Vignette (Praetor)

This is the first quest for the Praetor Background in The Age of Decadence. Like all the other Vignettes, it is a mostly-linear sequence of events that places a certain map into the hands of the player-character; unlike all the others, it concludes with that map in the hands of Antidas.

Brief

Lord Antidas requires your services. You're his only hope.

Quick walkthrough

1. Talk to Lord Antidas
2. Talk to Dellar
3. Talk to Linos
   • (Optional) Deal with Zenon
4. Return to Antidas

Detailed walkthrough

1. Talk to Lord Antidas.
   • Etiquette (2): You may request armor; if you do, Antidas replies "Talk to Dellar", and in the next scene you will be wearing your very own suit of fancy, heavy bronze!
2. Talk to Linos:
   • Intelligence (7): You may demand access to the real culprit:
     • Streetwise (2): Linos grants you a private moment with Zenon:
       • Spare Zenon, or kill him?
         • If you spare him, you make one of two demands: money or "surprise me."
3. Return to Lord Antidas; you are rewarded according to your efforts.
4. Talk to Dellar.
   • The New Loremaster begins; choose to exit dialog at Dellar's post or Feng's House.

Rewards

• Bronze Praetorian Armor (if you requested it; see step 1)
• 15 General SP
• if you didn't make a fuss, and let Linos handle the thing: 150g
• 1 Civil SP if you made a fuss
• if you spared Zenon, or never saw him: Ruby Ring
• if you spared Zenon for money: 312g
• if you spared Zenon for a "surprise": 1 dose Neurostimulant
• if you killed Zenon: +5 to Dagger Rating

Next Quest in Chain

The New Loremaster