Should You Be Trapped in a Windless Land (Quest)

Should You Be Trapped in a Windless Land is the fourth and final part of .
==Steps==
#Wait for night to fall (18:00 - 23:00)
#*You can adjust the time through Paimon's Menu.
#Head to the Angel's Share
#Sit behind Stanley
#Try to make conversation with Stanley
#Head to the "usual place"
#*Head to the Anemo Archon Statue. Venti will be sitting on the statue's hands.
==Idle Quotes==
* "Stanley... Stanley..." (-Stanley)
* "Stanley, what should I do..." (-Stanley)
==Dialogue==
;(Talk to Diluc before approaching Stanley)
: Diluc: You know, I'm glad I actually had the chance to come down here today.
: Diluc: The tavern isn't overcrowded, and I couldn't be in a better mood.
;(Upon approaching Stanley)
: Stanley: Tell me, Stanley... Tell me what should I do...?
: Paimon: Huh? Why does he keep repeating his own name?
: He's hiding something.
:: Paimon: Could there be another person called Stanley?
: There's another Stanley.
:: Venti: Surely not. Even I've never heard tell of a second Stanley.
: Stanley: *sobs* Oh, Stanley...
: Stanley: It should have been me! I should have been the one to die in the Mare Jivari that day... Why won't your spirit come and stop me from using your name? Why, Stanley, why?
: Stanley: If only you hadn't had to save a rookie like me, you would have never died in that windless corner of the world...
: Stanley: You were a renowned adventurer, destined to become a legend one day... But now... that'll never happen, because your life was cut short— and all because of a worthless tag-along...
: Paimon: Uhh... Does anyone get what's going on here?
: Venti: ...I think our friend really did make it to the Mare Jivari. And I think the tragedy he encountered there was real, too.
: Venti: But the real adventurer, the real Stanley — that was his partner. Not him.
: Venti: The real Stanley is the one who died to save our "Stanley."
: Paimon: Wait... So the only reason our Stanley is called Stanley in the first place is because he stole the other Stanley's name?
: Venti: I fear that may be the case.
: Stanley: Stanley, for so many years I've lived in fear... fear that Mondstadt will forget all about you... So I tell your adventure stories at every opportunity...
: Stanley: Mondstadt must remember: Stanley reached the center of the Mare Jivari... He's the greatest adventurer there ever was, and he lives on!
: Stanley: Stanley will never die, because... I am Stanley! I... am Stanley...
: Stanley: I'm sorry, Stanley... I'm getting too old... now...
: Stanley: *sigh* ...
: Stanley: Are you guys planning on eavesdropping much longer?
: Paimon: Yikes! We're busted!
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;(Talk to Stanley)
: Stanley: *sigh* Go away. Save your questions, just... leave me in peace.
: Paimon: But...
: Stanley: Leave, now! Don't make me tell you again!
:;(Jack arrives)
: Jack: Honorary Knight! Venti! And Paimon! I'm so glad you guys are here.
: Jack: I've been looking for you everywhere! I wanted to thank you again for helping me find the sword and shield. My parents are finally supporting me!
: Venti: Oh... Really?
: Jack: Yeah, really! They even said they're gonna pay for someone to fix up the Sword of Brilliant Valor and Shield of Magnificent Honor for me, so I can take them out on the road.
: Venti: That's wonderful! So, Jack, is this the part where you bid farewell to Mondstadt and set off on your intrepid trip traversing Teyvat?
: Jack: No, not yet. I still don't have what it takes to go too far from home just yet.
: Jack: Besides, I'm sure Stanley still has a few stories left to tell. Hehe... They're what inspired me to become an adventurer in the first place.
: Jack: Stanley, I— Oh, you're drunk again...
: Jack: See you tomorrow, then. After your hangover wears off, maybe you can tell me some more of your stories?
:;(Jack leaves the tavern)
: Venti: Stanley's really fond of that kid, don't you think?
: Stanley: *hic* Jack? Jack!
: Venti: Jack left.
: Stanley: Oh, I see... Well, thank you for not telling him about my secret.
: Venti: Eh? All of a sudden you're facing the facts? That isn't like you...
: Stanley: Just now... I couldn't bear to look at him. His adventurer's spirit is so pure... unblemished...
: Stanley: I'm just a weary old feckless fraud, but that kid is a brand-new shining star, full of potential... I cannot allow his dreams to be crushed.
: Paimon: You're not a total fraud... Stanley's adventure stories and experiences — they're all true, aren't they?
: Stanley: Stories... Experiences... What's the point of them anymore?
: Stanley: To be honest, my memories of adventuring, and of Stanley... they're hazy these days.
: Stanley: That's my biggest secret of all. And my biggest fear.
: Stanley: All these years, I've been livin' to tell his story. But his personality, and the details of his life, I don't remember them clearly anymore. Ah-ha...
: Stanley: But the one thing I can never forget... is that he died in a windless land, where his spirit can never be recovered!
: His whole life, he's been drowning in guilt...
: All that remains is this imaginary friend...
: Venti: Exactly... Even in his memory, the real Stanley isn't the living, breathing friend he knew at all.
: Venti: Instead, he's become fixed on the image of him as that battle-scarred warrior... and that image has held him captive his entire life.
: Stanley: I'm too old... I never let go, but still so much has slipped away...
: Stanley: I'm completely and utterly worthless!
: Stanley: No adventurer should have to go that way... No adventurer ever...
;(A cinematic plays)
:
:: Venti: Hans Archibald?
:: Stanley: My true name... How did you know?
:;(Venti summons a breeze)
:: Stanley: The wind...
:: Stanley: I can hear the wind blowing in the Mare Jivari...
:;(Venti shows himself as Barbatos to Stanley)
:: Stanley: I always believed... you existed...
:: Venti: Will you hand me your old friend's spirit?
:;(Stanley takes Venti's hand and the spirit of Stanley finally goes in peace)
:;(Cinematic ends)
: Stanley: I... I can't believe it...
: Stanley: Thank you all! And thank you, Lord Barbatos...
: Stanley: I'm sorry, it's gonna take me some time to calm back down...
: Stanley: But, I think that... I'm gonna be okay...
:;(Stanley leaves)
: Venti: Ah, wonderful! Stanley reconnected with his true self, and Jack can finally go his own way.
: Venti: This calls for a celebration! And by celebration, I do of course mean libation!
: Paimon: And by libation, you mean you're not leaving this tavern till you're too drunk to walk, right?
: Venti: Haha... no. The wine here's too expensive. Jack still owes me some wine though — he promised me a rare vintage in exchange for helping him out, remember?
: Venti: I'll head off to fetch the wine. See you shortly! Let's meet at the .
: Paimon: Huh? Where's that supposed to be? Why has Paimon never heard of it? Hey, Tone-Deaf Bard!
: It's anybody's guess.
: I think I know where... possibly.
: Okay, see you there!
: Paimon: Hey!
;(Talk to Diluc, optional)
: Diluc: Stanley...
: Diluc: So many years after the fact, it's not even his friend himself that holds him back anymore.
: Diluc: But I for one am confident that the people of Mondstadt will not forget his friend's story.
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;(Talk to Venti)
: Venti: You made it... finally.
: Paimon: Just tell us where you mean next time, okay!? We looked everywhere!
: Paimon: Hmph... So. Did you at least manage to find your wine?
: Venti: Yep! Well, sort of... Jack made it out to be a rare, collectors' edition vintage...
: Venti: ...when actually, it's just a half bottle of regular cider.
: Venti: Ah, this takes me back.
: Venti: The first time I saw this view, I hadn't even taken on this form yet.
: ...What?
: Venti: It was about twenty-six hundred years ago, before the world had come under the rule of The Seven.
: Venti: At that time, Old Mondstadt was ruled by a tyrant, who sealed off the city's perimeter with a ferocious hurricane. Even the birds couldn't get in or out.
: Paimon: Old Mondstadt? Oh, Paimon remembers — nowadays it's known as Stormterror's Lair, right? You mentioned it before!
: Venti: That's right. The tyrant of the winds who once ruled from that tower was Decarabian, God of Storms.
: Venti: Back then, I was but a wisp among the thousand winds. I wasn't a god of anything — I didn't even have a human form...
: Venti: I was just a tiny elemental being who lived in the wind, a gentle breeze bringing subtle changes for the better, or tiny seeds of hope.
: Paimon: A tiny elemental being? Without a human form? Venti... do you mean you used to look different than you do now?
: Venti: Yep. My current form is not so different from the situation with fake Stanley... I took the form of a friend.
;(A cinematic plays)
:
::Venti: In Old Mondstadt transpired the story to be told
::Venti: Where a tyrant ruled, I met a boy, not that old
::Venti: The lyre he played, and for a song he sought
::Venti: But storm-walls blocked blue sky — he was sincerely distraught
::Venti: "I do so wish to see the birds in flight"
::Venti: Said he, his strong eyes filling with light
::Venti: But his voice was lost in the howling wind's churn
::Venti: For the whirlwind takes, and gives naught in return
::Venti: The true sky, and songs that cageless soar...
::Venti: Were they not wishes worth fighting for?
::Venti: So the boy turned, extending his hand:
::Venti: "Let us cast down the tyrant and his walls from this land"
::Venti: The young boy raised then the flag of revolt
::Venti: And I threw myself into freedom's tumult
::Venti: Victorious were we who fought to be free
::Venti: Gods fell, winds whipped, nations shook violently
::Venti: In the smoke, a despot met his doom
::Venti: And we watched as his great tower fell none too soon
::Venti: Mondstadt began anew, the story passed down
::Venti: And since then never has another worn its crown
:;(Cinematic ends)
: Paimon: So then what?
: Paimon: What happened to your friend?
: (Same situation as with Stanley's friend...)
: Venti: Say, Paimon, do you wish to hear the next part of the story?
: Paimon: Yes, of course! The suspense is killing Paimon!
: Paimon, go pick us a couple of apples.
:: Paimon: Now's the time you suddenly get a craving for apples? Really?
: Paimon, could you fetch us some meat or fish?
:: Paimon: But Venti's telling his story! What makes you suddenly wanna have a meat feast!?
: Venti: Hahaha, getting a little... peckish or something...
: Oh, so peckish.
: Paimon: Huh! Paimon's had it up to here with you!
:;(Venti and the Traveler keep talking after Paimon leaves)
: Venti: Ah... You know, you're so smart it almost makes me uncomfortable sometimes...
: Venti: But then, maybe it's right that true friends can tell what the other is thinking.
: Venti: A refreshing drink, a gentle breeze... *sigh* Moments like this always take me back...
: Venti: Back to a song that I first heard from him...
: I'm listening.
:;(Venti recites)
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;(Talk to Venti again)
:(Quietly gazes at Venti): (The green-clad figure is uncharacteristically silent.)
:(Quietly gazes at Venti): (Sometimes even the lissome wind grows heavy in its grief... But not that mortals could ever see a moment oh so brief.)
==Soundtracks==
==Trivia==
* The usual music that plays in the tavern will change for the duration of the quest.
==Gallery==
Story Teaser The Boy and the Whirlwind｜Genshin Impact
==Other Languages==
==Change History==
es:Atrapado en una tierra sin viento (misión)
ja:無風の地に閉じ込められたら (任務)