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FreelanceWizard · **08-25-2013, 12:58 PM**

(08-25-2013, 12:09 PM)Clover Wrote: Ah, I actually don't mind spoilers in this game, as I'm not really taking the main story into consideration ^^;

I'm going to assume that, whatever the Echo and being tampered by a primal are, they're not things my character is supposed to know ICly (?).

Allow me to toss out some spoilers, then. Smile

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On the larger topic, you can "genericize" elements of the main scenario quest without getting rid of its key lore points, and actually, the XIV team's been pretty good about doing some of that for you. For instance, everyone can repeatedly fight Primals because they're being repeatedly summoned; the cutscene involving the mothercrystal clearly shows many other "chosen" characters; the group mentioned in the spoiler above looks for those with the Echo to recruit them; Grand Companies are always looking for new promising recruits; Ascians are one of the main "plot villains;" etc.

So, taking the example of Ascian and his golem, you can genericize that as a mysterious attacker assaulted you in (insert what you want your character to have been doing here) while you noticed someone mysteriously watching you from afar (a member of the spoiler-riffic group above Smile

). You can take IC or not information that the game provides you via the Echo right after that scene without it having to have been the memories of the specific NPC depicted.

EDIT: Or, of course, you can elide the whole event, which is what I did with L'yhta. Yes, she has the Echo, and yes, she's aware of the key lore things and groups mentioned in the spoiler above, but she's not had any personal interaction with Ascians at all. The important thing, IMO, is to keep the essence of the story in terms of lore (lest you run into issues with your story colliding with lore). You can turn the "genericize" dial all the way from "I got this stuff, just in different ways" to "I basically had the event in the quest occur to me more or less as depicted, with just some small details changed."

So about this Echo... *possible spoilers*

RPC has moved! These pages have been kept for historical purposes

So about this Echo... possible spoilers