Transcript:Ernest the Chicken
Starting off
- Veronica: Can you please help me? I'm in a terrible spot of trouble.
- Aha, sounds like a quest. I'll help.
- Player: Aha, sounds like a quest. I'll help.
- Veronica: Yes yes, I suppose it is a quest. My fiance Ernest and I came upon this house.
- Veronica: Seeing as we were a little lost Ernest decided to go in and ask for directions.
- Veronica: That was an hour ago. That house looks spooky, can you go and see if you can find him for me?
- Player: Ok, I'll see what I can do.
- Veronica: Thank you, thank you. I'm very grateful.
- Ernest the Chicken is started.
- (End of dialogue)
- No, I'm looking for something to kill.
- Player: No, I'm looking for something to kill.
- Veronica: Oooh, you violent person you.
- (End of dialogue)
Veronica during quest
- Veronica: Have you found my sweetheart yet?
- Player: No, not yet.
- (End of dialogue)
The Mad Scientist
- Professor Oddenstein: Be careful in here, there's lots of dangerous equipment.
- I'm looking for a guy called Ernest.
- Player: I'm looking for a guy called Ernest.
- Professor Oddenstein: Ah Ernest, top notch bloke. He's helping me with my experiments.
- Player: So you know where he is then?
- Professor Oddenstein: He's that chicken over there.
- Player: Ernest is a chicken...? Are you sure?
- Professor Oddenstein: Oh, he isn't normally a chicken, or at least he wasn't until he helped me test my pouletmorph machine.
- Professor Oddenstein: It was originally going to be called a transmutation machine. But after testing pouletmorph seems more appropriate.
- I'm glad Veronica didn't actually get engaged to a chicken.
- Player: I'm glad Veronica didn't actually get engaged to a chicken.
- Professor Oddenstein: Who's Veronica?
- Player: Ernest's fiancee. She probably doesn't want to marry a chicken.
- Professor Oddenstein: Ooh I dunno. She could have free eggs for breakfast.
- Player: I think you'd better change him back.
- Professor Oddenstein: Umm... It's not so easy...
- Professor Oddenstein: My machine is broken, and the house gremlins have run off with some vital bits.
- Player: Well I can look for them.
- Professor Oddenstein: That would be a help. They'll be somewhere in the manor house or its grounds, the gremlins never get further than the entrance gate.
- Professor Oddenstein: I'm missing the pressure gauge and a rubber tube. They've also taken my oil can, which I'm going to need to get this thing started again.
- (End of dialogue)
- Change him back this instant!
- Player: Change him back this instant!
- Professor Oddenstein: Umm... It's not so easy...
- Professor Oddenstein: My machine is broken, and the house gremlins have run off with some vital bits.
- Player: Well I can look for them.
- Professor Oddenstein: That would be a help. They'll be somewhere in the manor house or its grounds, the gremlins never get further than the entrance gate.
- Professor Oddenstein: I'm missing the pressure gauge and a rubber tube. They've also taken my oil can, which I'm going to need to get this thing started again.
- (End of dialogue)
- What does this machine do?
- Player: What does this machine do?
- Professor Oddenstein: Nothing at the moment... It's broken. It's meant to be a transmutation machine.
- Professor Oddenstein: It has also spent time as a time travel machine, and a dramatic lightning generator, and a thing for generating monsters.
- (End of dialogue)
- Is this your house?
- Player: Is this your house?
- Professor Oddenstein: No, I'm just one of the tenants. It belongs to the count who lives in the basement.
- Professor Oddenstein: Be careful in here, there's lots of dangerous equipment.
- (End of dialogue)
Veronica during quest after finding out about Ernest
- Veronica: Have you found my sweetheart yet?
- Player: Yes, he's a chicken.
- Veronica: I know he's not exactly brave but I think you're being a bit harsh.
- Player: No no, he's been turned into an actual chicken by a mad scientist.
- Veronica: Eeeeeek!
- Veronica: My poor darling, why must these things happen to us.
- Player: Well I'm doing my best to turn him back.
- Veronica: Well be quick, I'm sure being a chicken can't be good for him.
- (End of dialogue)
Before returning any parts
- Professor Oddenstein: Have you found anything yet?
- Player: I'm afraid I don't have any of them yet!
- Professor Oddenstein: I need a rubber tube, a pressure gauge and a can of oil. Then your friend can stop being a chicken.
- (End of dialogue)
The pressure gauge
Trying to search the fountain without poisoning the piranhas
- Player: There seems to be a pressure gauge in here...
- Something in the water bites you.
- Player: Ow!
- Player: ... and a lot of piranhas! I can't get the gauge out.
- (End of dialogue)
Using poison on the fish food
- You poison the fish food.
Using poisoned food on the fountain
- You pour the poisoned fish food into the fountain.
- The piranhas start eating the food...
- ... then die and float to the surface.
Searching the fountain after piranhas have been poisoned
- Player: There seems to be a pressure gauge in here...
- Player: ... and a lot of dead fish.
- You get the pressure gauge from the fountain.
Searching the fountain after obtaining pressure gauge
- Player: It's full of dead fish!
- (End of dialogue)
Using regular fish food on the fountain
- You pour the fish food into the fountain.
- The piranhas start eating the food...
- Now they seem hungrier than ever!
Using anything besides the fish food variants on the fountain
- Something in the water bites you.
- Player: Ow!
The key
- You dig through the compost...
- ... and find a small key.
Returning a part
- Professor Oddenstein: Have you found anything yet?
- Player: I've only got the pressure gauge/oil can/rubber tube so far.
- Professor Oddenstein: It's a good start, but I'll need my oil can and rubber tube too.
- Player: Ok, I'll go and look for them.
- (End of dialogue)
Finishing up
- Professor Oddenstein: Have you found anything yet?
- Player: I have everything!
- Professor Oddenstein: Give 'em here then.
- You give the rubber tube, a pressure gauge, and a can of oil to the professor.
- Oddenstein starts up the machine.
- The machine hums and shakes.
- Machine pouletmorphs Ernest back to human form!
- Ernest: Thank you [sir/m'lady]. It was dreadfully irritating being a chicken. How can I ever thank you?
- Player: Well a cash reward is always nice...
- Ernest: Of course, of course.
- Ernest hands you 300gp
- Congratulations! Quest complete!