Research Patients dialogue:
1. "Kill me, please, just kill me. Free me from this place, before I go mad…!"
2. "Oh someone, help me… I'm guilty, I know… but I won't do it again. I promise.
The ?? darkness, it frightens me, and what rises from its very depths." [screams]
3. "Ah Lady Maria, Lady Maria, please take my hand. Please… help me. Don't let me drown."
4. "Oh, Lady Maria, save me please. I don't hear anything."
5. "Plip plop, plip plop, splish splash, splish splash, listen close and you too will hear.. the sound of… water."
6. "Has someone… anyone… seen my eyes? I am afraid I've dropped them in a puddle… Everything is pale, now."
7. "I have failed… Please, Lady Maria." [crying]
8. Plip… plop… plip… plop… plip… plop… plip… plop… plip… plop… plip… plop…"
9. "Lady Maria, I'm a robin, will I ever curl up and become an egg? What say you? Lady Maria, Lady Maria, say something! Anything…"
10. "Splish splash, splish splash, have you heard how curiously the sea churns…?
like a storm but like the rain, only gentle, like dripping water…
it bellows from deep inside of me… here it comes up through my insides, but gently, like little droplets…"
Brain Fluid
Greyish amoeba-shaped brain fluid. Wobbles and bounces.
Extracted from a patient whose head expanded until that
was all that they were.
In the early days of the Healing Church, the Great Ones
were linked to the ocean, and so the cerebral patients would
imbibe water, and listen for the howl of the sea.
Brain fluid writhed inside the head, the initial makings of
internal eyes.
Enlarged Head
An enlarged head of a patient of the Cathedral,
with a cavity that just happens to fit a human head,
although one would be mad to try it on.
But if you do, listen carefully, for the sticky sound.
Drip, drop. As water, seeping up from the depths, slowly, steadily.
Kos Parasite
When the carcass of Kos washed up on the coast,
its insides were teeming with tiny parasites, unlike any found in humans.
This atypical weapon can only be clasped tight and swung,
but a Kos Parasite is said to stimulate phantasms inhabiting a lumenwood
Milkweed Rune
A Caryll rune envisioned by Adeline, patient of the Research Hall.
A translation of the inhumane, sticky whispers that reveal the nature of a celestial attendant.
Those who swear this oath become a Lumenwood that peers towards the sky,
feeding phantasms in its luscious bed. Phantasms guide us and lead us to further discoveries.
Balcony Key
Key to the balcony on the first floor of the Research Hall.
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower gave this to the patient, Adeline.
Maria had hoped Adeline would find comfort in the faint breeze that carried the scent of flowers from the outside,
but Adeline couldn't fathom her intentions.
Blood of Adeline
Blood taken from Adeline, patient of the research hall.
Restores HP, then continues to rejuvenate HP for some time.
Adeline was originally one of the Blood Saints who received
treatment by the Church to cultivate worthy blood. Adeline's
was one of the few cases that turned out favorably.
Saint Adeline dialogue:
First encounter:
"Is that you, Lady Maria? No, you're someone else.
Please, could you do something for me?
I need Brain Fluid. Murky, mushy Brain Fluid…"
Give Brain Fluid:
"Oh, thank you, you're terribly kind.
Ohh… it's wonderful.
And, oh! I hear the sticky sound. Do you hear it, too?
Oh, I know. Will you have my blood, as thanks?
I'll have you know. I was once a Blood Saint, too."
Second encounter:
"Hello, hello, is anyone there?
Please, somebody, I need help.
I'm trying, but I'm afraid the sound is fading…
Hello? Is that who I think it is?
Please, oh please, I need Brain Fluid.
The sticky sound is fading fast.
Please, bring me Brain Fluid.
I must have it… that sound, it is all that guides me…
Without it, I'll be sent back…
To my former, lesser years…"
Give second Brain Fluid:
"Yes, that's it, let me have it!
Ahh… ahh! I can hear it, yes! That sound that guides me.
Ahh… ahh…
Thank you, thank you so much. You have saved me.
Take this charm. Lady Maria gave it to me, but it is all I can offer,
other than my own blood.
Please, do not abandon me… I promise to do good…"
As an Enlarged Head:
"Oh, hello…
One last time, will you fetch Brain Fluid, just one last time?
The murky, mushy fluid that will make me whole.
The sticky sound whispers to me.
So very close, right into my ear.
My head, just a head, that's all there is.
I need my baptism.
Please, I beg of you…
I want to be something…"
After attacking and getting Brain Fluid:
"Please, give me Brain Fluid.
The sticky sound whispers, I need my baptism.
Ahh, or perhaps, I'm already brimming over…"
Give third Brain Fluid:
"Ahh, ahh!
Ahhh! Aahh! I see a shape.
My guide, I see your voice, clearly, as it bends and bleeds.
My own, revelation… just for me…
Thank you. For everything…
Really, I used to be nothing…"