Template:NpcData/Opticus Aluminar

Opticus Aluminar
Level	1
Aggressive	No
Hostile	No
Interactable	Yes
Shop	Opticus Aluminar

Shop Inventory

	Item	Buy	Sell	Stock	Restock Time
	Mild Healing Potion	35	21	∞	-
	Mild Reflex Potion	85	51	∞	-
	Focusing Crystal	50	30	∞	-

Interactions

Gives

Item	Amount
Restored Crossbow of the Dragon Slayer	1

Requests

Item	Amount
Coins	80000
Deteriorated Crossbow of the Dragon Slayer	1
Note from the Priest	1

Quests

• Echoes of Suffering: Advances to phase 5
• Restoration of the Dragon Slayer's Crossbow: Advances to phase 2
• Trouble Focusing: Completes the quest

Locations

This NPC spawns at 2 location(s).

Dialogue

40 lines of dialogue. Options are marked ›, → jumps to the line an option leads to.

Conversation starts

• "Oh thank you stranger, thank you so much! Hubert was always a rotten a…" — depends on progress
• "I am, in the flesh. Now if you wouldn't terribly mind, could you pleas…"
• "What a bloody mess... Bloody Hubert... Should have built the crossbow…" — depends on progress
• "Master Aercrest, welcome as always! What can I help you with?" — depends on progress
• "Welcome back, friend. What can I help you with?" — depends on progress

Opticus Aluminar: Oh thank you stranger, thank you so much! Hubert was always a rotten apple, but I didn't think even he would sink so low as this.

› You're Opticus Aluminar? I need you to produce something for me. →

› What did he want with you, anyway? →

Opticus Aluminar: Not just here out of the goodness of your heart then, eh? I've had enough of this camp, though; come see me back at my workshop and we can talk more there - agreed?

› Alright then, I'll meet you there. (end)

Opticus Aluminar: He came to my workshop demanding riches. After he discovered I had little in the way of gold to steal, he got it in his head that I should sell all my equipment and give him the profits. Naturally, I told him to piss off.

› I gather he didn't take too kindly to that. →

› I'm actually here because I need you to produce something for me. →

Opticus Aluminar: Hah! No... he did not. He started tearing down my workshop and threatened to sell me off to slavery. I guess he would have done it too, but I don't actually think he knew who to sell me to, so he just kept me in that cage. Good thing you came along when you did.

› Continue →

Opticus Aluminar: He was getting bored and frustrated after he realized he wasn't getting much out of me, but I don't think he was about to let me walk back home either. He dumped a bunch of my stuff over the cliff there, thought for sure I'd be going next.

› I'm actually here because I need you to produce something for me. →

Opticus Aluminar: I am, in the flesh. Now if you wouldn't terribly mind, could you please let me out of this damn cage?

› Oh yeah, right, of course. →

Opticus Aluminar: Thank you, I've had just about enough of this camp. Come see me back at my workshop; we can talk more there, agreed?

› Alright, I'll meet you there. (end)

Opticus Aluminar: What a bloody mess... Bloody Hubert... Should have built the crossbow like I was planning to...

› Greetings, Opticus. →

› Leave. (end)

Opticus Aluminar: Ah, welcome! And apologies for the mess, Hubert was an incapable man in most things, but he did have a talent for breaking stuff.

› Continue →

Opticus Aluminar: So, during all that tussle, I never got to hear who I have to thank for saving my life.

› I'm Rothar Aercrest and I'm in need of a focusing crystal. →

› I saved you because I need something - a focusing crystal. →

Opticus Aluminar: Aercrest, eh...? Old name that, old but not entirely forgotten - not by all. But anyway, a focusing crystal? Magi always seem short on those and why? Do they just break them all the time? Who knows...

› Continue →

Opticus Aluminar: Let me see see... I should have a few in store, provided that Hubert didn't smash them to bits...

› Continue →

Opticus Aluminar: Aha, here we go! This one's on me - I do owe you my life after all. Tell you what, take this medical bag too. I designed it to fit a few potions into it; inconvenient little things to carry around without a proper bag I've found.

› So, who are you exactly? →

› Thanks, that's all I needed. (Trouble Focusing: completes the quest) (end)

Opticus Aluminar: Oh, I guess you could call me a lot of things. An inventor, a craftsman... a man of science, perhaps? Whatever it is, it's something these peasants aren't always able to appreciate.

› Why stay here, if you're not respected? →

› I see, talk more later. (Trouble Focusing: completes the quest) (end)

Opticus Aluminar: Ah, well... it's where my roots are and where would I go? Besides, folk are gonna be more or less the same anywhere, anyway.

› I see, talk more later. (Trouble Focusing: completes the quest) (end)

Opticus Aluminar: I see... Well yes, I do make those crystals. Magi always seem short on those and why? Do they just break them all the time? Who knows...

› Continue →

Opticus Aluminar: Master Aercrest, welcome as always! What can I help you with?

› You wouldn't struggle to repair an old crossbow, would you Opticus? →

› I'm here on business about some ghosts... →

› Let's go over the materials I'll be needing for that priest's lantern again. →

› Wanted to see what you have for sale. (opens Opticus Aluminar) (end)

› Tell me Opticus; what do you do, exactly? →

› How's it going with the workshop? →

› Nothing for now, thanks. (end)

Opticus Aluminar: I doubt it, I'm not unfamiliar with crafting them. A shame I sold all the ones I made, should have left myself with one to stick a bolt in characters like Hubert. Anyway... what's the piece?

› This one used to belong to a Dragon Slayer. →

Opticus Aluminar: Ah, I see. Now that complicates matters a bit. This one will require rare woods and fancy bits and pieces. I reckon I'd be able to do it though...

› Continue →

Opticus Aluminar: But I can't do it for cheap, I'm afraid - not even for someone such as yourself. Best I can do is 80 000 coins...

› A heavy price... I pay it gladly. →

› I can't afford that... (end)

Opticus Aluminar: In that case, I'll get right to work. Let's see now, easy does it...

› Continue (hand over 80000× Coins; hand over Deteriorated Crossbow of the Dragon Slayer; receive Restored Crossbow of the Dragon Slayer; Restoration of the Dragon Slayer's Crossbow: advances to phase 2) (end)

Opticus Aluminar: That a fact? You'd be better off talking to a priest if I'm honest. Once tried building a contraption that sucked ghosts into a container, it did not end up well for anyone involved...

› As it happens, I bear a note from a priest asking for your help. →

› Really, what happened? →

› I'm meant to bring you a note explaining everything, but I seem to have lost it... (end)

Opticus Aluminar: *The inventor takes the note from you and reads it over, all the while muttering to himself. Finally, he speaks up...*

› Continue →

Opticus Aluminar: All right then, seems simple enough. Leaves all the otherwordly stuff to the priest, just needs the proper vessel to carry his power. I have a lantern of sorts in mind, but you'll have to be the one to craft it.

› Can't you do it? →

› That's fine, just tell me what I need. →

Opticus Aluminar: What with Hubert messing up my workshop, I can't very well right now. But what I can do is give you the blueprints and tell you where to get the materials you need.

› Let's go over the materials then. →

Opticus Aluminar: First off we'll want just the right wood for the frame, Wildsfir should do the trick. Some of it grows in Prowler's Thicket as far as I know, southwest of Thornhill.

› Continue →

Opticus Aluminar: Some iron fittings are also required, lots of places you could get iron I reckon. Heard recently a miner struck some veins in a cave along the road to Thornshill, could give it a look.

› Continue →

Opticus Aluminar: As for the special part, this lantern won't be housing a candle... Instead we're putting in a Mystic's Amber. It's a rare kind of gem that sometimes formes inside the trunk of Wildsfir.

› Continue →

Opticus Aluminar: I reckon your best bet is to seek out the Thornsback Sawmill, somewhere in Prowler's Thicket. There you ought to be able to split those logs to see what's inside.

› Continue →

Opticus Aluminar: *Opticus teaches you the blueprints for the Priest's Lantern and you carefully write his instructions down into your journal.*

Once you got all that, you'll just need to find yourself a proper workbench, one like they'll have at the crafter's guild near Haywind marketsquare. Good luck, mate!

› Alright, thanks. (Echoes of Suffering: advances to phase 5; hand over Note from the Priest) (end)

Opticus Aluminar: A long story, let me just say a gateway opened into another dimension, which threatened to release a creature that might have leveled the whole city... been reluctant to meddle in otherwordly matters since.

› In any case, I bear a note from a priest asking for your help. →

› I'm meant to bring you a note explaining everything, but I seem to have lost it... (end)

Opticus Aluminar: Right - first off we'll want just the right wood for the frame, Wildsfir should do the trick. Some of it grows in Prowler's Thicket as far as I know, southwest of Thornhill.

› Continue →

› Alright, I think I got this... (end)

Opticus Aluminar: Some iron fittings are also required, lots of places you could get iron I reckon. Heard recently a miner struck some veins in a cave along the road to Thornshill, could give it a look.

› Continue →

› Alright, I think I got this... (end)

Opticus Aluminar: As for the special part, this lantern won't be housing a candle... Instead we're putting in a Mystic's Amber. It's a rare kind of gem that sometimes formes inside the trunk of Wildsfir.

› Continue →

› Alright, I think I got this... (end)

Opticus Aluminar: I reckon your best bet is to seek out the Thornsback Sawmill, somewhere in Prowler's Thicket. There you ought to be able to split those logs to see what's inside.

› Continue →

› Alright, I think I got this... (end)

Opticus Aluminar: Once you have all that, you'll need to find a proper crafting workbench. Can't do it here, seeing as Hubert left my workshop in this state. I'm sure they have what you need at the crafter's guild near Haywind marketsquare though. Good luck!

› Alright, thanks. (end)

Opticus Aluminar: Oh, I guess you could call me a lot of things. An inventor, a craftsman... a man of science, perhaps? Whatever it is, it's something these peasants aren't always able to appreciate.

› Why stay here, if you're not respected? →

› So how's it going with the workshop? →

› Alright, let me see what you have for sale. (opens Opticus Aluminar) (end)

› Alright, take care now. (end)

Opticus Aluminar: Ah, well... it's where my roots are and where would I go? Besides, folk are gonna be more or less the same anywhere, anyway.

› How's it going with the workshop? →

› Alright, let me see what you have for sale. (opens Opticus Aluminar) (end)

› Alright, take care now. (end)

Opticus Aluminar: Still trying to piece together a lot of the stuff Hubert and his goons broke, but getting back on my feet thanks to you. Bloody Hubert...

› Tell me Opticus; what do you do, exactly? →

› Alright, let me see what you have for sale. (opens Opticus Aluminar) (end)

› Alright, take care now. (end)

Opticus Aluminar: Welcome back, friend. What can I help you with?

› You wouldn't struggle to repair an old crossbow, would you Opticus? →

› I'm here on business about some ghosts... →

› Let's go over the materials I'll be needing for that priest's lantern again. →

› Wanted to see what you have for sale. (opens Opticus Aluminar) (end)

› Tell me Opticus; what do you do, exactly? →

› How's it going with the workshop? →

› Nothing for now, thanks. (end)