Wildbill wrote:
Help, hausen! Just gave bones to King Zi in Ji and am translating/writing the boat landing south of the almost deserted village with the old man. Still in Yan, but when I clear the pier, I will have a V0.30 beta and land back in Luoyang where Lu Buwei has summoned me. I'm having problems with the conversation coming up with Buwei.
It involves a sister sold into slavery, a crown princess, and possibly a queen. Then, I believe the fighters go off to save Mengchang in Qi. Does this sound right? What's going on with the sister? I need to get this scene right. Later, a man making chicken sounds comes into play. Is that the thief I met previously in a storeroom and can now hire in the Luoyang bar? What another translator did before me with a little spot work through here is very vague, and my preliminary translation isn't much more clear.
The sister sold into slavery is the hero's sister. A little later in the game there's a scene where she introduces the playable character Zheng (セイ), who later becomes known as the famous Qin Shi Huangdi. The game posits that the hero's sister is Zheng's mother.
In real history, Qin Shi Huangdi's mother was a concubine of Lü Buwei's. Yiren, a prince from the state of Qin, fell in love with this concubine, and after marrying her she was named/known as "Lady Zhao". Lü Buwei later helped Yiren to become the king of Qin. Zheng rose to the throne after Yiren. Another version of the story claims that Lü Buwei was the father instead of Yiren. Wikipedia has a good summary of this story...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang#Birth_and_parentageSo, to sum up: hero's sister was a slave. Qin's Crown Prince (Yiren) fell in love with her, and the couple had a son, Zheng (Qin Shi Huangdi). Lü Buwei somehow knew she was hero's sister, and then bought her from the slave market.
I'm not sure what you mean by a thief you met previously in a storeroom. Do you mean the one npc in Linzi? Not related to the event.
Lol at the man making chicken sounds
Took me the longest time to figure out how and where to recruit those guys haha. That's not the thief, you need 毛盗 (Mao Dao) mercenary in your party to rescue Lord Mengchang. The prison is on east side of Linzi palace, you enter in between two bushes.