- Kassandra: You look like you shouldn't be outside on your own. At all.
- Eppie: It can't be helped. I've been overcome with adventure.
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A Life's Dedication
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A Life's Dedication was a virtual representation of one of Kassandra's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.
Description
Kassandra met an adventurer in Boeotia who possessed a tablet dating from the Mycenaean period.
Dialogue
While in Boeotia, Kassandra came across pack of wolves attacking a man. After eliminating the beasts, she approached the individual.
- Eppie: By Zeus... I would have been a goner there if it wasn't for you.
- Kassandra: Lucky I came by.
- Eppie: Pleased to make your acquaintance. I'm Eppie. Well, Epizelos, but my friends call me Eppie. Not that I have "friends," necessarily.
- Kassandra: I'm Kassandra.
- Eppie: Charmed! You have the look of someone used to being out in the world.
- Eppie: I have in my possession a Mycenaean tablet that leads to a sacred burial site. I'm calling it the Cave of the Oracle.
- Kassandra: Good for you.
Kassandra turned around and prepared to leave.
- Eppie: Mycenaeans were known for their elaborate grave sites full of precious things.
Kassandra, hearing what Eppie had said, turned around.
- Kassandra: How precious?
- Eppie: Ancient jewelry, ceremonial swords and daggers. So, very precious. If you escort me, I'll show you.
(Accept – I'll come with you.)
- Kassandra: How can I turn down the promise of precious things?
Kassandra followed Eppie as they made their way to the Cave of the Oracle.
- Eppie: The Fates have delivered you onto my path, and thus we travel togethe.r
- Kassandra: The Fates have been known to have a sense of humor.
- Eppie: Happening upon you, hero, is fortuitous.
- Kassandra: Glad to hear it. So you dig through book roll?
- Eppie: No! Well, yes and no. I dig through dirt, too. I uncover our history. Sometimes... hopefully this time, it will uncover ancient wonders!
- Kassandra: Hate to break it to you, but clay pots and dirt aren't that wondrous to most.
- Eppie: I've dedicated my life to it. It's so much more than treasure to be looted.
- Kassandra: Is it though?
- Eppie: It's who we are! knowing where we come from tell us where we are headed.
- Kassandra: You educated people and your riddles.
- Eppie: Some people don't care about the past. They only want to steal something that will make them a few drachmae. Imagine that.
- Kassandra: Hard to believe.
- Eppie: My peers are no more than treasure hunters and art dealers.
- Kassandra: Well. You did mention precious jewels.
- Eppie: These ruins and relics are notoriously hard to find. I found this one through clever searching and deduction.
- Kassandra: Tell me more about it.
- Eppie: Mycenaeans held specific rituals. Some tales speak of objects made by the gods.
- Kassandra: Yes. The gods like to play their hand on occasion.
- Eppie: Think of this, misthios! How would you like to have had the gods help you in battle?
- Kassandra: A good warrior doesn't need any help from the gods or anyone else.
- Eppie: True. True. But think of what we might find there.
- Kassandra: You think we'll find something with this power?
- Eppie: See? Now are you interested?
- Kassandra: I certain am.
Kassandra and Eppie reached and entered the cave, coming upon a number of individuals worshipping inside.
- Eppie: What's this?
- Kassandra: Stay back.
- Eppie: They seem drawn to this place. I hadn't expected that.
- Kassandra: Does it have to do with—whatever that name was you said?
- Eppie: The Mycenaeans? I don't see how they could know. It must be related to Trophonios. I'll observe them and see what I can learn.
- Kassandra: Fine. I'll search further inside.
- Eppie: Wait! Take this stele piece. See if there are markings that match it.
Kassandra dwelled further inside and went under a small opening to a hidden cavern.
- Kassandra: Not much of a burial site. Mules are buried in higher places of honor.
Kassandra went further in, coming up across a locked door.
- Kassandra: The stele piece looks like it can be placed...
Kassandra took out the stele and put it near a circular lock, emitting a glow. This unlocked the door to a secret chamber.
- Kassandra: This is... unexpected.
Kassandra entered the chamber, exploring the contents within. Afterwards, she reached a room with a hole beneath and jumped down.
- Kassandra: Ah, this is more like it. Let's see what we have.
She came a cross a small statue on the ground near a pillar.
- Kassandra: Hmm. This statue depicts a warrior.
She investigated a series of markings on a wall.
- Kassandra: The markings match Eppie's stone!
She investigated a chest and looted it, recovering a pair of boots.
- Kassandra: Eppie will want to see all of this.
Kassandra exited the chamber, returning to Eppie in the cave.
- Kassandra: We're in the right place. Unfortunately, my friend, it's been looted. All I found was this armor.
- Eppie: That is highly significant. The Mycenaeans were a warrior culture, you know. So this must be a warrior's tomb.
- Kassandra: Huh. Well, it's a decent piece. But where's the rest of it?
- Eppie: Hmm... That was only one part of the stele. If we find the others, I can decipher the text.
- Kassandra: Maybe that will reveal more armor. The rest of the stele you speak of could be anywhere.
- Eppie: If I can find clues for where to look, are you interested in finding the other stele pieces?
(Accept – I'll look for the others.)
- Kassandra: I'll look for the others.
- Eppie: Excellent! Now I need to see those markings. Let's go inside.
Eppie and Kassandra entered the chamber, approaching the wall with writings.
- Eppie: I didn't expect the stele keystone to actually be a key.
- Kassandra: I wonder what happens when all of them are in place.
- Eppie: Even with only part of the stele, I can start to decipher the writing.
- Kassandra: What does it say?
- Eppie: Um... I think that says, "of the gods."
- Kassandra: Really? To think, you were someone yelling for help not long ago.
- Eppie: Look at me now.
- Kassandra: I think you're going to need all of them, though.
- Eppie: According to this, it seems that the stele pieces have been deliberately seperated.
- Kassandra: Wait. I found one already. It caught my eye.
- Eppie: By Zeus, you're a natural at this. Did it also come with armor?
- Kassandra: Part of it.
- Eppie: There must be a piece of armor with each missing stele.
- Kassandra: But why?
- Eppie: This section here refers to a ritual.
- Kassandra: It doesn't explain why the armor was seperated and hidden with a stele piece.
- Eppie: Maybe that was part of the ritual? We need to find the other stele pieces. Are you ready?
(Accept – I'll go look.)
- Kassandra: If we found these, then we'll find the other stele pieces too. I'll go look.
- Eppie: Even with the full keystone in place, some of the meaning may be lost on us.
- Kassandra: I have faith in you.
Eppie looked at the writing again.
- Eppie: Oh! You won't believe what this section says... "Of the primordial gods..." Primordial!
- Kassandra: That's interesting.
- Eppie: That's ancient.
- Kassandra: it could just be a prater on behalf of the warrior.
- Eppie: That's what I thought, too. Until I read this part...
Eppie pointed to another section of the writings.
- Kassandra: There's more?
- Eppie: It mentions that the ritual will be activated.
- Kassandra: What ritual?
- Eppie: I have no idea. I'm presuming it means we need all of the steles in place before something happens.
- Kassandra: Do you have the location for the missing piece?
- Eppie: This text is hard to make sense of. It appears to be a warning. Be careful when you explore the Tomb of Orion.
- Kassandra: I'll be careful.
(If players choose "Why is the past important?")
- Kassandra: The dark ages has had its time. Why look backward?
- Eppie: There is truth and insight in looking backward. Take Homer for example, he often spoke of our past in his stories.
- Kassandra: Hmm. So digging through dirt and cobwebbed words is your ambition?
- Eppie: My role is to breathe life into the ancients.
(If players choose "What about your peers?")
- Kassandra: Do any of your peers support you in this?
- Eppie: None. My ways are too different for them.
- Kassandra: If you're right, you'll gain their respect after this.
(If players choose "What if nothing happens?")
- Kassandra: Do you worry that your expectations are too high? It may be a dead end.
- Eppie: How can it? The clues have proven me right thus far. The stele mentions a ritual that once performed, will activate something.
- Kassandra: What does that have to do with primordial gods?
- Eppie: I have no idea. When we have all of the stele pieces. we'll know.
(If players choose "Leave – Goodbye.")
- Kassandra: Time to go.
Outcome
Kassandra met an archeologist named Eppie, agreeing to help him locate and decipher a Mycenaean tomb. She later agreed to look for the other stele pieces to solve a mysterious writing on the wall, starting with the Tomb of Orion.