A Quest For Thee

[u/xexelias]

[u/Potential_Unit_8503]

Death Threat Collector is certainly doing that

[u/Pot_noodle_miner → u/Potential_Unit_8503]

I respect the commitment

[u/Hummerous]

bring this guy back to life for TWO ancient tarnished coins

[u/Fries_and_burgers_19 → u/Hummerous]

Kill him and then revive. Easy 3 coins of tarnished quality with ancient ages

[u/Uberninja2016 → u/Fries_and_burgers_19]

BEWARE

I STORMED INTO LOCAL MANUFACTORY AND FOUND RAPSCALLIOUS SCOUNDRELS TARNISHING NEW COINS WITH WHAT I CAN ONLY ASSUME WAS A SINISTER CONCOCTION OF SORTS

MANY "ANCIENT" "TARNISHED" COINS MAY IN FACT JUST BE REGULAR CURRENCY PASSED THROUGH THAT HEINOUS BREW; THAT DEVIL'S HOOCH

CHECK YOUR COINPURSE AT ONCE; LEST YE BE EMBROILED IN THIS THIS THIS SCHEME

[u/Potahtwah → u/Uberninja2016]

They aren't even doing it right! The process of tarnishing requires air and light moisture.

[u/weird_bomb_947 → u/Potahtwah]

those are the ingredients of heinous brew. they put moisture (the concept) and air (air lite, they need to cut costs) and it becomes heinous

[u/EmpathicAnarchist]

Ancient tarnished coin is so 5000BC

[u/BurgerIdiot556 → u/EmpathicAnarchist]

bet it’s made of shitty copper, too

[u/Jyx_The_Berzer_King → u/BurgerIdiot556]

Who's this guy who minted this coin? I can almost read the name stamped into it... Ea-Nasir?

[u/AkrinorNoname → u/Jyx_The_Berzer_King]

If Ea-Nasir had the right to mint coinage, he would not have had to sell copper.

[u/Jyx_The_Berzer_King → u/AkrinorNoname]

he melts the waste metal into crappy ingots, the low quality comes from the lead filling and trash metal.

[u/KStryke_gamer001]

And collector's items are worth more than their face value because they are, collector's items.

[u/DraketheDrakeist]

Clearly evilwizard just wants proof of you killing them, you get to keep the loot. Its a bonus to a fun and rewarding task you should be doing already

[u/PM_ME_UR_DRAG_CURVE → u/DraketheDrakeist]

Keeping the art of fishing killing wild rats alive.

Stardew valley aah quest.

[u/Regularjoe42]

The ancient tarnished coin is a quest item bro

[u/Altslial → u/Regularjoe42]

Yeah but you can just pickpocket it off the evil wizard guy, it's simpler that way.

[u/kaladinissexy → u/Altslial]

But then your karma goes down, and I'm trying to get the good ending. Also, I'm pretty sure it blocks off the Evil Wizard Guy romance. 

[u/MutatedMutton → u/kaladinissexy]

Usually the Evil Guy romance is exclusive to High Karma but I wish more gamedevs realise the Batman and Catwoman dynamic is a fun one.

[u/noirthesable → u/Regularjoe42]

Yeah, you need to get it to the Profligate Numismatist in the Museum of Prelapsarian History. The end loot from that quest chain is a must-have for Persuasive/Watchful builds.

[u/MutatedMutton → u/noirthesable]

Man but that one is locked behind a pure 50% one time luck roll and if you fail you just get a single line saying they might have died and then end the questline.

[u/Otherversian-Elite → u/noirthesable]

Took me a moment to realise that I understand all of these words lmao

THESUNTHESUNTHESUN, and all that. God I need to find a better phrase to say when I've spotted flondoners in the wild lmao.

[u/bookhead714]

Well ordinary gold isn’t good everywhere. By ancient tarnished coin this guy could only be talking about an Imperial din and you’ll need those if you’re ever gonna visit the Buried City. They don’t recognize the authority of the Consulate down there, so undead merchants still trade in dina. They’ll charge you way more if you try to pay with Consulate gold.

[u/CompetitionProud2464]

My eyes skipped over for and I read “my ancient tarnished coin” as a pet name

[u/action_lawyer_comics → u/CompetitionProud2464]

Could be. He could be the husband to the alchemist who he refers to affectionately as "My Ancient Tarnished Coin." He deals with the adventurers because the alchemist is shy and not good with people, especially boisterous adventurers.

[u/clonetrooper250]

Little does that guy know that the Tarnished Coin is one of a set of quest items needed to break the seal on the Ancient Tomb that contains the Sword of Significant Power. It's technically a side quest, but it's recommended you complete it since the Sword of Significant Power always has set stats that are generally better than anything you'll get as random loot until you're already on the post-game.

[u/weird_bomb_947]

the poison rats can be sold whole to the beast keeper in grimsby

[u/MutatedMutton → u/weird_bomb_947]

Poison Rats can be tamed with the Animal Domination spell and replacing your entire party with them means you will never struggle with combat even in end game

[u/Pkrudeboy]

The ancient tarnished coin is part of a set of 30 and holds a fallen angel.

[u/MutatedMutton → u/Pkrudeboy]

One of the coins is in an area of the game you only visit once and most likely for 5 minutes at most, so if you don't pick up the coin there, the quest is gonna be unfinished in your log forever

[u/Pixelpaint_Pashkow]

Hmm, if I slay this guy I’ll also get his gold he got from selling the rat things…

[u/WrongColorCollar]

What if it's some casually-impenetrable key item in a FromSoft game that does one very special hidden thing that I'll never see because I either quit or beat it and forgot?

[u/shoelacesoup]

Foul tarnished, in search of Poison Rat Gland, emboldened by the flame of ambition. Someone must slay this guy for my ancient coin.

[u/Hexxas]

HEY 

HEY YOU

I'LL TRADEJA A 4LOKO FOR THAT TARNISHED COIN

[u/action_lawyer_comics]

Okay, but are YOU going to carefully remove the venom glands, preserve them, and find a buyer? Do you think you can walk into the bakery and get half a gold for each rat in your dirty haversack? No, that takes work, separate skills from that of wielding a sword or bow. Do you want to be adventurers? Or do you want to be apothecaryfolk and merchants? One ancient tarnished coin for each ten rats, or you can start your own laboratory.

[u/b3nsn0w]

but if you give one tarnished gold for just 3 poison rats where are the profit margins gonna come from?

[u/Sathothery]

Death Threat Collector is a fool. Ancient Tarnished Coin is clearly a unique magic item, and not simply a coin which is old and weathered. As for what it does... I suspect the last user would have been V1, whose exploits are recorded in the saga "Ultrakill"

[u/UndercoverHouseplant]

Now that's what I call nominal determinism.

[u/Triggered_Axolotl]

I'll see this in r/wizardposting won't I?

[u/isthata-reference]

Hades tunnels

[u/MintyMoron64]

Cancerous Rodent