Get a Lode of This

**Get a Lode of This** is a quest given by Giva Joshi during the Fall. It requires you go to the deepest level of The Mine, break open a rock to get 1x Geological Sample, and deliver it to either Giva or the Farseer. If you give the sample to Giva, the reward for completion is 200 coins. If you give the sample to the Farseer, the reward for completion is 3x Freeze Time spell.

## Dialogue

Quest intro:

* Giva: Tara, that mine near your house – how deep does it go, d’you think?
* Tara: There are twenty levels. I can tell you that from experience!
* Giva: Impressive! Someone’s been doing a lot of caving. Listen, I’d like to study some ore samples from the lowest reaches of the mine. But I don’t have the skill to go that deep.
* Tara: Oh? Why analyze rocks instead of clouds?
* Giva: I want to know if Fairhaven’s weather has always been this way. A grad school mate is a geologist, so if I send her samples, she might be able to tell me how much water they were exposed to over time.
* Tara: I’m not sure I fully get it, but – okay!
* Giva: Brilliant. You’re a great help. If you could nab me a sample of ore from the very bottom level, that will be perfect for my study!

Giva wants a sample from the lowest levels of the mine, but the coven members may have opinions on that…

Speaking to the Farseer after receiving the quest:

* Farseer Shelby: That scientist wants rocks from the mine, does she now?
* Tara: I guess it’s pointless to ask how you know that already…
* Farseer Shelby: Yep. It’s be for the best if you gave me those rocks instead of her.
* Tara: Why? Is she going to turn them into some weapon of mass dest-rock-tion?
* Farseer Shelby: Novice… Giva seems friendly, but ya just don’t know. And this Fall, we can’t be too careful.
* Tara: I want to see what she discovers, though!
* Farseer Shelby: Tell you what, girl: bring me the rocks and we’ll both find out what they tell me.
* --[Choice: Decline]
	+ -
* --[Choice: Unsure]
	+ Tara: I’ll think about it.
* --[Choice: Accept]
	+ Tara: Okay, sure. You do have a point.

Mining on floor 20:

* Tara: Great! This is exactly what I needed for Giva… or Shelby.

Giving the sample to Farseer Shelby:

* Tara: I made it down to the lowest levels of the mine.
* Farseer Shelby: Ahh, have ya? Good. Let me take a look at those stones. We’ll see what stories they hold.
* Tara: Alright, here they are.
* Farseer Shelby: A great cracking, like something being split apart… and then the cave filling up with damp… Water! Water! All around the-!
* Tara: It’s okay. That happened in the past. We’re still in the now, Farseer.
* Farseer Shelby: Ah. Thank you, Novice.
* Tara: What did you see?
* Farseer Shelby: The first witches on this island. Thousands and thousands of years ago. The ones who built the stone circle.
* Tara: Woah…
* Farseer Shelby: And then something broke the pillars, and an earthquake hit, filling the cave with water…
* Tara: You saw the stone circle changed to what it is today!
* Farseer Shelby: Seems that way. Powerful things, rocks. Thanks for letting me look at the sample. Here’s a little somethin’ as thanks.
* [Reward: 3 Freeze Time spells]

Giving the sample to Giva

* Tara: I made it down to the lowest levels of the mine.
* Giva: Ace! Can I see what you found?
* Tara: Of course!
* Giva: This is perfect. I’ll send some scans off to my mate. Come see me in a few days and I’ll tell you what she said! Oh, and here’s your adventurer’s fee.
* [Reward: 200 coins]

* Tara: So what’d you find out from the samples?
* Giva: All sorts of fascinating stuff! Fissures in the rock show that there was a severe earthquake here a few thousand years ago, which filled the cave with water. I sent along some other geological data, and my mate was able to pinpoint the spot where the earthquake originated. Or rather – where it should have originated. The cracks in the earth lead to a spot in the center of the island, and then they just – stop. Y’know… almost as if the earthquake came from somewhere else…
* Tara: Haha oh… wow!! That’s so unlikely!
* Giva: Right? Curiouser and curiouser!