＄03-00-09-12-1-0 [soundStopAll] [enableFullScreen] [charaSet A 1098216200 1 Totorot] [charaSet B 1098231510 1 Mash] [charaSet C 1098215200 1 Aesc] [charaSet D 1098211800 1 "Black Knight"] [imageSet L back10000 1] [charaScale L 1.01] [imageSet M back10000 1] [charaScale M 1.01] [overlayFadein L 0.1 0,-745] [overlayFadein M 0.1 0,745] [wt 0.1] [scene 122400] [fadein black 1.0] [wait fade] [bgm BGM_EVENT_139 0.1] ＠ After the incident at the pit, Mash and Aesc began investigating ruins all around Britain. [k] ＠ Their only leads were the stories passed down within the Mirror clan, and the murals left by the Rain clan. [k] ＠ And so, they set out from west to east on a great adventure in search of written records left behind by humans. [k] ＠ Between running into mors, getting attacked by anti-Londinium faeries... [k] ＠ ...and fighting the occasional giant monster when Aesc felt like it, things weren't always easy... [k] ＠ But, when all was said and done, these travels became lovely memories! Of course, it helped that Mash was always so strong and awesome no matter what! [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 0.7] [wait fade] [charaFadeout L 0.1] [charaFadeout M 0.1] [scene 117502] [wt 0.5] [fadein black 0.7] [wait fade] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 2] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Totorot Hey Mash, didn't you call me by some[sr]weird name when we first met? [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 3] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash I-I, um, guess I did... I'm sorry! [k] [messageOff] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 6] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] [wt 1.0] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 21] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash You, um, looked so much like someone else I know that it just slipped out! [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 14] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Totorot Really!? There's someone out there who looks just like me!? What are they like!? [k] [messageOff] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 3] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] [wt 1.0] [charaFace B 13] ＠Mash I only spent a little time with her, but that was enough for me to know she's a wonderful person. [k] ＠Mash She's brave, and kind, and dependable, and she spent a lot of time in her workshop making all sorts of clothes. [k] ＠Mash Her name is Habetrot. She's a very happy faerie who wants nothing more than to be a friend to brides everywhere. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 16] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Totorot Whoa, so there's a faerie like that in the future, huh!? I guess her name does sound a lot like mine! [k] ＠Totorot Maybe it's a fake name, like Aesc's! Maybe she's trying to cover up her True Name! [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 6] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash ... [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 7] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Aesc That's enough, Mash. You agreed not to tell us too much about the future, remember? [k] [messageOff] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 6] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] [wt 1.0] [charaFace B 8] ＠Mash You're right. I'm sorry. I thought it would make Totorot happy, and I didn't stop to think about what I was doing... [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 3] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Totorot G-gotcha. You can be pretty careless sometimes, huh, Mash? I'm sorry, too. [k] ＠Totorot Still... [k] [charaFace A 1] ＠Totorot I like the idea of being a friend to brides everywhere, too! That sounds like a great life to me! [k] [messageOff] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [overlayFadein L 0.1 0,-800] [overlayFadein M 0.1 0,800] [charaMove L 0,-745 0.5] [charaMove M 0,745 0.5] [wt 0.7] ＠ [lr]Well, they had a lot of conversations like that,[sr]so I thought I'd include one for posterity. [k] ＠ Anyway, their search through ruins lasted about five months. [k] ＠ They didn't learn much, but they didn't give up, either. [k] ＠ They kept doggedly pursuing the threads of Britain's history, and eventually arrived at the Priestess's Prophecy. [k] ＠ It was Britain's first prophecy of destruction[line 2]a curse left behind by the first human, the priestess of the enshrined deity. [k] ＠ It predicted there would be four major wars named after the four seasons, but the war of winter had not yet happened. [k] ＠ They never did find out what it meant. [k] ＠ Really all we got from our expedition was a lot of fun memories. [k] ＠ And while I know I've already written this down several times, let me remind you once again that this took place in Fae Era 400. [k] ＠ Now, there were only a few days to go until the coronation at Londinium, which would decide the fate of all of Britain. [k] ＠ And as one of the key figures in that coronation,[sr]Aesc needed to return to the castle soon. [k] [messageOff] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_139 1.0] [fadeout black 1.0] [wait fade] [charaFadeout L 0.1] [charaFadeout M 0.1] [scene 107804] [wt 1.5] [fadein black 1.0] [wait fade] [bgm BGM_EVENT_94 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 2] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Totorot There, the needlework's all done! All I have to do now is make the embroidery motifs! [k] [charaFace A 1] ＠Totorot I think I'll make a purple rose for Aesc, and a blue rose for Mash! [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 0] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] ＠Black Knight Let me see... Hmm, you did a good job.[sr]I have no complaints. [k] ＠Black Knight You've gone from crybaby to expert.[sr]This is why I love handicrafts. [k] ＠Black Knight Although, I'm not sure about using embroidery for the brooch. [k] ＠Black Knight Aesc's going to be a queen, so she should have something that shines. I think a pattern of beads modeled after the world tree should do the trick. [k] ＠Black Knight Here, give me that. Let me show you how it's done. [k] [messageOff] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk depthOff] [charaDepth D 2] [charaDepth A 1] [charaFace D 0] [charaFadeinFSL D 0.1 0] [charaFace A 0] [charaFadeinFSR A 0.1 2] [se ade190] [seVolume ade190 0 0.3] [wt 0.4] [seStop ade190 0.5] [wt 0.8] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 16] ＠Totorot Whoa, have you always been that good with your hands, Black Knight!? You're like some sort of sewing master! [k] [messageOff] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_94 1.5] [wipeout rectangleStripRightToLeft 0.7 1] [wait wipe] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.5] [wipein rectangleStripLeftToRight 0.7 1] [wait wipe] [bgm BGM_EVENT_95 0.1] [charaTalk depthOn] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 6] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Aesc Totorot's changed so much since you came along, Mash. And it's all thanks to you. [k] ＠Aesc We've been together for hundreds of years, but I've never seen this side of her before. [k] [charaFace C 30] ＠Aesc Ugh, I really am a terrible friend. I was so caught in the fighting, I never even noticed what Totorot was going through, and she's always been there for me. [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 13] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash Oh no, it was nothing. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time, that's all. [k] ＠Mash And the only reason Totorot got interested in making clothes in the first place is the upcoming coronation. [k] ＠Mash She said she wanted to make you a gown so pretty that you'd be the fairest faerie in all of Britain. [k] ＠Mash So I'm sure she would have gone on to become a great tailor even if I'd never shown up. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 11] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Aesc ... [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 12] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash Aesc...? [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 4] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Aesc ...All right. I think you deserve to know at least a little of how I really feel. [k] [charaFace C 0] ＠Aesc I'm no savior, Mash. All I want to do is keep Britain itself alive. [k] ＠Aesc I no longer have any intention of saving all its faeries, or of protecting humans like you. [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 6] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash ...Huh!? [k] ＠Mash What are you saying? You ARE protecting everyone.[sr]I've seen it myself. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 4] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Aesc ...Here's the thing, Mash. [k] ＠Aesc For the last thirty-six hundred years, I've been dispelling the calamities that appear every hundred years, and the Great Calamities that appear every thousand. [k] ＠Aesc ...Before, when I said I would let the faeries handle the aftermath and go to sleep in a coffin... Well, it wasn't the whole truth. [k] ＠Aesc The truth is, every time I saved them from a calamity...the faeries would come after me. [k] ＠Aesc I've never known a moment of true peace. The only thing I could ever do was run for my life and hibernate for years at a time. [k] ＠Aesc I'm sure that, at the start, I really did want to build an ideal nation. [k] [charaFace C 6] ＠Aesc But not now. Not anymore. [k] ＠Aesc Every time I decide to work harder and finally get it right next time, I only ever end up having more stones thrown at me. [k] ＠Aesc I've been imprisoned, crucified, beheaded, drowned, burned... The only thing they haven't done is poison me. [k] ＠Aesc So, by now, I've stopped putting my hopes in faeries. [k] ＠Aesc My only companions are Totorot, the Black Knight,[sr]and Wryneck. I'm not even sure about Uther. [k] ＠Aesc Even they only see me as an important tool. Nothing more. [k] ＠Aesc So I only fight to protect Britain for myself. It's the only place I belong. [k] ＠Aesc That's why I'm going to unify the faeries and give humans the right to build a kingdom. [k] [charaFace C 0] ＠Aesc That's the Britain I want[line 2]the sort of story Proper Human History would never allow. [k] ＠Aesc I've never been Aesc the Savior.[sr]I'm just Aesc the Witch. [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 20] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash But... But surely there must have been at least one good faerie, right? [k] ＠Mash One who believed in you, and understood you? [k] ＠Mash Wasn't there ever a single faerie you genuinely wanted to help? [k] [messageOff] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 34] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] [wt 1.2] [charaFace C 1] ＠Aesc No, there wasn't. Not a single one. That's why things turned out this way. [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 4] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash ... [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 5] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Aesc Mash, you came here from the Era of the High Queen. I don't know which faction you belong to in that time. [k] ＠Aesc I can never know, for if I did, that would change what happens in the future. [k] ＠Aesc I've been vacillating for a long time now about whether to kill you or save you... [k] [charaFace C 6] ＠Aesc ...but I don't think it matters now. This is the Fae Era[line 2]a history entirely of the Tree of Emptiness's making. [k] ＠Aesc And as long as that tree exists,[sr]anything goes in its Lostbelt. [k] ＠Aesc No matter what may be added to this world, it will simply adjust its history to match. [k] ＠Aesc Things don't have to make sense in a world with a Tree of Emptiness. [k] ＠Aesc The reason Morgan was so cavalier about using the water mirror to send things back in time to the Fae Era... [k] ＠Aesc ...is her awareness that nothing which changed in the Fae Era will affect the start of the Era of the High Queen. [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 0] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash ...So, you're saying worlds created by Trees of Emptiness can tolerate a fair number of discrepancies without falling apart? [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 6] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Aesc That's right. That's why I'm here. The Fae Era is the last point in time where things can be so wibbly-wobbly. [k] ＠Aesc The moment you spoke of the Era of the High Queen, I had a flash of insight as to how the future must have played out. [k] ＠Aesc She must have used all the magical energy stored inside the Tree of Emptiness to transform this Lostbelt into a Singularity. [k] ＠Aesc I still won't know why she chooses to do that until the time comes, of course... [k] [charaFace C 0] ＠Aesc But in the meantime, Mash, I can tell you that you can only exist while the Fae Era lasts. [k] ＠Aesc In four hundred years, at the start of the Era of the High Queen, you'll disappear whether you're still alive or dead. [k] ＠Aesc You do understand that, right? [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 4] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash ...Yes. I arrived in Britain in year 2019 of the Era of the High Queen. [k] ＠Mash Since I didn't exist in that era before that date, when the Tree of Emptiness dies... [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 30] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Aesc Ugh, I swear.[sr]Just because Fae Era's history can be changed... [k] ＠Aesc ...that doesn't give her the right to send every problem she can't handle back to the past to let nature disappear it for her. [k] ＠Aesc And now she's started sending Servants as well as calamities? Unbelievable. [k] ＠Aesc That's just pathetic, is what it is. [k] [charaFace C 6] ＠Aesc So I guess the least I can do is make things right. [k] ＠Aesc Since I'm mixed up in all of this too, it's my responsibility to send you back to the future you came from. [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 6] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash A-are you sure? No, wait. Is that even possible!? [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 11] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Aesc ...In a way, yes. [k] ＠Aesc It should work as long as there aren't any historical inconsistencies leading up to the calamity of Norwich in year 2019 of the Era of the High Queen. [k] [charaFace C 6] ＠Aesc So, how would you feel about hiding out at the farthest edge of the world, where no one would ever see you? [k] [messageOff] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 21] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] [wt 1.0] [fadeout black 2.0] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_95 2.0] [wait fade] [wt 0.5] [soundStopAll] [end]