Dialogue[]
| “ | Royal attendants find a strange, humming device in the cellar chambers that contains the iron grate to who knows where. <This must be the work of dwarves/You suspect that it is the work of dwarves/The dwarves have struck you once again>. <The items you piled on the grate are nowhere to be seen. The dwarves must have taken them away.>
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— Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out | ||
Consequences[]
If you successfully break it apart with hammers and chisels, you turn the machine into inert metal, neutralizing whatever dwarf magic was inside. If so, Mood improves.
If you successfully call on squirrel spirits to nest in it, they will clog the machine, rendering it inert. If so, Mood improves. Weeks later, the device will be gone, presumable reclaimed by the dwarves.
If you shout down, offering to make peace, you are asked whether to gift them. They may hear you out and explain their version of history: that Beren had enslaved them to build Berenstead. This runs counter to your version of events, but you are asked if you accept this as truth, "Yes" or "No". If you say Yes they may disassemble their device and take it with them. Still, dealing with this historical revisionism may have Mood decrease.
Advice[]
- "I'll wait outside. The rest of you can act as you see fit." - Iverlantho
- "Exercise utmost caution." - Venef
- "I know some squirrel spirits." - Dresta/Shaman
- "We must learn who or what we are dealing with." - Serestev/Lore Expert
- "We used to think dwarves the benevolent builders of Berenstead, but have since learned that they worked for Beren as captives." - Lhankor Mhy devotee/Lore expert, alternate
- "<Player Clan> insight may help disarm it. I am also good with squirrel spirits." - Doresa/Shaman
- "Ordinarily it would be folly to take it apart. But folly is my secret name." - Eurmal trickster
- "More trouble from the dwarves." - Reda/Diplomat
- "Past <talks with them went poorly/dwarf indicents ended amicably. Or acceptably, I should say>." - Rodene/Diplomat
- "The people will punish careless risk taking."
- "Squirrels, and their spritis, are often where they're not wanted."
- "We must pursure not just peace with those unlike us, but full alliance."
- "It's hissing."