Innkeeper Tomas
Greeting
"Welcome to Dawnport Reef, traveler! The temple cellar's been crawling with rats lately, and I'd swear I saw one with eyes like embers. Something's not right down there. Would you lend us your sword?"
Dialogue Topics
rats
The rats have grown aggressive -- not just hungry, but driven. I've kept this cellar clean for twenty years and never seen the like.
spiders
The rats were fleeing from spiders below. Poison spiders, and their queen is breeding fast. The webs thicken each hour.
goblins
Goblins have been raiding the outer brush at night. They move with purpose, like soldiers. Someone is directing them.
corruption
You hear it too, don't you? The quiet. My cellar is just a cellar now -- the rats came back for crumbs instead of omens. First honest rats I've had in years.
corruption
I've seen strange dark marks on the cellar walls -- like something seeping through the stone. The world below us is stirring.
mainland
You've proven yourself. Captain Reynald can sail you to Thornhaven, the Old City. The continent needs folk like you.
The Corruptor's Whispers
Have you been hearing things? Voices in your head, when you level up? I have. The temple priest says it's the Corruptor -- it speaks to people who are getting stronger. It spoke to me, through the cellar. Through the rats. Through the dreams. It said... it said I was marked. That I belonged to it. I don't know if that's true. But the whispers are getting louder. Be careful out there. If it's talking to you, it means you're a threat. Or a tool. I can't tell which.
The Deep Rat Queen
You know the rats in the temple cellar? The ones fleeing from below? There's something deeper -- a queen, they say. Twisted by the same corruption, grown fat and monstrous in the dark. If you're strong enough, venture to the deepest caves. But be careful -- her bite carries a plague that festers long after the wound heals.
Bat Swarms in the Caves
The cavern bats used to be harmless. Just pests, really. But lately they've been swarming in the deeper caves -- dozens at once, frenzied and aggressive. Something down there is driving them mad. The same something that drove the rats out.
spider
The rats were fleeing from spiders below. Kill 8 poison spiders and burn the queen egg!
goblin
Goblins are raiding the outer brush. Thin their numbers for Captain Reynald.
boat
You've proven yourself! Talk to Captain Reynald about passage to Thornhaven.
thin_place
Old Mara says the temple cellar is a 'thin place' -- somewhere the deep presses close to the surface. That's why the rats fled upward first. They lived closest to the crack. Sometimes I dream about what else might climb through it.
rumors
Vorath the lich hunter drank here once before he walked into Goshnar's shadow -- paid in silver and grave-dust. And sailors swear the rats knew about the dark below before any priest did. Rumors, friend. This town runs on them.
Quest Given
Rat Extermination (Chain: A, Lv 1+)