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Out to Dry
Map quest, level 10. 52nd of 102 in play order.
Quest giver: W'dhovaka, Middle La Noscea (X 15.6, Y 16.9).
Steps
- Slay megalocrabs.
- Report to W'dhovaka at the Skylift.
Journal
- W'dhovaka, a Skylift operator, is looking for someone to assist with her megalocrab woes.
- Each time a balloon envelope is ruined, it reduces the amount of cargo the Skylift operation can transport. Slay five megalocrabs and help keep the crates moving.
- You have slain the megalocrabs. Return to the Skylift and report to W'dhovaka.
- Thanks to your shell-cracking efforts, the balloon envelopes are safe from marauding megalocrabs for a time. With the demand for cargo transport ever growing, however, a more permanent solution to the problem seems in order.
Hidden
swears 'for the love o' Llymlaen'. This is a natural oath for a Lominsan. Llymlaen, goddess of navigation, is the guardian god of Limsa Lominsa. pays for this quest is not just gil. It also includes a bonus of 
Ice Shard ×23. yells that 'the leather's ripped'. Then she quickly has to make clear that she means the leather of her balloons, not her trousers. left her balloon envelopes out to dry on the rocks.Characters 1
W'dhovaka is a Skylift operator. Megalocrabs have ripped the leather balloon envelopes she left drying on the rocks.
What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
- W'dhovaka swears by Llymlaen, Limsa's guardian goddess of navigation, and has to explain the ripped leather is not her trousers. Fewer balloons mean less cargo lifted. After you kill five crabs, she wants a more lasting fix, as loads keep growing.
What the Japanese, French and German versions say 7
Japanese
EN Out to Dry
JA 「切り裂きクラブ」, 'Crab the Ripper'
The title is a pun on 「切り裂きジャック」, 'Jack the Ripper', the killer's Japanese name. These megalocrabs slash W'dhovaka's balloons.
EN Out to Dry
JA 「切り裂きクラブ」, 'Crab the Ripper'
DE „Scherenschnitt“, 'scissor cut' · Schere, also a 'claw'
The German title keeps the slashing crab of the Japanese one. French and English make their own puns.
French
EN Out to Dry
FR «Sans se serrer la pince», 'without shaking pincers'
The title plays on «se serrer la pince», slang for 'to shake hands'. «pince» is both 'hand' and 'pincer', so no handshakes with these crabs.
EN 'Ah, for the love o' Llymlaen, not again! The leather's ripped to bloody shreds!' · 'Less balloons in the air means less cargo gettin' lifted, an' that don't sit too well with me.'
FR «Raah ! Ces satanés crustacés sont encorrre venus fourrer leurs pinces là où il ne faut pas... !», 'Raah! Those blasted crustaceans have come poking their pincers where they shouldn't again...!' · «Chaque ballon à réparrrer signifie une réduction de la quantité de marchandises que l'on peut transporter ici.», 'Every balloon to repair means less cargo we can carry here.'
W'dhovaka's rolled r's are written out on the page. The English gives her a sailor's brogue instead.
EN 'It's the megalocrabs─they've been at the balloon envelopes I left out to dry on the rocks. Those hells-spawned snippers think they've found a squid or somethin' an' set to nibblin'.'
FR «Non, non, j'avais mis l'enveloppe d'un ballon à sécher, mais il faut crrroire que les mégalocrabes ont confondu ça avec une de leurs proies parce qu'ils ont fait plein de trous dedans. Ils commencent sérrrieusement à me pomper l'air !», 'No, no, I'd put a balloon envelope out to dry, but the megalocrabs must have taken it for prey, because they've poked it full of holes. They're seriously starting to get on my nerves!'
«pomper l'air», literally 'to pump the air', means to annoy someone. The pun fits, since the crabs puncture her balloons. The English has no pun here.
German
EN Out to Dry · 'It's the megalocrabs─they've been at the balloon envelopes I left out to dry on the rocks.'
DE „Scherenschnitt“, 'scissor-cut' · „Megalokrabben haben die Ballonhülle, die ich zum Trocknen ausgelegt hatte, mit ihren Scheren zerschnitten.“, 'The megalocrabs have used their claws to cut up the balloon envelope I'd laid out to dry.'
„Scherenschnitt“ is the craft of scissor-cut paper silhouettes, and „Schere“, 'scissors', is also a crab's claw. Here the balloon is the paper, snipped to shreds.
EN 'Those hells-spawned snippers think they've found a squid or somethin' an' set to nibblin'.'
DE „Vielleicht macht sie die Farbe aggressiv ... oder was weiß ich ...“, 'Maybe the colour makes them aggressive... or who knows...'
W'dhovaka has a different guess than in English for why the crabs attack.
Dialogue 5 lines
Accepting the quest
W'dhovaka
Ah, for the love o' Llymlaen, not again! The leather's ripped to bloody shreds! Hm? No, there's naught awry with me breeches, ye cheeky sod.
- FR Raah ! Ces satanés crustacés sont encorrre venus fourrer leurs pinces là où il ne faut pas... ! ‘Raah! Those blasted crustaceans have come poking their pincers where they shouldn't again...!’ W'dhovaka's rolled r's are written out on the page. The English gives her a sailor's brogue instead.
- FR Ces satanés crustacés sont encorrre venus fourrer leurs pinces là où il ne faut pas... ‘Those blasted crustaceans have come poking their pincers where they shouldn't again...!’ French builds the innuendo on pincers poking where they shouldn't; English says the leather is ripped.
- FR Ah, je vous rassure, ce n'est rien que la pudeurrr m'empêcherait de vous dire. ‘Ah, let me reassure you, it is nothing that modesty would stop me from telling you.’ French teases that it's nothing indecent; English has her snap that her breeches are fine, "cheeky sod".
It's the megalocrabs─they've been at the balloon envelopes I left out to dry on the rocks. Those hells-spawned snippers think they've found a squid or somethin' an' set to nibblin'.
- DE Megalokrabben haben die Ballonhülle, die ich zum Trocknen ausgelegt hatte, mit ihren Scheren zerschnitten. ‘The megalocrabs have used their claws to cut up the balloon envelope I'd laid out to dry.’ „Scherenschnitt“ is the craft of scissor-cut paper silhouettes, and „Schere“, 'scissors', is also a crab's claw. Here the balloon is the paper, snipped to shreds.
- DE Vielleicht macht sie die Farbe aggressiv ... oder was weiß ich ... ‘Maybe the colour makes them aggressive... or who knows...’ W'dhovaka has a different guess than in English for why the crabs attack.
Less balloons in the air means less cargo gettin' lifted, an' that don't sit too well with me. Ye lookin' for a quick job? How 'bout ye crack a few shells afore ye head off on yer way? If ye could put down five or so o' the buggers, that ought to do for now.
Report to W'dhovaka at the Skylift
W'dhovaka
Ye take care o' them snippers? Good bloody riddance! Nice work there, lass/lad.
- FR Vous avez découpé ces vilains mégalocrabes en bâtonnets ? ‘You chopped those nasty megalocrabs into sticks?’ English simply asks if you dealt with them; French jokes that you chopped the crabs into sticks.
Still, it won't be long afore a new crew o' crabs comes sidlin' in to claim that territory. And our loads just keep gettin' heavier, what with all the rebuildin' going on. If I don't want to be buried under a mountain o' crates, I'd best think of a more lastin' solution to this snipper problem.