THE COUNTERSIGNATURE

• ERRAND
• FETCH
• WALTER PRICE
• GOODCO HQ
• CHAIN LINK
• CAMPAIGN

THE COUNTERSIGNATURE is an errand WALTER PRICE hands out on GOODCO HQ, and it wants 1 COUNTERSIGNED FORM 7-B brought back.

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

No record closes without a countersignature, and the party that signed is a records terminal on treads that has stood by that instruction for eleven years. It will stamp the form for anybody who can satisfy it they are entitled to ask — and it will come off its treads at anybody who tells it the rule does not matter, which is a second and equally valid way to get one.

What it asks

SHAPE	WHAT	HOW MANY
FETCH	COUNTERSIGNED FORM 7-B	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
COUNTERSIGNED FORM 7-B	ARCHIVE UNIT	100%

• COUNTERSIGNED FORM 7-BA 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, 180 coins and 1 rolled piece.

The experience is authored as a SHARE of your own level bar — 0.2 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

Comes after THE LAST BOX.

Opens THE COLUMN THAT WON'T CLOSE.

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.