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The Deal and the Demon
The Deal and the Demon is the 2nd quest in the Menace of the Underdark: The Queen of the Demonweb story arc![]() Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward.. |
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These quests can be completed in any order. |
Trial by Fury • The Deal and the Demon • Reclaiming the Rift |
Yugoloth mercenaries are found throughout the fiendish planes and other dark corners of the multiverse. They are notorious for serving whichever side suits their purposes - often, the highest bidder.
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The Deal and the Demon | |
Heroic level: | None |
Epic level: | 23 |
Duration: | Long |
Heroic XP: | N/A |
Epic XP: | ♣9,006Solo/Casual ♦15,484Normal ♥15,959Hard ♠16,434Elite |
Takes place in: | The Realm of Ruin |
Bestowed by: | Ymris |
NPC contact: | Ymris |
Quest acquired in: | Eveningstar |
Patron: | Purple Dragon Knights |
Base favor: | 8 |
Purchase: | Menace of the Underdark |
Extreme Challenge: | No |
Overview
Ymris the Yugoloth has proposed a deal: help him and his mercenaries assassinate the demon Kishnaurac, and he will help you retrieve the Orb that Kishnaurac is guarding for Lolth. If you can retrieve the Orb, it will bring you one step closer to freeing the Thread of the Weave.
Go to the Realm of Ruin inside the Demonweb and meet Ymris there. You can reach the Demonweb via Eveningstar Cavern.
- For the quickest path to get to this quest, see The Demonweb/Quests.
Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!
Objectives
- Talk to Ymris the yugoloth
- Remove the Sign of Binding
- Remove the Sign of Shielding
- Remove the Sign of Vigilance
- Disable the Orb
- (Optional) Let Ymris summon mercenaries — Bonus (15%): Epic( ♣1,351 ♦2,323 ♥2,394 ♠2,465 )
Known Traps
- Spell Wards that do substantial damage, all can be disabled.
Tips and Misc
- The geography is similar to Trial by Fury, with islands of stone connected by web-bridges, but less complicated and more intuitive.
- Graal'zerub can teleport off of the edge and fall. If this happens he may end up back towards the beginning of the quest. You will have to backtrack to kill him and complete the quest. This can be done after defeating Kishnarac.
- The Signs can either be touched to disable, which triggers a spell ward, or can be inspected closer to allow a check to be made to disable it without any problems. Binding (Touch and disable it.) has a UMD check. Shielding (Knock and shatter.) has a Strength check. Vigilance (Sweep it away.) has a Concentration check; if failed it summons a Hezrou.
- NOTE: If you want the tamper XP (Disarming traps bonus), you need to intentionally fail the first 2 Signs to generate the spell wards to disable.
- As of April 2020 the optional mercenaries do nothing to help you at all. They are inactive for the spider fight, but turn on you for the boss fight at the end.
- The chest which may contain the Spider-spun Caparison has been moved to the end of the quest and linked to allowing Ymris to summon his mercenaries with U17.
- Can be run solo in under 5 minutes making it a very fast loot and XP run. You can do the quest for loot over and over without returning to Eveningstar as long as you leave the orb alone.
Bonus XP
- Aggression bonus: 24 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
- Tamper bonus: 2 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
- Mischief bonus: 16 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
- Vandal bonus: 21 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
- Ransack bonus: 25 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣−0 ♦−0 ♥−0 ♠−0 )
Loot
- Chests: 2
- 1 end chest for defeating Kishnaurac
- 1 optional chest for allowing Ymris to summon his mercenaries and defeating them
- Collectables: 3
- Adventurer's Pack — below the first Sign
- Bones — below, south west of the second Sign
- Bones — just east of Graal'zerub
- Adventurer's Pack — below the first Sign
NPC end rewards
Standard items, Potion of Major Mnemonic.
Named Chest Drop
Last Edited | Item | Type | Enhancements | ML | Bind | Quests |
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Terrorweb Chitin Breastplate (edit) | Breastplate |
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22 | Bound to Character on Equip![]() |
The Deal and the Demon, Yugoloth Mercenaries chest |
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Spider-spun Caparison (edit) | Outfit |
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22 | Bound to Character on Equip![]() |
The Deal and the Demon, Mercenary Chest |
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Planar Focus of Prowess (edit) | Trinket |
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22 | Bound to Character on Equip![]() ![]() |
The Deal and the Demon, end chest; Menace of the Underdark: The Queen of the Demonweb, quest chain end reward |
Based on [[Category:The Deal and the Demon loot]] ( t • e • h )
Monsters
Name ( picture ) | CR | Type | Race |
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Arith'narac ( view • edit ) | ●♦24Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠27Epic Elite | Magical Beast | Spider |
Chosen of Lolth ( view • edit ) | ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠28Epic Elite | Elf | Drow Elf |
Demonweb Terror ( view • edit ) | ●♦23Epic Normal ●♥27Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite | Magical Beast | Spider |
Graal'zerub ( view • edit ) | ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠28Epic Elite | Evil Outsider | Demon |
Kishnaurac ( view • edit ) | ●♦26Epic Normal ●♥30Epic Hard ●♠29Epic Elite | Evil Outsider | Demon |
Planewalker Drow ( view • edit ) | ●♦24Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠27Epic Elite | Elf | Drow Elf |
Yugoloth Mercenary ( view • edit ) | ●♦23Epic Normal ●♥27Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite | Evil Outsider | Yugoloth |
DC for Signs
Skill | Quest Difficulty | Skill Total | Suspected DC range |
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Sign of Binding (Use Magical Device roll) | Normal | 33:Fail; 50:Success | 34-47 |
Hard | 42:Fail; 47:Success | 43-47 | |
Elite | 55:Success | 43-55 | |
Sign of Shielding (Strength check) | Normal | 24:Success | ?-24 |
Hard | 24:Success | ?-24 | |
Elite | 24:Success | ?-24 | |
Sign of Vigilance (Concentration roll) | Normal | 43:Fail; 46:Success | 44-46 |
Hard | 49:Fail; 52:Success | 50-52 | |
Elite | 56:Success | 50-56 | |
Convince Ymris to not call his mercenaries (Intimidate roll) | Normal | 43:Fail | 44-50 |
Hard | 49:Fail; 50:Success | 50 | |
Elite | 68:Success | 50-68 |
- Menace of the Underdark: The Queen of the Demonweb chain quests
- Epic quests
- Long quests
- The Realm of Ruin quests
- Eveningstar quests
- Purple Dragon Knights patron quests
- Pay to Play quests
- Quests by name
- Quests with maps
- Compendium:Level 23 quests
- Level 23 quests
- Quests with 8 base favor reward
- Menace of the Underdark quests
- Quests with collectables/3