Charting Gloomwood
Category: medium
Prerequisites: complete cartographers_summons
The Magic Grove
Deep in Gloomwood stands a grove of silver-barked magic trees. Vael wants them charted — and harvested. Fell a stand.
Objectives:
- CHOP: Magic Logs ×100
Rewards:
- ✨ 54,000
Woodcutting XP
Mapping the Grove
Now walk the grove's bounds and ink them onto the chart. Survey until the grove is mapped.
Objectives:
- LEVEL:
Rewards:
- 6,000 gp
Witchlight Fires
Magic logs burn with a pale light the survey crews use to signal across the dark. Get a good blaze going.
Objectives:
- BURN: Magic Logs ×100
Rewards:
- ✨ 60,800
Firemaking XP - 5,000 gp
The Hollow Heart
At Gloomwood's centre the canopy swallows the sky. Vael has never charted it. "You will," she says. Survey the deep wood.
Objectives:
- LEVEL:
Rewards:
- 💎 25 gems
Cold-Water Provisions
The deep-wood camp needs feeding. The black pools hide sharks — haul a catch back to camp.
Objectives:
- CATCH: raw_shark ×100
Rewards:
- ✨ 150,000
Fishing XP - 5,000 gp
The Master Survey
"Full charting standard now — no gaps, no guesses." Survey until the heart of Gloomwood is complete. This is as deep as the Lodge maps go.
Objectives:
- LEVEL:
Rewards:
- 💎 30 gems
The Crimson Stand
Beyond the heart grows a stand of redwoods older than the kingdom. Their timber is priceless. Fell what you can carry.
Objectives:
- CHOP: Redwood Logs ×100
Rewards:
- ✨ 72,000 Woodcutting XP
Loggers Gone Feral
Illegal loggers have been stripping the redwoods. Golo's lumberjacks, working a side deal — relieve them of their takings.
Objectives:
- THIEVE: lumberjack ×150
Rewards:
- ✨ 12,000
Thieving XP - 6,000 gp
Redwood Pyres
Burn the loggers' felled scrap before it rots — and signal the Lodge that the stand is secured.
Objectives:
- BURN: Redwood Logs ×100
Rewards:
- ✨ 76,600 Firemaking XP
- 6,000 gp
Adamant for the Instruments
The deep-wood surveys broke half the Lodge's gear. Vael needs adamantite for new theodolites. Mine a load.
Objectives:
- MINE: Adamantite Ore ×100
Rewards:
- ✨ 10,000
Mining XP
A Hole in the Map
Your charts show a blank where a cave-mouth yawns under the redwoods. "Timberfall Cavern," Vael says. "Clear it before we map it."
Objectives:
- DUNGEON_CLEAR: timberfall_cavern ×3
Rewards:
- 7,000 gp
Smoke the Deep Catch
The cavern crews are half-starved. Cook the shark stores and run them down.
Objectives:
- COOK: raw_shark ×100
Rewards:
- ✨ 144,000
Cooking XP - 6,500 gp
Deeper Still
The cavern runs further than anyone guessed. Clear the lower galleries so the survey can follow.
Objectives:
- DUNGEON_CLEAR: timberfall_cavern ×6
Rewards:
- 💎 35 gems
Redwood Beams
The Lodge wants a proper field station built at the cavern mouth. Bring the redwood for its beams.
Objectives:
- CHOP: Redwood Logs ×150
Rewards:
- ✨ 108,000 Woodcutting XP
Gloomwood, Charted
Vael spreads your completed map across the Lodge table and the whole forest lies revealed — grove, heart, stand, and cavern. "The first full chart of Gloomwood in a generation. And look — your surveying turned up another clue."
Objectives:
- MINE: Adamantite Ore ×150
Rewards:
- ✨ 15,000 Mining XP
- 8,000 gp
- 💎 45 gems
Clue Scroll (Uncommon) ×1