MESSAGES

[kingmakereffect]

If you have something to ask the Kingmaker about over the phone, this is where it goes! The Kingmaker will answer the phone as soon as he's available. There isn't an option to leave a message on his voicemail, but the Kingmaker will take your calls at almost any hour of the day.

Your smartphones will only connect to the Kingmaker. There is no option to dial a number, instead it will connect automatically to his phone.

Comments are screened for privacy; no listening in on each other's private conversations without permission, after all.

Comments

[kingmakereffect]

Where I got my information isn't something you need to know now. You really are trying so hard to get answers out of me.

[...he sounds really amused...]

[notjustawriter]

[not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing....]

Can you blame a guy? Ain't every day someone claims to have saved you from your dyin' world.

[WHO THEN MAKES PEOPLE KILL EACH OTHER]

[kingmakereffect]

Well, that's certainly true.

[wokeupdead]

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...You really aren't helpful in the least, huh? It's not like we would be able to do anything even if we knew the answer to these things.

[Except have peace of mind which the kingmaker is being a JERK about.]

[captainobnoxious]

[IT'S ALL YOU CAN ASK FOR, REALLY]

Well, it came about some ninety years ago and killed off all of the old world. Or at least ninety years ago we learned how to deal with it and there were enough immune people to sustain the cities we had, to fight back against what had become of the lands.

[Whiiich she'll get to in time. It's good that these beds are so comfy, because she can see herself laying here for a while yet.]

It basically starts out as a really bad rash, and those that have it are dead already. I'm not a doctor person so I can't tell you a lot of those kind of details, but like with any illness we make really good carriers -- and anything that eats us ends up the same way. So to prevent that, we burn the bodies or bury them under rocks. Usually the latter if there's no usable wood nearby.

Thankfully, outside of licking something, there's not many ways someone who's not immune can get it, and they're usually kept safe behind the walls. People like me who are immune get to explore the Silent Lands and take back what the oldworlders left behind.

[notjustawriter]

How'd you figure it out, anyway? That a bunch of worlds were dyin'.

[kingmakereffect]

Maybe, maybe not. I'm not telling you for a reason, you know.

[kingmakereffect]

I see. You're very lucky, then. Do you like exploring the Silent Lands? What sort of things do you find?

[kingmakereffect]

...That's a long story, and not one I feel like sharing.

[wokeupdead]

Can you give me a hint for the reason at least? Like, are you not allowed to talk about it?

[She still doesn't think he's working alone.]

[captainobnoxious]

Ah-ah maker, one question at a time.

[She can do it too!! Petty revenge!!!]

But I do! It's a lot of fun and it's nice to think that I'm the first person seeing some of the stuff out there. You mostly find exactly what you're looking for: I'm a troll hunter, so I find trolls. Actually, you usually find them whether you're looking for them or not, because creatures like that have made the Silent Lands their home. The Danes like to look for old world technology and treasure for some reason.

[kingmakereffect]

No, that's not it. But other than that, I'm not giving you any hints.

[kingmakereffect]

...Alright, I walked right into that one. Well played.

[He sounds amused at least!!]

What are trolls exactly? Monsters of some sort, right?

[captainobnoxious]

[She wins!!]

The smarter people call them the "echos of history" and fancy stuff like that, but when you get down to yet, yeah. Really gross looking too.

Besides trolls there's also beasts and giants, all very different, but the commonality of all of them is that they're dangerous, spread the Illness, and have to be gotten rid of so that we can live there again. No one really gets where they came from or why, but seeing as some of them are about human sized it's thought that the Illness made them that way. Since that happened with the beasts who were infected.

[kingmakereffect]

I see. That sounds... interesting.

[It sounds like he was looking for a different word, but you can practically hear the shrug when he settles on that one.]

It goes without saying that anyone who willingly goes out there to fight them must be very brave.

[wokeupdead]

So you just don't want to? I don't see how us stewing around confused makes this any more interesting for you.

[She's ignoring that 'I'm not giving you any hints' line.]

[isafraid]

Who knows what the reason is, maybe I just wished to talk about the weather with another bloke!

[...he's trying]

[captainobnoxious]

[Interesting is a good way to put it, but.]

I told you it wasn't a happy tale, right? But I'm used to it, so bravery doesn't even come to mind when I think about tracking them down. It's just my sworn duty as an Eide.

[And one she's very clearly proud of.]

[kingmakereffect]

Whether it does or not isn't important. You all have to worry about yourselves, not me.

[kingmakereffect]

There's no weather in the Vault though.

[kingmakereffect]

Is this something your family has done for a long time?

[isafraid]

And that's why I'm asking you!

[captainobnoxious]

As long as I can remember! [ehhh] Well, maybe since my grandparents anyway. I grew up hearing all about the glorious tales of them and the rest of my family, from cousins to brothers in arm, so it's only natural I'd want to find my footing while I'm still young.

[Treasure, glory, recognition -- no one in their right mind would've refused the expedition she'd volunteered herself onto, even if it's still fuzzy as to what they were doing out there in the first place.]

... And now I'm here, so that's a thing. You sure know how to take the glory away from dying.

[kingmakereffect]

You don't need to know what it's like outside. If you want to leave this place we can discuss the weather then.

[will you kill someone to know the weather, speedwagon]

[kingmakereffect]

"The glory away from dying"... hmm. That's an interesting thought.

[...]

Thank you for sharing that with me, Boundless. I appreciate it.