Mountain of Recto, Water of Verso

Mountain of Recto, Water of Verso is an Achievement in the category The Memories We Share.
To unlock this achievement, the player must:
# Investigate the stage at the following location in Fyxestroll Garden
# Choose to learn from the Ghost Actor
# Wait for daily reset and talk to the Ghost Actor again
# Pick all correct options
#* The correct options are:
#** "To be known by you, my love, in return."
#** "My bones the wick, my flesh the fragrance's call."
#** "In hibiscus tent, our passions shall transpire."
#** "Come tomorrow, you'll take your flight."
==Location==
==Gameplay Notes==
* This achievement is mutually exclusive with Apprentice, Disciple, and Renegade.
==Dialogue==
: Investigate
:Ghost Actor: Ahoy there, esteemed guest! How did you end up on the stage to watch the performance? Please get off quickly!
: Sorry, my bad.
::Ghost Actor: It's alright. Young folks these days care not for opera. It's forgivable if you're unfamiliar with the rules and norms.
: Nobody stopped me getting up though?
::Ghost Actor: Nobody stopped you... Alright, are you going to adopt the same attitude toward everything in life? When you eventually are trying to force your way into the Shackling Prison, tell the warden that "nobody's stopping you" — and see if you live to tell the tale.
: There's no other audience members though, so isn't it all the same?
::Ghost Actor: N—No other audience... Kid, you don't have to be so rude. I'm choking up here...
: Ghost!!!
::Ghost Actor: Hey! What are you yelling for! You freaked me out... Haven't you ever seen a heliobus before?
:Ghost Actor: Whatever, I never get any listeners... so I won't hold a grudge at you.
:Ghost Actor: The Ten Lords only let me go around Fyxestroll Garden like this. It took me a long time to find this theater square, and I've been singing my heart out for ages now — but you're the only one I've met. Is opera really in such decline?
: This opera is too freaky.
::Ghost Actor: Yes, it's quite freaky. Wedding Wine is the most famous of all the Zhuming flower-drum opera!
::Ghost Actor: The reason why it can be sung for thousands of years is because of how "freaky" it is. Before I was sealed within the Creation Furnace, it was known to everyone aboard the Zhuming.
: This place is too bleak for you.
:: Ghost Actor: Oh, good point. Are you saying that I should go into town and find a more thriving theater?
:: No, please don't!
:: Ghost Actor: Just kidding. Don't be scared. It's only in a forsaken place like this that the Ten-Lords Commission can turn a blind eye to me.
:Ghost Actor: *sigh* To be honest, singing to nobody in here is really boring. Have you got any interest in learning Zhuming flower-drum opera with me?
: Sounds pretty difficult.
::Ghost Actor: It's difficult to seriously learn the posture. Just the basics of singing, reciting, acting, and fighting take a good fifty years to learn.
::Ghost Actor: But I'll just teach you how to sing this one, Wedding Wine — it's simple enough.
: Can I think it over?
::Ghost Actor: Alright, let's learn that song you just heard, Wedding Wine.
: Too difficult. I don't wanna.
::Ghost Actor: It's not difficult. Let's just learn that one song you just heard then: Wedding Wine.
:Ghost Actor: How about it? Just think of it as a way for me to stave off boredon. If I'm in a good mood, I won't run around all over the place. And if I don't run around all over the place, everyone else is in a good mood — right?
: I'll learn from you.
::Ghost Actor: Great! Now we become master and apprentice!
::Ghost Actor: Once you're ready, let me know, and I'll teach you how to sing Wedding Wine.
: Ah, forget it.
::Ghost Actor: Sigh... Fine. If you ever change your mind, come back and find me then.
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: Start Learning How to Sing
:Ghost Actor: Okay~ Then let's start off with the background of the story. Wedding Wine tells the story of a man seduced by a heliobus and their love story.
:Ghost Actor: The female lead is a charming but deadly heliobus, luring men into marrying her, before ravenously feasting on the groom's emotions on the wedding night.
: What a scary story...
::Ghost Actor: The scariest thing about this story actually is the humans... There are several human characters in the story who knew that it is a heliobus but, despite this, still tried to use it as a tool to vanquish their own enemies.
::Ghost Actor: Of course, these people are all overpowered by the female lead in the end. In one sense, it's a highly satisfying story.
: What a cliche...
::Ghost Actor: It seems cliche from a modern perspective. And heliobi of course take no gender, but of course you humans have to wrap this archetype of a "femme fatale" around the whole thing.
::Ghost Actor: But this opera dates back to the Three Sufferings Era, and you can't deny its artistic merit based on its restrictions at the time. Only stupid humans who love thinking but hate reading books do that.
:Ghost Actor: But let's get back on track here... the part that we are learning is the scariest scene in the whole opera.
:Ghost Actor: The female lead takes possession of her husband, so there's just the one body there alone, but it takes the form of two and they perform this graceful dance.
:Ghost Actor: A human and a heliobus, singing until dawn breaks. When people come to visit the next day, all that remains is the withered husk of the husband's corpse.
:Ghost Actor: Here is how it goes:
:Ghost Actor: In devotion, my heart does yearn. To be known by you, my love, in return.
:Ghost Actor: Candles flicker, casting shadows on the wall. My bones the wick, my flesh the fragrance's call.
:Ghost Actor: Robes fall away, revealing my desire. In hibiscus tent, our passions shall transpire.
:Ghost Actor: At night, we'll embrace as one, so tight. Come tomorrow, you'll take your flight.
: It's beautiful!
::Ghost Actor: Teehee, thank you kindly.
: It's terrible!
::Ghost Actor: How could you say that! The youth of today, how could they fail to appreciate traditional opera?
: It's scary!
::Ghost Actor: That is testimony to my singing.
:Ghost Actor: That's all for today's class, then. Why don't you mull over what we covered today. Next time, we'll do our practical training.
:Ghost Actor: That's all for today, class dismissed! Let's pick up again another time~ Remember, I'll be quizzing you on this the next time we meet...
;(Talk to Ghost Actor, optional)
: Ghost Actor
: Ghost Actor: That's enough for today! If you've any problems, we can chat about it next time.
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;(Talk to Ghost Actor after at least one server reset)
: Combat Drill
:Ghost Actor: O prized pupil, you're here~ That's great. Let's begin our next lesson.
:Ghost Actor: This lesson is very simple. It's just us two, master and apprentice, singing the song Wedding Wine together.
:Ghost Actor: Zhuming flower-drum opera is traditionally sung by two singers to produce that eeriness of being possessed by heliobi.
:Ghost Actor: I'll sing the first half of the line, and then you finish. We'll sing this first stanza, and then you'll basically have learned it~
:Ghost Actor: So let me sing it to you first...
:Ghost Actor: In devotion, my heart does yearn. To be known by you, my love, in return.
:Ghost Actor: Candles flicker, casting shadows on the wall. My bones the wick, my flesh the fragrance's call.
:Ghost Actor: Robes fall away, revealing my desire. In hibiscus tent, our passions shall transpire.
:Ghost Actor: At night, we'll embrace as one, so tight. Come tomorrow, you'll take your flight.
:Ghost Actor: How's that? Can you remember it all?
: I can't quite remember that. Could you please sing it one more time?
::Ghost Actor: Of course not! This is how Zhuming flower-drum opera is traditionally taught. I sing it once, then you sing it with me. And if you can't sing it, I'll beat you.
::Ghost Actor: It's the only way to remember it, without a doubt! That's the way it's been done for thousands of years!
::Ghost Actor: I was also beaten often by my master before I learned the ways of Zhuming flower-drum opera.
:: How does a heliobus get beaten?
::Ghost Actor: Isn't that easy? Just possess my junior frater and take a beating!
::Ghost Actor: Sigh... My poor junior frater. He'd get beaten for singing wrong, and then get beaten again when I sang it wrong... In the end he gave up and left the company, refusing to learn anything...
: Got it. Let's get started.
:Ghost Actor: Alright. Then you have to remember that you'll get beaten if you make a mistake! This isn't just to be cruel; it's all so you can learn the song!
:Ghost Actor: So then, let's start!
:Ghost Actor: In devotion, my heart does yearn...
: To know my love for you doth brightly burn.
: To be known by you, my love, in return.
: A love aggressive knows no turn.
: To be known by you, my love doth spurn.
:Ghost Actor: Candles flicker, casting shadows on the wall...
: The wick predicts the candle fall.
: My bones the wick, my flesh, and all.
: My bones the wick, my flesh the fragrance's call.
: There's chicken soup down at the mall.
:Ghost Actor: Robes fall away, revealing my desire....
: In lotus tent, our passions shall transpire.
: In almond tent, our passions taken higher.
: In lotus loft, our passions thus transpire.
: In hibiscus tent, our passions shall transpire.
:Ghost Actor: At night, we'll embrace as one, so tight...
: Come tomorrow, you'll take your flight.
: Come tomorrow, I'll guard the night.
: Come tomorrow, you're out of sight.
: My puppy's lick exceeds its bite.
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;(If the correct options are chosen)
: Ghost Actor
:Ghost Actor: Heavens! Our cooperation is so tacit as master and apprentice that you don't even seem like a beginner at all.
:Ghost Actor: I never thought after so many years that I'd meet a youngster with such a talent for opera... *sigh*
:Ghost Actor: But I understand that you have your own affairs that concern you, and it's impossible for you to study an opera for centuries just like us old fossils have been doing.
: No matter what, there'll always be people out there who like opera.
::Ghost Actor: Mmm... Well, I'll take your kind words, then. Haha!
: It really is like that. Opera is growing obsolete with the times.
:Ghost Actor: But no matter what, I will still keep singing here even if there's nobody in the crowd.
:Ghost Actor: Thank you for singing opera with me, (Trailblazer).
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