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Star-crossed Rivals

Pugilist class quest, level 25. 144th of 180 in play order.

Quest giver: Hamon, Ul'dah - Steps of Nald (X 9.7, Y 10.4).

Next: Blast from the Past ›

Steps

  1. Speak with Chuchuto.
  2. Meet Chuchuto at Little Ala Mhigo.
  3. Deploy striking dummies.
  4. Report to Chuchuto.
  5. Report to Hamon at the Pugilists' Guild.
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Journal
  1. Hamon appears to be in higher spirits.
  2. In his eagerness to regain his former strength, Hamon has overtrained and injured himself. Once again, he bids you seek out Chuchuto for your next lesson.
  3. Chuchuto has a challenge in mind that you should find stimulating. Make ready for your lesson, and rendezvous with her at Little Ala Mhigo in southern Thanalan.
  4. It turns out your training is to help prepare for Master Hamon's training. Take the striking dummies Chuchuto has entrusted to you, and deploy them at the specified locations.
  5. You have deployed all the striking dummies. Report back to Chuchuto.
  6. Upon returning to Little Ala Mhigo, you are suddenly assailed by Rurukuta and his minions. With Chuchuto's aid, you succeed in subduing him, and finally learn his true agenda. Rurukuta only wants his master to live, even if it means swallowing his pride and running from the impending fight. Satisfied that Hamon is in good hands, Rurukuta takes his leave. Return to the Pugilists' Guild and report all that transpired to your guildmaster.
  7. While appreciative of Rurukuta's sentiments, Hamon is more determined than ever to confront Weggfarr. He bids you keep up your training, lest you be left behind in his dusty wake. ※The next pugilist quest will be available from Hamon upon reaching level 30.
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Easter egg The bastet Rurukuta sends at you shares its name with Bastet, a goddess of ancient Egypt who came to be shown as a cat.
Title reference The title plays on 'star-crossed lovers' from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, two people kept apart by fate. Here it is two rivals, Chuchuto and Rurukuta, old friends who now stand on opposite sides.
Characters 3

  • Hamon

    Hamon is in high spirits and eager to train for his rematch with Weggfarr.

    What you know from earlier quests 5
    • #2 Way of the Pugilist: Hamon first mistakes you for his errand boy and panics about a dancer. Then he welcomes you to the guild, explains that pugilists fight fast with fists and feet, sends you to hunt vermin, and gives you a hunting log.
    • #25 Harder than Rock: Hamon makes you sprint around Ul'dah to collect his scattered gil, and teaches you to pace yourself. He sends you to fight earth sprites at the trial stones, praises you, and introduces his assistant Chuchuto. He mentions one other early student, then stops.
    • #46 Burning Up the Quarter Malm: Hamon teaches you the combo Bootshine, True Strike, then Snap Punch. He likes to tell how he beat the marauder Wideaxe. He took in Chuchuto and Rurukuta as starving orphans and worries about her slump. He lets you join other guilds.
    • #72 The Spirit Is Willing: Hamon agrees to catch somnus (a drug) smugglers for a fan. At the hideout he finds his student Rurukuta among them. Rurukuta reveals he saw a marmot beat Hamon. Hamon admits old age took his strength, apologizes, and leaves to be alone.
    • #110 Keeping the Spirit Alive: The hornet stingers remind Hamon of his youth. He fights you and feels alive again. His old rival Weggfarr Wideaxe offers a public rematch, the guild as prize, and Hamon accepts. He admits he is weak but says fighting you reminds him who he was.

  • Chuchuto

    Chuchuto wants to keep helping Hamon regain his strength for the rematch.

    What you know from earlier quests 4
    • #25 Harder than Rock: Chuchuto is Hamon's right hand and his very first student, who joined just after he became guildmaster. She is cheerful, wants to master the art with you, and steers talk away from the past. She asks for her gil, needed for gear repairs.
    • #46 Burning Up the Quarter Malm: Chuchuto teases Hamon, who tells tales of beating Wideaxe but never shows his skill. She praises your fast progress. Hamon says she has been in a slump since her closest friend and rival, Rurukuta, vanished from the guild. Both were orphans Hamon took in.
    • #72 The Spirit Is Willing: Chuchuto fights beside you and explains that somnus, made from dream flowers, can cause endless sleep. She confronts Rurukuta at the hideout. After seeing Hamon's weakness, she still respects him, owes him her life, and teaches you Steel Peak to rekindle his spirit.
    • #110 Keeping the Spirit Alive: Chuchuto sends you to Drybone to strike the trees marked by Hamon's fists and fight hornet clouds, as he did in his youth. Her plan works. She is dismayed when Hamon agrees to Weggfarr's rematch with the guild as the prize.

  • Rurukuta

    Rurukuta works for Weggfarr in the Alacran, away from the guild that raised him.

    What you know from earlier quests 3
    • #46 Burning Up the Quarter Malm: Hamon mentions Rurukuta as Chuchuto's closest friend and rival. Both were born to refugees, orphaned in the Calamity, and taken in by Hamon. Rurukuta suddenly disappeared, and nobody knows what became of him.
    • #72 The Spirit Is Willing: Rurukuta is the silver-haired Lalafell smuggling somnus (a drug) with the Alacran criminals. He left the guild after he secretly saw a common marmot beat Hamon. He calls Hamon a liar about his strength and flees after the fight.
    • #110 Keeping the Spirit Alive: Rurukuta arrives at the guild with Weggfarr Wideaxe, Hamon's old rival. Weggfarr says Rurukuta now works for him in the Alacran, and that he was surprised to learn Rurukuta trained under the Holyfist.
What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
  • Hamon has overtrained and hurt his back, so Chuchuto teaches you. He grumbles about the dangerous dummy spots and his hidden grog, says Chuchuto would make a fine guildmaster, calls Rurukuta good-hearted, and refuses to run from Weggfarr.
  • Chuchuto has you place striking dummies in dangerous spots for Hamon's training. When Rurukuta attacks you, she defends you, fights him, and learns he only wants Hamon alive. She feels relieved, and hides Hamon's grog until he trains.
  • Rurukuta attacks you with his beasts, thinking you are a bad influence on Hamon. He left the guild in shock and fell in with bad people, but he only wants Hamon to live and avoid the fight. He leaves Hamon in your care.
Dialogue 47 lines

Accepting the quest

Duty calls. Proceed with “Star-crossed Rivals”?

Yes

No

Hamon

Hah hah hah! I swear, each time I see you, you remind me more and more of my younger self. At this rate, you're like to transform into a handsome devil before the moon's over!

  • FR À ce rythme, tu mériteras bientôt le surnom de “Poings divins” comme moi ! ‘At this rate, you will soon deserve the nickname "Divine Fists" like me!’ English jokes you will become a handsome devil; French says you will soon earn his own nickname.
  • DE Wenn du so weitermachst, wird dir schon bald keiner mehr etwas vormachen können! ‘If you keep this up, soon no one will be able to fool you anymore!’ English jokes you will become a handsome devil; German says soon no one will be able to fool you.
  • JA さらなる鍛錬をつんできたようじゃなぁ！ ‘It seems you have trained even further!’ English jokes you will become a handsome devil; Japanese only remarks that you have trained further.

Now then, I believe you're here to learn. Unfortunately, I'm in no condition to teach.

  • JA お主だけではなく、ワシだって鍛錬を続けておる！ ‘Not only you, I too keep up my training!’ English says he is in no condition to teach; Japanese says he too keeps up his training.

This is rather embarrassing to admit...but in my eagerness to prepare for the big rematch, I've overtrained and thrown my back out. I tell you, old age is hells... I fear Chuchuto will have to tend to you in my stead.

Speak with Chuchuto.

Chuchuto

It seems the prospect of facing his old rival has lit a veritable fire under Master Hamon's backside. I am so relieved to see that he has a purpose again. The trick now is to keep a lid on his zeal, lest he injure himself!

But let us speak of your lesson. When you are ready, come and meet me at Little Ala Mhigo. I have a challenge in mind that you are certain to find...stimulating!

Meet Chuchuto at Little Ala Mhigo.

Chuchuto

I've been waiting for you, [name]. Today, your training will be...to prepare for Master Hamon's training!

Report to Chuchuto.

Chuchuto

I've brought with me a set of striking dummies, and I want you to deploy them at certain locations.

Lest you think this task to be drudgery, the locations are rife with peril. Your skills will most certainly be put to the test.

By way of advice, if you must approach dangerous fiends, lightness of foot is your greatest ally.

  • FR Si je dois vous donner un conseil, c'est de ne pas lâcher des yeux les créatures agressives que vous pourriez croiser. ‘If I must give you one piece of advice, it is not to take your eyes off the aggressive creatures you may come across.’ English advises lightness of foot; French advises never taking your eyes off aggressive creatures.
  • DE Erinnere dich an dein Training, wenn du es mit gefährlichen Gegnern aufnehmen musst, und du wirst nichts zu befürchten haben. ‘Remember your training when you must take on dangerous foes, and you will have nothing to fear.’ English advises lightness of foot; German advises remembering your training.

Off with you now, [name]─go set up those striking dummies. I shall await your return!

How goes it? Let me know when you have deployed all the striking dummies.

Excellent work, [name]! All that's left is to have Master Hamon come and train!

What are you doing here!?

Rurukuta

That adventurer is a negative influence on Master Hamon. I'm going to see to it she/he never bothers him again.

  • JA ……お前らが余計なことをすると、師匠が、強くなる。 ‘If you lot go meddling, Master gets stronger.’ English calls the adventurer a negative influence; Japanese says their meddling makes Master stronger.

Chuchuto

What are you talking about!? [name]'s the best thing that's happened to Master in years! If you want a piece of her/him, you'll need to deal with me, too!

  • JA アンタって……心まで腐っちゃったのね！ ‘You... you've gone rotten right down to your heart!’ English asks what he is talking about; Japanese says his heart has gone rotten too.

Why, Rurukuta? Why are you so bent on bringing down Master Hamon and seeing the guild in ruins?

Rurukuta

You have it all wrong! I'm doing this for Master's own sake!

  • JA これは全て、俺の意志！ ‘This is all my own will!’ English says he acts for Master's own sake; Japanese says it is all his own will.

It's true I left the guild for the shock of seeing Master in that pathetic state. And it's true I got involved with some unsavory types. But where else was I supposed to go? Me, a refugee without a gil to his name!

  • FR Mais que pouvais-je faire alors, sans famille ni le moindre gil en poche ? ‘But what could I do then, without family or a single gil in my pocket?’ English calls him a refugee; French says he had no family.
  • JA 飛び出した後……金も、身よりも、学もない俺を受け入れてくれたのは、裏社会だけだった。 ‘After I ran off... the only ones who took in someone like me, with no money, no kin and no schooling, were the underworld.’ English calls him a refugee; Japanese says he had no kin and no schooling.

But for all the ungrateful things I've done, I've never forgotten how Master Hamon took me in and instructed me in the ways of the fist. This is why I want him to give up his foolish notion of facing Weggfarr.

You don't know that man like I do, Chuchuto. Should this fight come to pass, I fear Master won't walk away with his life.

It doesn't matter that Master has grown weak and feeble. I just want him to live, even if it means having him swallow his pride.

  • JA だから……だからせめて……師匠には、弱いままでいてほしい。 ‘So... so at least... I want Master to stay weak.’ English says Master's weakness does not matter; Japanese says he wants Master to stay weak.

Chuchuto

Oh, Rurukuta... Why didn't you just say so?

But now that I know your mind, I can say with confidence that you have no cause to fear.

[name] is not the plague that you think she/he is. It's her/his will to succeed that's inspiring Master to regain his former strength. And when the day of the rematch finally comes, I've no doubt he will wallop that odious Weggfarr to the seventh hell and back!

Rurukuta

I pray you're right. But whatever happens, know that I cannot help you, not where I am. Chuchuto, [name]...I leave Master Hamon in your care.

Chuchuto

Gods, that felt liberating! Trading blows with Rurukuta and learning his true agenda─a great burden has been lifted off my chest!

Let us return to the guild, [name]. You've had your training, and now it's time for Master Hamon's!

Report to Hamon at the Pugilists' Guild.

Hamon

Welcome back, [name]. I'm told you've kindly set up some dummies for me.

But gods, woman/man, did you have to put them in such dangerous places!?

To make matters worse, Chuchuto's hidden my grog and says I won't see a drop of it till I've finished training! How the hells am I supposed to loosen my phlegm now!?

  • FR Et pour couronner le tout, Chuchuto m'a dit que je ne pourrai pas manger avant d'avoir fini mon entraînement ! ‘And to top it all off, Chuchuto told me I won't be able to eat until I've finished my training!’ English says Chuchuto hid his grog; French says she will not let him eat.
  • FR Je commence à me demander si vous avez le moindre respect pour votre vieux maître, tou(te)s les deux. ‘I'm starting to wonder whether you have the slightest respect for your old master, the two of you.’ English jokes about loosening his phlegm; French wonders whether they respect their old master.
  • JA まったく、本当余計なこ……ゴホン、本当に師匠想いの弟子たちじゃのう！ ‘Honestly, such meddl... ahem, what students, truly devoted to their master!’ English jokes about loosening his phlegm; Japanese has him catch himself and praise his devoted students.

That girl will make a fine guildmaster when the time comes...

  • FR Ah, au fait, elle m'a aussi raconté pour Rurukuta. ‘Ah, by the way, she also told me about Rurukuta.’ English praises Chuchuto as a future guildmaster; French says she also told him about Rurukuta.
  • JA ……それと、ルルクタのことも聞いた。 ‘...And I also heard about Rurukuta.’ English praises Chuchuto as a future guildmaster; Japanese says he also heard about Rurukuta.

I heard about Rurukuta as well, of course. For all his shortcomings, the boy has a good heart.

But while his concern is touching, I won't run from Weggfarr! Not today, and not ever!

On that note, I'd best get ready for my little jaunt to Little Ala Mhigo. If I can't face down a few mindless beasts, I'm in no shape to challenge Weggfarr. Don't slack off, [name], or I'll leave you in my dusty wake!

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Defeat Rurukuta and his minions!

Rurukuta

Out of my way, Chuchuto!

Chuchuto

No! I won't let you hurt [name]!

Rurukuta

Hounds! Tear that woman/man apart!

Chuchuto

The war hound is trouble, [name]! Finish it quick as you can!

Rurukuta

Grrr... You leave me no choice!

Chuchuto

A bastet!? Where did you find that thing!?

That creature will sap your strength! Avoid its gaze!

Urgh... You've grown strong, Rurukuta!

Y-You leave [name]...alone...

  • FR Pardon, [name]... Il est trop fort pour moi... ‘Sorry, [name]... He's too strong for me...’ English has her defiantly tell him to leave [name] alone; French has her apologize that he is too strong.
  • JA ごめん、[name]……私……守れなかった……。 ‘Sorry, [name]... I... couldn't protect you...’ English has her defiantly tell him to leave [name] alone; Japanese has her apologize for failing to protect you.