A Feather in One's Cap  

actually fame is referred to in 2 different manners. Either fame (which roughly translates to number of quests complete... but not quite). And Fame level. Which, is more or less every 10 quests completed (again, that is an estimation that is by no means accurate). Typically quests have a base fame increase (I am going to use the same scale that is used for magic, skills, and crafts). This base value can be estimated to be between .1-.5. Now, typically quests give more then .1 (e.g. Eco warrior appears to give .5 on the first run, but don't quote me on that), however, repeatable quests typically drop down to .1 after the first time you complete them. So, in theory, it could take you as many as 10 quests to get 1 point of fame, or 100 quests to get you to level 1 fame (The quest that sort of drives this home is the bat wing quest in Sandoria). Making the max that you can get of 99. Or level 9 fame. That is one reason a person with level 3 fame can complete a quest, while another person with level 3 fame can not. The one may have a rating of 39, while the other could have 31. Since you can not see the exact amount of fame you have, one needs to speculate, or test it to the point of leveling your fame. Either way, it tends to be a hit or miss (ussually hit:) if you try to complete a quest that is *at* your fame level.

With that said, you then have 5 different types of fame. 4 Regions, and Outland. The 4 regions are Bastok, Windurst, Sandoria, and Jeuno. While Outland can be split up into five specific regions. Rabao, Khazam, Mhara, Selbina, and Norg (aka Tenshodo). To my knowledge, no one has found a single Norg quest that gives fame to Bastok, however, I do not know of anyone completing any of the Norg quests anyways (other then the typical nin scrolls), making it the only exception to the next rule. Each of the Outland region's fame directly influences the associated town. Now for Rabao and Khazam that is easy to tell. Simply check the auction house and you will find that Rabao is directly linked to Sandoria, and Khazam is directly linked to windy. Mhara is obviously windy, but also is rumored to go to Jeuno fame. As for Selbina, it is rumored to be Bastok, Sandoria, and Jeuno.
Anyways, back to the point of this lecture.
if you see a fame that is less then 10 you can assume they are referencing the level (since there are only 9 levels of fame which roughly translates to 99). This is simliar in every aspect to the Crafting skills where at level 8-10 (since there is no test for fame, it's pretty much a given that we can consider the levels at every 10) the player gets to attempt to attain their next level. With fame, you just naturally progress (such as weapons and weapon skills).

I hope this makes sense, and sorry for the lecture (should probably put this in the forums instead of here.

There is no time limit on this quest after u accepted.
so I would suggest ..... try it when you are higher lv?

oh BTW inventory space is much more important.
so try accept the quest first before u went hunting!!

They are there. We found about what appear to be 4 areas they are at.. Only 1 at each area. So we do a lot of running around. They are difficult.. as a Theif/Redmage duo at level 25 we are having a very TOUGH time on these. We just decided to level one more time before going back. They check to be only tough, but very difficult, they can hit hard. We can have almost half health, and die in one stroke from these guys.

Just keep on running around the zone, south of the spine. You'll eventually see them and get to know the area they are in. For example, one is usualy near the spine above the letter "l" in the name of the area just south of the spine. key word would be "usually" not always :).

Feathers ARE stealable by a theif. I did steal one. They are a pretty rare drop, we actually managed to get 2 one run in about 2 hours (1 of thoes stolen, 1 dropped). (with 1 death in there). The next run when we died early, is when we decided to wait until we level to try again.

25 quests done, he gave it.

Hat in Hand reward doesnt matter, just requires 25 fame.

level 13 monk, rank 2, completed a little over 20 quests, completed Hat in Hand with 200gil reward (if I remember right, that was a couple weeks ago) all I get from him is Hat in Hand again.

Going to try doing it for perfect 300 and then see what he does.