The Battle of Fortunehold

The Battle of Fortunehold
Release						6 November 2024 (Update)
Episode						Crenopolis
Premium						Yes
Type						Side
Difficulty						★★★★★

Overview

Start Point	Talk to Porletta at Fortunehold
Requirements	50  Leatherworker 55  Merchant
Items	Quill and Ink 336  8 full bottles of Green Olives (Passive activity resource) 1 Moderate Bison Leather
Enemies	2x Helfar's Guard (Level 58)

Walkthrough

Intro

• Go to Fortunehold and talk to Porletta.
• Go to Hamila Jimore's Hallway and talk to Hamila Jimore.
• Pick up Hamila's Headed Notepaper from the table
• Open quest Inventory and use Hamila's Headed Notepaper on Quill and Ink.
  • You can get Quill and ink from Captain Jal Degreene's Office table in Hopeport.
• Go to Helfar's Gate and put the forged note in the mailbox by the gate.
  • Enter Helfar's Strategy Room (Requires progress in main story to enter)
  • Analyze the Invasion plans
• Report back to Porletta in Fortunehold, and progress through her dialogue to acquire two new objectives:
  • Objective 1 starts with "They'll find no cyclopes in Fortunehold Meadow. Then you'll be attacked on two fronts"
  • Objective 2 starts with ''We need to figure out how to defend the side gate''

Objective 1

• Go to Unicorn Farm and talk to Thomas Cyclops
• Go to Fortunehold Meadow and talk to Thomas Cyclops, Thomas asked me to gather items for the fete.
  • Bunting.
    • Talk to Porletta in Fortunehold
  • Green Olives.
    • You need 8 full bottles of Olives, Use them on the olive barrels in front of Thomas Cyclops.
    • Requires 32 Merchant (With 3 knowledge points put into the Merchant skill, or 1 with potion +2 boost) ; you can also purchase Olives directly at the merchant if you have 92+ Alchemy. Otherwise you must spend eight hours at the passive activity to acquire the olives.
  • Throwing Cushions.
    • Requires 50 Leatherworking and one Moderate Bison Leather, Talk to Jack Wellis at the Leatherworks
    • Return to Fortunehold Meadow and use the cushions on the white chalk line.
  • A Flugelhorn Player.
    • Go to Unicorn Farm and talk to Walter Cyclops
    • Then move west to Shrubby Canyon and search the grass
    • Return to Walter and use the horn on him
    • Go to Lani's Curiosities in southwest Crenopolis, and talk to Lani. He'll sell you the polish for 84 
    • Use the polish on the flugelhorn
    • Return to Walter at Unicorn Farm
• After you gathered everything talk to Thomas Cylcops to complete the fete.
• Go to Cyclops East Pass and talk to the Cyclops guard at the gate and ask him if he wants to go to the fete.

Objective 2

• Go to Meggrit's Market and right-click the broken gate to try jumping over.
• Talk to Begram Snilch standing next to the gate and bribe him with 252 .
  • Requires 55 Merchant to seduce Begram with money.
• After bribing Begram, jump over the broken gate and enter Abandoned Alleyway.
• Climb the ladder and investigate the Crate of Junk then open the Crenopolis Back Alley Gate to Fortunehold Farm.
• Go to Fortunehold and talk to Roric then head back to Abandoned Alleyway and talk to Roric again.

Helfar's Guard

The Battle

• After you completed both objectives talk to Porletta to start the battle.
• After the cutscene push the crate on the guards
  • You will have to manually refill the crates and push them a total of 3 times
• Move to Fortunehold Farm and defeat the 2 Helfar's Guards that attack you. (both guards are level 58)
• Talk to Porletta again to finish the quest!

Rewards

• 124,000 Watchperson experience
• 35,500 Leatherworker experience
• 39,100 Merchant experience
• A shortcut between Meggrit's Market and Fortunehold Farm

Transcript

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Update history

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• update 27 November 2024 (Update):
  • Fixed a bug in the 'Battle of Fortunehold' quest, whereby you could refill a crate while part way through pushing it, causing the original push action to suddenly stop.

• update 25 November 2024 (Update):
  • Fix all spottable thieves disappearing if you are on a particular step in The Battle for Fortunehold quest.

• update 6 November 2024 (Update):
  • Added to game.