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Flour Power

Side quest, level 8. 25th of 102 in play order.

Quest giver: Weitzaren, Lower La Noscea (X 35.6, Y 15.3).

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Steps

  1. Defeat the galagos and recover the sacks of flour.
  2. Deliver the sacks of flour to Skarnmhar.
Journal
  1. Weitzaren, high miller of the Grey Fleet, requires the help of an able adventurer.
  2. Weitzaren asks that you wreak vengeance on the galagos that robbed him of his milled grains, and recover the sacks of flour they stole.
  3. You have delivered swift retribution to the thieving galagos. Take the recovered flour to Skarnmhar at the Red Rooster Stead.
  4. Skarnmhar is appreciative of your help, but bemoans the fact the Stead hires no guards, and he must rely on the kindness of adventurers when things go awry.
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Lore Weitzaren is crazy about grain, and it is even in his name. In the old Roegadyn language, Weitzaren means 'Wheat Harvest'.
Lore The Red Rooster Stead is close to kobold land, so kobolds sometimes raid it. That is why it hired a levemete, Wyrkholsk, to sign up adventurers.
Easter egg Weitzaren can't stop making puns about mills. Some of the lines are 'run-of-the-mill miller' and 'gets my grindstone spinning'.
Spoiler about later in the story

Foreshadowing Skarnmhar worries that the Stead has no guards of its own. This sets up what comes next: the kobolds are coming.

In-game text The fixed reward suits a miller's quest. It is frumenty, 'a tasty gruel of cracked wheat, raisins, and spices boiled in aldgoat milk'.
Title reference The title is a pun on 'flower power', a hippie slogan of the 1960s. It swaps the flowers for the flour the galagos stole.
Characters 4
  • Weitzaren

    Weitzaren is at the Grey Fleet. Thieving galagos have stolen four sacks of his flour, and he wants revenge.

    What you know from earlier quests 1
    • #24 Wool's Errand: Weitzaren rants that a miller with no fleece is like an artist with no canvas, and curses the lazy courier. Once the wool is his, he is delighted and laughs like a villain in a play. Now he can make his felt.
  • Skarnmhar

    Skarnmhar works at the Red Rooster Stead. Weitzaren says Skarnmhar takes care of the flour once it reaches the Stead.

  • Wyrkholsk

    Wyrkholsk is a levemete (someone who signs up adventurers for jobs) at the Red Rooster Stead. You do not meet Wyrkholsk in this quest.

  • Niniya

    What you know from earlier quests 3
    • #2 Making a Name: Niniya sends you to collect herbs that might be illegal "dream flowers" and hand them in. They are only common lavender: Niniya was playing a joke on you. Niniya says adventurers have met at this place for almost twenty years.
    • #10 Close to Home: Baderon points Niniya out and suggests you hear what she has to say. Small errands like hers, he says, build your name as someone folk can trust, and then the jobs get harder and pay better.
    • #22 Fool Me Once: Niniya says the key lesson for new adventurers is to question everyone's motives. Niniya sends you to Ancreta at the Eyes for work, but it is a second prank, after the quest Making a Name: Ancreta cannot hire you directly.
What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
  • Weitzaren, high miller of the Grey Fleet, loves grain even more than felting wool, and makes many mill puns. He has you slay the galagos and take the flour to Skarnmhar at the Stead. His name means "Wheat Harvest" in the old Roegadyn language.
  • Skarnmhar is relieved to get the flour back; eggs and milk are useless without it. But he worries that the Stead hires no guards, relies on kind adventurers, and is not ready if trouble comes again.
  • Wyrkholsk: The chart's notes say the Stead lies close to kobold land, and kobolds sometimes raid it. That is why it hired Wyrkholsk.
What the French and German versions say 3

French

Title

EN Flour Power

FR «Rouler les galagos dans la farine», 'Hoodwinking the galagos' · «rouler quelqu'un dans la farine», 'to pull the wool over someone's eyes', which means to trick someone

The title puts the galagos in the idiom. You trick the thieves who stole the flour.

Wordplay

EN 'Weitzaren, high miller of the Grey Fleet, requires the help of an able adventurer.'

FR «Weitzaren est dans le pétrin. Il a besoin qu'on l'aide.», 'Weitzaren is in a fix. He needs someone to help him.'

Literally it is 'in the kneading trough', where bread dough is kneaded: a baker's pun for a robbed miller. The English has no pun.

German

Different

EN 'All the eggs and milk in the world don't matter a lick without flour.'

DE „Wo bleibt denn nur das Sonnenweizenmehl? Der alte Weitzaren war auch schon mal zuverlässiger ...“, 'Where on earth is the sunwheat flour? Old Weitzaren used to be more reliable than this...'

Skarnmhar blames the miller for the late flour, before hearing that galagos stole it. The English blames no one.

Dialogue 8 lines

Accepting the quest

Weitzaren

Now, felting wool is all well and good for your run-of-the-mill miller, but you know what gets my grindstone spinning? Grain!

  • FR Ils sont équipés de meules en pierre pour la mouture des grains. ‘They are equipped with millstones for grinding grain.’ English jokes that grain is what really gets his grindstone spinning; French plainly says the mills have millstones for grain.
  • DE Nicht nur die Webstühle für Schafwolle, sondern auch Mahlsteine, welche Weizen zu Mehl verarbeiten. ‘Not only the looms for sheep's wool, but also millstones, which grind wheat into flour.’ English jokes that grain is what really gets his grindstone spinning; German plainly lists millstones grinding wheat into flour.
  • JA たとえば、石臼をひいたりな。 ‘For example, turning millstones.’ English jokes that grain is what really gets his grindstone spinning; Japanese plainly gives turning millstones as an example.

What worth has wheat? None! But once shred into fabulous flour, even the confounded galagos can't keep their hands off of it.

  • FR Comme la métairie du Coq rouge nous fournit également du blé, nous le transformons en farine... et d'ailleurs, des galagos nous en ont chipé quatre sacs avant que tu ne viennes. ‘As the Red Rooster farm also supplies us with wheat, we turn it into flour... and in fact, some galagos swiped four sacks of it from us before you came.’ English scoffs that wheat is worthless; French says the Red Rooster farm also supplies them with wheat.
  • DE Auch der Sonnenweizen, den wir an der Gockelburg ernten, wird hier gemahlen und in Beutel abgefüllt. ‘The sun wheat we harvest at Gockelburg, too, is ground here and filled into bags.’ English scoffs that wheat is worthless; German says the sun wheat harvested at Gockelburg is ground here too.
  • JA ここでも、レッドルースター農場で採れた小麦をひいて粉にしてるんだが……袋詰めにしておいた小麦粉を悪戯猿のガラゴが盗みやがった。 ‘Here too we grind the wheat harvested at the Red Rooster farm into flour, but...’ English scoffs that wheat is worthless; Japanese says they grind wheat harvested at the Red Rooster farm.

Which is precisely why I need you to slay them and recover the four sacks they pilfered!

  • DE Wenn du den Galagos eine Abreibung verpassen und mindestens vier der Beutel frisches Sonnenweizenmehl zurückholen würdest, werden sie die Lektion schon lernen und in Zukunft ihre Finger von unserem leckeren Sonnenweizenmehl lassen. ‘If you gave the galagos a thrashing and brought back at least four of the bags of fresh sun-wheat flour, they will surely learn their lesson and keep their fingers off our tasty sun-wheat flour in future.’ German wants the galagos thrashed so they learn a lesson; English asks you to slay them.

Once you have done so, take the sacks of flour down to the Stead, and Skarnmhar will take care of the rest.

Deliver the sacks of flour to Skarnmhar

Skarnmhar

All the eggs and milk in the world don't matter a lick without flour.

  • FR J'étais persuadé d'avoir commandé quatre sacs de farine à Weitzaren. ‘I was sure I had ordered four sacks of flour from Weitzaren.’ English says eggs and milk are worthless without flour; French recalls ordering four sacks of flour from Weitzaren.
  • DE Wo bleibt denn nur das Sonnenweizenmehl? ‘Where on earth is the sun wheat flour?’ English says eggs and milk are worthless without flour; German asks where the flour is.
  • JA ううん、「小麦粉袋」が届かんぞ……。 ‘Hmm, the "sacks of flour" haven't arrived...’ English says eggs and milk are worthless without flour; Japanese complains the flour sacks haven't arrived.
  • JA まいった、このままだと出荷に影響が出ちまうな。 ‘Damn, at this rate our shipments are going to be affected.’ Japanese has him fret that the late flour will delay shipments; English muses about eggs, milk and flour.

Not that flour's any good on its own, mind you. The galagos just hoard whatever they can get their filthy paws on.

  • FR Des galagos avaient volé ces quatre sacs de farine !? ‘Galagos had stolen these four sacks of flour!?’ English quips that flour is no good on its own; French is shocked galagos stole the four sacks.
  • DE Du musstest das Sonnenweizenmehl erst den Galagos abjagen? ‘You had to wrest the sun wheat flour from the galagos first?’ English quips that flour is no good on its own; German asks if you had to wrest it from galagos.
  • JA なるほど、お前が小麦をガラゴから取り戻してくれたのか。 ‘I see, so you got the wheat back from the galagos for us.’ English quips that flour is no good on its own; Japanese notes you got it back from the galagos.

But now we've got the whole kit and caboodle, thanks to you.

It's a relief you were around, but at the end of the day we're still utterly unprepared should this sort of thing happen again.