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Baiting Buzzards
Side quest, level 10. 50th of 102 in play order.
Quest giver: Kazai Buoyzai, Middle La Noscea (X 15.8, Y 16.7).
Steps
- Empty the sack of
rat meat in the buzzards' nest and slay the buzzards that appear. - Report to Kazai Buoyzai at the Skylift.
Journal
- Kazai Buoyzai, a cargo transporter at the Skylift, wants you to slay buzzards that have been attacking wagons on the road.
- Drawn by the scent of meat, hungry buzzards have been swooping down on food-laden wagons en route to the De Nevelle Checkpoint. Turn the birds' taste for dead flesh to your advantage by taking a sack of rotting rat meat to their nest and luring the avian scavengers into a deadly ambush.
- You have slain the buzzards. Return to the Skylift and report to Kazai Buoyzai.
- The lingering influence of the Calamity affects more than just the lives of Eorzea's citizens─even the realm's scavengers are forced into uncharacteristic and desperate behaviors. Though much work has been done to repair the devastation, the scars will be long in fading.
Hidden
Rotting Rat Meat. Its whole item text is one plain line: 'It's what buzzards crave.'Characters 1
Kazai Buoyzai has a new problem: buzzards keep snatching meat from wagons on the road to the De Nevelle Checkpoint.
What you know from earlier quests 1
- #49 Keeping It Fresh: Kazai Buoyzai sends you for three
water sprite cores to chill his fish, then checks you know he does not mean "dance" literally. Pleased, he explains that the Skylift's delivery companies compete hard: one slip, and a rival steals your business.
- #49 Keeping It Fresh: Kazai Buoyzai sends you for three
What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
- Kazai Buoyzai has you lure the buzzards with rotting rat meat and kill them. He makes most of his money hauling food, and says without you he would be sleeping in the gutter. He blames the Calamity, a great disaster, for the starving scavengers.
What the French and German versions say 5
French
EN Baiting Buzzards
FR «Busard, vous avez dit busard», 'Buzzard? Did you say buzzard?'
The title spoofs «vous avez dit bizarre», 'you said strange', the cult line of the 1937 film Drôle de drame. «busard», 'buzzard', sounds like «bizarre», 'strange'.
EN 'When the bastards show up for the feast, ye start breakin' beaks with a vengeance.'
FR «Tu cloues le bec une bonne fois pour toutes à ces maudits busards !», 'You shut the beaks of those cursed buzzards once and for all!'
Kazai uses «clouer le bec», literally 'to nail the beak', an idiom for shutting someone up. Here the beaks are real.
EN 'You sense a hostile presence!'
FR «Vous entendez des cris perçants venus d'en haut !», 'You hear piercing cries from above!'
The alert before the fight hints that the buzzards dive from the sky.
German
EN 'But the last wagon made it through with nary a morsel lost, so I'd say ye've plucked enough o' their thievin' hides to secure the route.'
DE „Hervorragend! Den Bussarden ist das Krächzen vergangen! Und die Fleischtransporte sind wieder sicher.“, 'Excellent! The buzzards have had the squawk knocked out of them! And the meat shipments are safe again.'
Kazai twists „jemandem vergeht das Lachen“, 'someone stops laughing', said when someone's fun is over.
EN 'Seems even the scavengers are findin' the pickin's scarce since the Calamity hit, otherwise ye'd never see 'em tryin' aught so bold. Fortune didn't favor 'em worth spit this time, though, eh?'
DE „Irgendwie tun mir die Tiere ja leid, denn seit der Katastrophe haben sie selbst kaum noch was zu fressen, aber wir müssen zuallererst an uns selbst denken.“, 'I kind of feel sorry for the creatures, since they've had hardly anything to eat themselves since the Calamity, but we have to think of ourselves first.'
Kazai pities the hungry birds, but people must come first. The English only mocks their bad luck.
Dialogue 6 lines
Accepting the quest
Kazai Buoyzai
Ye've shown yerself to be a useful lass/bloke. What say ye to doin' me another favor? We've been havin' a wee problem with buzzards swoopin' down and snatchin' cargo from the wagons what are travelin' the road to the De Nevelle Checkpoint.
Most days, them feathered hellions stay well enough away, but it seems they can't resist a wagon what's loaded with meat. Well, I say we make use o' that weakness to lure the greedy buggers into a trap.
- DE Normalerweise geben sich die Biester ja mit Aas zufrieden, aber vermutlich haben sie das leckere Fleisch in den Transportkisten gerochen. ‘Normally the beasts are content with carrion, but they probably smelled the tasty meat in the transport crates.’ English says the birds usually keep away; German says they are usually content with carrion.
Take this here sack o' rotting rat meat and set it down in vulture territory─that be where the buzzards make their nests. When the bastards show up for the feast, ye start breakin' beaks with a vengeance. Easy.
- FR Tu cloues le bec une bonne fois pour toutes à ces maudits busards ! ‘You shut the beaks of those cursed buzzards once and for all!’ Kazai uses «clouer le bec», literally 'to nail the beak', an idiom for shutting someone up. Here the beaks are real.
Report to Kazai Buoyzai at the Skylift
Kazai Buoyzai
Didn't get yer eyes pecked out, did ye? Them buzzards be a nasty lot. But the last wagon made it through with nary a morsel lost, so I'd say ye've plucked enough o' their thievin' hides to secure the route.
- DE Hervorragend! Den Bussarden ist das Krächzen vergangen! Und die Fleischtransporte sind wieder sicher. ‘Excellent! The buzzards have had the squawk knocked out of them! And the meat shipments are safe again.’ Kazai twists „jemandem vergeht das Lachen“, 'someone stops laughing', said when someone's fun is over.
- FR Oh, toi, à voir cet air réjoui sur ton visage, je devine que tout a marché comme prévu. ‘Oh, you, seeing that delighted look on your face, I guess everything went as planned.’ English jokes about your eyes being pecked out; French reads success from your happy face.
- DE Den Bussarden ist das Krächzen vergangen! ‘The buzzards have lost all urge to croak!’ English jokes about your eyes being pecked out; German jokes the buzzards have lost their croak.
- JA ごくろうさん、首尾よくやってくれたんだな。 ‘Thanks for your trouble, so you pulled it off nicely.’ English jokes about your eyes being pecked out; Japanese simply thanks you for succeeding.
Ye have me thanks, lass/lad. I make most of me coin haulin' foodstuffs, and I'd be beddin' down in the gutter within the week if it weren't for yer help.
- FR Malheureusement pour moi, c'est mon fonds de commerce, ce qui fait que je suis souvent visé. ‘Unfortunately for me, that's my core business, which means I'm often targeted.’ English says without your help he'd be in the gutter within a week; French says he is often targeted.
- FR Les busards semblent avoir compris que les chargements de nourriture faisaient des proies faciles. ‘The buzzards seem to have worked out that loads of food make easy prey.’ French explains why he is targeted, food loads being easy prey; English says he'd have been ruined.
Seems even the scavengers are findin' the pickin's scarce since the Calamity hit, otherwise ye'd never see 'em tryin' aught so bold. Fortune didn't favor 'em worth spit this time, though, eh?
- DE Irgendwie tun mir die Tiere ja leid, denn seit der Katastrophe haben sie selbst kaum noch was zu fressen, aber wir müssen zuallererst an uns selbst denken. ‘I kind of feel sorry for the creatures, since they've had hardly anything to eat themselves since the Calamity, but we have to think of ourselves first.’ Kazai pities the hungry birds, but people must come first. The English only mocks their bad luck.
- FR Comme quoi les temps sont durs pour tout le monde, hein. ‘Goes to show times are hard for everyone, eh.’ English gloats that luck failed the birds; French sympathizes that times are hard for everyone.