diff --git a/desktop/src-common/advent/screens/rooms/outside_house.clj b/desktop/src-common/advent/screens/rooms/outside_house.clj
index e519621e..045a84df 100644
--- a/desktop/src-common/advent/screens/rooms/outside_house.clj
+++ b/desktop/src-common/advent/screens/rooms/outside_house.clj
@@ -68,38 +68,30 @@
                                                                                         :wizard "Pray tell, how do you, a mere wreckless youth, plan on becoming a knight?"))
                                                              :choices ["By pulling the Sword of Blergh from its stone!"
                                                                        {:run #(actions/respond entities %
-                                                                                               :wizard "Well, well. It sounds I was wrong about you."
-                                                                                               :wizard "Indeed, you are on the path of setting your destructive past behind you."
+                                                                                               :wizard "Well, well. It sounds like you've turned over a new leaf."
                                                                                                :wizard "But know this, the stone cannot be cheated easily."
                                                                                                :wizard "You must fulfill the age-old prophecy."
-                                                                                               :wizard "'The Sword of Blergh with magic sting,' ..."
-                                                                                               :wizard "... 'Shall yield to no earthly king.'"
-                                                                                               :wizard "'To draw from hardened, weathered stone,' ..."
-                                                                                               :wizard "... 'One must have valor, right to the bone.'"
-                                                                                               :wizard "'Worthy in courage, wisdom and might,' ..."
-                                                                                               :wizard "... 'only then with sword he'll fight.'"
-                                                                                               :wizard "'But a hero should he prove not be,' ..."
-                                                                                               :wizard "... 'Only ruin will fall on he.'"
-                                                                                               :wizard "'Should he use guile or guise'..."
-                                                                                               )
+                                                                                               :wizard "'The Sword of Blergh with magic sting,\nShall yield to no earthly king'"
+                                                                                               :wizard "'To draw from hardened, weathered stone,\nHe must have valor, to the bone.'"
+                                                                                               :wizard "'Worthy in courage, wisdom and might,\nOnly then with sword he'll fight.'"
+                                                                                               :wizard "'But a hero should he prove not be,\nOnly ruin will fall on he.'"
+                                                                                               :wizard "'Fight he must, for one more test...'")
                                                                         :choices ["Is this almost over?"
                                                                                   {:run #(do (actions/update-state entities (fn [state] (assoc state :convinced-wizard? true)))
                                                                                              (actions/respond entities %
                                                                                                               :wizard "Patience, boy."
-                                                                                                              :wizard "... 'Such a man will have great surprise.'"
-                                                                                                              :wizard "If this is truely your quest, boy, then I will help you in your quest. "
-                                                                                                              :wizard "But heed the warning from the prophecy: No cheat can pull the Sword of Blergh."
-                                                                                                              :ego "No cheating."
-                                                                                                              :ego "Check."))}
+                                                                                                              :wizard "... 'He will die if not the best.'"
+                                                                                                              :wizard "If this is truely your quest, boy, then I will help you. "
+                                                                                                              :ego "So you're my friend now, Gandarf?"
+                                                                                                              :wizard "No, but I won't kick you out of my house, as long as you behave."))}
                                                                                   "*cough* *cough* *ahem*"
                                                                                   {:run #(do (actions/update-state entities (fn [state] (assoc state :convinced-wizard? true)))
                                                                                              (actions/respond entities %
                                                                                                               :wizard "Excuse you. Moving on..."
-                                                                                                              :wizard "... 'Such a man will have great surprise.'"
-                                                                                                              :wizard "If this is truely your quest, boy, then I will help you in your quest. "
-                                                                                                              :wizard "But heed the warning from the prophecy: No cheat can pull the Sword of Blergh."
-                                                                                                              :ego "No cheating."
-                                                                                                              :ego "Check.")
+                                                                                                              :wizard "... 'He will die if not the best'"
+                                                                                                              :wizard "If this is truely your quest, boy, then I will help you. "
+                                                                                                              :ego "So you're my friend now, Gandarf?"
+                                                                                                              :wizard "No, but I won't kick you out of my house, as long as you behave.")
                                                                                              (utils/save @entities))}]}
                                                                        "By besting swamp, foe, and the occasional bizarre conversation tree."
                                                                        {:run #(do (actions/respond entities %