If, Then, Else

If, Then, Else

	Chavvah
	200
	Dyvvrach, Aoyg-No-Longer, Tau-No-Longer, Wandering Tau
	Power source for the Golem

[ Dyvvrach ]

Take Tau's chime, silent and still. Carry it to the bottom of Taproot, deep under my trunk, where she will make the chime her transit-body and walk away forever. Finish the ritual of -elseing.

At the bottom of Taproot, Tau manifests. She tells us, too, that another waits for her there.

Dyvvrach asks the player to help Tau separate from Chavvah. Depending on the player's choices, there are a variety of potential outcomes.

Journal

Gather Tau's Chime

XP: 2500

• Retrieve Tau's chime from her branch in the keter.

Go to the Bottom of Taproot

XP: 5000

• Travel down Chavvah's taproot to its terminus, 40 strata deep.

Reunite Tau with Her Chime

XP: 5000

• Touch her chime to Taproot and finish the ritual of -elseing.

Return to the Keter

XP: 15000

• Return to the keter and speak with Dyvvrach.

Rewards

• Dyvvrach agrees to use Chavvah as a power source for the Golem.
• crystalline halo or crystalline jile depending on choices

Accomplishment

You helped Chavvah, the Tree of Life, complete the ritual of -elseing and sever one of its entity-chimes forever.

Beauty in subtraction! Pruner [playername] cut the Tree of Life to a more aesthetic form.

Notes

There are five possible outcomes for Tau. All will count as completion of the quest.

• If Tau is reunited with the still crystal chime with no other interference, Tau will join the Seekers of the Sightless Way, become Tau-No-Longer, and give the player the crystalline halo.
• If Aoyg-No-Longer is killed before reuniting Tau with her chime, Tau will become the pariah Wandering Tau, but will still give the player the crystalline halo.
• If the still crystal chime is destroyed instead of reuniting Tau with it, Tau will remain glowing soft. This prevents the crystalline halo (and thus also the crystalline jile) from being obtained, but Dyvvrach will consider the quest complete.
• If Tau is killed after giving the player the halo, the halo will be transformed into the crystalline jile.
• If Tau is reunited with the still crystal chime and becomes Tau-No-Longer, and then Aoyg-No-Longer is killed, Tau will remain Tau-No-Longer, but will be blocked from progressing further along the Sightless Way. If she has not yet given the player the halo, she will not give it to the player, and it becomes impossible to obtain without wishes.