18
A Hard Nut to Crack
Side quest, level 4 (you can take it from level 3). 18th of 78 in play order.
Quest giver: Tatasosa, New Gridania (X 12.0, Y 13.4).
Steps
- Speak with Barnabontant
. - Deliver the
iron snaffle to Bodwine
.
Journal
- Tatasosa needs someone to return an iron snaffle he accidentally took from Treespeak Stables.
- Tatasosa requests that you return an iron snaffle he accidentally took from Treespeak Stables. However, the road there is long and winding, and he suggests that you ask Barnabontant for directions before departing. Seek him at the Yellow Serpent Gate.
- Speaking with Barnabontant, you learn that the iron snaffle is likely part of a chocobo bridle. He speculates that Bodwine, who tends to the chocobos at the stables, would welcome its return. Deliver the iron snaffle to him at Treespeak Stables.
- Bodwine is grateful to receive the iron snaffle, which you learn had been painstakingly crafted to fit a certain chocobo's beak. It would seem that Tatasosa used the snaffle as intended, albeit unintentionally...
Dialogue 14 lines
Accepting the quest
Tatasosa
... ... Mmm!? ...Mmm-mmm mmm? What the...? This isn't a...
I must've mistaken this metal bit for a nut whilst out foraging for food in the forest.
A spare snaffle misplaced by some sorry soul from Treespeak Stables, I suspect. It was in their vague vicinity that I amassed the majority of my masticable morsels.
Well, I've already──had a hefty helping of these here nuts, so I won't be walking for a while. Might I trouble you to take this to Treespeak Stables in my stead?
Prior to parting, pray speak to Barnabontant at the Yellow Serpent Gate. Listen well to his directions or you're liable to get lost!
Speak with Barnabontant.
Barnabontant
On an errand for that glutton of a Lalafell? Aye, past this gate and to the west you'll find Treespeak Stables.
Hmmm...if memory serves, that iron snaffle of yours looks like the kind they use in chocobo bridles. Bodwine would be the fellow to ask about that, of course.
He looks after the chocobos there, you see. It could well be that he has need of that snaffle.
Deliver the iron snaffle to Bodwine.
Bodwine
Where's that damn thing gone this time?
...Eh? Oh, I ain't lookin' fer a chocobo─though one of the birds is becomin' a proper bloody handful. No, it's the snaffle fer her bridle that I'm after. Bugger's gone and vanished, see.
Our snaffles are made special, see─to fit each chocobo's beak, like─so replacin' even a tiny snaffle like the one in yer─ Bugger me! Is that─!?
Aye, 'tis the selfsame one that we lost! But why's it so sticky? And are these...teeth marks!?
Stranger, I don't know what foul beast's gob ye found this in, or what providence delivered ye─the hero that slew it─to me here today...but ye've my deepest thanks.
With this here snaffle I can finally get back to trainin' that yellow-feathered menace of mine. Take this with my thanks.