Transcript of A Soul's Bane

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This transcript involves dialogue with Launa, Tolna, Brana, and the player.

Talking with Launa to start

• Player: Hi there.
• Launa: Hello.
• Player: What's this big hole in the ground all about?
• Launa: Oh I wish I knew for sure... All I do know is that it opened seemingly by itself a few months ago. It was first discovered by the students over at the digsite, a few of which have gone down there but never returned.
• Launa: They told me about it straight away.
• Player: So why is it important to you?
• Launa: A few reasons, but I think the situation is beyond help now.
• Player: What situation? Maybe I can help.
• Launa: I suppose it wouldn't hurt to tell you. I'm waiting to see my son Tolna. Don't suppose you've seen him?
• Player: Your son, Tolna? I don't know, what does he look like?
• Launa: I don't really know.
• Player: You don't know what your own son looks like?
• Launa: No. You see, I haven't seen him for... for... 25 years now. He just ran away one day and never returned. I'm hoping he's down this rift as I know he headed in this direction. My husband went to look, but he hasn't
• Launa: returned for days.
• Start the A Soul's Bane quest?
• Yes
  • Player: Would you like me to go down to look for your husband and son?
  • Launa: You would do that? Oh thank you so much!
  • Player: Don't worry. I'll investigate.
  • Launa: Thank you. You can use a rope to get into the rift, just attach it at the edge.
  • Player: No problem.
  • Launa: Be careful.
  • (End of dialogue)
• No
  • Player: Surely by now they'd both be dead?
  • Launa: What?!?!
  • Player: Oops.
  • Launa: How could you say such a thing? Get away from me!
  • (End of dialogue)

Talking with Launa before going down

• Player: Hi.
• Launa: Have you discovered anything yet?
• Player: Sorry, what am I supposed to do again?
• Launa: Go into the rift beside me and find my husband and son!
• Player: Ah, I'm on my way!
• (End of dialogue)

Room of Rage

The player enters the rift with the rope.

The camera pans around the room and ends on the tunnel into the room of fear

• Tolna's Voice: Why should I, Tolna, be trapped in such a wretched place?
• Tolna's Voice: Arrghh, It's not fair! Feel my ANGER!

Weapon rack

• Which weapon would you like to take?
• The Sword
  • (Player receives anger sword.)
• The Spear
  • (Player receives anger spear.)
• The Mace
  • (Player receives anger mace.)
• The Battleaxe
  • (Player receives anger battleaxe.)
• Nothing
  • (Player gives anger weapon.)

Leaving the room

• Do you wish to leave?
• Yes, I don't mind starting this room again.
  • The player leaves to the entrance of the rift.
• No, I'll finish this room first.
  • (End of dialogue)

Talking to Launa after entering the room of fear

• Player: Hi, I've been down into the rift and I found a strange room. I also heard a voice claiming to be called Tolna.
• Launa: My son! What did he say?
• Player: He said, 'Why should I, Tolna, be trapped in such a wretched place? Feel my ANGER!'.
• Launa: Who can be surprised at his frustration?
• Player: It's a very aggressive room. I think I need to defeat the monsters in there.
• Launa: Don't waste any time, his life could depend on you.
• (End of dialogue)

After filling the rage level

• Player: Arrrgghhh!
• The player disperses demon-looking anger monsters from the room
• Player: Wow! How did I do that? There's something truly mental about this place!
• Fade to black, a cutscene in Varrock to see young Launa and Tolna
• Launa: Where are you going?
• Tolna: I can't live with your rules any more, Mother.
• Tolna: I'm tired of working hard for very little money. There's great wealth that's mine for the taking!
• Launa: But why? We're surviving perfectly fine on what we're earning.
• Tolna: I'm tired of your pathetic outlook. Good bye.
• Launa: Tolna?
• Launa: TOLNA !!!

End of cutscene.

Talking to Launa after watching the cutscene of Tolna leaving

• Player: I managed to defeat the monsters in the room!
• Launa: Have you found him then?
• Player: Sorry, I've yet to enter the next room.
• Launa: Please hurry!
• (End of dialogue)

Room of Fear

The camera pans around the room looking at the dark holes

• Tolna's Voice: It's so quiet and dark. I FEAR I may never escape this horrid place.
• Tolna's Voice: Mum, Dad, help me!
• Player: Hmmm, no light sources. So why can I still see down here? This can't just be a simple dungeon.

Talking to Launa after entering the room of fear

• Player: Hi. I've made my way into a second room. I heard your son's voice again as well.
• Launa: What did he say? What did he say?
• Player: 'It's so quiet and dark. I FEAR I may never escape this horrid place. Mum, help me!'
• Launa: You must save him! Help him get over his fear!
• (End of dialogue)

Re-entering the room of fear

• Player: Hmmm, no light sources. So why can I still see down here? This can't just be a simple dungeon.
• (End of dialogue)

Look-inside dark holes

• A random dialogue is selected from the following:
• Dialogue 1
  • Player: Hello?
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 2
  • Player: What's going on?
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 3
  • Player: What on Gielinor?
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 4
  • Player: Ahhhh
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 5
  • Player: Help me!
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 6
  • Player: Oh no!
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 7
  • Player: Who's there?
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 8
  • Player: What on Gielinor?
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 9
  • Player: Is anybody there?
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 10
  • Player: I can't see!
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 11
  • Player: What on Gielinor?
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 12
  • Player: Who's that?
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 13
  • Player: What on Gielinor?
  • (End of dialogue)

After killing the first reaper

• Player: I don't like looking in these holes but I must!
• (End of dialogue)

After killing the second reaper

• Player: I don't feel quite so afraid now.
• (End of dialogue)

After killing the third reaper

• Player: These holes aren't that spooky.
• (End of dialogue)

After killing the forth reaper

• Player: This isn't so scary after all!
• (End of dialogue)

After killing the last reaper

• The player kills the last scary face.
• Player: Phew, I don't feel so scared now. This feels like the figment of someone's imagination!
• fade to black, to the location of the rift before it fully opened to see Tolna fall in
• What's that?
• (End of dialogue)

Talking to Launa after completing the room of fear

• Player: I've overcome fear in the second room and an exit has been illuminated.
• Launa: What can you see?
• Player: Erm, I haven't actually ventured through yet.
• Launa: What are you waiting for? He must be so afraid in that place.
• (End of dialogue)

Room of Confusion

The camera pans around the room looking at the confusing doors

• Tolna's Voice: Where am I? How long have I been here? Am I still the person I once was?
• Tolna's Voice: Oh why am I so CONFUSED?

Talking to Launa after entering the room of confusion

• Player: Hi, I've journeyed through to a third room. Your son's voice spoke as I entered.
• Launa: Really? What did he say?
• Player: Simply, 'Where am I? How long have I been here? Am I still the person I once was? I hate my CONFUSION'.
• Launa: You have to help him overcome his confusion!
• (End of dialogue)

Killing a confusion beast

• A random dialogue is selected from the following:
• Dialogue 1
  • Does this creature really exist?
  • (End of dialogue)
• Dialogue 2
  • That monster wasn't even real!
  • (End of dialogue)

Killing the last confusion beast each time

• Those other monsters were just hallucinations!
• (End of dialogue)

After revealing the final door

• Player: Aha! The exit is now clear! This Tolna's mind really is a mess.

Cutscene starts to see Tolna sitting in the confusion room

• Tolna: Leave me... But I don't want to... How can you say that...
• Tolna: I've done nothing wrong... Arrrghhh...

End of cutscene

Talking to Launa after completing the confusion room

• Player: Hi. I have prevailed over a third room.
• Launa: Are you any closer to finding my son?
• Player: I think I may be getting closer.
• Launa: Please don't waste any time.
• (End of dialogue)

Room of Hopelessness

• Tolna's Voice: What's the point? No-one will ever help me.
• Tolna's Voice: I'm not worth anything. Will anyone ever combat my HOPELESSNESS?
• (End of dialogue)

Talking to Launa after entering the room of hopelessness

• Player: I have travelled through to a fourth room. As I entered your son's voice spoke to me!
• Launa: Oh my! What did he say?
• Player: He said, 'What's the point? Why do I defy such HOPELESSNESS? No-one will ever help me'.
• Launa: You must fight to give him back his hope!
• Player: Can I succeed?
• Launa: Of course you can!
• (End of dialogue)

After killing the first hopeless creature

• Player: Is there any end to killing these monsters?

After killing the second hopeless creature

• Player: This is hard work!

After killing the third hopeless creature

• Player: I've almost killed them all now!

After killing the fourth hopeless creature

• Player: Maybe if I kill one more?

After killing the last hopeless creature

A flash of bright light and a bridge of hope appears.

• Player: A bridge of hope! Tolna should feel that help is at hand by now!
• (End of dialogue)

Launa after the Hopelessness room

• Player: I have endured against hopelessness to finish the fourth room.
• Launa: Any sight of my son?
• Player: Only his voice. So far he has said to me, 'Why should I, Tolna, be trapped in such a wretched place? Feel my ANGER!', 'It's so quiet and dark. I FEAR I may never escape this horrid place. Mum, help me!', 'Where
• Player: am I? How long have I been here? Am I still the person I once was? I hate my CONFUSION' and 'What's the point? Why do I defy such HOPELESSNESS? No-one will ever help me'.
• Launa: You must find him and bring him back to me. Please, I beg you.
• Player: Don't worry, I will find him!
• (End of dialogue)

Finding Tolna

• Brana: Son! Is that you?
• Brana: Please speak to me! Tolna?
• Why should I speak to you? Besides, I'm no longer the boy you once knew.
• Brana: What do you mean?
• Brana: You'll always be my son!
• No. Something evil in this dungeon has morphed my body and mind.
• Brana: There must be a way.
• Brana: Don't give up so easily!
• Don't give up? You had your chance to help me, 25 years it's taken you!
• Brana: Sorry, but your mother and I...
• Brana: tried so hard to find you!
• Lies!
• Ah, we have a visitor!
• Player: Your father isn't lying.
• Hah! If that's the way you think, then you shall both die!
• (End of dialogue)

Talking to Brana

• Player: Are you ok?
• Brana: Please! You must help my son! He's beyond sense.
• Player: But how can I help?
• Brana: I take it you have travelled through the mental dilemmas of my son, as I have.
• Player: That's correct.
• Brana: Now you must do what I cannot, conquer the physical dilemma!
• Player: I will try.
• Brana: Thank you stranger.

Talking to Launa

• Player: I've found your son.
• Launa: You have?
• Player: And your husband, but I'm afraid your son is no longer physically what he once was.
• Launa: Can you save them?
• Player: I will try.
• Launa: Thank you.

After defeating Tolna's body

Tolna's human body appears on the narrow path

Talking to Brana after defeating Tolna's body

• Player: I think I've saved your son.
• Brana: Please talk to him, make sure he's OK!
• (End of dialogue)

Talking to Launa after defeating Tolna's body

• Player: I have returned your son to his normal state!
• Launa: And you've spoken to him?!?
• Player: Er, no, sorry. I just came back here to tell you.
• Launa: What are you waiting for, bring him back to me!
• (End of dialogue)

Talking to human Tolna

• Player: Tolna?
• Tolna: Sorry? What happened?
• Player: You've been trapped down here for years. I've come to rescue you on behalf of your parents.
• Tolna: Oh yeah. I was looking for the legacy of a civilisation that used to live down here.
• Brana: Son!
• Tolna: Father? Oh, I'm so sorry, can you ever forgive me?
• Brana: Don't worry, I'm just glad you're back to yourself. Are you OK?
• Tolna: I'm fine, my memories are slowly returning. How's mother?
• Brana: She misses you dearly!
• Tolna: Where is she?
• Player: She's up at the surface waiting for you.
• Brana: Thank you traveller, I'm glad my wife and I never gave up hope. We should return to her and tell her the good news.
• Tolna: Thank you so much. I truly owe you for your help.
• Player: I'm just glad I could help.
• (End of dialogue)
• The player is transported to above surface.

Talking to Tolna on the surface

• Player: Hello Tolna.
• Tolna: Hi. Thanks again for saving me, I'm so glad to be out of that horrible place. I was foolish to ignore my parents' warnings when I ran away that day. Luckily I've been able to patch things up with them so they've
• Tolna: returned home with peace of mind.
• Player: What exactly happened to you down there?
• Tolna: I managed to find the remnants of the ancient civilisation that the stories talked about. It seems people used to worship a god there years ago in numbers far greater than a simple cult following. Sadly there is little
• Tolna: remaining so I have nothing else to tell. As soon as I entered this area the ground swallowed me whole. I felt there was something watching, waiting. It's like there is some evil power under the ground that wanted me to
• Tolna: suffer. As if it got some sort of empowerment from it. At least what ever it is, it doesn't want to reveal itself to the world yet...
• Player: At least we have a warning. Did you manage to retrieve anything?
• Tolna: Not really, just a few coins, which you're welcome to have.
• Player: Thanks. So what are you going to do now?
• Tolna: I've decided to keep open the rift. There is a part of it that is perfectly laid out for combat training and remnants of my subconscious remain in there. I want to show people the problems I have faced, so that they
• Tolna: may learn from them. You're welcome to go down there and practice fighting any time.
• Player: Thanks.
• Congratulations! Quest complete!