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A Clear Sign
Map quest, level 6 (you can take it from level 4). 29th of 78 in play order.
Quest giver: Paulemont, North Shroud (X 28.6, Y 26.1).
Steps
- Clean the dusty malmstones.
- Report to Q'djawana
at Treespeak Stables.
Journal
- Paulemont, a guard at E-Tatt's Spire, seeks a diligent adventurer to scrub clean a pair of begrimed road signs.
- Clean the two dusty malmstones found along the road near E-Tatt's Spire.
- You have scrubbed the grime from the dusty malmstones. Report to Q'djawana at Treespeak Stables.
- With a decline in the number of trees suitable for egg laying, monsters have taken to depositing their unhatched spawn on and around the dirt-encrusted road signs. Q'djawana is yet to settle on a method to prevent the malmstones from becoming substitute nests, but thanks to your efforts the problem has been forestalled for a short while at least.
Dialogue 6 lines
Accepting the quest
Paulemont
You've come to lend a hand, have you? Well then, you're welcome to a task from my seemingly never-ending list.
I'll need you to head west along the road and scrub down two of the malmstones. I swear by Nophica, those signs accumulate dirt and grime with almost unnatural haste.
Speak with Q'djawana at Treespeak Stables once you've seen to them. She'll be glad to hear the malmstones are clean─for the next three bells, at least...
Report to Q'djawana at Treespeak Stables.
Q'djawana
What's that? You've been cleaning malmstones? Why, thank you! With all the chores that need doing around here, I was afraid they would be left to get even filthier. It's not just that they're an eyesore, by the way─in that state, the creatures around here are wont to lay their eggs on them.
As to why...well, I can only assume their preferred nesting trees are in short supply these days. Be that as it may, we can't have monsters hatching from roadside signs. These paths are dangerous enough as it is.
Hmmm, perhaps a sprinkling of 
stingbrew would keep the beasts away...