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No News Is Good News
Map quest, level 28. 170th of 194 in play order.
Quest giver: Godwin, North Shroud (X 20.8, Y 25.9).
Steps
- Deliver
the Fallgourd report to Vortefaurt
.
Journal
- Godwin of the Wood Wailers has a report that requires urgent delivery.
- Godwin has entrusted you with a classified report on recent happenings in the vicinity of Fallgourd Float. Deliver it to Vortefaurt of the Twin Adder with due haste.
- Godwin's report relayed sightings of a masked man that have stirred alarm in Fallgourd Float. Might the menacing figure described be an Ascian?
Hidden
story at the Bobbing Cork.Spoiler about later in the story
Foreshadowing Remember the masked man in Godwin's report. Even the journal wonders if he could be an Ascian.
report does carry news, and it is not good.Characters 7
Godwin is a member of the Wood Wailers near Fallgourd Float. He has an urgent, secret report that must reach Florentel's Spire.
Vortefaurt is a Serpent Lieutenant of the Twin Adder, a military order. He is posted at Florentel's Spire, in a forest full of fierce beasts.
What you know from earlier quests 4
- #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.
- #161 Cleaning House: 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. - #162 Trouble on the Road: Aeluuin fears the ill rumors and is relieved when you say the girl is safe. He almost mentions the masked man, then stops himself. He feels responsible for his guests and goes to prepare her a warm bed and hot meal.
- #163 Meals for Miners: Aeluuin explains that an adventurer once ate three
lunches and ran off without paying. He is glad the prospectors enjoyed the food and says their gold helps the region thrive. He offers you a place at the Bobbing Cork any time.
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.
- #160 Potable Perils: Somerhild praises the tea, beds and ale of the Bobbing Cork inn. A traveler who drank with Somerhild lost his
What you know from earlier quests 2
- #164 Save the Trees: Oriane must fight the Ixal, the birdmen who raid the forest, so she cannot hunt the Shroud hares eating the trees. She gives you
flat ale to lure them. She tells you of Florentel, a hero who loved the forest, and his love for Eugenia. - #165 Pumiceous Pursuits: Oriane explains the living stone golems rose from the broken land after the Calamity and keep multiplying. She gives you a
sealing vessel to capture a golem's 
soulstone and sends you to the researcher Yhom Epocan
.
- #164 Save the Trees: Oriane must fight the Ixal, the birdmen who raid the forest, so she cannot hunt the Shroud hares eating the trees. She gives you
What you know from earlier quests 2
- #166 A Welcome Overstayed: Gogolata complains about a stingy wife, who hired a houseboy to bring him home. Gogolata has you give the man paid papers for a room and ale. The houseboy rushes off happily and now sleeps soundly at the inn.
- #167 No Place Like Home: Gogolata admits Qiqirn thieves stole his wares and he fears his wife's anger. When you bring them back, he is surprised, as if he never expected it. Still, he uses rumors of a masked man as a reason to stay longer.
What you know from earlier quests 3
- #163 Meals for Miners: Ademar curses the greedy adventurer who stole the miners' food. He can hardly believe it when you bring his lunch, and he is glad some adventurers can still be trusted.
- #168 Digging in the Dark: Ademar has heard that bright balloons sealed in lamps make good lanterns. You weaken the balloons, catch them, and bring him two lamps. He thanks you, sings about gold in the hills, and goes straight back to digging.
- #169 A Leg Up: Ademar asks you to set up ladders, since monsters make the area too dangerous for him. He thanks you warmly. He dreams of striking it rich and leaving this place for good.
- #163 Meals for Miners: Ademar curses the greedy adventurer who stole the miners' food. He can hardly believe it when you bring his
What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
- Godwin asks you to hand the report straight to Serpent Lieutenant Vortefaurt without reading it. His report tells of bandits, wild beasts, and sightings of a masked man near Fallgourd Float.
- Vortefaurt reads Godwin's report and finds most of it dull and routine. The sightings of a masked man trouble him. He thanks you and says the Adder is on the lookout for this stranger.
Dialogue 6 lines
Accepting the quest
Godwin
Hail, adventurer. If you would not be averse to courier duty, I have a report that must be delivered to Florentel's Spire with all haste.
Mind you, this information is highly classified. I trust you to deliver it directly to the hands of Serpent Lieutenant Vortefaurt─without sneaking a peek for yourself.
- DE Leider ist der Gute nicht besonders freundlich auf mich zu sprechen, seit ich ihn beim letzten Kartenspielabend in der Schenke bis aufs letzte Hemd ausgenommen habe. ‘Unfortunately the good fellow is not well disposed toward me since I cleaned him out to his last shirt at the last card night in the tavern.’ English stresses the report is highly classified; German says Godwin avoids Vortefaurt after fleecing him at cards.
Deliver the Fallgourd report to Vortefaurt.
Vortefaurt
These parts abound with particularly ferocious beasts. You'd do well to keep a wide berth, adventurer, lest I be left to clean your carcass off the forest floor.
A report from Godwin, you say? Very well, let us see... Traveling merchant waylaid by Qiqirn bandits, adventurer's hand bitten clean off by feral ziz, et cetera, et cetera... The usual banalities.
- JA ジズ被害3件、キキルン族とイクサル族の被害が1件ずつ……。 ‘Three ziz incidents, and one incident each from the Qiqirn and the Ixal...’ English: a merchant robbed by Qiqirn, an adventurer's hand bitten off by ziz; Japanese: three ziz, one Qiqirn, one Ixal incident.
Hm? What's this? Sightings of a masked man...? “No casualties yet reported, but due vigilance should be exercised.”
Troubling news, indeed─these parts are perilous enough without some masked marauder stirring up trouble. Thank you, friend. Rest assured that the Adder will be on the lookout for this interloper.