Bestowal dialogue
Something must be done. We have no captain now and many lives have been lost. There are customs and rites to be observed - or are we not on the same perilous road he went down?
'We have no captain and so we will all stand about unless someone begins. Yes, there we have it.
'Will you help me once more, friend? Gather the men and what belongings of Lachír's you can find. We will meet on the high platform across the road. It is as good a spot as any.'
Background
The remaining men of the Udûn Foothold must come to terms with Captain Lachír's end.
Objective 1
- Talk to the soldiers (0/7)
Mulnír has asked you to speak to gather the men around the Foothold in Udûn, and tell them where to meet.
- Iadan: 'I will be there.'
- Mellor: 'Fine. We will do this and then we will be done with him.'
- Othras: 'Of course. I will see you there.'
- Coldan: 'Yes, I will go.'
- Gondorian soldier: 'We owe him that, at least.'
- Gondorian soldier: 'Across the road? Yes, you have my word.'
- Gondorian soldier: 'My heart is full sore with many things, but I will go.'
Objective 2
- Collect the Captain's belongings (0/3)
Mulnír has asked you to collect what personal belongings of Captain Lachír you could find around the Foothold camp in Udûn.
- LACHÍR'S FLAGON "Lachír kept a special concoction in this flagon."
- LACHÍR'S PACK "This was Lachír's pack."
- LACHÍR'S BOOK "This book belonged to Lachír."
Objective 3
You should meet Mulnír and the other men up on the high platform across the road from the Udûn Foothold.
- Everyone is gathered in a solemn circle
Objective 4
You should talk to Mulnir on the platform where the men have gathered to mourn Captain Lachír, across the road from the Foothold in Udûn.
- Mulnír: Mulnír clears his throat, thinks for a moment, and begins.
- 'We all followed our Captain into battle. Beside him, we feared nothing and we risked all bravely, gladly and with true honour. Whatever befell us in the last few days, let that not be forgotten.
- '<name>, you have his effects?'
Objective 5
- Lay Lachír's belongings down
The mourners are gathered on the high platform across the road from the Udûn Foothold.
You should lay the Captain's belongings in the middle of the circle of mourners.
- CAPTAIN LACHÍR'S BELONGINGS "The late captain's collected effects."
- Placing ...
Objective 6
The mourners are gathered on the high platform across the road from the Udûn Foothold.
Listen to Barathron speak.
- Barathron says, "I would say a word."
- You listen to Barathron.
- Barathron says, "He never let a soul drink from that flagon.
- Gondorian Soldier says, "Aye, but the odour from it was something fierce."
- Coldan says, "The book, though... that book."
Objective 7
The mourners are gathered on the high platform across the road from the Udûn Foothold.
Hear Coldan's memory of Lachír.
- Coldan: 'Tales of Old Gondor, it was. Oft around a campfire he would read out of it. Do you remember? Such fine old kings and warriors. Their weapons bore names and their raiments shone. Their deeds were great, their words were poetry, and their deaths brought tears to the eye.
- 'Perhaps that is what old Lachír wanted for himself. In some way it was like that, was it not? And yet unlike, Makes you wonder if the men in those old tales felt themselves in a book... or felt something more as we feel now.'
- Gondorian Soldier says, "Well spoken, Coldan."
- Mellor says, "So it was. So it was."
- Othras says, "Let us mourn together."
Objective 8
The mourners are gathered on the high platform across the road from the Udûn Foothold.
You should mourn with the others.
- You mourn for the sorry state of the world.
- All observe a grave, momentary silence
Objective 9
The mourners are gathered on the high platform across the road from the Udûn Foothold.
Hear Othras's memory of Lachír
- Othras: 'It is too easy by far to forget the Lachír we knew, just as Mulnír said. The one who led us into battle and was ever our protector and companion. That Lachír and the one we knew here, who strayed on foot and reason from the path... from every path... I feel that they are the same man.
- 'For perhaps there was always some madness in his nature. Perhaps the dreams that lived in the old tales of Gondor led us bravely to war and then vainly, ruinously through the wreckage of Udûn.
- 'And before we condemn him in his memory, perhaps we should look within our own hearts and wonder what dreams and what in our own natures has been twisted and made monstrous by this place. Truly, perhaps it is only our humble stations that have kept each other of us from doing greater harm.'
- Mulnír says, "Truly this is a place of warping madness."
Objective 10
The mourners are gathered on the high platform across the road from the Udûn Foothold.
You shouild talk to Mulnír again.
- Mulnír: 'I deem that a proper rite for our lost captain. He died as he lived, sword in hand. We shall not forget him, but the empty space he leaves will not long stay vacant, I think. A new captain will likely be sent down, and with no great delay.
- 'If we wish to stay in good graces, we had best return to camp and see that all is returned to order. But that is on your own head, for I am no captain, not today and not tomorrow.'
Objective 11
You should return to the Foothold in Udûn now that the gathering to remember Lachír is over.
Objective 12
You should talk to Mulnír in the Foothold camp in Udûn.
- Mulnír: 'Without your help, <class>, all this would have gone -- well more poorly than it has. I know well enough that our mourning is not truly ended, but we cannot linger in it.
- 'Please, accept our thanks. Do not you linger, either.'
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