Babban Ny Mheillea Spoilers
The following are transcripts for the quest Babban Ny Mheillea.
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Starting the Quest
Khoto Rokkorah: Hello! Have you come to hear a tale?
Khoto Rokkorah: I'm a storyteller, and I often entertain the children here with fantastic yarns and magical myths.
Khoto Rokkorah: In fact, my audience should be here any moment if you've time to spare.
Khoto Rokkorah: Today, I plan to read to them from an unusual book I borrowed from the library...
Khoto Rokkorah: Ah, and here they are!
Khoto Rokkorah: Are we ready to hear a delightful story about one of the plant people?
Tihk Rhumyie: Yay! I want to know all about the plant people!
Khoto Rokkorah: Hehehe.
Well then, make yourself comfortable and I'll begin...
Khoto Rokkorah: ...the tale of a young plant girl with a beautiful flower blooming from her head.
Khoto Rokkorah: Ahem.
"The Adventures of Babban Ny Mheillea...
Khoto Rokkorah: "Once upon a time, a great comet appeared in the sky.
Khoto Rokkorah: "It was in this same age that an adorable mandragora girl arrived from across the vast ocean..."
Her name was Babban Ny Mheillea.
She was traveling in search of the great plant city "Netherstalk," said to lay hidden at the edge of the world.
Babban's dream was to marry the prince who lived in that city and live happily ever after.
She made many friends during her difficult journey.
The large, yet gentle Abenzio.
The elegant and fussy Lady Bryher.
The bright and cheerful Camlin.
And lastly, the aged and wise Darach, who claimed to have first sprouted in the very city Babban sought to find!
Unfortunately, Netherstalk was only a distant memory to Darach.
He had wandered outside as a tiny sapling and become hopelessly lost--the way back to the fabled city had completed faded from his mind.
These five plant people, joined through chance and happenstance...
...began a long and hazardous journey to find the land of their dreams!
...and thus the trials of the company ended in failure.
Perhaps Babban and her friend wander still, in search of their hearts' desire.
Yet the city they look for will never be found.
Khoto Rokkorah: "For the seeds of hope must be planted by the searchers..."
Khoto Rokkorah: "...and grown into a paradise of their own making."
Tihk Rhumyie: Boo!
Kuppo-Pippo: That doesn'taru make sense.
Karanka-Tonka: That can'taru be how the story ends...
Kuppo-Pippo: This story really did end in "failure".
Tihk Rhumyie: Wait, wait. What happens next?
Karanka-Tonka: There is no "next".
children leave
Khoto Rokkorah: Sigh...
I still have a long way to go.
Khoto Rokkorah: A truly talented storyteller should be able to enthrall her audience no matter how unbelievable the tale.
Khoto Rokkorah: "The Adventures of Babban Ny Mheillea" was written at the time of the Great War.
Khoto Rokkorah: But I have to agree with the children that the story hasn't aged well.
Khoto Rokkorah: I don't understand why someone would write an ending like that...
Khoto Rokkorah: And that's not the only part that confuses me.
See this chapter, here?
Khoto Rokkorah: They meet a sapling in the Rolanberry Fields on their way to the Pashhow Marshlands...
Khoto Rokkorah: But he's fried to a crisp by dragon fire before he has a chance to do anything.
Khoto Rokkorah: This kind of harshness makes me think this is less of a fable... and more an account of events that actually took place.
Khoto Rokkorah: Hehe. Now I'm just letting my imagination run away with me...
Examining the Rootprint in Rolanberry Fields S
Babban and her friends continued in their search for the fabled city of Netherstalk...
and came across a sapling by the name of Kainase.
Darach: Would you look at that?
Why, that determined young face reminds me of when I was but a wee sapling, uprooting myself for the first time in Netherstalk.
Camlin: That's what baby treants look like!?
But...why is it covered in that strange husk?
Darach: Strange husk!?
That fiber will one day be the little one's study bark!
Bryher: Are you certain this is a treant child? Those appendages growing from its head hardly qualify as branches.
Darach: Lady Bryher, those "appendages" shall soon grow into a glorious crown of leaves!
Darach: And look at the sureness and stability of those roots!
He'll be a fine and upright treat, mark my words!
Babban Ny Mheillea: Fair day to you, my sapling friend!
My name is Babban Ny Mheillea.
Babban Ny Mheillea: Kainase, is it?
Nice to meet you!
Babban Ny Mheillea: My friends and I are searching for the city of Netherstalk.
Babban Ny Mheillea: And once we get there, the prince and I will fall madly in love.
Babban Ny Mheillea: We'll have beautiful children--a boy and a girl, of course--and live happily ever after!
Babban Ny Mheillea: Hm?
Do we have any idea where to look?
Babban Ny Mheillea: Well, our friend Darach was actually born there!
Babban Ny Mheillea: Unfortunately, it was such a long time ago that he's forgotten the way...
But not to worry!
Abenzio: I know the way... to a wondrous place... not far... from here...
Babban Ny Mheillea: It has to be Netherstalk!
Why don't you come along, Kainase?
Joined by the sapling Kainase...
...the hopeful friends arrived at the "wondrous place" Abenzio had promised them.
But, what's this?
Something's not quite right...
in Pashhow Marshlands
Bryher: This is the fabled plant city...?
Abenzio: Yes!
I can feel... the moisture... in my moss...
Darach: The moisture!?
All this damp will rot my old trunk!
Camlin: I can't stay here!
I can feel myself starting to bloat!
Abenzio: What... are you all... complaining about?
At least... Babban is... enjoying herself...
Babban Ny Mheillea: *blub... blub... blub...*
Bryher: Blub...?
Oh, my verdurous vines! She's drowning!
Babban Ny Mheillea: Is this really the city you sprouted in, Darach?
Darach: Harrumph.
I seem to recall rather a bit more dazzling sunshine in the city of my youth...
Bryher: Sunshine?
You never mentioned that before. It was all "sparking water and cool breezes"!
Camlin: Dazzling sunshine, you say?
I know a place just like that!
It's on the other side of Gustaberg!
Babban Ny Mheillea: Then that must be it!
Babban Ny Mheillea: We'll find Netherstalk for sure this time!
Taking the advice of the confident Camlin, our intrepid plant pilgrims set off south across the rocky plains of Gustaberg...
Examining the Rootprint in North Gustaberg S
Following the lead of the cheerful Camlin, Babban and her friends dragged their weary roots across the yalms and malms...
...until they arrived in a southern land where the sunshine was truly dazzling...
in Altepa Desert
Abenzio: ...
Bryher: ...
Camlin: Every day is a sunny day here!
Babban Ny Mheilllea: *cough*...
C-Camlin...
Babban Ny Mheilllea: I'm pretty sure... this isn't Netherstalk...
Babban Ny Mheilllea: *cough... cough*
Is that... water?! *passes out*
Once again, Babban and her friends put their stems together and discussed their next destination...
Abenzio: Isn't there... an easier way... to find... this place?
Like maybe... some sort... of landmark?
Babban Ny Mheilllea: A landmark?
You mean, like a big tree or something?
Bryher: Now that you mention it, I was visited in my earlier years by a traveling bee that mentioned something of the sort.
Bryher: She spoke of a mighty forest giant that grew in a land beyond the Meriphataud Mountains, on the eastern edge of Mindartia.
Bryher: This great and ancient tree is revered by all the plants that flourish beneath its expansive boughs.
Darach: Oho!
I believe you've just described the Boyahda Tree!
Darach: And that brings back another memory...
I think Netherstalk may have lain under the shade of such a massive trunk!
Babban Ny Mheilllea: So my prince awaits me in a garden tended in Boyahda's shadow?
Darach: Exactly!
Er... actually, I never mentioned anything about a prince, did I...?
Babban Ny Mheilllea: There's no time to waste!
Let's go, everyone!
What adventures await our valiant voyagers beyond the northeastern boundary of the Meriphataud Mountains?
Examining the Rootprint in Meriphataud Mountains S
Babban and her companions traveled northeast through the Meriphataud Mountains...
...and entered the forest where the towering Boyahda Tree dwarfed all around it...
Darach: This place seems mighty familiar...
Darach: Yes...
I remember this scent from when I was knee-high to a goobbue.
Babban Ny Mheilllea: You do!?
Then, my prince...er, I mean, Netherstalk can't be far away!
Kainase panics
Babban Ny Mheilllea: What's wrong, Kainase?
Enter scary-looking dragon
Babban Ny Mheilllea: Oh...ohnonononono!
A fearsome monster had made its lair directly in our heroes' path!
Babban Ny Mheilllea: Is it still after us?
Abenzio: Darach...
I think... you might be... a few leaves shy... of a canopy...
Camlin: Yeah, all of your memories have led us astray.
Abenzio: This Netherstalk... of yours... never really... existed, did it...?
Darach: ...
Thus did their friendship begin to wilt...
Bryher and Abenzio cause a ruckus, which causes (poor) Kainase the sapling to fall
Babban Ny Mheilllea: B-be careful!
Babban Ny Mheilllea: Did you snap anything!?
Darach: This reminds me of something else. Something important.
Darach: Where was I?
Oh yes, the sun and the sky seemed so much closer when I was in Netherstalk.
So much brighter...
Darach: I seem to remember falling...
A sapling jumps off the edge in Ru'Aun Gardens
Babban Ny Mheilllea: "Falling"!?
You fell?
Babban Ny Mheilllea: And the sun and the sky weren't so far away...?
Babban Ny Mheilllea: Um...
Hey, Kainase?
Babban Ny Mheilllea: Where do you think Netherstalk could possible be?
Kainase gazes up at the sky...!
Babban Ny Mheilllea: Above the clouds...?
Darach: Oho!
Now it's coming back to me!
Darach: Netherstalk floats above the clouds--that's why I remember such brilliant sunshine!
Babban Ny Mheilllea: You're certain!?
Then my prince and our three future sproutlings await me somewhere up there!?
Bryher: Three?
I thought you said "two" children...
Babban Ny Mheilllea: Gather your things, people!
Out next goal lies beyond the clouds!
Abenzio: But... I don't htink... any of us... can fly...
Darach: ...
Babban Ny Mheilllea: One thing at a time!
The first step is always the hardest!
Babban Ny Mheilllea: We never would have figured this out in Kainase hadn't been here.
I'll be sure to reward you once I'm wed to my prince!
And so, Babban and her fellow travelers set out upon their quest with renewed vigor.
Will our eccentric explorers find a way to reach the sky-city of Netherstalk?
The details of that grand adventure will have to wait until the next exciting chapter...
Returning to Khoto Rokkorah
Khoto Rokkorah: Hello!
I was about to begin story time for the children.
Khoto Rokkorah: It's the second half of a tale I began yesterday...
Khoto Rokkorah: ...but you're welcome to stay and listen.
Khoto Rokkorah: Are we all comfortable?
Then let us continue with "The Adventures of Babban Ny Mheillea"...
After a grand and grueling adventure...
Babban and her friends finally arrived in the city of Netherstalk!
The mandragora girl met and married her mandragora prince.
They were blessed with three adorable sproutlings...
Khoto Rokkorah: "...and they all lived happily ever after!"
Rahmi Yamilahto: Boo!
Tacca-Picca: Is that what we waitarued a whole day to hear?
Cotta-Lotta: No surprise-wises with that ending...
Tacca-Picca: At least we know it's over now.
Children walk away
Khoto Rokkorah: *sigh
I still have a long way to go...
Khoto Rokkorah: If I was a truly talented storyteller...
Noh Ramyoh: Excuse me...
Noh Ramyoh: I was wondering...
Noh Ramyoh: Didn't Babban promise to rrreward the sapling once she was married?
Noh ramyoh: How did she rrreward him?
Khoto Rokkorah: Oh, you have quite the memory for details, little one.
Khoto Rokkorah: Well, Babban probably--
Khoto Rokkorah: ...?!
Kainase freaks out
Noh Ramyoh: W-what's going on!?
Enter Babban, children and friends
Babban and children give something to Kainase and freaks out nearby tarutaru
Tacca-Picca: "The Adventures of Babban Ny Mheillea..."
Cotta-Lotta: ...was a true story?
Khoto Rokkorah: W-was that the real Babban Ny Mheillea!?
Khoto Rokkorah: It was almost as if she had met you before, Kainase...
Khoto Rokkorah: Kainase...?
Noh Ramyoh: That's what they called the sapling!
Khoto Rokkorah: You're right.
You have the same name...
Noh Ramyoh: Wow!
Did you go on all those adventures with the plant people?
Khoto Rokkorah: Hehe, that's an amazing coincidence.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if that sapling was really you...?
Kainase obtains 3 bags of tree saplings!
Kainase gets the title of Babban's Traveling Companion!
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