Transcript:Royal Trouble
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This transcript involves dialogue with King Vargas, Advisor Ghrim, Princess Astrid, Prince Brand, Queen Sigrid, Gardener Gunnhild, Lumberjack Leif, Miner Magnus, and the player.
Pre-quest
Talking to King Vargas before the quest
- Player: Your Majesty.
- King Vargas: That fool Sigrid! What does she think she's doing?
- Player: Excuse me, your Majesty?
- King Vargas: Ah, [Fremennik name]. I apologise, but I'm rather busy at the moment.
- Player: What's going on, your Majesty?
- King Vargas: I'm busy, [Fremennik name]. You'd better talk to Ghrim.
- (Continues with Changing heirs dialogue.)
Getting Started
Talking to Advisor Ghrim before the quest
- Advisor Ghrim: Greetings, Your Royal Highness.
- Select an Option
- (Non-quest dialogue) How is the Kingdom faring?
- (Non-quest dialogue) How do I manage the kingdom?
- What am I meant to be doing again?
- Player: What am I meant to be doing again?
- Advisor Ghrim: Dealing with all the little troubles that come up from time to time, Your Royal Highness.
- Advisor Ghrim: Such as the predicament we are now in.
- Player: What do you mean?
- Player: Has anything been happening in the kingdom recently?
- (Continues below)
- Has anything been happening in the kingdom recently?
- Player: Has anything been happening in the kingdom recently?
- Advisor Ghrim: Interesting that you should ask that, Your Royal Highness.
- Advisor Ghrim: You see, the people are worried that war will break out again.
- Advisor Ghrim: King Vargas has found himself with little to do now that you are the regent. He intended, at first, to return to adventuring.
- Advisor Ghrim: Unfortunately, we still have not had the doors to the throne room enlarged so that he can leave...
- Player: So, what has he been doing?
- Advisor Ghrim: He has been trying to rule once more, in your absence. However, he has once again quarrelled with the Queen of Etceteria.
- Advisor Ghrim: The two of them have been writing letters to each other, threatening to raise armies and declare war on each other once more!
- Player: I see.
- Advisor Ghrim: Your Royal Highness, I suggest that you deal with this matter and reconcile the two of them again. Such a quarrel is not good for Miscellania.
- Start the Royal Trouble quest?
- Yes.
- Player: Very well, I'll sort it out.
- Advisor Ghrim: Thank you, Your Royal Highness.
- Advisor Ghrim: I suggest you talk to the prince and princess to find out more about the situation.
- Advisor Ghrim: Prince Brand has been asking after you. He would very much like to see you once again.
- No.
- Player: No, I don't have the time at the moment.
- Advisor Ghrim: You are the regent of this kingdom, Your Royal Highness. I would urge you to reconsider.
- Advisor Ghrim: However, you are also a busy hero, and thus I understand your reluctance.
- (End of dialogue)
Talking to King Vargas after starting the quest
- Player: Your Majesty.
- King Vargas: I'm sorry, [Fremennik name], but I'm very busy. Talk to my son and daughter if Ghrim can't help you.
- (Continues with Changing heirs dialogue.)
Talking to Advisor Ghrim after starting the quest
- Advisor Ghrim: Greetings, Your Royal Highness.
- What am I meant to be doing again?
- Player: What am I meant to be doing again?
- Advisor Ghrim: Talking to the Prince and Princess, Your Royal Highness. I believe they have something to ask you.
- (End of dialogue)
Talking to Prince Brand
- Player: Hello, dear.
- Prince Brand: Welcome back, dear!
- Prince Brand: I'm afraid I haven't managed to find a priest for our marriage yet.
- Player: That's a pity.
- Player: Oh, Advisor Ghrim said I should talk to you and the Princess about recent events in the kingdom.
- Prince Brand: I'll ask Father if he minds us discussing this in the throne room for a while.
- Player: Advisor Ghrim told me to talk to you about the situation in Miscellania.
- Player: What has happened while I've been away?
- Prince Brand: It's terrible, my dear! My father's been arguing with the Queen of Etceteria, and has managed to start a war again.
- Prince Brand: It's awful that your work has been undone by such an accident.
- Player: What do you mean, 'an accident'?
- Prince Brand: Well, if my father had had something to occupy him, he wouldn't have gotten bored and decided to argue with Queen Sigrid again.
- Player: What would you suggest he do, then?
- Princess Astrid: We can't have him declaring war all the time. Even if it would give us a chance to show off our military might.
- Princess Astrid: And I could finally show him that archery isn't a cowardly skill. If only we had an army, we could prove ourselves against the Etceterians.
- Prince Brand: Astrid, I have an even better idea.
- Princess Astrid: Better than archery? What is it?
- Prince Brand: I think we should persuade our father and Queen Sigrid to marry!
- Princess Astrid: ...What are you talking about, Brand?
- Prince Brand: Think of the poetic irony of the situation!
- Prince Brand: The best part is that I could write their wedding hymn for them.
- Prince Brand: 'Today is a happy day, we are getting married,
- Prince Brand: Our national anthems are wonderful, won't you sing this song?'
- Player: I'm not sure that's such a good idea...
- Prince Brand: I think it will work.
- Princess Astrid: I quite agree!
- Prince Brand: Perhaps it's an odd idea, my dear, but since we don't have an army, we can hardly declare war...
- Player: Are you sure it'll work?
- Prince Brand: Of course it will! It always happens in the ballads and stories.
- Prince Brand: Two people who start out hating each other, and end up falling in love. It's a classic tale.
- Player: That doesn't always work...
- Princess Astrid: But we don't have an army, so it's our best hope.
- Prince Brand: So, will you talk to our father and Queen Sigrid, then?
- Prince Brand: I'm sure you can manage to arrange it all.
- Player: I'll give it a try. But they'll still be angry with each other, so I don't think it'll work.
- Prince Brand: I'm sure you'll manage to do it, dear.
- (End of dialogue)
Speaking to King Vargas
- Player: Your Majesty.
- King Vargas: What is it? You'll have to excuse me, I'm quite busy...
- Player: What are you busy with, your Majesty?
- King Vargas: Affairs of state, and so on.
- Player: I thought I was supposed to deal with those, once you appointed me Regent.
- King Vargas: Well, there's not all that much for me to do these days, you see.
- King Vargas: And though you do make a fine regent, you cannot be here all the time.
- Player: So you're still helping to rule, your Majesty?
- King Vargas: In a manner of speaking.
- Player: These 'affairs of state' you're dealing with...
- Player: Would these involve starting a war with Queen Sigrid of Etceteria?
- King Vargas: Not exactly...
- King Vargas: Well, yes. Of course, Sigrid was the one who insulted me first.
- King Vargas: And that's the least of the kingdom's problems at the moment.
- King Vargas: Some of Frodi's barrels are missing, as are many of Magnus's crates. Leif also says he's had stacks of wood disappear.
- King Vargas: Since you're the regent, you should investigate what has happened to these missing resources.
- Select an Option
- Right away, your Majesty.
- Player: Right away, your majesty.
- (Continues below)
- I'm sorry, I have some other things to do.
- Player: I'm sorry, I have some other things to do.
- King Vargas: That never prevented me from ruling this kingdom when I was your age, [Fremennik name].
- Player: Well, I suppose I could spare a little time.
- King Vargas: I'm glad to have your help.
- King Vargas: All you need to do for the moment is to talk to the citizens of Miscellania, and find out what has been happening.
- King Vargas: It might also be useful to interrogate the citizens of Etceteria to see what they know.
- (Continues with Changing heirs dialogue.)
Investigating the stolen goods
Talking to Gardener Gunhild
- Gardener Gunnhild: Good day, Your Royal Highness.
- Player: King Vargas tells me that things have been going missing from the kingdom. Can you tell me anything about this?
- Gardener Gunnhild: You mean you hadn't heard, Your Royal Highness? Etceterian soldiers came and demanded tithes from us.
- Gardener Gunnhild: You're the only person we give any of our goods to, so we refused, and found the next day that some of our goods had been stolen.
- (End of dialogue)
Talking to Lumberjack Leif
- Lumberjack Leif: Good day, Your Royal Highness.
- Lumberjack Leif: You hadn't heard about it, Your Royal Highness? Etceterian soldiers came and demanded tithes from us.
- Lumberjack Leif: You're the only person we give any of our goods to, so we refused, and found the next day that some of our goods had been stolen.
- (End of dialogue)
Talking to Miner Magnus
- Miner Magnus: Good day, Your Royal Highness.
- Miner Magnus: You mean you don't know, Your Royal Highness? Etceterian soldiers came and demanded tithes from us.
- Miner Magnus: You're the only person we give any of our goods to, so we refused, and found the next day that some of our goods had been stolen.
- (End of dialogue)
Talking to King Vargas
- King Vargas: Have you spoken to the citizens yet, [Fremennik name]?
- Player: I've spoken to the Miscellanean citizens.
- King Vargas: And?
- Player: They say that the Etceterian army demanded tithes from them, and took some of their goods even though they refused.
- King Vargas: What?
- King Vargas: So, Sigrid's planning to invade, is she?
- King Vargas: Or perhaps she's claiming that Miscellania is part of Etceteria now!
- King Vargas: [Fremennik name], go and talk to Sigrid and ask her what she thinks she's doing.
- King Vargas: Exchanging angry letters is understandable, but where did she get an army from?
- Player: I'll talk to her right away, your Majesty.
- (Continues with Changing heirs dialogue.)
Talking to Queen Sigrid
- Player: Your Majesty, do you have a moment?
- Queen Sigrid: Incompetent! I'll give him 'incompetent'...
- Queen Sigrid: Yes, what is it?
- Player: I hear from King Vargas that relations between Etceteria and Miscellania are none too cordial at the moment.
- Queen Sigrid: Of course not!
- Queen Sigrid: That idiot Vargas has decided to take a hand in ruling Miscellania, even though he'd handed it over to you, and now he's declared war on Etceteria again!
- Queen Sigrid: I suppose all those insults I made about his parentage can't have helped the matter...
- Queen Sigrid: Even so, that doesn't excuse what he did to my citizens!
- Player: What happened, your Majesty?
- Queen Sigrid: My citizens have told me that items of theirs have been taken, and I'm sure that Vargas is behind it.
- Queen Sigrid: Since you're the one who's supposed to be ruling Miscellania, you should sort it out.
- Select an Option
- Of course, it's my duty.
- Queen Sigrid: I'm glad you understand.
- Queen Sigrid: If you talk to the citizens of Etceteria, they will tell you exactly what happened.
- Queen Sigrid: I would find out for myself, but the pressures of ruling are immense, and I would never have the time free.
- (End of dialogue)
- Of course not, it's not my fault.
- Player: Of course not, it's not my fault.
- Queen Sigrid: What sort of Regent of Miscellania do you call yourself?
- Queen Sigrid: Of course it's your fault. You rule the country now.
- Player: I suppose you're right...
- Queen Sigrid: I'm glad you understand.
- Queen Sigrid: If you talk to the citizens of Etceteria, they will tell you exactly what happened.
- Queen Sigrid: I would find out for myself, but the pressures of ruling are immense, and I would never have the time free.
- (End of dialogue)
Talking to Matilda
- Player: Excuse me...
- Matilda: Yes?
- Player: Queen Sigrid tells me that things have been going missing from the kingdom. Can you tell me anything about this?
- Matilda: You haven't heard about that until now?
- Matilda: I'm surprised.
- Matilda: Well, Miscellanian soldiers came and asked for tribute.
- Matilda: When I told them to leave, they came back the next day and stole my hat!
- Matilda: It was a wonderful hat. Mithril-reinforced, you see, and with a special splitbark brim to keep the sun off.
- Matilda: Could you please get it back for me?
- Player: I'll see what I can do.
- (End of dialogue)
Returning to Queen Sigrid
- Queen Sigrid: Have you talked to the citizens yet, [Fremennik name]?
- Player: I've talked to the Miscellanian citizens as well as the Etceterians.
- Queen Sigrid: What exactly happened?
- Player: The Etceterian citizens said that Miscellanian soldiers came to their houses and demanded tribute...
- Queen Sigrid: Just as I suspected! Vargas, you treacherous snake!
- Player: ...and the Miscellanian citizens said that the Etceterian army marched into their fields and demanded tithes!
- Queen Sigrid: What?
- Queen Sigrid: Now I see his plan! Vargas isn't content with simply arguing; he wants to start a war even if it means swindling his own citizens!
- Player: Your Majest-
- Queen Sigrid: Etceterian army? There hasn't been one for centuries! These Miscellanian soldiers of his must have disguised themselves.
- Player: If I may-
- Queen Sigrid: And since Vargas shouldn't even be ruling now, it's your responsibility to deal with this.
- Queen Sigrid: The one who should sort this out is you.
- I suppose so...
- Player: I suppose you're right.
- (End of dialogue)
- Me?
- Player: Me?
- Queen Sigrid: It's one of the hazards of ruling a country, [Fremennik name].
- Player: I suppose you're right.
- (End of dialogue)
Talking to Queen Sigrid again
- Queen Sigrid: Have you found those stolen items yet?
- Player: Not yet, your Majesty.
- Queen Sigrid: You'd better hurry and look for them.
- Queen Sigrid: We don't know what Vargas might be planning next!
- (End of dialogue)
At peace once again
Reading the letter Queen Sigrid gives the player
- Player: I'm not sure I should be reading this...
- I shouldn't read other people's letters.
- Player: I won't read that letter. It's for the King, not for me.
- Player: I'm not sure I should be reading this...
- (End of dialogue)
- Go ahead and read it anyway.
- Player: Oh, why not. I'm the Regent, after all.
- (End of dialogue)
Returning to King Vargas
- King Vargas: How are your investigations going, [Fremennik name]?
- Player: I've found the people who took the goods from your citizens!
- King Vargas: Those Etceterian soldiers?
- Player: They weren't Etceterian soldiers after all.
- Player: They were teenagers from Rellekka who were trying to prove themselves as adults, by starting a war and then bringing about peace.
- King Vargas: Why didn't they just go through the trials as usual?
- King Vargas: Unless they're the ones that the Council warned me about.
- King Vargas: Still, I can't believe they'd start a war between Miscellania and Etceteria, just to show they were adults...
- King Vargas: But at least you've found the missing goods. Do you have them with you?
- Player: I'm afraid not, your Majesty. There were far too many for me to carry.
- King Vargas: That's a pity.
- King Vargas: We'll have to send people down to collect them later, then.
- Player: And I also spoke to Queen Sigrid of Etceteria.
- Player: She gave me a letter for you, which she said was a formal apology.
- King Vargas: Oh? Do you have this letter with you?
- Player: Of course, your Majesty. Here you are.
- King Vargas: Let me see...
- King Vargas: You defeated that sea snake? Sigrid seems rather impressed with that.
- King Vargas: And the caverns underneath her palace are joined to ours, I see.
- King Vargas: She thinks we should join forces to develop them for more houses.
- King Vargas: Finally... hmm. That's not what I'd have expected from Sigrid.
- Player: What is it, your Majesty?
- King Vargas: She, erm, says if I weren't a yeti, she might want to get to know me better.
- King Vargas: Since we're both warmongering fools, she thinks we'd get on well.
- King Vargas: I suppose she has a point there.
- Player: Brand's suggestion worked, and I didn't even do anything.
- King Vargas: What was that?
- Player: Nothing, your Majesty.
- Player: Do you want me to give a reply to Queen Sigrid?
- King Vargas: No, no. I'll think about it for a while.
- King Vargas: Though I'd like to tell her I'm sorry for calling her a warmongering harpy.
- King Vargas: In the meantime, [Fremennik name], you have managed to avert a war and bring the culprits to light.
- King Vargas: The kingdom of Miscellania will have to reward you for this.
- King Vargas: I hear that the Etceterians are also grateful for your help, and have pledged some of their resources.
- King Vargas: You can talk to Ghrim to deal with those, just as before.
- (End of dialogue)
Post-quest
Talking to King Vargas
- King Vargas: Thank you for your work in bringing peace back to these islands, [Fremennik name].
- King Vargas: I hear that the Etceterians have also pledged to give you some of their resources, as thanks for preventing war once again.
- King Vargas: How is the kingdom faring?
- Player: Everything is fine, your Majesty.
- King Vargas: Remember, speak to Ghrim if you require assistance.
- (Continues with Changing heirs dialogue.)
Talking to Prince Brand
- Prince Brand: I hear you made peace between our kingdom and Etceteria once more. Well done, dear.
- (Continues with relationship dialogue.)
Talking to Princess Astrid
- Princess Astrid: I hear you made peace between our kingdom and Etceteria once more. Well done, [Fremennik name].
- (End of dialogue)
Talking to Queen Sigrid
- Queen Sigrid: Thank you for all your help, [Fremennik name]. It's good to know that the Regent of Miscellania is willing to help his neighbours.
- Player: You're welcome, your Majesty.
- (End of dialogue)