How to Survive

Chapel pianist (ex-saloon pianist) · Desert Isle (3rd island), Last Chance, chapel (Chopin Op. 62 No. 2).

Quests

Talk

  1. “Name's Lonnie. I used to play over at the saloon. Then I got religion. Well, I got a better piano. Same thing, out here.”
  2. “Barkeep says I quit him. I didn't quit him. I moved across the square. You can still hear me in there if you stand by the door. I tell him that. He says it's not the same. It's exactly the same. It's the same song.”
  3. “It's Chopin. Fella was from Poland. Never been to a desert. You can tell. There's no sand in it. I put a little in. Not on purpose. It's in the keys.”
  4. “Folks ask, Lonnie, how come you only play the one? I say, it's a long song. They say it's not that long. I say it is the way I play it.”
  5. “Preacher left with the collection plate. Took the plate, too. Nice plate. So now it's just music on Sundays. Attendance went up. Draw your own conclusions.”
  6. “Every so often a tumbleweed rolls in the door, sits a while, rolls back out. Best listener I ever had. Never once asked for anything cheerful.”

More talk

  1. “At the saloon they wanted ragtime. Ragtime's what you play when you want to be noticed. So I came over here to play this one. This one's what you play when you don't.”

As the gods fall

Once the gods of 1 crypt have been beaten and their chests looted in your world (the Gang of Elites counts), every third talk:

  1. “Every time somebody comes back from one of those crypts, I hit a note I don't remember learning. Then it's in the song for good. I'd tell the barkeep. He'd want it in ragtime.”

When you walk off mid-sentence

  • “Leaving before the big finish? That's alright. There's no big finish.”
  • “Folks walk out on me all the time. That's why I moved to a church. They have to sit.”
  • “Okay, then. Tip's in the jar on your way out. There's no jar. Don't look.”