Pick-up Sticks

Pick-up Sticks

Starting NPC

Crystarium Botanist

Location

Lakeland (X:21.8, Y:24.1)

Level

71

Duration

15 min

Experience

48,924

Gil

142

Gemstones

12

Next FATE

Flowering Nightshade

Patch

5.0

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The efforts of a logger come to harvest timber for vital construction in the Crystarium have been stymied by territorial triffids. For an experienced hero, however, retrieving the fallen lumber should be as child's play.

— In-game description

Pick-up Sticks is a level 71 FATE spawned in Lakeland. Completing it will begin the "Nightshade" FATE chain.

Walkthrough

• A Level 71 Crystarium Botanist will appear on the map around 21, 24.
• Speak to them to spawn the FATE.
• Deliver 18 lumber to the botanist to win.
• Collect the lumber from the interactive objects and/or slaying the Violet Triffids that spawn with the FATE.
• After success of this FATE, you can follow the NPCs to the spawn location of the next FATE.

Additional Information

Fate Series:

1. Pick-up Sticks
2. Flowering Nightshade
3. Creeping Nightshade
4. Subtle Nightshade
5. Looming Nightshade
6. Toxic Nightshade

Dialogue

Crystarium Botanist: Alack, the timber is fighting back!

When you speak to the Crystarium Botanist:

Crystarium Botanist: O stranger, hear my plea! The trees have turned, and logger becomes logee! The poets were right─my hubris has undone me!

Gather the lumber in the hope that it will quiet the man?

If you say no:

Crystarium Botanist: Alas and woe, woe is me! If only someone would prune these infernal triffids, these vexatious trees!

If you say yes:

Crystarium Botanist: You shall gather the timber for me, you decree? Ah, such noble charity! The fruits of my labor can be collected from the forest floor, you see─though hacking up a triffid would be just as effective, probably.

Crystarium Botanist: Alas and woe, woe is me, I─ Oh, timber! That will do nicely, thank you.
Crystarium Botanist: I don't suppose I might trouble you for a few more lengths of the stuff, while you're here? I could ask in verse, if that helps...

Crystarium Botanist: Boughs tremble, but speak not of the gentle breeze─ Aha, more timber! Thank you, fair stranger.
Crystarium Botanist: Yes, this amount of wood should more than suffice. You are as a hero in one of the epics of eld! An epic involving an abundance of splinters.

Crystarium Botanist: At last does the harvest to my humble hands return! Methinks anon I shall adjourn. ...Hm, that one's a bit much, isn't it?

Elven Dialogue during the Series

After beating back the Elven brigands:

Elven Brigand/Burglar/Smuggler/Thief/: 
  Take your “victory.”
  Just remember, you'll
  never be safe.

Elven Brigand/Burglar/Smuggler/Thief/: 
  There's nowhere
  in this world
  you can run.

Elven Brigand/Burglar/Smuggler/Thief/:
  Just know that
  you will never
  have won.

Elven Brigand/Burglar/Smuggler/Thief/: 
  But don't think
  your petty heroism
  will save you.