PLAY ADA'S TRAIL Ada's Trail

FORM 7-B

FORM 7-B, an errand in Ada's Trail

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

A man at a desk needs a typewriter ribbon. That is the entire errand, and it is worth doing for the same reason it is worth writing down: the last honest paperwork this company will ever file is being done by hand, at night, by somebody nobody is paying, and he is one consumable short of finishing it.

What it asks

SHAPEWHATHOW MANY
FETCHCARBON RIBBON 7-B, in Ada's TrailCARBON RIBBON 7-B1
  • CARBON RIBBON 7-B1 piece of it is already lying on the floor, found rather than fought for. Nothing on the map carries one, so what is lying there is the whole supply.
  • 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.
FORM 7-B, an errand in Ada's Trail, on the floor of GOODCO HQ where it is handed out
FORM 7-B — on GOODCO HQ.

What it pays

Handing it in pays experience and 40 coins.

The experience is authored as a SHARE of your own level bar — 0.06 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.

WHATHOW MUCH
COINS40
What the share comes to for the hero this venue is tuned for. JESUS keeps the player-relative ladder, so it has no fixed reference level to price against.
DIFFICULTYHERO LEVELXP
EASY6114
MEDIUM6114
HARD8118
NIGHTMARE4223661

The chain

Opens THE LAST BOX.

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

WALTER PRICE

I DON'T WANT ANYTHING KILLED. I WANT A CARBON RIBBON.

WALTER PRICE

SUPPLY CABINET, EAST WALL. BLACK BOX, SAYS 7-B ON IT.
I'D GO MYSELF BUT I'D LOSE MY PLACE IN THE STACK.

Coming back short

WALTER PRICE

EAST WALL. BLACK BOX. IT'S NOT A HARD ERRAND.

The handover

WALTER PRICE

THAT'S THE ONE. THANK YOU.

WALTER PRICE

RIGHT. TERMINATION 4,411. NAME WITHHELD PENDING —
HUH.

WALTER PRICE

YOUR FILE'S STILL OPEN. MOST OF THEM ARE, ACTUALLY.
I ASSUMED THAT WAS ME BEING SLOW.