The Mapmaker's Debt
Category: hard
Prerequisites: complete charting_gloomwood
A Debt Comes Due
Vael closes a ledger guiltily. "A chart of the Reach needs inks I can't make — and I bought them on credit from a smuggler named Carrow. He's calling the debt." Gold-leaf gilds the ink-wells; mine the ore.
Objectives:
- MINE: Gold Ore ×100
Rewards:
- ✨ 40,000
Mining XP - 6,000 gp
Witch-Ink
The luminous ink that maps Gloomwood by night is pressed from magic herb. Grow a crop.
Objectives:
- COLLECT: Magic Herb ×40
Rewards:
- 8,000 gp
Shipping Crates
Carrow won't take ink loose. Cut yew for sturdy shipping crates.
Objectives:
- CHOP: Yew Logs ×125
Rewards:
- ✨ 50,000
Woodcutting XP - 6,500 gp
Crimson Dye
The red of border-lines comes from dragon pepper. Harvest a fiery crop.
Objectives:
- COLLECT: Dragon Pepper ×30
Rewards:
- 8,000 gp
Carrow's Skimming Man
Carrow's runner — Golo, of course — has been shorting the deliveries and pocketing the difference. Recover it.
Objectives:
- THIEVE: golo ×150
Rewards:
- ✨ 10,500
Thieving XP - 7,000 gp
Silver for the Wells
Fine ink-wells are chased in silver. Mine a load for the smith.
Objectives:
- MINE: Silver Ore ×125
Rewards:
- ✨ 43,750 Mining XP
Golden Dye
Royal roads are marked in gold ink, pressed from sunflower. Grow a bright field of them.
Objectives:
- COLLECT: Sunflower ×60
Rewards:
- 7,500 gp
Paying the Crew
Carrow's crew take half their fee in smoked fish. Land the tuna they're owed.
Objectives:
- CATCH: raw_tuna ×125
Rewards:
- ✨ 65,000
Fishing XP - 8,000 gp
More Witch-Ink
Carrow doubles the order — the Lightheart court wants charts now too. Grow more magic herb.
Objectives:
- COLLECT: Magic Herb ×80
Rewards:
- 8,000 gp
The Logging Fence
Carrow fences stolen crate-timber through a bent lumberjack. Take back what the Lodge overpaid.
Objectives:
- THIEVE: lumberjack ×150
Rewards:
- ✨ 12,000 Thieving XP
- 8,500 gp
Smoke the Payment
Cook the tuna into the smoked fillets the crew demand before they'll unload the inks.
Objectives:
- COOK: raw_tuna ×125
Rewards:
- ✨ 100,000
Cooking XP - 8,500 gp
The Last Crimson
One more pressing of dragon-pepper red and the dye order is filled.
Objectives:
- COLLECT: Dragon Pepper ×60
Rewards:
- 8,000 gp
Gilding the Debt
The final ink-wells need gilding. Mine the last of the gold.
Objectives:
- MINE: Gold Ore ×150
Rewards:
- ✨ 60,000 Mining XP
Carrow Comes Collecting
Carrow arrives in person, all teeth and ledgers, with Golo at his shoulder skimming even now. Settle the runner one last time.
Objectives:
- THIEVE: golo ×175
Rewards:
- ✨ 12,250 Thieving XP
- 9,000 gp
The Ledger Closed
The debt is paid in gold, ink, dye and fish, and Carrow leaves almost smiling. "Pleasure trading, Cartographer." He tosses you a rolled scrap as he goes. "Found this in a Lodge crate. Can't read maps myself." It's a clue.
Objectives:
- COLLECT: Sunflower ×100
Rewards:
- 12,000 gp
- 💎 45 gems
Clue Scroll (Rare) ×1