Steel and Steam

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* On speaking with Biggs and Wedge, you learn that the Illuminati have taken exception to your previous incursion into their territory, going so far as to call for your death. Unfortunately, you have no choice but to invade their fortress again for the good of the realm. Steel yourself to enter the colossus.※The Cuff of the Father can be accessed via the Duty Finder.
* You have felled the Illuminati forces that sought to block your path. Leave them and the area behind you.
* On your way out of the colossus, you encounter Cid, Mide, and Roundrox, who have taken the opportunity to survey the interior. As you look on, the treasure hunter searches through the belongings of a fallen goblin, seemingly in vain. When Cid subsequently asks what she is looking for, she tells him that her prize is the Enigma Codex...just as the goblin machinist suggested during your encounter with Quickthinx Allthoughts. The tome, written some hundred years past, apparently holds the plans for a variety of technological wonders. Chief among them is the invention known as “Alexander”─a walking citadel designed to serve as a bastion of reason and logic. Plainly, it is this ideal that gave form to the Illuminati's primal. Return to Biggs, and relate all that you have learned.
* Biggs listens intently as you recount your tale. Though plainly impressed by the idea of a walking fortress, he bemoans the Illuminati's reckless approach to realizing the design. Bastion of reason and logic or not, it is a primal, and must be destroyed.
==Objectives==
* Use the Duty Finder to enter the Cuff of the Father.
* Report to Biggs.
==Script==
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Biggs 	Ah, [Player Name]! Ready to have another go at finding the giant's core?
Biggs 	Wedge, could you─ Oi, Wedge! Stop listening to that bloody linkpearl! We barged through the Illuminati's front door─they know we've broken their code.
Wedge 	But I've just this moment intercepted a new communication! If you'll give me a moment to... There! It says... Oh. “Death to uplanders... Death to uplanders...” Ahem. I-I think we may have started a war...
 	
Mide 	My, but Roundrox has a lot of treasures! Not many are of much use, but they're all lovely in their own right.
Mide 	She has a fine eye... Speaking of which, do you recall me mentioning that she had described Quickthinx's face, and how I assumed she must mean his mask? Well, the more I think about what she said, the more I think she really did mean his face. But how could she possibly tell?
 	
Roundrox 	Pshkohhh... Roundrox likes Mide. Trading tongueflaps is much fun!
Roundrox 	Look, look─this whirlycog Roundrox finds sixty-three yalms north and west! And that one was only ten yalms from Arkhitekton!
Roundrox 	Pshkohhh... Shiny junk and sparkly rocks,♪
Bittybobs and whirlycogs.♪
 	
Wedge 	Backrix is still helping me to intercept Illuminati communications.
Wedge 	He really is a natural when it comes to codes! Truly, these goblins never cease to amaze me!
 	
Biggs 	If the Illuminati want a war, it seems only fair that we bring their base to its knees. We need to find the giant's core and quick!
 	
Roundrox 	Pshkohhh... Uplander is amazing! Uplander is stronger than...than ten gobbies!
Cid 	Ah! There you are, old friend. I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever find you. Biggs's account left something to be desired, so I thought it best to see the interior with my own eyes.
 	
Cid 	Hm! A treasure hunter, through and through. Tell me, what exactly do you hope to find here?
Mide 	Ever heard of the Enigma Codex? It's a book of ideas written some hundred years past─the life's work of one of the greatest technologists ever to draw breath.
Mide 	Within its pages are found myriad wonders─from designs for machina that could operate ceaselessly for centuries to novel ways of culturing cheese. Even a fragment of the book could bring a king's ransom.
Mide 	But most remarkable of all are the plans for a walking citadel. It was to be a beacon of logic and reason for all the world.
Cid 	A walking citadel? ...Seven hells! We're standing in it, aren't we!? The Illuminati's primal took its form from that idea! ...But I sense that none of this is news to you. You've read it, then, this Enigma Codex?
Mide 	The design catered for every needful thing, from warm beds to crops of grain. Its occupants would never have to leave. And all in a fortress on feet, impenetrable and ready to move at a moment's notice.
Mide 	The citadel was meant to bear the most brilliant scholars and artificers of the age to all four corners of the world, that they might set about unraveling the mysteries of creation. And this utopia...this shining seat of erudition, was to be called Alexander.
Roundrox 	Pshkohhh... If Roundrox lived in walking castle, Roundrox could collect treasure from everywhere!
Mide 	Indeed you could, little one. And anything you found─be it junk, forgotten teachings, or lost secrets─would be yours for the taking.
Cid 	...And what exactly would the Illuminati do with all of this knowledge?
Mide 	They would use it to take control, most likely. Create a world ruled by a few chosen scholars. Unless I'm mistaken, that's why the Illuminati exist.
Cid 	Bloody fanatics. Take a perfectly good idea and make it into an object of faith. What could possibly go wrong...?
Cid 	I can well imagine how a people who have spent decades carrying their homes on their backs might crave a home that could carry them─how such a place could seem like a utopia.
Cid 	But we're not talking about a machine here─we're talking about a primal. And primals will be the death of us all.
I trust you'll be ready when things come to a head, [Player Name]?
Roundrox 	Pshkohhh... Utopia is happyplace? Hmmm... Where there is junk aplenty, Roundrox is happy. Where is very happyplace of Mide?
Mide 	...Wherever he is.
 	
Mide 	I think Roundrox's pile of treasures may have grown a touch. Not that that's any surprise─she goes hunting whenever she has a spare moment. Heh. A girl after my own heart.
 	
Roundrox 	Pssshkoh... Shiny junk and sparkly rocks,♪
Bittybobs and whirlycogs.♪
Roundrox 	Sometimes Backrix is coming with Roundrox for junk hunting.
Roundrox 	Uplander will come next time, too?
 	
Wedge 	If my ears seem red, it's because Y'shtola just called. Dear me...I didn't think she knew such language! I gather Matoya may not be the easiest of taskmasters.
...Not that I don't sympathize, of course. I wonder what she'd say if she had to work under the chief...?
 	
Biggs 	This Enigma Codex sounds amazing. A walking citadel's one thing, but a self-sustaining, walking citadel...? Genius! It's just a pity the Illuminati had to go and make a bleedin' primal out of it.
Biggs 	From what I understand, this “Alexander” was active for no more than a few seconds─that's seconds─and it nigh drained the hinterlands of aether. Imagine what it'd do if it wandered the whole bleedin' world...
Biggs 	I don't think Roundrox realizes how much danger we're in here. Too busy hunting for new treasures. Probably for the best, though, eh?
Quest complete.	Quest complete.
Category:Chronicles of a New Era - Alexander in Final Fantasy XIV