Just Deserts script
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Staelwyrn
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I've come to expect a great deal from you, lass/lad, and you've never once let me down.
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Staelwyrn
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Yet what I'd ask of you now goes beyond aught I've asked before. Would you hear my plea all the same?
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Staelwyrn
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It eases my mind to have your ear.
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Staelwyrn
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You're no doubt familiar with that scoundrel Sevrin by now.
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Staelwyrn
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Well, the schemin' scapegrace is at it again. Since that letter came for him, he's been skulkin' about in that manner he does when he's up to no good.
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Staelwyrn
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Now he's rounded up his rogues and buggered off, with nary a word to anyone.
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Staelwyrn
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I've grown accustomed to his insolence, but somethin' tells me this is different. It ain't exactly damnin', but when last I had words with him, he didn't look defiant so much as hunted. I can't help thinkin' he's gone lookin' for trouble and found more than he wanted.
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Staelwyrn
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So I was hopin' you might hunt his sorry hide down and drag it back here before it's too late.
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Staelwyrn
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The ungrateful little cur bites me every chance he gets, but I can't quite bring myself to cut him loose. I s'pose he reminds me a bit of my younger self.
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Staelwyrn
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Suffice it to say, I'd rather he didn't come to a sticky end. As for how to find him, I'd try askin' Grynewyda at the aetheryte. She was the last one to see him.
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Staelwyrn
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I daresay she'll be able to tell you where he was headed.
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Grynewyda
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Nothing that passes through those gates escapes my notice!
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Grynewyda
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I saw the rouser and his rabble set out for Woad Whisper Canyon not long ago, singing about drinking themselves stupider. Cheeky sods said I should join them!
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Grynewyda
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I told them I'd rather shrivel up than sip whatever it was that had pickled their brains. If you find the idle swine, be sure and give them a cuff 'round the ear from me, will you?
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Aylmer
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Of all the dirty, deceitful, downright dastardly deeds that slippery bastard's done!
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Aylmer
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Claimin' to take the lads out for a drink, only to lead us straight into a bloody trap! It don't get no lower than that!
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Aylmer
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'Course, I've learned to stay a step ahead of ol' Sevrin, so I was ready─but the others weren't so lucky. You've got to help 'em!
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Sevrin
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It ain't safe here! Take the others an' get out while you still can!
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Irezumi
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Resistance is futile!
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Eyrimhus
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My axe may as well've been a white flag for all the good it did... Hope you fare better, or the sorry bastards in there are done for.
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Sevrin
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Can't move...my leg. Leave me. Save the others.
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Irezumi
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At long last, you will have the dog's death you deserve...deserter.
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Sozai Rarzai
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Sevrin might've got us into this mess, but I ain't about to let him give his life for us. I'd sooner bow to a fishback than be in that connivin' bastard's debt! To arms!
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Irezumi
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A true knave! You betray even yourself, Sevrin.
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Sevrin
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Ugh...
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Irezumi
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We were prepared to overlook the matter of your desertion on the condition that you provided us with suitable replacements. That was the agreement.
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Irezumi
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Yet your latest change of heart leaves your debt to us unpaid.
Few are they who betray the Serpent Reavers twice. You will not do so a third time.
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Irezumi
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Cowering behind your protector will only delay the inevitable. Honorless wretch...your life is all you have left.
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Irezumi
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And worthless though it be, we shall take it!
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Maskedmagus
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F20223O mournful voice of creation! Send unto me a creature of the abyss, my thrall to command, that I may smite mine enemies!01
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Maskedmagus
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F20223That the golem could be vanquished...01
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Maskedmagus
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F20223That woman/man is no ordinary adventurer.01
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Yshtola
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<sigh> ...The snake slithered away.
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Yshtola
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I am only glad he did not have the chance to sink his fangs more deeply into you.
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Yshtola
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Those pirates do not belong to any of the known Lominsan factions... Whom then do they serve? The beast tribes? Surely not.
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Yshtola
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But the timing of their appearance coincides all too neatly with the recent surge in Sahagin and kobold activity... Something is afoot. The question is: what?
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Yshtola
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...Could it be that the tribes are planning to summon their primals?
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Yshtola
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Twelve help us if it should prove so. Limsa would be hard-pressed to keep a single primal at bay, let alone two. But all is yet speculation. I must needs find evidence.
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Yshtola
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The seas continue to rise...
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Yshtola
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While the lesser moon continues to fall...
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Yshtola
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And ilm by ilm, the world becomes ever more unlike itself.
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Yshtola
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It is as Louisoix foretold...
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Yshtola
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The coming of chaos has rendered the laws of nature mutable, blurring the boundary between the material and aetherial planes... Little now stands between us and the primals.
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Yshtola
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...But they are not here yet.
“Though time be against us, hope shall ever be on our side.”
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Yshtola
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Never did the creed of Sharlayan ring more true.
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Yshtola
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Never did I dream that I would possess the means to see aether...yet now that I do, I do begin to take it for granted. How swiftly do the wonders of Sharlayan seem commonplace...
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Girl
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Um...
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Girl
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Here, for you. Have you come for the festivities?
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Girl
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Today the Maelstrom officially makes that great hole in the sea its training ground. Join in the celebrations!
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Yshtola
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Wait. A disturbance in the aetheric flow. But whence does it emanate?
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Yshtola
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...Seasong Grotto, perhaps?
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Yshtola
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What have we here...? Can you walk?
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Yshtola
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'Tis I.
Regrettably, no. He eluded me.
Understood. I will inform the commodore.
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Yshtola
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You collapsed from your exertions. Are you suitably recovered?
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Yshtola
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Sevrin here has apprised me of all that transpired. His account shed some light upon how you came to be attacked by a golem of all things.
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Yshtola
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A golem is a mindless automaton, inert save when commanded to be otherwise. Common pirates could not hope to control such a thing, so arcane are its workings.
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Yshtola
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But then these tattooed wretches are no common pirates─they are the minions of the Sahagin. As to their purpose...well, I shall get to the bottom of it.
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Yshtola
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But first I must escort Sevrin back to his place of employment. I daresay Staelwyrn will be wondering what has become of him.
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Yshtola
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And you too, for that matter. I will bear word to him of your preservation, but I am certain he would like to thank you in person. Pray pay the man a visit.
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Yshtola
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Ah...he told me of you, but perchance he did not tell you of me. My name is Y'shtola.
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Yshtola
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I am...a naturalist of sorts, surveying the aether in the hope that it might offer up some clue as to our predicament.
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Sevrin
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I'd say I owed you my life...but that don't cover it. If it weren't for you, my friends would be dead, an' all...
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Sevrin
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'Tis a debt I can never repay. But I'll not make things worse by runnin' away. Take me to Summerford Farms, an' I'll face the consequences.
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Yshtola
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For reasons I cannot fathom, you seem...
Forgive me. Mayhap we shall have a chance to speak again when I have marshaled my thoughts.
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Yshtola
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Until our paths next cross, farewell.
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Staelwyrn
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Lo! I knew you'd return.
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Staelwyrn
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Y'shtola delivered Sevrin a bit ago. Tales of your heroic deeds precede you!
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Staelwyrn
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The rest came shufflin' back, too─the lot of 'em sportin' the same haunted expression.
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Sevrin
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It's me who's to blame for that─that an' the rest.
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Sevrin
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I was once a Serpent Reaver.
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Staelwyrn
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...A thrall to the Sahagin? Seven hells... Reavers may look and sound and act like pirates, but they're naught but the fishbacks' flunkies.
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Sevrin
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Us pirates ain't much for laws, but there's things we won't do. We've got a code, see─but the Reavers've never followed a word of it. A few years back, they started snatchin' law-abidin' Lominsans.
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Sevrin
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I'd only just taken my oath when our captain bent the knee to his new Sahagin masters. I knew I had to get away.
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Sevrin
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So I crept off one night, got myself a new name, an' found myself a new home─Summerford Farms. Trouble is, secrets don't stay secret for long 'round here, an' word soon spread...all the way back to the sea.
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Sevrin
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The penalty for desertion is death, but the Reavers offered me a way out instead─my freedom in exchange for my mates'.
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Staelwyrn
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The letter...
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Sevrin
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I dunno what I was thinkin'... <snort> I wasn't bloody thinkin'. Too busy soilin' meself.
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Staelwyrn
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Aye, but you got there in the end, didn't you? When the time came, you made the right decision.
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Staelwyrn
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The men say little to me, but I hear 'em talk of how you stood up to the Reavers at the last─of how you tried to give your life to save theirs.
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Sevrin
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Be that as it may, no deed, however good, can atone for the crime of betrayin' your brethren.
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Sevrin
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I know that─I do. That's why I'm going to hand myself over to the Yellowjackets. I'll bring shame to the farm no more.
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Staelwyrn
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Hm. You'll hear no arguments from me. Each man must sail accordin' to his own moral compass.
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Staelwyrn
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I just hope yours guides you back here someday. There will always be a place for you at Summerford Farms, lad.
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Sevrin
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An' I'll always be in your debt, Staelwyrn.
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Sevrin
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An' yours an' all, adventurer. I've caused more than my fair share o' trouble durin' my time here─not that you need tellin'.
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Staelwyrn
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I owe you a debt too, [Player Name]. Not once have you let me down. Thank you for savin' the men of my farm.
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Staelwyrn
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If I could ask one more favor of you, it'd be this: tell Baderon what's happened, from start to finish. I'm certain he'd put in a good word for Sevrin if he knew the whole story.
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Staelwyrn
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And he's one of the few people I know who the Yellowjackets'll listen to.
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Staelwyrn
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Well, I reckon I've asked all I can possibly ask of you. Safe travels, lass/son.
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Baderon
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...Bloody 'ells! Life on the farm ain't quite 'ow I pictured it!
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Baderon
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Ah, but ye needn't worry yerself over young Sevrin. The Yellowjacket as 'ands out the punishments is a good mate o' mine. If I ask 'im nice, I reckon 'e'd be willin' to commute the lad's sentence from 'angin' to keelhaulin', kindly gent that 'e is.
...Ah, I'm only jestin' with ye! I'll see 'e's treated fair.
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Baderon
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Now, it sounds to me like ye've done everythin' ol' Staelwyrn asked o' ye an' more─justifyin' me generous finder's fee in the process. Much obliged, lass/lad!
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Baderon
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As fer a reward...well, she's a lonely lady, this Drownin' Wench o' mine. 'Ow'd ye fancy keepin' 'er company fer a spell...with free room an' board?
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Baderon
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'Venturin's a tryin' business, after all. Them as don't rest their bones every now an' again tend to end up with broken ones. An' take it from me: fightin' ain't nearly so much fun when yer nursin' a shattered arm. Got that? Good. There'll always be a free bed fer ye, so make use of it.
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Baderon
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Not that ye'll 'ave much time fer lyin' around, what with all the leves ye'll be doin'. Oh, didn't I mention? I'm puttin' yer name down fer leves.
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Baderon
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Our guild draws all manner o' clients, offerin' all manner of odd jobs. Honestly, ye'd be amazed 'ow much folk'll pay to avoid doin' an honest day's labor.
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Baderon
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Just give T'mokkri a shout whenever ye feel like makin' a few extra gil. She'll always 'ave some task or other fer ye to do.
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Baderon
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Oh, an' it's all above board, 'case yer wonderin'. We're careful to stay on the Admiral's right side in 'ere─unlike some pirates I could mention... I tell ye, if it turns out they 'ad aught to do with them kidnappin's, there'll be seven hells to pay. A proper bleedin' reckonin'...
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Baderon
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Mayhap that's what Limsa needs, though. On rough seas, sometimes ye 'ave to rock the boat to right it.
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Baderon
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But we'll 'ave time fer such talk when yer well an' rested. Till then, enjoy the Wench's 'ospitality!
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Quest complete.
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