Lone Survivor script
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Lettermoogle
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My trusty [Player Name]! I have a delivery for you, addressed to Drest at the Severed String, over in Raincatcher Gully, kupo. But...
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Lettermoogle
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I promised the Seedseers no more secrets, kupo! The letter was handed to me in a most curious way. Why, he seemed not to know of postmoogles, and was very furtive to boot.
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Lettermoogle
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I introduced myself in a way that did credit to our kind, you can be sure! But when he asked me to deliver the letter in his stead, do you know what he said?
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Lettermoogle
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“Don't deliver it now; wait a few days”! Have you heard the like before? I know how much you enjoy the strange and the suspicious, so here you are, kupo!
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Lettermoogle
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This letter is for Drest at the Severed String, over in Raincatcher Gully. A very strange delivery in my opinion, kupo!
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Drest
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It's...you. Been a while. A letter...a letter from who? Nobody knows me...
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Drest
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"My dear Dashing Drest,
Do you dream of rain?
The Ones You Killed“
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Drest
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H-How did they know? Ghosts...ghosts that won't leave me in peace...!
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Drest
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Taunting me. Before they...kill me. No...no...no! I won't let them! I'll run─I'll start over somewhere else!
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Drest
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Help me! There's a leather sack hidden east of here. A peaceful spot...surrounded by rocks...trees...
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Drest
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My savings... Gil...gil to go home with. Home to...my family. Get it for me, help me!
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Drest
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Get my savings... A leather sack...hidden. A peaceful spot...surrounded by rocks...trees... East of here, help me!
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Drest
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Did...did you find it? Did you find the leather sack?
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Drest
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Thank the... But let me look inside─must be sure...
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Drest
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What...?
No...no...no...
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Drest
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Just a dream...a dream! Let me wake...wake...wake... Oh gods, mercy, have mercy!
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Drest
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You see it too!? No...no dream... A bloody helm...black blood, old blood! Idem in me...by the majesty of Garlemald...never to desert...idem in me!
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Drest
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Ghosts...ghosts...ghosts. Three years, not a single night of peace and now...they rise.
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Drest
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Help me, they're watching right now. I...I have to get out of here. Go somewhere else...just a short while. Then I can...I can go home.
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Drest
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I'll go...out the back after you go out the front. Meet me...near the abandoned house in lower La Noscea. You know...the kobolds' squat. The House of Sticks.
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Drest
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Must...must be careful. I'll go...after you leave. The House of Sticks... Meet me near the House of Sticks.
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Colleague
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You'll clean that helm tonight, worm. Lick the blood and brains off of it while we drink the wine bought with your paltry hoard...
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Colleague
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Once a craven, always a craven. Flushed you out like a rabbit with that letter. Isn't that what desert conies do? Dash!?
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Drest
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You...died. You all died.
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Colleague
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Not all, just most. Three good soldiers survived...and you. Figured you for dead until I saw you skulking by the water a week ago.
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Colleague
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Do you think we don't dream of rain, worm? What honor in surviving an ambush, eh? Three years of disdain─that ends when we hand over a deserter to the cudgel–man.
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Drest
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I... I...
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Colleague
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Hm? You a friend to this scum? You ought to pick them more carefully!
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Balloon
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Your blood will paint my path to glory!
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Drest
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<groan> I should have known...this would happen. Now I'll never go home...
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Colleague
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Look at it this way, Dashing Drest: this is an easier way to go than what they do to deserters back in Garlemald!
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Drest
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Thank...thank you. There's no one...knows I'm alive now. I'm...safe.
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Drest
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I was in a unit...of Garlean scouts. A Maelstrom ambush in heavy rain, three years ago.
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Drest
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I thought...I was the only survivor. It didn't feel like desertion. It felt like...dying.
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Drest
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You heard what they called me. Dashing Drest. I never tried to...run before that night. They...kill you for that. It's from...before...in the desert, I...
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Drest
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Why did you...protect me? We're not kin. Look at me, I'm barely...barely a man. A broken, craven thing...
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Drest
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You decided I should live. How...do you do that? I can't even decide some days...which foot to move first.
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Drest
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Do you think...I can be well again? Decide to live...not just be afraid to die?
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Drest
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True... I haven't thought things through in...in a long time. Not since my homeland fell to the Empire.
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Drest
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No...you don't have the answers either. But you─ You know that. And you can still...you can still decide. Without answers.
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Drest
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Home is─home isn't somewhere I can buy a fare to. It's not a sack of gil or answers I need but questions. Why does it hurt? How do I feel...
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Drest
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I will see my children again. But it's not the time yet. I think─I think, though, it will come. That's a start...
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Quest complete.
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