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* 7.45 follow-up
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10TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SEQ_00As great a fisher of men as he is a devourer of fish, Guildmaster Wawalago reels you in with a choice challenge.
21TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SEQ_01Wawalago certainly has a way with words, though which way that is, not even the Navigator can say. Console yourself by catching the living legends sighted in La Noscea, the Black Shroud, and Thanalan, and present them to Wawalago at Fisherman's Bottom on the lower decks of Limsa Lominsa.
32TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SEQ_02You have delivered the living legends to Wawalago. Even as the guildmaster heaps praise upon you, a puller arrives with alarming news that the ordinarily fertile Rhotano Sea has ceased to yield its bounty. Wawalago suspects that the currents may be to blame, and pledges to have Sisipu look into the matter. Meanwhile, he urges you to continue your hunt for living legends. Make your way to Coerthas and Mor Dhona, and deliver the creatures you capture to Wawalago.
43TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SEQ_03Too many legends spoil everything, according to Ascelyn. The scholar arrives with news that the fisheries along the Rhotano seaboard face extinction unless the Nepto Dragon is removed from circulation. Like many monsters, it currently resides in Costa del Sol. Go there and speak with the steersman.
54TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SEQ_04You come to a quick understanding with the steersman. His boat will take you to the Rhotano privateer, where your destiny awaits in the form of a giant fish. If you should catch this Nepto Dragon, the saltworn captain is keen to take a measure of the fish...and you.
65TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SEQ_05You have killed a legend to save the local economy; such is the trade-off in these calamitous times. Your erstwhile opponent now lies limply on deck, awaiting Ascelyn's delicate knives. It occurs to you that Wawalago may share your sense of loss, and so seek him out him you shall.
76TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SEQ_06Wawalago's sense of loss has less to do with mystique and more to do with meunière. However, his regard for you is sincere and robust, and a day of hard fishing has left you famished. Not all legends endure, but they sure are tasty, especially when paired with a chilled lowland white.
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2524TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_TODO_00Deliver living legends fished in La Noscea, the Black Shroud, and Thanalan to Wawalago.
2625TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_TODO_01Deliver living legends fished in Coerthas and Mor Dhona to Wawalago.
2726TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_TODO_02Speak with the steersman at Costa del Sol.
2827TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_TODO_03Catch the Nepto Dragon from the privateer, and deliver it to the saltworn captain.
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4948TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_100_000The arrival of an audacious adventurer is always an auspicious affair! I've a word for you if you would wait but a whit, whew!
5049TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_000All this long while have I, Wawalago, wielded the willow, and so I've an unparalleled understanding of the Calamity's copious consequences for creatures that cavort in courses and combers.
5150TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_001Such confusion and chaos caused by the Calamity! Fish are found far from where they once frolicked. Like the loosing of the legendary Nepto Dragon in new domiciles...
5251TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_002With which I wander onto today's topic: the realm rings with reports and rumors of fantastic fish, incredible ichthyic impressions that indicate an onslaught of Old Ones!
5352TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_003Better than Old Ones─living legends!
5453TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_004Only a false fisher fails to fling herself at such a fortuitous find!
5554TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_006La Noscea, the Black Shroud, and Thanalan were where these rousing reports arose. The dearth of details does deter dilettantes, despite the delights of living legends!
5655TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_007But you're a fully fledged fisher, flush with frills and fundamentals both! Lure all three living legends into the light of day, or die despairing!
5756TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_008Enervated by the enormity of the enterprise? Practice makes perfect, so you might ply your pole against all the Old Ones first.
5857TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_012If only I were footloose and fancy-free like you! It is my fatal flaw that I am indisposed as well as too important to indulge my instinct for ichthyic inspection.
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6362TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_030Have you landed those three living legends? If first you fail, try tirelessly to much avail!
6463TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_031Feel these firm flanks, see how the scales scintillate! This is some show of skill, that you learned to lure these living legends!
6564TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_FISHERMAN_000_032Master Wawalago, don't mean to bother ye, but I need a moment of yer time.
6665TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_FISHERMAN_000_033These days, it's almost like the Rhotano's fished out. Everybody sits as high comin' back as they did goin' out.
6766TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_034Fewer fish, you say? A dire development that disrupts dining delights for decades!
6867TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_FISHERMAN_000_035Aye, this ain't yer average bad streak. Somethin's happened out there, and folks are tired of watchin' and waitin'.
6968TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_036This time of the year, there ought to be colossal catches of cod and cuttlefish, croakers and capelin!
7069TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_037Could it be the consequence of crazy currents displacing denizens of the drink? I shall set Sisipu on this situation straightaway!
7170TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_039Meanwhile, Player, why don't you resume reeling for living legends? Reports have recently reached me of sightings in Coerthas and Mor Dhona. Return hither once you have hooked and hauled in those hulks!
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7372TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_050It's a chancy challenge, chasing choice char in─ah, not char? Living legends! Of course I remember! Very vague venture, a vanishingly small stab at success...
7473TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_051Could it be...that the master has been mastered? That Wawalago has been wowed? The canard is correct─you have cast off your callowness to collect the catch of the day!
7574TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SISIPU_000_052Looks like Player here caught herself a passel of living legends! Am I seeing a changing of the guard, Wawalago? Hmmm?
7675TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_053Don't be so silly, Sisipu! Player is an adventurer─an all-around achiever not about to confine herself to one craft.
7776TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SISIPU_000_054<sigh> And I was so looking forward to organizing a retirement roast in your honor... But anyway, I came by to update you on the situation you told me about.
7877TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SISIPU_000_055We can rule out the currents as the cause. The cold current from the Bloodbrine Sea into the Indigo Deep is a tad fatter this year, but nothing out of the ordinary.
7978TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_056Yes, yes, the sea has its seasonal shifts. We must cast about elsewhere for the cause of the collapsing catch.
8079TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_000_057Ah, ahem. I am happy to report that I have solved the mystery of the plummeting fish population. That is to say, the fishery in the Rhotano Sea is doomed thanks to the Nepto Dragon.
8180TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_058The absent Ascelyn arrives! Your academic acumen is always appreciated! So there be dragons in these deeps?
8281TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_000_059Ahem, Master Wawalago, you did say that the Calamity displaced fauna from their natural habitats. Well, not in so many words, but I believe we understand one another.
8382TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_000_060I have verified that indeed, sightings of the Old Ones soared following the Calamity. More importantly, I have discovered that the Nepto Dragon is calamity's mistress.
8483TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_000_061That is to say, the creature always appears just after a natural disaster.
8584TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_000_062Historical records also spoke of slumping fish stock at the time of the Nepto Dragon's appearance.
8685TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_100_062So, ah, this current situation in the Rhotano Sea looks to be history repeating itself─that is to say, the fisheries here will die a painful, lingering death.
8786TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_101_062And as for *what* this creature is, ah, I believe I know that also─a sport born of little Thalaos! Or as we scholars like to say, a freak of nature.
8887TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SISIPU_000_063But little Thalaos have no natural enemies, and if the Nepto Dragon is a monster version of it... We must catch the thing or these fisherfolk will starve!
8988TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_064This random rogue can ruin the entire Rhotano seaboard!?
9089TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_000_065That would be correct. Luckily, I've had urchins─that is to say, children, not those fascinating creatures with feet ringing their mouths─on the lookout.
9190TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_000_066One of them spotted the Nepto Dragon off Costa del Sol. Master Gegeruju has been kind enough to arrange a ship for a bit of dragonslaying, so to speak.
9291TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_067Go greet your glory, Player! As the finest fisher in these parts, it falls on you to finish this fearsome foe.
9392TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_068Go greet your glory, Player! As the finest fisherman in these parts, it falls on you to fend off this fell foe for the fishers of the Rhotano!
9493TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_000_069Ahem, still on the brink of disaster. The Nepto Dragon was sighted off Costa del Sol. Everything is shipshape, so to speak, for a bit of dragonslaying.
9594TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SISIPU_000_070Well, this has turned into quite the to–do! If Master Gegeruju's involved, you'd better succeed, Player. Otherwise we'd never hear the end of it!
9695TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_STEERSMAN_000_090Aye, Master Gegeruju explained─awful thorough he was about it, too. Speak with the skipper here when yer ready, and he'll take ye to the ship.
9796TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_STEERSMAN_100_090Speak with the skipper here when yer ready to fish that big bastard Dragon, and he'll take ye to the ship.
9897TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SENCHYO_000_120When ye catch that Nepto Dragon, give it here. We'll lay it on the deck, get a measure of its size.
9998TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_121The saltworn one summoned us with the shipboard 'shell. He spoke of a supreme struggle with a sea serpent! We rowed robustly to reach you, ready for any rowdiness!
10099TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_122Terrific timing for the three of us─missed the threat but not the thrill. Why, what a whale you've whisked out of the whitecaps!
101100TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SISIPU_000_123Did you actually reel this monster up all by yourself? Even after all this time, you still manage to surprise me, Player.
102101TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_000_124Ah, ahem, can I get some help here? Decomposition waits for no man, and I should like to avoid any unnecessary eruptions during dissection.
103102TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_000_125Ahem, a great day for science. And, ah, congratulations on avoiding the destruction of an entire way of life and all that. If you'll excuse me, I must get to the laboratory.
104103TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_ASCELYN_000_126Hm? Oh, yes, the fish stock should return to normal. Stands to reason that if nothing's eating them, they wouldn't be dead.
105104TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SISIPU_000_127Then it's time *we* return to Fisherman's Bottom and deliver the good news to everyone!
106105TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_128Mmm... The lucent length of the late living legend fills me with fancies of flaky flesh! Surely science is not so stingy that it can't spare a succulent slice?
107106TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SISIPU_000_129You want to *eat* the Nepto Dragon? That is so... Wawalago, it's *science*. Ascelyn's research is far more important than your supper plans!
108107TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_SISIPU_000_130Oh, Wawalago will be fine. He's just blue because he didn't get to taste the Nepto Dragon.
109108TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_150Adventurer, we appreciate all you've accomplished here. Once more, the Rhotano shall brim with bluefins and bream, bonito and bass...
110109TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_151You are an amply accomplished angler, gifted in getting at gilled gulpers. Everything in Eorzea is yours to ensnare!
111110TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_152But bear in mind, better to bide your time when the biting isn't brisk! Patience is precious, though precious few perceive it so.
112111TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_153Philosophical followings are not my forte! But few can beat me in braising, boiling, and browbeating! Ascelyn sneaked me some scrumptious steaks sawed off the Nepto Dragon!
113112TEXT_SUBSEA923_00246_WAWALAGO_000_154No speaking to Sisipu of this─she's blinded by science! Now, decisions, decisions! Browned in butter? Capers? Cream and cumin? Or patted in pepper and put in a pie...