PLAY ADA'S TRAIL Ada's Trail

NOTHING BUT STATIC

NOTHING BUT STATIC, an errand in Ada's Trail

NOTHING BUT STATIC is an errand THE RADIO OPERATOR hands out on THE MOON, and it wants 10 kills of WRAITH.

Something is sitting on the operator's band, and it is not weather — the wraiths do it deliberately. Ten of them off the dust buys back a clean carrier, the first since seventy-one, on a frequency with nobody listening at the far end of it.

What it asks

SHAPEWHATHOW MANY
CULLWRAITH10
  • ANY KILL COUNTSyours, a companion's, a powerup's — the errand is thinning them out, not proving it was you.
NOTHING BUT STATIC, an errand in Ada's Trail, on the floor of THE MOON where it is handed out
NOTHING BUT STATIC — on THE MOON.

What it pays

Handing it in pays experience, 90 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.

WHATHOW MUCH
COINS90
ROLLED LOOT1 (+1 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
EASY131249
MEDIUM131249
HARD151951
NIGHTMARE44232630

The chain

Opens THE HANDOVER.

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 RADIO OPERATOR

SOMETHING'S SITTING ON MY BAND. NOT WEATHER. THE WRAITHS DO IT ON PURPOSE.

THE RADIO OPERATOR

TEN OF THEM AND I GET MY CARRIER BACK.

Coming back short

THE RADIO OPERATOR

STILL JAMMED. STILL TEN, MORE OR LESS.

The handover

THE RADIO OPERATOR

CARRIER'S CLEAN. FIRST CLEAN CARRIER SINCE SEVENTY-ONE.

THE RADIO OPERATOR

THE SUIT LOCKER'S OPEN. TAKE WHAT FITS.