The Nightmare Ends
This article is about the re-released story episode. For the historical story instance during A Very Merry Wintersday in 2013, see The Nightmare Ends/historical. The Nightmare Ends
- Year
- 1326 AE
- Storyline
- Living World Season 1
- Chapter
- Tower of Nightmares
- Location
- Heart of the Tower
(The Tower of Nightmares) - Level
- 80
- Preceded by
- The Nightmare Incarnate
- Followed by
- Awake and Allied
- API
- 659
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The Nightmare Ends is the fifth story step of Tower of Nightmares, the fourth episode of Living World Season 1.
Objectives[edit]
- Leave the area to plan your next move.
- Read the letter from Kasmeer.
- The Nightmare Ends
- Return to the tower core.
- Find out the state of the tower from Marjory.
- Search the area for a clue to the core's defenses.
- Find a way to clear the vines.
- Search the hidden room for a way to remove the core's defenses.
- Search the lab for components: x/4
- Use the forge to create a shield disabler.
- Return to the tower's core.
- Administer the final injection of antitoxin.
- Defend Kasmeer while she creates an emergency portal!
- Time remaining: 2:00
- Use the portal to escape!
- Complete!
Rewards[edit]
Walkthrough[edit]
Speak with 
Vigil Tactician Steelbreaker under the Pact Helicopter at Thunder Ridge Camp. You find yourself in the Heart of the Tower again, with Marjory Delaqua and Kasmeer Meade.
- Main chamber
Listen to the dialogue, and then interact with the Disabled Injector to salvage a Vial of Leftover Antitoxin. Use this on the Vine Passage to the southeast to enter Scarlet's hidden room of puzzles.
- Scarlet's hidden room
In this room you require four puzzle pieces, with one piece retrieved from each of the Molten alliance coolant box, the Aetherblade Inquest data terminal, the Watchknight and the Toxic Spore Pod. You start the puzzle phase by interacting with Scarlet's Forge.
If you wish, you can skip each puzzle by selecting a combat option, you will however have to fight a group of Scarlet themed enemies.
- Solving all 4 puzzles correctly awards the Nightmare Euthanizer achievement, while selecting combat options for all 4 instead awards the Nightmare Terminator achievement.
- Note that there is a bright pink recording disc behind the Storage Tanks for the Investigative Record 2 achievement.
Molten Coolant Box
When examining the controls for shutting down power, three slider panels need to be set. The correct solution to yield the Molten Iron Scrap and solve the puzzle is to select the three symbols which make up the Molten Alliance: Flame, icicle and iron.
- For the Nightmare Terminator achievement, select the combat option "Force an overload." instead.
- Inquest Terminal
Retrieve the Aetherblade Data from the Inquest Terminal. Do this by interpreting the data quantitatively sorted by effectiveness (per Marjory's hint).
- For Nightmare Terminator, select the combat option "Turn off power to the console." instead.
- Watchknight
Revive the defeated Watchknight, and then interact with the Asuran Recorder, which unlocks phrases to use when talking to the Watchknight. Select the option "Nobody breaks my toys but me!" and then retrieve the Watchwork Core.
- For the combat version for Nightmare Terminator, unlock and select "These Watchknights you're so proud of? Mine now." instead, which will turn the Watchnight into a Veteran Twisted Nightmare.
- Toxic Spore Pod
Pick up the Sturdy Stick and the Dry Roots. Combining the Sturdy Stick and the Dry Roots at the nearby Lab Table will allow you to soak the dry roots in lamp oil to receive Oil Soaked Roots. Interacting with the Fire Pot will directly provide you with a torch bundle. The torch can then be used to heat the Toxic Spore Pod, releasing the Dried Toxic Spore.
- For Nightmare Terminator, select "Try to smash the pod open." instead.
- Scarlet's Forge
Once you have acquired all four pieces, interact with Scarlet's Forge again to create a Shield Disabler to remove the shield from the tower core in the first chamber.
- Optionally if you want to unlock the other mutually exclusive achievement (Nightmare Terminator or Nightmare Euthanizer), you could log out here and return to the start of the instance.
- Back in the main chamber
When you prompt her to do so, Marjory removes the shielding and administers the final dose of anti-toxin. Inevitably this triggers the appearance of some angry Toxic alliance foes, including a particularly tough champion, the Knight of Rot. You only need to fight this foe for a short time before Kasmeer finishes the emergency escape portal, at which point using the portal will complete and exit the instance.
- For the Fight at the Finish achievement, ignore the time limit and Kasmeer's Portal, staying behind until you defeat the Knight of Rot.
A cinematic showing the destruction of the tower will play upon returning to Kessex Hills.
Achievements[edit]
| The Nightmare Ends | Tower of Nightmares | 1
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| Complete the story chapter The Nightmare Ends. | Completed The Nightmare Ends | 1
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- Complete the mission.
| Investigative Study 4 | Tower of Nightmares | 1
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| During the storyline of "The Tower of Nightmares," find and read sources of information on the strange happenings in Kessex Hills. |
Lore Located | 1
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- Letter from Grand Duchess Faolain: Found in the southeast room on a crate.
| Investigative Record 2 | Tower of Nightmares | 1
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| Find and listen to hidden logs from the source of the nightmares. |
Recordings Located | 1
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- Sitting at the base of the largest Storage Tank in the center of the hidden puzzle room.
| Nightmare Euthanizer | The Nightmare Is Over | 3
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| Complete "The Nightmare Ends" story instance, having solved all of Scarlet's puzzles. | Tower of Nightmares Destroyed with Logic | 3
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- Solve the four puzzles without using the combat option.
| Nightmare Terminator | The Nightmare Is Over | 3
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| Complete "The Nightmare Ends" story instance, having chosen all the combat versions of Scarlet's puzzles. | Tower of Nightmares Violently Destroyed | 3
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- Use combat to complete all four puzzles:
- for the Inquest Terminal select "Turn off power to the console."
- for the Molten Coolant Box select "Force an overload."
- for the Toxic Spore Pod select "Try to smash the pod open."
- for the Watchknight puzzle, unlock and use the phrase "These Watchknights you're so proud of? Mine now."
| Fight at the Finish | Tower of Nightmares | 1
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| Defeat the Knight of Rot before escaping the tower.Story Instance: The Nightmare Ends | Defeated the Knight of Rot before Escaping the Tower | 1
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- Defeat the Knight of Rot before leaving the instance, and it must be after Marjory and Kasmeer have escaped.
- The timer can be safely ignored as it expiring will not fail the achievement or story objectives. A warning message will appear that you have 30 seconds left, though nothing will happen when the time is up.
- The Knight of Rot can take a lot of damage before dying and delivers a lot of damage in melee. Keep dodging and fight him at ranged or from his flanks or behind him in melee.
- Hostile Toxic Alliance enemies and Toxic Stalks spawn throughout the area during the fight, requiring careful movement and positioning.
NPCs[edit]
Allies[edit]
Foes[edit]
- Knight of Rot (champion)
- Toxic Assassin
- Toxic Knight
- Toxic Sorcerer
These foes will spawn when choosing the combat options to solve the puzzles:
- Toxic Bulwark
- Toxic Hypnoss
- Toxic Knight
- Veteran Toxic Damoss
- Veteran Twisted Nightmare
- Veteran Hallucinatory Protector
- Molten Hallucination
- Aetherblade Hallucination
- Veteran Aetherblade Hallucination
Objects[edit]
- Antitoxin Delivery Notes
- Antitoxin Injector
- Antitoxin Variant
- Disabled Injector
- Kasmeer's Portal
- Supplies
- Toxic Pod
- Vine Passage
- Withered Pod
- In Scarlet's hidden room
- Asuran Recorder
- Dry Roots
- Fire Pot
- Inquest Terminal
- Lab Table
- Molten Coolant Box
- Scarlet's Forge
- Scribbled Diagram
- Storage Tank
- Sturdy Stick
- Torch
- Toxic Spore Pod
Dialogue[edit]
Upon activating the story:
- Weeks Later
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Kasmeer Meade It's time to end this nightmare. Dear <Character name>, Marjory and I have reached an impasse. For weeks, we've delivered injection after injection straight into the toxic heart of the Tower of Nightmares, but still it continues pulsing and corrupting the Kessex Hills region. We're not really sure what we're missing, but with Scarlet anything is possible. We urgently need you here with us. I've set up a mesmeric portal that will take you straight to us at the tower's heart chamber. Please, come quickly.—Lady Kasmeer Meade
Assist Marjory and Kasmeer in "The Nightmare Ends" story instance in Kessex Hills. Interactive map |
In the instance[edit]
- Approaching Kasmeer and Marjory
- Marjory Delaqua: Gods bless! It's been weeks, and it's still alive! We get close, and something interferes. It has to be one of Scarlet's tricks.
- Kasmeer Maede: I'm so tired. What are we missing?
- Marjory Delaqua: Not we. Me. I'm missing some key element. I'm so exhausted I can't see it.
- Marjory Delaqua: Will you have a look around? See if you can spot the weak point in these magical defenses?
- Kasmeer Maede: We'll be here if you need us.
- Talking to Marjory
- Take a look around, <Character name>. I've got a feeling we missed something. Scarlet would never pass up one last chance to test us.
I'm on it.
- Inspecting Antitoxin Variant
- A few vials here show Marjory's efforts to make an updated antitoxin, but they all seem to have met with failure.
- We must be missing something.
- Inspecting Supplies
- A crate half filled with foodstuffs and medical supplies. The Vigil and their allies have been holding this area since you first breached it.
- There isn't anything I need here.
- Inspecting Withered Pod
- The former residence of this chamber's nightmarish spawn is now dry and desiccated. Strange devices are attached to it.
- Scarlet must have been experimenting. If we could find more of her tools...
- Inspecting Toxic Pod
- This unearthly pod seems to be filled with a strange liquid, but it is otherwise empty.
- Perhaps Scarlet meant to create more monstrosities like the one we fought.
- Inspecting Disabled Injector
- This antitoxin delivery device broke down before it could deliver its full dosage. There's some antitoxin left in its reservoir.
Take the remaining antitoxin. (Gives Vial of Leftover Antitoxin)- Leave.
- Inspecting Vine Passage
- The passageway is blocked by thick, fibrous vines. Although the vines are impossible to dislodge, they appear similar to the vines surrounding the tower's heart.
- Pour antitoxin on the vines.
- Leave.
- Entering the lab
- Marjory Delaqua: You're onto something there.
- Marjory Delaqua: Damn Scarlet's eyes! She knew we wouldn't be able to just kill this plant.
- Inspecting Storage Tank
- Massive tanks loom over the room, containing an unknown liquid that seethes within.
- Perhaps this was involved in the tower's plant growths?
- Talking to Marjory
- Marjory Delaqua:
- Examining the molten coolant box
- This box has an override that forces an overload, a set of controls to shut down power, and a control to enter standby mode.
Force an overload.
Examine controls for shutting down power.
- (When selecting this option, the three sliders need to be set)
- Push the button to enter standby mode.
- The coolant box enters standby mode.
- (After waiting about 15 seconds)
- Wait.
- The coolant box resets, and a panel on the front slides open, allowing a chunk of metal to fall out of the box.
- Leave.
- Leave.
- First slider panel
- There are three panels of sliders, each marked with three symbols. The first panel has symbols that look like the sun, flames, and steam.
- Set the slider to sun.
- Set the slider to flame.
- Set the slider to steam.
- Second slider panel
- There are three panels of sliders, each marked with three symbols. The second panel has symbols that look like an icicle, a snowflake, and a drop of water.
- Set the slider to icicle.
- Set the slider to snowflake.
- Set the slider to water.
- Third slider panel
- There are three panels of sliders, each marked with symbols. The last panel has three symbols, etched with gold, silver, and iron.
- Set the slider to gold.
- Set the slider to silver.
- Set the slider to iron.
- After setting all three sliders to an incorrect solution
- With the three sliders set, all that remains is to throw a switch on a panel below the sliders.
- Throw the switch.
- The cooland box whirs and clicks, but nothing else happens. The settings must not be set correctly.
Try again.- Leave.
- When setting the sliders to flame, icicle and iron
- With the three sliders set, all that remains is to throw a switch on a panel below the sliders.
- Throw the switch.
- The coolant box whirs and then powers down. Once the power is off, a panel on the front pops open, and a scrap of metal pops out.
- Leave.
- Interacting with the inquest terminal
- This portable console has seemingly been modified by Scarlet. The last user was doing an analysis of test results. There's also a rotating central power interface.
- Turn off power to the console.
- Try to interpret the analytic data.
- At first glance the data appears to be a matrix of asuran characters and numerals. There are prompts to collate the data into quantitative or qualitative results.
- Collate into quantitative results.
- Another prompt appears, requesting that the user choose wheter to sort the data by relevance, effectiveness, or efficiency.
- Sort by relevance.
- The relevant sample data suggests a correlation between aetheric energy output and mesmeric illusions.
- Apply this data sorting.
- The resulting data analysis doesn't seem to be helpful.
- Try again.
- Leave.
- Sort by effectiveness.
- The descending hierarchy of results lists air magic and asuran alchemy as the most effective results.
- Apply this data sorting.
- The console parses the data and displays a prompt to output to a portable device.
- Leave.
- Sort by efficiency.
- Horizontal bars of varying colors indicate that charr engineering is roughly as efficient as sylvari plant-shaping.
- Apply this data sorting.
- The resulting data analysis doesn't seem to be helpful.
- Try again.
- Leave.
- Collate into qualitative results.
- Another prompt appears, requesting that the user choose to interpret submitted or extracted data.
- Interpret submitted data.
- The console attempts to apply interpretation protocols but is unable to resolve the data any further.
- Try again.
- Interpret extracted data.
- The console attempts to apply interpretation protocols but is unable to resolve the data any further.
- Try again.
- Attempt to bypass the console's interpretation protocols. (appears after interpreting both submitted and extracted data)
- The protocols are easily bypassed. The data represents Scarlet's alchemical and elemental experimentation, specifically related to the armaments of her Aetherblades.
- Output the data.
- Leave.
- Talking to the watchknight
- This watchknight stares ahead impassively, though it clutches its weapon tightly, suggesting that it retains its basic programming.
- Hello. Can you hear me? Do you understand?
- The watchknight gives no indication that is has heard or understood.
- Leave.
- (after unlocking the phrases)
- "Nobody breaks my toys but me!"
- "These watchknights you're so proud of? Mine now."
- "Nothing wrong with you I can't fix forever."
- Leave.
- Reading the scribbled diagrams
- This appears to be part of a watchknight schematic, with Scarlet's notes scrawled in the margins.
- Try to read the notes.
- Most of Scarlet's notations are purely technical, though one reads, "Stupid humans. Always in my way." Another reads, "Do not use the deactivation phrase until we've secured the Queen's Pavilion."
- Leave.
- Activating the asuran recorder
- Watchknight voice command protocols: phrases to remotely trigger various functions.
- Look at the first phrase.
- "Nobody breaks my toys but me!"
- Return to protocol list.
- Leave.
- Look at the second phrase.
- "These watchknights you're so proud of? Mine now."
- Return to protocol list.
- Leave.
- Look at the third phrase.
- "Nothing wrong with you I can't fix forever."
- Return to protocol list.
- Leave.
- Leave.
- Interacting with the toxic spore pod
- This toxic spore pod appears different than the others. Its tougher hide is unyielding, and your gathering tool can't take a sample from it.
- Try to smash the pod open.
Hold the torch up to the pod. (if Torch in hands)- Examine the pod more closely.
- A closer inspection reveals signs of prior experimentation. It would appear Scarlet was trying to hybridize a more resilient casing.
- Touch the casing.
- The pod's casing is cool to your touch, and it seems to react ever so slightly to your body heat.
- Leave.
- Leave.
- Leave.
- Interacting with the lab table
- This lab table is strewn with experimental equipment and supplies. There are different types of sample containers, and near the center, a full beaker of lamp oil.
- (if the Makeshift Torch Handle is in the inventory)
Soak the dry roots in lamp oil.- (otherwise)
- Leave.
- Upon finding all four lab components
- Marjory Delaqua: Now that's what I call a success.
- Using Scarlet's Forge
- This forge burns brightly with an arcane fire, ready for the crafting of mystical recipes from unique ingredients.
- Place ingredients into the forge.
- Maybe I can use this to create a way through that shield. (If you don't have the ingredients yet.)
- Leave.
- Return to the tower's core
- Marjory Delaqua: Now, that's what I'm talkin' about.
- Marjory Delaqua: That'll do the trick.
- Talking to Kasmeer while Marjory works
- Is that what I think it is, <Character name>? I'm ready to wake up from this nightmare.
- Let's put an end to it.
- Upon success
- Kasmeer Meade: Did you hear that? I think you made it mad.
- Marjory Delaqua: This is going to sound crazy, but what if it "knows" what we just did? What if it "knows" what we're about to do?
- Kasmeer Meade: And what exactly ARE we about to do?
- Marjory Delaqua: We're going to pump every last ounce of my antitoxin into the stalk of this thing—until it can't take another drop! (evil laugh) Ahem. It's been a long day.
- Administer the final injection of antitoxin
- Kasmeer Meade: Jory, I think we've done it! Look!
- Marjory Delaqua: We gotta get outta here. When that last dose hits the plant's heart, all bets are off. Who knows what'll happen.
- Kasmeer Meade: One portal, coming right up.
- Defend Kasmeer while she creates an emergency portal
- Kasmeer Meade: Look out! Toxic Alliance!
- Knight of Rot: I see you admiring our monument to nightmare. You may water its roots with your blood.
- Marjory Delaqua: Why can't they just leave us to spoil their plans in peace?
- Use the portal to escape
- Marjory Delaqua: C'mon, twinkle toes! One foot in front of the other.
- Knight of Rot: You won't escape this.
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