Mission: Building the Future in Pagoda

[lucetimods]

Who: Anyone who volunteered
What: A very special mission that will fill you with a youthly sense of purpose. Or something.
When: July 20th - July 24th
Where: The enclosure of Pagoda
Summary: Mission detailed here. There are survivors to help and buildings to repair, and plenty more to keep the volunteers on their toes.
Rating: PG-13 for reasons

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Comments

[sosayi]

In other words you are as clueless as I, though in a far different fashion.

[Though she seems sad about that. So Silver had the same sort of past that many of her own people did... She kind of wants to take care of him...]

I am sorry to hear that you lived in such a manner. As I have stated, many of my people lived the same way, and were cast as hopeless thieves in due time. [Not even her guards wanted to deal with it.] However, despite that, you are a good person.

[feistytrader]

...I'm pretty sure I'm still a hopeless thief.

[sosayi]

Certainly not. You do not resemble my people in a way other than your upbringing.

[feistytrader]

What do you mean? [What are they like?]

[sosayi]

[... This is all her fault. And it's clear in her tone she has a lot of guilt over her people.]

They have given up on being anything other than what they are. My land has been cursed for a long while, and I am ashamed to say that no matter what I have done in order to improve their lives they have always returned to one filled with crime and a fear of the monsters who have more or less taken over the town. The royal guards whom have long sworn to protect have fallen into disarray as well.

[feistytrader]

What kind of monsters? [Hilda can be creepy and strange sometimes, but she's nothing if not full of hope and determination. Have her people really given up hope?]

[sosayi]

To be truthful, I am not sure how to explain them in a way which does not demean their frightfulness. They are beings which have fierce faces, and are able to wield any sort of weapon they pick up. They are aggressive and ruthless, honorable only to each other, and are impermeable to most attacks. They are found in every corner of my pitiable land...

... Though it would not be wrong to say that the people have become monsters as well. Without a thought to anyone but themselves, they, under a skeletal leader, have made the town to the east their home and do nothing to help each other.

[feistytrader]

[A skeletal leader. Like a real skeleton?

Well, that's not the craziest thing he's heard of...]

You can't do some cool magic thing to stop them? [...Hilda does have magic, right? She has a cool staff and everything, and that's what they did during that one experiment- beat up monsters.

Maybe she needs a tank.]

[sosayi]

And cause more distrust to arise from the public? Certainly, I could, but the consequences of it are more weighty than I would think worth it. They are rather content in their stasis of being as much as it pains me.

[And there's people after her head back home, but she won't mention that.]

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[feistytrader]

If someone fought back against those monsters, wouldn't it give them hope?

[Something to look forward to. Something to fight for. Even if not everyone would change, maybe someone...]

[feistytrader]

[...But he stops himself and shakes his head.]

Sorry. I'm getting too deep into what ifs. [And Hilda knows her own situation deeply and intimately. What does he know?]

[sosayi]

[She shakes her head - it's fine. It's alright. He's pretty much right after all.]

That is what I intended for Hyrule's Hero to do, as an outsider who needs to vanquish the evils of my land in order to progress in his quest and find courage in his heart. From where I left, he had succeeded in such a feat. I do hope my people feel somewhat less obligated to follow under fear - though if they have not, then I fear there is more at work and that the darkness in Lorule is worse than I first surveyed.