Impossible Demands

Impossible Demands is the 1st quest in the Menace of the Underdark: The Darkening story arcStory arcs are chains of quests that make up a story line. Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward..
The first three quests can be completed in any order to unlock The Battle for Eveningstar.
Impossible Demands • The Unquiet Graves • The Lost Thread • The Battle for Eveningstar

Many farmhouses have been ransacked by the Drow - there have been no survivors.

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Impossible Demands
Heroic level:	None
Epic level:	21
Duration:	Medium
Heroic XP:	N/A
Epic XP:	♣6,254Solo/Casual ♦10,773Normal ♥11,122Hard ♠11,472Elite
Takes place in:	Midler Farmhouse
Bestowed by:	Helena Falagon
NPC contact:	Helena Falagon
Quest acquired in:	Eveningstar
Patron:	Purple Dragon Knights
Base favor:	7
Purchase:	Menace of the Underdark
Extreme Challenge:	No

Overview

The Drow have captured a farm house on the outskirts of the King's Forest and are holding its inhabitants hostage. Go to the Midler Farmhouse and see what can be done. The Farmhouse lies just west of Eveningstar in the King's Forest.

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Objectives

Talk to Priestess Vicala Szind
Defeat Priestess Vicala Szind
(Optional) Save a hostage from under Vicala's nose — Bonus (5%): Epic( ♣313 ♦539 ♥556 ♠574 )
(Optional) Save more hostages from under Vicala's nose — Bonus (15%): Epic( ♣938 ♦1,616 ♥1,668 ♠1,721 )
(Optional) Save all the hostages from under Vicala's nose — Bonus (20%): Epic( ♣1,251 ♦2,155 ♥2,224 ♠2,294 )
(Optional) Defeat Warleader Speitar — Bonus (15%): Epic( ♣938 ♦1,616 ♥1,668 ♠1,721 )
(Optional) Defeat the spider Akorstra — Bonus (15%): Epic( ♣938 ♦1,616 ♥1,668 ♠1,721 )
(Optional) Save all hostages without being spotted by the Priestess — Bonus (50%): Epic( ♣3,127 ♦5,387 ♥5,561 ♠5,736 )

Known Traps

Trap DCs

Spell wards (fire)

Tips and Misc

The first fight (usually) consists of not quite defeating Vicala. She then escapes, and begins patrolling a circuit around the house. You must then find her (after any optionals) and kill her once and for all.
- If Vicala is low on hit points, she "sacrifices" a nearby prisoner and regains full health. Vicala cannot generally be slain if there are any live prisoners nearby for her to sacrifice.
- With sufficient DPS (especially on lower difficulties), one may be able to slay the Priestess in the front room before she sacrifices the hostage.
Vicala's patrol pattern starts from the main inner hall, near the entrance, either north up the inner stairs and around to the outer stairs (south-west corner, where you walk up from the quest entrance), or else down to the basement (north-east corner). Either way, she then patrols a path from the top of the outer stairs, down the inner stairs, down the basement stairs, and back again. If she discovers you and you run back to the main outer hall, she closes the inner hall doors and returns to the pattern.
- On Casual and Normal difficulties, the Priestess will appear on your map as a red box. On Hard and Elite you must rely on the "nearby sound" warnings, making the final optional (and the bonus chest) painstakingly difficult and irritating to attain, but not impossible.
- A patient player can determine the time it takes for the Priestess to leave and return to a specific point between rooms. That gives a window of time to kill enemies, disable traps, and rescue prisoners.
You can free hostages by killing their guards and talking to them.
- Once you tell a hostage to flee, it will attempt to escape from the front door using the closest stairs.
- Fleeing hostages spotted by the priestess will fail that optional objective, as well as causing the hostage to die and the priestess to gain her power-up.
- The easiest hostages to rescue are in the upper room closest to the outer stairs (south-west corner) as it takes the Priestess almost 2 minutes to complete a walk cycle.
- Likewise, timing the Priestess's walk away from the basement and back should give ample time to tell the basement hostages to escape.
- Timing is most crucial for the last hostages in the upper rooms (north-west corner). They try to escape by the inner stairs, which puts them in the Priestess's path. Clear all enemies below that path first (this is also needed to clear a path for the basement and main room hostages). Then time the Priestess's walk from when she passes the room to when she stops and turns at the outer stairs. You'll have that much time to tell the hostages to escape.
Don't let any hireling, summons or party member get in the path of an escaping hostage! That might bug their escape and cause these optionals to fail as you cannot speak to them again to leave – and the Priestess will still sacrifice them.
The Priestess will not notice players in the upper rooms if they stay away from the doors.
With Update 20, you cannot complete the hostage rescues once the priestess is slain.
Speitar can be found in the western room.
Akorstra can be found through a secret door in the north-west room.
The quest (without optionals) can be completed in under 5 minutes by heading for the south-west room after the initial battle, freeing the hostages, and waiting in the hall for Vicala to come to you.
The hostages are:
- Normon Milder, Quilynn Milder and Ricnan Milder in the central room
- Neris Milder and Ianhand Milder in the south-west room
- Graven Chandler and Jandove Milder in the north-west room
- Thoben Milder, Caryn Chandler and Wilaver Chandler in the eastern room

Bonus XP

Devious bonus: 5 or fewer monsters killed +7% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
Aggression bonus: 11 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
Onslaught bonus: 22 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
Conquest bonus: 33 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
Tamper bonus: 4 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
Neutralization bonus: 5 or more traps disarmed +20% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
Ingenious Debilitation bonus: 6 or more traps disarmed +30% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
Mischief bonus: 8 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
Vandal bonus: 10 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
Ransack bonus: 12 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )

Loot

Chests: 4
- 1 for killing Speitar
- 1 for killing Akorstra
- 1 end chest (north-east corner of entry room)
- 1 for completing the objective, "Save all hostages without being spotted by the Priestess" at end (can drop Commendations, Villagers being the most prevalent)
Collectables: 2
- Cabinet — in the south room on the upper floor
- Adventurer's Pack — in the attic, in a corner beyond the dropdown

NPC end rewards

Randomly generated loot, ML correlates with effective quest level.

Named Chest Drop

Last Edited	Item	Type	Enhancements	ML	Bind	Quests
Update 73.1 2 months and 19 days Kobold sneak	Sacrificial Dagger ^(edit)	Dagger	+6 Enhancement Bonus+6 Enhancement Bonus: +6 enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls. Poison BurstPoison Burst: This weapon is dripping with poison, and deals 1 to 6 poison damage each hit. Critical hits deal an additional 1 to 10 poison damage for weapons with a x2 critical multiplier, 2 to 20 for a x3 multiplier and 3 to 30 for a x4 multiplier. One of the following: Constitution Poison, VirulentConstitution Poison, Virulent: The deadly poison coating this weapon deals one point of constitution damage every time it strikes an enemy, and an additional 1 to 6 points of constitution damage when it scores a critical hit. Some creatures may be immune or resistant to ability damage. Dexterity Poison, VirulentDexterity Poison, Virulent: The deadly poison coating this weapon deals one point of dexterity damage every time it strikes an enemy, and an additional 1 to 6 points of dexterity damage when it scores a critical hit. Some creatures may be immune or resistant to ability damage. Strength Poison, VirulentStrength Poison, Virulent: The deadly poison coating this weapon deals one point of strength damage every time it strikes an enemy, and an additional 1 to 6 points of strength damage when it scores a critical hit. Some creatures may be immune or resistant to ability damage. Negative Energy SpikeNegative Energy Spike: This weapon is pulsating with negative energy. It deals an extra 2 to 12 points of negative energy damage on a successful hit. Life StealingLife Stealing: This weapon has a chance to drain 1 to 3 levels from its target on a critical hit. Lesser VampirismLesser Vampirism: This weapon drains a tiny portion of the target's life force whenever it does damage. Note: provides 1 hp of healing per hit.	20	Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip or Bound to Character on AcquireBound to Character on Acquire: This item is Bound to Character on Acquire	Impossible Demands, End Chest ; Menace of the Underdark: The Darkening, Quest chain end reward

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Based on Impossible Demands loot ^{( t • e • h )}

Monsters

Name ^{( picture )}	CR	Type	Race
Akorstra ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠27Epic Elite	Vermin	Spider
Drow Archer ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♥26Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Warrior (Forgotten Realms) ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♥25Epic Hard ●♠25Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Wizard (Forgotten Realms) ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♥26Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Speitar Dun'Robar ^{( view • edit )}	●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠28Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Vicala Szind ^{( view • edit )}	●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠28Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf