Shadow's Descent

Shadow's Descent is a mission quest available via the QUEST verb.

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Step 1:

Step 1:
You have must have unlocked and completed the Gemstones quest.

Step 2:

Step 2:
Travel to the Hinterwilds and go to the Artificer.
[Rawknuckle's, Watering Hole - 29877] (u7503251)

QUEST ACCEPT # (The number for Shadow's Descent)

Step 3:

Step 3:
Shatter a gemstone.

>ask art about shat
The artificer says, "I can shatter your jewel to produce Dust, a valuable commodity that those of us who practice the ways of artifice can use to great effect.  Shattering your jewel will produce 10 Dust.  If you would like me to proceed, ask again in the next 30 seconds."
>ask art about shat
Producing a small hammer that glitters like living starlight, the masked artificer raises its arm high and brings it down in a brutal arc.  With a resonant chiming sound, the jewel shatters into sparkling motes that the artificer gathers carefully into a pile.  It surrenders the Dust to you with a polite nod.

You now have # Dust in your reserves.

[A horned rowan stang is now in your right hand.]

The artificer gathers the fresh Dust residue.  "A worthy sacrifice.  With this, I will fashion a tool for you."  The artificer produces a horned rod made from rowan wood and sprinkles some Dust over it, murmuring in a strange tongue.  The wood glows briefly from within before the Dust settles.  "This is known as a stang.  It is a tool for divination."

"Use the stang to read the bodies of foes you fell within any place known to harbor Gemstone fragments of the Lunar Shard.  Twenty such readings should suffice."  The artificer hands the horned rowan stang to you and turns away as if expecting you to do as you are told without further question.
Roundtime: 5 sec.

Step 4:

Step 4:
Kill Ascension creatures and wave your stang at them!
* Pro Tip - Kill one, wave the stang at one, search the creature, repeat.
* Pro Tip #2 - You can RESERVE the stang, you don't have to hold it!

You will need to kill and wave the stang at 20 creatures.

Step 5:

Step 5:
Travel to the Hinterwilds and go to the Artificer.
[Rawknuckle's, Watering Hole - 29877] (u7503251)
The stang will be automatically taken from you when you return to the Artificer.


As the masked artificer takes the horned rowan stang from you, it nods approvingly.  Its aloof manner evaporates as it whispers over the stang, awakening unreadable sigils along its surfaces.  With a note of grim concern in its voice, it says, "I have a suspicion, but I must be certain.  I believe the most expeditious path to answers lies in an unexpected place."

It says, "In my travels, I encountered a creature of considerable knowledge, a being that is not entirely what he appears to be.  Do you know of kobolds?  They are small and unassuming, but some are possessed of a grander vision.  Seek out a shaman among them in a forest shaped like a dragon's claw.  The answers we seek may lie there."
Roundtime: 5 sec.

Step 6:

Step 6:
Travel to the Kobold Village outside Wehnimer's Landing.
[Kobold Village - 6268] (u373007)
Enter the Shaman's Hut.
[Kobold Village, Shaman's Hut - 36594] (u171801)

"Wait, wait, don't murder me!"  The shrill plea emits from an amber-eyed kobold shaman.  He is certainly a fantastical specimen of his kind, with long, spindly horns rather like an antelope's.  They are painted bile green and vomit pink, colors that match his absurdly vivid robes.  The fact that he hid from you for even a moment is a sign that you should have an empath examine your eyes.

[Use QUEST CONTINUE to proceed.]

Step 7:

Step 7:

forage normal foragables

gnollish mushroom in Marcketel Mushroom Exporters - 9479

porrige in ma leaftoe's shop (IMT herbalist)

return to kobold shaman 6268

GIVE him all the things

lie down and drink soup

forage rift herbs

kill fetish masters in the scatter for peppers peppers drop AT YOUR FEET like gemstones do.

return to kobold shaman 6268

GIVE him all the things

bring soup to next step

graveyard hut 7366

lie down and drink soup

hiwi artificer

hive room 34269 boss fight. may be difficult for some builds

hiwi artificer not a fight, you just get OBLITERATED

you land in IMT TC dead with T3 wounds everywhere

return to artificer

remember to quest complete

and do accept the 4 new repeatable quests.