Undefile the Cyrpt Quest

Description

After reaching level 7, The Council of Loathing will ask you to undefile The Cyrpt in the Nearby Plains.

Tasks

• Clear each zone in The Cyrpt. The details and strategies for doing so are below.
• Kill The Bonerdagon in the Haert of the Cyrpt.
• Return to The Council of Loathing for a reward.

Mechanics

• The Evilometer starts at 200, with 50 for each of the four zones.
• Once evil in a zone is at or below 25, the sub-boss is guaranteed to appear. Its death clears the rest of the evil in that zone (and removes the zone). Getting the evil down to zero without defeating the boss does not clear the zone.
• The four zones are:
  • The Defiled Nook contains skleltons, with the giant skeelton mini-boss.
  • The Defiled Cranny contains ghuols, with a huge ghuol in charge.
  • The Defiled Alcove contains zmobies, and is overseen by a conjoined zmombie.
  • The Defiled Niche contains lihcs, commanded by a gargantulihc.
• Each monster kill in a zone reduces the evil in that zone by 1, with the message:

Your Evilometer emits a single beep. The air in this part of the crypt smells slightly less evil...

• Certain other mechanics in a zone can reduce the evil in that zone:
  • Nook: The evil eye drops from monsters there, and reduces evil in the Nook by 3 when used.
  • Cranny: The choice adventure there has a choice to kill a swarm of ghuol whelps, which is worth at least 3 evil, and will be worth more with increased Monster Level.
  • Alcove: The modern zmobie is worth 5 evil (not sniffable -- see below).
  • Niche: The dirty old lihc is worth 3 evil (sniffable).
• There are also other items that decrease evil in the Cyrpt:
  • A solid gold rosary decreases evil of all zones by ? when used. (Requires a grimstone mask to obtain in Hardcore.)
  • In a KOLHS run, a quasireligious sculpture decreases the evil of all zones by 4-5 when used (Available in KOLHS only).
  • In an Avatar of Sneaky Pete run, if you installed a Ghost Vacuum on your motorcycle, then after each combat in a Cyrpt zone, the evil level in that zone will decrease by one extra point.
• After all four zones are cleared, the Haert of the Cyrpt opens in the center, giving access to The Bonerdagon.

Strategy

• Nook: Increase item drops to increase the chances of getting an evil eye. (It is pickpocketable.)
• Cranny: Boost noncombats to kill more swarms, Boost ML for larger swarms.
• Alcove: The modern zmobie appears more often with +initiative. It isn't affected by sniffing.
• Niche: Sniff the dirty old lihc.

Rewards

• The council will take the skull of the Bonerdagon and give you the dragonbone belt buckle.
• In your Quest Log, under completed quests, you will see: "You've undefiled the Cyrpt, and defeated The Bonerdagon. Hip, Hip, Hooray!"
• Many of the monsters you fought inside the Cyrpt (not including modern zmobies, whelp swarms, dirty old lihcs, any of the mini-bosses, nor The Bonerdagon itself) can now be found in The Misspelled Cemetary (Post-Cyrpt).

Council Text

On initial visit:

Recently, an aura of extreme Spookiness has begun to emanate from within the Cyrpt, near the Misspelled Cemetary. We fear that some horrible monster has taken up residence there, and begun to rile up the local undead.

Would you be so good as to investigate? This device should help:

You acquire an item: Evilometer

On subsequent visits:

The Spookiness still emanates from the Cyrpt, Adventurer. See if you can find and destroy the source, and bring us back proof of your conquest.

Upon completion:

Aha! So the Spookiness was coming from this abominable creature, was it? Well, you have our thanks, Adventurer, for your courageous act of undefilement.

Please, allow us to fashion that skull into something a little flashier.

You acquire an item: dragonbone belt buckle

Quest Log

During the quest:

The Council of Loathing wants you to find the source of the extreme Spookiness emanating from the Cyrpt. You can find it in the Nearby Plains.

Notes

• This quest was updated on April 15, 2011. For the original quest details, see Undefile the Cyrpt Quest/April 15, 2011.
• If a player was already on the quest when the new version rolled out, there would be a message from The Council of Loathing in their message inbox the next time the player logged in:

Dear <playername>:

Our records indicate that you're in the middle of investigating the Cyrpt for us. We thought this might come in handy:

You acquire an item: Evilometer