Rat Quest/Tutorial

Collect eight giant Rat Tails. And, if possible... Find the missing person.

## Rewards

* Large Copper Coin x2
* +1000 XP
* (Optional) +3000 XP - for finding missing person

## Rating

Great Quest, seriously do it to get an easy boost (9/10)

## **Guide**

* Move East then South to the middle of the bridge. The rats will likely have aggroed and started funneling into the bridge. If not, get closer to them and run back to the bridge. Turn to face them by using 'alt'+'direction key' if you are not yet facing them.
* Spam the normal attack button (default 'A') until the rats are killed. You can also use your secondary attack (default hold 's') to set the rats on fire to, which deals fire damage, note that this has a charge up that can be interrupted.
* Only brown rats attack so the small, gray rats can be safely ignored(and picked up as food).
* When all the aggroed rats are dead, gather the loot by standing on top of it and pressing 'Enter' or 'Z'. Loot despawns fast so be quick.
* At this point you likely be on low stamina. Rest (default button 'Q') until you have regained stamina back to 60+ (resting consumes 10 food for 20 stamina & HP, you have a default maximum of 100 food and the 'Dry Meal' in your inventory restores 16 food, totaling at 48 food).
* Cross the bridge to the East, then cross the bridge to the South, then the bridge to the West (repeat the previous tactic to kill the additional rats).
* Continue West until you will see a chest: which contains a pitchfork and has floating papers below it (Feira's Diary, you will "find" her later on). To take the contents of the chest, walk up to the chest and press 'Enter' or 'Z', gathering the paper is the same as gathering loot and you can read it in the menu (Menu>Notes>Unread Letters>Feira's Diary>1771.12.17).

* The pitchfork has double the range and almost double the attack damage. However, it has slightly less defense, a much weaker secondary attack, and doesn't damage enemies that are standing on the same tile you are on.
* The pitchfork can kill rats in ~3 hits and at range, so I recommend to equip it (Menu>Equip>Pitchfork>press 'Enter'). Also put your Latern in one of EXT slots for extra light
* Make your way back East and North. Then go East followed by North. This area has red moss on the walls and floor (the infestation, Lona will react with dialog).
* Go South of the infestation. There will be traps and a short tutorial on how to deal with them. You can throw rocks on them or attack them to disarm them.
* Continue South past the traps until you find the missing person (The aforementioned Feira). \*At this point you have 2 options, hand in the quest (you also need 8  Rat Tail ), or try to acquire that sword. The following 3 options are for acquiring the sword, skip if you are not interested:

#### [Option 1] Sneak 100% (Intended)

* This requires you to put a minimum of 3 points into scoutcraft (not 5) to unlock sneaking. Save then just follow the wall and the red moss on the floor to the sword.
* Throw a rock on the pile of bones to the East of the goblins BEFORE picking up the sword. Pick up the sword and walk back to where you started following the same path and just continue North if the goblins are following you.

#### [Option 2] I Am Speed (Easier)

* Ensure you have enough stamina (40+) and make a save. Sprint (hold shift) to the sword, grab it, then sprint away.
* To make it easier, go in naked so the enemies have some hand to gland combat with themselves instead of trying ganking you.

#### [Option 3] Veni Vidi Vici (Learn more about tactics)

* Ensure you have enough stamina (60+) and make a save. Throw a rock by holding the 'throw' key (default 'space') , then select a tile a maximum of 2 tiles away from the enemy you are luring, and release the throw key to throw the rock.
* Do this a few more times until he is sufficiently far away from the other goblins, 1-2 extra throws is usually enough.
* Get him to see you so he runs towards you and then attack the goblin with your pitchfork while backing up, so the other enemies don't see the fight and join.
* If the enemy is dodging too much, try cornering him. Running out of energy in combat (red stamina) is a practical death sentence, load your save if this happens.
* Rest after the fight to get your stamina back up. Then repeat the baiting method until all the enemies are dead or are sufficiently reduced in number and you feel like doing one of the other 2 tactics instead, collect your hard earned sword either way.
* If you lack the sufficient amount of rat tails, 8, to finish the quest, Look around the map to see if you missed a rat. You can also just leave but you will miss out on the reward of 2 large copper coins.
* If there are no more rats, you can pass a day/night cycle by sleeping (press the 'Shift' and rest key at the same time) to 'refresh' the map, which spawns in rats and restores stamina.
* When you have the 8 rat tails and discovered the missing adventurer, leave the sewer by going back to the place you started and interacting with the door.
* Make your way to the inn (the large red building with a chimney to the bottom left of the town square, move on the roads as it is safer), enter the inn by pressing the interact button while standing on the inn, and talk to the 'Noer Adventurers guild' receptionist (dude with a black suit) to your West once inside the inn.

## Tips

* You can skip this quest by immediately leaving the sewer, you will not get any rewards as you do not have 8 rat tails.
* There is a secret entrance to the goblin lair to the North-East of where the goblins are hanging out, it is a large gap in the wall. You can also enter Noer through that gap, useful if you are missing your ID paper.
* In the goblin lair, in the farthest northeast corner, there is a chest with random loot. If stealth is pumped at least by 5, it is not very difficult to get to this chest even at the very beginning of the game. In the chest, you can sometimes find an item that can be expensive to try.