If ever anyone could survive this, he hopes it’s you.Īnd you survive, and you leave, and you go back to your party, alone, hands stained black, corrupted, marked just like the rest of them. If you wait too long, you won’t be pretending.Īnd slowly Zu’s whispers change. (You hope, if you fail at this, that you’re lucky enough that they just kill you.) 31 - Chest Some silver can be earned by opening this trapped chest. Hes a plot-important NPC and a good Support character if youre.

Why kill only one when you can kill both 30 - Scrollstand The text on this scrollstand is entitled Jade Empire Bestiary, Volume 2. You meet Sagacious Zu in the swamp while pursuing Gao the Lesser at the end of Chapter 1. If you pretend too soon they’ll know it’s fake and they’ll think up something worse. Sagacious Zu will once again sneak up to you and suggest that Master Gangs death could be arranged alongside Master Shins. He’s blaming you for this risk no one should take, because he knows they’re going to break you.Īnd you’re sitting, waiting, holding out as long as you can before you pretend to break. It also is reminding me of the fic I never wrote, about Zu & Icy Yaling in the Lotus Assassin fortress, because I like to imagine the proper infiltration story, where you didn’t manage to avoid the usual indoctrination, where you’re locked up in solitary darkness and the only almost relief you get, while they try to break you, is a whisper of Zu’s voice, now and then, when he can slip in close while no one’s watching.Īnd at first he’s yelling at you, angry that you’re there, it’s all gonna end, he told you not to do this, and you’re here anyway. So I just started a Jade Empire replay, and before I had to go to work I left Two Rivers to rescue Dawn Star, and so you get this shot, as you’re exiting the gate, all green and full of flowers (a lot like Dawn Star’s garden, tbqh) and the little title in the middle of the screen saying “to the swamp”Īnd the voice in the back of my head of course adds “and tragedy” *just* as the loading screen pops ups with my first look at Sagacious Zu, and I pre-emptively sigh because of what I’m about to do to my poor Spirit Monk.īecause she’s going to love him.

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