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    Synopsis:

    Triggers either as an OOM or an AOM when Elminster is already in the camp, or a CFM (if the player skips Elminster altogether).

    How to trigger:

    With Gale Companion without an Avatar available, or with Gale as Avatar:
    - Give Gale at least one magic item, go to SCL_Main_A, and approach Elminster at S_ORI_Gale_ElminsterPoint_SCL_975ef355-b68e-4061-bda8-b774e8ff552f
    Continue through the dialogue until you are sent to camp.
    OR
    - Give Gale at least one magic item, go to CRE_Main_A, and approach Elminster at
    S_ORI_Gale_ElminsterPoint_CRE_f5a225ef-d123-449f-98e2-53309a21979b
    Continue through the dialogue until you are sent to camp.
    - Go to SCL_Main_A
    - Queue night NIGHT_ORI_Gale_ElminsterVisit



  • 29.
    Weary Traveller
    : Hmm, yes. This shall suffice.devnoteAVATAR
    • Link to Node 58
    • 69.
      Gale
      : [PassiveRoll] ORI_Gale_State_ElminsterWasDefeatedRoll (Intelligence, Arcana) vs 14 (0)
      • 51. [RollResult] True
        • 4. [Alias]
          • Alias to Node 77
          • 58. [Jump] Jump to Node 38 (1)
      • 41. [RollResult] False
        • 34. [Alias]
          • Alias to Node 55
          • Link to Node 58
  • 32.
    Weary Traveller
    : Ah, finally he stirs. True adventurers get up with the lark, I always say, but if there are larks to be found in these lands, they must fancy themselves akin to nightingales.ORI_Gale_Event_ElminsterFallbackNight = False, ORI_Gale_State_ElminsterWasDefeated
    • 9.
      Gale
      : [PassiveRoll] ORI_Gale_State_ElminsterWasDefeatedRoll (Intelligence, Arcana) vs 14 (0)
      • 24. [RollResult] True
        • 77.
          Narrator
          : *Your previous encounter with the old wizard was most likely a simulacrum - the figure before you may well be too.*
          • Link to Node 71
      • 74. [RollResult] False
        • 55.
          Narrator
          : *Your previous encounter with the old wizard seems to have left him unflustered - and unmarked.*
          • 71.
            Weary Traveller
            : I took the liberty of enlisting your cadaverous co-traveller to revive you. You truly should take much better care of yourself, m'boy. ORI_Gale_Event_ElminsterFallbackNight
            • 20.
              Gale
              : Elminster?
              • 30.
                Weary Traveller
                : The very same, Gale. And a fair bit miffed he is, too, finding himself forced to expose his best pair of boots to so many miles of country road on your behalf.
                • Link to Node 13
            • 49.
              Gale
              : Say nothing. Wait for him to explain himself.
              • 14.
                Weary Traveller
                : Don't just gawp at me like the dregs of the fishmonger's stall - I've worn out quite some boot leather in order to track you down.
                • 13.
                  Weary Traveller
                  : I was bid to spare neither time nor my own self to find you. She sent me, Gale. You know of whom I speak.
                  • 56.
                    Gale
                    : Mystra sent you? Why?
                    • 44.
                      Weary Traveller
                      : Young man, has your sojourn away from Waterdeep washed away your decorum as well as your patience?
                      • 47.
                        Weary Traveller
                        : But I suppose, after all the calamity that's been laid at your feet, you can be forgiven raw nerves and a sharp tongue...
                        • Link to Node 38
                  • 66.
                    Gale
                    : You underestimate me, Elminster. 'She' could be any number of acquaintances.
                    • 1.
                      Weary Traveller
                      : But there is only one who truly counts, no? One whose favour you crave. One who knows the catastrophe that lurks 'twixt your ribs.
                      • 38.
                        Weary Traveller
                        : Gale, m'boy, I've come to address a most pressing matter. I'll speak as plainly as I can, forswearing the accustomed frills that decorate my speech.
                        • 63.
                          Weary Traveller
                          : Mystra - the message and the charge I bring you are hers.
                          • 10.
                            Weary Traveller
                            : You know where you went wrong, Gale. We needn't dwell on that here and now. But even so, you're to be given a chance of redemption.
                            • 53.
                              Gale
                              : Mystra would consider... forgiveness?
                              • 11.
                                Weary Traveller
                                : She would consider what she considers to be forgiveness.
                                • 25.
                                  Weary Traveller
                                  : Mystra is aware of the misadventures that have befallen you both. She knows of your strife with the Absolute, that most insidious of evils.
                                  • 61.
                                    Weary Traveller
                                    : You must know that the Absolute is more dangerous than you can possibly conceive. It threatens all who live - even those who are undying. It threatens the gods, the Weave, the very fabric of the universe itself.
                                    • 60.
                                      Weary Traveller
                                      : That is why I have come here to charge you, Gale, with its destruction. It is Mystra's belief that only you can.
                                      • 21.
                                        Gale
                                        : You mean the orb. You mean I sacrifice myself.
                                        • 62.
                                          Weary Traveller
                                          : As you say.
                                          • Link to Node 27
                                      • 31.
                                        Gale
                                        : You promised me plain talk, Elminster. Make it plainer still, or we're done here.
                                        • 45.
                                          Weary Traveller
                                          : The orb. That constant reminder of your past failings. The instrument of your slow, sad, inevitable destruction. It can instead redeem you.
                                          • Link to Node 27
                                      • 73.
                                        Gale
                                        : I could possibly put an end to the Absolute - if you aided me.
                                        • 3.
                                          Weary Traveller
                                          : Alas, not the role I've been given in this particular tale. I am but a bare cameo compared to the part that you must play. You and the orb.
                                          • 27.
                                            Weary Traveller
                                            : Mystra has granted me the power to stop the clock, as it were, on the orb's rush to overpower you. Instead, you will be able to unleash its lethal combustion at will.
                                            • 50.
                                              Weary Traveller
                                              : You must find the Heart of the Absolute, whatever that may be, and use yourself as the catalyst that will burn it from this world.
                                              • 17.
                                                Gale
                                                : I am Mystra's servant. If this is what she asks of me, so be it.
                                                • 57.
                                                  Weary Traveller
                                                  : Your clear-mindedness is a testament to yourself, Gale.
                                                  • Link to Node 23
                                              • 43.
                                                Gale
                                                : That's the cost of Mystra's good graces? Martyrdom?
                                                • 52.
                                                  Weary Traveller
                                                  : Remember who she is, Gale. Mortal death is but a passing chapter to a goddess - and to those who win her favour.
                                                  • 28.
                                                    Weary Traveller
                                                    : Whatever she can grant unto you is infinitely better than whatever you cling to now.
                                                    • 23.
                                                      Weary Traveller
                                                      : With that, I've said my sorry piece, and need only bestow unto thee the charm I was bid.
                                                      • 33.
                                                        Weary Traveller
                                                        : My'Nahastra Mystra'Ryl. E'Deelion Thras'Anas'Tthra.devnoteORI_Gale_Event_BombDisarmed
                                                        • 22.
                                                          Weary Traveller
                                                          : It is done. Both charge and charm have been committed into your care.
                                                          • 78.
                                                            Weary Traveller
                                                            : A shame that we did not cross paths sooner. The orb's thirst for magic is now quenched, yet it already inflicted some damage while you tried to forge ahead.ORI_Gale_State_GotOneMagicItem = False, ORI_Gale_State_EnoughRegionsToAskMagicItem2
                                                            • Link to Node 2
                                                          • 15. [Alias] ORI_Gale_State_EnoughRegionsToAskMagicItem3, ORI_Gale_State_GotTwoMagicItems = False
                                                            • Alias to Node 78
                                                            • 2.
                                                              Weary Traveller
                                                              : The ill effects may linger, I'm afraid. Not enough to hamper your mission, I hope.
                                                              • 5.
                                                                Weary Traveller
                                                                : Like moons make swell and wane the nescient seas, so too the sky-strewn gods ordain the tidal fates of mortal days.
                                                                • 72.
                                                                  Weary Traveller
                                                                  : And yet - a notion born in lonely hours - come ebb, come flow, come all that is beyond the breadth of our dominion: be a moon unto yourself.
                                                                  • 18.
                                                                    Weary Traveller
                                                                    : Even the waves of fate can break upon the shores of will.
                                                                    • 42.
                                                                      Weary Traveller
                                                                      : Farewell, my friend.
                                                                      End
                                                          • 39. [Jump] Jump to Node 5 (1)
                                              • 19.
                                                Gale
                                                : What other choice do I have?
                                                • 76.
                                                  Weary Traveller
                                                  : You could flee from Mystra's calling. Live the life of a hermit once again, and succumb to the orb all the same. Only, it will be a death without purpose.
                                                  • 48.
                                                    Weary Traveller
                                                    : It brings me no pleasure saying this, my friend, but such is Mystra's will. Yours must be the sacrifice that will undo the Absolute. And for your sacrifice, you will be redeemed - such is Mystra's promise.
                                                    • Link to Node 23
                            • 26.
                              Gale
                              : That's more magnanimous of her than I've grown accustomed to. The catch being?
                              • 59.
                                Weary Traveller
                                : The catch being the exact definition of redemption in Mystra's eyes, and the labour you must undertake in order to attain it.
                                • Link to Node 25
                            • 40.
                              Gale
                              : Keep listening.
                              • Link to Node 25
                  • 7.
                    Gale
                    : Remain silent.
                    • Link to Node 38
    • 12. [Jump] Jump to Node 71 (1)
  • 70.
    Weary Traveller
    : Gale, m'boy, I've come to address a most pressing matter. I'll speak as plainly as I can, forswearing the accustomed frills that decorate my speech.AVATAR = False
    • 54. [Alias]
      • Alias to Node 63
      • 68. [Alias]
        • Alias to Node 10
        • 36.
          Gale
          : Mystra would consider... forgiveness?devnote
          • 8. [Alias]
            • Alias to Node 11
            • 65. [Alias]
              • Alias to Node 25
              • 0. [Alias]
                • Alias to Node 60
                • 64.
                  Gale
                  : You mean the orb. You mean I sacrifice myself.devnote
                  • 35. [Alias]
                    • Alias to Node 62
                    • 46. [Alias]
                      • Alias to Node 27
                      • 67. [Alias]
                        • Alias to Node 50
                        • 75. [Alias]
                          • Alias to Node 23
                          • 16. [Alias] ORI_Gale_Event_BombDisarmed
                            • Alias to Node 33
                            • 37. [Alias]
                              • Alias to Node 22
                              • 6. [Alias]
                                End
                                • Alias to Node 42