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“Wait, I thought she said she never wanted to see you again?”
“And she’s still in the capital, right? Surrounded by the Guard?”
“What if she calls them on you?”
“It could happen. But…”
“The last time we spoke, I was… shut down. Not in my right mind. I could barely understand what was happening around me.”
“I certainly couldn’t explain myself to her…”
“And do you remember what I told you about Saffron, how much she did to support my rise to Champion?”
“She did all the talking behind the scenes while I was in the field. She’s smart. Calm, collected… and she knew how to tell people what they needed to hear.”
“In retrospect, I can’t help but wonder… is that what she was doing the last time I saw her?”
“The things she said, was it all an act to keep our daughter safe?”
“Oh! Do you think?!”
“I… don’t know. I don’t know if she was being honest or not. That’s why I need to see her, at least one more time.”
“If she tells me to leave, I’ll respect that, but… I have to be sure.”
“And I have to make sure I don’t bring the Guard down on her, either way.”
“There was a place we used to go, just the two of us, every year the night after the Equinox.”
“It’s high up on a wall overlooking the water. The Guard doesn’t patrol there, at least not during the biggest party of the year.”
“The Equinox is coming up pretty soon…”
“Yeah. I can’t shake this feeling…”
“She’ll be there.”
“And if she is, I think it means…”
“I get it.”
“We’ll go check. Just the two of us, same as how we started out, so we won’t stand out too much.”
“Thank you Ricki.”
I reiterate.
I vote we go to kamau’s bond dungeon before anyone elses.
To clarify, im afraid Ama shenanigans will make kamau’s much harder later…
I do not think we’ve seen _any_ effect of optional previous dungeons on the setup/issues/perils in other optional dungeons, right?
Yes, but Ama is also sketchy. I’m somewhat worried that helping him at all in the first place is the path to a bad end. Literally every character that’s given us good reason to trust them has told us to watch our back around Ama but we’ve set ourselves up to help him over the beloved literal mother of the protagonist.
I think some other people brought up a good point on waiting to do Kamau second (at least), since it would allow him to benefit from the manor upgrades that give people bonuses when they sit a dungeon out. Since he and Botanya just came back from a dungeon neither of them will have that, but Mac and Amadeusz will.
So with that being said… I think we should do Mac’s dungeon first, since saving Amadeusz for last already feels like a wise decision since he’s definitely the one with “Faustian Bargain” coding.
But “The Equinox is coming up pretty soon…” – do you think we can finish Mac’s Dungeon and the following intermission and reach the place before equinox?
It was left vague for story purposes so we could do any number of dungeons if we wanted. LSN would let us know if a dungeon is going to expire.
Cool, two in the city. Lets just do them both at the same time