Note: please be as cryptic as possible regarding any specific actions your character takes when discussing them in the game channel to avoid influencing everyone else!
As Eve will find out, the Village Elder's directions were not too vague. There is, yes, only one house at the end of the street to the east, near the eastern gate.
The door to the front yard is open. And if Eve pays attention, he'll notice there's something on the grass, surrounded by a very faint light blue glow.]
[for the record, Eve will have to carry everything he gets the normal way, there is no Magical Item Storage Window here]
Oh, you must not be from here. He was away for two years as a "swordsman," doing who knows what in Central City. Mother and Father never received any money from him during that time. He completely turned his back on us.
Naturally. After all, I'm sure you're very busy. Who has time to go visit one silly old person? I'm sure the tree keeps him plenty of company. Well, I'll be going. Enjoy your party.
[He'll see more people headed towards the main square on his way, and when he leaves the village there won't be any guards posted at the gate. Maybe they're taking a late lunch break? Life sure is convenient in this lost, peaceful village in the middle of nowhere...
Either way, Eve follows the directions, gasp, and this leads him inside the forest! After walking for a while, he comes out to a clearing and finds himself facing...
...a very big, majestic tree. I should have added pictures to other locations, maybe I'll remedy that later, but ANYWAY... This picture is what he sees at first, but then the sight changes even as he looks at it; the trunk and its enormous roots take on a deep madder color, and the branches and leaves disappear.
The monstrous tree he first saw is now little more than a gigantic trunk, pruned to exaggeration. It has a couple of branches in moss green and cotton candy pink color, and more than a few in navy blue color. In fact, it looks like the navy blue color is starting to spread onto the trunk.]
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As Eve will find out, the Village Elder's directions were not too vague. There is, yes, only one house at the end of the street to the east, near the eastern gate.
The door to the front yard is open. And if Eve pays attention, he'll notice there's something on the grass, surrounded by a very faint light blue glow.]
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...as a child, angrily breaking this toy sword in front of a short grown man.
...as a younger teenager, dragging a blue sword that seems to be made of ice into a shed in the forest, so tired he looks sick.
...as you know him, holding that same sword easily, sheathing it with a relieved smile in an armory.
...using that sword to freeze an entire onsen.
And then you see the sword breaking, and then being reforged, taking on a blood-red color.
--And then you’re back.]
What are you doing in my parents’ home?
[A woman just came out of the house, and is looking at you with some concern...]
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Celinia, isn't it? A present from a Mister Gasfut for the tree of life carver, so he says.
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A present...? Ah, you mean Eugeo's salary. It's true, tomorrow is a rest day.
[thank you, she's going to take it.]
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[He's at least holding on to it.]
Should I give it in person, perhaps?
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[Everyone is lucky and no one lets me have fun. She doesn't recognize the item, it's been too long. Eve can keep it.]
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[Just acquiring junk yeah.]
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He should be working now. Well, he's getting paid, so at least he hasn't run off elsewhere again.
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Oh, you must not be from here. He was away for two years as a "swordsman," doing who knows what in Central City. Mother and Father never received any money from him during that time. He completely turned his back on us.
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I see! What a wayward child. Where is he now?
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Why do you want to go there? The celebration will begin shortly, and it's even colder outside the village.
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There's nothing there. It's just a tree. Besides, we all have our own Callings, no one has time to waste like that.
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[Turning to leave!]
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Either way, Eve follows the directions, gasp, and this leads him inside the forest! After walking for a while, he comes out to a clearing and finds himself facing...
...a very big, majestic tree. I should have added pictures to other locations, maybe I'll remedy that later, but ANYWAY... This picture is what he sees at first, but then the sight changes even as he looks at it; the trunk and its enormous roots take on a deep madder color, and the branches and leaves disappear.
The monstrous tree he first saw is now little more than a gigantic trunk, pruned to exaggeration. It has a couple of branches in moss green and cotton candy pink color, and more than a few in navy blue color. In fact, it looks like the navy blue color is starting to spread onto the trunk.]