This Rock is Mine

**This Rock is Mine** is a quest given by Giva Joshi after you begin the quest Turn a New Leaf and receive the Deep Mine Key. It requires you to go into the lower levels of The Mine and unlock five chests containing artifacts from when the mine was open. After delivering all five artifacts to Giva, you must travel to Ravenwood Hollow to confront Aryel about his role in the mine's closure, then go back to Giva to report about what you learned. The reward for completion is 250 coins.

The artifacts are letters that can be found in the locked chests on floors 15-19 of the mine.

You will need at least 5x Lockpick Incantation to complete this quest, but you may want to bring 10 because there are two chests on each floor you need to search - one will contain a letter while the other will contain either a powered gem or a set of recipes.

## Dialogue

Quest intro:

* Giva: Here’s a question, fellow newcomer: does Fairhaven’s history fascinate you, too? Or is it just me?
* --[Choice: I love it!]
	+ Tara: Yes, it does! Fairhaven may be small, but it’s complex.
	+ Giva: My feelings exactly! So many people from the world over have come to the island.
* --[Choice: It’s just you]
	+ -
* Giva: You’ve gone quite deep into the mines, haven’t you? I find that place especially intriguing. There was once a thriving mining operation down there, but it halted quite suddenly not too long ago. If you find anything in the mines that explains the place’s history, will you tell me?
* Tara: That’s kind of vague, but, uh, sure!

Part 1: Look for artifacts in the bottom levels of the mine and take them to Giva.

* Giva: How illuminating! Thank you, Tara!

Part 2: See if anyone else can shed light on the mine’s history.

* Tara: Aryel. I need to ask you something about the mines.
* Aryel: An exquisite habitat! What do you wish to know?
* Tara: Are you the one who drove it out of business?
* Aryel: At last! Someone figures it out! Yes!!
* Tara: And did you hide all the keys, too?
* Aryel: Heehee! Most certainly!
* Tara: But… I just… why?!
* Aryel: The humans were making far too much noise. And the ores – they took and took. It hurt the animals that make the cave their home. The keys were a prank. A vicious one, true. But it worked!
* --[Choice: They lost their jobs]
	+ Tara: A lot of people worked in those mines. They had to leave once their jobs disappeared.
	+ Aryel: Jobs, work, labor! That's all humans talk about. Perhaps if they didn't salivate so over 'jobs,' they would have left the caves untouched.
* --[Choice: You saved a lot of animals]
	+ Tara: You must have saved the lives of generations of animals!
	+ Aryel: Oh, yes. That I did! Sometimes I go visit the bats and the creepy-crawlies that live there today. I tell them stories of their distant ancestors, who survived the miners.
* Tara: I can’t tell Giva what actually caused the mines to close.
* Aryel: That is true. You do not want to incur the coven’s wrath, or Peri’s, I can tell you.

Part 3: You should tell Giva what you learned about the mine.

* Tara: I think I uncovered what happened in the mines.
* Giva: Oh?! Tell me, tell me!
* Tara: It was… how do I put this… a kind of corporate sabotage.
* Giva: I would have never guessed that! By whom?
* --[Choice: It’s a mystery]
	+ Tara: It’s a mystery. But it was definitely intentional.
	+ Giva: Mm. Well, the best mysteries have an unsolvable element, right? Something for the reader to guess at.
	+ Tara: I’m glad you feel that way, because… I don’t think you’ll be figuring this one out.
* --[Choice: It was a curupira]
	+ Tara: A curupira did it. He’s, um, a creature from Tupi folklore.
	+ Giva: Oh, Tara, you have the oddest sense of humor! Well, perhaps the answer is still out there.
	+ Tara: But-
	+ Giva: Or perhaps we just aren’t meant to know.
	+ Tara: I think that’s more likely…
* Giva: In any case, we’ve both learned so much from your adventures. Thank you, Tara.
* Tara: Anytime.
* [Reward: 250 coins]