Good for What Ales You

Dodozan

Oh my, oh dear. My cask of ale is gone, and it had to be the one ordered by someone who doesn't brook tardiness!

• DE Die Lieferung sollte eigentlich an die Henkershorde gehen! ‘The delivery was actually supposed to go to the Executioners' Horde!’ English keeps the client vague, someone who won't brook tardiness; German names the pirate group outright.
• JA ……あまり大きな声では言えないんだが、海賊団「断罪党」に納品する予定の物だったんだ。 ‘I can't say it too loudly, but it was meant to be delivered to the pirate crew, the Executioners.’ English keeps the client vague, someone who won't brook tardiness; Japanese names the pirate crew outright.

I would bring the matter to the Maelstrom, or perhaps seek help from the Yellowjackets...but my client would likely frown on involving anyone...official.

An adventurer such as yourself, though, would be capable of doing a little unofficial investigating. Will you find the stolen ale for me? It was right outside Fisherman's Bottom. Someone surely saw something.

What's that? You would have the client's name? Oh, none of that. Discretion creates opportunities. Now do go to Fisherman's Bottom and make your inquiries before this cold of mine grows worse! (The Bloody Executioners!)

• DE Viel Erfolg! ‘Good luck!’ English ends with a coughed hint, "(The Bloody Executioners!)"; German just wishes good luck.
• JA どうか頼んだよ！ ‘Please, I'm counting on you!’ English ends with a coughed hint, "(The Bloody Executioners!)"; Japanese just says he is counting on you.
• DE Wenn du dort die Ermittlungen aufnimmst, triffst du vielleicht mit etwas Glück auf einen Augenzeugen, der dir weiterhelfen kann. ‘If you start the investigation there, with a bit of luck you may come across an eyewitness who can help you further.’ German has only directions; the English gag of refusing the name, then coughing it out, is absent.
• JA そこで聴きこみをすれば、目撃者がいるかもしれん。 ‘If you ask around there, there may be a witness.’ Japanese has only directions; the English gag of refusing the name, then coughing it out, is absent.

MMerchant

Did I see someone walk off with a cask of ale? Why, sure, it was during the afternoon off-loading.

Fella didn't look like a thief, though. Hoisted the cask and walked right on over to the Astalicia.

I have to admit, the whole thing looked aboveboard. All out in the open. The fella wasn't acting like any kind of thief I've seen.

Preoccupied Porter

Lookin' for Dodozan's cask of ale, eh? Aye, I'll help you. Dodozan ain't a bad sort, for a swivin' trader. There was a toper come askin' after the cask. Wanted to know if it was ale, the poxy fool.

• DE Du bist jetzt schon die/der Zweite, die/der mich danach fragt. ‘You're already the second person to ask me about it.’ English: the porter offers help and calls Dodozan not a bad sort; German: you are the second to ask.

Reeked of rum and puke, that one. Not no kind of workin' man, and you know what that means 'round these parts.

• DE Der Typ hat dermaßen nach Alkohol gestunken - das war nicht mehr feierlich, kann ich dir sagen. ‘The guy stank so much of alcohol - it was no laughing matter anymore, I can tell you.’ English hints he was no working man, which means something around here; German just says the stench was beyond a joke.

Affable Angler

After a cask? Well, can't rightly say if it's your cask, but there was a big fella come by recently carrying one.

• FR J'dirais que c'était d'la bièrrre, si vous voulez mon avis. ‘I'd say it was beer, if you want my opinion.’ English can't say whether it was your cask; French is fairly sure it was beer.
• FR Ouais, j'ai vu un type rond comme une queue d'pelle. ‘Yeah, I saw a guy drunk as a skunk.’ English describes a big fella; French describes a man who was dead drunk.
• DE Hmm, ich bin mir zwar nicht sicher, ob darin Bier war oder nicht, aber ich habe vor kurzem mit jemandem gesprochen, der ein ziemlich großes Fass mit sich herumgetragen hat. ‘Hmm, I'm not sure whether there was beer in it or not, but I recently spoke with someone who was carrying a rather large cask around.’ English says the man was big; German says the cask was big.
• JA 大きな樽を持っている人なら、ちょっと話したよぉ。 ‘I did chat a little with someone holding a big cask.’ English says the man was big; Japanese says the cask was big.

He asked me if I had smoked mackies what would go down nice with ale. 'Tain't the only thing I know, neither; the louse wore black, and you know what that means: the Bloody Executioners!

Already said more'n I should. If it's some business with the Bloody Executioners, best leave it alone.

YYoung Executioner

What're ye...what're you looking at? This is a─hic─dance do...dua...duel! A dance duel. Mush more important than anythin' you got. Mush, mush more!

• FR On n'est pas le meilleur danseur juste parce qu'on l'affirme. ‘You're not the best dancer just because you say so.’ English drunkenly stumbles over "dance duel"; French says you aren't the best dancer just by claiming it.
• DE Der beste Tänzer ermittelt sich schließlich nicht von selbst. ‘The best dancer doesn't decide himself, after all.’ English drunkenly stumbles over "dance duel"; German says the best dancer won't be decided on his own.

MMoenskaet

Ye may be able to scamper up the rigging to the crow's nest, but can ye get down? Not for a siren's teat, ye great clodhopper!

• FR Et alors, tu fatigues ou quoi ? ‘So, getting tired or what?’ English mocks that you can climb the rigging but not get down; French asks if you're getting tired.
• FR Si tu veux jeter l'éponge, c'est le bon moment, ha ha ha ! ‘If you want to throw in the towel, now's the time, ha ha ha!’ English calls you a great clodhopper; French says now is the time to throw in the towel.
• DE Na, du wirst wohl langsam müde, oder? ‘... Well, you're slowly getting tired, aren't you?’ English mocks that you can climb the rigging but not get down; German asks if you're getting tired.
• DE Wenn du aufgeben willst, ist jetzt der richtige Zeitpunkt dafür, hahaha! ‘If you want to give up, now is the right time for it, hahaha!’ English calls you a great clodhopper; German says now is the time to give up.
• JA どうだ～、そろそろ疲れてきたんじゃねぇのかぁ～！？ ‘How 'bout it, aren't ya gettin' tired by now?!’ English mocks that you can climb the rigging but not get down; Japanese asks if you're getting tired.
• JA 降参するなら、今のうちだぜぇ～！ ‘If you're gonna surrender, now's your chance!’ English calls you a great clodhopper; Japanese says now is the chance to surrender.

EExecutioner Deckhand

Beggin' pardon, Cap'n, but there ain't no Miqo'te alive heavier on her feet than a great galootin' Roegadyn such as yourself!

• FR Supérieur ou non, jamais j'abandonnerai ! ‘Superior or not, I'll never give up!’ English politely begs the captain's pardon; French vows never to give up, superior or not.
• DE Vorgesetzter oder nicht - aufgeben werde ich niemals! ‘Superior or not - I will never give up!’ English politely begs the captain's pardon; German vows never to give up, superior or not.
• JA 上役とはいえど、真剣勝負！ ‘Superior or not, this is a serious match!’ English politely begs the captain's pardon; Japanese declares a serious match, superior or not.

YYoung Executioner

Hahaha! Well said, Cap'n! And well retorted, ye bloody Sun Seeker! Or was you a Moon Keeper...? What other lands they got there? Bah, who even cares, am I right!?

• FR Moenskaet, le bras droit du chef Hyllfyr, ou notre étoile montante ? ‘Moenskaet, chief Hyllfyr's right arm, or our rising star?’ English drunkenly mixes up Sun Seeker and Moon Keeper; French asks who will win, Moenskaet or the rising star.
• DE Nun, wer wird das Rennen machen? ‘Now, who will win the race?’ English drunkenly mixes up Sun Seeker and Moon Keeper; German asks who will win, Moenslaet or the young talent.
• JA ヒルフィル頭領の右腕、ムーンスケート様が勝つか！？ ‘Will Lord Moenskaet, right arm of Chief Hyllfyr, win?!’ English drunkenly mixes up Sun Seeker and Moon Keeper; Japanese asks who will win, Moenskaet or the rising star.
• DE Moenslaet, die rechte Hand von Chef Hyllfyr? ‘Moenslaet, the right hand of boss Hyllfyr?’ German calls him the right hand of boss Hyllfyr and asks who will win; English calls him Cap'n.

...Who are you, anyway? There was a whole passel of you afore, but now there'sh only one. That's a miser's trick, it is.

• DE Hast dich wohl in unseren stattlichen Moenslaet verguckt/Willst wohl 'n Autogramm von unserer kleinen Tanzmaus hier, was? ‘You've fallen for our stately Moenslaet, I bet/You want an autograph from our little dance mouse here, eh?’ English: the drunk saw many of you, now only one; German: asks if you've fallen for Moenslaet.
• JA ムーンスケート様たちのダンスが気になるのかぁ～？ ‘Curious about Lord Moenskaet and the others' dancing?’ English: the drunk saw many of you, now only one; Japanese: asks if Moenskaet's dancing caught your interest.

Ungh... Nope, nothin' worshe than a miser. This whoreson what was a Madrigal...er...Admiral... What was his name? He didn't like no drinkin' nor dancin'. Bad for...hic...corals. Corals? Can't be right...

• JA 昔々ぃ……えぇと300年前ぇ、あるところにぃ、「禁欲提督」って呼ばれていた、フジツボみてぇに頭の固いバカ提督がいたんらよぉ～。 ‘Once upon a time... um, 300 years ago, in a certain place, there was a stupid admiral called “the Abstinence Admiral”, hard-headed as a barnacle...’ A drunk young pirate tells this tale. The killjoy banned all drink and even dance duels.
• DE Also, ... ... es war einmal ein Admiral, der sich Admiral der Enthaltsamkeit schimpfte. ‘So... ... once upon a time there was an admiral who styled himself the Admiral of Abstinence.’ The English drunk garbles 'Admiral' into 'Madrigal' and adds 'Pinchfist', a miser. German keeps the Japanese name, an admiral of abstinence.
• FR Autrefois, il y avait un amiral qui se prétendait le garant de la prohibition. ‘Once, there was an admiral who claimed to be the guardian of prohibition.’ English fumbles the admiral's name, "Madrigal...er...Admiral"; French says he called himself the guardian of prohibition.
• FR Quand il s'agissait de consommation d'alcool, il était aussi flexible qu'un mur de briques... ‘When it came to drinking alcohol, he was as flexible as a brick wall...’ English slurs that drinking was bad for "corals"; French says he was as flexible as a brick wall.

Corals! Hah, 'course you're right there, lassie/laddie! Should never doubt meself. Anywaysh, thish Madrigal─I'll call him Madrigal Pinchfist─passed decrees like they was farts. He decreed no dancin' “within a hand's reach of spirits.”

• FR Cette tête de mule a non seulement interdit l'alcool, mais il s'en est aussi pris à nos concours de danse ! ‘This mule-head not only banned alcohol, but he also went after our dance contests!’ English: he banned dancing "within a hand's reach of spirits"; French: he banned their dance contests outright.
• DE Dieser Sturkopf hat nicht nur jeglichen Alkohol verboten, sondern auch gleich unsere Tanzwettkämpfe mit dazu! ‘This stubborn head not only banned all alcohol, but our dance competitions along with it!’ English: he banned dancing "within a hand's reach of spirits"; German: he banned their dance competitions outright.
• JA そいつはぁ、酒類をすべて禁止した上に、酒宴のダンス対決までも、ご法度にしやがったんらぁ～。 ‘On top of banning all alcohol, that guy even outlawed the dance duels at drinking parties.’ English: he banned dancing "within a hand's reach of spirits"; Japanese: he outlawed their party dance duels outright.

But no Madrigal's smarter than a sailin' man─we just stopped reachin' with our hands altogether! Hah! We invent...invenitated step dancin'. That showed Madrigal Pinchfist and his corals!

• JA 酒宴を監視する、お役人どもの目をごまかすためぇ、窓の外から見える上半身だけを固定してぇ、下半身だけで踊るステップダンスを考えたのらぁ！ ‘To fool the officials keeping watch on our drinking parties, we came up with a step dance where you hold your upper body still, the part they could see from outside the window, and dance with just your lower half!’ The English dance comes from a rule about hands. Here, sailors fooled the officials who watched through the window.
• FR Or, on ne voyait que le haut du corps à travers ces petits hublots, alors nous avons mis au point une nouvelle danse qui ne faisait bouger que les jambes : les claquettes ! ‘But you could only see the upper body through those little portholes, so we came up with a new dance that moved only the legs: tap dance!’ Like in Japanese, the dance hides from the admiral's agents. In English it is plain step dancing.
• DE Allerdings kann man durch diese kleinen Fenster nur die obere Körperhälfte der Leute an Deck erkennen! Also haben wir einfach einen Tanz entwickelt, bei dem man nur die untere Hälfte bewegt: den Stepptanz! ‘But through those little windows you can make out only the top half of the people on deck! So we simply came up with a dance where you move only the bottom half: step dancing!’ Like in Japanese and French, the officials' small windows shape the dance. The English joke is about hands instead.
• DE Allerdings kann man durch diese kleinen Fenster nur die obere Körperhälfte der Leute an Deck erkennen! ‘However, through these little windows one can only see the upper half of the people on deck!’ English: they dodged the decree by not reaching with their hands; German: watchers saw only upper bodies through windows.

Haha, aye, that'sh right, lassie/fella! Gets me all fired up, too. Makesh you think, like. Oho, I know! You want to dance! All thish time, I jus' thought you was bein' churlish, but─

No, no, no! I insist. Dance first, talk later. That'sh the way of it!

Why, you cagey sea fox! Dance like sailin' folk, you do. Hic, could swear there was three of you...or was I jus'...? Never mind, you'sh practically a sister/brother now! You ask me anythin'!

A cashk of Dodozan's ale? Carried it off from Fisherman's Bottom my very own self, I did!

Hads to, matter o' fact. We'd already drunk all we had aboard!

'Course Dodozan's gettin' paid for it...someday. Don't make a differenshe if he frets a night or two, heh!

• FR Évidemment, nous avions prévu de payer Dodozan dès qu'il serait de retour. ‘Of course, we planned to pay Dodozan as soon as he came back.’ English says Dodozan gets paid "someday"; French says as soon as he came back.
• FR Tu nous prends pour des pirates malhonnêtes ou quoi ? ‘Do you take us for dishonest pirates or what?’ English shrugs off Dodozan fretting a night or two; French asks if you take them for dishonest pirates.
• DE Wir hatten natürlich vor, Dodozan sein Geld zu geben, sobald er auftauchen würde. ‘We of course intended to give Dodozan his money as soon as he showed up.’ English says Dodozan gets paid "someday"; German says as soon as he showed up.
• DE Für welche Art von Piraten hältst du uns denn?! ‘What kind of pirates do you take us for?!’ English shrugs off Dodozan fretting a night or two; German asks what kind of pirates you take them for.

MMoenskaet

Why, ye reprobate whoreson! That's the tale o' that cask ye lugged in?

Blackguard! Ye dare call yerself a Bloody Executioner, all hugger-mugger 'bout what belongs to who? Dodozan has the cods not to mewl about the colors we wear, and ye play him for a fool?

• JA 歴史ある断罪党の海賊たるもの、仁義立てを忘れんじゃねぇ！ ‘A pirate of the old Bloody Executioners must never forget the code of honour!’ Moenskaet's man took Dodozan's ale unpaid. 仁義 (jingi) is 'the code of honour of gamblers and street peddlers'.

YYoung Executioner

I... I'm sorry, Cap'n! W–Wasn't thinking it through. Gots to fix that, I do... It'sh what they call a coral failin'...

MMoenskaet

Adventurer, I beg pardon for my man. I swear, Llymlaen mistook him for an oyster and gave him grit for brains when She made him.

• FR Tu veux bien présenter mes excuses à Dodozan de la part de tout l'équipage ? ‘Would you apologise to Dodozan on behalf of the whole crew?’ English apologises to you for his man; French asks you to apologise to Dodozan for the whole crew.
• FR C'est pas toujours facile de les contrôler, surtout quand la bière est si délicieuse... ‘It's not always easy to keep them in check, especially when the beer is so delicious...’ English jokes Llymlaen gave him grit for brains like an oyster; French says the crew is hard to control with such beer.
• DE Es ist nicht immer einfach, das Pack hier unter Kontrolle zu halten. ‘It's not always easy to keep this lot here under control.’ English jokes Llymlaen gave him grit for brains like an oyster; German says the crew is hard to control.
• FR Bon sang, tout ça m'a dégrisé ! ‘Damn it, all this has sobered me up!’ French has him grumble about sobering up; the English jibe about an oyster with grit for brains is absent.
• DE Verflucht, jetzt bin ich von dieser ernsten Unterhaltung wieder nüchtern geworden! ‘Curse it, now this serious conversation has made me sober again!’ German has him grumble about sobering up; the English jibe about an oyster with grit for brains is absent.
• JA クソッ、酔いがさめちまったぜ……ダンス対決も負けだ。 ‘Damn, I've gone and sobered up... and I've lost the dance-off too.’ Japanese has him grumble he sobered up and lost the dance-off; the English oyster jibe is absent.

Since yer already here, how 'bout you square our account with Dodozan, take this payment to him? We'd be much obliged.

You danced with us an' all, so I'm trusting the gil won't inspire any moral failings in ye. That's some long keel on the Astalicia, if ye take my meaning.

• FR Par contre, une dernière chose : si jamais les gils pour Dodozan venaient à disparaître en chemin... tu finirais en bouffe pour les poissons ! ‘But one last thing: if the gil for Dodozan ever happened to vanish on the way... you'd end up as fish food!’ English hints darkly at the Astalicia's long keel; French openly threatens to make you fish food.
• DE Falls allerdings der unwahrscheinliche Fall eintreten sollte, dass die Gil auf dem Weg zu Dodozan „verloren“ gehen, muss ich dich leider trotzdem zu Fischfutter verarbeiten lassen. ‘Should the unlikely case occur that the gil gets "lost" on the way to Dodozan, however, I'll sadly have to have you made into fish food anyway.’ English hints darkly at the Astalicia's long keel; German openly threatens to make you fish food.
• JA もしものことがあったら……簀巻きにして海送りだ。 ‘If anything happens... you'll be rolled up in a straw mat and sent into the sea.’ English hints darkly at the Astalicia's long keel; Japanese openly threatens to roll you in a mat and throw you to sea.

Dodozan

There you are, and not a moment too soon. Did you find my ale?

Huh... Well, that's the price I was to receive, but where did you get it?

Oh, from the Bloody─er, I mean, from the clients themselves? I see. Yes, there's always some blustery young fellow like that. Hasn't earned his swallows or stars yet, I'll wager.

• FR Avec les pirates, on a toujours des problèmes. ‘With pirates, there are always problems.’ English blames one blustery young fellow; French says pirates always bring problems.
• FR Je devrais arrêter de traiter avec eux... ‘I should stop dealing with them...’ English jokes the youngster hasn't earned his swallows or stars; French says he should stop dealing with pirates.
• DE Saubere Arbeit, Abenteurerin/Abenteurer - mit den Piraten hat man einfach immer Probleme. ‘Neat work, adventurer - with the pirates you just always have problems.’ English blames one blustery young fellow; German says pirates always bring problems.
• DE Ich sollte eigentlich gar keinen Handel mehr mit ihnen treiben ... ‘I really shouldn't trade with them anymore at all...’ English jokes the youngster hasn't earned his swallows or stars; German says he should stop trading with pirates.
• JA やれやれ、海賊との取引は面倒が多いな。 ‘Good grief, dealing with pirates sure brings a lot of trouble.’ English blames one blustery young fellow; Japanese says trading with pirates brings a lot of trouble.

Cods, you say? Captain Moenskaet is kind to say so, I'm sure, but I hail from Ul'dah. We trade with anyone if they've gil to pay. Pirates, princes...they're all the same to me.

And if I know these particular pirates─and I do─they'll be wanting another cask soon to drink away this little fracas. Many thanks, adventurer!