So, this proved harder than it needed
to be.
It's partly because I've never been
particularly great at finding my way around this game's world map.
Actually getting to Winhill this time around proved more difficult
than the actual quest. Worse yet, I wound up needing to find it
twice, because the first time I screwed it up pretty badly and didn't
want to save. It works out though, because in the running around I
did the first time, I wound up losing my Ifrit card in a card game I
didn't need to be in, even though I'm not going to do much with that.
Also, the first attempt taught me that I needed to bring the various
pieces of the broken vase to the owner one at a time.
The deal with this side quest is that
there's this rich guy in Winhill who thinks that there are ghosts
about, in part because his favorite heirloom vase is missing. He's
upset because it had been handed down through several generations.
Finding the pieces of the vase isn't a
hard task, really. There's one in a suit of armor in the foyer of
the mansion the rich guy and his wife are in. At first, it moves
like it's haunted, but it turns out that there's just a baby chocobo
in it, and it drops the first piece as it goes running off. Once
that first piece is handed over, it's off to Raine's pub. There's a
new lady there now who does art and says the scent of the white
flowers in the dining room below the living quarters really inspires
her. That's a clue, because once those flowers are examined, a cat
shows up and gives up the second piece.
The third piece can be found in an old
lady's flower shop down the road from the main square of the village,
and the last can be retrieved from another baby chocobo as it crosses
the road at a crossing further still away from the center of town.
That last one's the tricky one. I guess there's a couple other items
to be had, but getting them's a little tricky, because getting them
means trying to pick up the baby chocobos as they cross the road, and
that can piss off the mama chocobo.
The bad thing about this is that for as
easy as it is, it's also kind of tedious, mostly because you've gotta
take each piece of the vase back to the rich guy one at a time as you
get them so he can superglue them back together.
The reward for bringing him all four
pieces is something called a Holy Stone. Not sure what it does, but
it seems like a good thing to hold onto for later in the game. Might
come in handy if I make it all the way to the end.
I also did a little extra running
around and ran into a few monsters I don't think I had before because
I usually quit right about this point in the game. There's this
half-buried face monster called Vysage, I think, that has an item
called Lightweight that I think is something like the Haste spell.
There's also a pair of hands called Lefty and Righty that have some
cool stuff too. The encounters also allowed me to stock up on spells
like Drain, Blind, and Protect.
And with that taken care of, I think
I'll wrap this up here and maybe try for another side quest before
moving on with the main story. See you soon, I hope.
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