Hindriarch Keh/Conversations
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Default
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Please stay no longer than is necessary.
Accepting Find Eskhind
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Live and drink, kendren. I am Hindriarch Keh; welcome to Bey Lah.
It's nearly unprecedented for one such as you to pass by our scouts unaccosted, but these are unprecedented circumstances. I have a task for you. Are you interested?
Yes. Go on.
Good.
We hindren are a close-knit and staid people, and our safety depends on our solidarity. In order to preserve our safety and culture, we ask that any of our number who leave us never come back. Recently, one such exile took the treasure of our village, a bracelet named Kindrish, with her when she left. None of our number can leave to get it back, or it will be a violation of the values that I have guarded, and the Hindriarchs before me, for countless generations.
Will you help us recover our treasure? We have a small cache of valuables we can offer as a reward.
Accept
Excellent. I will do my best to reward you to your satisfaction.
Though her name is sand in my mouth now, the exile who stole Kindrish is called Eskhind. She left a few weeks ago, and took her sister and brother with her. I don't know where she's gone, but Warden Neelahind might, as they were close friends as children.
Find Eskhind and retrieve Kindrish from her, even... even if the cost is the life of her and her siblings. Kindrish has been handed down over countless generations, and it belongs to my people, not any individual. Go, kendren. Speak to Warden Neelahind, and find out where Eskhind is hidden.
No.
Then I will thank you to leave as quickly as possible. I don't want the faundren to become used to our borders being permeable.
Find Eskhind
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You're back. Have you found Eskhind and retrieved our treasure?
I have not.
Perhaps you should get back to it rather than hanging around my village. Warden Neelahind may be able to help you.
Dead
Ayvah. She must have sold it. Tell no one about this. Please understand that I cannot reward you, as you did not complete the task I asked of you.
Find Eskhind to Kith and Kin
Start
Why is an exile standing in my village? Are you trying to play me for a fool?
Accused
Eskhind claims to be wrongfully accused, and you believed her?
Why must all kendren be fools? She is lying to you, outsider.
Proof
Fine! Go to the Warden, then, and have her solve this mystery.
But know this: until a thief is found and Kindrish is recovered, I cannot reward you. You get nothing. Live and drink, (player's formaladdressterm).
During Kith and Kin
Start
Why are you speaking to me? You have work to do.
Kehstions
Fine. What are they?
Eskxile
She exiled herself by leaving Bey Lah. Our codes demand that no hindren who leaves us ever return.
She knew this, and still she chose to leave.
Kesehind you
Kesehind is a good boy. He lost his parents long ago, but has been like a son to me.
Now his axe-arm is strong where mine is not, and so he lends it.
Neel before me
Warden Neelahind attends to her duties admirably. She is not terribly assertive, but she need not be.
I'm surprised she's going along with this outsider-led investigation, but she always had a soft spot for the exile.
No brother
If you ask the exile, I'm sure she'll spin some kind of accusation that I believe gender to be an immutable prison, that I impose it on others.
She's lying. Our people have a long history of two-gender hindren called hartind, respected and consecrated. There is a proper path to gender variance in our society, of which the male exile could have availed himself years ago.
He never did, so I do not recognize him.
ShowSonnet
Poem? I detest poetry. Why would one go about learning to write only to use purposefully unclear language, choosing rhyme scheme over clarity?
Of course it's not mine. Take it back.
Kith and Kin Results
These dialogue options depend on several variables that happen in the ending:
- Who is Hindriarch
- Whether the outcome is fully resolved (the full 3 days after the accusation have passed)
- If the outcome is not fully resolved, whether the village will survive, or be ravaged
- If Love and Fear is complete
Village Ravaged
Gone...
All gone...
Village Doomed
I have a terrible feeling that I've brought ill fortune to my village.
Perhaps it was a mistake to have hired you.
Hindriarch Esk, Love and Fear complete
I should have kept them apart.
I should have kept all of you apart.
Hindriarch Esk, Love and Fear complete, fully resolved
They conspired against me. It is the only explanation.
You! Leave me alone.
Hindriarch Esk
You have a great deal of nerve to speak to me after what you've done.
Hindriarch Esk, fully resolved
Ah, you again. I'd been doing so well at forgetting your countenance.
Leave me be.
Hindriarch Keh, Love and Fear complete,
Some help you are! Now our village lacks a warden.
How are we to protect ourselves?
Hindriarch Keh, Love and Fear complete, fully resolved
You again?
It is only a matter of time until we are overtaken by hostile kendren. Your presence mocks our fate.
Hindriarch Keh
While I appreciate your help, kendren, I would prefer that you not stay longer than you must.
The faundren might get ideas.
Hindriarch Keh, fully resolved
Ah, welcome back to the village, =name=. You won't be staying long, will you?
Returning Kindrish
KindrishReturnBefore
You've found our treasure? I'll admit, kendren, I'm very impressed. Take this as thanks.
That said, Eskhind must answer for her crimes. There is further reward for you if you see this case through to the end.
KindrishReturnAfter
You've found our treasure? I'll admit, kendren, I'm very impressed.
Take this as thanks, and... well. I suppose you've earned your stay for a while. Just try not to give the faundren any ideas.