PEST CONTROL
- ERRAND
- CULL
- DR. IRENE FALK
- MARS
PEST CONTROL is an errand DR. IRENE FALK hands out on MARS, and it wants 8 kills of SCOUT ROVER.
The scout rovers drive through the botanist's beds because nobody put the beds on their map. It is routing rather than malice, which is why thinning them works: eight, and the survivors plot a way round. That they learn is the part she says nobody believes.
What it asks
| SHAPE | WHAT | HOW MANY |
|---|---|---|
| CULL | SCOUT ROVER | 8 |
- ANY KILL COUNTSyours, a companion's, a powerup's — the errand is thinning them out, not proving it was you.
What it pays
Handing it in pays experience, 110 coins and 1 rolled piece.
The experience is authored as a SHARE of your own level bar — 0.45 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 piece goes through the ordinary drop pipeline at your own level, with 1 tier 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.
| WHAT | HOW MUCH |
|---|---|
| COINS | 110 |
| ROLLED LOOT | 1 (+1 tier skew) |
| DIFFICULTY | HERO LEVEL | XP |
|---|---|---|
| EASY | 19 | 5156 |
| MEDIUM | 19 | 5156 |
| HARD | 22 | 8105 |
| NIGHTMARE | 47 | 355873 |
The chain
Opens THE HOTHOUSE.
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
DR. IRENE FALKTHE SCOUTS DRIVE THROUGH MY BEDS. NOT MALICE — NOBODY PUT THE BEDS ON THEIR MAP.
DR. IRENE FALKEIGHT OF THEM AND THE SURVIVORS WILL ROUTE ROUND.
Coming back short
DR. IRENE FALKTHEY'RE STILL COMING THROUGH. LOOK AT THIS ROW.
The handover
DR. IRENE FALKTHEY'RE GOING ROUND. THEY LEARNED. THAT'S THE PART NOBODY BELIEVES.
DR. IRENE FALKTAKE THIS — SALVAGE. THE COLONY WROTE IT OFF.