Operation Riffraff
Operation Riffraff
- Quest giver
- 789th Order Craftsman Bo Gu
- Location
- Outer La Noscea (X:21.9, Y:17.8)
- Quest line
- Kobold Daily Quests
- Level
- 44
- Required quest
No-good Zo Ga's Ambition- Requirements
- Recognized Relations
- Experience
4,372- Gil
540- Patch
- 2.2
- Links
- EDB GT
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and by that definition, Craftsman Bo Gu is definitely the kobold to know. Why not visit him for heated words and cold gil?
— In-game description
Rewards
Walkthrough
Speak to 13th Order Alchemist Ga Zi to enter the workshop. Interact with the pressure valve and use the arm obtained on the Pressure Lid. Interact with the embers until a Big Shrapnel spawns and kill it to get the Shrapnel Core. Take it to 789th Order Acolyte Ba Go.
In-game Description
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and by that definition, Craftsman Bo Gu is definitely the kobold to know. Why not visit him for heated words and cold gil?
Bo Gu would like to bring the 15th Order down a peg by sabotaging their workshop. Diligent only in his discontent, the craftsman has a keen sense of who his likely allies are. The alchemist Ga Zi might well prove receptive to your approach.
Ga Zi is not what the 13th Order would call a team player, and is all too happy to tell you how to wreck on the prototype furnace in the workshop. Ga Zi will act as the guide, and your job is to open the pressure valve once inside the workshop.
You have released the valve and opened the furnace door. Now, throw the rejected bomb arm into the opening and see how the prototype furnace deals with this particular stress test.
The prototype is deplorably unprepared for the rigors of consumer use. Take a moment to admire the flames, then search the embers vomited out by the dying furnace and slay any shrapnels that appear.
The shrapnels, bewildered ass they are by the sudden dislocation from the cradling furnace, are no match for you. Check the embers again for a big shrapnel, and rip out its core.
The shrapnel's core is yours. Where the need is greater, the core must serve. And since the need for volatile voidsent bits is the greatest with the 789th Order Acolyte Ba Go, to him must you deliver this glowing core.
Ba Go receives the big shrapnel core with clutching delight, and absently notes that Ga Zi has just bought himself out of a fiery demise. Report the happy ending to Bo Gu.
Bo Gu is over the moon, having witnessed the hated 13th Order Fugleman Zo Ga frustrated, furious, and without a furnace. How Bo Gu has grown! He has come far indeed, from crude assassinations to collaborative sabotage.
Dialogue
Accepting the quest
789th Order Craftsman Bo Gu: We are the bottom of the barrel, each a riff and together a raff, yes, yes. So far down are we from where Zo Ga and his ilk hold court that it is dizzying─disquieting, vertiginous, dizzying! 789th Order Craftsman Bo Gu: They might say our idleness is the cause, they might point to our love of shortcuts─they are dead wrong and I just might get literal with the “dead” part! The cause of it all is the 13th's prototype alchemy furnace, yes, yes! 789th Order Craftsman Bo Gu: Does the adventurer know Ba Go's friend, the alchemist Ga Zi? Ga Zi is with the 13th, Ga Zi knows their workshop welly-well, most familiar is this alchemist with the furnace. 789th Order Craftsman Bo Gu: The adventurer could talk with this Ga Zi, yes, yes. Make [himself/herself] agreeable to Ga Zi, and learn ways to wreak lovely havoc on the workshop─chaos, ruination, havoc!
(Optional) 789th Order Craftsman Bo Gu: The adventurer must speak to Ga Zi, find ways to throw a spanner into the works, yes, yes. Bring the 13th Order workshop to its knees, yes, yes!
Speaking with 13th Order Alchemist Ga Zi
13th Order Alchemist Ga Zi: Yunz want to muck up the 13th's workshop? Can hardly say no to a friend of Ba Go, refuse that Ba Go and I's might have an accident─an oops, a kaboom, an accident, that sort of thing. 13th Order Alchemist Ga Zi: I's a 13th, that don't mean a worm squeeze. Bugger Zo Ga and his five bells 'tween “glows out” and first gong, uh-huh, uh-huh. Yunz go wreck up that prototype furnace, bugger that thing good. 13th Order Alchemist Ga Zi: I's going to tell yunz how: soon as yunz get in the workshop, open the pressure valve, uh-huh, uh-huh. The valve'll open right up, not going to be a problem, that valve. Then hustle this bomb arm inside, yunz got all that? 13th Order Alchemist Ga Zi: That buggering furnace's going to overheat but good, shrapnels going to be coming at yunz so just kill 'em right. I's got a good idea, yunz be on the lookout for the big shrapnel, uh-huh, uh-huh. Slay that bugger and yunz can take its core. 13th Order Alchemist Ga Zi: Won't be just another core, nuh-uh, nuh-uh. That there's going to be a rare bomb core, yunz'll know it by a green sort of glow. Give it over to Ba Go, Ba Go will take it. Yunzes are making out with this caper─profiting, cleaning up, making out, that sort of thing.
13th Order Alchemist Ga Zi: Yunz get moving, bugger up that prototype furnace in the 13th Order workshop and kill all that shrapnel. Get the big shrapnel core, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Inside the 13th Order Workshop
(System message) There is a rush of heat from among the embers! (Shrapnel) Ghllgh-ghlllggh...
(System message) The big shrapnel strikes! (Big Shrapnel) Ghllllgggh...ghlgh!
Speaking with 789th Order Acolyte Ba Go
789th Order Acolyte Ba Go: Haha, heehea, what do you want with Ba Go? Busy, busy is Ba Go...but never too busy for things that go kaboom─bwom, bang, kaboom... 789th Order Acolyte Ba Go: What is this? Is Ba Go seeing something new? Yesss, yesss, you have presented Ba Go with a new lovely! The core of a big shrapnel, haha! Heeheahhahaha! 789th Order Acolyte Ba Go: Ba Go likes Ga Zi now, Ga Zi is safe again. You are puzzled─perplexed, bemused, puzzled. Ba Go has no friends, no, no. Ba Go has his lovelies! 789th Order Acolyte Ba Go: Little green beauty must have a little bath now, you will go shoo─away, hie, shoo! Go tell Bo Gu that you destroyed the furnace. Haha! Heeheahhahaha!
Returning to 789th Order Craftsman Bo Gu
789th Order Craftsman Bo Gu: Adventurer, oh, adventurer, what fun─merriment, jollity, fun! Zo Ga has been tearing about, in absolute panic he is in, trying to repair the furnace! 789th Order Craftsman Bo Gu: He will never fix it, no, no. He will waste all day, and spend all night brooding over the lost day! His bedwarmer he will use roughly, and the next day he will find the bed a cold place, yes, yes...