FOR SAKE OF EFFICIENCY, THIS TIME I WILL GIVE YOU DIRECT INSTRUCTION: THE SPRING ICON MUST BE COLLECTED: THIS ENVIRONMENT IS not SECURE FOR ITS KEEPING. SPEAK TO (moderator) DOGUN AT THE TOP OF THE CAVE TO THE NORTH WHEN THIS IS DONE DO WHATEVER ELSE DOGUN BIDS YOU.
You may have noticed you're a little lighter in your feet in this area. This cave system exhibits a tendency to soft gravity. What this means is that you should be able to use the kickback from your Triple Burst Fusion Gun to jump, in the case you need to jump an exceptionally large gap, or (far more likely) extract yourself from the deathgrip of a lava pit. This is until we get you something proper with which to fly.
WORLD VOICE has departed, and now Dogun and I will supervise your collection of the Spring Icon. Dogun also wishes you to talk to AIN. I assume there must be some reason for this. This can be done outside, from a terminal on the snowy cliffs overlooking the water to the West. If you have difficulty finding your way out there, that's because the only way out is through a hidden passage located somewhere in the central lava filled chamber of the complex. You'll have to find a switch to open the passageway before getting out. I'm not sure where the spring icon could be, but I can tell you there's a machine gun stored in the room behind this terminal. I've tightened up the firing pattern from what you're used to, making it all the more badass. Unfortunately for you, the door is locked. Good luck getting it open.
Thank you for meeting me here on the snowy cliffside. I understand it was probably dangerous for you to get here. Ordinary you would be able to find the icon in the room shown here, its intended sanctuary, but I can tell you with certainty that the Spring Icon is no longer present in this building. After some investigation, I managed to get Fractilion to admit he took it. He doesn't know I've given him up, and I know he plans to use the energy of the icon for some clandestine project. He's most certainly taken it to his secluded palace in the hills. Dogun will likely have you search for it there. You should head North to the top of the cave and speak to him.
It is precisely the anticipation of such a situation that led Dogun to assign me to Fractilion's supervision. He is a wily soul who has never quite given up the petty greed of his human ways for the calm usually present in this place.
Sometimes I still dream of a world with money. I was rich, you know. Believe me when I say I will make a killing in this land as well. There are those that would say I am bound by the 'dough handcuffs'. Concerning more pressing matters, the funny little green spot on the wall in this most curious tar colored room is significant, I can tell you that much.
This is Salve, explaining to you on Dogun's behalf that you must both collect the spring icon for the WORLD VOICE and go outside to the West to talk to AIN before you may leave this area through this terminal for your next job.
"Such pain to KNOW what we KNOW..." His words escaped through the triangles formed by the spacial relations between his fingers, pressed over his face. His t-shirt, comically covered in half-worn off logos, was wrapped around his head like a turban. His hands formed a warrior mask. He was confident the others heard him. He crouched down, and smoothly formed his hands into a single grasping claw in front of his head. In his tribe of one, he alone had knowledge of these movements. His actions were sharply contrary to the ordinary apartment bathroom in which they took place. There were thousands like it; hundreds of thousands. "If nothing else, you will be frightened by my strangeness."
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