Stuck on Maker Quest

I probably should have posted this first, but I initially forfeited the quest after speaking with the first two npc's a long time ago mostly because I didn't want to travel all the way to the bottom of the Orbis Tower. I restarted the quest just recently so I'm thinking the same thing will happen here.

I'll try it one more time though to be sure.

...At least I can do the evolving ring quest as I'm doing this =/