The Scoundrel's Lab Quest

## General

The Scoundrel's Lab Quest was a quest made by u/Ememems68\_battlecats.

### Original Premise

The Scoundrel and his hive project are gone, but his hideout isn't yet devoid of things to discover...

## Story

The Nightmare Shade entered the Scoundrel's Lab and found a room with broken glass on the floor. She also found flasks containing odd acids. Shade eventually discovers the Belthorn and burns it with Nightmare Essence. She also finds a journal on the ground, describing the various oddities she was about to face. The walls suddenly started shaking and the Flightcarver ambushed Shade. She was able to kill it and continued to go deeper into the lab. There, she found the Bush Skulker - whom she then quickly burnt and acquired the body parts of. She also came across the Mossy Wraith - who she cured with Adamant Acid, turning it into a dead Mosskin. The Fluke Mutant quickly followed and after biting Nightmare Shade also got cured with Adamant Acid and turned into a dead Hallownest Fluke. Because of the Fluke Mutant's bite, Nightmare Shade also started becoming feral but was quick to drink her last flask of Adamant Acid.

She eventually finds a room with a fuckton of jars inside. She hears the Amalgam inside one of the jars, begging to be let out. She opens the jar and witnesses the Amalgam come out. The Amalgam questions if the Nightmare Shade is from the troupe, and then starts opening more jars with more Amalgam inside them and starts merging - becoming a giant amalgamation of, well, Amalgams. The Amalgams try to make Nightmare Shade join them but she manages to burn a large portion of them. The Amalgam continues begging Shade to join them but she refuses. Se eventually manages to kill the Amalgam.

Eventually Shade comes across a room with a vessel connected to some sort of device pumping Noxious Acid into its head. She severs the vessel's connection to the device but its clear the vessel has long since perished. The door behind her suddenly closes and she finds herself face to face with the Abominative Lurker. After a long fight, Shade manages to kill the Lurker with arrows infused with Nightmare Essence. The Lurker explodes into balls of Noxious Acid which hit Nightmare Shade. Thankfully there is Adamant Acid in the next room which promptly cures her of the Noxious Acid's mutation powers.

In the next room, Shade came across Alnitak connected to wiring pumping Noxious Acid directly into his head. She tries to free Alnitak but when she does, the bug becomes hostile and becomes massive. Alnitak jumps into a different room and the Fog Apparitor attacks Shade from behind. The Fog Apparitor hurled lightning at Shade but she manages to destroy the Apparitor. In the next room she comes across a machine called FISU, its terminal having some peculiar texts about the lab. She discovers that Alnitak - the Scoundrel's best assistant - was betrayed by the Scoundrel and connected to a machine.

Nightmare Shade finds Alnitak, fused with machinery and Noxious Acid. She finds that he was rambling on and on about killing the Scoundrel. The two eventually fight. Alnitak is eventually hit and vomits out the extreme amounts of Noxious Acid in his system. He then perishes on the ground, revealing a rather powerless thin insect. Nightmare Shade finds the Furious Swipes charm alongside three Virulent Acid flasks, three Adamant Acid flasks, a jar of Amalgam, and one Noxious Acid flask. She claims them all except for the Amalgam jar and leaves.

## Trivia

The quest was initially held by Frosted Vessel but since he was in Borea's prison for trespassing into Frostpoint Mountain it was held by Nightmare Shade instead.