Tending Aged Wounds/Plot Details

===Cutscenes===
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===Game Script===
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Tending Aged Wounds - Metalworks
Cid: What, you want to hear about the Multinational Expedition?
Cid: What is there to know? Everybody that went on that damned mission passed away or was...
Cid: I usually don't believe in anything crazy like magic or curses, but after hearing the stories about what happened up there in the northlands, I don't think there may be any other explanation.
Cid: You already heard from the other two nations that the expedition was formed on the suggestion of the Republic, right?
Cid: <Sigh> 
Maybe it's time that I face up to my past crimes... 
I was the one that pressured the government into sending a party to the Northlands.
Cid: Thirty years ago, a man brought a strange stone to the Metalworks.
Cid: It wasn't any bigger than my fist, but just by standing near it you could feel the power flowing from its facets.
Cid: That power was greater than that of any crystal I had ever seen. I was shocked and amazed by what laid before my eyes.
Cid: When the man told me that it was a fragment of a crystal that was found in the Northlands, I was convinced that something more was hiding up there.
Cid: I thought if I could find that energy source and bring it back to Bastok, the Republic would thrive, ultimately becoming the strongest, most advanced nation in the world.
Cid: So I told my discovery to the president at the time, and suggested that he ready an expedition led by a party of musketeers.
Cid: It was supposed to be top-secret, but somehow the information leaked to the other two nations, and...
Cid: And in the end, the expedition turned up nothing, and we lost more than we could ever have imagined...
Cid: Now that I think of it, the energy from that stone might have been enough to power the crystal propulsion unit.
Cid: Could Jeuno have already found a new source of energy in the Northlands?
Cid: If I only had that rock... 
Unfortunately, it disappeared thirty years ago...right around the time of the expedition.
Cid: The man who sold me the stone--a stone which he called "magicite"--said that he brought it from Tavnazia, and that it was a piece of a larger gem known as the "Star of Tavnazia."
Cid: Maybe that crazy blue-haired girl from the island knows something about that gem.
Cid: Do you think you could ask her for me?
Tending Aged Wounds (pt.1) - Lower Jeuno
Wolfgang: Sir, the airships are ready for departure.
Nag'molada: I will be traveling on a separate vessel. If "he" appears before I arrive, prevent him from escaping, but do not attack.
Wolfgang: Yes, sir!
Nag'molada: It is all working as planned. Now, I will finally retrieve what is mine.
Tending Aged Wounds (pt.2)- Lower Jeuno
Aldo: Ah, Player name. Just the man/woman I wanted to see.
Aldo: A young lady claiming to be Prishe's acquaintance is here...
Ulmia: Player name! It is so nice to see you again. Have you not seen Prishe about?
Ulmia: Hm? You are searching for her as well?
Ulmia: I see... 
You wish to know more of the magicite gem that a peddler from Tavnazia sold to Bastok over thirty years ago...
Ulmia: I do recall hearing stories of the "Star of Tavnazia"; unfortunately, I have never actually set my eyes upon it. I do not know what it is, or if the magicite was a piece of it.
Aldo: Magicite... 
The Star of Tavnazia...
Ulmia: ? 
Sir Aldo? You would not happen to know anything of the gem, would you?
Aldo: I've heard stories of a mysterious gem kept in the Tavnazian Cathedral. If that relic is also magicite, I wonder in what way it's connected with the other magicite found around Vana'diel...
Aldo: Deep within the Orc, Quadav, and Yagudo strongholds, there are doors that the beastmen guard with their lives. Beyond those doors lie giant crystals emitting a strange, eerie light.
Aldo: If the beastmen were drawn to these crystals and chose those areas to build their towns, then the magicite in the Northlands is more than likely... Hmmm...
Ulmia: Perhaps someone in Tavnazia knows something. However, we cannot leave without Prishe. Oh, where could she have wandered off to?
Sattal-Mansal: Leader! 
That girl! She's been taken to Doctor Monberaux's!
Aldo: What!? 
What happened!?
Sattal-Mansal: It seems that she was attacked while visiting the Temple of the Goddess!
Aldo: Attacked!?
Ulmia: Prishe!
Tending Aged Wounds (pt.3) - Lower Jeuno
Harnek: They say some Elvaan girl was attacked while in the Temple of the Goddess--right in front of the statue of Altana! 
What is this city coming to!?
Harnek: Huh? You think it was a Tenshodo member that did the dirty deed!? 
Player name, you'd better watch your tongue unless you want to see it on a plate!