Good for What Ales You

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* Dodozan has been trading with pirates, and some miscreant has made off with a cask of ale meant for the Bloody Executioners. Surely, someone at Fisherman's Bottom has seen something.
* Your inquiries have garnered answers, and you have learned that the cask of ale may have ended up exactly where it was supposed to, after all─with the Bloody Executioners aboard their ship, the Astalicia. It might be best to head off in that direction to confirm whether the customer was indeed the thief.
* It turns out that one of the underling pirates had more thirst than sense, and so brings down his captain's wrath upon him. The good captain would have you courier the payment to Dodozan.
* Dodozan is pleased to see the money and even more pleased that a watery demise will not be an item on his personal ledger this day. Moenskaet is correct, after all; it takes cods to trade with folk who have a long keel.
==Objectives==
* Speak with people around Fisherman's Bottom.
* Speak with the young Executioner on the Astalicia.
* Deliver the payment to Dodozan.
==Script==
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Dodozan 	Oh my, oh dear. My cask of ale is gone, and it had to be the one ordered by someone who doesn't brook tardiness!
Dodozan 	I would bring the matter to the Maelstrom, or perhaps seek help from the Yellowjackets...but my client would likely frown on involving anyone...official.
Dodozan 	An adventurer such as yourself, though, would be capable of doing a little unofficial investigating. Will you find the stolen ale for me? It was right outside Fisherman's Bottom. Someone surely saw something.
Dodozan 	What's that? You would have the client's name? Oh, none of that. Discretion creates opportunities. Now do go to Fisherman's Bottom and make your inquiries before this cold of mine grows worse!
<cough> (The Bloody Executioners!) <cough>
 	
Merchant01426 	Did I see someone walk off with a cask of ale? Why, sure, it was during the afternoon off-loading.
Merchant01426 	Fella didn't look like a thief, though. Hoisted the cask and walked right on over to the Astalicia.
 	
Merchant01426 	I have to admit, the whole thing looked aboveboard. All out in the open. The fella wasn't acting like any kind of thief I've seen.
 	
Deliveryman01426	Lookin' for Dodozan's cask of ale, eh? Aye, I'll help you. Dodozan ain't a bad sort, for a swivin' trader. There was a toper come askin' after the cask. Wanted to know if it was ale, the poxy fool.
 	
Deliveryman01426	Reeked of rum and puke, that one. Not no kind of workin' man, and you know what that means 'round these parts.
 	
Fishwoman01426 	After a cask? Well, can't rightly say if it's your cask, but there was a big fella come by recently carrying one.
Fishwoman01426 	He asked me if I had smoked mackies what would go down nice with ale. 'Tain't the only thing I know, neither; the louse wore black, and you know what that means: the Bloody Executioners!
 	
Fishwoman01426 	Already said more'n I should. If it's some business with the Bloody Executioners, best leave it alone.
 	
Staff01426 	What're ye...what're you looking at? This is a─hic─dance do...dua...duel! A dance duel. Mush more important than anythin' you got. Mush, mush more!
Moenslaet 	Ye may be able to scamper up the rigging to the crow's nest, but can ye get down? Not for a siren's teat, ye great clodhopper!
Pirate01426 	Beggin' pardon, Cap'n, but there ain't no Miqo'te alive heavier on her feet than a great galootin' Roegadyn such as yourself!
Staff01426 	Hahaha! Well said, Cap'n! And well retorted, ye bloody Sun Seeker! Or was you a Moon Keeper...? What other lands they got there? Bah, who even cares, am I right!?
Staff01426 	...Who are you, anyway? There was a whole passel of you afore, but now there'sh only one. That's a miser's trick, it is.
Staff01426 	Ungh... Nope, nothin' worshe than a miser. This whoreson what was a Madrigal...er...Admiral... What was his name? He didn't like no drinkin' nor dancin'. Bad for...hic...corals. Corals? Can't be right...
Staff01426 	Corals! Hah, 'course you're right there, lassie/laddie! Should never doubt meself. Anywaysh, thish Madrigal─I'll call him Madrigal Pinchfist─passed decrees like they was farts. He decreed no dancin' “within a hand's reach of spirits.”
Staff01426 	But no Madrigal's smarter than a sailin' man─we just stopped reachin' with our hands altogether! Hah! We invent...invenitated step dancin'. That showed Madrigal Pinchfist and his corals!
Staff01426 	Haha, aye, that'sh right, lassie/fella! Gets me all fired up, too. Makesh you think, like. Oho, I know! You want to dance! All thish time, I jus' thought you was bein' churlish, but─
Staff01426 	No, no, no! I insist. Dance first, talk later. That'sh the way of it!
Staff01426 	Why, you cagey sea fox! Dance like sailin' folk, you do. Hic, could swear there was three of you...or was I jus'...? Never mind, you'sh practically a sister/brother now! You ask me anythin'!
Staff01426 	A cashk of Dodozan's ale? Carried it off from Fisherman's Bottom my very own self, I did!
Staff01426 	Hads to, matter o' fact. We'd already drunk all we had aboard!
Staff01426 	'Course Dodozan's gettin' paid for it...someday. Don't make a differenshe if he frets a night or two, heh!
Moenslaet 	Why, ye reprobate whoreson! That's the tale o' that cask ye lugged in?
Moenslaet 	Blackguard! Ye dare call yerself a Bloody Executioner, all hugger-mugger 'bout what belongs to who? Dodozan has the cods not to mewl about the colors we wear, and ye play him for a fool?
Staff01426 	I... I'm sorry, Cap'n! W–Wasn't thinking it through. Gots to fix that, I do... It'sh what they call a coral failin'...
Moenslaet 	<sigh> Adventurer, I beg pardon for my man. I swear, Llymlaen mistook him for an oyster and gave him grit for brains when She made him.
Moenslaet 	Since yer already here, how 'bout you square our account with Dodozan, take this payment to him? We'd be much obliged.
Moenslaet 	You danced with us an' all, so I'm trusting the gil won't inspire any moral failings in ye. That's some long keel on the Astalicia, if ye take my meaning.
 	
Dodozan 	There you are, and not a moment too soon. Did you find my ale?
Dodozan 	Huh... Well, that's the price I was to receive, but where did you get it?
Dodozan 	Oh, from the Bloody─er, I mean, from the clients themselves? I see. Yes, there's always some blustery young fellow like that. Hasn't earned his swallows or stars yet, I'll wager.
Dodozan 	Cods, you say? Captain Moenskaet is kind to say so, I'm sure, but I hail from Ul'dah. We trade with anyone if they've gil to pay. Pirates, princes...they're all the same to me.
Dodozan 	And if I know these particular pirates─and I do─they'll be wanting another cask soon to drink away this little fracas. Many thanks, adventurer!
Quest complete. 	Quest complete.
Category:Lominsan Sidequests in Final Fantasy XIV