Intro

In the district of Beninging, Amiel (Emilio) from Palettown is walking to the adventurers' guild when he hears a woman scream, “Help me find my son. He went into the Dark Forest”. A woman, Ealoviel (Mario), from the side says, “He's dead”. She begins to cry, and a concerned guard checks in and assures us he's dead. Ealoviel tells her they will at least try to find her.

They make it to the adventurers guild and see three people, Eden (Balkis), SpongeBomb (Joe), and Panini (Darrell), looking for a drink. They introduce themselves and agree to join the guild and the mission. We check the Finding the Son quest, which is a diamond tier adventure. Since we just joined, we are not allowed to take it.

In order to do the quest, we need to find a diamond level adventurer, Maria. Luckily, she walks into the door. Dressed Bloodborne style with two weapons at her side. We try to approach her, but she ignores us. After some persuasion, she agrees to help, but can't guarantee our safety.

Finding the Son

We want to make a gun to protect ourselves, as Eden is an artificer. We go to a merchant for materials. After some bartering, Eden buys materials along with a small piece of magical metal. They then go to the magic shop, where Ealoviel is acquaintances with the owner. Amiel gets his sword enchanted to do cold damage, and SpongeBomb buys pouches of water powder. Eden makes a gun with the magical metal and duplicates it and gives one to Panini.

Maria leads us to the forest in the morning. As we enter, the atmosphere changes and it is very dark. We see the boy with half of his head missing. We hear a roar and he runs away. We follow, and we find a wendigo eating the boy. He turns to Maria and we initiate a fight. After a hard fight due to the wendigo’s resilience, the wendigo is killed, but so was the boy.

We exit the forest and we see the woman. We tell her the news, but she doesn't know what we're talking about. Her granddaughter also asks her, but she still doesn't know. Maria recognizes this. She knows about adventurers who claim they have witnessed something similar. They say that when someone dies to a familiar of the Goddess beyond the Outer Wall, they never existed in the first place. This means the quest for the boy never existed, so we don't get paid.

But the girl, Elijah, remembers her brother. She is a worshiper of Froggy of a high level, enough to give sermons. We ask her why no one else remembers and why she still does. We go to the Froggy temple where she prays, and we learn from Froggy that she made her remember her brother despite the “future consequences”. She needs it to complete her destiny and to ensure the future.