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.

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.