A melodic mistake.lua (55,496 bytes)
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["204987124-0-46238 So a person is responsible for this?"] =
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["200879108-0-46240 Yes! But not one of us. No, it's a tinkerer. A meddler! Poking around and breaking things. Soiling them!\n\nHe has to be punished. Yes! The song has to be pure. Has to be perfect! If not, the consequences … oh, the consequences!"] = "",
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["200879108-0-46238 Yes! Yes, the song. You've heard it. I can tell.\n\nIt should be quiet. It isn't ready. It isn't perfect. But someone interfered. The ground shook and … the meddling! They broke it! They ruined it!"] = "",
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[1] = "55049764-0-10238 What are you—? No! I can't leave. Not yet!\n\nI tried to follow the foreman. I did! But it won't let me. Not until everything is as it should be. Not until everything is perfect!",
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["200879108-0-46238 Yes! Yes, the song. You've heard it. I can tell.\n\nIt should be quiet. It isn't ready. It isn't perfect. But someone interfered. The ground shook and … the meddling! They broke it! They ruined it!"] =
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["200879108-0-46240 Yes! But not one of us. No, it's a tinkerer. A meddler! Poking around and breaking things. Soiling them!\n\nHe has to be punished. Yes! The song has to be pure. Has to be perfect! If not, the consequences … oh, the consequences!"] =
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["204987124-0-47005 Do you think these kwama egg-hands could help?"] =
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["228103012-0-46701 What about these kwama egg-hands? Could they help?"] =
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["200879108-0-46701 Well … I'm not sure how a kwama leg gland could help us, but you certainly get points for creativity.\n\nAh, I just had an idea. Maybe one of these kwama egg-hands could help! They're in poor condition, but they might hum or mumble something useful."] = "",
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["204987124-0-47004 <Point at Dwarven device.> What is this thing?"] =
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["200879108-0-47005 Ah. It's a tonal resonator. Very powerful and very, very broken.\n\nI'll be happy to tell you all about it once you've fixed it. We're on a bit of a time-table. No offense, but I think the tonal stimuli have already made you a bit … scattered."] = "",
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["228103012-0-46969 What's going on with this device?"] =
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["200879108-0-46969 Sieve lice? Oh dear, you're just as mad as the others, aren't you?\n\nTry to focus. This resonator is broken. I need to set these dials to the correct sequence, but I can't hear the tones. Are you aware of any sequence it could be set to? Just nod."] = "",
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["200879108-0-47004 Co?"] = "",
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["204987124-0-46973 All right. Here goes."] =
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["204987124-0-46969 <Nod your head, \"yes.\">"] =
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["204987124-1-46969 <Shake your head, \"no.\">"] =
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["200879108-0-46973 Well, that's disappointing. But random tinkering is the mother of invention, right?\n\nI need you to turn the dials until you think they're in the right position, then pull that lever. Anything you might have heard or seen could help. I believe in you."] = "",
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[2] = "55049764-1-10218 I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be of much use. Even if I could hear the tones, I wouldn't know how to arrange them.\n\nYou must have heard or seen something on your trip down here, right? Clues of some kind? Just try to remember.",
[1] = "55049764-0-10218 Agh! Gracious, you nearly gave me a heart attack. You're a Redoran enforcer, aren't you? Look, I'm near to fixing this thing, I promise.\n\nWait. How are you not a mumbling imbecile? Don't bother answering. I can't hear a thing. Ears are plugged, see?",
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["55049764-1-10218 I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be of much use. Even if I could hear the tones, I wouldn't know how to arrange them.\n\nYou must have heard or seen something on your trip down here, right? Clues of some kind? Just try to remember."] =
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["55049764-0-10218 Agh! Gracious, you nearly gave me a heart attack. You're a Redoran enforcer, aren't you? Look, I'm near to fixing this thing, I promise.\n\nWait. How are you not a mumbling imbecile? Don't bother answering. I can't hear a thing. Ears are plugged, see?"] =
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["228103012-0-46969 What's going on with this device?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-46973 Well, that's disappointing. But random tinkering is the mother of invention, right?\n\nI need you to turn the dials until you think they're in the right position, then pull that lever. Anything you might have heard or seen could help. I believe in you."] =
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["204987124-0-46973 All right. Here goes."] = "",
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["200879108-0-47005 Ah. It's a tonal resonator. Very powerful and very, very broken.\n\nI'll be happy to tell you all about it once you've fixed it. We're on a bit of a time-table. No offense, but I think the tonal stimuli have already made you a bit … scattered."] =
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["200879108-0-46701 Well … I'm not sure how a kwama leg gland could help us, but you certainly get points for creativity.\n\nAh, I just had an idea. Maybe one of these kwama egg-hands could help! They're in poor condition, but they might hum or mumble something useful."] =
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["204987124-0-46701 What is this thing, exactly?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-46969 Sieve lice? Oh dear, you're just as mad as the others, aren't you?\n\nTry to focus. This resonator is broken. I need to set these dials to the correct sequence, but I can't hear the tones. Are you aware of any sequence it could be set to? Just nod."] =
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["204987124-1-46969 <Shake your head, \"no.\">"] = "",
["204987124-0-46969 <Nod your head, \"yes.\">"] = "",
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["204987124-0-47004 <Point at Dwarven device.> What is this thing?"] = "",
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["87370069-0-22680 Królowa kwama"] =
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[1] = "211899940-0-22680 <The Kwama Queen lies motionless. From the surroundings, it looks like its own kwama children were responsible.>",
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["228103012-0-46672 What do you mean, \"everywhere?\""] =
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["200879108-0-46672 It's spun out of control. Can't you feel it? It echoes and grows. Echoes and grows. Soon it will be too loud for the mine to contain. Everyone will hear it. Everyone. And then ….\n\nNo! We have to fix it!"] = "",
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["204987124-0-46672 Where is it coming from? What do I need to do to fix it?"] =
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["200879108-0-46676 Has to be fixed. Has to be perfect."] = "",
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[1] = "55049764-1-10226 Kwama, Breton, queen, egg-hand—all the same. All just meat. They killed her. Killed their own queen.\n\nDo you see what it does? What it's doing? Broken. All broken. Just the mine for now, but soon? Everywhere.",
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["200879108-0-46672 It's spun out of control. Can't you feel it? It echoes and grows. Echoes and grows. Soon it will be too loud for the mine to contain. Everyone will hear it. Everyone. And then ….\n\nNo! We have to fix it!"] =
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["204987124-0-46672 Where is it coming from? What do I need to do to fix it?"] = "",
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["55049764-1-10226 Kwama, Breton, queen, egg-hand—all the same. All just meat. They killed her. Killed their own queen.\n\nDo you see what it does? What it's doing? Broken. All broken. Just the mine for now, but soon? Everywhere."] =
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["228103012-0-46672 What do you mean, \"everywhere?\""] = "",
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["8290981-0-74804 Alcorana"] =
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["228103012-0-46233 What did I hear just now?"] =
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["200879108-0-46233 A song. The song. Do you see how it shimmers? Do you see its tones? Its colors? It should help make things clear—make things whole. But it doesn't. It doesn't! It has to be fixed!"] = "",
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["204987124-0-46233 Jak to naprawić?"] =
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["200879108-0-46234 Open your ears. You have to find it. The melody. It's shattered and hidden, you see? Tucked away in the noise. But it's there. It has to be. It has to be!"] = "",
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[1] = "55049764-1-10217 The song is calling! You hear it, don't you? I can see it behind your eyes … swimming in there. Can you see the melody? The harmony? Please, you have to see it.",
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["200879108-0-46233 A song. The song. Do you see how it shimmers? Do you see its tones? Its colors? It should help make things clear—make things whole. But it doesn't. It doesn't! It has to be fixed!"] =
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["204987124-0-46233 Jak to naprawić?"] = "",
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["55049764-1-10217 The song is calling! You hear it, don't you? I can see it behind your eyes … swimming in there. Can you see the melody? The harmony? Please, you have to see it."] =
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["228103012-0-46233 What did I hear just now?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-46234 Open your ears. You have to find it. The melody. It's shattered and hidden, you see? Tucked away in the noise. But it's there. It has to be. It has to be!"] =
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["267200725-0-1060 Vvardenfell"] =
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["8290981-0-74640 Sztygar Lathdar"] =
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["249936564-0-7142 About that … the kwama killed their queen during the mine disaster."] =
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["3952276-0-7142 What? No, that can't be. The queen's the heart of the mine! We mine eggs, for Mara's sake! Can't very well run an egg mine without eggs, can you?\n\nI'm sorry. It's been a rough few days. It was that damned Dwarf magic, wasn't it?"] = "",
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["20958740-0-7142 Yes. The song affected everything in there. Even the kwama."] =
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["3952276-1-7142 Revus …. I want you to find that scrawny little wizard and tell him the bill's come due. He wants to help? Well, now's the horking time.\n\nIf he doesn't fix this, we'll sic the Redoran on him. He doesn't want that. Believe me."] = "",
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["204987124-0-46290 And what happens if he's unable to help?"] =
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["200879108-0-46292 Then it'll fall to the Houses to sort this mess out. Of course, they'll probably be too busy posturing and politicking to help us.\n\nIt'll be the egg-hands that suffer most. You can count on that."] = "",
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["228103012-0-46131 A Dark Elf mage accidentally activated a Dwarven mind control device."] =
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["200879108-0-46131 A Dwarven what? How did—? I've worked those mines for years and I've never seen a scrap of Dwarf mischief.\n\nWhere is this snow-backed Dark Elf? It was that Telvanni skeever, Revus, wasn't it?"] = "",
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["204987124-0-46131 Yes, it was Revus. He says he's sorry and offered to help get the mine back on track."] =
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["200879108-0-46132 Hrmph. More Telvanni trickery! And to think, I'd almost warmed to that little dolt.\n\nUgh. Enough grumbling. I'm just grateful that my people are alive and safe."] = "",
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["228103012-0-46290 How do you think Revus can help?"] =
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["200879108-0-46290 That's a question for Revus. Frankly, I don't give a damn how he fixes it. He just needs to fix it.\n\nTell him to use some of that Telvanni magic to conjure up a queen or something. Wait—that's a terrible idea. It'll probably end up eating us."] = "",
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["204987124-0-46132 Me too."] =
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["116521668-0-12157 It's only because of you, friend. I'll raise a bottle of mead to you every night, from now until World's End.\n\nPlease, take this. You've more than earned it for what you've done."] = "",
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["204987124-0-46980 How do you think Revus can help?"] =
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["204987124-0-46292 Did House Redoran ever show up to help with the mines?"] =
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["200879108-0-46980 Bah! Of course not. Too busy praying and hollowing out bugs, no doubt.\n\nBut make no mistake, if they find out a Telvanni mage has been poking around in their territory, they'll come down on this place like a Dawnstar gale."] = "",
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["20958740-1-7142 I'll talk to him. He might have a way to solve this missing queen problem."] =
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["200879108-0-46132 Hrmph. More Telvanni trickery! And to think, I'd almost warmed to that little dolt.\n\nUgh. Enough grumbling. I'm just grateful that my people are alive and safe."] =
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["204987124-0-46132 Me too."] = "",
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["3952276-0-7142 What? No, that can't be. The queen's the heart of the mine! We mine eggs, for Mara's sake! Can't very well run an egg mine without eggs, can you?\n\nI'm sorry. It's been a rough few days. It was that damned Dwarf magic, wasn't it?"] =
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["20958740-0-7142 Yes. The song affected everything in there. Even the kwama."] = "",
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["200879108-0-46292 Then it'll fall to the Houses to sort this mess out. Of course, they'll probably be too busy posturing and politicking to help us.\n\nIt'll be the egg-hands that suffer most. You can count on that."] =
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["204987124-0-46292 Did House Redoran ever show up to help with the mines?"] = "",
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["55049764-1-10135 You did it! My egg-hands started stumbling out of the mine a few minutes ago. They've got some bumps and scrapes and more than a few headaches, but otherwise no worse for the wear.\n\nWhat happened down there?"] =
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["228103012-0-46131 A Dark Elf mage accidentally activated a Dwarven mind control device."] = "",
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["200879108-0-46290 That's a question for Revus. Frankly, I don't give a damn how he fixes it. He just needs to fix it.\n\nTell him to use some of that Telvanni magic to conjure up a queen or something. Wait—that's a terrible idea. It'll probably end up eating us."] =
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["204987124-0-46290 And what happens if he's unable to help?"] = "",
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["3952276-1-7142 Revus …. I want you to find that scrawny little wizard and tell him the bill's come due. He wants to help? Well, now's the horking time.\n\nIf he doesn't fix this, we'll sic the Redoran on him. He doesn't want that. Believe me."] =
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["20958740-1-7142 I'll talk to him. He might have a way to solve this missing queen problem."] = "",
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["200879108-0-46131 A Dwarven what? How did—? I've worked those mines for years and I've never seen a scrap of Dwarf mischief.\n\nWhere is this snow-backed Dark Elf? It was that Telvanni skeever, Revus, wasn't it?"] =
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["204987124-0-46131 Yes, it was Revus. He says he's sorry and offered to help get the mine back on track."] = "",
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["200879108-0-46980 Bah! Of course not. Too busy praying and hollowing out bugs, no doubt.\n\nBut make no mistake, if they find out a Telvanni mage has been poking around in their territory, they'll come down on this place like a Dawnstar gale."] =
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["204987124-0-46980 How do you think Revus can help?"] = "",
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["55049764-3-10135 Revus lives just north of here. You'll see a tangle of old rope-bridges and rocks. Kyne only knows what that wizard does out there.\n\nMake sure you really lay into him, eh? I'd do it myself, but I've got to take care of this lot."] =
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["228103012-0-46980 Did House Redoran ever show up to help with the mines?"] = "",
["228103012-0-46290 How do you think Revus can help?"] = "",
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["55049764-7-10135 With a couple days rest, and a few stiff drinks we'll be up and running again!\n\nI guess I should go check on the queen at some point. She's probably a nervous wreck. Always been a little skittish, that one."] =
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["249936564-0-7142 About that … the kwama killed their queen during the mine disaster."] = "",
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[1] = "55049764-1-10135 You did it! My egg-hands started stumbling out of the mine a few minutes ago. They've got some bumps and scrapes and more than a few headaches, but otherwise no worse for the wear.\n\nWhat happened down there?",
[2] = "55049764-7-10135 With a couple days rest, and a few stiff drinks we'll be up and running again!\n\nI guess I should go check on the queen at some point. She's probably a nervous wreck. Always been a little skittish, that one.",
[3] = "55049764-3-10135 Revus lives just north of here. You'll see a tangle of old rope-bridges and rocks. Kyne only knows what that wizard does out there.\n\nMake sure you really lay into him, eh? I'd do it myself, but I've got to take care of this lot.",
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["8290981-0-74668 Sztygar Lathdar"] =
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["204987124-0-46095 What is the sound doing to the egg-hands, exactly?"] =
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["200879108-0-46097 It's put a hex on them. They won't budge. They just pace and hum and blubber like idiots. Practically had to beat Thagbruth senseless to drag him out here.\n\nSomething in that noise … that song. It's got them by the beards and won't let go."] = "",
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["204987124-0-46943 Quakes?"] =
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["200879108-0-46944 Yeah. I don't know if you noticed, but Red Mountain's been pretty ornery lately. We've been dealing with minor cave-ins for weeks.\n\nCould be that one of those tremors uncovered something it shouldn't have."] = "",
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["228103012-0-46095 Tell me more about what's going on in the mine."] =
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["200879108-0-46095 Sorry for growling and moping. We've just been waiting for these damned Redoran surveyors so long. Kind of lost hope, you know?\n\nMy egg-hands are in buckets of trouble. Some strange noise is turning their brains to pudding. Driving the kwama mad too."] = "",
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["204987124-0-46096 Can you tell me more about this song?"] =
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["200879108-0-46943 Well, it's barely a song. It's just a mash of notes, you know? Crawls up behind your eyeballs and makes you dizzy. Paranoid.\n\nI've been working in these mines for years and I've never heard the like. Might have something to do with all the quakes."] = "",
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["204987124-0-46097 Maybe I could help you investigate."] =
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["200879108-0-46096 Mara's mercy! Thank you, friend. I'm supposed to wait until the Redoran surveyors show up, but to Sovngarde with that! I want my people home safe.\n\nDo what you need to do, but don't stay in there long. I don't want that song to claim you too."] = "",
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[1] = "55049764-0-10141 Well it's about damned time! You daffy House Redoran types have … wait, you're not House Redoran. Bah! Should have known better.\n\nYou'd best move on, stranger. This mine's cursed. It'll snatch you up just like poor Thagbruth if you aren't careful.",
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["200879108-0-46943 Well, it's barely a song. It's just a mash of notes, you know? Crawls up behind your eyeballs and makes you dizzy. Paranoid.\n\nI've been working in these mines for years and I've never heard the like. Might have something to do with all the quakes."] =
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["55049764-0-10141 Well it's about damned time! You daffy House Redoran types have … wait, you're not House Redoran. Bah! Should have known better.\n\nYou'd best move on, stranger. This mine's cursed. It'll snatch you up just like poor Thagbruth if you aren't careful."] =
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["228103012-0-46095 Tell me more about what's going on in the mine."] = "",
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["200879108-0-46097 It's put a hex on them. They won't budge. They just pace and hum and blubber like idiots. Practically had to beat Thagbruth senseless to drag him out here.\n\nSomething in that noise … that song. It's got them by the beards and won't let go."] =
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["204987124-0-46097 Maybe I could help you investigate."] = "",
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["200879108-0-46095 Sorry for growling and moping. We've just been waiting for these damned Redoran surveyors so long. Kind of lost hope, you know?\n\nMy egg-hands are in buckets of trouble. Some strange noise is turning their brains to pudding. Driving the kwama mad too."] =
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["204987124-0-46095 What is the sound doing to the egg-hands, exactly?"] = "",
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["200879108-0-46944 Yeah. I don't know if you noticed, but Red Mountain's been pretty ornery lately. We've been dealing with minor cave-ins for weeks.\n\nCould be that one of those tremors uncovered something it shouldn't have."] =
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["200879108-0-46096 Mara's mercy! Thank you, friend. I'm supposed to wait until the Redoran surveyors show up, but to Sovngarde with that! I want my people home safe.\n\nDo what you need to do, but don't stay in there long. I don't want that song to claim you too."] =
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["Earplugs?"] =
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["Yes! The wondrous power of kwama wax! Given a few minutes of heat exposure, it hardens and expands. Great for plugging leaks, mending furniture, and protecting you from ancient Dwarven brain-scramblers.\n\nFirst rate stuff."] = "",
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["Can I ask you something?"] =
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["Please! After all you've done, I'd say you're entitled to ask me several somethings."] = "",
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["You were down here the entire time?"] =
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["Yes. Several days, in fact.\n\nI erected a series of aural wards to protect myself from the resonator's effects, but I could tell I was slipping. Another few days and I'd have been as mad as those egg-hands. I had to get creative."] = "",
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["Didn't you know about the Gnisis mines being connected?"] =
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["Of course not! I've spent years surveying this ruin. I took so many precautions!\n\nUnfortunately, when I engaged the resonator there were a number of minor tremors. They breached the wall between the ruin and the mine. The rest is tragic history."] = "",
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["Do you think the egg-hands will be all right?"] =
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["Oh dear, I hope so. Their exposure was fairly limited. If they had remained for another day though? Difficult to say.\n\nPlease, let the foreman know how truly sorry I am. If there's anything I can do to help, feel free to call on me at my tower."] = "",
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["Why were you fiddling with this device?"] =
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["I hail from House Telvanni—a house obsessed with magical antiquity. We suffer from a peculiar need to tinker with … well, everything.\n\nI won't make excuses. I knew there were risks. But I honestly had no idea that the miners would be exposed."] = "",
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["What was that machine, exactly?"] =
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["A Dwarven resonator. A tonal amplification device meant to alter thought patterns. That's my hypothesis anyway.\n\nThe tones clearly have a powerful effect on the brain. To the Dwarves though? It might have sounded like a lovely song and nothing more."] = "",
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["You mentioned it might have been used for slavery?"] =
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["Well, not slavery in the conventional sense.\n\nThe tone wouldn't compel the listeners to work, so much as it would make working a source of profound pleasure. So the workers would be eager to work, you see? They might have even paid for the privilege!"] = "",
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["So slavery through mind-control?"] =
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["Well, again, \"slavery\" is a clumsy description. It's more like a transaction. Labor in exchange for brief pleasurable sensations. Much like the skooma trade. I guess that's not much better than slavery, is it?\n\nOf course this is all just conjecture."] = "",
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["What happened back there?"] =
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["I can offer little more than a guess. When you corrected the melody, the resonator returned to a dormant state. Some kind of slumbering function to conserve energy maybe?\n\nWhat matters is that it's quieted down, thank goodness."] = "",
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["Thank you. I'll speak to the foreman."] =
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[2] = "I do wish I could have done a more thorough study of the resonator. What do you think they would do with such a device? Enslavement perhaps? No … not enslavement. That's too obvious.",
[1] = "Ah, the hero of the hour! You have my deepest thanks and most heartfelt compliments. The fact that you fixed it in your clearly addled condition … exemplary work. Just exemplary!\n\nSeems like it's quieted down. I do hope it stays that way.",
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["Oh dear, I hope so. Their exposure was fairly limited. If they had remained for another day though? Difficult to say.\n\nPlease, let the foreman know how truly sorry I am. If there's anything I can do to help, feel free to call on me at my tower."] =
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["Thank you. I'll speak to the foreman."] = "",
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["Yes! The wondrous power of kwama wax! Given a few minutes of heat exposure, it hardens and expands. Great for plugging leaks, mending furniture, and protecting you from ancient Dwarven brain-scramblers.\n\nFirst rate stuff."] =
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["Why were you fiddling with this device?"] = "",
["What was that machine, exactly?"] = "",
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["Please! After all you've done, I'd say you're entitled to ask me several somethings."] =
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["Why were you fiddling with this device?"] = "",
["What was that machine, exactly?"] = "",
["You were down here the entire time?"] = "",
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["Can I ask you something?"] = "",
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["A Dwarven resonator. A tonal amplification device meant to alter thought patterns. That's my hypothesis anyway.\n\nThe tones clearly have a powerful effect on the brain. To the Dwarves though? It might have sounded like a lovely song and nothing more."] =
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["You mentioned it might have been used for slavery?"] = "",
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["I can offer little more than a guess. When you corrected the melody, the resonator returned to a dormant state. Some kind of slumbering function to conserve energy maybe?\n\nWhat matters is that it's quieted down, thank goodness."] =
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["Do you think the egg-hands will be all right?"] = "",
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["Ah, the hero of the hour! You have my deepest thanks and most heartfelt compliments. The fact that you fixed it in your clearly addled condition … exemplary work. Just exemplary!\n\nSeems like it's quieted down. I do hope it stays that way."] =
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["What happened back there?"] = "",
},
["I hail from House Telvanni—a house obsessed with magical antiquity. We suffer from a peculiar need to tinker with … well, everything.\n\nI won't make excuses. I knew there were risks. But I honestly had no idea that the miners would be exposed."] =
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["Didn't you know about the Gnisis mines being connected?"] = "",
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["Well, again, \"slavery\" is a clumsy description. It's more like a transaction. Labor in exchange for brief pleasurable sensations. Much like the skooma trade. I guess that's not much better than slavery, is it?\n\nOf course this is all just conjecture."] =
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["Why were you fiddling with this device?"] = "",
["You were down here the entire time?"] = "",
},
["Yes. Several days, in fact.\n\nI erected a series of aural wards to protect myself from the resonator's effects, but I could tell I was slipping. Another few days and I'd have been as mad as those egg-hands. I had to get creative."] =
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["Earplugs?"] = "",
},
["Of course not! I've spent years surveying this ruin. I took so many precautions!\n\nUnfortunately, when I engaged the resonator there were a number of minor tremors. They breached the wall between the ruin and the mine. The rest is tragic history."] =
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["You were down here the entire time?"] = "",
["What was that machine, exactly?"] = "",
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["Well, not slavery in the conventional sense.\n\nThe tone wouldn't compel the listeners to work, so much as it would make working a source of profound pleasure. So the workers would be eager to work, you see? They might have even paid for the privilege!"] =
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["So slavery through mind-control?"] = "",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-26948 You hear it don't you? But it's not as it should be …. Not at all.",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-26958 It's not time yet. It should be quiet. It should be sleeping. Damned groundquakes … must have been. Must have been!",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-27167 The queen is dead. Dead and gone, just like the rest. The song made it happen. Made them do it.",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-27174 I should never have touched this damned thing. Stupid Revus. Just have to tinker with everything, don't you? Ugh.",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-27173 Argh! I really thought I had it that time. Curse you, you buzzing hunk of junk! This is spite, isn't it? I'm sorry I broke you, all right?",
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[1] =
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["text"] = "115740052-0-27181 Well, that didn't work. But keep trying! There are only one thousand twenty-four possible combinations, after all. We'll have it in no time!",
["name"] = "8290981-0-75523 Revus Demnevanni",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-27148 Bah! Fresh air's not going to do the trick, boss. Whatever's down there has still got a grip on him.",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-27146 Can't you hear it? The song? It's all wrong! We have to … we have to fix it!",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-27241 I knew that Telvanni would betray us eventually! We should have cast him out years ago!",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-27239 Ha! See? Everything worked out. I have a small camp set outside of this room. We can talk there.",
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["text"] = "115740052-0-27238 What … what happened? Come on, let's get out of here!",
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