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Tea with a Tonberry?

Start NPC	Sobane - Southern San d'Oria (D-6)
Requirements	San d'Oria Reputation: 4
Items Needed	Attohwa Ginseng Treasury Gold
Title Granted	Talks with Tonberries
Repeatable	No
Reward	Willpower Torque

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Signed in Blood	None

Walkthrough

• If you just completed Signed in Blood, you must Zone out and back into Southern San d'Oria to flag this quest.
• Talk to Sobane. She and her husband need your help confirming a threat to a local aristocrat, but the only ones who may know about it are the tight lipped Tonberries in Carpenters' Landing.
• Travel to Attohwa Chasm and defeat Gallinipper, Ogrefly, or Monarch Ogrefly until they drop Attohwa Ginseng.
• Travel to South Landing in Carpenters' Landing.
  • Either take the barge from the entrance in Northern San d'Oria, or take a chocobo to the entrance at (J-8) in Jugner Forest. Or Survival Guide / Norvallen / Carpenters' Landing.
• Talk with the elvaan Anguenet standing next to the Tonberry at the docks for a cutscene. He knows a way to speak with them, but he won't do it for free.
• Trade Anguenet the Attohwa Ginseng and he will give you the Tonberry Blackboard which will allow you to communicate with the Tonberry Riche on the ferry.
• Purchase a Barge Ticket or Barge Multi-ticket and board a barge headed for Central Landing via Emfea Way. See here for the barge Schedule.
• Talk to Riche, the Tonberry on board. Ask him all the questions (5); at the end he'll take the key item. Be sure to do this before the ride is over, which is approximately 7 minutes.
• Travel to Fei'Yin and kill Shadow until they drop Treasury Gold.
  • Shadow appear on Map #1. Home Point #1 is the best warp option.
• Take the Treasury Gold to Davoi and trade it to the ??? at (J-11), which spawns a Hematic Cyst NM.
• Kill the Hematic Cyst and select the ??? again for a cutscene.

• A group of characters who are doing this quest can all get the cut-scene by killing just one Hematic Cyst, from one Treasury Gold.

• Return to Southern San d'Oria and talk to Sobane to complete the quest.

Game Description

Client

Sobane (House on Pikeman's Way, Southern San d'Oria)

Summary

According to Sobane's husband Ondieumais, the count who owns the Carpenters' Landing territory is being threatened. Find a way to communicate with the Tonberries of Carpenters' Landing and discover who is making these threats.

SPOILER WARNING: Click here for additional details about this story line.

Source entry: Tea with a Tonberry?. Cached on this server on 5 November 2026.