PLAY ADA'S TRAIL Ada's Trail

THE GUEST LIST

THE GUEST LIST, an errand in Ada's Trail

THE GUEST LIST is an errand THE CONCIERGE hands out on THE BUNKER, and it wants VALET NINE delivered in one piece.

An escort is the one errand shape that can FAIL rather than merely stay open — VALET NINE is a body on the field the horde can reach, and if they fall the errand goes with them.

It is not offered cold: STANDARD OF SERVICE and HOUSEKEEPING have to be handed in first, on this same map and to this same person.

A valet unit is carrying a case it has never been given the code for and is not curious about, and it is due in the residents wing. It will not arrive alone. It arrives with the case still locked, and the concierge asks for the record to show that he has never opened it.

What it asks

SHAPEWHATHOW MANY
ESCORTVALET NINE, in Ada's TrailVALET NINE
  • VALET NINE320 health, and takes 55% of what a monster's touch would land on you. They walk at 46 px/s — a shade under your own — and stop rather than follow once you are more than 260 px ahead.
  • WHY IT IS HARDnothing on the field is retargeted onto them: the horde reaches an escort because the escort follows YOU, which is what makes the fight want you to kite and the errand want you not to.
THE GUEST LIST, an errand in Ada's Trail, on the floor of THE BUNKER where it is handed out
THE GUEST LIST — on THE BUNKER.

What it pays

Handing it in pays experience, 260 coins and 2 rolled pieces.

The experience is authored as a SHARE of your own level bar — 0.9 of one — rather than as a figure, so the same errand is worth the same fraction of a level on the first map and the last. The table below is what that comes to for a hero at the level this venue is tuned for; take it later and it pays more.

The rolled pieces go through the ordinary drop pipeline at your own level, with 2 tiers of skew on the rarity roll — the same skew the merchant's stall takes. A quest is a second CALLER of the loot system, never a second loot system, so what it hands over is the same kind of thing a monster drops.

WHATHOW MUCH
COINS260
ROLLED LOOT2 (+2 tier skew)
What the share comes to for the hero this venue is tuned for. JESUS keeps the player-relative ladder, so it has no fixed reference level to price against.
DIFFICULTYHERO LEVELXP
EASY2832603
MEDIUM2832603
HARD3147980
NIGHTMARE552302371

The chain

Comes after STANDARD OF SERVICE, HOUSEKEEPING.

A chain never crosses a map or a run: the quest log belongs to the run you are in rather than to the hero, so every link of one is taken, done and handed in on a single visit, from the same person.

What is said

The errand in the giver's own words, covered until you ask for it.

The ask

THE CONCIERGE

VALET NINE CARRIES A CASE IT HAS NEVER BEEN GIVEN THE CODE FOR. IT IS NOT CURIOUS.

THE CONCIERGE

IT IS DUE IN THE RESIDENTS WING AND WILL NOT ARRIVE ALONE. WALK WITH IT, SIR.

Coming back short

THE CONCIERGE

VALET NINE HAS NOT ARRIVED, SIR. IT WILL NOT HURRY.

The handover

THE CONCIERGE

VALET NINE IS ON STATION. THE CASE IS STILL LOCKED.

THE CONCIERGE

I HAVE NEVER OPENED IT. I WOULD LIKE THE RECORD TO SHOW THAT.

On the way

VALET NINE

THE CASE STAYS WITH ME, SIR.
ON STATION. THE CASE IS INTACT.