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Fungal Frolic

Map quest, level 29. 179th of 194 in play order.

Quest giver: Marcette, Central Shroud (X 16.6, Y 18.6).

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Steps

  1. Obtain toadstool caps from toadstools.
  2. Deliver the toadstool caps to Marcette.
Journal
  1. The naturalist Marcette at Dunstan's Spire is in need of a research assistant.
  2. Marcette is doing research for the New Eorzean Geographic, her compendium of knowledge in the making, and requires toadstool caps to complete the chapter on fungi.
  3. You have successfully obtained the toadstool caps. Deliver them to Marcette.
  4. Marcette is immensely pleased with herself at her most recent scientific discovery─so pleased that she has entirely forgotten the identity of the adventurer who made it possible...
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Easter egg Marcette's 'New Eorzean Geographic' is a play on National Geographic, the real American magazine about nature and the world.
Spoiler about later in the story

Foreshadowing Remember Marcette's finding that these toadstools have changed since the Calamity. The toadstools come up again in her later research.

Characters 1

  • Marcette

    Marcette is a naturalist at Dunstan's Spire. She is writing the New Eorzean Geographic, a big book of knowledge, and needs an assistant.

What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
  • Marcette is very proud and bossy, and treats you as one of her assistants. She orders five toadstool caps, finds their spores much denser than before the Calamity (a past disaster), and laughs at her discovery. Then she asks who you are.
Dialogue 7 lines

Accepting the quest

Marcette

You have the honor of addressing Marcette, realm-renowned naturalist and esteemed authoress of the New Eorzean Geographic, the single most comprehensive collection of knowledge our realm has ever seen─or ever will see.

  • FR Je suis une naturaliste connue dans tout Éorzéa, et l'auteur estimé de la “Nouvelle Encyclopédie éorzéenne d'Histoire naturelle”. ‘I am a naturalist known throughout Eorzea, and the esteemed author of the "New Eorzean Encyclopedia of Natural History".’ English names her work the New Eorzean Geographic; French names it the New Eorzean Encyclopedia of Natural History.
  • DE Ich arbeite nämlich gerade an dem Epoche machenden Werk Neue Eorzäische Naturgeschichte Teil XIV: Ein Biotop, wiedergeboren! ‘I am in fact currently working on the epoch-making work New Eorzean Natural History Part XIV: A Biotope, Reborn!’ English names her work the New Eorzean Geographic; German names it New Eorzean Natural History Part XIV: A Biotope, Reborn.
  • JA 「新エオルゼア博物誌」を執筆するため、今はマイコニド種の研究に取り組んでいるところなの。 ‘To write the "New Eorzea Natural History", I am now working on research into myconid species.’ English names her work the New Eorzean Geographic; Japanese names it the New Eorzea Natural History.

fetch five toadstool caps

Marcette

You've not heard of the Geographic? Why, of course you haven't─it hasn't been published yet! And it never will be if my assistants keep dawdling around instead of doing their jobs! So hop to it!

  • DE Du siehst jedenfalls unglaublich gelangweilt aus. ‘You certainly look incredibly bored, at any rate.’ English jokes you can't know the book since it is unpublished; German says you look incredibly bored.
  • JA ねぇ、キミ、どうせヒマなんでしょ？ ‘Hey, you, you've got nothing to do anyway, right?’ English jokes you can't know the book since it is unpublished; Japanese assumes you have nothing better to do.

Of course I'm talking to you! Do you see anyone else here? Now, for the seventy-thousandth time: five toadstool caps, and be quick with them!

Deliver the toadstool caps to Marcette.

Marcette

Have you brought me my toadstool caps? Each moment you dally deprives the realm of my prodigious knowledge!

  • DE Ich kann meinen Verleger nicht ewig hinhalten! ‘I can't keep my publisher waiting forever!’ English says your dallying deprives the realm of her knowledge; German says she can't stall her publisher forever.

Yes, yes, hand it over, now. But of course! It is just as I theorized─the spore density of these toadstools is exponentially greater than that of samples taken from before the Calamity!

Clearly, they have evolved as such in order to adapt to an increasingly harsh environment. Muahahaha! And with this, another entry of the New Eorzean Geographic is complete! ...Ahem, who are you, again?

  • DE Diese Entdeckung rückt den naturkundlichen Thron wieder einen ganzen Malm näher in meine Reichweite! ‘This discovery brings the throne of natural science a whole malm closer within my reach!’ English says another entry of her book is complete; German says the discovery brings the throne of natural science closer.
  • DE Schon bald werde ich von ihm aus über die Druiden Gridanias herrschen. ‘Soon I will rule over the druids of Gridania from it.’ English ends with her forgetting who you are; German ends with her dreaming of ruling Gridania's druids.
  • JA この学説で、一旗あげてやるんだから！ ‘With this theory, I'm going to make a name for myself!’ English says another entry of her book is complete; Japanese says she will make her name with this theory.