User:Soranin/Sandbox2

My secondary sandbox.

Shadows transcripts

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• Rufino: Before you say anything, I wasn't lurking.
• Naoe: Not very well, no.
• Rufino: This place was a farmstead once. Now it seems she has taken to adopting strays.
• Yasuke: You have been here before.

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• Tomiko: He has. A long time ago.
• Rufino: Tomiko. Are you going to introduce me?
• Yasuke: If you are a friend of Tomiko's, then you are welcome here.
• Rufino: Best tell them who I am, Tomiko, assuming you remember.
• Tomiko: I told you once of a battle that turned these fields to ash. Rufino here and his companions are the only reason I did not suffer the same fate. He saved both me and Heiji.
• Rufino: Little Heiji? Is he well?
• Tomiko: Not so little anymore.
• Naoe: So, Rufino? Why are you here?
• Rufino: I need... people I can trust.
• Tomiko: I trust these two with my life. This is Fujibayashi Naoe. And he goes by Yasuke.
• Rufino: Just Yasuke? I don't meet many foreigners who bear Japanese names.
• Yasuke: Adaptation means survival... for a stray.
• Rufino: In a strange land, all strays are brothers.
• Yasuke: Come, you can tell us your tale as we share sake.
• Tomiko: My sake?

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• Rufino: I was born in Portugal, brought to these islands on the winds of greed and then abandoned on the streets. I was just a child. But eventually I found a friend. Ermigo. Together we made this place our home.
• Tomiko: So? What trouble have you stirred up that you feel the need to call in a life debt?
• Rufino: [sighs] Ermigo and I have been working for the Portuguese. Translating, mostly. But when one of our contacts turned up dead, I investigated. I discovered that someone - a group I think - is plotting to kill locals and replace them with strangers. And their targets aren't daimyo or taxmen. They are just kindly merchants, wise fishermen, generous cooks.
• Naoe: Why target such people?
• Yasuke: What better way to kill a community than to cut out its heart?
• Naoe: So, we stop them. How?
• Rufino: They have a ship. The group's research on potential targets is there - names, locations... If we destroy their research...
• Yasuke: They cannot kill those they cannot find.
• Rufino: I would be deeply in your debt if you were to help these people.
• Tomiko: No debt required. These two will help.
• Naoe: Tomiko!
• Tomiko: They'll help or I'll kick them out. Let's see how much of my sake you give away when you're sleeping with wild pigs. Now, go. It sounds like you have a ship to find.
• Rufino: She hasn't changed.

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• Naoe: That's one cache down.

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• Naoe: Another destroyed.

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• Naoe: Done. I should find Rufino. He said he'd meet me here.

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• Rufino: Uh, a little help, shinobi?

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• Yasuke: What is that?
• Rufino: We destroyed their research, but some of the kill contracts have already gone out. I should have acted more quickly.

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• Naoe: So this... makes sense to you?
• Rufino: These people communicate in code, shield themselves with monikers. This list... civilian targets. It says proof of kills are shown to an overseer? And then they report to... "The Architect."
• Naoe: How do you know their code?
• Rufino: Early in my investigation, I found a cipher. I just hadn't seen the other side of it.

[] Yasuke

• Yasuke: This symbol. There is no mistaking it. It is not part of their code.
• Rufino: The cross in red? Yes, I... think it's meant to reference their leader. Are you familiar?
• Yasuke: The Templar Order.
• Naoe: Yasuke...
• Yasuke: [sighs]
• Rufino: Who are they?
• Yasuke: Schemers. Murderers. A rot that must be burned out wherever it takes hold.
• Naoe: Then that's what we'll do. Cut our way through the killers, find their overseers, and track down this "Architect."
• Rufino: But you'll save the civilians first, yes?
• Yasuke: Your heart is in the right place. Of course - innocents first. But then... this "Architect" and everyone associated with him will pay.
• Rufino: All right. Meet me at Tomiko's if you find anything.

Contractor's Kill Assignment

Contractor,

When you are done witht the ferryman, bring his bloodied sash to me at the bamboo cutting camp as proof of death. You may do what you like with the corpse, but I might suggest leaving it as food for the fish.

- The Builder

Man Behind the Curtain

Naoe and Yasuke are on the hunt for the Architect

• Naoe: This is the place Rufino mentioned, I'm sure of it. But this can't be right. I'll use the messages he decoded earlier to read this one for myself.

True Decoded Message

(Selected phrases, now correctly translated from the combined overseer's messages:)

Continued meddling of that traitor Rufino
Must meet and make plan
Eliminate him before further disrupt
Must meet face to face
Ibu Highland
Kashiwabara
Fortress
Scholar will be there to answer for involvement

- The Architect

• Naoe: Rufino is a liar. But why? I'll confront them all. Then I'll have my answers and their blood.

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• Ermigo: I understand your frustration, but you're being shortsighted.
• Rufino: You lied to me. You used me!
• Ermigo: A necessity that broke my heart, each and every day.
• Rufino: This isn't you, Ermigo. This can't be you. Leave them, I beg you. I've done all I could to hold back the tide, but I can't protect you forever!
• Ermigo: I'm the one attempting to protect you. But you have to do as I say.

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• Rufino: I brought you those names in good faith, but you made me a murderer!
• Ermigo: That is the price of peace, my friend.

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• Ermigo: You've ruined this.
• Rufino: Please. He's my friend.
• Yasuke: You lied to me. You betrayed me.
• Naoe: You sent us away on a fool's errand.
• Yasuke: And for what? To protect your treacherous friends?
• Rufino: How could I trust you? A man blinded by vengeance?
• Yasuke: This is not vengeance! It is justice!
• Naoe: Wait. Both of you.
• Rufino: He was my friend when I had nothing! No one!
• Yasuke: He is working with the Templars!
• Rufino: So was I. Ermigo was a brother to me. I won't let you kill him.

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• Gaspar: Deveria matá-lo eu próprio por te-los trazido todos até aqui Mas primeiro, irei punir este traidor. (I should kill him myself for leading all of you people here. But first, I shall punish this traitor.)

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• Ermigo: Senhor, só um momento... (Senhor, just a moment...)

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• Ermigo: Wait! Esperem! (Wait!)

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• Rufino: Ermigo!

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• Gaspar: [Huffs] Kill them all, then.

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• Rufino: I lied to you, but now my actions speak the truth. Come! Join me!

[Play as Yasuke]

• Yasuke: Let us fight the true enemy. together!
• Rufino: Yasuke! I'm sorry I lied to you!
• Yasuke: Fight now! Explain later!

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• Gaspar: Now I get to put down Nobunaga's pet.

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• Ermigo: I knew that you were too soft-hearted to know the truth. But I hoped that one day you'd come to see... join the cause. That we could be... true brothers once again. [sighs]
• Rufino: Ermigo.
• Yasuke: I... I am sorry for your loss.
• Rufino: Even though he was one of them?
• Yasuke: He was your true friend. A sentiment he proved with his final act. Rufino, I...
• Rufino: Stop. I... I lied to you. I broke the trust between us. But... I have always been a fool. It's why all my friends are dead. Garrett, Umi, Ryuichi. And now... I have no one.
• Yasuke: That is not true.
• Naoe: Our league is made of people who believe they can make our world a better place. A hopeful fool will fit right in.
• Yasuke: Come back with us, Rufino. Join us - as our ally.
• Rufino: These men killed my friend, stole my hope, poisoned my desire for peace and twisted it into a means of taking power. [sighs]

Yasuke

• Yasuke: Then come, we will hunt all who manipulate the good for their own gain.
• Rufino: We'll show them that these strays have claws.

Letter from J. to Gaspar

Gaspar,

Brothers Duarte and Caro have failed. These islands are slipping through our fingers. It falls to you to take control of the Seta River - the Order needs it to secure passage for the members of the Black Cross we are mobilizing. Once they reach your shores, the tide will once again swing in our favor.

May the Father of Understanding guide you,
- M.

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