Part 11: Warning people, finally
The fisherman is so concerned about his impending doom and the death of his race, that he asks you to do a menial task for you before he'll help you out: "Would you put my crawfish traps back where they were?"
The healer is also not concerned, and instead asks you to round up ingredients for a protective potion. She won't even take off her blindfold. Just leave the baby mastodon alone for a few minutes! It'll be fine! Make your own potion. Maybe their race deserves to get wiped out for being so apathetic. So Ariane goes to get all the ingredients and warms it up by burning mastodon dung.
You burn it right next to the baby mastodon; I guess that helps the little guy feel more at home.
Also when you warm the potion, your coconut shell just… hovers over the fire. Who is doing that? The healer? I don't know.
After you make the potion, have another giant escort you to the Valley of the Spirits to see the matriarch, just in case the bad giant tries to teleport you again. You give her the BALL, the BALL of memory:
And she sees what you've said is true. Now lets get out of this hippie village once and for all. Go to the town; Ariane interjects with this:
Oh, Ariane. How I wish I could forget all about this terrible game.
As soon as you land, a nearby public phone rings and Ariane finally says something insightful:
"Could that be a telephone ringing?" Use the phone systems to receive a message and trick the bad giant guard into letting you into the transportation system and the communication center.
Guess what you get more of going around the town? CLOSED. I think this is the most-used "dialogue" ever in the game.
I've just come to accept that doors will be locked and I will have no idea why.
I noticed something … interesting about the font they use on occasion. I've seen it a few other places too but I thought this was a good example. I am a bit of a font aficionado, and I recognized this font as "Medusa" which I've downloaded from Acid Fonts. I use this font on my T-shirts and merchandise (although I probably would have recognized it as Medusa even if I didn't).
See, it's the exact same font. The proportions are a little different, so I edited the bottom font to be taller and with less spacing inbetween letters. Amazing.
Go find the mayor now, and the game is over! Look, here is everyone saying goodbye to you.
They try to get you to stay, but Ariane knows better than to stay around these incompetent wack-jobs. But of course, since you chose to be nice and warn everyone, you've also chosen to keep their city secret from the surface.
Excuse me? Why do you have to choose between sharing your discovery and saving the town? Can't you warn everyone and report about the underground society, the new humanoids and the corruption scandal responsibly? And in this day and age, I am sure that society would be concerned about studying and preserving the delicate ecosystem of the center of the earth. Reporting this discovery and being kind to the inhabitants are not mutually exclusive.
The best part is, at the end of the cut sequence, your memory card falls out of your pocket. Sounds like the perfect clue for a 30 years later PAC sequel. Just please, let it be made by a different company. One that actually cares about making a good game.