(The bookcase is filled with some books about Craft Skills.)

(The librarian said you might find something here to protect you against the King...)

(You look closely at the books in this section.)

Odile (gimme1) Siffrin? Are you looking for something in particular?

Siffrin (okay2) (Might as well get the book lovers on this too...) "How do you craft shields?"

Isabeau (wonder2) Like, shields in battle? To protect ourselves?

Isabeau (boo1) It would be useful, wouldn't it... We have skills to boost our defense, but a shield would be cool.

Mirabelle (awawa1) I-I was thinking about learning! And I feel like I'm close to getting it!!!

Mirabelle (awkward2) But... I'm not there yet. Sorry.

Bonnie (oh!1) This book here is just called "Shields", and it's super dusty.

Bonnie (happy1) Dusty books are good, right?

(Bonnie gives Mirabelle the book.)

Mirabelle (anxious3) Well, that's not how it works, but... . . .

Mirabelle (stressed1) Wait... Wait a second.

Mirabelle (uwah!1) THAT'S ALL?!?!? THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT?!??!

Odile (hm1) Ah.

Isabeau (neutral1) Oh, this sounds fun.

Mirabelle (stressed1) So then, if I do this, and keep this in mind, and don't forget about this...

(Mirabelle mumbles under her breath for a long time...)

Mirabelle (serious3) Okay, so...

Mirabelle (fight1) Siffrin, do NOT move. I'm about to try a highly volatile Craft Skill on you that I've never tried before.

(UM,)

The sound of highly volatile Craft being cast upon Siffrin.

(You slowly open your eye.)

(Your body feels like it's covered in a warm blanket...)

(Suddenly, Bonnie punches you in the stomach.)

Bonnie (serious1) . . .

Bonnie (sad2) Owie.

Mirabelle (anxious2) Siffrin, did you feel something...?

(...)

(You didn't feel a thing!)

(You give Mirabelle a thumbs up.)

Mirabelle (excited1) CRAB YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!

(Mirabelle learned ADORABLE MOVING SHIELD!)

[Stardust! You did it!]

[Your little Housemaiden now knows Adorable Moving Shield! When crafted, it creates a SHIELD that protects your allies from TIMESTOP and SLOW for three turns. It also boosts DEFENSE!]

[You can try to beat the King again now... Make sure to use this skill to survive, okay?]

Siffrin (serious1) (Well, that's nice and all, but...)

• "If it was this easy to learn, why didn't you learn before?"

  Isabeau (disappointed1) Hey, Sif...

  Mirabelle (anxious3) Sorry! Sorry!!! But it just, it didn't make any sense before...

  Mirabelle (awkward1) Sometimes things need to click, you know?

  
  

  (...)

• (Don't mention it.)

  (It's annoying, but she knows it now.)

Siffrin (okay2) (There IS something you need to ask though...) "What made it click, then?"

Mirabelle (excited) Oh, that's easy! It's all about--

(Mirabelle suddenly bombards you with technical terms!!!)

Mirabelle (happy1) --and that's how you do it!!!

Odile (hm1) I did not understand even a little bit of this.

Isabeau (wonder2) Hm, I couldn't craft a skill like that myself, but...

Isabeau (neutral1) But it's just about using the CARROT method, right?

Odile (gimme1) Is it? I guess that makes some sort of sense...

Mirabelle (happy1) It is! They actually mention it in here too!

(What's the CARROT method.)

Bonnie (serious1) What's the CARROT method.

A comment in the file for this scene reads as follows: "Can Arrive at a Really Really Outstanding Technique".

Odile (lol2) If you don't know the CARROT method, you don't need to know the CARROT method.

(You sure feel stupider than usual this loop.)

Siffrin (okay2) (So, uh...) "So, hypothetically, someone reminding you of the CARROT method would make it click for you?"

Mirabelle (excited1) Yes!!!!!!

(Well there you go.)

(The bookcase is filled with books about Craft Skills.)

Bonnie (lol2) Wow, look at how old this book just called "Shields" looks!

---

First time

(Bonnie is pointing at a book.)

(...That's the book that made Mirabelle learn her skill.)

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Subsequent times

(Bonnie is pointing at that "Shields" book.)

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Bonnie (sulk5) Sniff sniff.

Bonnie (surprised1) Smells weird.

Bonnie (and then1) I'm taking it!!!

(Bonnie takes the book off the shelf and opens it to a random page.)

Bonnie (sulk1) ...

Bonnie (surprised1) Oh, it's a cooking book. It's talking about carrots and stuff.

Bonnie (really1) What? Let me see...

Isabeau (brag1) Ah, no, that's the CARROT method, Bonbon, not carrots.

Mirabelle (happy2) Oh, the CARROT method!

Mirabelle (happy1) Siffrin reminded me of it yesterday... That's how I figured out that nice new shield skill!

Odile (dotdotdot2) ...Is that so...?

• ACT 2 & 3: (You smile awkwardly.)
• ACT 4: (You smile.)

Isabeau (brag1) Ah, your new shield skill!

Isabeau (hahaha2) They show it in this book too, look!

Mirabelle (happy1) Oh... They do!!!

Mirabelle (anxious1) If Siffrin didn't teach me yesterday, this could've been useful...

Mirabelle (happy2) But I already know it, book! Siffrin taught me, book! And it'll protect us against the King, book!

Odile (dotdotdot1) . . .

(Odile is staring at you.)

(You look away. Maybe you shouldn't have looked at that bookcase...)

Mirabelle (oh!1) Ah, this book mentions shields that reflect attacks, too!

Mirabelle (stressed2) Those are so complicated... I wish I could figure it out someday.

You got two Weird Points.

(The bookcase is filled with books about Craft Skills.)

(The bookcase is filled with moldy old books.)

---

After starting Odile's Friendquest

(No familytales.)

---

(One of them is written in a language you cannot read.)

(It has a big, sparkly tree on the cover.)

(Just looking at the title is giving you a headache...)

---

If you have Memory of Memories, but not equipped

(But you could read it, if you remembered the Memory of it, wouldn't you?)

(The bookcase is filled with moldy old books.)

---

If you have never read the previous book

(One of them is written in your language.)

(You can read it, now...)

(...Actually, you can't.)

(There's a lot of hard words in there... You don't know what this is even about.)

(Maybe you should go back to it later...)

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If you've read it, but not this loop

(One of them is written in your language.)

(You can read it, now...)

(...It seems to be a book on different rituals to Craft wishes!)

(You could read it now, but you haven't read the previous Wish Craft book with everyone, back on Floor 1.)

(You might miss some precious insights, if they don't understand what you're talking about... You should come back after reading the first book again.)

---

If you've read the previous book in this loop

First time

(One of them is written in your language.)

(You can read it, now...)

(...It seems to be a book on different rituals to Craft wishes!)

(You flip through it...)

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Subsequent time

(You've read the Wish Craft rituals book before, but it wouldn't hurt to get a refresher...)

---

Isabeau (awkward1) Oh, another wiggly headachy book.

Mirabelle (oh!1) Is this another book on Wish Craft?

(You nod.)

(You start translating as best you can...)

(The book talks about many different rituals to Craft wishes, from the correct way to pick up 4 leaf clovers, to calling out to shooting stars the right way, to...)

Bonnie (happy2) Favor Tree what now?

Mirabelle (uwah!1) THE FAVOR TREES CAN GRANT WISHES?!?!?

Odile (uwah!1) FAVOR TREES LIKE THE ONE IN DORMONT?!?!

Isabeau (omgggg1) THE ONE EVERYONE ASKED THINGS TO?!?

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First time

(Aha!!!)

(It makes sense, it makes sense!!!)

(You even vaguely remember thinking about it, a long time ago!!!)

(Asking a higher power for a favor is no different than making a wish, isn't it? Isn't it???)

(So, could someone's wish to the Favor Tree have trapped you here? Whose?)

(What)

(What did you wish for, at the Favor Tree, again?)

(You think and think and think, trying to remember what you even wished for.)

(It was so far back!!! Such a long time ago...)

(. . .)

(You wished...)

---

Depends on who you wished for in ACT 1.

• (You wished... to visit more places with Mirabelle.)
• (You wished... to wear clothes Isabeau has made.)
• (You wished... to see Odile's country with your own eyes.)
• (You wished... to be here when Bonnie reunites with their sister.)

---

(Was that all?)

(You think so.)

(Oh.)

(It can't... It can't be because of your wish, then.)

(You haven't even gotten farther than beating the King, let alone leaving the House to make that wish come true.)

(Your wish can't come true until you escape the loops...)

(. . .)

(So then, maybe...)

---

Subsequent times

(Your wish isn't what's trapping you here.)

(You know what they all wished for, but might as well ask again...)

---

• First time: Siffrin (surprised3)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (fake1)
• "What did you all wish for?"

Odile (gimme1) To the Favor Tree, you mean?

Odile (urgh1) Well, I mentioned it earlier, but I... Wished... To win a coin flip.

If you skipped past the coin flip via looping, the game seems to use whichever result you had the last time you actually saw the scene.

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If Odile lost the coin flip

Odile (reading1) A wish that didn't come true, by the way.

Odile (hm2) Well, I might have done the correct ritual, but I didn't put any belief in it, did I?

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If Odile won the coin flip

Odile (reading1) A wish that came true, now that I think about it.

Odile (hm2) I didn't put any belief in it, but the rituals are supposed to be the important part, aren't they?

---

(But you know her wish doesn't come true on every loop...)

(Some loops she wins the coin flip, some loops she doesn't.)

Bonnie (sad1) I... I asked for my sister to be okay.

Mirabelle (awawa1) I-I wished for all of Vaugarde to be safe from the King!

(Hm...)

(...)

Odile (doubt1) ...

Odile (doubt1) ...

Bonnie (serious1) ...

Isabeau (blush1) . . .

Mirabelle (anxious1) ...What about you, Isabeau?

Isabeau (blush2) I, um, didn't wish for anything.

Odile (urgh1) What.

Mirabelle (anxious3) What?

Bonnie (UWAH1) WHAT?!?!?

Isabeau (NO!1) LISTEN!!! I just didn't know what to wish for!!! I'm an indecisive guy!!! Leave me alone!!!

Odile (sigh1) I can't believe this...

Isabeau (fight2) Oh, m'dame "I'm gonna wish to win my next coin flip" is gonna judge me now?!

Odile (urgh1) I didn't think anything would happen!!! At least I wished for something!!!

Mirabelle (hm2) That's too bad...

Isabeau (boo1) Haaah... Yeah, I'm kinda bummed I didn't wish for anything now.

Isabeau (hahaaa1) Why didn't I clap my hands and wish for something...

• First time: Siffrin (surprised1) (Huh?)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (surprised3) (Follow the script...)
• "Clap your hands?"

Isabeau (really1) Uh, yeah?

Isabeau (neutral1) That's how you ask a favor to the Favor Trees.

Isabeau (brag1) You look at the tree, and clap your hands once, and say aloud whatever you ask for.

Isabeau (neutral1) ...

• First time: Siffrin (okay2)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (hide1)
• "..."

Isabeau (hahaaa1) Um...

(Isabeau looks at everyone else.)

Isabeau (uwah!1) Is that... Not correct?

Bonnie (happy2) No, it's what I did.

Odile (doubt1) Me too. This is how you taught me, Isabeau.

Mirabelle (awawa1) That's also how I learned it at school?

Odile (huh2) Siffrin, did you... Not do it like that?

• First time: Siffrin (um2)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (fake2)
• "No, of course not?"

• First time: Siffrin (questions1)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (fake1)
• "You make your wish, and breathe it into the leaf you like best..."
• "...and fold the leaf over to keep your wish safe."

Isabeau (hahaaa1) ...

Odile (hm1) What?

• First time: Siffrin (awkward1)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (fake1)
• "It just... Makes sense?"

Mirabelle (anxious1) ...

---

First time only

(They're all looking at you!!!)

(You've only wished at a Favor Tree that one time, but it just makes sense!!!)

(You try to explain...)

---

• First time: Siffrin (okay2)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (fake1)
• "You choose a leaf, to represent yourself."

Odile (gimme1) Uh huh.

• First time: Siffrin (questions1)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (fake1)
• "You breathe your wish into it... To make a link between you and whatever you're wishing to."

Isabeau (wonder2) So, a link between you and the Tree?

• First time: Siffrin (okay2)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (hide2)
• "No, the Universe? I think?"

---

If you've read the newspaper on Floor 1 this loop

Bonnie (sulk5) So, the stars and stuff? They're the ones who make your wish come true?

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If you haven't

Bonnie (no!2) ...What's a--

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Odile (doubt1) Keep going, Siffrin.

• First time: Siffrin (questions1)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (fake1)
• "You repeat your wish three times..."

Mirabelle (thinking1) Three times?

• First time: Siffrin (surprised3)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (hide1)
• "Six could work, I think, or seven, or thirteen."

---

Subsequent times only

(It's about which number feels right.)

---

• First time: Siffrin (questions1)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (fake1)
• "And then you fold the wish into the leaf, to tether the link between you and the wish."

• First time: Siffrin (neutral1)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (fake1)
• "Touching it."

Odile (dotdotdot3) . . .

• First time: (They're all staring at you!!!)
• Subsequent times: (They all stare at you.)

• First time: Siffrin (awkward1)
• Subsequent times: Siffrin (fake2)
• "If you just look at the Tree and clap and say stuff aloud, why would the wish know where to go?"

Mirabelle (awawa1) ...I suppose so???

Odile (guilty1) That... Kind of makes sense, I suppose.

Odile (urgh1) But that's so many details to remember...

Mirabelle (anxious2) And that's not how we were taught at all... It's something we learn as Vaugardians, and I've never heard anyone do it differently...

Isabeau (boo1) But then, the Favor Trees are more of a superstition, aren't they? No one really takes it seriously.

Isabeau (hahaaa1) Well, except lately, where everyone started taking it super seriously just in case.

Bonnie (no!2) So... So...

Bonnie (stop!2) So did everyone in the country mess up their wish?!?

Odile (laugh1) HAH!!!!!

(Odile starts laughing.)

Mirabelle (awawa1) Wh-Why are you laughing???

Odile (gentle1) Sorry, sorry. It's just funny.

Odile (laugh1) This could have been a way to save Vaugarde if everyone somehow wished for it, but no one knew how to do it correctly, so... Ha!

Mirabelle (anxious2) Hmf...

Odile (lol1) And the only person who knew how to do it wished for... ...

Odile (gimme1) What DID you wish for, Siffrin?

Siffrin (fake1) (It's embarrassing, so...) "I wished for croissants to be eradicated."

Isabeau (hahaaa1) What.

Bonnie (no!2) What!!! No!!! Not croissants!!!

Mirabelle (awawa1) And since Siffrin knew the ritual, croissants might actually be...!!!

Odile (lol4) Oh nooo. I sure hope this specific wish doesn't come true.

Isabeau (wonder1) But yeah, no one except Sif knew the right ritual, but...

Isabeau (hahaha1) Rituals are only one part of it, right? Belief is another!

Isabeau (hahaha1) If enough people wish for the same thing, maybe it can make a difference!

Odile (lol2) Heh... A drop of belief in an ocean of nothing.

Isabeau (boo1) Boo.

---

First time only

(Hm...)

(So... Mirabelle wished for Vaugarde to be saved, Odile wished to win a coin flip, Bonnie wished for their sister to be okay, and Isabeau didn't wish for anything.)

(You don't think any of those wishes could've trapped you here.)

(So... Maybe someone else's?)

(The King probably wished for Vaugarde to be perfect or something, so you don't think it's related to you...)

(...)

(Is there a way to know what people in Vaugarde wished for?)

(You should ask the villagers in Dormont what they wished for...)

(The bookcase is filled with moldy old books.)

(The bookcase is filled with books about something called "Colors".)

• ACT 2: (None of those catch your eye.)
• After starting Odile's Friendquest: (No familytales, but...)

(You need any help you can get.)

(You pick one at random...)

("Color Theory: What It Means For Us And Our Past".)

(Looks boring and dense...)

Mirabelle (excited1) Oh yes, color theory! Are you interested, Siffrin?

(You shrug.)

Isabeau (boo1) Huh...

Isabeau (neutral1) What's a color?

Bonnie (lol2) Hahaha, Za doesn't know what a color is!!!

Isabeau (hahaha2) I really don't! Tell me!

Bonnie (sulk5) It's, um... Um...

Bonnie (serious1) It's like weird shades.

Bonnie (sulk5) I learned it at school, but it wasn't very interesting so I crafted a drawing on my table instead.

Isabeau (really1) Wow Bonbon, you're so hardcore.

Odile (gimme1) They ARE weird shades, yes. This is a relatively new discovery, so I'm not surprised you haven't heard, Isabeau...

Odile (reading1) ...But a very long time ago, we could apparently see shades called "colors".

Bonnie (yeah!3) Yeah! They had a shade called "Bloo" and that's the sky's real shade, and one named "Grin" and that's what the grass looked like!

Mirabelle (awkward2) I think the world around us still are those "colors", but we just, um, forgot how to see them?

Mirabelle (awkward1b) Or so researchers say... I think the House over in Corbeaux was researching it.

Isabeau (angry2) That's...

Isabeau (huhwah1) THAT'S SUCH BIG NEWS?!?! HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!??!

Isabeau (sniff1) I FAILED YOU ALL...

Odile (lol4) Oh, don't worry. We don't usually count on you to know things.

Isabeau (brag1) ...Oh yeah! That's true!!!

---

First time only

("Colors"... Shades people can't see anymore...)

(It seems silly, but somehow, this knowledge feels familiar to you.)

(The bookcase is filled with books about "Colors".)

(A pile of lists of checked out books.)

(Odile is looking intently at the list...)

Odile (dotdotdot2) . . .

Mirabelle (anxious3) ...Madame Odile? We should get going...

Odile (serious3) Oh, so now that I'M looking at something we should hurry up?

---

First time only

(Huh?)

---

Isabeau (huh1) Woah?

Mirabelle (awawa1) Ah, I'm, I'm sorry? We, um...

Bonnie (sad1) Dile... Are you mad at us?

Odile (worried2) No, no, I...

Odile (sad1) Sorry. We can keep going.

(You take a look, too.)

Mirabelle (anxious3) Um, you two? We should get going...

Odile (dotdotdot3) Give us a second, Mirabelle.

Mirabelle (awkward2) ...?

(You look through the titles, mumbling each one under your breath.)

("Lost Inland", "The History of Pepper", "What To Do When You're Sad And There's No Chocolate Around"...)

Siffrin (surprised1) (Ah! Here, at the very bottom...) "Paperasse Familytale..."

Odile (dotdotdot2) Where.

Isabeau (surprised1) Pape-what now???

Odile (dotdotdot2) Who checked it out?

(Someone called "Charles Chouquette"...)

Mirabelle (awkward1b) Charles Chouquette? Oh, that's the boulanger in Dormont!

Mirabelle (happy1) Does he have a book you want, madame Odile?

Odile (dotdotdot2) So he has it...

(The boulangerie in Dormont, huh? They sold croissants, if you remember correctly...)

Odile (serious3) Hm...

Odile (wonder3) ...Well, I'll have to check after we beat the King, and before I go away...

Mirabelle (anxious2) Hm?

Isabeau (really1) What? What are we talking about?

Odile (sigh1) Hah...

Odile (huh1) What about you, Siffrin? You were looking around... Did you find the book you were looking for?

Isabeau (surprised1) Huh? A book? Are you both looking for a book?

Siffrin (questions1) "I was, but it's fine."

Mirabelle (awawa1) Hey, are you ignoring us? What's happening? Is this another secret quest?!?

Odile (dotdotdot2) If you say it's fine, then it is. Let's get going everyone.

(Mirabelle and Isabeau look at each other, and sigh.)

(So the boulanger in Dormont might have checked out a familytale...)

(You should go back to Dormont and let Odile know!)

Odile (dotdotdot2) ...Paperasse familytale, huh?

Odile (dotdotdot3) Interesting.

Odile (doubt1) Very interesting.

(You look away.)

You got two Weird Points.

(A pile of lists of checked out books.)

(Books with no titles.)