Illusion

In your personal room in Prontera Castle, speak to Nihil M. Heine (prt_cas_q 21/39).

Proceed to Einbech and go to the front of the Clana Nemieri Rebel base. Talk to Rebellion Member (einbech 218/80) standing outside the entrance. He tells you of the Rebellion's new base expansion and gives you coordinates to the new building in Einbroch.

Head to Einbroch secret pub in the northeast corner, Cat on Bullet (einbroch 302/328). Enter and look for Philopontes/Tes (pub_cat 93/105) in the north-eastern-most room. He tells you about the information gathered from the Werner Lab raid. Your new task will be investigating a nearby abandoned mine.

Walk one north and one east of Einbroch to find a Rebellion Member (ein_fild05 156/288) on lookout at the entrance to Rudus. Do not wing, just walk along the rail. Enter Rudus by talking to the Rebellion Member. Rudus Dungeon will now be freely accessible.

Talk to Elena Volkova (sp_rudus 184/360) near the mining facility entrance on the inside. She says the investigation will take longer than expected after the discovery of a suspiciously-erected wall.

Talk to Rookie (sp_rudus 193/284) located directly south of Elena. He says progress is blocked by a large 3-layer door and needs help investigating it. He tasks you to investigate around the wall for other means of entry. Visit all three yellow markers: Wall on the Railroad - Rebellion Member (sp_rudus 304/266) to the East, who deduces the wall was built after the refinery was no longer under operation. Watchtower - Rebellion Member (sp_rudus 121/286) to the West, who says the pillar beside the wall was actually a watchtower and noticed lots of movement on the other side. Small Hole (sp_rudus 27/300) along the western edge, which looks like it was made by a small animal.

Report the findings back to Rookie. He was able to unlock the door but discovered it was designed with a weird mechanism: someone has to keep holding the button to keep it open. The odd design was probably meant to contain what was on the other side, similar to prisons and penitentiaries.

An ominous noise is heard from the other side of the door. Since Rookie has to stay behind, you are asked to investigate. Click Closed Gate to go through. Hunt: 10 Dolor, 10 Venenum, 10 Twin Caputs. Optional: Go to the yellow mark on the map to unlock the Learning about Morning daily quest.

Optional: Report the presence of monsters back to Rookie who confirms the wall was designed for containment. Walk north to relay all uncovered info back to Captain Elena Volkova. Rewarded with 400,000 Base EXP and Job EXP (x2), and 15 Cor Core.

Report back to Cat on a Bullet Cat Cafe in Einbroch and talk to Tes (pub_cat 93/105). After explaining everything to him, he thinks it may be a secret dump site for failed test subjects. After reporting back to Tes you will have access to Rudus 4 by talking to Julma (pub_cat 94/43) for Lv200+.

Tes tells you of an unexpected guest in the back room. Proceed to the back room by talking to the Rebellion Retiree (pub_cat 104/106) standing nearby. Inside, talk to Tes first. You meet Kaya Tos (Middle-aged Gentleman), Aas (Senior Rekenber Guard), and Est Loveroy. Long dialogue explains that Rekenber's annex lab, Regenschirm, was occupied by assailants that looked like Heart Hunters under the command of someone named Chelin, a former captain of Rekenber's security team. Then talk to Kaya who requests you help Est reclaim the lab.

Go to Lighthalzen. Look at the mini map, go to the left-hand building of Rekenber's HQ and speak to Republic Guard (lighthalzen 56/270) where Aas' Rekenber Guards and Est will be preparing.

Talk to Rekenber Guard Oscar (lighthalzen 55/278) to enter the building. Go north and talk to Aas to open the door, who realizes she can support you through the system. Once inside, head northwest and proceed through the half-open doorway up to the employees' cafeteria. The room is highly populated with Traitors (dressed as Heart Hunters) but it is not necessary to eliminate all of them. Find 3 Researchers being held captive and eliminate the Traitors to free them. Communicate with Aas using the Access Controller on the right near the large door. One Researcher offers to help open the door with biometrics data.

Find the lecture room north of the cafeteria door entrance. The Rebellion has locked themselves inside to protect from Poison Gas. Eliminate all Poison Gas monsters outside both doors of the lecture hall. After all gas is gone, Est will call out. Talk to Est in the northern end of the lecture hall. She instructs you to relay a message to Aas using Code 0315 on the Access Controller beside the blackboard.

In the main hallway, fight through groups of Fatal Pompoms and Traitors heading south to a series of rooms. All Fatal Pompoms in this vicinity must be killed to enter the portals. Talk to Detained Researchers in each of the 3 rooms. When trying to enter the 4th room, a message is broadcasted asking for support at the lecture room.

Aas mentions to check the Guard's Waiting Room (4th room at the end of the hallway) in the bottom right corner of the instance (1@rgsr 235/44). You will find Aas who has found the spare master key. Collect the scattered document on top of the nearby drawer to activate the Data Obtained from the Lab side quest.

Head to Central Meeting Room (1@rgsr 125/157) at the main inner hallway. Re-unite with Est and Goni. Speak to Aas and wait until they finish talking. Talk to Aas again to enter the room. Walk north to find Restrained Test Subject. Investigate the Controllers around the central room in order: Top Right Panel = Blue Button, Bottom Left Panel = Red Button, Bottom Right Panel = White Button, Controller beside Top Left door = Yellow Button.

Fight Test Subject, Sorrow Crob. She is an MVP with 3.5M HP and casts Firebolt. After the fight, Aas offers 3 options: Einbroch (suggested choice), Lighthalzen (warps outside instance), or Look around some more. Return to Einbroch's Cat on a Bullet and find Tes (pub_cat 93/105). Report details and receive 500,000 Base EXP and 400,000 Job EXP (x2), and 25 Mysterious Component.

Head south and enter the right room behind Wilde NPC and talk to Rage (pub_cat 106/69) who is arguing with Kaya about the Rekenber investigation report. After Rage (pub_cat 105/59) moves booths, talk to him again, then talk to Kaya Tos, talk to Rage again (follow quest indicator). Rage got a list of names of people who have gone missing, but Kaya says Rekenber has them on rotation and they are still employed. You try to convince them to start a joint investigation and get dragged into being the impartial witness. Receive 300,000 Base and Job EXP.

The team agrees to meet at Einbroch airport. Meet Rage (einbroch 42/208) who is sitting on a bench west of the airport entrance. After the story about how and who to investigate, you will be teleported to Lighthalzen.

Follow the quest mark and talk to Rage (lighthalzen 259/215) near the Slums entrance. You will be teleported to the slums with activated navigation. Follow the path northeast and talk to Rage. "Patsy" has apparently been sending money back to his parents without writing any letters, and allegedly used all his vacation time despite promising his family he would visit. Receive 300,000 Base and Job EXP.

You will be teleported out of the slums. Talk to Rage (lighthalzen 108/163) in front of Rekenber entrance. Enter the Rekenber office, talk to the first employee. Move around the office following blue texts that activate Navi. Talk to second employee (lhz_in01 163/258) then go to Regenschirm (lighthalzen 53/277). Enter Regenschirm, go right, talk to Lab Staff (rgsr_in 158/83). Go to bottom left room and talk to Employee (rgsr_in 18/49). Go back to Rekenber Office and talk to Secretary (lhz_in01 80/210). Go to the Document's Archive and talk to the Employee (lhz_in01 33/263).

You will be instructed to go to (ein_fild01 95/146). It is faster to warp into Einbroch and then go north-east-north. Speak to Kaya Tos in Einbroch Field 1 and receive 20 Cor Core and 600,000 Base and Job EXP.

Go back to Cat on Bullet and speak with Philopontes (pub_cat 93/105). He will instruct you to go 1 map north, 1 map west from Einbroch and speak with Rebellion Member (ein_fild03 278/269).

You will proceed to investigate the area, follow the Navi system to get to the specific coordinates. You will be forced to go back talking with Rebellion Member (receive 100,000 Base and Job EXP). Talk to Rebellion Member again to open the gate to prepare the OS instance, then choose enter to go in.

Inside, talk with Ridsh. The Three Rebellion Ladies will appear with some monsters. Walk over the portals and kill the monsters. Then at the right side, click the Pipe NPC, choose "Destroy It" to proceed.

Walk north over the portal, follow the railway until you find Dien. Talk to Dien and talk to the black portal. Take a detour until you find an opening to the north. Search the area for cables and click all 3 of them.

Back to following the railway until you find Dien and Cotness. Walk to the east until you find Ridsh. Erst will come and you must proceed over the portal. Try to reach the quest mark on the mini-map by going north-east until you are back on the railway. You will fight (or ignore and rush through) some monsters from black portals along the way until you reach the Three Rebellion Ladies and Erst. Talk to Dien, she will instruct you to get her lucky charm back in Clana Nemieri. Receive 25 Mysterious Component and 600,000 Base and Job EXP.

Go to Clana Nemieri (einbech 218/80) and talk to Nemi (rebel_in 24/46). He will teleport you inside. Talk to the Rebellion at (rebel_in 68/41), then go into Dien's room on the far right and click on her drawers (rebel_in 160/89) to take her lucky charm as Dien's Envelope. Take a screenshot if you wish as this is one of those memorable Ragnarok Online quest events.

Go back to OS, talk to Dien (sp_os 252/358), and you will be teleported to Cor. Receive 200,000 Base EXP and 100,000 Job EXP. OS Occupation side quest is available now.

Walk a bit north and talk to Advance Party (sp_cor 166/83). Talk to Kaya Tos, then Tes. The team will prompt to go to a safety place (the middle quest mark on minimap).

Talk to Tes (sp_cor 122/140), then Aas will like to talk to Kaya Tos privately. Walk a bit northeast and talk to Aas (sp_cor 135/146). Keep talking and receive 300,000 Base and Job EXP. Finding Patrick side quest is available now. Merc vs Merc repeatable quest and Help the Farm repeatable quest are available now.

Rebellion (sp_cor 109/130) will intervene after you talk to Aas. Talk to that Rebellion on the new quest mark in minimap, a bit southwest from your position.

Elena will appear. Talk to her and proceed northeast to the new quest mark. Talk to Elena (sp_cor 179/169) three times: first to trigger the quest, second to create instance, and third to enter it.

Talk to Elena inside the instance. 4 quest marks will appear. Go to the 2 marks at the right side. Talk to each of the boxes and kill all monsters that appear. Then talk to the box again so it disappears. A new quest mark will appear. Go there and talk to Elena, she will open a portal to the next area.

You have to fight a weakened version of the boss, EL1-A17T. Defeat it, then the Rebellion will appear with Eliumina caught. Talk to Elena to go out, and then talk to Elena again outside. Receive about 200,000 Base EXP; 300,000 + 300,000 + 250,000 Job EXP. Also receive 1 Damaged Weapon and 5 Cor Cores.

A new quest mark will appear in minimap. Go there and talk to Goni (sp_cor 137/210). Talk to Rookie to trigger a long scene. The team agrees to enter the Varmundt Mansion through the waterway.

Go to the new quest mark in the far northeast of the minimap and talk to Rookie (sp_cor 255/284). Receive 400,000 Job EXP (x3) and about 300,000 Base EXP. Cor Memorial repeatable instance, Finding Patrick sidequest, Illusion Equipment and Enchant Modules, and Grace Equipment (Lv150+) are now available. This is the end of Episode 17.1. The story continues in Episode 17.2: Legacy of the Wise One.

While in Rudus dungeon, discover a small child at the yellow mark on the map. The child does not say anything so investigate the area. Notice a nearby pile of junk (sp_rudus 124/195) and dig through it. The junk pile reveals a letter introducing you to Morning. If you wish to feed Morning, he eats 10 of the item requested. My Name is Morning repeatable quest is now available.

After feeding Morning multiple times, you will eventually be able to dig another letter out of the junk pile. This triggers the "Befriending Morning" quest, where you must give Morning various pet eggs in exchange for Cor Core and experience. Once a step is completed, it may take a few days of feeding Morning before the next letter can be retrieved. First Letter: 1 Poring Egg (5 Cor Core). Second Letter: 1 Rocker Egg (4 Cor Core). Third Letter: 1 Picky Egg (3 Cor Core). Fourth Letter: 1 Lunatic Egg (6 Cor Core). After the fourth letter, the quest concludes.

After finding a pile of documents in the Guard's Waiting Room during the Regenschirm instance, Aas requests you to deliver the documents to Tes so he may investigate them. At the Cat on a Bullet, hand over the documents to Tes and receive 200,000 Base and Job EXP.

Talk to Kaya Tos (sp_cor 136/146). He asks whether you also think of this place as an illegal lab. He talks about the relation of missing people in the list to this area and asks you to go look for Patrick Kaufman.

Talk to nearby Worker and ask if Pats was there. Everyone was re-assigned. Talk to Researcher near the farm (sp_cor 224/77), who was just there to grow super vegetables for animal food research. He recommends you talk to the laundry manager Worker (sp_cor 151/180) who knows most people there.

The laundry worker turns out to be Marcus Holtzman from Lighthalzen. Ask him about Eva Meuler. You give him a chance to write a letter for his worried fiance. Afterwards, ask him about Patrick. Pats was also here but was a cleaner. Marcus says the only place left to look for data about him is at the incineration plant. Receive 300,000 Base EXP and 300,000 Job EXP.

Talk to the incineration plant Worker (sp_cor 70/263) who is sorting documents at the northwest corner of the map. He does not know Patrick Kaufman, only Patrick Young. He mentions any other waste from the lab could have been moved out to an external site, including special cargo that could have been people.

Proceed to the Laboratory Waste Disposal Site, Rudus Dungeon (ein_fild05 156/288). Not knowing where to start, try searching Suspicious Trace close by, to the east of the entrance. While searching, suspicious voices are heard. Follow the voices to an Abandoned Person at (sp_rudus 15/280). Head to Rookie's position near the gate through the wall. Continue through the gate to find the source of the voice. This person is a researcher whose lab blew up, disfiguring her. She confesses that they have been experimenting on people. Ask her about Patrick Kaufman. Receive 300,000 Base EXP and 300,000 Job EXP.

Fearing Patrick may already be dead, go look for his Test Subject Identification Card bracelet. Search through suspicious traces around the map (5-6 areas, location seems random): (sp_rudus 55/137), (sp_rudus 36/46), (sp_rudus 221/165), (sp_rudus 124/195), (sp_rudus 332/235), (sp_rudus 364/134). Return to Kaya Tos at (sp_cor 136/146) and show him the bracelet. Receive 600,000 Base EXP, 600,000 Job EXP, and 20 Cor Core.

Kaya asks the player for a favor and relays to Aas. She asks you to give rest to 20 Dolors and bring back 10 Test Subject Identification Bracelets (received directly from Dolors). Return to Aas. Receive 300,000 Base EXP, 300,000 Job EXP, 1 Cor Core, and 5 Machine Component. To Rudus repeatable quest is available now.

In Cor south side, have party leader talk to Erst (sp_cor 164/56) to create the instance, then enter.

Let NPCs talk until monsters spawn. Keep killing monsters until the radio NPC begins glowing blue. Pick any Engaging option.

Keep waiting until Erst's announcement says to check Alpha team's coordinates. Talk to the radio again and choose any option. Keep waiting until meteors rain and the poison fog on the east disappears. Head southeast and follow the path to the bottom left where Team Alpha is. Once the railway is in sight, start going southwest. Talk to the Team Alpha radio until it disappears.

Follow the path north. Kill monsters that have spawned. Reach the 1st checkpoint, walk past it, and it will disappear. Then keep going east onto the railway. Kill all monsters that have spawned. Once all are dead, the 2nd checkpoint appears. Walk past the checkpoint, it disappears, then follow the path south. Kill monsters until the 3rd checkpoint appears.

Go east, fight a very weakened Miguel, then talk to Erst to exit. Receive six chunks of 200,000 Base EXP and 180,000 Job EXP, totaling 1,200,000 Base EXP and 1,080,000 Job EXP. 2nd OS Search daily quest available.