The Locals (
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➸ Quest Catch All
Who: Anyone interested
What: The Major Quests on the most recent Quest Post
Where: Various places
When: Throughout the next couple of months
Other: Babites goes on until the next Quest post. Rachel is immediately open to top levels and freeform adventuring. Cavern Concert will be open for OOC sign ups and initial NPC interaction for a week before starting up proper.
What: The Major Quests on the most recent Quest Post
Where: Various places
When: Throughout the next couple of months
Other: Babites goes on until the next Quest post. Rachel is immediately open to top levels and freeform adventuring. Cavern Concert will be open for OOC sign ups and initial NPC interaction for a week before starting up proper.
NPC: Hope
Not that it's hard to point her out... Hope is covered from head to toe, a veil hiding half of her face and a hood draped over her head. A few loose curls of light brown hair have still escaped, and she looks up at each person who enters the tavern with pale gray eyes.
What's of particular note, however, is the lamp she has set on the table before her. In the shape of a budding flower, she tends to keep it unlit but always close. To those who have seen Artifacts like the Colorblocks or Jade Egg, they'll recognize the pull in them as they lay eyes upon it.
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He floats into the tavern, a place he doesn't usually frequent, and asks for Hope. He's quickly ushered her way. "Greetings, are you Miss Hope?" He gives a small wave. Zenyatta also wonders that lamp is supposed to look like a lullabud. The lamp's similar appearance to Bothi amuses Zenyatta, and Bothi extends a vine-like limb with an intent to poke it if allowed.
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"May I know your name?"
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"Of course. I am Zenyatta, and this is Bothi," Zenyatta says. "I come from the large tree that is a half an hour's walk from town. It is a pleasure to meet you."
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"Have you come about the escort job?"
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"If you are still in need of someone to accompany you, then I have. I am curious about what might be within the caverns, so our paths can converge."
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A soft exhale. "That is to say, you are the first to show interest. The places within Mekiv Caverns I seek should be clear of beasts... but having a knight to guard me would put me at ease. I'd be glad for your company." A hesitant pause. "Is there anything you would need to do before departing for it...?"
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His orbs circle around him, and Bothi tries to bat at an orb as it passes. "I do not require anything that I do not already have upon me. We can leave whenever you wish."
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Hope shakes her head. "This is some business which I'd like to finish as soon as possible... I hope you understand."
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When Hope arrives at the road, Zenyatta is hovering lower to the ground, meditating. Yet, he stirs as she approaches, and he resumes a higher hovering position to make it easier for them to talk eye to eye. "Have you finished your preparations, Miss Hope?"
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"Yes. Thank you for waiting. Let's make time before the sun gets too dark." Adjusting the lamp in her hands, she begins to make way to where Mekiv Caverns lays on the horizon. Only some minutes in, however, and she glances to him.
"May I ask you something, Zenyatta?"
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"You may. I will try to answer it as best I can." There are few questions he won't answer, and even if he did feel like not answering, he would give a partial answer in his own way.
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He continues floating, voice calm and easy. "I am an Omnic."
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"...Yet, from what I have heard, it seemed they've become long lost. It's an unpleasant fate- to be forgotten and discarded."
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"I would like to learn more about them if possible. No one should be forgotten like that." Even those with ill deeds are worth knowing about to prevent history from repeating. "Did you learn of them through story?"
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Her sigh is despondent. "They're ugly things that can't be healed, no matter the tears that people might shed."
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And there is more of a need to learn more. Zenyatta is not the only mechanical person among them. If there is a dark history, it would be wise to be mindful of it when interacting with the locals.
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"I'm sorry. This has been a depressing conversation that I brought upon you."
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"However, if you wish to change the subject, perhaps we can talk about our destination. Did you wish to explore the caverns, or did you have another purpose for our trip in mind?"
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A set of matches are produced, and she gets to work striking up a tiny flame. Practiced, she cups it away from any stray breeze until she can press the flame to where it needs to be. Instead of merely lighting, the lamp comes to life with a soft glow visible even in daylight, and stray embers seem to flicker into the air like escaping fireflies rather than flame.
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"I can also help provide light should we need it." He points at the lights on his forehead and gives a small laugh. Then he'll follow Hope inside.
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And with that said, she begins to step into the cavern, following the smooth naturally formed steps that lead to its depths.
The light of her lamp shimmers along the walls of Mekiv Caverns, casting odd shadows from the reflective nature of its slick surfaces, but nothing immediately leaps out to accost them. There's merely the dripping of water somewhere in the distance, and far off clicking. At the end of the steps, Hope pauses, waiting for Zenyatta. "I hope you don't mind if I ask you to take the lead... While I know what I wish to find, it is difficult to say where it might appear save in a secluded quiet place. Your decisions of what direction to take are as likely to find it as mine."
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But regardless of that little detail and jest, Zenyatta hovers forward. If the elemental spirit wishes for quiet, then he thinks that deeper inside the caverns, away from the outside noise, would probably be where it is. He tries to listen past the hums and clicks of his own internal workings. It's almost like he has fallen into a meditative trance.
Then he randomly pick a path that takes the western wall because it looks interesting. Zenyatta's wandering and curious heart makes the choice for him.
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"It seems you chose a good path," she murmurs as she makes her way around a pillar of stone that twists up from the floor to the ceiling. "We haven't run into any creatures yet."
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