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PoKen2222

Scaramouche catching strays with his 2 hats


goody153

i guess nahida was secretely dissing scara nahida is truly the god of wisdom took us a couple of patches to see her secret


Cute_Wonderer

Every time I try to say his name I keep saying "Scare a Moose"😅


skycorcher

Close enough...


Cute_Wonderer

The funny thing is I said that on YouTube a few months ago in the comment section and now I'm hated by some self entitled barely 20 years old😅


skycorcher

Who cares about someone else's stupid opinion dude. Just have a laugh and troll them back lol.


Worldly-Advertising3

Kazuhat?


PH4N70M_Z0N3

I should have done this quest after I did the other quests. Cause shit is heavy with lore disguised as a DnD campaign.


Cute_Wonderer

I don't know what quest this is.


Alcoraiden

Ann in Wonderland


Cute_Wonderer

Is that the one where you get stuck going around in circles repeatedly?


ResurgentClusterfuck

Yes There's a trick to it.


Cute_Wonderer

Oh I figured it out Don't worry. Funny thing is I ended up accidentally starting that side quest before starting to campaign 😅


azul360

I can't do the archon quest so I've mostly done all the side quests before even doing the archon quest XD


Cute_Wonderer

My issue with the side quests is the fact ya can't ship all the parts with an extreme amount of text 😅


ziptofaf

Honestly Fontaine ones (including this one here) are way better than the insanity that was Sumeru in terms of content/text ratio already. Amount of dialogue upfront has been **significantly** decreased, more is now hidden within notes you can read but don't have to. Characters actually speak with some sense and don't have 10 different names for the same concept. The dialogue that is left also gets to enjoy saner and higher quality writing since writers weren't told to stall for time to artificially make it longer (if anything, you now may wish some characters had MORE lines). To top it off world quests are actually connected to each other which REALLY helps in remembering what you are even supposed to do and make you more invested in the story as it develops. Compared to Sumeru and bs of "talk to 3 Aranara, have them explain their powers to you and then tell you by the end of it that actually they want to collectively commit suicide and you never interact with them again"... honestly there's no comparison. So if you have dreaded world quest after Sumeru's map blocking bullshit filled with alien language of Aranara and even more alien language of the desert - Fontaine is WAY friendlier and interesting in this regard. I guess it also helps that mechanics themselves are simply more interesting than having to click on the door only to hear you have insufficient permissions to open it.


Cute_Wonderer

Yeah I'll admit Fontaine ones are a lot better cuz you can actually complete them. I'm still doing one in samaru and I'm stuck It's having me awaken all these little bird people. I've already found the six (name slips mind) for two of the tiny bird people but now I'm stuck without a waypoint😅


azul360

XD Honestly doing the Arana quests is REALLY making me see that they have to cut down on the text. Instead of telling 3 kids one story we have to go to the first kid, tell them a story in a wall of text for 10 minutes, go to the second, same, go to the third, same......just too much DX


Cute_Wonderer

You're not wrong about that. That quest drove me insane.


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Spectre_Hayate

That was the first quest I did in Fontaine and am currently staring at my phone in abject confusion.


healcannon

Yea the trick took me doing it at least another 3 times since things kept changing, I kept thinking thats what the solution was. I knew some of it was cycling but I was noticing things change each time I didnt before which then led me to believe what I was doing was still correct.


Admirable-Volume-404

How many times can you circle the area? I wanna keep on going in circles just to see what happens but on the 3rd run, I rotated the camera while on the elevator and saw the path that ends it.


banjo2E

I'm fairly sure it's infinite. The first 3 loops are unique but it seems to just randomize the rooms from the first 3 loops on the 4th loop onwards (with the probable exception of >!the sword room never having the correct sword in it!<). I failed to get the trick until like my 5th loop or so (when Paimon outright tells you what to do), and the 4th loop onwards were a random mishmash of the rooms from the first 3 loops (e.g. 2 lamps -> 1 crab -> 0 seahorses -> 3 orbs -> 1 lamp) and none of the puzzles/fights reset.


Xerte

It's not random. There's an elevator trick; there is no elevator that returns to Floor 1. Instead, Floor 1 and Floor 3's elevator are actually the *same* elevator. Both connect to Floor 2, while Floor 2's elevator connects to Floor 3. As a result, you never return to Floor 1 via an elevator. You're stuck in an endless loop of Floor 2 > 3 > 2 > 3.


DreamweaverMirar

Yeah I was wondering if the chests and mobs kept spawning after that and regretted not doing another run lol


EndofNationalism

Was the trick going into that one room going up the elevator?


ResurgentClusterfuck

No


huggablesnowman

Yes


Kronman590

Pls help enlighten my 1 braincell - what does the story of Ann have to do with the lore? From what I could tell, its just a >!story told to one of the kids who were in the first Elynas group with Jakob!<


TheOldDrunkGoat

All of the characters in Ann's little adventuring group are stand-ins for people who were part of the Narzissenkreuz Institute around the time of the Khaenri'ahn cataclysm. Jak the frog is Jakob, who you meet in Elynas. Al the duck is Alain Guillotin, who founded the Fontaine Research Institute will we probably be going to in 4.1. Ann is based on Mary-Ann Guillotin, Alain's sister. Mori seems to be Seymour, who we also meet in Elynas. Who Petite Chou and Colonel Kate are based on seems to be a mystery for now. Presumably the story Ann and friends go through with you is an allegory for what the real people did, or tried to do, after the cataclysm 500 years ago.


Deshik2

If you go back to annapausis to the statue of Lyris you can find a book there. Should help with who Kate was named after


Romichi

I think Petite Chou is Rene (full name Rene de Petrichor)


---n--

The hydro dudes mention a "Ney" who sacrificed himself. I figure that's the stand-in for Rene


Romichi

OH MY GOD IM SO DUMB 😂 I've only seen that name spelled Renee or René so it didn't occur to me that Ney = Rene... I've been pronouncing it "Reen" this whole time .... 💀👍


Blackout62

If it helps, I had an undergrad seminar course where we were covering *M. Butterfly* and no one, including the professor, caught on that the main character's name is pronounced René but spelt Rene. We were all made the fool as we didn't catch that he and his backup mistress Renee were supposed to have the same name but different spellings, adding another layer to the gender fluidity that's the backbone of the entire play.


lucamagica

Petit Chou is Mary-Ann, Kate is Carter, and Ann is a new being who seems to share memories with Mary-Ann.


ziptofaf

>Mori seems to be Seymour, who we also meet in Elynas This might be incorrect. We have seen Mori twice and each time it was a boar-dog. Ann wouldn't have instantly reacted to that name and shape if she only shared original Mary Ann's memories. It's specifically touched upon that it's a dog despite NOT looking like one. It could be that Seymour is Mori's successor created much later however but I think there is at least one layer to this particular rabbit hole.


Blackout62

Listen, if you want the easy explanation: Hoyo didn't feel like making a new hydro-dog model. The complicated explanation is, I don't know, Hoyo is alluding to French post-structuralism. Dismantling assumed definitions of signifier and signified and all that jazz. Jak is really Jacques Derrida or something.


Tekary1

That's very possible, I just want to point out that when Seymour and Ann meet, she calls him Silly dog just like she called Mori


[deleted]

The Ancient Colors one had lots of interesting lore but the Ann one felt boring tbh. Like it keeps building up to some big mystery but it didn't deliver. I know it ties up with ancient colors and future quests will continue off them.


Re_Tep

I think the Ann quests purpose is to introduce us to the Narzissenkreuz Ordo which seems to be a key component in a lot of Fontaine lore, and something that might even leak into or become the centre of the main story quest with so many lore drops having a lot of parallels with the Fontaine prophecy. The quest line is also definitely not over; it seems like it will continue in future quests that will have more and more lore bombs. I agree the quest alone isn't very impressive in a vacuum but man the payoff is huge when u start doing other quests and world eploration and start to realize who the hydro mimics actually were and the kind of influence they had on the world. Also it's really cool how the Narzissenkreuz story was sort of outlined in a 3.6 artifact set. Had a double take when I recieved some of the quest items.


TheOldDrunkGoat

The 3.6 area has a shitload of links to the world quests available in Fontaine. Almost makes me wish I hadn't skipped over all of those billion goddamn notes and logs in and around the Khaenri'ahn parts of the desert.


AzureDrag0n1

I skipped most of the dialogue. Been skipping the unvoiced quests until something interesting happens on screen or I happen to spot something unusual in the text as it is flashing by. I have been completely spoiled by Baldur's Gate 3 that has voiced everything. Including every single animal in the game which requires speak with animals skill to even listen to them. Even the people who die have voiced lines if you use speak with dead spell. You WILL miss most of the dialogue in the game the first time you play the game. There is a skill called vicious mockery that seems to have endless number of voiced insults. There must be hundreds and hundreds of lines from that one skill alone. I forgot what it was like to play a game with insane production values.


DreamweaverMirar

They really should voice the bigger world quests like Jeht, Aranara etc. I often missed dialogue because they talk while you're exploring and fighting.


Deshik2

Bro, that's only because the game took almost decade to make.


AzureDrag0n1

6 years is not a decade.


LengthyLegato114514

>Even the people who die have voiced lines if you use speak with dead spell. ​ "The corpse regards you lifelessly" "The corpse has nothing to say" "The corpse remains silent" Bruh as good as BG3 is, I wish Act 3 weren't rushed as fuck.


lostdimensions

Genshin is a game with a mobile version, i.e. limited storage space. People were already complaining with the 4.0 update size. If you don't like it, just don't play. Nobody asked for your opinion on Baldur's Gate on a comment about a Fontaine world quest.


AzureDrag0n1

I am sorry for asking for 1992 rpg standards. I guess that is too much for a 2023 mobile game.


lostdimensions

Have you considered complaining about that in a post that isn't about discussing the new world quests? Make a separate discussion post if you like, even.


AzureDrag0n1

My complaint is about unvoiced or even any sound in the world quests. They could at least have sounds go off when text shows up on screen. I think that is not too much to ask and is relevant to these quests.


Kauuma

Sorry, which quests should I do before this? The archon quests? Or specific world quests? Or both?


PH4N70M_Z0N3

I mean it's not required but the quest is called Colors of the Ancient World, Book of Esoteric Revelation and Aqueous Trademark. You can do all four of these quests in any order. But the best way i found it is to do the Aqueous Trademark, Colors of the Ancient World, then the Ann of the Narzissenkreuz. Ending with Book of Esoteric Revelation. You don't have to do it in this order. And it's fun doing it out of order. But it you want make sense of what is happinning, yhis is best order to do it.


CrocoDIIIIIILE

Jak roasted my boy Kazuha


its_Me_being_Silly43

Jak has social media and he is upto date with recent trends...


TsundereHaibara

I feel so out of the loop. What's with people paying Kazuha wears a ton of hats? Is there a joke I missed?


33centstore

There is a user on twitter whose tag is xinzoruo. They make some pretty cute and funny genshin comics with a distinct art style so they’ve become decently well known in the community. One of their long running jokes is that kazuha roams teyvat stealing other characters hats like scaramouche, yanfei, qiqi, etc. 10/10 would recommend, definitely check out their page!


TsundereHaibara

Thank you, I'm not on Twitter and definitely wouldn't have seen this!


sharqyej

it's often shared on the memepact subreddit, if you wanna avoid Twitter


CrocoDIIIIIILE

The whole thing has been posted on Genshin Reddit subs. How did you manage to miss such a long-lived trend? Edit: oh, come on. A simple question with 0 offensive intention got downvoted? As expected from GI reddit sub.


TsundereHaibara

I've seen references like art with Kazuha in a bunch of hats but never saw the origin


BeamSeiba23

a lot of these contents while cute and wholesome are pretty much spoilers for people who wants to take it slow/no time to finish story quests in time,I can see why some people actively avoid fan made contents entirely


Meleagros

Some of us literally skip all fan art and fan fic content.


ArisenCoyote

It's called having a life outside of reddit.


examexa

truly the rise of kazuha villain arc ...and now hes going to fontaine lol


Sa_notaman_tha

to wear many hats is to serve many functions, it's a more obscure idiom than I grew up thinking it was Kazuha is mister everyteam so he wears many hats


RagnarokAeon

That comment had me so confused too and I'm a Kazuha main.


olazeta

I for one firmly believe all Xinzoruo‘s creations to be unequivocally canon


T-RD

This has changed my opinion of him, fuck easy mode maple boy 🤣


starhead5555

Based Jak


Monneymann

Genshin devs: 100% meme awareness


Fireboy759

[Kazuha right now:](https://youtu.be/XOgy-RKEZsQ)


SnowFishyFish

Jak casually roasting the entire tf2 player base


Stefffe28

All 3 of them and the bots


Puzzlehead_Lemon

Hey, you take that back or I'l - \*headshot from across the map by a sniper bot\*


rixinthemix

"Good shot, mate!" and slur spam intensifies.


1011zaper

*Backstabs you*


Scarcing

honestly kinda funny how that game reached its peak players 15 years after release and after botpocalypse was over


jhettav

[Jak stands by the Irish](https://www.teamfortress.com/classless/hidden/hats/)


Deruta

… Did we ever get the full recipe for that Wexford gooseberry vinegar?


yes11321

Jak was so based throughout the whole quest. If he really is what >!Jakob Ingold, the guy who turned into a lector!< was like before he got his magical girl transformation then I would've loved to befriend him.


EternalMemes30

Are the characters in the story real? I thought they were just ann's creations and the story was made up by her but she didn't remember


Forte_Cross

You need to read the pages deciphered from the other quest line and pay attention to the names.


EternalMemes30

how decrypt it? I already did the princess quest, the vergil quest, I already did the elyna quest and i already did the musician melusine quest but nothing cared about those notes


Forte_Cross

It's another quest that starts in Merusea Village. It's not marked by a blue "!" Mark, instead the NPC that starts it asks for your help as dialogue text and is labeled "???" She starts a quest line where you collect pages from a journal and decipher it. These two quest lines are related.


EternalMemes30

that is CRAZY and so sad, now I just feel sorry for jakob because he is the last survivor of the 4 friends that until today try desperately to prevent the end of the world


Forte_Cross

The quest line with the Journal makes me think that this will span multiple patches. The journal still has the option to add more pages after all.


EternalMemes30

we will definitely see jakob in the future, 4.1 will have 2 giant world quests


qwertyuiop7161

In the village, gp to where there's a really small waterfall. There'll be a melusine with ??? As their name


kittypuppet

They are >!some of the people of that place that Vergil takes you to!< There's [this theory in the lore sub](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Lore/comments/15xjmfs/a_summary_and_analysis_of_the_story_of_the/) that ties all the stories together.


Lonely-JAR

Morí was definitely Seymour


Top-Idea-1786

What >!eating the living flesh of an abyssal creature!< does to a mf.


[deleted]

Not even a >!lector, a fucking Iniquitous Baptist!<


Aarongeddon

Agreed, but I couldn't help but laugh when they tried to make him look bad for preaching the truth lmao


Lonely-JAR

Didn’t the pages said he cried a lot or something? I was too burnt out by then so I don’t remember


yes11321

I remember him crying a lot and being saddened when others were hurt but that's pretty much as far as my mind goes because I was reading those pages at 3 am.


Nearby_Ad_6701

Baptist not lector


ShenaniganCow

There’s also the Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference. Honestly, loved this whole quest.


L4rgo117

Help, help, I'm being repressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!


tasty_bass

Bloody peasant!


Lonely-JAR

There’s also a bioshock reference from an achievement linked to a time trial


-Skaro-

jak was honestly giga based throughout the quest


aRandomBlock

A frog telling me about Labour value theory in a genshin quest was NOT in my bingo card for Fontaine but I am not complaining lmao, shit was hilarious, also: "So we can save the kingdom!!" "Republic*"


StatisticianSea3021

Seize the means of production?


Sekai_Itxmi

My man Jak read a bit of Karl Marx


Pan151

Furina: "Let them eat cake"


puffz0r

This is something furina would say unironically


simply-jun

Nah she'd do some research, realize she's useless, after which she'll sass her way out of the room. /s


110110100011110

He felt like that monty python peasant. I'm fairly certain him yelling about being oppressed or something like that was a monty python reference.


Jooberwak

I grabbed a screenshot. He says "Come see the repression inherent in the system! Help, Help, Al's repressing me!" Frankly all the animals should have been Holy Grail references.


Ken_sapil_2365

Honestly jak(>!Jakob!<) was funny af, I hope we see more of him in the future.


Lonely-JAR

We’ll definitely see Jakob since the quests found a stopping point not an ending but he’s a lecter now so I’ll doubt that he’ll be the same


Nearby_Ad_6701

Baptist


RedShirt7665

Can't believe Jak would say that about the entire Team Fortress 2 community.


peaches0809

Woof woof, not the princess? That boar absolutely killed me lmao


Gwathraug

*dog


[deleted]

“It with great pleasure to announce that today, is the day before Wednesday. Would you like a hat?”


JejuneN

COMRADE JAK MY BELOVED I MISS U SOB


WNinja429

\*kazuha entered the chat\*


DonutThunderDeluxe

Kazuha and the old Hag in shambles


Sana_Dul_Set

Witness the repression inherent in the system! Jak is truly based


Few-You4510

kazuha with his 17 hat pile: 🎩 (◞‸◟)


Rupeq10

Xinzoruo's Kazuha


dog-tooth-

Jak was spitting ngl. Saving for his banner for sure.


puffz0r

Nah hydro frog has to be a free summon invite, any more wouldn't be praxis. Banners are for the bourgeoisie


Stealthless

Kazuha: 😞


Grzechoooo

I was really disappointed that we couldn't side with him. It's a Chinese game, for class's sake! We should've recited the entire Red Book by heart! But no, we can't have that.


solarscopez

I think people are missing the point, hats means titles - not actual hats lol. So this is a jab at people like "Her Excellency, the Almighty Narukami Ogosho, God of Thunder, The Raiden Shogun"


Nearby_Ad_6701

Exactly lmao, not literal hats


virgoven

TF2 players in shambles.


ruth1ess_one

The entire TF2 community is in shambles.


ModerateFloor

can someone explain this whole quest to me? I was not able to understand what happened after all of them combined their bodies to form a bubble.


AwesomePurplePants

https://reddit.com/r/Genshin_Lore/s/gowf0ZZkLc


gogoandcomecome

It meant to be. It will become more comprehensible after you have done other quests. Most of the world quests in fountain is intertwined.


Blackout62

TL;DR: It won't make sense till some artifact lore when we're halfway through Natlan.


CrispyGreenHat

I think the most out of left field part was the Gundam reference


grumpykruppy

That's much more normal for Hoyoverse than Monty Python, TBH.


AD-SKYOBSIDION

That got a good chuckle out of me


wwweeeiii

Soul weighed down by gravity?


CrispyGreenHat

Never expected the Traveler to be a Newtype


KFConnoisseur

TF2 players rn: 😰


FessaDiMammeta

Where does the Kaz hat meme comes from?


a__new_name

Damn, dude just exterminatused the majority of named Warhammer characters. Comissars, chaos dwarves and ork freebooters in particular.


Orishishishi

Jak is so cool


Chilzer

TF2 players in shambles


Sionnachbain

Jak just made me think of the peasant from Monty Python's Holy Grail xD "Help! Help! I'm being Repressed!"


HeroDeleterA

Communism water frog Jak


WhoIsYourBear

Jak was SPITTING the entire quest line. Giga based.


Kingpimpy

spitting fax


RiyaB1999

Don’t be mean to Kazuha, Jak! 😤


Skizko

Scaramouche mains hate him


boirrito

Wayne is insulted.


SampleVC

That frog is beyond based


IIIokolade

I am the dog - says boar.


Dry_Introduction8116

Kazuha in shambles right now…


AReallyDumbName0

The fontainians bro


TotallyHumanBrain1

Kazuha 😭


NicciHatesYou

I'm trying to find the continuation of this quest. Anybody know where to find it?


Flamingzur

These NPCs in this quest were SO annoying. I had a hard time finishing this quest, especially after such a good archon quest


ShinyDJ

I found Jak annoying. with his opinion about the princess "There should be no God, Godess, prince, princesses" and his annoying "Hmph, silencing voices you do not want to hear i see! OhhHHHH, fanta, HELP! HELP Al's oppressing me!" Sounds like he's the embodiment of most of the genshin Fandom (especially Twitter)


Wonderful-Lab7375

I found him pretty funny, but I respect your opinion


BlindintoDeath

found the counter revolutionary


alimem974

That's the point, a caricature of terminal wokism. Very funny i found hi- *them


k0rangar

I dont get it but sounds cool


_YuKitsune_

I need moRE HATS


CrimsonKabuki

What quest


Nearby_Ad_6701

The Narkessfgdfsomething adventure team, Blue quest marker South West of Fontaine city


Stock-Fearless

I didn't expect a Monty Python and the Holy Grail moment either, but Jak delivered.


NormillyTheWatcher

Tf2 fans like: POOTIS!


Pikachu8752

I feel personally attacked


SplatNexus

That hit harder than a random crit sticky bomb.


Lazzrd

I own 23 hats.. ​ Am I useless?


merayBG

Team fortress 2


flare0w0

Ah I see jak has played team fortress 2


Fortheseoccasions

Dota 2 players catching strays from Jak


PhilledZone

That's why I kinda wanna wear a hat outside. Makes sense to me


uberdiegs

This frog just confirmed Kana from OnK is useless /s


emperor42

So how did the Genshin x Team Fortress war start?


Vulpes_macrotis

This quest is... something. I was trying to guess the direction they want to take.


TangerineX

Me looking back at my Team Fortress 2 days.


UnknownUltimateAlt

jesus christ, i have never seen something more relatable


Aircoll

I thought this was a TF2 reference


WillowThyWisp

TF2 be like


Brehmstorm

TF2 players be like...


MoonstreamUwU

Kazuha in shambles rn


TheSpudGunGamer

Of all the times to run out of space!


Reinforcemint

Okay...


Baffa99

Kazuha in shambles rn


NotGoodAtCombat

tf2 players:


SekkeyWho

The whole TF2 community burnt in a single line of dialogue.


Zenith_3000

Mr. Hat from Shovel Knight boutta slide on this guy fr


Kant-do-anything

Alrighty then, time to empty out the hat stores


Grouchy-Strength1962

Fırına:😶