Auni's Dialogue

So, how are you settling in? This plot's HUUUGE! I heard you can find some pretty cool stuff in the dirt.

My dad found an old copper arrowhead in our yard last week. But all I ever seem to find are rocks...

Hmmm... I bet Jina might know! She's always hanging out in ruins. You should see if she's found something like this before.

OH YEAH! I almost forgot in all the excitement. I brought a present for you too!

A Bug Scouts official belt! And a set of smoke bombs, too! I'm a member of Kilima's best and only bug catching club.

I gotta run now, but if you stop by later I'll give you some tips on how to use them.

But I bet you're hungry right now. You should talk to my dad, Badruu, to learn how to grow food. And Reth, who works at the inn, can teach you how to cook it!

You know, everyone's waiting to meet you! Come on, I'll race ya out!

But today is especially good.

So...everybody in Palia has a different personality type inspired by the elements.

I'm fire, which means I've got energy and drive and a lot of people think I'm too much.

I always see you running around, so I'm guessing you must be a fire type too, eh? Well, that's great. It means we'll be friends.

Us fire types have to stick together, right?

Are you even paying attention to me? When I talk you just look like you're staring into space.

It's that same expression Jina gets on her face before she tells me my energy is "just too much for her."

Once, my dad took me to Bahari to see the Rolling Unicorns play.

It was the best day ever!

If you ever go in town for a Roundball game, promise to take me, okay?

The Bug Scouts bulletin asked us to catch any Vampire Crabs if we see 'em.

Apparently, they could harm the Bahari ecosystem!

I haven't found one yet, though... even if I know they're bad, I still really want to see at least one!

Let me check if I have anything for you...nope, not today.

But the great thing about tomorrow is that there's always another chance to get mail!

Did you see the lucky leaf on my backpack? Elouisa says the scent scares away monsters and stuff.

Nai'o says the only thing the scent scares away is girls...but I'm actually okay with that.

The firebreathing dragonfly is definitely my favorite bug. Hands down! My mom won't let me keep one though.

On account of the fact it might burn down the house.

I found an old adventurer's guide in the library. It said you can never be too prepared!

Nai'o thinks I took that advice a bit too literally...

I really shouldn't be telling you this, I'm not supposed to break mail deliverer- mail deliveree confidentiality...

BUT Hassian gets romance novels sent to him from the library all the time. Like, the really mushy kind.

The sun is shining. The birds are chirping. What could be better?

After I finish my mail route and my chores, I'm supposed to be studying for my exams.

Every kid in Palia has to take them, but only those who do really, really good get tested for the Order.

So, I want to do really, really good... but I also have a whole year to prepare.

So I usually just spend time catching bugs and collecting shells.

Good morning!

Let me see if I have something for you...

...

Nope!

My favorite bard is Zyla the Younger. You probably haven't heard of her though.

She's a Grimalkin. So her sound's kind of...Underground.

Someday I'm gonna climb to the top of those mountains and see the wellspring that's up there.

Nai'o says he's been to the wellspring before, but I think he's lying.

You're joking, right? Well, I guess you are new here.

A wellspring is a tiny tear between our realm and the Dragon's realm.

I hear there are a bunch of really awesome magical plants and animals up there.

Don't tell my parents, but sometimes I send out prank letters.

Like I sent one to Eshe from the "Bahari Home Inspection Board" asking if her stove was working.

When she said it was, the "inspection board" wrote back and told her she should be paying it a fair wage!

Look it! There’s a Common Blue Butterfly. I better catch it for my collection.

What’s your favorite book? Mine is the Epic of Sir Danol the Echo Slayer!

It’s about an epic hero who travels through all three realms of existence to bring peace and harmony to Palia! The fight scenes are amazing!

The fight scenes are amazing!

I haven't had the time to study today...but I'm sure I'll make time tomorrow.

Think there will be any Shimmerflies out tonight?

The Shimmerfly Migration is my favorite time of year.

Last year I put two Shimmerflies in my orb! ...Don't tell Ashura.

"That boy’s just a page who thinks he a knight. Don’t count on him if you need someone to fight… fight for you babe."

"I’m the knight who’ll fight... for you babe! All through the night, you can count on me, babe!"

What’s that? What was I singing?

It’s not what it looks like! I don’t like Bahari Boyz! Their songs are just really good at getting in your head, okay?

My family runs the farm down the road!

We grow the biggest vegetables!

My mom won blue ribbons at the fair like a million years in a row.

How would you like sharing a room with a snoring ormuu?

That’s what it’s like sharing a room with Nai'o.

It’s why I prefer to camp.

I wish I could talk to Nai'o about my dreams, but he wouldn’t understand.

The only thing he’s wanted to do his whole life is raise ormuus.

I keep trying to explain to my family what I want to do with my life.

And they keep telling me I’m gonna change my mind when I get older.

Well, I’m not!

I’m still mad Nai'o keeps getting the lead in the Midsummer Eclipse pageant.

It’s this awesome play about how the great Human King Mudan sacrificed his life to fight off the evil sorcerer Sadeel!

Last year, Nai'o ruined it by totally stumbling through his performance because he was too busy flirting with Kenyatta.

What do you think you'll call for your Path?

Oh, I kinda forgot Humans don't do the whole "Path Selection" thing.

Well, when a Majiri kid grows up, they pick their Path.

Like what they want to do with their lives. Forever.

My brother Nai'o recently committed to his Path as a farmer, like my parents did.

Don't tell my mom, but...I don't want to be a farmer. I want to join the Order, so I can learn magic!

Is that dumb? I hope that's not dumb.

I love when Zeki has new things in his shop! Once, he had a toy bird that could really fly!

I'm so jealous of him! Grimalkin grown-ups get to travel all over and collect the coolest things.

But when I grow up, if I pick the same Path as my family...I could never leave the farm.

Have you heard of the Order?! They're only the coolest group of people in the entire world.

They get to learn magic, because their job is to hunt down the bad guys who use magic for nefarious purposes.

Like evil sorcerers or the Grimalkin pirates!

I love my family a lot, but sometimes they can get... well...

They just... they want me to be just like them. And I want to be more like... me. You know?

My family runs the farm down the road!

We grow the biggest vegetables!

Well, I don’t... I’m not really into farming...

Livin' near farm animals can be kind of a mixed bag.

The ormuus are pretty cute, especially when they are babies. But the pekis kinda scare me.

When I was little, I was going to collect the eggs, and one chased me out of the barn.

I thought it was going to peck my eyes out!

I hate farming because it's boring, it's sweaty, and the only thing you get out of it is vegetables. Yuck!

I just love running! Maybe someday I can run away from here to someplace more exciting.

Ha-ha! Just kidding! Mostly...

The biggest Bug Scouts troop is in the capital, but the charter says we can start our own troops anywhere we want!

I asked Najuma to join, but she’s already got so many things to do.

I deliver the mail, sure. But the grown-ups gave me that job.

But I think part of why I like Bug Scouts so much is that it’s something I started on my own.

Putting a Kilima troop together was my idea, and I didn’t need help from my parents or Nai'o!

It’s my way of helping people, and I hope that if the Order comes to visit, they’ll see how responsible I am!

When I grow up, I want to be a famous hero just like Ashura was.

Only I wouldn’t give it all up to run some boring old Inn!

My dream piece of mail would definitely be an acceptance letter from the Order!

But after that it would probably be, like, a cool bug or a really yummy cake or just a nice postcard, I guess!

That's why I love delivering mail. No mail is bad mail!

Did you know some oysters have pearls inside?

They sure do, and they come in all sortsa different colors.

I’m looking for a pink one to give my mom.

I’m saving up money to go on a big trip to the Capital one day.

I just HAVE to see the Order headquarters in person!

I’ve always dreamed of going to the Capital! That’s where the Order Academy is, after all!

If you know any magic tricks, you better show them to me.

I'm gonna be mad if I learn you've been holding out on me.

...Seriously. That was your magic trick? My dad can do that "magic trick"!

Ugh, I thought you were gonna show me some super cool Human magic.

You should listen to Elouisa more.

Just 'cause the stuff she says is a little wacky, doesn't mean it's not true.

Did you know there's this cave near my house that makes Blueberries disappear?

It's true, leave them there and they're like magically gone.

I keep trying to see what kind of critter is eating them, but I can't find it.

I think it might be a ghost.

Stinkbugs are kind of rare, but you can usually find them in the woods.

And if your nose knows as much as mine, you can smell them from a mile away.

Ugh, I can't listen to the Bahari Boyz anymore. Nai'o played their last album nonstop for a month!

If I hear "I Will Find Ewe" every again, I am going to scream.

If you find shoes in the pond, let me know, okay!

I MIGHT have gotten mad at Nai'o and thrown his boots in the water...maybe.

Don't you want to know what it would be like to go to the moons?

I heard the Grimalkin used to have...a space boat thing...and they would sail the skies like we can sail the waters.

How cool would that be?

Don't tell Hassian, but I usually like to let him win at cards.

He's been beaten by Reth so many times, I feel like I need to do something to get his spirits up.

Did you see this thing on the side of my backpack? ...It's just something I found at the old Human ruins.

The museum curator says it's an aquanomitron.

She said the ancient Humans used it to talk to fish.

She said it woks on most every species, except smallmouth bass.

I can't get it to work though. Maybe 'cause I'm not Human...

...Or maybe because my mom's right about the curator being a total loony.

Are you even paying attention to me? When I talk, you just look like you're staring into space.

It's that same expression Jina gets on her face before she tells me my energy is "just too much for her."

Have you seen the batterflies in the Elderwoods?

I hear there's a kind that if it bites you, you become a vampire.

Mom says those are just "old wives tales"...but I don't know. Maybe old wives are onta somethin?

I hope so.

Oh man, the bugs in the Elderwoods are so cool.

I just love catching Rockhoppers... are they even bugs?

Who knows and who cares? Either way, they rock...

...hop!

Do you ever want something so bad that the idea you might not get it makes you hurt all over?!

I want to join the Order so bad... even though some days I don’t know why...

I guess I just want to feel special. Don’t you want to feel special?

Zeki said he would teach me some magic if I deliver some packages to the spooky old well.

Do you think I should do it?

I want to join the Order one day! I think having a little magic could really help people out.

But there’s just so much to study. I don’t know how to keep it all in my head!

Hey, do you have any study tips?

Would you wanna play cards with me someday?

I'll teach you my favorites, and you can share any Human ones you remember!

I spend so much time talking about my family, I realize I never got a chance to ask about yours.

Are you and your family close?

Thanks to you, Nai'o and I are going camping in the Elderwoods this weekend!

Do you think we'll see the beast?

I guess I should go home...

But there's so much fun stuff to do at night!

Nothing like mom's cooking after delivering mail all day.

Her cooking is the best! Everyone asks her for tips, even Reth sometimes!

Nai'o better not have eaten it all. He always says, "If you're not first, you're last!"

I saved my dinner for later because it had too many vegetables.

If you want to eat my carrots, I won't tell anyone.

This game's a close one, but I've got a good feeling I'll pull through.

Not now. I've been chasing this Leafhopper for ages. It can't beat me this time though!

Isn't my treehouse really cool? I like to think of it has an explorer's guild. All non-explorers need to keep out!

When I asked Sifuu to make me a sword earlier, she said she doesn’t make weapons for children.

I tried to explain to her that I’m basically a man, who’s gonna be accepting his Path in the next few years.

But she said "basically" isn’t now. So...yeah. I got totally shut down on the whole sword front.

I was really enjoying that practice sword you made me. Until my mom took it away...

She said I was "liable to poke someone’s eye out." Whatever!

After I gave Nai'o that stinkbug, his shirt was so stinky, he had to have the whole picnic shirtless!

He's lucky Eshe didn't walk by.

If she saw him half naked like that, she'd get him exiled to the swamps for sure.

I would never steal...

But if something’s just... sitting around in an archaeological site, does it really belong to anyone?

And can you really steal something that doesn’t belong to anyone?

You know, Jina said the place I found that statue wasn’t a burial ground.

It was some kind of big tall house, where different families lived in different rooms, all on top of each other.

No wonder there are ghosts there...

I’d haunt people too if I had to live like that.

When I took the statue I noticed it had those little magical inscription things on the sides...runes, I think they're called.

I thought if I could learn them, maybe it would be a step in the right direction towards passing my Order test.

But I was thinking, since you're Human, maybe you could help me study runes instead?

Stop me from stealing crazy statues in the future?

Elouisa let me play with this really cool ancient sword recently.

Don't worry...I sent it back to the Umbraan Natural History Museum after I was done.

What? I'm the one who picks up all the mail. I know where the artifacts go!

Heya! So you know how Bug Scouts has all those cool badges to earn, right?

Well I'm trying to get my entre.... pren... my entropro... my selling stuff badge!

If we keep showing them all the stuff we catch, I can get even more.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy that you've gotten into the fine art of bug catching.

But...you're gonna need some more tools if you want to keep up with me.

Like the Bug Scout sales manual says, "If you're gonna run with the big ormuus, you gotta have horns."

Why don't you check out the new stuff I've got in stock? I bet it'll help!

Have fun! And don't forget the Bug Scout pledge!

So...uh...you want to buy some of this new stuff I got from the Bug Scouts?

I think it'd be good for me to get rid of it fast.

They sent like... a LOT of boxes. My mom is going to flip out.

Only 32 more to go...

Look at you! You're catching bugs left and right!

You remind me of a younger me...

Dreaming of catching your first fire-breathing dragonfly, only to find yourself with a backpack full of butterflies...

But don't worry, you can always sneak up on 'em using one to these new smoke candles.

Hopefully YOUR mom won't make you get rid of the dragonfly 'cause she's scared it's gonna burn down the house.

Oh man, you just keep getting better and better catching bugs! I'm gonna have to rush to keep up, huh?

I bet one of these new belts I got will help give me an edge...

But, uh. I guess you can buy one too!

Try not to catch ALL the bugs out there, ok!

Whaaaat? You’ve become... SO good at catching bugs.

But are you good at finding them? This Honey Lure could change that...

Why don't you buy the recipe and find out? I'm real close to my goal for my badge!

Just a little more, and I'll be Bug Scout's salesboy of the year!

I’m REALLY REALLY glad you’re here.

My mom uh... found the 30 boxes of Bug Scouts stuff I hid in the barn.

I told her it's for my badge and she said it's a scam!

Psh... like she'd know. I hid the boxes in my treehouse, but she'll look there too.

I really need you to buy some stuff!

You won't tell my mom about this, will you?

So my mom talked to the Bug Scouts and she's ok with me selling stuff now! She didn't know I got it for fre...

I mean... uh... I knew this day would come... we're almost the same Bug Scout rank.

But I've got an ace up my sleeve! Check these recipes out! The ultimate in bug-catching tech!

Whaddaya say? Bug catching contest later?

You've really showed the bugs around here who's boss! The Bug Scouts were really happy with us...

They said I officially got my sales badge! And we're in the Guild!

They sent me a bunch of new stuff to sell, and these cool medallions to give out when you rank up! You can trade 'em for the new stuff!

And... AND!! They're letting us compete in weekly bug catching challenges to get more of 'em!! How cool is that?

Check out what they gave me!

Stop by again soon, Bug Scout!

It’s so unfair! How come Nai'o gets to go to the Maji Market while I have to stay home with my dad?!

Ugh! I wish they’d stop treating me like a little kid already!

I’m totally old enough to stay out for the night. If Najuma gets to, why can’t I?

I'm going about my usual routine now, but I'm gonna party it up at the Maji Market tonight. You'll be there too, right?

If you are, make sure to bring me a lucky envelope!

Oh, I'm just kidding! ...Maybe.

Got any idea what you're going to spend your lucky envelope money on? I'm spending mine on explosives!

Don't tell my mom I said that!

I'm pretty sure I just set a world record for how many lucky envelopes anyone has ever gotten in a single night. I've had ten different people give me one!

My mom and Nai'o got to go to Kilima's first Maji Market, while I had to stay at home with my dad.

This time, Nai'o offered to stay at home and watch the animals on his own, so my mom let me come- but only if my dad came with.

I wish they'd stop treating me like a kid already. It's not like I'm going to blow things up or anything.

I was obviously talking about fireworks. No way I'd buy any dangerous stuff. That's just not the kinda person I am!

You know this is my secret hiding spot, right? I was the first to find it, so it's mine.

Eh. I'm kidding. Jel found this place too, so I'm sharing it with him.

Since it's Luna New Year, I GUESS I can share it with you, too.