I did it! I reached the crystal gardens! What beauty and splendor I have seen down there. Even more: I discovered a small subterranean lake - but Harry was there before me. And he did something strange: He ringed a small, transparent looking bell and immediatly a big whirl appeared in the water. I suppose this is the mysterious way deeper into the caves we sought after for so long. But Harry, the coward, didn't dare to dive into the water. Instead he left the caverns and heeded back to the surface. I have to go after him tomorrow. I must have this bell!
The Cursed Crystal Quest
Strange things started happening after the pirates of Nargor began mining crystals in a cursed cave...
Location
Crystal Gardens near Nargor.
Reward
Dangers
10
Requirements
- Access to Nargor (completed the Eleonore Quest, finished Meriana Quest up to Ray's Mission 1)
- Green Crystal Splinter
- Flask of Embalming Fluid
- Honeycomb (or Molten Wax)
- Petrified Scream
Method
You can complete this task daily.
First, make sure you have the required items listed above. In order to obtain the Molten Wax, you must use a Honeycomb on an Oven. You can use one at Eclesius' house or at Nargor, at the same level where you find One-Eyed Joe but far west from him on the other side of the shipyard. The other items can be looted from creatures. Note that you only need 1 Molten Wax, as you do not lose it when it's used.
Travel to Nargor and walk to One-Eyed Joe, who is located here.
You will meet 2 Tarantulas, 6 Slimes, Smugglers, Pirate Marauders and a Pirate Cutthroat. Ask One-Eyed Joe about crystals, about the cursed entrance, asking for more information with yes. She will ask if you will attempt destroying the crystal. Accept the mission with yes.
You will meet Pirate Marauders, Pirate Cutthroats and Pirate Buccaneers. Go down the ladder next to One-Eyed Joe and head west, turning south when the cave splits. At the end of the path you will find a Wooden Grinder, here.
Use the Green Crystal Splinter on the Wooden Grinder to obtain a Pinch of Crystal Dust. Go back to where you came from but instead of going up the ladder, go down to the next floor, here.
(optional) You will meet Pirate Cutthroats, Pirate Skeletons, Pirate Marauders and Pirate Ghosts. Go west and turn north at the intersection, and then turn west again. Follow the cave south until you find a Pile of Bones (Quest) on the left side of the cave, here.
Search the pile of bones for a Paper. Now backtrack to the ladder.
Go south from the ladder and follow the cave until you find a Pile of Bones (Quest) on the west side of a large room, here.
Search the pile of bones for a Small Crystal Bell. Go down the ramp in the same room, you will meet ~ 3 Pirate Skeletons, 2 Crystalcrushers, 1 Wyvern and 2 Crystal Spiders. Go south-west from the ramp until you find a Large Crystal Teleporter (Berg), here
with a Pirate Flag (Banner) next to it saying "Beware! Dangerous monsters down here!" Enter the teleporter and you will appear one floor down here.
You will meet 2 Crystalcrushers, and possible Water Elementals and a Drillworm. Go north-east to find a Bloodstained Crystal. When you approach it you will receive a server message:
- This small room could once have been a shrine of some kind. You discover an old inscription between two ornate stone walls.
- The text is partly crumbled: 'Take ... vial of emb... fl... and mix ... a medusa's bl.... Then .. the dust of ... crystal, so ... will get the Medusa's Ointm... powerful ... able to unpetrify ...
Use the Bloodstained Crystal to obtain a Vial of Medusa Blood. Now we can perform the mixture.
- Use the Flask of Embalming Fluid on the Vial of Medusa Blood to create Flask with Oil and Blood
- You mixed the first ingredients to create a special ointment. But it isn't complete yet.
- Use the Flask with Oil and Blood on the Pinch of Crystal Dust to create Flask of Medusa's Ointment.
Note: if you are creating the Flask of Medusa's Ointment for Dream Courts quest, you can stop the mission at this point. Finishing the mission will consume the flask and you will have to wait 24 hours to create a new one.
- You mixed the proper ingredients to create a special ointment. With this salve you may unpetrify a petrified object.
Go back through the Large Crystal Teleporter (Berg) and head west. You will meet Crystalcrushers, Crystal Spiders, Wyverns and Water Elementals. Follow the cave north-west until it turns south-west. Go south-west until you reach a room with a pond. Use the Small Crystal Bell to reveal a Water Vortex in the center of the pond, here.
- As you use the small bell an unearthly sound rings out sweetly. At the same moment, the lake's waters begin to whirl.
Go through the Water Vortex to arrive in a room with many Black Crystals, one floor down, here.
You will meet 1 Crystalcrusher, ~5 Crystal Spiders and 1 Frost Dragon. In the middle of the large crystal formation is a Large Black Crystal. Use the Molten Wax on yourself to protect your ears, and then shatter the large crystal by using the Flask of Medusa's Ointment on the Petrified Scream.
- You unpetrify a banshee's scream near the evil crystal, your ears protected by wax. Thus the baleful artefact is destroyed.
Grinding the Green Crystal Splinter
Entering the room with a Bloodstained Crystal
Taking the Vial of Medusa Blood
Using the Molten Wax
Shattering the Large Black Crystal
Now we are done and can report back to One-Eyed Joe. Go down the hole left of the crystal (here
) and head north-east, you will meet 4 Crystalcrushers. Enter the Large Crystal Teleporter (Berg) (here
) to appear in a small empty room, here.
Enter another Large Crystal Teleporter (Berg) to appear north-east of the pond you dived into, here.
Now follow the cave south-east, continuing north-east when it curves. Go up the ramp, here.
You will meet the same creatures as on the way to the pond.
Go west and follow the cave until you reach the Ladder. Go up the ladder and up another ladder to reach the NPC One-Eyed Joe. Greet the NPC with hi and your quest will be completed. You will receive a Crystal Shard and one of the following:
- an Eye Patch
- a Peg Leg
- a Hook
- a Pirate Backpack.
You will also earn the achievement Wail of the Banshee.