Dorion Dumas/Dialogue
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The following is a transcript of Dorion Dumas's dialogue.
Dialogue
(#0) Dorion Dumas: Funds are essential to the running of a city. We’ll need money to handle the construction of more delicate items. We can start by levying a tax on those with homes, as well as businesses. (→ #1)
(#1) Dorion Dumas: Of course, if you’d like to donate your own silver or gold, we’d be happy to take it! (→ #2)
(#2) Dorion Dumas: If we have a critical need for a certain kind of basic resource, let me know, and I can spend some of our funds in order to purchase some from another tribe. (→ #3)
(#3) Dorion Dumas: Ah, there you are. We’ve got the essentials for construction set up, but we’ve hit a serious snag. It’s...About Ambraine herbs. (→ #4)
(#4) Dorion Dumas: Our workers are going into Ambraine withdrawal. Our scouts and hunters can’t gather enough for everyone just by foraging. Some of our people have set up an improvised growing operation just over the hill...But the terrain is, understandably, rather sterile. (→ #5)
(#5) Dorion Dumas: We need a fertilizer, something to give our Ambraine crops enough nutrition to survive until our first real harvest. If not...Many of our people are planning to abandon the settlement and try to seek permanent refuge in Monsoon. (→ #6)
(#6) Multiple-choice:
- 0: They’d abandon the settlement because they can’t get enough of that herb? Why? (→ #7)
(#7) Dorion Dumas: Ambraine has been part of our culture in Sirocco since long before the Scourge. It helps regulate body heat, and protects the lungs against the ash and soot in the air. We’ve depended on it in order to survive our work for generations. (→ #8)
(#8) Dorion Dumas: Unfortunately, ceasing to smoke it comes with awful side effects. The Nobles knew, of course. It’s why almost none of them smoked it. By controlling the supply, they used its addictive nature to control us, to keep us in our place. (→ #9)
(#9) Dorion Dumas: If we don’t solve this problem, we stand to lose a considerable amount of manpower. Our construction operations would slow down significantly if so many people left. That fertilizer is now priority one, [PlayerName]. (→ #10)
(#10) Multiple-choice:
- 0: A fertilizer, huh? Sounds like you have an idea of what would work. (→ #11)
(#11) Dorion Dumas: I need you to find a freshly-laid Myrmitaur egg in the Hives near the coast, then, take it to the Sulfuric Caverns. A scout said he’d found a Blue-ish pool of Sulphur in there. A fertile Medyse must have died in it, releasing a ton of nutrients. (→ #12)
(#12) Dorion Dumas: Sink the Myrmitaur egg into it for a few minutes, and the stuff inside the egg should become exceptionally good fertilizer. One just good enough to get that first Ambraine harvest in and ensure the farms are off to a good start. (→ #13)
(#13) Multiple-choice:
- 0: If those people can’t handle it here, why not let them leave for a safer region, then? (→ #14)
- 1: I’ll be back with it as soon as I can! Hold tight until then! (→ end)
(#14) Dorion Dumas: Because almost none of them have been “outside the walls” even a single time, aside from moving to this quarry. Honestly, I’m shocked we all made even that short trip with only a few serious injuries. (→ #15)
(#15) Dorion Dumas: You remember your first steps out in the wild, don’t you [PlayerName]? Do you think a gaggle of inexperienced laborers who have never swung a weapon in combat in their lives, leading their children by the hand, would survive the journey to Monsoon? (→ #16)
(#16) Multiple-choice:
- 0: ...I see your point, Dorion. No, I don’t think many of them would make it. (→ #17)
(#17) Dorion Dumas: Indeed. Now you understand the stakes, as well as the level of control that Ambraine gave the Nobility over us. (→ #18)
(#18) Multiple-choice:
- 0: I’ll be back with it as soon as I can! Hold tight until then! (→ #30)
(#19) Dorion Dumas: Ugh! I can smell that Myrmitaur Egg fertilizer from here. Yes, that’ll do for our Ambraine farms. (→ #20)
(#20) Dorion Dumas: It’s a shame that it’s too late. Several of our construction crews have packed up and left already. All we can do for them now is hope even a few of them survive the journey. *sigh* Well, at least the rest of us won’t go wanting for Ambraine... (→ #21)
(#21) Multiple-choice:
- 0: There were some Nobles there too. I thought they were all killed in the revolt! (→ #22)
(#22) Dorion Dumas: Some were close enough to the exits that their Warriors were able to cut a path through us. The Chamberlord and a small handful of others are still alive out there. (→ #23)
(#23) Josef Dumas: Why would they keep fighting us? Surely they know that they’re outnumbered and will flee to Berg or Monsoon, right? They have nothing to gain by staying in the Caldera! (→ #24)
(#24) Evangeline Vallier: They’re Sirocco Nobles, Josef. They believe that they own the region and everything in it, by the right of their blood. They preferred to stay in a dying city than move for safety’s sake. I’m not even slightly surprised they haven’t moved on. (→ #25)
(#25) Dorion Dumas: Even so, we should focus our efforts on what we need to do to survive, not pursuing revenge, Evangeline. The settlement must come first. (→ #26)
(#26) Evangeline Vallier: *sigh* I know, Dorion. Fine. We’ll keep our focus on the city for now. (→ #27)
(#27) Josef Dumas: In better news, now that the essentials of life are in place, we can start work on the more specialized buildings that a town needs. I’ve got a stack of blueprints waiting for your selection, Overseer [PlayerName]. (→ #28)
(#28) Josef Dumas: Ah, and Evangeline led a raid on Old Sirocco while you were out. They broke into the few remaining manors of the nobles, and brought in any gold or trinkets they could find. Use these funds wisely, I think this is the last lucky windfall we’ll be getting. (→ #30)
(#29) Dorion Dumas: I’ll spread the word, and have this thing delivered to the farms immediately. I think this will be enough to keep anyone from choosing to flee the settlement. You’ve done a great service for us, [PlayerName]. Thank you! (→ #21)
(#30) Dorion Dumas: What’s on the agenda today, [PlayerName]? (→ #31)
(#31) Multiple-choice:
- 0: We need to buy some resources for the settlement. (→ end)
- 1: I want to buy something. (→ end)
- 2: The others respect you quite a bit. How did you end up becoming their supplier? (→ #32)
- 3: Farewell. (→ end)
(#32) Dorion Dumas: I used to be a miner in my younger years. I only got where I am through mutual cooperation, daring to try new things, and more than a few very lucky breaks with a patron in the Merchant class. I’ve made certain to never forget my roots in manual labor. (→ #33)
(#33) Dorion Dumas: For quite a while, I’ve been sort of the unofficial voice between the other Workers and the Nobility. I never wanted things to turn to violence, but they used every method imaginable to protect their control over the Ambraine and property from peaceful change. (→ #34)
(#34) Multiple-choice:
- 0: Ambraine is just an herb, right? Why is it so central to your city’s politics? (→ #35)
- 1: So, what did you try to do? (→ #37)
(#35) Dorion Dumas: Ambraine has been part of our culture in Sirocco since long before the Scourge. It helps regulate body heat, and protects the lungs against the ash and soot in the air. We’ve depended on it in order to survive our work for generations. (→ #36)
(#36) Dorion Dumas: Unfortunately, ceasing to smoke it comes with awful side effects. The Nobles knew, of course. It’s why almost none of them smoked it. By controlling the supply, they used its addictive nature to control us, to keep us in our place. (→ #37)
(#37) Dorion Dumas: Among other things, we tried to institute a Worker’s union, overseen by an official elected every year. I actually ran for the position myself, you know. I didn’t even ask for much, just some common-sense protections for the Workers. (→ #38)
(#38) Multiple-choice:
- 0: I take it you didn’t win, then? (→ #39)
(#39) Dorion Dumas: Any degree of change frightened the Nobles. I was labelled a radical, a madman. The nobles split the city against one another, twisted rules to suit them, and possibly even stole ballots...In the end, a Noble was elected to the position. He changed nothing. (→ #40)
(#40) Dorion Dumas: The other Nobles decided that, as he was doing such a good job in their eyes, no further elections needed to be held. That was nearly 5 years ago. And then, even when we discovered the danger Old Sirocco was in, he refused to take action. (→ #41)
(#41) Dorion Dumas: So, we held demonstrations. Nothing violent. We just did enough to slow all work to a crawl. We thought this would be enough to get their attention... Instead, it drove the Nobles into a fury. (→ #42)
(#42) Dorion Dumas: They imposed martial law, confining our people to the lower districts, and unleashed their warriors on any who would not work or obey the curfew...And still, they refused to move the population from our doomed city. (→ #43)
(#43) Dorion Dumas: In the end, the old saying was proven true. “Those who make peaceful change impossible, will find violent revolution inevitable”. This could have been prevented...But the Nobles refused to change course. (→ end)