@0    = ~Mmmm, the sun feels so lovely on my face. I love feeling the breeze, don't you?~
@1    = ~Too hot for me. I like the snow - way more refreshing.~
@2    = ~Oooh, have you travelled in the north, then? My uncle would tell me stories about the frozen lakes - it always sounded so beautiful.~
@3    = ~There are places where there are no trees at all, just this weird ice that looks like it's been landscaped. It's all in funny shapes because of the wind. I saw one that looked like a bent-over witch.~
@4    = ~That sounds lovely, but...~
@5    = ~And there are winter foxes with these amazing fluffy tails. There are legends that they're ghosts trapped on the earth for blaspheming against the gods.~
@6    = ~But no trees, Faren? Truly? I do not think I would like that at all. What about the leaves, and the blossoms in the springtime? Did you not miss them?~
@7    = ~Now you mention it, I guess I did. But the snowball fights were really fun!~
@8    = ~Haha! I think I can imagine that. Hmmm... there is so much to see in the world, isn't there? It is so exciting to have all these things to look forward to!~
@9    = ~Aerie, how are you doing? You look a little pale.~ [FHF81]
@10   = ~Oh, I'm fine...I'm just a little hungry, I guess.~
@11   = ~Well, eat something. You're fading away as it is.~
@12   = ~I don't have anything on me. Not anything I can eat on the move, at least. I g-gave my last to one of the children we passed earlier, and I haven't had a chance to get more.~
@13   = ~You gave away your food?~
@14   = ~I know it's silly, but I couldn't just leave her be. She looked so hungry and so alone, I thought I could bring some measure of happiness to her...~
@15   = ~It's not "silly", Aerie, it's stupid! You can't go around giving everything you have away - what would you have left?~
@16   = ~Don't - don't you dare call me stupid for just trying to help people!~
@17   = ~I don't think you're stupid for helping people. I think it's stupid to help people if it hurts you.~
@18   = ~W-well, what would you know? You never even try to help anyone but yourself.~
@19   = ~Okay, this is not going well. You're obviously hungry - here, have this, I've got more where that came from - and let's just...move on. I'm sorry for upsetting you, but it's just the truth.~
@20   = ~It's your truth, Faren, not mine. I do not believe I am any more important than anyone else, but you obviously do.~
@21   = ~I'm not more important than everyone else, I'm just more important to me. I certainly can't do anything if I'm dead.~
@22   = ~I think it's sad, and you're not going to make me change my mind.~
@23   = ~Fair enough. Now ssh, you need to eat.~
@24   = ~Oh, Faren, have you ever seen a circus?~
@25   = ~I did see one once, when I was a kid. Why?~
@26   = ~I was thinking about w-when I was captive. It was as if my own fate was so terrible I could not think on it, because those poor, poor animals...I used to lie awake at night and listen to them pace in their cages. They were so unhappy.~
@27   = ~It sounds awful. I don't know if all circuses are like that, though.~
@28   = ~What do you mean?~
@29   = ~Well, the one I went to didn't seem so horrible. The animals looked pretty happy. There was a cat that used to ride on a horse and I got to pet the cat, and he--~
@30   = ~But don't you see? We were made to appear happy, otherwise the people who came to gawk and stare would be unhappy, and if they were unhappy...then we would be punished! We learnt to perform, even the animals did.~
@31   = ~I...I guess that could have been it. But they were all healthy and well-fed. The lion had a glossy coat and everything!~
@32   = ~Y-you were a child. You didn't understand what you were seeing.~
@33   = ~...Well, there goes a happy memory I had of my parents. Are you happy now?~
@34   = ~No, and I don't know if I can be, but I w-wasn't going to let you carry on in ignorance. I'm sorry, but it's the truth.~
@35   = ~With your sister and everything, you've held up well. I'm impressed.~ [FHF83]
@36   = ~You imagined I would cower in seclusion bemoaning my fate? Some of us do not have that...doubtful luxury.~
@37   = ~Oh, come on, I wouldn't exactly call it a luxury. And it's not cowering, it's being sad. There is a difference.~
@38   = ~When my parents died I was a wreck for months. I did this thing where I didn't talk to anyone, and I didn't eat too well. You're doing a lot better.~
@39   = ~I shall see Moira in the next life. In the meantime, I will do my duty in service of Helm, and know she is pleased with my deeds.~
@40   = ~I would speak no more of this. I will leave you to your grief if you will leave me to mine.~
@41   = ~I wish you'd stop running into battle and getting clawed, or bitten, or whatever. It gives me a heart attack every time you go careening off.~ [FHF84]
@42   = ~Ha! There is no cause for fear. I am confident in my abilities: perhaps you should be more confident in yours.~
@43   = ~Oh, believe me, I get that you're confident--~
@44   = ~I'm not sure I like your tone.~
@45   = ~--but do you have to be so damn...heroic?~
@46   = ~Yes, I do. There is no other possible course of action I could take and you would do well to remember that.~
@47   = ~--but do you have to be so damn...reckless?~
@48   = ~My actions are what prevent your injuries! Like them or not, you would do well to remember that.~
@49   = ~I did not expect to see you up so early.~
@50   = ~Yeah, just sorting through my stuff. Need to get it all flat before we head out, otherwise it'll fall out and then what'll we do?~
@51   = ~You could stand staring, or you could help me out. All the same to me.~
@52   = ~You ought to fold that shirt--~
@53   = ~--arms in, collar up, yeah, I know.~
@54   = ~I would have thought a man like you would foreswear what he had learned from the military as soon as they were rid of him.~
@55   = ~Well, I won't ignore useful advice, even if it comes from the military.~
@56   = ~Then you do have some sense. Good, it will serve you well.~
@57   = ~So as a representative of the citizens of Trademeet, I'm really sorry you had to be put in that dump of a prison.~ [FHF87]
@58   = ~It was not so bad. It was at least, given the town's attitude towards druids, more peaceful than staying at a guesthouse.~
@59   = ~Yeesh, I know. Trademeet folk: a nice lot until you rub them up the wrong way, in which case you're a complete pariah.~
@60   = ~You forget that as a man of nature I am used to that brand of treatment. You, on the other hand, were a beast outside its natural environment.~
@61   = ~I don't know about the beast part of it, but I guess I can see what you mean. Still, being in prison's never that nice. Especially with that food! And the draught!~
@62   = ~Privation is only a strengthening balm to a struggling creature, Faren. Be as the--~
@63   = ~Be as the trees, I know. You could just ask me to shut up, you know.~
@64   = ~Would I ever treat a fellow inmate in such a way?~
@65   = ~C'mon, give me some more. Just another handful, I'll make them last this time!~ [FHF88]
@66   = ~I'm not sure I am entirely comfortable with you hanging off my arm like that, Faren.~
@67   = ~I'll stop if you get me some more.~
@68   = ~Really. They're goodberries. They aren't exactly the rarest of Nature's creations.~
@69   = ~But they're great. They're magical, Cernd, come on!~
@70   = ~All right. As the mother bird acquiesces to the chirps of her chicks, so shall I bow to your request.~
@71   = ~Yes!~
@72   = ~But just this once. You have an unhealthy attachment as it is.~
@73   = ~...we were so out of it that we tried to climb up the side of the Mayor's house. Then they found us, and I tried to make a run for it, but then the road went away and I think I passed out.~ [FHF89]
@74   = ~And then?~
@75   = ~Then I woke up with the worst headache I've ever had. Ugh, I can still feel it now.~
@76   = ~The effects you describe sound like the Dreaming Orchid. Were the flowers white, with a blue tone?~
@77   = ~Far as I remember - which isn't much - I'd say yes.~
@78   = ~If you crush up the bark of the willow, it will lessen the discomfort upon waking.~
@79   = ~That's good to know. That is, I wouldn't dream of abusing nature like that nowadays. Don't strike me with lightning!~
@80   = ~On the contrary, my friend. We must embrace nature's beauty. She puts these flowers on the earth, and who are we to turn aside from them?~
@81   = ~Ha! Well, if nature did it, I wouldn't want to turn aside. Let's get hold of some of that orchid next time <CHARNAME> gives us a break.~
@82   = ~Ah...I suspect you may be a little too energetic under the flower's influence. I prefer contemplative thought.~
@83   = ~I can do that. Kind of. What kind of thoughts do you have to think up?~
@84   = ~(sigh)~
@85   = ~You. Come here, I wish to have words with you.~
@86   = ~You have been around in your travels, have you not? I seem to remember some reference to Luskan in that inane drivel you insist on spouting at every turn.~
@87   = ~If you're going to ask me a favour or something, I'd suggest not insulting me.~
@88   = ~You are not worth one of my insults, you sneaking oaf. Now. What strange, magical treasures did you come across? (I cannot believe I am reduced to this. But if he found something powerful, yes, perhaps I could claim that power for my own.)~
@89   = ~Huh. Well, let me think. There was this one book we found that we were pretty sure was rare. Definitely magical. It had leather bindings, runes inscribed on its cover, ingrained in onyx dust.~
@90   = ~Quickly, dredge up what little memory may still be in that simpering mind of yours and tell me: were the writings within in another language? Were there pictures of floating cities?~
@91   = ~Sounds familiar. Huh, so was it famous or something?~
@92   = ~You found the tome of Ajjana, you fool! Ajjana, one of the most powerful sorceresses-- Where in the Nine Hells did you find it? No, forget that, just tell me where it is now!~
@93   = ~Well, that's a funny story. Jessalyn had lost all our firewood owing to an accident crossing this deep ravine - rotten rope bridges, I tell you - so, well...~
@94   = ~Oh, no. No, no, tell me you didn't.~
@95   = ~Let me put it this way: whoever this Ajjana was, I'm grateful to her. We had great stew that night!~
@96   = ~Gods, you're in a bad mood today.~ [FHF91]
@97   = ~Did I say you could walk so close to me? No, I believe I did not. Kindly take a few steps back so that when I set you on fire I will not singe my robes.~
@98   = ~Edwin, you're a scream. Now come on, let me carry one of those book bags for you. You look like you're about to keel over or something.~
@99   = ~I said get off! These books are worth more than anything you'll ever get your hands on. You dare try to fool the great Edwin Odesseiron into giving you his valuables? Bah!~
@100  = ~Actually, I dare to offer you help. Like I said, they look heavy.~
@101  = ~I will not give you my books and that is that. (However, a willing pack mule may very well prove useful in the future. I shall allow him this, reel him in, yes...and take advantage when the time is right.)~
@102  = ~Here you go. My...deepest gratitude. You are solicitous indeed to carry my things.~
@103  = ~This is heavy. What's in here, bricks? No wonder you complain so much.~
@104  = ~You know, you shouldn't be so mad about...all that.~ [FHF92]
@105  = ~If you gesture at me like that one more time, I shall remove your hands.~
@106  = ~Oh, come on! Doesn't everyone want to find out what it's like be--~
@107  = ~Shut your insolent mouth, or I shall forcibly bind you with a Girdle of Gender Change and see how you like it!~
@108  = ~Mustn't. Make. An innuendo--~
@109  = ~Ah-ha! At least now the insignificant worm is silent!~
@110  = ~Yeesh, those tattoo things of yours make my hair stand on end every time I look at them. Wasn't it horrifically painful?~ [FHF94]
@111  = ~The pain was fleeting, my hound. The symbol remains eternally.~
@112  = ~Fleeting pain's still pain. I'm just glad I was too out of it to care when I got my tattoo.~
@113  = ~You have a tattoo? What does it portray? Has it the esoteric powers of those found in Sigil?~
@114  = ~I'm not exactly sure. No powers, and I don't remember what I asked for. Guess it could be a griffin, I used to have a thing about them. On the other hand, it might be a donkey...~
@115  = ~Ha! I have heard many similar tales. One of my companions in Raelis' troupe was most embarrassed to wake after a night of carousing with a tattoo marking his love for a Miss Lily.~
@116  = ~Let me guess, she was the serving-maid with a squint?~
@117  = ~Better - she was the theatre's watch-dog. My colleague was never allowed to forget it...~
@118  = ~You know, I used to be on the stage. Acting and stuff.~ [FHF95]
@119  = ~Oh yes? What parts did you play, my hound? The noble savage, the conflicted lover, the selfless priest strictest with his own heart?~
@120  = ~Well, if you want a full list...Tree number three, Lead Troll, and the diabolical genie. The genie was my best role.~
@121  = ~Were these, perchance, children's pantomimes?~
@122  = ~Hey, I was a good tree!~
@123  = ~It was actually pretty fun. I couldn't learn all the lines, though, so I just made a lot of it up.~
@124  = ~Everyone got annoyed with me, especially this girl Olive - she was playing the swashbuckling hero at the time, but in the end confrontation she couldn't think of any witty retorts to the stuff I was improvising.~
@125  = ~'Tis unfortunate when the creative soul is bound to this earth by the slow of mind, is it not?~
@126  = ~I think the best thing was that everyone wanted me to win. It was awesome. I had this great moustache.~
@127  = ~Perhaps I should point you in Miss Raelis' direction. She could use a charismatic new lead.~
@128  = ~Ha! No thanks. I think I missed that particular calling.~
@129  = ~I believe you've been avoiding me, Faren. What did I do to deserve your cold shoulder?~
@130  = ~I haven't been avoiding you, exactly. I've just been thinking.~
@131  = ~Will you enlighten us, or shall I go elsewhere to let you alone with your thoughts?~
@132  = ~You just remind me of Seth, is all. I hadn't really noticed before, but after seeing him...yeah. You're a lot like him.~
@133  = ~Is this not cause for celebration? Despite any differences you and he may have had, he was still a close friend, was he not?~
@134  = ~Yes, but you remind me the bad parts of him. The doomsaying, the pessimism, the passivity. You think everything's going to go wrong, but you don't do anything about it to help.~
@135  = ~As all do, you have come around to this. Go on, my hound. Wound me as you wish.~
@136  = ~...well, that's certainly taken the wind out of my sails.~
@137  = ~No matter how angry you may feel at Seth, I am not he. The satisfaction of confronting him, I cannot give you.~
@138  = ~You're looking at me again. What's up?~ [FHF96]
@139  = ~No, not exactly. Well. I kinda wanted to ask...have you been looking after <CHARNAME> lately?~
@140  = ~I guess. I mean, what kind of thing are you thinking of?~
@141  = ~I sort of... I don't know...~
@142  = ~In what sense? I mean, if you mean 'looking after', we're pretty much together right now, so...~
@143  = ~Ewww, no! I don't want to know about THAT.~
@144  = ~I just hate thinking about <PRO_HIMHER> wandering the wasteland without me around to deflate <PRO_HISHER> ego.~
@145  = ~Well, don't worry. I'm good at stopping people getting too full of themselves.~
@146  = ~Sounds good to me! We should compare notes sometime.~
@147  = ~It must be really annoying that Bhaal got around so much.~ [FHF97]
@148  = ~Yeah, you're right. I wish I was a child of Sune, or Selune...but no, it's gotta be stupid old Lord of Murder.~
@149  = ~You could always tell someone you were a child of Sune instead? I bet they'd believe you.~
@150  = ~Ooh, Faren, are you flirting with me? No, I'd rather be the child of Tymora if I had to be the child of anyone. Winthrop always used to say I got myself into such trouble that I oughta pray more to her.~
@151  = ~Don't flirt with me, Faren, I'm not in the mood right now. No, I'd rather be the child of Tymora. At least then I'd get some good luck.~
@152  = ~Or...maybe Finder Wyvernspur?~
@153  = ~Imoen Wyvernspur...it's got a ring to it. Heh.~
@154  = ~...and while she was waiting, the monkey had eaten all the rice!~ [FHF98]
@155  = ~...~
@156  = ~That is without a doubt the worst joke I have ever heard.~
@157  = ~Hey, what's that?~ [FHF99]
@158  = ~Pardon me?~
@159  = ~You're humming. What's the song?~
@160  = ~You must be mistaken: I was certainly not.~
@161  = ~I heard you. And, anyway, what's wrong? I think you have a lovely voice.~
@162  = ~If you must know, it was a song that Khalid was fond of. I was thinking upon him and had not realised I was being so loud.~
@163  = ~...Ah. I'm sorry I brought it up.~
@164  = ~Don't be ridiculous, you were not to know.~
@165  = ~You look like you are about to faint. Whatever it is you want to say to me, get it over with. You're not normally this shy.~
@166  = ~Ugh, I'm not going to faint, I was just trying to think of the right words.~ [FHF107]
@167  = ~I cannot wait forever. I'm sure <CHARNAME> will have us moving again soon.~
@168  = ~Well, I was wondering if you could, possibly, tell me any stories about when you and Khalid were younger? From before <CHARNAME>, I mean.~
@169  = ~I see. Why do you ask?~
@170  = ~I'd like to hear about him. He's still important to you. Plus, I've found that talking about the good times you used to have can help.~
@171  = ~Yes, you talk about your fallen comrades a lot.~
@172  = ~Look, just forget I said anything.~
@173  = ~It was not my intent to seem angry at you, Faren...it is hard for me to talk about Khalid. Harder, perhaps, than it is for you.~
@174  = ~You're probably right. It's probably too soon, anyway.~
@175  = ~Difficulty is no reason to turn away. Come. I will talk, if I am able.~
@176  = ~You know, I think I met one of your cousins a while back. A member of the Jansen clan, anyway.~ [FHF101]
@177  = ~Oh? And who might that be?~
@178  = ~It was down Luskan way, when I was with my old crew - there was this gnome guy who just wouldn't shut up. He had the weirdest stories.~
@179  = ~Come now, Faren, do you really expect me to identify a long-lost relative with that description? There's more of the Jansen clan around than you think, my boy, especially on Great Aunt Jezzy's side.~
@180  = ~Okay, okay. He had a purple hat and a matching cloak, he was a bit taller than you, he had curly hair--~
@181  = ~Did you ever see under the hat?~
@182  = ~Yes! He had, uh...adult reading material stashed in there.~
@183  = ~Why, you've met my Uncle Walter!~
@184  = ~I thought so! Well, he seemed a decent sort of fellow, so I guess you should be proud of your uncle.~
@185  = ~Faren, you've got a lot to learn about reading people. Dear old Walter. Crazy Uncle Walter, we used to call him, as he beat us with his wooden leg and made us eat the beholder tripe soup.~
@186  = ~Uh...~
@187  = ~"You can't leave the table 'til you've finished your beholder tripe soup!" he used to say, and oh did we weep: wept hot, bitter tears into that soup - which did it no favours, let me tell you - and never did he let us leave that table. Why, Cousin Dahlia was so adamant against it (she was a beholder-rights activist, you see) that she graduated from her taxidermy course right there at the dining table.~
@188  = ~Now, Dahlia was a decent sort. Never once killed a beloved family pet to stuff it and mount it on her wall. No sirree; Patient Dahlia, we used to call her. Especially after she went to that hospital, but that's not my story to tell...~
@189  = ~Did you know that I was actually elected Mayor of a small town northeast of Neverwinter?~ [FHF102]
@190  = ~Oh really? What town?~
@191  = ~It was called Rotting Pumpkin. No joke. Rotting Pumpkin, that's what it was called, and I got into office because of that nasty incident involving a goat, two jars of goodberry jam, a wand of fear and a pretty irate kobold.~
@192  = ~I know I'd be irate after such an incident.~
@193  = ~Well, he was trying to run off with the cobbler's daughter at the time but she wasn't having any of it - having switched to the other side the previous winter after the Great Dandelion Wars. So the kobold was irate to begin with.~
@194  = ~Do go on.~
@195  = ~Uh...well, once I was elected Mayor, I decreed that all tithes should be collected in the name of...um, the great Mistress of...~
@196  = ~Damn! I don't know how you do it. I start off well but then my mind goes blank halfway through.~
@197  = ~You'll get there one day, youngling. There was a time, long, long ago, when a certain humble turnip-and-invention merchant not a thousand miles away from you now, couldn't string together a coherent yarn better than the average defense attorney.~
@198  = ~Defense attorney? Never mind that. Is that really true?~
@199  = ~Of course not! It's a Jansen trait, selected for by thousands of years of careful breeding. Now, stop trying to emulate your betters!~
@200  = ~So, then. Faren. Faren, Faren. What are your rates?~
@201  = ~We all know Halmar, we all know you're willing to do the dirty work others wouldn't be nearly so good at. I'm getting at how much you'd charge for a job.~
@202  = ~I know your type better than you think. We all know you're willing to do the dirty work others wouldn't be nearly so good at. I'm getting at how much you'd charge for a job.~
@203  = ~Oh. Well, it all depends. I don't do killing jobs, and to be honest I find it all kind of demeaning now, but--~
@204  = ~How demeaning do you find sabotage and control of an otherwise supposedly free market?~
@205  = ~Ah. This wouldn't be the farmers' market they have in Waukeen's Promenade every week, would it? Because--~
@206  = ~I know what you're going to say. You're going to start criticising my interest in vegetables, like every other person that comes along. Well, I'll tell you, it's been a long time since a Jansen's been in charge of that devilish farmers' market - nor the demonic one, but that's down in Waterdeep and not a tale for the light of heart.~
@207  = ~Actually, I was going to say that I was fairly sure there are already goons with their fingers in those pies. I heard about them before.~
@208  = ~Damn them! Well, I'll have to figure out another way of expanding the business. I'd say you've given me an idea, though. Fingers in pies...very interesting.~
@209  = ~You know, you're kind of changing my mind about the Order.~ [FHF104]
@210  = ~I'd always duck behind a corner if I saw any of them coming towards me. But you don't go around inspiring abject terror, and I'd call that an improvement.~ [FHF114]
@211  = ~If you found my comrades so fearsome, perhaps you should have changed your ways.~
@212  = ~No, that's not what I meant. I wasn't afraid because I'd broken the law, I was afraid because the Order are scary. For a group of people who like to be nice, you could be, well, nicer about it.~
@213  = ~Our mission is not to 'be nice', Faren, and I think you are aware of that. It is to bring justice to those who have wronged, and to protect those who need it.~
@214  = ~Yeah, but how much can you protect people who are scared of you?~
@215  = ~And what would you suggest? To allow evil to fester whilst we present a safer image?~
@216  = ~You could get a mascot, or something. A puppy! No one's scared of a puppy.~
@217  = ~Faren, there is a matter which I would like to discuss with you.~
@218  = ~If this is about that barmaid, then don't worry, I'm sure she was--~
@219  = ~Calm yourself. I merely wish for you to examine your reasons for being here.~
@220  = ~I think it's fairly obvious why I'm here, given <CHARNAME> and all.~
@221  = ~I want to help <CHARNAME>, <PRO_HESHE>'s a friend.~
@222  = ~Of course. But your reasons for joining this group were far less certain, were they not?~
@223  = ~Look, no offence, but if you've got a point I'd appreciate you getting to it.~
@224  = ~It seems to me that you have little direction in your life. You drift from place to place with no real purpose, and allow yourself too easily to be swayed by others' motives.~
@225  = ~If you're talking about being swayed by <CHARNAME>, then I don't see what the problem is. Anyway, you're not exactly off being your own man, are you?~
@226  = ~I speak in more general terms. You need to be able to make goals for yourself, Faren.~
@227  = ~Okay, fine. You think I don't think enough for myself, I get it. Well, I'm going to choose <CHARNAME>'s goals for myself, and you go and advise someone else. Please.~
@228  = ~Okay, fine. You think I don't think enough for myself, I get it. Well, I'm going to prove you wrong by ignoring you, and you go and advise someone else. Please.~
@229  = ~I see I have offended you. I am sorry, Faren: that was not my intention.~
@230  = ~Well...just forget about it.~
@231  = ~Faren, I wish to apologise for offending you before.~
@232  = ~Feel free. To apologise, I mean.~ [FHF116]
@233  = ~You are not going to make this easy, are you?~
@234  = ~Heh, to be honest I'd forgiven you already. It's hard for me to hold a grudge.~
@235  = ~An admirable skill to have. Too often do friendships wither because of insults held overlong.~
@236  = ~Don't think that lets you off the hook, though! You should totally make it up to me.~
@237  = ~Very well, my friend. What did you have in mind as my atonement?~
@238  = ~You could introduce me to some nice Order women looking for a good time?~
@239  = ~I kid, of course. I'll have a think. You could always just buy me a drink when we're stopping in a tavern next.~
@240  = ~You've got a lot of cash, being a Firecam and all. You could always buy me a drink when we're stopping in a tavern next.~
@241  = ~Consider there to be a whiskey with your name on it, Faren.~
@242  = ~Excellent! I should do more of this grudge-holding business.~
@243  = ~...so then, well, we had to choose between the right kneecap and the left.~ [FHF107]
@244  = ~Har har har! Serve him right! So out wi' it, longlimb - what did ye settle upon?~
@245  = ~His fingers, in the end.~
@246  = ~Left or right?~
@247  = ~Left, of course. Didn't want to make his life harder than it needed to be.~
@248  = ~Ah, ye were more merciful than ye needed. Still, ye've a bloodthirsty streak in ye that's a joy to me heart.~
@249  = ~Okay, Korgan, there's something I've been pondering.~ [FHF108]
@250  = ~Funny enough, there's something I've been ponderin', too. Fox meat or badger? Which do ye prefer?~
@251  = ~Fox, of course, badger's all musky. Listen. I was wondering, you kill everyone you travel with, right? And that's your rule.~
@252  = ~It isnae a rule, more a...trend.~
@253  = ~Okay. So how do I avoid you killing me?~
@254  = ~Hahaha! Are ye runnin' scared, lad?~
@255  = ~Well, yeah. You're an axe-wielding maniac!~
@256  = ~'Tis simple. I have a list of folks I be feelin' what ye'd call 'cordial' towards.~
@257  = ~Where do you keep it? Can I see?~
@258  = ~I'll not have ye rummagin' through my effects! Nay. 'Tis in my head. That way I can keep it all straight.~
@259  = ~How do I get on the list?~
@260  = ~There be a trial period. I'll tell ye once ye're on the waitin' list.~
@261  = ~Wait, what? There's more than one list?~
@262  = ~There be the cordial list, and there be the waitin' list for gettin' onto the cordial list. That one's a mite longer. Keep up, longlimb, or ye'll be on another list altogether...~
@263  = ~Yer hair's crawlin' with lice, ye long-limbed fruitcake. By my stinkin' ancestors, that's disgustin'.~
@264  = ~Hey, you can't talk about lice! Look at your beard. Is that chunk of meat from that rabbit we had last week?~
@265  = ~I'm savin' it fer a rainy day. If ye had a beard, ye'd know how it is, but as it is, ye've just got that creature-ridden hunk o' string ye call hair.~
@266  = ~I am not creature-ridden!~
@267  = ~If ye want to live in a sad delusion, that's yer lookout.~
@268  = ~Argh! I'm going to be itchy for the rest of the <DAYNIGHT>, now. I hope you're happy.~
@269  = ~Hahaha! I am indeed. My work be done.~
@270  = ~Mazzy? I wanted to say sorry for what happened to Patrick and the others.~ [FHF109]
@271  = ~I appreciate your words, Faren, but it was not your fault.~
@272  = ~But it is, at least a bit. I could've warned you before you went there. I knew what was there and I didn't say anything-~
@273  = ~I know, and I say again that it was not your fault. You did not slay Patrick and you did not imprison me.~
@274  = ~I just...it doesn't feel right.~
@275  = ~I will not let you punish yourself on my behalf, Faren. We have conquered our demons. The Shade Lord is dead, our friends' souls honoured and avenged. It is time for us to move on.~
@276  = ~...Thanks, Mazzy.~
@277  = ~There is no need to thank me, Faren. I am only speaking the truth to a friend.~
@278  = ~...okay, remember that boy who always used to follow you around? Agh, I can't remember his name.~ [FHF110]
@279  = ~You can't mean Trisno Lowell, can you? He did not like me in the slightest. Why, every time I tried to talk to him he would insult my parents and try to pull my hair.~
@280  = ~Oh, Mazzy, surely you know how it goes! The boy who really likes the girl will make fun of her to show her he's paying attention, or some nonsense like that.~
@281  = ~Did you do that when you were a child?~
@282  = ~I was way too cool-headed. I just made friends with them and tried to kiss them behind the outhouses at the temple school.~
@283  = ~How romantic! I'm sure Olive was very impressed by your charms.~
@284  = ~Oh, no, Olive hit me when I tried that.~
@285  = ~I'm not surprised. I'm sure I would have done the same had you pursued me.~
@286  = ~Well, you were a little old for me back then anyway. I did have the hugest crush on you, though.~
@287  = ~Really? You never seemed...~
@288  = ~You were the one interesting person around, and you always talked about the adventures you were planning and how you were going to change the world.~
@289  = ~Plus, I always thought your hair was the best.~
@290  = ~Oh, Faren. You're very sweet, but you must realise that I do not--~
@291  = ~Of course, now I've seen the error of my ways. Pfft. Can't even stand talking to you right now.~
@292  = ~Very funny. Now come on. Do not try to deny that you remember Gregory Caldwell? The two of you seemed very close!~
@293  = ~Oh, don't remind me...~
@294  = ~Fight.~ [FHF124]
@295  = ~Sword.~
@296  = ~Shield.~
@297  = ~Protect. (So do they have to be nouns?)~
@298  = ~Sacrifice. (No, it can be anything you want.)~
@299  = ~...Patrick.~
@300  = ~...Shadow. (Sorry.)~
@301  = ~Sun. (Do not worry. It is a game, remember!)~
@302  = ~Faith.~
@303  = ~Arvoreen.~
@304  = ~Temple.~
@305  = ~Respect.~
@306  = ~Libraries.~
@307  = ~Sssh!~
@308  = ~Sneaking.~
@309  = ~Troublemaker.~
@310  = ~Squirrel.~
@311  = ~Squirrel? No wait, I--~
@312  = ~You repeated! Ha, I win again!~
@313  = ~Do not I think I am ignorant of your tactics, Faren. You wait until I am truly engaged and then you say the silliest thing you can think of. It's most unsporting!~
@314  = ~You're just a sore loser. C'mon, want to play again?~
@315  = ~I think not. Three games in a row is enough for me!~
@316  = ~Faren, Boo tells me that when we are in battle, you hide behind Minsc. Do not be afraid of the evildoers we fight, because I shall not let them get to you!~
@317  = ~I really appreciate it, Minsc, but it's not them I'm afraid of.~
@318  = ~I understand!~
@319  = ~You do?~
@320  = ~Of course. Boo is a righteous hamster, but he can be frightening enough to scare even the closest of friends. Why, Minsc is scared of Boo sometimes, especially when Boo is cranky.~
@321  = ~To be honest...I'm sorry, but you're the one I'm scared of.~
@322  = ~Hmmm. Boo has told me you are not a bad man, even if you are sometimes very sneaky. There is no need to fear me if you are not a bad person, Faren!~
@323  = ~But there is! When you get all enraged the way you do you'll go for anyone, even me or <CHARNAME>. When there are people you think are bad, you just...go for the kill. No mercy, no double checking. And it's scary.~
@324  = ~But why would I need to check? Minsc and Boo know if someone is bad and deserves a good butt-kicking!~
@325  = ~I guess. Just maybe you could try to remember that sometimes people do bad things without meaning to. Or at least they don't want to be as bad as you might think.~
@326  = ~If it will make you happy, I can try. But sometimes the battle is so very exciting and the evil so strong that Minsc may forget!~
@327  = ~Then if it's all the same to you, I'll stick behind you. At least I'll be able to guard your back from there!~
@328  = ~Psst! Minsc, could I have a word?~ [FHF113]
@329  = ~Of course you can! What would you like to talk about?~
@330  = ~Uh...I was wondering if you could not warn every single monster that we're coming?~
@331  = ~Hmmm. Boo says that you are referring to my stomping boots next to your quiet ones.~
@332  = ~Well, that and being quiet in general, really. Do you really have to make so much noise when we're in these places?~
@333  = ~Most of the time I do. Minsc is not one for quiet butt-kicking. It is not his way!~
@334  = ~Well I'd appreciate it if you at least tried, all right?~
@335  = ~Ah, I'm sorry. I just get on edge sometimes in places like this.~
@336  = ~But you are a brave man. You need not fear the evil things in this place, for you will beat it down as surely as I will!~
@337  = ~Well, I don't know how true that first comment was, but thanks about the second.~
@338  = ~Wait. Boo has a suggestion, as Boo often does. He says that I should distract the monsters, and you can sneak around behind them. Which does not seem very sporting to me, but if it would make you happier then that's what we should do.~
@339  = ~Okay, I can do that. Let's give it a go in the next battle - so you be as loud as you want, I guess.~
@340  = ~Ho, then Minsc will be loud indeed!~
@341  = ~Minsc, could you tell me a little about Rashemen?~ [FHF114]
@342  = ~It is a beautiful place! It is very cold, though - sometimes even I have to wear extra layers, or else I would get very frosty.~
@343  = ~I do not know how to say what it is like in terms of people and the big long words that others might use, but the people in charge are ladies like my Dynaheir, so it is a very good place to be.~
@344  = ~I'd like to see it for myself. I'm always up for new places.~
@345  = ~Well, it is a long way away but Minsc would be proud to show you his home.~
@346  = ~And I'd be proud to see it. Have you ever made a snowman?~
@347  = ~A what-man?~
@348  = ~Ah, you haven't lived! Well, next time we're anywhere with lots of snow, I'll show you exactly what I mean.~
@349  = ~No, no, that's enough. I absolutely refuse to believe that anyone would do THAT to a goat!~
@350  = ~No, it's true as I'm standing here. I swear. Hand on heart, may the gods strike me down.~
@351  = ~Ha! It would serve you right if they did strike you down, and you know it!~
@352  = ~Well, they haven't, now have they? Which would serve to show that I'm telling the truth.~
@353  = ~Oh, you're impossible!~
@354  = ~Ugh, I feel an absolute fright to<DAYNIGHT>! I wish we had time to have a decent bath.~
@355  = ~Yeah, it feels like the knots in my hair are forming a colony. It takes about a week to dry, though, so maybe I should shave it all off and start over.~
@356  = ~At home I had this wonderful lotion to put on my hair to stop it tangling - it smelled of almonds. Even now, that smell takes me back...~
@357  = ~But <CHARNAME> does seem to leave questions of comfort at the wayside, doesn't <PRO_HESHE>?~
@358  = ~You got that right. It's all, "no time for personal hygiene when we've got trolls to slay"!~
@359  = ~Have you ever had a Calimshite bath? I swear, I have never felt so relaxed in my entire life.~
@360  = ~I did this thing once where you go in a really hot bath and then go and roll in the snow - that was invigorating.~
@361  = ~Roll? Without, that is, without anything on? Isn't that rather...~
@362  = ~Uncomfortable? Yeah, I thought I was about to die. But my friends would've made fun of me if I'd turned chicken, so...~
@363  = ~Well, there was one time when I... ah, but perhaps that's not really a story that everyone should eavesdrop on...~
@364  = ~You can tell me about it later, it sounds a good one.~
@365  = ~Hmmm. Perhaps I will at that, Faren.~
@366  = ~Faren, there's something--~
@367  = ~Oh, that's good, I was just about--~
@368  = ~Oh, all right, then, you go on.~
@369  = ~No, ladies first - go ahead.~
@370  = ~There's someone else I'm interested in, and I wanted to clear up that there wasn't anything...~
@371  = ~Well, I like you as a friend, and I wanted to clear up that there wasn't anything...~
@372  = ~Untoward?~
@373  = ~Well, yes.~
@374  = ~That's okay, I was going to say the same thing, actually. There's someone else I'm interested in, too.~
@375  = ~That's okay, don't worry about it. There's someone else I'm interested in, actually. I wouldn't want you to think...~
@376  = ~Oh, I see. Uh, well - I like you as a friend, too. I wouldn't want anything to get complicated.~
@377  = ~Oh! Well, I'm glad that that's all cleared up, then.~
@378  = ~Yep. All sorted out.~
@379  = ~...this has been the most excruciating conversation of my life.~
@380  = ~Don't worry, there's plenty of time for more.~
@381  = ~Did you have fun when you were a soldier? You know - camaraderie, all that.~ [FHF119]
@382  = ~Not particularly. It was mainly sitting around waiting for the higher-ups to give an order.~
@383  = ~Uh-huh. That always gets boring after a while.~
@384  = ~So in your day, did you have...fun?~
@385  = ~Don't say it like it's a bad word. Yeah, I made some friends, and my first serious girlfriend was one of the militia on my patrol. But you know how it is - things changed.~
@386  = ~As is their habit.~
@387  = ~Never said a truer word.~
@388  = ~You know, I used to want to be a ranger.~ [FHF120]
@389  = ~Oh?~
@390  = ~Don't look at me like that, I'm not making fun of you. I even ran away from home a couple of times so I could survive in the wilderness, but it didn't stick.~
@391  = ~Why not? Did the wilderness not appreciate your company?~
@392  = ~Not exactly, no. I got lost, and one of the militia had to come out and fetch me. I think I was sleeping under a hedge somewhere.~
@393  = ~When I was with the scouts, I once ate the large red berries instead of the slightly smaller red berries.~
@394  = ~Let me guess, you had weird hallucinatory visions? That's what happened last time I--~
@395  = ~I came to after three days. I'd almost died.~
@396  = ~Is this your way of telling me I should count myself lucky? 'Cause it's not exactly a friendly story.~
@397  = ~I can tell you about the time when a bear almost ripped off my arm, if you'd like.~
@398  = ~Oh, you spoil me. Go on, then...~
@399  = ~...and then there was the time when Seth hit the ankheg in the face--~ [FHF121]
@400  = ~Faren.~
@401  = ~Yeah?~
@402  = ~It's not that I don't enjoy hearing your stories. But, sometimes, I'd prefer just to have some quiet time.~
@403  = ~And this is one of the times?~
@404  = ~That's right.~
@405  = ~I'm sorry. I sometimes forget who likes quiet and who likes to be talked to, and obviously you like quiet sometimes, so...~
@406  = ~So anyway. I'll be over here if you want to hear the rest of the story.~
@407  = ~(sigh) I will. Just not to<DAYNIGHT>. I need some time.~
@408  = ~I dropped my cloak. Pick it up for me.~
@409  = ~Hmm? Oh - sure, here you go.~
@410  = ~Pah! You have so little spine that your service is worthless. Run along and play with your swords, male.~
@411  = ~So what stories do they tell of the Drow in your little town, Faren? No doubt they mention the earthly delights a Drow female practises.~
@412  = ~Are...you flirting with me, Viconia?~
@413  = ~Ha! I would never stoop to couple with an unwashed soldier such as you.~
@414  = ~Really? 'Cause you seem to be protesting a lot. You have something to say?~
@415  = ~It must be crushing to you to have so few friends remaining that you must invent female interest. Tell me, is it their names that you whisper in your dreams of pleasure?~
@416  = ~Oh, come on, Viconia, that's just--~
@417  = ~I know you're just trying to rile me up, and it's not going to work. I'm not the kind of guy who gets his hair ruffled by stupid insults like that.~
@418  = ~Stop blinking like that. It makes you look even more foolish than usual.~
@419  = ~Thanks, Viconia, great to hear you're right on form.~
@420  = ~You know, before we went to the Underdark, I never appreciated the outside. Even underground, I always knew the sky was nearby.~
@421  = ~But you...I guess you must have liked that impenetrable ceiling always above you.~
@422  = ~"Liked"? It is a fact of life, nothing to like or dislike. It is as it is, and I wish never to see it again.~
@423  = ~But you miss it sometimes, right?~
@424  = ~Leave me be, Faren. I will not listen to your conjecture!~
@425  = ~...let me tell you, the lady was not best pleased to find that her footman had been duplicitous.~
@426  = ~Ha! So did he get hold of the dagger in the end?~
@427  = ~Well, most assumed that it vanished. However, if you were to dig a little you would find records of its sale to a certain antique-dealer named Yoshimo...~
@428  = ~You rascal! That's brilliant. What did you do with it?~
@429  = ~Ah, now that would be telling, my friend.~
@430  = ~All blue! I win again! Come on, cough up the gold.~ [FHF123]
@431  = ~(yawn) You have a ten of farthings hanging out of your sleeve.~
@432  = ~Hmm? Oh - damn, you've got me.~
@433  = ~You have a great deal to learn, friend Faren. If you will insist on cheating, make sure you don't get caught.~
@434  = ~I'm tired, I'm losing my touch!~
@435  = ~All right, all right, I admit it. Can you teach me how to cheat better?~
@436  = ~Nothing would give me greater pleasure.~
@437  = ~Hey! Are you making fun of me?~
@438  = ~I wouldn't dream of it. Now, another hand?~
