Chabro

Chabro is an NPC in Penacony, located in Golden Hour.
==Profile==
(To be added.)
==Location==
==Missions and Events==
==Voice Lines==
;Before completing Clockwork: Chabro
;(Version 1)
:: "Tch, how crude and foolish!"
;(Version 2)
:: "Ugh, just another day in our ever-decaying society!"
;After completing Clockwork: Chabro
;(Version 1)
:: "Back in my day, I was popular as they come!"
;(Version 2)
:: "All for a dream..."
==Dialogue==
;(First interaction)
:Chabro: ...Is this what the movie industry has degraded to? They'll use any old token to fill in the gaps — is that deserved?
:Billboard: I... I...
:Chabro: "I" what? Don't musicals need to have logic to them, or acting skills? This is just a bunch of pretty boys yelling and jumping around. You call that a movie?
:Billboard: N—No...
:Chabro: "No" WHAT!? Let me tell you, this kind of trash actually pollutes the environment! Do you know how much harm a bad movie can do to a person's mind and body?
:Billboard: Y—You make a good point... B—But I'm just a billboard...
:Chabro: So what if you're a billboard? Billboards can still deliver wanton suffering to people — let me tell you, this evil ad has brought me severe psychological trauma. How do you plan on making compensation?
:Billboard: I—I don't know... Ouch! Please, someone help me!
: Hey... How could you bully a billboard?
:Chabro: Bullying? Is merely telling the truth enough to get you canceled nowadays? Since it dared to display these ads to the world, it should also be prepared to get chewed out!
:Chabro: And what's more, even if it really was bullying — so what? Is a billboard capable of reporting me?
: Pull out your phone.
::Chabro: Hang on, wait up. Kids these days don't know how to take a joke!
: Pull out a baseball bat.
::Chabro: Hang on, what are you going to do with that? Don't you get the joke?
:Chabro: It's no good being so brash at such a young age... Come on, let's drink a bottle of SoulGlad to calm the nerves a little, huh?
;(Continue on to dialogue options below)
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;(Subsequent interactions)
:Chabro: *sigh*... The world's not what it used to be. Kids these days...
: So why are you bullying the billboard, then?
::Chabro: Strident criticism does now constitute bullying! Strident criticism, I say! How can a film critic ever be accused of bullying?
::Chabro: After all, I'm a respected film critic with zero tolerance for bad movies. And what of it?
:: What movie made you so angry?
:::Chabro: Didn't you see the postal on the billboard? "Life's a Soda" — the latest hot young musical.
:::Chabro: But I can't recommend it to you. After all. it's more like a boring two-hour-long commercial that SoulGlad threw money advertising rather than an actual movie.
:::Chabro: And what about "The Penacony Dreamscape, where the real star orbit"... Ptooey! This Himemia Films is nothing more than a packing house for big budget blockbusters devoid of any real meaning.
:::Chabro: Just look at their latest crop of movies. What are they all about...
:::Chabro: Return to Dreamscape? Hmph, marketing did a great job trying to stand this up, but it's all vacuous from beginning to end!
:::Chabro: Judgment Day? With this description, this camerawork, and the ten-billion-dollar director attached, I'm sure it will be a famous source of embarrassment!
:::Chabro: And this one, Meme Crisis! How stale is that old story? Yet they're still trying to warm it up like leftovers?
:::Chabro: Hmph, rough cuts and bone dry, very hard to digest. Smells just like a cash grab to me...
:: Are you a film critic?
:::Chabro: That's right! Ever heard of the famous Penacony film mag, Silver Screen Shockwave? If not, you must be ill-read.
:::Chabro: Every issue has a review of the latest popular movies in Penacony, with sharp critiques and insightful perspectives that never pander to a mainstream audience.
:::Chabro: Who do you think such an outstanding periodical would hire as its chief editor?
::: Is it famous?
::: How are the sales?
:::Chabro: ...There it is, this old attitude again! Y—You... because most of the audience are on the same level as you...
:::Chabro: How vulgar! Art cannot be measured by something as trivial as sales!
:: I have nothing else to ask.
:::Chabro: Hmph, some peace and quiet at last...
: I have other matters to attend to.
::Chabro: Then hurry off! What are you doing with a doddering old fool like me!
===Post-Mission===
;(After completing Adventure Mission Clockwork: Chabro)
;(If Chabro's Emotion is set to Calm)
:Chabro looks extremely at peace right then. Even the wrinkles cracked across his face seemed to be less sharp.
: Leave
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;(If Chabro's Emotion is set to Angry)
:Chabro: A real motley crew...
: Leave
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;(If Chabro's Emotion is set to Happy)
:Chabro: *sigh* Life... We just go around and round in circles...
: Leave
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;(If Chabro's Emotion is set to Sad)
:Dreams are great, but art is eternal...
: Leave
===Clockwork===
Clockwork is only available after completing the .
: Activate Clockwork
::
::;(First interaction)
:::Chabro: *Ahem* Well, I made you laugh before... I mean, about the billboard... But I was just furious at the time. Please don't take it to heart.
:::Chabro: None of them have any talent, and they're all extremely short-tempered. Yet they look down on everyone and don't know how to respect their teachers. What kind of film is someone like that going to shoot, I ask you!
:::Chabro: You seem like a good prospect... How about it, are you interested in joining the ranks of the cinema circle? I guarantee to train you up to become a famous director.
:::Chabro: Don't be so quick to shoot me down. Take a look at this freshly released Silver Screen Shockwave! Come see what this old man can do!
::;(Obtain )
:::
::;(Subsequent interactions)
:::Chabro: Penacony's movie industry is simply in tatters at the moment! Just look at the younger generation now. They're getting even worse by the year!
:::Chabro: None of them have any talent, and they're all extremely short-tempered. Yet they look down on everyone and don't know how to respect their teachers. What kind of film is someone like that going to shoot, I ask you!
:::Chabro: You seem like a good prospect... How about it, are you interested in joining the ranks of the cinema circle? I guarantee to train you up to become a famous director.
::
:::Chabro: A real motley crew...
:::Chabro: So clichéd, stupid, and vulgar! I don't get it. How did the market ever get like this?
:::Chabro: A producer? Wow — someone who's got cash for eyes, and sludge for brains!
:::Chabro: The audience? Ha, it's not so much that they have aesthetic taste, insofar as it's a kind of nervous necrotic beauty.
:::Chabro: The shots are mundane. The story is average, with no personality for ease of understanding. What kind of movie is this person trying to shoot!?
:::Chabro: Every metaphor or foreshadowing has to be explained eight hundred times by the creator. What kind of movies does this type of person watch!?
:::Chabro: Asking me to pander to the mainstream market, and pop culture... It's exactly because... because they're all of this kind of standard that I...
:::Chabro: Hmph, even this so-called City of Dreams is like that nowadays. How sad — how could art ever hope to stand up among the hopeless vulgarity of this world!
::
:::Chabro: Haha, you know what? I may be a director, but the most glorious moment in all my life was never up there on that awards stage.
:::Chabro: I once rubbed shoulders with the stars at the Starcademy Awards... Back then, I thought it would be the most unforgettable memory I ever had.
:::Chabro: But later on, I suddenly woke up one day and realized that the camera lens is always going to be limited in what it can depict, and some things have to be experienced by people for themselves.
:::Chabro: ...I once heard of some planets where the people would burn up their dried weeds during the winter months, just to nourish high-quality crops on the land in the year ahead.
:::Chabro: And so three years later, I arrived at the award podium once more — with the fire of wisdom and using the heat of my soul, I ignited the whole arena and set off the whole audience!
:::Chabro: I'm a firm believer that out of the ashes can sprout an even more exalted future... and sure enough, both the Starcademy Awards and I spread our fame like wildfire...
:::Chabro: You know what, kid? To this day, my name is still passed around among the stars!
::;(Obtain )
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:::Chabro: Sometimes I'm really glad that I came here to Penacony... Because I don't have to worry about having any dreams when I'm inside my dream.
:::Chabro: You know what, kid? Before I became a critic, I was once a director... A director with his own dreams.
:::Chabro: I once tried, too, to pass on my love for art and lust for life to the people — to the whole world — through my films, but...
:::Chabro: These days I don't really dream anymore. They more or less left me the day that I stopped creating.
:::Chabro: And as for the "glory" that I've achieved with all my passion and dreams... That same "glory" forced me to travel far away, keeping anonymous the whole time... too many people have devoted themselves for that — sacrificed themselves for that...
:::Chabro: Even though I'm unable to face them, I will always carry them with me for the rest of my days...
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