style="color: rgb(154, 185, 124);">Quest Guide: Depths of Despair
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style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">By
Darkgolem
This is the first quest of four found in House Deneith, suitable for
low to mid level adventurers. They are not particularly difficult
or complex, have a wide variety of enemies to face, and are fun and
quick when done correctly. Conveniently, in each quest is an
entrance to the next quest, so if all four of the "Depth" series of
quests are taken at once, a party can conceivably enter the first quest
(Depths of Despair) and go through all four in a row.
Additionally, each quest has a street entrance near the quest giver,
allowing a party to exit and re-enter before doing the next in the
series, if they should choose to rest before continuing.The quests for
the "Depths" series are all taken at the Hammersmith inn near the gate
to the marketplace in House Deneith. The Depths of Despair quest
can be found by simply going left when exiting the inn. It is
found ahead (once taking the left) past the path leading west, at a
trapdoor.
The theme of all the quests is extermination. The Deneith sewers
have been overrun by monsters of both humanoid and other type.
The adventurer's job is to clear them out. In the Depths of
Despair quest, you goal is to defeat the humanoid who rules highest
sewer level, the troglodyte chieftain, Sslysk.
style="font-family: tahoma;">Starting Npc:
style="font-family: tahoma;">Neville Stormhammer
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Zone:
style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(220, 201, 125);"> size="-1">House Deneith
style="vertical-align: top; width: 20%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> size="-1">Related Zones:
style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> size="-1">Hammersmith Inn (House
Deneith)
style="vertical-align: top; width: 20%; background-color: rgb(220, 201, 125);"> size="-1">Level:
style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(220, 201, 125);"> size="-1">4
style="vertical-align: top; width: 20%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> size="-1">Monsters:
style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> size="-1">Black Widow, Large Violet
Slime, Skeleton Warrior, Hell Hound, Minotaur Warrior, Zombie, Wight,
Grey Ooze, Glass Spider Queen, Glass Spider Hatchling Soldier, Ghoul,
Rust Monster, Troglodyte, Troglodyte Shaman, Medium Earth Elemental,
Rust Monster
style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(220, 201, 125);"> size="-1">Named
Bosses
style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(220, 201, 125);"> size="-1"> size="-1">The Eater, Granite, Sslysk
style="vertical-align: top; width: 20%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> size="-1">Bonus
Objectives:
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Slay Granite
Locate the entrance to sewer level 2 style="font-family: tahoma;">
style="vertical-align: top; width: 20%; background-color: rgb(220, 201, 125);"> size="-1">Possible Reward Items:
style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(220, 201, 125);"> size="-1">3 Chests
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> style="font-family: tahoma;">Walk-Through:
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style="border: 2px solid ; width: 250px; height: 195px;" align="right"> size="-1">Upon entering the quest,
you find you can travel style="font-family: tahoma;"> style="font-family: tahoma;">south or west. size="-1"> size="-1">South leads to a
patrolling medium earth elemental. Further past this elemental is
a spiked trap, and so style="font-family: tahoma;"> style="font-family: tahoma;"> on. If you wish to take this
(shorter) path, you will meet a glass spider queen, 2 size="-1"> size="-1"> elementals, a rust
monster, and possibly Granite, a sub boss earth elemental. Go
this way if you wish access to the shrine (see map). The href="http://ddo.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=144">spiked
trap you note on the map has a chest where it is.
Of note is the glass spider queen. The queen does not attack
often, but quickly lays eggs which hatch as poisonous spider
soldiers. The eggs she lays can be broken (before they hatch),
but if one is close to them (such as by kicking them), you can be
poisoned. At the level you do this quest, poison can be quite
annoying, since the appropriate href="http://ddo.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=208">spells
are not available. Best to kill the glass queen at range, and
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style="border: 2px solid ; width: 250px; height: 267px;" align="left"> size="-1"> warrior or two who
intercept the soldiers as they approach the party. After
defeating this group, you can approach Sslysk's lair from the west.
If you should take the western route, you will have various branches
which lead south. There are violet slimes (these split with
weapons, but are vulnerable to fire). There are also rust
monsters, undead, and hell hounds to be found this way. To the
far west is a minotaur warrior in a cage. You can unlock the
cage, the minotaur will awake and attack. However, there IS a
chest here if you wish it.
South of the minotaur is a troglodyte shaman, and some allies.
Defeat them, to the south of them is another entrance to Sslysk's
lair. En route to this lair you can also reach "The Eater" a
particularly difficult normal rust monster.
However you arrive, you will eventually reach Sslysk's lair. The
lair is occupied by the Chieftain Sslysk's lair, a href="http://ddo.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=36">troglodyte
shaman, href="http://ddo.tentonhammer.com/modules.php?set_albumName=album42&id=Undead&op=modload&name=Gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php"> size="-1">
style="border: 2px solid ; width: 250px; height: 187px;" align="right"> size="-1">and 2 normal
troglodytes. Once they are defeated, simply loot the chest and
head east. style="font-family: tahoma;"> style="font-family: tahoma;"> There to the east is the trap door to
the second quest of the "Depths" series, Depths of Darkness. size="-1">
Either continue, or if you have not used it, go to the shrine and rest
before continuing. Remember that you can chose instead to rest on
the surface, and do the Depths of Darkness quest by entering from the
street level.
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