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Objectives
- Find the Healer Nettie.
- When we asked about healing, we were told to look for Nettie in the Inner Sanctum.
- Follow Nettie
- We told Nettie about the parasite. She seemed concerned and asked us to follow her to another room for treatment.
Walkthrough
Nettie can be found within the Emerald Grove, in the room beyond the lounge where Kagha and Rath are situated. She will not help the player until they admit to her that they're infected by a Mindflayer Tadpole. She will invite the player to join her in the library room deeper within the sanctum to talk.
Once the player is inside the room, she will lock the door behind them and they will lose the ability to Fast Travel. Approaching Nettie initiates a conversation.
If the player is truthful with Nettie - informing her of the various symptoms they have been experiencing, then Nettie will be honest in kind. She doesn't have a cure, and was instead planning to euthanize the player before they can transform.
Nettie will offer to let the player go free if they swear to consume Wyvern Poison and kill themselves at the first signs of turning. If the player agrees and swears to Nettie's demands, she will inform them of the current situation in the Grove and gives them the quest Rescue the Druid Halsin. If the player is unwilling to swear to this, she will attack in hopes of stopping the player before they can transform and harm others.
If Nettie is killed, the player will find that they're still trapped within the library. To escape, they must loot Nettie's Circlet, the Key of the Ancients which will allow you to open the stone slab doors. The players can use this to return to the Druid Grove, or head towards the Underground Passage.
If the player is not truthful with Nettie - refusing to provide any details of their symptoms, she will ask to touch the player's hand without explanation.
- If the player offer their hand to Nettie, the Druid will slice them with the poisoned plant Kelemvor's Kiss, inflicting them with a special Poisoned condition called At Death's Door, which inflicts a -2 penalty to all Ability Scores, and continues to worsen after Rest.
- If the player refuses to offer their hand, Nettie will try to slice them regardless. The player must pass a Difficulty Class (DC)15 Dexterity Check or Intimidation Check to avoid this.
If the player successfully avoids getting poisoned, they can make another DC10 Medicine, History, or Intimidation to get Nettie to stand down. If this is successful, the conversation loops back to her request for the player to swear to drinking the poison should they start transforming. Saying yes finishes the quest. Refusing to swear will once again lead to combat.
Poisoned and Trapped
If the player is poisoned, they will have an opportunity to grab the branch and conduct a DC10 Nature Check to identify the poison. Doing so provides some lore, but does not seem to affect future checks and options. The player is able to walk away from the conversation at this point. Nettie will not be hostile, believing that with the doors lock and the player poisoned, they'll no longer be a danger.
The player will have the following options to try to obtain the antidote, which is on Nettie, at this point:
- Convince Nettie to give it to them by passing a DC15 History, Medical or Deception (two chances). This is the only peaceful method to obtain the antidote and leave the room at this point.
- Attack Nettie and loot her body for the Elixir of Silvanus.
- Pick-pocket the Elixir of Silvanus from Nettie. She will turn hostile once she discovers it missing. However, this allows you to fight her without the At Death's Door debuff.
If Nettie is convinced to peacefully provide the antidote, she will now offer to let the player go free as long as they swear to commit suicide prior to turning. Refusing once again leads to a fight.
Note, that at any point of the conversation, the player can choose to attack Nettie to either obtain the antidote (if they're poisoned) and to free themselves from the locked room, through the "Attack" button at the bottom left of the screen when in dialogue. Alternatively, the player can switch characters and have them initiate the fight.
Brewing the Elixir of Silvanus
Should the player wish to, they can also learn to brew Elixir of Silvanus that serves as antidotes against the Poisoned condition.
In the room where they originally found Nettie healing the bird, there is a book named Flora of the Dalelands sitting on a desk by the cauldron. Reading the book will reveal that poison from Kelemvor's Kiss can be cured by boiling bundles of Mugwart in a Cauldron of Boiling Theriac - which the cauldron in the room. The player can brew the potion by interacting with the Cauldron, and adding Mugwart to it from their inventory. It is not necessary to read the book first in order to do this.
In regards to this quest, brewing the antidote after the conversation is theoretically an alternative solution to getting the antidote, but since killing/subduing Nettie is required to leave the room if you refused to swear the oath, it is ultimately redundant.
However, the player can brew the antidote ahead of speaking with Nettie. Should the player get poisoned, they will tend have the option to cure themselves immediately, which will cause Nettie to give up, and loop back to offering the player a chance to leave if they swear to kill themselves should they start to transform.
Quest Rewards
Completing this quest earns the player 75 Experience Points. The Wyvern Poison the player can obtain is actually a powerful consumable that be used to add significant poison damage to a single weapon attack. The Key of the Ancients can only be obtained in outcomes that involves killing Nettie.