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| | title = F//εsh AbanΔon┨Δ | | | title = F//εsh AbanΔon┨Δ |
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| | description = Coph-coodg languidly awaits his brethren's arrival | | | description = [[Coph-coodg]] languidly awaits his brethren's arrival |
| | quest-giver = Coph-coodg | | | quest-giver = Coph-coodg |
| | location = Ultima Thule | | | location = Ultima Thule |
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| __NOTOC__ | | __NOTOC__ |
| ==Steps== | | ==Steps== |
| * Speak with Coph-coodg. | | *Speak with [[Coph-coodg]]. |
| * Wait at the designated location. | | *Wait at the designated location. |
| * Wait at the designated location again. | | *Wait at the designated location again. |
| * Speak with Y'shtola. | | *Speak with [[Y'shtola]]. |
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| ==Journal== | | ==Journal== |
| | | *Coph-coodg languidly awaits his brethren's arrival |
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| ==Walkthrough== | | ==Walkthrough== |
| | | ??? |
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| ==Dialogue==
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| Alisaie:
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| * <sigh> I had no luck, but everyone else fared well enough. Quite a few Ea have awakened.
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * Ah, there they are.
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| * May I introduce to you Lah-laakh, Dew-deekh, and Neh-needg.
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| Lah-laakh:
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| * It has been too long, Coph-coodg. I daresay Sadr IV has since completed an orbit.
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * Indeed. Until the travelers brought it to my attention, I hadn't noticed how unraveled some had become.
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| Neh-needg:
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| * Travelers...? Ah, of course, of course. The ones who wished to know why we seek to regain corporeal forms.
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * The truth of the matter is as plain to see as the neighboring systems, but my single account would fail to satisfy the requirement for scientific objectivity. Thus did I bid them awaken you.
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| G'raha Tia:
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| * Am I the only one who struggles to tell who is speaking?
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| Urianger:
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| * Nay, thou art not. In the absence of corporeal forms and the divergence they afford, mayhap such similarity in voice is unavoidable.
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| Dew-deekh:
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| * By the way, Coph-coodg─have you already observed the requisite custom for the travelers?
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| * That which one is expected to do when receiving guests. A matter of proper form.
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * Ahhh, yes. So long has it been, it had completely escaped my mind...and still does. What was it again? I can't seem to remember...
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| Dew-deekh:
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| * Neither do I. Pity. I was hoping you would...
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| Neh-needg:
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| * Perhaps we can search the archives for the answer.
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * Come now, Neh-needg, the archives have long been frozen, lest we subject ourselves to further dolor. Surely you recall that much.
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| Lah-laakh:
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| * ...Ah, of course. Food─the custom is to serve food.
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| * Beings of flesh such as they must regularly replenish their aether. By contributing to their replenishment, we communicate our friendly intention.
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| All:
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| * That's right, that's right!
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * We duly invite you to join us in communal repast, after which we may engage in leisurely conversation.
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| Alphinaud:
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| * If we have a chance to learn something, then I see no reason to decline.
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * Excellent. If you would care to follow, we shall feast you on the purest aether.
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| * This facility is where we replenish our aether. There is no particular name for it, but we traditionalists sometimes use the word “restaurant.”
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| * Now then, if you would take your place with your comrades, the space will soon be awash with purest aether. Please absorb as much as you like.
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| Y'shtola:
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| * Just as I had suspected. As meticulously as one might recreate the Ea's home world, this is Ultima Thule. One cannot simply generate aether here.
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| * As recreations, our friends are oblivious to this fact. To the very truth of their existence. Much like the phantoms of the recreated Amaurot.
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| * However appearances may seem, we must ever be mindful that it is the memories of the dead with whom we deal.
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * So, did you have your fill of aether?
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| Y'shtola:
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| * Alas, we couldn't absorb it. A deficiency in our forms, it would seem.
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * Oh, how very unfortunate... May I ask how you normally replenish your aether?
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| Dew-deekh:
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| * Through your mouths, you say! How very primitive and quaint!
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| Neh-needg:
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| * To think that their mouths serve not only to expel sound, but draw in sustenance besides... Such life-forms have long since vanished from our systems!
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| Urianger:
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| * Though we regrettably could not partake of your magnificent feast, rest assured we feel your welcome most keenly.
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| * In the course of acquainting ourselves with your sophisticated ways, however, we could not fail but wonder: wherefore do you wish to obtain vessels of flesh, and thence to vanish? Will you not favor us with an explanation?
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * You flesh-and-blood beings are always so hasty. It does have its charm, however...
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| * Very well, we shall indulge you. In the beginning, when the Ea yet possessed corporeal bodies, our ancestors dedicated themselves to the pursuit of knowledge and technological advancement.
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| * By transcending all limitations, we believed we would eliminate sorrow and abide in true happiness.
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| Lah-laakh:
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| * From the tangible such as land to the intangible such as labor, there exist myriad hindrances to progress. But the most confining of all was the flesh itself.
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| * Our natural lifespan was distressingly middling, you see. Too short to enjoy unhurried lives, yet too long to be considered disposable.
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| * Furthermore, to simply maintain the integrity of our bodies demanded considerable resources.
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| Neh-needg:
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| * But we managed to solve this problem.
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| * After long years, we discovered how to become noncorporeal entities with everlasting lives, untroubled by the failures of the flesh.
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| Dew-deekh:
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| * Thus changed, we had more time and freedom to continue our scientific pursuits.
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| * We went on to make ever greater strides in our quest to transcend all limitations, until we finally decided to challenge the last of them all: the limit of knowledge.
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * That is to say, deciphering the laws of creation.
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| * We sought to discover how the universe came into being and explain all extant phenomena, and thence predict the future.
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| * If we could but achieve this, we believed that we would be free from uncertainty and anxiety.
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| Y'shtola:
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| * And did you find the answers you sought?
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * Yes, we did. Our efforts revealed to us a fundamental truth.
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| Lah-laakh:
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| * Knowledge of said truth is essential for the continuation of our conversation. If you would learn more, we will share it with you.
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| Dew-deekh:
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| * No, we mustn't. Primitive as they are, it would be unspeakably cruel to deprive them of their ignorance.
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| Neh-needg:
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| * They are possessed of corporeal forms, their lives readily ended.
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| * As those who have gone before, is it not our duty to warn them?
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| Urianger:
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| * What thinkest thou...?
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| Coph-coodg:
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| * We have deliberated and come to a consensus.
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| * If you are resolved to know it, we will disclose to you the truth we discovered. The truth of the universe.
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| * Seek us at the stone pillars just outside the bounds of the abode. A place called Elegeia.
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| Y'shtola:
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| * A fundamental truth...
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| * We will hear it, of course. Let us learn what has led such an enlightened people to this indolent end.
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