| wanderer_strings.XML |
<!-- posed as man to join army. needed the money --> <string id="prebackstory.spc_wanderer_empire_7" text="{=eeEra0bI}Yeah, I'll tell you my story. Pass the wine and listen close." />
<string id="backstory_a.spc_wanderer_empire_7" text="{=Ed3XsQhN}My family had debts, so I signed up to be a soldier under one of Old Neretzes's kinsmen. I guess I always liked men's work more than women's work. The legions took hill women as scouts but I was never the hidey-sneaky type. So I did what I did to be in the spear line." />
<string id="backstory_b.spc_wanderer_empire_7" text="{=yPRaUTwX}Dressed as a man, of course. Weren't difficult to do. Not hard to fool men. Bound my breasts and watched where I pissed. It was easy." />
<string id="backstory_c.spc_wanderer_empire_7" text="{=iBwF0NxU}Then one day our commander led us into an ambush. The apple doesn't far fall from the tree, you could say. I didn't see the battle but was part of the rout. That was the end of army life for me. Don't care for glory-hounding lords leading me to my death. But I still like to fight." />
<string id="response_1.spc_wanderer_empire_7" text="{=8CixQpyO}Well, there's always work for the brave and the resourceful." />
<string id="response_2.spc_wanderer_empire_7" text="{=bhvZuX1m}A rather sad tale of deceit and disgrace." />
<string id="backstory_d.spc_wanderer_empire_7" text="{=TzOdlTeb}Yeah.. The merchants give me jobs. But I'm not sure I care much for guarding caravans. A lot of sitting around listening to boring talk about prices. Look, I can wield a sword or spear and I can also repair them. Wouldn't mind trying my hand them at making them too. If you've know a captain with a good company, a fighting company, maybe he'd be interested." />
<string id="generic_backstory.spc_wanderer_empire_7" text="{=Jv85koU3}I dressed as a man to serve in the legions. There are many of us who've done that, believe it or not. You've probably met one of us before, even if you didn't know it." /> |
| companion_strings.XML |
<!-- companion #4, Chara
Scarred
Joined in a more open-minded, aggressive time
Scarred <string id="str_npc_intro.5" text="Greetings, wanderer. How goes it?" />
<string id="str_npc_intro_response_1.5" text="Well enough, I suppose. How goes it with you?" />
<string id="str_npc_intro_response_2.5" text="Busy. Very busy. So if you excuse me, I shall be moving on." />
<string id="str_npc_backstory_a.5" text="Well enough for me, I suppose. But I fear for this land, in these sorry days, when men are cowards and huddle behind walls for their protection. I fear for a land where lords hoard their troops, for why protect the citizens of the empire, when you may change emperor at the drop of a hat? We watch from the walls as plumes of smoke rise from raided villages, feeling no shame at letting raiders ride through at their will." />
<string id="str_npc_backstory_b.5" text="I also fear for a land when men are afraid to fight beside a woman, lest she show herself to be more of a man than they are. I was born on the frontier, where sons and daughters alike learned to hunt and shoot. In those days the emperors found a place in their armies for anyone who could show skill at arms - man or woman, citizen or barbarian. I signed up here by showing myself a better archer than any man on the garrison. But the master of archers, who cared first and foremost about winning battles, died of the flux shortly after I joined. " />
<string id="str_npc_interrupt_1.5" text="Go on." />
<string id="str_npc_interrupt_2.5" text="Never mind." />
<string id="str_npc_backstory_d.5" text="I told the captain of my frustrations. He laughed at me and called me 'girl.' He told me that, if I wanted to fight, I should leave his force and get married, and surely my husband and I could beat each other to our heart's content. " />
<string id="str_npc_backstory_d.5" text="Well, even if I wished to marry, I know well enough that no man of this town would marry a woman who bears scars like mine, honorably earned in the empire's service or not. " />
<string id="str_npc_backstory_response_1.5" text="Sorry days indeed, my lady. But if you are unhappy with your current employment, a good archer's skills are always welcome." />
<string id="str_npc_backstory_response_2.5" text="Soldiers must learn to be content with the orders they are given." />
<string id="str_npc_signup.5" text="(i will give you a chance)" />
<string id="str_npc_signup_2.5" text="(i will give you a chance)" /> |
.png "the_wanderer_(empire)")
