How do I complete Facing the Flame?

Learn the details of the disaster from the old crone.; Talk to Zugg Clankwhistle; Collect Imp Executioner's Brain; Collect Imp Firestarter's Brain; Collect Imp Witch's Brain

What are the rewards for Facing the Flame?

Experience: 3,600; Gold: 10,000; Weapon experience: 850; Guaranteed: Ancient Coin × 33; Guaranteed: Synthesis Fuel × 7; Guaranteed: Adept's Item Upgrade Kit × 1; Guaranteed: Reroll Secondary Values × 2; Choose one: Batch of Painkillers × 1 / Mana Flask × 1; Choose one: Gentleman's Mana Pipe × 3 / Restorative Analgesic Ointment × 3; Choose one item from each group.

Facing the Flame

Find the old crone at the forest cabin north of the quarry in the Westwind Woods.

Experience: 3,600
Gold: 10,000
Weapon experience: 850

Choose one item from each group.

Objectives

1.
Learn the details of the disaster from the old crone.
2.
Talk to Zugg Clankwhistle
3.
Collect Imp Executioner's Brain
4.
Collect Imp Firestarter's Brain
5.
Collect Imp Witch's Brain

JOURNAL

Zugg Clankwhistle
Goldenfield, near the Bureau

Find the old crone at the forest cabin north of the quarry in the Westwind Woods.

Receive documents from Zugg

Put the Imps' brains in the cloning tank

Get Imp leaders' brains

Notes

You'll find her out in the woods, northwest up the road from the spaceship wreck. Her disgusting house is deep in the Westwind Woods. Ask her what in the world hit my shuttle, would you?

Wonderful! Bring the brains to my house. Then put them into the cloning tank. It's all AI controlled and very easy.

Looks like their bigwigs aren't as dim as they seem. Alright, let's make a deal and have some fun off those leaders and bring me their brains, the fresher, the better.

Dialogue

NPC

You'll find her out in the woods, right around. Ask her what in the world hit my shuttle, would you?

Assistant

Wonderful! Bring the brains to my house. Then put them into the cloning tank. It's all AI controlled and very easy.

NPC

Your paperwork is all set, you're official now! Alright, it's time for you to hit the road. Yep. Go on, live your life, be happy. Just not around these parts.

NPC

You did it, eh? Marvelous. But yeah, not a word about what you saw in my house.

NPC

If you're looking to earn your keep, the local Mana Station's a good bet. But they won't take you in without a license. You can get that over at the administration in Riverrise, got it?

Assistant

And hey, it's not very legal in these lands, so I'd appreciate it if you kept quiet about it, eh?

NPC

Cloning Tank Version 2.03. Good day, Great Master Daddy! Temperature and pressure are stable. Do you wish to start a new cloning cycle?

NPC

DNA material: present. Additional brain cell source: present. Cloning cycle number 420 initiated. Thank you, Daddy.

NPC

I'm aware of the "accidents" you speak of, yet the knowledge isn't freely given.

NPC

Am I an old crone? I suppose that's what some crude, cursing goblins call me. Let me guess... Zugg?

NPC

Heed my warning, the forest is a twisted maze, with creatures lurking in the shadows. Prepare for uninvited encounters.

NPC

Fetch me Neon Mushrooms. They are a rare breed, infused with "bad mana."

NPC

Elan's government keeps taking them to study! These mushrooms are crucial for my brewing.

Assistant

What? Those Imps shot my shuttle down? Those numbskulls? They're dumber than a stump.

Assistant

Looks like their bigwigs aren't as dim as they seem. Alright, let's make a deal and have some fun off those leaders and bring me their brains, the fresher, the better.

Assistant

By the way, about my brother's untimely death, don't worry about it too much. To be frank, they're not actually my brothers.

Assistant

They're all me. Well, simplified versions of me... Bring me brains and I'll show you what I mean.

Assistant

There's this old hag living in the woods, can't see or hear much, but let me tell ya, she's got eyes and ears everywhere.

Assistant

You'll find her out in the woods, right around. Ask her what in the world hit my shuttle, would you?