Tending Aged Wounds/Plot Details

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 * colspan="2"| '''Tending Aged Wounds - Metalworks
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 * Cid: What, you want to hear about the Multinational Expedition?

Cid: What is there to know? Everybody that went on that damned mission passed away or was...

Cid: I usually don't believe in anything crazy like magic or curses, but after hearing the stories about what happened up there in the northlands, I don't think there may be any other explanation.

Cid: You already heard from the other two nations that the expedition was formed on the suggestion of the Republic, right?

Cid:  Maybe it's time that I face up to my past crimes... I was the one that pressured the government into sending a party to the Northlands.

Cid: Thirty years ago, a man brought a strange stone to the Metalworks.

Cid: It wasn't any bigger than my fist, but just by standing near it you could feel the power flowing from its facets.

Cid: That power was greater than that of any crystal I had ever seen. I was shocked and amazed by what laid before my eyes.

Cid: When the man told me that it was a fragment of a crystal that was found in the Northlands, I was convinced that something more was hiding up there.

Cid: I thought if I could find that energy source and bring it back to Bastok, the Republic would thrive, ultimately becoming the strongest, most advanced nation in the world.

Cid: So I told my discovery to the president at the time, and suggested that he ready an expedition led by a party of musketeers.

Cid: It was supposed to be top-secret, but somehow the information leaked to the other two nations, and...

Cid: And in the end, the expedition turned up nothing, and we lost more than we could ever have imagined...

Cid: Now that I think of it, the energy from that stone might have been enough to power the crystal propulsion unit.

Cid: Could Jeuno have already found a new source of energy in the Northlands?

Cid: If I only had that rock... Unfortunately, it disappeared thirty years ago...right around the time of the expedition.

Cid: The man who sold me the stone--a stone which he called "magicite"--said that he brought it from Tavnazia, and that it was a piece of a larger gem known as the "Star of Tavnazia."

Cid: Maybe that crazy blue-haired girl from the island knows something about that gem.

Cid: Do you think you could ask her for me?
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