TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE.json

[
  {
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE",
    "dynamic_line": "What the hell?  What are you doing here?",
    "responses": [
      {
        "text": "Who are you?",
        "condition": { "not": { "u_has_any_trait": [ "PROF_CLEANSINGFLAME", "PROF_CLEANSINGFLAME2", "PROF_SANGUINE" ] } },
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_GET_OUT"
      },
      {
        "text": "What can you tell me about this place?",
        "condition": { "not": { "u_has_any_trait": [ "PROF_CLEANSINGFLAME", "PROF_CLEANSINGFLAME2", "PROF_SANGUINE" ] } },
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_GET_OUT"
      },
      {
        "text": "You are not alone in following The Path.",
        "condition": { "u_has_trait": "PROF_SANGUINE" },
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_SANGUINE"
      },
      {
        "text": "Ecce, sanguinem magum!  Impium profligatum!",
        "condition": { "u_has_any_trait": [ "PROF_CLEANSINGFLAME", "PROF_CLEANSINGFLAME2" ] },
        "trial": { "type": "INTIMIDATE", "difficulty": 75 },
        "success": { "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_INTIMIDATE", "opinion": { "anger": 1, "fear": 2 } },
        "failure": { "topic": "TALK_DONE", "opinion": { "anger": 1 }, "effect": [ { "u_faction_rep": -30 }, "insult_combat" ] }
      },
      { "text": "[ATTACK] I'm here to kill you.", "effect": "insult_combat", "topic": "TALK_DONE" },
      {
        "text": "Er, I'll just be going.",
        "condition": { "not": { "u_has_any_trait": [ "PROF_CLEANSINGFLAME", "PROF_CLEANSINGFLAME2" ] } },
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_NICE_TRY"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_GET_OUT",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "You must be either lost or crazy.  This place isn't safe, and you're not welcome here.  Leave, and forget this place even exists.",
    "responses": [
      {
        "text": "I am a servant of He From Beyond The Veil.  We are not enemies.",
        "condition": { "u_has_any_trait": [ "PROF_CHALICE", "THRESH_VEIL" ] },
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_VEIL"
      },
      {
        "text": "You would not welcome a student of the arcane?",
        "condition": { "u_has_any_trait": [ "PROF_ARCANIST", "PROF_ARCANIST2" ] },
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_MISTAKE"
      },
      {
        "text": "I can see you dabble in what I have already achieved.",
        "condition": { "u_has_trait": "THRESH_DRAGONBLOOD" },
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_DRAGONBLOOD"
      },
      { "text": "[ATTACK] Try and stop me.", "topic": "TALK_DONE", "effect": "insult_combat" },
      { "text": "Okay, I'm going.", "topic": "TALK_DONE", "effect": "player_leaving", "opinion": { "fear": -1 } }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_VEIL",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "Whatever old truce my masters had with yours, it died with the end of the world.  I'll let you go just this once.  Leave, and don't come back.  If the others found out I'm doing this, they'd kill me.",
    "responses": [
      { "text": "[ATTACK] Then you'll die with them.", "topic": "TALK_DONE", "effect": "insult_combat" },
      {
        "text": "His will is greater than those you serve.  Stand aside.",
        "trial": { "type": "PERSUADE", "difficulty": 20 },
        "success": { "topic": "TALK_DONE", "opinion": { "fear": 2 }, "effect": "flee" },
        "failure": { "topic": "TALK_DONE", "opinion": { "anger": 1, "fear": -1 }, "effect": "insult_combat" }
      },
      {
        "text": "Very well then.  Goodbye.",
        "topic": "TALK_DONE",
        "effect": "player_leaving",
        "opinion": { "fear": -1, "anger": -1, "trust": 1 }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_MISTAKE",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "Actually, my masters might find you useful, as a sacrifice if nothing else.  Die!",
    "responses": [ { "text": "...", "topic": "TALK_DONE", "effect": "insult_combat" } ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_DRAGONBLOOD",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "So you found what we seek?  My masters would be pleased to make use of your work, and your blood might make a useful sacrifice.",
    "responses": [
      {
        "text": "If you turn me over to your master, what promise do you have that they'll share what they learn with you?",
        "trial": { "type": "PERSUADE", "difficulty": 25 },
        "success": { "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_PROMISE" },
        "failure": { "topic": "TALK_DONE", "opinion": { "anger": 1, "trust": -1 }, "effect": "insult_combat" }
      },
      {
        "text": "Consider your words more carefully.  You really think you can take me?",
        "trial": { "type": "INTIMIDATE", "difficulty": 25 },
        "success": { "topic": "TALK_DONE", "opinion": { "fear": 2 }, "effect": "flee" },
        "failure": { "topic": "TALK_DONE", "opinion": { "anger": 1 }, "effect": [ { "u_faction_rep": -30 }, "insult_combat" ] }
      },
      { "text": "...", "topic": "TALK_DONE", "effect": "insult_combat" }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_PROMISE",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "I, well.  We've already benefited a bit from our own research.  Even if the master has practically bled us dry for every fragment of knowledge we earn.  This hasn't felt right anymore, ever since it all ended.  But what the hell am I supposed to do?  What are you even suggesting I do?",
    "responses": [
      {
        "text": "Let them squabble and stab each other in the back, until they destroy themselves over scraps of arcane knowledge.  Join me and live.",
        "topic": "TALK_AGREE_FOLLOW",
        "effect": "follow",
        "opinion": { "trust": 2, "fear": -1, "value": 2, "anger": -1 }
      },
      {
        "text": "They will simply kill you when you cease to be useful to them.  I'll at least let you escape with your life.  Go on, whelp.  Flee.",
        "topic": "TALK_DONE",
        "effect": "flee",
        "opinion": { "trust": 1, "fear": 5, "value": 1, "anger": -2 }
      },
      {
        "text": "[ATTACK] You're pathetic.  You don't deserve to live.",
        "topic": "TALK_DONE",
        "effect": "insult_combat",
        "opinion": { "trust": -3, "fear": 1, "value": -1, "anger": 3 }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_SANGUINE",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "Maybe that's true.  But our unity under The Path has been broken.  It's survival of the strongest now, isn't it?  The magus here won't welcome another into the fold, you'll only be seen as a rival.",
    "responses": [
      { "text": "Why are you here?", "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_WHY" },
      { "text": "We don't have to fight.", "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_PEACE" },
      { "text": "[ATTACK] Then let the strong rule.  Die.", "topic": "TALK_DONE", "effect": "insult_combat" }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_WHY",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": {
      "u_has_trait": "THRESH_DRAGONBLOOD",
      "yes": "We continue our studies, in pursuit of survival.  The magus here is one of those who heard of the Dragonblood Sacrament, and decided that it was one valid option to draw power from Beyond and use it to survive.  And looking at you, it seems that method is indeed a valid one, isn't it?",
      "no": "We continue our studies, in pursuit of survival.  There are many routes to it, and my master still believes that harnessing the power from Beyond might permit us to adapt to this world."
    },
    "responses": [
      {
        "text": "And your master wants to recreate it?  We don't have to fight.",
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_QUERY_DRAGONBLOOD",
        "condition": { "u_has_trait": "THRESH_DRAGONBLOOD" },
        "switch": true
      },
      {
        "text": "There are many ways to pursue The Path.  It doesn't have to end in us coming to blows.",
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_PEACE",
        "switch": true,
        "default": true
      },
      {
        "text": "[ATTACK] This must end, no matter our history.  Stand and fight.",
        "topic": "TALK_DONE",
        "effect": "insult_combat"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_QUERY_DRAGONBLOOD",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "Indeed, I wish the magus would permit us to work together instead.  My master would greatly value what you've learned.  But you'd be considered a threat.",
    "responses": [
      {
        "text": "Can you trust that your master will share the fruit of these studies with you?",
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_PROMISE"
      },
      {
        "text": "[ATTACK] I'll show you and the others just how much of a threat I am.",
        "topic": "TALK_DONE",
        "effect": "insult_combat"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_PEACE",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": {
      "u_has_trait": "THRESH_DRAGONBLOOD",
      "yes": "I would rather we work together, use what you have learned for us to become stronger, together.  But my master will accept no rival in these trying times.  What am I to do?",
      "no": "We shouldn't have to fight, ideally we would stand together in times like these.  Were we not destined to rule over the weak and undeserving?  But if my master will accept no rival, and better to stand with them than alone."
    },
    "responses": [
      {
        "text": "I have succeeded where others have failed, pursuing the same method that your master seeks.  Can you really trust your master?.",
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_PROMISE",
        "condition": { "u_has_trait": "THRESH_DRAGONBLOOD" },
        "switch": true
      },
      {
        "text": "Your master has erred in judgment.  They are not worthy of being followed.",
        "switch": true,
        "default": true,
        "trial": { "type": "PERSUADE", "difficulty": 50 },
        "success": { "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_CONVINCE" },
        "failure": { "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_NOPE" }
      },
      {
        "text": "[ATTACK] Then die, defending your misguided fool of a master.",
        "topic": "TALK_DONE",
        "effect": "insult_combat"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_CONVINCE",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "You're right.  This isn't the right way to follow The Path.  Would you take me in as an apprentice?",
    "responses": [
      {
        "text": "Yes, join me.",
        "topic": "TALK_AGREE_FOLLOW",
        "effect": "follow",
        "opinion": { "trust": 2, "fear": -1, "value": 1, "anger": -3 }
      },
      {
        "text": "[ATTACK] No.  You will face the same judgment as your master.",
        "topic": "TALK_DONE",
        "effect": "flee"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_NOPE",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "And you think you're any more fit to rule in this dying world?  \"Even those of great power, if laid low, may serve to better the victor.\"  Die!",
    "responses": [ { "text": "...", "topic": "TALK_DONE", "effect": "insult_combat" } ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_INTIMIDATE",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "What?  Oh shit...  no, not you!  Leave us alone, hunter!",
    "responses": [
      {
        "text": "[ATTACK] Subire mortem tuam, sub malleo deorum!",
        "topic": "TALK_DONE",
        "effect": [ { "u_faction_rep": -30 }, "flee" ]
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_NICE_TRY",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "You don't just barge in here and expect to walk out without explaining yourself.  Why should I let you leave?",
    "responses": [
      {
        "text": "I am a servant of He From Beyond The Veil.  There is no need for quarrel.",
        "condition": { "u_has_any_trait": [ "PROF_CHALICE", "THRESH_VEIL" ] },
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_VEIL"
      },
      {
        "text": "I am just a student of the arcane, seeking further knowledge.  I'll leave peacefully, honest.",
        "condition": { "u_has_any_trait": [ "PROF_ARCANIST", "PROF_ARCANIST2" ] },
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_MISTAKE"
      },
      {
        "text": "Look at me.  I'm like you, there's no need for us to fight.",
        "condition": { "u_has_trait": "THRESH_DRAGONBLOOD" },
        "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_DRAGONBLOOD"
      },
      {
        "text": "I didn't mean to intrude.  Sorry.  I'll just be going.",
        "trial": { "type": "PERSUADE", "difficulty": 5 },
        "success": { "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_BEGONE" },
        "failure": { "topic": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_PATHETIC" }
      },
      { "text": "[ATTACK] Fuck you, I do what I want.", "topic": "TALK_DONE", "effect": "insult_combat" }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_BEGONE",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "Forget you ever saw anything here.  Before I change my mind.",
    "responses": [ { "text": "...", "topic": "TALK_DONE", "effect": "player_leaving", "opinion": { "fear": -1, "value": -1 } } ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_BLOOD_MAGE_APPRENTICE_PATHETIC",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "Really?  How pathetic.  Your very presence endangers what we're working on.  I can't let you leave alive.",
    "responses": [
      { "text": "...", "topic": "TALK_DONE", "effect": "insult_combat", "opinion": { "fear": -5, "value": -5, "anger": 3 } }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "TALK_FRIEND_CONVERSATION",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "responses": [
      {
        "text": "<BGSS_intro_question>",
        "topic": "BGSS_BLOOD_MAGE_1_STORY1",
        "condition": { "npc_has_trait": "BGSS_BLOOD_MAGE_1" },
        "switch": true
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "BGSS_BLOOD_MAGE_1_STORY1",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "I hadn't been in the Order for very long when one of the magi had everyone gathered up.  We were in this other place at the time with a couple others, and initially I thought she was preparing another lesson.",
    "responses": [
      { "text": "Magi?", "topic": "BGSS_BLOOD_MAGE_1_STORY2" },
      { "text": "What happened?", "topic": "BGSS_CF_1_STORY3" },
      { "text": "<done_conversation_section>", "topic": "TALK_FRIEND" },
      { "text": "<end_talking>", "topic": "TALK_DONE" }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "BGSS_BLOOD_MAGE_1_STORY2",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "There were a few, yeah.  The higher-rank blood mages, basically.  This was before the one at the hideout split off from the others, and led us into trying to scrounge up some old research.  Things were tense back then, but at least I felt like I could trust those higher up in rank to reward fair study...",
    "responses": [
      { "text": "So what happened?", "topic": "BGSS_CF_1_STORY3" },
      { "text": "<done_conversation_section>", "topic": "TALK_FRIEND" },
      { "text": "<end_talking>", "topic": "TALK_DONE" }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "BGSS_BLOOD_MAGE_1_STORY3",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "There was a shrike there, those were rather rare by the time I joined.  That's what they call the guys that specialize in killing mage hunters.  They'd passed a message of some sort to the lead magus, whatever it was got her all agitated.  Started ranting and raving about the end of the world and the dead coming back to life.  They'd talk about stuff like that before, but it seemed different this time.",
    "responses": [
      { "text": "What seemed different about it?", "topic": "BGSS_CF_1_STORY4" },
      { "text": "<done_conversation_section>", "topic": "TALK_FRIEND" },
      { "text": "<end_talking>", "topic": "TALK_DONE" }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "BGSS_BLOOD_MAGE_1_STORY4",
    "type": "talk_topic",
    "dynamic_line": "At first it was just the same shit, only thing that seemed strange was talking about it like it had already happened.  Before they'd be all vague, talking about portents and omens of doom, but it wasn't until we moved on to the next hideout that most of us at the bottom of the totem pole figured out something went down...",
    "responses": [ { "text": "<done_conversation_section>", "topic": "TALK_FRIEND" }, { "text": "<end_talking>", "topic": "TALK_DONE" } ]
  }
]