Annihilator 2: Searing Day

Summary

 * 1) Travel back to the year 1070 AE.
 * 2) Search for familiar faces.
 * 3) Find Gwen.
 * 4) Defend Gwen from the G-1000.
 * 5) Escape to Ashford Abbey.
 * 6) Enter the dungeon below Ashford.
 * 7) Lure the G-1000 to the lava pit and throw it inside.
 * 8) Step into the lava pit to erase all evidence of golems from this timeline.
 * 9) See Corporal Bane for your reward.

Obtained from

 * Corporal Bane in Embark Beach

Requirements

 * April Fools' Day 2012

Reward

 * 2,029 XP
 * 1,000 Gold
 * 1,995 Vanguard reputation points

Acceptance Dialogue
Corporal Bane: ''This is bad... I've just received a *CLASSIFIED INFORMATION* from the future. It looks like the Charr have sent a second golem to the past to kill Sarah's daughter, Gwen, when seh's still a child! Unfortunately, we can't go back again until our *CLASSIFIED INFORMATION* stabilizes from the last jump, so we're going to have to go with Plan B. Headquarters has been building its own golem to send back, but its *CLASSIFIED INFORMATION* hasn't been installed yet. I think I can set up the Moahawk controls to interface with it so you can control the golem from this time period with your mind. It should only take a few minutes to modify the controls; when you're ready, let me know, and I'll send your consciousness back to the past to save Gwen!''


 * Accept: The future's not set! I'll save her!
 * Reject: No thanks, I liked the original better.

Intermediate Dialogue 1 (Corporal Bane)
''When you're ready, I can link you up with the golem. I just hope you can do this without your weapons.''


 * Accept: Weapons? Where we're going, we don't need weapons. We have a golem, after all.
 * Reject: Back to the past? Nah, I've already been there.

Intermediate Dialogue 2

 * Corporal Bane: (Alright, it looks like the time leap and golem interface were successful. Can you move?
 * : Yes...I think so. This is a little disorienting.)
 * Corporal Bane: (Unfortunately, even though you can issue commands to the golem, you can't speak through it. But it does have a few preset phrases that you can make it say.)
 * Corporal Bane: ''(Just focus on moving and familiarizing yourself with the golem's skills. We need to find Gwen as soon as possible. I navigated the golem around the wall for you, but you'll have to handle the rest.)
 * Prince Rurik: Well that takes care of Vatlaaw Doomtooth. That'll teach him to mess with Ascalon.
 * Ascalonian Scout: Sir, I'm here to report sightings of what looks like a giant Charr caularon just norht of the wall. It seems they're preparing some kind of a ritual.
 * Prince Rurik: That sounds grave indeedl we't better go and check... Great Dwayna! What in blazes is that monstrosity?
 * Annihilator 2.0: *I AM GO-LEM FROM THE FU-TURE SENT TO COR-RECT THE PAST. TAAKE ME TO GWEN. SHE IS IN DAN-GER*
 * Familiar-Looking Hero: Gwen? You mean Sarah's daughter? I've met her a few times.
 * Prince Rurik: A young child in danger> There's no time to lose! Let's get searching immediately. My father, the king, told me to always listen to strange travelers from the future, after all.
 * Familiar-Looking Hero: Prince Rurik, I want to save Gwen too, but are you sure we shouldn't have sent someone to investigate the Charr cauldron?
 * Prince Rurik: Not to worry soldier. If it were anything important, the golem would have tols us that first, right? The Charr investigation can wait a little longer, I'm sure.

Intermediate Dialogue 3

 * Annihilator 2.0: *TAR-GET AC-QUIR-ED. DAN-GER DE-TEC-TED*
 * Familiar-Looking Hero: What is that thing? Gwen! Get Away!
 * G-1000: TAR-GET LO-CA-TED. PRO-CEED-ING WITH AN-NI-HIL-A-TION*
 * (player): (What was that thing? It didn't look like any golem I've ever seen!)
 * Corporal Bane: (It's a new, more advanced type of golem the Charr have created. Instead of encaseing the crystal core in a solid steel chassis, they are using a crystallic-polymoc alloy.)
 * (player): (What the heck does that mean?)
 * Corporal Bane: (Liquid magic.)
 * Prince Rurik: It just disappeared into the ground! Be on your guard, it may return.
 * Familiar-Looking Hero: We shouldn't stay here, we're too exposed.
 * Prince Rurik: I agree, let's head for Ashford. The monks there may be able to help us deal with the golem.
 * (player): (I'd forgotten how beautiful Ascalon was before the Searing. O wish I could go back to those days.)
 * Corporal Bane: (Its beauty is certainly unparalled, but sometimes you have to move on. You can't spend your life living in the past.)

Intermediate Dialogue 4

 * Brother Menhlo: Ah, Prince Rurik, what brings you to the abbey today?
 * Familiar-Looking Hero: We're in trouble Mhenlo, there's some kind of invincible golem chasing Gwen and...
 * Prince Rurik: Wait this may be the golem in disguise; first, we need to prove that he's really Brother Mhenlo!
 * Prince Rurik: I'll ask a question only the real Brother Mhenlo could answer. What do you love most in this world?
 * Brother Mhenlo: Cynn.
 * Prince Rurik: Hmm... Possibly too easy. What do you fear most in this world?
 * Brother Mhenlo: Also Cynn.
 * Prince Rurik: He's the real one alright. In that case, we need to find a way to kill an evil shape-shifting golem from the future, any ideas?
 * Brother Mhenlo: Perhaps we could lure it into one of the lava pits in the dungeon below the abbey?
 * Prince Rurik: You have a dungeon under the abbey... and it has lava pits?
 * Brother Mhenlo: There are several layers of catacombs beneath the abbey, actually. It seems like a bad idea to build an abbey over a gaping cavern connected to the underworld, but I'm no architect.
 * Prince Rurik: Very well. Let us travel as soon as the golem is ready.

Intermediate Dialogue 5

 * Brother Mhenlo: Quickly, the lava pits are this way!
 * Meerak the Scribe: You can't go down there, Mhenlo, that area has been closed off.
 * Brother Mhenlo: Meerak? What are you doing down here? I thought you were traveling to Foibles Fair today.
 * Prince Rurik: Stand aside, man, this is royal business.
 * Familiar-Looking Hero: Wait, Prince Rurik, something isn't right here.
 * G-1000: *YOU WILL ALL DIE HERE IN THESE CAT-A-COMBS*

Intermediate Dialogue 6

 * Prince Rurik: It's re-forming! We must move now! We can fight it back if we need more time, but defeating it will only be a temporary solution!
 * Brother Mhenlo: This way! To the lava pits!

Intermediate Dialogue 7

 * (player): (Is this really going to work?)
 * Corporal Bane: (If it burns, we can kill it.)

Intermediate Dialogue 8

 * Gwen: Is it dead?
 * Annihilator 2.0: *AN-NI-HIL-A-TED*
 * Familiar-Looking Hero: Well, I just hope that repairs the timeline.
 * Annihilator 2.0: *NO, THERE IS ONE MORE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE HERE*
 * Gwen: Wait, you mean...?
 * Annihilator 2.0: *IT HAS TO END HERE*
 * Corporal Bane: (You have to command the golem into the lava pit. It can't self-annihilate.)

Reward Dialogue
''You did it! The timeline is restored, and Gwen is safe! I sure hope that's the last of these Annihilator golems. All this time travel is giving me a headache.''

Quotes
Prince Rurik Gwen Familiar-Looking Hero
 * "I'll stick close to you. Running off would be suicide."
 * "You know, I meant to send out a scouting party to see what the Charr have been up to lately, but I think it can wait one more day."
 * "You are a pox upon Ascalon, and I'm going to stab you now! Hmm, that battle cry needs some work."
 * "Don't you know who I am? I'm the CROWN PRINCE of Ascalon!"
 * "Is everyone from the future as tall as you?"
 * "You have to listen to the way people talk. You don't say 'affirmative,' you say 'okie dokie.'"
 * "I hid my flute earlier, but I don't remember where I put it."
 * "When I get married, I hope my husband isn't too wishy-washy."
 * ''"One of these days, I'm gonna do something important, you'll see."
 * "You know there are only five gods right now? I bet I'd make a good sixth god."
 * "Ugh! I knew I shouldn't have taken these skills. I don't suppose we can go back to an outpost?"
 * "I hope this doesn't ruin my survivor title."

Trivia

 * Many aspects of this quest are references to the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
 * "Annihilator" is a synonym for "terminator."
 * The repeated *CLASSIFIED INFORMATION* 's are almost certainly a reference to the time traveler Mikuru Asahina, from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. In that series, whenever she tries to say something she's not supposed to, she automatically says *CLASSIFIED INFORMATION* instead of whatever she meant to say, even midsentence.
 * In Annihilator there was a Secret Dialogue which foreshadowed these events.
 * When starting the quest, you will be shown the first ever cutscene of Guild Wars which is also seen when creating a new Prophecies Roleplaying Character. However, it's slightly modified by introducting the Golem.
 * This quest allows you to earn Vanguard reputation and titles even if Eye of the North is not linked to your account.

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