Life Imitating Art/tsw
| Life Imitating Art/tsw | |
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| Region: | Solomon Island |
| Zone: | Savage Coast |
| Start Coords: | No Data |
| Given by: | Sam Krieg |
| Type: | Action |
| Reward: | 172,970 Experience Experience |
| Repeatable: | Yes |
| Game Version: |  TSW
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| Added in: | No Data |
Horror author Sam Krieg's worldview, and his opinion of the secret world, is as bleak as his best-selling novels. Is the man's unkind muse reacting to the events of Solomon Island, or was it predicting them all along?
Dialogue
Dialogue Scene Name
- Sam Krieg: You know, you're just like one of my characters. You love evil. You don't run from it, you don't try to avoid it.
- Sam Krieg: You welcome it. You crave it. You invite the pain and you cherish the suffering.
- Sam Krieg: You dive right into the filth and you make no attempt to wash it off.
- Sam Krieg: And when you finally climb back out, it doesn't matter how bad it smells, how the stench and taint cling to you.
- Sam Krieg: You just can't wait to dive back in.
- Sam Krieg: Like a dope fiend hankering for a fix, you don't want it to ever end. You need it.
- Sam Krieg: Your entire identity, your raison d'être, is at stake.
- Sam Krieg: Think about it. Who would you be, what would you be, without this? Without your precious war on evil?
- Sam Krieg: Without your secret world, your sacred brotherhoods, your ranks and titles and rituals?
- Sam Krieg: You'd be just another rat stuck in the race with a dead-end job, living for a pay-check and the weekends.
- Sam Krieg: One long booze-soaked downhill slide towards the dark and cold grave.
- Sam Krieg: But you probably believe in what you do, believe it's right, that it's good.
- Sam Krieg: You soak in it so others don't have to. You take one for the team.
- Sam Krieg: You bend over and spread your legs and let the darkness inside.
- Sam Krieg: And somehow, you justify it all with utilitarian pragmatism.
- Sam Krieg: You're a bona fide American hero.
- Sam Krieg: Get the hell outta here.
- Sam Krieg: Go find an abyss to jump into. Go soak yourself in filth.
- Sam Krieg: Maybe it'll be different this time.
- Sam Krieg: Maybe you'll save them all. Maybe you'll finally find some god-damn peace, some closure.
- Sam Krieg: You're just like every character I've ever written.
- Sam Krieg: Fucked from page one.
Journal Entries
- Tier 1: Krieg promised you the same fast as the characters of his novels; it might be worth familiarising yourself with his grisly page-turners.
- Examine the novel The Lighthouse
- Kill 10 Svell Draug
- Find a rusty shipwreck
- Tier 2: The events from The Lighthouse were too close for either coincidence or comfort. Continue on through Krieg's back catalogue.
- Examine the novel The Undead
- Kill 15 zombies along the bluff
- Find a junkyard nearby
- Tier 3: Krieg's mind and Solomon Island share a darkness. it seems he was right to accuse you of willingly descending into it, though. These events must be pursed to their conclusion.
- Examine the novel The Resident Horror
- Destroy The Resident Horror
- Explore the old abandoned barn
- Tier 4: Thought the odds have been stacked against you, thus far you have outlived the cast of Krieg's novels. What remains to be uncovered is the part you both play in this narrative.
- Examine the novel Marked
- Survive the barn attacks
- Go to the abandoned house near the lighthouse
- Tier 5: Having famously suffered writer's block, Krieg came to Solomon Island to find new material. If this place was the material all along, what comes next, as yet unwritten?
- Examine the draft for The Hidden World
- Kill the Corrupted Secret Worlder near the house
Rewards
- ###,### Experience total
- ###,### per Tier for tiers 1 thru #
- ###,### for completion of tier #
- ###,### Pax Romana upon completion of tier #
- # Sequins of ? upon completion of tier #
- Item Name QL# item type, upon completion of tier #
- 172,970 Experience
- 2 Sequin of Solomon Island
- 10000 Pax Romana
- Ballbreaker (QL4 Hammer)
(86,490xp awarded) (21,620xp awarded)
Report
Dragon
Read between the lines to see the pattern. The writer writes for himself, what he knows to be true. Each time he rewrites himself closer to that truth. He thinks himself master of events, though he is servant to them.
For the sequence of events are preordained. The sequence of responses to them are not. Read between the lines and see decisions made and decisions not made repeating, infinite, like fractals.
We do not predict. We explore possibilities. It is not the Dragon's purpose to control the world, but to free it from controlling influence.
Illuminati
Hello? Spoilers? I hadn't read some of these, I was waiting for the movies. But you don't need to be a psychic to know how a Krieg book turns out.
We keep an eye on him, he's been buzzing around the occult periphery for years. I say 'he" has, I mean his replaceable starry-eyed nubile assistants. Innocence lost, everyone goes away with a dark secret, the man practices what he preaches.
This prediction thing though, right, don't be rattled. We've got a roadmap for you too and it goes, oh, weeks into the future. It's open to sudden shock endings.
Ciao-ciao
Templar
Interesting developments from such a poisonous pen. And yet, in our productive times it is the pulp novelists and cable talk-show hosts who assume the role of soothsayer.
I need not remind you of the regard in which I hold conspiracy novelists. But I believe Mr Krieg truly does suffer for his questionable art. He cannot be responsible for the events accompanying his writer’s retreat – he is another victim of them.
And he was incorrect on at least one matter. It is not the taste of evil that drives you. It is the glimpse of good.
R. Sonnac
Walkthrough
There are 5 tiers to this mission.
Tier 1/5
- Examine the novel The Lighthouse
- Kill 10 Svell Draug (Svell Impaler, Svell Mauler, Svell Volur) near the base of the lighthouse
- Find a rusty shipwreck (near 877, 227)
Tier 2/5
- Examine the novel The Undead (858, 247)
- Kill 15 zombies along the bluff
- Find a junkyard nearby (665, 261)
Tier 3/5
- Examine the novel The Resident Horror (in junk car)
- Destroy The Resident Horror
- Explore the old abandoned barn
Tier 4/5
- Examine the novel Marked (stand on crates)
- Survive the barn attacks (waves come slowly - 4 waves in total)
- Go to the abandoned house near the lighthouse
Tier 5/5
- Examine the draft for The Hidden World (at barrel at end of deck - (845, 288))
- Kill the Corrupted Secret Worlder near the house
Other Information
Trivia
Media
Images
Discarded Letter
The Lighthouse
The Undead
The Resident Horror
Marked
Hidden World (Draft)
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Videos
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