Ooh Rah

Ooh Rah

Quest giver

Surito Carito

Location

Upper La Noscea (X:25.6, Y:22.3)

Job

Scholar

Level

56

Experience

 51,480

Gil

 650

Previous quest

False Friends

Next quest

Unseen

Patch

3.0

Links

EDB GT

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Your time away has not lightened Surito Carito's mood.

— In-game description

Rewards

Unlocks

•   Deployment Tactics

Walkthrough

Trivia

"Oorah is a battle cry common in the United States Marine Corps since the mid-20th century."
Alka Zolka's comment about   Salamander Oil is a reference to The Monster of Bronze Lake.

Steps

• Speak with Halga Tolga.
• With the chat mode in Say, enter “come hells or high water” to show your resolve to Halga Tolga.
• With the chat mode in Say, enter “come hells or high water” again to appease Halga Tolga.
• Mock the Mamool Ja leader with a /laugh and defend yourself if he attacks.
• Report to Halga Tolga.

Journal

• Your time away has not lightened Surito Carito's mood.

• Surito Carito reveals his latest theory: the voidsent bound within the amphora unleashed the sickness upon Nym, and fled from its cage after cloaking itself with dark magicks. He says you must track down this invisible voidsent, but that even a scholar of his experience needs time to discover where to start. In the meantime, he asks that you and Alka Zolka focus on training, and introduces Halga Tolga to guide you. Speak with this former officer of the vaunted Nymian Royal Marines near Bronze Lake, and start learning things the hard way.

• After dressing you down, Halga Tolga demands you show your commitment to the Royal Marines. Demonstrate your resolve now by entering any expression containing the phrase “come hells or high water” with the chat mode in Say.

• Halga Tolga cannot hear you. Show your spirit again by entering any expression containing the phrase “come hells or high water” with the chat mode in Say.

• Grudgingly, Halga Tolga admits you have the spirit of a Royal Marine. Now, he bids you prove that you have the courage of one by finding the leader of the Mamool Ja to the east of Bronze Lake. Mock him and his ways with a great big /laugh, and defend yourself if he should take exception to your actions.

• You have outraged and defeated a band of Mamool Ja. Report back to Halga Tolga near the Wanderer's Palace for your debriefing.

• Though not overly impressed by either Alka Zolka or you, Halga Tolga concedes that you show promise. However, he is abundantly clear that you have a long way to go. Focus on honing your own skills, he orders you, and you may be able to defeat the invisible voidsent. Someday.
  • ※The next scholar quest will be available from Surito Carito upon reaching level 58.

Dialogue

Surito Carito: Thank you for joining me. I gather your noses have not shrunk. And your ears...?
Surito Carito: Good, then you are safe. I think the voidsent inside the amphora summoned its kind to distract you while it fled, magically concealed.
Surito Carito: Traces of this enchantment remain, but nothing else. There were no signs of toxin or miasma in the amphora. The corpses of the creatures you slew were likewise free of disease.

Alka Zolka: What? Does this mean our invisible voidsent is indeed what spread the sickness through Nym!?

Surito Carito: That is what I have come to believe. As to why it fled, I can only suppose the long years bound within the vase robbed it of the strength to oppose you.

Alka Zolka: But surely it can regain that strength! My gods... If it does, the entire realm is at terrible risk!

Surito Carito: It does pose a risk, but this is also an opportunity. If we can track it down and lay it low, its corpse may lead us to a cure!

Alka Zolka: There is truth in that... Come, [Forename], let us pursue this voidsent forthwith!

Surito Carito: A moment, Alka Zolka. It will require all my skill to track the voidsent, and time besides. Moreover, you cannot afford to be defeated once I have found it. As such, I have requested the aid of an old companion.

Halga Tolga: Realm's gone to shite if these sorry specimens're all the Royal Marines've got left. But they'll march like proper soldiers when I'm done, or my name isn't Halga Tolga!

Alka Zolka: S-Sergeant Tolga!? [Forename], do you understand who this is!? Before us stands the greatest drill instructor of the Nymian military! Come on─we have much and more to learn!

Surito Carito: Halga will demand much of you, and subject you to seemingly unreasonable tasks. Know that he does this solely for your benefit.

Alka Zolka: No hardship is too great! I will become a marauder worthy of the Nymian military!

Halga Tolga: Think you've got what it takes to be a Royal Marine? Hah, you make me laugh! Ever worn glasses into battle, boy? Expect your foe to wait while you wipe blood from the lenses, do you!?
Halga Tolga: And the scholar. Had a lot like you in the war. More use dead than alive! Having their corpses piled high around us kept us safer than their damned magicks ever did! You're a bloody joke!
Halga Tolga: But I'm here to turn you into Royal Marines, and Royal Marines you will be! First, the creed! “To victory─come hells or high water.” Come on, let me hear you!

System: With the chat mode in Say, use your keyboard or the software keyboard to enter any expression that contains the phrase “come hells or high water” to demonstrate your resolve to Halga Tolga.

Halga Tolga: Are you a mammet or a scholar!? If you can't remember five bloody words, then what good are you!? Say “come hells or high water,” or get out of my sight!

System: With the chat mode in Say, use your keyboard or the software keyboard to enter any expression that contains the phrase “come hells or high water” to demonstrate your resolve to Halga Tolga.

Alka Zolka: To victory─come hells or high water!

Halga Tolga: How do you expect to strike fear into your enemies whispering like that!? Open your gobs, and say it like you mean it!

System: With the chat mode in Say, use your keyboard or the software keyboard to enter any expression that contains the phrase “come hells or high water” to prove yourself to Halga Tolga.

Alka Zolka: TO VICTORY─COME HELLS OR HIGH WATER, SIR!

Halga Tolga: Well, you show spirit, I'll give you that... Now, to your tasks!
Halga Tolga: First, the scholar! There's a band of Mamool Ja sellswords that've been eyeing our palace. Walk up to them with a great, stupid grin, and laugh in the leader's face!
Halga Tolga: The whoresons'll hurl everything they've got at you for that. Acquit yourself well and you pass. Now go!
Halga Tolga: Too craven to laugh at a Mamool Ja!? Then you've no place in the Royal Marines! Do it or don't come back!

Mamool Ja Mercenary Leader: Wh-Why you laugh? You think Mamool Ja funny!? No! You funny! I laugh, see!? AHAHA...ha... Er... You die now!
Mamool Ja Mercenary Leader: What? You talk to Mamool Ja? No? Then who you talk to!?

Halga Tolga: Hah! You're both still alive. Not half bad!
Halga Tolga: But any real marine could've done it twice as fast! You truly are the sorriest excuse for a unit I have ever seen!

Alka Zolka: With all due respect, sir, the tasks you gave us were... I mean, what was I supposed to achieve by massaging that man with...salamander oil?

Halga Tolga: You bloody fool! If you've got to ask, then clearly you learned nothing! And you, scholar─are you going to tell me you don't know why I had you fight without a protector!?
Halga Tolga: Chaos reigns on the battlefield! The marines around you are all you've got, and they will die for your failings!
Halga Tolga: Marines, scholars─everyone has to do whatever it takes to survive! To be all they can be!
Halga Tolga: Until you understand that, you're not fit to face even the weakest voidsent! That is all for today. Now get back to training─you're dismissed!

Alka Zolka: Sir, yes, sir! I...I have been a fool, [Forename]! I will do as he says! To victory─come hells or high water!
Alka Zolka: Whew... I have done many and more strange things in pursuit of my goals, [Forename], but massaging a man with salamander oil is the strangest yet...