An Unexpected Collaboration

Shh. Listen to me! 

I just got the word that the thief has already struck! He’s at it right now at the lighthouse! If we hurry there we might be able to catch him red handed. Quick! To the lighthouse!

(The crook jumps up behind you on your horse and points up towards the lighthouse above the beach.) 

Quick! Ride! Ride like the wind!

Objectives: Hurry now! Ride to the lighthouse before the thief slips away…

Rewards: 10 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 5 with Moorland Stable

Follow the checkpoints to complete the race to the lighthouse.

Looks like we made it…

Stay quiet now, he’s probably still inside the lighthouse.

Quest completed

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Caught Red Handed

The thief must be in there…

Hey, sneak in and see if you can open the door without making any noise. If you manage that, I’ll jump in and grab him.

Careful now, creep up to the door and focus on opening it completely silently. We don’t wanna scare him off, now we’ve got this close…

Objectives: Sneak up to the door and open it slowly so that the thief doesn’t notice.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 10 with Moorland Stable

Dismount your horse and approach the lighthouse. Something doesn’t feel right about this…

Smack!

You feel yourself faint.

“Umm… Hello?”

“Are you awake?”

You find yourself awake at Mrs Holdsworth’s house.

Hello?

…

Are you awake?

…

Rita?

…

Hello there, how’s your head? Let’s have a look at you… Nope, seems like you’re past the worst of it. Seems like you’ll have a bit of a bump there for a while, but it’ll go down.

What are you doing here, you ask? Well, let’s see…

Quest completed

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A Crafty Plan. Almost Worked.

I heard an almighty crash up at the lighthouse a short while ago, so I went up there to see what on earth was going on. I found the door off its hinges and you on the ground, completely out for the count and impossible to get through to. I carried you down here and let you get some rest, in peace and quiet. A few hours’ rest and the vapors from one of my famous herbal broths seems to have done the trick. 

One thing that was rather strange, Rita… When I found you up there at the lighthouse, you had one of Josh’s trophies in your hand. One of the ones that was stolen a little while back.

You’ve no idea how Josh’s trophy made it into your hand?

I believe you Rita, you’d never do a thing like that.

I think there’s someone trying to pin the blame for these thefts on you!

Probably the actual thief trying to get away with it. You were lucky it was me who found you because it would’ve been rather difficult to explain to the police why you had stolen goods on you if they found you like that.

But, one question: Why were you up in the lighthouse in the first place?

What’s that? You rode there with some crooked character from the beach to try and stop the thief? 

Aha. Seems quite clear what’s going on here, then. That shady character who followed you up to the lighthouse must be the thief himself! When you started asking difficult questions, he must’ve tried to get rid of you and get away with it all at the same time. A crafty plan… If I hadn’t heard all that commotion and noise from the lighthouse, it would’ve worked. 

Probably best that you ride down to Dark Core’s camp as quick as you can, and confront that thief before he gets away!

Objectives: Ride down to the beach and confront the thief.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 5 XP

Reputation: 10 with Moorland Stable

Find the shady character down on the beach. Somebody has got some explaining to do!

Hmm? Thief?

Why are you saying I’m busted?

No point playing dumb, you say?

Umm…

What are you talking about and who even are you?

…

Hold on a minute! You seem to think you’re talking to my predecessor, the guy who was standing here just a couple of hours ago. Well, you’re not! Talking to him, that is. That much I can tell you!

He was hastily replaced about half an hour ago. Disappeared on one of our ships. The last I saw of him was that he was running off onto the ship, quicker than a rat up a drainpipe. He didn’t look like he had time to pack either, as he looked empty-handed as he left.

Now you can get lost, I haven’t got time to talk to you! Beat it!

Quest completed

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The Thief Left the Beach Empty-Handed

What?

Stolen goods?

Hmm… I don’t know what you’re talking about. Sounds interesting though…

Probably best I take a look at my predecessor’s belongings. He disappeared so fast that all his things are left there on the boat.

Do excuse me one second. I’ll go and investigate at once. If I find anything interesting, I’ll let you know. You can rely on me! Hehe…

What’s that? If you don’t get to take a look for yourself, you’ll call the police?

Grr…

Okay, okay.

Go through his stuff yourself, then. You have to promise not to call the police though! Promise? This isn’t something to joke about!

Now you’ve promised. My predecessor kept his things in a wooden box on the boat over there by the radio equipment.

Objectives: Find the stolen goods on the boat, then return to the beach.

Rewards: 10 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 25 with Moorland Stable

Board the ship and search the crate near the back of the boat. Return to the new shady character guy on the beach when you have collected everything.

Did you find his things?

There were stolen goods, you say?

Hehe…

If they really were stolen goods, then the only fingerprints on them now are yours! Here at Dark Core, we all wear gloves!

If I remember rightly, you had all these things with you when you arrived…

Maybe I’ll just call the police myself and tell them I’ve caught the thief? Maybe you can just give me all the loot and we can forget all this ever happened. What do you say?

Hehe…

What? You think I should call the police?

Umm… You’re sure they’ll take your word over mine?

Umm…

Grr… Okay you win. This time.

Quest completed

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A Pie Tin for An Old Lady

You beat me this time, but I’m not as dumb as the last guy. We’ll meet again, you can be sure of that…

Grr… The smell of all that baking from that old granny’s house is so good. If my predecessor hadn’t taken the pie, I’d have done it myself.

Hey listen, give the pie case back to the old dear and maybe she’ll set out another pie to cool sometime soon. Then I’ll be ready and waiting… Hehe.

Now get out of here! And take this junk with you!

Objectives: Give the pie tin back to Mrs Holdsworth.

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

Ride back to Mrs Holdsworth to return her pie tin.

Hello Rita!

Oh, that looks like my pie tin. Some crook down there wanted you to give it back to me so he can steal the next pie I bake?

You know what Rita? I’ll be making my super-extra-double-ultra-volcano spicy chili pie! I’ve baked it only once before, and it was for the final of that reality show “Jorvik’s Biggest Dummy,” where the first person to eat a whole piece of pie won the contest and got a million Jorvik Shillings. 

That was the first year that there were no winners at all. Haha.

Quest completed

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A Tiny, Tiny Hammer Finds Its Home

This tiny hammer must belong to Conrad. Leave it back with him Rita, I heard he was a little depressed last time you spoke to him, so he could probably use the good news.

Objectives: Give Conrad back his hammer.

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 10 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

Ride to Conrad’s forge and return his tiny hammer and make an old man very happy.

I spy with my little ye, something beginning with MY TINY HAMMER! I thought it was lost forever.

Thank you Rita, your heroics shan’t go forgotten.

Quest completed

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An Unexpected Return Ticket

I thought it was my own fault that the hammer was gone, that my memory was fading and that my old age was finally getting the better of me. But now everything’s in order and all back to normal! All thanks to you, Rita!

I’ve never lost a tool in my life, and it’ll not happen again anytime soon! I swear it, just as my name is Conrad Marsdeen!

Rita, hurry now and give Jenna the incredible news. She must cry no more, her flowerpots are going to be finished by sundown!

Objectives: Give Jenna the incredible news that her flowerpots are almost ready.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 5 XP

Reputation: 10 with Moorland Stable

Ride to Jenna near the stable and tell her the good news.

My flowerpots are almost finished? Good of Conrad to let me know! Now I suppose I just need flowers to put in them…

Quest completed

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The Awesome Watch is BACK!

This must be Tan’s watch. Probably best you give it back to her, but you can tell her from me there’ll be no more pie for her in the future!

Objectives: Give the watch back to Tan.

Rewards: 25 Jorvik Shillings, 10 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

Tan should be happy to see her watch again, even if it is ugly…

Hi Rita, what’s up?

What? No way, my watch?! For real?!

Hey Loretta, check it out! My amazing new watch is back! Isn’t it gorgeous?!

Awesome you’re like totally jealous now, huh? Hahaha!

Hey Loretta, I was just joking, you can borrow it anytime you like. Seriously, we’re besties! BFFs! Forever and ever! For real, you know!

Quest completed

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Tell Jenna the Watch is Back

Thanks Rita, this is amazing! I cannot believe you found the watch so fast!

Tell Jenna that me and Loretta aren’t thieves, if she hadn’t already got that for herself. Now I need to go.

Ciao!

Objectives: Tell Jenna that Tan and Loretta aren’t thieves.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 5 XP

Reputation: 10 with Moorland Stable

Tell Jenna the good news.

Tan got her watch back, you say? I guess she was happy about that!

Nice, I don’t have to listen to anymore of hers and Loretta’s whining. For a while at least…

Quest completed

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Trophies Are No Joke!

Here are all of Josh’s trophies. Hurry now and give them back to him, he’ll be so happy to get them back, the little angel.

Objectives: Give Josh back his trophies.

Rewards: 30 Jorvik Shillings, 10 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

Time to make another Moorland resident very happy!

Hey Rita…

Sigh.. Life is just so boring without my trophies. I never thought they meant that much to me, but I guess you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. 

What’s that you say? You found my trophies?!

You’re kidding?! Don’t joke about this Rita!

No way, lemme see!!

My trophies!

Aw yeah, my babies! I never thought I’d see them again, thanks so much Rita, you’re amazing!

Quest completed

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Greetings from a Happy Champion!

Rita, this day got off to a terrible start but ended brilliantly!

You need to tell Jenna that my trophies are back – she’ll be delighted too!

Objectives: Tell Jenna that Josh has been reunited with his trophies.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 5 XP

Reputation: 10 with Moorland Stable

One more happy camper in Moorland!

Josh got his trophies back?

Then I guess he’ll be pretty happy right now! How nice, it felt horrible to see such a good guy as Josh to be so sad.

Good work Rita!

Quest completed

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All Hail the Thief-Stopping Hero!

Rita, thank you so much for helping us put a stop to all this thievery here in Moorland. You didn’t just find the thief, but you also got back all the stuff that was stolen! Josh, Tan, Mrs Holdsworth, and Conrad Marsdeen have all asked me to find an appropriate award for your heroism!

I don’t know quite what it could be though, something to suit you…

Actually, yeah! Wait! I know!

(Jenna looks in a box behind her.)

Objectives: Talk to Jenna again.

Rewards: 50 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP, Jenna’s Helmet

Reputation: 75 with Moorland Stable

Ooh, a present!

(Jenna grabs something from the box behind her.)

Here you go Rita! What do you think?

Maybe it’s not much considering all you’ve done, but I hope you like it. 

Take care, Rita! See ya soon!

Quest completed