Well, I promised a mission last time,
and I've put this one off for long enough anyway, I suppose.
It's time we got around to actually
getting on with Elazul and the game's Jumi Arc for real. All in all,
this is an easy mission, designed to be done earlier in the game than
I'm doing it. But now's as good a time as any, after all. I did
promise an actual story-advancing quest last time, and since it's
late at night as I work on all this, I figure an easy mission that I
pretty much know the outcome to.
The meat and bones of this one is that
the one dude who told the onion kid his name before he went into the
pub is looking for somebody. The dude's name is Elazul, and I'd say
he's kind of a dick, but I don't know if I want to insult dicks that
way. He's looking for somebody named Pearl, and he's being
needlessly harsh to Rachel, the barmaid daughter of Mark and
Jennifer. Talking to Elazul will eventually lead to Rachel handing
over an artifact called the Jade Egg. Elazul senses that Pearl's in
there somehow.
Using the Jade Egg on the map opens up
a place called the Mekiv Caverns. Pearl's at the very bottom of the
place. Getting there's no big deal. All the monsters, including the
boss at the end, are relatively easy, since this was supposed to
happen way earlier than I'm doing it. Since this is pretty much a
limestone cavern sort of thing, there are a lot of bats, mushrooms,
and aquatic monsters in there. Kind of what one might expect to find
in the namesake of Jewel
Cave National Monument if things like this happened outside of
video games.
So, anyway, get to the very bottom of
the cave, and there's this giant monkey kind of thing with ice breath
to beat up. He's guarding Pearl for some reason. Beat the monkey
and save the girl. Pearl's a bit shy, but manages to hand over the
Stone Eye artifact before humbly running off after Elazul pretty much
dominates her. It seems that Elazul sees the fairer sex the way
Babylon 5's Ambassador Ulkesh looks
at most of the younger races in the B5 uinverse, and that may be
the biggest reason why he's my least favorite character in the game.
The good news, though, is that we're done with him for the time being
now that the quest is over.
And now there are a few more ways I
could go with this, but that's a matter for another time. We'll get
on with that another time, after I've gotten a little shuteye and
dealt with a few other things. See you then, folks, and remember to
stay safe, have fun, and keep on gaming!
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