Calm Before the Storm/Plot Details

===Cutscenes===
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===Game Script===
Calm Before the Storm - Misareaux Coast
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Cherukiki: Thieving burglar!
Kukki-Chebukki: Burgling robber!
Makki-Chebukki: Robbing thief!
Cherukiki: This is our precious hideout!
Kukki-Chebukki: Where we keep our precious treasure!
Makki-Chebukki: I bet you stole our precious Ducal Guard's ring, too!
Cherukiki: Give it back!
Makki-Chebukki: Give it back!
Kukki-Chebukki: Give it back!
Tenzen: Lord/Lady Player name? 
What brings you to this place?
Tenzen: Master Cid wishes to analyze that box to aid in the repair of the airship engine?
Tenzen: My small masters, it seems this vessel is essential for the success of our mission. 
I beseech you to surrender the box to Lord/Lady Player name.
Tenzen: We must take to the heavens without delay if we are to save the fifth mothercrystal.
Cherukiki: Lord Tenzen...
Kukki-Chebukki: We are moved by your speech...
Makki-Chebukki: And find no choice but to act as you beseech.
Tenzen: I am most glad to hear that, but please, you need not call me "Lord"...
Tenzen: Lord/Lady Player name, I leave the vessel in your capable hands. 
See that it finds its way to Master Cid.
Tenzen: I regret that I cannot accompany you, but I must return with these three.
Makki-Chebukki: You just keep in mind that eventually...
Kukki-Chebukki: We'll get you...
Cherukiki: And your little moogle, too!
Calm Before the Storm (pt.1) - Metalworks
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Cid: Welcome back, Player name! 
So this is the box that everyone's been talking about.
Cid: Tenzen was there to lend you a hand? Well, thank Altana for small blessings!
Cid: I'll get straight to work analyzing this thing!
Cid: Whoops, I almost forgot. I still need you to bring back Louverance from Carpenters' Landing, and Shikaree Z from Bibiki Bay.
Cid: The Celestial Invincible Delver C.I.D. is depending on you!
Calm Before the Storm - Carpenters' Landing
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Louverance: Have you come with a message from him? 
I hear the matter is urgent...
:How do you respond?
::Yes, I have a message. <----- Chose this option!
::I have no message for you.
Louverance: What's this you say? 
A "Master Cid" requests my presence? 
That name sounds somewhat familiar...
:How do you respond?
::Yes, I have a message.
::I have no message for you. <----- Chose this option!
Louverance: What's this you say? 
You came to request my presence?
Louverance: One moment, sir/madame. 
I do believe you are mistaking me for...him.
Guilloud: Sir Louverance! 
It's a trap!
Guilloud: That honorless count set this trap to take your life, young sir!
Louverance: Explain this treachery!
Guilloud: I heard word that those vicious Tonberries had been released under the pretense of dealing with an interloping brigand.
Guilloud: They described the bandit as a male Elvaan wearing a mask and bright brigandine armor.
Louverance: ...
Louverance: Once a thief, always a thief. 
It seems he is not content with stealing just my name!
Guilloud: Sir Louverance?
Louverance: If you meet this man, give him a message: 
If you would call yourself a knight, then you must seek a just cause to champion!
Louverance: Farewell!
Louverance: Lord/Lady Player name... 
I must apologize. It appears you have defeated the Tonberries meant for my demise.
Louverance: You are a most resourceful ally. 
I will be sure to return the favor in the future.
Louverance: You say that Master Cid requires my presence in Bastok? 
I must say, gathering lumber was never my most cherished activity in any case.
Louverance: At last, we journey to the celestial capital of Al'Taieu. 
Our confrontation with the Keeper of the Apocalypse is at hand.
Louverance: Let us finish this battle forthwith. 
If I am to follow the path of the knight, I must see justice done as a true knight should.
Louverance: And there is no higher cause than saving the would from destruction... 
Wouldn't you agree, Louverance Mistalle?
Calm Before the Storm - Bibiki Bay
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Shikaree Z: You dispatched that creature for me? 
Not what you expected to find, I'd imagine.
Shikaree Z: It slithered up while I was looking for ore, but I let it get away from me.
Shikaree Z: I'm not physiologically predisposed to dealing with squishy, slimy things like that. 
I'm glad you came along...
Shikaree Z: Hm? 
Cid has called us back from material hunting?
Shikaree Z: So, the battle with the Keeper of the Apocalypse is nigh.
Shikaree Z: No mention is made of the Twilight God in Mithran legend.
Shikaree Z: Is our enemy so dreadful that his name was withheld from the history books? 
Or is it because...?
Shikaree Y: Well, well! 
You sound defeated before you've even begun, kittenpie.
Shikaree X: Yeah, buck up, Sis! 
I've been honing my skills to perrrfection. 
With the thrrree of us together, the keeper won't stand a chance!
Shikaree Z: Shikaree Y. Shikaree X.
Shikaree Z: I can't allow you to accompany me.
Shikaree X: Huh!?
Shikaree Y: What do you mean, sugar?
Shikaree Z: We traveled to this continent with three distinct objectives:
Shikaree Z: The subduing of the wyrms that threaten the world with destruction; to learn more of the sleeping gods--they who hold the power to obliterate the Emptiness; to discover the location of Mildaurion--she who knows the method for waking those deities.
Shikaree Z: But I have learned this on our journey:
Shikaree Z: All paths lead to the Keeper of the Apocalypse. 
All sins can be placed at the feet of Promathia.
Shikaree Z: The Twilight God. 
The deity responsible for thrusting the world into conflict.
Shikaree Z: If conflict can be defined as fighting, then we sin hunters understand the meaning of this curse better than anyone.
Shikaree Z: The reason we fight... 
For faith, justice, courage, hope...
For that irreplaceable quality which defines our existence...
Shikaree Y: That would be...
Shikaree X: You can't mean...
Shikaree Z: The sin of Promathia may have been to make us what we are. 
And so the act of judging that sin would be a crime unto itself.
Shikaree Z: I must make certain of this matter. 
I have long considered the possibility among this companionship, and so might survive the consequences if it turns out to be true.
Shikaree Z: You are not to take up the burden of my agony. 
Your duty is to protect the homeland. 
Never forget that.
Shikaree Z: Continue on your mission. 
I leave the matter of the wyrms and the sleeping gods to you.
Shikaree Y: ...
Shikaree Y: You never change, Sister dear. 
Always taking the sweetest parrrts for yourself...
Shikaree X: Sis! 
Make sure you come back to us! 
Until the day I surpass your skill, you're the image I strrrive for!
Shikaree Z: Good hunting.
Shikaree Z: Now, Player name. 
There is one thing I'd like you to know.
Shikaree Z: My rrreal name is Mhag.
Shikaree Z: Remember that for when I die not as a sin hunter, but as a simple Mithran woman.
Shikaree Z: I'll meet you back in Cid's laboratory.
Calm Before the Storm (pt.2) - Metalworks
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Cid: This...this is astounding! 
This is a working example of the ancients' theories...
Cid: Hm? 
You've been to see Louverance and Shikaree Z? 
I knew I could count on you, Player name!
Cid: Now I can concentrate fully on my analysis...
Prishe: Whoah! 
Old Cid's brain has gone into overdrive. 
All those numbers are making me dizzy!
Prishe: Looks like the crystal thingamabob will be back in working order in no time!
Ulmia: One other thing, Player name...
Ulmia: Prishe and I have used the time granted to us by Altana's grace to compose these letters.
Ulmia: There is one addressed to Granpere, one for the Tavnazian patrol, and one for all the citizens of the safehold.
Ulmia: I hesitate to ask after all you have done, but would you deliver these letters to Sueleen in the Sealion's Den?
Prishe: I tried to convince her she was wastin' her time with these sappy messages, but you know how Ulmia gets.
Prishe: Tell Sueleen to hand out the letters if we don't make it back. She can be trusted to do as we ask.
Prishe: Thanks a bunch, Player name!
Calm Before the Storm - Sealion's Den
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Sueleen: You were asked to deliver all these letters from Ulmia and Prishe?
Sueleen: And I'm supposed to hand them out if those two fail to return...?
Sueleen: Where on Vana'diel are they thinking of going? 
You're not seriously thinking of taking on the wyrms...!?
Justinius: Sueleen, look sharp! 
An airship is entering the port!
Tressia: There's a whole lot more of them circling above. 
What the hell's going on?
Justinius: That ship...
Prishe: Hey, Player name! 
Check it out! That old man Cid's a genius!
Prishe: The airship's been rebuilt shinier than Despachiaire's bald spot. 
Hell, with the autopilot Cid installed, it's even better than before!
Prishe: We even got an escort from the Jeuno Armada! 
C'mon, let's get this baby back in the air!
Justinius: Where are you off to this time, Prishe?
Prishe: Heh heh! 
We're bound for the fifth mothercrystal and beyond! 
Next stop: the legendary city of Al'Taieu!
Prishe: The place where ten thousand years of history began.
Justinius: To where...!? 
You better make it back here alive, Prishe!
Prishe: No sweat! 
I'll be back making trouble before you know it. 
Let's go, Player name!
Prishe: The new and improved Celestial Invincible Delver C.I.D. is ready for takeoff!