THE MAN WHO TEARS THE PAGES
- ERRAND
- HUNT
- NOBODY IN PARTICULAR
- THE RIFT
- CHAIN LINK
- CAMPAIGN
THE MAN WHO TEARS THE PAGES is an errand NOBODY IN PARTICULAR hands out on THE RIFT, and it wants GRIGORI RASPUTIN put down and 1 THE BINDING NEEDLE brought back.
Every part of it counts: the errand is not done, and cannot be handed in, until all of them are.
It is not offered cold: A PAGE OF SOMEBODY has to be handed in first — and being a campaign chain, that may well have been on another venue entirely, to somebody else.
A book of everyone a machine wrote off had to be BOUND by somebody, and binding is a trade — so the trade was taken, along with the man who had it. The thing that does the tearing still walks the tribute road for the scaled gods, and it is carrying the needle. This is the errand the whole chain has been walking toward: not a delivery, not a search. The man who did it.
What it asks
| SHAPE | WHAT | HOW MANY |
|---|---|---|
| HUNT | GRIGORI RASPUTIN | — |
| FETCH |  THE BINDING NEEDLE | 1 |
| PIECE | CARRIED BY | PER KILL |
|---|---|---|
| THE BINDING NEEDLE | GRIGORI RASPUTIN | 100% |
- THE BINDING NEEDLEA 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.
- ONE BODYGRIGORI RASPUTIN is a set piece rather than a breed, so the tracker reads a name instead of a tally — there is exactly one of them to find.
- 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, 900 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.
| WHAT | HOW MUCH |
|---|---|
| COINS | 900 |
| ROLLED LOOT | 2 (+2 tier skew) |
| DIFFICULTY | HERO LEVEL | XP |
|---|---|---|
| EASY | 25 | 25190 |
| MEDIUM | 25 | 25190 |
| HARD | 29 | 40894 |
| NIGHTMARE | 50 | 1247727 |
The chain
Comes after A PAGE OF SOMEBODY.
Opens THE LAST PAGE.
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
NOBODY IN PARTICULARI REMEMBER THE HANDS. I REMEMBER BEING HELD OPEN.
NOBODY IN PARTICULARHE WATCHES THE TRIBUTE ROAD NOW. THEY PAY HIM TO.
HE STILL HAS MY NEEDLE.
NOBODY IN PARTICULARI'M NOT ASKING YOU TO AVENGE ME. I'M ASKING FOR THE TOOL BACK.
IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT OPENS WHAT HE MADE.
Coming back short
NOBODY IN PARTICULARHE'S ON THE ROAD SOMEWHERE. YOU'LL KNOW HIM. EVERYONE DOES.
The handover
NOBODY IN PARTICULARYOU BROUGHT IT BACK.
NOBODY IN PARTICULARTHEN LISTEN, BECAUSE THIS IS THE PART NOBODY GETS TOLD.
NOBODY IN PARTICULARIT ISN'T A LIST. IT'S A BOOK, IT'S BOUND, AND THE BINDING WAS SHIPPED OUT AS SURPLUS STOCK.
NOBODY IN PARTICULARTHEY SENT THE MOST DANGEROUS OBJECT IN TWO UNIVERSES TO A THEME PARK.
AS A PROP.
NOBODY IN PARTICULARTHERE'S A CHURCH IN IT. THERE'S A MAN HOLDING IT.
HE'S BEEN READING NOTHING OUT OF IT FOR ELEVEN YEARS.