Side questLevel 10
Quest giver Kazai Buoyzai
in Middle La Noscea
Kazai Buoyzai has you lure the buzzards with rotting rat meat and kill them. He makes most of his money hauling food, and says without you he would be sleeping in the gutter. He blames the Calamity, a great disaster, for the starving scavengers.
Rival haulers at the Skylift keep food moving after the Calamity, seen from a fish trader's side.
The SkyliftThe Skylift (Ch. 4): the cargo crunch of post-Calamity rebuilding, seen by the people who run it.
, a cargo transporter at the Skylift, wants you to slay buzzards that have been attacking wagons on the road..Next in the play order: Tactical Planning. Thubyrgeim
has you slay three roselings and three wild jackals, calling three the perfect sample size, then sends you with K'lyhia
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The lines worth a second look, in the order you hear them, and what each one means.
Seems even the scavengers are findin' the pickin's scarce since the Calamity hit, otherwise ye'd never see 'em tryin' aught so bold. Fortune didn't favor 'em worth spit this time, though, eh?
The buzzards are another after-effect of the Calamity. Food has become so hard to find that even scavengers now dare to raid wagons on the road.
De Nevelle Checkpoint is on the wagons' road. It has far more guards than La Thagran. It watches for the Garlean forces that have moved into Eastern La Noscea.
The bait used to lure the buzzards is Rotting Rat Meat. Its whole item text is one plain line: 'It's what buzzards crave.'
Who they are, and what they do in this quest.
Kazai Buoyzai has a new problem: buzzards keep snatching meat from wagons on the road to the De Nevelle Checkpoint.
Kazai Buoyzai has you lure the buzzards with rotting rat meat and kill them. He makes most of his money hauling food, and says without you he would be sleeping in the gutter. He blames the Calamity, a great disaster, for the starving scavengers.
The game was written in Japanese and rewritten, not just translated, for each language. Here is what the other versions say, next to the English.
| Japanese | 腹減り鳥 ‘Hungry Birds’ |
|---|---|
| French | Busard, vous avez dit busard ‘Buzzard, You Said Buzzard’ |
| German | Den Bussarden an die Gurgel ‘Go for the Buzzards' Throats’ |
Most days, them feathered hellions stay well enough away, but it seems they can't resist a wagon what's loaded with meat. Well, I say we make use o' that weakness to lure the greedy buggers into a trap.
Normalerweise geben sich die Biester ja mit Aas zufrieden, aber vermutlich haben sie das leckere Fleisch in den Transportkisten gerochen.
‘Normally the beasts are content with carrion, but they probably smelled the tasty meat in the transport crates.’
English says the birds usually keep away; German says they are usually content with carrion.
Take this here sack o' rotting rat meat and set it down in vulture territory─that be where the buzzards make their nests. When the bastards show up for the feast, ye start breakin' beaks with a vengeance. Easy.
Tu cloues le bec une bonne fois pour toutes à ces maudits busards !
‘You shut the beaks of those cursed buzzards once and for all!’
Kazai uses «clouer le bec», literally 'to nail the beak', an idiom for shutting someone up. Here the beaks are real.
Didn't get yer eyes pecked out, did ye? Them buzzards be a nasty lot. But the last wagon made it through with nary a morsel lost, so I'd say ye've plucked enough o' their thievin' hides to secure the route.
Hervorragend! Den Bussarden ist das Krächzen vergangen! Und die Fleischtransporte sind wieder sicher.
‘Excellent! The buzzards have had the squawk knocked out of them! And the meat shipments are safe again.’
Kazai twists „jemandem vergeht das Lachen“, 'someone stops laughing', said when someone's fun is over.
Didn't get yer eyes pecked out, did ye? Them buzzards be a nasty lot. But the last wagon made it through with nary a morsel lost, so I'd say ye've plucked enough o' their thievin' hides to secure the route.
Oh, toi, à voir cet air réjoui sur ton visage, je devine que tout a marché comme prévu.
‘Oh, you, seeing that delighted look on your face, I guess everything went as planned.’
Den Bussarden ist das Krächzen vergangen!
‘The buzzards have lost all urge to croak!’
ごくろうさん、首尾よくやってくれたんだな。
‘Thanks for your trouble, so you pulled it off nicely.’
English jokes about your eyes being pecked out; French reads success from your happy face.
English jokes about your eyes being pecked out; German jokes the buzzards have lost their croak.
English jokes about your eyes being pecked out; Japanese simply thanks you for succeeding.
Ye have me thanks, lass/lad. I make most of me coin haulin' foodstuffs, and I'd be beddin' down in the gutter within the week if it weren't for yer help.
Malheureusement pour moi, c'est mon fonds de commerce, ce qui fait que je suis souvent visé.
‘Unfortunately for me, that's my core business, which means I'm often targeted.’
Les busards semblent avoir compris que les chargements de nourriture faisaient des proies faciles.
‘The buzzards seem to have worked out that loads of food make easy prey.’
English says without your help he'd be in the gutter within a week; French says he is often targeted.
French explains why he is targeted, food loads being easy prey; English says he'd have been ruined.
Seems even the scavengers are findin' the pickin's scarce since the Calamity hit, otherwise ye'd never see 'em tryin' aught so bold. Fortune didn't favor 'em worth spit this time, though, eh?
Irgendwie tun mir die Tiere ja leid, denn seit der Katastrophe haben sie selbst kaum noch was zu fressen, aber wir müssen zuallererst an uns selbst denken.
‘I kind of feel sorry for the creatures, since they've had hardly anything to eat themselves since the Calamity, but we have to think of ourselves first.’
Kazai pities the hungry birds, but people must come first. The English only mocks their bad luck.
Seems even the scavengers are findin' the pickin's scarce since the Calamity hit, otherwise ye'd never see 'em tryin' aught so bold. Fortune didn't favor 'em worth spit this time, though, eh?
Comme quoi les temps sont durs pour tout le monde, hein.
‘Goes to show times are hard for everyone, eh.’
English gloats that luck failed the birds; French sympathizes that times are hard for everyone.
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Ye've shown yerself to be a useful lass/bloke. What say ye to doin' me another favor? We've been havin' a wee problem with buzzards swoopin' down and snatchin' cargo from the wagons what are travelin' the road to the De Nevelle Checkpoint.
Most days, them feathered hellions stay well enough away, but it seems they can't resist a wagon what's loaded with meat. Well, I say we make use o' that weakness to lure the greedy buggers into a trap.
Normalerweise geben sich die Biester ja mit Aas zufrieden, aber vermutlich haben sie das leckere Fleisch in den Transportkisten gerochen.
‘Normally the beasts are content with carrion, but they probably smelled the tasty meat in the transport crates.’
English says the birds usually keep away; German says they are usually content with carrion.
Take this here sack o' rotting rat meat and set it down in vulture territory─that be where the buzzards make their nests. When the bastards show up for the feast, ye start breakin' beaks with a vengeance. Easy.
Tu cloues le bec une bonne fois pour toutes à ces maudits busards !
‘You shut the beaks of those cursed buzzards once and for all!’
Kazai uses «clouer le bec», literally 'to nail the beak', an idiom for shutting someone up. Here the beaks are real.
Didn't get yer eyes pecked out, did ye? Them buzzards be a nasty lot. But the last wagon made it through with nary a morsel lost, so I'd say ye've plucked enough o' their thievin' hides to secure the route.
Hervorragend! Den Bussarden ist das Krächzen vergangen! Und die Fleischtransporte sind wieder sicher.
‘Excellent! The buzzards have had the squawk knocked out of them! And the meat shipments are safe again.’
Kazai twists „jemandem vergeht das Lachen“, 'someone stops laughing', said when someone's fun is over.
Oh, toi, à voir cet air réjoui sur ton visage, je devine que tout a marché comme prévu.
‘Oh, you, seeing that delighted look on your face, I guess everything went as planned.’
GermanDen Bussarden ist das Krächzen vergangen!
‘The buzzards have lost all urge to croak!’
Japaneseごくろうさん、首尾よくやってくれたんだな。
‘Thanks for your trouble, so you pulled it off nicely.’
English jokes about your eyes being pecked out; French reads success from your happy face.
English jokes about your eyes being pecked out; German jokes the buzzards have lost their croak.
English jokes about your eyes being pecked out; Japanese simply thanks you for succeeding.
Ye have me thanks, lass/lad. I make most of me coin haulin' foodstuffs, and I'd be beddin' down in the gutter within the week if it weren't for yer help.
Malheureusement pour moi, c'est mon fonds de commerce, ce qui fait que je suis souvent visé.
‘Unfortunately for me, that's my core business, which means I'm often targeted.’
FrenchLes busards semblent avoir compris que les chargements de nourriture faisaient des proies faciles.
‘The buzzards seem to have worked out that loads of food make easy prey.’
English says without your help he'd be in the gutter within a week; French says he is often targeted.
French explains why he is targeted, food loads being easy prey; English says he'd have been ruined.
Seems even the scavengers are findin' the pickin's scarce since the Calamity hit, otherwise ye'd never see 'em tryin' aught so bold. Fortune didn't favor 'em worth spit this time, though, eh?
The buzzards are another after-effect of the Calamity. Food has become so hard to find that even scavengers now dare to raid wagons on the road.
Irgendwie tun mir die Tiere ja leid, denn seit der Katastrophe haben sie selbst kaum noch was zu fressen, aber wir müssen zuallererst an uns selbst denken.
‘I kind of feel sorry for the creatures, since they've had hardly anything to eat themselves since the Calamity, but we have to think of ourselves first.’
Kazai pities the hungry birds, but people must come first. The English only mocks their bad luck.
Comme quoi les temps sont durs pour tout le monde, hein.
‘Goes to show times are hard for everyone, eh.’
English gloats that luck failed the birds; French sympathizes that times are hard for everyone.