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Washed Up
Main story quest #5, level 7. 39th of 102 in play order.
Quest giver: Staelwyrn, Middle La Noscea (X 25.6, Y 17.0).
Steps
- Speak with the slacking yeomen.
- Report to Staelwyrn.
Journal
- Staelwyrn is up in arms, as his hired hands are nowhere to be found.
- Staelwyrn has work around Summerford Farms for his crew, but several of them are nowhere to be found. The old pirate captain requests that you round up the delinquent yeomen and send them back to him.
- You have tracked down and spoken with all five yeomen. Report back to Staelwyrn.
- Staelwyrn informs you that all the yeomen have returned to work except Sevrin
. He is ill pleased by this, but does not hold you responsible for his own man's failings.
Hidden
rude way of sending you away plays on the insult 'and the horse you rode in on'. People aim it at strangers who are not welcome. Here, Eorzea's chocobo takes the place of the horse.
just confirms the 'swill' that both drinks share.Spoiler about later in the story
Foreshadowing Watch Sevrin, the one farm worker who won't come back to work. His secrets drive Double Dealing, Plowshares to Swords and Just Deserts (steps 6, 8 and 9).
idle line explains the farm's name: 'All the seasons have their place, but Summerford was named after the one that suits her best.'Characters 5
Staelwyrn is angry because Sevrin
and other farmhands have vanished just when there is work to do at Summerford Farms.What you know from earlier quests 4
- #19 On to Summerford: Staelwyrn introduces himself as the 'old bastard'. Many workers are his old pirate crew; the Calamity wrecked their ship and badly hurt him. He took Admiral Merlwyb's
farming offer, but his men never took to the soil. His name means 'Still Snake'. - #29 Kobolds Ahoy: Staelwyrn praises Ostfyr's
caution, but says the Sahagin swarming at his gates need his attention first. Still, he respects the Yellowjackets too much to ignore their warning, and takes it to heart. - #31 Dressed to Call: Staelwyrn warns the ex-pirates here are still rogues who respect strength. Once your gear passes, he has work for you. In small talk, he says he captained a pirate ship until the Calamity (a great disaster), then dragged his unwilling crew here.
- #37 Lurkers in the Grotto: Staelwyrn worries his ex-pirate farmhands may be tempted back to piracy. He agrees the
knife points to pirates. He vouches for Y'shtola
, who often studies aether (magic energy) near Summerford. He thanks you. His name means 'Still Snake' in old Roegadyn.
- #19 On to Summerford: Staelwyrn introduces himself as the 'old bastard'. Many workers are his old pirate crew; the Calamity wrecked their ship and badly hurt him. He took Admiral Merlwyb's
Sevrin is one of the ex-pirate farmhands at Summerford Farms. Staelwyrn
calls him a sea-sloth who is never around when there is work.
Aylmer is one of the ex-pirate farmhands at Summerford Farms, away from work when Staelwyrn
calls for the crew.
Sozai Rarzai is one of the ex-pirate farmhands at Summerford Farms, away from work when Staelwyrn
calls for the crew.Wauter is one of the ex-pirate farmhands at Summerford Farms, skipping work with a mug in hand.
What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
- Staelwyrn asks you to round up his slacking farmhands instead of doing their work, so they learn. All return except Sevrin, who has slipped away from him countless times. He does not blame you and vows to put Sevrin in the dirt.
- Sevrin mocks you as Staelwyrn's errand runner and says he does not care for landlubbers. He tells you to ride off on your chocobo (riding bird). He promises to come, but he is the only one who does not return to work.
- Aylmer acts tough and claims to take no guff from 'glorified gardeners'. Still, Aylmer agrees to go and see what Staelwyrn wants, if only to stop the nagging.
- Sozai Rarzai says no one can work on an empty stomach and dares you to guess breakfast, which tasted like wood. Still, Sozai Rarzai does not refuse a summons from the captain.
- Wauter says hands busy lifting a mug cannot work, and bets you cannot guess the drink. It is swill. Wauter agrees to do Staelwyrn's chores if that earns a taste of proper grog.
What the Japanese, French and German versions say 9
Japanese
EN Washed Up
JA 「陸にあがった海賊」, 'pirates out of water'
It echoes the saying 「陸に上がった河童」, 'a kappa on dry land'. A kappa is a water spirit, so the saying means someone useless out of their element.
EN 'Oh, and just so we're clear─I don't care for landlubbers. Go find the chocobo you rode in on, and ride on out.'
JA 「お前のような、どこのチョコボの骨かわからんヤツとは、関わらないに越したことないからな、あばよ！」, 'Best not to get mixed up with the likes of you, some nobody from who knows whose chocobo stable. So long!'
It bends the insult 'some horse's bones', for a nobody of doubtful origin. Both versions swap the horse for a chocobo.
EN 'Wanton slaughter.' · 'You bet your bosom/beard I did, lass/lad! Aye, those were the days... I reckon now I'll have to be satisfied takin' my axe to the trees.'
JA 「外科医」, 'Surgeon' · 「あたりだ、まあ、この斧を見りゃ、察しがつくか？船じゃ毎日、誰かの手足をぶった切ってたもんさ。」, 'Right you are. Well, one look at this axe and you'd guess, eh? On the ship I chopped off someone's arms and legs every day.'
It is one guess for Eyrimhus's
old job on the ship. The English option is plain killing.
French
EN 'That sea-sloth Sevrin and his lot─never around when there's work to be done!'
FR «J'en étais sûr... Sevrin et sa clique ont encore décidé de jouer les filles de l'air. Ils savent pourtant que c'est l'heure de se mettre au boulot.», 'I knew it... Sevrin and his gang have decided to do a vanishing act again. And they know full well it's time to get to work.'
The idiom means to make off.
EN 'Damn right! Didn't get where I am by takin' guff from any glorified gardeners! ...But I s'pose I could see what he wants to get him off my back.'
FR «Bien joué ! Prendre la poudre d'escampette, c'est ma grande spécialité... mais comme tu as deviné juste, je vais sagement aller travailler.», 'Nice one! Making myself scarce is my great speciality... but since you guessed right, I'll be good and go to work.'
To take 'the escape powder' means to run off, and Aylmer boasts it is his speciality. The English has no idiom.
EN 'Wanton slaughter.' · 'You bet your bosom/beard I did, lass/lad! Aye, those were the days...'
FR «Médecin», 'Doctor' · «Dieu sait combien de bras et de jambes j'ai tranchés avec...», 'God knows how many arms and legs I've cut off with it...'
Like in Japanese, you can guess a ship's doctor, and Eyrimhus makes the same amputation joke.
German
EN 'Wanton slaughter.' · 'You bet your bosom/beard I did, lass/lad! Aye, those were the days... I reckon now I'll have to be satisfied takin' my axe to the trees.'
DE „Äh, Chirurg?“, 'uh, surgeon?' · „Und meine Axt hat mir dabei immer gute Dienste geleistet. Zack, ein Arm! Wusch, ein Bein!“, 'And my axe always served me well: whack, an arm! whoosh, a leg!'
Eyrimhus tells the same surgeon joke, with sound effects.
EN 'Ash tuna.'
DE „Ein Käse-Schinken-Brötchen. Ohne Käse. Und ohne Schinken.“, 'A cheese-and-ham roll. No cheese. And no ham.'
It is one guess for Sozai Rarzai's small breakfast: a bare roll.
EN 'You have tracked down and spoken with all five yeomen.'
DE „Du hast mit Sevrin und den anderen Ackerpiraten gesprochen.“, 'You have spoken with Sevrin and the other field pirates.'
Acker is 'a ploughed field'. The ex-pirate farmhands have this nickname across the Summerford quests.
Dialogue 17 lines
Accepting the quest
Staelwyrn
That sea-sloth Sevrin and his lot─never around when there's work to be done!
- FR J'en étais sûr... Sevrin et sa clique ont encore décidé de jouer les filles de l'air. Ils savent pourtant que c'est l'heure de se mettre au boulot. ‘I knew it... Sevrin and his gang have decided to do a vanishing act again. And they know full well it's time to get to work.’ The idiom means to make off.
I'd sooner hire you for the sake of gettin' things done, but then the rapscallions would never learn.
- FR Ça ne m'étonnerait pas qu'ils soient en train de se la couler douce quelque part dans les vergers. ‘It wouldn't surprise me if they were taking it easy somewhere in the orchards.’ English: he'd rather hire you to get the work done, but they'd never learn; French: they're probably idling in the orchards.
- JA おおかた、またどこかでサボってるんだろう。 ‘Most likely they're slacking off somewhere again.’ English: he'd rather hire you to get the work done, but they'd never learn; Japanese: they're probably slacking off somewhere.
Round them up and let them know that Staelwyrn would like a word... And don't take no for an answer!
- FR Ils refuseront sûrement d'obéir simplement aux ordres de quelqu'un qui n'a pas été pirate comme eux, mais si tu joues leur jeu, ça devrait marcher. ‘They'll surely refuse to simply obey orders from someone who wasn't a pirate like them, but if you play their game, it should work.’ English: don't take no for an answer; French: play along with their game and it should work.
Speak with the slacking yeomen
Sevrin
Aye, I'm Sevrin. You the old man's errand girl/boy, now?
- FR Y peut pas me foutre la paix, le vieux... ‘He can't bloody well leave me in peace, the old man...’ French has Sevrin gripe that the old man won't leave him alone, rather than mock you.
- DE Der Alte kann aber auch nichts alleine machen! ‘The old man really can't do anything on his own!’ German mocks Staelwyrn as unable to do anything alone; English mocks you as his errand runner.
- JA ああ、確かに俺がセヴリンだが……あんた、シュテールヴィルンの爺さんと話してた冒険者か。 ‘Yeah, I'm Sevrin all right, but... you're the adventurer who was talking with old man Staelwyrn, huh.’ Japanese has Sevrin merely recognise you from earlier; no "errand girl/boy" jibe.
Tell my dear old captain not to wet his britches. I'll be along.
- DE Mal sehen, welche Sklavenarbeit sich der Alte diesmal für uns ausgedacht hat. ‘Let's see what slave labor the old man has come up with for us this time.’ English jokes the captain shouldn't wet his britches; German grumbles about the old man's slave labor.
- FR J'vais aller voir l'autre antiquité. ‘I'll go and see that old antique.’ French calls Staelwyrn an "antique"; the English jibe about wetting his britches is absent.
- JA 爺さんめ、余計なマネを……ふん、じゃあ行ってやるよ。 ‘That old man, meddling where it isn't wanted... hmph, fine, I'll go then.’ Japanese has Sevrin grumble about the old man's meddling; no britches jibe.
Oh, and just so we're clear─I don't care for landlubbers. Go find the chocobo you rode in on, and ride on out.
- JA お前のような、どこのチョコボの骨かわからんヤツとは、関わらないに越したことないからな、あばよ！ ‘Best not to get mixed up with the likes of you, some nobody from who knows whose chocobo stable. So long!’ It bends the insult 'some horse's bones', for a nobody of doubtful origin. Both versions swap the horse for a chocobo.
- FR D'toute façon, j'ai pas trop envie de perdre mon temps avec une cruche/un guignol de ton genre. ‘Anyway, I don't much feel like wasting my time with a dimwit/a clown of your sort.’ French insults you as a dimwit or clown; no "landlubber" or chocobo line.
- DE Halt dich in Zukunft da raus, klar?! ‘Stay out of it in future, clear?!’ German tells you to keep out of their business; no "landlubber" or chocobo line.
Aylmer
So, Staelwyrn sent you. And what do you reckon I say to that?
- DE Aber wenn du auch nur ein bisschen Sympathie für mich aufbringst, komme ich glatt mit. ‘But if you can muster even a little sympathy for me, I'll come right along.’ German asks for sympathy as the price of coming; English asks you to guess his answer.
Damn right! Didn't get where I am by takin' guff from any glorified gardeners! ...But I s'pose I could see what he wants to get him off my back.
- FR Prendre la poudre d'escampette, c'est ma grande spécialité... mais comme tu as deviné juste, je vais sagement aller travailler. ‘Taking to my heels is my great specialty... but since you guessed right, I'll dutifully go to work.’ English: he won't take guff from glorified gardeners; French: running off is his great specialty.
- DE Es fällt mir nicht leicht, mich an das sesshafte Leben an Land zu gewöhnen. ‘It's not easy for me to get used to settled life on land.’ English: he won't take guff from glorified gardeners; German: he finds settled life on land hard.
- DE Aber ich will es noch einmal versuchen, schließlich habe ich mein Piratenehrenwort gegeben. ‘But I'll try once more; after all, I gave my pirate's word of honor.’ English: he'll go to get Staelwyrn off his back; German: he'll go because he gave his pirate's word.
- JA オレの自慢といえば、逃げ脚だけでね……まあ、今回は約束どおり、逃げずに仕事に行ってやるよ。 ‘All I can boast of is my legs for running away... well, this time, as promised, I'll go to work without running off.’ English: he won't take guff from glorified gardeners; Japanese: running away is the only thing he can boast of.
Eyrimhus
Axes were made for splittin' skulls, not stumps! You know what I did in my sailin' days?
- DE Löwenzahn pflücken ist doch keine Arbeit für einen Seebären wie mich. ‘Picking dandelions is no work for an old sea dog like me.’ English: axes are for splitting skulls, not stumps; German: picking dandelions is no job for a sea dog.
- JA 木いじりなんざ、俺の自慢の斧が泣くぜ……おまえ、俺が昔、船で何してたか、わかるか？ ‘Fiddling with trees — my prized axe would weep...’ Japanese says his prized axe would weep at tree work; no skull-splitting line.
You bet your bosom/beard I did, lass/lad! Aye, those were the days... I reckon now I'll have to be satisfied takin' my axe to the trees.
- DE Und jetzt mach ich mich auf den Weg, um Löwenzahn zu pflücken! ‘And now I'm on my way to pick dandelions!’ English: now he'll take his axe to the trees; German: now he's off to pick dandelions.
- DE Zack, ein Arm! Wusch, ein Bein! ‘Whack, an arm! Whoosh, a leg!’ German acts out chopping off an arm and a leg; English only sighs "those were the days".
- JA 船じゃ毎日、誰かの手足をぶった切ってたもんさ。 ‘On the ship I used to hack off somebody's arms and legs every day.’ Japanese says he hacked off limbs daily aboard ship; English only sighs "those were the days".
Sozai Rarzai
How am I supposed to work on an empty stomach? Go on, have a guess at what I had for breakfast.
Wha─ Gods, how'd you know!? It's my breath, ain't it? It probably smells as wooden as the food tasted... But I know why you're here. I'd just as soon get some real food in me, but I ain't one to reject a summons from the cap'n.
- FR Mais j'imagine que je n'ai qu'à travailler si je veux manger de la bonne viande juteuse... ‘But I suppose I just have to work if I want to eat good juicy meat...’ English: he never refuses a summons from the captain; French: he'll work to afford good juicy meat.
- DE Aber nur, bis ich mir genug Geld für ein gutes Stück Pökelfleisch verdient habe. ‘But only until I've earned enough money for a good piece of cured meat.’ English: he never refuses a summons from the captain; German: he'll work only until he can afford cured meat.
- JA 肉を買うために、少しは働くか…… ‘Guess I'll work a little to buy some meat...’ English: he never refuses a summons from the captain; Japanese: he'll work a bit to buy meat.
Wauter
Work? Ha! Can't work when me hands are full liftin' this mug. Ye know, I'd wager me last gil ye'd never guess what I'm drinkin'.
- FR Mais j'ai vraiment pas envie de travailler, là... ‘But I really don't feel like working right now...’ English: he can't work with his hands full lifting a mug; French: he just doesn't feel like working.
- DE Wir waren doch erst letzte Woche auf dem Acker. ‘But we were out in the fields only last week.’ English: he can't work with his hands full lifting a mug; German: they already worked the fields last week.
- JA だが、気が乗らねえな……今、オレが飲んでるモンを、お前が当てたら行ってやるか。 ‘But I'm not in the mood... if you can guess what I'm drinking right now, maybe I'll go.’ English: he can't work with his hands full lifting a mug; Japanese: he's just not in the mood.
Well, yer right about the “swill” part. I reckon it might be worth a day o' doin' Staelwyrn's chores if it'll afford me a taste o' proper grog.
- DE Davon kann man ein ganzes Fass saufen und hat immer noch die gleichen Sorgen, sogar eher mehr ... ‘You can swill a whole barrel of it and still have the same sorrows, if anything more ...’ German says a whole barrel of it won't drown his sorrows; English just calls it "swill".
Report to Staelwyrn
Staelwyrn
You continue to impress, lass/lad. All but Sevrin are accounted for.
It's no fault of yours he squirmed out. I've let that worm wriggle through my fingers more times than I can count.
But rest assured, the next time I see him, I'll put him squarely in the dirt, where all such worms belong.
- FR Il va falloir faire preuve de patience avec cet oiseau-là. ‘It's going to take showing patience with that bird.’ English threatens to put Sevrin in the dirt with the worms; French says patience is needed with him.
- DE Ich muss mir ernsthaft überlegen, was ich mit ihm machen will ... ‘I have to think seriously about what I want to do with him ...’ English threatens to put Sevrin in the dirt; German: Staelwyrn must seriously consider what to do with him.
- JA ヤツに関しては、腰据えて対処してくしかねえさ。 ‘As for him, there's nothing for it but to settle in and deal with him patiently.’ English threatens to put Sevrin in the dirt; Japanese: he must be dealt with patiently over time.