Mystery Miners

Mystery Miners

Quest giver

Drery

Location

Amh Araeng (X:11.8, Y:16.9)

Level

70

Required items

1   Drery's Note
1   Dainty Wooden Chest

Experience

 54,000-57,240

Gil

 832

Previous quest

On Track

Patch

5.0

Links

EDB GT

“

Drery is faced with a nigh unfathomable conundrum.

— In-game description

Rewards

• 2   Sausage Links

Steps

• Solve the riddle in the will.

• Deliver the dainty wooden chest to Drery.

Journal

• Drery is faced with a nigh unfathomable conundrum.

Walkthrough

Solve the riddle in the will.

Riddle:

Objective can be found at X 15.7, Y 17.0 next to the tree. /kneel on the shining spot.

Explanation:

• "On road leading afar..." refers to the railroad.
• "follow to the third star" refers to the lampposts, meaning you should stop at the third one.
• "Fear not the fall, look to the Wall" indicates that you should jump off the side near the wall (cliff).
• "At the first dry giant's heel" is the base (heel) of the "giant" tree's trunk.

Dialogue

System: Should you choose to undertake this quest, you will receive no guidance from the journal or the duty list. You will need to read the text carefully and decipher the clues to determine your next course of action. 

Accepting the Quest

Drery: If you've got a moment, let me tell you about a friend of mine. She was a hard worker, but her real passion was for riddles, head-scratchers, and the like. Until she met her end at the hands of a right horrible sin eater. Phronesis, I think they called it.
Drery: Anyway, like a lot of miners, my friend kept a will. But she couldn't write a nice, simple one the same as everyone else, oh no.
Drery: It said that she'd buried something and that if we wanted to find it, we'd have to solve a conundrum. Trouble is, none of us can work it out. But I thought someone like you, with an outsider's perspective, might see something we hadn't.
Drery: It goes like this:
Drery: "On road leading afar, follow to the third star,
Fear not the fall, look to the Wall,
At the first dry giant's heel, the brave wanderer must kneel."
Drery: I can't make head nor tail of it, to be honest. Still, we're dying to know what she's buried, so if you have any luck, be sure to tell us. Oh, and I wrote down the riddle, in case you forget.

System: Use Drery's note to read the riddle again.

(Optional)
Drery: "On road leading afar, follow to the third star,
Fear not the fall, look to the Wall,
At the first dry giant's heel, the brave wanderer must kneel."
Drery: Not the sort of thing most folk would write as their last will and testament, I'm sure you'll agree.

Solving the riddle in the will

/kneel
System: You discover a small chest buried beneath the sand!

Delivering the dainty wooden chest to Drery

Drery: I can't believe you found it!
<Hand Over Dainty Wooden Chest>
Drery: Let's see what's inside...
Drery: Coins, rings, even an expensive-looking pocket knife. This must be what she raked in from all those card games!
Drery: Wait, there's a letter. “This is for Twine,” is all it says.
Drery: Come to think of it, I knew she made a killing on the cards, but I never saw her spending much of her winnings. Seems she was putting them away to give back to the town after her death, almost like she knew it was coming.
Drery: Always was a mystery, that one. It's funny, I never realized how much I miss her until now. Not only have you solved the riddle, but you've shown me what sort of person she really was. You have my thanks.