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Memory Lapse
Heroic level: 6
Epic level: 23
Duration: medium
Heroic XP:  ♣1,723Solo/Casual ♦3,070Normal ♥3,268Hard ♠3,466Elite
Epic XP:  ♣10,666Solo/Casual ♦18,342Normal ♥18,906Hard ♠19,471Elite
Takes place in: The Memory Library
Bestowed by: Tara Fenwyth
NPC contact: Tara Fenwyth
Quest acquired in: The Twelve
Patron: The Twelve
Base favor: 4
Purchase: White Plume Mountain and Other Tales or VIP
Extreme Challenge: No
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Overview

Tara Fenwyth wants you to help the renowned Wizard Tarent Hoxworth to recover his memory so he can deliver a speech. Speak with Tara Fenwyth and she will teleport you to inside Tarent's Memory Library.


Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!


Objectives

  • Speak to Tara Fenwyth
  • Find books required for the speech (4)
  • Place required books on the podium (4)
  • Defeat Vaspar Danville
  • (Optional) Find all the books in the east wing (2) — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣86 ♦154 ♥163 ♠173 ) Epic( ♣533 ♦917 ♥945 ♠974 )
  • (Optional) Find all the books in the west wing (2) — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣86 ♦154 ♥163 ♠173 ) Epic( ♣533 ♦917 ♥945 ♠974 )
  • (Optional) Find all the books in the north wing (2) — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣86 ♦154 ♥163 ♠173 ) Epic( ♣533 ♦917 ♥945 ♠974 )
  • (Optional) Find all the books in the south wing (2) — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣86 ♦154 ♥163 ♠173 ) Epic( ♣533 ♦917 ♥945 ♠974 )
  • (Optional) Defeat the Bookwyrm — Bonus (15%): Heroic( ♣258 ♦461 ♥490 ♠520 ) Epic( ♣1,600 ♦2,751 ♥2,836 ♠2,921 )
  • (Optional) Master the Crushing Details — Bonus (15%): Heroic( ♣258 ♦461 ♥490 ♠520 ) Epic( ♣1,600 ♦2,751 ♥2,836 ♠2,921 )

Known Traps

Trap DCs

  • 3 Pressure plates surrounding a locked chest behind a secret door in the North Wing (with breakables)
  • 3 Pressure plates in front of the secret door on the upper level of the East Wing leading to chest
  • Air jets (South Wing)

Tips and Misc

Walkthrough
  • Talk to Tara.
  • All books are virtual – they do not appear as items in anyone's pack. This also means that anyone can place them (right or wrong!) at the end fight.

Note: the Narrator will indicate whether a book you have found is required or optional. If he says "You have found one of the books for the speech", it is a required book and you can safely exit that wing (if you don't care about the optional XP). If he says "You find a book that can be used in the speech", it is just an optional book – don't leave the wing until you've found the required book as well.

Four wings

Clear all four wings and pick up the required book in each. In each wing there is only one required book, and one other optional book (+5% XP each).

  • The Narrator will notify you when "All the books in the <current> Wing have been found."
  • In many areas, animated bookcases, "Shelved Memories", will spawn various waves of mobs. While dangerous themselves, these waves will stop only once the bookcase itself has been "killed".


  • West wing: (Common room) The required book, "Tarent's Memoir", can be found in the far corner among Tarent's classmates, along with a set of shrines.
  • Optional: The second, optional book, "An Index of Recent Acquisitions", can be found up the stairs.
  • North wing: (Library) The book stacks are a bit of a maze, so be prepared. A secret door in one of the bookcases opens to additional stacks where the objective books can be found.
  • The required book, "Core Principles of Magic", is on a small table, but can only be found by using the search skill on the small tables throughout the area.
  • A clue to its location can be found in the card catalog which is located with a set shrines in a room southeast off the main stacks. The book row numbers can be found by looking on stone floor slabs marked with Roman numerals.
  • Optional: The second, optional book, "Tarent Hoxworth's Journal", can be found in the far southeast corner of the stacks.
  • There is an unguarded, locked chest behind a secret door in one of the book central racks.
  • There is a well-guarded chest behind a secret door toward the northwest corner of the book racks.
  • At the far north end of the wing, a door leads to Papyrerus (the "bookwyrm" referred to in the optionals), who guards a third chest.
  • East wing: The required book, the "Central Thesis", can be found in a small side room near the top of the room, but you must first jump and fight to gather crests to activate two moving platforms to get there (2 crests for the lower platform, 1 for the upper).
  • From above, one can pull levers to lower ladders for less agile characters.
  • Optional: The second, optional book, "Cook book", can be found near the second platform.
  • South wing: (large tree) The required book, "1001 Jokes for Silly Sorcerers and Wacky Wizards" is on a tree stump at the top of the winding ramps.
  • Optional: The second, optional book, "Math book", can be found nearby.
  • There is a nuisance "trap" of air gusts; timing it is easy.
End fight
  • Short version to copy into party chat:1001 - Tarent - Fundamentals - Central
  • If you talk to The Librarian he will tell you that a successful speech generally includes the following elements:
  1. A humorous anecdote designed to put the audience at ease,
  2. A story that connects with an important audience member by calling attention to a shared topic of interest,
  3. A brief summary of the fundamental principles underlying the subject,
  4. And last but not least, a clear and convincing central thesis.
  • Following that advice, place only the four required books on the podium in order
  1. Place "1001 Jokes for Silly Sorcerers and Wacky Wizards" on the podium.
  2. Place Tarent's Memoir of his enthusiastic college friend on the podium.
  3. Place the book "Fundamentals of Magic" on the podium.
  4. Place the Central Thesis on the podium.
  • Anyone can place a book, right or wrong! After any book, you get to fight a wave of trash and a bit of Vaspar, who then hides within a forcefield and waits for the next round. No new fighting will appear until someone places the next book, giving the party time to resurrect, re-buff, run to the shrine, take a party break for dinner, whatever. In the same vein, no one should place the next book until everyone is ready.
  • Bug: Probably go slow on Vaspar and careful with damage over time effects, the quest can be rendered incompletable with Vaspar alive with negative HP (not clear why).
Optional fights
  • Crushing Details can be found behind a secret door in aisle IV of the north wing.
  • Bookwyrm is to be found in a room on the northern side of the north wing.

Bonus XP

  • Aggression bonus: 33 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣172 ♦307 ♥327 ♠347 )
  • Onslaught bonus: 67 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣258 ♦461 ♥490 ♠520 )
  • Conquest bonus: 100 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣431 ♦768 ♥817 ♠867 )
  • Tamper bonus: 4 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣172 ♦307 ♥327 ♠347 )
  • Neutralization bonus: 5 or more traps disarmed +20% Bonus.( ♣345 ♦614 ♥654 ♠693 )
  • Ingenious Debilitation bonus: 6 or more traps disarmed +30% Bonus.( ♣517 ♦921 ♥980 ♠1,040 )
  • Observance bonus: 3 or more secret doors discovered +8% Bonus.( ♣138 ♦246 ♥261 ♠277 )
  • Vigilant Sight bonus: 4 or more secret doors discovered +15% Bonus.( ♣258 ♦461 ♥490 ♠520 )
  • Mischief bonus: 18 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣138 ♦246 ♥261 ♠277 )
  • Vandal bonus: 24 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣172 ♦307 ♥327 ♠347 )
  • Ransack bonus: 29 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣258 ♦461 ♥490 ♠520 )

Loot

  • Chests: 5
    • 1 locked chest behind a secret door in the east wing
    • 1 for defeating the bookwyrm in the north wing
    • 1 for defeating Crushing Details
    • 1 locked chest behind a secret door in the north wing. Epic (Lock DC)
    • 1 end chest
  • Collectables:
    • Cabinet, Adventurer's Pack, or Rubble – can be anywhere
  • NPC rewards:

Named Chest Drop

Last Edited Item Type Enhancements ML Bind Quests
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  • 3 years, 4 months, and 11 days
  • BugTime
Memories of the Mighty
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Helm  6 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, End chest
  • Update 48.2
  • 3 years, 4 months, and 8 days
  • MrLizard
Memories of the Unseen
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Helm  6 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, end chest
Memories of Insight
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Helm  6 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, End chest
  • Update 61.2
  • 6 months and 28 days
  • Bladedge
Memories of Immortality
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Helm  6 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, End chest
  • Update 61.2
  • 6 months and 28 days
  • Bladedge
Memories of Kindness
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Helm  6 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, End chest
Memories of Charity
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Helm  6 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, End chest
Epic Memories of the Mighty
Epic Memories of the Mighty.png
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Helm  23 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, End chest
  • Update 48.2
  • 3 years, 4 months, and 8 days
  • MrLizard
Epic Memories of the Unseen
Epic Memories of the Unseen.png
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Helm  23 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, End chest
  • Update 59
  • 1 year and 1 day
  • Cru121
Epic Memories of Insight
Epic Memories of Insight.png
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Helm  23 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, End chest
  • Update 61.2
  • 6 months and 28 days
  • Bladedge
Epic Memories of Kindness
Epic Memories of Kindness.png
(edit)
Helm  23 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, End chest
  • Update 61.2
  • 6 months and 28 days
  • Bladedge
Epic Memories of Immortality
Epic Memories of Immortality.png
(edit)
Helm  23 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, End chest
Epic Memories of Charity
Epic Memories of Charity.png
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Helm  23 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Memory Lapse, End chest
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Monsters

Name ( picture ) CR Type Race
Crushing Details( view
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 ♠13Elite Construct Animated Object
Distracting Fantasy( view
Distracting Fantasy.jpg
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 ♦7Normal ♠11Elite Evil Outsider Devil
Harmful Thought( view
Harmful Thought.jpg
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 ♦6Normal ♠11Elite ♥27Epic Hard Construct Animated Object
Multiplication Table( view
Multiplication Table.jpg
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 ♦6Normal ♠10Elite ♥27Epic Hard Construct Animated Object
Papyrerus( view
Papyrerus.jpg
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 ♦9Normal ♠13Elite Dragon Pseudodragon
Piercing Doubt( view
Piercing Doubt.jpg
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 ♦9Normal ♠13Elite Magical Beast Manticore
Shelved Memories( view
Shelved Memories.jpg
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 ♦7Normal ♠11Elite ♥28Epic Hard Construct Inanimate Object
Shocking Idea( view
Shocking Idea.jpg
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 ♦6Normal ♠10Elite ♥28Epic Hard Air Outsider Mephit
Uncontrollable Urge( view
Uncontrollable Urge.jpg
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 ♦6Normal ♠10Elite Evil Outsider Demon
Vaspar Danville( view
Vespar Danville.jpg
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 ♦10Normal ♠14Elite Humanoid Human