Shadow's Descent
Shadow's Descent is a mission quest available via the QUEST verb.
Step 1: You have must have unlocked and completed the Gemstones quest.
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: 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.]
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: 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: 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)
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.