[MEMORY # 24 (SIGNIFICANT NEUTRAL)]

* Reaching Ratatosk's withered Tree.

Won from Game 66: Houses for Automaton.

+ He had to get past armies to do this JFC.
+ Only Martel was with him at the time.
+ This was his goal! To reach the Tree and figure out a way to save it--military magitechnology was draining all the mana from the world faster than it could be replaced, and as a consequence the world was dying.
+ But the Tree itself was also dying and weak and aaaahhhh that was awful.
+ Includes entering the Ginnunggagap, possibly a crazy dungeon run, and the first meeting with Ratatosk and a couple of the Centurions (including Tenebrae.) DETAILS...LEFT VAGUE...IN CASE SOMEONE EVER APPS EMIL TO AATHER...though Ratatosk looked nothing like Emil back in the day.
+ The idea to gain power by making pacts with every Summon Spirit is not part of this memory! That probably took a while. This one was more convincing Ratatosk they were even there to help in the first place.
+ 20 realization that once upon a time, he was not wholly selfish.
+ 50 MITHOS THE HERO!!! drive which he is going to grab and work into his own and use, dammit.
+ 50 wish to apologize to the Summon Spirits.
+ 50 relief.

[irc; SOMEHOW MAKING A TALES GAME MORE TRAGIC]

( in which Lloyd and Mithos's players have an amazing revelation. )