Chapter 10 - Lab Partners
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[edit] Quest Text
Your vision goes blurry, your stomach churns and everything fades to white.
You open your eyes and find yourself staring at the charred, bloodstained white stone wall of the House of Healing. You stand and look around. The narrow hallways are a grisly tableau of dead Faeriestripers, broken glass and ruined furniture. The cold silence is broken by the sound of a metallic crash in a nearby room, followed by hushed voices. You draw your weapon and approach the now quiet source of the sound.
You round the corner, ready for battle, to find Edgar Crawls and a startled Doctor Fizroy staring back at you.
[edit] Activated by
Chapter 9 - Corruption of the Abtu-Kahn
After completing chapter 9, you must go into your Quest Journal, then click the Abtu-Kahn crest on the right, and finally click the button that has now appeared next to the Week 4 chapters. Until you do so, you will not be offered the Chapter 10 quest.
[edit] Act 1 - Fizroy's Escape
You sheathe your weapon as Fizroy leaps across the room and embraces you. You notice a rancid, chemical odor wafting from his skin. As he holds you at arms length and looks into your eyes, you notice deep, jagged, crudely stitched scars on his face and arms.
"Aren't you a sight for sore eyes!" From the corner, Edgar gives a brief nod of the head in greeting.
You ask Fizroy what happened after he was dragged away by the Reanimated in the Necropolis. He releases you and paces the length of the room.
"Wanted my flesh. Tried to peel it away and... well they did peel it away... some of it anyway. Sewed it over their own dead skin, right in front of me. Disgusting. Took some organs too, I think..." Fizroy pats his side, "Yeah... there should be a kidney there..."
You ask how he survived. He grasps your shoulders and looks you in the eye.
"I am a Doctor." When you don't respond as if this cleared everything up, he lets you go and sets to pacing again.
"I conducted a few... experiments... on myself while still in school... It will take a bit more than the loss of skin and some organs to kill me." Fizroy snaps his head around, wide eyed paranoia apparent on his face. "You come alone?"
You bring Fizroy and Edgar to Kel's still unconscious body. The Doctor kneels down over the body, pulls back the side of his muzzle, examines his teeth, opens and peers into Kel's golden eyes, then looks up, looks back and forth while mumbling unintelligibly to himself and then looks at you.
"What in the world happened to this poor kitty?"
As quickly as possible, you relate the incident in the Hall of Gates. Edgar frowns.
"Can you do anything, Doctor?"
"Of course I can. I'm not a Farmer." He states.
[edit] Objectives
[edit] Act 2 - A Kitty Disease
The infected Elf falls to the ground and you turn toward the table to find Fizroy standing over Kel, preparing to drive a fiendish looking dagger into his throat. Before he can drive the blade home, Adehgah grabs him from behind.
"What are you doing?" The robed Kahn grunts, struggling to pull the knife from Fizroy's hands.
"He's got it too. You can see it in his eyes. He is bringing the rest of them here. They got into my Faeries... my babies!"
"That doesn't mean that we can just kill him." Fizroy breaks Adehgah's hold and turns the knife on him.
"Unless it's a kitty disease... unless you have it too..." Fizroy backs up, still holding the knife.
"That why you came here? To turn us into slaves with your killer fleas?"
[edit] Objectives
[edit] Act 3 - Proven Disorderly
You turn back to the room and Fizroy is still holding up his knife, snapping his head back and forth with a wild look in his eyes.
"Put the knife down, Doc." Edgar glares at the Doctor with his dead eyes and Fizroy places the dagger gently on the table.
"Now, why don't you behave like a doctor, and examine him."The candles and lanterns circling the room flicker and Fizroy licks his lips.
"Not here. It isn't safe. We need to move him-"
[edit] Objectives
[edit] Conclusion
Even as you land your last blow upon the infected blacksmith, he coughs, causing long, sticky green tentacles to blast from his mouth. They slither along the floor toward you, groping blindly at the stone. You are dripping with sweat, as the temperature in the room continues to rise. A tentacle rises before you like a cobra... and bursts, shrieking, into flames.
[edit] Reward
- D.E.A. Stipend
- 50 XP
- 50 gold
- 200 tokens
[edit] Hints
By completing this you get to go on to Chapter 11 - Flame
