Treadrock Uplands/dialogue

Ambient dialogue at Treadrock Uplands from past Living World releases can be found here.

Ambient dialogue

Between Amoxtli, Savio and Kitabu.

Explorer Amoxtli: So you're both from Divinity's Reach. Were you there when Scarlet attacked your city?

Explorer Savio: Yeah. I was there for the Queen's Jubilee.

Explorer Kitabu: I wasn't home, but I lost a cousin in her attack on the pavilion.

Explorer Amoxtli: Someone very special to me was killed when Lion's Arch fell.

Explorer Saviio: If she wasn't dead, I would've assumed that Scarlet was behind this Zephyrite mess, too.

Explorer Amoxtli: Why do you think Steward Gixx chose the three of us to explore region?

Explorer Savio: I just assumed he was trying to get rid of us.

Explorer Amoxtli: I don't think so. The steward has always been good to me.

Explorer Kitabu: Savio was kidding.

Explorer Savio: I was? Oh! I mean, of course I was.

Explorer Savio: What do you make of these centaurs? You figure we can trust them?

Explorer Kitabu: They aren't what I was expecting. Generations ago, this region's centaurs were hostile.

Explorer Amoxtli: Their chieftain claims to follow ancient traditions that predate even Ventari. I enjoyed talking with him.

Explorer Kitabu: This tribe is an important find. We could get enough material from them to publish a lifetime of papers.

Explorer Savio: Guess it could be a lot worse, then.

Explorer Amoxtli: There's something about humans I don't understand.

Explorer Savio: (snort) This should be interesting.

Explorer Kitabu: Quiet. Go on, Amoxtli.

Explorer Amoxtli: Each morning I see my god rise in the east and set in the west. I feel Zintl's warmth on my skin...

Explorer Kitabu: Oh, I see. You're wondering how we feel about the remoteness of our gods?

Explorer Amoxtli: That's it, exactly. I read that they used to be more present in your lives?

Explorer Kitabu: They still are. We feel their blessings every day. They lend is their strength, their power.

Explorer Amoxtli: I...think I understand now. Thank you.

Explorer Savio: (laugh) In that case, maybe you can explain it to me.

Explorer Savio: What do you two think? Should we turn back, brief Gixx on what we've seen?

Explorer Amoxtli: The steward sent us to explore, and there's still more to discover out here.

Explorer Kitabu: We need to learn as much as we can about these lost places. Who knows what could be important?

Explorer Savio: I guess it's decided, then. We press on, find out what we can.

Explorer Amoxtli: How is it that your tribes were ever able to unite in one great nation?

Explorer Kitabu: It's not as if we had any choice.

Explorer Savio: Our other...tribes were cut off long ago, and Kryta's been under attack from all sides for generations.

Explorer Kitabu: I grew up generations removed from my tribe.

Explorer Kitabu: Shouldn't we talk about what those things were that destroyed the town, or where all these vines are coming from?

Explorer Savio: Pretty obvious what we're dealing with.

Explorer Amoxtli: Yes. I grew up under constant attack by the Risen. I know dragon minions when I see them.

Explorer Kitabu: The steward had his suspicions. That's why he sent us out here. It's one thing to discuss theories, but...

Explorer Savio: Tyria's in trouble again. And we're headed right into the teeth of that trouble.

Explorer Savio: I notice your notes are all full of doodles in the margins. Some of them aren't bad.

Explorer Kitabu: You read my field notes?

Explorer Savio: Yeah, it wasn't easy, either. You always carry that book around with you, so I had to wait until you were sleeping.

Explorer Kitabu: That's...You really thought my sketches weren't bad?

Explorer Savio: What can I say? I like a book with pictures in it.

Explorer Amoxtlii: Well, I think it's nice that you keep a journal, Kitabu.

Explorer Savio: (laugh) Dear Diary, Savio was mean to me again today...

Explorer Amoxtlii: (laugh)

Explorer Kitabu: You really did read it!

Explorer Kitabu: Sometimes I wonder if I joined the right order.

Explorer Savio: A bookworm like you? (laugh) I can't imagine you without access to the Priory library stacks.

Explorer Kitabu: It's just...those stories about Order of Whispers agents having their own secret ways of getting around...

Explorer Savio: At least half of what you hear about them is rumour they spread to make themselves sound more spooky.

Explorer Amoxtlii: What would you do if you could go anywhere you wanted?

Explorer Kitabu: I have some ideas, believe me.

Explorer Savio: (laugh) Maybe you would fit in with those creeps after all.

Explorer Kitabu: It's a good thing you taught us those Zephyrite skills. We would have never made it out this far.

Explorer Savio: Ah, you two would have picked them up. Those poor people and their magic crystal splinters are scattered all over this wasteland.

Explorer Amoxtlii: Their flying ship must have been gigantic. What a waste. So many wonders senselessly destroyed.

Explorer Kitabu: In your interviews with crash survivors, did either of you get the impression they were hiding something?

Explorer Amoxtlii: What could those people have to hide? Everything they had is lost in these sands. They have nothing now.

Explorer Kitabu: That's just it, though. I feel like they had something else beside these crystals we've been helping them recover. Something they don't want to share.

Explorer Savio: Something like what?

Explorer Kitabu: I'm not sure. Think about it, though. Why was the sylvari saboteur chasing after their Master of Peace down here on the ground?

Explorer Kitabu: What if their master took something away from the crash? Something the saboteur wanted to get his hands on?

Explorer Savio: Or maybe he just wanted to finish the job. He wasn't right in his mind, remember.

Explorer Savio: You hear Scarlet found a ley line hub out here in Dry Top, long before she tore up Lion's Arch looking for another one?

Explorer Kitabu: No!

Explorer Amoxtlii: What's a ley line hub?

Explorer Kitabu: There's an old idea that currents of magic run under and all over Tyria. Where the streams cross, those locations hum with power.

Explorer Savio: They say Scarlet was trying to map those currents with the probes she set up everywhere.

Explorer Amoxtlii: If there are rivers of magic connecting Lion's Arch with this place, and then further west...

Explorer Savio: That must be why everyone heard the dragon's roar from this direction where her drill made contact under the bay.

Explorer Savio: What'd you say those huge trees were called that used to grow in the Maguuma? Stone somethings?

Explorer Kitabu: Stonewoods. Did you do any research at all before we set out across Dry Top?

Explorer Savio: Of course I did!

Explorer Savio: Okay, no. I like to pick things up as I go.

Explorer Amoxtlii: The sylvari legends say the tallest stonewood in the jungle grew in Ventari's Refuge.

Explorer Savio: Wonder if it could still be there. Hard to picture jungle after weeks in all this sand.

Explorer Amoxtlii: I can barely remember the color green.