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* 7.45 follow-up
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10TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SEQ_00Lalai has gleaned new knowledge that may serve you well.
21TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SEQ_01While she waits for Shatotto to wake from her slumber, Lalai would gather further information regarding the falling star. A missive from 269th Order Mendicant Da Za in Revenant's Toll speaks of further golem sightings. Seek out your kobold friend, that you might gain whatever knowledge necessary to stave off attacks that might endanger your beastman friends.
32TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SEQ_02A brief conversation with Da Za reveals that the particular golems rampaging in the area appear to be of Mhachi construction. Shatotto, who has once again assumed control of Lalai's consciousness, expresses her disbelief that constructs she herself played a part in creating could be behaving in such a manner, leading the ever-wary Zhai'a Nelhah to doubt her motivations. You set out for the Tangle, where the golems were last sighted, in hopes of finding further answers.
43TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SEQ_03No sooner have you arrived in the Tangle than Shatotto senses a strong aetheric presence and promptly dashes off in pursuit. Zhai'a Nelhah follows her, meaning to keep an eye on the sorceress and golems both, while bidding you to survey the far side of the bog, to ensure that no menaces of living stone lie in wait.
54TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SEQ_04Your foray to the southeastern reaches of the swamp proves uneventful. Return to the southwest, that you might see how your companions fared in their own scouting effort.
65TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SEQ_05You arrive on the scene just in time to rescue the embattled Shatotto and Zhai'a Nelhah from the mindless wrath of a golem gone berserk. Shatotto, in particular, seems uncharacteristically shaken up by the ordeal. Tend to the sorceress and see that neither she nor her host Lalai has suffered grave injury.
76TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SEQ_06Shatotto and Zhai'a Nelhah have at long last come to something of a mutual understanding, and all it took was staring certain death in the eye together on the field of battle. The conversation turns to the subject of Lalai, and Shatotto chastises the stodgy Hearer for his pathetically hopeless understanding of the fairer sex, causing him to flee from the scene a blithering mess. Shatotto also takes her leave, sensing that she is about to fall back into slumber, and bids you return to Ul'dah to consult with Lalai when she wakes.
87TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SEQ_07Lalai welcomes you back to Ul'dah and explains that Shatotto has once again returned to rest, though not before sharing her plans for the next stage of your mission: to wit, she would venture further afield to fend off any potential golem rampages at the pass. Lalai encourages you to continue your studies with due diligence. Though you know not when the call will come, come it will, and Shatotto will be ill pleased if you are not up to the task. ※The next black mage quest will be available from Lalai upon reaching level 68.
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2524TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_TODO_00Speak with 269th Order Mendicant Da Za near Revenant's Toll.
2625TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_TODO_01Join Shatotto in the Tangle.
2726TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_TODO_02Survey the area from a suitable vantage point.
2827TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_TODO_03Make your way to the southwestern edge of the Tangle.
2928TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_TODO_04Aid Shatotto.
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4948TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_000Ah, Player. I trust you have not been shirking your studies? Mistress Shatotto expects much of us, and I would not disappoint her.
5049TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_001For my own part, I have called out to her intently time and again within my mind in hopes of conveying any and all knowledge that might avail in staving off this impending disaster. Though she does not respond, I have the distinct sensation that she is listening...in some way or another.
5150TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_002Doubtless she will return when she sees fit, but in the meanwhile we can ill afford to bide our time. And so, I have taken Zhai'a Nelhah's advice─I can just see the smug grin on his face as I say that─and reached out to our friends.
5251TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_003Not moments ago, a postmoogle came by with a missive from our friend Da Za of the 269th Order. As luck would have it, it seems he has knowledge that might serve us well─to wit, reports of recent sightings of rampaging golems.
5352TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_004I would ask you to go on ahead and see what he knows. I will call for that holier-than-thou Hearer and join you shortly. Not that I am enamored of his company─far from it─but his insights have proven to be not altogether useless on occasion.
5453TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_005If only he were not so unbearably smug, the man might almost be─ah! Were you not headed to Revenant's Toll to meet our friend Da Za? We are not exactly suffering from an overabundance of time, Player.
5554TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_DAZA_000_010Player! It has been eons─eras, ages, eons! I have heard that the spirit of the legendary Shatotto comes alive again inside Lalai, but could this wondrous tale possibly be true!?
5655TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_011It is indeed, friend Da Za. She is a capricious type, though, and wakes only when she has a mind to─a fact that I have explained some seven hundred times to this mutton-headed Hearer, who still insists beyond all reason that I should be able to summon her at will.
5756TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_012You do me discredit, Lalai. I merely *suggested* that if there were some means by which we could summon Shatotto at our own convenience─rather than waiting for her to come forth of her own accord─it might serve us in facing the dangers ahead.
5857TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_013*Summon* her? You speak of the illustrious founder of my art as if she were a mere serving girl! You will watch your tongue in the presence of your betters, Zhai'a Nelhah, lest...unggghhhhhh!
5958TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_014I meant no disrespect. I do not deny the power of your art, nor the good it can do in the right hands. I am simply...
6059TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_015...Too stubborn and stupid to fully accept it? Oh well, I suppose none of us are perfect─myself excluded, of course. 269th Order Mendicant Da Za, I presume! Tell me all you have seen or heard about this rampaging golem.
6160TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_DAZA_000_016Are my eyes to be believed─trusted, sworn by, believed!? Is this truly the great Shatotto who stands before my eyes? Yes, yes, it must be!
6261TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_DAZA_000_017I...I mean, but of course, my lady! Yes, yes, Da Za will tell all he knows! I saw a strange golem─odd, curious, strange─wandering in the Tangle. And that is not all! It was no ordinary golem─no, no─but rather the same one I saw in a tome handed down from my forebear Da Gu! A golem of ancient Mhach!
6362TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_018One of my own creations? Why, that is simply inconceivable! I designed them to be utterly rampage-proof, and left copious instructions to ensure that my loyal apprentices─and *their* apprentices, and so on and so forth─would see they stay that way.
6463TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_019Mayhap your followers were not so diligent in carrying out your orders after your passing? We all know of the chaos and destruction wreaked by Mhachi sorcerers during the War of the Magi. I suspect that poring over age-old documents on the upkeep of golems was the least of their concerns.
6564TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_020Forgive me my doubts, Lady Shatotto, but you seem quite partial to your creations...and your countrymen. If we were to find ourselves locked in combat with a golem of Mhach, do I have your assurance you would not hesitate to strike down our foe?
6665TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_021You do not trust me─trust *us*─this I know. I am not deaf to Lalai's ceaseless grumblings. So be it. You cannot help being a simpleton, no more than I can help being the greatest intellect of any era.
6766TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_022That old coot Ququruka told me what became of Mhachi after my passing when he communed with me a century ago. Do you think I deny the senseless destruction caused by my descendants─with the art I myself wrought, no less? Of course not. For I, unlike some of my present companions, am not a bloody fool.
6867TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_023But even a fool must understand that a tool is only as good or evil as she who would wield it. So answer me this─what could I possibly stand to gain from standing idly by as my own creations wreak havoc on the realm I once called home?
6968TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_024I will grant that there is some sense in what you say. In any event, we thank you for your assistance, Da Za. Rest assured that we shall see to the rogue golems before any harm befalls you and yours. To the Tangle!
7069TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_DAZA_000_025Does that overdweller never lighten up? It must be so tiring living each day carrying around a brain of solid stone—burdensome, wearisome, tiring.
7170TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_026You can say that again, my synonym-abusing friend. Player. You know the man better than I─and for that, I pity you. Is there nothing we can do to buy ourselves a moment's respite from his inane quibbling? Whatever do you suppose is bothering his puny mind?
7271TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_Q1_000_000What will you say?
7372TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_A1_000_001He is simply in awe of your power.
7473TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_A1_000_002Mayhap he worries for Lalai?
7574TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_035Well, who could blame him? I suppose in some sense I should consider myself fortunate that I did not send him scurrying away with his tail between his legs the moment I first revealed my powers.
7675TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_040Yes, I have observed this as well... Smaller minds are quick to burden themselves with hand-wringing concern for the well-being of others. As if it were not evident that the girl is more than capable of taking care of herself!
7776TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_045In either event, if he insists on tagging along with us, I suppose it would not hurt to win him over─if only so he does not foul things up at the worst possible time.
7877TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_046Anyhow, I do believe we have some golems to smite into oblivion. The Tangle, was it? I'll see you there─and do try not to get lost on the way.
7978TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_050This Shatotto is full of mysteries, but one baffles me the most─just what is it about Lalai's cap that she finds so disagreeable? Was there no custom of wearing headgear in her age?
8079TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_060These lands were far more dry and agreeable in my day. But I suppose much can change in two millennia─especially without me around to keep things in order.
8180TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_061But this is no time to get caught up in nostalgia─we have golems to smash! And search for. Not necessarily in that order, I suppose. Yes, I can sense particularly strong aetheric energies coming from...that direction!
8281TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_062I will accompany Shatotto to ensure that she remains focused on the task at hand. Might you survey the area south of here? These environs afford our foe no end of hiding spots, and I am ill inclined to walk into an ambush.
8382TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_065While I appreciate the support, friend, I assure you I am quite capable of taking care of myself. Might you investigate to the east of here, as we agreed upon?
8483TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_068Come out, come out, my little minions! It's your old mistress, Shatotto!
8584TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SYSTEM_000_065You look far and wide, but can discern no sign of golems, rampaging or otherwise. Return to the southwestern reaches of the Tangle and see how Shatotto and Zhai'a Nelhah fare in their search.
8685TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_POPMESSAGE_100_070The ancient golem lumbers toward you!
8786TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_070Ungh... If only this body were my own... I would have razed that oversized block of stone...to the ground...
8887TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_071I suppose I should thank you for coming to my aid. Had I lost consciousness in the midst of battle, I would certainly have been done for...and poor Lalai with me.
8988TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_073No, Lady Shatotto. It is *I* who owe *you* a debt of gratitude. Had you not drawn the creature's initial strike, I would surely have met an inglorious end. But that is not the least of my failings...
9089TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_074It is my fault─and mine alone─that we were caught unawares. Though it shames me to say so, my eyes were on you when they should have been watching out for our enemy.
9190TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_075Who is this sorceress who wields such frightful power? Does she truly mean to save our realm─or will she destroy it? These thoughts continued to haunt me...but no more. Seeing you risk your life for me─a humble Hearer you have only just met─I say this with no reservations. You are a paragon of virtue, and a model to all mages, white or black.
9291TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_076Why, I do believe those are the most intelligent words I've heard you utter yet. Keep talking like that, and I might yet learn to tolerate your presence.
9392TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_077But if you think that means I'm going to give you your precious Lalai back, you'd best think again! We still have a falling star to fend off, do we not?
9493TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_078My...*precious* Lalai? I have not the slightest idea what you might be implying.
9594TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_079You wouldn't, would you...? Ahem. Was it not your grand dream to see the white and the black─the arts of healing and destruction─united for the common good? So says Lalai, at the very least. Is the girl not an invaluable piece to the future you would realize?
9695TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_080This is all well and true, but...“invaluable” and “precious” have different connotations! M-Mayhap not in your time, but the meanings of words evolve over time, you see, and...
9796TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_081Ahem! What I am saying is, of course Lalai is a friend and ally, but the same could be said of Player here, and... Wh-Which is not to say I do not want to see her again, of course─only that...oh, never mind.
9897TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_082At any rate, I do believe we've done all we can here. Lady Shatotto, please forgive me for having doubted you. Henceforth, I promise that I will aid you in whatever way I can. And with that, I do believe I must be off...er, somewhere.
9998TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_083One last thing, if I may, Lady Shatotto. While you are awake and speaking with us, what becomes of Lalai's consciousness? That is to say, is she still in there...listening?
10099TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_084What a curious question. She is slumbering in the recesses of her mind, much as I am when she is awake. But to answer your question: no, she is not *listening*─though we do have some rather stimulating conversations from time to time. If you'd like, I can share the details...
101100TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_ZHAIANELHAH_000_085N-No! I mean, never mind! I really must be getting off to─right! That place I was going.
102101TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_SHATOTTO_000_086Are all men in this era so odd? At any rate, I feel my consciousness beginning to wane. Lalai will be waking from slumber ere long, and I would return to Ul'dah before she does. I suggest you do the same—your friend has much she wishes to discuss with you.
103102TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_090Welcome back, Player. As you might have surmised, it is I, Lalai. Mistress Shatotto returned to her repose not moments ago.
104103TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_091Before drifting off to slumber, she imparted to me some details regarding what she sees as the next phase of our task. To wit, she would have us venture further afield to investigate any golem menaces that might be stirring out of eyeshot.
105104TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_092Speaking of menaces, whatever became of that stone-headed Hearer? I suppose it is too much to hope that Mistress Shatotto finally set his robes alight?
106105TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_Q2_000_000What will you say?
107106TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_A2_000_001He has come to respect Lady Shatotto.
108107TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_A2_000_002He seems to have...feelings...for you.
109108TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_095I daresay it took him long enough. Still, we cannot hold the man's ignorance against him─not all of us are blessed with burgeoning intellects.
110109TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_100I...I will assume I misheard you, Player. On the off chance I did not, pray inform the man that he had best not act upon these *feelings* in my presence, lest I *feel* like scorching his precious flowing locks from his scalp!
111110TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_101Anyhow, I trust you will keep me informed if our Hearer friend exhibits any more impertinent behavior. I will think of suitable retribution─I daresay putting him to sleep and hiding his glasses would send a clear message, and be rather amusing no less.
112111TEXT_JOBBLM650_02590_LALAI_000_102In any event, I should return to my research─as should you. Shatotto will doubtless call upon us before long, and our powers must be primed for the occasion.