The Pale Man.lua (55,617 bytes)
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[1] = "7949764-0-66283 Porozmawiaj z Eyfją",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53391 Aerolf asked me to speak with Eyfja in Morthal and Hautgerd in Dragon Bridge about their encounters with the Pale Man.",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53392 Eyfja and Hautgerd witnessed their loved ones being murdered and abducted by the Pale Man on the northern coast of Haafingar. I should return to Aerolf and tell him what I've learned.",
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[1] = "256430276-0-53408 Podążaj za Aerolfem",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53408 Once I told Aerolf what I'd learned, he asked me to follow him inside his small farmhouse.",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53409 Aerolf consulted a map of Skyrim and marked the spots where Eyfja and Hautgerd encountered the Pale Man. I need to speak with him about what he found.",
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[1] = "7949764-0-66286 Zbierz nienaruszoną głowę draugra",
[2] = "7949764-0-66287 Zbierz nienaruszony tułów draugra",
[3] = "7949764-0-66288 Zbierz nienaruszone ramiona draugra: 0 / 2",
[4] = "7949764-0-66289 Zbierz nienaruszone nogi draugra: 0 / 2",
[5] = "7949764-0-66288 Zbierz nienaruszone ramiona draugra: 1 / 2",
[6] = "7949764-0-66288 Zbierz nienaruszone ramiona draugra: 2 / 2",
[7] = "7949764-0-66289 Zbierz nienaruszone nogi draugra: 1 / 2",
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[1] = "7949764-0-66316 Zbierz nienaruszone części draugra",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53393 Aerolf asked me to gather draugr parts to use as bait for the Pale Man. One place I can find draugr is Dead Man's Respite.",
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[1] = "7949764-0-66291 Find the Pale Man's Lair",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53395 I gathered enough parts to assemble a draugr body. I should look for Aerolf on the northern coast of Western Skyrim.",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53396 I found Aerolf on the northern Skyrim coast. I should see if he has prepared the necrotic mixture he mentioned, and if he believes the nearby cave to be the Pale Man's lair.",
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[1] = "256430276-0-53399 Place the Body",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53399 Aerolf gave me sharpened bones to assemble the draugr parts. I must place the bait corpse on a primitive table in the Pale Man's lair.",
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[1] = "256430276-0-53400 Pour the Mixture",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53400 The bait corpse is assembled. I must sprinkle the necrotic potion on it to entice the Pale Man to come out.",
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[1] = "7949764-0-66307 Zabij Bladego Człowieka",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53401 The Pale Man emerged from its lair. I need to kill it before it slinks away.",
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[1] = "7949764-0-66302 Collect the Pale Man's Trophies",
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[1] = "7949764-0-66301 Gather the Pale Man's Trophies",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53402 The Pale Man is dead. Aerolf asked me to search its lair for any sign of its victims. I may find such signs on my way back out of the cave.",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53404 I gathered a number of trinkets the Pale Man must have taken from its victims. I should show these trinkets to Aerolf.",
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["description"] = "103224356-0-53405 Aerolf thanked me for killing the Pale Man and avenging his brother. I should speak to him one last time before I leave.",
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[1] = "265851556-0-6513 Aerolf spent his life hunting the monster he calls the Pale Man which he claims abducted his brother. He asked me to help track down the creature so he can avenge his loss.",
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[2] = "267697733-0-7319 Nienaruszony tułów draugra",
[3] = "267697733-0-7320 Nienaruszone ramię draugra",
[4] = "267697733-0-7321 Nienaruszona noga draugra",
[5] = "267697733-0-7327 Pusty worek Aerolfa",
[6] = "267697733-0-7328 Wypełniony worek Aerolfa",
[7] = "267697733-0-7329 Nekrotyczna mikstura",
[8] = "267697733-0-7330 Naostrzone kości",
[9] = "267697733-0-7323 Splamiony krwią sygnet",
[10] = "267697733-0-7324 Splamiony krwią naszyjnik",
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[1] = "8290981-0-95559 Hautgerd",
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[1] = "55049764-1-12700 This better be important. Unless you want to pick up a rake, I don't have time to jaw at strangers.",
[2] = "55049764-0-12700 I've known soldiers and killers in my day, even been friends with a few. I don't know any I'd call evil, but that thing? That thing was evil. That thing killed my dog.\n\nEverybody told me I was crazy. Aerolf is the first one who made sense.",
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["200879108-0-62298 What do you think? I rushed into my tent and got my axe. When I came out, they were gone. Searched through the night, but the storm was thick as stew and I can't track like Bear. That monster took my dog. My good dog.\n\nBear deserved better."] =
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["55049764-1-12700 This better be important. Unless you want to pick up a rake, I don't have time to jaw at strangers."] =
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["228103012-0-62294 Aerolf sent me to ask you about the Pale Man."] = "",
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["200879108-0-63358 He used to post fliers around the area asking for stories about the Pale Man. We laughed them off back then. But, no longer.\n\nAfter the monster took Bear, I sent Aerolf a letter that said where to find me. I pray he gets that vicious creature."] =
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["55049764-0-12700 I've known soldiers and killers in my day, even been friends with a few. I don't know any I'd call evil, but that thing? That thing was evil. That thing killed my dog.\n\nEverybody told me I was crazy. Aerolf is the first one who made sense."] =
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["228103012-0-63358 How do you know Aerolf?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62296 Because I saw it! Bear and I were tracking horkers on the coast, over the mountain north of Solitude. When night fell, we made camp.\n\nBear's yelp woke me. I expected to see a giant. Instead I saw the Pale Man dragging away my poor dog."] =
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["204987124-0-62296 What did you do then?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62294 Well then, that changes it. I used to think that man had lost his senses. Then, the Pale Man killed my Bear. Now I understand.\n\nBefore you ask, Bear was my hound. He mostly just slept and smelled bad, but he was all I had after my husband died."] =
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["204987124-0-62294 How do you know the Pale Man killed Bear?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62294 Well then, that changes it. I used to think that man had lost his senses. Then, the Pale Man killed my Bear. Now I understand.\n\nBefore you ask, Bear was my hound. He mostly just slept and smelled bad, but he was all I had after my husband died."] = "",
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["200879108-0-63358 He used to post fliers around the area asking for stories about the Pale Man. We laughed them off back then. But, no longer.\n\nAfter the monster took Bear, I sent Aerolf a letter that said where to find me. I pray he gets that vicious creature."] = "",
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["200879108-0-62298 What do you think? I rushed into my tent and got my axe. When I came out, they were gone. Searched through the night, but the storm was thick as stew and I can't track like Bear. That monster took my dog. My good dog.\n\nBear deserved better."] = "",
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[1] = "55049764-10-12698 If you come to rob me, you will leave disappointed. All this land and only weeds to show for it.\n\nDo you ever regret your choices, wanderer? Ever feel certain you are on the just path, only it leads nowhere? That's where you'll find this old farmer.",
[2] = "55049764-9-12698 Find Eyfja in Morthal and Hautgerd in Dragon Bridge. Tell them Aerolf sent you. Ask them where they saw the Pale Man and who it stole.\n\nThanks for hearing out an old man. Most just think I've lost my mind. But I know the truth.",
[3] = "55049764-8-12698 You're back! Wasn't certain I'd see you again. Well, have you talked to Eyfja and Hautgerd?",
[4] = "55049764-7-12698 For years, I have tracked the location of every Pale Man attack. Each one brought me closer to its lair. These last two confirm it—the Pale Man must be on the northern coast between Dragon Bridge and Solitude.\n\nIt won't escape me again.",
[5] = "55049764-6-12698 The Pale Man likes to take people, so we'll make one for it. Using draugr parts treated with alchemy. This is where you come in.\n\nThere's a crypt nearby. Dead Man's Respite. Chop up enough draugr parts for a body, then meet me on the northern coast.",
[6] = "55049764-5-12698 This must be the Pale Man's cave. See the bones? Wolves don't make patterns like this. And I've seen this before, at its old lair. A location this remote is perfect to grab folks who are alone. Told you it was clever.\n\nDid you get the draugr parts?",
[7] = "55049764-4-12698 I wish I could join you in there. Killing this monster is all I've thought about for thirty years. I've lost my friends, farm, and legs chasing this thing. But, if this is the end it'll be worth it.\n\nKill it for my brother. Please.",
[8] = "55049764-3-12698 Was it in there? Were you able to kill it? What happened in there?",
[9] = "55049764-1-12698 I'll search the lair for more trophies. Holding my brother's ring again feels like it validates him. His life. Everyone who lost someone should feel this closure.\n\nI'll send word to Eyfja and Hautgerd. If you ever come near the farm again, stop by.",
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["200879108-0-62278 Caught your interest, did it? Maybe you're the person I need after all. Maybe Kyne decided to send me a blessing instead of a curse, for once in my damned life.\n\nAll you need to know about the Pale Man is that it takes people. It took my brother."] =
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["204987124-0-62278 Your brother?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62317 While you're out collecting the draugr parts we need, I'll mix the potion, limp up to the coast, and find the lair.\n\nOnce you have the draugr parts, run along the northern coast between Dragon Bridge and Solitude and look for me. I'll be waiting."] =
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["204987124-1-62317 You mentioned dousing the body with alchemy?"] = "",
["204987124-0-62317 Why do we need to assemble a draugr?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62281 Drendek, yes. My older brother, strong and hearty. A Nord's Nord!\n\nI thought there was no one in the world stronger than Drendek. Of course, I was only six at the time. Then, the Pale Man snatched Drendek up like a babe."] =
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["204987124-0-62281 It's some sort of monster?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62282 I hunt the Pale Man. I've been hunting the cursed thing for thirty years, but it's like a ghost. Comes in snowstorms every ten or so years, takes who it wants in a spree of abductions, then vanishes again.\n\nEvery time it comes back, I get closer."] =
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["204987124-0-62282 That still doesn't answer my question."] = "",
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["200879108-0-62313 No one knows what make those walking corpses move, but we do know they stop moving if you hack them up enough. We need intact, non-moving parts to make a body that will draw out the Pale Man.\n\nOne draugr won't do, but parts of dozens? That might."] =
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["204987124-0-62313 Why send me to Dead Man's Respite? Is there something special about the draugr there?"] = "",
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["3952276-0-7991 A lifetime of failure. For thirty years, I've hunted my brother's killer. Tracked it all across Skyrim, seeking justice. Somehow, it always managed to vanish.\n\nTell me, have you heard any stories of a monster called the Pale Man?"] =
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["20958740-0-7991 No, what kind of monster is this?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62334 These must be from all the other victims. Trophies of the lives it snatched. That means it wasn't hunting for food. It was proud of what it'd done.\n\nI need to return these to the families. Eyfja, Hautgerd, all of them deserve to know it's over."] =
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["204987124-0-62334 Do you want me bring these items to the families?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62316 I don't know how it works, exactly, only that it's something the hagravens created. Somehow, the clever woman stole it away from them. \n\nWhen poured on dead flesh, it creates a scent that drives anyone who smells it mad with hunger."] =
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["204987124-0-62316 How do you know it will work on the Pale Man?"] = "",
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["55049764-10-12698 If you come to rob me, you will leave disappointed. All this land and only weeds to show for it.\n\nDo you ever regret your choices, wanderer? Ever feel certain you are on the just path, only it leads nowhere? That's where you'll find this old farmer."] =
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["249936564-0-7991 What brings you so much regret?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62314 After I failed to draw the Pale Man out ten years ago, I talked to every hunter and Reach witch who wouldn't slam the door in my face or try to cook my eyeballs.\n\nThe hunters suggested bait, but it was an old clever woman who suggested the mixture."] =
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["204987124-0-62314 What type of mixture?"] = "",
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["55049764-6-12698 The Pale Man likes to take people, so we'll make one for it. Using draugr parts treated with alchemy. This is where you come in.\n\nThere's a crypt nearby. Dead Man's Respite. Chop up enough draugr parts for a body, then meet me on the northern coast."] =
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["228103012-0-62312 Why do we need to assemble a draugr?"] = "",
["228103012-0-62317 How do we find the Pale Man's lair?"] = "",
["228103012-0-62314 You mentioned dousing the body with alchemy?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62323 You assemble them into a body that tempts the Pale Man. Take these sharp bones. Jam them into the torso. Then stick the arms, legs, and head onto them. Gruesome work, but it should hold.\n\nPour on the pungent mixture I've made and you have your bait."] =
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["204987124-0-62323 Where should I put it?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62332 I don't … wait. That ring. It can't be. It's Drendek's Signet Ring!\n\nOur mother gave it to him shortly before our hunting trip, when the Pale Man took Drendek. I always felt she blamed me for losing it, and for my brother, but now …."] =
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["204987124-0-62332 What about these other items?"] = "",
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["55049764-4-12698 I wish I could join you in there. Killing this monster is all I've thought about for thirty years. I've lost my friends, farm, and legs chasing this thing. But, if this is the end it'll be worth it.\n\nKill it for my brother. Please."] =
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["200879108-0-62326 If this doesn't work, then come get me. I am not letting this thing escape again. It won't be killing any more people.\n\nIf we have to … I'll be the bait. But I'd like to avoid that for as long as possible. Despite everything, I'd like to live."] =
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["204987124-0-62326 Let's hope it doesn't come to that."] = "",
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["55049764-7-12698 For years, I have tracked the location of every Pale Man attack. Each one brought me closer to its lair. These last two confirm it—the Pale Man must be on the northern coast between Dragon Bridge and Solitude.\n\nIt won't escape me again."] =
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["228103012-0-62308 How did it elude you before?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62312 The alchemical mixture I plan to use is necrotic, for lack of a better term. It only reacts with dead flesh. If we doused a living person with it, they'd die, but not before their flesh melted and they screamed a whole lot first.\n\nIt's nasty stuff."] =
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["204987124-0-62312 But why are you asking me to gather draugr parts instead of just one draugr?"] = "",
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["55049764-1-12698 I'll search the lair for more trophies. Holding my brother's ring again feels like it validates him. His life. Everyone who lost someone should feel this closure.\n\nI'll send word to Eyfja and Hautgerd. If you ever come near the farm again, stop by."] =
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["55049764-3-12698 Was it in there? Were you able to kill it? What happened in there?"] =
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["228103012-0-62331 The monster you called the Pale Man is dead."] = "",
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["200879108-0-62331 Then it's over. Shor's Bones, it's over, after so many years. That thing is really dead.\n\nI don't know how I can thank you. I lost everything and was ready to just give it all up. But now, finally, justice."] =
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["204987124-0-62331 I found these objects in the lair. Do you recognize them?"] = "",
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["55049764-5-12698 This must be the Pale Man's cave. See the bones? Wolves don't make patterns like this. And I've seen this before, at its old lair. A location this remote is perfect to grab folks who are alone. Told you it was clever.\n\nDid you get the draugr parts?"] =
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["228103012-0-62323 I got what you asked for. What now?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62315 The thing eats, doesn't it? We know it's smart enough to move lairs, avoid people who can kill it, and use snowstorms as cover.\n\nI've tested the mixture myself. It was all I could do not to eat the dead flesh I poured it on. Still makes me nauseous."] =
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["204987124-0-62315 Why do we need to assemble a draugr?"] = "",
["204987124-1-62315 How do we find the Pale Man's lair?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62283 The Pale Man took their loved ones, as it has taken so many over the years. These people are witnesses, so I need to know what they saw.\n\nI can't return whoever they lost, but I can track the thing down and kill it."] =
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["204987124-0-62283 Who is this Pale Man?"] = "",
["204987124-1-62283 You said something happened to your legs?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62318 Well, no. It's just the closest place I know to find them. Any draugr will do, and if you know somewhere else to hunt them, their parts will work as well as any other.\n\nJust be careful. Those walking corpses look slow, but they're strong and mean."] =
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["204987124-1-62318 How do we find the Pale Man's lair?"] = "",
["204987124-0-62318 You mentioned dousing the body with alchemy?"] = "",
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["55049764-9-12698 Find Eyfja in Morthal and Hautgerd in Dragon Bridge. Tell them Aerolf sent you. Ask them where they saw the Pale Man and who it stole.\n\nThanks for hearing out an old man. Most just think I've lost my mind. But I know the truth."] =
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["228103012-0-62278 Can you tell me more about this Pale Man?"] = "",
["228103012-0-62282 Why do you want me to talk to these people?"] = "",
["228103012-0-62284 You said something happened to your legs?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62284 A bad fall. While exploring a cave out on the northern coast, looking for signs of the Pale Man, when I ran right into a nest of frostbite spiders.\n\nI got out the cave, but slipped and fell down a hill. Damn near crawled back to Dragon Bridge."] =
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["204987124-0-62284 The healers couldn't help?"] = "",
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["55049764-8-12698 You're back! Wasn't certain I'd see you again. Well, have you talked to Eyfja and Hautgerd?"] =
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["228103012-0-62306 They both saw the Pale Man past the mountains on the coast, north of Solitude and Dragon Bridge."] = "",
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["3952276-1-7991 Something that stalks the moonlit snows. It steals loved ones away without a sound.\n\nA couple folks sent letters saying they had new sightings. These old legs are much too ruined for travel now. Would you be willing to hear them out for some gold?"] =
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["20958740-1-7991 I'll talk to the survivors for you."] = "",
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["200879108-0-62311 Gods, no. I'm not willing to lose the only helpful person I've met in a decade. I need you to collect the ingredients and bring them to me on the northern coast. Then we'll draw out the creature and avenge its victims."] =
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["204987124-0-62311 I'll help you. What do you need me to get?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62324 Last time I found a crude table deep within its lair. There were … remains with gnaw marks on them. I think that's where it eats.\n\nSearch the lair for a similar table, place the body on it, then pour on the mixture. And, uh, hold your breath."] =
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["204987124-0-62324 What if the Pale Man doesn't come out?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62308 A decade ago, I tracked down a cave where the Pale Man brought its kills. For days, I waited. Eventually, I left to replenish supplies. When I returned, I saw loose rocks and an empty crawl space. The damned thing had watched me the whole time."] =
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["204987124-0-62308 Why didn't it attack you?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62309 It only attacks the unsuspecting or vulnerable. And I was armed to the teeth. It's no mere beast. It's smart. Cunning.\n\nBut, I have an idea on how we draw it out. Bait. Of an … unusual variety. Would you be willing to help out?"] =
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["204987124-0-62309 You want me to act as bait?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62280 Some say that. Most claim it doesn't exist at all. My father claimed that, and my mother, and the Swordthane of Morthal. They all said a bear took Drendek. They said a little traumatized boy imagined the Pale Man, made up stories.\n\nHe's not a story."] =
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["204987124-1-62280 You said something happened to your legs?"] = "",
["204987124-0-62280 Why do you want me to talk to these people?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62287 You ever try crawling from the northern coast to Dragon Bridge? It took damn near three days!\n\nBy the time I got back my wounds were infected, or so the healer said. Legs haven't worked right since. I can walk, but I can't run. Damned inconvenient."] =
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["204987124-0-62287 Who is this Pale Man?"] = "",
["204987124-1-62287 Why do you want me to talk to these people?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62306 Along the northern coast, you say? Hmm. Yes. That might narrow it down. Here, follow me inside."] =
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["204987124-0-62306 Prowadź."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62312 But why are you asking me to gather draugr parts instead of just one draugr?"] =
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["200879108-0-62313 No one knows what make those walking corpses move, but we do know they stop moving if you hack them up enough. We need intact, non-moving parts to make a body that will draw out the Pale Man.\n\nOne draugr won't do, but parts of dozens? That might."] = "",
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["228103012-0-62312 Why do we need to assemble a draugr?"] =
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["200879108-0-62312 The alchemical mixture I plan to use is necrotic, for lack of a better term. It only reacts with dead flesh. If we doused a living person with it, they'd die, but not before their flesh melted and they screamed a whole lot first.\n\nIt's nasty stuff."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62315 Why do we need to assemble a draugr?"] =
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["200879108-0-62317 While you're out collecting the draugr parts we need, I'll mix the potion, limp up to the coast, and find the lair.\n\nOnce you have the draugr parts, run along the northern coast between Dragon Bridge and Solitude and look for me. I'll be waiting."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62324 What if the Pale Man doesn't come out?"] =
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["200879108-0-62326 If this doesn't work, then come get me. I am not letting this thing escape again. It won't be killing any more people.\n\nIf we have to … I'll be the bait. But I'd like to avoid that for as long as possible. Despite everything, I'd like to live."] = "",
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["204987124-1-62283 You said something happened to your legs?"] =
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["200879108-0-62284 A bad fall. While exploring a cave out on the northern coast, looking for signs of the Pale Man, when I ran right into a nest of frostbite spiders.\n\nI got out the cave, but slipped and fell down a hill. Damn near crawled back to Dragon Bridge."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62278 Your brother?"] =
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["200879108-0-62281 Drendek, yes. My older brother, strong and hearty. A Nord's Nord!\n\nI thought there was no one in the world stronger than Drendek. Of course, I was only six at the time. Then, the Pale Man snatched Drendek up like a babe."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62280 Why do you want me to talk to these people?"] =
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["200879108-0-62282 I hunt the Pale Man. I've been hunting the cursed thing for thirty years, but it's like a ghost. Comes in snowstorms every ten or so years, takes who it wants in a spree of abductions, then vanishes again.\n\nEvery time it comes back, I get closer."] = "",
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["20958740-1-7991 I'll talk to the survivors for you."] =
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["204987124-0-62309 You want me to act as bait?"] =
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["200879108-0-62311 Gods, no. I'm not willing to lose the only helpful person I've met in a decade. I need you to collect the ingredients and bring them to me on the northern coast. Then we'll draw out the creature and avenge its victims."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62283 Who is this Pale Man?"] =
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["204987124-0-62314 What type of mixture?"] =
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["200879108-0-62316 I don't know how it works, exactly, only that it's something the hagravens created. Somehow, the clever woman stole it away from them. \n\nWhen poured on dead flesh, it creates a scent that drives anyone who smells it mad with hunger."] = "",
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["204987124-1-62287 Why do you want me to talk to these people?"] =
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["204987124-0-62318 You mentioned dousing the body with alchemy?"] =
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["204987124-0-62316 How do you know it will work on the Pale Man?"] =
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["200879108-0-62315 The thing eats, doesn't it? We know it's smart enough to move lairs, avoid people who can kill it, and use snowstorms as cover.\n\nI've tested the mixture myself. It was all I could do not to eat the dead flesh I poured it on. Still makes me nauseous."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62334 Do you want me bring these items to the families?"] =
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["116521668-0-14427 You've done more than enough for a broken old man. I'd like to see the faces of everyone when I tell them. It'll take a while with this limp, but I've got something to live for now.\n\nAll I can offer you is this. Thank you."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62317 Why do we need to assemble a draugr?"] =
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["200879108-0-62312 The alchemical mixture I plan to use is necrotic, for lack of a better term. It only reacts with dead flesh. If we doused a living person with it, they'd die, but not before their flesh melted and they screamed a whole lot first.\n\nIt's nasty stuff."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62313 Why send me to Dead Man's Respite? Is there something special about the draugr there?"] =
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["200879108-0-62318 Well, no. It's just the closest place I know to find them. Any draugr will do, and if you know somewhere else to hunt them, their parts will work as well as any other.\n\nJust be careful. Those walking corpses look slow, but they're strong and mean."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62331 I found these objects in the lair. Do you recognize them?"] =
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["200879108-0-62332 I don't … wait. That ring. It can't be. It's Drendek's Signet Ring!\n\nOur mother gave it to him shortly before our hunting trip, when the Pale Man took Drendek. I always felt she blamed me for losing it, and for my brother, but now …."] = "",
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["228103012-0-62331 The monster you called the Pale Man is dead."] =
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["200879108-0-62331 Then it's over. Shor's Bones, it's over, after so many years. That thing is really dead.\n\nI don't know how I can thank you. I lost everything and was ready to just give it all up. But now, finally, justice."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62326 Let's hope it doesn't come to that."] =
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["228103012-0-62278 Can you tell me more about this Pale Man?"] =
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["200879108-0-62278 Caught your interest, did it? Maybe you're the person I need after all. Maybe Kyne decided to send me a blessing instead of a curse, for once in my damned life.\n\nAll you need to know about the Pale Man is that it takes people. It took my brother."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62306 Prowadź."] =
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["204987124-0-62323 Where should I put it?"] =
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["200879108-0-62324 Last time I found a crude table deep within its lair. There were … remains with gnaw marks on them. I think that's where it eats.\n\nSearch the lair for a similar table, place the body on it, then pour on the mixture. And, uh, hold your breath."] = "",
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["228103012-0-62323 I got what you asked for. What now?"] =
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["200879108-0-62323 You assemble them into a body that tempts the Pale Man. Take these sharp bones. Jam them into the torso. Then stick the arms, legs, and head onto them. Gruesome work, but it should hold.\n\nPour on the pungent mixture I've made and you have your bait."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62281 It's some sort of monster?"] =
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["200879108-0-62280 Some say that. Most claim it doesn't exist at all. My father claimed that, and my mother, and the Swordthane of Morthal. They all said a bear took Drendek. They said a little traumatized boy imagined the Pale Man, made up stories.\n\nHe's not a story."] = "",
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["20958740-0-7991 No, what kind of monster is this?"] =
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["3952276-1-7991 Something that stalks the moonlit snows. It steals loved ones away without a sound.\n\nA couple folks sent letters saying they had new sightings. These old legs are much too ruined for travel now. Would you be willing to hear them out for some gold?"] = "",
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["228103012-0-62282 Why do you want me to talk to these people?"] =
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["204987124-0-62284 The healers couldn't help?"] =
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["200879108-0-62287 You ever try crawling from the northern coast to Dragon Bridge? It took damn near three days!\n\nBy the time I got back my wounds were infected, or so the healer said. Legs haven't worked right since. I can walk, but I can't run. Damned inconvenient."] = "",
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["204987124-1-62317 You mentioned dousing the body with alchemy?"] =
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["200879108-0-62314 After I failed to draw the Pale Man out ten years ago, I talked to every hunter and Reach witch who wouldn't slam the door in my face or try to cook my eyeballs.\n\nThe hunters suggested bait, but it was an old clever woman who suggested the mixture."] = "",
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["228103012-0-62306 They both saw the Pale Man past the mountains on the coast, north of Solitude and Dragon Bridge."] =
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["200879108-0-62306 Along the northern coast, you say? Hmm. Yes. That might narrow it down. Here, follow me inside."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62332 What about these other items?"] =
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["200879108-0-62334 These must be from all the other victims. Trophies of the lives it snatched. That means it wasn't hunting for food. It was proud of what it'd done.\n\nI need to return these to the families. Eyfja, Hautgerd, all of them deserve to know it's over."] = "",
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["204987124-1-62318 How do we find the Pale Man's lair?"] =
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["200879108-0-62317 While you're out collecting the draugr parts we need, I'll mix the potion, limp up to the coast, and find the lair.\n\nOnce you have the draugr parts, run along the northern coast between Dragon Bridge and Solitude and look for me. I'll be waiting."] = "",
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["204987124-1-62315 How do we find the Pale Man's lair?"] =
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["228103012-0-62284 You said something happened to your legs?"] =
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["204987124-0-62311 I'll help you. What do you need me to get?"] =
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["204987124-1-62280 You said something happened to your legs?"] =
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["228103012-0-62314 You mentioned dousing the body with alchemy?"] =
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["204987124-0-62287 Who is this Pale Man?"] =
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["200879108-0-62282 I hunt the Pale Man. I've been hunting the cursed thing for thirty years, but it's like a ghost. Comes in snowstorms every ten or so years, takes who it wants in a spree of abductions, then vanishes again.\n\nEvery time it comes back, I get closer."] = "",
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["228103012-0-62317 How do we find the Pale Man's lair?"] =
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["204987124-0-62308 Why didn't it attack you?"] =
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["200879108-0-62309 It only attacks the unsuspecting or vulnerable. And I was armed to the teeth. It's no mere beast. It's smart. Cunning.\n\nBut, I have an idea on how we draw it out. Bait. Of an … unusual variety. Would you be willing to help out?"] = "",
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["204987124-0-62282 That still doesn't answer my question."] =
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["200879108-0-62283 The Pale Man took their loved ones, as it has taken so many over the years. These people are witnesses, so I need to know what they saw.\n\nI can't return whoever they lost, but I can track the thing down and kill it."] = "",
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["249936564-0-7991 What brings you so much regret?"] =
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["3952276-0-7991 A lifetime of failure. For thirty years, I've hunted my brother's killer. Tracked it all across Skyrim, seeking justice. Somehow, it always managed to vanish.\n\nTell me, have you heard any stories of a monster called the Pale Man?"] = "",
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["228103012-0-62308 How did it elude you before?"] =
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["200879108-0-62308 A decade ago, I tracked down a cave where the Pale Man brought its kills. For days, I waited. Eventually, I left to replenish supplies. When I returned, I saw loose rocks and an empty crawl space. The damned thing had watched me the whole time."] = "",
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[1] = "55049764-1-12699 My favorite part of coming to this inn is the strangers trying to talk to me. It's great. Never gets old.\n\nWhat do you want?",
[2] = "55049764-0-12699 I've known old Aerolf for a long time. I thought he was frost-touched, but I was wrong. That thing, whatever it is, is real. And, it murdered my sister.\n\nI wonder how many other old stories that I ignored over the years are true.",
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["55049764-0-12699 I've known old Aerolf for a long time. I thought he was frost-touched, but I was wrong. That thing, whatever it is, is real. And, it murdered my sister.\n\nI wonder how many other old stories that I ignored over the years are true."] =
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["228103012-0-63373 How do you know Aerolf?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62290 Late, after I fell asleep. Merlyth's scream woke me. I rushed out of the tent and saw it stalking away, carrying her. She was … her neck was twisted. Backward.\n\nI gave chase, but it was quick. Slipped into the shadows without a trail."] =
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["204987124-0-62290 What did this Pale Man look like?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-63373 He used to frequent the inns of Solitude, begging for someone to join his hunt. Just another madman, we thought.\n\nMaybe if I'd listened to him back then, we could have found the Pale Man together. Then, Merlyth would still be alive."] =
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["200879108-0-62289 Glad to hear Aerolf is still above ground. I thought his obsession had finally killed him.\n\nYeah, I saw the Pale Man. My sister and I were ranging far north of Solitude, out along the coast. That night, we made camp with a plan to head back at dawn."] =
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["204987124-0-62289 When did it arrive?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-62292 Taller than any man I've seen. But thin, like a draugr, so I know it wasn't a giant. And paler than a belly of a cave fish.\n\nLook, Merlyth and I never really liked each other. So I don't care if you find it. But hopefully this helps Aerolf."] =
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["204987124-0-62292 I'll tell Aerolf everything you've told me."] = "",
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["55049764-1-12699 My favorite part of coming to this inn is the strangers trying to talk to me. It's great. Never gets old.\n\nWhat do you want?"] =
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["228103012-0-62289 Aerolf sent me to hear your story about the Pale Man."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62290 What did this Pale Man look like?"] =
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["200879108-0-62292 Taller than any man I've seen. But thin, like a draugr, so I know it wasn't a giant. And paler than a belly of a cave fish.\n\nLook, Merlyth and I never really liked each other. So I don't care if you find it. But hopefully this helps Aerolf."] = "",
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["228103012-0-63373 How do you know Aerolf?"] =
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["200879108-0-63373 He used to frequent the inns of Solitude, begging for someone to join his hunt. Just another madman, we thought.\n\nMaybe if I'd listened to him back then, we could have found the Pale Man together. Then, Merlyth would still be alive."] = "",
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["200879108-0-62289 Glad to hear Aerolf is still above ground. I thought his obsession had finally killed him.\n\nYeah, I saw the Pale Man. My sister and I were ranging far north of Solitude, out along the coast. That night, we made camp with a plan to head back at dawn."] = "",
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["204987124-0-62289 When did it arrive?"] =
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["200879108-0-62290 Late, after I fell asleep. Merlyth's scream woke me. I rushed out of the tent and saw it stalking away, carrying her. She was … her neck was twisted. Backward.\n\nI gave chase, but it was quick. Slipped into the shadows without a trail."] = "",
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["text"] = "149328292-0-12169 I don't think we're the first to camp here. Lots of fresh tracks.",
["name"] = "8290981-0-96187 Podróżniczka",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-37704 Ever since it took my brother, I've tracked Pale Man sightings across Skyrim.",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-37705 See, on this map. Yes. There and there.",
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