Uninvited (Final Fantasy XIV)

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* Alma Lexentale has summoned Lina Mewrilah (and you) to the Prima Vista to discuss recent findings concerning the auracite. As before, a word with the shuttle pilot will see you quickly and safely to the Lexentale airship.
* It would seem that Cid has invited an Archon to join him on the Prima Vista─a Student of Baldesion by the name of Mikoto.
* Gamely endeavoring to speak in words of fewer than five syllables, the Archon shares her theories on the auracite, prompting a new debate─if the Otius is not a naturally occurring crystal, then who created it and why? Before a consensus can be reached, Ramza foments new tension with his sister by questioning her commitment to the family mission. It is during this fraternal spat that an uninvited guest enters stage right.
* Seeking admission to their theater company, Montblanc, desert moogle from Dalmasca, petitions the Majestic with all the blustery gusto of a born drama queen. Ramza is quick to dismiss him, but in doing so, inadvertently presents Montblanc with a challenge─slay a beast, and earn apprenticeship aboard the Prima Vista. Eager to prove his worth, the sorely overmatched and under-armored moogle marches out into the wilds to meet his prey...and most likely his maker.
* Hurdy and Lina have set off in pursuit of Montblanc. Their first stop? Pier #2.
* You learn that Montblanc may have found his way onto a falcon porter bound for the One River in Yanxia. Residents of the Glittering Basin might know more regarding the mole-bat's whereabouts.
* As expected, you find Montblanc in urgent need of rescue, his attempt at slaying a ferocious beast (in this case, a fiery red chocobo) ending just about as well as everyone imagined─that is, in defeat, in case you imagined otherwise.
* Having survived his misguided adventure, Montblanc begins the long journey back to the Prima Vista in high spirits.
* Upon your return, you find the theater barge has visitors─a band of Bangaa, weapons drawn. Only Jenomis might know how to diffuse a situation this volatile.
* Hostage-taking apart, the Bangaa mean those of the Theater Company no harm, and merely seek aid in locating their missing captain. After hearing their tale, Mikoto believes that there is a chance Ba'Gamnan may have been manipulated by the Duma in the same manner as the late Argath Thadalfus. With no leads, however, the captain's rescue seems impossible...until Jenomis discovers a mysterious addition on the final page of his journal. Intent on discovering its significance, he returns at once to his research, promising to send for you as soon as the riddle is solved.
==Objectives==
* Ride the transport shuttle to the Prima Vista.
* Speak with the newly arrived moogle.
* Speak with Hurdy.
* Speak with Lina Mewrilah or Hurdy on Pier #2.
* Search for Montblanc in the Glittering Basin.
* Speak with Montblanc.
* Return to the Prima Vista.
* Speak with Jenomis cen Lexentale.
==Script==
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Lina Mewrilah 	[Player Name]! Where in the world have you been? Did you not receive Alma's summons? Principal Lexentale's research into the auracite may finally have borne fruit!
Lina Mewrilah 	We must hurry to the Prima Vista before they embark on some grand and perilous adventure without us!
 	
Lina Mewrilah 	In her message, Alma mentioned a guest from Sharlayan. Someone your companion Cid Garlond believed might be able to assist the Principal's research. An “archetype,” I think is the term she used.
 	
Airshipguide03003	If you would follow me to the shuttle, good lady/sir.
 	
Almalexentale 	[Player Name], Lady Mewrilah. Thank you for answering my summons. Master Garlond was kind enough to send for an Archon from Sharlayan, and I thought it only right that you be present to hear her findings.
Cid 	To be frank, summoning Mikoto was more Y'shtola's idea. I simply came along to see what light she could shed on this mystery.
Mikoto 	I am Mikoto of House Jinba─a Doman, though my years in Sharlayan have made me a stranger here. You must be [Player Name]─fabled liberator of men. Slayer of false gods. Warrior of Light...
I thought you'd be taller.
Mikoto 	Let us speak of the crystal.
Jenomislexentale 	Ahem...
Jenomislexentale 	The Otius─one of but many auracite shards that aided noble Delita's rise to regent.
Mikoto 	My apologies. The Otius is no ordinary crystal, even discounting its obvious historical importance. The specimen is more than a simple manifestation of elementally aspected energies─it is, rather, an aetherial lodestone whose facilitation of both the absorption and transmission of distinct-frequency NRR–type harmonic vibrations has been observed to promote aetherial amplification.
Mikoto 	The resultant neuro-harmonic disturbance allows for a highly unique emittance of CPRS waves that, instead of radiating outward with a determinate factor of dispersal, instead resonate inward at a frequency so labored, my estimates place the rate of VRT decay at upwards of several centuries...though I must admit I lack sufficient variates to complete a truly comprehensive graphical assessment.
Cid 	...Hmph. While that explanation may elicit admiring nods from your professors at the academy, it will earn you only blank looks here. Take a deep breath and try again─this time in a language those of us without the Echo might comprehend.
Mikoto 	My apologies. I merely thought─
Cid 	Apologies will see us no nearer to an answer. A simpler explanation will.
Mikoto 	Simpler... Right... Um... Aether is not only the building block of all things material, but those immaterial as well. Thoughts, memories, feelings, one's very will are all understood to be aetherial phenomena, and can be measured as such. Unlike most crystals, which only can emit elemental energies, auracite is tuned not only to absorb aether, but aether specific to the immaterial. That aether is then stored and multiplied within its crystalline confines until external stimuli precipitate release.
Cid 	Try again.
Mikoto 	Uh... Ahem. Under appropriate conditions, a strong will or desire can become imprinted upon the auracite and stored until fomentation, at which time the desire becomes manifest─
Ramzalexentale 	Fomen...tation?
Cid 	What my studious young friend is trying to say is that the Otius takes one's deepest fantasies and makes them reality.
Mikoto 	Ah. Yes. Yes, that is...simpler. You...may choose to think of it as a process akin to that of summoning a primal.
Mikoto 	There being one marked difference─primal summoning requires a supplemental energy source, such as a hoard of elementally charged crystals. Auracite, on the other hand, has the capacity to serve as its own source of power.
Jenomislexentale 	We know from the Durai Papers that Argath was never king of Ivalice. He was slain in battle during the War of the Lions.
Mikoto 	Yet the Argath encountered during the recent expedition carried himself as if he had been crowned regent. I believe this was merely the auracite in his possession making manif─uh, realizing his desire to rule.
Mikoto 	I am informed that he uttered the same words over and over again for the duration of the confrontation which unfolded. If that is the case, it is possible that it was not actually Argath who uttered them, but the auracite itself.
Cid 	If the Durai Papers are accurate, Argath was a weak and petty noble who believed that his blood entitled him to power. The auracite took that belief and twisted it into the abomination we─uh, [Player Name] put to the sword.
Almalexentale 	Then you are saying the crystal could prove a threat?
Jenomislexentale 	The auracite, Alma. And not necessarily. Ramza seemed to fare well enough. There is no record of the young regent being manipulated by the artifacts he gathered.
Jenomislexentale 	In the hands of the just, the auracite should prove harmless, even beneficial!
Cid 	To paraphrase: “It is not the weapon that kills, but the one who wields it”?
Cid 	Now where have I heard that before...
Cid 	Oh, yes. It was Emperor Galvus's justification for taking the marvels of magitek and applying them to the manufacture of arms. Where, after all, was the harm if it allowed him to “bring order” to the Three Great Continents?
Mikoto 	You draw an intriguing parallel, Master Garlond... The properties of these crystals are so singular, I do begin to wonder if they, like magitek, are products of science and not nature. That they were created by someone to─
Almalexentale 	But who? What manner of person would even be capable of such a feat?
Cid 	Now that is an interesting question─the answer to which I look forward to hearing. Regrettably, I have pressing matters to attend to elsewhere. Fear not, however: Mikoto's insight will prove far more beneficial than anything I might accidentally contribute. Good day to you all.
Lina Mewrilah 	What I don't understand is...
Lina Mewrilah 	If the Duma was imprinted with Argath's deepest desires, then whose desires are rattling about inside the Otius?
Mikoto 	I had the selfsame question, and thus conducted a thorough inspection of the crystal upon my arrival. The results were...inconclusive. Traces of aetherial activity were present, but to all intents and purposes, the vessel was empty.
Almalexentale 	Empty? But what of the voices I heard?
Ramzalexentale 	Voices? I heard nothing of the sort. The only voices you heard, Alma, were in your stubborn head!
Almalexentale 	Ramza, why won't you─
Ramzalexentale 	Shall we speak of “voices,” then? What of yours, Alma? Our resident voice of dissent. You have done naught but question the wisdom of our research from the moment we left Garlemald. Would you put your petty worries above our family's calling?
Almalexentale 	No! I would never─
Ramzalexentale 	You would never!? Then why involve a gossipmonger, a goody two-shoes, and this...this...flying mole!?
Ramzalexentale 	Please tell me you can see that.
 	
Lina Mewrilah 	A moogle! And a decidedly dusty one at that! Might this be one of your acquaintances, [Player Name]?
 	
Jenomislexentale 	Most intriguing... Is it alive?
 	
Ramzalexentale 	Don't just stand there, get rid of the thing! You're the liberator. Liberate this vessel of that pest!
 	
Almalexentale 	It's like nothing I have ever seen before... Can we keep it?
 	
Mikoto 	Ah. A moogle. Yes.
 	
Montblanc 	Am I interrupting? Oh, please do go on. My acceptance into your fine troupe's ranks can wait until all have said their piece, kupo.
Ramzalexentale 	Guards! Get this, this, this─
Montblanc 	Montblanc. The name is Montblanc. Denizen of Dalmasca's deserts, seeker of thrills, adventurer extraordinaire. But you may call me Montblanc, kupo.
Mikoto 	Dalmasca has long been known as a melting pot for myriad cultures─where minor races such as the Seeq, the Bangaa, and the Viera might live in relative harmony with Hyur, Elezen, and others.
Mikoto 	Yet there is no record of a prominent moogle population.
Montblanc 	Most likely because we are neither prominent nor populous! My people are nomadic by nature, ever drawn to the elusive frontier and the freedom she promises, kupo!
Ramzalexentale 	A...moogle?
Montblanc 	Of course I'm a moogle, kupo. You'd think the adorable wings and the fluffy pom would have given it away. Now, about my admission to the Majestic─
Ramzalexentale 	I will allow no such thing! The Majestic is the Empire's premier theater company. We will not sully its good name by granting refuge to a fluttering ball of fur!
Ramzalexentale 	And furthermore, how in the world did this abomination board the Prima Vista in the first place!?
Jenomislexentale 	By means of his wings, were I to guess. As for his admission to our company, I do not seem to recall race, creed, or allegiance on my list of prerequisites, do you?
Ramzalexentale 	...No, Father.
Jenomislexentale 	Very well, then. Montblanc, what is it exactly that calls you to the stage─our stage?
Montblanc 	What else? The Zodiac Brave Story, kupo! Never before have I witnessed something so amazing. So moving.
Montblanc 	Sitting─well, technically hovering there in the audience as the story unfolded around me...I knew I was witnessing something special. Something positively transcendental, kupo! It was then that I realized I either had to be a part of it...or go to my grave a bitter and broken moogle.
Hurdy 	Was this realization before or after you swore you simply had to become the realm's greatest marauder, kupo!?
Montblanc 	Hurdy!? How did you─
Hurdy 	Perhaps you'd have more success at running away if you didn't reveal your grand designs to every other fool you happen to meet, kupo.
Hurdy 	Was it not but two score nights ago you took up the axe, kupo!? Now here you are professing your passion for the stage before carving even a single notch in your haft? Do you not remember, “to he who churns the butter goes the sweetest bread”?
Montblanc 	But how is one to savor said buttered bread if his head is in the belly of a fearsome beast? You accuse me of giving up when I merely came to the realization that continuing would end in failure. Only through a change of course could I reach my final destination, kupo.
Hurdy 	And that destination is what? Mummer? Are you sure it is not geomancer? Arithmetician? Templar? Do not bother answering, kupo─we all know you'll be singing a different tune come cockcrow!
Montblanc 	That is where you are mistaken, Hurdy. I was destined to be a thespian! I can feel it in my fur. The role of Delita was made for me! Made for me, kupo!
Ramzalexentale 	Kupo kupo kupo kupo! Enough!
Ramzalexentale 	The actors in our company trained at the Empire's finest institutes. They represent the pinnacle of the profession not only in Garlemald, but across the entire world.
Ramzalexentale 	A vagrant bat-mole like you could never hope to share a stage with such artists, let alone play the part of a hero like Delita! You yourself admitted you were too craven to face a solitary beast─how do you imagine you would fare against a pack of theater critics!? Any troupe would need proof of valor before it could even consider─
Montblanc 	Craven!? Call me a cheat and call me cur, but do not, sir, call me craven! I accept your challenge: slay but one foul beast by mine own hand, and the Majestic Theater Company will accept me into its ranks, kupo.
Ramzalexentale 	Wait, I issued no such─
Montblanc 	You are all here witnesses, kupo! When I return with the head of a terrible beast in my gore-stained hands, you will be honor-bound to welcome me, Montblanc the Mummer, into the fabled ranks of the Majestic! Good day!
Hurdy 	Wonderful. What do we do now?
Ramzalexentale 	What do we do? We do nothing. If that bat-mole wishes to throw himself on the horns of a stampeding dzo, I will not stand in his way.
Mikoto 	I believe the proper term of derogation is “mole-bat,” and I should warn you: moogles do not take kindly to those who use it.
Almalexentale 	Why must you always put yourself above others, Brother? Did you learn nothing from Argath's wretched example?
Hurdy 	Montblanc would never have set off on this fool's errand had you not made the challenge. If anything befalls my brother, his blood will be on your hands!
Almalexentale 	[Player Name]... You are the only one among us capable of locating Montblanc and preventing disaster. On behalf of my brother, I beg your assistance.
 	
Lina Mewrilah 	However did Ramza come to be so thoroughly obnoxious? He and his sister couldn't be more different.
Jenomislexentale 	Moogles are prominent players in Ivalician legend, but none of the tales mention their capacity for flight. Something lost in translation, perhaps?
Ramzalexentale 	I...I apologize. I must learn to control my anger. But sometimes...it can be difficult.
Almalexentale 	You saw the poor moogle. He won't last a day on his own. You must find him and bring him back! I beg of you!
 	
Hurdy 	My brother can be rather...simpleminded when it comes to such matters. Thinking to impress the Warrior of Light and her/his companions, Montblanc would likely choose the scene of your recent exploits to prove his worth─meaning Rabanastre, if I am not mistaken.
Lina Mewrilah 	Pardon my language, but that Ramza really is an incurable little prick, is he not? How dare he speak to his sister and the moogle in that manner. I couldn't decide which was worse─the things he said, or the way the principal sat back and let him say them.
Lina Mewrilah 	But I suppose it is none of our concern. For now, let us concentrate on the task at hand─finding that moogle before he does something we'll all regret. What say we start nearby. Pier Two, perhaps?
 	
Lina Mewrilah 	The falcon porter tells us that he set a traveling blacksmith away to Yanxia not a bell past. And why would that be of interest to us, you ask?
Lina Mewrilah 	Because said peddler of iron and steel was seen to be carrying a bag stuffed to the brim with, and I quote, “albino mole fur and purple bat wings”!
Hurdy 	Montblanc!
Hurdy 	...Not that we look like that, kupo!
Lina Mewrilah 	The quickest route into Dalmasca is via the One River and its western tributaries. If Montblanc is bound for Rabanastre, he will seek passage from the Glittering Basin.
 	
Hurdy 	Montblanc! What were you thinking!?
Lina Mewrilah 	Have you any idea what you put your brother through!? He has been worried sick!
Montblanc 	Both Hurdy and Ramza were right all along. I am a failure. A flop. A flailing flapping foppish failure, kupo. How could I play the part of a hero if I cannot even ruffle the feathers of a single measly bird. The audience would see right through me like the spineless jellyfish I am.
Lina Mewrilah 	Now wait, Montblanc. Not everyone can be a hero...not even most heroes! Yes, the bards sing of the man who deals the final blow, but what of his cadre of loyal companions? Do you think Delita united Ivalice on his own? Do you think [Player Name] here was alone when s/he liberated Ala Mhigo?
 	
Montblanc 	Never alone...? So you're saying you'll always be there for me? For Montblanc?
Hurdy 	Uh... I think s/he was speaking metaphorically...
 	
Montblanc 	But of course they are not! Every campaign needs its brilliant architect─the mastermind who moves the pieces across the board! I, Montblanc, can be that mastermind!
Hurdy 	That was quick...
 	
Lina Mewrilah 	Let us not dwell on the details. The day is saved, and Montblanc has escaped sans scratch or singe to show for it. We should return to the Prima Vista before our luck runs out.
 	
Jenomislexentale 	Please! This ship is a place of peace!
Ramzalexentale 	Release my sister or you will answer to me!
Lina Mewrilah 	When the cat's away...
Jenomislexentale 	Put that damnable thing down, Ramza. You're not helping matters!
Bwagi 	We have no quarrel with you or yours. We only seek aid in finding our leader, Ba'Gamnan.
Ramzalexentale 	You seek our help!? You who threatened to kill my father? Who stole his work and made fools of us all!? Never!
Jenomislexentale 	Silence, Ramza! They have Alma. We will hear what they have to say.
Bwagi 	As I said, we have no quarrel with you. We only did what was necessary to secure an audience. We surrender our weapons and offer your journal as an act of good faith.
Jenomislexentale 	...This is all rather a lot to digest. But your claims do coincide with what we have learned about the auracite.
Gijuk 	You're saying that crystal did something to our captain?
Mikoto 	After being emptied of Argath's will, the Duma sought that of another to sate its appetite for aether.
Rinok 	You're saying that crystal ate our captain!?
Mikoto 	Not his body, no. Only his soul.
Rinok 	His soul!?
Jenomislexentale 	Tell me...what in your opinion was your leader's deepest desire? What was it that he longed for above all else in the world?
Ramzalexentale 	Why waste your breath reasoning with these...these...lizards? They showed themselves for the beasts they are when they put a knife to your throat!
Montblanc 	First mole-bats, now lizards? This one's tongue is pure poison.
Bwagi 	The boy can call us what he pleases. For our past failings, we deserve no better.
Jenomislexentale 	Your failings?
Gijuk 	Thirty summers have come and gone...yet not a night goes by that I do not wake in sweat at the memory.
Rinok 	We were fusiliers in the Dalmascan army, stationed in the royal stronghold at Nalbina.
Jenomislexentale 	Nalbina Fortress was reputed to be impenetrable. Its fall to the IVth Legion proved a turning point in the imperial campaign, dealing a crushing blow to Dalmascan morale and ultimately marking the beginning of the kingdom's end.
Bwagi 	Ba'Gamnan was our captain, and once it was clear the day would not be ours, Prince Rasler, commander of the garrison at Nalbina, tasked him with one final mission.
Bwagi 	Our unit was to escort His Highness's twin sister, the Princess Ashelia, away from the fortress and thence to safety. But...things did not go as planned...
Gijuk 	I still remember the words she uttered as she lay dying in the captain's arms but a stone's throw from where the Garamsythe Waterway drains into the sea.
Gijuk 	Even as the fog of death descended upon her, she smiled and told us─the very people who had failed her─to survive, for as long as even a single Dalmascan stood, our nation would never truly perish.
Rinok 	But it should not have been us who survived. By failing to protect our charge, we betrayed the princess and her memory, and brought shame upon our race. So yes, we are naught but cold-blooded lizards deserving of whatever scorn you deign to heap on us.
Mikoto 	Hmm... I think we may safely assume a deep-seated hatred towards the invaders of his homeland, coupled with self-loathing born from a sense of powerlessness.
Mikoto 	The darkness that lurks in the heart of Ba'Gamnan is little different from that which drove Argath─the selfsame emotions that were to nourish the Duma.
Bwagi 	Stop speaking in riddles, Sharlayan.
Ramzalexentale 	She's saying your brave captain will eventually turn into a monster...or rather, more of one.
Gijuk 	Garlean lies!
Lina Mewrilah 	What they say is true. If we do not find Ba'Gamnan and the Duma soon, none of us are safe, present company included.
Lina Mewrilah 	Do you have any idea where he might have gone? Any at all?
Jenomislexentale 	Wait, look at this! Something has been added to the final page of my journal!
Bwagi 	Then the captain must have put it there. Only he had access to it─until we found it in the pack he left behind, that is.
Lina Mewrilah 	Is this...Dalmascan?
Montblanc 	Indeed it is! It says “Ridorana.”
Rinok 	The lighthouse? Why would he write that, and in the old man's journal no less?
Mikoto 	There is a place on the Valnard Sea, far to the south of Rabanastre, where the ocean tumbles into a gaping maw more than a malm across─the Ridorana Cataract.
Mikoto 	Legend would have us believe that it is the entrance to the Hell of Water.
Mikoto 	Many a scholar seeking to prove otherwise has descended into the chasm─some even by airship─but not a one has returned.
 	
Ramzalexentale 	Tell me, is Ridorana truly as magnificent as they say? ...Hm? You have never been there? And there I was thinking you might have something to contribute.
 	
Jenomislexentale 	I must admit to knowing little of Ridorana save that which Lady Mikoto shared with us. Before we expend valuable time and resources traveling to so remote a place, I must review my notes and see if there is any mention of the abyss.
Jenomislexentale 	We shall send for you as soon as we learn aught of interest.
Quest complete. 	Quest complete.
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