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Mission Name: An Errand! The Professor's Price
Start NPC: None
Requirements:

Orb of Batons
Orb of Cups
Orb of Coins
and/or Orb of Swords See below
5,000 Gil

Suggested Level: 50+
Title: None
Repeatable:
Reward: Ripe Starfruit
Peach coral key

500 experience points


Previous Mission: Curses! A Horrifically Harrowing Hex
Next Mission: Shock! Arrant Abuse of Authority
     
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  Cut Scene Name   NPC (F-5)

Walkthrough

  • Obtain one or more of the Orb of Batons, Orb of Cups, Orb of Coins, and Orb of Swords key item from Cardians.
    • Any level non-event Cardian can drop the Key Item associated with its name.
    • Only one of the orbs is required to start the fight, but the more orbs obtained reduced the number of Cardians you must fight later on and weaken them to certain types of damage (see below).
    • Cardians can be found in the Outer Horutoto Ruins from the entrances at (F-11) in West Sarutabaruta and (H-3) in East Sarutabaruta.
    • It is beneficial to team up with other people in the area that may be on the same quest. When a key item drops, everybody in alliance that is in the same zone will receive it.
    • It is possible to receive the key items even if someone else in the party or alliance already has the key item.
  • Head into Outer Horutoto Ruins from (H-3) in East Sarutabaruta.
  • There is a ??? located on an Ancient Magical Gizmo directly opposite the entrance, examining it will give you the option to start the fight.
  • After all the Cardians which spawn are defeated, you will automatically obtain the Ripe Starfruit and Peach Coral Key key items.
  • Return to Shantotto, who will ask you to meet her in Jeuno and demand 5000 gil for her services.
    • You must eventually pay her to progress. If you decline paying her, you must change areas and speak to her again.
  • Return to the Inconspicuous Door for a cutscene.

Fight

  • Easily soloable by SAM 75. soboro was hitting 160-210 as Tarutaru. did it as SAM/RNG sidewinders 1 hit KO custom maniac doing 1.2k~1.4k. (shigeto bow+1 and wooden arrows lol).
  • DRK is very efficient on those mobs. I was hitting for 400-420 as a Tarutaru DRK/BLM 72 with a Scythe.
  • Clicking the ??? will spawn several (5-20) Custom Cardian mobs. They must all be defeated to win.
    • Each Orb past the first will reduce the number of Custom Cardian mobs by five.
    • All party members will lose all key items upon initiating the battle.
    • The person who activates the battle will set the Cardians' resistances. (ie. You will not deal Piercing damage if the trader does not have an Orb of Cups key item, even if you have the key item)
  • You will also be put in Level Restriction and Confrontation status effects, however, the battle is not capped and buffs are not lost once the battle starts.
  • Since you get the confrontation status from the fight you will lose all pets you have out.
  • The fight is limited to a single party (the party of the member who initiates the battle in the case of an alliance) (see testimonials).
  • Each orb will allow the player possessing the orb to do one type of damage:
Orb of Cups: Piercing
Orb of Coins: Magic
Orb of Batons: Blunt
Orb of Swords: Slashing
  • Using Fencing Degen when entering the battle with the Orb of Cups does not work, even though it deals piercing damage.
  • Just a word of advice if you team up with random people from the zone make sure anyone that wants to solo fight drops party before going in. We had someone zone into fight while in party and everyone in his party lost orbs. This did not effect allies.

Game Description

Mission Orders
The Professor consents to lend you her aid, but as expected, there's a price to be paid. Within a Cardian in the Outer Horutoto Ruins lies the reagent she does seek; return it to her, that you might avert a fate most bleak!

Game Script

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