Episode 13.1
An old tower, a company that wants its secrets, and a man who sealed it.
The Rekenber Corporation rebuilt the first two floors of this ancient tower as a tourist stop. The floors above are still full of monsters, so Rekenber hires adventurers on temporary contracts to clear them. Behind the job is a story about a scientist's seal, four fragments of a dead man's memory, and the boss at the top.
Getting in
- Pay at the door. Talk to Gatei, the Tower Keeper, at and pick "Enter the tower". The fee is 5,000 zeny. Anyone holding the work contract pays 3,000.
- Sign the contract. Inside, talk to Ditze at . Ask about the temporary work and sign.
- Meet Burled. The Entrance Guide Burled is on the second floor at . He only sends contracted workers to floor 3.
The first two floors are free of monsters. Another guide, Liei, at buys four drops from the tower for 1,000 zeny each: Golden Ornament, Red Feather, Blue Feather and Cursed Seal.
Floor 3: the gate
Burled opens the gate to floor 3 only when at least 5 players stand near him (the box around him at ). They do not need to be in a party. Once he is satisfied the gate opens for 30 seconds, so everyone must walk in at once. It lets in anyone with the contract and sends a character without one back.
The story quest starts with Burled. Pick "Start a conversation" and ask about the accident. He lost colleagues to the tower and wants to know why Rekenber keeps sending people into it. Say you will look into it, and the quest "Thanatos Tower - What they want is.." begins. Each key puzzle below moves it one step.
The five keys
Floors 3 to 6 each hold one puzzle that gives a key. You need all four of the first keys for the last puzzle. Each key is kept by one character. Each character who wants the story and its reward solves the puzzles for themselves.
- Red Key. Rune Device on floor 3 at . A field of energy surrounds the device. Investigate it. A Taekwon Kid can kick it open. Anyone else needs a level 4 weapon in the right hand to break it. Otherwise nothing happens.
- Yellow Key. Rune Device on floor 4 at . A screen asks for a three-digit number. Digits go from 1 to 9 and none may repeat. After each try it tells you how many digits are right and in the right place, and how many digits are right in total. It is the old "bulls and cows" game. After the fifth wrong try it shows you the answer, and then the number changes.
- Blue Key. Brilliant Statue on floor 5 at . It has a crack in each wing. Put the keys in by typing their names: "Red Key" into the left wing first, then "Yellow Key" into the right.
- Green Key. Brilliant Statue on floor 6 at . You need the Red, Yellow and Blue keys. Investigate the wheels and set all five to the same position inside the machine. In the menu: 1st small wheel Raise, 2nd small wheel Lower, 1st big wheel Vertically Shift, 2nd big wheel Raise, 3rd big wheel Raise. "Check Current Wheel Configuration" lists them if you lose track: 1st small Up, 2nd small Down, 1st big Moved, 2nd big Up, 3rd big Up.
- Black Key. Splendid Sword on floor 6 at . You need all four keys. Observe the sword and grab it by the hilt, then insert the sword into the hole in the table. The other choices cost you 20 % of your HP or do nothing. You get the Black Key, and Varmundt's Note (Varmundt's Note).
When you get a key while the quest is on that step, an "illusion" fills in a piece of the story. Choose to concentrate on it to move the quest on.
Take the Varmundt's Note back to Burled on the second floor. He reads it, tells you to keep the secret from Rekenber, and pays 120,000 base EXP, 10,000 job EXP and an Old Purple Box. The story quest ends there.
Floor 7 and up
The portal on floor 6 at asks for the Black Key. It turns the key into a Black Charm Stone and takes you up. It lets in a second or third job character, or a Super Novice, Taekwon Kid, Star Gladiator, Soul Linker, Ninja, Gunslinger or Summoner at base level 95 or more. Anyone else is told that a power blocks the way.
From the fifth floor up, you cannot walk back down the way you came. Plan how to get out before you climb.
The floors at the top are named by what they hold: Angel (7, 8), Agony (9), Sorrow (10), Despair (11) and Hatred (12). Four creatures on floors 5 to 8 drop the fragments used at the end:
Dolor of Thanatos on floor 5,
Maero of Thanatos on floor 6,
Despero of Thanatos on floor 7 and
Odium of Thanatos on floor 8.
The charm stone ritual
- Turn the other keys into stones on floor 8 (Room of Angel). Four crystal balls sit in the room, one for each color of key. Use a key on the crystal of the same color and you get the matching charm stone. The crystals do not stay where they are. Every 10 minutes the four of them move to a new corner of the room, so they take a bit of finding.
- Climb to floor 12 (Room of Hatred). Five statues stand around the room. Put the stones in one after another: Yellow in the Gold Religious Statue at , Green in the Green Wiseman Statue at , Blue in the Blue Angel Statue at , Red in the Bloody Knight Statue at , and last the Black stone in the Dark Devil Statue at . A statue refuses a stone out of order. The stones can come from different people, because the statues remember the order for the whole server, not for one character.
- Step into the gate at . It takes you to the boss room.
The boss room
The room is called the Unknown Place. Four Memory Seals sit around it. Each wants one fragment, and you have to type its full name when you place it (for example "Fragment of Misery"):
Kill all four. Everyone in the room is then pulled to the central seal at . Touch it and Thanatos speaks for 16 seconds, then the
Thanatos Phantom appears.
When the Phantom falls, the room throws everyone out to floor 12 within about 40 seconds. The statues and seals reset 2 hours after the kill. Nobody can start a new ritual until then.
Rewards
- Burled's story reward as above.
- Liei pays 1,000 zeny for each of the four tower drops.
- The Phantom drops Shadowdecon, Morrigan's Manteau, Skeletal Armor Piece, Full Plate Armor, Greaves, Eagle Wing, Bloody Iron Ball and Memory of Thanatos Card. See the monster page for rates.
Notes
- The statue order and the 2-hour reset are shared by the whole server. Two groups cannot run the ritual at the same time.
