Early Emet-Selch dialogue

Level 74: Into the Dark

Emet-Selch: What is it now? Do you expect me to regale you with /friendly/ banter?
Emet-Selch: ... Oh, very well. I will humor you this once. You may consider it my latest act of good faith. Come on, then. What do you wish to know?

>> Choice 1: Why choose this form here in the first?
Emet-Selch: Well, well, what a curious question.
Emet-Selch: Mortal flesh is but the vessel into which we Ascians pour the elixir of our souls, molding it as fits the occasion. Or not, if we so choose.
Emet-Selch: Be it for a year or a millennium, I prefer to retain the same form until my duty is done. So, after arriving here in the First, I fashioned some hapless body into the man you see before you.
Emet-Selch: Though as your friend over there can attest, there are those of us who forgo such alterations.
Emet-Selch: He was ever the rash one, Lahabrea. Jumping from vessel to vessel. Never heeding the toll it took on him.

>> Choice 2: Actually... never mind.
Emet-Selch: If you've nothing to ask me, why are you still here? Don't you have Wardens to vanquish? A realm to save?




Level 75: The Burden of Knowledge

Emet-Selch: Lest you doubt, I /won't/ be helping you do battle with the Lightwarden. To accompany you thus is quite taxing enough.
Emet-Selch: Now, if you've no further questions...?

>> Choice 1: Are there any other Ascians here on the First?
Emet-Selch: Not a single one. Happily, I am quite content to mingle with the masses. And even if I did crave the company of my own kind, one might say we're understaffed at present.
Emet-Selch: There are no strict rules governing how we work, though that has not been without its consequences. In the beginning, we were each responsible for a shard, and free to do as we wished, but Igeyorhm's impetuous temperament showed us the folly in that.
Emet-Selch: In light of her failings, we took to working in tandem as the situation demanded.
Emet-Selch: Mitron and Loghrif were supposed to take care of the First, of course.
Emet-Selch: Alas, they were slain by the champions of this realm shortly before the Flood. Expendable though they were, I found them quite useful.
Emet-Selch: But that is a tale for another time.

>> Choice 2: Actually, I... don't.
Emet-Selch: Then run along back to your friends and leave me be!