# The handbooks are no more.

**Quest Group**: 50432879
**Steps**: 15

## Summary

Them handbooks ain't gonna be a problem for ya no more. 
So, how 'bout we quit makin' folks into fools, ya hear?
Only one group fell for your ruse so far.
How can you be certain of such?
Listen, word 'bout you is gonna spread like wildfire, 
and ain't nobody gonna come sniffin' 'round here no more.

## Walkthrough


### Step 1

- **Dialogue**: ...


### Step 2

- **Objective**: The handbooks are no more.

- **Summary**: Them handbooks ain't gonna be a problem for ya no more. 
So, how 'bout we quit makin' folks into fools, ya hear?
Only one group fell for your ruse so far.
How can you be certain of such?
Listen, word 'bout you is gonna spread like wildfire, 
and ain't nobody gonna come sniffin' 'round here no more.


### Step 3

- **Reward**: Folks're spendin' all their hard-earned Silver on a handbook, 
just to get led here and find some young'un playing around.


### Step 4

- **Objective**: Please, stop now.

- **Summary**: I see. I have always despised those who sought to purchase wisdom
with ill intent and erased their memories.
But in doing so, I was oblivious to the fact
that I no longer shared my wisdom.
Truly, it was I who was ignorant, and I am utterly ashamed.
I have learned a lesson from a fool.


### Step 5

- **Reward**: You callin' me a fool? Let me tell ya somethin', back in my heyday,
folks used to say I could ace the state exam nine times over!


### Step 6

- **Objective**: Why do you reside in this cave?

- **Summary**: Inside a cave? I suppose to you Humans, it does look like one.
This isn't a cave, you're actually inside of my being.
What are you goin' on about? You tryin' to tell me we're sittin'
inside a big ol' whale-sized belly right this very minute?
Yes, you idiot. That's the short of it.
This cave is me, and I am this cave.


### Step 7

- **Reward**: Eeek! Are ya fixin' to gobble us up?
You might look all purty, but I reckon you're a ghost, ain't ya?


### Step 8

- **Objective**: [Tale] Wisdom of the World

- **Summary**: [Tale] Wisdom of the World


### Step 9

- **Reward**: A pleasing answer earns a reward.
Fail, and punishment is dealt.


### Step 10

- **Reward**: ...


### Step 11

- **Reward**: Traveler, you stand before me once more.
Might you engage with me in a battle of wits?


### Step 12

- **Objective**: Prince Young is dead.

- **Summary**: ...The very essence of the land has already whispered it to me.
Heartbreaking. Alas, what is lost is lost forever.
A kind soul he was, always looking out for others.
Yet his surroundings sculpted him into a tragic figure.
We crave virtuous hearts like yourself
to ensure the cycle of pain does not repeat once more.


### Step 13

- **Objective**: I was his last opponent.

- **Summary**: Young was a gifted child, showing far more interest in painting, music,
and martial arts than in the dusty tomes scholars leave behind.
His heart beat true for the way of the sword. If you crossed blades with him
in his final battle, he departed with the honor of a true warrior.
I regret not bidding him a final farewell,
yet I trust it was the will of the heavens.


### Step 14

- **Objective**: Do you not resent me?

- **Summary**: I am no mortal being. I simply await those absent.
To fixate on it? That is the folly of humans and restless spirits.
Accepting his departure suffices.
New bonds shall find me.
As it happens, yesterday some sought my counsel.
Their answers were shallow, so I gave them a good scolding. Ha!


### Step 15

- **Objective**: Alright. Until we meet again.

- **Summary**: Farewell.
And do come again.