Elder Irudad/Conversations

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.208.21.

Spoiler Warning: This article contains information normally only found in the course of advancing the main quest line.

Before Red Rock

Before finishing the quest What's Eating the Watervine?

Welcome

Elder Irudad

-mm. Mmm? (player's formaladdressterm)?

*Elder Irudad smiles.*

Live and drink. Come in- come sit 'neath the cool shade, 'cross a pillow there. And welcome to Joppa.

You may drink of our freshwater, too, and quench your thirst.

[1] I'm back from Red Rock with the corpse of a pale spiderling. Elder, would you examine it?	Only available if What's Eating the Watervine? is active, the player has a girshling corpse, and the player has completed Travel to Red Rock
[2] What is this place, Joppa?
[3] Do you sell wares here?
[4] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player hasn't accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[5] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player has accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[6] What can you tell me about the Six Day Stilt?	Only available if the player has accepted O Glorious Shekhinah!
[7] Live and drink.	[End]

Joppa

Elder Irudad

-this? The oasis-hamlet. 'Neath the shelf of the world. A million breaths of salt the wind heaves over the Great Salt Desert Moghra'yi. And to the east, the rotting jungles of Qud.

Here in the crack between the two, watervine can grow, and we grow it. mmm, (player's formaladdressterm).

[1] Can you tell me about Qud?
[2] I'm back from Red Rock with the corpse of a pale spiderling. Elder, would you examine it?	Only available if What's Eating the Watervine? is active, the player has a girshling corpse, and the player has completed Travel to Red Rock
[3] Do you sell wares here?
[4] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player hasn't accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[5] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player has accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[6] Can you tell me about the Gyre and the Girsh nephilim again?	Only available if the player has completed What's Eating the Watervine?
[7] What can you tell me about the Six Day Stilt?	Only available if the player has accepted O Glorious Shekhinah!
[8] Argyve wants me to meet the Barathrumites.	Only available if the player has accepted A Canticle for Barathrum
[9] Live and drink.	[End]

Qud

Elder Irudad

-mm, there? Land slopes up and is toothed in chrome steeples, ageless things. Looming over the old-earth tunnels, pillowed in rotting jungle and fungus groves. And broken against the mounts of the north, they are, in the shadow of the Spindle...

There are people, friends, communities. And friends-to-noone, too. History is thick as the high salt sun, (player's formaladdressterm), and where the past is ground up like matz meal, a mix of life sets in.

-mm, adventurous ones set off for their own splinter of artifact. To both Fates, life and death...

[1] I'm back from Red Rock with the corpse of a pale spiderling. Elder, would you examine it?	Only available if What's Eating the Watervine? is active, the player has a girshling corpse, and the player has completed Travel to Red Rock
[2] What is this place, Joppa?
[3] Do you sell wares here?
[4] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player hasn't accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[5] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player has accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[6] Can you tell me about the Gyre and the Girsh nephilim again?	Only available if the player has completed What's Eating the Watervine?
[7] What can you tell me about the Six Day Stilt?	Only available if the player has accepted O Glorious Shekhinah!
[8] Argyve wants me to meet the Barathrumites.	Only available if the player has accepted A Canticle for Barathrum
[9] Live and drink.	[End]

Wares

Elder Irudad

-here? Speak to my daughter through the east door, for herbs. And sitting Tam in the southeast has all manner of trinket, against his chests o' drawers.

[1] I'm back from Red Rock with the corpse of a pale spiderling. Elder, would you examine it?	Only available if What's Eating the Watervine? is active, the player has a girshling corpse, and the player has completed Travel to Red Rock
[2] What is this place, Joppa?
[3] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player hasn't accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[4] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player has accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[5] Can you tell me about the Gyre and the Girsh nephilim again?	Only available if the player has completed What's Eating the Watervine?
[6] What can you tell me about the Six Day Stilt?	Only available if the player has accepted O Glorious Shekhinah!
[7] Argyve wants me to meet the Barathrumites.	Only available if the player has accepted A Canticle for Barathrum
[8] Live and drink.	[End]

Work

Elder Irudad

-mm, work? The farmers are plagued by cave vermin. You might speak to Mehmet o' there, by the southern watervine patch.

And Argyve, too, (player's formaladdressterm). The tinker. Always looking for trinkets to wire between, heh. Go through his hut of sheet metal, to the southwest.

[1] I'm back from Red Rock with the corpse of a pale spiderling. Elder, would you examine it?	Only available if What's Eating the Watervine? is active, the player has a girshling corpse, and the player has completed Travel to Red Rock
[2] What is this place, Joppa?
[3] Do you sell wares here?
[4] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player has accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[5] Can you tell me about the Gyre and the Girsh nephilim again?	Only available if the player has completed What's Eating the Watervine?
[6] What can you tell me about the Six Day Stilt?	Only available if the player has accepted O Glorious Shekhinah!
[7] Argyve wants me to meet the Barathrumites.	Only available if the player has accepted A Canticle for Barathrum
[8] Live and drink.	[End]

Stiltbound

Elder Irudad

-ahh, mm, such spectacle. The statues within, a revelation to the eyes. Chandlers enough to drain your skins dry 'twixt Shallows and Beetle Moon.

[1] I'm back from Red Rock with the corpse of a pale spiderling. Elder, would you examine it?	Only available if What's Eating the Watervine? is active, the player has a girshling corpse, and the player has completed Travel to Red Rock
[2] What is this place, Joppa?
[3] Do you sell wares here?
[4] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player hasn't accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[5] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player has accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[6] Can you tell me about the Gyre and the Girsh nephilim again?	Only available if the player has completed What's Eating the Watervine?
[7] Argyve wants me to meet the Barathrumites.	Only available if the player has accepted A Canticle for Barathrum
[8] Live and drink.	[End]

Barathrumites

Elder Irudad

-mm, Barathrumites. Strange draft o'those bearfolk. They, mm, hah. They care not overly for outsiders. I hope Argyve sold you not a better welcome than you'll have.

[1] I'm back from Red Rock with the corpse of a pale spiderling. Elder, would you examine it?	Only available if What's Eating the Watervine? is active, the player has a girshling corpse, and the player has completed Travel to Red Rock
[2] What is this place, Joppa?
[3] Do you sell wares here?
[4] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player hasn't accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[5] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player has accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[6] Can you tell me about the Gyre and the Girsh nephilim again?	Only available if the player has completed What's Eating the Watervine?
[7] What can you tell me about the Six Day Stilt?	Only available if the player has accepted O Glorious Shekhinah!
[8] Live and drink.	[End]

Completing Red Rock

After the player has ventured into Red Rock and retrieved a girshling corpse

FinishedRedrock

Elder Irudad

-this? Oh? Oh...

*Elder Irudad pauses for several minutes.*

Warted leg? mm. Foul smell of sour gum? mmm. Moon and sun....

A girshling? This is a girshling.

[1] What's a girshling?

Girshling

Elder Irudad

Creature of plague, (player's formaladdressterm). mmm. This one...

*Elder Irudaad pauses.*

This one covered in slick and muscled out the bilge hose of sleeping Agolgot, in the cave under the Cloaca...

-mm, but here? Girshling this far west? There must be hundreds for one to reach... mm, does the Gyre widen again??

[1] Gyre?
[2] I talked to a strange figure next to the girshling.	Only available if the player spoke to the gyre wight at Red Rock
[3] There was a strange figure shadowing the creature...	Only available if the player saw the gyre wight at Red Rock but did not speak to them
[4] I noticed the creature has had its fangs removed.

Gyre

Elder Irudad

*Elder Irudad pauses.*

-mm, plagues. Of our great grandsires many-times-over. Salt, darkness, svardym-frog... Girshling.

[1] ...

Agolgot2

Elder Irudad

*Elder Irudad pauses.*

-mm, (player's formaladdressterm). Do not like to sour the air with a harsh word! But this tiding bites my liver like acid. mm, must ask Nima for an elixir of yuckwheat...

[1] I talked to a strange figure next to the girshling.	Only available if the player spoke to the Gyre Wight at Red Rock
[2] There was a strange figure shadowing the creature...	Only available if the player saw the Gyre Wight at Red Rock but did not speak to them
[3] I noticed the creature has had its fangs removed.
[4] I am sorry to cause pain, Elder.

GyreWight

Elder Irudad

-mm, oh? In dyed robes, flashing gestures of hand? And ranting about pipe milk? A gyre wight, must be. They about worship the Girsh nephilim as gods.

[1] Girsh nephilim?

Nephilim

Elder Irudad

*Elder Irudad pauses.*

-mm, nephilim. Seventh plague. Girsh titans born on the Moon Stair, and quickened to life to eat our young. Sultan Resheph drove them back a chiliad ago, away to slumber. mm, do they rouse?

[1] I talked to a strange figure next to the girshling.	Only available if the player spoke to the gyre wight at Red Rock
[2] There was a strange figure shadowing the creature...	Only available if the player saw the gyre wight at Red Rock but did not speak to them
[3] I noticed the creature has had its fangs removed.
[4] I am sorry to cause pain, Elder.

Defanged

Elder Irudad

-mm, oh? A gyre wight, must be. They bind the teeth right up to their own gums, to make a show for the Girsh nephilim.

[1] Girsh nephilim?

Apology

Elder Irudad

-mm? No, (player's formaladdressterm)! Your finding is rich in value to us. We are poor farmers, and sharpen our vinereapers is all we can do. But others? Perhaps more.

Take these prickly-boons as thanks. mm, I will not soon forget this, =name=. Leave me now to muse, kindly...

[1] Live and drink.

[End]

After Red Rock

After the player has completed What's Eating the Watervine?

Start (Only available if the player has completed What's Eating the Watervine?)

Elder Irudad

-mm. Mmm? (player's formaladdressterm).

*Elder Irudad smiles.*

*Elder Irudad smiles.*

Come in- come sit 'neath the cool shade, 'cross a pillow there.

*Elder Irudad smiles.*

Live and drink, =name=. Come, sit with me.

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|- | style="padding: 10px 10px; text-align:left; background: #103837;font-size:medium;" |[6] What can you tell me about the Six Day Stilt? | style="padding: 10px; width:35%;background: #103837;border-left:4px solid #155352;font-size:medium;"|Only available if the player has accepted O Glorious Shekhinah!

|- | style="padding: 10px 10px; text-align:left; background: #103837;font-size:medium;" |[7] Argyve wants me to meet the Barathrumites. | style="padding: 10px; width:35%;background: #103837;border-left:4px solid #155352;font-size:medium;"|Only available if the player has accepted A Canticle for Barathrum

|- | style="padding: 10px 10px; text-align:left; background: #103837;font-size:medium;" |[8] Live and drink. | style="padding: 10px; width:35%;background: #103837;border-left:4px solid #155352;font-size:medium;"| [End]]] | style="padding: 10px; width:35%;background: #103837;border-left:4px solid #155352;font-size:medium;"|

WorkAfter

Elder Irudad

-mm, work? Try Argyve, (player's formaladdressterm). The tinker. Always looking for trinkets to wire between, heh. Go through his hut of sheet metal, to the southwest.

[1] What is this place, Joppa?
[2] Do you sell wares here?
[3] Can you tell me about the Gyre and the Girsh nephilim again?	Only available if the player has completed What's Eating the Watervine?
[4] What can you tell me about the Six Day Stilt?	Only available if the player has accepted O Glorious Shekhinah!
[5] Argyve wants me to meet the Barathrumites.	Only available if the player has accepted A Canticle for Barathrum
[6] Live and drink.	[End]

GyreReminder

Elder Irudad

-mm, yes? Plagues, a chiliad old. Seven such: girshlings, darkness. mm, svardym-frog...

Ah, nephilim, too, (player's formaladdressterm). Girsh titans who eat the young of kith and kin. Sultan Resheph drove them under the earth, but do they stir??

[1] I'm back from Red Rock with the corpse of a pale spiderling. Elder, would you examine it?	Only available if What's Eating the Watervine? is active and the player has completed Travel to Red Rock
[2] What is this place, Joppa?
[3] Do you sell wares here?
[4] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player hasn't accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[5] I'm looking for work.	Only available if the player has accepted What's Eating the Watervine?
[6] What can you tell me about the Six Day Stilt?	Only available if the player has accepted O Glorious Shekhinah!
[7] Argyve wants me to meet the Barathrumites.	Only available if the player has accepted A Canticle for Barathrum
[8] Live and drink.	[End]

Slynth Dialogue

Related to the quest Landing Pads.

SlynthRequest

Elder Irudad

-mm, oh? You're wondering if they might come to Joppa, then?

SlynthRequestAccept

Elder Irudad

mm, I am for you, =name=. Any friend of yours is too a friend of Joppa, and if those friends desire shelter I wouldn't dare turn them away. I only hope these lilypad-folk have the patience for a farmer's life. -mm, not as exciting here as it was in the Palladium Reef.

[1] You have my thanks, Elder.

[End]

SlynthRequestReject

Elder Irudad

-mm, blessings upon your generous heart, =name=. I mean no slight to these slynth, but it is too great a favor you ask of the people of Joppa.

SlynthAbout

Elder Irudad

Have you spoken to the slynth, =name=? I am curious to hear what destination they choose.

SlynthArrived

Elder Irudad

-mm, your luminous friends are settling in quite well.

There is yet a pall of ennui among some, but such is the case for any party of brave migrants. Ah, they will find their ground or their path, all in time. Some farmers show some small discomfort but that will pass in time.

[1] My thanks, Elder.

SlynthSettled

Elder Irudad

-mm, ah, =name=. Come see how the slynth have become a part of Joppa!

Some cared not for the slow pace of our lives and struck out on their own, and with their thews and wits I have no doubt they will live to find purpose. mm, others are welcome to grow and flourish here in our marshes.

[1] My thanks again, Elder.

Past Revisions

Before Patch 2.0.192.0, the Girsh was planned to be the start of a side quest related to them. It is now currently scrapped. The below dialogue is no longer canon and is only here for archiving purposes.

FinishExploringRedrock1Old

Elder Irudad

This is troubling. It is as I feared -- girshlings.

[1] There was a rabid, black-robed man among the... girshlings.

FinishExploringRedrock2Old

Elder Irudad

A glow-wight, no doubt. Those maniacal fools worship the Girsh as gods.

[1] What are the Girsh?

GirshInfo1

Elder Irudad

Ancient demons as old as Qud itself. They embody the essence of the poison that is spread throughout the land. Once they crawled Qud's surface, but a thousand years ago something drove them deep beneath the earth. Now they roost in the nethers of Qud's vastest and darkest caverns.

[1] And the girshlings?
[2] Where did the Girsh come from?
[3] Why were you so troubled before?	Only available when What's Eating the Watervine? is in progress and the player has a Girshling corpse in their inventory
[4] I have some other questions.	Only available if What's Eating the Watervine? is complete
[5] My thanks, Elder. Live and drink.	[End]

GirshlingInfo1

Elder Irudad

Girshlings are spawn of the Girsh. They are twisted creatures of every ilk. The glow-wights consume their corpses in order to reshape themselves in the images of the Girsh demons.

[1] Where did the Girsh come from?
[2] Why were you so troubled before?	Only available when What's Eating the Watervine? is in progress and the player has a Girshling corpse in their inventory
[3] I have some other questions.	Only available if What's Eating the Watervine? is complete
[4] My thanks, Elder. Live and drink.	[End]

GirshOrigins1

Elder Irudad

They are spawn of one older still -- the Girsh Mother Tluctgu.

According to the wisdom of my father and his father before him, she lies sleeping somewhere within the buried temple of Morah. No one knows whence she came. Perhaps she is indeed some wretched goddess come from beyond the stars to slumber on our world.

[1] And the girshlings?
[2] Why were you so troubled before?	Only available when What's Eating the Watervine? is in progress and the player has a Girshling corpse in their inventory
[3] I have some other questions.	Only available if What's Eating the Watervine? is complete
[4] My thanks, Elder. Live and drink.	[End]

DarkTidings1

Elder Irudad

Girshlings have not been sighted on the surface for centuries. I fear something nefarious is astir.

Your discovery will prove invaluable to us, wayfarer. Howbeit, we are but penurious moisture farmers. There is little we can do apart from sharpen our vinereapers. There may be others outside of Joppa, however, who are able to do more.

As for your reward, take these prickly-boons. I will not soon forget your service. Live and drink, (formalAddressTerm).

[1] Live and drink, Elder.

[Complete Quest Step: Return with a critter corpse] [Receive Quest Rewards: What's Eating the Watervine?#Rewards] [End]