Big, Big Fish

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* Gyoshin tasks you with handing out happi to potential festival participants, which in his mind includes any Namazu with time to spare. You make for Yuzuka Manor, where you will try to suss out which residents are bored and which simply suffer from resting fish face.※Please note that the difficulty of this quest has been synced to your current level. Furthermore, you may not proceed with a class or job that is different from when you accepted this quest.
* You distribute happi to several Namazu in exchange for enthusiastic promises of festival participation. Some of your recruits are a bit...irregular, but considering the quantity of participants required, you are in no position to discriminate based on quality.
* Upon your return, Gyoshin gives an excited speech as a prelude to festival commencement, only to be reminded midway that he neglected to consider how to conduct the festival itself. Seigetsu the Enlightened helpfully─and at length─proposes giving an offering to the Namazu's ancestor, the Big One. This will require not only an offering from the river, but a ceremonial altar as well, for which Gyoshin is sure to have an ambitious design in mind.
* Gyoshin asks you to contribute to the stock of components he will use to put together the altar and offering. Said stock will be collected and maintained by Gyorei, probably for safety reasons.
* With your assistance, both altar and offering are prepared. The festival begins at last, and with it, a change in the Namazu's fortunes...or so they hope.
==Objectives==
* Give festive happi to potential participants.
* Report to Gyoshin.
* Speak with Gyoshin.
(DoH)
* Synthesize sets of altar components.
* Deliver the sets of altar components to Gyorei.
(MIN)
* Mine skystones south of Chakha Zoh.
* Deliver the skystones to Gyorei.
(BTN)
* Gather clumps of scarlet flax south of Chakha Zoh.
* Deliver the clumps of scarlet flax to Gyorei.
(FSH)
* Catch a steppe barramundi at Dotharl Khaa.
* Deliver the steppe barramundi to Gyorei.
==Script==
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Gyoshin 	Festival preparations are nearly complete, yes, yes.
Gyoshin 	Our task is now to find enthusiastic participants. So long as we have at least seven hundred and seventy-seven, our survival is assured! With our current number, we require only seven hundred and sixty-eight more.
Gyoshin 	...Hm? You have a foreboding feeling? How curious! But never mind that. I require your help in recruiting volunteers, yes, yes.
Gyoshin 	It had slipped my mind until this moment, but I remember now that you are rather well-known amongst the Namazu. Quite famous!
Gyoshin 	You fixed Gyorin's finances, along with...other feats that I need not recall just now. The important part is that you are respected, and therefore can recruit many, many Namazu.
Gyoshin 	It will not take much time at all, no, no. Simply trek back to Yuzuka Manor, seek out Namazu that have no pressing duties, approach each and every one, and provide them with happi while explaining what participation in the festival entails.
Gyoshin 	We will continue preparations here in the meantime. Yes, yes. See you shortly, I am sure!
 	
Gyoshin 	Let me see... We require seven hundred seventy-seven happi...and we have twelve, so that means... Hm, do you think we need more fabric?
 	
Gyorin 	Why, [Player Name]! Fancy seeing you here! Have you come to look upon my fabulous apron?
Gyorin 	Oh, how gorgeous, how stunning! I can wear this happi, you say? And it will be my very own? Then yes, yes, I certainly will participate in this festival of yours.
Gyorin 	With so many attendees, there are bound to be business opportunities as well. Yes, yes. I may just bring some of my wares with me. Somehow I still have quite a few persimmons in stock...
 	
Gyorin 	I will pack my surplus of persimmons and meet you there, yes, yes!
 	
Drunknamazu 	Tea for breakfast～♪
Tea for lunch～♪
Tea at...<hic>...other times～♪
...Who are you and─<hic>─why are you so blurry?
Drunknamazu 	Wear this for a fes-tea-val? Yes─<hic>─yes! Lead the way!
Leisurednamazu 	Breathe in, breathe out... Breathe in, breathe out... Breathe in, breathe out... Good heavens, my life is dull. Maybe I will sleep, yes, yes, perchance to dream...
Leisurednamazu 	...You want to speak to me? You must be mistaken.
Leisurednamazu 	You are really, truly inviting me to a festival? Finally, a reason to live! I will don this happi forthwith and join you at the Azim Steppe.
Leisurednamazu 	O glorious day! Glad am I that I kept breathing, yes, yes.
 	
Gyoshin 	Ah, there you are, [Player Name]! Our preparations have gone swimmingly, yes, yes. I was on the point of calling everyone to a meeting. Just a moment, please!
Gyoshin 	I would like to express my sincere gratitude. My heartfelt appreciation. Without you, I could never have come this far. No, no.
Gyoshin 	It is only because you were willing to follow me, to travel here to the Azim Steppe, that we are here today. Because you were willing to join fins─er, hands─that we can now complete this project together.
Gyoshin 	Before the participants arrive, I just wanted to tell you, to let you know, how much I appreciate you. Please, join us in celebration. Our efforts have borne fruit, and the fated festival is here at last!
Kofuinseigetsu 	So...if I may inquire, what manner of activities does said festival entail?
Gyoshin 	...
Gyoshin 	What...manner of activities indeed. Yes...yes...
Gyorei 	What of your vision? Did our greatest grandsire say nothing of what sort of festival we are meant to be having?
Gyoshin 	Now that you mention it, I cannot say he did. No, no. I suppose I have been so focused on preparing the festival site that I completely, utterly forgot to think ahead. Oh dear!
Kofuinseigetsu 	How irresponsible... However, I anticipated that it might come to this, so I made an effort to peruse writings relevant to our purpose.
Gyoshin 	Wonderful! Excellent work, Gyofu─I mean, Seigetsu the Enlightened. Yes, yes.
Kofuinseigetsu 	Yes, well. The nature of our forebears' festivities, per my research, is, to put it concisely...
Kofuinseigetsu 	...utterly unclear.
Kofuinseigetsu 	Alas, the Namazu of eld had no system of writing, and no secondary sources detailing their festival appear to have survived the passage of the centuries.
Gyoshin 	That is the least informative information you could have possibly provided, Gyofun!
Kofuinseigetsu 	Why you, you...you have no right to talk! Ahem. Though it is true that I was unable to learn anything regarding our people's particular traditions, my research was hardly for naught.
Kofuinseigetsu 	A seminal publication in the field of cultural anthropology, The Chrysanthemum and the Dango, states that festivals involve performative prayer and expressions of gratitude, and are intended to celebrate a given culture's gods or ancestors.
Kofuinseigetsu 	Thus, we may assume that our forebears' festival would have celebrated our worthiest of ancestors, the Big One.
Gyoshin 	...I still have no idea what we are meant to do! No, no. Could you get to the point before we shrivel up and die?
Kofuinseigetsu 	I will enlighten you if you cease your constant interruptions! Now, as I was saying, there are myriad festivals across Othard, but at the most fundamental level, all revolve around ceremonial offerings.
Kofuinseigetsu 	Considering the primitive Namazu's lifestyle, there is a high probability the offering would have consisted of something found in the river or thereabouts. Do you follow?
Gyoshin 	We need a...fish? For an offering. And...I hope nothing else you said was important.
Gyoshin 	[Player Name], Gyorei, your help in this will be most important. Quite essential. Follow me over there, yes, yes, before Gyofun starts talking again.
 	
Gyorei 	Despite their many, many differences, Gyoshin trusts in Gyofun's knowledge.
 	
Gyoshin 	We can use this space to build an altar for our offering. Yes, yes. All of this derelict masonry is ripe for the remodeling.
Gyoshin 	So I need you to make some sturdy altar pieces, and fast. Like the wind! The materials are in the crate by the pavilion. You can take more as needed, yes, yes.
Gyoshin 	So I need you to make some exquisite, lovingly detailed altar pieces. The materials are in the crate by the pavilion. You can take more as needed, yes, yes.
Gyoshin 	So I need you to make some extremely flammable, alarmingly combustible components for the altar's bonfire. The materials are in the crate by the pavilion. You can take more as needed, yes, yes.
Gyoshin 	So I need you to collect skystones for the altar's base. You will find them south of Chakha Zoh, yes, yes.
Gyoshin 	In the meantime, I need you to collect scarlet flax for the decorative draperies. You will find it south of Chakha Zoh, yes, yes.
Gyoshin 	In the meantime, I need you to collect the offering itself. One steppe barramundi, please! You can find them at Dotharl Khaa if you are willing to part with a bit of salmon roe, yes, yes.
Gyoshin 	Time to put our whiskers to the grindstone! Turn what you have over to Gyorei when finished, please. She is most insistent on keeping anything heavy, flammable, or easily broken away from me, for some reason.
Gyoshin 	Have you run out of materials? Never fear, the crate is here! ...Well, it is actually over there. But it is full of stuff, yes, yes.
Gyoshin 	Have you run out of materials? Never fear, the crate is here! ...Well, it is actually over there. But it is full of stuff, yes, yes.
Gyoshin 	Have you run out of materials? Never fear, the crate is here! ...Well, it is actually over there. But it is full of stuff, yes, yes.
Gyoshin 	Turn what you have over to Gyorei when finished. I will be working here in the meantime. All the while!
Gyoshin 	Turn what you have over to Gyorei when finished. I will be working here in the meantime. All the while!
Gyoshin 	Turn what you have over to Gyorei when finished. I will be working here in the meantime. All the while!
 	
Gyoshin 	Ready already? Then please give what you have to Gyorei for safekeeping.
 	
Gyorei 	You have the goods, yes, yes? No, no, the other goods. The ones Gyoshin asked for.
Gyorei 	Thank you, thank you! Gyoshin seems to be progressing quite quickly as well. The altar will be complete any moment now, and then we can begin the festival proper.
Quest complete.	Quest complete.
Category:Namazu Quests in Final Fantasy XIV