Lone Survivor

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* The deputy postmoogle has a mysterious delivery for you. Perhaps the recipient, the hermit Drest of the Severed String, can shed some light on the puzzling letter.
* Drest's reaction is not exactly what one would call enlightening, but it certainly lives up to the postmoogle's fanfare. Signed, “The Ones You Killed,” the letter calls the hermit “Dashing Drest” and asks a singular question: “Do you dream of rain?” Reflect on it while you retrieve Drest's precious leather sack from Raincatcher Gully.
* You find the leather sack, though you can still make neither head nor tail of the message in the letter. Perhaps Drest will have something to say about it, when you deliver the sack with its hoard of gil.
* Drest's hard-won gil is gone from the sack, replaced with a blood-caked helm of a Garlean legionnaire. The terrified hermit begs you to draw off any watchers outside the shack, then meet him near the House of Sticks in lower La Noscea to guard him on his flight.
* You arrive at the appointed location and discover that the rendezvous has become a rescue mission. Save Drest from the Garlean legionnaires and see whether you can finally get to the bottom of this very strange delivery.
* Drest is safe, and may yet find his way out of the thorn–wood of his heart. You suspect that what happened on a rainy night three years ago was but the last straw, and the tragedy began when Garlemald set its sights on Drest's homeland... But that story is for another day.
==Objectives==
* Deliver the mysterious letter to Drest in eastern La Noscea.
* Search for the leather sack.
* Deliver the leather sack to Drest.
* Rendezvous with Drest in lower La Noscea.
* Rescue Drest.
==Script==
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Lettermoogle 	My trusty [Player Name]! I have a delivery for you, addressed to Drest at the Severed String, over in Raincatcher Gully, kupo. But...
Lettermoogle 	I promised the Seedseers no more secrets, kupo! The letter was handed to me in a most curious way. Why, he seemed not to know of postmoogles, and was very furtive to boot.
Lettermoogle 	I introduced myself in a way that did credit to our kind, you can be sure! But when he asked me to deliver the letter in his stead, do you know what he said?
Lettermoogle 	“Don't deliver it now; wait a few days”! Have you heard the like before? I know how much you enjoy the strange and the suspicious, so here you are, kupo!
Lettermoogle 	This letter is for Drest at the Severed String, over in Raincatcher Gully. A very strange delivery in my opinion, kupo!
 	
Drest 	It's...you. Been a while. A letter...a letter from who? Nobody knows me...
Drest 	"My dear Dashing Drest,
Do you dream of rain?
The Ones You Killed“
Drest 	H-How did they know? Ghosts...ghosts that won't leave me in peace...!
Drest 	Taunting me. Before they...kill me. No...no...no! I won't let them! I'll run─I'll start over somewhere else!
Drest 	Help me! There's a leather sack hidden east of here. A peaceful spot...surrounded by rocks...trees...
Drest 	My savings... Gil...gil to go home with. Home to...my family. Get it for me, help me!
Drest 	Get my savings... A leather sack...hidden. A peaceful spot...surrounded by rocks...trees... East of here, help me!
 	
Drest 	Did...did you find it? Did you find the leather sack?
Drest 	Thank the... But let me look inside─must be sure...
Drest 	What...?
No...no...no...
Drest 	Just a dream...a dream! Let me wake...wake...wake... Oh gods, mercy, have mercy!
Drest 	You see it too!? No...no dream... A bloody helm...black blood, old blood! Idem in me...by the majesty of Garlemald...never to desert...idem in me!
Drest 	Ghosts...ghosts...ghosts. Three years, not a single night of peace and now...they rise.
Drest 	Help me, they're watching right now. I...I have to get out of here. Go somewhere else...just a short while. Then I can...I can go home.
Drest 	I'll go...out the back after you go out the front. Meet me...near the abandoned house in lower La Noscea. You know...the kobolds' squat. The House of Sticks.
Drest 	Must...must be careful. I'll go...after you leave. The House of Sticks... Meet me near the House of Sticks.
 	
Colleague 	You'll clean that helm tonight, worm. Lick the blood and brains off of it while we drink the wine bought with your paltry hoard...
Colleague 	Once a craven, always a craven. Flushed you out like a rabbit with that letter. Isn't that what desert conies do? Dash!?
 	
Drest 	You...died. You all died.
Colleague 	Not all, just most. Three good soldiers survived...and you. Figured you for dead until I saw you skulking by the water a week ago.
Colleague 	Do you think we don't dream of rain, worm? What honor in surviving an ambush, eh? Three years of disdain─that ends when we hand over a deserter to the cudgel–man.
Drest 	I... I...
 	
Colleague 	Hm? You a friend to this scum? You ought to pick them more carefully!
 	
Balloon 	Your blood will paint my path to glory!
 	
Drest 	<groan> I should have known...this would happen. Now I'll never go home...
Colleague 	Look at it this way, Dashing Drest: this is an easier way to go than what they do to deserters back in Garlemald!
 	
Drest 	Thank...thank you. There's no one...knows I'm alive now. I'm...safe.
Drest 	I was in a unit...of Garlean scouts. A Maelstrom ambush in heavy rain, three years ago.
Drest 	I thought...I was the only survivor. It didn't feel like desertion. It felt like...dying.
Drest 	You heard what they called me. Dashing Drest. I never tried to...run before that night. They...kill you for that. It's from...before...in the desert, I...
Drest 	Why did you...protect me? We're not kin. Look at me, I'm barely...barely a man. A broken, craven thing...
Drest 	You decided I should live. How...do you do that? I can't even decide some days...which foot to move first.
 	
Drest 	Do you think...I can be well again? Decide to live...not just be afraid to die?
Drest 	True... I haven't thought things through in...in a long time. Not since my homeland fell to the Empire.
Drest 	No...you don't have the answers either. But you─ You know that. And you can still...you can still decide. Without answers.
Drest 	Home is─home isn't somewhere I can buy a fare to. It's not a sack of gil or answers I need but questions. Why does it hurt? How do I feel...
 	
Drest 	I will see my children again. But it's not the time yet. I think─I think, though, it will come. That's a start...
Quest complete.	Quest complete.
Category:Side Story Quests in Final Fantasy XIV