[image description: A series of screenshots from the video game Disco Elysium. Most of the images are dialogue, which is simply transcribed.
Image 1: Side-by-side images of Harry and Kim standing in front of huge red painted words on the ground. The words, painted in all caps, say “Un jour je serai de retour près de toi”. Translated into English, it means “One day I will return to your side”. The picture on the left shows the painted words as they are initially. The picture on the right shows them after they have been lit on fire and are burning.
Image 2: One day I will return to your side - The graffito has been painted over the traces of the fight that took place here. It smells of blood and heavy fuel oil.
Conceptualization [Easy: Success] - The Return…
Image 3: Esprit de Corps [Medium: Success] - Two police officers step out of the Whirling-in-Rags cafeteria. Satellite-Officer Jean Vicquemare inspects a series of burnt black letters splashed across the plaza mosaic.
Patrol Officer Judit Minot points west. “The fishing village…” She glances at her watch. “We meet in 15 minutes. It’s a ten minute walk.”
The officers go, leaving behind the writing – still smouldering. One day, it says, I will return to your side.
Image 4: Klaasje (Miss Oranje Disco Dancer) - “The Return, well… It’s part urban myth – part political science. It’s a fool’s hope, sir, and it’s also all I’ve got. They say there will be an *event*. That it will happen somewhere here…” She looks around, then at the sky.
“In Revachol. Revachol West. They say it will happen soon – and that it will change everything.”
Kim Kitsuragi - “*Le Retour…*” the lieutenant says. His forehead furrowed, he puts his notes down.
Image 5: You - “The Return of *what* exactly?”
Klaasje (Miss Oranje Disco Dancer) - “Of the king? Of the nation? Of communism? Return on investment?” She tilts her head. “I don’t know exactly. It’s meant to be vague, as promises generally are.”
“But at the same time, I mean – things can’t go on like this forever. Something will give. It always does.”
Image 6: Joyce Messier - “I’m over-exposed, baby. My travels take me through the pale dozens of times a year. I’ve got the longing – and I’ve got it *bad*.” She points to her heart.
Empathy [Medium: Success] - She would die to return to it. The pale. The past. Anything one can return to.
Image 7: Paledriver - The woman looks at nothing, her eyes closed and her lips moving.
Perception (hearing) [Medium: Success] - “Girl child,” you hear her say. “Girl child. Girl child…”
Image 8: The Deserter - “Always waiting.” The old man turns his eyes from the shore and back to you.
The Deserter - “For her to return.”
Kim Kitsuragi - “Her, who?”
The Deserter - “Girl Child Revolution.”
Image 9: Trant Heidelstam - “The line is from Lu Jiatun’s ‘Mirova 82’, isn’t it? About Girl Child Communism – the titular *returning* character. The ghostly apparition of…” He looks around and, noticing the impatience of his companions, stops himself. “Good choice, Harry.”
Image 10: Shivers [Challenging: Success] - Distant traffic. A scrap of newspaper drifts by, carried by the wind.
Perception (sight) [Legendary: Success] - It says: “Tensions rise in Terminal YC in light of the Débardeurs’ strike in Terminal B, among representatives of heavy industry in Coal City…” you read.
Inland Empire [Easy: Success] - Le Retour…
Image 11: A screenshot of the player’s task log. There is a task titled, “The Return”, filled on Monday at 19:07. The task reads “Use the boat to return to the mainland.”
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