Quest 5: Crypt Disturbances

This is where quests will begin to get a little bit more interesting and we move a little closer to the core storyline...

Before You Start this Quest

If you haven’t done any grinding to level/skill up your character yet; it might be a good idea to do so before starting this quest, depending on the choice you make during it. Being fast and more accurate will help you succeed on this one.

Tip:Be sure you take ample reagents, bandages, healing potions and salve to complete this.

How to Start this Quest

You can get this quest by heading down to the house just to the south of the old stone church, there is a gravedigger named Draven that lives there. He will tell you about odd noises and disturbances of some of the coffins in the crypts. He will agree to show you where the disturbances are in the crypts on the following morning in the cemetery. Be sure to be there between 9 – 10 am or you will have to go through this starting dialog.

Note: If you are picking this quest up prior to 9am that day, you still need to wait till the following day for him to show up. You can stay at the inn till the appropriate time.

Also please note, the reverend should have pre-dialog to this quest but it is something I missed and will add it in the future!

At the Cemetery

When you arrive at the cemetery, if it’s after 9am, Draven will be near the entrance waiting. Speak with him and go through the short dialog, he will walk into the mausoleum crypt structure and head down the stairs, follow along. When you arrive down in the crypts, there is a short explanation of the rules of the quest. IE, you can’t wander too far away from Draven or leave the crypts, or you will need to start over. So stick with him, you’ll have free reign of the crypts after completing this quest.

In the Crypts

Next, he will take you to a small burial chamber where he noticed coffins opened up, then after that he will take you over to the main burial chamber.

You will hear some groans outside the door. When he instructs you, open the door. Immediately, a large number of zombies will be revealed in the chamber. You'll receive a helper on how to bar the doors with the wooden planks next to the door. You need to do so quickly, if you fail its not a huge deal but it will make the quest a little harder.

Whether you successfully barred the doors, you will need to run and follow Draven, at every turn he makes there will be more zombies, when he opens the doors back to the main corridor, he will present you with the choice of Fight or Flight; you can either choose to fight the zombies or try to run to the chapel to escape through a secret passage.

Fighting the Horde

The more challenging choice as you would have guessed is to fight the zombie horde. You’ll need to stick with Draven but he will switch into a shovel wielding warrior, and help you smite those zombies down! Be sure during the fight to keep Draven and yourself healed. Draven is fairly tough but when there is a lot of zombies on him you will need to help him by healing and attacking the zombies on him over yourself. If you didn’t get the door barred in the chamber, this is where its more challenging as you will be dealing with more zombies faster.

After you kill all the zombies (there is a counter in the upper right hand corner of the screen to show progress… Note if there are any stragglers around corners be sure to get them but we haven’t seen this happen very often in our testing), Draven will take you out through the chapel revealing a hidden switch there and you’ll follow him through a secret passage. Skip ahead to the next part after fleeing to the chapel...

Fleeing to the Chapel

The second choice, flight, is, usually, the easier option as long as you get the two sets of doors barred before zombies can get into the chapel and they don’t break them down before Draven can find the secret door switch, otherwise you will have to fight them all off. This might be more typical to happen on harder difficulties since higher level zombies will be spawning.

When Draven, does find and hit the switch, follow him through quickly, do not dilly dally or you will get to fight the horde :-)

In the Secret Passage

Draven will mention about telling the reverend and guide you up through the passage, still make sure you stay somewhat close to him, you can still fail the quest if you run too far out of range… Eventually you will come to stairs, head up the stairs and youll be in the burial preparation room in the basement of the church. Follow Draven up the second set of stairs and you will find yourself in the sanctuary and dialog has begun with the Reverend.

Speaking With The Reverend

The reverend will now give you all kinds of backstory on the prophecy, council of wisdom and other characters that will be revealed later in the story. If you want to follow the story along, I encourage you to go through the dialog, if not skip ahead to the item that says quest advancement in parenthesis. He will also finish the dialog by asking you to explore the crypts more and try to discover the root of the evil there. While there is no official quest at this point for this, this is your invitation to openly explore the crypts as you wish.

After The Quest

After the quest, evening will come shortly after the dialog, if you stick around on the main world, you will see the first blood moon and once this occurs, zombies and other undead will begin spawning in the cemetery and elsewhere. You can also venture into the crypts and find undead spawning all over the place now, and all kinds of area to explore.