TWO SHORT

• ERRAND
• FETCH
• THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
• THE RIFT

TWO SHORT is an errand THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER hands out on THE RIFT, and it wants 2 A KEEPER'S LAMPs brought back.

Three men went out to trim a light in a gale and three lamps went with them; the keeper has the one. The other two fell in with the men who carried them. Both come back still lit, which means somebody trimmed them — which is what he wanted to know, and not what he asked for.

What it asks

SHAPE	WHAT	HOW MANY
FETCH	A KEEPER'S LAMP	2

Who is carrying the pieces — a kill of one of these, while the errand is live and the tally short, rolls for a piece.

PIECE	CARRIED BY	PER KILL
A KEEPER'S LAMP	VOIDLING	34%

• A KEEPER'S LAMP1 piece of it is already lying on the floor, found rather than fought for. A long dry run off the horde is not a dead end: after 6 kills of a carrier with nothing to show for it, the next one drops for certain.
• ONLY WHILE IT IS LIVEthe pieces exist for the errand and nothing else — they drop once it has been accepted and the tally is still short, and they are handed over at the turn-in.

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 — 0.4 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.

The chain

Opens THE BOY IN THE SAILOR SUIT.

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.