Side questLevel 16
Quest giver Wiltswys
in Western La Noscea
Pleased you filled the vials, Wiltswys warms to you. The camp's foe is now the Sahagin, fish-like beastmen weak to poison, who destroyed the Halfstone settlement. With no home but this valley and no family but the Maelstrom, she fights for both.
Camp Skull Valley's fight against the Sahagin: Halfstone fell when Leviathan
rose. It ends with the watch over Sastasha (MSQ #24).
Aleport and Camp Skull Valley (Ch. 7): the coast where the envoy's tour begins, facing the Sahagin and pirate smugglers.
who seeks an obliger today, rather than the heartsore fire-eater of the other day.'s meticulous scrutiny has discovered an unacceptable shortfall in the poison cabinet. Whilst she checks the other deadly yet life-saving items in the camp's inventory, you have a task to perform: stalk the majestic Rothlyt pelicans and extract three vials' worth of poison. and give her the pelican poison.'s heart is through a job well done. Listening to her tale of the Sahagin and the lost settlement, you see that she has no home but this vale and no family but the Maelstrom─and she will fight to the death to defend both...Next in the play order: Flowers for Aerghaemr. Alyrloef
finds Roehanth
's visits to the crypt morbid, since he mourns people he never knew.
The lines worth a second look, in the order you hear them, and what each one means.
Such a wee thing, this vial─but this too is a gun. So susceptible the Sahagin are to pelican poison that even the rawest recruit may, with a poison-tipped arrow, find herself a fisher of beastmen.
Wiltswys's 'fisher of beastmen' twists Jesus's call to make his followers 'fishers of men' (Matthew 4:19). With pelican poison, even a brand-new recruit can hunt Sahagin.
There was a settlement here once, near Halfstone. Then the primal Leviathan
Leviathan is the primal behind the Sahagin. The Serpent Reavers serve the same primal. The Admiral explains this in MSQ #21 A Mizzenmast Repast.
Halfstone was patiently won back and made into a farming settlement. But after the Calamity, the primal Leviathan let loose a great tidal wave. It washed all of Halfstone away.
The journal never says where the poison comes from, but the item text does. Pelicans spray a strong nerve poison. It is made in a tiny gland hidden under their tongues.
The title borrows 'The Toxic Avenger', the 1984 Troma film, for Wiltswys. She fights her war on the Sahagin with poison.
Who they are, and what they do in this quest.
Sergeant Wiltswys, calm again, is checking Camp Skull Valley's weapons and supplies. The poison vial is nearly empty.
Pleased you filled the vials, Wiltswys warms to you. The camp's foe is now the Sahagin, fish-like beastmen weak to poison, who destroyed the Halfstone settlement. With no home but this valley and no family but the Maelstrom, she fights for both.
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 | サハギン族と戦う術 ‘The Art of Fighting the Sahagin’ |
|---|---|
| French | Poison secrété ‘Secreted Poison’ |
| German | Halbstein ist unser ‘Halfstone Is Ours’ |
Weapons and armor...in order. Saltpeter, in order. Basic provisions...all in order. Poisons─oh? This vial's near gone.
Feuerstein und Proviant?
‘Flint and provisions? Packed.’
English lists saltpeter; German lists flint.
Weapons and armor...in order. Saltpeter, in order. Basic provisions...all in order. Poisons─oh? This vial's near gone.
Ich hab das Gift vergessen!
‘I forgot the poison!’
English says the poison vial is nearly empty; German says she forgot the poison.
Uh, adventurer─your name, was it? Mayhap we can let bygones be bygones. You are skilled in wrangling beasts, I hear, and I have a need of pelican poison.
Du kommst genau richtig.
‘You've come at just the right time.’
冒険者さん、ちょうどいいところに。
‘Adventurer, you've come at just the right moment.’
English awkwardly offers to let bygones be bygones; German just says you've come at the right time.
English awkwardly offers to let bygones be bygones; Japanese just says you've come at the right moment.
You know of our past with the kobolds, but they are not the foe we fight today. Nay, all our guns are trained on the fishbacks.
Ich bereite mich auf eine Exkursion vor, musst du wissen.
‘I'm preparing for an excursion, you should know.’
English says the kobolds are no longer their foe; German says she is preparing for an excursion.
Such a wee thing, this vial─but this too is a gun. So susceptible the Sahagin are to pelican poison that even the rawest recruit may, with a poison-tipped arrow, find herself a fisher of beastmen.
Ich bestreiche meine Axtklinge damit. So kann ich sichergehen, dass die Sahagin zu Boden gehen, auch wenn ich ihnen nur einen Kratzer zufüge.
‘I coat my axe blade with it. That way I can be sure the Sahagin go down, even if I only give them a scratch.’
Wiltswys uses the poison herself, on her axe. In English, a recruit puts it on an arrow.
Such a wee thing, this vial─but this too is a gun. So susceptible the Sahagin are to pelican poison that even the rawest recruit may, with a poison-tipped arrow, find herself a fisher of beastmen.
Ich bestreiche meine Axtklinge damit.
‘I coat my axe blade with it.’
English says even raw recruits can use poison-tipped arrows; German says she coats her own axe blade with it.
There was a settlement here once, near Halfstone. Then the primal Leviathan rose, and the Sahagin invaded. Work of generations was undone in a season, and whole families perished.
Früher war Halbstein ein vielversprechendes Siedlungsgebiet, aber nachdem der Primae Leviathan dort wütete, war erst einmal Essig mit der Besiedlung.
‘Halfstone was once a promising settlement area, but after the primal Leviathan raged there, settling it was a washout for the time being.’
English mourns generations of work undone and families perished; German flippantly says settling there was off for now.
I never knew the Halfstone settlement, but I believe it to be a home worth fighting for. And so we fight, with steel, fire, and even poison to reclaim that which is ours.
Jetzt haben sich die Sahagin dort breit gemacht, aber wir werden uns das Gebiet zurückholen.
‘Now the Sahagin have spread themselves out there, but we will take the area back.’
English says she never knew Halfstone but finds it worth fighting for; German says the Sahagin have now settled there.
Highlighted words have a note: click one to open it under the line.
Weapons and armor...in order. Saltpeter, in order. Basic provisions...all in order. Poisons─oh? This vial's near gone.
Feuerstein und Proviant?
‘Flint and provisions? Packed.’
English lists saltpeter; German lists flint.
Ich hab das Gift vergessen!
‘I forgot the poison!’
English says the poison vial is nearly empty; German says she forgot the poison.
Uh, adventurer─your name, was it? Mayhap we can let bygones be bygones. You are skilled in wrangling beasts, I hear, and I have a need of pelican poison.
Du kommst genau richtig.
‘You've come at just the right time.’
Japanese冒険者さん、ちょうどいいところに。
‘Adventurer, you've come at just the right moment.’
English awkwardly offers to let bygones be bygones; German just says you've come at the right time.
English awkwardly offers to let bygones be bygones; Japanese just says you've come at the right moment.
The poison can be readily gathered from pelicans in the area, but I must continue my duties here. Are you so minded to undertake the task?
I welcome your return, adventurer. Have you what I asked for?
Ah, I see you were not stinting in filling the vials! The last adventurer returned with each barely half-full and had the cheek to demand full payment. I have had a low opinion of adventurers since, but...
You know of our past with the kobolds, but they are not the foe we fight today. Nay, all our guns are trained on the fishbacks.
Ich bereite mich auf eine Exkursion vor, musst du wissen.
‘I'm preparing for an excursion, you should know.’
English says the kobolds are no longer their foe; German says she is preparing for an excursion.
Such a wee thing, this vial─but this too is a gun. So susceptible the Sahagin are to pelican poison that even the rawest recruit may, with a poison-tipped arrow, find herself a fisher of beastmen.
Wiltswys's 'fisher of beastmen' twists Jesus's call to make his followers 'fishers of men' (Matthew 4:19). With pelican poison, even a brand-new recruit can hunt Sahagin.
Ich bestreiche meine Axtklinge damit. So kann ich sichergehen, dass die Sahagin zu Boden gehen, auch wenn ich ihnen nur einen Kratzer zufüge.
‘I coat my axe blade with it. That way I can be sure the Sahagin go down, even if I only give them a scratch.’
Wiltswys uses the poison herself, on her axe. In English, a recruit puts it on an arrow.
Ich bestreiche meine Axtklinge damit.
‘I coat my axe blade with it.’
English says even raw recruits can use poison-tipped arrows; German says she coats her own axe blade with it.
There was a settlement here once, near Halfstone. Then the primal Leviathan rose, and the Sahagin invaded. Work of generations was undone in a season, and whole families perished.
Leviathan is the primal behind the Sahagin. The Serpent Reavers serve the same primal. The Admiral explains this in MSQ #21 A Mizzenmast Repast.
Früher war Halbstein ein vielversprechendes Siedlungsgebiet, aber nachdem der Primae Leviathan dort wütete, war erst einmal Essig mit der Besiedlung.
‘Halfstone was once a promising settlement area, but after the primal Leviathan raged there, settling it was a washout for the time being.’
English mourns generations of work undone and families perished; German flippantly says settling there was off for now.
I never knew the Halfstone settlement, but I believe it to be a home worth fighting for. And so we fight, with steel, fire, and even poison to reclaim that which is ours.
Jetzt haben sich die Sahagin dort breit gemacht, aber wir werden uns das Gebiet zurückholen.
‘Now the Sahagin have spread themselves out there, but we will take the area back.’
English says she never knew Halfstone but finds it worth fighting for; German says the Sahagin have now settled there.
of Camp Skull Valley: she takes over S'nairoh
's chain (Nest We Forget) and returns at the end of Ahldfoet
's (Scythe Extra Large, I Hereby Relieve You).