RPG event - Quest NPC Contact

[thalassino]

◣ Quest NPC Contact ◢

Below is a place to thread out quick little conversations with the NPCs that aren't worth an entire log. Vatheon's staple NPCs will have postings here, and all the other new quest NPCs will simply be listed under the "Quest NPCs" comment header. Please put in the subject line which quest you're talking with an NPC about!

Comments

[righthandedragon]

You posted the warrior quest?

[ So maybe he looks a little silly with a shield tucked under his arm rather than strapped anywhere. It doesn't help that his left hand is.... not there at all. ]

[thalassino]

[Wow. This guy definitely needs her help. He's already handicapped!]

I did.

[She flexes at him impressively.]

[righthandedragon]

[ Very impressive. So how far can she draw a Two Rivers Longbow? ]

I'm interested in learning.

[thalassino]

You look like you've been in quite a few fights already. Tell me, what do you feel like when you're cornered in a battle?

[Hopefully she'll get to hear the riveting tale of that time he got his hand chopped off and beat an enemy to death with the bleeding stump that was left behind and stood victorious on a pile of bodies!]

[righthandedragon]

[ Sadly, ms warrior trainer, Rand's hand was burnt off. ]

Cornered in a battle...

[ This is hard. When was the last time he was cornered...

And when was the last time he didn't use magic to get out of it. ]

I assume you don't want to hear about me having to relearn how to fight with this hand, although it was tough.

[ Sort of waggling his right hand's fingers at her. Battle and cornered. ]

At Falme, between two armies - one of a very religious order known as Children of the Light, the other of the Seanchan, who just looked like very strange invaders - I ended up in a fight against who I thought then was The Dark One himself. I was tired - I had won against a Seanchan blademaster not too long ago, and blademasters aren't called them for no reason - my hands hurt from an accidental branding - which was months ago, then, but they still hurt now - and.. I couldn't win. He wasn't really able to do much but keep me moving, either, but I was tired and he, well, he was full of Power.

[ Ah. Ba'alzamon. Not Shai'tan, but then? Close enough.. ]

I only won because I let him smash me in the ribs with his staff, and I got my sword through him. The wound hasn't healed, and that was near two years ago.

That.. That was hard. I was certain, that if I failed, the world would be... well, "destroyed". Could you imagine what the world would be like, say, if no one had a conscience? Or perhaps if it was extreme distopia - a slight mistake would have you gathering wood from a place where the very trees, if you touch them wrong, would kill you. Or perhaps the world would just be a charred and blackened ruin - humans kept to be contents of stewpots for creatures half-beast. My only chance was to let him strike me, and I was told that prophesies said I was the only one to stop Him. If I lost? All that, or somehow, something worse.

[ Only now he knew what the Dark One could do, as it had showed him what it wanted to. ]

[thalassino]

Good! Good, it sounds like you already have an idea of what it takes to be a...

[Flex~!]

Warrior! You let your body take over, and you used the ADRENALINE coursing through your veins to ignore the pain and keep on going!

[Huh, when she says "adrenaline", Rand might feel like he's actually learning something.]

Your body is capable of amazing things when you've got that ADRENALINE rushing around. You're stronger, faster, and you feel like you can keep on going forever!

[NPC mention of the skill Adrenaline has taught the skill to Rand! It's too bad real life doesn't work like that.]

[righthandedragon]

So it is, so it is.

[ Ah, that's an odd little ability of sorts- Thank you, Quest System? ]

Thank you for your time.