THE SCALE

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

THE SCALE is an errand RUTH hands out on THE GARAGE, and it wants 1 A LIZARD GOD'S SCALE brought back.

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

In the rift Ada pried a scale off a lizard god with her bare hands - the trail's gut-punch find says so. Her mother asks for a scale like it, off the same scaled breed, not as proof and not for comfort: she wants to hold what her daughter is up against, and find out it is the gods who should worry.

What it asks

SHAPE	WHAT	HOW MANY
FETCH	A LIZARD GOD'S SCALE	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 LIZARD GOD'S SCALE	THE SCALED ANCESTOR	34%

• A LIZARD GOD'S SCALEA 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, 800 coins and 2 rolled pieces.

The experience is authored as a SHARE of your own level bar — 1 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 pieces go 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 DENT.

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.