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|EventType = Collab
|EventName = Monster Hunter: Primal Crisis
|SectionName = Episode 1
|QuestViewName = Lurker in the Forest
|PreviousQuest = Let the Hunt Begin
|NextQuest = The King's Descent
|ThumbnailImage = 22001_02
|Summary = The prince's party is relieved to discover the Guild Gal from the Soaratorium. However, it seems the chief researcher of the Wycademy left to pursue a Rathalos and hasn't been seen since! After getting some hunter's gear from the Guild Gal, the party sets off to rescue him.
|Dialogue =
<center>''Hoary Woods''</center><br>
{{ST|Berserker}} Behold! A tent in the distance!
{{ST|Felyne}} Meowza! That's the kind of tent hunters use when they're out tracking prey.
{{ST|Vanessa}} What KIND of prey, I wonder?
{{ST|Felyne}} On our world, hunters purr-imarily make their livings hunting monsters.
{{ST|Elisanne}} In that case, it seems safe to assume the owner of this tent is also from your world.
{{ST|???}} I hear you there! Back to try and steal more of my gear, you filthy beasts?!
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Well, I'm happy to share! I've got a big pile of dung bombs all ready for—
{{ST|The Prince}} Wait, stop! We're just people!
{{ST|Felyne}} Hey, that's the Guild Gal!
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Wait, you're alive?! WOOOOO!
{{ST|Felyne}} Nyaaargh! I'm happy to see you, too, but take it easy with those hugs! You almost broke my poor rib.
{{ST|Ranzal}} I take it she's a member of yer crew?
{{ST|Felyne}} Yep! The Guild Gal's job is to refer quests to hunters on the Soaratorium.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} And I am VERY good at it, too. Er, but who are you guys?
{{ST|Felyne}} Oh, that's Prince Euden. He and his pals saved me earlier.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Sounds like we owe you one. Thanks!
{{ST|Notte}} No worries. We pretty much just roll around and help out whoever.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Wait. Is that tiny lady FLYING?! Someone pinch me, quick!
{{ST|Felyne}} Nya.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Ow! ...Yep, still here. So Glasses Guy was right: this IS a completely new world!
{{ST|The Prince}} It does seem to be the case. We don't have flying ships in our world, for example.
{{ST|Elisanne}} Indeed, our sky belongs to the dragons. It's said our ancestors so revered the creatures that they vowed never to tread in their domain.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Well, that's just nutty!
{{ST|Cleo}} We've encountered travelers from other worlds from time to time.
{{ST|The Prince}} Cleo's right—our two worlds must have become interconnected somehow.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} You know, Glasses Guy was saying something about it maybe being caused by tectonic shifts. I dunno about that, but it WAS super weird.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} One minute we're getting the ship ready to take off, and the next...BLAMMO! A huge hole opens up and sucks us in.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Next thing I know, me, Glasses Guy, and the cargo were being flung all over hell and breakfast.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} So we set up a tent and dusted off our survival skills. What else could we do?
{{ST|Cleo}} Apologies, but who is this man you keep referring to as "Glasses Guy," and what has become of him?
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Glasses Guy is the chief researcher at the Wycademy—that's where they study the life cycles of monsters and so forth.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} As for what happened to him, he said he saw a Rathalos, then went running off into the forest after it.
{{ST|Felyne}} A Rathalos came to this world? Now that is a BIG purr-oblem!
{{ST|The Prince}} Sorry, what's a Rathalos?
{{ST|Felyne}} It's a monster referred to as the "King of the Skies." And believe you me, it's the last thing you wanna tangle with.
{{ST|Berserker}} Then we should find this bespectacled researcher before the monster does.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} You'd do that for us?!
{{ST|Berserker}} The King of the Skies sounds like a most worthy foe indeed!
{{ST|Ranzal}} That's all you care about, ain't it?
{{ST|The Prince}} Regardless, it sounds like this man is in trouble, and we need to help him.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Oh man, you guys are the BEST! And since you're being so helpful, I've got a little something I managed to scrounge from a cargo crate...
{{ST|Notte}} Ooo! What are those?
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} This here is bona fide hunter gear! No need to worry about running into a monster when you're wearing this.
{{ST|The Prince}} And we can just have these?
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} They were intended for emergency use, and I'd say this qualifies! There's one male set and one female, so you guys divvy 'em up however you want.
{{ST|Vanessa}} Ooo, me! Me, me, meeeeee! Lemme just duck into your tent for a second and change...
{{ST|The Prince}} Looks like Berserker is the only one who'd fit into the men's set.
{{ST|Berserker}} I need no such baubles.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Look, Rathalos can breathe fire. ...FIRE. But this gear is made from the scales and parts OF a Rathalos, which means that fire will just bounce right off you!
{{ST|Berserker}} Nevertheless, I fight best in the gear to which I am accustomed.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Is this some sort of male pride thing?
{{ST|Ranzal}} More of a "he's nuts" thing.
{{ST|Hunter Vanessa}} Sooo? What do you think?
{{ST|Elisanne}} It looks wonderful on you, Vanessa!
{{ST|Hunter Vanessa}} That's good to hear—because it FEELS like I could take down anything right now!
{{ST|Hunter Vanessa}} There's some serious power in these duds, lemme tell you what.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} That's because it was made from an elusive elder dragon called a Kirin.
{{ST|Berserker}} Then if we are all prepared, let us go forth and do battle with this Rathalos!
{{ST|Cleo}} Please try to remember that our ACTUAL goal is to protect the researcher.
{{ST|Soaratorium Gal}} Be careful out there, guys. And good luck!
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{{ST|Chief Researcher}} Fiddlesticks! Me, of all people, spotted in the midst of my observations. Whatever am I to do now?!
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