Strange Yet Familiar
Last updated 2025-10-21
Strange Yet Familiar is a Quality Time Trust Invite for Orphie Magnusson & Magus, that takes place at Port Elpis.
Steps
- Meet Orphie at Port Elpis
Dialogue
- You meet up with Orphie at the dock in Port Elpis
- (Talk to Orphie)
- Orphie: A fish is approaching...
Orphie?- I'm here!
- Orphie: You're here! Magus and I were just watching this guy fish...
- Magus: Your form's off! Pull that left hand back a bit more and you'll have better leverage.
- Fishing Bro: ...
- Magus: Dang it! That fish almost took the bait!
- Fishing Bro: ...
- Orphie: Captain, let's drop it. Fishing requires full concentration. We might be distracting the guy...
- Magus: If he'd been a bit more precise with his cast just now, he might've already reeled in that fish!
- Fishing Bro: Aaaargh! You're just a tail, so shut up!
- Magus: What did you just say—!? You're calling ME, an Intelligent Construct who leads an elite squad and can hit targets with pinpoint accuracy from hundreds of meters away, "just a tail"!?
- Fishing Bro: All that nonsense... but you're still just a tail!
- Orphie: Sorry, sorry! Our bad... We didn't mean to mess up your fishing...
- Magus: I'm not just a tail! Do you have no idea how many impossible foes I've taken down...?
- Fishing Bro: Have you ever caught any fish?
- Magus: Fish? Fish... *cough cough* The name's Magus, and I'm above hunting for prey in the water!
- Fishing Bro: Hmph, I knew it. Can't believe I actually took you seriously... Talk about an amateur trying to teach a pro!
- Magus: What? Amateur? ...You think you know more about muscle mechanics than me!?
- Orphie...
- How about we...
- Orphie: I know what you're thinking, Proxy, we're on the same page...
- Orphie: 3, 2, 1...
- Magus: Wait! I'm not done yet! Damn it, I can totally win this argument!
Orphie, don't you run—
- (While following Orphie)
- Orphie: Hurry up, Proxy!
- Orphie: There's one crucial strategy for dealing with the Captain when she gets like this...
- Orphie: Make a run for it!
- Orphie: Don't be mad, Captain!
- Orphie: Magus can be a bit... abrasive with her words sometimes...
- Orphie: But she doesn't mean any harm!
- Orphie: But, Captain! You might want to think over your words sometimes!
- (Upon approaching the lighthouse)
- Orphie: Is this a lighthouse...?
- (Talk to Orphie)
- Orphie: This lighthouse looks like a nice vantage point... Should give us a perfect view of Port Elpis, right?
- Orphie: Proxy, how about we head up and check it out?
- Sounds good.
Trust increase with Orphie Magnusson & Magus
- Sure.
Significant Trust increase with Orphie Magnusson & Magus
- You climb up the lighthouse with Orphie—
- Orphie: Standing here, I feel like the king of Port Elpis, heheh!
- Magus: Then I'm gonna give the order right now: that smartass from earlier is banned from fishing here!
- Orphie: C'mon, Captain. He only got into an argument with you because you were sort of interrupting him, weren't you?
- Magus: ...Hmph! Perhaps, but he's also at fault!
- Let's talk about something else...
- Quick, distract the Magus!
- Orphie: Yeah, yeah!
- Orphie: Come to think of it... I never had the chance to come up here before so I haven't seen Port Elpis from this angle yet.
- Magus: Indeed... being atop this lighthouse makes the harbor feel somewhat alien.
- Magus: The same thing can display different faces as time passes and perspectives change...
- Orphie: A familiar Port Elpis, a novel Port Elpis... They're all the same Port Elpis... How strange!
- Orphie: Do you prefer the familiar version or the novel version of things?
- I prefer things to be familiar.
- Orphie: Oh yeah? I get it!
- Orphie: Just like my daily life in the squad—waking up at the same time every day, training, meals, training...
- Orphie: Trigger sharing her newly bought red bean buns, Seed pestering me with cryptic words, and Soldier 11 inviting me for extra training...
- Orphie: Captain Magus evaluating everyone's training results at the end of the day.
- Orphie: Each day is an incredibly important routine for me. Sometimes, I have this childish thought of wishing these days would never change...
- That's not childish at all.
- Orphie: R—Really!
- Magus: In this city that can change in an instant due to Hollows, such thoughts might be seen as weakness... but it's precisely because we want to protect this "weakness" that we become strong.
- Magus: Orphie, turn your attachment to the familiar into power that drives you forward!
- Magus: Me, our teammates, and the Proxy... we'll always be here to back you up!
- Orphie: ...Yes, Captain!
- I can understand that.
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- I prefer things to be novel.
- Orphie: Yeah, I often think the same!
- Orphie: It's always such a thrill when you discover an unfamiliar side to something you thought you knew!
- Orphie: Like, sprinkle some nuts on your go-to ice cream, and you've got a whole new texture...
- Orphie: Or when a friend you've known for a long time changes into an outfit they rarely wear, it hits so different...
- Orphie: Or... When the Captain's asleep, sometimes she'll mumble things in her dreams that she'd never say during the day...
- Magus: What?! What did I say?! —And I already told you that isn't sleep talking!
- Orphie: Oh, nothing much, just stuff like "the Proxy is such a capable young man," "Orphie did great today," and about how you cry when watching roman—
- Magus: Hold up, Orphie— zip it!
- Orphie: But you were the one who asked me about it... Alright, alright, I'll stop!
- Maybe these two facets can't be isolated...
- Orphie: Yeah, that's true! Because whether it's the familiar or the novel, they're both part of the same thing...
- Orphie: Maybe it's because we care that we pay attention to its two different sides.
- Right!
- hese two sides together make up the essence...
- Orphie: Yup! When I'm with you, I also can't help but notice these two sides...
- Orphie: When I see that familiar side of you, I feel a bit smug, because it seems I know you pretty well...
- Orphie: When I see an unfamiliar side of you, I think, oh, so this is what they're really like! It's different from what I thought — how fascinating!
- Orphie: The you here before me is made up of both what I know and what I don't know about you.
- Orphie: Please continue showing me your familiar and unfamiliar sides, Proxy!
- Magus: Wait, what's that—
- Magus: Why's there a seagull flying this way? And it's... dive-bombing...?
- Orphie: Did it mark Captain Magus as its prey?
- Orphie: I think it really did—! It's coming—!
- Magus: AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
- Magus: You! You big fat seagull! How dare you attack me! Get your beak away from my barrel!
- Magus: Come any closer and I'll roast your feathers to a crisp—!
- Orphie: Miss Seagull... or Mister? Don't be so mean. Stop picking on the Captain!
- Magus: Orphie! Orphie!
Get this seagull off of me!! Its claws are super sharp; they're stuck in the grooves between my parts! - Together with Orphie, you attempt to chase that audacious seagull away from Magus.
However, neither of you manage to make this stubborn hunter give up its prey...
—You have no choice but to hurry down the lighthouse amid Magus's furious roars. - Orphie: Phew, good thing that seagull didn't chase us all the way down.
- Orphie: Things got a bit chaotic... but hey, that was fun right? Haha!
- Orphie: I feel we've gotten closer after being able to share our thoughts with one another...
- I'm happy too.
- I've gotten to know Orphie better too.
- Magus: All I know is I HATE seagulls!! I am NEVER, EVER going up that lighthouse again!!!
- Trust increase with Orphie Magnusson & Magus
- (Idle in free roam)
- Orphie: Don't be mad, Captain!
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Strange Yet Familiar |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 陌生与熟悉 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 陌生與熟悉 |
| Japanese | 見慣れないもの、慣れ親しんだもの |
| Korean | 낯설고 익숙한 Natseolgo Iksukhan |
| Spanish | Desconocido y familiar |
| French | Inconnu et pourtant familier |
| Russian | Знакомое и незнакомое Znakomoye i neznakomoye |
| Thai | แปลกหน้าทว่าคุ้นเคย |
| Vietnamese | Xa Lạ Và Quen Thuộc |
| German | Fremd und doch vertraut |
| Indonesian | Asing nan Akrab |
| Portuguese | Estranho e Familiar |