Tuesday, November 20, 2012

danko day 12 part 4 (??:??)

Our inventory right now stands at 4 Panacea and 7 Boxes of Powder. This mean we can easily cure everyone. There isn't really any point in not doing so, but it shows that we did a great job keeping people relatively healthy and did a good job with the questing.




: The person living here is still fighting the Sand Plague. Do not blame yourself. It is not your fault that someone else's Adherent is sick. Either they weren't able to protect them... or they choose to save someone else instead. You are not allowed in. At the moment this is just a quarantine, but soon it will turn into a vigil.

Bachelor: Don't preach to me. I am here with a cure. Take this bottle of Panacea and make good use of it!

Executor: Very well. I will bring them back from the brink of the other world.













: What? Is everything ready?

Bachelor: Your Adherents are alive and well. You should come to the Council.

Artemiy: You have my gratitude, Daniel. You know our plans already. The Polyhedron must be evacuated of it's children, and then we must tear it down. Only then will the earth accept us and we can bring life back to this town. I hope you have given them some thought. But it is only because of you that we are alive today, and I respect your right to speak at the Council.

Bachelor: Thank you. We will meet again tonight.









: Oh, good doctor! Behind this door lies the victim of your incompetence. If you would have performed your duty well, Julia would be healthy today.

Bachelor: Stop your yelling, beakhead! I have a box of medicine that can cure her.

Executor: That? You put your trust in the toys of children? That powder will make even the strongest man invalid for the rest of his life. It would burn all the inner organs along with the Plague. Are you sure this is a cost you are prepared to pay?

Bachelor: Then we will have to use the last bottle of Panacea in town to cure her. I hope I can at least trust you to administer that correctly!









: The time is almost up. Soon they will fire!

Bachelor: All your friends are alive and well. I had to use all my Panacea, so I hope it was worth it.

Klara: Then I shall be with you in the Council. Do you really want me to speak there? There will be no queen that I cannot convince of my wisdom. Our actions shall bring forth a great future, and the town will be whole again. But I fear you have your mind set already.

Bachelor: Come to the cathedral tonight, and we will see.

 If you managed to save at least two of the groups of Adherents, there's is a semi-secret extra event for you to play. As it turns out, Petr, Khan and the Elder were all healthy even though we couldn't check up on them. If everything is done right, you get a cryptic letter...


Letter from the 'Authorities', written in crayon posted:

Bachelor! We are writing this to you because you don't seem to hear us even if we yell. You are doing things even if we do not want you to. You can't do everything your own way. That is not how this game is supposed to be. Come to us and explain yourself.

What is this? It's like a kid found one of my real letters and tried to make a joke about it. It must be some of the children from the Polyhedron. Maybe they are tired of being stuck inside that place for so long, while we adults make all the important things happen...










: How did you get in here? We closed the doorway for you. None of the other grownups were able to get in today, and neither could you when you were here earlier.

Bachelor: I found this letter... I thought it was from some of your friends.

Khan: Oh... Friends? Maybe you could say that. You will find them all the way at the end.

Bachelor: The end of what?

Khan: See for yourself.






I have been here before, but this time it felt different. It was as if the tower itself was expecting me and pushed me forward. I didn't feel like I was going to faint, like last time.



The stairs spiraled downward. It was as if they were leading to the very bottom of the Polyhedron, where the strange cocoon-like structure came to a point.

Suddenly, the floor fell away beneath my feet. I felt like I was very very drunk.



Then the feeling went away as suddenly as it had come. I found myself somewhere...






Little Boy: Look, there is our Daniel. He is so big now that he is outside the town! You must be so proud of yourself to finally meet us.

Bachelor: So you are the ones who sent me this letter? Pretending to be the Authorities? What is going on here?

Little Girl: We can tell you, if you like.

Bachelor: What is this place? It doesn't feel right. There is something wrong with the size of it. And why would you build a sand castle here?

Little Boy: Look, it's magical sand! We even got some glass to build a tower. Everything is so detailed, you can even see the little people running around. We were so proud of it. Then we pretended that something awful took place. All we had was sand, but we came up with a great idea. If we already had a sand town, we could just have a sand plague in it! But that's all right, because we sent some heroes to fix it!

Bachelor: Fix? It's just made out of sand.

Little Girl: Don't you see how it falls apart so easily? Of course, it's sand after all. We thought that our dear heroes would come up with something. And if we got tired of someone we'd just bury them in the sand. But just look at yourself... You were always running around. Even after we got bored of you too! What if the other puppets would do the same?

Bachelor: Puppets?

Little Boy: Yes, just like you. But here, everything is alive. That is what this place does. It brings all games to life, even the scary ones. We didn't even have to make it all ourselves. We just made the town, placed our toys in it, and then found out what happened. And such strange things! It's a shame some of our toys broke, though...

Little Girl: Don't be upset. Sometimes it's good to be a toy too.

Bachelor: Why would your game be about something as horrible as a plague? Don't you understand just how dangerous that is when it happens for real? You could have pretended just about anything.

Little Boy: We were on a funeral. Well, the grown ups didn't want us there, so they sent us away to play in the garden. They wanted the town to be quiet for eleven whole days! We played here each day the whole time, but then we got to come with them to the cemetery, so we stopped playing. But you silly toys didn't stop! If you don't do as we say we'll take you all and bury you in the cemetery too.

Little Girl: We needed a doctor for our story, so we put you in the town after a while. But you were such a scary toy, really. After a while it was no fun to play with you anymore.

Bachelor: All these people who had died in the Sand Plague... How can you mock them like this? Didn't your parents teach you any respect?

Little Boy: But the game isn't over yet! There are still toys running around in there. We might as well finish the story. Will you go and save the town for us? It will be fun seeing how you do it.

Bachelor: What? I'm going to save the town, but not just because you think it will be funny. This is serious! I'm leaving. You should go home too!




Weird stuff. This was a bit hard to translate, because the kids actually talk like adults and it just looks really strange. It might be hard to see in the screenshots, but the kids use taller models than usual, for some reason.

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