Cleaning House

Map quest, level 28. 161st of 194 in play order.

Quest giver: Aeluuin, North Shroud (X 20.9, Y 24.9).

Next: Trouble on the Road ›

Steps

Use the chocobo duster on the paintings.
Report to Aeluuin.

Journal

Aeluuin of the Bobbing Cork would ask you to help with housekeeping.
Aeluuin's employees are shirking their duties of late, and the paintings that adorn the inn are collecting dust. Borrow the innkeep's chocobo duster and restore the masterpieces to a pristine state.
Caked in dust not minutes ago, the paintings' vivid colors now shine through. Tell Aeluuin your job is done.
Aeluuin is pleased to see his paintings spic-and-span again. Though he is quite partial to one of the paintings, he has thus far been unable to ascertain the artist's identity.

Hidden

Easter egg The

Chocobo Duster text jokes on the film credit 'No Animals Were Harmed', which is shown at the end of films that use animals.

Characters 2

Aeluuin
Aeluuin is upset that his lazy staff let the inn's paintings gather dust. He wants you to clean them.
What you know from earlier quests 1
- #160 Potable Perils: Aeluuin grumbles that guests who cannot hold their liquor should stick to tea. He thanks you warmly for the key. He says rumors of a suspicious masked man have him and his customers on edge.
Somerhild
What you know from earlier quests 1
- #160 Potable Perils: Somerhild praises the tea, beds and ale of the Bobbing Cork inn. A traveler who drank with Somerhild lost his room key. With rumors going around, Somerhild asks you to find the key and return it to the inn.

What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest

Aeluuin lends you his chocobo duster, hoping his staff learn a lesson from seeing a guest work. He loves one painting upstairs of a lonely figure gazing into the distance. It moves him, but nobody knows who painted it.

Dialogue 6 lines

Accepting the quest

Aeluuin

You see that painting over there? Well, of course you can't─it's covered in a fortnight's worth of dust thanks to my do-nothing employees!

DE Viele Gäste kommen nur ihretwegen von weit her nach Herbstkürbis-See. ‘Many guests come from far away to Fallgourd Float just for them.’ English jokes the painting is buried in dust thanks to lazy employees; German says guests travel far just to see the paintings.
JA あの絵を見るために遠くから来てくださるお客様もいるくらいなんですよ。 ‘There are even guests who come from far away just to see those paintings.’ English jokes the painting is buried in dust thanks to lazy employees; Japanese says guests travel far just to see the paintings.

I'd dust them right off myself, but I reckon the sluggards would better learn their lesson if they saw a customer like yourself doing the deed. What do you say? A few swishes with this chocobo duster should do the trick, and I'll make it worth your while.

DE Doch mir fehlt während der Hauptsaison schlicht und einfach die Zeit, selbst Hand anzulegen. ‘But during the high season I simply lack the time to do it myself.’ English wants a customer's work to shame its lazy staff; German says it lacks the time during peak season.
JA ですが、最近は忙しくて手入れができておりません。 ‘However, I have been busy lately and have not been able to tend to them.’ English wants a customer's work to shame its lazy staff; Japanese says it has simply been too busy.

Report to Aeluuin.

Aeluuin

//: dust paintings

Thanks, friend. If only my employees shared the love of fine art that you and I do, eh?

DE Das Raunen der Bewunderung im Angesicht eines wahren Meisterwerkes? ‘The murmur of admiration in the face of a true masterpiece?’ English wishes its employees loved art as you both do; German savors the murmurs of admiration for a masterpiece.
JA いずれも美しい絵なんですが……実は、作者がわからないのですよ。 ‘They are all beautiful paintings, but... actually, the artist is unknown.’ English wishes its employees loved art as you both do; Japanese reveals that the painter is unknown.

The painting upstairs, especially─don't ask me why, but the lonesome figure standing there, gazing off into the distance... I'm not usually the sentimental type, but it stirs something inside me.

Is he wistfully remembering adventures long past? Or steeling his nerves for a battle to come? Sadly, what with the artist's identity a mystery, we might never know.

DE Da ist es doch kein Wunder, dass man nicht zum Abstauben kommt, nicht wahr? ‘So it is no wonder one never gets around to dusting, is it?’ English laments the unknown artist means we may never know; German jokes that musing is why it never dusts.
JA 絵には不思議な力がありますね。 ‘Paintings have a mysterious power, don't they?’ English laments the unknown artist means we may never know; Japanese remarks that paintings have a mysterious power.