Flowers for the Dead was a virtual representation of one of Kassandra's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.
Description[]
Kassandra met a dying old man who wanted to do one last thing before he departed.
Dialogue[]
While near the Knossos Palace, Kassandra met an old man who was collecting flowers.
- Civilian: You there! Misthios!
Kassandra approached the old man.
- Kassandra: What's on your mind, old man?
- Civilian: I'm dying, misthios. I can feel it in my bones. But first, there's something I need to do. Will you help an old man fulfil his dying wish?
I can offer you what drachmae I have left. - Kassandra: I won't deny an old man his final wish. What is it?
- Civilian: I always promised my wife I'd take her to see the red flowers on the summit of the mountain in Zeus' Playground. It's a beautiful place—great view.
But she met the ferryman before me, misthios. I never made good on my promise.
It was always one thing or another, you know?
Children, war, what have you.
- Kassandra: If you'd tried harder, she might have gotten to see the view.
- Civilian: I tell myself that every day.
Just a few would do. Bring them back to me here. I'll be waiting, misthios. And—
I don't have long.
Kassandra headed to Mount Ida and reached the summit.
- Kassandra: This must be the place the old man spoke of.
She found the flowers among the bushes.
- Kassandra: There it is. The flower.
She picked up the flowers.
- Kassandra: The flowers... I should hurry back to the old man near Gortyn.
Kassandra quickly returned to where the old man was at. There, she found a lady near a covered body instead.
- Kassandra: Hades claims another.
- Civilian: In all my life, I've never seen him so peaceful. I hope he's found mater.
Those flowers... Are they— - Kassandra: Yes. He asked me to fetch them.
- Civilian: You silly old man. Is this why you left Pephka? To fetch mater flowers so far from home? You silly, stubborn, old man...
- Kassandra: Here.
Kassandra handed over the flowers.
- Civilian: Thank you so much, misthios.
- Kassandra: He made a promise to his wife. And I made a promise to him.
- Civilian: I don't have anything to offer you—
Outcome[]
Kassandra helped the old man recover flowers for his wife, although he never lived long enough to see Kassandra return with them.
Trivia[]
- Though the in-game model of the flowers on Summit of Mount Ida resembles the poppies, the quest item image doesn't, nor the man's description of them as 'rare'.
- If the flowers are merely given, the only reward for this quest is experience. If a reward is insisted on, the daughter gives the old man's armor and some drachmae.
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