Eskhind/Conversations: Difference between revisions

==Find Eskhind==

|text=Hold there! Who are you? What do you want?}}

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|text=Keh? I'm shocked that she even deigned to speak my name. I am a pariah now, beneath discussion. Does she demand remuneration for the scant supplies I stole?}}

|text=What I stole? I stole supplies to sustain myself and my sisters, nothing more, and little enough that no one would suffer for its absence. You would cut those from my hide?}}

Is that her angle? To claim that I stole Kindrish? Her influence must be waning more than even I knew.}}

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|text=What do you imagine I am saying? The aging, ineffectual leader of a village in isolation. A system that strives to forget anyone who sees the outside, no matter how much its inhabitants strive for a better tomorrow.

Bey Lah's isolationism provides ideal patsies for any crime the Hindriarch chooses to commit.}}

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|text=Ay, you kendren are just as thick as the elders. I'd hoped otherwise.

Yes, I am suggesting that old Grand-Doe is trying to fool you, and the village as well. I'm not certain that she stole it herself, but an investigation might undermine her authority, and she cannot have that.}}

|text=Why should you believe me? Well, why should you believe Keh? Ayvah, think about this!

|text=Ayvah. I'd wanted Grand-Doe to be wrong about you kendren, but perhaps you are all violent fools after all.

I'm not asking you to trust me, only to extend to me the same level of trust you give Keh. Is that not reasonable?}}

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If you find evidence, Warden Neelahind will support you. Speak to her. She is loyal to Grand-Doe, but more loyal to the truth.

I will return to the village and we will sort this out. The Hindriarch will have to tolerate my presence until my name is cleared.}}

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==Kith and Kin==

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|text=Why? Why did I leave a single parasang square piece of land upon which I was expected to live my entire life, forever obeying a woman whose sole qualification of rule is her gender and age? Why did I leave a place where we eat the same damned soup for nine out of ten meals and the height of occupational versatility is leatherworking?

The question isn't why I left, it's why I'm the only one who chose to do so, why none of my pleas were convincing to the hindren I love. If we would just open the borders, it would never have come to this.}}

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But it wasn't Neelahind. You won't find a purer heart in all of Qud than hers.}}

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|text=Objects out of place, certainly. Bey Lah produces little and sees almost no violence, so signs of the outside world should be easy to find.

You may wish to talk to the villagers, too. My people are starved for entertainment, gossip travels fast, and we are all notoriously poor liars.}}

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If it tore my heart to ragged halves to leave my people behind, leaving Neelahind shredded it into scraps.}}

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==After Kith and Kin==

|text=Don't you have someone else to bother?

Live and drink piss.}}

|text=I couldn't save them.

| text=Condolences. Live and drink.}}}}

|text=Oh, so you have! Amazing work, kendren. We owe you more than we can give, but here is what we can give nonetheless.

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| text=Live and drink, Hindriarch.|comment=Eskhind then takes {{favilink|Kindrish}} and gives you  +400 [[Hindren of Bey Lah]] reputation and a {{favilink|force bracelet}}.}}}}