When Threats Don't Work

What to prepare

Plan for 3,000 kamas for the innkeeper, otherwise you will have to attack him, and what you need to do the Black Rat's Moumousetrap dungeon.

• 3,000 kamasthe three X names from Bagrutta Stonestomach (or a fight)

Quest Resources, obtained along the way

• 1 × Torn-up piece of paperon a shelf in the Bonta tower
• 1 × Black Rat Antidotedrops automatically from the Black Rat

The 8 quest steps

1. 1Talk to Oto Mustam

   Dialogue[-25,33] · Oto Mustam

   The quest starts at the Brakmar militia, with Oto Mustam. He wants you to find a high-ranking person in Bonta who would agree to serve Brakmar, and suggests looking in the tower.

   

2. 2Find a clue in the Tower of Bonta

   Movement[-34,-58]

   You need to reach the room just before the roof. From the entrance, go up to the first floor, go left, go up to the second floor, go right, then take the passage upward. Click the shelf near the window: a torn piece of paper reveals that someone made sure an investigation would not succeed.

   • Torn-up piece of paperreceived

   

3. 3Question Bagrutta Stonestomach

   Dialogue[-29,-59] · Bagrutta Stonestomach

   The author frequents a place where the women are charming company: the Bagrutte Inn. Ask the innkeeper about someone named X: for 3,000 kamas, he gives you the names of three people whose names start with X.

   If you refuse to pay, you will have to attack him.

   • 3,000 kamasto pay

   

4. 4Question Xeloro Verpowered

   Dialogue[-32,-55] · Xeloro Verpowered

   Ask Xeloro Verpowered, the first on the list, whether she wrote the torn paper. She never sets foot in the Bonta tower, but a certain Xephires does.

5. 5Talk to Oto Mustam about Xephires

   Dialogue[-25,33] · Oto Mustam

   Go back to the militia with the piece of paper and talk to Oto about Xephires. Suddenly, you feel sick: Oto orders you to go get an antidote from the Black Rat, so you don't contaminate anyone.

   • 1 × Torn-up piece of paperto hand over

   

6. 6Defeat the Black Rat

   Combat[-29,35]

   Enter the sewers at [-29,35], where the Black Rat's Moumousetrap dungeon is located, and defeat the Black Rat in a single fight. The Black Rat Antidote drops automatically into your quest inventory.

   • Black Ratfight · levels 110 to 150 · 4,400 to 8,200 HP · 10 AP · 4 MP
   • Black Rat Antidotereceived

   

7. 7Use the antidote

   Use the Black Rat Antidote on yourself, from your quest inventory.

8. 8Go back to see Oto Mustam

   Dialogue[-25,33] · Oto Mustam

   Once cured, talk to Oto Mustam again. The quest ends and unlocks the next one.

   

The fights

The rewards

• XP3,167,436 experience points

Related quests

This is the Brakmarian alignment quest 41. It follows Boolanthropy and unlocks X for Xephires, the 42, with Oto Mustam.

Where does the When Threats Don't Work quest start?

With Oto Mustam, at the Brakmar militia at [-25,33]. You must have finished Boolanthropy.

Where do you find the clue in the Bonta tower?

In the room just before the roof, on the shelf near the window. First floor, left; second floor, right; then the passage upward.

Do you have to pay the innkeeper?

3,000 kamas, or a fight. Bagrutta Stonestomach, at the Bagrutte Inn at [-29,-59], gives you his three names for that sum.

Where do you find the Black Rat Antidote?

From the Black Rat, in the Black Rat's Moumousetrap. The entrance is in the Brakmar sewers at [-29,35] ; the antidote drops automatically.

Which quest follows When Threats Don't Work?

X for Xephires, the 42 alignment quest, with Oto Mustam.