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Special Delivery

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Special Delivery is the 3rd quest in The Chill of Ravenloft Part One story arcStory arcs are chains of quests that make up a story line.
Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward.
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These quests can be completed in any order.
The Body Snatchers • Beneath the City Streets • Special Delivery • The Proper Authorities • The Wish

The Deadmongers deliver the corpses they collect to Ludendorf University. Now to find out what the University is doing with them.

Requires access to adventure pack: The Chill of Ravenloft
Special Delivery
Heroic level: 8
Epic level: 36
(considered Legendary)
Duration: Medium
Heroic XP:  ♣1,845Solo/Casual ♦3,262Normal ♥3,448Hard ♠3,634Elite
Epic XP:  ♣14,090Solo/Casual ♦24,011Normal ♥24,538Hard ♠25,065Elite
Takes place in: Ludendorf University
Bestowed by: Annika von Dolchberg
NPC contact: Annika von Dolchberg
Quest acquired in: Ludendorf City Hall
Patron: Keepers of Lamordia
Base favor: 4
Purchase: The Chill of Ravenloft
Extreme Challenge: No

Overview

The body snatchers are delivering corpses to Ludendorf University. Go there and find out why.


Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!


Objectives

  • Find out what the bodies are for
  • Find the key to the Institute
  • Find the Institute Director's office
  • Find a way to enter the Construct Creation Lab
  • Destroy all the equipment in the Construct Creation Lab
  • Defeat the Institute Director
  • (Optional) Read all the notes — Bonus (15%): Heroic( ♣277 ♦489 ♥517 ♠545 ) Legendary( ♣2,114 ♦3,602 ♥3,681 ♠3,760 )
  • (Optional) Slay Max Entsetzen — Bonus (15%): Heroic( ♣277 ♦489 ♥517 ♠545 ) Legendary( ♣2,114 ♦3,602 ♥3,681 ♠3,760 )

Known Traps

Trap and Lock DCs

Tips and Misc

tile puzzle
electrical device puzzle
  • Ludendorf University has long stood as the centre of learning and culture in the land of Lamordia, but the great institution has suffered badly under the weight of the eternal winter covering the domain's capital. One Institute, however, seems to be busier than ever – you've come to the Institute for Revivification Studies with a cartload of corpses for delivery. You can't help but satisfy your curiosity, however – why has the Institute sealed its doors to outsiders, and why exactly does it need quite so many dead bodies?
  • Once inside the Institute (after seeing off the violent disapproval of several bands of scientists), you quickly come across a band of Flesh Golems standing around a batch of coffins. If you wish, you can climb inside either of these coffins to have the Golems deliver you to a nearby operating theatre or Crawling Claw-infested storage room. The operating theatre contains the key to access the inner laboratory.
  • Head West next to pay a visit to the Institute Director's office, through a storage room containing several Brains in Jars. The Director isn't in, but a note in his office makes the terrible truth clear: the Director is colluding with Doctor Mordenheim to supplement the Baron's fishing fleet with an army of Flesh Golems stitched together from the population of Ludendorf! It falls to you to see this sinister plot fails by sabotaging the Institute's equipment.
  • Pulling the lever in the Director's office opens the doors to two experiment rooms in the East wing, containing a standard tile puzzle and a reskinned version of the statue puzzles from Myth Drannor (interact with the lit-up Electrical Device, then follow the direction each device is pointing in to find the next one to interact with.) These puzzles disable the locks on the door to the Construct Creation Lab. You can also drop in on the Institute's "resident" Undead "consultant", the Vampire Max Entsetzen, who isn't massively keen on being disturbed. (The Institute, after serious consideration, has decided raising hordes of the undead is an unsuitable solution to the workforce issues – although not for moral reasons, but simply because Golems are easier to control.)
  • Doctor Jannik Fleischmidt takes umbrage to you interrupting his latest experiment, and decides to field-test it by setting it upon you. Once it – and the mad Doctor – are out of the equation, you can finish the job by smashing all the equipment in his lab.
  • Your discovery of the Institute's misdeeds has confirmed two things: that Doctor Mordenheim is indeed the figure behind the mass thefts of Ludendorf's dead, and that many of the city's most powerful academics have thrown their lot in with her. You can only hope the city's authorities will be prepared to side with you against her.
  • There are a total of seven notes (although only five are needed for the optional):
    • One to the left of the Loading Dock Foreman
    • One by the first locked door
    • One in the room South of the rest shrine in the West wing
    • One by a brain in the West wing storage room
    • One in the Director's office
    • One outside Max Entsetzen's room
    • One outside the Construct Creation Lab

Bonus XP

  • Onslaught bonus: ≤ 56 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣277 ♦489 ♥517 ♠545 )
  • Conquest bonus: ≤ 76 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣461 ♦816 ♥862 ♠909 )
  • Vandal bonus: ≤ 17 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣185 ♦326 ♥345 ♠363 )
  • Ransack bonus: ≤ 23 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣277 ♦489 ♥517 ♠545 )

Loot

  • Chests: 3
    • One locked behind a secret door in the Institute's West wing
    • One for defeating Max Entsetzen
    • End chest

NPC end rewards

Randomly generated loot, ML correlates with effective quest level.

Named Chest Drop

Item Type Enhancements ML Bind Quests
Death's Anchor
(edit)
Orb 8 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, Max Entsetzen's chest
Legendary Downcast Gambeson
(edit)
Medium Armor 34 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, end chest (rare)
Downcast Gambeson
(edit)
Medium Armor 8 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, end chest (rare)
Legendary Downcast Heavy Cloak
(edit)
Cloak 34 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, end chest
Arcane Contraption
(edit)
Orb 8 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, end chest
Legendary Arcane Contraption
(edit)
Orb 34 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, end chest
Downcast Heavy Cloak
(edit)
Cloak 8 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, end chest
Legendary Death's Anchor
(edit)
Orb 34 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, Max Entsetzen's chest
Lamordian Helm
(edit)
Helm 8 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, end chest
Legendary Lamordian Helm
(edit)
Helm 34 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, end chest
Tiny Brain in a Tiny Jar
(edit)
Trinket 8 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, end chest
Legendary Tiny Brain in a Tiny Jar
(edit)
Trinket 34 Bound to Account on Acquire Special Delivery, end chest

Based on Special Delivery loot ( t • e • h )

This quest may also drop the following Lunar and Solar Gems:

     
Item Type Enchantments ML Bind Location
Solar Gem of Spell Critical Damage (Heroic) Sun augments 1 Unbound

Solar Gem of Spell Critical Damage (Legendary) Sun augments 30 Unbound

Lunar Gem of Healing Amplification (Heroic) Moon augments 1 Unbound

Lunar Gem of Healing Amplification (Legendary) Moon augments 30 Unbound

Solar Gem of Search and Spot (Heroic) Sun augments 1 Unbound

Solar Gem of Search and Spot (Legendary) Sun augments 30 Unbound

Solar Gem of Jump and Swim (Heroic) Sun augments 1 Unbound

Solar Gem of Jump and Swim (Legendary) Sun augments 30 Unbound

Solar Gem of Negative Amplification (Heroic) Sun augments 1 Unbound

Solar Gem of Negative Amplification (Legendary) Sun augments 30 Unbound

Solar Gem of Transmutation (Heroic) Sun augments 1 Unbound

Solar Gem of Transmutation (Legendary) Sun augments 30 Unbound

Lunar Gem of Repair and Use Magic Device (Heroic) Moon augments 1 Unbound

Lunar Gem of Repair and Use Magic Device (Legendary) Moon augments 30 Unbound

Solar Gem of Dodge Cap (Heroic) Sun augments
  • +1% Legendary Bonus to Dodge Cap.
1 Unbound

Solar Gem of Dodge Cap (Legendary) Sun augments
  • +3% Legendary Bonus to Dodge Cap.
30 Unbound

Monsters

Name ( picture ) CR Type Race
Anode( view
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 ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ♦39Epic Normal ♥43Epic Hard ♠49Epic Elite Living Construct Golem
Chemical Servitor( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Living Construct Golem
Electrical Servitor( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Living Construct Golem
Experiment 173( view
 • edit )
 ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ♦39Epic Normal ♥43Epic Hard ♠49Epic Elite Living Construct Golem
Gremishka Swarmling( view
 • edit )
 ♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠11Elite ♦33Epic Normal ♥37Epic Hard ♠41Epic Elite Animal Gremishka
Gremishka( view
 • edit )
 ♦6Normal ♥8Hard ♠10Elite ♦32Epic Normal ♥36Epic Hard ♠40Epic Elite Animal Gremishka
Hurling Servitor( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Living Construct Golem
Jannik Fleischmidt( view
 • edit )
 ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ♦39Epic Normal ♥43Epic Hard ♠49Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Juggernaut Servitor( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Living Construct Golem
Lamordia Crawling Claw( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Undead Zombie
Lamordia Imp( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Evil Outsider Devil
Living Brain Prototype( view
 • edit )
 ♦6Normal ♥8Hard ♠10Elite ♦32Epic Normal ♥36Epic Hard ♠40Epic Elite Undead Brain in a Jar
Max Entsetzen( view
 • edit )
 ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ♦39Epic Normal ♥43Epic Hard ♠49Epic Elite Undead Vampire
Prototype Servitor( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Living Construct Golem
Scientist Chemist( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Scientist Fixer( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Scientist Luresman( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Scientist Re-animator( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Sentinel Construct( view
 • edit )
 ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ♦36Epic Normal ♥40Epic Hard ♠45Epic Elite Construct Inanimate Object