Iseppa/Conversations

Spoiler Warning: This article contains information normally only found in the course of advancing the main quest line.

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[ Iseppa ]

Ah, it is our new short-fingered friend. Set a spell, if you like setting.

*Iseppa yawns*.

Or spells. Or Iseppa. If you like Iseppa, this is a very good place to be.

1) Do you know anything about Bethesda Susa?	Available only during Decoding the Signal
2) What do you know about Omonporch and the self-appointed Earl?	Available only during The Earl of Omonporch.
3) Did you feel that rumbling, Iseppa?	Available only during Grave Thoughts.
4) Have you ever met Pax Klanq?	Available only during Pax Klanq, I Presume?.
5) What are you working on, Iseppa?
6) Are you tired?
7) I wish to know more about you.
8) I do like you, Iseppa.
9) Live and drink.	[End]

Like

[ Iseppa ]

Thank you, (player's name). I like you too.

1) Do you know anything about Bethesda Susa?	Available only during Decoding the Signal
2) What do you know about Omonporch and the self-appointed Earl?	Available only during The Earl of Omonporch.
3) Did you feel that rumbling, Iseppa?	Available only during Grave Thoughts.
4) Have you ever met Pax Klanq?	Available only during Pax Klanq, I Presume?.
5) What are you working on, Iseppa?
6) Are you tired?
7) What can you tell me about the other Barathrumites?
8) I wish to know more about you.
9) Live and drink.	[End]

Bethesda

[ Iseppa ]

Bethesda Susa is an antipodal place, a gallery of life and death and the stages between. Its depths prolong life and end it early, remove life from the flow of days or return it.

It will seek to make you late. Take care you come back on time.

1) What do you know about Omonporch and the self-appointed Earl?	Available only during The Earl of Omonporch.
2) Did you feel that rumbling, Iseppa?	Available only during Grave Thoughts.
3) Have you ever met Pax Klanq?	Available only during Pax Klanq, I Presume?.
4) What are you working on, Iseppa?
5) Are you tired?
6) What can you tell me about the other Barathrumites?
7) I wish to know more about you.
8) Live and drink.	[End]

Omonporch

[ Iseppa ]

Though I adore the sights and smells of Omonporch, its bug problem becomes distracting.

If I'm to travel there, I always bring something they cannot zip away from.

1) Do you know anything about Bethesda Susa?	Available only during Decoding the Signal
2) Did you feel that rumbling, Iseppa?	Available only during Grave Thoughts.
3) Have you ever met Pax Klanq?	Available only during Pax Klanq, I Presume?.
4) What are you working on, Iseppa?
5) Are you tired?
6) I wish to know more about you.
7) What can you tell me about the other Barathrumites?
8) Live and drink.	[End]

Rumbling

[ Iseppa ]

Yes. That was not the voice of the caverns.

It feels like one of my nightmares come to life at last.

1) Do you know anything about Bethesda Susa?	Available only during Decoding the Signal
2) What do you know about Omonporch and the self-appointed Earl?	Available only during The Earl of Omonporch.
3) Have you ever met Pax Klanq?	Available only during Pax Klanq, I Presume?.
4) What are you working on, Iseppa?
5) Are you tired?
6) I wish to know more about you.
7) What can you tell me about the other Barathrumites?
8) Live and drink.	[End]

Klanq

[ Iseppa ]

I have not.

I would, however, love to meet him. He seems a fun fungus.

But I daren't go. I fear the sludges.

1) You fear sludge?
2) I see.

Sludges

[ Iseppa ]

I fear sludges, the kind you may no longer describe with 'some'. Born of the ancient stuff of existence, possessed of malice and wanting nothing more than to eat whatever they can, and they can eat whatever. It is even worse when they drink.

Take care with them.

1) Do you know anything about Bethesda Susa?	Available only during Decoding the Signal
2) What do you know about Omonporch and the self-appointed Earl?	Available only during The Earl of Omonporch.
3) Did you feel that rumbling, Iseppa?	Available only during Grave Thoughts.
4) What are you working on, Iseppa?
5) Are you tired?
6) I wish to know more about you.
7) What can you tell me about the other Barathrumites?
8) Live and drink.	[End]

Tired

[ Iseppa ]

I am always tired, (player's formalAddressTerm).

My sleep comes in fits and starts, and always with ghastly visions. Sometimes my rest must be coaxed along with medicine.

1) You have prophetic visions in your sleep?
2) I see. That seems difficult.

Dreams

[ Iseppa ]

No. My nightmares are a concoction of my disordered mind, nothing more. The fumes from this cauldron have nothing to do with the future, save how they affect it.

*Iseppa sighs.*

I'd rather speak of something else, (player's formalAddressTerm).

1) Oh.

MmHmm

[ Iseppa ]

Mm-hmm.

*Iseppa yawns.*

1) Do you know anything about Bethesda Susa?	Available only during Decoding the Signal
2) What do you know about Omonporch and the self-appointed Earl?	Available only during The Earl of Omonporch.
3) Did you feel that rumbling, Iseppa?	Available only during Grave Thoughts.
4) Have you ever met Pax Klanq?	Available only during Pax Klanq, I Presume?.
5) What are you working on, Iseppa?
6) Are you tired?
7) What can you tell me about the other Barathrumites?
8) I wish to know more about you.
9) Live and drink.	[End]

Gossip

[ Iseppa ]

I would never think to steal from you the delight of forming opinions of my enclave on your own.

*Iseppa yawns.*

Besides, that sounds like rather a lot of talking.

1) Do you know anything about Bethesda Susa?	Available only during Decoding the Signal
2) What do you know about Omonporch and the self-appointed Earl?	Available only during The Earl of Omonporch.
3) Did you feel that rumbling, Iseppa?	Available only during Grave Thoughts.
4) Have you ever met Pax Klanq?	Available only during Pax Klanq, I Presume?.
5) What are you working on, Iseppa?
6) Are you tired?
7) I wish to know more about you.
8) Live and drink.	[End]

AboutMe

[ Iseppa ]

I am Iseppa, and she is me.

I've given thought to being someone else, but never enough to try.

1) Do you know anything about Bethesda Susa?	Available only during Decoding the Signal
2) What do you know about Omonporch and the self-appointed Earl?	Available only during The Earl of Omonporch.
3) Did you feel that rumbling, Iseppa?	Available only during Grave Thoughts.
4) Have you ever met Pax Klanq?	Available only during Pax Klanq, I Presume?.
5) What are you working on, Iseppa?
6) Are you tired?
7) What can you tell me about the other Barathrumites?
8) Live and drink.	[End]

Project

Iseppa will respond randomly using these possible answers:

[ Iseppa ]

I am contemplating the distinction between animal and rock. Why are they different? How much like a rock must an animal be when it ceases to be an animal?

[ Iseppa ]

I am considering the window of consciousness through which each of us views the universe. What happens to it when we die?

[ Iseppa ]

I am taking inventory of my faculties, and looking for any that I might not previously have considered.

[ Iseppa ]

I am considering the thought as a discrete object. I wish to determine whether I am able to think a single thought only, and to determine how to distinguish it from another thought in the same vein.

[ Iseppa ]

I am considering the determination of goodness and badness in a thing, and how it is determined. The interaction between data and subjective evaluation, and the values that guide us that we cannot put to words.

[ Iseppa ]

I am contemplating the Spindle's place in Qud, its position as a conceptual focal point. How much of what we know of the Spindle is the craft of those before us, carried forward?

[ Iseppa ]

I am considering narrative inheritances. The stories we were told when our minds were more putty-like, the follies that shaped who we are, that shape the whole of Qud.

1) Oh. It looks like you are sorting screws and fasteners.
2) Have you come to any conclusions?
3) I shall leave you to it. Live and drink, contemplatrix.	[End]

Project2

[ Iseppa ]

Yes.

1) But you're also doing the other thing.
2) I'll leave you to it.	[End]

Project3

[ Iseppa ]

Not yet, but that's not the point.

1) Oh, I see.
2) I'll leave you to it, then.	[End]

Before More Than a Willing Spirit

If the player breaks into Grit Gate before completing More Than a Willing Spirit:

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[ Iseppa ]

Oh. Are you lost, (player's formalAddressTerm)?
        
I don't mind that you're here, but I was not expecting anyone.

1) Live and drink.

[End]

A Call to Arms

If the player breaks into Grit Gate before completing More Than a Willing Spirit:

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[ Iseppa ]

Is this it, I wonder?

1) Not today.

[End]