Search for ceruleum in Forum Solius:
Shop Counter: (X:29.1, Y:11.4, Z:0.3)
Map of Forum Solius: (X:29.1, Y:11.4, Z:0.4)
Children's Slide: (X:29.1, Y:8.7, Z:0.3)
Warmachina Wreckage: (X:29.9, Y:10.0, Z:0.3)
If you want to avoid Chilled to the Bone (for the most part), which grants ice damage over time, go to the Point of Interest at the far end of the pond. (X:30.3, Y:8.4) You will still get it afterwards.
Without our healing magicks, there's little we can do for these people beyond offer words of encouragement. But this way we'll be able to offer them tangible assistance.
I see. Then with your permission, we will commence the search.
End of cutscene.
Search for ceruleum in Forum Solius.
Interacting with the Children's Slide:
The contraption is built in the style of imperial warmachina armed with a battery of weapons and capable of transforming into different configurations...but on closer inspection, it appears to be no more than a children's slide.
Interacting with the Warmachina Wreckage:
A cursory inspection of the wrecked magitek armor confirms that the fuel canisters have long since been drained of ceruleum, as Jullus said.
Interacting with the Shop Counter:
Though rather small by Garlean standards, the structure is reminiscent of a merchant's stall. Perhaps it was built for children to play at shopkeeper.
There is nothing inside resembling magitek or any other devices that would be fueled by ceruleum...
Interacting with the Map of Forum Solius:
Several points of interest are marked on the map of Forum Solius. The pond, children's play areas... To your knowledge, however, none would require the use of ceruleum.
I don't imagine there would be much need for magitek in a park of all places, but then again, I wasn't raised in Garlemald. They may have uses for ceruleum that I've yet to consider.
This...whatever-it-is appears to have some sort of symbolic meaning relating to this park. Even though the place is named after Solus, it doesn't seem to be a statue of him. Well, at least not anymore.
Maybe it was once a fountain? Or somewhere the man himself used to sit? Not that it would matter, even if we knew, but I can't help wondering.
It's just...I used to bring my brother and sister here to play.
The pond was heated to stop it from freezing over, so like all the other children, they just had to wade in and splash about. Would've stayed there if I didn't drag them out. We'd be sopping wet when all was said and done. Every time.
And every time, when we'd get home, Mother would scold us, saying we'd catch our death walking around like that...
I suppose it must have been... Come to think of it, I remember seeing engineers changing out a tank beneath a hatch...
But that was a long time ago, when the water still flowed clear and wasn't this...brackish muck.
We can't see a thing, and I can't remember where the hatch might be.
With the machinery most likely broken, the amount of filth in there is probably the only reason it hasn't frozen over. I'd wager it's still unbearably cold, though.
Of course I am. That tank isn't going to fetch itself.
It's nothing so involved as extracting unprocessed ceruleum from a frozen lake like how the tappers do it. We're talking about a shallow pond in a park. And we have a way of warming ourselves up after.
That may be the stupidest thing I've heard in a while! And that's saying something considering who my brother is.
I can't fault your enthusiasm, though. Let's do it my way first, and if that doesn't work...perhaps then you can try your method. With Alphinaud's help.
G-G-Gods be good, it's cold! Perhaps we sh-sh-should've listened to Jullus after all!
Search for ceruleum at the designated location.
You delve into the murky water but come up empty-handed. To add injury to insult, the icy wind on your damp clothing chills you to the bone...
Beneath the water, your fingers catch on what you think might be a handle...
You open the hatch and retrieve a ceruleum tank!
However, your grand discovery comes at great personal cost, as you become acutely aware of the freezing cold and a rancid odor emanating from every ilm of your body. Jullus will doubtless feel compelled to pinch his nose shut when you deliver to him your prize...
I appreciate you recovering the ceruleum, but I wish you'd taken the time to discuss the plan with me beforehand.
Despite the way you've been treated, in Lord Quintus's eyes, you're still envoys deserving of protection. If you were to die on my watch, he would be most displeased.