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I Stay the Streetlight
Map quest, level 2 (you can take it from level 1). 14th of 102 in play order.
Quest giver: N'tanmo, Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks (X 11.1, Y 11.2).
Steps
- Refill guttering streetlamps with
streetlamp oil. - Speak with Sisipu
at the Fishermen's Guild.
Journal
- N'tanmo needs help keeping the city a bright and cheery place.
- Unable to leave her post, N'tanmo has tasked you with inspecting the streetlamps about town. Refill them with streetlamp oil lest they run dry.
- You have refilled all of the guttering streetlamps. Speak with Sisipu at the Fishermen's Guild to receive more streetlamp oil.
- You learn that N'tanmo has a habit of foisting her duties upon fledgling adventurers, much to Sisipu's disapproval. However, you sense that there is more to Sisipu's frustrations than meets the eye.
Hidden
scolds N'tanmo for dodging work. Sisipu herself is doing someone else's job, as acting guildmaster of the Fishermen's Guild. If you take up Fisher, she is your teacher. is angry that N'tanmo dared to ask her for this work, talking nonsense about her savings. But then N'tanmo pushed it onto the first adventurer who came along: you. has a secret. As a habit, she dumps her lamp-lighting job on new adventurers. You are just the latest newcomer to do her rounds for her.Spoiler about later in the story
Foreshadowing There is more behind Sisipu's grumbling than you see at first. One clue is her own quest, Back in the Water. Since the Calamity, she has been stuck on land. She is eager to go to sea again.
streetlamp oil. Its item text calls it the 'fuel used to light the streetlamps of Limsa Lominsa'. It also says the oil 'reeks of fish'.Characters 3
N'tanmo is meant to fill the city's streetlamps with oil, but says the trouble with missing people keeps her at her post.
Sisipu is at the Fishermen's Guild, where she looks after the stores of
streetlamp oil.
What you know from earlier quests 1
- #13 Lost and Found: Behind her cheerful welcome, N'delika is an undercover Yellowjacket. Most people enter through the Zephyr Drift and Bulwark Hall, so she watches everyone for suspicious types. She promises to memorize the missing names and is proud of being a good judge of character.
What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
- N'tanmo praises you as a model adventurer, then hands you her lamp job. Sisipu reveals that N'tanmo asked her for this work, then passed it to the first adventurer she met. N'tanmo often pushes her duties onto new adventurers.
- Sisipu is angry that N'tanmo asked her for this work, talking about savings, then handed it to you. Being young and pretty, she says, is no excuse. She is the Fishermen's Guild's acting guildmaster, and the teacher of anyone who takes up Fisher.
What the Japanese, French and German versions say 4
Japanese
EN I Stay the Streetlight · 'N'tanmo needs help keeping the city a bright and cheery place.'
JA 「案内係のお仕事～妹の場合～」, 'A Greeter's Job: The Younger Sister's Case' · 「ブルワークホールの双子の案内係ン・タンモは、都市の安全のために、依頼したいことがあるようだ。」, 'N'tanmo, one of the twin greeters of Bulwark Hall, seems to have a favor to ask to help keep the city safe.'
The title makes this the sequel to N'delika's 'Elder Sister's Case'. The English never mentions the twins.
French
EN I Stay the Streetlight
FR «La jumelle délégante», 'the delegating twin' · «La jumelle diligente», 'the diligent twin'
The title echoes the sister quest. N'delika does her job, but N'tanmo passes hers on to you.
EN 'Sounds like you're already in the Yellowjackets' good graces.' · 'You see, I'm supposed to go and fill up all the streetlamps with oil so that they'll stay lit through the night.' · 'Oh, and when you're finished, please fetch more oil from Sisipu in the Fishermen's Guild.'
FR «J'ai vu que vous aviez donné un coup de main à ma sœurrr jumelle.», 'I saw you gave a hand to my twin sister.' · «Je suis censée aller vérifier les lampes qui éclairrrent la ville, mais à cause de la liste que vous avez apportée à N'delika, je ne peux pas quitter mon poste pour le moment.», 'I'm supposed to go check the lamps that light up the city, but because of the list you brought N'delika, I can't leave my post for now.' · «Vous en aurez sûrement tout juste assez, alors ça serrrait sympa si vous pouviez en profiter pour passer une nouvelle commande à Sisipu de la guilde des pêcheurs.», 'You'll surely have just enough, so it would be nice if you could also place a new order with Sisipu of the Fishermen's Guild.'
N'tanmo rolls her r's and calls N'delika her twin. The English N'tanmo speaks plainly and never mentions a twin.
German
EN I Stay the Streetlight
DE „Es werde Licht“, 'Let there be light'
The title is God's line from the Bible (Genesis 1:3). It is a grand quote for the humble job of refilling Limsa's streetlamps.
Dialogue 7 lines
Accepting the quest
N'tanmo
Sounds like you're already in the Yellowjackets' good graces. You truly are a model adventurer─a paragon among your fellows! ...Um, do you think you could do me a favor?
- FR J'ai vu que vous aviez donné un coup de main à ma sœurrr jumelle. ‘I saw you gave a hand to my twin sister.’ N'tanmo rolls her r's and calls N'delika her twin. The English N'tanmo speaks plainly and never mentions a twin.
You see, I'm supposed to go and fill up all the streetlamps with oil so that they'll stay lit through the night. But thanks to this business of missing people, I can't simply up and leave my post.
If you could tend to the streetlamps in my stead, I'd be eternally grateful.
Oh, and when you're finished, please fetch more oil from Sisipu in the Fishermen's Guild. We're running low here, and she has care of our stores.
Speak with Sisipu at the Fishermen's Guild.
Sisipu
...You're doing what!? What am I to do with that girl?
- FR Cette feignasse de N'tanmo a encore profité de la gentillesse des aventuriers pour ne pas faire son boulot. ‘That lazybones N'tanmo has once again taken advantage of adventurers' kindness so as not to do her job.’ French Sisipu insults N'tanmo outright as a lazybones; English Sisipu only sighs in exasperation.
She has the nerve to ask me for work, twaddlin' tripe about her savings, only to foist it on the first adventurer that comes along!
Being young and pretty does not give you license to shirk responsibility! Aye, she'll get her oil all right...and a piece of my mind to boot!
- DE Sie ist ja noch jung und unbekümmert, aber dass sie so schnell die Lust an der Arbeit verliert, hätte ich nicht gedacht. ‘She is still young and carefree, but I wouldn't have thought she would lose her desire to work so quickly.’ English says young and pretty; German says young and carefree, leaving out her looks.