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Shocking Discoveries

Map quest, level 29. 180th of 194 in play order.

Quest giver: Marcette, Central Shroud (X 16.6, Y 18.6).

Next: In Too Deep ›

Steps

  1. Use the thick glass jar on a weakened lightning spark.
  2. Deliver the live lightning spark to Marcette.
Journal
  1. Marcette would put you to work again, whether you like it or not.
  2. The genius naturalist Marcette has deigned to appoint you to the most honorable position of Research Assistant Six, and promptly ordered you to procure a live lightning spark for her research. Weaken the creature and capture it in the receptacle she has provided for you.
  3. You have captured a live lightning spark. Despite your concerns for the creature's fate, you have agreed to deliver it to Marcette.
  4. Marcette is on the verge of another pioneering discovery. Despite your continued contributions to her research, she has yet to remember your number, let alone your name.
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In-game text The spark's item text jokes that calling it 'alive' is a stretch: it is only a drifting, half-aware mass of charged aether.
Title reference The title is a pun on 'shocking', which means very surprising. Marcette's new discovery runs on a live lightning spark, and she plans to shock lazy assistants and toadstools with it.
Characters 1

  • Marcette

    Marcette wants a live lightning spark for her research and expects you to fetch it.

    What you know from earlier quests 1
    • #179 Fungal Frolic: Marcette is very proud and bossy, and treats you as one of her assistants. She orders five toadstool caps, finds their spores much denser than before the Calamity (a past disaster), and laughs at her discovery. Then she asks who you are.
What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
  • Marcette names you Research Assistant Six and gives you a jar. She loves the spark and threatens to shock lazy assistants with it. She plans to shock toadstools to make them multiply fast. She forgets your number and sends you away.
Dialogue 6 lines

Accepting the quest

Marcette

Research Assistant Six. Yes, I am speaking to you, Research Assistant Six─that is the title I have deigned to bestow upon you after your humble contribution to my latest scientific breakthrough.

Mind you, now that you are officially my slave─er, research assistant─there will be no slacking off. I require a live lightning spark. Here is a jar. Now hurry─I haven't all day!

  • DE Das zieh ich dir dann von deinem nicht vorhandenen Gehalt ab! ‘I'll deduct that from your nonexistent salary!’ English tells you to hurry as she hasn't all day; German threatens to dock a broken jar from your nonexistent pay.

Deliver the live lightning spark to Marcette.

Marcette

The mere fact that you dare to interrupt me means that you must have the live lightning spark I require. Well, hand it over, then!

  • DE Wenn du dich nicht allzu dumm anstellst, lasse ich mich vielleicht sogar dazu herab, dich in einer Fußnote der Neuen Eorzäischen Naturgeschichte Teil XIV: Ein Biotop, wiedergeboren zu erwähnen - im Anhang. ‘If you don't act too stupid, I might even condescend to mention you in a footnote of the New Eorzean Natural History Part XIV: A Biotope, Reborn - in the appendix.’ English says your daring to interrupt means you have the spark; German says she may mention you in a footnote of her book.
  • JA キミが「新エオルゼア博物誌」の隅っこに、協力者として名を残すチャンスなんだから、キリキリ働きなさい？ ‘Since it's your chance to leave your name as a contributor in a corner of the "New Eorzea Natural History", get working, will you?’ English says your daring to interrupt means you have the spark; Japanese says this is your chance to be credited in her book.

Oooh, aren't you a cute little one!? Just think of all the fun I can have with you! The next assistant who dares shirk her/his duties is in for quite a shock! Muahahaha!!!

  • DE Ich werde die Sporen aus den Krötenstuhl-Kappen mit dieser elektrisch aufgeladenen Äthermasse in Kontakt bringen und dann ... ‘I will bring the spores from the toadstool caps into contact with this electrically charged aether mass and then... Hohohohoho!’ English jokes the next shirking assistant gets a shock; German plans to shock the toadstool spores.
  • JA キノコの傘から採取した胞子に、この子を使ってビリビリ電流を流せば……アハハハハハッ！ ‘If I use this little one to run a zapping current through the spores taken from the mushroom caps... Ahahahaha!’ English jokes the next shirking assistant gets a shock; Japanese plans to shock the mushroom spores.

Now, where was I? Ah, yes, toadstools! If my theories are correct, sending a shock through the toadstools will trigger a sense of danger, causing them to reproduce with unheard-of speed!

Truly, my genius knows no bounds! To think of the discoveries I could make if I had but a single competent assistant! ...You! Assistant Seven! Or was it Four!? Oh, whoever you are, begone from my sight and let me concentrate for once!

  • FR Bon, vous, assistant(e) numéro quatre... cinq ? ‘Right, you, assistant number four... five?’ English guesses Assistant Seven or Four; French guesses number four or five.
  • DE Wenn's im Sommer häufig blitzt, wächst der Pilz wie angespitzt! ‘After all, even the Gridanian farmers used to say: When lightning often flashes in summer, the mushroom shoots up like mad!’ English laments she lacks a single competent assistant; German quotes a farmers' rhyme about lightning and mushrooms.
  • DE Und dann wird die wissenschaftliche Welt Eorzeas mir zu Füßen liegen! ‘And then the scientific world of Eorzea will lie at my feet!’ English shoos away the assistant whose number she forgets; German says Eorzea's scientific world will lie at her feet.
  • JA 「雷の多い年はキノコが豊作」って俗説……そして、霊災後に増殖を続けるトードスツールと、ライトニング・スプライトの因果関係を証明してみせるわ！ ‘The folk belief that "a year with much thunder brings a rich mushroom harvest"... and I'll prove its causal link to the toadstools multiplying since the Calamity and the lightning sprites!’ English laments she lacks a single competent assistant; Japanese cites a folk belief about thunder and mushroom harvests.