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Creeping Death

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Arraetrikos sent one of his lieutenants to infiltrate Stormreach's sewers. But members of the Twelve have a plan to trap him.

Requires access to adventure pack: The Vale of Twilight
Creeping Death
Heroic level: 15
Epic level: 31
(considered Legendary)
Duration: Long
Heroic XP:  ♣3,254Solo/Casual ♦5,655Normal ♥5,886Hard ♠6,118Elite
Epic XP:  ♣15,607Solo/Casual ♦26,672Normal ♥27,331Hard ♠27,991Elite
Takes place in: Sewer Ambuscade
Bestowed by: Trull Knopper
NPC contact: Trull Knopper
Quest acquired in: Meridia
Patron: The Twelve
Base favor: 6
Purchase: The Vale of Twilight or VIP
Extreme Challenge: No
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Overview

Arraetrikos has sent Garko, one of his lieutenants, to infiltrate the sewers of Stormreach. However, members of the Twelve have learned of the lieutenant's plan and have laid a trap for him.

Travel to the Sewer Ambuscade beneath Stromreach and help the Twelve stop Garko.


Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!


Objectives

  • Speak to Leth, Emissary of the Twelve
  • Defeat Garko the Great, Lieutenant of Arraetrikos
  • Enter the Upper Sewer Complex
  • Locate the entrance to the lower sewer complex
  • Discover the location of the first sigil
  • Empower the Sigil by activating three runes
  • Wait until Garko strikes the first sigil to proceed
  • Locate 2nd Sigil
  • Defeat Horned Devil and activate rune
  • Empower the sigil by activating the rune and lowering the drawbridge
  • Enter the underwater passage
  • Discover the end of the underwater passage.
  • Wait until Garko strikes the second sigil to proceed
  • Locate the third sigil
  • Wait until Garko strikes the third sigil to proceed
  • Locate Garko the Great

What to Expect

  • Instant-death mechanics
  • Overlapping map areas
  • Lot of oozes
  • Doors that require all mobs dead before opening (Ooze fragments don't have to die to open door)
  • Pipe jumping and pillar jumping
  • Puzzle
  • Point of no return

Known Traps

Trap and Lock DCs

  • 8 Traps: blades, ice, fire and poison (Kobolds can be damaged by the poison trap)
  • Bug: The 3 Secret doors, leading to trap Control Panels are already in a revealed state.

Tips and Misc

  • There are a couple ways to 100% die in this quest. Stay alert.
  • Don't let the red gelatinous cube touch you, or you die. No saving throw allowed.
    • There are some alcoves (some secret) that seem safe – they are, however you must squeeze as far away as possible from any hallway where the ooze is traveling, including through side-walls!

Walk-through

Open first door, talk to Leth. Open door, wait for Garko to lower spike barrier. Meanwhile buff up. Don't jump down or you die (highly poisonous environment at the moment). Proceed north. Kill kobolds and oozes, mind the traps. Reach shrine, then drop down and run south.

  • When a rune is lit a "sigil" is activated, and when Garko oozes over that, two things happen:
  1. Garko, along with the cube Death Touch, is teleported ahead past the next barrier (so your current area is "safe", and only the next will be dangerous).
  2. The lever for the barrier to that next area is unlocked. There are 3 runes to light, 3 barriers to get through...

The way east is blocked by a barrier, so go west.

  • First rune: northwest room – Pipe jumping section, activate 3 runes until objective changes.
    • There is a lever (not shown on map) high in the center of the room, that starts an air jet from the pipes below. It's not necessary for completion, but it can help.
  • Second rune: Continue west and south from the pipe room. Go to the west first, just under the quest entrance (now less poisonous). Kill the horned devil. Loot chest, pull lever (rune), shrine if needed. Return to water, dive (east) to enter a pillar jumping section. Jump across and pull lever (rune).
    • If you kite him out of the hallway (into the main room), the Horned Devil will white-dot and return to his starting point at full health.
    • Bug: Be careful with the timing of lowering the drawbridge. Make sure garko is not at the beginning of the drawbridge when you lower it, or he may become stuck.
    • This is the only barrier with a lever to lower it on both sides.
    • Latecomers can jump down at this point and be safe from the earlier poison, but may still have some fighting to do, and possibly a red gelatinous cube to avoid, depending whether the main party has completed the second rune or not. Landing in the water and swimming to the western landing is a safe way to wait.
Puzzle for third sigil
  • Third rune: Go south across the drawbridge. Solve puzzle (in large eastern room).
  • While solving puzzle, you can squeeze back against the barrier and be safe from Death Touch. There is also a ladder south of the puzzle.
  • Note that unlike the previous 2 barriers, this one has no lever on the far side, creating a soft Point of No Return. The only way to get back (without releasing) is either Dimension Door, or to leave a character, hireling or pet on the far side to pull the lever from there. There are no shrines forward of this point.

Continue north (not over the drawbridge, although there is a collectable there), killing more ooze and kobolds. Then kill Garko along with some oozes and kobolds.

  • Garko starts alone, but he will summon help.
  • Garko cannot be kited out of the room, he will whitedot to his spawn location. Summoned trash can be kited and killed outside.
  • Killing Garko completes the quest; all trash disappears at that point (except Ooze created by splitting).
  • The air jets on the raised platforms in the boss room cannot be disarmed.

Bonus XP

  • Aggression bonus: 34 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
  • Onslaught bonus: 67 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦848 ♥883 ♠918 )
  • Conquest bonus: 100 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦1,414 ♥1,472 ♠1,530 )
  • Tamper bonus: 4 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
  • Neutralization bonus: 6 or more traps disarmed +20% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦1,131 ♥1,177 ♠1,224 )
  • Ingenious Debilitation bonus: 7 or more traps disarmed +30% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦1,697 ♥1,766 ♠1,835 )
  • Perception bonus: 2 or more secret doors discovered +10% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
  • Mischief bonus: 32 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦452 ♥471 ♠489 )
  • Vandal bonus: 41 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
  • Ransack bonus: 51 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦848 ♥883 ♠918 )

Loot

  • Chests: 2
    • One for defeating the Horned Devil
    • One end chest, can drop named items (and LGS mats on Legendary difficulty)
  • Collectables: 6 out of
    • Rubble — just north of the first trapTome: History of the HousesHouse-Sealed LetterBruised Spore PodSour DarkcapExecutioner BeetleFragrant DrowshoodFlowering Spore PodHeadsman BeetleIntact Spore PodDuskbrood TrumpeterFlowering HellscapRomantic SonnetScholarly NotesSilver Flame HymnalTome: Lost Songs of CyreRunic ParchmentTome: Codes of the AurumAmulet of the Lost EmpireSmall Planar CrystalPlanar SpoorAmulet of the SixAmulet of the ArchbishopPlanar TalismanElemental IngotLightning-Split SoarwoodCeramic BowlLodestoneSinged SoarwoodGlass PhialCharred SoarwoodMoonstoneCrystal DecanterStellar OrbBlessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleOrnate CharmShimmering Spore PodAdventuring OratorioToken of the SpiderVial of Dragon's Blood InkHairy Trumpet MushroomArchaic LogbookPouch of Bone FragmentsCrypt MothAncient TextFlint KnifeBrass Censer
    • Fungus — in the north west tunnel before 1st shrineCrypt MothHairy Trumpet MushroomShimmering Spore PodSwaying Mushroom ClusterRuddy FungusSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusSwaying Mushroom Spore PodBruised Spore PodSour DarkcapExecutioner BeetleFragrant DrowshoodFlowering Spore PodHeadsman BeetleIntact Spore PodDuskbrood TrumpeterFlowering Hellscap
    • Fungus — underwater in the pipe jumping section, not on mapCrypt MothHairy Trumpet MushroomShimmering Spore PodSwaying Mushroom ClusterRuddy FungusSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusSwaying Mushroom Spore PodBruised Spore PodSour DarkcapExecutioner BeetleFragrant DrowshoodFlowering Spore PodHeadsman BeetleIntact Spore PodDuskbrood TrumpeterFlowering Hellscap
    • Fungus — in the pillar roomCrypt MothHairy Trumpet MushroomShimmering Spore PodSwaying Mushroom ClusterRuddy FungusSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusSwaying Mushroom Spore PodBruised Spore PodSour DarkcapExecutioner BeetleFragrant DrowshoodFlowering Spore PodHeadsman BeetleIntact Spore PodDuskbrood TrumpeterFlowering Hellscap
    • Adventurer's Pack — over the drawbridge near the puzzleTome: History of the HousesHouse-Sealed LetterBruised Spore PodSour DarkcapExecutioner BeetleFragrant DrowshoodFlowering Spore PodHeadsman BeetleIntact Spore PodDuskbrood TrumpeterFlowering HellscapRomantic SonnetScholarly NotesSilver Flame HymnalTome: Lost Songs of CyreRunic ParchmentTome: Codes of the AurumAmulet of the Lost EmpireSmall Planar CrystalPlanar SpoorAmulet of the SixAmulet of the ArchbishopPlanar TalismanElemental IngotLightning-Split SoarwoodCeramic BowlLodestoneSinged SoarwoodGlass PhialCharred SoarwoodMoonstoneCrystal DecanterStellar OrbBlessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleOrnate CharmShimmering Spore PodAdventuring OratorioToken of the SpiderVial of Dragon's Blood InkHairy Trumpet MushroomArchaic LogbookPouch of Bone FragmentsCrypt MothAncient TextFlint KnifeBrass Censer
    • Adventurer's Pack — in an alcove just before the last trapTome: History of the HousesHouse-Sealed LetterBruised Spore PodSour DarkcapExecutioner BeetleFragrant DrowshoodFlowering Spore PodHeadsman BeetleIntact Spore PodDuskbrood TrumpeterFlowering HellscapRomantic SonnetScholarly NotesSilver Flame HymnalTome: Lost Songs of CyreRunic ParchmentTome: Codes of the AurumAmulet of the Lost EmpireSmall Planar CrystalPlanar SpoorAmulet of the SixAmulet of the ArchbishopPlanar TalismanElemental IngotLightning-Split SoarwoodCeramic BowlLodestoneSinged SoarwoodGlass PhialCharred SoarwoodMoonstoneCrystal DecanterStellar OrbBlessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleOrnate CharmShimmering Spore PodAdventuring OratorioToken of the SpiderVial of Dragon's Blood InkHairy Trumpet MushroomArchaic LogbookPouch of Bone FragmentsCrypt MothAncient TextFlint KnifeBrass Censer

NPC end rewards

Randomly generated loot, ML correlates with effective quest level.

Named Chest Drop

  • Ingredients (end chest)
    • Codex Runes, 3-7 on LH difficulty
    • LGS materials, small and medium
Last Edited Item Type Enhancements ML Bind Quests
Arraetrikos' Bane (level 15)
(edit)
Ring 15 Bound to Account on AcquireBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End chest
Boots of the Devil Commander
(edit)
Boots 15 Bound to Account on AcquireBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End Chest
Construct's Mantle
(edit)
Cloak 15 Bound to Account on AcquireBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End Chest
Pendant of the Warrior's Focus
(edit)
Necklace 15 Bound to Account on AcquireBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End Chest
Subtle Sound
(edit)
Trinket 15 Bound to Account on AcquireBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, end chest
Arraetrikos' Bane (level 29)
(edit)
Ring 29 Bound to Account on AcquireBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, end chest
Legendary Boots of the Devil Commander
(edit)
Boots 29 Bound to Account on AcquireBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, end chest
Legendary Construct's Mantle
(edit)
Cloak 29 Bound to Account on AcquireBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End chest
Legendary Pendant of the Warrior's Focus
(edit)
Necklace 29 Bound to Account on AcquireBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End chest
Legendary Subtle Sound
(edit)
Trinket 29 Bound to Account on AcquireBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, end chest

Based on Creeping Death loot ( t • e • h )

Monsters

Name ( picture ) CR Type Race
Fiendish Kobold Shaman( view
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 ♦15Normal ♥17Hard ♠20Elite ♦31Epic Normal ♥35Epic Hard ♠39Epic Elite Reptilian Kobold
Fiendish Kobold Slinger( view
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 ♦15Normal ♥17Hard ♠20Elite ♦31Epic Normal ♥35Epic Hard ♠39Epic Elite Reptilian Kobold
Fiendish Kobold( view
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 ♦15Normal ♥17Hard ♠20Elite ♦31Epic Normal ♥35Epic Hard ♠39Epic Elite Reptilian Kobold
Garko( view
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 ♦18Normal ♥10Hard ♠23Elite ♦34Epic Normal ♥38Epic Hard ♠43Epic Elite Reptilian Kobold
Horned Devil Invader( view
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 ♦18Normal ♥10Hard ♠23Elite ♦34Epic Normal ♥38Epic Hard ♠43Epic Elite Evil Outsider Devil
Large Black Pudding Fragment( view
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 ♦13Normal ♥13Hard ♠13Elite ♦29Epic Normal ♥33Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Ooze Black Pudding
Large Black Pudding( view
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 ♦15Normal ♥17Hard ♠20Elite ♦31Epic Normal ♥35Epic Hard ♠39Epic Elite Ooze Black Pudding
Large Unstable Arcane Ooze( view
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 ♦15Normal ♥17Hard ♠20Elite ♦31Epic Normal ♥35Epic Hard ♠39Epic Elite Ooze Arcane Ooze
Unstable Arcane Ooze Fragment( view
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 ♦13Normal ♥13Hard ♠13Elite ♦29Epic Normal ♥33Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Ooze Arcane Ooze