Conversation 490: BOOKSTORE / HJELMSERIES

A shelf full of Hjelmdall books. There are so many.

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
0 None
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1 None
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2 Man from Hjelmdall Series The display rack is brimming with worn paperbacks featuring an extremely muscular, sword-wielding barbarian on the cover. Nearly all the titles contain the word *Hjelmdall* somewhere.
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3 You [Leave.]
4 You "Storekeep, tell me about the muscleman books." Variable["doomed.hjelmdall_from_roy"] == false
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5 None
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6 You "I want to buy the 'Hjelmdallermann' book." Variable["doomed.book_found_hjelmdallermann"] == true and CheckItem("book_hjelmdallermann") == false
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7 You Look through the display of books.
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8 You "I want to buy 'Man from Hjelmdall and the Devil Woman'." Variable["doomed.book_buy_hjelmwoman"] == true and CheckItem("book_hjelmdevil") == false
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9 Plaisance "Oh, *Man from Hjelmdall*. A very popular series of adventure novels." She looks at the book with some disdain. "They're awfully immoral and violent books."
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10 Plaisance "Blood and violence, scantily clad women, epic narratives, all those mystical things he encounters. They're bound to grab those with little imagination and nothing to do."
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11 You "Why are they so popular?"
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12 You "Who's this Man from Hjelmdall?" Variable["tc.hjelmdall"] == false
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13 Plaisance "At last, someone sensible..." She fiddles with her pendant. "However, I still urge you to buy one. Can't judge a book by the cover, they say!"
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14 Plaisance "He's a 'hero' from the frozen northlands. He travels to all sorts of lands and mainly kills people. There are hundreds of books in the series... and they sell incredibly well."
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15 Plaisance She nudges her glasses. "It *is* a best-seller for a reason."
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16 You Do any of the books call out to me? Variable["doomed.book_found_hjelmwoman"]
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17 Man from Hjelmdall Series
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18 Man from Hjelmdall Series Variable["doomed.book_wc_hjelmwoman"]
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19 Man from Hjelmdall Series (Variable["doomed.book_wc_hjelmwoman"]) == false
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20 Pain Threshold A twinge at the back of your head makes you flinch. Your eye starts twitching.
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21 Pain Threshold Nothing of interest. Only silence and the cosmic background pain-radiation.
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22 Plaisance "Oh yes, certainly." She rubs her hands together. "Another good sale."
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23 None
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24 Man from Hjelmdall Series Rows and rows of Hjelmdallermenn blur your vision. You make out some titles: "Man from Hjelmdall and the Mammoth-Riders", "Man from Hjelmdall: Return to Hjelmdall", and the solipsistic "Man From Hjelmdall and the Hjelmdall Man."
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25 You Good god, how many are there?
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26 You Enough.
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27 None
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28 Man from Hjelmdall Series The display rack before you is burdened under piles of Man from Hjelmdall novels.
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29 Man from Hjelmdall Series Maybe a hundred? "Man from Hjelmdall and the Sages at the End of the World", "Man from Hjelmdall and the False-God", "Man from Hjelmdall and the Scorched Earth", "Man from Hjelmdall: The Hjelmdall Colonies", "Man from Hjelmdall and the Swamp Beast", "Man from Hjelmdall and the Snow Crabs."
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30 You Is that all?
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31 Man from Hjelmdall Series Not even close! "Man from Hjelmdall in Hell", "Man from Hjelmdall and the Forest of Slaves", "Man from Hjelmdall Under the Lake", "Man from Hjelmdall: Hjelmdall Burning". There's even "The Trial of Death", a Pasternal combat game book set in the world of Hjelmdallermann, and so much more.
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32 None
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33 None
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34 Conceptualization It's symbolic of vice and sin.
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35 Man from Hjelmdall Series Especially those leering types who seem to wear nothing but an armoured bikini. There's also some sort of a snake-lizard beast slithering around her abdomen-chest-shoulder region.
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36 You Hmm, aren't all women devil women?
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37 You "Storekeep, this book is misogynistic. How can you peddle such filth?" IsTHCPresent("radical_feminist_agenda")
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38 Plaisance "Oh, sir, I know." The storekeep apologizes immediately. "This really isn't representative of our values. But the store has to cater to its customers."
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39 Kim Kitsuragi "The entire series is also *endearingly* racist, if I may add."
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40 Man from Hjelmdall Series
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41 Man from Hjelmdall Series IsKimHere()
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42 Man from Hjelmdall Series (IsKimHere()) == false
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43 None
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44 Man from Hjelmdall Series Your hand reaches toward a book with glossy cover art of the very muscular Man from Hjelmdall -- in *chains* -- kneeling in front of a staircase leading to a throne. A woman sits on the throne, leering at the man.
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45 Inland Empire She's laughing at him. Belittling him.
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46 Man from Hjelmdall Series Between the throne and the Hjelmdallermann lies a bonfire, casting shadows on the wall. The shadow of the woman's head-dress looks like a pair of devil horns. The title reads: "Man from Hjelmdall and the Devil Woman".
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47 You Ugh, what is it?
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48 You Ow!
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49 You Interesting.
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50 None
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51 You "That doesn't sound like something I'd be interested in."
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52 You "Sounds good. Which one should I start with?"
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53 Plaisance "What does it matter? They're all the same." She rolls her eyes, then fiddles with her pendant. "However, the customer is always right, they say."
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54 Plaisance "If you're a novice of the series, I'd recommend 'Hjelmdallermann: the Man from Hjelmdall.' It's supposed to be a good introduction to the series."
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55 None
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56 None
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57 Half Light Those snow crabs are worse than they sound.
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58 You "Wow, more Hjelmdall..." Variable["doomed.hjelmdall_from_roy"] == true
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59 Man from Hjelmdall Mountains of it. Heroic quantities of Hjelmdall. Roy's puny shirt is nothing compared to the *real deal*.
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60 None
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61 Physical Instrument This is entirely, *completely* you. You have found the *right* books.
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62 Encyclopedia It's pulp adventure. Takes place in a faux-mythological non-place called Hjelmdall. There is no such region on the Katla isola.
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63 Man from Hjelmdall Series
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64 Man from Hjelmdall Series Variable["tc.turn_off_tutorial_node"] or Variable["character.interactable_tutorial_seen"]
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65 Man from Hjelmdall Series (Variable["tc.turn_off_tutorial_node"] or Variable["character.interactable_tutorial_seen"]) == false
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66 Tutorial Agent You've acquired an interactable item. Investigate this item further by going to the INTERACT tab in your INVENTORY.
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