Alisaie's Stones

Quest giver: Hirase
Location: The Ruby Sea (X:22.1, Y:9.4)
Quest line: Stormblood Main Scenario
Level: 62

Required items: 1 Rotting Fish
Experience: 102,000
Gil: 995
Previous quest: The Solace of the Sea
The Arrows of Misfortune
The Last Voyage
Next quest: Under the Sea
A Dance with Snakes
Stranded
In Cold Blood
Pirate Stew
The Soul's Remembrance
Fight or Flight
Pulling Double Booty
Unfinished Business
The Girl with the Pearl Ring
Family Affairs
Patch: 4.0

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Hirase is impressed by your industrious nature.

— In-game description

Rewards

1 Grilled Turban

In addition to the above, choose one of the following options:

1 Gyuki Leather Gloves of Aiming
1 Gyuki Leather Dress Gloves
1 Ruby Cotton Fingerless Gloves of Casting
3 Savage Might Materia V

Walkthrough

Steps

Take the rotting fish.
Use the rotting fish to lure out aggressive sharks and slay them.
Search for the industrious pirate.
Rescue the industrious pirate.
Report to Alisaie.
Speak with Rasho.

Journal

Hirase is impressed by your industrious nature.

Dialogue

Accepting the quest:

Hirase: You've been busy, haven't you? And now you're here to ask if I need help with anything? Heh, now that you mention it...

Hirase: Lately we've had trouble with ravenous sharks that've been leaping out of the water and making off with our fish. Damndest thing, I know, but you wouldn't doubt it if you saw it.

Hirase: We've got to cull the thieving bastards regularly─so happens I sent three of my mates out there before you came along. Still, the more the merrier. If you can kill two or so, that ought to be enough.

Hirase: Take a few of those rotting fish as bait. I'll not be needing them. Oh, and maybe see if you can't find the other group. They've been away longer than I like.

Speaking with the industrious pirate:

Industrious Pirate: Oh, kami be praised! I don't know what I would've done if you hadn't come along.

Industrious Pirate: My partners and I got separated when we fled. You haven't seen them, have you?

Industrious Pirate: Damn... Before the Kojin started chasing us, their leader asked us if we were Doman...

Industrious Pirate: They're Yotsuyu's catchers, I know it! First Isari, and now this! I've got to tell Rasho and the others!

Rescue the industrious pirate:

Alisaie: Ah, there you are, Luna. I heard you went shark hunting?

Alisaie: We too did our fair share of beast culling─though I think Lyse made a stronger impression when she bested a drunken pirate in a sparring match. Fastest knockout to date, I am told.

Alisaie: I should like to think we have proven ourselves to be rather─ Hm. Why do I get the feeling you have something important to tell me?

Alisaie: Kojin mercenaries rounding up Doman Confederates? Surely Yotsuyu has crossed the line now...

Alisaie: We must go and speak with Rasho immediately. Even he cannot deny that this changes everything.

Alisaie: At least, I should like to think that he cannot...

Speaking with Rasho:

Tansui: Our most compassionate acquaintances return. For your deeds, we owe you many thanks.

Tansui: ...But something tells me our thanks are not sufficient. The strange thing is, I was certain you understood our position. And yet here you are with that same look in your eyes─and those same words upon your lips, I'll wager.

Alisaie: I speak only the truth. The Confederacy will not be spared Yotsuyu's wrath. You have always known this─that one day you would have no choice but to stand up to the Empire. I say to you that day is today, and come once more to ask that you join us in the fight.

Tansui: How convenient that recent events should lend such credence to your claims. Tell me, do death and destruction always follow in your wake?

Rasho: They had no part in it, Tansui. You know this. We all know this.

Rasho: They came and took our Doman brothers. They will torture them for her sport─murder them for her satisfaction.

Rasho: So we attack, and get butchered for our trouble...or do naught, and let them have their pound of flesh.

Rasho: If this be our choice, I say we suffer the ignominy. We endure. We survive. There is no better path.

Rasho: Until the day our enemy is grown weaker, and we stronger, there can be no retribution. We will wait for a sign. Such is the judgment of the Confederacy.

Lyse: So that's it, then. You're just going to abandon them. To her.

Lyse: They'd die for you, you know─for the Confederacy. They would die for you, but you wouldn't even think to risk your lives for theirs!

Alisaie: I have one last idea, if you will allow. I'm afraid it's not very good as ideas go─it's exceedingly reckless, in fact, and you may well come to despise me for ever having suggested it. Assuming we survive, that is.

Alisaie: The question being: do you trust me?

Q: What will you say?

A1: Do you even need to ask?
A2: Ask me again later.
Lyse: We can't stand by and let innocent people suffer─here or anywhere else. I'll do whatever it takes.¹

¹The dialogue is the same regardless of the chosen answer.

Alisaie: Then let us roll the dice.

Alisaie: If it's a sign you want, we shall give you one. One rousing enough to make you drive every Garlean out of Isari without a second thought.

Alisaie: You are wary of invoking the ire of the imperial forces stationed in Doma, correct?

Alisaie: Know then that once we have rescued our comrade and freed Isari, we mean to liberate the nation as a whole.

Alisaie: You will doubtless require assurances that we are capable of achieving this─and that is only fair. Accordingly, we shall demonstrate our seriousness by depriving the Garleans of a key ally: the Kojin.

Tansui: What, the three of you? Just like that?

Alisaie: Actually, my esteemed colleague here will attend to it on her own. But the how of it is not your concern─only the outcome.

Alisaie: If we succeed, you help us liberate Isari. If we fail, you lose nothing. A simple enough wager─if you have the stones for it.

Tansui: The little miss does make it hard to refuse, does she not?

Rasho: Words are air. We will weigh you by your deeds.