Stock and Barrel

Stock and Barrel

Quest giver

Guard Quartermaster

Location

Lakeland (X:36.9, Y:20.4)

Level

70

Required items

1 20px  Knobbly Cane

Experience

 54,000-57,240

Gil

 706

Previous quest

A Jobb Well Done

Next quest

Desperate Measures

Patch

5.0

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The guard quartermaster seems a bit overwhelmed.

— In-game description

Steps

• Speak with the guard quartermaster.

• Search for usable supplies at the Northern Staging Point.

• Deliver the knobbly cane to the guard quartermaster.

• Speak with the guard quartermaster.

Journal

• The guard quartermaster seems a bit overwhelmed.

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest

Guard Quartermaster: I hate to be abrupt, but─can you help me?
Guard Quartermaster: Thank y─ Oh goodness, it's you! The one who turned the tide at Holminster Switch! Well, I feel doubly bad about this now, but I have little choice. I need any help that I can get.
Guard Quartermaster: Thanks to the eaters, everything not in ruins is in disarray, and I'm working to determine what materiel we have, but that requires sifting through it all! And if I don't know what we need it will be fruitless, as I won't be able to order, and─
Guard Quartermaster: Ahem. In short, I need you to meet me at the Northern Staging Point. Please.

Speaking with the guard quartermaster

Guard Quartermaster: We'll be assessing the situation out here. Though it may save time if you were to first tell me what destruction you personally witnessed?
Guard Quartermaster: Many structures burned or otherwise damaged in the fighting... Yes, I thought as much. I may look into procuring tents so that the laborers come to assist in the reconstruction need not journey back and forth each day─that ought to save time.
Guard Quartermaster: I'd be curious to know whether anything out here actually has survived. Might I ask you to survey the northern area and tell me if you find any materiel or other supplies that might still be fit for use?
Guard Quartermaster: Thank you. Please meet me here when you've finished. 

Searching for usable supplies at the Northern Staging Point

System: You peer into the crate to find that it, fortuitously, contains several undamaged tents.
System: You examine the rack, and notice that many of the weapons that remain are, as yet, undamaged.
System: You pick up the cane, and see that it has been weathered by what must have been many years of use. 

Delivering the knobbly cane to the guard quartermaster

Guard Quartermaster: Finished your inspection, have you? What did you find?
<Hand Over Knobbly Cane>
Guard Quartermaster: Oh, shepherds around here use this sort of cane. It must belong to one of the residents. Or former residents, now, I suppose...
Guard Quartermaster: We can return it to them, though I imagine they'd rather have their land and livestock back. What else was there?
Guard Quartermaster: Good to hear that I shouldn't need to procure any fresh tents. The weapons are less immediately useful, though I will of course have them collected. It seems that I'll primarily need to order tools, as there were none to be found in the areas I checked, either.
Guard Quartermaster: I very much appreciate your help─this has gone much more swiftly for your presence. Would you accept a small reward? I have a bit of coin stored for just such an occasion back at the fort.

Speaking with the guard quartermaster

Guard Quartermaster: And now the real work begins. Fighting off the sin eaters was no small feat, but the task of rebuilding seems almost more daunting.
Guard Quartermaster: Nothing for it but to grit our teeth and get to it, however. For the sake of everyone in Lakeland.