Mission:The Most Dangerous Prey - Close the rift to the underworld

Close the rift to the underworld

Briefing

Orpheus's lyre sounds unusually muted and somber, and his voice deepens as he starts to speak.

The accursed shamans of the Banished Pantheon have put a curse upon your name. There's a nest of cultists congregating in a cave, where they summon the dead and bind them to their service. I suggest you enter that cave and close the rift to the underworld before Striga is overrun with bloodthirsty ghosts.

Mission Acceptance

To break the curse you will have to find out whoever put the target on your back, forcing the ghosts to attack you. Trust me, I will do all I can from my end to find out who is responsible. But if you close the rift the number of ghosts hunting you down will at least not grow greater.

Unnecessary Solicitation

The longer the rift to the underworld remains open, the more ghosts will be coming for you. It's in your own best interest to close it as soon as possible.

Mission Objective(s)

The shadows in this cave flow and drip like wax.

• Close Rift to the Underworld

The Banished Pantheon had opened a rift to the underworld to summon spirits of the dead to hunt you down. You closed the rift and gained a slight reprieve.

Enemies

Ghosts

Banished Pantheon

Notable NPCs

• Rift (Object)

Ghosts Dialogue

Ghost 1: We linger...

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Ghost 1: We float...

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Ghost 1: No rest...

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Ghost 1: No peace...

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Ghost 2: ...accursed are we.

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Ghost 2: ... in the land of the dead.

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Ghost 2: ... dead souls.

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Ghost 2: ... for an eternity.

Editor's Note:

The actual dialogue seems to be chosen randomly. For each group of Ghost patrols, one mob says one of the Ghost 1 lines and another says one of the Ghost 2 lines. Other lines may also occur.

Totem Dialogue

Before Combat: The spirits of the dead make good fodder. Keep them coming!
Combat Start: The accursed one? Here? Inform Velho!

A Rift to the Underworld

To reduce the number of ghosts out for your blood, Orpheus suggested that you visited a cave where the Banished Pantheon had opened a rift to the underworld which spewed out an ever increasing number of dead souls and bound them into service to hunt you down. You found the rift and proceeded to close it but the curse the death spirit Velho had placed on you remained.

Debriefing

That rift was big trouble, not just for you but for all of Striga Isle. If it had not been sealed, ghosts could have swarmed all over the island and beyond. As if zombies weren't bad enough!