Part 63: Chapter 7, Part 1

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.