Luofu Myths: Ghostly Call

Luofu Myths: Ghostly Call is an Adventure Mission from the A Foxian Tale of the Haunted event. It begins after accepting the "I keep getting anonymous calls in the dead of night.." Investigation Assignment in A Foxian Tale of the Haunted: Ghostly Grove.
==Steps==
#Discuss with the ghost-hunting squad about the post looking for help.
#Head to Exalting Sanctum and search for the poster named A-Yue.
#Head to Stargazer Navalia to make the appointment on behalf of A-Yue
#Venture deeper into Stargazer Navalia and look for the person you are meeting.
#Talk to the peculiar Wraith Warden.
#Continue talking to the Wraith Warden to uncover the truth behind the ghostly call.
#Head to Aurum Alley to fulfill the unfinished promise.
#Talk to A-Yue and witness everything.
#Seal the heliobus inside the Suppression Tower.
==Dialogue==
===Discuss with the ghost-hunting squad about the post looking for help===
:Guinaifen: If I get a scary prank while live on stream... it'll definitely be good for the show!
:Sushang: I think this is more like a bad debt or some kind of vengeance!
:Guinaifen: Huohuo, what do you think?
:Huohuo: I'm worried that the heliobi are up to no good, because the details in the post are true — especially the part about deliberately choosing to call in the middle of the night.
:Huohuo: As far as I know, some heliobi can be really crafty and deliberately choose to ambush victims when they're completely off-guard!
:Guinaifen: Sounds pretty dangerous. But... can heliobi use jade abaci or phones?
:Huohuo: Heliobi can't use jade abaci directly, unless... unless they take possession of a victim... Darn it!
: Better go take a look.
::Huohuo: Mmm-hmm, best to get to the bottom of it. I think there may be more than one victim here...
: We can split up to cover more ground.
::Guinaifen: There's more than enough of us to split into two groups.
::Huohuo: Yeah. If we split up, we can task one group with tracing this call to its source.
:Guinaifen: Let's split up. We'll meet up with the thread's OP; Huohuo, you can go investigate the source of the "scary call."
:Huohuo: Okay, I'll go to the Realm-Keeping Commission and ask around.
===Head to Exalting Sanctum and search for the poster named A-Yue===
;(Talking to A-Yue)
:A-Yue: I knew it was you. You're that streamer!
: Are you "A-Yue_StraightAs"?
::A-Yue: Yeah, you can just call me A-Yue, though.
: Little Gui, would you authenticate the ID again?
::Guinaifen: Please call me Guinaifen when we're out, ahem.
:Guinaifen: Miss A-Yue, can you please tell us what's going on? 
:A-Yue: Late every night, my jade abacus will get anonymous calls. I bravely answer them, and this person tells me I have to meet them, as they have something they want to tell me.
:A-Yue: When they call back later, the voice grows really weird as though it weren't human, asking me why I haven't yet come or suddenly brawling out in misery to the point that I'm almost carried off.
: Have you offended anyone?
::A-Yue: Of course not. I never really go out. How could I make any enemies?
: Do you remember what address they said?
::A-Yue: I do. I record everything in my jade abacus.
:A-Yue: I planned on going but there was nobody at the harbor and I got this feeling, which made my hair stand on end, so I didn't venture out. But I can't control my cursed curiosity... and so I want to ask you to help me go and keep this appointment. 
:A-Yue: I'll send you the coordinates. Please help meet that guy for me, please.
===Head to Stargazer Navalia to make the appointment on behalf of A-Yue===
;(Approach marked location)
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===Venture deeper into Stargazer Navalia and look for the person you are meeting===
;(Approach marked location)
:Sushang: Judging by the coordinates, it's right here...
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:Guinaifen: Huohuo? Watch out!
;(Begin battle against , )
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;(After the battle)
:Guinaifen: Huohuo, what are you doing here?
:Sushang: Oh yeah, shouldn't we have split up?
:Huohuo: I just got back from the Realm-Keeping Commission, where the clerk helped me retrieve call logs from my jade abacus. The data shows the source of the call was here.
:Huohuo: I'm very sorry but Tail isn't here. I... I... I've made trouble for everyone. 
:Guinaifen: We're friends. So don't even sweat it. 
:Sushang: Yeah, so long as you're fine, that's all that matters.
: Excuse me. Have you forgotten about something...?
: Who's that guy?
:Huohuo: ...It's the one who made that scary prank call. The jade abacus tracking display is right on top of it. 
:Guinaifen: But... can the mara-struck actually use jade abaci? 
: That's a question we'll have to ask of the "involved party". 
: Let's chat with it first.
:Sushang: I'll stand guard and make sure it doesn't attack.
===Talk to the peculiar Wraith Warden===
;(Talk to the Bizarre Wraith Warden)
:Bizarre Wraith Warden: ...Quick, help me out. 
:Bizarre Wraith Warden: Taking out such a vicious creature means you're all outstandingly capable. Please, won't you be good to the very end and let me possess you for a few days? 
:Huohuo: ...This stench seems familiar... Why, you're a heliobus!
:Worried Heliobus: Huh? So you can tell. Fine, no use pretending anymore.
:Worried Heliobus: Just my luck — I find a host body and it turns out to be a stark raving lunatic. I can't take this! Can you please do me a solid here and let me out so I can borrow another body for a couple of days?
: How can you even say this?
::Worried Heliobus: Is there a problem?
: I might as well just lend you my life.
::Worried Heliobus: The nerve... I'd just be temporarily borrowing it for a couple of days, using your body to eat and drink and rest a bit. It's no big deal. 
:Guinaifen: Wait up. Please clear up for me what all that midnight ruckus was about before. You're not going anywhere until you do.
:Worried Heliobus: Fine! Didn't I already tell you? Besides, there's absolutely no way I can escape right now. I wasn't the one who did all that violent stuff. She's incredibly insane and outside my control. 
:Worried Heliobus: As for that "midnight ruckus," that was when I'd finally managed to wrest back control. 
:Worried Heliobus: Well, she had a jade abacus on her with an emergency contract in it, so I kept trying to call them. I don't need to tell you what happened next.
:Worried Heliobus: Alright, I've finished explaining everything to you. Now are you going to help me or not!
:Huohuo: I've got a way to get you out, but... I can't let you borrow me. You'll have to go to prison and wait a while.
:Worried Heliobus: That's great. That's great... Everything is going to be great, so long as I can get out of this meat-suit and I'm not stuck together with maniac...
:Huohuo: Well, come on out then. 
:The Wraith Warden belts out a strained roar. You and your companions watch on for ages, but nothing happens.
:Worried Heliobus: That's... the best I can do! I can't get out of this body, no matter what I try...
:Worried Heliobus: There's this thought stuck in this girl's head. She doesn't let it go no matter what, and it's binding us together tightly. 
:Huohuo: The mara-struck's... lingering obsession?
: Could it be... their emergency contact? 
:Bizarre Wraith Warden: Aghhhh...!
:Worried Heliobus: Ahem ahem, that wasn't me just then. Hope I didn't scare you. Just then, I managed to read the last remaining thought stuck in this girl's head. Hooboy, I know what she wants now. 
:Worried Heliobus: She wants to see the emergency contact in her jade abacus one last time to say one final goodbye.
:Huohuo: To say goodbye to a friend?
:Huohuo: But... that's not to mention whether or not her friend wants to meet up with the mara-struck. She doesn't want her friend to see her like this, right? 
:Worried Heliobus: This is a problem that's easily taken care of. If you just let me out of her body... I'll definitely help grant her wish. 
: I get it...
: We'll let her rest in peace.
;(Begin battle against , )
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;(After the battle)
:Worried Heliobus: Oh yeah, finally free! Trapping me inside herself like that... what an incredibly powerful obsession. 
:Worried Heliobus: I will grant her final wish out of respect for such formidable power.
:Worried Heliobus: C'mon, let's go and see who it is she's so infatuated with.
:Worried Heliobus: Don't worry. I'll just change into her appearance first!
===Continue talking to the Wraith Warden to uncover the truth behind the ghostly call===
;(Talking to the "Wraith Warden")
:"Wraith Warden": Good. That's how I remember it. 
: ...And you are?
::"Wraith Warden": What's up with you? We were just chatting. I'm Singerd — the heliobus you were just talking with.
: Watch your phrasing! And don't blow your cover.
::"Wraith Warden": Don't worry!
:"Wraith Warden": C'mon, let's get moving!
===Talk to A-Yue and witness everything===
;(Talking to A-Yue)
:A-Yue: I'm about to go back right now... It's you... After all these years, you're finally thinking of coming back? 
:"Wraith Warden": It's me. I'm back.
:A-Yue: ...I thought you avoided me because you hated me.
:"Wraith Warden": How could I? If it weren't for you scolding me then, maybe I'd still be an insufferable wretch now. 
:A-Yue: ...I shouldn't have been so mean to you before. And I shouldn't have signed you up without asking first... All I was thinking about then was sending you off, and that's why I did something so stupid.
:"Wraith Warden": Let the past be the past. Don't take it to heart. And I'm far too late showing my gratitude — without you, I'd definitely still be discombobulated.
:"Wraith Warden": I'm sorry about that call. My jade abacus got broken and everything was static. Good thing I'm seeing you now, then. It's getting late, and you should go home. It's no good hanging around outside when it's this late.
:A-Yue: But how long were we chatting for? ...So what about you? Don't you want to go home and take a look around?
:"Wraith Warden": No, I've got something important on with the Ten-Lords Commission. I come to tell you I'm safe... and I should probably go back now.
:A-Yue: Always take care whenever you leave the house. ...You're running errands now for the Ten Lords. Things are different now, and I can't help you out with anything.
:"Wraith Warden": Alright.
: You notice that A-Yue seems anxious as her fingers fidget nervously at the hem of her blouse.
:A-Yue: How have you been?
:"Wraith Warden": Pretty good.
:A-Yue: Oh.
:A-Yue: ...
:A-Yue: ...Anything else you'd like to say to me?
:"Wraith Warden": ...
:"Wraith Warden": Um... Nothing.
:"Wraith Warden": ...Take care, A-Yue.
:A-Yue: ...You too, little sister.
:Sushang: Huh?
:Guinaifen: Huh?
:Huohuo: Little sister?!
: A-Yue maintains a solemn, silent expression as the air around her seems to freeze.
: After a while, she takes a deep breath to finally break this most awkward of silences.
:A-Yue: I've been fine. You don't have to worry.
:A-Yue: ...You can go... with your mind at ease.
: As she says this, she lets out a deep sigh of relief and you notice the rims of her eyes becoming red.
:You watch A-Yue as she leaves until she's lost to the night, before letting out your own sigh of relief.
:Worried Heliobus: It's finally over. Now it's time for us to part ways. Goodbye, all!
:Huohuo: Where do you think you're going? Didn't you promise that you'd do anything so long as we helped you get out of there? Heliobi really are tricky!
:Huohuo: Get into the gourd now!
:Huohuo: This one's slippery. Better get back to the Fyxestroll Garden. I won't be able to relax until it's subdued there...
===Seal the heliobus inside the Suppression Tower===
:Expel evil and capture stray spirits... With the support of the Ten Lords Commission's spiritfarers, you seal the heliobi within the Lunaumbra Gourd,
:Guinaifen: Even though it was all just a mistake, something still somehow felt wrong.
:Sushang: Those sisters are hard to understand. It's like the Cloud Knights and their passphrases.
:Huohuo: She's already mara-struck, but she still managed to hang in there all because of her big sister... No wonder the heliobus possessed her.
:Huohuo: It's a pity... To have lost touch with your own little sister for years... But when you meet again, it all plays out just like this.
:Guinaifen: A-Yue, do you think she... already knows?
:Sushang: Knows what?
:Guinaifen: I mean, knows that her sister's already passed away? Seeing her final expression, it felt like she knew.
:Huohuo: I think so, too...
: She was crying at the end, right?
: That last line of hers was a clear indication. 
:Sushang: What a careful observation! There's absolutely no way I could've noticed that detail!
:Guinaifen: Yeah. Seeing how she was, she would probably need to go back and digest things for a while.
:Huohuo: It feels like those two have quite a few... stories between them.
:Guinaifen: But if the people involved aren't willing to say, then we can't just make rash inquiries into their personal affairs.
:Guinaifen: Ah, forgot it. This "midnight terror" or whatever is now resolved. The two of them meeting up again is like some kind of reunion.
:Guinaifen: Based on official processes, something should get sent now that an assignment has been completed... I thank you for your efforts, (Trailblazer).
;(Opens A Foxian Tale of the Haunted: Ghostly Grove)
: BREAKING NEWS
::OMG! I tried livestreaming my ghost encounter and the results were insane!
: Mythopedia
::A Ghost Meetup? Here's what happened...
: Hottest Scoops
::"Ghost Call" recording received! We're on it
:Guinaifen: Great job! That's all for today. Head home early, everyone. See you all later!
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;(Mission completed)
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