Portal Space Time Travel

== Overview ==
* This quest is broken up into 4 days. You must wait 20 hours after completing one part before you may move on to the next.
* While on this quest, you will have the option to complete the older Portal Space Research quests.
* Upon completing this quest, you will have access to a restored Mar'uun, and the Portal Space Rifts quest within.
* There is some degree of divergence based on your choices, which can net you additional dialog and an extra title.
== Walkthrough & Notes ==
=== Flagging ===
# Go to Mar'uun, which will be in a destroyed state. Merely entering the portal is all that is required for the use of the randomly spawning Resonant portals.
#* Route: Al-Arqas to Al-Nosaj settlement portal at 33.5S, 13.1E. Alternatively, run from Samsur
# While in the destroyed Mar'uun, collect the Scrap of Paper. It is located where Kaywin was, in the area behind the researchers next to the Stabilizing Machines. To reach it, go to the portal research area, climb the stairs to the west and find a hole on the wooden floor. Jump down and pick up the Scrap of Paper. This will be worth experience in day 3 or 4, so hang on to it.
=== Day 1 ===
This portion takes place during Coldeve, 20 PY (February 2009, Unfinished Business) when Mar'uun was first introduced. Marcus and Wren are conducting the original experiments. The Virindi Jean and Luc are not present, neither is Kaywin the machinist.
# Locate a Resonant Portal (no level restrict, no summon/tie/recall).
#* Known locations include the western Direlands (i.e. Ayan, Lethe areas).
# Use the portal to travel to Mar'uun in the past.
# Proceed to the portal space research area north of the main loop and across the bridge. Speak with Wren the Curious and Marcus Manfried. During your interactions with Marcus, you are presented with the option to reveal to him about the arrival of Jean and Luc via a Yes/No Dialog Box.
# After making your choice, you will be told to come back in a day's time.
# The Test Portal can be used for 1 million experience if you didn't do so prior to Mar'uun's destruction. The Test Portal sends you to the wooden platform above it, but in the present day destroyed Mar'uun. Make sure you do everything you want in this version of Mar'uun before you do this.
# Once you've talked to the NPCs once and have left, you cannot return for 20 hours.
=== Day 2 ===
This portion takes place during Wintersebb, 20 PY (March 2009, Who Watches the Virindi?). Marcus is next to the Enhanced Test Portal, which is unstable, and Wren has moved to the back room. The Virindi Jean and Luc are now present, but Kaywin is not.
# Return to the destroyed Mar'uun and collect another Scrap of Paper, as described in the Flagging section. This is for additional experience on day 3 or 4.
#* For a free trip to the Resonant Portal, do this step after Marcus gives you the Research Notes - then just go out the Mar'uun exit portal and it's right there)
# Locate a Resonant Portal.
# Talk to Jean and Luc at the portal drop. A dialog box will appear asking "Would you like to confront the Virindi about their presence in Mar'uun?". You can answer Yes or No. Answering Yes gives additional dialog.
#* This appears to interfere with earning the Virindi Informer title! This step is not necessary and should probably be avoided.
# Proceed to the portal space research area. You'll notice Wren isn't in her usual spot but rather inside the nearby room staring at the wall. She doesn't say much when you talk to her. Also, the Test Portal is now the Enhanced Test Portal.
# Talk to Marcus to receive the Research Notes (First Notes), which he asks you to take to an Arcanum Researcher.
#* If you told him about the Virindi yesterday, he will award you 1,000,000 xp.
#* If you didn't tell him about the Virindi yesterday, he will award you 750,000 xp.
# Hand the Research Notes to Jean or Luc. They will just examine them and give you some dialog.
#* Note: This step appears necessary to earn the Virindi Informer title.
# Take the Research Notes (First Notes) to any Arcanum Researcher in any one of the capital heritage libraries. The Arcanum Researcher will examine them and direct you to give them to Ned the Clever in Zaikhal.
# Give the Research Notes to Ned and he will give you Aetherium Research Notes. He directs you to give these to Marcus. Hold on to these notes for tomorrow, when you may enter Mar'uun again.
=== Day 3 ===
This portion takes place during Morningthaw, 20 PY (April 2009, What Once was Lost). Marcus and Wren are next to the Enhanced Test Portal. Kaywin is now in town.
# Return to the destroyed Mar'uun and collect another Scrap of Paper, as described in the Flagging section. This is for additional experience on day 3 or 4.
# Locate a Resonant Portal.
# You now have two different ;divergent; set of steps you can follow. 
#* Hand your Aetherium Research Notes to Jean or Luc. They will keep the notes so you will be unable to turn them into to Marcus. They award you 250,000 xp.
#* Talk to Marcus and he will award you 750,000 xp and give you Research Notes.;Or you can;
#* Hand the Aetherium Research Notes to Marcus for 1 million xp and the Research Notes.
# Give your Scraps of Paper to Kaywin who is at the Stabilizing Machine behind the portal space research area, near where you found them in the destroyed Mar'uun. 
# Allow Jean or Luc to examine the Research Notes. They will not keep the Notes.
# Take the Research Notes to Ned the Clever in Zaikhal. He will hand you Aetherium Research Notes to deliver to Marcus tomorrow.
=== Day 4 ===
This portion takes place during Solclaim, 20 PY (May 2009, Secrets of the Apostates), before the town is destroyed.
# Return to the destroyed Mar'uun and collect another Scrap of Paper, as described in the Flagging section. This is for additional experience on day 3 or 4. Note that this is the last time you can do this.
# Locate a Resonant Portal.
# You now have two different ;divergent; set of steps you can follow. 
#* Hand your Aetherium Research Notes to Jean or Luc. They will keep the notes so you will be unable to turn them into to Marcus. They will award you 250,000 xp. If you handed ;all; of the previous Notes (Research Notes and Aetherium Research Notes) to the Virindi then they will give you the title Virindi Informer.
#* Talk to Marcus and he will award you 750,000 xp and the title Timeless Adventurer.;Or you can;
#* Hand the Aetherium Research Notes to Marcus for 1 million xp and the title Timeless Aventurer.
# Give your Scraps of Paper to Kaywin who is at the Stabilizing Machine behind the portal space research area, near where you found them in the destroyed Mar'uun. This is your final chance to turn these in.
=== Beyond Day Four ===
* Using the Resonant Portal at 10.6S, 17.1E will send you to a Mar'uun that has avoided destruction. You will now have access to the Portal Space Rifts quest.
* Kaywin in this version doesn't know what to do with the Scrap of Paper but she gives the Machinist's Gloves Quest as usual.
* You will be unable to enter the random Resonant Portals in the Direlands.
== Rewards ==
== Images ==
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File:Wren the Curious Live.jpg|Wren the Curious and the Test Portal before the Disaster
File:Test Portal Ruins Live.jpg|The now dysfunctional Test Portal, after the destruction of Mar'uun
File:Mar'uun Virindi Live.jpg|Jean and Luc (plus an extra Jean due to a bug)
File:Mar'uun Mage's Corpse Live.jpg|The Corpse of Archmage Malak ibn Hern after the Disaster
File:Mar'uun Test Portal Drop (Before Disaster) Live.jpg|The Test Portal Drop before the Disaster
File:Mar'uun Test Portal Drop (After Disaster) Live.jpg|The Test Portal Drop after the Disaster
== Dialog ==
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