August Catch All

[insinning]

Who • Vogel (Emil Sinclair) and YOU
What • Catch all for August - any dungeon runs, misc. stuff happens here. I'll toss up open TL from now and then that don't fit with event posts.
When •All Throughout August
Where • Mac Anu and Lumina Cloth.
Content Warnings • none, will add if any pop up later

Comments

[insinning]

[They find a nice little cafe, and they have in game currency now, which means they can actually buy things, even if eating in this world isn't necessary. It just seems polite. Once they take a seat, Vogel can read through the poem properly]

So the first two lines say "Unknown where the Cursed Wave was born…After the stars doth cross the heavens".

[horologia]

[ they're patronizing the npc shopkeepers of mac anu, it's fine. maybe there's a hidden affection or reputation system where treating the shopkeepers well will earn them discounts on the future, who knows?

but in any case, huh. ]

... is this specifying a time of some sort, maybe ...? If it is a key item, perhaps it's linked to a quest somewhere.

I don't think we would have noticed any change in the skies just yet though, unless the game has it so that they rotate and cycle through more quickly than they do in reality...

[insinning]

[And the coffee here tastes waaay better than any he's had locally. Bizarre]

Maybe it's the lore for this world. 'The cursed wave' feels like a creation mythos.

[He just wants to scratch the itch that tells him he must have read it somewhere before. But if he had studied it in the German literature books, he can't recall the writer for the life of him.]

And this is the second part:

'The sky in the East doth darken and air doth fill with mourning.
From the chosen land beyond the forest, a sign of the wave comes'.

[horologia]

... it almost sounds more like a cycle of creation and destruction, maybe. If the world already existed when the wave is set to arrive, and the air is filled with mourning ...

It's a little ominous, isn't it? [ a sip of her tea, which ... huh, it's perfectly steeped. not burnt at all. ] I wonder whether it's simply flavor text, or if it's part of a longer, overarching plot.

[ teasing future events, maybe? or maybe it's just worldbuilding. ]

[insinning]

[He turns the phrases over in his own. He had always done well in his liberal arts classes, but it's a little hard to apply that knowledge to something in a void]

It's interesting, isn't it? If it was hidden up there, maybe they wanted players to find it to help start off a plot. But it's not complete either. Do you think it's part of a hidden quest to find the other pieces?