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Day 94, Super Explorer – Dino Valley Spoiler Alert

09 Monday Feb 2015

Posted by Maggie Oldcamp in Story Quests

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a closer look at icengate, awaiting the results, close encounter of the cold kind, discovering the eastern crater area, explore the mountain, explore the valley of the frozen mist, exploring icepeak island, nanook, nic stoneground, the kallters, the legend of icengate, tracks in the snow

Awaiting the Results

new_and_improved_nic

Did you not hear the mailbox rustling out there? A.A.E. have surely analyzed the test samples we sent and have no doubt arrived at some form of epic conclusion! How exciting! Can you check the mail for me?

Objectives: Wait for the test results which will probably come with tomorrow’s mail.

Rewards: 65 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 30 with The Stoneground Expedition

Pick up the mail in the mailbox and bring it back to Nic.

new_and_improved_nic

A response from A.A.E! Just as I thought!

Now let’s see what they’ve written… Hmm… Well… Nope… Really?!

Exciting…

Ah, so it’s like THAT…

Hmm…

…Mmm…

Ohhh…

Cool!

I need to figure some of this out before I can properly disclose more details for you. The skeleton seems to be that of a Liopleuredon… But apparently it’s only 20,000 years old. That’s nothing in palaeontological terms. The dinosaurs basically died out 65 MILLION years ago…

I need to give this a little more thought, and maybe the penny will eventually drop.

Quest completed

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Exploring Icepeak Island

new_and_improved_nic

A beautiful new day, isn’t it? The frost bites like a cobra and the cold mist penetrates through your clothing like an old aunt’s wet kisses.

Well. Ready for a new expedition?

Good! I’d like to document and map the rock formation that seems to form some kind of island in the Frozen Valelake’s northeastern parts. I’ve fixed up the equipment so it will probably work even better today than yesterday.

Objectives: Document and explore the places marked out on the map.

Rewards: 145 Jorvik Shillings, 75 XP

Reputation: 45 with The Stoneground Expedition

You can follow The Frozen Road out of Nic’s camp and there will be a big rope bridge you can cross to get to the top of the island. There are several exploring locations on the island, and there are also two down on the lake’s surface around the base of the island.

Use your equipment just as you did before with your practice. Use the camera three times to take a picture. Place the binoculars, use them to measure the angles of the land, then pick them up again. Place the map, use the marker to draw in the area, then pick up the map again. This will complete exploring one location; there are five locations with each new exploring expedition. All locations will be marked on your map.

When you have explored all of the locations, return to Nic.

new_and_improved_nic

Woot! You found a citadel of ice? An opening with icicles formed like the teeth of a huge jaw? This sounds weirdly familiar. It must be the legend of the Ice Witch and that’s almost certainly her lair, Icendell… I have to figure some of this out and dig around in my memory a little, as well as in my old books. I’ll get back to you when I’ve figured out more information about the place…

As long as you remember that you’d do well to stay away from Icendell. It’s a dangerous place, you hear? A dangerous place indeed.

Quest completed

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Discovering the Eastern Crater Area

new_and_improved_nic

Now it’s time to see more of the area on the other side of the Frozen Valelake. Explore the places I’ve marked out and then come back to me. This is a slightly longer expedition, but you and Icerunner can manage such a hardship, right?

Objectives: Document and explore the places marked out on the map.

Rewards: 145 Jorvik Shillings, 75 XP

Reputation: 45 with The Stoneground Expedition

The Frozen Road winds around the lake, and you can follow it if you want, but you can also cut across the lake to get there quicker.

When you have explored all of the locations, return to Nic.

new_and_improved_nic

The Ashen Steep, The Ice Forest… It seems like there are a lot of interesting places in there. You seemed to know a little about an area beyond the crater as well? Interesting…

I’ll have a little think and see if I can find any more information about these areas… If I come up with anything, I’ll share everything I know with you, just so you know.

Quest completed

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Explore the Valley of the Frozen Mist

new_and_improved_nic

The Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur extends way more to the east than I first thought. The observations you made on your expeditions were most interesting. Exploring the Valley of the Frozen Mist will be an even longer expedition than before.

You might be a little tired and a little hungry? You don’t have to do it today if you don’t want to or feel unable. But it has to be done as soon as possible!

Objectives: Document and explore the places marked out on the map.

Rewards: 145 Jorvik Shillings, 75 XP, Engineer’s Saddle

Rewards: 45 with The Stoneground Expedition

The Valley of the Frozen Mist makes a sort of backwards “J” shape which you can see on the map in the blue grey area of the lower right side of the map of Dino Valley. The road you explored around in the previous quest leads right up to the top of the “J.” Ride off the road into the trees to the entrance of the valley. It isn’t a very obvious entrance, but there is only one way in. Follow the cliffs as they funnel you into the valley.

When you have explored all of the locations, return to Nic.

new_and_improved_nic

The Valley of the Frozen Mist seems incredibly interesting… I’ll ponder on the facts I have and see if I can come up with any more information. If I receive more information, I will of course share it with you.

Quest completed

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Explore the Mountain in the North

new_and_improved_nic

The crater’s northern mountain is fascinating. According to legend and old travelogues I’ve read, there’s apparently a frozen gate in the mountain… Could it be that we’ve found something really exciting, Rita? This expedition is not as long as the others so I hope you can go through with it for me?

In the meantime, I’ll stay here in camp and try to figure out some of the information I have.

Objectives: Document and explore the places marked out on the map.

Rewards: 145 Jorvik Shillings, 75 Jorvik Shillings, Dark Blue Mittens

Reputation: 45 with The Stoneground Expedition

Follow the road north out of the camp. Just after the two switchbacks down towards the lake, there will be another road leading up off to the left. If you come to the rope bridge, you’ve gone too far. Follow the second road up the cliff to Icengate.

When you have explored all of the locations, return to Nic.

new_and_improved_nic

You found Icengate? That’s incredibly exciting! This means you’ve found the gateway to the secret land of this enigmatic people!

Quest completed

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The Legend of Icengate

new_and_improved_nic

The people who apparently live beyond Icengate are called the Kallters, and nobody really knows much about them. I have some legends and reports of the expeditions that were over a hundred years ago, and they talk about a mysterious people who were shy and lived secluded in the mountains. 

There are many theories about them and their unique culture. The old expedition reports say that they sometimes appeared in the area and seemed to collect things from the valley. They apparently had some kind of horse that no one has seen before, I read in a travelogue somewhere… Hmm…

I’ll give a little more thought to this and look through my books to see if I can find more information about them. You do want more information, right?

Objectives: Listen to Nic as he tells you about Icengate.

Rewards: 25 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 25 with The Stoneground Expedition

Yes, tell me more!

new_and_improved_nic

Good. When I know more about the Kallters, I can get back to you with more information.

This could take a while.

Hmm.

Quest completed

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Tracks in the Snow

new_and_improved_nic

It’s said that there are tracks in the snow next to us on the Frozen Valelake! It could be traces of the legendary Yeti! Get out there immediately and try to track him down! Imagine if we were the first to find the Yeti!

Bring the camera and take a picture if you catch a glimpse of him! A picture of the Yeti would be worth a fortune! Not to mention what it would mean for science…

Objectives: Examine the tracks in the snow.

Rewards: 45 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 30 with The Stoneground Expedition

Ride down onto the lake and find the first footprint, then follow the trail to see where it leads…

Return to Nic when you have found where the trail ends.

new_and_improved_nic

Bah! The tracks ended in the mountains? Typical. It obviously had time to be snowed on again. Snow whirling around on the winds have the chance to quickly cover up any tracks., making it really hard to trace that darned Yeti. If he even exists…

Quest completed

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A Closer Look at Icengate

new_and_improved_nic

I think it might be worth taking a more thorough look at Icengate. Look for tracks or signs of having been used recently. It must be possible to gather more information from the site, perhaps there’s even the chance of a find there! If the Kallters are still there, then they leave absolutely no traces of themselves behind, it would seem!

Objectives: Take a closer look at Icengate.

Rewards: 90 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 30 with The Stoneground Expedition

Return to Icengate to see what you can find…

self

Someone’s here! Who goes there…?

Quest completed

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Close Encounter of the Cold Kind

nanook

Xha!?

Uh…

Li-th Xha? Xha??! Aha… Kallth? Eng? Klingon? Jorviskha?

Eh…

…

Objectives: “What’s this?”

Rewards: 12 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 50 with The Kallters: Outer Expedition

Try to see if you can communicate with the man.

nanook

Welcome in peace!

You speak Jorvegian, do you not? I am not any kind of advanced linguist, but I do believe I have mastered your language.

I go by the name of Nanook, and this is my associate Sedna.

Who might you be?

Quest completed

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The Kallters

nanook

Salutations to you, Rita and Icerunner!

Rita, my friend, you do indeed possess a decidedly beauteous name.

We conduct ourselves most peacefully, and wish no harm to you and your associates. We live in and with the utmost peace. I assume you declare yourselves as friends, and not foes?

Objectives: Listen to Nanook. Accept if you wish to be friends with Nanook and Sedna.

Rewards: 8 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 500 with The Kallters: Outer Expedition

Pleased to meet you both!

nanook

Ah, splendid! We have no intention of causing you any perturbance and would delight in learning of your assurance to the same.

It is we who are the Kallter people; merely simple hunter-gatherers. We belong to the Outer Expedition. Occasionally we journey beyond the borders of our secure society to gather the resources necessary to sustain our people.

From time to time, we find ourselves in rather urgent need of certain commodities and thus face the necessity of gathering that of which we are in need from here, in the outside world.

We would shudder to think that we had, in our pursuits, disturbed a friend…

Quest completed

Having now met the Kallter people, you can begin earning reputation with their faction to gain access to purchasing a Fjord Horse.

You can take on two daily quests of gathering, from Nanook. You can also collect items they need during your adventures around Dino Valley. Items appear within the landscape at random intervals, though there are specific locations that they will always appear. You will know an item you can pick up by the yellow sparkles floating around it. Click on the item to pick it up. It will then be stored in your inventory until you return to the Kallters. Speak with Sedna, and select the name of each item which you have in your inventory to trade it in. There is no limit to the number of items you can pick up and trade in, you simply have to have the time and patience to search the valley for them.

When you have gained enough reputation with the Kallters, the Fjord horses will appear in the shelter behind Nanook, and you can purchase one the same way that you do any of the other horses scattered around Jorvik.

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Day 93, Gathering Data – Dino Valley Spoiler Alert

09 Friday Jan 2015

Posted by Maggie Oldcamp in Story Quests

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an a.a.e. colleague comes crashing in, bad news never had good timing, drilling for ice cores, exploration inauguration, explore the frozen valelake, exploring the nic stoneground way, helicopter replacement 1 horsepower, mail in the dale, nic stoneground, professor einstein, reply from a.a.e., research in exile, send the samples, skeleton samples for a.a.e., test your kit

new_and_improved_nic

Now there should’ve been some mail! Can you ride over to the mailbox for incoming mail and check if anything’s been delivered? Almost regretting putting the mailboxes so far away…

Objectives: Check Nic’s inbox to see if any mail has arrived.

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 20 with The Stoneground Expedition

Ride over to the mailbox and retrieve the mail and bring it to Nic.

new_and_improved_nic

See! Brilliant! A letter! Ooh, from A.A.E. as well! They say they support me fully in my explorations out here in the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur, and that I should expect a supply of new resources soon! This is excellent news!

They also write that they’re happy to hear I’m actually alive, and that they thought I’d disappeared forever. We’ve got you to thank for that, Rita!

Quest completed

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Exploration Inauguration

new_and_improved_nic

So there we go, Rita! The camp seems to be in some kind of order, even if it clearly needs a few improvements to bring up the comfort levels a little… But most importantly, we’ve made a start and we’ve got the support of A.A.E. Now our exploration expedition can begin for real!

Do you want to help me explore the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur?

Objectives: Accept that you want to help Nic with his discovery of the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur.

Rewards: 35 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP, Pink Science Jacket

Reputation: 35 with The Stoneground Expedition

We’ll go down in history!

new_and_improved_nic

Fantastic! This is great! Then we’re a team! As a thank you, every day this week I’m going to share all of my information! Everything I know about this place!

Quest completed

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Exploring the Nic Stoneground Way

new_and_improved_nic

We can all explore and find things in many different ways. Some ways are better than others and some are, well, garbage. You should remain aware that different approaches are necessary for different purposes, and you should always ask yourself: “What is the purpose of my expedition?” The answer will always let you know the approaches you should take, which Will then make it clear to you what equipment you should have. 

I want to finish off my map of this area. You’ll need my half-finished map, a pen, and a pair of binoculars to check angles and figure out different positions and such. At the same time, I also want you to capture images of some places and that’s of course easiest if you use a camera. With a half-finished map, pen, tripod binoculars, and camera, you should be fully equipped for the task.

I will send you out to the places where I feel it’s important to fully document the geography and thus complete the map. Don’t leave anything behind at the places you document. An explorer must never lose sight of their equipment, because that’s how expeditions fail!

Understood?

Objectives: Listen to Nic’s instruction on how to carry out some successful exploration.

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 20 with The Stoneground Expedition

Time to become an explorer for real!

new_and_improved_nic

Right, then. A summary: Using triangulation, you’ll work out the distances between different distances and so be able to complete the map, and take pictures using the camera I’ll give you. Completely clear, right?

Quest completed

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Test Your Kit!

new_and_improved_nic

Oh, you want to test the equipment first? Clever! A real adventurer always tests their kits. How about this then? Take the kit out and try documenting that spot over there by the edge of the camp. Have a go, and come back to me when you’re done. Then we can go over the procedure one last time before you head off on your expedition!

Objectives: Give the adventure kit a test run. Use the equipment in the spots indicated just outside the camp.

Rewards: 90 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 30 with The Stoneground Expedition

Go over near the large tree south of Nic’s camp.

To completely explore a location, three objectives must be completed.

  • Use the camera three times (on the areas that are higher off the ground)
  • Use the tripod (place the tripod, use the tripod, then pick it up
  • Use the map (place the map on the little snowy table, use the marker on the map, then pick it up)

Make sure you don’t leave any of your equipment behind! Return to Nic when you have explored the area near the camp.

 new_and_improved_nic

That looked promising! I suppose you could’ve held the camera a little higher up and changed the shutter settings to be able to get a better exposure to compensate for the snow reflections. Otherwise, it was okay!

Quest completed

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Explore the Frozen Valelake

new_and_improved_nic

Right-o! Here, take the equipment and you can be off on your first real expedition! I think you could probably get started by exploring and documenting the Frozen Valelake down there. The lake makes up a central part of the crater. The water level is now much lower than it was at the time when the lake filled the whole crater…

As always with ice: Be careful! It can break, and there are cracks to look out for! You need to be very, very careful if you don’t want to fall through into the icy water.

Come back to me for a debrief when you’ve documented the four places on the Frozen Valelake!

Objectives: Document and explore the places marked on the map.

Rewards: 65 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 30 with The Stoneground Expedition

Use the same procedure to explore the four areas marked on your map. Don’t forget your equipment out on the lake!

Return to Nic when all of the areas have been explored.

new_and_improved_nic

WOW! You’ve found The Hidden Dinosaur!! I’ve only ever heard mention of it in the old travelogues of the early adventurers, and I’ve always wanted to see it for myself!

I feel strangely elated over this awesome skeleton, some kind of connection from the past that I can’t quite put my finger on… A little like I’ve got a really strong déjá vu.

You’ve taken some really outstanding pictures! I’ll work through some of this new information and I might come up with some additional information related to this later. May even need to send a report to A.A.E. about this and see if they have any more information for me…

We need to know more!

Quest completed

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Skeleton Samples for A.A.E.

new_and_improved_nic

We need to analyze the bones! Take skeletal samples from various locations on the skeleton with this test doodad. The paleontological department at A.A.E. will then analyze the samples.

What I said?

Polenta? No, no, haha! Polenta is a tasty corn porridge. Ha ha!

P-A-L-E-O-N-T-O-L-O-G-Y! Paleontology is the study of prehistoric life and organisms. Cool, huh?

So really, we’re all paleontologists here in the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur. We’re real scientists!

Umm… Sorry. Sciencewoman and… Uh… Sciencehorse. Hmm… Oh, you say scientists whether it be men, boys, women, girls, or horses. Don’t ask me why.

Objectives: Use the test equipment to take paleontological tests of the huge dinosaur skeleton.

Rewards: 75 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 30 with The Stoneground Expedition

Ride out to the dinosaur and take samples from several places on the skeleton, then return to Nic when you are finished.

new_and_improved_nic

Thanks! The paleontologists at A.A.E. are dying to see these test results!

Quest completed

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Drilling for Ice Cores

new_and_improved_nic

The ice is old. For a scientist, it can tell us a lot about the past. If you study the different layers of ice, you can learn about what the climate was like before. This lower lake ice has been properly protected from outside influences until the big collapse in 1912…

A.A.E. has expressed a lot of interest in this, and want us to drill out ice cores to send to them for analysis!

While you’re out on thin ice, can you take some ice samples? Take this ice drill and drill for ice cores that we can send to A.A.E.

Objectives: Use the ice drill to drill out cores of ice to be sent away for scientific analysis.

Rewards: 65 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 30 with The Stoneground Expedition

Ride out on the ice and dismount your horse to use the auger. Collect three core samples, then return to Nic.

new_and_improved_nic

Great ice cores! Now we just need to send them with super fast mail so that they don’t melt on the way… I’ll pack them in fabric, styrofoam, foil so they should survive the journey…

Quest completed

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Mail in the Dale

new_and_improved_nic

Ooh, Rita, didn’t that sound like something fluttering into the mailbox over there?

Mmm! I promise! I heard it very clearly. Could you just run over and grab the letter and I’ll get my glasses out while you collect it?

Objectives: Check if there’s any mail for Nic Stoneground.

Rewards: 15 Jorvik Shillings, 10 XP

Reputation: 5 with The Stoneground Expedition

Mail gopher again…

new_and_improved_nic

There was a letter? Knew it!

Let’s have a look… I couldn’t find my glasses but this letter is written so properly that it should be fine to read anyway.

Quest completed

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Send the Samples

new_and_improved_nic

There we go, those samples are all packed into boxes and ready to be sent. Can you take them over to the outgoing mailbox and try squeezing them in there? It’s really important that they get to A.A.E. so that they can see my work here is in full swing!

Objectives: Mail both boxes containing the test samples. Place them in the outgoing mailbox.

Rewards: 75 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 30 with The Stoneground Expedition

Put the two boxes into the big red mailbox, then speak to Nic again.

new_and_improved_nic

Thanks for all your help, Rita! It’ll be really exciting to hear what A.A.E. has to say about these!

Quest completed

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An A.A.E. Colleague Comes Crashing In…

new_and_improved_nic

Hmm… I don’t know whether this is good news or not, Rita. Professor Einstein from Jorvik City University is apparently on her way here. Have you heard of her?

No, no, not that Professor Einstein. I’m talking about Professor Elsa Einstein: The world’s leading researcher in the field of quantum semantics. You’ve never heard of her? Lucky you, I was about to say.

You see, Elsa Einstein is known for her meticulous accuracy and precise planning in everything she takes on, contrary to how I usually structure my research, you might say.

What she’ll do here? There’s nothing here that’s got anything to do with her research, so I’ve no idea. All I know is that if she and I work together, it’ll go belly up within hours.

She’s apparently on her way here by helicopter; she must be mad! The winds over the valley took my balloon down straight away, so I’d hate to think what the bad weather would do to a helicopter!

Let’s see… Says here she should have gotten here yesterday, apparently. The mail isn’t so fast here, Rita, haha!

Wait! Are you thinking what I’m thinking, Rita?

Exactly! The weird noise we heard earlier must’ve been Professor Einstein’s helicopter crashing! We have to save her, Rita!

The sound came from the other side of the lake, I’m sure of it. Ride there and look and I’ll see if I can find my first aid kit or something else useful in the refrigerator. Hurry Rita, hurry!

Objectives: Find Professor Einstein’s crashed helicopter.

Rewards: 25 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 10 with The Stoneground Expedition

Ride out onto the lake to see if you can find Elsa and her crashed helicopter.

professor_einstein

Hmm. Who are you?

Well hello to you, Rita, I’m Professor Elsa Einstein. Are you by any chance a qualified helicopter mechanic?

No? How about Chinese? Do you speak Chinese?

No?

Blast. My knowledge of helicopters is basic at best and the manual I found is in Chinese, which is one of the few languages I’ve yet to master.

You have to understand that I simply don’t have time to spend 3.7 days – through reasoning and logical thinking – to learn either how helicopters work, or indeed the Chinese language from the manual. By that time, I’ll have frozen to death in this miserable place.

Quest completed

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Helicopter Replacement: 1 Horsepower…

professor_einstein

Well, now you’ve turned up, a solution to my problem appeared. Such good fortune. Two people should, without risking your horse’s health, be able to sit on horseback with each other and ride along with the same efficiency to the nearest place with some kind of civilized temperature.

Now Rita, how does one get up in the saddle? In theory, it’s very simple but I notice that in practice, it’s more difficult to perform my movements in the order and accuracy as the theory requires. You’ll help me?

Thank you. That was kind of you. Now you get to steer this vehicle to civilization before my body temperature reaches a critically low level.

Objectives: Ride to Nic Stoneground’s camp with Professor Einstein.

Rewards: 25 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 5 with The Stoneground Expedition

Steer your four legged ‘vehicle’ back to Nic’s camp.

professor_einstein

Mhm. What on earth is this place?

Oh, would you look at that. Nic Stoneground.

Quest completed

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Bad News Never Had Good Timing

professor_einstein

Nic Stoneground, I see you’ve used, as ever, your unstoppable talent for ineptitude to build some kind of camp. How will you ever be able to conduct serious research in this kind of uncivilized setting?

We can discus this issue later, I see that you have a fire that burns and it must be only a matter of minutes before my extremities have frozen to the point that you could snap off a finger.

Nic, before I warm myself by the fire I must remember to convey the greetings of the board of the university. They want to express their congratulations to you on your discovery of this valley, and they look forward to the first results of your expedition here with great excitement. They also say that they will unfortunately not be able to fund your research any further before they get to see some real results.

And with that said, Rita, I can now declare that never have I been so happy to be close to such a primitive fire.

Aaaah, precious warmth!

Objectives: Talk to Nic Stoneground.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 10 XP

Reputation: 15 with The Stoneground Expedition

Tell Nic the news, the bad news, I guess…

new_and_improved_nic

Oh dear, oh dear. No more funding! That’s quite the setback…

Quest completed

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Research in Exile

new_and_improved_nic

Oh, Rita… If I’m ever going to be able to make any proper discoveries, I can’t have Professor Einstein poking around all the time. What’s she doing here anyway? She hasn’t said anything?

What? If she’s related to Albert?

Well, yes she is, but she’s from the smart side of the family.

Hmm… If she thinks this camp is so awful then she’s welcome to improve whatever she wants, just as long as she doesn’t bother me and my epic plans. Tell her that from me, Rita.

Objectives: Talk to Professor Einstein.

Rewards: 15 Jorvik Shillings, 5 XP

Reputation: 30 with The Stoneground Expedition

Oh gee, guys, way to act like respectable adults…

professor_einstein

Hello to you again, young Rita. What am I up to?

Well, I… Umm, you know…

Right, listen. My recent experiments with the practical application of quantum dynamics weren’t so popular with the management at the university. They were a bit miffed that I’d built a very small nuclear reactor in order to generate enough power to run my devices. I assured them that it was harmless but apparently it didn’t matter; they were completely irrational and refused to listen to my entirely logical explanations.

To cut a long story short, we agreed that I would pursue my research elsewhere until this whole affair has settled down because apparently the authorities weren’t very happy that someone had built a hydrogen bomb in the middle of Jorvik City.

Why did I build a hydrogen bomb?

It was just a completely ordinary and entirely banal experiment; I’d never intended to detonate the bomb for real, and certainly not right then in any case. Well, well, not everybody can be rational. The university management found for some reason that this distant, isolated location they’d just heard about sounded perfect for me to conduct my research in. So here I am. Unfortunately, all my equipment was lost in the helicopter crash.

So, I don’t really know what to do now.

Quest completed

Return to Nic Stoneground tomorrow.

Day 92, Journey into the Valley – Dino Valley Spoiler Alert

12 Friday Dec 2014

Posted by Maggie Oldcamp in Story Quests

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a warming lantern, antique diesel, are you sitting comfortably, assemble nic's adventure tent, campfire cookery, check the control room, come on now away you go, delivering mail to civilization, derek, derek explains the mail system, elevator control room, elizabeth sunbeam, file a report to aae, find the key, fire and ice, firewood, first ride in a century, gather ice crystals, gathering icenthistles, hidden beneath the snow, inbox/outbox, inspect the elevator motor, is the elevator starting, light the campfire, light the snow lantern, meet elizabeth in the winter mist, motoring through a repair, nic stoneground, nic's story, outbox/inbox, overcoming obstacles, reunited with an explorer, sandbag stockpile, setting up mailboxes, the adventurer's lost equipment, the end of the road, the old path reopens, the only way is down, the snow just won't melt, treasures amongst the snow and ice, writing a request to the post office

PLEASE NOTE!

To be able to access these quest you need to have reached level 15.

The Snow Just Won’t Melt

elizabeth_sunbeam

Now it really has been a while… Does the snow up on the mountain pass never melt? There’s been a few unseasonably warm days lately so maybe it’s time to get up there and have a proper check. I know you’re probably fed up watching snow melt, but I’m really, really keen to get into the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur now!

It’s been a hundred years since people were last there, and a little bit of snow shouldn’t be allowed to stop us!

Objectives: Ride to the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur and see if the mountain pass is still blocked with ice and snow.

Rewards: 19 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 15 with Valedale

Ride up the mountain pass near Elizabeth’s house to the top to see if the snow has finally melted. Return to Elizabeth when you have inspected the mountain pass.

elizabeth_sunbeam

Really?! What wonderful news! I had a feeling it’d be fine.. The days have been so sunny and warm lately, I just knew it would have an effect on the mountainside.

Quest completed

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Come On Now! Away You Go!

elizabeth_sunbeam

How exciting! Now the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur is open and waiting for us to explore! I really want to get my hands on some of the stuff that’s been locked up in that valley for years. It’s such a shame that the mountain pass has been so heavily blocked, otherwise we could have gone there ages ago…

Ah well! Now what are we waiting for?! Ride out and look for a safe way to get through to the valley, then report back to me.

Come on now! Away you go, my friend!

Here’s a little tip: the valley is very isolated, and it might be tough to get out once you get in. Make sure you have some extra space in your rucksack because there’s not going to be any shops or stables in there.

Objectives: Ride on in to the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur!

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 85 XP

Reputation: 10 with Valedale

Ride up the mountain pass and enter the valley through the gap in the snow.

self

A frozen valley thick with freeing mist spreads out beneath the old elevator tower.

Welcome to the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur!

Quest completed

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The Only Way is Down…

self

No elevator.But it really looks as though it’s possible to get down along the mountainside here…

The ice platforms along the mountainside don’t look as though they’d hold up very long if you step on them. I need to get down without stopping.

Then I won’t be able to come back up the same way. This feels so risky, but you gotta do what you gotta do in the name of adventure! I hope I can find another way up later until then, I’m alone and have nobody to help me…

Objectives: Try to get down the mountainside again without slipping, falling, or letting the ice platforms collapse beneath you!

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 10 with Valedale

This quest runs as a race to the bottom of the cliff. The platforms will collapse if you do not maintain at least the first gallop to get across them. You do not need to jump across to the platforms, as long as you are moving fast enough. Follow the arrows to find your way down the cliff. I found it fairly straightforward, and you will have ample enough time to complete even if you do fall a few times.

self

This is the lower part of the elevator tower. The elevator seems as unusable from down here as it is from up there.

Quest completed

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Inspect the Elevator Motor

self

The motor is right here in the middle of the elevator structure’s lower section. I can check it out and see if it’s possible to fix it. If I can fix the elevator, then I’ve got a sure way back to Valedale and Elizabeth can come with me into the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur without risking death on that dangerous mountainside.

Objectives: Examine the elevator’s motor.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 10 with Valedale

Ride up the ramp to inspect the elevator motor.

self

The motor truly has seen better days. It’s broken, rusty, and out of fuel. Even if it was in better condition, it seems as though it needs to be started using some device or other which must be somewhere nearby.

Quest completed

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Check the Control Room

self

That building over there must be some kind of control room. I need to check it out!

Objectives: Examine the little building by the elevator.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 10 with Valedale

Ride over to the little building and see if you can get inside.

self

This door is padlocked and I can’t get in.

Quest completed

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Find the Key

self

I wonder if there is a key hidden around here somewhere? Around the door frame or under a window, maybe? Maybe the old classic upturned flowerpot?

It’s worth a look… I really want to get into this little building…

Objectives: Look for any keys that might be lying around nearby.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 10 with Valedale

Search the indicated areas nearby until you find the key, then return to the door and use the key from your inventory.

self

Yes! They key fits the lock! The door’s open now!

Quest completed

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Elevator Control Room…

self

This is a control room for the elevator! That control panel looks so old! Looks to be built using the most groundbreaking engineering from the late 19th century.

Definitely needs a closer look to see how messed up the control panel is.

Objectives: Examine the control panel.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 10 with Valedale

Well, let’s see…

self

The control panel looks pretty intact, even though it’s not been used for a hundred years! The building seems to have protected all the delicate machinery from the wind and weather.

Quest completed

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Hidden Beneath the Snow…

self

If I can find things around here that could be used a spare parts, I think I can actually fix this motor. If I can find usable fuel, then I can get the elevator started. I really feel like I need to find a safe way to travel between Valedale and this amazingly exciting Valley! Only then can Elizabeth come here with me.

While I was looking for the key, I noticed a few odds and ends poking up through the snow… There could be things lying all over the place that I could use as spare parts.

I can’t be sure, but I also think I might have seen a diesel canister here somewhere in the snow…

Objectives: Find spare parts for the motor.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 10 with Valedale

Ride around the surrounding area and dig up what you can find that you think will aid in fixing the elevator motor.

self

Seems to be a lot of rag-tag bunch of spare parts. Mostly junk… I guess some of it could be used for a basic repair, though.

Quest completed

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Motoring Through a Repair

self

I’m totally sure the motor can be fixed, even with these random bits of rubbish. I saw a toolbox in the control room someplace. I’ll need that when I’m doing my repairs!

Objectives: Fix the motor with the spare parts.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 10 with Valedale

Go into the control room to pick up the tool box on the floor. Then dismount your horse near the elevator motor to begin fixing it. Continue to use the tool box on the motor until the repair is complete.

self

So! Done! The motor is fixed I think… For now, at least.

Quest completed

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Antique Diesel

self

This tank is filled with hundred-year-old diesel. There’s got to be a can or container of some kind around here somewhere under the snow that I can fill with diesel. That way I can fill up the fuel tank and get the motor going.

Objectives: Find a container in the snow. Fill it with diesel and fill up the elevator motor’s fuel tank.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 10 with Valedale

Search the area for a container. When you have found one, return to the diesel tank to fill up the container. Then take the container and pour it into the giant funnel on the side of the elevator platform.

self

The fuel tank is now filled with loads of really old diesel.

Quest completed

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Is the Elevator Starting?

self

Now to try starting the elevator using the control panel in the control room…

Objectives: Try starting the elevator using the control panel in the control room.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 10 with Valedale

Go into the control room and try to start the motor. Keep trying to start it until you succeed.

self

Yay! It works! For how long though, that’s the question… Probably not entirely without risk to ride in that rickety old elevator…

Quest completed

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First Ride in a Century…

self

I need to give the elevator a test run! Come on, Icerunner, let’s go! We can’t stand around here all day!

Objectives: Give the rickety old elevator a test run…

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 10 XP

Reputation: 10 with Valedale

Dismount your horse near the elevator, then click on the elevator gate to ride. Both sides can take you either up or down, so you do not have to wait for a specific car to take you. Once at the top (or bottom, whichever direction you are going), you can mount your horse again.

self

This ride in the elevator didn’t exactly feel safe, but we made it in one piece! We were lucky, huh Icerunner? We should stay hopeful that it lasts long enough to give us a few more lifts up and down!

Now, thank goodness, we can move pretty freely between Valedale and the Valley! Woop woop!

Quest completed

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The Old Path Reopens!

self

Now everyone can get to the ancient valley, unless they’re afraid of elevators of course…

Time to tell Elizabeth the good news that the elevator is working!

Icerunner, let’s get out of here before your hooves freeze fast to the ground!

Objectives: Report back to Elizabeth.

Rewards: 9 Jorvik Shillings, 10 XP

Reputation: 15 with Keepers of Aideen

Return to Valedale and tell Elizabeth of your findings.

elizabeth_sunbeam

Hello Rita! Hello Icerunner! Is the lift back in business? I thought I could hear something going on up by the mountainside!

You really think that old thing is safe to travel in?

Quest completed

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Treasures Amongst the Snow and Ice

elizabeth_sunbeam

I have a few things to prepare before I can leave. Probably best that we wait until tomorrow…

Mmm… We can’t wait that long, can we?

There are things in that valley that I really, really want… I’ll get everything together right away and get into the valley using the elevator. While I do that, you can ask Avalon if there’s anything in particular he wants us to bring back from the valley, okay?

Okay! Talk to Avalon here in the village, and we’ll meet beneath the elevator!

Objectives: Ask Avalon if he wants anything from the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur.

Rewards: 22 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 20 with Keepers of Aideen

Ride over to Avalon’s house across the river, and ask him if there is anything special he would like from the valley.

faceless_druid

Hello Rita! So, the frozen old valley is open again? Hmm… Interesting… Very interesting… Elizabeth wonders if I want something brought back?

Very interesting…

Quest completed

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Meet Elizabeth in the Winter Mist

faceless_druid

I need icenthistles! They grew in the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur long, long ago, and should still be growing there today. It’s a fantastic plant with all kinds of properties that don’t exist in any other plant in the world!

A very interesting plant, if you ask me…

Off you go and meet Elizabeth, and let her know I want icenthistles!

Objectives: Meet Elizabeth in the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur and let her know what Avalon wants.

Rewards: 15 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 15 with Keepers of Aideen

Return to the valley and meet Elizabeth at the bottom of the elevator.

elizabeth_sunbeam

Icenthistles? I thought as much. A very interesting plant, you know…

But this place! Wow! It’s so cool, right?

Cold…

Almost a kind of unearthly cold, don’t you think? Do you feel it? I’ve never been this cold in my life. This insane cold actually has an explanation, but meteorological and historical lectures can wait for another time! Now we need to get to work before everyone hears about how the valley is accessible again; they’ll swarm here, trampling all over everything and plundering everything of worth…

Quest completed

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Gather Ice Crystals

elizabeth_sunbeam

There should be some kind of blue ice crystals in the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur. See if you can find some! They’re incredibly rare and possess mystical powers!

They’re called kallstones. I really want to examine them much more closely. Like I said, they’re super rare, so there’s a chance you might need to look for a while.

Objectives: Find three kallstones for Elizabeth.

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 10 with Keepers of Aideen

Search the area for kallstones. Return to Elizabeth when you have found enough of them.

elizabeth_sunbeam

Oh thank you, Rita! Beautiful examples you’ve found… Maybe they’re not quite so rare after all? Great!

Do you hear that? It’s humming a little bit… It’s full of huge amounts of energy! So, so exciting!

Quest completed

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Gathering Icenthistles

elizabeth_sunbeam

Go around and gather icenthistles for me and Avalon. They’re sure to be growing here and there, but hurry and pick them before other explorers come and swipe them, or stomp all over them! They’re so valuable!

Since both me and Avalon want some, it’s best to gather a proper bunch!

Pick a dozen.

Objectives: Pick a dozen icenthistles for Elizabeth (and Avalon).

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 10 with Keepers of Aideen

Ride around to find the icenthistles. Return to Elizabeth when you have gathered enough of them.

elizabeth_sunbeam

Thanks! Beautiful specimens!

Quest completed

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The End of the Road

elizabeth_sunbeam

Ride out and explore where the road in front of us leads to. Come back and let me know how it looks at the end of the road.

Objectives: Find out where the road leads and tell Elizabeth.

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 10 with Keepers of Aideen

Continue down the Explorer’s Road and see what lies around the bend. Return to Elizabeth when you have found where the road leads.

elizabeth_sunbeam

Oh? Not that far? Blocked with snow and ice, you say? Hmph.

Quest completed

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Overcoming Obstacles

elizabeth_sunbeam

Hmm.. We’re not going to wait around for that ice-blocking ice to melt… Nothing melts here. Let’s help the springtime arrive in a more…

Hmm… In a more explosive way!

Try to find some little pieces of kallstone so that we can use them to explode whatever’s blocking the road. Collect three small kallstones and I’ll meet you down by the end of the road.

Objectives: Find three small kallstones and meet Elizabeth by the ice blockage at the end of the road.

Rewards: 10 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 10 with Keepers of Aideen

Search for enough kallstones, then ride to the end of the road and meet Elizabeth there.

elizabeth_sunbeam

Oh, look! Perfect! Three little kallstones. That should do the trick.

Quest completed

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Fire and Ice!

elizabeth_sunbeam

Take that little pile of kallstones and place them on the ground by the ice blockage. Then we’ll back off a little and take shelter behind this log before we set fire to the kallstones.

You can have the honor of doing it if you like.

Here, take this rune staff… When you’re done backing up to take cover, use the staff and concentrate all your magical power to set fire to the little pile of kallstones.

Then, if my calculations are right, it should hopefully be a case of BANG! And the ice is gone!

Objectives: Set the pile of kallstones down by the ice blockage. Then take cover by the log and use the rune staff.

Rewards: 10 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP, Winter Trenchcoat

Reputation: 10 with Keepers of Aideen

Dismount your horse to set down the kallstones, then return to the log to use your rune staff.

kaBOOM!!

elizabeth_sunbeam

Haha! Fantastic to just get things started with a little explosion! Hope the noise didn’t start any avalanches…

Anyway, now the road ahead is wide open for you! Carry on now and find out where it leads! Go freely to explore the whole Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur! I’m going to head back to Valedale and take a look through the treasures you gathered for us.

Good luck now! You’ll surely find a reason to come visit me again sometime soon… Then you can tell me all about your adventures in the valley!

Quest completed

Continue on down the road to see where our next adventure begins.

Reunited With An Explorer

new_and_improved_nic

Hello! Hey there! It’s m-m-me! N-N-Nic!

Oh my word, a real live person! It can’t be true! You’re real! You’re really, really real! I haven’t seen another living soul in ages, hahaha! F-f-f-finally someone to t-t-talk to!

And it’s n-n-not j-ju-just some random either…!

Brrr… It’s y-y-you who he-he-helped me to get m-m-my balloon going f-fr-from Everwind F-F-Fields, wasn’t it?

Objectives: T-t-talk to N-N-Ni-Nic.

Rewards: 75 Jorvik Shillings, 60 XP

Reputation: 120 with The Stoneground Expedition

Well, aren’t you a sight for sore eyes?

new_and_improved_nic

Rita! Of c-c-co-course that’s your n-n-name! And who’s this handsome f-f-fella here? Icerunner, you say? Okay! C-c-can’t s-s-say I really re-re-r-recognized your h-h-ho-horse right away. The most imp-p-po-p-portant thing is that y-y-yo-you’re he-he-h-here!

W-w-wh-why am I s-s-s-stuttering? It’s f-f-f-freezing! Brrr…!!

Quest completed

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Nic’s Story

new_and_improved_nic

Brr… My main goal with the balloon expedition was to be able to find a secret p-p-place I’ve been looking for my whole life, and I started to get indications that the place in question was in or around the Valley of the Hidden D-D-Dinosaur…

The b-ba-ba-balloon journey unfortunately ended in chaos though. I flew straight over the north of the mountain with the plan to get into the valley from the southwest, but the winds took me straight off course and this thick, white mist made it impossible to see anything. 

In any case, I thought that through the gaps in the clouds, I could see a glimpse of a warm and magical place on the ground. I felt the warmth in my heart and tried to steer the balloon towards it but the combination of my sudden change in steering, and the cold, hard winds meant that I soon lost control and went heading straight back down to earth. 

In a p-p-panic, I jettisoned my sandbags and dumped all my equipment over the side of the balloon, but it was no use. The balloon smashed right down into the snow and suddenly everything was white.

Brr…!!

Objectives: Listen to Nic.

Rewards: 15 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 65 with The Stoneground Expedition

Quite the tale!

new_and_improved_nic

When I came around, I realized I was totally alone and abandoned in a totally unknown spot here in the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur. Lost, I haven’t been able to leave the crash site because it’s simply too dangerous to go out exploring on foot, without any equipment.

You can’t even imagine how t-t-tired, hungry, c-c-co-cold, and exhausted I am.

Quest completed

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The Adventurer’s Lost Equipment

new_and_improved_nic

To try and get the balloon to stop losing height and float again, I had to throw a load of heavy equipment overboard. It’s possibly lying around here somewhere, possibly covered in the snow that never stops falling here. C-c-can you and your lovely strong horse please help me to find my lost equipment? If you could have a look around and bring it back to me, that would be amazing. I’m far too exhausted to be able to carry anything, and my limbs are so stiff and frozen that I can barely move…

Objectives: Search around the area for Nic’s equipment.

Rewards: 15 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 35 with The Stoneground Expedition

Search around the camp area for the lost equipment. When you have found all of it, return to Nic.

new_and_improved_nic

Would you look at that! My wonderful old adventure kit! Back where it belongs! Th-th-thaannkkssss!

Quest completed

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Sandbag Stockpile

new_and_improved_nic

I also ditched a whole bunch of sandbags that I had as ba-ba-b-ballast when I was trying to get the balloon to float again. Could you look for them as well after you’ve found my equipment? Thanks, Rita… Brr…

Objectives: Collect sandbags for Nic.

Rewards: 15 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 35 with The Stoneground Expedition

Search around the camp area to collect the missing sandbags. When you have found all of them, return to Nic.

new_and_improved_nic

Th-th-thaannkksss! Brrrr…

Quest completed

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Assemble Nic’s Adventure Tent

new_and_improved_nic

Amongst all my adventure kit you found, there should be a tent that I’ve had with me on loads of different expeditions and adventures! Would you please be able to put it up so that I’ve got a safe place to sleep and take shelter? I’ve been sleeping here amongst these fir branches until now, and believe me… It’s been really very cold.

I’m far too f-f-fr-frozen to be able to put the tent up myself. Could you help me? It’s a p-p-pretty c-c-complic-c-cated tent, b-b-but I think you can ma-ma-m-manage.

Objectives: Construct Nic’s tent.

Rewards: 15 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 35 with The Stoneground Expedition

Set up the tent in the indicated area behind Nic, then speak to him again when it is complete. Once the tent is set up, you will be able to sleep overnight in the Valley, to access new clock yellow quests.

new_and_improved_nic

There you go, see! The t-te-tent is up! Now I can at least get a decent night’s rest!

Quest completed

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A Warming Lantern

new_and_improved_nic

It’s so cold, grey, and dark here. C-c-ca-can you help me build a little lantern out of snow so that I can shield this candle I have from the wind? That way it won’t blow out. Build it just here in front of me so that I can warm up my hands and g-g-get a little l-li-light.

My hands are shaking too much for me to be able to b-bu-build one myself. Brr…

Objectives: Build a little snow lantern so that the candle is protected from being blown out.

Rewards: 5 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 30 with The Stoneground Expedition

Dismount your horse and pick up snow from the pile beside Nic. Continue clicking the pile until you have picked up all of the snow, you will need it. Then place the snow from your inventory in a pile near Nic. Speak to him again when the lantern is built.

new_and_improved_nic

H-h-how l-l-lovely! That’ll certainly keep the candle from blowing out. Now it just needs to be lit.

Quest completed

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Light the Snow Lantern!

new_and_improved_nic

Here, t-t-take my lighter and light the candle in the little snow lantern s-s-so I c-ca-can get a little warmth and stop s-s-sh-sh-shaking!

Objective: Light the snow lantern with Nic’s lighter.

Rewards: 10 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 30 with The Stoneground Expedition

Dismount your horse to use the lighter to light the candle. Speak to Nic again when it is lit.

new_and_improved_nic

Thanks Rita! I can already feel the warmth spreading through my body, and it’s getting a little clearer up in the old noggin! The worst of the shakes seem to be over now.

Quest completed

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Firewood

new_and_improved_nic

Nah, it’s no good… Brr… I think we need to think bigger than just a little snow lantern. A proper campfire is what we need! Can you run out and gather some firewood from the forest? While you’re doing that, I’ll build a fireplace… Like, a stone circle so that the fire doesn’t blow away in the wind.

Objectives: Gather firewood.

Rewards: 25 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 25 with The Stoneground Expedition

Ride around the camp area and collect enough firewood for a proper campfire. Return to Nic when you have finished.

new_and_improved_nic

Great firewood! Frozen, but we’ll probably be able to set fire to it. See what a lovely campfire I’ve prepared for us? Brr…

Quest completed

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Light the Campfire

new_and_improved_nic

Brrr… My fingers are still so thoroughly frozen that I can’t even use my lighter. Would you be able to set light to the campfire, please Rita?

Objectives: Light the firewood with Nic’s lighter.

Rewards: 25 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 25 with The Stoneground Expedition

Dismount your horse to use the lighter to light the campfire. Speak to Nic when it is done.

new_and_improved_nic

What a lovely campfire! Now we’re really starting to warm up! Nothing as cosy and delightful as the flickering light of a campfire.

Quest completed

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Campfire Cookery

new_and_improved_nic

Here now, there’s something just as important as sleep, and that’s food! I’m super hungry, and wouldn’t mind a little help with building a stand over the campfire so that I can hang up this cauldron and let the fire warm up the food from underneath! Can you have a look around for three long, sturdy sticks, then set them together to form a stand over the campfire?

Then hang up this adventure cauldron, hehe!

Objectives: Find three long sticks and construct a stand over the campfire. Then hang up the cauldron.

Rewards: 15 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 15 with The Stoneground Expedition

Search the area for three long sticks. Return to the campfire and set them up, then set the cauldron up on the sticks. Speak to Nic when you are finished.

new_and_improved_nic

Now I can cook here too! Thanks so much for helping!

Quest completed

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Are You Sitting Comfortably?

new_and_improved_nic

After heat, food, and sleep, I suppose it’s next most important to be able to sit and relax properly. Maybe you could help me build a couple of proper benches here by the campfire? Here, look! A few planks here that look ideal for the job! Grab them and set them on top of the bits of wood already surrounding the fire and then we’ll have a really love pair of benches!

I’ve had a plan in my head for ages to get these benches sorted out, but just haven’t got so far with actually building them. Lucky you’re here to help me!

Objectives: Use the planks to build two benches by the campfire.

Rewards: 25 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 15 with The Stoneground Expedition

There are two benches to set up, with three planks each. Set the planks on both benches, then speak to Nic again.

new_and_improved_nic

Benches done! Lovely! Now we can sit soft on the benches and stare thoughtfully into the campfire. Cosy!

Quest completed

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File a Report to A.A.E.

new_and_improved_nic

At last I can think clearly again! I need to contact A.A.E. and tell them what’s happened. I work for them after all, and they’ve not heard from me since I vanished with the balloon! They must think I’ve disappeared forever.

I have to write a letter. My fingers are still frozen, so can I ask for your help in writing a situation report for them? Right there on the bench should be a nice, even surface for letter writing.

Objectives: help Nic write a situation report for A.A.E.

Rewards: 10 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 20 with The Stoneground Expedition

Dismount your horse and use the pen from your inventory to write the reports. Speak to Nic again when you are finished.

new_and_improved_nic

Thanks! Well written! Now we just need to post it…

Hmm… Shoot, there’s no mailboxes out here in the wilderness!

Quest completed

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Writing a Request to the Post Office

new_and_improved_nic

Hmm… I suppose I should submit a request to the Post Office, then maybe they’ll install a mailbox here. Could you help me write that letter as well, Rita?

Objectives: Help Nic write a mailbox request to send to the Post Office.

Rewards: 10 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 20 with The Stoneground Expedition

Shouldn’t your hands be defrosted enough to write your own damn letters??

Dismount your horse to write the letter on the bench, then speak to Nic when it is finished.

new_and_improved_nic

Thanks again for your help with the writing!

Quest completed

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Delivering Mail to Civilization

new_and_improved_nic

Would you be able to take these letters to somewhere a little more civilized and look for a Post Office?

Oh, you know Derek in Silverglade? He works at the Post Office? Fantastic! Take these two letters to him then. Thanks in advance, Rita!

Objectives: Deliver Nic’s letters to Derek in Silverglade Village.

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP

Reputation: 45 with The Stoneground Expedition

Off you go now!

You’ll find Derek where he always is, in the PO by the Silverglade town hall.

derek

Hey Rita! Wow, you and Icerunner both look frozen solid! Two letters, eh? One to A.A.E., nice, I’ll get that sent off for you, and the other is for us here at the Post Office? Exciting!

Quest completed

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Derek Explains the Mail System

derek

Woah, you’re out adventuring in the Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur?! That’s so cool!! Nic Stoneground is asking for a mailbox at his camp there?

Hmm, you’ve got to have a high enough reputation for us to be able install a mailbox, but Nic’s a legend so of course we can get something sorted out for him. The chiefs at Post Office HQ now want us to split all the mail into incoming and outgoing when we install new mailboxes. Dunno what that’s all about, it just sounds like a lot of fuss to me. Anyway, this means that you’ll need two mailboxes to put up at the camp. Understood?

Objectives: Listen to Derek as he tells you all about the Post Office’s new routines.

Rewards: 10 Jorvik Shillings, 10 XP

Reputation: 10 with Silverglade Village

Sounds like they’re just creating more work for themselves, but not my bucket, not my problem.

derek

Cool. Can’t completely get my head around it either.

Quest completed

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Inbox/Outbox…

derek

Here’s a mailbox for incoming post. You need a separate incoming mailbox under the new rules from head office.

Here, take it to Nic.

Objectives: Take the incoming mailbox to Nic.

Rewards: 25 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 35 with The Stoneground Expedition

Return to Nic with the new mailbox.

new_and_improved_nic

Thanks! A separate inbox for mail. New thinking. Odd. Good though!

Quest completed

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Outbox/Inbox…

derek

Here’s a mailbox for outgoing post. There you go! Take it up to Nic. 

Objectives: Take the outgoing mailbox up to Nic.

Rewards: 25 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 35 with The Stoneground Expedition

Return to Nic with the new mailbox.

new_and_improved_nic

Aaaand here’s an outgoing mailbox. Perfect!

Quest completed

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Setting Up Mailboxes

new_and_improved_nic

Now we need to set up the mailboxes. Don’t put them up too close to the tent, otherwise I’ll wake up every time the mailman comes. Over there by that tree seems like a good spot, don’t you think? Check if it works to put them over there. See? By that tree there, yep…

Objectives: Set up both mailboxes in the spots Nic suggested.

Rewards: 25 Jorvik Shillings, 35 XP, Green Winter Bridle

Reputation: 35 with The Stoneground Expedition

Set up the mailboxes across from Nic, then speak to the when you are done.

new_and_improved_nic

Great! Now we’ve got incoming and outgoing mailboxes! Now we’re finally part of the modern communication network! Just think of all the flowing information!

Quest completed

Return to Nic tomorrow.

Day 18 – Part 1, To Hunt a Thief

19 Saturday Jan 2013

Posted by Maggie Oldcamp in Story Quests

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I am splitting this day in half. Linda is ready to talk to you again on this day, and will continue the game’s main storyline, meaning spoilers. I will make this post for the major part of the quests for this day that do not contain spoilers.

Stolen Money?

tan

Do you think someone may have taken my money? Who would do such a thing? I have to check if anyone has seen something suspicious. Rita, you’ve already helped me a lot, but it would be really kind if you could help me find out who the thief is.

Maybe you can ask if Barney at the silo has seen anything? Barney hears a lot of what happens around here and has many contacts. Not what you’d expect from him, but it’s a fact. Yeah, I’m talking about the Barney who hangs out at the silo east of Steve’s farm.

Objectives: Ask Barney at the silo, east of Steve’s farm, if he has seen or heard anything about a thief in this neighborhood.

Rewards: 55 Jorvik Shillings, 60 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

Things have gone real bad here in the ‘hood since you left.

Go and speak with Barney about the issue.

barney

Hello there! What are you talking about? Very unpleasant. I haven’t seen any thieves at least.

Quest completed

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Scouting From the Hill

barney

No, we don’t have any thieves here that I know of, but talk to Will, he has a good view from his mill on the hill!

Objectives: Talk to Will at the mill on the hill outside Silverglade Village and see if he’s seen anything suspicious.

Rewards: 45 Jorvik Shillings, 50 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

So maybe Will has seen something? Let’s go ask!

will

If I’ve seen anything strange? A thief? No, no thieves in sight. Only a beautiful landscape.

Quest completed

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Farther Into the Woods

will

I can see a lot from the top of my hill but I can’t see all the way to Valedale. My advice is to ride to Valedale and check if they’ve heard something. You know, the druids can see and hear things that on one else can… Talk to the druid Elizabeth.

Objectives: Ride to Elizabeth in Valedale Village and ask if she’s seen anything strange.

Rewards: 45 Jorvik Shillings, 50 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

So maybe Elizabeth knows? You never can tell with those druids…

elizabeth_sunbeam

Hello my friend! Nice to see you. I’m also waiting for news about Alex, but I haven’t heard anything yet. What? A thief? No, I haven’t noticed anything unusual. Poor Tan who lost her money.

Quest completed

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Deeper Into the Woods

elizabeth_sunbeam

We druids have a lot of abilities, but we don’t master all kinds of magic, as many of the uninitiated, like Will seem to think. So there’s no way I can help you find out what happened to Tan’s money.

Valedale feels peaceful as usual but ask Sonja, who you met earlier. She knows Hollow Woods better than anyone here. You’ll find her in the neighborhood. She likes to ride around in the middle of Hollow Woods, close to the main road. Search southwest of the old abandoned summerhouse.

Objectives: Find Sonja in Hollow Woods. She likes to ride around in the middle of  the forest, close to the road which goes through it. Search southwest of the old abandoned summerhouse.

Rewards: 45 Jorvik Shillings, 50 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

Sonja may need some chasing to be able to talk to her. She rides in counter-clockwise circles around the hill, across the road from the abandoned summer house. If you stand on the road, eventually she’ll come into view.

Speak to her about the theft.

sonja

Rita! Nice seeing you again! Money you say? I haven’t seen anything strange but I found some coins on the ground over there.

Quest completed

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Coins on the Ground

sonja

Where I found the coins? Below the bird’s nest over there, a stone’s throw away to the north, close to the runestone.

Objectives: Ride to the nest with the red bird, not so far away to the north where Sonja rides around. Close to a runestone.

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

If you continue up the road towards Valedale, the runestone can be seen from the road. Go towards it, and Birdie is around on the other side, perched on a large rock.

birdie

Tweet, tweeeet, tweet, tweeeet!

Quest completed

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Twetweet!

birdie

Tweeeet, tweet, tweet?!

Objectives: You decide to tak to Sonja and tell her what you have discovered…

Rewards: 45 Jorvik Shillings, 50 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

This bird seems distressed. Maybe Sonja knows what’s the matter.

sonja

You must be kidding?! You say that the birds have lined their nest with Tan’s money? Is it true? The birds must like shiny things!

Quest completed

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Bird Thief

sonja

You have to ride to Tan and tell her! Here, take these coins, they must belong to her. See you Rita! Say hello to Tan from me.

Objectives: Ride and tell Tan what you have found out.

Rewards: 45 Jorvik Shillings, 50 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

Return to Moorland and tell Tan the news.

tan

I can’t believe my ears! I thought that a nasty thief had done this. But we can’t take away the coins from the birds, that would be mean. The birds can’t know they shouldn’t take my money, they didn’t do it on purpose because birds can’t know that money has a value.

Quest completed

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Something That Shines

tan

I have an idea! We can swap the money with something else that shines. Maybe Mrs Holdsworth has something we can use?

Objectives: As Mrs Holdsworth, who lives in the red house outside the Moorland Stable, if she has something shiny to give away.

Rewards: 70 Jorvik Shillings, 50 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

Of course, Mrs Holdsworth always has something of use!

Go speak with her at her house behind the stables.

mrs_holdsworth

Haha! What a lovely story. Of course I’ll help you. Let me look through my things.

Quest completed

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A Necklace With Glass Beads, A Bird’s Dream!

mrs_holdsworth

Take this necklace with glass beads. I think the bird will like it much better! Good luck with the trading Rita.

Objectives: Trade the necklace for the money from the little bird in Hollow Woods.

Rewards: 70 Jorvik Shillings, 70 XP

Reputation: 20 with Moorland Stable

Shouldn’t we be more concerned that the beads pose a choking hazard??

Ride back to Birdie in Hollow Woods and show him the necklace you have for him.

birdie

Tweet, tweeet, tweet, tweeet!

Quest completed

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Trading Done

birdie

Tweet, tweeet, tweet, tweet-tweet!

Objectives: Trade the necklace for the money and ride back to Tan with the money.

Rewards: 150 Jorvik Shillings, 90 XP, Tan’s Good Old Riding Shoes

Reputation: 50 with Moorland Stable

Stand under the nest, in the tree behind Birdie, and trade the necklace out with the money. Return to Moorland and speak with Tan when you have done so.

tan

Rita, you’re a hero! Haha, I would never think that the birds wanted to decorate their nest. I’ll never forget this. Thank you!

Quest completed

You’re welcome!

Now let’s go see what the Vet has found with the oil sample from the duck feathers. Go see her in Silverglade Village.

Ongoing Analysis

vet

I’m basically ready… It was very difficult to get good sample material from the feather, there wasn’t a large amount of oil on it. But I managed to get a sample that can be compared with previous samples from Mr Kembell’s oilfield. Take these samples and ride up to Carney at the vineyard and ask if you can borrow the comparison machine again.

Objectives: Ride to Carney at the vineyard stables and ask if you can borrow his comparison machine.

Rewards: 12 Jorvik Shillings, 55 XP

Reputation: 35 with Silverglade Village

I’m sure Carney will let you use it. Just be glad you’re not one of his brothers asking…

carney

Hello Rita, how are you today?

Quest completed

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One More Comparison of Samples

carney

So, you want to borrow my comparison machine again. It should work. Oddly enough, I don’t use it as much as I thought I would when I bought it at J-Bay, so it’s just as well that it will do some good. Just take your samples and use the machine. It’s on the table next to us.

Objectives: Use the oil samples in Carney’s comparison machine, which stands on the table at the vineyard stables.

Rewards: 16 Jorvik Shillings, 45 XP

Reputation: 35 with Silverglade Village

Use the comparison machine on the picnic table behind you. Speak to Carney when you are done.

carney

Did it work? Yes, look. The result is clear. It’s the same oil in both samples you tested.

Quest completed

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Tell Felix About the Evidence

carney

Ride back to Felix in Silverglade Village and tell him that the samples are identical.

Objectives: Ride to Felix and tell him. He’s at the fountain in Silverglade Village.

Rewards: 10 Jorvik Shillings, 45 XP

Reputation: 35 with Silverglade Village

Somebody ain’t gonna be happy…

felix

Really? Then we know that Mr Kembell’s oil has polluted the duck feather. At least we have the proof.

Quest completed

Now that we know who polluted the ducks, go speak to the Vet about cleaning them up.

Cleaning of Ducks

vet

The cute little ducks are clean and happy again! It was more difficult than I thought to clean the fragile feathers, but it went well. Take the ducks to Felix so he’ll be happy again.

Objectives: Bring the five clean ducks to Felix at the fountain in Silverglade Village.

Rewards: 30 Jorvik Shillings, 65 XP

Reputation: 55 with Silverglade Village

Felix will be happy to see his ducks all squeaky clean.

felix

Wow, they’re so nice and shiny! And completely clean. Poor ducks, covered by oil like that. I get so angry when I think of that irresponsible Mr Kembell, I almost want to scream.

Quest completed

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The Summer’s Main Attraction is Saved!

felix

How wonderful that they mystery of the disappearing ducks was solved! Now we’ll just launch them into the fountain. You’ll have the honor to do it since you’re the hero, Rita! Carefully put the ducks in the fountain, one by one.

Objectives: Place the ducks in the fountain in Silverglade Village.

Rewards: 55 Jorvik Shillings, 75 XP, Checkered Pants

Reputation: 55 with Silverglade Village

Stand near the fountain and place the ducks in the water. Return to Felix when you are finished.

felix

The ducks are so cute! The whole village will thank you for this. What an effort you’ve made – the big attraction of the summer is saved! Thank you Rita!

Quest completed

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Someone Will Have to Pay For This

felix

The ducks are rescued, but Mr Kembell makes me so angry! It’s so irresponsible to pollute the beautiful Everwind Fields with oil. It destroys the environment and more birds could be harmed.

We have to stop him once and for all! Can you talk to the Magistrate here in the village and help me establish a case against Mr Kembell for damaging nature, cruelty to animals and breaking the environmental laws, and bring that walking disaster to justice?!

Objectives: Talk to the Magistrate in Silverglade Village about filing a report against Mr Kembell.

Rewards: 35 Jorvik Shillings, 45 XP

Reputation: 55 with Silverglade Village

Magistrate, aka Council Man.

council_man

Hello little one! Oh? File a report about damage and environmental crime? We can do that but it’ll take some time. We’re talking a week or more. A lot of paperwork, you know. It takes a long time to flip papers and write the right things so everything is legal.

Quest completed

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Waiting for the Long Arm of the Law

council_man

We’re building a case against Mr Kembell. No one wants him and his ruthless corporation here in Jorvik. We’re also waiting for our dear Commissioner Klas to come back to the village after winter break. Both cops and robbers usually stay calm during the cold winter months here in Silverglade.

Objectives: Talk to the Magistrate.

Rewards: 55 Jorvik Shillings, 55 XP

Reputation: 55 with Silverglade Village

See what more the Council Man has to say.

council_man

How long does it take? As I said before, it’ll take weeks before the case against Mr Kembell is ready, but then we can go full force and get him out of here, I hope. Thank you for your report! Good luck now and thanks for saving the ducks. You are a hero, Rita! We could use more of your kind her in the village in times like these.

Quest completed

Felix has something new to tell you about, go speak to him.

Waiting for a Train

felix

The lemmings here on Jorvik are very special. Every year, the same time, they march from the other side of the mountains, come here and then they go home again. No one knows why they are doing this but I think it’s some kind of pilgrimage. I heard from Mario up on the Observatory that he had seen some lemmings who seemed lost. Maybe you can ride up to him? To look at the lemmings and maybe help them on the right track.

I forgot to note the objectives and rewards on this one, sorry!

Some pilgrims are lost on their way to lemming-Mecca. Better help them out!

Ride up the observatory. You can ride your newly built gondola lift to get up there quickly.

mario

Hi! Have you talked to Felix? Yes, what he says is true. I have seen the yearly lemming march and I have to tell you it’s not a march any more. The little creatures seem to have lost each other.

Quest completed

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The March Has Gone Astray

mario

I saw some lemmings when I was taking my morning walk but I have such a horrible lemming allergy so I can’t go near them. I have spent the whole morning looking at them in my telescope and I am so worried about them. You are not allergic? Can’t you look below the Observatory, pick up all lemmings you find and put them in your backpack?

Objectives: Look for lemmings below the Observatory.

Rewards: 30 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 15 with Valedale

The lemmings can be found mostly under the bridge to the Observatory. They are marked in orange on your map.

Return to Mario when you have found them all.

mario

Oh no, I can feel in my nose that you have found all the lemmings! So good that they like small spaces so that they are comfortable in your backpack. I hope you won’t get too much lemming hair on your things…

Quest completed

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Get the Lemmings to Their Correct Destination

mario

The lemmings’ last stop on the march used to be in Valedale. I suggest that you ride there with them and maybe do it right now before I sneeze so hard that you fall off your horse!

Objectives: Ride to Valedale with the lemmings.

Rewards: 15 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 15 with Valedale

I’m not so concerned about falling off my horse. I’m more concerned about you falling off that cliff!

Take the lemmings down toward Valedale. Sophie will know what to do with them.

sophie

Lemmings! I have waited the whole day for them. Why do you have them in your backpack?

Quest completed

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The March is Delayed

sophie

Are they confused? The poor little things. Maybe you can herd them up the hill towards the snow, they usually go to their homes that way.

Objectives: Follow the lemmings up the hill towards the snow.

Rewards: 120 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 15 with Valedale

The lemmings are in a line on the ground, and will start their march as soon as you accept the quest. Follow them all the way up the mountain trail, to the snow at the top.

Return to Sophie when they have made it safely.

sophie

Did it wok? Are they on the right track now? So good that you could help them, no one knows how long we had been standing here, waiting for the. I hope they will be on the right track next year.

Quest completed

With that done, let’s go see Minka in Firgrove. She has a new racing track for you to try out.

Firgrove’s Hard Forest Track

minka

Hello Rita! I have finally finished the renovation of Firgrove’s old, difficult and dangerous forest track. It’s a bit hard, or super tough to be honest… I don’t know if I’m brave enough to try it myself, but you are so talented so maybe you want to try it? Please, Rita, can you test it before I open it for the public?

Objectives: Finish the track in the best possible time.

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 60 XP

Reputation: 100 with Firgrove

Ride the hard forest track, then speak with Minka when you are done.

minka

Did it work? It’s not impossibly hard? You did great I think! Even if it’s difficult I think it’s good. Experienced riders like you need a challenge! I hereby declare Firgrove’s old forest track opened!

Quest completed

You can now ride the forest track (and the track in reverse) as a daily race.

Mrs Packard has something she would like you to help with. Go see her by her house in Firgrove.

Chicken Wishes

mrs_packard

Me and my grandson Andy have decided that we want a chicken coop. It would be so nice to have some chickens and fresh eggs around here. I am old and frail and Andy already has too much to do taking care of the sheep. Would you mind helping us build a chicken coop? I would be so thankful!

Objectives: Talk to Mrs Packard.

Rewards: 30 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 15 with Firgrove

See what Mrs Packard has to say about this new idea of hers.

mrs_packard

I’m sure Andy will help you, ride down and talk to him. He is watching the sheep next to Firgrove’s sandpit.

Quest completed

Go talk to Andy down by the sandpit.

Building Boss

andy

Howdy Rita! Have you talked to my grandma? We have talked for a long time about buying some chickens and a chicken coop, but nothing has happened because my grandma s so old and I have too much to do. But if you want to help I can guide you through the whole building procedure. Grandma will be so happy.

Objectives: Talk to Andy.

Rewards: 40 Jorvik Shillings, 10 XP

Reputation: 15 with Firgrove

Andy will tell you his plans for the chicken coop.

andy

There is a lot to do but if we take one thing at a time we’ll do just fine. I wonder where we should build the chicken coop…

Quest completed

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A Perfect Place

andy

I am not sure where we should put it, but it should be somewhere not too far away. I want to be able to watch over my and grandma’s chickens. Would you mind riding around this pen to see if you can find a place that looks good?

Objectives: Ride around the sheep pen and find a good place to build a chicken coop. Return to Andy when you have found it.

Rewards: 15 Jorvik Shillings, 20 XP

Reputation: 15 with Firgrove

There are two places to check. One is behind where Andy is standing. The other is on the other side of where the race track comes down towards the sheep pen.

Speak with Andy when you have found the good place.

andy

Cool! That’s terrific. Now we can build the chicken coop! I have already prepared a drawing, hehe. I like things to be well organized.

Quest completed

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Wood for Construction

andy

I happen to know that there are some planks around the old mine down there. I think they are left over from when they built the mine many years ago. Ride down and look, I don’t think anyone will miss the planks. It’s good that someone will get some use out of them.

Objectives: Ride down to the Silverglade Mine and gather planks for the chicken coop.

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 15 with Firgrove

You will see the mine in the distance if you face where you will build the chicken coop, with your back to Andy. The planks are scattered close to the mine buildings. Pick them up and return to Andy when you are done.

andy

Great! This should be enough. The planks look good. They are even still a nice red color! Grandma said that she wanted her chicken coop to be red so this will be perfect.

Quest completed

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Build a Chicken Coop

andy

So! Shall we start with the construction? Here is a hammer and some nails. I have left the planks you found where we will build the chicken coop. Do you remember my drawing? A red house with a nice frame around it.

Objectives: Use the hammer you got from Andy on the planks he has placed where the chicken coop shall be.

Rewards: 25 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 15 with Firgrove

The planks are on the ground where the chicken coop shall be built. You have to dismount your horse to be able to use the hammer. When you are done building, return to Andy.

andy

Wow, so great! And such a good drawing I made! You are a real handyman. But something is missing…

Quest completed

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Chicken Wire

andy

Oh, I got it! We need chicken wire! Otherwise the chickens will run out into the woods. Imagine if they could run up on the racing track? That could only end in disaster. Felicity in the stable in Firgrove Village has fencing for the sheep pen. Maybe she has some we can use for the chicken coop too?

Objectives: Ride to Felicity and ask if she has some chicken wire.

Rewards: 15 Jorvik Shillings, 15 XP

Reputation: 15 with Firgrove

Ride up to Firgrove and ask Felicity for some wire.

felicity

Hiya! So fun seeing you again! Is the sheep pen broken already?? Oh, you are building a chicken coop! Of course I can give you some chicken wire. I have some old chicken wire, but I need to repair it first.

Quest completed

Return to Felicity tomorrow.

Landon, in the field behind the mill, has something you tell you. Go see him about starting a new race.

Rather One Rabbit in the Hand Than Ten in the Forest

landon

Hello! The rabbits on this field are very playful. They chase each other all day and love when someone on a horse tries to catch them. Have you tried? No? Then it’s time you try it.

Try to catch six rabbits as fast as you can! You finish the competition when you return to me.

Objectives: Catch six rabbits as fast as you can. Finish the competition next to Landon.

Rewards: 20 Jorvik Shillings, 60 XP

Reputation: 100 with Silverglade Village

This is honestly my least favorite race in the whole game. It is difficult. There’s no way around it.

The easiest way I have found to complete it is to use the arrow keys to control my horse, with one hand, and use the computer mouse to click on the rabbits, with the other hand.

When you have caught six rabbits, run to Landon as fast as you can to finish the race.

Good luck.

landon

He he! It was really fun! Wasn’t it? The rabbits seem to really enjoy it.

Quest completed

There is a new curious persona, landed in a hot air balloon on Everwind Fields, and he needs your assistance.

The Famous Adventurer

nic_stoneground

Hunger and weariness won’t stop me! Why, hello there! I’m famous adventurer and explorer Nic Stoneground, I’m sure you’ve heard of me! You know what, I have something fantastic going on. A most amazing project, in fact. I’m going out on an epic adventure! Could you just help me sort out a small detail since you’re here anyway?

Objectives: Talk to Nic.

Rewards: 10 Jorvik Shillings, 25 XP

Reputation: 25 with A.A.E.

See what Nic needs help with.

nic_stoneground

Great. I just need someone who can undo these moorings for me… This balloon will take me to The Hidden Dinosaur Valley beyond Valedale Mountains. I’m sure this will be a successful expedition!

Quest completed

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With Hot Air Balloon to the Hidden Valley

nic_stoneground

My expedition will be legendary! By helping me undo the moorings, you’ll be part of my unlimited success, and we’ll be world famous! But first, we just have to lift off. There are four moorings around the balloon, and then it’s off to new heights!

Objectives: Tie up four moorings at the balloon. Talk to Nic again when you are finished.

Rewards: 45 Jorvik Shillings, 45 XP

Reputation: 55 with A.A.E.

There is one mooring located at each corner of the basket, that needs to be untied.

nic_stoneground

Clear! Off we go! Airships, balloons, and zeppelins, that’s good stuff. Now it’s time! See you my friend! I’m going to The Hidden Dinosaur Valley! Who knows, maybe we’ll meet again soon!

Quest completed

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--- Hidden Quest Locations - All of the hidden quests with maps and descriptions.

--- Dino Valley Hidden Quests - Info for the one current hidden quest in Dino Valley.

---Help I don't have new quests! - Before you ask why you don't have more story quests, please look here.

---Mississippi Jones Quests - All of the Mississippi Jones quests, from the treasure hunt, to the runestone puzzle

---Archaeology in Epona - All of the maps and info for treasure hunt quests with Hawaii Jones in Epona.

---Andy's Geocaching - Maps and descriptions of Firgrove geochaching quests.

---Gondola Building / Video Game Quests - All of the quests with Ms Morse, and the Crew Lead, building the gondola, and Zombie Horse Pole Bending Apocalypse

---Missing Cement Truck Location - Original quest dialogue is confusing, please see this post for a map to the location of the cement truck.

---About Getting to Goldenhills Valley - Before asking about how to get to Goldenhills Valley, please read this post.

---How to Get to Epona - Information about minimum level and requirements for getting to Epona in southern Harvest Counties

---Water-Fetching Quests - Maps and descriptions of the locations to get water for 'Can You Smell the Smoke' and 'Meltwater' quests.

---Wee Ghosties - All of the quests with Mr and Mrs Hill's ghosts.

---Gretchen is Missing - All of the quests when Gretchen goes missing.

---About Ferdinand's Horse Market - Information regarding Ferdinand's Horse Market, including links to logged quests and travelling info.

---Building the Bridge to South Hoof - All of the quests to building the bridge between South Hoof Peninsula and New Hillcrest.

---SSO Horses Companion App - Information and list of horses available in the SSO companion mobile app.

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My main character is Maggie Oldcamp.
My blog character is Rita Turtlefoot.

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