Meredith/Dialogue

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These are Meredith's dialogues.

All I Ever Needed

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Falldown Mall

(After finding a record by The Witch House in the vinyl record store)

• Meredith: That album art - you've found it!

• Meredith: Wait. Something's not right.

• Meredith: "Timeless and Strange"? That's not the name of the album...

• Meredith: And this cover art is slightly different too...

• Meredith: The track listing... I don't know these songs.

• Meredith: It's some alternate universe version. The one I wanted isn't here.

• Meredith: I knew I shouldn't have expected anything good to happen to me.

• Meredith: Typical...

(Meredith and the player fall as the floor collapses, landing in a Mer-Line Station)

• Meredith: Urgh, what happened... <player> , are you OK? The record - I dropped it. Can you see it?

(When Meredith and the player meets Nowhere Monarch)

• Meredith: Wh-what is that?! Why does it look so... wrong?!

• Meredith: It hurts my head just looking at it... <player>, it's an Archangel, isn't it...?

(Mid-battle against Nowhere Monarch)

• Meredith: It'd be so easy...

• Meredith: It'd be so easy to give up and just die...

• Meredith: But that's not me! I'm sick of letting myself down!

(When Nowhere Monarch is defeated)

• Meredith: We did it... We're alive... We fused?

(After defeating Nowhere Monarch)

• Meredith: Uh...

• Meredith: I realise that this was a really trivial thing to come all this way for.

• Meredith: And a really stupid thing to nearly die over.

• Meredith: You didn't have to do this. Thanks mate.

• Meredith: I think... I've had enough of abandoned malls and mortal peril for today.

• Meredith: C'mon, let's go back to town and check this record out.

Relationship Level Scenes

Relationship Level 1

• Meredith: So... The whole... Fusion thing....

• Meredith: I felt like we should, uh, talk about it?

(Choice between "It's pretty weird, right?" and "It's pretty cool, right?")

• Meredith: It's certainly... Something.

• Meredith: It's like our minds merge, and I am no longer me.

• Meredith: Afterwards, whilst I can remember it, it doesn't feel like it's something that I experienced.

• Meredith: It's like remembering a dream. Maybe our brains just aren't equipped to process it...

• Meredith: Had you, uh, fused with anyone before?

• Meredith: N-not that it's a big deal if you have! I just wasn't sure if that was your first time.

• Meredith: This is... coming out all wrong.

• Meredith: Forget I said anything.

• Meredith: I've been meaning to ask...

• Meredith: What makes you so sure that you have a way to return home?

• Player: I had a vision...

• Meredith: Uh, you're gonna have to tell me the full story here, mate.

(Fade to black.)

• Meredith: ...Huh. That's pretty wild.

• Meredith: I'll uphold my end of the bargain. You helped me find a record, I'll help you find a way off New Wirral.

• Meredith: Oh! I almost forgot about the record!

(Meredith pops the record into the café's titular gramophone.)

• Meredith: ...

• Meredith: This is pretty good.

• Meredith: I mean, It's not the same album I used to have, but it's familiar enough.

• Meredith: I, uh, I spent my teen years being very miserable, and bad with people.

• Meredith: When I went to college, I wanted to change, for real.

• Meredith: The record was kind of the soundtrack to me, like, trying to change and get better...

• Meredith: Not that I did. I almost made lifelong friends, but they don't speak to me anymore.

• Meredith: I know it's me who's the problem, but I want to keep trying.

• Meredith: Maybe that's what that Archangel meant. Maybe I've spent too much time distracting myself with stuff instead of trying to actually live.

• Meredith: But even if we didn't find exactly what I was looking for, I'm... OK with this outcome.

• Meredith: You didn't need to risk your life to help me.

• Meredith: A lot sucks about New Wirral, but...

• Meredith: You're kinda cool.

Relationship Level 2

• Meredith: With both the Archangels appearing and us fusing for the first time, things have suddenly gotten very strange in my life lately.

(Choice between "Strange?" and "In a bad way?")

• Meredith: Don't take that the wrong way! Fusing with you is cool. But it's weird, right?

• Meredith: I guess I wasn't expecting this island to throw any more surprises at me. Not to mention your plan to find a way to leave...

• Meredith: It's been so long since I arrived here, I've barely thought about going back.

• Meredith: I guess... I was never that close to anyone back home to begin with. I don't like most people.

• Meredith: I think that's why I like distracting myself.

• Meredith: When I arrived here, I kind of got obsessed with electronics. Making lights and stuff for the town.

• Meredith: It gives me something to focus on so I don't have to think about everything else I'm missing.

• Meredith: I think it was the same with finding that album.

• Meredith: Urgh. Sorry for being such a... Sorry for being me, I guess.

(Choice between "You don't have to apologize!" and "Hey, don't worry about it!")

• Meredith: Heh. Thanks. For a second, I sounded like Kayleigh there.

• Meredith: Do you know what I mean? She always acts like she's got something to apologize for.

• Meredith: That's enough sincerity.

• Meredith: C'mon, let's finish up here.

Relationship Level 3

• Meredith: The Gramophone café always reminds me of my dad. He'd brew a pot of coffee every morning before heading into London for work, so that coffee smell is kind of seared into my brain.

(Choice between "Sounds nostalgic!" and "That's a nice memory!")

• Meredith: I guess so...

• Meredith: I can never tell if I miss my parents. We never had a huge amount in common. They grew up in a different time and a different place.

• Meredith: I guess there was a big generational divide. It's not my fault my parents listened to incredibly bad music!

• Meredith: When I moved out to go to college, we didn't really stay... in touch. That's OK.

(Choice between "That's sad." and "That sounds kinda lonely.")

• Meredith: I suppose it is.

• Meredith: Y'know, I don't have many strong memories of growing up.

• Meredith: I had friends, and life experiences, but thinking back on those memories...

• Meredith: It always feels like something that was just happening around me, not something I was participating in.

• Meredith: Like I've never been fully in the pilot seat.

• Meredith: I guess I was an uncool kid, then an uncool teenager. As for being an adult...

• Meredith: Well, there's still time to see how I do at this.

• Meredith: Maybe I just need to make more friends whilst I'm here in New Wirral. Urgh.

• Meredith: No-one ever tells you growing up that making friends as an adult is hard.

(Choice between "At least we're friends!" and "What about us?")

• Meredith: It's easier with us - we have, like, a hobby together.

(Choice between "A... hobby?" and "We do?")

• Meredith: Yeah, we're looking for a magic world portal. That's a hobby, right?

• Player: I guess so!

• Meredith: I mean, I hope we'd still hang out... even if we didn't find your doorway.

(Choice between "Of course we would!" and "You're cute when you blush!")

If chosen "Of course we would!":

• Meredith: Heh. Cool.

If chosen "You're cute when you blush!":

• Meredith: Urgh, you can't compliment me like that. I totally don't handle it well.

• Meredith: It makes my whole body feel like it's folding in on itself.

• Meredith: Huh, I'm more tired than I thought.

• Meredith: Do you think transforming and battling counts as exercise? I guess it's pretty exhausting.

• Meredith: Anyway, let's go and hang out together and punch monsters and stuff.

Relationship Level 4

• Meredith: Y'know, all that stuff with the vinyl record I was looking for got me thinking.

(Choice between "What about?" and "Go on...")

• Meredith: Well, let me put it this way:

• Meredith: We found an album that had never been recorded in my world, right?

• Meredith: And if there are infinite worlds, then this implies... Infinite albums.

(Choice between "I guess that makes sense!" and "Could that be true?")

• Meredith: So like, when I was a teenager, I was a big fan of this old fantasy author. I was a huge dork.

• Meredith: Every book he wrote wasn't just a story, it was like peering into his mind. His aspirations, his beliefs, his philosophies...

• Meredith: I guess writing a book is like putting a bit of yourself out into the world, forever.

• Meredith: Eventually I read everything he'd ever written when he was alive, and the finality of it stuck with me.

• Meredith: I'd experienced everything he'd ever written. There would never be any more.

• Meredith: I guess that happens to all of us when we die... Eventually, we'll have said everything we'll ever say.

• Meredith: But if there's infinite worlds, then maybe there's an endless list of different books he ended up writing.

• Meredith: And maybe... there's endless versions of us, having endless memories and experiences of their own.

• Meredith: Maybe we never really die, in a sense.

• Meredith: Just something that's been on my mind, is all.

• Meredith: C'mon, shall we go?

Relationship Level 5

• Meredith: OK, are you ready for this?

• Meredith: ...

• Meredith: Movie night. At my place. Are you in?

(Choice between "Sure!" and "Not now.")

If chosen "Sure!":

• Meredith: Alright, you're gonna love this.

• Meredith: So check this out - the only working movie projector on New Wirral.

(Choice between "Amazing!" and "How did you get this?!")

• Meredith: It's been one of my many side-hobbies.

• Meredith: It's time I tell you about New Wirral's unspoken curse.

• Meredith: You see this?

• Meredith: It's a video tape. But not just any video tape...

• Meredith: It's a video tape for the 1981 action movie "Blood Puncher".

• Meredith: Hundreds of video tapes have washed up on New Wirral's shores in the time I've been here.

• Meredith: I've collected them.

• Meredith: All of them.

• Meredith: Guess what?

• Meredith: They're Blood Puncher.

• Meredith: Every single tape is Blood Puncher.

• Meredith: It's the only film you can watch in New Wirral.

• Meredith: So guess what we're watching?

(Choice between "Sounds like my kind of movie!" and "I'm ready to enjoy this ironically!")

• Meredith: That's the spirit.

• Meredith: I wanted to say, thanks for hanging out with me.

• Meredith: I've been pretty miserable on New Wirral, but this is, like, the most fun I've had.

(Choice between "I'm glad we're friends!" and "Maybe this should be a date?")

If chosen "I'm glad we're friends!":

• Meredith: Heh. Me too, <player>.

• Meredith: Okay, enough sincerity, mate.

• Meredith: We have an awful movie to watch. I hope you're ready.

If chosen "Maybe this should be a date?":

• Meredith: ...

• Meredith: Took you long enough to ask.

• Meredith: C'mon, we've literally fused together.

• Meredith: It kinda puts me in your head a bit, y'know? And, like, of course I think you're cute.

• Meredith: Why not? Date night. With a bad movie.

• Meredith: Can we keep things casual? Like, non-committal?

If the player goes by she/her or they/them pronouns:

• Meredith: I've, uh, only ever been with guys before - so this is also kinda new to me.

• Meredith: I want to hang out with you still...

• Meredith: But I also want to make out with you sometimes.

• Meredith: Anyway, I've seen this movie a million times.

• Meredith: So... we don't have to do much watching.

If chosen "Not now.":

• Meredith: Boo. Give me a shout when you're up for it. It should be a laugh.

Romance

• Meredith: You haven’t said anything for a while, <player>. Is something bothering you?

(Choice between "I want us to be together." and "Nothing in particular!")

If chosen "I want us to be together.":

• Meredith: I…

• Meredith: I mean, of course I like you.

• Meredith: I don’t know why you like me, but I like you.

• Meredith: But we’re working towards leaving this world…

• Meredith: If we succeed, we might not stay together. Are you… OK with that?

(Choice between "I am." and "I think so.")

• Meredith: Screw it. Why not?

If the player goes by he/him pronouns:

• Meredith: Me, with a serious boyfriend. Sounds weird. Feels right.

If the player goes by she/her pronouns:

• Meredith: Me, with a serious girlfriend. Sounds weird. Feels right.

If the player goes by they/them pronouns:

• Meredith: Me, with a serious partner. Sounds weird. Feels right.

• Meredith: It’s always been easier for me to tell myself that I need to be happier with myself before I get into a relationship with someone, but I think the truth is…

• Meredith: I might NEVER be truly confident in who I am. I’m not ever gonna be my perfect self.

• Meredith: But you make me happy, and I'm more whole when I’m with you than I am without.

• Meredith: Th-that’s enough sappiness from me. Oh, and I can’t do cute-talk.

• Meredith: If you’re expecting me to ever call you “honey” or “dear”, you’ve got another thing coming, mate.

If chosen "Nothing in particular!":

• Meredith: Uh, OK.

Campsite and Gramophone Café Conversations

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• Meredith: This might be a bit morbid, but I do sometimes wonder if people from my "previous life" ever think about me.

• Meredith: I picture some old colleagues sitting in a dreary London pub one evening, asking each other: "Whatever happened to Meredith Chen, who disappeared off the face of the earth one day, never to be seen again?"

• Meredith: ...

• Meredith: That actually sounds much more depressing when I say it out loud like that.

• Meredith: Do you remember what you were doing right before you came here?

• Meredith: Like, before you came to New Wirral.

• Meredith: Sometimes I try and remember the exact moment, but I can't...

• Meredith: It's like trying to remember the moment you fall asleep.

• Meredith: I can remember what I was doing around that time, but the exact moment is lost on me.

• Meredith: Weird.

• Meredith: I thought the monsters of New Wirral were creepy enough...

• Meredith: But the "Archangels"? Like the one we fought? They're in a league of their own.

• Meredith: The way it spoke to us was like it was a person. Like, they're as smart as us, right? Maybe smarter.

• Meredith: The fact that there's just giant reality-bending intelligent monsters living in the railway system that apparently lies under the entire island we live on...

• Meredith: Well, I guess I won't sleep easy tonight knowing that.

• Meredith: I wonder...

• Meredith: If we were to find our way back to our homes... Our real homes...

• Meredith: Would all this time have passed there?

• Meredith: Or would we end up back at the moment we left, like all this had happened in the blink of an eye?

• Meredith: The cool thing about The Witch House is that like, three other bands had to disband for them to form.

• Meredith: Procgen fell apart when their bassist left to start his own religion, so vocalist Rob Handsome needed work...

• Meredith: Drummer Linda Steel had just left the punk trio Bad Horses after a record label dispute...

• Meredith: And guitarist Daniel "Safety First" Buttercroft was the only survivor of a tour bus crash which killed the entirety of his band No Seatbelts.

• Meredith: So the stars aligned, mostly through bad circumstances, and they were able to form The Witch House.

• Meredith: It makes me think how small the chances are of that even happening...

• Meredith: I wonder what the probability of the two of us being here, in this moment, must be?

• Meredith: Pretty unlikely, I'd guess.

• Meredith: Have you noticed how Harbourtown provides for everyone, no matter what they bring to the community?

• Meredith: I mean, the locals still have their own problems, sure, but...

• Meredith: No-one is cast out. Everyone kinda contributes what they can, and if you can't? No worries, mate.

• Meredith: It's a kind of lonely society, sure.... but it's not a cruel one.

• Meredith: I can't, uh, exactly say the same for where I'm from.

Campsite

• Meredith: UGH. I think something just crawled on my foot.

• Meredith: Did I ever mention my tolerance for bugs is pretty low?

• Meredith: I'm just going to pretend it was a stray blade of grass and really not think about it.

After discovering Night's Bridge Station

• Meredith: So... do you believe it's true?

(Choice between "Do I believe what?" and "What do you mean?")

• Meredith: That the big gateway you found can take us home?

(Choice between "I have to." and "What other choice do I have?")

• Meredith: I... resigned myself to being here forever. It's a little scary to have to start thinking of a future for myself.

• Meredith: You spoke to Ianthe about the gateway, huh?

• Meredith: If the gateway does in fact work, it's gonna cause a whole lot of work for the rangers.

(Choice between "What do you mean?" and "How come?")

• Meredith: People here are gonna have to shift their entire outlooks. New Wirral won't be this place that traps you forever anymore. It'll be a place some people simply... end up, from time to time.

• Meredith: That's assuming that people will even continue to end up here to begin with.

• Meredith: The rangers are like the caretakers of this community, right? They're gonna have to figure out how to manage this whole logistical change.

• Meredith: I'm glad I'm not one of them. Too much work.

After defeating Aleph Null

• Meredith: So much has happened recently, we haven't even had a chance to talk about our big battle against Aleph.

• Meredith: Like, transforming into monsters with cassette tapes is one thing. Fusing with you and becoming a bigger monster is another. But when we all fused together on top of that train?

• Meredith: That was mental.

• Meredith: I'm not sure how to describe it... like with regular fusion, it felt like taking a backseat view to what my body was doing.

• Meredith: But it wasn't just you and me this time. It was all of us, and I could feel our collective desire.

• Meredith: You know what? Archangels are strong, but people are WAY stronger.

Character Interactions in Gramophone Café

Meredith and Kayleigh

• Meredith: ...I really don’t get it.

• Meredith: What is the “inter net”? Half the people in Harbourtown are crying over how much they miss it!

• Kayleigh: Y’know, the internet? Like on computers, or phones?

• Meredith: On phones? Do you speak to people over it?

• Kayleigh: …What was the current year in your world before you came here, Meredith?

• Meredith: 1989, why do you ask?

• Kayleigh: Oh! OK. I can see we’re maybe a little out of sync with each other.

Meredith and Eugene

• Meredith: ...I did have some engineering work to do back at the shop, but I might just swerve it for now.

• Eugene: Yeah! You gotta take a break sometimes, buddy!

• Eugene: …. Wait, what did you say just now?

• Meredith: Uhh, I said I had some engineering work to do?

• Eugene: What did you say after that…?

• Meredith: ...I was gonna swerve it?

• Eugene: Is that a phrase? To “swerve” something?

• Meredith: Oh, I mean, yeah. Like if you’re going to skip out on doing something or going somewhere, that’s you “swerving” it.

• Eugene: OK, gotcha. I shall embrace your unusual slang with an open mind.

• Meredith: I think I’m gonna swerve this whole conversation.

Meredith and Felix

• Meredith: ...My music tastes?

• Felix: Yeah! What did you used to listen to back in your world?

• Meredith: That’s a broad question. I like bands where all the members hate each other.

• Felix: That’s very specific.

• Meredith: I’m a very specific person.

Meredith and Viola

• Viola: I must confess, dear Meredith, the way in which you fashion yourself is unlike any I have seen before – in my country, and in this one.

• Meredith: I’m not sure if that’s a compliment or not.

• Viola: I mean no insult. You seem unconcerned with aligning yourself with the appearance of those around you. It implies a deeper confidence in oneself.

• Viola: I find you rather admirable in that regard, dear Meredith!

• Meredith: Uh, thanks mate.

Meredith and Barkley

• Barkley: Arf!

• Meredith: You like belly rubs, don’t you?

Meredith and Sunny

• Sunny: ...No, I never had to “drink blood” as a Landkeeper...

• Meredith: So you’re not, like, a vampire. But are you sure you aren’t maybe a little bit undead? You look pretty pale.

• Sunny: ”Undead”? I’m not familiar with the word... Is it bad..?

• Meredith: I guess not. I’m just curious about you.

• Sunny: You’re... curious about me...?

• Meredith: Don’t take it the wrong way! You’re like, a living dead girl. Or maybe you’re not. Either way, it’s cool.

• Sunny: So you’re saying you don’t quite understand me, and that interests you...?

• Meredith: I... guess?

Meredith and Frankie

• Frankie: ...I just don’t know, Meredith. If I leave New Wirral, I’m going to have to get a job and all that boring stuff.

• Meredith: You’re just a kid, right? You’ve got some time left before you hit the mundanities of adulthood.

• Frankie: I’m eighteen! I don’t think you’re that much older than me!

• Meredith: Oh. I didn’t realise. I guess you have such a... youthful energy that I mistook you for younger.

• Frankie: I get that a lot!

Here Comes The Sun

(After meeting The Mer-Line)

• Meredith: That didn’t go how I expected.

Magikrab's Gauntlet

(When encountering Meredith)

• Meredith: Well, this is an odd feeling. Time to face myself, I guess.

(When encountering Nowhere Monarch)

• Meredith: Urgh. This thing again.

(When Meredith is on her own)

• Meredith: Oh, great. What have I gotten myself into here?

(When Meredith is the first fighter in a pair)

• Meredith: Alright, I've got a strategy in mind. Here goes: we hit them harder than they hit us. What do you reckon?

(When Meredith is the second fighter in a pair)

• Meredith: Urgh, we're going to lose, aren't we?