Vignette (Praetor)

This is the first quest for the Praetor Background in The Age of Decadence. Like all the other Vignettes, it is a mostly-linear sequence of events that places a certain map into the hands of the player-character; unlike all the others, it concludes with that map in the hands of Antidas (thus, the Praetor will never have The Map in her/his Journal).

Brief

When you were offered to serve House Daratan, you dropped on your knees and swore fealty, grateful for being noticed and elevated above your status. When Lord Antidas told you to rise and you slowly got up, holding your head high for the first time and looking at the other praetors as peers, you were overwhelmed with a sense of purpose and power.

. . .

Lord Antidas requires your services. You're his only hope.

Quick walkthrough

1. Talk to Lord Antidas
2. Talk to Dellar
3. Talk to Linos
   • (Optional) Deal with Zenon
4. Return to Antidas

Detailed walkthrough

1. Talk to Lord Antidas.
   • Etiquette #+: You may request armor; if you do, Antidas replies "Talk to Dellar", and in the next scene you will be wearing your very own suit of fancy, heavy bronze!
2. Talk to Linos:
   • Intelligence #+: You may demand access to the real culprit:
     • Streetwise #+: Linos grants you an 'audience' with Zenon:
       • Kill Zenon or spare him;
         • If you spare him, either demand money or "surprise me."
3. Return to Lord Antidas; you are rewarded according to your efforts.
4. Talk to Dellar.
   • The New Loremaster begins; choose to exit dialog at Dellar's post or Feng's House.

Rewards

• Bronze Praetorian Armor (if you asked for it; see Step 1)
• 15 General SP
• if you spared Zenon, or never saw him: Ruby Ring
• if you spared Zenon for money: 312g
• if you spared Zenon for a "surprise": 1 dose Neurostimulant
• if you killed Zenon: +5 to Dagger Rating