An Otherworldly Encounter

An Otherworldly Encounter

Quest giver

Hoobigo Messenger

Location

Tuliyollal (X:13.0, Y:11.6)

Quest line

Echoes of Vana'diel Quests

Level

100

Required quest

Dawntrail

Gil

 5,000

Next quest

It All Began with a Stone

Patch

7.1

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This Hoobigo messenger is looking for a well-traveled adventurer.

— In-game description

Rewards

Unlocks

• 
  Jeuno: The First Walk

Steps

• Speak with Miilal Ja in Mamook.
• Survey the destination.
• Speak with the armor-clad wanderer.
• Enter  Jeuno: The First Walk.
• Speak with Bakool Ja Ja.

Journal

• This Hoobigo messenger is looking for a well-traveled adventurer.
• There is trouble in Mamook, and Miilal Ja is hopeful the unique insights of an adventurer may shed new light on the situation. Assuming you are willing, the Hoobigo messenger bids you go and speak with her at once.
• As Miilal Ja explains it, their troubles began when they found an armor-clad stranger unconscious in the Skydeep Cenote. They have no means of deducing whence he came, and he himself can remember nothing of who he is. Before they can press further, however, Zereel Ja barges in with upsetting news─the shade of Gulool Ja Ja has returned to Yak T'el. Bakool Ja Ja labors to keep the apparition at bay, but his chances appear grim. The Landsguard will soon be assembled to assist him, but Miilal Ja fears their help will be too little, too late. To that end, she asks you venture to Gok Draak Descent to help her son.
• You find Bakool Ja Ja down, but not yet out, somehow managing to hold his own. Before you can take up arms, another enemy─a young girl named Prishe─soon joins the fray. She is eager to fight, but the shade suggests a tactical withdrawal, disappearing into a nearby portal. Bakool Ja Ja is unsatisfied with this conclusion, and so he gives chase, heedless of what dangers may be lurking beyond the rift.
• The stranger's brief altercation with Prishe has helped him to recall part of his past. He now remembers enough to know that Prishe is a friend, and that some malevolent force has likely taken hold of her. While determined to go and rescue her, his body is quick to protest his attempts to leave. You insist that he rest, regarding the portal with equal parts determination and trepidation.
  • ※Jeuno: The First Walk can be accessed via the Duty Finder.
• No sooner do you step through the portal than you arrive in what appears to be a city, littered with monsters. The ensuing battle feels like a fever dream, unseen powers whisking you from one locale to the next. After overcoming what appears to be the last of the nightmarish foes, you somehow find yourself back where you started in the mysterious city.
• Bakool Ja Ja arrives carrying a slumbering Prishe. She soon stirs awake, bereft of any memory of your previous encounters. Mysteries abound as you struggle to make sense of your surroundings.
• You and Bakool Ja Ja emerge from your ordeal with more questions than answers, but for now you are safe. He thanks you for your timely assistance, but it remains to be seen if he will have further need of your strength.

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest

Hoobigo Messenger: Say, aren't you Forename? That certainly saves me a lot of trouble. I was asked to find you on behalf of Miilal Ja. 
Hoobigo Messenger: Curious happenings abound in Mamook of late, and we thought one with your worldly experience may be able to help us make sense of things.
Hoobigo Messenger: If you have the time and inclination to aid us, she awaits you in Mamook. You'll find her west of the plaza, in the large building near the two-headed statue.

Speak with Miilal Ja in Mamook (cutscene)

Miilal Ja: Thank you for coming. Truth be told, I was unsure if I was right to call on you, but the troubles we now face cannot be overcome with our strength alone.
Miilal Ja: It all began when we found a fallen traveler in the Skydeep Cenote. For a mercy, his wounds were not life-threatening.
Miilal Ja: His kind is not a common sight in these lands. Tall and slender of build, with pointed ears. 
Miilal Ja: He has yet to awaken, but speaks in his sleep of strange things that make little sense to us.
Miilal Ja: It was our hope that you might recognize something in his ramblings, or perhaps even jog his memory once he regains consciousness. Might you be willing to speak with him?

Hoobigo Messenger: Miilal Ja. The traveler stirs.

Miilal Ja: Very good. If you would be so kind as to bring him here?
Miilal Ja: We are glad to see you awake, and in good health besides. May I ask your name, traveler?

Armor-clad Wanderer: My name? I...
Armor-clad Wanderer: I'm sorry. I can't remember.

Miilal Ja: It would seem the fall has affected his memory. In any case, his presence here is a complete mystery to us, his armor the only hint as to whence he came. Does anything about him strike you as out of the ordinary?

What will you say?
> Looks like your typical adventurer to me.
> Not much different from any other Elezen I've met. Or...would that be Eldite?

< Looks like your typical adventurer to me. >
Armor-clad Wanderer: An adventurer? Me...?

< Not much different from any other Elezen I've met. Or...would that be Eldite? >
Armor-clad Wanderer: Elezen? Eldite? No, that's not quite right...

Armor-clad Wanderer: Agh!
Armor-clad Wanderer: I...I remember. I'm an Elvaan. An Elvaan adventurer!
Armor-clad Wanderer: And you're Mamool Ja... Could it be I've come to Mamook?
Armor-clad Wanderer: Wait, if I'm in Mamook, then...I must have been taken prisoner!

Miilal Ja: To so readily believe us enemies, perhaps he comes from a land unfamiliar with our customs, across the salt.

What will you say?
> He could be from Eorzea.
> I'm not so sure...
> Maybe he came from Alexandria?

Miilal Ja: We've no way to know for certain. In which case─

Zereel Ja: Miilal Ja! We must gather our strongest fighters at once!

Miilal Ja: Why? What's happened?

Zereel Ja: Gulool Ja Ja's shade has returned! It's been sighted near Gok Draak Descent. Bakool Ja Ja has engaged the apparition, but I fear the worst.
Zereel Ja: The Vow of Resolve's companion, from the Feat of the Brotherhood. I suspect you would understand the graveness of this situation better than most.
Zereel Ja: In recent days, the late Dawnservant's shade has been seen wandering the woods of Yak T'el. I have reason to believe it was invoked in like manner to the one used in the feat.
Zereel Ja: Only a privileged few of the Boonewa should be privy to the knowledge required to perform the rite. The culprit will be found in time, but we've a more pressing matter at hand now.
Zereel Ja: I must hurry and inform the Landsguard. Bakool Ja Ja requires reinforcements.

Miilal Ja: The Dawnservant's shade... I fear he may not hold out until the guard assembles.
Miilal Ja: I am loath to ask such a favor, but would you aid Bakool Ja Ja in this battle?
Miilal Ja: I'm in your debt. Gok Draak Descent is to the west of here. Please, go and help my son.

Armor-clad Wanderer: Gulool Ja Ja...?

Survey the destination (cutscene)

???: Gwaaahhh!

Shade of Resolve: Hmph. Pathetic. And you dare call yourselves blessed siblings?

Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: <pant> <pant> Not bad... You might actually prove a challenge.

Bakool Ja Ja the Mystic: If you've come to help, best stay on your guard. He's not alone...

Rambunctious Youth: What's this? Another monster in need of slaying? Don't worry─I'll send them packing!
Rambunctious Youth: Here I go!
Rambunctious Youth: Nullifying Dropkick!

Armor-clad Wanderer: Oh no you don't!
Armor-clad Wanderer: I can't explain why, but something told me I had to be here.

Rambunctious Youth: Hah! Not bad. Not bad at all. But it'll take more than a couple of taurus to stop me!

Armor-clad Wanderer: Taurus? Are you daft, girl?

Rambunctious Youth: You can speak! A shame you don't seem to have any manners.

Prishe: The name's Prishe. You'd do well to remember it.

Armor-clad Wanderer: Prishe...?

Prishe: Hahaha! Looks like I win.
Prishe: One taurus down, one to go. I hope you're ready!

Shade of Reason: Gehehehe. At ease, Prishe. We've seen to our task. Come.

Prishe: Whatever you say, Ulmia.

Bakool Ja Ja the Mystic: Ulmia? What is she talking about?

Armor-clad Wanderer: Prishe...wait...! Please, don't go...

Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: I'm guessing word of the Dawnservant's shade is what brought you here. I don't know what that girl has to do with all this, but clearly she's aligned with whoever summoned them.

Bakool Ja Ja the Mystic: The way remains open, though there's no telling where it leads.

Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: Even so, they can't be allowed to return. We've a duty to protect this forest, and I'll not see it torn apart by some two-headed impostor.
Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: Let's hurry after them, Brother. Watch over that one, won't you?

Armor-clad Wanderer: Prishe... What's happened to you?

Speak to the armor-clad wanderer (cutscene)

Armor-clad Wanderer: Everything's still hazy, but I recall fighting alongside that girl. We were comrades-in-arms, I think.
Armor-clad Wanderer: But something was clearly wrong with her. She not only mistook me for a monster, but she called her two-headed companion “Ulmia.”
Armor-clad Wanderer: The Ulmia I know is an Elvaan woman. A far cry from the reptilian fiend we encountered.
Armor-clad Wanderer: Something dark has taken hold of her, clouded her mind. I have to go and─
Armor-clad Wanderer: Ugh...

What will you say?
> You're not going anywhere with those wounds.
> I'll go after Prishe.

< What will you say? >
Armor-clad Wanderer: But she needs me...
Armor-clad Wanderer: You would go in my stead? I know not how to thank you.

< I'll go after Prishe. >
Armor-clad Wanderer: You would put yourself in harm's way for my sake? Thank you...

Armor-clad Wanderer: I recognize that look. The eyes of a (wo)man who's seen more than their fair share of battle.
Armor-clad Wanderer: Despite what Prishe has done, she was a dear friend to me. I'm fairly certain.
Armor-clad Wanderer: Have care, friend. There's no telling what lies beyond that portal.

Post-duty cutscene

Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: Are you all right?

Bakool Ja Ja the Mystic: She's merely sleeping. It remains to be seen if she'll give us a fight when she wakes.

Prishe: Mmm... Errrghhh...

Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: Ah, she stirs.

Prishe: Bwaaahhh!
Prishe: A-A two-headed lizard! Trying to take a bite out of me, huh!?

Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: A scrawny thing like you would barely make a snack.

Bakool Ja Ja the Mystic: Besides, we don't eat people!

Prishe: Sorry, I'm a little on edge.

Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: If you've no quarrel with us, we've none with you.

Bakool Ja Ja the Mystic: We only wish to talk.

Prishe: Can they really be trusted?
Prishe: I should know better than to judge people based on their appearance.

Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: It's fine. We're an intimidating specimen.

Prishe: I'm Prishe, by the way. Nice to meet you.

Optional Dialogue

Prishe: Today's just been full of surprises.

Speak with Bakool Ja Ja

Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: There is much of this we don't understand, but what we do understand is the battle is won. For now, at least.
Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: What would've otherwise been a struggle proved a decisive victory against the Dawnservant's shade and the rest of those fiends. That is to say...erm...
Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: Thank you for your help, Forename.

Optional Dialogue

Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty: Hopefully this girl can give us some answers.