msg_nq240401f

1 nq240401_msg0001 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Sigh...
2 nq240401_msg0002 2 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Excuse me, but are you the person that's
been making a painting around here?
3 nq240401_msg0003 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 SIIIGH.
4 nq240401_msg0004 1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 A-are you OK?
5 nq240401_msg0005 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Will you listen to my tale of woe?
6 nq240401_msg0006 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I was once a soldier who attended
Consul K, so that I might capture his
likeness within a portrait.
7 nq240401_msg0007 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Are portraits different
from normal paintings?
8 nq240401_msg0008 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Portraits are a type of painting!
9 nq240401_msg0009 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I painted K as I was ordered.
It was my sacred duty!
10 nq240401_msg0010 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 And then one day I heard that K had fallen
to some ruffians called "Ouroboros"...
My life's purpose, vanished like smoke...
11 nq240401_msg0011 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Life's purpose? Spare me...
12 nq240401_msg0012 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 However! My passion undimmed,
I returned to the Castle, where
there could yet be a Consul.
13 nq240401_msg0013 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Yet every day my talent is mocked.
"How can an image fell an enemy
soldier?" they jeer, vulgarly.
14 nq240401_msg0014 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Not a soul remains in all Aionios
who appreciates my art!
15 nq240401_msg0015 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I've not heard of any.
16 nq240401_msg0016 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 But enough of my sorrowful
tale. Who are you?
17 nq240401_msg0017 1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 We're-
18 nq240401_msg0018 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Wait! No! You're the Ouroboros!
19 nq240401_msg0019 4 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Don't worry, we mean you no harm.
20 nq240401_msg0020 4 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 We were only wondering if you
wouldn't mind showing us your
painting...this portrait, I mean.
21 nq240401_msg0021 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 N-no, I don't mind...
22 nq240401_msg0022 4 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I see. The figure of a person, rendered
in colored dyes using a soft brush on a
material called canvas...
23 nq240401_msg0023 4 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 That's a portrait, is it?
24 nq240401_msg0024 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 That's right. And portrait-painting
forms part of "culture". It's a concept
K educated me in.
25 nq240401_msg0025 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 But hoi polloi soldiers ascribe no value
to it, and so I have returned to the Castle
in slender hope of succor...
26 nq240401_msg0026 5 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 But if no one's buying,
you're in a tight spot, eh?
27 nq240401_msg0027 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Exactly, yes.
28 nq240401_msg0028 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Well, I don't think culture's gonna
do much good when you're risking
your neck out on the front lines.
29 nq240401_msg0029 1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Hmm, culture...
30 nq240401_msg0030 1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Wait, Eunie. You said Monica had been
talking to you about culture before?
31 nq240401_msg0031 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Mm? Oh, yeah. And?
32 nq240401_msg0032 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Can such a thing be true?!
33 nq240401_msg0101 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Yeah, there's a Nopon in the City
who knows all about that kind of
stuff. Wellwell, I think.
34 nq240401_msg0201 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I bet Wellwell would know all about that
kind of stuff. He's a Nopon from the City,
so it figures.
35 nq240401_msg0301 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 The City? I have never heard of such
a colony, but something about the name
certainly smacks of culture...
36 nq240401_msg0302 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Very well, then!
37 nq240401_msg0303 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Would you be so kind as to show
my little daubs in this City of yours?
38 nq240401_msg0304 5 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I don't remember signing up for-
39 nq240401_msg0305 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Surely such discerning folk shall be
able to value my art at its true worth!
40 nq240401_msg0306 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 And if not...if not then I shall simply...
41 nq240401_msg0307 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 OK, OK, save the waterworks.
42 nq240401_msg0308 2 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Let's do it. Poor thing looks like
he's at the end of his tether.
43 nq240401_msg0309 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Ugh, fine.
44 nq240401_msg0310 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Oh, thank you, thank you!
45 nq240401_msg0311 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I shall entrust you with
my precious portrait.
46 nq240401_msg0312 1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 OK, let's get this valued
at Wellwell's shop.
47 nq240401_msg0313 se1 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 This is the piece I have most faith in,
among all of my work! All my hopes go
with you!