Written in the Stars  

Ok, as one of the people who have the portal charm, I though I would clarify how to get it for all those interested in access to the wendigo room and the toraimarai canal.

Step 1) getting the mission. To get the portal charm you must complete the "Writen in the Stars" mission. This is a windurst only mission which would seem to preclude any non windurstian from getting the charm. (I haven't tested this with a non-windurstian mission 3-2 to see whether a bastokian or a san d'orian would be able to get the sub quest as well. Could someone confirm or deny this?)

Step 2) getting the subquest. There are 2 ways to get the subquest, both work. Way 1) trade a normal rolandberry to kupipi (one of the npc's next to the world pass npc in windurst wall's star tower) after starting the mission but before completing it. Way 2) trade a normal rolandberry to kupipi AFTER finishing the mission (see step 4).

Step 3) do the mission. Unlike the mission description above there are 2 ways to get thru the sealed portal. Way 1) get 3 mages in your party, one each of RDM, BLM, WHM. Have them stand in the center of the apropriately colored circles in front of the portal. This will get the door open. Way 2) find someone that has already got the portal charm and simply have them open the door. Finding 1 person might be easier than finding 3 different mages of the correct level (high enough not to get killed on the way) so way 2 is the way to go. Also it doesn't matter if the method of doing this quest is the check the light seal or get 3 rusted daggers, so long as it gets done.

step 4) Talk to kupipi again. She should give you the portal charm at this point. Note that if you didn't give her the rolandberry in step 2, do so now, and she will imediatly give you the portal charm.

What you get for your troubles:

forever after (since a portal charm is a key item) you no longer need any help getting bye the portal and can:

1) kill wendigoes for rusty daggers, test answers and bone chips, (the wendigoes with scythes also drop scrolls of gravity)
2) kill battle bats for bat wings, bat fangs (I assume - not sure I've ever goten one) and horotoro chest keys (so far I've gotten 2 moth axes, 2 lapis lazuly, a heat rod and gil) note that you passed 3 chest spawn points along the way. the best tactic is to check the spots on your way (realy not that far out of the way) and if you spot the chest, kill bats and beetles till a key drops. before going on to get your test answers or what ever. If the chest aren't there, they are probably in the 2nd tower, so don't waste the inv slot getting the key.
3) wander on into the toraimarai canal (and probably get killed unless you are 50+ or in a party)

Edited, Wed Aug 4 09:38:32 2004

I got this mission by accident just like a few others did. I was lucky and got some mages from my LS to help out. Afterwards, I got that portal charm and went back just to look around. Wendigos were the only thing that aggroed me at mnk35.

If ...
1. you're on Ramuh
2. got stuck with this mission
3. and at least lvl35 (to avoid aggro getting to the room) or have sneak, invis, whatever-stops-undead-aggro,

... then you may /tell me and we can work something out.

Note: "Work something out" does not mean payment (as in gil). I'll help you for free (as in beer).

And no, I don't know what stops undead aggro - I'm a monk: Sharp as a Marble.

Wunjo.

Euriko properly described this mission.



For some reason Allakhazam (and other sites) list to examine all the magical gizmos!? Well after 30mins or so of unpleasant searching, the guy I was helping clicked the door and we finished it. Thank yiou for posting the right way, I should have read the comments.

There are two versions of this mission. The original (where you have to actually get in there and check a door for a cutscene) and the repeatable (where you give three rusty knives to Zubaba, which you can easily pick up at the AH ... or you can go in there and get them as drops).

If you skip the mission and do it after mission 10 (the magicite one), then you'll only get the repeatable. Although once you've completed the mission (original or repeatable), you can watch the cutscenes from the original with the bard in Heavens Tower and the goblin footprints in Inner Horutoto.

There is also one notable benefit to doing this mission - it allows you to get a key item called a "Portal Charm". Once you've a. finished this mission and b. traded a Rolanberry to Kupipi (in either order), you can talk to Kupipi and get this key item. This will let you open the door by yourself.

So for those of you doing this mission (the original version where you actually have to get in there), you do have an alternative to finding a RDM, WHM, and BLM ... you can find someone who's already done the mission. Much easier to get into the room that way.

This is also an entrance to Toraimarai Canal (where a few quests and missions require you to go), so it helps to have the ability to get in there without bringing the three mages along.

Point being, do this mission, even if only for the Portal Charm. If you want to make life easier on yourself (but miss out on actually experiencing the plot except by replaying it), do it after mission 10, and you can complete the mission without ever leaving Windurst.

i Soooo mad at my self... i finally finished this mission, it took me about 2 1/2 Months to do it.. well when i finished it.. i was so happy to start the next mission, that i acedently chose this mission again,, finding out that my rank bar had to be 99% full (which wasnt at the time).. but when i went to talk to Zubba(spelling?) she didnt give me the key item again,,, she said something alon the lines that the central tower is sacred to windurst and that it has been over run by vermin,, and that it is my job to rid the virmen of the tower.. so im wondering, do i have to find another WHM, and BLM,, to finish it the second time?? well just to do this im going to try to kill everything in sight,, for about an hour, to try to finish it ... ill up date this post when i finish the mission...
4/17/04

Zanowar 42RDM unicorn



ok so this is the update on this mission... well i decided to kill everything for about 2 hours last night.. espcially in the goblin room,, gaining about 5k in gill, and another 5k in drops.. well i was about to leave when a group of high lvl's (70+) opend the seald portal.. and i went through it thinking that i might be able to get a Gravity spell to drop from a wendigo.. well after geting a stack of bonechips and 3 rusty daggers and som tes answers my inventory was full.. i went to the tranpert disk and it transported me to the three mage seald portal agian.. well i went to talk to Zubba(spelling?)and she said right of the bat " go to the central tower and rid us of the virmin there.. ect.. and bring back 3 rusty daggers as proof!" wow lucky me i just got 3 r.daggers from wendigos. (and i was going to sell them at the AH for 800 gill a peice) i traded the r.daggers and i finished the mission yet again.. i found that it was quit fun the second time around..even though you still need the 3 mages to break the seal to open the door.. try it!! maybe later on i might repeat the mission again... it was actually fun..

4/18/04

Edited, Sun Apr 18 16:33:37 2004

whatever you do, becareful when you select your new missions... i skipped this one for a good reason, and now I have to do it. (was playing one night very tired, and accepted the wrong mission by accident)

wish there was a option to solo it if you're lvl 45 +

These are the EXACT (read, verbatum) mission instructions given on almost all of the English FFXI resources for Windurst mission 3-2, and I'm not necessarily saying there's anything wrong with that.

I'm not sure who copied and pasted what, but I do know that there is some wrong information that keeps getting copied over and over as a result. Here is some of the information that I noticed was wrong, and the corrections I've made to them:



1) "She explains that she wants you to travel to the tower in West Sarubaruta and open a the 3 Mage Gate."

- You are going to EAST Sarutabaruta, not
West.

2) "Go to the north-eastern Horutoto tower..."

- This is technically accurate, as the tower
that you are seeking is the furthest
"Northeast" on the map...but as there is
a tower further North, it would probably
be far easier to understand if described
as the "middle" tower.

3) "Examine all the Magical Gizmos then head to H-6 to exit out..."

- The room (the one past the fake walls, with
the wendigos) has NO magical gizmos. You
are in fact trying to find the correct
elemental DOOR to trigger the cutscene.
If this is your first time on the mission,
Zubaba will have given you a charm to open
one of the doors. I, for an example,
received a "Light charm," so I had to find
the "Door of Light" in the Wendigo room
to trigger the cutscene. Likewise, I
can only assume that if you are given
a "Thunder Charm" that one must open
the "Door of Thunder," and so on.

Simply go through all the little hallways
in the Wendigo room, examining all the doors
until you find the correct one. Once you
select the correct door, your charm will be
used up, and the cutscene will trigger.



Also, here are some other things that, while not presented inaccurately, will make this mission easier to understand:



1) This mission is indeed repeatable, but it is probably easier to just buy a stack of Earth Crystals to donate to the W.W. guard than repeat it.

If you do decide to repeat it for some reason, then your task is different. You must kill enough Wendigos in the hidden room to collect three rusty daggers, which you must then turn in to Zubaba. You may also purchase the rusty daggers from the Auction House, if any are available. At any rate, don't do what I did, and wander around wondering why I wasn't given another charm to open one of the doors.



2) You can give a rolanberry to Kupipi, outside of the door leading up to the Star Sybil's chambers, before or after the mission. If you do it right before, and talk to her after the mission is completed, she will give you a key to open the "three mage door" heretofor whenever you want. Likewise, if you simply wait until after the mission, she will give you the key on the spot. The catch is, while the key is ALWAYS possible to get, she won't give it to you until you open the door at least once without it (NOTE: this only applies to you...if someone else opens the door for you with THEIR key, this still counts, and you will still get your own key afterwards).


3) It doesn't matter how you open the door the first time. In point of fact, it might actually be easier for you to find someone who has this special "key" than to actually collect all three mages.

Speaking for myself, rather than finding a white mage and a red mage to come along with me, I simply invited another black mage in my linkshell who had done the mission already, and had gotten the key. Once he opened the door, it opened for both of us, and I went through to complete the mission.

I still got the key speaking to Kupipi afterwards, and the mission went off without a hitch. If it's easier for you to find someone who has the key than to find the mages, then by all means...do it that way.



4) Many people seem to have trouble understanding where to go after they get manage to pass the "three mage door," in what they describe as a "two-pronged fork" room. This room has false walls at the end of either "prong," and one must simply walk through the walls to get into the hidden "Wendigo room." Both prongs link to the same room, so don't worry about that. Once in there, I hope you're high enough in level so that the Wendigos no longer aggro...perhaps around level 38 or 39? I think you'll definitely be safe at 40.

If not, try to carefully pick them off one by one (no easy task, as they are very crowded) and work your way down each little hallway to examine all the doors until you find the correct one for the cutscene. Once you get the cutscene, simply escape, warp, take the shortcut in the room, or walk back through the false walls (whatever works for you) and speak to Zubaba in Heaven's Tower again to end the mission.



That's about all I can think of to make the mission easier on everyone. I hope this helps. Good luck to you all. ^_^

Edited, Fri Mar 5 18:56:17 2004

Some folks from my link had a similar problem last night. Got all the way in to "the end" and one person was able to get the cutscene; one couldn't. Both had key items, talked to all parties, etc. Unfortuntately, being from Bastok, I didn't have any useful suggestions for them. :/

At least I was able to teleport 3 of us out to the Mea crag. The fourth was low level and just along to help us make up the numbers - didn't have a crag crystal. He had to take the "quick" route back... :/

I'm going to try the tip about giving Rolanberries to Kuipipi posted on here earlier and see how that turns out...

Just thought our experience might be of interest to some planning this mission...

When you get to that part you're supposed to walk through the wall, it's invisible.

Also, I don't see this mentioned here: If you want a special key that will unlock that door that normally would require a rdm/blm/whm, before you talk to Zubaba (I think it's before, it might be after), give a Rolanberry to Kuipipi in Heaven's Tower on the first floor. Then after you've gone to Horutoto ruins and opened the light door, come back and talk to Kuipipi again (Again, it might be after you talk to Zupapa, but just try to do it before talking to Zupapa).

When you do this, Kuipipi will give you a special key that you can use to open that door from now on incase you ever have to go back, or need to help someone that has to do this mission and they won't need a blm/rdm/whm.

From what I understand, you can't get this key after you've finished the mission, so be careful and do the correct steps at the right time.

This quest has made me come to realize that my friend's list and linkshell barely has any mages on it. So, if anyone wants to help me on the quest, just /tell me in the game.

Skeiron - Alexander server. I have a lvl 25 whm and 28 blm at the moment. Sneak/Invis is available. I'm also looking for test answers ^^