Whispers in the Gloom
Category: hard
Prerequisites: complete lost_survey_party
The Grid They Erased
Wren shows you a chart with one quarter scratched out. "We surveyed it once. The party came back wrong, talking of whispers. We struck it from the map." The whispers rise from Timberfall. Go down and listen.
Objectives:
- DUNGEON_CLEAR: timberfall_cavern ×20
Rewards:
- 9,500 gp
The Restless Dead
The old survey party never left — they walk the lower galleries as bone. Lay the first of them to rest.
Objectives:
- KILL: kill skeleton_1 ×150
Rewards:
- 8,000 gp
Fish from Black Water
Only anglerfish live in the grid's lightless pools, and the dead crew lived on them at the end. Catch some — and understand what they endured.
Objectives:
- CATCH: raw_anglerfish ×200
Rewards:
- ✨ 500,000
Fishing XP - 8,000 gp
Shapes in the Dark
Pale wolves stalk the erased quarter, drawn to the whispers same as the surveyors were. Cut them down.
Objectives:
- KILL: kill dire_wolf ×150
Rewards:
- 8,500 gp
Deeper Into the Whisper
The voices grow clearer the lower you go. Push past where the old party turned back.
Objectives:
- DUNGEON_CLEAR: timberfall_cavern ×40
Rewards:
- 💎 35 gems
The Last Meal
Cook the anglerfish the way the dead crew's journal describes. The ritual of it steadies your nerve.
Objectives:
- COOK: raw_anglerfish ×200
Rewards:
- ✨ 500,000
Cooking XP - 9,000 gp
More of the Bone Crew
The whispers wake the rest of the lost party. Free them from their restless march.
Objectives:
- KILL: kill skeleton_1 ×250
Rewards:
- 9,500 gp
Blessed Silver
Whatever whispers down here recoils from silver. Mine a load to ward the deepest gallery.
Objectives:
- MINE: Silver Ore ×300
Rewards:
- ✨ 105,000
Mining XP
A Clear Head
The whispers cloud the mind. Brew Scholar's Tincture — the surveyors called it 'clarity in a bottle' — to think straight in the dark.
Objectives:
- BREW: scholars_tincture ×100
Rewards:
- ✨ 72,000
Brewing XP
The Pack at the Threshold
The pale wolves mass at the warded gallery, frantic, as if herded. Break through.
Objectives:
- KILL: kill dire_wolf ×250
Rewards:
- 10,000 gp
Drink Clear
Down the tincture before the final descent. The whispers fade to a murmur you can almost name.
Objectives:
- USE_POTION: scholars_tincture ×75
Rewards:
- 💎 40 gems
The Whispering Vault
Below the warded gallery lies a sealed vault — the heart of the whisper. Cut your way to it.
Objectives:
- DUNGEON_CLEAR: timberfall_cavern ×60
Rewards:
- 11,000 gp
Oil for the Vault Lamps
The vault is black as pitch. Net a last haul of anglerfish for lantern-oil to see by.
Objectives:
- CATCH: raw_anglerfish ×300
Rewards:
- ✨ 750,000 Fishing XP
- 11,000 gp
The Last of the Lost
The party's captain stands at the vault door, bone and grief. Give the old surveyor peace at last.
Objectives:
- KILL: kill skeleton_1 ×350
Rewards:
- 💎 50 gems
What the Whisper Guarded
The vault opens. There is no monster — only a cartographer's chest, and inside it the master clue the old party died protecting: a route to something the Lodge has hunted for a century. You carry it, and their names, back into the light.
Objectives:
- DUNGEON_CLEAR: timberfall_cavern ×80
Rewards:
- 18,000 gp
- 💎 70 gems
Clue Scroll (Epic) ×1