call this paradise... |
| 365 | 361 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003190_VAUTHRY | <Emphasis>You</Emphasis> were granted a place in my city for a particular skill. What was it? |
| 366 | 362 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003200_ALPHINAUD | ...Painting. |
| 367 | 363 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003210_VAUTHRY | Oho, an artiste! Then you shall paint a picture for me. Of Eulmore. |
| 368 | 364 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003220_VAUTHRY | If I find your art <Emphasis>pleasing</Emphasis>, then I may excuse this display of insolence. |
| 369 | 365 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003230_VAUTHRY | Who gave you permission to tend to that criminal's wounds!? I told you to paint me a picture! |
| 370 | 366 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003240_ALPHINAUD | What you need is a mirror, not a painting. It will capture the horror I see before me far better than I ever could. |
| 371 | 367 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003250_ALPHINAUD | Can you walk? |
| 372 | 368 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003260_KAISHIRR | I think so... |
| 373 | 369 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003270_VAUTHRY | Did...did that little worm just insult me? |
| 374 | 370 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003280_VAUTHRY | (TWO LONG SCREAMS) |
| 375 | 371 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003290_VAUTHRY | I─I─I'll kill them! I'll─I'll kill them all! |
| 376 | 372 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003300_VAUTHRY | I'll enslave their minds! I'll─I'll torment them─torture them! Then tear out their hearts! |
| 377 | 373 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003310_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Amh Araeng. From this parched earth the nation of Nabaath Areng once rose. |
| 378 | 374 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003320_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | When I journeyed here, long ago, I spoke with a sun-weathered elder. |
| 379 | 375 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003330_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | He told me Amh Araeng meant “majestic land” in the language of his people. |
| 380 | 376 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003340_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | And so it might still be...were it not for the Light's unrelenting onslaught... |
| 381 | 377 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q11_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 382 | 378 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A11_000_001_NONE_VOICE | So this is a Mord...? |
| 383 | 379 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A11_000_002_NONE_VOICE | That's a kobold! |
| 384 | 380 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A11_000_003_NONE_VOICE | What beady eyes... |
| 385 | 381 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003350_CASSARD | Master Ghen Gen, this is the friend of the Exarch I was telling you about. |
| 386 | 382 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003360_GHENGEN | Very good, very good! Though friend or no, all are welcome in Mord Souq. |
| 387 | 383 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003370_CASSARD | "Souq“ is Mordish for ”city.“ As things stand, this souq boasts the largest and busiest marketplace in all Amh Araeng. |
| 388 | 384 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003380_CASSARD | You'll find ore from the mines here, of course, but all manner of other things too─many of them rare. |
| 389 | 385 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003390_CASSARD | As I told you before, not many visit Amh Araeng by choice, but Mord Souq's a different story. Merchants come from malms around to purchase the relics the Mord dig up. |
| 390 | 386 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003400_GHENGEN | Aye, that they do, for Mord do not dismiss the spoils of the earth. We clean them and polish them and reveal to the world their true value! |
| 391 | 387 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003410_GHENGEN | That is why they come here! Come from far away! Come with much money! |
| 392 | 388 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003420_GHENGEN | And so our souq is always busy, busy, busy! No such thing as a thing no one needs! |
| 393 | 389 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003430_CASSARD | You say that every time, Master Ghen Gen! Some sort of family motto, wasn't it? |
| 394 | 390 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003440_CASSARD | Or perhaps a Mord philosophy─for which we should all be very grateful. Would that everyone was so willing to take in refugees regardless of race or creed. |
| 395 | 391 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003450_CASSARD | Now, then─if you intend to spend any time here, you'll want to gain the trust of the locals. |
| 396 | 392 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003460_CASSARD | And there's a little custom all newcomers are expected to observe... |
| 397 | 393 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003470_GHENGEN | The cracking of the coinpurse! You buy one thing from the market. Price can be low or high, just as long as you buy! |
| 398 | 394 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003480_CASSARD | ...As the good Mord says. In fact, the Exarch sent a little something to cover this very expense. |
| 399 | 395 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003490_CASSARD | A Voeburt gold piece, no less! The first I've held in years. |
| 400 | 396 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003500_MORDMERCHANTA | Voeburt gold!? <Emphasis>Real</Emphasis> Voeburt gold!? |
| 401 | 397 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003510_MORDMERCHANTB | Here, newcomer! Crack your coinpurse with me! |
| 402 | 398 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003520_MORDMERCHANTC | No, no, you want my goods, newcomer! I have jars and pots, all smooth and shiny! |
| 403 | 399 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003530_MORDMERCHANTA | Over here! |
| 404 | 400 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003540_MORDMERCHANTB | Come and look! |
| 405 | 401 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003550_MORDMERCHANTC | You buy! You buy! |
| 406 | 402 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003560_GHENGEN | Enough of that! Calm, I say! |
| 407 | 403 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003570_GHENGEN | This one must still journey through the barrens. Nothing bulky! Nothing heavy! No <Emphasis>pots</Emphasis>! |
| 408 | 404 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003580_GHENGEN | Nothing better for the road than a full belly. Spend that piece at Rhon Ron's place, yes? Eat for three before you leave! |
| 409 | 405 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003590_ALISAIE | (-???-)Get back here! |
| 410 | 406 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003600_ALISAIE | Is that!? It can't be... |
| 411 | 407 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003610_ALISAIE | Hah! |
| 412 | 408 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q12_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 413 | 409 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A12_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Impressive! |
| 414 | 410 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A12_000_002_NONE_VOICE | You almost lost that one. |
| 415 | 411 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003620_ALISAIE | Just a lesser sin eater. Nothing to write home about. |
| 416 | 412 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003630_ALISAIE | I had it under control! ...Right up until the moment I didn't. I'll do better next time. |
| 417 | 413 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003640_ALISAIE | I knew you'd turn up sooner or later, but I had been hoping for <Emphasis>sooner</Emphasis>. |
| 418 | 414 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003650_ALISAIE | How are you? |
| 419 | 415 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003660_ALISAIE | We've fought them to a standstill, then... |
| 420 | 416 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003670_ALISAIE | The Exarch did say that the Empire seemed to have drawn back when he last looked in on the Source. But without knowing for sure how fast time was passing there, I couldn't help worrying that a lot might have happened since then. |
| 421 | 417 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003680_ALISAIE | I'm heartily relieved to hear that it hasn't─just as Alphinaud must have been. As you can imagine, both he and Urianger were desperate to hear the news from home when I arrived. |
| 422 | 418 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003690_ALISAIE | I haven't actually seen Thancred and Y'shtola yet, but they will have heard all the latest developments from the Exarch by now─or should have, at least. |
| 423 | 419 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003700_ALISAIE | When I think of how frantic Tataru and the others must be, I want nothing more than to rush back and reassure them... |
| 424 | 420 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003710_ALISAIE | But we still haven't found a way to reverse the summoning. And even if we had, we couldn't just ignore Urianger's vision. |
| 425 | 421 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003720_ALISAIE | He may use ten words where one would suffice─and they may often obscure as much as they reveal... |
| 426 | 422 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003730_ALISAIE | But on this matter, he was as clear as day. I do not doubt for one moment that he saw what he claims. |
| 427 | 423 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003740_ALISAIE | Nor how difficult it must have been to speak about them. The Eighth Umbral Calamity and your death aren't exactly topics for idle conversation. |
| 428 | 424 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003750_ALISAIE | As much as I might want to go home, I don't want to go home to that. We can't allow the Rejoining to happen, which means we have to save the First from the sin eaters. |
| 429 | 425 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003760_ALISAIE | That great wall of white is a remnant of the Flood. |
| 430 | 426 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003770_ALISAIE | A hundred years ago, the balance in the First tipped decisively in favor of Light. From that moment, it rose and swelled with each passing day─and then, without warning, it burst forth like water from a broken dam. |
| 431 | 427 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003780_ALISAIE | ...A colossal wave of pure Light, drowning everything in its wake. Only Norvrandt was spared. |
| 432 | 428 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003790_ALISAIE | For the most part, living things are composed of aether of various different aspects. |
| 433 | 429 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003800_ALISAIE | But when exposed to such a flood, their aetheric harmony is shattered, and their natural form breaks down. |
| 434 | 430 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003810_ALISAIE | Then they either perish...or are warped into mindless abominations. |
| 435 | 431 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003820_ALISAIE | Yes, that's how the sin eaters came to be. They were once living creatures─or people─that were caught in the path of the Flood. |
| 436 | 432 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003830_ALISAIE | Once the change is wrought, there is no going back. In that instant, they are gripped by an insatiable appetite for aether, and will happily gorge themselves on any living thing within reach. |
| 437 | 433 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003840_ALISAIE | But even that is not the worst of it. The stronger sin eaters can plant Light in us like seeds in soil, corrupting our aether, and triggering the birth of new monstrosities. |
| 438 | 434 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003850_ALISAIE | They are creatures of base instinct that exist only to feed and to multiply. They feel no pity, know no remorse, and are utterly deaf to reason. Which is why they must be destroyed. Every last one of them. |
| 439 | 435 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003860_ALISAIE | The infirmary is full of the sin eaters' victims, left here to spend their final hours waiting for the change to overtake them... |
| 440 | 436 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003870_ALISAIE | Look, over there─where the wall is broken. |
| 441 | 437 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003880_ALISAIE | Do you see what lies beyond? |
| 442 | 438 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003890_ALISAIE | That's what the land became after the Light flooded in. An empty white nothingness. |
| 443 | 439 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003900_ALISAIE | Life cannot exist in such conditions. The primordial Light would wreak havoc on the body's aetheric balance. |
| 444 | 440 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003910_ALISAIE | That nectarine you bought...it's Halric's favorite fruit. |
| 445 | 441 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003920_ALISAIE | Most of the patients, Halric included, survived the attacks of powerful eaters. |
| 446 | 442 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003930_ALISAIE | But their fate was sealed all the same. The monsters' corruption has entered their bodies, and their very essence is being subsumed by Light. |
| 447 | 443 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003940_ALISAIE | The twisted state of the world itself just makes matters worse. Under normal circumstances, a person's aether naturally tends to equilibrium, but for these poor souls, the opposite is true. |
| 448 | 444 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003950_ALISAIE | Sooner or later, every single one of them will turn. |
| 449 | 445 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003960_ALISAIE | Tesleen and the patients, they all know this. They know what has to be done before the change goes too far─before the eater within takes over. |
| 450 | 446 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003970_ALISAIE | The preferred method is mixing poison into their favorite food. In my time here, I've borne witness to a lot of last meals. |
| 451 | 447 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003980_ALISAIE | I feel just as helpless as before. No matter how hard I fight, it's never enough. |
| 452 | 448 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_003990_ALISAIE | But it's a war I mean to wage, nonetheless. ...Speaking of wars, do you remember how I made you promise not to leave me, and then promptly collapsed? |
| 453 | 449 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004000_ALISAIE | Well, let's just say I had a few choice words for the Exarch concerning the timing of his summons... |
| 454 | 450 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004010_ALISAIE | But even if the fault lay with someone else, I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd abandoned you on the battlefield. |
| 455 | 451 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004020_ALISAIE | So I swore that I'd make up for my absence there by making a difference here. |
| 456 | 452 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004030_ALISAIE | And that's what keeps me moving forward...even when things seem hopeless. |
| 457 | 453 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004040_ALISAIE | On which note, it's time we headed back. The longer we keep Tesleen waiting, the harder this will be for her... |
| 458 | 454 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004050_TESLEEN | Speak up if you'd like another helping. I made a little bit more than usual today. |
| 459 | 455 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004060_ALISAIE | And you've added something special to the broth, if I'm not mistaken? |
| 460 | 456 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004070_TESLEEN | Aye, well, it's not often we have visitors from the Crystarium, so I may have thrown in a few extra bits and bobs. |
| 461 | 457 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q13_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 462 | 458 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A13_000_001_NONE_VOICE | You needn't have gone to the trouble. |
| 463 | 459 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A13_000_002_NONE_VOICE | I'll have another bowl, then! |
| 464 | 460 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004080_TESLEEN | Oh, it's nothing, really! And we do so rarely have guests. |
| 465 | 461 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004090_TESLEEN | That's what I like to hear! Give me a moment to warm up the pot. |
| 466 | 462 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004100_TESLEEN | In a place like this, you learn to take what moments of happiness you can get. |
| 467 | 463 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004110_TESLEEN | I remember when I first came here with my mother. She was showing the early signs... |
| 468 | 464 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004120_TESLEEN | I knew there was no way to save her, but I just couldn't face what needed to be done. That's the way of it for most people─why they travel for malms to stay here. |
| 469 | 465 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004130_TESLEEN | Beaten, broken souls come to wait out the inevitable. To receive the mercy of a painless death. |
| 470 | 466 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004140_TESLEEN | When my mother finally left this world, I was mad with grief, but also thankful that her passing was a peaceful one. |
| 471 | 467 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004150_TESLEEN | It's never easy, ending a life you've cared for. Even when you believe they go on to a better place. |
| 472 | 468 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004160_TESLEEN | I often find myself wishing the Warrior of Darkness would come and do that part for me. |
| 473 | 469 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004170_ALISAIE | The Warrior of Darkness...? |
| 474 | 470 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004180_TESLEEN | You've never heard the tale? I'm not sure where it began, but every child in Norvrandt could tell you a version of it. |
| 475 | 471 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004190_TESLEEN | "Warrior of Darkness, servant of death, take care of our souls at our dying breath... |
| 476 | 472 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004200_TESLEEN | “Let sinners and eaters of sin go with thee, That all may return to the sunless sea.” |
| 477 | 473 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004210_TESLEEN | ...Well, that's the version I was taught anyway. It's just an old bedtime story─he's certainly never deigned to visit us here. |
| 478 | 474 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004220_ALISAIE | Which is a good thing, surely? He sounds rather ominous. |
| 479 | 475 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004230_TESLEEN | Do you think so? I always liked the idea that he treated every soul the same, even the sin eaters. |
| 480 | 476 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004240_JOURNEYSHEADPATIENT | They're coming... |
| 481 | 477 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004250_JOURNEYSHEADNURSE | Tesleen! |
| 482 | 478 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004260_JOURNEYSHEADNURSE | Have you seen Halric!? I swear, I only took my eyes off him for a moment... |
| 483 | 479 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004270_ALISAIE | Any sign of him!? |
| 484 | 480 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004280_ALISAIE | No luck, then. But he surely can't have gone far. |
| 485 | 481 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004290_ALISAIE | We should keep looking. The sin eaters are out in force, and if we don't find him soon, you can be sure they will. |
| 486 | 482 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004300_ALISAIE | Did you see the size of that thing? It must be one of the nasty ones. |
| 487 | 483 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004310_ALISAIE | Wherever it's going, it can only mean trouble. After it! |
| 488 | 484 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004320_ALISAIE | There it is! |
| 489 | 485 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004330_ALISAIE | Is that─ Oh...oh no! |
| 490 | 486 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004340_ALISAIE | Halric! |
| 491 | 487 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004350_TESLEEN | We have to run! |
| 492 | 488 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004360_ALISAIE | Tesleen, no! |
| 493 | 489 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004370_TESLEEN | We all deserve happiness...wherever we can find it... |
| 494 | 490 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004380_TESLEEN | The time left to you...is precious... No one should die...in pain... |
| 495 | 491 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004390_TESLEEN | Mother...Mother, I... |
| 496 | 492 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004400_TESLEEN | (SCREAMING) |
| 497 | 493 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004410_TESLEEN | (SCREAMING) |
| 498 | 494 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004411_TESLEEN | (SCREAMING) |
| 499 | 495 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004420_ALISAIE | Oh no, no... No, no, no, no, no! |
| 500 | 496 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004430_TESLEEN | Forgive me...Alisaie... |
| 501 | 497 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004440_MYSTERYVOICE | And so you return. |
| 502 | 498 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004450_MYSTERYVOICE | Have you gained a better understanding of the crisis now faced by the First? |
| 503 | 499 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004460_ALISAIE | "Better“ is not the word I would use. |
| 504 | 500 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004470_ALISAIE | Some lands may have been spared the Flood, but the survivors live only to suffer. There seems no end to the horrors inflicted by the sin eaters. |
| 505 | 501 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004480_MYSTERYVOICE | Indeed. Those abominations are a calamity in their own right. And I can well imagine how hopeless the task of eradicating them must seem to you. |
| 506 | 502 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004490_MYSTERYVOICE | But after countless battles and untold sacrifice, we have identified a potential weakness. |
| 507 | 503 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004500_MYSTERYVOICE | Sin eaters are drawn to serve the strongest of their kind─a class of creature we call “Lightwardens.” And from what we have been able to ascertain, only a handful of these entities exist. |
| 508 | 504 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004510_MYSTERYVOICE | Just as an ant colony will perish in the absence of its queen, we believe that the death of a Lightwarden will cause the lesser creatures within its sphere of influence to disperse. |
| 509 | 505 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004520_ALPHINAUD | I have a feeling Eulmore might have something to say about any concerted action we take against these monsters. |
| 510 | 506 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004530_ALPHINAUD | Vauthry's command over the sin eaters is integral to Eulmoran society. In seeming to guarantee his people's safety, it guarantees their obedience. |
| 511 | 507 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004540_ALPHINAUD | He will not take kindly to us depriving him of such useful allies. |
| 512 | 508 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004550_MYSTERYVOICE | Agreed. Thus we will need to occupy or otherwise divert his forces whilst we proceed with the business of eliminating the Wardens. |
| 513 | 509 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004560_MYSTERYVOICE | Until we have done so, all other considerations must be set aside if we are to forestall the Eighth Umbral Calamity. |
| 514 | 510 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q14_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 515 | 511 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A14_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Are you sure that eliminating the Wardens will be enough? |
| 516 | 512 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A14_000_002_NONE_VOICE | I'm not sure I follow... |
| 517 | 513 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004570_MYSTERYVOICE | Your uncertainty is understandable, given the circumstances. Perhaps a more detailed explanation is in order. To begin at the beginning, then... |
| 518 | 514 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004580_MYSTERYVOICE | In the ancient past, a single star was divided into fourteen worlds. |
| 519 | 515 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004590_MYSTERYVOICE | This is the Source─your home. These others are the thirteen shards, in whose number we find the First. |
| 520 | 516 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004600_MYSTERYVOICE | Though physically separate, they retain a connection to each other, and with the Source especially. |
| 521 | 517 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004610_MYSTERYVOICE | Now, let us assume that a given element in one of the shards attains abnormal ascendancy. |
| 522 | 518 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004620_MYSTERYVOICE | Just as water will flow from the highest point to the lowest, the excess energy will begin trickling into the Source... |
| 523 | 519 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004630_MYSTERYVOICE | And such an influx of aether will of course exert a palpable influence. |
| 524 | 520 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004640_MYSTERYVOICE | If the element in question were fire, then drought and wild fires might ensue. If it were ice, one might expect the weather to turn bitterly cold. |
| 525 | 521 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004650_MYSTERYVOICE | As aether continues to pour in, such phenomena will become more and more extreme, until eventually, a single untimely event triggers a disaster which “cracks” the barrier dividing the two worlds. |
| 526 | 522 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004660_MYSTERYVOICE | What was once a trickle now becomes a deluge, sweeping the shard along to be rejoined with the Source. |
| 527 | 523 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004670_MYSTERYVOICE | At the same time, the element which held sway in the shard is unleashed in full, its energies amplifying the original disaster to truly catastrophic proportions. |
| 528 | 524 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004680_MYSTERYVOICE | An earthquake thus magnified might strike with enough force to shatter continents; a tidal wave might swell to a size capable of drowning entire nations. |
| 529 | 525 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004690_MYSTERYVOICE | These devastating events are what we refer to as “Umbral Calamities.” |
| 530 | 526 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004700_MYSTERYVOICE | Seven times has a calamity befallen the Source; seven times has a shard been absorbed. |
| 531 | 527 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004710_MYSTERYVOICE | At present, the Light-drowned realm of the First stands perilously close to meeting the conditions for a Rejoining. |
| 532 | 528 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004720_MYSTERYVOICE | It is the sin eaters who are to blame for the Light's continued dominance. |
| 533 | 529 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004730_MYSTERYVOICE | In addition to attracting their lesser kin, the Lightwardens I mentioned earlier radiate aether, saturating every corner of their territory with Light. |
| 534 | 530 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004740_MYSTERYVOICE | Even here in the Flood-spared region of Norvrandt, their influence is strong enough to banish night from the sky. |
| 535 | 531 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004750_MYSTERYVOICE | Thus, if we are to restore balance to the First and head off a potential calamity, it is imperative that we put each and every Lightwarden to the sword. |
| 536 | 532 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004760_ALISAIE | We've been doing our best to take the fight to the enemy ever since we first heard the Exarch's explanation. |
| 537 | 533 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004770_ALPHINAUD | Though we have yet to claim any meaningful victories, if truth be told. |
| 538 | 534 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004780_ALPHINAUD | Apart from being confoundingly elusive, the Lightwardens possess a troublesome quality which compelled us to delay our plans until such time as you arrived. |
| 539 | 535 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004790_LYNA | Forgive the interruption, my lord, but Holminster Switch is requesting reinforcements! |
| 540 | 536 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004800_LYNA | They say the sin eaters are attacking in force, and the village could soon be overrun. |
| 541 | 537 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004810_MYSTERYVOICE | Alert the guard. We should be prepared in case the fighting reaches the Crystarium. |
| 542 | 538 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004820_MYSTERYVOICE | You have command of our forces in the field, Captain, but hold off on entering the town until I arrive. That goes for Alphinaud and Alisaie as well. |
| 543 | 539 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004830_LYNA | My lord! |
| 544 | 540 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004840_MYSTERYVOICE | Pray, lend us your strength. Such a fight will provide you with far greater insight than any explanation I could offer. |
| 545 | 541 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004850_LYNA | It's releasing its aether. Fall back! |
| 546 | 542 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004860_LYNA | We cannot let it touch us. Quickly, my lord, we must withdraw! |
| 547 | 543 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004870_MYSTERYVOICE | That will not be necessary, Captain. |
| 548 | 544 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004880_MYSTERYVOICE | ...Though I appreciate your concern. The eternal Light of these creatures has confounded us for nigh on a hundred years. For each we have put down, another has risen up in its place, born of the selfsame aether relinquished by its predecessor. |
| 549 | 545 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004890_MYSTERYVOICE | But now we have a way to contain that corruption. |
| 550 | 546 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004900_MYSTERYVOICE | The blessing of Light! And the hero who wields it now stands before you! |
| 551 | 547 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004910_MYSTERYVOICE | The blessing of Light! And the hero who wields it now stands before you! |
| 552 | 548 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004920_MYSTERYVOICE | Behold! The monster's power is broken! And the world twisted by its touch returns to its rightful form! |
| 553 | 549 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004930_CRYSTARIUMMAN | The sky! |
| 554 | 550 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004940_CRYSTARIUMWOMAN | It can't be... |
| 555 | 551 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004950_CRYSTARIUMOLDMAN | What's happening...? |
| 556 | 552 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004960_CRYSTARIUMGIRL | It's so beautiful... |
| 557 | 553 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004970_MOREN | The sunless sea... |
| 558 | 554 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004980_MOREN | The Warrior of Darkness has come! |
| 559 | 555 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_004990_LYNA | Is that...what I think it is? |
| 560 | 556 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005000_ALPHINAUD | The night sky, as it should be. |
| 561 | 557 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005010_LYNA | Who <Emphasis>are</Emphasis> you people? |
| 562 | 558 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005020_LYNA | You killed a Warden, then bathed in its aether as if it were a spring shower, and now the sky...? The legends are true! |
| 563 | 559 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005030_LYNA | My lord...? |
| 564 | 560 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005040_MYSTERYVOICE | How many years have I waited for this moment... |
| 565 | 561 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005050_MYSTERYVOICE | For the one possessed of Her blessing. For you. |
| 566 | 562 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005060_MYSTERYVOICE | You have vanquished the Lightwarden of Lakeland, and for the first time in a century darkness has returned to the mantle of night. |
| 567 | 563 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005070_MYSTERYVOICE | Without the ever-present Light to sustain them, the sin eaters will have no choice but to retreat. |
| 568 | 564 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005080_MYSTERYVOICE | ...Yet our victory is far from complete. |
| 569 | 565 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005090_MYSTERYVOICE | Though darkness has fallen here, the other Wardens yet bask beneath burning skies, feasting upon what little life remains. |
| 570 | 566 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005100_MYSTERYVOICE | Even should it cost me all I have, I would see each and every one of them slain, that this world might be spared from oblivion! |
| 571 | 567 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005110_MYSTERYVOICE | Not only for the First, but for the Source as well! Save one and we save the other! But...be that as it may...I concede it was wrong of me to summon you to this fight against your will. |
| 572 | 568 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005120_MYSTERYVOICE | I swear on my life, I will one day atone for that deed. But for the present... |
| 573 | 569 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005130_MYSTERYVOICE | I beg you stay and see this fight to its conclusion. Cast down the Wardens, and restore Darkness to the First! |
| 574 | 570 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q15_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 575 | 571 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A15_000_001_NONE_VOICE | I will become the Warrior you need. |
| 576 | 572 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A15_000_002_NONE_VOICE | It sounds like a glorious adventure! |
| 577 | 573 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A15_000_003_NONE_VOICE | It seems I've no choice but to fight. |
| 578 | 574 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005140_MYSTERYVOICE | On behalf of the First, I offer you my deepest thanks. |
| 579 | 575 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005150_ALISAIE | I understand there is much at stake here, Exarch, but why do you risk yourself so readily? It must have been a dangerous drain on your aether to summon even one person across the rift. |
| 580 | 576 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005160_MYSTERYVOICE | I do it for my people, of course─to give the Crystarium the tomorrow it deserves. |
| 581 | 577 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005170_ALISAIE | That is true <Emphasis>now</Emphasis>, yes─but the city had yet to be built when you first called forth the Crystal Tower. |
| 582 | 578 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005180_ALISAIE | I'm simply curious to know what prompted you to commit yourself so completely to this particular course. |
| 583 | 579 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005190_MYSTERYVOICE | There are...things which we can ill afford to lose. |
| 584 | 580 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005200_MYSTERYVOICE | And...I sensed from the first that I had a part to play in preserving them. |
| 585 | 581 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005210_MYSTERYVOICE | Forgive me. I fear the events of the day may have taken their toll. |
| 586 | 582 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005220_MYSTERYVOICE | Despite appearances, I am an old man─one burdened with many...difficult memories, some too painful to recall. |
| 587 | 583 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005230_ALISAIE | Well, then I'm sorry for pressing you. It's a family failing, I'm afraid. |
| 588 | 584 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005240_ALPHINAUD | Hmph. One which has served us well, more often than not. Needless to say, we will continue to fight at your side until the last sin eater is defeated. |
| 589 | 585 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005250_MYSTERYVOICE | Come then, my Warriors of Darkness─let us gather the surviving villagers, and make our way back to the Crystarium. |
| 590 | 586 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005260_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | So it's your lot's turn to be the Warriors of Darkness, is it? It's funny how things work out. |
| 591 | 587 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_Q16_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 592 | 588 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A16_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Been watching, have you? |
| 593 | 589 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_A16_000_002_NONE_VOICE | These are my “private” quarters... |
| 594 | 590 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005270_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Well, I did warn you. I followed you to Eulmore and then on to Amh Araeng. And I was there when you slew the Lightwarden. |
| 595 | 591 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005280_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Aye, I know. Just the place. |
| 596 | 592 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005290_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | In case you've forgotten, you're the only one who can see me. If we had one of our little chats in public, people might start thinking you'd lost your wits. |
| 597 | 593 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005300_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Those white-haired twins who were with you... I remember them from our battle in the Source. |
| 598 | 594 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005310_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Are they your friends, then? Through thick and thin? |
| 599 | 595 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005320_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Aye... |
| 600 | 596 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005330_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Then I suggest you keep them close. It's when you charge ahead trying to save someone else that you end up losing those you love. |
| 601 | 597 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005340_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | Not that you need telling. I'll bet you've lost plenty. But I wonder...what will it cost you this time? |
| 602 | 598 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005350_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | I don't remember when it was that I learned regret wasn't worth the bother. |
| 603 | 599 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005360_WARRIOROFDARKNESS | You get numb to it all over the years. The lost comrades, the broken promises, the abandoned principles─just more nagging burdens to ignore. |
| 604 | 600 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005370_RYNE | (-???-)So this is what the Light was hiding... |
| 605 | 601 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005380_RYNE | (-???-)<If(PlayerParameter(4))>She<Else/>He</If>'s here. I must go to <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>him</If>. |
| 606 | 602 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005390_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE | Meanwhile, inside an imperial magitek facility in the Source... |
| 607 | 603 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005400_GARLEANGENERAL | (-Imperial Pilus Prior-)Intruders! Fan out and find them! |
| 608 | 604 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005410_ESTINIEN | Out of my way! |
| 609 | 605 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005420_SHADOWHUNTER | (-???-)Stay your weapon. We are not your enemy. |
| 610 | 606 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005430_SHADOWHUNTER | When the alarum sounded, I wondered what we had done to betray our presence. But I see now we were not the only intruders. |
| 611 | 607 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005440_SHADOWHUNTER | Ser Estinien, I presume─the dragoon who plucked the Warrior of Light from the jaws of death. Your armor is most distinct. |
| 612 | 608 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005450_ESTINIEN | Much as yours once was. But even without it, I see a former legatus still has eyes and ears in unexpected places. |
| 613 | 609 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005460_ESTINIEN | "Van“ Baelsar, in the flesh. Though I understand you prefer ”Shadowhunter“? |
| 614 | 610 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005470_SHADOWHUNTER | Hmph. You are in contact with the Scions, I take it. |
| 615 | 611 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005480_ESTINIEN | Hmph. Through no choice of my own. They tracked me down, and conscripted me to their cause. |
| 616 | 612 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005490_ESTINIEN | I swear their receptionist was trained as a spy. Not that anyone can escape that Baldesion woman once she has caught the scent of your aether... |
| 617 | 613 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005500_SHADOWHUNTER | If they have resorted to using freelancers, I must assume their attempts to wake the afflicted have failed... |
| 618 | 614 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005510_SHADOWHUNTER | And what of their champion? |
| 619 | 615 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005520_ESTINIEN | ...Away on other business. Thus it has fallen to me to root out any trace of the Empire's new weapon. |
| 620 | 616 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005530_SHADOWHUNTER | If it is Black Rose you seek, you are too late. My people have already completed your mission here. |
| 621 | 617 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005540_SHADOWHUNTER | Yet this is but one factory among many. When they caught wind of our efforts, they built additional facilities to ensure production continues unabated. |
| 622 | 618 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005550_SHADOWHUNTER | There will be no one left in the lands they conquer. No citizens to conscript, no skills to exploit, nothing the Empire needs. And they will call it <Emphasis>victory</Emphasis>. |
| 623 | 619 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005560_ESTINIEN | ...What exactly does this Black Rose do? |
| 624 | 620 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005570_SHADOWHUNTER | The gas is described as a poison, but its actual effect is more arcane in nature. |
| 625 | 621 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005580_SHADOWHUNTER | It was created to disrupt the aether in living beings─to bring the flow of their life energies to a standstill. |
| 626 | 622 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005590_SHADOWHUNTER | Inhaling even the tiniest amount will cause all bodily functions to cease, much as a potent venom will stop a man's heart. |
| 627 | 623 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005600_SHADOWHUNTER | Released over a city, Black Rose could conceivably kill every inhabitant, and all without damaging a single structure. |
| 628 | 624 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005610_GARLEANGENERAL | (-Imperial Pilus Prior-)Search every corner! Rouse the barracks if you have to! I want this facility secured! |
| 629 | 625 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005620_ESTINIEN | I have more questions, but now is not the time. |
| 630 | 626 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005630_SHADOWHUNTER | Ser Estinien. I have an offer for you, but I will make it only once. |
| 631 | 627 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005640_SHADOWHUNTER | Since it would seem we seek the same answers...you are welcome to join us. |
| 632 | 628 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005650_ESTINIEN | Hah! From what I hear, you need all the help you can get. |
| 633 | 629 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005660_ESTINIEN | In case you don't know, Varis himself confessed that your empire was a creation of the Ascians. |
| 634 | 630 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005670_SHADOWHUNTER | I am aware of what His Radiance said at the parley. |
| 635 | 631 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005680_SHADOWHUNTER | Thus I would return to the capital, that I might behold the truth of this corruption with my own eyes. |
| 636 | 632 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05000_005690_SHADOWHUNTER | My path leads to Garlemald. |