Brother Albern

Brother Albern is an NPC that rarely appears in secret rooms, and always appears in a secret room in the Abbey of the True Gun. He asks the player a question, and regardless of their answer, he rewards the player by allowing them to open his chest, which contains 1-2 pickups or guns/items of random quality. If the player destroys his chest, it has a chance to drop Lies.

Quotes

Introduction:

• "I am Brother Albern, Knower of Several Truths."
• "If thou seek'st to open mine Truth Chest, then ponder mine question thusly..."

Questions and responses:

• "What is thine favourite colour?"
  • Red.
  • Blue.
• "What is Gunpowder made of?"
  • Sulfur, Charcoal, and Potassium-Nitrate.
  • Magic Beans.
• "LASER is an acronym."
  • True.
  • False.
• "What did thou eat for breakfast?"
  • Oatmeal.
  • Punks like you.
• "Dost thou feel lucky?"
  • Yes.
  • No.
• "What number am I thinking of?"
  • 9.
  • 10.
• "What number are you thinking of?"
  • 10.
  • 9.
• "How many fingers am I holding up?"
  • One.
  • All of them.
• "From whence do bullets come from?"
  • A night of hot swaging.
  • The great forge in the sky.
• "Hast thou ever spoken an untruth?"
  • Nope.
  • Only once.

Answering his question:

• "Verily, it must be so! Receive thy reward, O truthful hero!"

Destroying the chest or shooting it with the AKEY-47:

• "Betrayal! It can't be true!"

Trivia

• Destroying his chest has a chance to drop Ser Junkan instead of Lies.
• It is possible for him to appear twice in the Abbey of the True Gun, once through the guaranteed secret room and once through a random secret room.
• "Albern" is German and means "silly".
• "What is thine favourite colour?" is likely a reference to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
• "Dost thou feel lucky?" is likely in reference to the common misquotation "Do you feel lucky, punk?" from the film Dirty Harry.
• Swaging is a forging process in which the dimensions of an object are altered via forcing it into a group of mechanisms called 'dies', which open and close extremely quickly, warping the object into a different (typically smaller) form.