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> Thank Griggs, ask "what ghosts"??



"Wow, um...thanks for the save. I'm Cool Chick, nice to meet you. I think you might be a bit confused, though - I'm not a ghost."



"Huh. Yeah, now that you mention it, you don't look dead. I just got tripped up by your aura. Been a while since I've seen another living person."



"I don't look like it, but I actually come from a long line of shamans, so I'm able to draw on the magic energies of the spiritual world in various ways. The downside is once dead people realize you can see and hear them they never leave you alone."

> Ask him what he's doing down here, you came down to investigate after all.



"Huh. You're right, you really don't look it. Does that have anything to do with why you're down here?"

"Sort of. This used to be a mining facility, but the miners dug too deep and too greedily, and awoke a great evil."



"...wait, you mean - "

"Yes, the cave worms."

"Not..."

"What else?"

"...uh, nevermind."



"With the cave worms running rampant, the entire operation quickly dissolved into an absolute mess. They cut through rock like a hot knife through butter, and the only thing that seemed to block their progress was iron. It's like poison to them, for some reason. Although I guess non-rock-like materials also stopped their progress. They're blind and deaf outside of rock, so they generally won't chase you through anything that isn't similar to it. Unfortunately, we don't have much fitting that description down here."



"So, you were one of the miners, I'm guessing?"

"Was it the pickaxes or the headlamp? After everyone started dropping like flies, my shamanism unleashed itself, and I started seeing the ghosts of dead miners. it didn't take me long to figure out that I could draw on the energy they were generating to bolster myself. Unfortunately, no one else had that advantage, and it wasn't long before everyone else had either gotten out or died. I considered leaving, but I couldn't bring myself to leave all my old comrades floating down here for all of eternity, so I set about putting them all to rest by avenging their deaths, which basically means I have to kill a lot of cave worms. Maybe all of them. I hope not, but I'm prepared to do it if that's what it takes."

> Ask why he carved LIGHT into that pillar.



"Heeeey, wait a minute...Montgomery Griggs...that'd make you MG, wouldn't it? I found a pillar near the bridge entrance that had the words LIGHT and MG carved into it."



"Oh geez, that thing...whoof. That was an...it was a practical joke I played on a guy a while back, but it didn't...it went a little...you know what, I'd really rather not go into it."

"Ouch, did you come off as a jerk or something? Sorry, I was just curious."

"I...yeah, something like that."



"Hey, I just realized, I told you why I was down here, but you never told me why you were down here. How about a little back-and-forth, huh?"

Hmmm...he seems trustworthy, but looks can be deceiving. What do you say?

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