The Tortoise and the Pebble

In the game "Okage Shadow King" there is a story the player might run into a few times. This story is called "The Tortoise and the Pebble


 * Spoilers*

According to the story, there once was a tortoise who had a baby. One day, the tortoise lost her baby and couldn't find it anywhere. Everyday the tortoise looked forthe baby but couldn't find here. Eventually, the tortoise found a pebble that looked exactly like her baby's shell, but this wasn't her baby. Unfortunatlely, she thought it was and she took the pebble and started raising it as her baby.

Everyone kept telling her that that wasn't a baby; it was a pebble. The tortoise kept denying it and saying it was in fact her baby. This is where the person telling the story can't finish, because he/she cracks up laughing.

There is one person who why this happens in the game: the gearman in Popos Snowfield (located between Triste and the Traverse Tunnel). After the player collects at least 30 tiny gears and gives to the gearman who then gives the Sword of Gear (50 attack and 30 defence, Ari's weapon) to player, only then, he reveals the secret of the story.


 * Biggest Spoiler*

The gear man tells you that the story was actually made to make fun of Beiloune. After Beiloune heard of this, he quickly erase the ending of the story, with the power of "classification". Simply, the story is classified as a joke that is so funny that no one can finish it. Beiloune did this because the story portrayed him as the tortoise who lost her baby. Beiloune lost Marlene in his world, just like the tortoise lost her baby. Beiloune also replaced Marlene with a doll who looks exactly like Marlene, just like the tortoise replaced her baby with a pebble. Unlike the story, however, Beiloune actually knows that he lost his daughter, and he is simply trying to illude himself by creating a doll. Beiloune, even he is the antagonist in the game, has emotions, and is suffering the pain of losing his daughter.

Beiloune classfied this story as a joke and eliminated the ending. This is why no one is able to finsh telling the story.