A Life More Ordinary

A Life More Ordinary

Quest giver

Meffrid

Location

The Peaks (X:23.3, Y:6.3)

Quest line

Stormblood Main Scenario Quests

Level

60

Experience

 100,000

Gil

 745

Previous quest

Hard Country
Death by a Thousand Rocks

Next quest

The Color of Angry Qiqirn

Patch

4.0

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Main Scenario Progress: 389 / 960 (40.5%)

   

Stormblood Progress: 10 / 162 (6.2%)

   

“

Meffrid is hard at work trying to win over the villagers of Ala Gannha.

— In-game description

Rewards

Choose one of the following options:

• 1   Gaganaskin Boots of Aiming
• 1   Gaganaskin Sandals of Healing
• 1   Gaganaskin Sandals of Casting
• 3   Heavens' Eye Materia V

Steps

• Speak with Lyse.
• Speak with Meffrid.
• Speak with Meffrid.

Journal

• Meffrid is hard at work trying to win over the villagers of Ala Gannha.

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest

Meffrid: Ah, there you are, [Forename]. I've been trying to help the villagers deal with this food shortage of theirs. 
Meffrid: Recently, the imperials have been swooping into villages unannounced and seizing supplies in order to prevent the people from stockpiling, in case they might be in league with the Resistance. 
Meffrid: It's not much, but I've taught them a few tricks to better hide what little they've got left. How's Lyse getting on, by the way? You'd think people would be more inclined trust a local girl—assuming they remember her, that is. 
(Optional)
Meffrid: Why don't you go and see how Lyse is getting on? I'll join you in a few.

Speaking with Lyse (Cutscene)

Lyse: N-No, I didn't mean to...

Cynical Youth: >> ...And where were you these past twenty years!? Where were you when we were being ground under the Black Wolf's boot!? On the other side of this bastard wall, living the high life, I'll wager! << 

Lyse: That's not fair! 

Cynical Youth: Ho, and who's this, another one of your freedom-loving friends, deigning to help us poor unfortunate souls? 
Cynical Youth: Trying to whip us into a frenzy so we'll go and storm a castrum with our pickaxes and shovels!? Leave, all of you, before you bring a cohort down on us all! 
Cynical Youth: And you—don't you dare speak like you're one of us. You can't even begin to understand what we've been through. You weren't here, Lyse! You weren't here! 
Cynical Youth: This is my home, and I love it with all my heart. And if you truly have any love for it too, you'll keep us out of your doomed rebellion. 

Lyse: ...He has a point. No matter what I say or do, it doesn't change the fact I left them behind. 
Lyse: But this isn't about me, or anyone else. It's about Ala Mhigo. Let's go and find Meffrid.

(Optional)
Lyse: I knew it wouldn't be easy, but...

Speaking with Meffrid (Cutscene)

Meffrid: Looks like the elder wasn't the only one unwilling to hear us out. Can't blame them, given what happened at the Wall. 

Lyse: I thought I might be able to appeal to them as a fellow...I don't know. But, if anything, it just made them angrier. I haven't lived through it like they have. 

Meffrid: I can't claim to know the struggle like they do either, Lyse. I ran too, aye, but if I hadn't, I'd've never met [Forename] or the rest of you, and we might not be here today, in a position to make a difference. 
Meffrid: So I don't regret my choices, nor will I apologize for them. There's more than one way to fight.

Flustered Woman: >> Help! Someone, anyone—we need help!<< 

Meffrid: I don't like the sound of that one bit. Come on. 

Flustered Woman: Wercrata, he... <pant> <pant> ...the tributum and...and the bloody ratmen, they... <pant> <pant> Damn it all! 

Meffrid: You there—take a deep breath, and then tell us what happened. 

Flustered Woman: It was all business as usual...The tributum's due soon, and we were taking it to the imperials when the Qiqirn attacked! they took my brother, and our money!

Lyse: Took him where? 

Flustered Woman:  Ruins to the south of here. Was just an old temple before they came and.... Listen, Wercrata's the only family I've got left! If I lose him, I- 

Cynical Youth: The Ziggurat? If the ratmen took him there, he's as good as dead... 

Lyse: We've got to get after them! if there's even a chance her brother is still alive, we have to try! 

Optional

Lyse: We can save him if we hurry! Come on!

Cynical Youth: (You shouldn't get her hopes up like that. Everyone knows the ratmen eat their prisoners.)

Flustered Woman: You've got to hurry! the gods only know what they could be doing to him!

Griseldis: If this sodding leg of mine was any good, I'd...  

Speaking with Meffrid

Meffrid: You're right, Lyse. We've got to help them, if not for the missing man then for the tributum. The Garleans won't suffer excuses if they're late...