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The Story
Shadow: “Alright Espoir, What would you like for dinner?â€
Espoir: “Ummmmmmm…. How about... Frog legs?â€
S: “You don’t even like froglegs.â€
E: “Yes I do!!â€
S: “Espoir, no you don’t.â€
E: “Dad, yes I do, I telling you!â€
S: “Last time I made them you threw up.â€
E: “No! That was when you made the frog tongue.â€
S: “You threw up when I made both.â€
E: “No dad, I know what I am talking about.â€
S: “Alright fine I’ll make the frog legs.â€
E: “Thanks daddy!â€
S: “you’re welcome sweetie.â€
E: “Dad?â€
S: “Yes?â€
E: “What do snake eggs taste like?â€
S: “I’ve never made snake eggs.â€
E: “So you don’t know?â€
S: “Noâ€
E: “Well you should make them.â€
S: “Do you want them for dinner instead?â€
E: “hmmmm… Yes!â€
S: “Okay I will make snake eggs.â€
E: “Can you make both?â€
S: “Will you eat both?â€
E: “Yes!â€
S: “Then I canâ€
E: “Okayâ€
S: “…â€
E: “…â€
S: “Dad?â€
E: “Yes darling?â€
E: “Can Uncle Gavner come over and play?â€
S: “Uncle Gavner is out on a mission right now.â€
E: “But can’t he take a break?â€
S: “No he can’tâ€
E: “Why not?â€
S: “He is on an important mission far away.â€
E: “But he can frit can’t he?â€
S: “Frit?â€
E: “Run fast dad.â€
S: “Oh Flit!â€
E: “Yeah! Fritâ€
S: “No, Espoir it’s Flitâ€
E: “Frit.â€
S: “No, Espoir, Flitâ€
E: “Frit.â€
S: “F-L-I-Tâ€
E: “Flit?â€
S: “yes.â€
E: “I thought it was Frit.â€
S: “Nope, it’s flit.â€
E: “Then why do you and Gavey say frit?â€
S: “we don’t we say flitâ€
E: “oh…â€
S: “yeahâ€
E: “I sorryâ€
S: “Don’t be sorry, you misheard us.â€
E: “I sound stupid.â€
S: “Don’t ever say that, you are not stupid, you are very smartâ€
E: “Thanks daddy.â€
S: “You’re welcome.â€
E: “I love you.â€
S: “I love you too.â€
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S: “Espoir, It’s time for lunch”
E: “what did you make?”
S: “I made deer steak”
E: “Did you kill the baby again”
S: “I don’t shoot the babies”
E: “So the mommy?”
S: “no, I don’t shoot the mommies either”
E: “So the daddy?”
S: “Espoir, I don’t shoot them when they have kids.”
E: “But all deer have kids.”
S: “Sometimes the kids aren’t with the parent”
E: “So you secretly shoot the mommy.”
S: “Espoir, I did shoot the mommy.”
E: “Why did you shoot the mommy?”
S: “Because we need to eat”
E: “But it was a nice mommy”
S: “But we needed food”
E: “But I liked to look at the mommy.”
S: “Yes but the mommy is important to us.”
E: “Are you sure daddy?”
S: “Have I ever lied to you?”
E: “I think so, but I don’t know what about.”
S: “Espoir, I don’t lie to you unless I have to. Like when I go to work, I can’t tell you where”
E: “I wish you could”
S: “Why?”
E: “I worry about you!”
S: “Yeah but I always come home”
E: “Yeah, you do!”
S: “I love you”
E: “I love you too! Daddy?”
S: “Yes sweetie?”
E: “What if you didn’t come back?”
S: “Why are you thinking about that?”
E: “Because sometimes at the castle, the other little girls cry all day because their daddies didn’t come back.”
S: “Espoir, I always come back, I will never leave you.”
E: “But What if dad, what if you don’t come back?”
S: “Then You stay with Uncle Gavner.”
E: “I would?”
S: “Yes, and Uncle Gavner always takes care of you right?”
E: “Yeah! He gives me a lot of candy and food! Sometimes we go to the market and get those packets of flavored powder!”
S: “Wait, Gavner gives you those?”
E: “Yeah”
S: (I’m gonna have to talk to him about that) “I did not know that”
E: “Yeah!”
S: “Well do you thank him?”
E: “I always do Dad!”
S: “Well that’s good.”
E: “Dad, this is really good steak.”
S: “Thank you.”
E: “Too bad Bambi had to die for it.”
S: “Espoir, I do not kill Bambi.”
E: “The polkadotted one, that’s the one you shoot!”
S: “No, Espoir that’s the baby I don’t kill the babies.”
E: “Oh. I thought the babies had no dots”
S: “No, the babies had dots, mommas do not.”
E: “Oh”
S: “Yeah, I killed momma”
E: “well it’s sad you had to kill momma deer.”
S: “Yes, but she was okay with it.”
E: “She was?”
S: “Well how else are we going to eat?”
E: “I guess we wouldn’t”
S: “Exactly.”
E: “Okay”
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S: “Espoir, What are you doing?”
E: “Nothing…”
S: “What is in your mouth?”
E: “Nothing!...”
S: “Espoir.”
E: “okay okay… it’s a butterfly.”
S: “What are you eating a butterfly.”
E: “I wanted to know what it tastes like.”
S: “Does it taste good?”
E: “no”
S: “Then why are you still eating it?”
E: “Because I already started.”
S: “So?”
E: “You always say I will eat it and I will like it, even if I don’t.”
S: “I do say that don’t I?”
E: “A lot, like every day”
S: “Well, I don’t want you to eat the butterfly.”
E: “Can I spit it out?”
S: “Do you want to?”
E: “Really bad, it tastes bad.”
S: “Spit it out.”
E: “thank you”
S: “What did you learn?”
E: “Not to eat butterflies.”
S: “What else?”
E: “Um…”
S: “Do you eat anything you want to?”
E: “No.”
S: “Why not?”
E: “Because it could taste bad.”
S: “It could also be poisonous.”
E: “What does pointous?”
S: “Espoir you know what poisonous means.”
E: “No I don’t”
S: “I told you plenty of times.”
E: “But dad I wasn’t listening.”
S: “Espoir, it means it can kill you.”
E: “But I don’t want to die.”
S: “Then don’t eat random things.”
E: “What about that mushroom?”
S: “That mushroom is okay.”
E: “Why is that okay, isn’t it poisonous?”
S: “No Espoir, that mushroom isn’t poisonous.”
E: “How do you know?”
S: “I have eaten those before.”
E: “And you didn’t die?”
S: “Well I am here aren’t I”
E: “Well yeah but”
S: “but what?”
E: “You could be a ghost”
S: “Can you touch me?”
E: “I don’t know.”
S: “I gave you a hug earlier”
E: “Ghosts can give hugs!”
S: “Espoir, I’m not a ghost”
E: “How can I be sure you’re not lying?”
S: “You can’t”
E: “So you could be a ghost?”
S: “Espoir, I’m not a ghost.”
E: “you promise?”
S: “Will it make you feel better?”
E: “Yes.”
S: “Then I promise.”
E: “Hehe, okay! I love you!”
S: “I love you too”
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E: “Daddy, can I play with your sword?”
S: “Espoir, What is the rule for my sword?”
E: “Um… I dunno”
S: “Yes you do”
E: “I can play when I ask?”
S: “No Espoir try again”
E: “I cant play with it.”
S: “No you can’t”
E: “but dad!”
S: “no buts, I don’t want you getting hurt”
E: “I won’t get hurt though!”
S: “The sword is sharp.”
E: “I’ll be very careful”
S: “Espoir, the answer is no.”
E: “please?”
S: “no”
E: “dad please”
S: “I said no”
E: “dad”
S: “Espoir, you have a knife that’s not sharp, play with that.”
E: “But I don’t want to play with that”
S: “Why do you want to play with the sword?”
E: “Because it’s a big girl sword.”
S: “Espoir, you probably couldn’t even lift it.”
E: “Yeah huh!”
S: “How do you know?”
E: “Because I brought it to you once”
S: “You dragged it to me”
E: “I can pick it up.”
S: “Espoir, it’s heavy”
E: “I strong”
S: “Espoir, the answer is no”
E: “Then can you sharpen my knife?”
S: “Why would you need a sharp knife?”
E: “For fun!”
S: “Fun? What are you going to do with it?”
E: “I’m learning to throw it”
S: “So you want to throw it? At what?”
E: “The squirrel outside!”
S: “Why do you want to throw it at the squirrel?”
E: “It keeps getting into my room.”
S: “Why didn’t you tell me about it?”
E: “I wanted to do it myself dad!”
S: “Espoir, I know you’re a big girl, you don’t have to prove it”
E: “But I want to, I want to show you”
S: “If you cut yourself I’ll tell you I told you so.”
E: “I know”
S: “Do hyou still want it sharp?”
E: “Yes!”
S: “Go get it, I will sharpen it.”
E: “Okay!”
S: “Here you go”
E: “Thanks dad!”
S: “woah be careful”
E: “Sorry, I got excited.”
S: “You have to be very careful now okay”
E: “Okay”
S: “Here, you have to hold it like this.”
E: “Like that”
S: “Yes.”
E: “Okay”
S: “Now swing like this”
E: “okay”
S: “Great job babygirl”
E: “thanks daddy!”
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S: “Espoir, It’s time for dinner”
E: “Okay”
S: “As you asked for, I made the frog legs and snake eggs.”
E: “okay”
S: “eat up”
E: “dad”
S: “yes?”
E: “I don’t like the frog legs”
S: “I told you you didn’t”
E: “I thought I did!”
S: “Well what about the snake eggs?”
E: “ummm”
S: “you don’t like those either.”
E: “no”
S: “I can tell by the look on your face.”
E: “Do you like them?”
S: “I haven’t tried them yet”
E: “Well try them”
S: “I will”
E: “why are you waiting?”
S: “They’re too hot”
E: “I ate them hot”
S: “Yes, But I can’t eat them too hot.”
E: “Okay”
S: “Espoir”
E: “Yes dad?”
S: “I don’t like them either”
E: “Do we have to eat them”
S: “Ya know what?”
E: “What?”
S: “This time I’ll let us not eat them.”
E: “Okay good.”
S: “What sounds good?”
E: “Well we could have those meat you made the other day”
S: “That was a one time thing.”
E: “But they were so good!”
S: “I know, But I had to go three days away to get them”
E: “Can’t you go again”
S: “Not for dinner tonight”
E: “Oh”
S: “Yeah, sorry sweet cheeks”
E: “Don’t call me that.”
S: “You don’t like it?”
E: “no”
S: “Why don’t you?”
E: “I just don’t okay?”
S: “Okay okay.”
E: “So”
S: “So what?”
E: “Can we go to Dead Man’s Drink?”
S: “What do you want from there?”
E: “I want their pizza”
S: “I can make it here.”
E: “But Romanov makes it the best”
S: “Are you sure that’s what you want?”
E: “Yes!”
S: “okay, help me clean up first.”
E: “Okay”
S: “Can you grab the plates?”
E: “Yeah, here you go!”
S: “It that everything?”
E: “Yeah!”
S: “alright, ready?”
E: “Ready!”
S: “Let’s go”
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E: “Dad”
S: “Yes Espoir?”
E: “I see a deer”
S: “It’s pretty isn’t it?”
E: “Yes”
S: “It’s a big one”
E: “Did you shoot that one’s mommy?”
S: “No, that one is a mommy.”
E: “oh”
S: “Yeah”
E: “how do you know that?”
S: “I’ve been hunting for a long time”
E: “So you can just look at a deer and tell it’s a mommy?”
S: “or a daddy.”
E: “Well how do you know?”
S: “Does it have spots?”
E: “No”
S: “So it’s a mommy.”
E: “okay, but how do you know it’s a mommy and not a daddy?”
S: “Espoir, You know how.”
E: “No I don’t”
S: “Does it have antlers?”
E: “Anters?”
S: “Antlers Espoir”
E: “The pointy things?”
S: “Yes”
E: “That one does”
S: “yes it does, but the first one didn’t”
E: “no”
S: “So the first one Is a mommy, the second is a daddy.”
E: “That one has spots!”
S: “So that one is a baby.”
E: “It’s cute!”
S: “It is isn’t it?”
E: “Yeah!”
S: “They are beautiful”
E: “Would you shoot that one?”
S: “No, Because they have a baby with them”
E: “So if the baby is there you don’t shoot it?”
S: “No I don’t”
E: “Why not? If you shoot it when it’s not with them.”
S: “well, if I kill the mommy how will it eat?”
E: “It won’t?”
S: “No it won’t”
E: “oh, why not?”
S: “Because baby deer drink the mommy’s milk”
E: “Oh”
S: “So if I kill the mommy, the baby will die.”
E: “don’t kill the mommy!”
S: “I don’t”
E: “Good”
S: “Let’s keep moving”
E: “Dad”
S: “Yes darling?”
E: “What’s that thing under the daddy deer?”
S: “It’s nothing, it’s just a part of the deer.”
E: “Oh. Okay”
S: “let’s keep moving”
E: “Okay daddy.”
S: “This way Espoir.”
E: “Daddy, what is that deer doing?”
S: “Espoir, come this way”
E: “But dad”
S: “No butts”
E: “Okay dad.”
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S: “You want pizza?”
E: “Yes!”
S: “Okay.”
E: “Thanks dad”
S: “what was your favorite part of today?”
E: “well I don’t know”
S: “ya have to think”
E: “well I didn’t like eating the butterfly”
S: “Well I wouldn’t like that either”
E: “it tasted nasty”
S: “I bet”
E: “yeah it tasted like umm…”
S: “a butterfly?”
E: “yeah!”
S: “Well what about the knife?”
E: “I liked the knife!”
S: “You did?”
E: “yeah!”
S: “Why’d you like it?”
E: “Cause you sharpened it, and showed me how to use it!”
S: “And you liked that?”
E: “Yeah!”
S: “Well I’m glad you liked it!”
E: “Thanks daddy.”
S: “What about the deer?”
E: “I liked seeing the deer!”
S: “you did?”
E: “Yeah!”
S: “Why do you like the deer so much?”
E: “They’re cute!”
S: “They’re cute?”
E: “Yeah!”
S: “Well they taste good too don’t they?”
E: “OOOOOH! The pizza is coming!”
S: “It looks good doesn’t it?”
E: “Yeah, it’s gonna taste good too!”
S: “I can’t wait to dig in”
E: “Neither can I!”
S: “Espoir, I want you to know, Romanov isn’t here today.”
E: “He isn’t here?”
S: “No Espoir, it’s Butch today”
E: “Who’s Butch?”
S: “Butch is the younger guy”
E: “I don’t think I have had Butch’s food.”
S: “You have”
E: “How do you know?”
S: “I always buy your food here”
E: “So?”
S: “I always know who the chef is”
E: “How do you know?”
S: “Because I asked who the chef was”
E: “Every time?”
S: “Every time.”
E: “Okay”
S: “is it good?”
E: “It’s good, but not as good as Romanov’s”
S: “Yeah Romanov makes the best food”
E: “He does”
S: “Well are you ready to go?”
E: “I think so”
S: “How much should we leave for the tip?”
E: “1000 coins”
S: “that’s too much!”
E: “okay 5”
S: “that’s better. Let’s go.”
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Name of Judgement: The Story
Type of Judgement: No Judgement
Rewards:
Blackshadow receives:
2310 EXP
231 GP
Inclusive of Althanas Day 3x rewards.
“Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.”
― Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery
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