Passing the Torch

Passing the Torch

Quest giver

Nayoshi

Location

The Ruby Sea (X:8.8, Y:9.0)

Level

63

Experience

 25,750

Gil

 1,000

Previous quest

Tide Goes in, Imperials Go Out
Rock Bottom

Next quest

Up in Flames

Patch

4.0

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Nayoshi is ready to renounce fishing for good.

— In-game description

Steps

• Speak with Nayoshi.
• Rendezvous with Nayoshi.
• Rendezvous with Nayoshi and slay the hooked bombfish that appears to obtain its corpse.
• Speak with Nayoshi.
• Deliver the hooked bombfish corpse to the sharp-eyed ama.
• Speak with Koruri.

Journal

• Nayoshi is ready to renounce fishing for good.

• Nayoshi declares that he will be departing from the village immediately. He would, however, like to give you one final gift and asks that you meet him at your usual spot by the boulders shortly.

• Your conversation with Nayoshi is derailed by the distant cries of the villagers. From the snatches you are able to catch, you surmise ill has befallen Koruri. Nayoshi, hearing this, rushes off. You best follow him.

• You catch up to Nayoshi who is standing outside of a hut in which Koruri is receiving treatment. According to one of the other villagers, the young girl nearly drowned and is currently in critical condition. Her body temperature is dropping fast, but the fire they made is not near hot enough to warm her. Nayoshi, however, has a solution: he will catch another fatty hooked bombfish and throw it in the fire. He, of course, will need you to accompany him to kill the beast he fishes from the sea.

• You quickly dispatch of the hooked bombfish Nayoshi reels in and the two of you now have a greasy corpse with which to feed the fire. Speak with Nayoshi to see what he would have you do next.

• Nayoshi is overjoyed by your victory over the bombfish but wastes no time celebrating. He would have you hurry back with him to the hut and deliver the corpse to the villagers tending the fires that will save Koruri.

• You deliver the bombfish corpse to the girl outside the hut. She is convinced the layers of fat in its body will give life to the fires, and thanks you and Nayoshi for your services.

• Koruri has awoken, but it does little to assuage Nayoshi's feelings of guilt. He declares again─this time to the entire village─that he shall be departing from Isari for good. One of the elders, however, stops him. He believes Nayoshi's ability to catch hooked bombfish may be the key to reviving torch fishing and restoring the small fishing community to its former glory. It seems Nayoshi's dreams have come true: he can finally take up his fishing rod, and be lauded as Isari's greatest fisherman.

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest

Nayoshi: Koruri can mock me all she wants but now that I have this, there is nothing stopping me from becoming the finest fisherman in all of Isari!
Nayoshi: Let us make for the waters posthaste!

Speaking with Nayoshi

Nayoshi: Mistress/Master [Surname], you will never believe what just happened! I could not wait to test the lure, so I cast a line with it before you arrived, and something huge took the bait!
Nayoshi: A violent struggle ensued, with it thrashing about wildly and me trying to hold my ground. Halfway through our silent battle, I was sent sailing into my barrel!
Nayoshi: The impact made me lose my grip, and my rod flew into the ocean. No doubt it is now somewhere at the bottom of the sea...
Nayoshi: Koruri is the village's best diver. Normally, I would ask her to fetch it for me, but I am afraid doing so will only further convince her that I should quit fishing.
Nayoshi: ...Do you think you could get it for me?
Nayoshi: Haha! I knew I could count on you!

(Optional)
Nayoshi: I can feel it─it shall not be long until I am living my dreams! All I need is my rod, and I will have it made!

Delivering the rod to Nayoshi

Nayoshi: Mistress/Master [Surname], you are finally returned. Did you find my rod?
<Hand Over Nayoshi's Rod>

Cutscene

Nayoshi: Thank you! Thank you so very much!
Nayoshi: Now then, let us go back to practicing! You best watch closely─I am about to catch the biggest fish you have ever seen!

Speaking with Nayoshi and slaying the hooked bombfish

Nayoshi: Are you ready?
Nayoshi: Here we go!
Nayoshi: Curses! It's another beast!

Speaking with Nayoshi (Cutscene)

Nayoshi: Twice I have tried and twice I have failed. <sigh> This lure was my last hope...

Furious Female Voice: Nayoshi, it is time you faced the truth already! You are incapable of fishing anything but monsters from the sea!
Koruri: While thankfully Mistress/Master [Surname] was here to take care of the bombfish, you must hurry to clean this up! The smell of blood will begin attracting all manner of wild beast!

Nayoshi: Very well. The corpse of this dastardly creature shall go up in flames...along with all my dreams.

Koruri: And, pray tell, how exactly do you intend to burn the body without oil? 

Nayoshi: I will put it in this broken barrel and set fire to the wood.

Koruri: ...But the wood is still damp from the water that was in it. Look─the sparks you struck are fizzling out.

Nayoshi: Argh! Then I'll go and get dry planks of wood from the village, dammit!
Nayoshi: Mistress/Master [Surname], while I am away see that the fat fiend is crammed into what remains of the barrel!

Optional

Nayoshi: I will go and fetch dry planks of wood from the village while you see that the thing's remains are stuffed into the broken barrel.

Koruri: Nayoshi has been incredibly irritable of late, would you not agree?

Koruri: Is it... Is it actually on fire!? I do not understand! That should be impossible!

Speaking with Nayoshi

Nayoshi: I-It's on fire! But how is that possible? The planks were barely smoldering. Now the whole thing is engulfed in flames that climb higher by the second...

Koruri: The sheen of water that was coating the creature's body─that must have been grease. Bombfish must be composed mostly of lard!

Nayoshi: Well, whatever the case, our worries are over. The beast has been reduced to a pile of ashes, as have my dreams.
Nayoshi: ...Koruri, I should have listened to you from the start. I will not trouble you, nor anyone else, any longer. I shall renounce fishing and leave the village.

Koruri: L-Leave the village? But where would you even go!?

Nayoshi: To the mountains. Or somewhere else far, far away from here.
Nayoshi: I love the open sea and fishing more than anything. If I were to remain in Isari, I will constantly be reminded of all that I have lost.

Koruri: Nayoshi, this is madness! This is your home! You cannot simply abandon it!
Koruri: Oh, dear! Is it time already? <sigh> I must grab my harpoon and return to work. Meet me at our usual spot after I am finished. And please, for once, try not to do anything brash while I am away...