Levels 24-27 – Villanelle

Level 24

After our long run to get here, we can head north to the ranch.

Turn in “To Villanelle!” and pick up “Rustling Commotion”. Upon entering, you should also auto-acquire

“Confronting the Thieves”.

Inside, select a buffalo and right click the item in your quest log to put a bridle on it. Do this 5 times.

When it updates, a thief will appear. Kill it, but be careful – he hits really hard.

Return to Juan after 5 sets to turn in “Confronting the Thieves” and “Rustling Commotion”, and pick up

“Caught in the middle”.

Head north to butcher Umei to turn in “Caught in the Middle” and pick up “With Blade in Hand”. Walk

over to a diseased buffalo, select it, and standing over it right click the item in your quest log.

Return to Umei to turn in “A Knife in hand”, select a cub of your choice, and pick up “Juan’s Meat”.

Before leaving, there are several cows nearby. Right click one to milk them. This is for raising the cub

which we’ll do a bit later – wait until we get near a well.

Return to Juan to the south to turn in “Juan’s meat” and pick up “Relentless Suspicions”.

Head north on the road, and you’ll find Inspection Head Timothy standing next to it. Turn in Relentless

Suspicions and pick up “Passing the Checkpoint”. Then continue north and take the first road leading

west to get to Jamni.

Turn in “Passing the Checkpoint” and pick up “An Outbreak of Laughter” and “The Unheard Melody”.

Right click the item in your quest log to update “The Unheard Melody”. Turn the quest in to Lutist Shao

and pick up “Sounds of Nature”. To reach level 25.

Level 25

Climb the hill to the west and near the top we’ll get to Ikun.

Turn in “Sounds of Laughter” and pick up “A Bet Among Apprentices” and “A Student’s Nitpicking”. Then

head up the hill to the Achessi. Select one and right click the item in your quest log.

Note that it cannot be attacking you when you start playing. The lute will drag it to you and update “A

Bet Among Apprentices” 3 times. Then it will attack you, so kill it. Repeat this process 4 times. Then, go

into your inventory, find the lute, and repeat it 2 more times to unpurposefully overachieve the quest.

After this is done, kill 6 more Achessi.

Return to the students to turn in “A Bet Among Apprentices” and “A Student’s Nitpicking” and pick up

“The Legendary Lute”. Head behind them to a dirt mount and right click it to dig up the lute.

Head back down the hill to Lutist Shao to turn in “The Legendary Lute”.

Follow the road northwest to butcher Groma.

Turn in “An Outbreak of Laughter” and pick up “Crime, Rumors, and Accusations” and “No Visitors

Allowed”. Continue west to a series of docks.

Pick up “Quid Pro Quo” and “Gathering Evidence”.

See that dock that goes into the water in the distance? Head up it to a nice little grinding area.

Loot the stolen goods, and a mob will appear 75% of the time. Kill it to update “No Visitors Allowed”.

Continue this process until “No Visitors Allowed” is 5/5. You should accidentally overachieve Crime,

Rumors, and Accusations doing this. If you cannot loot the stolen goods anymore, throw one out of your

inventory and keep doing it.

Then, kill 8 villagers and loot them for their ledgers.

Make your way along the docks and back to the beach. On the beach, kill 8 seabugs.

Return to Shuun and Goyan on the beach to turn in “Quid Pro Quo” and “Gathering Evidence” and pick

up “Target the Pirate Boats”.

Head onto the dock nearest them (a short one), and at the end is a cannon.

Press “f” to use the cannon. Press “r” to get ready to fire the cannon. You will get an icon you can drag

on screen. Drag it on top of a boat and left click to fire the cannon. The people on the boat will jump of.

Fire the cannon again onto them while they are swimming to update the quest 2 times. Do this twice to

update “Target the Pirate Boats”. Press “t” to let go of the cannon.

Return to Shuun to turn in “Target the Pirate Boats”. Then head back east to Groma to turn in “Crime,

Rumors, and Accusations” and “No Visitors Allowed” and pick up “Time for a party”.

Make your way east to the city and then swim over to the housing province. Go to the southeast corner

to finally get to a well.

Draw at least 2 water from it. Then select your cub in your inventory and place it on the ground. Press

“f” to play with it, and then “f” again to feed it the milk you gathered earlier. It’ll enter a 1 minute

growth phase, so just wait it out. Then, press “f” twice to give it water and wash it. Wait another minute

for it to grow. Press “f” one more time to play with it. It will enter a short growth phase, and then a full

sabercat will appear. Press “f” to collect it to your inventory.

A sabercat is a battle pet. It will attack with you in lieu of you having a mount up. Some people like

these, but I personally hate them because they also aggro everything.

Head south to get to Supan and Oshion.

Turn in “Time for a party” and “To Villanelle” and pick up “Tools of Persuasion” and “The Secret

Location”.

Head west to get to Sudenya.

Turn in “The Secret Location” and pick up “Meeting Nalyn”. Follow the road that loops south and then

north to get to the first ale house. Gather some Special Rice Liquor there.

Head up the stairs into a room and talk to Nalyn to turn in “Meeting Nalyn” and pick up “The Souleye’s

Return”. Use the keystone to update the quest.

Turn in “The Souleye’s Return” and pick up “Shadows in the Light”. Talk to Grell in the room, and then

head up to the third floor.

Talk to Grell on the third floor to turn in “Shadows in the Light” and pick up “The Last Spirit Returns”.

Then kill Enshaka.

Note that if you die here, you should abandon the quest and pick it up again. You’ll then be teleported

away as the quest auto-completes

Pick up and turn in “Into the Wind”.

Then head west to a tall brewery house.

Climb to the second floor to gather the nostalgic ale.

Return to Supan to turn in “Tools of Persuasion” and pick up “Liquid Courage”.

Head east out of town to two NPCs on the road.

Pick up “Following the Scent of Alcohol” from Meyer and then “Stealing Shots” from Maya. Head east

and right click 3 barrels on the road to auto-complete “follow the scent of alcohol”.

You’ll eventually get to the brewery.

Right click a barrel with a blue light over it to update “Stealing Shots”. You’ll get a small debuff that

slows you. Talk to Nao to turn in “Stealing Shots” and remove the debuff. Then pick up “I’ve been

Swindled!” and “Follow the Scent of Alcohol” (yes, same name, different quest), and the signpost quest.

Head north and kill 12 crocodiles in the paddies to auto-complete the signpost quest.

In the northeast part we’ll update “Follow the scent of alcohol” and auto-acquire Alcoholic roots.

Right click the leaves in the middle to summon the century root. Talk to it to turn in “Alcoholic Roots”

and pick up “Fine Liquor”.

Nearby is a piece of discarded liquor.

Grab it and return to the century root to turn in the quest and pick up “Wisdom of the Century Root”.

Head out the east end of the crater to get to Nochin’s cauldron.

Right click it to update “Wisdom of the Century Root” and then turn it in to Nochin. Then pick up “Booze

Thieves”. You’ll reach level 26 doing this.

Level 26

Head north and kill 5 decade roots and loot them.

Continue north and kill 8 rusted machines such as bladewings and harvesters.

Return to Nochin to turn in “Booze thieves” and pick up “Cursed Roots”. Head back to the century root

(you’ll have to resummons it by right clicking the grass), and turn in “Cursed roots” to it.

Return to the brewery to turn in “I’ve been Swindled!” and “Follow the Scent of Alcohol”.

Pick up “Production Issues” and head northwest in the paddies to the rice sacks.

Gather one and then pick up “A Few Good Farmers”. Ignore the quest “Scary Stories”, not worth the

wait.

Head into the paddies and gather weeds that are sticking up.

In your inventory, you should get a rice plant. Right click it to start a quest.

Return to Shichen to turn in “Mistakenly Uprooted Rice” and “A Few Good Farmers”. Pick up

“Apprentice Farmer”. Head back into the water and plan 3 rice seedlings (right click them in your quest

log, left click them onto the ground).

Return to Shinchen to turn in “Apprentice Farmer”. Then return to the brewery to turn in “Production

Issues” and pick up “Peak of the craft”.

Right click a barrel to update “Peak of the craft”.

Return to Hensha to turn in “Peak of the Craft” and pick up “Unintended Side Effects”. Then head south

across the bridge into town.

Turn in “Unintended Side Effects” and pick up “Welcoming the Outsiders”. On the south side of town

pick up “Invasive Species”. Then head west and kill 8 Sarrancias. Each will drop a seed, so right click it to

burn it.

Return to Quao to turn the quest in.

Head southeast to get to two outsider npcs.

Turn in Welcoming the Outsiders and pick up “Won’t Take No for an Answer” and combat preparation.

Make your west southwest and kill 8 Achassi Warriors ONLY. Archers hit for much harder.

At the edge of the road is a man with our 2nd Maya of the map.

Turn in “Won’t take no for an answer” and pick up “The Belly of the Snake” and “The Sarcastic Letter”.

Stand near the stone pillar that Shuewon is standing by and play the flute in your quest log to summon a

snake. Kill it and loot it to update “The Belly of the Snake”, and then turn the quest in to Shuewon.

Head back northeast to the two outsider npcs to turn in “Competition Preparation” and “The Sarcastic

Letter” and pick up “Terrible News”. Then head east to the extremists.

Turn in “Terrible News” and pick up “Mandolins of Entrancement”, “Dispossessed”, and “Hope in the

Valley”.

Head up the hill to the east and right click a mandolin to destroy it.

The Captivated Astra will attack you, so kill it. Then stand here and wait for 2 more respawns of the

mandolin – they spawn twice before the Astra spawns once. Run up the hill more – nothing aggros.

At the top of the hill, turn in “Hope in the Valley” to Kaon and pick up “Taking Flight”. Head into the cave

and you’ll find some dead Astras.

Select them and right click the item in your quest log to resurrect them. Do this 3 times. Return to Kaon

outside the cave to turn the quest in and pick up “reporting hope”.

On a ledge nearby is the commander, so kill him.

Head back down the hill to the extremists and turn in “Mandolins of Entrancement”, “Dispossessed”,

and “Reporting Hope”, and then pick up “Status Report”.

Follow the road northeast to get to our 3rd Maya of the map.

Pick up “Lunch Delivery”, and then continue northeast to get to Quan’s camp.

Turn in “Status Report” and “Lunch Delivery” and pick up “Fetching Lumber” and “The Lost Love”.

Go right next to a cage and right click the spirit trap in your quest log to update “The Lost Love”.

Turn in “The Lost Love” to Lin and pick up “Eradicate the Foxes”, “Truth of the Surprise Lunch”, and

“Werefox Transformation”.

Head southwest and right click on 5 logs to gather them.

Then kill 8 halfmoon foxes.

When that is done, select one and right click the suspicious food in your quest log to throw it at it. The

fox will transform, and you need to kill it. (I think the transformed fox thinks its name is Maya, making it

the 4th Maya).

Then, kill 8 Halfmoon Werefoxes.

Return to the camp to turn in “Fetching Lumber”, “Eradicating the Foxes”, “Truth of the Surprise Lunch”,

and “Werefox Transformation”. Pick up “Source of the Curse” and “Important Information” to reach

level 27.

Level 27

Head east to an island.

Turn in “Important Information” and pick up “Suspicious Appearances”, “The Cursed Disciples”, and

“Prayer to Aier”. Behind the island, start climbing up the wooden planks up the mountain. Turn on

Symbolic Lanterns as you make your way up until you have 5 lit.

This quest will auto-complete. Continue up the hill to get to Aier Disciple Lisa.

Turn in “Suspicious Appearances” and pick up “Lost Souls”.

There are two paths – one going flat to the left, and one going up in front of you. Go up the one in front

of you. At the top you will find a few disciple spirits.

Select one and use the left item in your quest log to trap it. Then select the soulless disciple and use the

right item in your quest log to update the quest. Do this 3 times, and then return to Lisa to turn in the

quest.

Head across the flat path now to get to a root apprentice. Pick up “Rest for the Crazed Disciples” from it.

Then go and kill 5 of the crazed disciples off the bridge.

Return to the root apprentice to turn in “Rest for the Crazed Disciples”. Then continue past the crazed

disciples and up the hill to get to the root wizard.

Turn in “Source of the Curse” and pick up “Aier’s Avatar”.

In the middle of the area is an altar. Right click on it to auto-complete “Prayer to the Aier”.

Talk to a halfmoon fox to turn in “Prayer to the Aier”.

On the far end of the altar level of the hill is a building. Go around the back and inside to find Aier’s

Avatar.

Select it and right click the item in your quest log to turn her into a monster and kill her.

Report back to the root wizard to turn in “Aier’s Avatar” and pick up “Take Flight to Torchfyre”. Then

aim yourself northeast and open your glider to start flying.

Fly all the way to the north to Torchfyre.

Turn in “Take Flight to Torchfyre” and pick up “Strength of the Nation” and “Skills of Persuasion”.

Head south, and you’ll find a bottle in the river. Pick up its quest.

Continue south and kill 12 singing greenmen.

Return to Torchfyre to turn in “Strength of the Nation” and “Threats in a Bottle” and pick up “Hope

among the ruins” and “Calling in sick”.

Head west to get to the runaway guard. Speak to him, and then continue west.

On the west side, talk to the Funeral Ceremony Priest to turn in “Calling in Sick” and pick up “Cleansing

Bleakfish Village”.

Head towards the beach and right click an aged medicine chest. A mob will appear that you need to kill.

When you have 5, head onto the beach and kill 10 giant stonecrabs.

Return to the priest to turn in “Cleaning Bleakfish Village” and pick up “Souls at Rest”.

Right click the funeral pyre to update “Souls at Rest”.

Turn the quest in to the priest. Then head back to torchfyre to turn in “Hope Among the Ruins” and

“Skills of Persuasion”. Pick up “For North Ishvara”.

Then head northeast to get to Silent Forest, our next map.