How to Survive

Ex-innkeeper · Alpine Isle (4th island), Rimeholt (plateau town).

Quests

Talk

  1. “I'm Greta. I used to run an inn. Then the snow came and nobody left. So now it's not an inn. It's just my house with a lot of people in it.”
  2. “Folks ask when the snow stops. I tell them it doesn't. They say surely it stops sometime. I say surely. That's as far as I'll go. Surely.”
  3. “The tree in the square? We put it up every year. This year we didn't take it down from last year. Saves time. It's always Christmas up here. That's not a joke. It's a schedule.”
  4. “Boatman down at the landing, Ole. Nice man. He came up once. Got halfway up the gorge, sat down, went back. Said the view was the same either way. It isn't. But he's not wrong.”
  5. “Mind the edge past the cabins. It's a long way down. People see the view and they lean. The view doesn't lean back.”

More talk

  1. “Somebody up there likes Christmas. Somebody up there likes cowboys. I don't think they've ever been to either.”

As the gods fall

Once the gods of 3 crypts have been beaten and their chests looted in your world (the Gang of Elites counts), every third talk:

  1. “Tree in the square dropped a needle this morning. First one ever. I don't want to make too much of it. But that tree's on a schedule. Somebody missed a day.”

Once the gods of 6 crypts have been beaten and their chests looted in your world (the Gang of Elites counts), every third talk:

  1. “It stopped snowing for a minute yesterday. Everybody came out and looked up. Nobody knew what to do. So we went back inside. You get used to a thing.”

When you walk off mid-sentence

  • “Oh, you go. Go, go. Come back when you're hungry. Everybody does.”
  • “Rude, but I forgive you. I forgive everybody. The snow's too deep to hold a grudge.”
  • “Okay, dear. I'll finish the story at supper. To whoever's here. Everybody's here.”