Windurst Mission 9-1

Game Script

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Doll of the Dead - Windurst Woods, Manustery
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(Music: Vana'diel March) Apururu: Ah, <Adventurer's Name> - my dear brother has finally woken from his coma! He's right here. Please come with me! Ajido-Marujido walks into the Manustery. Ajido-Marujido: <Adventurer's Name>, we have some serious-werious problems! Thanks to you, I was able to see all that was written in the Book of the Gods. We must act before Windurst is wiped off the face of Vana'diel... (Music: Buccaneers) Semih Lafihna runs inside of the Manustery. Semih Lafihna: After I found you missing from the Dark Dungeon, I knew I'd find you here, Ajido-Marujido! Apururu looks shocked and alarmed, but her brother remains calm. Apururu: Semih Lafihna!? Ajido-Marujido: Great galloping gigas, I just can't get away from you... Semih Lafihna: I'm not here to arrest you this time. You must come with me to Heavens Tower immediately! The bearer of the darkness has returned! Ajido-Marujido: The bearer of the darkness!? What of the Star Sibyl?! Semih Lafihn: We don't know. We haven't been able to open the door to her chambers. But with your magic, we should be able to get in... Semih and Ajido-Marujido run out of the Manustery to the Star Sibyl's chambers.	This article is missing a video of the battle, mission, or quest. You can help by adding it.
Doll of the Dead - Heavens Tower, Entrance
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Doll of the Dead - Heavens Tower, Star Sybil's Chamber
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Doll of the Dead - Windurst Woods, Manustery
Apururu: Goddess! Are you certain? Ajido-Marujido has received a pardon from the Star Sibyl!? And permission to enter Karaha-Baruha's Animastery... No matter how many times I hear it, I just can'taru believe it...! Yoran-Oran walks into the Manustery. Apururu walks up to greet him. Yoran-Oran: Apururu. I know you have-ethy a lot on your mind with Ajido-Marujido and all, but I wonder if I might have a moment-ethy? Apururu: Doctor Yoran-Oran! Yoran-Oran: Ahem. I was given this letter by an adventurer. Apparently it was dropped-ethy by a mandragora inside the Boyahda Tree... (Music: Anxiety) Apururu takes the letter and looks over it. Apururu: ...? Wait, this handwriting...!? Yoran-Oran: I see you recognize-ethy the author. He's being held-ethy prisoner somewhere in the Boyahda Tree, and needs help to escape. But I figure-ethy, considering who... I figure-ethy I should leave that mattaru up to you and your brother. So much has passed-ethy between you siblings and the author of that letter. I'll justaru pretend-ethy that I never saw it. Well, I've taken up enough-ethy of your time. Keep your chin up, little Apururu. Yoran-Oran quietly leaves the Manustery. Apururu bows her head in grief. Apururu: What should I do...? I can't think straightaru. All this time I thought he had died. Goddess above! My father, alive! I don't know what to do. What should I do adventurer? What to do? We must save him! Leave him to rot! <---- Chose this option Apururu: I almostaru wish I could but... (or) What to do? We must save him! <---- Chose this option Leave him to rot! Apururu: Usually, that would be my firstaru thought, but... Apururu: Could I ask you to help me? I want to go to the Boyahda Tree and find my father, Zonpa-Zippa. And when you do find him, if...if he really is alive, I have some questions I want you to ask him. Why did the Cardians rise up against him? Who is this Cardian they have chosen for king? Help Apururu? Leave it to me! Leave him to rot! <---- Chose this option Apururu: I'm beggin you. I have no desire to see my father again. I don'taru want to end up hating him even more than I do now. She asks you again. Help Apururu? Leave it to me! <---- Chose this option Leave him to rot! Apururu: <Adventurer's Name>, thank you for being so understanding! Ah, one more thing. Please don't tell any of this to my brother. I wouldn't want news of our father to interfere with his importantaru research.	This article is missing a video of the battle, mission, or quest. You can help by adding it.
Doll of the Dead - Windurst Walls, Yoran-Oran
Yoran-Oran: I'm worried-ethy about Miss Apururu. I wish I had time to listen-ethy to her woes, but this thesis I'm writing takes up all my waking hours... Yoran-Oran: It concerns the research-ethy I'm doing on the mandragora that you adventurers have been helping-ethy me with. I've reached the point-ethy where I'm almost ready to publish-ethy my findings. Yoran-Oran: Let me tell you something I've discovered in my research. It appears that the Mandragora derive nourishment-ethy from jugs of humus. Yoran-Oran: They also have a great-ethy love for clumps of goobbue humus, but I have no idea where you might find one.	This article is missing a video of the battle, mission, or quest. You can help by adding it.
Doll of the Dead - Boyahda Tree Prison
Mandragora Warden: ...Pi! (Music: Hopelessness) Zonpa-Zippa: ...!? And who might you be? You were wondering the same about me? Well then, allow me to introduce myself. I am the illustrious-wustrious Zonpa-Zippa, Minister of the Manustery, and respected academic of the magical city of Windurst. I am the eminentaru, brilliantaru, and might I add, quite dashingly handsome Tarutaru responsible for Windurst's great victory twenty years ago. Zonpa-Zippa:You mightaru well ask what an unparalleled paragon of perfection such as myself would be doing in a place like this. During the confusion of the Great War, I was abductarued by the Cardians, magical constructs of war, and brought to this place. I have been kept prisoner here ever since. Do not make any hasty-wasty assumptions! I have merely been playing the roll of detainee in order to take advantage of the situation for research purposes. Zonpa-Zippa: ...I do wonder, however, how my poor Windurst fares without her favorite minister. If indeed you have come to rescue me, perhaps there is something I can do to help you...? You explain Apururu's request and letter Zonpa-Zippa: ...Hrmm, is that so? You've come at the behest of my little Apururu, have you? I mustaru say I'm surprised that my daughter has ascended to the head of the Manustery. But are the Cardians contentaru to follow her orders? My daughter has a habitaru of instilling too much individuality into them. The Cardians were created to perform tasks that are too physically strenuous or dangerous for Tarutaru. If they are given too much knowledge, they become muddle-wuddled and confused. The black and white world of what they should and shouldn't do becomes stained with shades of gray. Abducting their creator, me, the great Zonpa-Zippa, and dumping me in this outlands jail is simply unforgivable! Zonpa-Zippa: ...... It seems I've drifted off the pointaru slightly. You said you had some questions for me from Apururu? Ask anything you like. Let me remind you that I, the renowned Zonpa-Zippa, am the genius who gave Windurst the awesome-warsome power of the Cardians. The question does not exist that I cannot answer! You ask him why the Cardians rose up against him. (Music: Anxiety) Zonpa-Zippa: That was my one and only grand-slam mistake! Instilled in the Cardians is an absolute duty to their "master." If I had justaru set them to obey only myself as their master, none of this would have happened. However, it became necessary for me to create a Cardian army. Within that army, the lesser Cardians needed to heed the orders of their higher-numbered counterparts. And so, with the higher ranked Cardians acting as "masters" for the rank-and-file, I set myself, the splendiferous Zonpa-Zippa, as commander for the Ace Cardians. But it was that very system that invited the disater-waster that occured. You ask him what he knows about Joker. Zonpa-Zippa: Joker!? Now there's a name I haven'taru heard in a while... It's been what, twenty years? Joker was a creation of the Optistery Minister, Karaha-Baruha. Flashback to the Manustery, where Zonpa-Zippa and Karaha-Baruha meet. Zonpa-Zippa: Twenty years ago, Karaha-Baruha was conducting research in the magic towers of the Horutoto Ruins. One day he came to me, the magnificent Zonpa-Zippa, to request several powerful, intelligent Cardians to aid in the construction of a super-special magical gizmo. In response to his request, I reprogrammed the Ace Cardians to treat Karaha-Baruha as their master. Karaha-Baruha proceeded to build his "Joker" using the Ace Cardians as a template to steal my design. Once his work was completarued, he ordered the Ace Cardians to follow his creation as their new master, and set Joker with the task of running the magical gizmos of the towers! End of flashback Zonpa-Zippa: However, the Great War claimed Karaha-Baruha's life... And with the death of its creator, Joker, too, passed into oblivion... With the passing of a creator, the magic weaved into a doll becomes unraveled, and the Cardian follows its master into death. But for the Ace Cardians, Joker's death presented them with a situation they'd never-ever had to deal with before: existence without a master. The Aces eventually decided that if they could somehow bring Joker back to life, then their dilemma would be solved. Those presumptuous puppets are so convinced their destiny lies in resurrecting Joker, they had the nerve to lock me, the amazing Zonpa-Zippa, in a place like this. You ask him if he is aware that Joker is alive. Zonpa-Zippa: Great blazing behemoths! Are you telling me the Cardians have already found where Joker lay hidden!? I thoughtaru something was up when they stopped coming by to check on me... Wait, wait, wait. Even if they had found Joker, no amountaru of the usual, garden-variety Mana Orbs would have been enough to revive him. Who...? How...? Zonpa-Zippa: (Surely not... When the Yagudo stole...?) Ahem. Well, in any event, the revival of a dead Cardian will mean things have become interesting indeed! You ask him what he means by "interesting." Zonpa-Zippa: ...... Right, then. I'm only going to say this once, so make sure that melon you have on your shoulders is switched on. There is an unbreakable law that accompanies the art of imbuing an inanimate object with life and will--the death of the creator will result in the loss of the objects' animating force. And in accordance with that law... The deceased object must never be brought back to life. This act will call the creator back from Death's dark hall. The conclusion is obvious, isn't it? When Joker was resurrectarued, Karaha-Baruha was also dragged back into the world of the living. You ask about the forbidden ritual of the Manustery Zonpa-Zippa: Hrmm. In layman's terms, the forbidden ritual of the Manustery is referred to as the "Legend of the Magic Doll." The long-ago tale of a mage plunging Windurst into catastra-disastrophe by using the ritual that is still famous today. However, this now-forbidden magic was originally inventarued for the protection of Windurst. The tale I just mentioned was simply an example of abusing the power the ritual brings. There is still the story of how the original weaver of this art returned from the dead to defend Windurst after his magic doll was resurrected... Of course, this magic is not a recipe for immortality. It relies on the principle of calling on the lifeforce that lies dormentaru after the creator has died. To sum things up, this ritual requires the mage to store a portion-wortion of his life into the doll while he is still alive... Do you understand? Zonpa-Zippa: Hmm? And then, you ask...? ...This is not a subject for idle-widle adventurer's ears. Apururu should already be well-versed on the practice. You ask why his children hate him Zonpa-Zippa: My children hate me, the celebrated Zonpa-Zippa? What are you talking aboutaru? Ajido-Marujido and Apururu have absolutaruly no reason to hate me. How could they possibly despise a brilliantaru father who saved their fair country from distaster? Ahahaha! You have no further questions. Zonpa-Zippa: Just a momentaru, this may have been a bit too much for you to absorb, so let me write it in a letter for you to give to Apururu. Give my regards to my children. Tell them this: If there ever comes a time when they need my help, don'taru hesitate to ask.	This article is missing a video of the battle, mission, or quest. You can help by adding it.
Doll of the Dead - Windurst Woods, Manustery
(Music: Anxiety) Apururu is hanging her head in shame. Apururu: ... I still can'taru believe my father was alive... Hmm? You have a letter from him? An explanation for the actions of the Cardians? Apururu reads the letter and puts her hand over her mouth in disbelief. Apururu: This is incredible...! Joker was created by the famous Karaha-Baruha...!? Ajido-Marujido walks into the Manustery. Ajido-Marujido: What was that bit about Karaha-Baruha? Apururu: ...Ajido-Marujido! Ajido-Marujido: What's wrong with you? You went all pasty-wasty white as soon as you saw me. What mischief have you been up to? Apururu explains the letter to Ajido. (Music: Buccaneers) Ajido-Marujido: I... I don'taru know what to say. To hear this...and on top of knowing the old coot was still breathing... The King of the Cardians was the creation of a dead genius? What on Vana'diel is goning on!? Apururu: There's something I don't understand. Who brought the Cardian back to life in the first place? How was this possible? You need a massive amountaru of magic to restore life to a Cardian. Not to mention the use of forbidden rituals... Ajido-Marujido: ... Even more importantaru is the fact that the ritual would have brought Karaha-Baruha back from the dead. And if he really is alive and kicking again, why hasn't he been to the Star Sibyl? Is there something preventaruing him from putting on an appearance? Or is he planning something, off in the shadows...? Ajido pauses to think. Ajido-Marujido: ... A summoning... That's it! Karaha-Baruha was focused on perfecting a "complete summoning." Karaha-Baruha wasn't trying to enlist the aid of the Great Beast, Fenrir. He was wanted to completely enslave its will. If he had succeeded in his efforts... Karaha-Baruha wouldn't have been the only one brought back to life... Ajido-Marujido: <Player>! The Full Moon Fountain! We mustaru stop the Star Sibyl! Ajido runs out of the Manustery.	This article is missing a video of the battle, mission, or quest. You can help by adding it.
Doll of the Dead - Full Moon Fountain
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