The Prankster/Plot Details

The passage over there leads to the Alchemists' Guild.

Ahaadah: Long have I practiced the art of alchemy, yet I do not find myself becoming bored.
It truly is fascinating...

???: No! Lemme go!

???: Stop that! Behave yourself!

Ahaadah: Again, you come before me...
Nothing has changed since the last time.

Alcander: Please, won't you reconsider?

Alcander: This child has nimble fingers and would soon pick up the trade if he were to live at the guild...

Ahaadah: Yes, and he uses those nimble fingers to pilfer my goods!

Ahaadah: What have you done with those herbs and vials?

Tinga-Matonga: Ah, what are you gripin' about? It was just a bunch of junk anyway.

Alcander: Tinga!
Mind your manners!

Tinga-Matonga: Who asked you!?
I don't need no stinkin' job!
If you love this place so much, why don't you work here!?

Alcander: I won't always be around to take care of you.
Try to understand.

Tinga-Matonga: I don't need no one to take care of me!
Stay out of my life!

Alcander: <Sigh>...
I'm sorry you had to see that.

Alcander: You're an adventurer, right?
I've done a fair share of adventuring myself, traveling the world with my sword and my wits.

Alcander: It was not long after I arrived in Al Zahbi when I ran into Tinga.

Alcander: He had lost both his parents...
An orphan...

Alcander: I tried to find somebody to take him in, but every door was slammed in my face.

Alcander: So I decided to look after him for a time and found myself getting attached to the little scamp...

Alcander: I couldn't just leave him and pick up my adventures again.

Alcander: I was going to continue my mercenary work here and raise Tinga as my own...

Alcander: But then I realized I could no longer swing a sword.
It seems I've contracted some sort of illness...

Alcander: The doctor says there is not much time left for me.

Alcander: Before I pass from this life, I want to make sure Tinga has some way to support himself.

Alcander: Well, you can see how well that effort is going.
He has no mind to begin a trade and is only interested in causing mischief.

Alcander: But deep down, I know he's a good kid.

Alcander: What do you say?
Do you think you can help out a fellow adventurer?

Alcander: I need you to help me turn his life around.

Alcander: Any time I try to have a serious talk with him, he just runs away...

Alcander: To tell the truth, I have no idea where he is most of the time.

Ahaadah: Quite the dilemma.
Perhaps I may be of assistance?

Alcander: !!!

Alcander: You would help us!?

Ahaadah: I'm not so cold-hearted as all that.

Ahaadah: The problem is how to draw Tinga out of hiding...

Ahaadah: How about we pretend to leave this elixir behind by mistake?

Ahaadah: Excellent.
Please go on ahead. I shall join you once my work here is done for the day.

Alcander: Thank you, Ahaadah.

Have you brought the item I requested?

Ahaadah: (Play the part of a merchant. Just follow my lead.)

Ahaadah: Yes! This is exactly what I was searching for!
You've done well to obtain such an extraordinarily rare item!

Ahaadah: What's this!? You say you have something even more impressive for sale?
Well then, my good merchant, lead on!

Ahaadah: Well, well. Look who decided to show up.

Ahaadah: Hey! Come back here!

Nowhere left to run.

Tinga-Matonga: What's wrong with you!?
Do you want my autograph that bad!?

Ahaadah: Spare me your witty comments and return the item you stole.

Tinga-Matonga: I didn't steal nothin'!
I just picked it up!

Ahaadah: Enough is enough!
You will return everything you've taken from my store!

Ahaadah: If you do as you're told, I might even reconsider the request to take you as my pupil.

Tinga-Matonga: That old junk? I threw it away already.

Ahaadah: Threw it away...!
Why even take it in the first place!?

Tinga-Matonga: Heh heh.
You're not alone, if it makes you feel any better.

Tinga-Matonga: These saucers are from the Shararat Teahouse.

Tinga-Matonga: These clothes are from Imeeya's store.

Tinga-Matonga: And this carpet I got from Yazweel's place.

Tinga-Matonga: I swiped all this stuff in half a day!
You grownups are so pathetic!

Tinga-Matonga: Not that I need any of it...

Ahaadah: You little...

Tinga-Matonga: You got somethin' to say to me? Don't worry, none of that junk I just dropped was yours.

Ratihb: That's the final straw!

Ratihb: I've been lenient since you're just a child, but...

Imeeya: You go too far!

Yazweel: Give me back my carpet!

Tinga-Matonga: Oh, calm down already.

Ratihb: Calm down!?
I'm going to go out of business if you break any more of my crockery!

Imeeya: And you were the one who poked holes in all of my wares, weren't you!?

Yazweel: My carpet!

Alcander: What's going on here?

Ratihb: You...

Ahaadah: Tinga has ruined all of our livelihoods.

Alcander: Is this true, Tinga?

Tinga-Matonga: So what if it is?

Alcander: Then you must apologize to everyone and give back all the things you took.

Ratihb: What am I supposed to do with a pile of broken cups!?

Yazweel: We don't need your kind around here!

Imeeya: You probably put the child up to this in the first place!

Alcander: I never...! How could you...!?

Ratihb: You're too sick to work and can't earn a living anymore.
Isn't that right, adventurer?

Yazweel: I knew you foreign adventurers were up to no good!

Imeeya: Take your sneaking accomplice and get out of our city!

Alcander: Very well.
I'll leave if that's what you want.

Alcander: But please, let Tinga stay.
He's just a child.

Alcander: Tinga...

Tinga-Matonga: ...

Alcander: I'm glad I had the chance to meet you.

Tinga-Matonga: Who cares?
Why don't you leave already?

Alcander: I wish there was more I could've done for you...

Tinga-Matonga: I said get lost already!

Tinga-Matonga: Everything has gone downhill since I met you.

Alcander: ...

Tinga-Matonga: If you hadn't interfered, some rich family might have adopted me instead.

Tinga-Matonga: I really wish you had just left me alone!

Tinga-Matonga: But now it looks like I'm finally gettin' rid of you.

Alcander: I...

Alcander: I'm sorry...

Alcander: Player name. Ahaadah. Thank you for all your help.

Ahaadah: Alcander...

Alcander: It's fine, really.
No one is to blame for this.

Ratihb: That child certainly is a handful.

Yazweel: What are we supposed to do with him?

Ratihb: Who would take him in?

Ratihb: Especially after that adventurer set him on the wrong path...

Tinga-Matonga: You don't know what you're talkin' about!

Tinga-Matonga: Alcander didn't do nothin' wrong!
I'm the bad one!

Tinga-Matonga: Who was the one who looked after me when I was all alone?
Not one of you, that's for darn sure!

Tinga-Matonga: Alcander was the only person who ever looked out for me!

Ratihb: What the...!

Ahaadah: What's going on here, Tinga?
I thought you hated Alcander!

Tinga-Matonga: He's my best friend...

Ahaadah: If that's true, then why do all those terrible things?
You've forced him away from you.

Tinga-Matonga: I did it because I want him to stay with me...

Tinga-Matonga: I know he's really sick and won't be around much longer, so...

Taishu-Yaashu: Ghosts always come out at night, you know.

Tinga-Matonga: Why's that?

Taishu-Yaashu: Because it's scarier that way.
Ghosts only show up when they hate someone enough to stay in this world.

Tinga-Matonga: Is that true?

Taishu-Yaashu: Of course it's true.
They come back to haunt the people who hurt them in life.
That's what makes them so scary!

Tinga-Matonga: I figured if Alcander hated me enough, then he would come back as a ghost...

Tinga-Matonga: Then I could see him all the time...

Ahaadah: I see now...
You poor child...

Ahaadah: But listen to me, Tinga.
What you're planning is selfish.

Ahaadah: It means that Alcander must spend eternity feeling only hate and anger.

Ahaadah: Is that a fate you would wish for yourself?

Alcander: What's wrong, kid?

Alcander: Don't worry, everything will be okay.
I was alone, too, but now I've met you.

Alcander: It's good to have friends, don't you think?

Tinga-Matonga: I can't let this happen...!

Ahaadah: No, child!
It's too dangerous out there!

Ahaadah: You have to bring them back.

Ahaadah: Who knows what creatures are lurking beyond the city walls?

What do you say?

Leave it to me.

Not my problem.

Ahaadah: Have you no heart?
You can't stand by and do nothing.

What do you say?

Leave it to me.

Not my problem.

Ahaadah: Thank you.
They can't have gone far.
You can catch them if you hurry.

Alcander: Leave me be. I'm done for...

I am in your debt again.

Alcander: Although your effort may have been in vain...
There is not much...

Tinga-Matonga: Alcander!

Alcander: Tinga!?
What are you doing out here? You could get hurt!

Tinga-Matonga: Thank you for saving him...

Alcander: Tinga...?

Tinga-Matonga: I knew somethin' was wrong.
Even when I was causin' all that trouble so you'd come and see me.
You were tryin' so hard to get me into that guild...

Alcander: ...

Tinga-Matonga: I couldn't take it no more!
All that worryin' about what's gonna happen to me after you go away!

Tinga-Matonga: Think about livin' instead!
I don't want you to go!

Alcander: Tinga...
I became so afraid when I could no longer wield a sword.

Alcander: I felt so alone.
Even though I know that's not true...

Alcander: I've been saying this whole time how I want to save you from your fate.

Alcander: But I had it wrong.

Alcander: Tinga...
You're the one who saved me.

Alcander: You're right.
There's still time for me.

Alcander: I can't just give up.
Somewhere in this big, wide world there must be a cure for my illness.

Alcander: And you.
This is for saving my life. I hope it aids you in your adventures.

Alcander: You really should learn a trade, Tinga.
You have to learn to stand on your own two feet.

Tinga-Matonga: Okay.