QM: I will reconfirm the choices after this information, to better help you to decide.
>Ask the Maiden-Knight if she really thinks that The Beldame is beautiful and wise ?The Maiden Knight replies
- Things become Beautiful if you learn to Love. The Oath teaches that Love is the Beauty of the Soul. The Beauty of the Ordinary is a form of imprisonment; it enslaves and seduces, deprives one of hope and joy, for it cannot be attained, as it constantly kindles desire. This is the Beauty of the Song, which is ephemeral, deceitful and illusory. Were you not proclaimed Beautiful by all, then hated and derided in the very next heartbeat? The Beauty of the Song is a lie, another great Heresy.
>Tell Maiden-Knight Ysentrud you are on a noble quest to find the Scarred Girl TamlynThe Maiden Knight listens attentively to this, and says:
- The Oath can aid you with this, but it will be perilous. See how each step you take on the path of magic and the Wild draws you further away from your true mission, into a swirling world of bewilderment and lies. The Oath can return you to the True Path. Though (the Maiden Knight permits herself a small smile) I have a feeling the Maiden Tamlyn may not be in need of as much rescuing as you imagine.
>How do we know we can trust herTo this Ysentrud simply replies
-It is not in me that you place your trust, but the Oath itself. You must swear upon the Oriflamme and renounce the guile of Song and the savagery of the Wild. Armour yourself only with faith in the Light itself.
>But what will happen to Hieronymous Erde, and Dallywhimper?Ysentrud replies,
-The Judgement of the Beldame will be delivered onto them.
>Ask about Prince-Provost Aristophontes Gratian>Ask Maiden-Knight Ysentrud about how she came to The Oath And Light. Is she really a maiden?- I was brought to the Oath by Prince-Provost Gratian. He is a devoted servant of the Oriflamme - perhaps the Truest of us all. He will not tire until the Oath has brought peace to every land, from the jungles of Langkasuka to the ice tundras of Mir. This is the mission to which the Maiden Knights have sworn themselves with vows of undying Love.
QM: here is the choice confirmation...
>Call upon the Wandbearer Wooden Sword to create a distraction (this one)>>5272425OR
>Surrender your possessions, embrace The Oath And Lightlose: Wandbearer's Wooden Sword, Twice-Spurned Totem Of The Bearded Goddess
>Betray Bastich The Swindler, and his ambush to the Maiden Knight Ysentrud>Some other plan? (write in...) 