Where Credit Is Due
Where Credit Is Due
- Year
- 1325 AE
- Storyline
- Personal story
- Chapter
- Interested Parties
- Location
- Snaff Memorial Lab
(Rata Sum)
Desider Atum
(Metrica Province) - Level
- 20
- Race
Asura- Choice
- Transatmospheric Converter
- Preceded by
Gadd's Last Gizmo
Defusing the Problem The Things We Do For Love
Here, There, Everywhere- Followed by
Salt in the Wound- API
- 44
Where Credit Is Due is part of the personal story of asura characters whose first invention was a Transatmospheric Converter.
Objectives[edit]
Zojja wishes you to visit her laboratory.
- Speak to Zojja.
Obtain a copy of your original schematics.
- Speak to the record clerk.
Check the backup archives.
- Check the backup archives.
- Secure the archives by clearing out the Inquest Agents.
- Extinguish the fires.
- Speak to Zojja.
Rewards[edit]
Click here to edit the reward data
- All professions
Leather Bag (12 Slots, Soulbound on acquistion)
Bag of Loot (2)
- Profession-specific
One of the following: Ruby Heart, Amethyst Heart, Sapphire Heart
One of the following: Ruby Heart, Emerald Heart, Amethyst Heart
One of the following: Ruby Heart, Emerald Heart, Amethyst Heart
One of the following: Topaz Heart, Emerald Heart, Sapphire Heart
One of the following: Topaz Heart, Carnelian Heart, Ruby Heart
One of the following: Carnelian Heart, Topaz Heart, Ruby Heart
One of the following: Ruby Heart, Topaz Heart, Sapphire Heart
One of the following: Carnelian Heart, Topaz Heart, Ruby Heart
One of the following: Emerald Heart, Topaz Heart, Ruby Heart
Walkthrough[edit]
Receive the mission briefing from Zojja in the Snaff Memorial Lab. In summary: Kudu, an agent of the Inquest and former Snaff student, has copied the plans of your invention chosen at character creation, the Transatmospheric Converter. You are instructed to go find the blueprints to prove that Kudu has copied your idea.
Back in Rata Sum, speak with Archivist Grep, who can't find what you need but recommends you check the patent archive at Desider Atum. Unfortunately the Inquest have beaten you there and have set the facility on fire. Defeat the Inquest, then extinguish the fires using buckets of water to complete the mission. Unfortunately you will not be able to save the documents you wished to protect.
NPCs[edit]
Allies[edit]
First Instance[edit]
- Various
- Standard NPCs in Snaff Memorial Lab
Open World[edit]
- Asura
Second Instance[edit]
- Asura
Foes[edit]
Second Instance[edit]
- Asura (Inquest)
- Insects
Objects[edit]
Dialogue[edit]
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Zojja Dangerous (and Annoying) Developments I'm having a really bad day and I need to vent. My nemesis is back in town, and he's determined to make my life miserable. He's Inquest, so it's only a matter of time before he adds injury to insult. Come by my lab and lend an ear, okay? —Zojja |
At Snaff Memorial Lab[edit]
Speaking with Mr. Sparkles:
- Mr. Sparkles: Speech—protocols—initiated. Awaiting—command.
Command? I can order you around?
- Voice—recognition—patterns—not—accepted. Stand—down, or—be—cut—down.
Whoa. Never mind!
- Voice protocols? Nice. Better leave it to Zojja.
Cinematic with Zojja:
- <Character name>: I got your message. It was a tad on the cranky side, even for you. What's on your mind?
- Zojja: Violence. What do you know about a wretched little pipsqueak name Kudu? Cross-reference "criminal," "megalomaniac," and "plagiarist."
- <Character name>: I've heard of him. He's an Inquest bigwig now, but he used to be Snaff's apprentice. Then you came along and Snaff traded up.
- Zojja: That's him. Now, out of pure spite, Kudu's invited me to watch him demonstrate some sort of weather-changing device for the Arcane Council.
- <Character name>: My first invention was a weather-changer. I called it the Variable Atmospheric Conditioner. Good ol' VAC. It got me accepted to college.
- <Character name>: It was pretty rough, but it worked...mostly. And if Kudu is using my invention without giving me credit, I'll call him out in front of the whole council.
- Zojja: I was hoping you'd say that. Get a copy of your blueprints from the archives. We'll wipe the smug little smirk off Kudu's insufferable face.
Speaking with Zojja:
- Zojja: That twerp Kudu won't get away with this. I'm going to ram my fist down his throat and punch his stomach.
- Who's Kudu, again?
- What, were you educated in an electroshock lab? He was another of Snaff's apprentices. Now he's part of the Inquest.
- Can I ask you something else?
- Good to know. Let's get going!
- What's this demonstration all about?
- Kudu's beta-testing some kind of weather machine. It's based on your specs—he thinks you aren't bold enough to step up and call him a plagiarist. But we know better, don't we?
Can I ask you something else?- Good to know. Let's get going!
- Arcane whosiwatsis? Who are they?
- Have you been inhaling brian-cleaner? The Arcane Council are the leaders of the most important krewes in Rata Sum. They rule the city.
- Can I ask you something else?
- Good to know. Let's get going!
- No one steals from me and gets away with it.
Open World[edit]
Speaking with Archivist Grep at Thamaturgic Calculus:
- Archivist Grep: What can I do for you?
- I need to look up a blueprint for a "Variable Atmospheric Conditioner."
- One moment, please. I'm sorry. I can't find any information about such a device in our records.
- What? There should be a patent on file. It was my first, so I'd remember.
- Worry not, we keep physical backups of all patents at our secondary facility. I'm sure we'll have a copy of your patent there.
- I'll go check it out. Thank you.
At Desider Atum[edit]
Approaching the archives:
- Researcher: (cough) Can't...breath. Smoke...choking me. Sentences...halting.
- Researcher: Fire! Inquest! And, I've got a stomachache!
- Inquest Golemancer: Yeah! Burn it all! Every last bit of it!
Cinematic with Zojja:
- Zojja: I'm glad you're here. I heard Kudu's lackeys were going to attack the archive annex. Looks like I heard right.
- Zojja: Kudu knows what he's doing. I'll give him that. The fire started in the records room, and all the Peacemaker golems had been deactivated.
- <Character name>: He's one step ahead of us, then. The blueprints for my weather device are also missing from the archives. The only backups were stored in this annex...
- Zojja: ...which is on fire. Come on! Without those blueprints, the trail leading to Kudu goes up in smoke.
While fighting Inquest:
- Inquest Technician: Hold it right there, pal. Nobody gets past us.
- Inquest Technician: This is Inquest business. Don't interfere.
- Inquest Technician: You can't stop us, ya brainless nincompoop!
- Inquest Grenadier: It's nearly gone. Fan those flames! Make it burn faster!
Cinematic after fight:
- <Character name>: We're too late. The evidence we needed to prove Kudu stole my idea is now a pile of ashes, soot, and failure.
- Zojja: Not a failure: a setback. Now that we know Kudu's up to something big, we just need to figure out what it is and how to stop it.
- <Character name>: I'm ready. Plagiarism and arson are one thing, but wiping out all records of my very first invention? I'm going to tattoo Kudu's butt with bootprints.
- Zojja: That's what I like to hear. One of Kudu's lackeys has a lab nearby. Her name is Plunka, and I bet she still smells like smoke.
- Zojja: Meet me at Plunka's lab. I predict she's just dying to tell us why Kudu wants your weather changer.
Speaking with Zojja:
- Zojja: Maybe Plunka will have more information. I hope for her sake that she does.
- Arson, theft, and intellectual property mismanagement! How does Kudu get away with it?
- He was Snaff's apprentice, and people assume he's a class-A genius. They're wrong, but they're also stupid.
- Fine. But I'm not giving up so easy.
- Kudu stole my idea! Can't we take this to some kind of patent police?
- We are the patent police. And by that I mean we have to handle our own problems. We're asura, after all.
- If that's the way it works, then I'm going to "handle" this all the way to the end. Let's go.
My story[edit]
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