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a friend!

> Greet it! It's a new friend.

( > If it lunges to attack get the heck out of there)

Poor thing, it's chained down here. You don't look appear very edible, maybe you can befriend it if you find some way to free it.

>Oh calm down, it's just a giant spider.
>Also you're a skeleton, spiders don't eat skeletons, that would be silly.

> This spider guy is named Steve Irwin. Greet him cordially.

Kevin: "Uh... wow. Alright. Sorry for, um, shouting."
Steve Erwin?: "WHY THINK NOTHING OF IT MY DEAR HARVESTER. YOU'RE NOT THE FIRST TO BE FRIGHTENED BY AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER WITH YOURS TRULY. INDEED, I SHALL TAKE IT AS A COMPLIMENT, IF ANYTHING."
Kevin: "Uhh, right..."
Steve Erwin's Weird Head Thing: "heheheheheheheh" *gurgle*

>I'm so sorry, for a second I thought I might have killed you. I guess now would be a bad time to say that the underworld is traditionally filled with monsters and souls of the damned.
> It looks rather large, do you think it could climb up the stairs and through the tunnel opening? if not retreat may be prudent.
>oh and just so we're clear, we can only see a bit around you, we're as blind to this situation as you are. so the chances of this guy being named steve are about as close to the chances of you being named kevin.

Kevin: "Oh! Don't be sorry! It, uh, helped me remember something."
Probably Not Steve Erwin: "PARDON?"
Kevin: "One of the voices... um... oh. Nevermind."
Probably Not Steve Erwin: "VERY WELL. MIGHT I INQUIRE WHAT HAS BROUGHT YOU HERE, HARVESTER? IF YOUR VISIT IS ON MY BEHALF, I'M SURE YOU'VE NOTICED IT IS PREMATURE."
Kevin: "Uh...?"
Probably Not Steve Erwin: "I'M NOT DEAD YET, FRIEND."
Kevin: "Right... no. Um, the voices were just, uh helping me find my way out of here... They're uh, mostly all saying to make friends with you... and not, uh, run away or try to fight or anything... not that I would, um, you know, want to fight you... uh... yeah."
Probably Not Steve Erwin: *WISTFUL SIGH* "WOULD THAT WE ALL HAD SUCH COHERENT ADVISERS."
Head Thing: "huehuehuehuehuenyehNYEHHEHEHEHE!" *gurgle* *churn*
Probably Not Steve Erwin: "WELL FRIEND, FAR BE IT FROM ME TO DENY THE WISHES OF YOUR GUIDES, HOWEVER EPHEMERAL THEY MAY BE. I BELIEVE, HOWEVER, THAT BEFORE CAMARADERIE IS A POSSIBILITY, INTRODUCTIONS MUST BE MADE. YOU MAY CALL ME STEFERVIN."
Kevin: "Huh... that's pretty close to what the voice said... uh... I don't know my name. But they've been calling me Kevin Costner. Or just Kevin, I guess."
STEFERVIN: "DELIGHTFUL... KEVIN, THEN. WILL YOU PERMIT ME A RATHER CANDID OBSERVATION?"
Kevin: "Uh, sure..."
STEFERVIN: "YOU APPEAR TO HAVE MET WITH MISFORTUNE. MAY I INFER THAT THE DAMAGE IS MORE THAN PURELY COSMETIC?"
Kevin: "..."
STEFERVIN: "YOUR HEAD INJURY. I'M GUESSING YOU HAVE SOME MEMORY LOSS AS WELL."

Hi, I'm here now too! Is this a bad time?

Kevin: "Uh, hello... and yes. Not to it being a bad time, I mean... um to the other question, uh Stefervin."
STEFERVIN: "... THEN YOUR QUEST IS ONE FOR INFORMATION. I BELIEVE I MAY BE OF ASSISTANCE TO YOU IN THIS MATTER. HOWEVER, INFORMATION IS POWER, HARVESTER. TRAPPED HERE AS I AM, I CAN ILL AFFORD TO MERELY GIVE AWAY WHAT LITTLE I HAVE. PERHAPS WE MAY BE ABLE TO HELP ONE ANOTHER."

Don't make eye contact and just shuffle on past. It probably just has some boring fetch quest for you to do.

Kevin: "Um... probably."
STEFERVIN: "DELIGHTFUL. THEN CONSULT WITH YOUR ADVISERS ON THE FOLLOWING: I'LL TELL YOU HOW TO FIND THE KEY TO MY SHACKLES. BRING IT TO ME AND I SHALL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS I CAN TO HELP YOU FILL IN THE GAPS IN YOUR MEMORY. AS A GESTURE OF GOOD WILL, I'LL EVEN ANSWER ANY ONE QUESTION PRIOR TO YOUR DEPARTURE.
Head Thing: "heheheheheheh" *gurgle-burp* "NYYYYEEEHEEEEEEEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHE!"