The Hazy Professor - haillenarte @ ウィキ

Lamberteint:

Hm? Why, yes, I am Professor Lamberteint. Eh? We've met, you say? Are you certain about that? Er...perhaps telling me why you've come will refresh my memory.
Ah, I have been expecting these. I still can't quite remember you, but you have my thanks all the same.
So all three will attend the symposium... Excellent. I expected their replies sooner, but better late than never!
...Ah, pray excuse me. I've gotten ahead of myself.
The symposium I speak of is a biannual event that I organize for my students. We gather under one roof to share our research and critique others'─constructively, of course!
Perchance you are familiar with “aspect conversion”? 'Tis a theory I but recently published─with the aid of an adventurer much like you, come to think of it. Anyway, the focus of this symposium shall be post-aspect conversion.
Speaking of which, the hour is nearly upon us─though it seems my pupils have yet to arrive... Oh well, there are papers I can attend to while I wait.
Since you have proven yourself an able courier, would you mind taking these flowers to the tavern for me? 'Tis the venue for the symposium, and I fear it wants for decoration.

Lamberteint:

You are still here? I must have finished more quickly than I realized. Though to do things swiftly and well is only natural for a mind like mine.
...Where are my students? 'Tis strange for them to be so late. And what of my big surprise?
Ahem... I present the original four volumes of my latest work: On the Properties of Aspect Conversion! I intend to bequeath them to my students, as thanks for their assistance─once they arrive, anyway...
...They are awfully tardy. Perhaps...perhaps I shall retire to my chambers for the time being.
Well, I suppose you are free to go. But if you venture outside Camp Drybone, would you keep your eyes open for my pupils? I'm sure they are fine, but I worry all the same.

Lamberteint:

Have you seen any sign of my students outside the camp?
Nothing at all? I...I... Ah! My students must be busy with their research! So busy that they forgot...uh...that they forgot to tell me.
The symposium is hereby canceled! My pupils will have to wait for their─
Egads! The books! I left them in the tavern!
This is all so... Ahem. Could you retrieve them for me? I...I require a moment... <sniffle>

Hahasako: Do mine eyes mislead me? 'Tis the adventurer who came in search of corrupted crystals!

Hedyn: Of the countless taverns throughout the realm, that we would cross paths here! Tell me, Francel─what brings you to this place?
Ceana: The symposium's been canceled on account of our absence? Whatever for!? It's to be held tomorrow, not today!
Hedyn: Evidently the professor mixed up the date─hence why he fears we have forgotten all about it.
Hahasako: <sigh> The professor can be ever-so-slightly scatterbrained─though a genius when it comes to aetherial studies.
Ceana: Hahaha! As if worse hasn't been said of us, Hahasako! People would still think us lunatics had we not come to study under the professor.
Hedyn: Indeed. Whatever his failings, none of us would be where we are without him.
Hahasako: I say we surprise him with a gift of our own─something to show our thanks for all he has done, and to commemorate his latest publication!
Ceana: Hear, hear! And I think we all know what would make the perfect gift...
Lamberteint's Pupils: Corrupted crystals!
Ceana: Hah, a fine idea─if I do say so myself. Can we count on your help as well, Francel?
Hahasako: I must return to Highbridge and prepare a containment vessel for the crystals. You may come and collect it anon.
“The Hazy Professor” objective fulfilled!
Hedyn: Corrupted crystals are central to the professor's research. I daresay he will jump for joy when he gets them.
Ceana: As Professor Lamberteint's greatest students, we must lift his spirits─I most of all, as the greatest of us three!

Hahasako: 'Tis high time you arrived! I completed my preparations a long while ago.
Hahasako: We seek crystals marred by nary a single mark. Make your way to the center of the Burning Wall, where stands the finest of formations.
Hahasako: Here is a sledgehammer you can use to fracture a cluster once there.
Hahasako: And here, a warded pot. Collect within it the shards of crystal, and deliver the lot to Ceana. Simple, is it not?
Hahasako: I trust you are aware that the nearest path to the Burning Wall begins at Burgundy Falls? Then I bid you merry mining!

Ceana: Welcome back! Did the mirrorknights give you any trouble?
Ceana: Aha! An exquisite potful of corrupted crystals, if ever I saw one!
Hahasako: Well, now that everything seems in order, I shall summon the professor for his surprise!
Lamberteint: Ahem! What “surprise,” pray tell? If it was for the symposium, I'm afraid you're too late.
Lamberteint's Pupils: Professor Lamberteint!
Lamberteint: And you, postman─did you ever intend to return with what I asked!? Why, I ought to─
Ceana: Hold on a moment, Professor! You forgot that the symposium starts tomorrow!
Hedyn: We know you can be a bit absentminded. But above all else, we beg you remember:
Lamberteint's Pupils: No student ever skips a symposium!
Ceana: Voilà! Corrupted crystals to celebrate your latest publication, and to express our gratitude for your constant support.
Lamberteint: Ahaha! So that's what you three have been doing! I hardly know whether to laugh or to cry.
Lamberteint: It just so happens I have prepared something for each of you, as well.
Lamberteint: On the Properties of Aspect Conversion would not exist were it not for you all, and so I thought to divide the volumes between the four of us─that the set would be complete whenever we meet.
Lamberteint: Your questions, your contributions, your very presence drives me onwards─as quickly as a corrupted crystal can change aspects!
Hedyn: It matters not where our research takes us, so long as we are of one mind and one purpose.
Lamberteint: Why...why don't we meet four times a year instead of two? It would be a pleasure to hear your papers more often─and to present mine own, of course!
Lamberteint: I must say, I am quite eager to begin experimenting with these crystals. You didn't go to too much trouble obtaining them, did you?
Ceana: Not at all, haha. Francel saw to the dangerous tasks. For the second time, come to think of it─didn't his efforts serve as inspiration for your research before?
Lamberteint: Francel!? Ah! I knew I had seen you before.
Lamberteint: Well, no longer shall your contributions go unrecognized! I, Professor Lamberteint, hereby name thee an honorary pupil!
Lamberteint: Now, my friends, to work! The unsolved mysteries of aether are waiting to be unraveled!