Past Reflections/Plot Details

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Past Reflections - Upper Jeuno
Luto Mewrilah: Grrreat timing as always, (name).I have a favor to ask you.
Luto Mewrilah: Actually, I was going to ask (fellow) to help as well...
And here he/she is!
Luto Mewrilah: I was just explaining to (name) that I want you to to head to Windurst for me.
Fellow: Oh, I love Windurst!
What do you want us to do once we get there?
Luto Mewrilah: I know I could count on your enthusiasm.
Luto Mewrilah: What I need you to do is borrow a book.
As you probably know, the library in Windurst is home to many ancient tomes of lore.
Luto Mewrilah: I want you to bring a book that contains a method for repairing the broken mirror you left with me.
Fellow: Why fix that one?
Wouldn't it be easier just to buy a new mirror?
Fellow: And doesn't that thing have creepy powers...?
Why would you want to restore something like that...?
Luto Mewrilah: <Sigh>...
You just don't understand the potential.
Luto Mewrilah: That mirror is a treasure of the Near East.
The price will rise exponentially if it's in mint condition.
Luto Mewrilah: It may be a frightful object, but that's just one more aspect that makes it valuable to collectors.
Fellow: Hmmm...
Well, you're the expert, Luto!
Luto Mewrilah: The mirror is made with a rrrare, black-tinted metal.
That should help start you on your search.
Luto Mewrilah: I want to hear every scrrrap of information you can dig up.
Find out everything you can.
Past Reflections - Windurst Waters
Tosuka-Porika: Hrm.A tome that contains references to a mirror made from black-tinted metal...?
Tosuka-Porika: And a method for repairing said mirror...?
Tosuka-Porika: Hrm.
Hrmmm...
Hrrrmmmmmm...hrm!
Fellow: I've had a look at the shelves, but I've never seen so many books before...
Tosuka-Porika: Hrm?
Hrrrrrm!
That's it!
Tosuka-Porika: The volume that Ritopopo was searching for was all aboutaru mirrors.
I'm certain there was some mention of Near Eastern treasures-weasures...
Ritopopo: Hoho!
I've found it! The elusive "Looking Glass Legends"!
Ritopopo: Mostaru of these accounts appear to be no more than fairy tales, but there could be a kernel of truth hidden here and there...
Ritopopo: My scholar-sense is tingling! Twenty years of research experience gives you almostaru supernatural powers, I do believe!
Ritopopo: Now that my searching is done, I think I've earned a rest and a decentaru meal.
Ritopopo: Even super-duper scholars such as myself need to eat something substantial every now and again.
All those bretzels...really made me thirsty...
Ritopopo: Hm?
Can I aid you in some way?
Ritopopo: Good gracious!
Those Near Eastern mirrors actually existaru!?
Then my research hasn't been in vainy-wain!
Ritopopo: Eh?
Ritopopo: You want to borrow the "Looking Glass Legends"?
Ritopopo: You mustaru be joking. Give up this wonderful tome after I've only just discovered it?
Ritopopo: <Rumble...rumble...>
Ritopopo: Ah...!
Ritopopo: You didn'taru hear anything just now!
All you need to hear is me refusing to lend you my precious book!
Ritopopo: <Rumble...rumble..>
Ritopopo: ...
Ritopopo: <Rumble...gurgle...rumble...>
Ritopopo: You know...
I've always wanted to give the minister something nice.
Ritopopo: But I'm justaru too shy to present it myself...
Ritopopo: <Gurgle...rumble...gurgle...>
Ritopopo: ...
Ritopopo: I overheard the minister mumbling-wumbling something about craving a full-course meal...
Ritopopo: It started with something like, I don'taru know, say a loaf of white bread, a bowl of whitefish stew, a Windurst salad, and a serving of bison steak...
Ritopopo: Then came a serving of icecap rolanberry, and a pot of San d'Orian tea to finish.
Ritopopo: I'm positive he would absolutaruly adore a meal like that.
Ritopopo: Since I feel so indebted to the minister for assistaruing me in my research, I would do anything to grant his wish.
Ritopopo: However, a scholar like myself has no place in the kitchen...
Ritopopo: If you could see your way to preparing this gourmet delightaru, I would consider lending you the "Looking Glass Legends."
Ritopopo: But only if everything is absolutaruly perfectly!
I will accept nothing less!
Oh, and you don'taru have to say the dinner is from me.
Ritopopo: Simply hand it over and enjoy the joy you bring!
Fellow: Did you remember everything, (name)?
I did. I think.
Fellow: A loaf of white bread, a bowl of whitefish stew, a Windurst salad, and a serving of bison steak.
Followed by a serving of icecap rolanberry...
Fellow: And lastly, a pot of San d"Orian tea.
We should probably write this down...
Fellow: Hmm...
I'm starting to feel a little hungry myself...
Fellow: Buy why make this for the minister? She seemed to be "absolutaruly" starving!
Fellow: Oh well, as long as we get the goods for Luto, right?
Past Reflections - Upper Jeuno
Tosuka-Porika: Hrmmmmm?
Where did all this food come from...!?
Ritopopo: Ooh!
Ritopopo: <Rumble...gurgle...rumble...gurgle...>
Ritopopo: Fantastic!
Magnifico! This is exactaruly what I've been dreaming about!
Ritopopo: I'm so happy!
I thank you from the bottom of my stomach!
Ritopopo: Here! Take the book!
I finished reading it while you were preparing that splendiferous full-course meal.
Ritopopo: It truly was a fascinating read.
Ritopopo: This Taliesin is amazing!
I hope that one day I can pen an equally marvelous research paper.
Ritopopo: My next goal is to read "The Lost Looking Glass"!
Did you know there were two magical mirrors from the Near East?
Ritopopo: Researchers on the subject think that these two looking glasses may be fundamental opposites.
One a mirror of the other, you might say!
Ritopopo: "Looking Glass Legends" touches upon the object known as the "Mirror of Blighted Gloom."
Ritopopo: "The Lost Looking Glass" details the mirror called the "Glass of Blessed Radiance."
Ritopopo: I mustaru seek out "The Lost Looking Glass" and straighten out the facts once and for all!
My scholarly spirit is reignited!
Ritopopo: Thank you once again!
Goodbye!
Tosuka-Porika: Hrmmmm....
Such a dramatic change in character...
Food can have such a powerful effectaru on people.
Tosuka-Porika: Hrmm...
I'm the minister of this place, or had you forgotten?
I demand a ltitle respectaru...
Fellow: I knew finding that book would be hard, but who could've seen that weirdness coming?
Fellow: I suppose Luto will want to get her paws on this book as soon as possible.
Fellow: What were those names...?
The Mirror of Blighted Gloom and the Glass of Blessed Radiance...
Tosuka-Porika: Hrmm!?
Tosuka-Porika: <Rumble...gurgle...rumble...>
Past Reflections - Upper Jeuno
Fellow: We found what you were looking for, Luto.
This book holds information about a Near Eastern mirror.
Luto Mewrilah: I knew I could count on you two!
Let's dive rrright in, shall we?
Luto Mewrilah: So this tome is called the "Looking Glass Legends," and is written by..."Taliesin."
Fellow: Apparently, another mirror exists that is the twin to the one described in this book.
Luto Mewrilah: Yes...
I know...
Fellow: You knew?
About the Blighted Gloom, and the Blessed Radiance?
Luto Mewrilah: Yes. One of the mirrors was being kept in the Empire of Aht Urhgan, but was eventually lost to the world.
Or so the tale goes...
Luto Mewrilah: It was once stored within a small chest and strrrictly guarded, with only selected people permitted to view the mirror itself.
Luto Mewrilah: This looking glass supposedly emitted a light of such heart-stopping beauty, it was almost blinding.
Luto Mewrilah: This light was so dazzling, it spilled from the chest and soothed the souls of all who gazed upon it.
Luto Mewrilah: And so we can deduce from these properties that the mirror lost to the Aht Urhgan Empire was most likely the Glass of Blessed Radianced.
Luto Mewrilah: If this mirror still exists somewhere in the world, I would do anything to track it down!
Luto Mewrilah: I'm a sucker for beautiful artifacts. And this tale of divine rrradiance makes me want it even more!
Luto Mewrilah: ...This book appears to be of considerable age. You did well to discover such valuable resource.
Luto Mewrilah: Let's see what it has to say.
Luto Mewrilah: "Worshipped in the Near East, there is a small mirror whose creation was ordered by a king, now long deceased."
Luto Mewrilah: "As time passed, the looking glass came to be revered as a holy object, and even while it was kept under guard..."
Luto Mewrilah: "...people began to call it the Mirror of Blighted Gloom."
Luto Mewrilah: "The blackened metal of the mirror emits a dim, dark light that conjures images of early evening."
Luto Mewrilah: Hmmm...
Luto Mewrilah: That sould suggest to me that the brrroken glass I have now is this Mirror of Blighted Gloom.
This description fits perfectly.
Luto Mewrilah: The explanation continues...
Luto Mewrilah: "This metal is like no other substances we have ever encountered."
Luto Mewrilah: "Expert scientists concur that while this substance gives off a metallic glint..."
Luto Mewrilah: "...it has a malleable structure at room temperature almost like a liquid. However, for reasons unknown, it is able to maintain its shape."
Luto Mewrilah: "The metal used by the creators of the mirror no longer exists, and as such, it would be impossible to duplicate its creation today."
Luto Mewrilah: No longer exists...!
Then how am I suppose to...?
Fellow: Is that all it says?
Luto Mewrilah: It continues...
Luto Mewrilah: "However, the method for crafting the mirror has been discovered and follows these steps:"
Luto Mewrilah: "One. Prepare the metal that is to become the body of the mirror."
Luto Mewrilah: "Two. Find a spring with a surface as smooth as glass. The spring must be filled with clear water."
Luto Mewrilah: "Three. Chant the charm, and offer a prayer.
The charm is only known by the guardians of the mirror..."
Luto Mewrilah: "If the above steps are followed correctly, an enchanted mirror will be created."
Luto Mewrilah: This is no help at all!
Why tell us all this when there is no way to know the charm?
Luto Mewrilah: What do we do?
Is there anything we can do?
Luto Mewrilah: Who are these guardians of the mirror...?
Fellow: just a moment, Luto.
The Glass of All-Seeing...
Fellow: Palometa...!
Fellow: The mirror shows her near the airship docks.
Luto Mewrilah: The little girl you found in the Eldieme Necropolis?
Well, pinch my whiskers.
Luto Mewrilah: We have to go and talk to her!
She could be our only clue!
Past Reflections - Port Jeuno
Khumo Daramasteh: A little girl?
Could that child over there by the one you're looking for?
Palometa: Mom, do you think the mirror is somewhere else after all?
Laurana: Who can say, dear?
The looking glass carried by the adventurer that saved you was similar, but not the one we're looking for.
Palometa: It's just that when the adventurer talked about using a mirror to find me, I thought we had found it...
Palometa: Oh well, I guess we have to keep looking.
Palometa: I was so happy that someone came and saved me, though!
Laurana: Me too, sweetheart.
I'm so glad you're safe.
Laurana: It just froze my heart when you told me about that strange man.
Palometa: I'm sorry...
Palometa: He told me that he saw someone carrying a black mirror into those horrible tunnels.
Palometa: He said he would help me look, and then disappeared once we were inside...
Palometa: I'll never go off alone with anyone, even if they say they know about the mirror!
Laurana: I certainly hope not.
You'll make your mother sick with worry.
Fellow: Little Palometa!
How have you been, sweetie?
Palometa: (fellow)!
Fellow: I have something I want to ask you...
Palometa: How come you know about that?
How do you know about the guardians?
Palometa: Ah!
The Glass of All-Seeing!
Palometa: But...I'm not a guardian.
Palometa: The guardians were responsible for protecting the mirror...
Palometa: But they're all gone now...
Luto Mewrilah: That doesn't sound prrromising.
Luto Mewrilah: You know all about the guardians, rrright, Palometa?
Palometa: Right.
My daddy was one. Until he got sick and had to leave us...
Luto Mewrilah: Oh...
Palometa: After Daddy was gone, someone came and stole the mirror.
Palometa: I was so scared...
Palometa: But now I've come to this country with my mother to get the mirror back.
Palometa: Do you know anything about the mirror, Miss Luto?
Please tell me if you do...!
Palometa: I...I have to get it back. My daddy spent his life protecting it...!
Luto Mewrilah: I know, kiddo.
Just calm down and I'll tell you what I can.
Luto Mewrilah: I have the mirror that you're searching for.
Palometa: What?
Luto Mewrilah: But the mirror's been broken...
Palometa: No! It can't be...!
Luto Mewrilah: We've been looking for a way to fix it.
And our search has led us to you, the daughter of one of the guardians.
Luto Mewrilah: To repair the mirror, we need to learn a certain charm.
You wouldn't happen to know anything like that, would you?
Palometa: A charm...?
Is that like a prayer?
Luto Mewrilah: Something that only a guardian would know.
Palometa: I think I do.
My daddy taught me a prayer with some really hard words.
But I can say them all!
Luto Mewrilah: Rrreally! That's wonderful!
Maybe there is hope for the mirror yet.
Luto Mewrilah: I'll be happy just to see this trrreasure back in one piece.
Luto Mewrilah: As soon as we fix your mirror, we'll give it back to you, okay?
Palometa: Okay!
Luto Mewrilah: Until then, I think you should stay here in Jeuno.
Better yet, rrright by my side!
Luto Mewrilah: I don't want anything happening to you.
Luto Mewrilah: It looks like I'll be needing your help again.
All that's left is to find some of the metal used in creating the mirror.
Luto Mewrilah: I'll keep porrring through "Looking Glass Legends" and see what I can find.
Luto Mewrilah: You'll be the first to know if I learn anything useful.
Luto Mewrilah: Your cooperation and trust will make the task of repairing the mirror a simple one.
I'm counting on you!
Fellow: You can rely on us.
Right, (name)?
Luto Mewrilah: Phew!
Keeping up a facade is hard work.
I was almost feeling sorry for that little girl.
Luto Mewrilah: Besides that unusual metal, I have everything I need for repairing the Mirror of Blighted Gloom.
Luto Mewrilah: I'll have that mirror in one piece if it's the last thing I do!
Luto Mewrilah: I wonder who this author of "Looking Glass Legends" could be.
Luto Mewrilah: Anyone who can gather this sort of information alone is not to be underestimated...