An Errand! The Professor's Price/Plot Details

This should do quite nicely.

Shantotto: Excellent, and very well!
Now, off to Jeuno--we've a curse to dispel!

Shantotto: Why don't you go on ahead?
I must find someone to watch over the laboratory in my stead.

Shantotto: Oh, and I'm sorry, but it's my business stance.
I'll require payment of 5000 gil in advance.

Shantotto: You're clearly a man/woman who can recognize a good deal.
For powers of my magnitude, that price is a steal!
O~hohoho!

Moogle: Did you speak with the Professor? Will she help us, kupo?

???: Shatotto has arrived to answer your call!
There's a curse to be lifted--no time to stall!

Shantotto: Oh yes, there can be no doubt.
This hex packs some serious clout.

Shantotto: But with my prodigious powers, 'tis a trifling matter.
A simple counterspell to send these spirits a-scatter.

Shantotto: O~hohoho!

Shantotto: Ghost and demons, go away...
Don't come back another day!

Shantotto: Now, begone, I say!

Moogle: Er, is that all, Professor? That was awfully quick, kupo...

Shantotto: (Is it really so surprising?
After all, 'twas a curse of my own dev--)

Shantotto: <Ahem>! That is to say--yes, the deed is done!

Shantotto: The jinx is no more, the day is won!

Shantotto: I'll just be on my way now... Ta-ta, have fun!
O~hohoho!

Moogle: Ever a curious character, that Professor Shantotto... But no matter! The curse is lifted, oh joy of joyous joys!

Moogle: I am once again free to flutter about to my hearts content! Oh, Kupiruru, my darling, how I've missed you, kupo! Thank you ever, ever so much, Master!

Moogle: But still...we must do something about Dom Kupeliaure and that curious eviction notice. After all, without my job, how will I be able to afford Kupiruru's engagement ring!? We must act now, kupo!

Moogle: In fact, I think I'll float by the boss's place right now and see just what in the world is the matter.

Moogle: After all, it just isn't like him to fly off the handle like that, kupo. He's always been as gentle as a goobue!

Moogle: You just sit tight, Master. I'll have this whole mess straightened up before you can say Jaggedy-Eared Jack!

Moogle: Kupow-ow-ow, that smarts...

???: What's the big deal, eh!? I paid good gil for that curse! You think you can just up and dispect...despeckle...un-cursify it like that!?

Moogle: Why, you...you're not the boss!

Moogle: Master, this is Toto Kupeliaure! The boss's scofflaw son-- a real troublemaker whose arrogance and ambition is exceeded only by his inability to form an intelligible utterance!

Moogle: What's the meaning of this, kupo!?

Toto Kupeliaure: Yeah, I'm Toto, all right! What's it to ya!?

Toto Kupeliaure: The old man's on an expended leave of abscess, so I've taken control of the family biz in his place! You gots a problem with that, you take it up with management--oh wait, that's me! Bwahahaha!

Moogle: Y-you mean that that eviction notice...me being fired... That was all your doing, kupo!?

Toto Kupeliaure: Yeah, I can see that you're as sharp as a..as a... ...Something that ain't too sharp.

Toto Kupeliaure: That's right. Dear ol' dad is gettin' on in years, so I figured it's time for some fresh blood. A new corpulent strategery, if ya catch my drift.

Moogle: But this is fraud! Flimflam, kupo! You don't have the authority! We had a contract written and signed by...!

Moogle: ...Kupeliaure...?

Toto Kupeliaure: Don't see the old man's name nowhere on there, now, don't ya?

Toto Kupeliaure: Hah! You couldn't even tell by all those big, edjumacated words I used? You really are dumber than a rocks o'box.

Toto Kupeliaure: Listen up, cause I ain't gonna say this once. I was gettin' sick of waitin' around for dear ol' pop to hand the company down to my oh-so-brillulent self.

Toto Kupeliaure: So I says to myself, "Self, mebbe you can get the old man to take some much-needed rext and relastation. Then you can gets a head-start on being decider-in-chief."

Moogle: What a ridiculous plan, kupo!

Toto Kupeliaure: Hey, don't look at me. After all, who's the bigger fool? The fool, or...or the guy who's the bigger fool?

Toto Kupeliaure: Anyhoo, that was my plan. And a darn good one, if I don't not say so myself. Startin' right here at this Room-a-Rent, one by one I'd turn these Mog Houses into a comm-traversial service.

Toto Kupeliaure: Y'know...one that ya gots to pay for.

Toto Kupeliaure: Then you come in demanding all these repairs and reprobations...hah! What kind of chump d'ya take me for?

Toto Kupeliaure: Listen, bozos--I shawl the cots around here. As of right now, all Mog Houses are stay-to-pay. You stay? You pay!

Toto Kupeliaure: And that's actro-retrive. Adding in unpaid fees from the previous occupants, with accubulated interest...

Toto Kupeliaure: That comes to...lessee here... Eleventy-five thousand, eight hojillion and two gils. Payable immedulately. That means "now."

Moogle: What!?

Moogle: Are you out of your noggin', kupo!? We don't have that kind of money!

Toto Kupeliaure: ...Hm?

Toto Kupeliaure: Sorry, I musta mis-underheard you just now. 'Coz I coulda sworn you just said you ain't got the gils.

Toto Kupeliaure: But that couldn't be, 'coz that would mean your account was in our-ears. That's bidness lingo for "overdue."

Toto Kupeliaure: And that would mean your deadbeat butts would be out on the street. Like, now, y'see.

Toto Kupeliaure: So I'll do ya's a favor and dis-remember this conversation.

Toto Kupeliaure: And if you're thinkin' dear old dad is gonna come back to rescu-fy your lousy behinds, you've got another think comin'!

Toto Kupeliaure: Yeah, I think his one-way luxury cruise to Tavnazia will be keepin' him busy for the foreseeifcating future.

Moogle: <Gulp>, kupo.

Toto Kupeliaure: But ya don't gots to worry.

Toto Kupeliaure: After all, I hear them Trolls are leasin' out caves in Halvung at very reasonable rates these days. Bwahahaha!

Moogle: That Toto! I'd heard what a reprobate ruffian he was, but this is ridiculous even for him!

Moogle: Time and again, the Kupeliaure family has tried to impress upon him the importance of honest business, but nothing gets through that thick skull of his.

Moogle: Oh, Master, whatever shall we do!? How can we scare up such a sizable sum of cash, kupo?

Moogle: Unless--no...no, I couldn't! It's absolutely, kupositively out of the question! But...but...

Moogle: Master, listen. I want to you to retrieve my buried moggy-bank.

Moogle: <Sigh> Oh, how I was hoping it wouldn't come to this!

Moogle: The hard-earned gil I saved for my honeymoon with my dearest, darling Kupiruru! Hours of hard labor in the name of love down the drain, kupo!

Moogle: Oh, the agony! Oh, how it pains my tender moogle heart! But we have no choice, kupo...

Moogle: I beg of you, Master. You must hop on your chocobo, make your way for La Theine Plateau, and dig up my nest egg, kupo.

Moogle: We shall pay that thuggardly Toto his money! But don't worry, Master! The boss will set everything straight when he returns.

Moogle: In fact, I'll try to track him down while you're away, kupo!

Moogle: Oh, and Master. Not to be mistrustful, but...don't even think of helping yourself to my secret savings. I've got my cash counted down to the last beastcoin, kupo!