# We were about to ask you the same thing.

**Quest Group**: 651987
**Steps**: 16

## Summary

Name's Yaz. Secret gu—uh, ahem, I mean, archaeologist.
And this here? My ever-trusty assistant, Adventurer.
But seriously, what were you doing in a place like this?
Do you even know what this place is?
I'm an archaeologist researching the Dark Goddess religion.
I followed the ancient records from O'dyllita, which led me here.

## Walkthrough


### Step 1

- **Dialogue**: I mean it... thank you so much!


### Step 2

- **Reward**: What brings you all here?
 This place... it is not safe.


### Step 3

- **Objective**: We were about to ask you the same thing.

- **Summary**: Name's Yaz. Secret gu—uh, ahem, I mean, archaeologist.
And this here? My ever-trusty assistant, Adventurer.
But seriously, what were you doing in a place like this?
Do you even know what this place is?
I'm an archaeologist researching the Dark Goddess religion.
I followed the ancient records from O'dyllita, which led me here.


### Step 4

- **Reward**: An archaeologist, huh? Really?
Which society? Which faction?


### Step 5

- **Objective**: Listen.

- **Summary**: Ah... I'm with the Thornrose Society.
Just a small, unnamed branch.
Haha, yeah. Nice to meet you! I'm—wait, hold on.
The Thornrose Society? The same Thornrose Society I know?
You mean the one founded back
in Orzeca's era is still around?


### Step 6

- **Reward**: Whoa! This is huge!
Assistant! We gotta take her to Alustin, like, righ—


### Step 7

- **Objective**: Yaz, breathe.

- **Summary**: ...Ah, ahem. Right, right. Good thing I've got my assistant to keep me in check.
Anyway, the bag over there—is it yours?
Oh my! Indeed, that is mine! Thank you so much.
 Never did I imagine finding help in a place such as this.
I first heard of the Dark Goddess through the songs of ancient bards.
I followed the traces of their records, hoping to uncover their origins.


### Step 8

- **Reward**: We barely managed to form an expedition and somehow made it here.
 Alas, upon our arrival, every soul—each one of them—was lost... *sobs*


### Step 9

- **Objective**: The weapons, I presume.

- **Summary**: Yes. At first, I thought this place was nothing more than forsaken ruins.
 But then, those machines began to appear—one following the other...
We did our best to tread carefully and avoid them, 
but once we got lost and started wandering... there was no escaping them.
I thought that was the end for me.
 But you saved my life.


### Step 10

- **Reward**: Are you searching for something here too?
If so, you might just need me.


### Step 11

- **Reward**: Oh... uh. Just Yaz is fine.
Lucy, huh? That's a rather classy name.


### Step 12

- **Objective**: What do you know about the Dark Goddess?

- **Summary**: I've been researching the Dark Goddess religion
for quite some time.
Legend has it that she arrived with thorned vines entwined about her wrists.
Thus, she is known to some as the Thornwood Goddess.
Since all the records led me here, I figured
there had to be something important waiting to be discovered.


### Step 13

- **Reward**: Actually, I was investigating something right before 
those weapons surrounded me.


### Step 14

- **Objective**: What were you investigating?

- **Summary**: I was looking for a way to open
the veil blocking that passage.
I found the control device, but I couldn't figure out 
how to bypass its security.


### Step 15

- **Reward**: Come on, let's hurry!
I'll show you the way.


### Step 16

- **Reward**: Please, allow me to take you there.
It lies just ahead.