LOONar Lore

Inns. A staple of the fantasy genre.

This is where parties are formed, quests are dished out, triumphs are celebrated with Lucullan banquets. This is where new friendships are formed, where backs are stabbed, and where novice and seasoned adventurers can mingle, certain that, no matter what their level of experience, something new awaits them. Something exciting.

Uta gets off the chims, and her mind seems to wander; with her cheek propped up by one forearm and a tankard of beer held in the other, she looks towards the corner of the inn housing the bullettin board with a sort of melancholic smile. "Looking for new quests," She mutters to herself, and shakes her head. She takes a sip.

Erufu doesn't stop here too much given she doesn't pass this way, while there was another eatery she was aware of. She also knew the infamous Morri was around there. So her the elf was as she as she wandered in and sat down at one of the tables as she spys Ua.

"Uta? Hello! What are you up to?"

Yeowang is a complete newcomer to the fantasy genre, and she doesn't know anything about the inns other than that you can get a room here and sleep for a night, and you can buy food here. And of course you can run into friends entirely by chance, as happens now when she enters and spots Uta and Erufu over there, and she will head over, calling a greeting and shouting at the server for food, which she seems to have mastered completely. "Hello, you two," she says as she makes her way over.

"Uh? Oh. Oh! Hello, Erufu!", Uta smiles. "Glad you could make it!"

"...that is, if I invited you. If you invited me, uh... who invited whom again?" She frowns. Then shakes her head. "Anyway, that is moderately irrelevant. What is irrelevant is that I wanted to tell you- hello Yeowang!"

Short pause. "No, no, I didn't want to tell you 'hello Yeowang'. I wanted to tell /Yeowang/ 'hello Yeowang'. You, I wanted to tell that-" A frown.

"Let me have a do over about this." Big inhale. Rest cheek on balled fist, and let out a nostalgic sigh. "Ah, the Hostess of Fertility. You know, I love their newbie-friendly policy." She perks up, straightening her back so her cheek is no longer propped up by her fist. "Have I mentioned I got stuck here on my first day of play? I literally had to learn the ropes after the Apocalypse." She gestures towards the counter. "I stuck around Alne a lot back then, because it was, well, safer than going out there without any idea of what you're doing. And these people have made sure that I felt respected and welcome."

Some silence.

"So, what have you two been up to?"

Erufu looks at the Spriggan with a level of concern for a moment. "It is good to see you Uta, it sounds like you had quite the adventure that day. For myself? Goblin hunting and gathering materials since we finished the statue." Also trying to get Goblin Slayer's attention but that is going as well as expected. "So you are still seeking the truth of the history of the world, correct? I have recalled something that might be of use..."

Yeowang tries to folllow Uta's stream of consciousness to thr end of the river, where it spills out not inro an estaury or bay, but spells into a swampy morass of confusion. Of course her own fiest days were very confusing, and she still isn't entirely happy with the way the UI performs. But she can mosrly manage conversation. "Me?" she wonders to Uta. "Trying to put together a scouting expedition into Kallamore," she explains, then falls silent as Erufu explains that she's found some important historical info.

"Expeditions are good. Especially in Kallamore, now that we have that gigantic statue of the Goddess to help us," Uta confirms to Yeowang. "I would be interested to keep informed about the developments there."

"Always," Uta replies to Erufu. "Always seeking the Truth about the History and Nature of this world, and Those that Came Before. Also Songs. I like me a good Song," Uta nods, then leans over, arms crossed, and whispers a conspirational "Shoot-"

The food. I mean, the food Yeowang ordered arrives right this moment, delivered by a blonde Pooka waitress. "Your order!"

Erufu says "That's good to know and some time ago there was a quest I was on with other Adventurers and one jumped into a portal. She ended up on the green moon and when she returned to one of the Cathedrals she had quite the tale to tell about what was to be found there..." She looks over to Yeowang and tils her head a bit. "Do you need aid on such a operation?"

Yeowang smiles as the Pooka shows up with her order. "Thank you," she says as the food arrives. She will wait until the server departs before giving Uta the timing for the expedition to Kallamore. "If you can make it, I'd be glad to have you along. It's an infiiltration, but not like ninjas, but like pretending to be normal Palace Lands folk, and seeing what we can see." And of course Loremastering what may be Loremastered, Yeowang may have some particular talent for this mission. Erufu gers a nod, "You're invited as well," she says. "Sharp eyes will be valuable, I expect." The mention of a portal to the Green Moon gets an arched eyebrow. "I did not know there were portals in this game anymore," she explains. "I had understood that they existed before and in this latest version were all rendered inert?"

Erufu nods to Yeowang. "I also have a few things that could help with sneaking around if we have to stop posing as Palace Land folk. Did not the Ninjas of Yamato pose as the most unremakable sorts to avoid detection?" She grins at this bit of information.

"It may be a poor way to descibe it but she ended up on the moon and what she found there?. Facoties massive factories that produce monsters and their eggs. The strange nature of the factroies are like nothing I have heard of before and there was a great deal of Machina protecting it along with ... weapon emplacements which also too had a will of their own."

"The Chaos gates," Uta confirms to Yeowang on the subject of portals. "They seem to have been broken as part of the events of the Apocalypse. I have asked the Landers what their memories of them are like -- and it turns out that they do remember them working in the past, so that checks out."

"I would love to be there in Kallamore, absolutely! I love me a good infiltration!", Uta exclaims. And then frowns. "Uhm. I'll need to go find a disguise somewhere..." She taps her lips. "...let's see, who do I know who can Tailor... who do I know who-"

Freeze. Eyes pop.

"Uh.... I'll take care of this later, yes," Uta nods at Yeowang.

"Yes, Estelle, right? I remember that.", Uta replies to Erufu. "I am not entierely sure about the events that led to that, but I remember she was teleported to the Green Moon. She had no way to transport back to Yamato, so she was killed up there and resurrected at her Church. 48 hours timer for her respawn instead of the usual 12," Uta begins to rattle out; but then she stops, and looks down, somber. "Poor Estelle... based on what we've learned from the Uncrowned, she must have lost part of herself..."

Uta nods at the mention of the factiories. "And that terrible, terrible song was blasted from a sword-like mural. You know, the 47th Song. Also known as the Sublimation Song."

Yeowang gives Erufu a shrug about the ninjas of Yamato. "I don't know, but that's how infiltration is done traditionally." In RL, she means, but she can't say that to Erufu. As to the moon factories, she says, "So, she found a portal to where monsters are produced and ... didn't tell people? Only told a few people? This seems like important infotmation that should be shared. Where is this portal? Are adventurers guarding it?"

She looks puzzled as Uta considers Gwen as a disguise-maker, and she notes, "Just think, /no one/ will think it's you, looking like how she'd disguise you. Probably no one would be looking at your face," she adds more quietly, nodding slowly as Uta explains about the moon conditions and the song. "I think that must have happened before I joined up with NWA. I don't think I ever met that person."

Erufu says "It was during a quest my memories of the event are somewhat fuzzy. The portal no longer exists it closed aftershe jumped in and the only way she was able to return was by dying. I fear she's been rather unaviliable for some time."

Yeowang has a point, which Uta acknowledges with a nod. "I suppose you're right. I'll have to hit up Gwen for some appropriate disguise as soon as I get out."

But wait, Yeowang has -another- excellent point. At which point (pun not intended) Uta slaps her forehead. "I -knew- I had forgotten to do something!" She shimmers a small notebook into existence. She extracts a fountain pen from somewhere on her outfit, and begins to scribble down, "Note to self, publish the information abo-"

Silence.

"Oh, look, it's already there."

"That is why I am glad I have finally managed to get myself a Teleport Crystal," Uta says, shimmering her loot from the Karluin monster nest liberation into existence. "Should I ever find myself in similar situations, at least I won't have to -die-..."

Uta sighs, and looks down. "If only we had this information before Estelle had to..."

Strong, resolute shake of her head. "No, no, that's enough regretting the past. Present. Focus on the present." Uta looks at Erufu, level. "So, we've found out the name of the song. The Sublimation Song. Do you have any idea of what that could mean?"

Yeowang ahhs as Erufu explains sbout the portal closing. "Well, that's good," she says. "Though I suppose that monsters come to the world somehow. It would gave been useful to know about how monsters are made." She peers at Uta as she acknowledges her point, but then gets sidetracked again. "No point in regretting the past," she says, working on her meal, "Unless you can use information to change things in the future. That's what lessons of the past are for: changing the future."

Erufu looks to Yeoang. "Now that we know what is there we could put our efforts toward returning and destroying the factories. It would greatly lesson the suffering of the people of the world even if could remove even a single monster race such as goblins from existance..."

"I have tried to take a census of slimes. Do slimes reproduce naturally? Are they manufactured?", Uta wonders. "Result: inconclusive," she frowns.

"Oh! Oh! Erufu! I forgot!", she suddenly exclaims, punching the palm of her hand. "I have met a... person who lived for a long, long, loooooong time." Ascheriit, the Spriggan 'Hero', explicitly asked to keep his presence a secret, so Uta will comply on that. "They said that they once met, in the town of Orth, a Flugel who could heal people through the sheer use of Song. I'm trying to find out more about this, and I'll take all the help I can." She counts on her fingers. "All I know, up to now, is that I've ruled out the town of Orth being either in Yamato or the Palace Lands."

Yeowang nods to Erufu about lessening the suffering of the masses. "That would definitely be a good thing if it can be done," she agrees. She looks a bit confused as Uta goes of on a tangent about slimes. "Uh, ok," she says, and the mention of a Flugel draws a puzzled look, but then she puts a hand to her stomach and mumbles, "Pardon me," and rushes off in the direction of the privvy.