The Adventure of the Fainting Goldsmith

The Adventure of the Fainting Goldsmith

Quest giver

Rukusa Farusa

Location

Upper La Noscea (X:30.0, Y:21.8)

Level

34

Experience

 3,655

Gil

 1,311

Previous quest

The Monster of Bronze Lake

Patch

2.0

“

Nearly inchoate with anger, Rukusa Farusa tells you that Godbert the goldsmith has swooned from the heat of the bath. See if a determined /poke will rouse him.

— In-game description

Rewards

• 1   Meteor Survivor Ring

Steps

• Give Godbert a firm /poke.
• Dump the freezing lake water on Godbert.
• Dump the freezing lake water on Godbert again.
• Dump the freezing lake water on Godbert yet again.
• Report to Rukusa Farusa.

Journal

• Rukusa Farusa seems to be near the end of his tethers.

• Nearly inchoate with anger, Rukusa Farusa tells you that Godbert the Goldsmith has swooned from the heat of the bath. See if a determined /poke will rouse him.

• Godbert remains insensate despite the potent prod. Do as the physicians do and douse him with a bottle of ice-cold lake water.

• Godbert does not respond. This calls for another dose of ice-cold lake water.

• Godbert stirs ever so slightly. Perhaps another does of ice-cold lake water will do the trick.

• Godbert has regained his foot with surprising alacrity. How efficacious these tricks of physicking are! Report the happy development to Rukusa Farusa.

• Godbert is homebound, a man reborn. Rukusa Farusa ponders over how a man may be a figure both comic and tragic. Godbert has left you a precious ring, a strangely moving memento of the Calamity. Wear it with humility.

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest

Rukusa Farusa: First one thing, then another! That goldsmith passed out from too much heat. We have warned him time and again this past week not to stay in so long!
Rukusa Farusa: Honestly, I do not trust myself to tend to this fool, for I've a mind to strangle him. If a poke revives him not, throw a bucket of lake water on him. There was ice on it this morning!

Giving Godbert a good poke

Godbert: ...
/poke
Godbert: ...

Dumping the freezing lake water on Godbert

<using lake water>
Godbert: ...

Dumping the freezing lake water on Godbert again

<using lake water>
Godbert: Hrrrm...?

Dumping the freezing lake water on Godbert yet again

<using lake water>
Godbert: Hreee!!! Wrath of Rhalgr, what are you doing!?
Godbert: Oh, it's you! She/he of strong-yet-tender fingers!
Godbert: I was lost, I freely confess it! I came to this retreat an artisan whose craft had lost its savor, enriching myself by indulging customers' grossest tastes. I was ready to suffer privations, and I did! But today...
Godbert: Several hours into the ordeal of the scalding water, my life flashed before my eyes. There I saw forms exquisite—filigree masks, steel cut to shine like diamonds, graceful galleries of electrum where emeralds took the air with pearly suitors... I must return to Ul'dah, to my workshop!

Reporting to Rukusa Farusa

Rukusa Farusa: Our goldsmith has departed for home, I am glad to say. He left you this ring—a token of his appreciation, he says.
Rukusa Farusa: The stone is taken from a fragment of Dalamud itself, created in abiding faith that out of the worst may come beauty.
Rukusa Farusa: It sounded as though he lost something—or someone—in the Calamity. "The ring is the only thing I have made in the last five years," he said "and now I would like [Forename] to have it." Extraordinary.
Rukusa Farusa: A very unexpected turn of events, I must say. I still think him utterly mad, but no doubt he is a more fascinating one. I don't suppose he'd have given me the ring even if I'd... Well, no use fretting over a song already sung.