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Notes: I included the city of Vector from the 4th build day as the setting for most of this quest, but as I don’t know exactly how the setting is planned to work or how the PC will get to Vector or what the main storyline will be yet, this may not fit into your canon properly.

  *PC walks into a bar in town before you get to Vector*

*shady-looking guy in the corner named (Alanzo), wearing out of place clothing, metal gadgets*

*if PC goes to talk to him…*

Alanzo: “Hey buddy, you an adventurer?” “Yeah, ya look like the type, strong, tough, dumb as a sack a bricks…”  “Anyways, ya wouldn’t happen ta be thinkin’ bout goin to Vector anytime soon, would ja?” “If so, I might have a job for ya.”

*prompt comes up*: Listen to his request?

*if no* “Eh, worth a try.” *mumbles* “Damn it…”

*if yes*  “Sweet. I knew it. These old eyes don’t lie”

“Alright, so here’s the deal: I gots some premium info on one o’ the elite businessmen in Vector.” “And I got a buddy o’ mine back in town that’s in a position ta use this info to take the bastard out.” “Problem is, I got in a bit of trouble with the law back there a few months ago…” “Bottom line is: if I were ta go back there and they caught me, the results wouldn’t be pretty.” “And as much as I’d like the reward for deliverin’ this info, and to be there when the asshole gets caught…” “Just knowin’ that the information has gotten ‘ta the right hands would be satisfyin’ enough for me.” “So whaddya say? I’ll give you a bit o’ loot ta tide you over now, and my buddy will give ya the rest when ya get there.”

*prompt comes up* Accept Quest?

*if no* “Damn it. Ya sure? Well, come back and talk to me if ya change yer mind.”

*if yes*  “Yes! Here’s the info:” *he tells you the information and makes you repeat it back a few times to make sure you’ve got it* “Yeah, I know it sounds like nonsense, but it’ll make sense ta him.” “My buddy’s name is Jack Dyton.” “He’s usually hangin’ out around the docks, in a dive called ‘The Leaky Zeppelin’.” “It’sa small building with a propeller above the sign, ya can’t miss it.” “Thanks buddy, this’ll really help us out.” “Ya know, fightin’ corruption and stuff, ya hero types like that right?” “Here’s yer reward.” *He gives you a decent amount of coins/whatever the currency is in Vector, not a lot though, and some airship/robot parts that are vendor trash*

  *If you said no previously, but you come back and talk to him again* “Changed yer mind, did ya?”

*if yes* “Ha! Knew you’d come around.” “Adventurers are so damn easy these days” *go to answer from if you had said yes the first time*

*if no*  “Damn it. Ya sure? Well, come back and talk to me if ya change yer mind.”

  *If you said yes previously, but you come back and talk to him again* *drinking happily and babbling to himself* “Heh heh heh…” *notices you* “Ack! Whaterya doin’ sneakin’ up on an ol’ man like that!” “Did ya deliver the information already?” “If not, then get outta here! Yer gonna make people suspicious…”

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*later, when you get to Vector and are wandering around the city…*

*If you go down to the docks: back past a bunch of supply crates and shipping offices, all the way towards the end, a huge crate with an airship propeller stuck to the top has been repurposed into a bar. Hanging from one of the fins is a sign proclaiming this to be “The Leaky Zeppelin”. There are a few signs scattered around the docks pointing towards it that you would only find if you were looking for something around there in the first place.*

 *Inside is dark and musty. There’s one bartender, who will sell you cheap beer if asked. There are a bunch of bums and scruffy-looking dock workers sitting at the bar/tables, who if you talk to them will either be in a drunken stupor, mumbling to themselves, singing shanties, or will ask if you’re trying to start a fight with them but won’t actually attack you because they’re too exhausted from working all day. Jack Dyton is standing in the back corner, overseeing the whole thing. He’s dressed a lot nicer than everyone else (vest, fedora, tie, etc.) and looks slightly out of place, but he doesn’t act like it.*

*talk to Jack* “Haven’t seen you around here before…and you don’t look like a dock worker…” “Interesting…you got something to say to me, stranger?”

*prompt: tell him Alonso sent you with information* “That old bastard’s still alive? I’m almost impressed. Like a cockroach.” “Alright. What did he find out that was so ‘important’?”

*prompt: 1. Give him info 2. Ask about reward*

*if ‘Ask about reward’* “Yeah, yeah, I’ll give ya something…if your information is actually worth anything to me.” *prompt: give him info*

*‘give him info’* “…” “…” “…Damn. Stupid bastard’s actually stumbled on to something useful.” “I guess it was worth me not ratting him out to the (cops/guards/insert law enforcement agency here) after all.” *thinks, looks you over* “…Tell you what…I’ll give you a reward for bringing me this info.” “But I can give you an even bigger reward if you help me out with something…”

*prompt: 1. No just give me my money. 2. What kind of ‘something’?*

*if 1* “Fine. Your loss.” *gives reward, at least twice what Alonso gave you* *you can’t go back and accept quest from him*

*if 2* “The businessman in question, Mr. Goldenberg, has a house in the elite part of town.” “And it just so happens that he has an entrance to his house accessible through the sewers.” “Don’t ask why…” “And I have the code for that entrance.” “He and his wife and mistresses are off at a party at one of his neighbors that will last a few days.” “If you can sneak into his house, incapacitate the guards, and break into the basement…” “…there should be a bronze key in a safe under his desk.” “Bring me that key, and I will give you double the reward, plus a little something extra for your troubles.”

*prompt: 1. Yes 2. No 3. Why ask me?*

*if 2. no* (same as if you said no the first time)

*if 3* “Because you’re not from around here.” “They won’t be expecting someone who fights like you.” *plus, they can’t trace you back to me, but you probably figured that* “So?” *prompt yes or no again*

*if 1. Yes* “Excellent. Here’s your first reward.” *gives amount Alonzo gave you plus half* “I’ll give you the rest if…when you get back.” “The code is 1 2 3 4 5.” “…Well, I never said he was a very smart man, now did I?” “Good luck. You’ll need it.” *under his breath: Please let this one actually work. Just this once, (insert name of local good deity here).* “What? Nothing. Get going.” “And feel free to ramsack his house and steal anything that’s not nailed down.”

  *if you talk to him without having gotten/accepted Alonzo quest first, you find out someone else got sent with info and then got sent to raid the mansion but they were arrested in the sewers because they couldn’t remember the code. You get prompt to go invade mansion instead.*

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*in sewers by rich district*

*Signs indicating which house they go to. Mr. Goldenberg’s has a ladder leading up, then a winding path with a gate and a numbered key pad halfway through. If PC punches in “1 2 3 4 5”, the gate will open.*

(descriptions normal for a while)

The path leads up to a long ladder and a fancy door. If PC opens the door, they will find themselves in Mr. Goldenberg’s rooftop bedroom. More specifically, in his walk-in closet.  That has more doors leading to rooms for shoes, shirts, pants, ties, wife’s dresses, mistresses’ dresses, etc. These can all be locked if you don’t want to have to fill them with stuff.

Opening the main door, PC finds themselves in the bedroom. It is furnished with a huge bed, electronics, dance floor, fancy bathroom, a wine bar and all sorts of decadence. Huge glass windows look out onto pool area. Chests with food and drink and jewelry and such scattered around room and pool. Outdoor pool area looks over elite area, fences between PC and the roof. Maybe some sort of fire escape so PC can explore surrounding area, depends on if main storyline would allow it or not – also so PC can stumble into questline if already in area and doesn’t know about it, plan to make it work so that PC will know to give key to Jack if they accidentally find it while running around the house because they broke in/figured out the sewer code or something.

Anyway, PC exits bedroom and works their way through the house, setting off tripwires that summon guards – more guards on lower floors, finding chests to loot, chests with diaries of wife and mistresses talking about their lifestyle and servants talking about their bosses being jerks and missing their families for lore/flavor text, recipe book in kitchen with recipes with endangered animals and non-human sentient beings as ingredients because they’re decadent and horrible and stuff, that sort of thing. Guards yell generic guard things, lower levels spawn spiders along with guards.

PC finds ladder leading to basement. Down the ladder is a small room with a door. PC goes through the door and is teleported somewhere – separate dungeon area. PC finds themselves in fairly normal-looking office room with desk in the middle. There is a chest embedded in the floor under the desk. PC opens the chest and sets off trap that drops them/teleports them (whatever mechanic works) into another room. The room is dark and barren, made of stone brick. There is a small hole in the ceiling. A voice comes in from outside.

*speaker* “Oh hello there! Did Mr. Dyton down at the docks send you here?” “That silly little man, always interfering in my business.” “I guess he thinks he’s found something good on me if he’s making a try for the bronze key again.” “Well, I suppose you can have the key – if you can find it down here!” “It’s simple; all you have to do is win my little games.” “Good luuuuck~” *maniacal evil laughter* *female voices join in laughter* “Come along darlings, let’s go get the popcorn.”

Hole in the ceiling closes off. The room lights up. There is a door with a button next to it. PC goes through the door.

PC is now in a mini dungeon. There are at least 3 rooms with puzzles to solve. The puzzles are not difficult, but are rather nonsensical (like fourth-wall breaking, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” “What has it got in it’s pocketises?” type stuff). Mossy old corridors filled with skeletons and spiders and zombies – normal mobs – connect the rooms together. The puzzle rooms, by contrast, are bright and shiny and modern. But in each room, there is a wall made of bars and on the other side is a dank old horrible moldy cell filled with dirty, disheveled prisoners. A sign over the cell says “LOSERS”. The prisoners are mostly insane and mumbling about random things/being afraid of mobs attacking them/wanting food and water, but in each cell one of the prisoners (the one with an actual name and not just named “insane prisoner”) will be coherent enough to ask for your help. The PC can trade them food for a hint that will help them solve the puzzle (there will be a chest with food somewhere where the prisoners can’t reach but the PC can, in case they don’t have the food on them). In the last room, the still-sane prisoner is named ‘Sally Dyton’, and she asks that, if you do manage to escape, you find her brother Jack down by the docks at The Leaky Zeppelin and tell him that she’s still alive and that she loves him and to stay safe. Also, “Turn left.” (you can’t beat this room without helping her)

 *when PC beats the first room* Mr. Goldenberg: “Oooo, we have a clever one here! But the next puzzle won’t be so ea-sy!~”

*when PC beats the second room* Mr. Goldenberg: *annoyed* “Hmpf! Very well! I’ll give you that one.” “But you’ll never get the next/last one!”

*when PC beats the final room* Mr. Goldenberg: *angry* “NOOOOOOO! HOW COULD YOOOOU! GUARDS!”

When PC come out of the final room, there is a white corridor filled with guards to fight past. At the end is a fork. There is a sign with an arrow pointing right that says “EXIT” and an arrow pointing left that says “DANGER”.

If PC goes right, they will fight a few more guards and then go through another door that teleports them out into a random place in the sewer area. They escaped, but they didn’t find the key.

If PC goes left, they will come upon another room that looks identical to the small office they first found when they entered that basement. Outside you can hear the guards and Mr. Goldenberg shouting. There is another chest under this desk that contains the bronze key, and also a note saying “1 2 3 4 5” (the note is so they get the code if they didn’t get it from Jack). There is a door at the back with another number pad, and entering “1 2 3 4 5” will teleport them back outside the first door in the sewers. 

Quest item: “You got a key!”

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Bringing the key back to Jack.

*if you talk to him without having done the quest and/or gotten the key* “If you don’t have what I want, then go away.” “I’m a busy man.” *he refuses to speak to you until you give him the key*

  *if you didn’t get the quest from him*

*talk to Jack* “Haven’t seen you around here before…and you don’t look like a dock worker…” “Interesting…you got something to say to me, stranger?”

*you give him the key* “…This is…where did you get this?” *you tell him you found the dungeon and that Goldenberg thought you sent him to get this* *you tell him about his sister* “Sally…” “Thank you. Thank you for bringing this to me.” “I don’t know if I can use this without getting some more information to convict him…” “But at least it’s something.” “Here, you deserve at least something after going through all that.” *he gives you three times what Alonzo would have given you if you got the first quest and one higher-level item*

  *if you did get the quest from him*

*talk to Jack with the key* “If you don’t have what I want…” *he notices that you do have what he wants*