A Fallen City/Old Sirocco Dialogue

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## Dialogue

(#0) **Evangeline Vallier**: Well, well, another snake for the pit! Hmm...Wait, you don’t look familiar... (→ #1)

(#1) **Josef Dumas**: Stand down, Evangeline. This one’s clearly not one of the Nobles. (→ #2)

(#2) **Dorion Dumas**: Ah! A visitor? Apologies, my friend, you haven’t exactly come at the best of times... (→ #3)

(#3) **Multiple-choice**:

* **0**: Don’t tell me that was your city’s leadership you just dropped into the magma...? (→ #4)
* **1**: I’m going to assume Sirocco is...Under new management? (→ #4)

(#4) **Evangeline Vallier**: That’s right. We put an end to the tyranny of the Nobility and gave them exactly what they deserved! (→ #5)

(#5) **Dorion Dumas**: I would not put it so crassly. When the city collapsed, tensions that had been simmering for years finally boiled over. We were driven to violence as the utmost final resort. (→ #6)

(#6) **Evangeline Vallier**: You’re leaving out the bit where the Chamberlord had the lower districts sealed off. If it wasn’t for your smuggler’s tunnel, and the merchants finally taking our side, the magma would have taken us all. I’d argue that the nobles attacked first! (→ #7)

(#7) **Josef Dumas**: \*Sigh\* There was no controlling or distracting the angry mob this time. The people wanted blood, and they got it. I don’t like the rampant bloodshed, but... There was no preventing it. Not after nearly half the city lost their lives to the collapse. (→ #8)

(#8) **Evangeline Vallier**: Honestly, this was a long time coming. We warned them for YEARS that the city was going to collapse! They had plenty of opportunity to prepare. Or at least they could have chosen to NOT prevent us from taking action ourselves! (→ #9)

(#9) **Multiple-choice**:

* **0**: Well, I’m supposed to negotiate with the leaders of Sirocco. I guess that’s you, now. (→ #10)
* **1**: Nothing could have justified this slaughter! No one has the right to do this! (→ #25)

(#10) **Dorion Dumas**: Negotiate? On whose behalf, traveller? (→ #11)

(#11) **Multiple-choice**:

* **0**: I’m here on behalf of the other tribes of Blue Chamber Collective. We’re sending wagons of food as we speak. (→ #12)
* **1**: Your ally, the Heroic Kingdom, offers food and building supplies. Wagons full of them. (→ #12)
* **2**: I represent the city of Monsoon. We have food and supplies on route here, courtesy of...Ugh, Chamberlord Damian Lockwell. (→ #12)
* **3**: Where’s there’s a crisis, Sorobor Academy is there to help! We have wagons of food on their way here! (→ #12)

(#12) **Dorion Dumas**: Wagons of food, you say...Let me see that letter! (→ #13)

(#13) **Dorion Dumas**: Hmph...I see. The food and initial resources is conditional on accepting [PlayerName] as overseer of the new settlement, at least during the initial construction. To “ensure a stable and smooth transition”. (→ #14)

(#14) **Evangeline Vallier**: Scourge take you, we didn't just cast off our chains to wear a new set! (→ #15)

(#15) **Dorion Dumas**: Evangeline, enough! Without that food, our people will starve. We must find some arrangement that all of us can at least tolerate. (→ #16)

(#16) **Josef Dumas**: Besides, we NEED legitimacy among the other tribes. I did not lend my support to this revolution just to end up becoming a bandit again! (→ #17)

(#17) **Evangeline Vallier**: \*sigh\* Fine. You’re twisting my arm, but fine. I won’t make a fuss. Your supplies had better be real, visitor. (→ #18)

(#18) **Multiple-choice**:

* **0**: So, what’s the state of the city? Can it be saved? (→ #19)

(#19) **Dorion Dumas**: The city’s a lost cause, [PlayerName]. It’s collapsing into a magma fissure. More than half of it has already been submerged or broken apart by the seismic shift. We need to seek refuge somewhere else entirely. (→ #20)

(#20) **Josef Dumas**: With that promise of an initial batch of resources, though...We could rebuild in this region. It would be difficult, but we wouldn’t have to beg for scraps in another city. All we need is a place stable enough to start working. (→ #21)

(#21) **Dorion Dumas**: I was hoping we could pressure Monsoon to give us back some of the land that the Nobles sold to them...But we can’t move all of our people there in the state we’re in. I agree, we’ll have to rebuild here in the Caldera. (→ #22)

(#22) **Evangeline Vallier**: I suggest the old Stone Quarry. It’s far enough from the Eldest Brother that it should be safe from further seismic shifts, and we’d have ready access to stone for construction. (→ #23)

(#23) **Dorion Dumas**: I concur. It’s the safest option we have. I’d still prefer we left the region entirely but...We can’t start over from nothing so far away. The old quarry it is. (→ #24)

(#24) **Dorion Dumas**: It’s in the South East of the Caldera, [PlayerName]. Look for a large stone gate, past a natural rock bridge that passes a little to the east of the huge Chalcedony crystals. Go ahead, we’ll meet you there with the rest of the survivors! (→ end)

(#25) **Josef Dumas**: We warned them. Time and again we warned them about the city’s collapse. Time and again we did whatever we could to get them to move to a new settlement, or at least reinforce the foundations... (→ #26)

(#26) **Dorion Dumas**: They refused to consider action until it was far too late. And when the collapse was clearly imminent, they barricaded the doors to the lower districts, fearing what would happen if we came pouring into their upper districts... (→ #27)

(#27) **Dorion Dumas**: If it weren’t for that smuggler’s tunnel I maintained, and the merchants finally being sympathetic enough to help us... Most of us would have been swallowed by the rising magma. (→ #28)

(#28) **Evangeline Vallier**: What were we supposed to do? Let the nobles kill us? Should we have allowed them to keep their power after they tried to kill us? At what point are we ALLOWED to defend our lives, oh “righteous and moral” outsider?! (→ #29)

(#29) **Dorion Dumas**: Revolution is justified by the consent of the people. When those with power no longer have our consent to rule us, and they keep hold of their power with violence...It is only natural to defend ourselves as we did. (→ #30)

(#30) **Evangeline Vallier**: So help me, outsider, one more ignorant statement from those lips, and I’ll feed you to the magma like the other snakes! (→ #31)

(#31) **Multiple-choice**:

* **0**: Fine, I guess you don't want the wagons full of food that we're sending your way. (→ #12)