Gold Belly/Dialogue
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Dialogue
(#0) Gold Belly: Haloo there my little friend! Welcome to our outpost! What can I do to make us both happy, hmmmm? (→ #1)
(#1) Multiple-choice:
- 0: I want to buy something. (→ end)
- 1: I’d like to talk. (→ #2)
- 2: I’m leaving. (→ end)
(#2) Gold Belly: Hooh, there was big Earth Beast attack not long ago. Beasts went running past village to attack marsh city! I hope you help to keep them all safe! I don’t want to lose customers like that! (→ end)
(#3) Gold Belly: Things are doing ok here. I am glad you came to visit! (→ end)
(#4) Gold Belly: These tough rules on trade that Highlord Cyr made are very hard on me. I want to trade with all people and all cities, but he tell me I can only sell to people who come here, and there are not many that do! (→ end)
(#5) Gold Belly: Au, you from human marsh city! You should not speak about this “Elatt” person here. Highlord Cyr get very angry if you do! He not like hearing about other gods. (→ end)
(#6) Gold Belly: You smell like sands! You must be from from desert city! I hope you brought many useful goods from there! I have always wanted to see it with my own eyes, someday! (→ end)
After Ash Giants
(#0) Gold Belly: You did great thing here today, human. Our people are already much happier with Cyr gone. Highmonk will now choose a new Highlord for us. And hopefully one who will listen. (→ #1)
(#1) Gold Belly: You always welcome to trade with Gold Belly, my little friend! I hope to see you again many many times! (→ end)
(#2) Gold Belly: Hah! You did it! You changed Cyr’s mind! Very good work, my friend! With this alliance, I will get all kinds of new and special goods here! (→ #1)
(#3) Gold Belly: That was a very ugly problem... I am glad it did not go worse. It will take years for the village to settle back to calm! (→ #4)
(#4) Multiple-choice:
- 0: What happens to Cyr now? (→ #5)
(#5) Gold Belly: He is an exile now. In twenty years, he can come back and beg for forgiveness from Dusk Father or Dawn Weaver. (→ #6)
(#6) Gold Belly: Well, looks like things will not change much. But maybe someday we will work together. I’m glad you came, human. Feel free to visit and trade with me, eh? (→ #7)
(#7) Gold Belly: You always welcome to trade with Gold Belly, my little friend! I hope to see you again many many times! (→ end)
(#8) Gold Belly: I like you, human! I hope I see you more often! Here, something special for the road home! (→ #1)
(#9) Gold Belly: You always welcome to trade with Gold Belly, my little friend! I hope to see you again many many times! (→ end)
(#10) Gold Belly: Well, looks like things will not change much. But maybe someday we will work together. I’m glad you came, human. Feel free to visit and trade with me, eh? (→ end)
(#11) Gold Belly: Au! My little friend! Welcome back, what can I do for you? (→ #12)
(#12) Multiple-choice:
- 0: How do you handle government here? I need all the information I can get if I want to convince Highlord Cyr. (→ #13)
- 1: Can you teach me your culture? (→ #17)
- 2: I have to notice... You are far better at speaking our language than Cyr is. (→ #19)
(#13) Gold Belly: Position is decided at birth by the two heads of Giant government. There is the Highmonk who serves Dusk Father, and is master of the porcelain arts, and there is the Highlord, who serves Dawn Weaver and is master of the Ash-Silk. (→ #14)
(#14) Gold Belly: The Highmonk has big influence over people, as Dusk Father is one who breathed the life into us when we were just clay and cinder. People listen to him, because the Dusk Father speaks through him and his porcelain. (→ #15)
(#15) Gold Belly: The Highlord holds the real power. He speaks for the Dawn Weaver, who weaved the fabric of Ashborn society, and so he decides what is part of Ashborn society, and what is not. (→ #16)
(#16) Gold Belly: ... I will let you in on a secret, human. Highlord Cyr is not very.... What is the word? Popu... popular! Yes, he is not popular with most of our people here. They think he is too strict. Too afraid of new ideas... But he has big ambition and fears losing power. (→ end)
(#17) Gold Belly: I am not the best teacher for this... There was a human who studied us many years ago, and gave us a copy of his book about us. But most Ashborn do not understand human writing. So we put it in the old storage shed. (→ #18)
(#18) Gold Belly: It should be not too far from the village. It is North-East, across a long stone bridge. There is a big stone building on an island in the swamp. (→ end)
(#19) Gold Belly: Yes. I do business with humans from time to time. I learned the language. Most other Ashborn know barely a few words in your tongue. Many are very embarrassed by it. (→ end)
(#20) Gold Belly: How did it go, human? (→ #21)
(#21) Multiple-choice:
- 0: Cyr will discuss an alliance. He told me to come back in a few days to negotiate it. (→ #22)
(#22) Gold Belly: Wonderful news! Maybe my goods will finally go all over the world. And maybe I will finally be rich! Oh, and it would be nice for humans to start to appreciate our culture, too, of course. (→ #23)
(#23) Gold Belly: He ask you to go into Reptile Lair to fetch rare root, no? Be very careful in there. Try not to fight big nasty Tuanosaurs unless you have to. They trouble even for big tough giants! (→ #24)
(#24) Gold Belly: Do not keep him waiting too much. The Ashborn are very patient, but you do not wish to press us. (→ #12)
(#25) Gold Belly: What is on your mind, small one? (→ #26)
(#26) Multiple-choice:
- 0: I’m here to negotiate an alliance between the Giants and the Blue Chamber Collective. (→ #27)
- 1: I don’t need anything right now. (→ #28)
- 2: NULL (→ end)
(#27) Gold Belly: An alliance with your people, you say? Hooh... That will be tough business. You will need to speak with Highlord Cyr. Good luck. I do not think he is interested. He is very traditional. (→ end)
(#28) Gold Belly: Au! You make Gold Belly sad, small one! (→ end)
Ancestral Peacemaker
(#0) Gold Belly: Au, my little friend! What brings you here? (→ #1)
(#1) Multiple-choice:
- 0: I need the Ashborn to negotiate peace terms with Levant. Do you have a new Highlord yet? (→ #2)
(#2) Gold Belly: No, not yet. It might be months before we do. But everyone in our village will be glad to have peace. War with the desert people is a good sport, but we Ashborn prefer to work in harmony on our crafts. (→ #3)
(#3) Gold Belly: You should be the one to negotiate for us, I think, if we don't have a Highlord to do it. I will speak with the Highmonk and tell him that the war will be over very soon. Au, I wonder how much the desert people will pay for good Ashborn goods once we have peace! (→ end)
(#4) Gold Belly: Things are doing ok here. I am glad you came to visit! (→ end)