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CHAPTER SEVEN: Molder and Skully

Minoc is a classy establishment.

The first order of business is to play a little game I call "Talk to the NPCs". We'll start with the provisioner's shop up ahead.

: What has happened to this town?

: Terrible things. Hideous rioting and looting broke out when the column appeared. Everyone seemed to lose their minds.

: Finally Raxos, the First Citizen, brought order to the town. He saved this place, you know.

: ...Who is Raxos?

: Oh, he's the First Citizen. He's the great man who brought order to the city and governs this area.

: He didn't really want to be in charge, but someone had to take up the reins. He's truly a reluctant hero, and he's a genius.

: You should go and speak to him. You can learn a great deal from a man like that!

: There were riots here?

: It's hard to believe now, with the streets so peaceful, isn't it? But there were terrible riots in the years before Raxos brought order.

: People were killing one another, there were fires... it was terrible. Although I did manage to pick up a few nice things here and there from the dead people who didn't need them anymore.

: Say, you don't have anything that you'd like to give me, do you?

: You took things from dead people?

: Yes, but they didn't need those things anymore; they were dead!

: Now, wouldn't you love to buy one of my lovely items here?

: No, I do not.

Okay, Britain was stupid enough with its two houses, and Yew was pretty retarded with zero houses, but this is fucking ridiculous. There are 9 NPCs still living in this town and there are zero beds. Zero. No beds, no bedrolls, no piles of human corpses for the children to crawl under at night. I mean, I know the NPCs just wander the town aimlessly with a vacant expression all day and night but what happened to immersion?

Maybe this is the real reason NPC schedules didn't work: because all of the NPCs in Minoc, Yew, Valoria and Moonglow would start swimming to Britain every night in search of an empty bed. Such bullshit.

Hey look, there's a man inside the only building with doors! Let's talk to him!

: Who are you? Why have you been put in this jail?

: My name is Nico. I sell reagents and other magical items in Britain. I came here to get my brother out of Cove. I was arrested during the riot, but I've done nothing wrong!

: How may I help you, friend?

: If you can find the key to these cells, you can free me. Please hurry, my life depends on you, stranger!

: Your life depends on me?

: Yes. The First Citizen has decided to perform human sacrifices, and I'm scheduled soon!

: He performs human sacrifices?

: Yes, he's a mad man! He believes that by sacrificing someone, he can repair the Shrine. It's horrific!

: Very well. Goodbye Nico.

: I will await your return stranger. Please hurry! Good luck!

I'm just happy we don't have to rescue Raven. Again.

Let's go talk to the Supreme Commander or what-have-you.

Britannia is very ethnically diverse. They have mid-western Americans, Cockney Englishmen, Romanians, Italians, Frenchmen, Norwegians and this guy.

: I'm the Avatar and I need to speak to your leader.

: Right, and I'm Lord British!

: Tell you what, though. For ten gold, I'll let you in to see the Great Leader.

10 / 28,000 = 0.036%

I feel we can afford this.

: Ten gold you say? Fine.

: Outstanding.

: A pleasure doing business with you. The Great Leader is right behind that door, just go on in and introduce yourself.

He's new at this. I would have gone as high as 5,000.

Someone should tell Raxos that you usually wear the hairshirt on the inside.

: Really? What about the people's freedom to choose for themselves?

: I have relieved the people of that burden. Life is difficult enough without beleaguering the people with so many demanding choices.

: It is a difficult task, but one that I gladly assume for the people.

: But what of the people's sacred rights?

: You are beginning to bring up some very dangerous topics, my friend. Such topics lead to trouble and we do not tolerate trouble here in Cove.

: How did you come to be the savior of Britannia?

: Lord British declared that I am to lead the people out of these dark times! You see, we here in Cove are a master strain of beings.

: We're destined to revive the glory that once was Britannia. All right-thinking people will see the truth in my words.

: Funny, Lord British didn't mention your appointment to me.

: Why should he have? Who are you that you should be told everything? I'm a man of great importance whereas you are nothing!

For some reason this NPC doesn't give us the dialog option "I'm the Avatar".

: Then tell me how to sanctify the shrine.

...Avatar, just because you choose to spend your free time doing the same thing over and over again doesn't make it a reliable metric on how important someone is.

: In my brilliance, I have discovered that the only way to sanctify our shrine is to sacrifice unbelievers who have been caught working against the people of Cove.

: Many sacrifices may be required, but I am sure that soon the shrine will be whole again.

: It is, after all, the Shrine of Sacrifice. These sacrifices will, therefore, restore the power of the shrine and allow Cove to revisit its halcyon days.

: But Raxos, how can you believe that sacrificing a person is a virtuous act? And adding aftermarket restraints to the shrine will void its warranty!

: Don't forget to whom you are speaking. I, more than anyone else, know the virtue of sacrifice! I know what is and what is not a virtuous act.

: Furthermore, I'll not have you or anyone else spreading dangerous thoughts in my town of Cove! Do you understand?

: I understand completely. Good luck with your plan. Goodbye.

: Luck? There is no luck! My plan will succeed because it is what's right!

At the back of the ONLY BUILDING IN COVE is this trapdoor.

Inside is this stuff. I also found a Ghost's Bracelet in Ugh's cave out by Paws, but I forgot to mention it.

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