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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<dialogue boes="2.0.0">
<personality id="0">
<title>Forbes</title>
<look>
<![CDATA[The administrator for this town seems very glad to see you. He makes sure to stand and shake your hand, flashing his winningest political smile.]]>
</look>
<name>
<![CDATA["I am Administrator Forbes." He flashes the smile again.]]>
</name>
<job>
<![CDATA[He emits a precise, practiced sigh. "Just the standard turmoil. Running a feudal state isn't quite what it used to be."]]>
</job>
</personality>
<personality id="1">
<title>Chelsea</title>
<look>
<![CDATA[This woman has spent quite some time at the hard end of Empire justice. She is thin and haggard, her clothes are torn, and it looks like she's been in this cell for weeks at least. She seems pleased to see that you aren't Empire soldiers.]]>
</look>
<name>
<![CDATA[Her voice is thin and raspy. "I'm called Chelsea. Welcome to my cell."]]>
</name>
<job>
<![CDATA["I'm being held here for speaking out against that idiot Forbes. And I'm nowhere near ready to surrender either!"]]>
</job>
<unknown>
<![CDATA["What was that?"]]>
</unknown>
</personality>
<personality id="2">
<title>Aboro</title>
<look>
<![CDATA[This boy looks to be only seven or eight, which explains why he isn't working in the fields yet. He's holding a crude wooden sword, and was swinging it at invisible enemies.]]>
</look>
<name>
<![CDATA[Not surprisingly, your real weapons and armor fascinate him. "I'm Aboro."]]>
</name>
<job>
<![CDATA["Oh, nothin'. Are those real weapons? Can I touch 'em?"]]>
</job>
<unknown>
<![CDATA["I dunno."]]>
</unknown>
</personality>
<personality id="3">
<title>Welde</title>
<look>
<![CDATA[The town mage sits here, hands folded in her lap, waiting to help you.]]>
</look>
<name>
<![CDATA["I am Welde. Greetings."]]>
</name>
<job>
<![CDATA["My main task is providing magical assistance to the village. Of course, for the few adventurers who come through, I can give other sorts of help."]]>
</job>
</personality>
<personality id="4">
<title>Madeleine</title>
<look>
<![CDATA[You meet one of the town archers, who is carefully patrolling the streets. She looks intently for signs of the rebels.]]>
</look>
<name>
<![CDATA["I'm Madeleine. Welcome to Willow."]]>
</name>
<job>
<![CDATA["I'm just doing my patrol. You never know when the rebels will do a quick raid."]]>
</job>
</personality>
<personality id="5">
<title>Unused</title>
<look></look>
<name></name>
<job></job>
</personality>
<personality id="6">
<title>Unused</title>
<look></look>
<name></name>
<job></job>
</personality>
<personality id="7">
<title>Unused</title>
<look></look>
<name></name>
<job></job>
</personality>
<personality id="8">
<title>Unused</title>
<look></look>
<name></name>
<job></job>
</personality>
<personality id="9">
<title>Unused</title>
<look></look>
<name></name>
<job></job>
</personality>
<node for="0">
<keyword>stan</keyword>
<keyword>turm</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Well, you know. The Hill Runners have to be watched for. And, of course, the serfs have been very surly as of late."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="0">
<keyword>hill</keyword>
<keyword>runn</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["They aren't my problem, of course. I just need to produce the crops and keep the serfs in line."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="0">
<keyword>prod</keyword>
<keyword>crop</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA[He smiles. "Ah, yes. This land is incredibly rich. The wealth we're pulling out of it is truly remarkable. Lord Volpe's promises were not empty."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="0">
<keyword>lord</keyword>
<keyword>volp</keyword>
<type>if-sdf</type>
<param>101</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Our enlightened lord to the northwest, who brought me and many others here to administrate this island and bring its true wealth forward."]]>
</text>
<text>
<![CDATA[He looks grim. "Our late, lamented lord, who brought me and many others here to administrate this island and bring its true wealth forward."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="0">
<keyword>serf</keyword>
<keyword>line</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["It is difficult, I'm afraid. Feudal states are hard to run properly in this day and age. Fortunately, now that Chelsea is in the cells, things are much calmer."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="0">
<keyword>chel</keyword>
<keyword>cell</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA[He considers telling you about it, and then thinks better of it. "Oh, you know. Sometimes people are rebellious. Nothing that you need concern yourselves with."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="0">
<keyword>hill</keyword>
<keyword>runn</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA[He flashes you a conspiratorial wink. "Well, those problems are being taken care of, now, aren't they?"]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="0">
<keyword>feud</keyword>
<keyword>stat</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Well, as I'm sure you know, most of the Empire is run on a more modern, free sort of basis. In most places, the feudal state has gone the way of the Nephilim. However, in some wilder areas, it needs to be maintained."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="0">
<keyword>neph</keyword>
<keyword>xxxx</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Don't worry. Most of the Nephilim in Valorim were killed long ago. Good riddance, I say!"]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="0">
<keyword>wild</keyword>
<keyword>main</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["That was what Lord Volpe said about Morrow's Isle, at any rate." He thinks. "Of course, I'm sure you don't want to be concerned with local politics." He winks. "I'm sure you have much you need to be doing."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="1">
<keyword>surr</keyword>
<keyword>eith</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["No sir! I've been here for months already. I can be here for months more!"]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="1">
<keyword>idio</keyword>
<keyword>forb</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Our noble administrator!" She spits. "Him and Lord Volpe, they're robbing us blind, and I'm not gonna' be quiet!"]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="1">
<keyword>quie</keyword>
<keyword>xxxx</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["They want me to be quiet, but I won't!"]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="1">
<keyword>nobl</keyword>
<keyword>admi</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["He and Lord Volpe! They're robbing us blind, and I won't be quiet! None of the problems would still be here if Master Brosterman was around."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="1">
<keyword>lord</keyword>
<keyword>volp</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Not sure what happened with that corrupt old lizard, but he's at the heart of the stealing from us!"]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="1">
<keyword>mast</keyword>
<keyword>bros</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["He was the Lord here before Volpe shoved him out. He was good and kind. He'd promised to give us land and make us not serfs, but Volpe wouldn't have none of that. And Brosterman wouldn't have stolen our food!"]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="1">
<keyword>stol</keyword>
<keyword>food</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Once, if we made good harvests, we'd get a share and eat good for a while. Now, we're just given enough to live, and the rest gets taken away."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="1">
<keyword>take</keyword>
<keyword>away</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["I don't know where it gets taken or why. All I know is it doesn't end up in my boys' bellies."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="2">
<keyword>weap</keyword>
<keyword>touc</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA[His eyes get very wide. "Can I? Can I?" He walks shyly up and touches the hilt of one of your blades. "Wow!" He holds up his wooden sword. "This one isn't good enough."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="2">
<keyword>good</keyword>
<keyword>enou</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["I'm gonna' learn to use it good, and go out and fight rebels!"]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="2">
<keyword>figh</keyword>
<keyword>rebe</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["I have to. They killed my folks." His says this so calmly and simply that at first you think he's making it up. Then you see the icy look in his eyes, so out of place in one so young.]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="2">
<keyword>kill</keyword>
<keyword>folk</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Yep. My folks said some other people were helping the rebels, and they got hauled away. Then one night some rebels came and killed my folks for it. I fled."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="2">
<keyword>fled</keyword>
<keyword>xxxx</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA[He looks upset about this. "I was scared. I let them go, and didn't help or nothin'." He waves his sword. "I'll get 'em, though! You bet on it!" Listening to the terrifyingly calm young voice, you have little trouble believing him.]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="3">
<keyword>magi</keyword>
<keyword>assi</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Destroying pests. Thawing frozen earth. Defense from brigands. Simple stuff, reassuring when you consider how complicated things have been lately."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="3">
<keyword>comp</keyword>
<keyword>late</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA[She smiles nervously. "I have nothing to do with politics. Nothing whatsoever. My family has lived on the Isle for over a hundred years. I just want to work in peace, without any rebel trouble."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="3">
<keyword>rebe</keyword>
<keyword>trou</keyword>
<type>end-force</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["I said I don't wish to discuss it. Please return when you can be polite."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="3">
<keyword>sort</keyword>
<keyword>help</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Well, I know a wide variety of spells. If you would like to purchase them, you have but to ask."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="3">
<keyword>purc</keyword>
<keyword>spel</keyword>
<type>shop</type>
<param>5</param>
<param>6</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA[Welde's Spells]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="4">
<keyword>patr</keyword>
<keyword>xxxx</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Patrols are tedious, but there are few things more important to do."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="4">
<keyword>rebe</keyword>
<keyword>xxxx</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["The rebels are vicious. Worse, they're good. I've never seen anyone who could launch as quick a raid as them, and with as deadly results."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="4">
<keyword>dead</keyword>
<keyword>resu</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["A Hill Runner will kill anyone in his or her way, no matter who. It's part of the reason they're so feared. Nobody is safe from them."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="4">
<keyword>quic</keyword>
<keyword>raid</keyword>
<type>reg</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["The rebels are launching their raids everywhere. Nobody wants to travel, unless they have to. Why, I've been trying for weeks without luck to get a letter to someone."]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="4">
<keyword>lett</keyword>
<keyword>some</keyword>
<type>if-sdf</type>
<param>0</param>
<param>5</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Say, you're traveling around a lot! I've been trying to get a message to my lover Zulli, up in Zaskiva. Any chance you could deliver it?"]]>
</text>
<text>
<![CDATA["Thanks for delivering my letter. I really appreciate it!"]]>
</text>
</node>
<node for="4">
<keyword>deli</keyword>
<keyword>mess</keyword>
<type>call-local</type>
<param>10</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<param>0</param>
<text>
<![CDATA["Thank you very much for getting my letter to Zulli. My duty is dangerous. It does me a lot of good to know I got him at least that one letter before I go."]]>
</text>
</node>
</dialogue>