Pumiceous Pursuits

Map quest, level 28. 165th of 194 in play order.

Quest giver: Oriane, North Shroud (X 15.6, Y 25.5).

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Steps

Use the sealing vessel on a weakened pumice golem.
Deliver the living soulstone to Yhom Epocan.

Journal

Oriane needs your help in obtaining something not easily come by.
Pumice golems─creatures of living stone that have sprung up from the sundered landscape─have overrun the area, and Oriane would know their origins. Weaken one of the creatures to some degree, then capture its soul with a sealing vessel.
You have obtained the living soulstone of a pumice golem. The researcher Yhom Epocan at the Bobbing Cork in Fallgourd Float should be able to shed light on the creature's origins.
Yhom Epocan is overjoyed to receive a soulstone in such pristine condition, and vows to begin her analysis straightaway.

Hidden

Easter egg Yhom Epocan

says 'Gummice pollums', swapping the first sounds of 'pumice golems'. A slip of the tongue like this is called a spoonerism.

In-game text The

Sealing Vessel's text explains how it holds a soul: it is clay with no metal in it, fired in a ceruleum oven so that aether flows through it poorly.

Characters 5

Oriane
Oriane trusts you now and has a bigger task than hunting hares: learning where the pumice golems come from.
What you know from earlier quests 1
- #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.
Yhom Epocan
Yhom Epocan is a researcher who often visits the Bobbing Cork in Fallgourd Float. Oriane thinks she can explain the golems.
Aeluuin
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.
Somerhild
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.
Ademar
What you know from earlier quests 1
- #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.

What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest

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.
Yhom Epocan is forgetful: she jokes that she is unsure of her own name and cannot find her glasses. Oriane has told her about the golems. She is thrilled by the soulstone's energy and starts her analysis at once.

Dialogue 9 lines

Accepting the quest

Oriane

As you have proven yourself a capable ally, I would entrust to you a task more ambitious than the slaying of hares.

DE Die Glitscher scheinen dir keine großen Probleme bereitet zu haben. ‘The slimers don't seem to have caused you much trouble.’ English calls the slain pests hares; German calls them Glitscher, slimy creatures.

Mayhap you have encountered curious constructs of living stone in these parts. They emerged from the sundered landscape in the wake of the Calamity, and their numbers have only burgeoned thenceforth.

For each one we slay, another rises to the surface to take its place─my comrades and I are at wit's end. It is clear that we must take this battle to the source.

There is a researcher by the name of Yhom Epocan who frequents the Bobbing Cork in Fallgourd Float. I suspect she might be able to shed light on the matter.

Take this sealing vessel and capture the living soulstone of one of the golems─mind you, you will have to weaken the brute first. Deliver the soulstone to Yhom Epocan, and see if she cannot ascertain the golems' origin.

Use the sealing vessel on a weakened pumice golem.

//: fight golems, capture their souls

Deliver the living soulstone to Yhom Epocan.

Yhom Epocan

Yhom Epocan? Why, that's me! At least, that's who I think I am! Ah, er, did you need something from me?

Gummice pollums? I fear I'm not familiar with them. Pumice golems, on the other hand─Oriane has told me all about them. Let us see what you've brought me, now...

DE Ah, es geht um die Untersuchung , nehme ich an? ‘Ah, this is about the investigation of [], I take it?’ English garbles Pumice golems as Gummice pollums for a joke; German just names the investigation.
JA ああ、「」の件ですね。 ‘Ah, this is about the [] matter.’ English garbles Pumice golems as Gummice pollums for a joke; Japanese just names the matter.

Ooh, I can just feel it pulsing with energy! You've certainly found a live one, haven't you? I must begin my analysis straightaway. Now where did I put my glasses?

DE Du hast der Wissenschaft einen großen Dienst erwiesen. ‘You have done science a great service.’ English ends joking about misplaced glasses; German thanks you for a great service to science.
JA ありがとうございました。 ‘Thank you very much.’ English ends joking about misplaced glasses; Japanese simply thanks you.