THE CREW ARE LATE

• ERRAND
• HUNT
• THE SHIP'S COOK
• THE RIFT
• CHAIN LINK

THE CREW ARE LATE is an errand THE SHIP'S COOK hands out on THE RIFT, and it wants THE SCALED ANCESTOR put down.

It is not offered cold: PROVISIONS has to be handed in first, on this same map and to this same person.

Something old and cold-blooded keeps circling the mess and watching the door. The cook will not serve with that at it, and he is not armed. Clearing the door takes away the last excuse the crew have for not coming up, which is how he puts it.

What it pays

Handing it in pays experience, 190 coins and 1 rolled piece.

The experience is authored as a SHARE of your own level bar — 0.75 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 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.

The chain

Comes after PROVISIONS.

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.