Raven Fairweather, Ziggy's cousin, keeps a tripod on a rise in the Hollow March and only shoots ruins in the last bad light of the day. He lent you a camera: photograph the West Isle's five grim landmarks for the family book, the house nobody's moved out of, a church that went for a swim, Gallows Hill, the Spires out in the Ashen Waste and something big that died lying down. At dusk or after dark. Then show him.
Steps
- Take the photos
- Show Raven your photos, up on his rise in the Hollow March · the Hollow March
Reward
250 gold, XP and Raven's Lens (keep it in your bag, L in the viewfinder: dark, moody photos) (
Raven's Lens)
Dialogue
Starting it
- “Name's Raven. Ziggy's cousin. Ziggy shoots sunsets. A sunset is the sun going down, which is fine. I shoot what's left after.”
- “We're making a family book, an island each. Ziggy did his in one summer. I've been on this one nine years. I've got a lot of almost.”
- “Thing is, the ghosts out here like me. Every picture I take, there's somebody standing in the back. Nine years of family portraits. None of it family.”
- “So you take them. You'll need a camera for that, so here. It's never seen anything nice. Let's keep it that way.”
- “I need five. The house nobody's moved out of. A church that went for a swim. And Gallows Hill.”
- “The Spires, out in the Ashen Waste. And something big that died out there, lying down. Get all of it in. It would want that.”
- “Shoot them in the last bad light of the day. After the sun gives up. Before that it's just postcards. Nobody frames a postcard.”
- “Then come back up here and show me. I'll be here. I'm usually here. That's the other thing the ghosts like about me.”
Talking to them again
- “The manor, the abbey, Gallows Hill, the Spires and the bones. In the last bad light. Any earlier and they look like they're doing fine.”
- “You can't rush dusk. I tried once. It just got dark on me. Which, to be fair, is what I asked for.”
Handing it in
- “The manor. Look at that. Not one window lit, and you can still tell somebody's home.”
- “The abbey. They built it for God and the sea took it. I don't think either one of them asked.”
- “Gallows Hill. And nobody standing in the back. That's a first. Maybe they were shy. Maybe they liked you.”
- “The Spires. Nothing grows out there. Nothing even tries. I respect that in a place.”
- “And the bones. Something that big, and it still went lying down. There's a lesson in that. I'm not going to learn it.”
- “That's the chapter. Here, my old lens. Everything you shoot through it comes out wrong. Which is to say, right.”
After it is done
- “Ziggy's gonna say they're too dark. They're supposed to be too dark. That's the whole thing.”
- “Nine years, and the chapter's done. Ziggy wants a second edition. I told him I'm still getting over the first.”
If you lose the item
- “One of them's gone. You threw it out? That's all right. They're used to being forgotten. Go take it again.”
When your bag is full
- “Your bag's full. I'd hold onto the camera for you, but things I hold onto tend to stay.”
too cheerful
- “Too cheerful.”