URT Hero Mission: Greater Power

by Shayalyn

URT Quest Series

Renton Keep

• Greater Power
  (Gloves)
• Appeasing Tharridon (Boots)

Kaon's Rush

• Feeding Frenzy (Shoulders)

Silverlake

• Saving Silverlake (Legs)

Shoreline Ruins

• The Ambassador's Daughter (Chest)
• The Undead Answer (Weapon)

About the Quest

Several NPCs grant this quest depending on your location in Telon. All of them will lead you to Calern Retera in Renton Keep. You'll find Calern standing just outside the town proper. Complete each of the quest steps to receive your reward. This is probably the simplest of the URT quests, and the least time-intensive to complete.

Part One: Searching the Past

Calern Retera says, "Tharridon has some of his Rekk trying to break up a large stone outcropping to the northwest. We might be able to get Tharridon in our debt by breaking up the stone for him. We don't have the manpower to break up the stone by hand, but to the southeast is a lake that wasn't always there. If we can find out how that lake was made, we might be able to harness the same power for rock breaking. Travel to the elven tower northwest of the lake and question the ancient recorder there."

This is simple enough. The Ancient Recorder is an NPC. Just follow your waypoint to him and you'll receive the information you seek. Return to Calern Retera for a reward of 1 silver 50 copper and the next part of your quest.

Part Two: Long Term Effects

Calern Retera says, "I'm worried about what sort of long term effects an explosion of that size might have on the wildlife of an area."

"We don't have the manpower to kill off all of the creatures that might try to live in an area after we've used burster beetles on just because they might become contaminated."

"Travel to the lake fast southeast of Renton Keep and bring back samples from the creatures that now inhabit it."

Another simple objective. Follow your waypoint, kill creatures, collect mutated flesh samples and return to Calern for your 1 silver 50 copper.

Part Three: Beetles of Mass Destruction

Calern Retera says, "We need you to collect a few unstable burster beetles so we can test them on the outcropping. Having seen the effects that only a few unstable burster beetles have, we can do studies to find out how many of them would be necessary to completely break up the rock. Maybe if we can keep water from collecting there, it will be safe to use them. Anyway, go to the burster beetles north of the lake and collect several unstable ones."

Your task is to collect 8 unstable burster beetles in your trap. Follow your waypoint to the beetles' location and kill burster beetles as you wander around looking for the unstable ones, which you will capture in the trap that Calern has placed in your inventory. It's easiest to drag the trap to a hotkey so that it's handy to right click when you're collecting the beetles.

All of the creatures in this area are 2-dots and around level 15-16. All will aggro you when you're within their aggro radius. It's fairly easy to aggro more than one, so squishy classes may want to bring a friend, although if you can single-pull and/or judiciously sprint for your life when called to, you should be just fine.

Do not kill the unstable burster beetles. They will aggro you if you're within range, but simply right click your beetle trap to capture them and stop the fight. It takes a little while to gather up 8 unstable beetles (unless you're luckier than I was when I collected them). I couldn't quite determine if the plain burster beetles were placeholders for the unstable ones, but it seems likely, so kill beetles to your heart's content.

When your trap is full, return to Calern for a reward of 1 silver 60 copper.

Part Four: To the Test Site

Calern Retera says, "Take this crate of unstable burster beetles to Melkov Ullosa at the rock outcropping to the northwest and release them near her. She will observe and record the results of the unstable burster beetles on the rock, and any harmful residue that may persist after they have exploded." Y ou'll find Melkov Ullosa up on a rocky platform surrounded by Rekk hobgoblins.

This is a URT mission, and URT missions seem to operate under Murphy's Law--anything that can go wrong will. I won't spoil the fun here, but you can just about guess there's going to be an "Oops!" and that you're going to have to clean up the mess. The next quest, issued by Melkov Ullosa, hints at what happened:

Part Five: Cleanup: Aisle Botchery

Melkov Ullosa says, "We must make sure that none of the Rekk here survive to tell that URT attacked them. Slay the Rekk Foreman, and as many of the Excavators, Pulverizers, Rockgrinders, and Stonecrushers as possible. If any of them live to tell Tharridon, URT is doomed. We can blame the deaths on the burster beetles and deny any knowledge of why there were burster beetles here."

Uh, yeah. So off you go to kill some Rekk hobgoblins. (The URT have a way with messing with them.) The Rekk are all about level 15-16 2-dots. These guys are non-aggro and are akin to sitting ducks. Kill the Rekk Foreman, and 15 Rockgrinders or Stonecrushers, plus 15 Excavators or Pulverizers, and 1 silver 60 copper, plus the feeling of accomplishment that comes from slaying innocent witnesses, will be yours.

Wrapping It Up

Time to return to Calern in Renton Keep for your final reward. You'll earn another 1 silver 60 copper, the gratitude of the United Races, plus your choise of something to cover your delicate hands in battle: