A Harmonica wants to see the Sun

[Santooth]

Darston, after performing appropriate divination (within his power) to ensure this is not some sort of weird trap, decides to grant the wish of an otherwise innocuous thing in a grand way.

*Harmonica that Longs to See the Sun- (Accessory, Quest Item, Hope & Technology, 300 Gold) +1 SPI

He's going to try to take this thing to meet his patron and friend, Selereth Helios, with whom he shares a direct connection.

If she is busy, he will show it in detail his inner core of Sunfire granted by his patron as a sun-gate beast with a direct linkup to her.

[Lord Gadigan]

Truly a noble effort!

Where did this item come from?

[Santooth]

I have absolutely no idea! The little thing got stuck in lili's inventory at some point along the line and seemed doomed to a life of darkness and obscurity. Felt nice to try and change that.

If I were to guess, I'd say it came from the warehouse at some point a bit after Princess of Suns concluded. That's probably wrong though.



As a general note for this thread, I'm not asking for a ton of detail here (or even an item I get to keep). Just want to help the little harmonica see the sun. Odds are pretty good it's going to end up getting left in Selereth's domain unless it expresses some kind of desire to stay with Darston or morphs into some important quest item or the like.

[Aeromage]

(I PLUNDER THE ARCHIVE AND BRING FORTH CONTEXT)

The instrument in question came from the 'Contingent Advancement' quest, which began way back in 2013. From what I gather, it was part of what would be a sprawling quest-chain across the far-and-farther reaches of the Universe to eventually meet up with Naria (and maybe Morrisant).
The item got picked up quite a way into the quest.

(1:35:01 AM) lordgadigan: You're now in Dross City beneath the Megametropolis of Inmil upon the world of Inmil-All within the White Spiral. Dross City is an underground city that winds around sewers and garbage pits from the city above. There's a lot of robots and mutants, and the place in general is impoverished, though more 'weird' than 'unhappy'. (The visual stylings are in the vein of Kaiba, though it doesn't have the same mind-swap memory tech or anything).
(1:35:40 AM) Wriggle NIghtsparrow: Lili notes the visual style with interest, but stays on the task at hand
(1:35:59 AM) lordgadigan: k
(1:36:03 AM) Wriggle NIghtsparrow: Reprocessing Factory Seventeen's our next destination
(1:36:04 AM) lordgadigan: Teleporting to the location in question?
(1:36:10 AM) Wriggle NIghtsparrow: Indeed
(1:36:11 AM) lordgadigan: k
(1:37:13 AM) lordgadigan: You warp over there. It's a moderately large factory that sucks in sludge and robot and machine parts through two different big funnel-mouthed vaccuum tubes and then reprocesses them into various materials that are then shipped off to other places
(1:37:25 AM) Wriggle NIghtsparrow: Orihandrilite Cube's what we're looking for.
(1:37:47 AM) Wriggle NIghtsparrow: Lili decides to go physically walk through the place to get it, invisible
(1:37:50 AM) lordgadigan: Your scan picks it up in one of the 'to be manually sorted' pits of strange items sucked in
(1:38:05 AM) Wriggle NIghtsparrow: Any other notable strange things?
(1:38:13 AM) lordgadigan: You walk around robots, walking suits filled with humming slime, and workers
(1:38:32 AM) Wriggle NIghtsparrow: Notable being abnormally useful, sentient-and-with-high-potential, highly-valuable, or intelligent
(1:38:55 AM) lordgadigan: A harmonica that longs to see the sun, though it cannot speak. A lamp that inevitably reveals lack of dedication to sworn causes (in those of low enough power).
(1:39:44 AM) Wriggle NIghtsparrow: Lili will take the harmonica
(1:39:50 AM) Wriggle NIghtsparrow: As well as the cube
(1:40:08 AM) Wriggle NIghtsparrow: "I promise to show you many suns."
(1:40:21 AM) lordgadigan: Lili gets
*Harmonica that Longs to See the Sun- (Accessory, Quest Item, Hope & Technology, 300 Gold) +1 SPI
She gets a positive feeling back from the harmonica
(1:40:26 AM) lordgadigan: She also gets the cube
(1:40:37 AM) lordgadigan: Which is going to be frustratingly difficult to take off-world, so I'm not statting it up
(1:40:51 AM) Wriggle NIghtsparrow: She then gathers everyone and activates the cube whilst thinking of the aformentioned flowers

(1:41:26 AM) lordgadigan: You all vanish in a violet blip and the cube bursts into a technic-hymn-tempest of radiant light
(1:41:40 AM) lordgadigan: Processing
(1:42:38 AM) lordgadigan: You're in Inatrii, The Only City. It's a reasonably small city with a single mountain thing that spits out a plume of smoke at its top, near the center but slightly east. Off the sides of the world is shiny white emptiness. Residents seem to be human, though ones specially suited to the strange, small city.

(I've now restored that quest to the archive)

[Santooth]

Thank you for looking that up. I'm happy that promise won't go unfulfilled.