Transcript:Kasonde

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Standard dialogue

  • Kasonde: Well? Who are you?
  • Player: I'm player, and you are?
  • Kasonde: I think you already know the answer to that.
  • Player: Er... Do I?
  • Kasonde: Shaw. Kasonde Shaw. Don't go acting like you haven't been following me for some time now.
  • Player: Ah, of course. Those old ruins.
  • Kasonde: Exactly. Perhaps you took me for a fool, but I was on to you from the start. Considering what we learnt, I knew it was only a matter of time before you showed up.
  • Player: You mean soul transference? Not actually something that interests me, to be honest.
  • Kasonde: Don't take me for a fool! If you had no interest in the Old Ones' secrets, why would you have followed me to those ruins? And why would you have come here?
  • Player: To be honest, I didn't even know what an Old One was. I still don't really. I was just exploring when I found your camp.
  • Player: As for why I'm here, I'm looking for information about someone called Vardorvis.
  • Kasonde: Really? You want me to believe that all of this is a coincidence?
  • Player: Well... yes.
  • Kasonde: You're lying! You're lying and...
  • Kasonde: Hang on... do you hear that?
  • Player: Hear what?
  • Kasonde: The Strangled! Did you disturb any tendrils on your way in here?
  • Player: I may have...?
  • Kasonde: They'll be coming. We've got no chance up here. Head down below! Now!

Post Stranglewood Fight (underground)

  • Kasonde: That's the lot of them. Let's head back up.
  • (End of dialogue)

Post Stranglewood Fight

  • Kasonde: That was too close. You nearly got us both killed!
  • Player: I don't understand... What are those things? Are they zombies?
  • Kasonde: You really want me to believe that you don't know anything about this place?
  • Player: I already told you, I wasn't lying.
  • Kasonde: Well I don't have any reason to trust that.
  • Player: With how dangerous this place is, do you really have a choice?
  • Kasonde: Hmm...
  • Kasonde: Alright, fine. But I have no desire to see you get us killed, so you'd better wisen up fast.
  • Player: I'm listening.
  • Kasonde: It all starts with the Old Ones. They lived here long before humans came to these lands, and these ruins here were once their home.
  • Player: And these Old Ones discovered soul transference?
  • Kasonde: They did, and they did so long before House Arceuus even existed. It was their final attempt to overcome their extinction, but they failed.
  • Kasonde: What you see around you is the result of their failure. It's known as the Strangler.
  • Player: The Strangler?
  • Kasonde: It's some sort of parasite. It was presumably meant to play a role in their transference rituals, but instead it destroyed them. It has remained here ever since.
  • Player: Hence the Strangled?
  • Kasonde: Exactly. Plenty of unwary fools have fallen victim to the Strangler. If you don't take care, you will share their fate.
  • Player: So how do we deal with them?
  • Kasonde: The trick is to maintain your distance. They're relatively passive unless you get too close, but if you disturb one, the rest will quickly come running.
  • Kasonde: If you need to fight one, try to do it away from the rest!
  • Kasonde: And stay off of the tendrils! You'll alert the lot of them to your location! It's like a network.
  • Player: Keep my distance and stay off the tendrils. I can do that. So what's our next move?
  • Kasonde: The fact that you're still alive tells me you broke into my home and stole some of the potion I made.
  • Player: 'Broke in' is maybe a bit strong...
  • Kasonde: Call it what you want, it's not important now. What is important is that I believe I can make a more powerful potion using ingredients found here.
  • Kasonde: If all goes well, this potion will provide increased immunity against the Strangler. If either of us are to find what we want here, it will be essential.
  • Player: So what ingredients do we need?
  • Kasonde: As you've no doubt seen, the Strangler infects plant life as well. However, I've come across a small number of plants that seem to have developed immunity.
  • Kasonde: First, there's a herb growing atop the cliff just north west of the temple. Second, there are some berries in an old camp on the coast to the south west.
  • Player: Alright, I can gather those.
  • Kasonde: I need to gather some additional ingredients from within the temple. I will meet you back here once I'm done.

After Collecting Potion Ingredients (temple)

  • Player: Kasonde! Are you okay?
  • Kasonde: Damn it! Damn it! This can't happen! It can't!
  • Player: Kasonde?
  • Kasonde shows you his arm. There's a large bite from one of the Strangled.
  • Player: Kasonde...
  • Kasonde: It's fine! This doesn't change anything.
  • Player: But the infection...
  • Kasonde: The infection means nothing!
  • Kasonde: I was a dead man either way...
  • Player: What are you on about?
  • Kasonde: Koreps Syndrome. Common among botanists apparently. You'd have thought we'd have put some effort into finding a cure, but I guess no one ever thinks they'll be the unlucky one.
  • Player: Kasonde, I...
  • Kasonde: Don't. Whatever you have to say, I don't want to hear it. Do you know how many times I've heard the word 'sorry'? Do you know how many times people have told me they understand?
  • Kasonde: Well they don't. I spent every day working away, telling myself that one day I'd finally be able to live my life, but it was all a lie. That was my life, and it was all so... meaningless!
  • Kasonde: I tried everything. I went to every healer, ever mage, every priest.
  • Kasonde: I went to House Arceuus, and they turned me away! What gives them the right?!
  • Kasonde: So no, this doesn't change anything. The Old Ones are my last hope. I either find their secrets, or...
  • Kasonde: Look, we're wasting time here! There's a ritual site to the west. Presumably it's where the Strangler was unleashed. It's my best hope now, and it may well be where you'll find what you're after as well.
  • Kasonde: Take this potion and add those ingredients you gathered to it. It should strengthen your immunity against the Strangler. Now go!
  • Kasonde gives you an unfinished potion.
  • (End of dialogue)