Blackberry hires the player character to help her track down her missing brother, Gimble who went missing. The quest leads them to a nearby cave, with all manner of mystical engravings and magical traps, where they find Gimble’s body.
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Conversation Goals:
1 BLACKBERRY: No. Nonononono, Gimble! Sacred Forge, we’re too late.
2 {PLAYER CHOICE}:
2.1 [PLAYER]: I’m sorry.
2.1.1 BLACKBERRY: I can’t believe it. I can’t.. I can’t..
2.1.2 Blackberry touches Gimble on the cheek fondly.
2.1.3 BLACKERRY: Brother? Brother please. No…
2.1.4 {PLAYER CHOICE}
2.1.4.1 Touch her compassionately on her shoulder >go to 2.3.2
2.1.4.2 [PLAYER]: We were too late. >go to 2.3.2
2.1.4.3 [PLAYER]: Oh great, let’s all poke the corpse! >go to 2.3.2
2.2 [PLAYER]: Are you sure he’s dead?
2.2.1.BLACKBERRY: What does it bIoody look like to you?!!
2.2.2 Blackberry sighs.
2.2.3 BLACKBERRY: Yes. He’s definitely… >go back to 2 (with this option removed)
2.3 [PLAYER]: To be honest, there wasn’t much hope he was still alive.
2.3.1 Blackberry gives you a barbed glance.
2.3.2 BLACKBERRY: You! >go to 3
2.4 [PLAYER]: Great. Another dead dwarf. >go to 4.5.2
3 BLACKBERRY: You were supposed to save him! Why didn’t you save him?!
4 {PLAYER CHOICE}
4.1 [PLAYER]: It’s hard with you straggling along. You cramped my style >go to 5
4.2 [PLAYER]: Don’t blame me for your failure.
4.2.1: BLACKBERRY: MY failure? My failure was hiring you! >go to 5
4.3 [PLAYER]: It looks like he’s been dead for a while. We couldn’t have got here in time.
4.3.1 BLACKBERRY: Gods, when I think of him lying here, like this, while I was just dawdling in the city buying potions… >go to 4.4.1
4.4 [PLAYER]: I did my best. We both did.
4.4.1 BLACKBERRY: You’re right. I’m sorry. I tried so hard, Gimble. >go to 6
4.5 [PLAYER]: “Saving” wasn’t in my contract. I only agreed to find him.
4.5.1 BLACKBERRY: How touching. What a touching consolation.
4.5.2 BLACKBERRY: You adventurers are all the same! Destroying everything and everyone you meet. All you care about is gold and glory and getting rich and- and-
4.5.3 {PLAYER CHOICE}
4.5.3.1 [PLAYER]: If you hate adventurers so much, why did you hire me? >go to 4.5.4
4.5.3.2 [PLAYER]: Watch your tongue, dwarf. >go to 4.5.4
4.5.3.3 [PLAYER]: That’s not true. I also care about collecting stylish clothes.>go to 4.5.4
4.5.3.4 [PLAYER]: I put my life on the line to help you. >go to 4.5.4
4.5.4 BLACKBERRY Sorry, sorry. I don’t really… I just… >go to 6
5 BLACKBERRY: I’m not an adventurer! I’m not a brutish fighter like you, I couldn’t go after Gimble alone!
6 BLACKBERRY: I hired the scariest-looking mercenary I could find, spend a fortune on locating spells but I couldn’t-….
7 BLACKBERRY: A lot of good it did me. A lot of good it did him!