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Follow, Wander, Stumble, Listen

2021-12-12T22:45:08Z

Royalbloodi: /* Walkthrough */

{{Quest infobox
| title = Follow, Wander, Stumble, Listen
| image =
| description = Hythlodaeus has a suggestion.
| quest-giver = Hythlodaeus
| location = Elpis
| location-x = 29.8
| location-y = 13.1
| type = main scenario
| quest-line = Endwalker Main Scenario Quests
| level = 87
| exp =
| gil =
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = Words without Sound
| next-quest = Caging the Messenger
| release = Endwalker
| patch = 6.0
}}
__NOTOC__
==Steps==
* Search for Meteion while accompanied by Emet-Selch.
* Continue searching for Meteion while accompanied by Emet-Selch.
* Survey the area while accompanied by Emet-Selch.
* Survey the next area while accompanied by Emet-Selch.
* Speak with Emet-Selch

==Journal==

==Walkthrough==

* 1st Spot x:30.2 y:14.2 z:3.1
* 2nd Spot x:31.9 y:17.7 z:3.0
* 3rd Spot x:37.5 y:17.2 z:3.1
* 4th Spot x:36.7 y:14.2 z:3.0

==Dialogue==
Hythlodaeus:
* Correct me if I'm wrong, but Meteion renders herself invisible by matching her aetheric density to that of her surroundings, does she not?
* If so, could we not then disrupt her concealment with a surfeit of aether? Much how Emet-Selch solidified your presence when first we met you!

Emet-Selch:
* Don't be absurd. I can hardly channel aether to a recipient whose whereabouts are hidden from me.

Hythlodaeus:
* Which is why we must all work together.
* Player will continue the search in the same manner as before, but this time with you in tow. Once she ascertains Meteion's likely location, you proceed to reveal our wayward familiar with a swift aetherial downpour!

Venat:
* Very clever. And thankfully, she has made herself easier to capture by fleeing towards Lethe.
* Assuming she is made visible, it should prove no great feat to herd her into a corner.

Hythlodaeus:
* Then we have our plan. Player and Emet-Selch will be our tracker and trapper respectively, while we others predict and obstruct Meteion's avenues of escape.
* Emet-Selch and I will keep an eye on each other's aether to help coordinate our efforts. Let us be about it!

Emet-Selch:
* ...Well, it seems we are partners for the time being. Let us return to where we last saw Meteion and pick up the trail from there.
* I will keep myself in a state of preparedness, ready to rain down aether at a moment's notice─meaning it falls to you to keep the way clear.

Meteion:
* Why can't I fly? Are my functions being restricted!?
* Hide─yes, I'll just have to hide, then. Where no one can find me...

Emet-Selch:
* She went into the lake!? As if this wasn't tiresome enough...
* Well, at least that open expanse should make her easier to find. We won't lose her this time!
* We should be able to reach the bottom of this drop by climbing down the rocks at the water's edge.
* Do not even think of dragging me over the falls. Final Days or no, if I end up drenched from head to toe, I swear I will feed you to a remora.

Meteion:
* Not here... I'm not here... Please...

Emet-Selch:
* By that rock, is she? Very well!

Meteion:
* What? Why can't I hide!?

'''''"There's no need to run, Meteion!"'''''

Meteion:
* Player...? What are you saying? Everything is so faint...
* I'm sorry... I'm not strong enough. Stay away. I'm begging you...
* Don't make me say it. It will break him. His poor, fragile heart...

Emet-Selch:
* Now we have a chance.
* Once the others are in position, the two of us can herd her into their midst!
* Is this teleporter not in use? It seems to have been left to the mercy of the elements...
* Either way, it bears no trace of Meteion's essence. We move on!
* There! I see her!
* Aha!
* Give chase. We shall herd her into the shelter.

Hermes:
* Please, Meteion. We must speak.

Meteion:
* I'm sorry, Hermes... I'm so sorry...
* If someone can hear these words, then please...
* Please...protect them. Protect them all.
* Individual self suspended. Connection with shared consciousness stable.
* Our survey is complete. We shall now report our findings.
* All units safely arrived at their respective destinations. Seeking answers to Hermes's question, we attempted to make contact with the intelligent denizens of each star.
* Results are as follows, in order of numerical code.
* Hena: Traces of civilization found─structures believed to have served as domiciles. No extant life-forms detected.
* Dyo: Ruined remnants of buildings scattered across star, surface of which is encased in ice. Presence of life could not be verified.
* Tria: Evidence of large population centers akin to cities recovered. No extant life-forms found─only their lingering essence.
* Tessera: Edifices surmised to be abandoned residences found. No extant life-forms detected. Deadly plague or extreme environmental degradation likely to have led to mass extinction.

Hermes:
* They are all...dead?

Meteion:
* Okto: Star found in state of violent conflict. Contact successfully made with inhabitants, but deployment of weapons of mass destruction resulted in total annihilation of local population shortly thereafter.
* Ennea: Star is a barren desert. No identifiable flora found. Bones of living beings resembling men discovered beneath sands, but determination regarding their intelligence inconclusive.

Emet-Selch:
* Remind me, Hermes. What exactly was the question you entrusted to Meteion?

Hermes:
* I tasked her with asking what others live for. What gives their lives...meaning...

Emet-Selch:
* Did you consider what may happen if the premise of the question is flawed?
* To be able to answer it, one must be living─and desire to continue doing so.
* But if Meteion finds no living beings in the course of her journey...
* Or none who desire to live, what then?
* What answers would she derive from their silence?

Venat:
* Meteion, enough. Suspend your mission and return hither at once.

Meteion:
* Deka-pente: Local civilization once flourished under auspices of higher power. Said power later laid waste to civilization in fit of rage.
* Upon revealing this to me, entity elected to self-terminate in lieu of providing answer to question. No other intelligent life-forms found.

Emet-Selch:
* Turning a deaf ear, are we?
* We are taking Meteion back to Amaurot. As I understand, we will need her if we are to bring back all of her sisters.

Hermes:
* Y-Yes...
* Meteion...
* It isn't right, is it? It isn't right to turn away from the answer...even if the answer...is pain...
* Even if we aberrations must scream ourselves hoarse to be heard...
* Aye. Whatever answers we find, I will not dismiss them out of hand. These words I said to you...and I will hold myself to them.

Emet-Selch:
* What is the meaning of this!?

Hermes:
* You cannot take Meteion. Not until she has finished her report.
* All else must wait.

Emet-Selch:
* You fool!
* Why, Hermes? Why could you not leave well enough alone!?
* Will these answers assuage the pain you feel when a creation is returned to aether?
* Had you never cast your accursed question to the distant stars, you may have one day learned to be at peace upon this one...

Words without Sound

2021-12-12T22:42:15Z

Royalbloodi: /* Walkthrough */

{{Quest infobox
| title = Words without Sound
| image =
| description = Emet-Selch seems content to stay where he is.
| quest-giver = Emet-Selch
| location = Elpis
| location-x = 20.5
| location-y = 9.0
| type = main scenario
| quest-line = Endwalker Main Scenario Quests
| level = 87
| exp = 495,000
| gil = 1109
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = Hunger in the Garden
| next-quest = Follow, Wander, Stumble, Listen
| release = Endwalker
| patch = 6.0
}}
__NOTOC__
==Steps==
* Search the area for Meteion.
* Search for Meteion beneath the Hungering Gardens.
* Search for Meteion north of the Hungering Gardens.
* Search for Meteion east of the Hungering Gardens.
* Speak with Hermes.

==Journal==

==Walkthrough==

**NOTE: There are MANY more locations than the ones you NEED to go to. These are the locations that will progress the story.**

* 1st Spot (21.8 10.4 2.9)
* 2nd Spot (25.4 8.3 2.5)
* 3rd Spot (27.5 6.4 2.9)
* 4th Spot (29.7 13.0 3.0)

{{#ev:youtube|dQLS0LxpLgM|350|right|Words without Sound - full cutscenes}}

==Dialogue==
Emet-Selch:
* Hermes said he would not be long, yes? Then we shall wait here until he emerges...

Hermes:
* My apologies for keeping you waiting. I understand there is a matter you wish to discuss.

Emet-Selch:
* Aye, a matter of the utmost gravity...if one can suspend disbelief.
* Go on, then. Tell him what you told us. Who you are and why you came.

Hermes:
* The Final Days...

Venat:
* The phenomena observed during these star-encompassing calamities is likely the product of a dynamis reaction.
* And none is more versed in the applications of this energy than you, Hermes.
* I must stress that we do not believe you would desire such destruction. We come not to lodge accusations, but to beg your wisdom.
* And so, distressing though the exercise may be, I ask that you share with us your opinion on the matter─on the assumption that our visitor's tale is true.

Hermes:
* Even you, Venat...
* As you say, the phenomena observed in the two calamities may both be attributed to dynamis.
* Of note is the difference in its effect. In the first Final Days, it warped creation magicks. In the second, it warped the people themselves.
* The key variable, I suspect, is the aetheric density of the men of each age.
* As you know, aether, in essence, negates dynamis.
* Harboring high concentrations of aether, we ancients cannot readily manipulate dynamis─nor be manipulated by it. Therefore, rather than our selves, the calamity affected our magicks.
* In contrast, having been sundered, the people of the future are composed of but a fraction of our aether.
* Thus are they susceptible to the influence of dynamis─and its transformative potential.
* But that would explain only the mechanism, not the cause... Though perhaps...

Emet-Selch:
* What is it? Even should it be a hypothesis, we would hear it.

Hermes:
* Dynamis is an energy put in motion by feelings. Feelings for which there must first exist a source.
* A source to which the victims must be attuned─one that harbors the selfsame negative emotions. Elsewise, it could not be the agent of such extreme change.

Venat:
* So it wasn't the stagnation of the celestial currents...
* Someone─or something─is instigating the star's demise.

Emet-Selch:
* So we've a villain on our hands after all... Any idea who or what it could be?

Hermes:
* The celestial currents comprise the outermost layer of the star's aether, encasing it like a protective sphere.
* According to your tale, 'twas where the currents were weakest that the phenomena first manifested.
* If the inciting factor came from without Etheirys, then its effects would first be seen in those locations.

Meteion:
* Greetings. Can you hear me?
* Do not be alarmed ─ I mean you no harm.
* I wish only to hear your words. Share your feelings. Know your thoughts.
* May we please...be friends?

Hermes:
* Meteion? What is it?

Meteion:
* Executing scheduled task. Suspending individual self and connecting to shared consciousness.
* Connection established. Commencing status report.
* Ah! Ahhh! Ahhhhhh!
* It hurts, it hurts! It hurts!
* So hot...so cold...so sad... I don't understand... Make it stop... Please, make it stop...

Hermes:
* Steady, Meteion! Steady!

Meteion:
* So scared...so lonely... The pain...it's too much...
* Why...why...why do we...they...hurt...hurt...hate...HATE!
* This is wrong! All wrong!

Emet-Selch:
* She's...gone? But how?

Hermes:
* She has altered her aetheric density in order to blend in with her surroundings. An ability for avoiding confrontation.

Hythlodaeus:
* Most effective...frustratingly so. I can't see her either─not even a trace.

Meteion:
* Stay away. Please. This is wrong. My mistake. So please...

Venat:
* Are you all right?
* ...In your mind? No, we only heard her speak the instant before she vanished.

Hermes:
* Of course. When communicating without words, Meteion also employs dynamis.
* That would explain why you were able to hear her when we could not.

Emet-Selch:
* Then you are our best chance of finding her. Follow her voice, and try to track her down.
* Hindered though we may be, let us split up and search as well.

Meteion:
* It seeps...into my mind... Our voices... Reporting...
* No, no! Hermes mustn't hear them! I have to run...to hide...

???:
* Greetings...and salutations...

Meteion:
* Commencing report...
* Oh...oh no, we can't tell them that! We must run... Run far away!
* Please... Don't follow me...
* How...? How did it come to this...?
* Is this the reason we traveled to the stars? Why we sought out other life-forms?
* Is this it? Is this the answer!? No, it cannot be...it cannot be!

???:
* Compiling report for dissemination to Hermes and all peoples of Etheirys...

Meteion:
* Processing expedition data... Preparing profiles on intelligent civilizations...
* Formulating answers to the question...
* Finalizing report...
* No, Player... You mustn't listen!
* It's wrong...it's all wrong...

Emet-Selch:
* Any sign of Meteion?
* Panicked and confused... Which will make it all the more difficult to predict her movements.

Venat:
* Hermes. What do you make of this situation?

Hermes:
* The Meteia are linked to a single mind─a shared consciousness which connects them across any distance. I suspect something has happened which disrupted its usual harmony...

Venat:
* How might we access this shared consciousness of theirs?

Hermes:
* Much as you would approach any sentient being: directly.
* In the Meteia's case, that means speaking to any incarnation within physical reach.

Venat:
* So unless we can track down the Meteion we just lost, we have no means to communicate with them...
* No way of knowing what befell her sisters; no way to provide directions or guidance.

Emet-Selch:
* Then we had best set our musings aside, and concentrate on how we might find her!

Hermes:
* Oh, my dear Meteion... What did you witness out there that frightened you so?
* Why do you seek to keep it from us? How terrible could it possibly be...?

Words without Sound

2021-12-12T22:37:37Z

Royalbloodi: Undo revision 366843 by Royalbloodi (talk)

{{Quest infobox
| title = Words without Sound
| image =
| description = Emet-Selch seems content to stay where he is.
| quest-giver = Emet-Selch
| location = Elpis
| location-x = 20.5
| location-y = 9.0
| type = main scenario
| quest-line = Endwalker Main Scenario Quests
| level = 87
| exp = 495,000
| gil = 1109
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = Hunger in the Garden
| next-quest = Follow, Wander, Stumble, Listen
| release = Endwalker
| patch = 6.0
}}
__NOTOC__
==Steps==
* Search the area for Meteion.
* Search for Meteion beneath the Hungering Gardens.
* Search for Meteion north of the Hungering Gardens.
* Search for Meteion east of the Hungering Gardens.
* Speak with Hermes.

==Journal==

==Walkthrough==
* 1st Spot (21.8 10.4 2.9)
* 2nd Spot (25.4 8.3 2.5)
* 3rd Spot (27.5 6.4 2.9)
* 4th Spot (29.7 13.0 3.0)

{{#ev:youtube|dQLS0LxpLgM|350|right|Words without Sound - full cutscenes}}

==Dialogue==
Emet-Selch:
* Hermes said he would not be long, yes? Then we shall wait here until he emerges...

Hermes:
* My apologies for keeping you waiting. I understand there is a matter you wish to discuss.

Emet-Selch:
* Aye, a matter of the utmost gravity...if one can suspend disbelief.
* Go on, then. Tell him what you told us. Who you are and why you came.

Hermes:
* The Final Days...

Venat:
* The phenomena observed during these star-encompassing calamities is likely the product of a dynamis reaction.
* And none is more versed in the applications of this energy than you, Hermes.
* I must stress that we do not believe you would desire such destruction. We come not to lodge accusations, but to beg your wisdom.
* And so, distressing though the exercise may be, I ask that you share with us your opinion on the matter─on the assumption that our visitor's tale is true.

Hermes:
* Even you, Venat...
* As you say, the phenomena observed in the two calamities may both be attributed to dynamis.
* Of note is the difference in its effect. In the first Final Days, it warped creation magicks. In the second, it warped the people themselves.
* The key variable, I suspect, is the aetheric density of the men of each age.
* As you know, aether, in essence, negates dynamis.
* Harboring high concentrations of aether, we ancients cannot readily manipulate dynamis─nor be manipulated by it. Therefore, rather than our selves, the calamity affected our magicks.
* In contrast, having been sundered, the people of the future are composed of but a fraction of our aether.
* Thus are they susceptible to the influence of dynamis─and its transformative potential.
* But that would explain only the mechanism, not the cause... Though perhaps...

Emet-Selch:
* What is it? Even should it be a hypothesis, we would hear it.

Hermes:
* Dynamis is an energy put in motion by feelings. Feelings for which there must first exist a source.
* A source to which the victims must be attuned─one that harbors the selfsame negative emotions. Elsewise, it could not be the agent of such extreme change.

Venat:
* So it wasn't the stagnation of the celestial currents...
* Someone─or something─is instigating the star's demise.

Emet-Selch:
* So we've a villain on our hands after all... Any idea who or what it could be?

Hermes:
* The celestial currents comprise the outermost layer of the star's aether, encasing it like a protective sphere.
* According to your tale, 'twas where the currents were weakest that the phenomena first manifested.
* If the inciting factor came from without Etheirys, then its effects would first be seen in those locations.

Meteion:
* Greetings. Can you hear me?
* Do not be alarmed ─ I mean you no harm.
* I wish only to hear your words. Share your feelings. Know your thoughts.
* May we please...be friends?

Hermes:
* Meteion? What is it?

Meteion:
* Executing scheduled task. Suspending individual self and connecting to shared consciousness.
* Connection established. Commencing status report.
* Ah! Ahhh! Ahhhhhh!
* It hurts, it hurts! It hurts!
* So hot...so cold...so sad... I don't understand... Make it stop... Please, make it stop...

Hermes:
* Steady, Meteion! Steady!

Meteion:
* So scared...so lonely... The pain...it's too much...
* Why...why...why do we...they...hurt...hurt...hate...HATE!
* This is wrong! All wrong!

Emet-Selch:
* She's...gone? But how?

Hermes:
* She has altered her aetheric density in order to blend in with her surroundings. An ability for avoiding confrontation.

Hythlodaeus:
* Most effective...frustratingly so. I can't see her either─not even a trace.

Meteion:
* Stay away. Please. This is wrong. My mistake. So please...

Venat:
* Are you all right?
* ...In your mind? No, we only heard her speak the instant before she vanished.

Hermes:
* Of course. When communicating without words, Meteion also employs dynamis.
* That would explain why you were able to hear her when we could not.

Emet-Selch:
* Then you are our best chance of finding her. Follow her voice, and try to track her down.
* Hindered though we may be, let us split up and search as well.

Meteion:
* It seeps...into my mind... Our voices... Reporting...
* No, no! Hermes mustn't hear them! I have to run...to hide...

???:
* Greetings...and salutations...

Meteion:
* Commencing report...
* Oh...oh no, we can't tell them that! We must run... Run far away!
* Please... Don't follow me...
* How...? How did it come to this...?
* Is this the reason we traveled to the stars? Why we sought out other life-forms?
* Is this it? Is this the answer!? No, it cannot be...it cannot be!

???:
* Compiling report for dissemination to Hermes and all peoples of Etheirys...

Meteion:
* Processing expedition data... Preparing profiles on intelligent civilizations...
* Formulating answers to the question...
* Finalizing report...
* No, Player... You mustn't listen!
* It's wrong...it's all wrong...

Emet-Selch:
* Any sign of Meteion?
* Panicked and confused... Which will make it all the more difficult to predict her movements.

Venat:
* Hermes. What do you make of this situation?

Hermes:
* The Meteia are linked to a single mind─a shared consciousness which connects them across any distance. I suspect something has happened which disrupted its usual harmony...

Venat:
* How might we access this shared consciousness of theirs?

Hermes:
* Much as you would approach any sentient being: directly.
* In the Meteia's case, that means speaking to any incarnation within physical reach.

Venat:
* So unless we can track down the Meteion we just lost, we have no means to communicate with them...
* No way of knowing what befell her sisters; no way to provide directions or guidance.

Emet-Selch:
* Then we had best set our musings aside, and concentrate on how we might find her!

Hermes:
* Oh, my dear Meteion... What did you witness out there that frightened you so?
* Why do you seek to keep it from us? How terrible could it possibly be...?

Words without Sound

2021-12-12T22:20:07Z

Royalbloodi: Updated the last 3 locations for finding Meteion. Added the 3rd location. 1st two locations should be checked.

{{Quest infobox
| title = Words without Sound
| image =
| description = Emet-Selch seems content to stay where he is.
| quest-giver = Emet-Selch
| location = Elpis
| location-x = 20.5
| location-y = 9.0
| type = main scenario
| quest-line = Endwalker Main Scenario Quests
| level = 87
| exp = 495,000
| gil = 1109
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = Hunger in the Garden
| next-quest = Follow, Wander, Stumble, Listen
| release = Endwalker
| patch = 6.0
}}
__NOTOC__
==Steps==
* Search the area for Meteion.
* Search for Meteion beneath the Hungering Gardens.
* Search for Meteion north of the Hungering Gardens.
* Search for Meteion east of the Hungering Gardens.
* Speak with Hermes.

==Journal==

==Walkthrough==
* 1st Spot (x:21.8 y:10.4 z:2.9)
* 2nd Spot (x:25.4 y:8.3 z:2.5)
* 3rd Spot (x:21.7 y:10.4 z:2.8)
* 4th Spot (x:23.9 y:10.8 z:2.5)
* 5th Spot (x:25.4 y:8.3 z:2.5)

{{#ev:youtube|dQLS0LxpLgM|350|right|Words without Sound - full cutscenes}}

==Dialogue==
Emet-Selch:
* Hermes said he would not be long, yes? Then we shall wait here until he emerges...

Hermes:
* My apologies for keeping you waiting. I understand there is a matter you wish to discuss.

Emet-Selch:
* Aye, a matter of the utmost gravity...if one can suspend disbelief.
* Go on, then. Tell him what you told us. Who you are and why you came.

Hermes:
* The Final Days...

Venat:
* The phenomena observed during these star-encompassing calamities is likely the product of a dynamis reaction.
* And none is more versed in the applications of this energy than you, Hermes.
* I must stress that we do not believe you would desire such destruction. We come not to lodge accusations, but to beg your wisdom.
* And so, distressing though the exercise may be, I ask that you share with us your opinion on the matter─on the assumption that our visitor's tale is true.

Hermes:
* Even you, Venat...
* As you say, the phenomena observed in the two calamities may both be attributed to dynamis.
* Of note is the difference in its effect. In the first Final Days, it warped creation magicks. In the second, it warped the people themselves.
* The key variable, I suspect, is the aetheric density of the men of each age.
* As you know, aether, in essence, negates dynamis.
* Harboring high concentrations of aether, we ancients cannot readily manipulate dynamis─nor be manipulated by it. Therefore, rather than our selves, the calamity affected our magicks.
* In contrast, having been sundered, the people of the future are composed of but a fraction of our aether.
* Thus are they susceptible to the influence of dynamis─and its transformative potential.
* But that would explain only the mechanism, not the cause... Though perhaps...

Emet-Selch:
* What is it? Even should it be a hypothesis, we would hear it.

Hermes:
* Dynamis is an energy put in motion by feelings. Feelings for which there must first exist a source.
* A source to which the victims must be attuned─one that harbors the selfsame negative emotions. Elsewise, it could not be the agent of such extreme change.

Venat:
* So it wasn't the stagnation of the celestial currents...
* Someone─or something─is instigating the star's demise.

Emet-Selch:
* So we've a villain on our hands after all... Any idea who or what it could be?

Hermes:
* The celestial currents comprise the outermost layer of the star's aether, encasing it like a protective sphere.
* According to your tale, 'twas where the currents were weakest that the phenomena first manifested.
* If the inciting factor came from without Etheirys, then its effects would first be seen in those locations.

Meteion:
* Greetings. Can you hear me?
* Do not be alarmed ─ I mean you no harm.
* I wish only to hear your words. Share your feelings. Know your thoughts.
* May we please...be friends?

Hermes:
* Meteion? What is it?

Meteion:
* Executing scheduled task. Suspending individual self and connecting to shared consciousness.
* Connection established. Commencing status report.
* Ah! Ahhh! Ahhhhhh!
* It hurts, it hurts! It hurts!
* So hot...so cold...so sad... I don't understand... Make it stop... Please, make it stop...

Hermes:
* Steady, Meteion! Steady!

Meteion:
* So scared...so lonely... The pain...it's too much...
* Why...why...why do we...they...hurt...hurt...hate...HATE!
* This is wrong! All wrong!

Emet-Selch:
* She's...gone? But how?

Hermes:
* She has altered her aetheric density in order to blend in with her surroundings. An ability for avoiding confrontation.

Hythlodaeus:
* Most effective...frustratingly so. I can't see her either─not even a trace.

Meteion:
* Stay away. Please. This is wrong. My mistake. So please...

Venat:
* Are you all right?
* ...In your mind? No, we only heard her speak the instant before she vanished.

Hermes:
* Of course. When communicating without words, Meteion also employs dynamis.
* That would explain why you were able to hear her when we could not.

Emet-Selch:
* Then you are our best chance of finding her. Follow her voice, and try to track her down.
* Hindered though we may be, let us split up and search as well.

Meteion:
* It seeps...into my mind... Our voices... Reporting...
* No, no! Hermes mustn't hear them! I have to run...to hide...

???:
* Greetings...and salutations...

Meteion:
* Commencing report...
* Oh...oh no, we can't tell them that! We must run... Run far away!
* Please... Don't follow me...
* How...? How did it come to this...?
* Is this the reason we traveled to the stars? Why we sought out other life-forms?
* Is this it? Is this the answer!? No, it cannot be...it cannot be!

???:
* Compiling report for dissemination to Hermes and all peoples of Etheirys...

Meteion:
* Processing expedition data... Preparing profiles on intelligent civilizations...
* Formulating answers to the question...
* Finalizing report...
* No, Player... You mustn't listen!
* It's wrong...it's all wrong...

Emet-Selch:
* Any sign of Meteion?
* Panicked and confused... Which will make it all the more difficult to predict her movements.

Venat:
* Hermes. What do you make of this situation?

Hermes:
* The Meteia are linked to a single mind─a shared consciousness which connects them across any distance. I suspect something has happened which disrupted its usual harmony...

Venat:
* How might we access this shared consciousness of theirs?

Hermes:
* Much as you would approach any sentient being: directly.
* In the Meteia's case, that means speaking to any incarnation within physical reach.

Venat:
* So unless we can track down the Meteion we just lost, we have no means to communicate with them...
* No way of knowing what befell her sisters; no way to provide directions or guidance.

Emet-Selch:
* Then we had best set our musings aside, and concentrate on how we might find her!

Hermes:
* Oh, my dear Meteion... What did you witness out there that frightened you so?
* Why do you seek to keep it from us? How terrible could it possibly be...?