The Puppet Master

The Puppet Master
Starting NPC	Carbuncle - Windurst Walls (G-4)
Required Fame	None
Items Needed	Earth Pendulum
Additional Requirements	Summoner 40+
Title	None
Repeatable	Yes
Rewards
Kukulcan's Staff

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Walkthrough

• Go to the House of the Hero in Windurst Walls (G-4) (Home Point #1) and speak to Carbuncle as a SMN.
• From this point on, this quest can be complete on any job.
• Go to Port Bastok (I-8) (Home Point #1) and talk to Juroro for a cutscene. Ildy-Goldy hands you an Earth Pendulum and tells you to travel to the Quicksand Caves entrance in Eastern Altepa Desert (J-7).
  • Quicksand Caves Home Point #2 is just outside the Cloister of Tremors.
  • The trial-sized tuning forks can be used to reduce travel time if you want to do the fight as SMN.
• Within Quicksand Caves, make your way to the Cloister of Tremors (C-8 on map 1) and trade the Earth Pendulum to the Earth Protocrystal. Select The Puppet Master to start the battlefield.
• This is an uncapped BCNM fight, buffs do not wear. You have 30 minutes to kill Galgalim (a Hecteyes NM).

• Trusts may be called for an easier fight.
• Galgalim can be silenced, paralyzed and slowed. Can be Reposed. Cannot be slept by a 75 BLM, resisted all sleeps, even aga's.
• Galgalim has about 6,000 hp.
• Easily soloed by any job level 70+.
• Easily Soloed by SMN 65+

• After defeating Galgalim, return to Port Bastok and speak with Juroro for another cutscene.
  • The Earth Pendulum can be tossed once you have completed the fight.
• Finally, return to Windurst Walls (E-7) (Home Point #1) and talk to Koru-Moru to complete the quest and receive your reward.
  • You may get dialogue relating to a different quest. You must speak to him again if he does not give you a cutscene.