Quest 17 of 19 in the Journal · From Nessa’s ferry notice · Siltstep Landing, Crooked Bell Station, The High-water Office
How to start
Read Nessa’s notice at Siltstep Landing.
What you need
- Prepare for dangerous wetland creatures on the journey to the Drowned Fens. Combat 100 is recommended; the investigation itself requires no fighting.
Step by step
- Service suspended: insufficient river. Find Siltstep Landing in the Drowned Fens. Ferry keeper Nessa needs someone to explain why the route bell still calls for a crossing. Dangerous wetland creatures live nearby; this investigation requires no fighting.
- A bell is not an argument. Read the signal plate at Crooked Bell Station. Work out what its old markings meant before assuming the crossing is safe.
- The river has left no forwarding address. Compare the dated water records in the High-water Office. Find a route that the records actually support.
- Retire the timetable, keep the crossing. Return to the bell post with the ledger’s route. Leave a clear direction for walkers, keeping the old unsafe-channel warning.
- One crossing. No rowing.. Return to Siltstep Landing with the route notes. Nessa can retire the ferry timetable without retiring the crossing.
What you get
- 2,500 GC
- +2,000 experience
- +5,000 Exploration experience
How it ends
The river had silted up, but the crossing still mattered. You checked the signal, copied the inspected raised-bank route, and kept the warning about the soft channel. Nessa received your notes. You earned 2,500 coins, Exploration XP and character experience, and kept a ferry ticket amended to “WALK — oars optional”.