Ambient NPC Dialogue Barks
Pop-Up Speech Bubbles [25% chance a line is triggered when you walk by random NPC]
(SOLO)
o How does the alien keep themselves from falling over?
o “Alien”… just another shadowy immigrant, come to steal our sun.
o This has been such a strange week. If we make it to the Buried Moon, I’m going to plant some Sage and drink until I collapse.
(PAIRS)
o I heard under all that fabric the alien is just a mass of red tentacles, like a leaflet.
- § But leaflets only have five tendrils…
- So an ugly leaflet then!
o I tried sticking out my tongue as the alien walked by, but they didn’t even look at me.
- § That’s rude… Maybe it means something vulgar to them?
- It’s the salute of equals, Smallhollow. It’s not as though I waved my hand at them.
o How do you think they grow buds?
- § I haven’t even seen them bear plants yet, so maybe they can’t. Maybe they’ve come to take our sprouts, to raise true persons as their own.
- If called upon, I would be willing to sacrifice my youngest.
o I heard they came from another Sun, which is… a star?
- § Stars are fiction. Just shadow-people trying to claim some light of their own. There is only the Sun.
o I can’t see their shell. Is it that red thing with the dark stripe?
- § No, no. I’ve seen them pull food and books from it.
- I wish my shell had space for food…
o I thought you said the alien was an ice-person…
- § No, I said they came from *over* the ice. The sunless place where the Calendar Moon goes elder and dies.
- A place of darkness and dying… I can’t fault them for leaving, then.
o I can’t figure out which face I’m supposed to look at… the black one or the pink one?
- § Just look to the right of them and nod. I’d rather show age-deference by mistake than offend a creature that can fly.
o They gave the alien guest-right… and now they’re just walking around?
- § I hear you. And on two legs, like some sprout-sized mossomer…
o It can’t be healthy drapping thick fabric like that over your plants… I wonder what they look like?
- § Patience. I’m sure they’ll have to go sunning eventually.
- You can’t just watch a person while they’re sunning!
- o They’re alien-person, not person-person. Just imagine you’re watching a tall plant. They have no shame.
(PAIRS – EVENT REACTIONS)
o [if player_gave_meat = yes] I heard Plenty asked to try the alien’s food. And they gave Plenty… flesh. Cured, cooked flesh.
- § They didn’t eat it, did they!?
- … I think they were fearful of offending the alien.
- o Naturally! I wouldn’t want to be next!
o [if player_admits_hearing_bad = yes] Fairsong told me the alien’s hearing is awful…
- § I hear you. Can you imagine screaming infrasound just to talk to someone a valley away?
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