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Your instincts are imploring you to be diplomatic about this. Celia might be helpful if you soften her up enough.
YOU:
Listen, I don't want any trouble...I'm just passing through, and I think I'm a little lost.
Listen, I don't want any trouble...I'm just passing through, and I think I'm a little lost.
CELIA:
A common worm! Lies must come easy with a repulsive MOUTH HOLE to fall out from!
A common worm! Lies must come easy with a repulsive MOUTH HOLE to fall out from!
YOU:
I'm not a worm! I'm a human being!
I'm not a worm! I'm a human being!
CELIA:
Don't patronize me! You're clearly of the Animalia, bilaterally symmetrical, multicellular with a tubular body plan!
Don't patronize me! You're clearly of the Animalia, bilaterally symmetrical, multicellular with a tubular body plan!
YOU:
Worms are spineless. I have a whole skeleton. I have arms and legs.
Worms are spineless. I have a whole skeleton. I have arms and legs.
CELIA:
Oh? Who invented those distinctions? Your species? A worm by any other name! SWSHHH!!!
Oh? Who invented those distinctions? Your species? A worm by any other name! SWSHHH!!!
Celia takes an especially showy swing of her sword, lopping off a nearby branch of fungus. It would be more impressive if you didn't know how mushy that stuff is.
YOU:
...I...fine, whatever... I really don't want a fight, semantic or otherwise. I just want to get out of here. I need to get back to my child, and I've been sent on some stupid errand before they'll let me leave.
...I...fine, whatever... I really don't want a fight, semantic or otherwise. I just want to get out of here. I need to get back to my child, and I've been sent on some stupid errand before they'll let me leave.
CELIA:
AUGH! ENOUGH TALK! Prepare yourself for THRILLING COMBAT with the ravishing princess of b-wait, errand?
What kind of errand?
AUGH! ENOUGH TALK! Prepare yourself for THRILLING COMBAT with the ravishing princess of b-wait, errand?
What kind of errand?
YOU:
I...er...I'm supposed to find some sort of...I don't know what it is. I just-
I...er...I'm supposed to find some sort of...I don't know what it is. I just-
CELIA:
FIND something? You...you don't mean...you're fetching something, are you?
FIND something? You...you don't mean...you're fetching something, are you?
YOU:
I guess?
I guess?
CELIA:
Would you say this "errand" to "fetch" something might also be considered a...a quest? A quest to fetch something??!
Would you say this "errand" to "fetch" something might also be considered a...a quest? A quest to fetch something??!
YOU:
Uhhh...sure.
Uhhh...sure.
If Celia had eyes, you could swear they just lit up.
