How Do You Fill a Hole?

What to prepare

Nothing to buy: the resources are picked up on Vulkania, provided you equip the Masticator Gloves that Stak gives.

Quest Resources, obtained along the way

• 1 × Masticator Glovesgiven by Stak
• 3 × Gomme Rabalamone in each of the three forests
• 1 × Pierre Ponceat the foot of a bush, in [-50,40]

The 3 quest steps

1. 1Talk to Stak

   Dialogue[-55,43] · Stak

   Surfing is closed: all the boards have holes. Stak accepts your help and asks you for Rabalam Gum, to use as putty, and a Pierre Ponce. He gives you Masticator Gloves.

   Equip the Masticator Gloves in place of your weapon, otherwise you won't be able to pick up the gum.

   • Masticator Glovesreceived

   

2. 2Harvest the gum and the pumice stone

   Collect

   You need one Rabalam Gum in each of the Traktopel, Espartiate and Strates Igraphies forests, and one Pierre Ponce. The order doesn't matter.

   • [-55,42] click on the tree in the middle to harvest gum
   • [-51,42] click on the tree to harvest gum
   • [-50,40] click on the small stone at the foot of the bush to get the Pierre Ponce
   • [-52,38] click on the tree on the right to harvest gum

   • Gomme Rabalamreceived
   • Pierre Poncereceived

3. 3Bring the resources back to Stak

   Items[-55,43] · Stak

   Stak tastes the gum: it is good quality. He agrees to help you in turn and gives you a sample of his DNA. The quest ends.

   Dialogue

   1. “Give the balls of gum and the pumice stone”

   • 3 × Gomme Rabalamto give
   • 1 × Pierre Ponceto give

The rewards

Above all, you get one of the samples requested in A Convoluted Investigation – Investigation.

• XP3,412,499 experience points

Related quests

Stak's sample is used for A Convoluted Investigation – Investigation. The other samples are obtained with Bemused Suze Has Lost Her Bow Meow, Lost Memories, Needs More Salt! and Lord of the Rings.

Where does the How Do You Fill a Hole? quest start?

With Stak, in Traktopel Forest in [-55,43]. You must have started A Convoluted Investigation – Investigation.

I can't pick up the Rabalam Gum, why?

You must equip the Masticator Gloves in place of your weapon. Stak gives them to you when the quest starts.

Where do you find the Rabalam Gum and the Pierre Ponce?

The gum from the trees in [-55,42], [-51,42] and [-52,38] ; the pumice stone at the foot of a bush in [-50,40].

What is this quest for?

Getting Stak's DNA sample, one of those requested in A Convoluted Investigation – Investigation.