Something in the Water
- Town
- Bogwater
- Given by
- Ivy Wick, Lamplighter
Objectives
| # | Type | Target | Count | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Explore | Sunken Grotto | 1 | enter from the south, by the Sunken Grotto waystone – (196, 1001), Marsh |
| 2 | Kill Boss | Marsh Horror | 1 | Marsh Horror lair – (192, 968), Marsh |
Yellow dots: objective areas (centre tiles).
Rewards
- 8,000 XP
- 400 gold
- 2 talent points
- Title: Lamplighter (+1 Intelligence)
- Perk: Tome of Self-Knowledge +1 to a stat of your choice (str/dex/int/con), permanent. Uses balance.json 'tomes' if that system matches; else NEW.
Quest dialogue (spoilers)
Offer
You've seen the lamps. Every one lit, dusk to dawn, and woe to the one who lets hers go out. It's not superstition. It's what comes up from the Grotto when the lamps fail: the Marsh Horror's children, crawling up the stilts. My mother let her lamp go out once. Once. Go into the Sunken Grotto and kill the thing at the bottom (enter from the south: the way in is a narrow gap in its south wall, just north-east of the grotto waystone; the north side is walled off), and Bogwater might sleep in the dark for the first time in two hundred years.
While in progress
It spawns its little ones from the pools. Kill the pools' children quick, or you'll be swimming in them. The way in is from the south: a narrow gap in the grotto's south wall, just north-east of the Sunken Grotto waystone. Walk north through the grotto; the lair is at its north end. Coming from the Marsh side you will only find its walls.
On completion
It's... gone? Truly? Then tonight I'm going to put my lamp out. Just for a breath. Just to see. Thank you. Here: the town took up a collection. Most of it's eel money. Don't ask.