THE DENT

• ERRAND
• FETCH
• RUTH
• THE GARAGE
• CHAIN LINK
• CAMPAIGN

THE DENT is an errand RUTH hands out on THE GARAGE, and it wants 1 A BITTEN SHELL PLATE brought back.

It is not offered cold: THE RECEIPT has to be handed in first — and being a campaign chain, that may well have been on another venue entirely, to somebody else.

Ruth has never met a companion unit and does not need to: wherever they are keeping her daughter, somebody will have sent a machine with a face to keep her company, and Ada will have bitten it. She raised her. The colony's own paperwork will later file the same fact as 'REFUSES COMPANY. BIT UNIT 34' - the mother predicted it from a kitchen on Earth.

What it asks

SHAPE	WHAT	HOW MANY
FETCH	A BITTEN SHELL PLATE	1

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 BITTEN SHELL PLATE	FEMBOT, MISPRINTED FEMBOT	34%

• A BITTEN SHELL PLATEA 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.
• CAMPAIGNThis errand belongs to the hero rather than to the run. Its progress is carried between venues and survives leaving the map, its chain crosses the whole campaign, and anything a conversation told you along the way still counts two venues later. It is tracked per difficulty, so a fresh rung starts the chain again.

What it pays

Handing it in pays experience, 350 coins and 1 rolled piece.

The experience is authored as a SHARE of your own level bar — 0.7 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 THE RECEIPT.

Opens THE SCALE.

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.