Transcript:Spiritual Enlightenment

This page contains dialogue related to Spiritual Enlightenment. The content below is copied verbatim from RuneScape and thus copyrighted by Jagex.

This transcript involves dialogue with Ling (contracts) and Yulong.

Talking to Ling (contracts)

• Player: Hello, Ling.
• Ling (contracts): Hello, Little Khan. What are you doing here on Aminishi?
• Ling (contracts): Actually, never mind - that is your business, not mine. However, my business could well be yours.
• (Miniquest noticeboard opens up)
  • Accept
    • Player: How do you mean?
    • Ling (contracts): I am here in pursuit of a target, but he is proving to be most elusive. Yet I know you to be...resourceful. Perhaps you could help me track him down?
    • Player: Why, what have they done?
    • Ling (contracts): Now, that IS my business. Needless to say, his fate is sealed.
    • Player: Can you at least give me a name?
    • Ling (contracts): His name is Yulong, one-time son of a previous leader of the Death Lotus. We trained together, but the boy was an oaf. During one of his many antics, he set fire to the Pearl Fortress.
    • Ling (contracts): His father was so enraged by his son's unruliness, he sent him away in disgrace. He was given a Death Lotus knot to remind him never to return, on pain of death.
    • Player: Is he in trouble then?
    • Ling (contracts): With me, yes.
    • Player: I won't pretend to understand the rules of the Death Lotus, so if I find this Yulong I'll judge him for myself.
    • Ling (contracts): That will suffice. I am the assassin here, after all. If you find him, just tell me where he is.
    • Player: So, how might I find Yulong if you've been unable to do so?
    • Ling (contracts): He has taken shelter at the Temple of Seiryu, but the monks there will not allow me access.
    • Ling (contracts): For some reason, they do not trust me, and there are too many of them for me to kill them all.
    • Player: Have you tried sneaking in?
    • Ling (contracts): Of course, but I have still seen no sign of Yulong, though all rumours of him led me to Aminishi.
    • Player: So I should talk to the monks?
    • Ling (contracts): That will prove difficult, seeing they have taken a vow of silence. Death is the only conversation they understand.
    • Player: Wait, you want me to kill them?
    • Ling (contracts): No, you misunderstand - THEY want to die. Their entire belief system is built around reincarnating over and over, in order to attain a form in the image of Seiryu.
    • Ling (contracts): They will welcome being tested in combat. Through their deaths, their secrets will be revealed to us, and we can locate Yulong.
    • (If none of the books have been found:)
      • Player: Right, so, I'll just go kill a bunch of monks, elementals and dragons - for their benefit and betterment - until something shakes loose?
      • Ling (contracts): Exactly.
      • Player: That doesn't strike you as being a bit crazy?
      • Ling (contracts): They may call themselves the Temple of Seiryu, but most everyone else in the region calls them...something less flattering.
      • Player: To me they sound like they're one basket short of a picnic.
      • Ling (contracts): Close - you are two baskets short of the insult.
    • (If one of the books have been found:)
      • Player: One of the acolytes dropped some scripture - it discusses the charms that many of the acolytes drop.
      • Ling (contracts): Hmm, this has potential. Try killing the elementals or dragons, if you can. If not, the monks should suffice.
      • Ling (contracts): You should collect some of those tokens too. I have a feeling they will prove useful.
    • (If two of the books have been found:)
      • (Transcript missing. edit)
    • (If every book has been found:)
      • (As below.)
  • Decline
    • (Dialogue terminates.)

After finding The Path of the Monk

• You have found 1/3 of the Temple of Seiryu scriptures.

After finding The Path of the Elemental

• You have found 2/3 of the Temple of Seiryu scriptures.

After finding The Path of the Dragon

• You have found 3/3 of the Temple of Seiryu scriptures.

Returning to Ling (contracts)

• Player: I've found all three pieces of scripture. I think I might actually be able to replicate the steps for entering this other realm.
• Player: The scripture mentions making use of the charms at a pool within the temple grounds - something called the Well of Spirits.
• Player: Perhaps this other realm is where Yulong has been hiding out...
• Ling (contracts): Good luck, Little Khan.

Talking to again

• Ling (contracts): Have you accessed this other realm yey? Is Yulong there?
• Player: No, I haven't found him yet. I'll keep looking.
• Ling (contracts): In the meantime, do you seek a Death Lotus Slayer contract?
• Talk about Slayer contracts?
  • Yes.
    • (Contract interface opens.)
  • No.
    • (Dialogue terminates.)

The Well of Spirits

• (If spirit dragon charms aren't held:)
  • Player: I think I need some spirit dragon charms to make an offering here.
  • (Dialogue terminates.)
• (If spirit dragon charms are held:)
  • Enter Spirit Realm?
    • Cancel
      • (Dialogue terminates.)
    • OK
      • Screen fades to white and back.
      • You have entered the Spirit Realm. For each minute you spend here, one spirit dragon token will be consumed.

Talking to Yulong

• Yulong: I know why you are here. Worry not about your time 'running out' while you talk with me - I shall lend you my energy to remain.
• Player: I thought you monks took a vow of silence.
• Yulong: Initiates may speak, for how else are we to learn not to? Only once returned as an elemental does that vow truly hold.
• Player: I'm here in search of you - you are Yulong, yes?
• Yulong: I am, and I know. From my place here, I see and hear much.
• Player: Wait, you were spying on us?
• Yulong: I sought and found sanctuary on this island. It is you that came to me.
• Player: So you know that Ling is looking for you and what she plans to do.
• Yulong: Ling must find me for herself, if she is to find me at all.
• Player: Why should I not just tell her?
• Yulong: That is between you and your conscience. I shall not judge you by my standards.
• Yulong: You are a guardian of this world, as is Seiryu, whom we seek to follow.
  • Keep Yulong's confidence from Ling.
    • Player: I promise to keep your confidence, Yulong. I will not tell Ling where you are.
    • Yulong: I thank you, fellow guardian. Ling will find me in time, if she is meant to.
  • Betray Yulong's confidence to Ling.
    • Player: I am sorry, Yulong, but Ling should know where you are. I'm going to tell her.
    • Yulong: As is your will, fellow guardian. If Ling is meant to find me, then she shall.

After the first time

• (If the player kept Yulong's confidence:)
  • Player: I promise to keep your confidence, Yulong. I will not tell Ling where you are.
  • Yulong: I thank you, fellow guardian. Ling will find me in time, if she is meant to.
• (If the player betrayed Yulong's confidence:)
  • Player: I am sorry, Yulong, but Ling should know where you are. I'm going to tell her.
  • Yulong: As is your will, fellow guardian. If Ling is meant to find me, then she shall.

Finishing up

• Ling (contracts): Have you accessed this other realm yet? Is Yulong there?
• Player: Yes, I've found him. He was taken in by the Temple of Seiryu. They have taught him a great deal, it seems. He is not the oaf you described him as.
• Player: He's even managed to attain access to a spirit form that these basket cases strive for. I'd say he's flourished since leaving home.
• Ling (contracts): The irony of an arsonist being taken in by water monks is not lost on me. So, how do you judge him. Will you tell me where he is?
• (If the player kept Yulong's confidence:)
  • Player: I am sorry, Ling, but I promised him I would not.
  • Ling (contracts): That is a shame. I suppose I could torture the information out of you...but I respect you too much for that.
  • Ling (contracts): Still, you have shown me the path to find him for myself. I shall venture into this other realm for myself.
  • (Continues below.)
• (If the player betrayed Yulong's confidence:)
  • Player: He stands where you are, but not where you are.
  • Ling (contracts): I fear you have spent too long in the company of these acolytes. Speak plainly, Little Khan.
  • Player: I am speaking plainly! He's standing exactly where you are standing, only within this spirit realm.
  • (Continues below.)
• Player: So, are you intending to assassinate Yulong then?
• Ling (contracts): Assassinate? What gave you that idea?
• Player: Well, you are an assassin, and you did say he had a Death Lotus knot that signified his death. You said he was in trouble with you, that his fate was sealed.
• Ling (contracts): So I did. Death is my business, and sometimes it is difficult to keep it from my words. But I am not here to kill the boy. Not today, at least.
• Ling (contracts): When he left, he made a promise to me that he would keep in touch. We were more than just students together, we were friends.
• Ling (contracts): Yet I have not seen or heard from him since his exile. I want to ensure he is okay, that he has not been brainwashed by this cult, and then to give him a piece of my mind.
• Player: Oh, well, right then.
• Ling (contracts): I thank you for your assistance, Little Khan.
• Miniquest complete.

Talking to Yulong after the miniquest

• Yulong: Hello, World Guardian.
• Player: Yulong. How did you know I was the World Guardian?
• Yulong: All here do. What we seek is aligned with your own goals - the protection of this world.
• Yulong: Seiryu sees you, and we see the world through its eyes.
• Yulong: One day, you will find it, or it you. Then you will know.
• Player: Know what?
• Yulong: Truth.