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* 7.45 follow-up
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10TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_SEQ_00The deputy postmoogle would task you with an urgent delivery to Little Ala Mhigo.
21TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_SEQ_01Another day, another task from the deputy postmoogle. This time, your furry friend would have you deliver a letter from Hihibaru to his daughter Hihira in Little Ala Mhigo. Though the moogle seems merry as ever, he dispatches you with a warning that there may be more to this missive than meets the eye...
32TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_SEQ_02The letter safely in her hands, Hihira reads aloud her father's message, only to discover Hihibaru is stricken with a fatal malady of the stomach. Ever the kindly daughter, however, she is quick to conceive of a cure, a herbal remedy brewed using Trader vetch roots. With panic in her eyes, she begs you unearth three such tubers in Zanr'ak.
43TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_SEQ_03Malms of wilderness and dozens of Amalj'aa at your back, you finally come upon patches of Trader vetch. With three tubers from the herb safely in hand, make your way back to Little Ala Mhigo─through the malms of wilderness and dozens of Amalj'aa that stand between you and Hihira.
54TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_SEQ_04Though happy to have the crucial roots, Hihira remains worried about her father being alone in his time of need, and asks you to keep a watch over Hihibaru in Highbridge till she can complete her concoction.
65TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_SEQ_05You arrive moments before Hihira to find Hihibaru hale as he ever was. The mystery unravels as he reveals that it is his ailing business that causes his gastric distress, not a mortal malady. Livid, Hihira storms off, leaving you to explain the situation to her father. Hihibaru realizes his mistake...and that his daughter is heading straight towards an Amalj'aa camp. Hihibaru begs you follow her into Drybone, and defend her from any dangers about.
76TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_SEQ_06You spy Hihira hemmed in by Amalj'aa. Save her from a nasty end.
87TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_SEQ_07Spared death on the point of an Amalj'aa spear, a thankful Hihira wends her way home─but only after tasking you with delivering the glad tidings of her safety to Hihibaru in Highbridge.
98TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_SEQ_08Heaving a sigh of relief at the news you bring, Hihibaru hands you a neckpiece. He explains the object belonged to his late wife who perished after long moons spent in painful battle with the Green Rot. The man admits his improvidence, both for having excited fear he suffered a similar illness, and for having driven Hihira away years earlier. He entreats you to give the neckpiece─along with his apologies─to Hihira in Little Ala Mhigo.
109TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_SEQ_09You deliver Hihira both the neckpiece and her father's words of pride. Deeply moved, the girl tells you of her mother's teachings of kindness, and Hihibaru's thirst for gil. Now, however, Hihira thinks her father a changed man, and vows to have more talk of all these things with him.
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2524TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_TODO_00Deliver the letter to Hihira in Little Ala Mhigo.
2625TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_TODO_01Gather Trader vetch roots in Zanr'ak.
2726TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_TODO_02Deliver the Trader vetch roots to Hihira.
2827TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_TODO_03Speak with Hihibaru at Highbridge.
2928TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_TODO_04Search for Hihira in Drybone.
3029TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_TODO_05Rescue Hihira.
3130TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_TODO_06Report to Hihibaru.
3231TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_TODO_07Deliver the tarnished neckpiece to Hihira.
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4948TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_LETTERMOOGLE_000_000Why, if it isn't just the adventurer I was waiting for, kupo! Have I got an assignment and a half for you today. Why you? Because, my friend, there is no one better suited for the task!
5049TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_LETTERMOOGLE_000_001I hold in my pouch a letter with your name on it! ...Not *literally*, of course. I mean simply that I have a missive for Hihira in Little Ala Mhigo, and would have you take it to her. It's from her father, and I've been told it must go out, ahem, *post*haste! ...Wh–Why aren't you laughing?
5150TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_LETTERMOOGLE_000_002Anyhow, Hihira is as lovely a girl as you'd ever wish to meet, wise in the ways of alchemy and so kind she gives away medicine to ailing Ala Mhigan refugees─and free of cost, no less! But Hihira has known almost no rest on her crusade, and I worry she's working herself into the ground.
5251TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_LETTERMOOGLE_000_003It would break a postmoogle's heart to deliver a letter with ill tidings to such a saint. So if the message brings anything but joy to Hihira, would you be a dear and aid her with every onze of strength you have, kupo?
5352TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_LETTERMOOGLE_000_004What are you still lounging about here for!? It's rude to keep a lady waiting. Get to Little Ala Mhigo quick as you can, and give Hihira the letter, kupo!
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5554TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_010What a pleasant surprise, my friend! I've been so enthralled with learning about Ala Mhigan remedies I've quite forgotten when last we spoke. So tell me, what brings you here today? ...What? A letter from my *father*?
5655TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_012“Dearest daughter, I fear I am not long for this world. My belly grows worse with every passing day, and I have something I must give you before my time here draws to a close.”
5756TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_015I...I had no idea my father was ill, let alone with a mortal ailment of the stomach! Our relationship is fraught, I shan't deny it, but neither will I idly watch him die! Why, I just learned of a remedy that ought be potent enough to cure even the Green Rot─and I need only Trader vetch roots to brew it!
5857TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_016Player, gather me some from Zanr'ak to the south─three bunches, please. I would give all I have to do the plucking myself, but I fear the Amalj'aa would make terribly short work of one so weak as I.
5958TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_017What have the long bells spent studying Ala Mhigan medicine been for if not this? I swear to you, my father will not perish─not if I have aught to say about it!
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6362TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_018Player, please, head south to Zanr'ak and gather three Trader vetch roots for me. I've no hope of saving my father without them!
6463TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_020I am most relieved to see you have returned unharmed! And what of the Trader vetch roots?
6564TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_021Thank goodness! Though it will take no small time to grind and steep these tubers, at least now I can complete my draught. <sigh> Yet I find little comfort in that thought. Visions of my father all alone and in agony weigh all too heavily upon my mind for that.
6665TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_022He is simply too proud to ask for aid of those around him, especially now he has put home behind him to organize his merchants from Highbridge. Please, Player, would you go and be a friend to him where none else can? I promise I shan't be more than few malms behind you with the remedy.
6766TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_023I just need a few short bells to complete my remedy. Won't you keep my father company until then?
6867TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_024You are sure to find him in eastern Thanalan, at the foot of Highbridge. Please, await me there─I will not be long, I promise!
6968TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_025Welcome back, my friend! I *knew* you weren't immune to the lure of fine merchandise! Mayhap I can interest you in a─ Dear me, why do you look like one bound for the lichyard?
7069TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_026Slow down─a *fatal* ailment of the stomach? Me!? Gods be good, this is certainly the first *I'm* hearing of it!
7170TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_027Father, I have it! The remedy is done!
7271TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_028Hihira! Bless my soul, what brings you to these parts?
7372TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_029I...I came to deliver the remedy. Please, you must drink it quickly lest its effects be lessened!
7473TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_100_028For you, my dear, I would swig anything swiftly. Just allow me one small question beforehand─a remedy for *what*, exactly?
7574TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_100_029It's an Ala Mhigan infusion for your stomach! Which...which *does* still ail you, does it not?
7675TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_030Ahhh... Yes, yes, of course, *that* ailment. My girl, I'm afraid it troubles me terribly! A man can only take so much pain in one lifetime, and I'm near ready to cry mercy.
7776TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_031It's my own damned fault, always blinded by pride and the glitter of gil as I was. Thal take me, I was so *sure* business would take root and grow mighty in this wasteland! But I have little and less to show for the years I've poured into this place.
7877TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_032To call what I make every moon a pittance does injustice to the word. Why, merely opening my ledgers has me doubled over grasping my stomach in pain! Things have grown so dismal I might even give up being a merchant. My life is near over...
7978TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_033...What?
8079TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_034What's what, dearest?
8180TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_035Your life is near over...*as a merchant*? That's all? You have no mortal sickness of the stomach, nor are you headed for an early grave?
8281TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_036An early grave? Ahahaha! Why would you possibly think that? Ah, but I'd forgotten you make every molehill into a mountain, Hihira. Really, my girl, you ought to have a thicker skin by now.
8382TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_037I...I was merely concerned for your health, Father.
8483TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_038Good gods, no one has ever perished from a stomachache! But no matter. I *am* glad you're here, even if you've come on a fool's errand. I've a gift for you─please, take it.
8584TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_039...No.
8685TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_040What's that? Speak up, Hihira.
8786TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_041I want nothing from you now, nor anything to do with you ever again!
8887TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_042...What in the name of the Twelve has gotten into her?
8988TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_043B-But I never meant... Good gods, is that *really* what I wrote? <sigh> Hihira had the right of it, then. I've been a complete arse of a father, leading her so astray with that letter.
9089TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_044What was I thinking, calling her too sensitive? Thal take me, I must find her at once and apologize! But which way did she...?
9190TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_045Bloody hells! Hihira just ran due south─straight towards an Amalj'aa encampment!
9291TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_046Adventurer, please! You must follow her and keep her safe from those lizardmen!
9392TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_047Why in the seven hells are you still here!? Scour Drybone for Hihira before the Amalj'aa find her!
9493TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_056S-Stay back!
9594TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_POP_MESSAGE_000_057You sense a hostile presence!
9695TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_BALLOON_000_058Behold, another trespassing heathen!
9796TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_BALLOON_000_059Death to all who do not serve Lord Ifrit!
9897TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_065Th-Thank you, Player. Gods, what possessed me to come here? I was a fool for letting my father upset me so, and for blundering so near to the Amalj'aa.
9998TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_067All I wish to do now is return to Little Ala Mhigo, and think things over for a spell. I...I *suppose* my father ought to know no harm has come to me, but I have no stomach for the man at the moment. Would you please tell him in my stead?
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101100TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_068Thank you for saving me from those awful Amalj'aa earlier. Er...how did my father take the news? Oh, you haven't spoken with him yet? Well, just tell him I am in no danger when you have a moment to spare.
102101TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_070What of my daughter!? Has something befallen her!? *Well*!?
103102TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_100_070...She's safe, then? Thank the gods above for that! I've never been more worried in my life, nor felt such sharp pains in my belly as while I was waiting for your news. What was I to do but take a swig of that remedy Hihira brought?
104103TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_071Let me tell you, it's *amazing* stuff─a mouthful eased the cramping, and a cup cleansed the pain completely! I had no idea my daughter was such an alchemical prodigy! Why, this remedy is easily worth its weight in gold.
105104TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_072It would be criminal to waste this kind of genius, or hide such a miraculous elixir from the realm. You *must* ask Hihira if she can brew more─to put to market, of course!
106105TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_073I'm not asking this to line my own coffers, mind you. No, my daughter created the best, and the whole realm will be all the better for having access to it. Just *think* of the lives that could be saved if the remedy were made available to all Eorzea through my network!
107106TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_074Of course, my daughter won't believe my motives are pure, so I'd have you give her this keepsake─a favorite of my late wife's─as proof of my sincerity.
108107TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_075She was a victim of the Green Rot, my wife. And for Hihira... Imagine seeing the woman who bore you curled up in soiled smallclothes, screaming of agony in her stomach half the time and sobbing the other─*that's* the memory of her mother Hihira carries.
109108TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_076I should have remembered that when writing the blasted letter, but, being the lackwit I am, instead I sent Hihira into a panic. Little wonder calling her too sensitive made her livid!
110109TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_077Mayhap if I hadn't poisoned our relationship, we could have avoided this ugly business altogether. If only I had not driven the girl away by calling her a naive child all those years ago... All she wanted to do was heal the ailing in Little Ala Mhigo, after all.
111110TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_078You don't want for alchemical knowledge, but whence comes the gil for your grand crusade, I asked her. You'll die among the beggars you tried to save if you're foolish enough to pursue such lofty ideals with no coin in your pocket! <sigh> Wonderful fatherly advice, eh?
112111TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_079Thank the Twelve Hihira wasn't so easily swayed by my folly. And look at the healer she's become─crafter of remedies fit to save the realm, and trusted friend to the Ala Mhigan refugees she lives with in ways few Ul'dahns ever have been.
113112TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_080Hihira has grown into as wise and kind a woman as her mother was, and hasn't got an onze of my avarice. She's more than earned my respect, and my blessing to live as she sees fit. So when you give her this neckpiece, Player, *make* her understand how proud she's made me.
114113TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIBARU_000_081Hihira isn't possessed of my desire for coin─and she needs to know how proud that makes me.
115114TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_085My father has learned I am well? Did he...did he have aught else to say?
116115TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_086How odd... I know I've seen this before, but I cannot remember where.
117116TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_087My father is...is *proud* of me? If that be true, his heart is grown less cold and calculating. And that he kept my mother's favorite neckpiece for all this time...
118117TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_088My mother was the gentlest of souls─all tender smiles and wise words. Why, my fondest childhood memories are of her stroking my head as I lay abed, and murmuring “sow compassion where you wander, and ever will kindness bloom in your wake.”
119118TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_089Were it not for my mother's teachings, I would never have learned the ways of alchemy, nor sought to save the ailing with remedies born of my study.
120119TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_090But Father never truly seemed to *hear* what my mother exhorted─though he asked her counsel more than I. Watching him pray so devoutly before the altar of profit was...was simply more than I could bear.
121120TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_091Yet...though I know not if I believe his promises of change, I can think of no better way to distribute my remedies than my father's network of merchants. And if his work might deliver succor to the downtrodden, am I so stubborn as to deny him the chance?
122121TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_092I'll do it. Or, I shall at least try. But by enlisting the aid of the Ala Mhigans here in brewing the remedies, how could even the fates deny us success?
123122TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_HIHIRA_000_093And after we have made enough to put to market, Father and I will finally talk. About Mother, about my life after leaving home, about everything.
124123TEXT_SUBPST016_01576_SYSTEM_000_094With your successful delivery, your reputation as a letter carrier has grown!