Eugene/Dialogue

These are Eugene's dialogues.

Acting On Your Best Behaviour

Landkeeper HQ

• Eugene: This is supposedly the location of the Landkeeper's Headquarters...

• Eugene: Alright - these creeps are no match for our burning resolve!

• Eugene: ...

• Eugene: Where the hell is the entrance anyway?

(Entrance to HQ opens)

• Eugene: ...

• Eugene: I think I found the entrance.

(Landkeepers and Mammon are revealed from the darkness)

• Eugene: What - how - does that thing... look like that?! It's breaking my brain...

• Eugene: I guess this is an Archangel, huh?

(After Mammon's speech)

• Eugene: I...

• Eugene: That's not... true...

(Choice between "Don't listen to it, Eugene!" and "It's wrong!")

• Eugene: STOP!

• Eugene: I'm not listening any longer!

• Eugene: You won't crush my spirit! That's all your kind knows how to do!

• Eugene: Some bigwig comes along, tries to take everything from the little guy...

• Eugene: And then when the little guy fights back, they're told not to step out of line, right?!

• Eugene: So they don't do anything... And things just get worse!

• Eugene: It's the same old story!

• Eugene: <player>...

• Eugene: Wanna burn down this pile of junk?

(Choice between "You know I do." and "Let's do it.")

(Mid-battle against Mammon)

• Eugene: You're not gonna crush my spirit...

• Eugene: And you won't stop <player> so easily either!

• Eugene: We'll take you on together, and we'll WIN!

(After Mammon is defeated)

• Eugene: This place is falling apart. C'mon, we gotta go!

(The player, Eugene, and the Landkeepers escape the collapsing HQ)

• Eugene: I guess all the Landkeeper agents fled... I wonder what they'll do, now their operation has been shut down?

• Eugene: Man, it was pretty cool when we fused in there.

(Choice between "You think?" and "It was, wasn't it?")

• Eugene: Yeah! It was like an adrenaline rush, except I could feel your will driving me as well as my own. Even an Archangel couldn't stop us!

• Eugene: An Archangel was behind the Landkeepers all along, huh...

• Eugene: What it said there... What if it was true?

• Eugene: Maybe without some cause to champion all the time, I am just a hollow person.

(Choice between "I don't think you're a loser." and "You shouldn't think that way.")

• Eugene: ...

• Eugene: Heh. Thanks, man.

• Eugene: What motivates YOU to do what you do, anyway?

• Eugene: Y'know, you journey around, help people out, fight monsters and all that?

(Choice between "I've discovered a way off the island." and "I'm going to find a way to return home.")

• Eugene: Hmm. Sounds pretty improbable.

• Eugene: I'm in.

(Choice between "Really?" and "Just like that?")

• Eugene: Just like that!

• Eugene: We've stopped the Landkeepers, but I don't wanna just rest my feet.

• Eugene: I don't know if I physically can.

• Eugene: I need something to strive towards. So let's do it. A new cause to work towards. I'm in.

• Eugene: So let's do it. A new cause to work towards.

• Eugene: I'm in.

Relationship Level Scenes

Relationship Level 2

• Eugene: Man, I gotta say...

• Eugene: Monster fusion is pretty exhilarating.

(Choice between "You think?" and "I guess it is!")

• Eugene: Yeah! It's like...

• Eugene: A real manifestation of our inner strength.

• Eugene: Like, in the heat of the moment, our aims align so closely that we can literally become one powerful force.

• Eugene: In that moment, it's like we're unstoppable.

(Choice between "I know what you mean!" and "You sound like an anime character right now.")

If chosen "I know what you mean!":

• Eugene: Man, I knew you'd get it!

If chosen "You sound like an anime character right now.":

• Eugene: Man, I'm trying to be earnest here!

• Eugene: I think I spent too long living without giving back, y'know?

• Eugene: Maybe I'm making up for lost time.

(Choice between "What's the deal with your world?" and "What was happening on your world?")

• Eugene: Eh, don't worry about it. We can talk about it another time.

• Eugene: I'll go back. To my world, I mean. Once you find your doorway outta here, of course.

• Eugene: I'll bring my cassette tapes with me, and I'll stand up for the people who need it the most.

• Player: Like a monster-shaped superhero?

• Eugene: Like a monster-shaped superhero, yeah.

• Eugene: Sounds pretty badass, doesn't it?

Relationship Level 3

• Eugene: I was thinking about how Clémence totally just… decided to run a cafe just because it helped make the town better.

• Eugene: Improving things, making myself useful… that’s the kinda stuff I should be doing!

(Choice between "You don’t need to think about helping people all the time." and "You help enough!")

• Eugene: Heh. If you say so.

• Eugene: Maybe it's just a compulsion that comes from my world.

(Choice between "What do you mean?" and "...Your world?")

• Eugene: Ok, on ‘my earth’, around halfway through the 21st century, there was a kind of… an upheaval.

• Eugene: Humanity’s greed and consumption reached a point where the world couldn’t handle it anymore.

• Eugene: It was like everyone woke up one day and realised that we could survive better by just helping each other instead.

• Eugene: That we didn’t NEED the institutions that ruled over us while killing the planet.

• Eugene: Being able to help the people in your community slowly became more important than being rich and famous, but I was never… very good at it.

• Eugene: Me being here in New Wirral, it’s a chance for me to transform into my best self, so I can return home as someone who can do something with my life.

(Choice between "You don't need to be a hero to have value!" and "You don't need to beat yourself up over this!")

• Eugene: I know, but...

• Eugene: I think I need that for myself.

• Eugene: Anyway, enough from me.

Relationship Level 4

• Eugene: Ok, I’ve decided.

(Choice between "...Decided?" and "Decided on what?")

• Eugene: I have a project in mind.

• Eugene: I’m gonna stop talking about doing something, and just do it.

• Eugene: I’ll make Harbourtown better - just you wait and see.

(Choice between "You already stopped the Landkeepers!" and "You've already done your bit to help Harbourtown!")

• Eugene: I don’t know… stopping something bad doesn’t feel the same as doing something good, right?

• Eugene: Alright, I’m pumped! It’s gonna be awesome, just you wait.

(Choice between "What are you planning?" and "Can you tell me what 'it' is?")

• Eugene: Nah, you’re just gonna have to wait and see!

• Eugene: The “defender of Harbourtown” should be able to keep a secret, after all.

Relationship Level 5

• Eugene: Hey, can I show you something?

• Eugene: I finished my project. I think it's time for the grand opening.

• Eugene: Do you wanna head over now?

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

If chosen "Sure!":

• Eugene: Alright! I'll lead the way.

The player and Eugene stand in front of the first Landkeeper office that they cleared out. The fence around the building is no longer present.

• Eugene: Remember this place, <player>?

• Eugene: This is where we went on our first team-up mission together!

• Eugene: I realised that this ugly old building has been sitting here vacant since we cleared out the Landkeepers, so I thought I could put it to good use!

• Eugene: C’mon, let me show you inside!

The player and Eugene enter the building to see that the interior of the Landkeeper office has been remodeled. Two raised garden boxes with flowers, benches, a rug, some plants and a picture frame now decorate the room.

• Eugene: With the ceiling window, this abandoned office actually gets a lot of natural light during the day.

• Eugene: I figured it could make a nice community garden. Folks could come on over and grow plants and flowers here, and get out of town for a little bit.

(Choice between "When did you do all this?!" and "Where did you find the time for all this?!")

• Eugene: Hey, we don’t hang out ALL the time! I have my own free time away from our adventuring!

• Eugene: So… what do you think?

(Choice between "This is incredible!" and "I love it!")

• Eugene: Y-you actually think so?

• Eugene: I was convinced that this was a really dumb idea.

• Eugene: I'm glad you like it.

(Choice between "You're a pretty cool friend!" and "This is pretty romantic of you.")

If chosen "You're a pretty cool friend!":

• Eugene: Heh, c'mon. Between the two of us, you're the one with the grand aspirations.

• Eugene: You're the one trying to find a way off this island! The limits of time and space don't even hold you back!

• Eugene: I'm looking forward to going back to my real home. I think I've become my best, badass self here.

• Eugene: Let's go, buddy.

If chosen "This is pretty romantic of you.":

• Eugene: Well I guess it was time New Wirral had a new date spot.

(Choice between "I'd say your project was a success!" and "So... that makes this a date?")

If chosen "I'd say your project was a success!":

• Eugene: Heh, c'mon. Between the two of us, you're the one with the grand aspirations.

• Eugene: You're the one trying to find a way off this island! The limits of time and space don't even hold you back!

• Eugene: I'm looking forward to going back to my real home. I think I've become my best, badass self here.

• Eugene: Let's go, buddy.

If chosen "So... that makes this a date?":

• Eugene: Uh, I, I guess so...

• Eugene: If you want it to be, of course.

(Choice between "Not so confident with romance, huh?" and "I've never seen you so nervous!")

• Eugene: I guess you're right.

• Eugene: It’s pretty embarrassing that I can take down an evil cabal of office ghouls no problem…

• Eugene: But struggle to tell my partner-in-crime how I really feel about him/her/them.

• Eugene: Yeah, I guess this is a date.

If chosen "Not now.":

• Eugene: No worries, buddy. Another time.

Romance

• Eugene: You’re pretty quiet. Is everything all good, buddy?

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

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

• Eugene: I… Uh...

• Eugene: I know. I mean, I do too. I’m just nervous.

• Eugene: I think both of us help each other become our best selves.

• Eugene: Together we’re greater than the sum of our parts. It’s like when we fuse!

• Eugene: That said… we might have to break up if we find our way off the island.

• Eugene: You mean a lot to me, but I have my old life that’s waiting for me to return back to. And you do too.

• Eugene: But while we’re together, let’s have fun!

• Eugene: There are people to help, and giant monsters to punch really hard in the face.

• Eugene: The same as always – Harbourtown’s unstoppable power couple!

• Eugene: Though maybe we can pause the adventuring, at least for tonight...

If chosen "Nothing in particular!":

• Eugene: Gotcha.

Campsite and Gramophone Café Conversations

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Platonic

Before completion of Acting On Your Best Behavior

• Eugene: I need to get back to my workout routine soon. I can’t save the world if I’m not at the top of my game, y’know!

• Eugene: Maybe one day some dumbbells will wash up on the beach…

• Eugene: This is in, like, the top ten campfires I've ever helped make.

• Eugene: A really momentous fire. Good work, <player>.

• Eugene: Gathering around a campfire in the wilderness, knowing all the while that giant beasts might attack us at any moment... I think you're thinking the same thing I am right now, <player>.

Choice between "What am I thinking, exactly?" and "What is it?"

• Eugene: You're thinking: ‘this is just what life was like for my caveman ancestors!’

Choice between "What?" and "I've never thought that, ever."

• Eugene: I'm totally right. You were thinking it too, buddy.

Partner Interactions in Gramophone Café

Eugene and Kayleigh

• Kayleigh: ...I don’t understand you, Eugene. You love all this “save the community” stuff, but you don’t want to join the rangers with me?

• Eugene: It’s nothing personal. I’m just a loose cannon, is all. A lone wolf. I can’t abide by an organisation that might hold me back.

• Kayleigh: I don’t think that’s it. I think you’re scared that you might fail the entry test!

• Eugene: Th-that’s not it at all!

Eugene and Meredith

• 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.

Eugene and Felix

• Eugene: ...So you quit your job, because your bosses kept screwing you around?

• Felix: Pretty much. It’s more than that, though. If I went to work somewhere else, I’d just have another boss giving me orders.

• Felix: The only way to break the cycle is to work for myself. No more bosses.

• Eugene: Yeah! That’s the spirit! No more bosses – live on your own terms, man!

• Felix: Though my career plans have hit a roadblock recently. I think it happened after I fell through time and space and ended up living on monster island.

• Eugene: It happens to the best of us!

Eugene and Viola

• Eugene: ...So you washed up on New Wirral after being shipwrecked in a storm, [pause]right?

• Viola: Yes, that is correct.

• Eugene: And you’re looking for your twin brother, Sebastian…

• Eugene: This just sounds really familiar and I don’t know why. Are you famous? Have we met before?

• Viola: I can assure you that I am no-one of notoriety or interest. As for whether we’ve met? I’m sure I would remember someone as spirited as thee, Eugene.

• Eugene: I guess so. Still, your story seems so familiar…

Eugene and Barkley

• Eugene: ...So you’re a dog.

• Barkley: Arf!

• Eugene: …But you can use a cassette player to transform into monsters like the rest of us.

• Barkley: Arf arf!

• Eugene: Are you some kind of… magical talking dog? From another world?

• Barkley: Arf!

• Eugene: Hmm. I guess not.

Here Comes The Sun

(After meeting The Mer-Line)

• Eugene: Well, maybe it’s for the best that we don't fight this one. You know what Helia said about Aleph...