Metroplexity

Start

Find a silenced corpse in the massive oil slick choice encounter on the tainted shoreline (requires etheric or slags poisoning). Note that the choices for the oil slick are randomized each reset. Cut the corpse's lips free, and then ask why he's there and then how you can help.

Outline

Getting on the Ghost Ship

• Another choice from the random massive oil slick adventure is the ghost ship. Note that the ghost ship appears where there used to only be a rocky island before.
• You must maintain etheric (or slags poisoning) all the time while on the ghost ship, otherwise you will be dumped back on land.

Getting the Ancient Sextant

• Adventure on the ghost ship and fight spectral sailors, which drop rotting journals. You will need four journals in total.
• Read the journals four times to reveal that the ship's navigator was locked up near the bow of the ship.
• Continue adventuring until you meet The Navigator choice encounter.
• Steal his stuff, agree to help or fight him; either way you receive the ancient sextant.

Finding the Bone Shaman

• Use silver weapons to kill the sailors on the ship. These include: ornate letter opener, ostentatious blade, silver baton, silver blade, silver knuckles, silver switchblade, twisting silver blade, using any weapon with a Silver Bullets technique, or any weapon crafted with a black silver ingot or shining ingot.
• Note that you can do this at the same time as farming for rotting journals above.
• Once you kill five sailors with silver, The Bone Shaman choice encounter starts appearing: you can choose to make a deal with him or fight him.
• If you make a deal, gain the Servant of the Mask skill and end the quest.
• If you fight him, gain a strange gourd and a lost map.

Finding the five lost souls

• There are five corpses spread about the city. You can either choose to kill them or release them - the rewards to this quest depend on whether you release all, some or none of the five corpses.
• The five corpses are near (all five require etheric to show up):
  • Some crates on the Waterfront
  • A cave in the Dockside Sewers,
  • The fourth floor in the Damaged Buildings
  • The Beach on the Tainted Shoreline
  • Massive Oil Slick on the Tainted Shoreline
• You can either give them the gourd to drink or kill them.
  • Some of the corpses have their lips sewn closed. You must cut them open first for the kill to to count. Be forewarned however - if you fight one with its lips unsewn and lose the battle, it can drink from the gourd anyway. So you only have one chance to kill.
• Once you free or kill them all, you hear a scream from the ghost ship.

Finishing off the Shaman for good

• Return to the ghost ship again. Adventure until you get The Helm choice encounter.
• Fight The Mask and his grasping and shrouded hands.
  • If you released and/or killed all five corpse properly, the mask will shatter. If not, it will regenerate and you will have to fight them again.
• Equipe the ancient sextant and head to the Helm again. You can choose to sail to the treasure, reef or open sea to choose your skill reward. There are nine different possibilities in all:

Quest Log

Starting quest
A corpse off the shores of Lake Metroplex has asked you to free him and his comrades from servitude.
It all seems a bit too much like a day dream or hallucination to take seriously, though. Crazy stuff.

When not etheric
A corpse off the shores of Lake Metroplex has asked you to free him and his comrades from servitude.

It all seems a bit too much like a day dream or hallucination to take seriously, though. Crazy stuff.

After boarding the ship
You'll have to get to the ship somehow. The corpse said it would be easy to get there from a high point over Lake Metroplex. Maybe there's an island somewhere.

After reading first two journals
A corpse off the shores of Lake Metroplex has asked you to free him and his comrades from servitude.

Those strange, childish books must be related somehow. You'd say the strangest bit is them throwing out their non-gold treasures. That must be significant somehow.

After killing the first specter with silver weapon
A corpse off the shores of Lake Metroplex has asked you to free him and his comrades from servitude.

It seems that silver is able to permanently destroy the specters on the ship. More importantly, they've been bothering you less. Maybe a few more shows of force and they'll let you near the helm.

After killing Bone Shaman
You killed the shaman on the deck of the ship, but you'd be shocked if that's the last you see of him. Everything seems to make a little sense except this gourd. It must be holding something, but it won't even crack open.

After killing the first corpse
You've found a few corpses that were somehow bound to the gourd that shaman carried. However, when you shake the gourd you can still hear faint screams. There must be more out there.

After killing all five corpses
You've destroyed that gourd which used to trap those corpses' life essence.

After killing the mask
You shattered the shaman's mask and banished his power. All that remains is steering the ship out of these mists. The map has a couple of interesting options.