Chapter 6: Never Isle II

## Script

*Chapter 6*
*Never Isle II*
*Scene - Inside the Arcana Academy*
*Player sees Vundo talking to two guards*
**Vundo**: I really didn't see anything. Are you sure?
**Vundo**: Okay, has anyone entered or left the academy since I left?
**Guard A**: President... we left with you...
**Vundo**: Right... But I thought you came back slightly earlier than I did?
**Guard B**: Yes, but no one entered or left the academy in the meantime...
**Player**: President Vundo, is everything okay?
**Vundo**: Haha, you're here!
**Player**: Yeah, I have come to get the Seal!
**Vundo**: Have you already gotten the other four? That's quick...
**Vundo**: Haha, remember when I said that I would give you the Seal without any tests?
**Vundo**: Let's be clear. I'm not taking my words back, but fate wants to give you a test!
**Player**: Whatever, bring it on...
**Vundo**: So... uh, I actually lost my Seal. Please get it back for me!
**Vundo**: I've been at the academy apart from the time when you saw me. It shouldn't be too hard to find.
**Vundo**: Good luck! I will keep looking in the theater. If you find it, come find me in the theater!
**Player**: Ok, President...
*Let me ask the students and teachers first.*
*There seems to be a male teacher at the hall.*
*Player talks to a history teacher*
**History Teacher**: What? Is the Seal missing?
*Choices start #1*
*Choice 1.1 - What happened when President was away...*
**History Teacher**: The president had been discussing historical developments in class before he left.
**History Teacher**: We were in the office, which was where he put the Seal.
**History Teacher**: But the Seal was stored in the drawer. I'm not sure if it was still there at that time.
**Player**: What changes were you discussing then?
**History Teacher**: Mr. Vundo wanted to teach 'Ka and the Child of God' for the first class, but I insisted that we teach 'Battle of Azria'.
**History Teacher**: We must not forget the past of which we are ashamed of, otherwise, how can we regain our former glory.
**History Teacher**: The first class must not be changed by any means!
*Go back to Choices start #1*
*Choice 1.2 - What does the Seal do...*
**History Teacher**: The Seal serves as an certification of approval for the President.
**History Teacher**: In other words, for anything approved by the President needs to have a Seal on it.
*Go back to Choices start #1*
*Choice 1.3 - What do you think...*
**History Teacher**: There are two possibilities. One is that the Seal was stolen, the other is Mr. Vundo lost it.
**History Teacher**: It's pointless for a teacher or a student to steal it as they would just get found out.
**History Teacher**: Therefore I think it is more likely that he lost it.
**History Teacher**: Mr. Vundo has been very busy recently. Perhaps he put it elsewhere.
*Go back to Choices start #1*
*Choice 1.4 - Nothing, thank you.*
*(Ask other people.)*
*Scene continues after choices*
*Player talks to a suspicious little girl*
**Pink Girl**: Seal? What's that?
**Pink Girl**: Is it as yummy as my lollipop?
*(The Little girl's blinks her large eyes.)*
*Choices start #2*
*Choice 2.1 - Have you seen anyone suspicious?*
**Pink Girl**: Yes!
**Player**: Great, tell me about it please!
**Pink Girl**: It's you!
**Player**: What about other people, excepting me...
**Player**: While President Vundo was away, did anyone walk around near his office?
**Pink Girl**: Yes!
**Pink Girl**: There's that teacher with glasses over there! The one who spoke with you just now!
**Pink Girl**: Oh, and the librarian! I think he wanted to have something Sealed by Big Pipe!
**Pink Girl**: Like what? Building a new library with chocolate, maybe?
**Player**: ('Seal-something', that's got to be the Seal, right?)
**Pink Girl**: Oh, and there's another young man. I think he attends Big Pipe's additional classes every weekend!
**Pink Girl**: So sad for him!
**Player**: Thank you so much. Where's that Male Student you were talking about?
**Pink Girl**: Big Pipe was too busy, so he was sent him to self-study at the library!
*Go back to Choices start #2*
*Choice 2.2 - How can I get to the library?*
**Pink Girl**: See, right behind you!
*Go back to Choices start #2*
*Choice 2.3 - Thank you!*
**Pink Girl**: You're welcome, hehe!
*(Let me ask the librarian first.)*
*(This little girl's got some guts. She refers to the President 'Big Pipe'...)*
*Scene continues after choices*
*Player goes to the library and speaks with the librarian*
**Librarian**: I did ask President Vundo for a Seal. It was before he headed out.
**Librarian**: I'm not lying, he'll testify on my behalf.
*Choices start #3*
*Choice 3.1 - When President was away...*
**Librarian**: When was it...
**Librarian**: It was during class time. All students who were scheduled to go to classes would be in class so...
**Librarian**: So there would be only two types of students could be entering or leaving the academy.
**Librarian**: Either they were skipping class, or they really loved to study and came to self-study even they had no classes scheduled.
**Player**: I don't think the latter type would steal the Seal... right?
*Go back to Choices start #3*
*Choice 3.2 - The motivation to steal the Seal...*
**Librarian**: Right, motivation is the most important impetus here! What can the thief do with the Seal?
**Librarian**: If it's a teacher, he or she can use it on the application for salary raise.
**Librarian**: But he or she would lose the job if others find out! Why would anyone do that?
**Librarian**: If it's a student, he or she can use the Seal to approve the leave application.
**Librarian**: For example, if the student fails a subject and wants to request a review, the review will also need to be stamped and Sealed.
**Librarian**: This is just too risky and easy to be found out. It would be easier to sit for a make-up exam and cheat in it!
**Librarian**: No... I am a teacher too. I can't say that.
**Librarian**: Ah, there's one more possibility. It could be that someone outside the academy needs to have an approval from the academy.
**Librarian**: Even the approval must be stamped too!
**Librarian**: Speaking of it, could it be possible that you did it yourself?
**Librarian**: Oh my... Wait, you had an alibi...
*Go back to Choices start #3*
*Choice 3.3 - What do you think?*
**Librarian**: Let me organize the clues for you!
**Librarian**: After President gave me the Seal today, he spent most of his time in his office until he left.
**Librarian**: So even if it was lost, it could only be in the office somewhere.
**Librarian**: But the office is so small. It won't take much effort to find it.
**Librarian**: So it must have been stolen by someone!
**Librarian**: Oh! Have you heard of the 'Naughty Duo'?
**Player**: Naughty Duo'?
**Librarian**: Yeah, one of them is Kitty. His most obvious features are his cat ears and mechanical cat paws.
**Librarian**: But I think he has no classes today...
**Librarian**: Plus, he is very good at climbing. The roof of our academy is one of his favorite spots!
**Player**: R, roof? That's sick...
**Librarian**: Yeah, so if he wants to skip class, he won't need any Seal at all! He could simply climb over anything in his way!
**Librarian**: Another is Yaen. She's a little girl wearing pink.
**Librarian**: I guess she's the one we are after!
*(The description sounds like the girl from just now!)*
*(Let me ask everyone in the library first before going to her.)*
*Go back to Choices start #3*
*Choice 3.4 - All right, thank you.*
**Librarian**: You're welcome!
*(The boy over there must be the Male Student she talked about!)*
*Scene continues after choices*
*Player interrogates the male student*
**Male Student**: President Vundo's Seal is missing...
*Choices start #4*
*Choice 4.1 - What happened when President was away...*
**Male Student**: There's a teacher in the hall. The older one. He teaches history in the class next door.
**Male Student**: I heard him talking with President Vundo in his office. He was really loud.
**Male Student**: It was like they were arguing.
**Male Student**: Soon after President Vundo left, I saw him come out sneakily.
**Male Student**: I had been staying around the office after that until the guards came back.
**Male Student**: Nobody entered the office during that time.
*Go back to Choices start #4*
*Choice 4.2 - Are you not having any class?*
**Male Student**: I have no class today, but I failed my Intermediate Flux last semester, so President asked me join him for additional classes.
**Male Student**: But when I saw him, he was rushing out, I ended up waiting.
**Male Student**: I stayed a while in the office, but he still wasn't back. So I came out.
**Male Student**: By that time, the guards were already back. They said President Vundo was with a guest.
**Male Student**: But you really don't have to suspect me, because I never applied for a review and hence don't need the Seal.
*Go back to Choices start #4*
*Choice 4.3 - What do you think?*
**Male Student**: It's got to be that history teacher then.
**Male Student**: He must had some disagreements with President Vundo and wanted to see those thoughts through.
**Male Student**: That's why he needed to steal the Seal of Arcana Academy.
*Go back to Choices start #4*
*Choice 4.4 - Thank you.*
*No additional dialog*
*Scene continues after choices*
*Hmm... Let me think. Who stole the Seal?*
*Choices start #5*
*Choice 5.1 - History teacher*
**Player**: Something's not right. Although the teacher wanted to stop the changes in history class...
**Player**: But if he could not persuade President Vundo, stealing the Seal wouldn't help at all.
*Go back to Choices start #5*
*Choice 5.2 - Yaen*
**Player**: How could Yaen know that someone entered the office? She must have... been staying around the office!
**Player**: And nobody else noticed her. She must have been hiding somewhere!
**Player**: She did it because she wanted to steal the Seal, right?
**Player**: We don't have conclusive evidence, but I think we are pretty close!
**Player**: She should be still in the academy somewhere. We need to find her and ask her why!
*Choice 5.3 - Librarian*
**Player**: President Vundo had already given him the Seal. He didn't have to steal it, did he?
**Player**: Also, he needed the Seal to get a pay raise. If he stole it, he would lose his job.
*Go back to Choices start #5*
*Choice 5.4 - Male Student*
**Player**: He might have stayed the longest time near the office, but he had no motive.
**Player**: Even if he stole it, he never put it back or walked away. I really don't understand why he would do so.
*Go back to Choices start #5*
*Choice 5.5 - Nobody*
**Player**: It's unlikely. Based on the information from the librarian, the Seal should have been in the office all along.
**Player**: Now it's gone. It must have been stolen.
*Go back to Choices start #5*
*Scene continues after choices*
*Player goes back to where Yaen was before but only finds a pile of candy*
**Player**: Weird. Where did she go?
**Player**: These candies on the ground... must be dropped by her, right?
**Player**: What a careless girl.
**Player**: Oops! There's more over there!
*Player follows a trail of candies that lead to a dead end*
*No more candies?!*
*Wasted so many!*
*Player goes to pick up the last pile of candies but suddenly gets trapped in a magic circle*
*W...What's happening?*
*My legs...I can't move!*
*Player notices a painting on the wall above him*
*And this painting!*
*Am I getting sucked into it again?!*
*Player is transported in a hall similar to the one in the painting*
**Player**: Is this... a portal array?
**Player**: I never could have thought that painting was a secret passage...
**Player**: She could have entered this passage too.
**Player**: We have no choice but to keep chasing...
*Player continues and spots more candy on the ground*
*As Player goes down to pick the candy up, a pink light shoots straight at him*
*Player manages to dodge at the last second*
*What in the world?*
**Player**: Yaen? Is that you?
*Yaen reveals herself in a puff of smoke*
**Yaen**: Here，I got you more candies!
*Player fights Yaen*
**Yaen**: I don't often see new people here. Have fun with me!
**Player**: How did you become two?!
**Yaen's Illusion**: Double the candies, double the fun!
**Yaen**: And here's my little pet, Buru!
**Buru**: Squeak!
**Player**: Can you give me the Seal first? I will play with you after!
**Yaen**: Let me have some fun first!
*Player defeats Yaen*
**Yaen**: \*Crying\*...
**Yaen**: You shameless villain! How can you bully a young, helpless kid like me!
**Yaen**: \*Crying\*... I'll tell Big Pipe about this...
*Choice 6.1 - Go find him then!*
**Player**: Aren't you afraid that he will know you have stolen his Seal?
**Yaen**: \*Crying\*... You big bully...
**Player**: You better give us the Seal now.
*Choice 6.2 - Give us the Seal!*
**Yaen**: \*Crying\*... Big bully... Don't do this to me!
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Player**: Are you gonna give it to us or not...
**Yaen**: Don't do it... I will return it... But...
**Yaen**: The Seal... is actually not with me...
**Yaen**: I will take you to it, okay?
**Player**: That's more like it.
*Player follows Yaen out of the painting but gets transported somewhere else*
*Scene - Arcana Academy's Arcana Tower*
*A mysterious box emitting shadowy flames sits in the middle of the tower's floor*
*Choice 7.1 - What's this place?*
**Yaen**: It's the Arcana Tower. I'm not exactly sure where...
**Yaen**: But it'll be very fun!
**Yaen**: The Seal is in the box. You can just take it out!
*Choice 7.2 - Where's the Seal?*
**Yaen**: In the box!
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Player**: Why do you put it in such a place?
**Yaen**: I didn't want to put it here either. I wanted to return it after I finished using it...
**Yaen**: But I saw Big Pipe with a little guy inside. I didn't want them to find out, so I left it here...
**Player**: (Little guy... She's got to be talking about Turing. )
**Player**: (Can I really believe in her words...)
**Yaen**: Do you still want the Seal or not!
**Yaen**: Your face looks so funny. Are you scared?
**Yaen**: You finally came here, but still couldn't get the Seal. What a pity!
**Player**: (I must figure out the purpose of the dice and go home! )
**Player**: It's in the box, right? Piece of cake!
*Player opens the box and a shadow monster comes out*
**Player**: W...What's this?
**Yaen**: This is a Seal that has been corrupted and transformed by the Shadow.
**Yaen**: Kill it to bring back its original form!
**Player**: This does not look fun.
*Vundo teleports to the tower*
**Vundo**: Who told you it was okay to open it?!
**Vundo**: Careful! Get behind me!
*Player and Vundo fight the Shadow Demon*
**Player**: President... Is this really a Seal?
**Vundo**: What?
**Vundo**: Yaen, I knew you stole the Seal!
**Vundo**: And you lied to make him open the box that imprisoned the Shadow Demon!
**Player**: ...
**Yaen**: \*Weeping\* so scary!
**Vundo**: I will come for you once I finish dealing with this Shadow Demon!
*Player and Vundo defeat the Shadow Demon*
**Vundo**: The Shadow alert went off and here you are.
**Vundo**: Return the Seal now!
**Yaen**: No! Bwahahah!
**Vundo**: Do you really think you can run away from me?
*Vundo traps Yaen in an arcana prison*
**Vundo**: Why don't you stay here and think about what you've done?
*Yaen dispells the prison with a wave of her lollipop*
**Yaen**: This case is such no use.
**Yaen**: I barely touched it and it broke.
**Vundo**: You...
**Yaen**: Oh well. I guess I'll tell you.
**Yaen**: The Seal is in your drawer where your lace undergarments are. Take a look if you don't believe me.
**Player**: Sir，uh....
**Vundo**: Don't listen to her!
**Vundo**: I'm going to get you today!
**Yaen**: Nope，not gonna happen. See ya!
*Yaen teleports out of the tower*
**Vundo**: Yaen!
**Player**: (But the Seal!)
*Player continues to talk to Vundo*
**Vundo**: This little girl has improved a lot in such a short time...
**Vundo**: She has great potential...
**Vundo**: Wait, no! Someone like her... the greater her power gets, the more dangerous she becomes!
**Vundo**: She even hacked my...
*Choice 8.1 - Arcane?*
**Vundo**: She even hacked my spell!
**Vundo**: She must not be left unattended anymore!
*Choice 8.2 - Secret?*
**Vundo**: Ouch... Don't listen to her!
**Vundo**: This girl! Insufferable!
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Vundo**: I'll... stop her classes! Right! No more classes for her!
**Player**: What about the Seal...
**Vundo**: Well... Just forget about the Seal! I'll give you a pass, okay!
**Vundo**: Anyway, how did you manage to find this place?
*You explained the entire process...*
**Vundo**: Hahaha, I never thought things would turn out like this. God must've sent this little monster to test you!
**Player**: ...
**Vundo**: Did you bring the dice?
**Player**: Ok.
**Vundo**: Come with me then.
*Player follows Vundo out of the tower*
*Continue to Chapter 7*