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Find Dribbles the Clown
Find Dribbles the Clown is a quest in Act Three of Baldur's Gate 3. It can be started by speaking with Lucretious in the Circus of the Last Days.
Objectives
- Dribbles the Clown, star of the circus, is missing. Ringmaster Lucretious asked us to find him. He's likely dead, but that doesn't seem to bother her.
- We spoke to the doppelganger who impersonated the clown. He admitted he killed the real Dribbles the Clown.
- Ringmaster Lucretious asked us to find the corpse of her star - Dribbles the Clown. Or what's left of him, at least.
- A part of Dribbles has been used to create a gruesome art piece. We should continue searching for his body parts.
- The dead doppelganger revealed that their mistress wanted the clown's body parts for her 'art'.
- We found a severed hand in the circus shop run by Popper the kobold. It looks like it belonged to Dribbles the Clown.
- We found Dribbles' torso.
- We found Dribbles' pelvis.
- Based on how Dribbles has been cut up, it looks like we've found about half of his corpse.
- We found Dribbles' arm.
- We found Dribbles' leg.
- We found Dribbles' foot.
- We need just one final piece to complete Dribbles.
- We found Dribbles' head.
- We have all of Dribbles' body parts. We should bring them to Ringmaster Lucretious.
- Lucretious thanked us for our help. She intends to raise Dribbles from the dead - with some improvements. The circus will soon leave Wyrm's Crossing.
- We left without helping Ringmaster Lucretious and Dribbles the Clown.
- Lucretious has been defeated.
- The circus vanished. Dribbles the Clown will never perform again.
Walkthrough
Entering the Circus
Through the Front Entrance
Speaking to Klaus and Benji, the party can attempt to enter the Circus through the front gate. Claus stops them, stating that he is checking every visitor to see if they are a vicious murderer. He has his ghoul sniff the party, who exclaims that they smell of "iron and blood." Determining that he can't subject other patrons to the stink, he denies entry. However, he can be reasoned with:
- [PERSUASION] I'm not a threat to you or anyone else in the circus - I swear it.
- [DECEPTION] I'm a friend of Lord Gortash. I wonder what he'll say if I tell him about this...
- [INTIMIDATION] Let me in, or I snap you in two.
- Surely we can come to an agreement? (200)
- [ARCHFEY][DECEPTION] Unless you seek the wrath of the Seelie Court, you will let me pass.
- [WARLOCK][DECEPTION] I've actually just been hired. I do a magic show.
- [MONK][DECEPTION] I've actually just been hired. I do martial arts.
- [BARD][DECEPTION] I've actually just been hired. Meet your new bard!
- [ROGUE][DECEPTION] I've actually just been hired. I juggle knives.
- [SORCERER][DECEPTION] I've actually just been hired to do a magic show. Fingers crossed no one blows up this time!
- [DRACONIC BLOODLINE][DECEPTION] I’ve actually just been hired. I’m the new fire breather!
Successfully passing a check allows entry into the circus.
Sneaking In
The gatekeeper can easily be bypassed by walking further down the gate towards a group of children X: -22 Y: -34. Here, there is a gap in the gate that can be jumped over.
Dribbles' Show
Approaching Dribbles' stage X: -41 Y: -36 automatically starts a cutscene where Dribbles begins performing a comedy show full of terrible puns, along with his dog. Towards the end of the show, he states he plans to perform a magic trick, but needs a volunteer with "nerves of steel and the heart of a lion." In doing this, he singles out the party. Any party member can be volunteered to go up, or Dribbles' volunteer (the currently active party member) can agree to go up.
- What are you going to do?
- Approach the stage.
- (Options to volunteer for each other party member)
- [GREAT OLD ONE] [INSIGHT] Gaze through the clown with your patron's eldritch sight. (DC 25, advantage, no Wisdom modifier)
- I'm good.
Denying the offer results in a random crowd member volunteering. Either way, Dribbles and his dog suddenly attacks, along with a group of doppelgangers. If the random crowd member came on stage, he is instantly murdered by the dog.
After defeating Dribbles, it turns out that he was a doppelganger. His corpse can be spoken to with Speak with Dead and grant some information on the attack:
- Who are you? I am called...Fumm...
- You singled me out from the crowd. Why? I saw in your eyes...what I see in my own...death.
- What type of creature are you? A shapechanger...People call us...doppelgangers...
- Why did you attack? To sow chaos...it is His will...
- It is 'His will'? What are you talking about? *You feel a rush of power, dark and insidious - something prevents the corpse from answering.*
- What happened to Dribbles the Clown? I killed him...bathed in his blood...a death worthy of the list...of the Tribunal.
- What's the Tribunal? The greatest honour...of them all.
- Where is Dribbles' corpse? Mistress needed his body parts...for her art...
Lucretious moves towards the stage area after the attack. Speaking with her starts the quest, as she requests the party find what is left of Dribbles in exchange for fabulous rewards. As a necromancer, Lucretious even preferres the clown dead and raised to a living employee.
Collecting Dribbles's remains
Hand
Dribble's Hand is on a plate in Popper's store inside the Circus of the Last Days. It can either be stealthily stolen like any other object, or the party can attempt to simply go up and grab it. If the party attempts to grab it, they are stopped by Popper, who says it is his "special hand." Alternatively, If the party has found Note from BUSINESSLORD POPPER (buried behind the Dribbles' stage) they can simply confront Popper about the hand in conversation.
If Popper is asked why the hand is so special, he would explain he had to fight some rats for it, and therefore it costs 10,000 gold. To counter the cheeky kobold, the player will have a variety of lines to attempt to get the severed hand from him for free:
- [DECEPTION] You know, I can get a hand for much cheaper elsewhere.
- [INTIMIDATION] Give it to me now, or I'll cut off your hands.
- [PERSUASION] I think that belongs to Dribbles. I need it - your ringmaster needs it.
- [WARLOCK][SORCERER][DECEPTION] I'm actually a sorcerer working for Lucretious. I need that hand for a magic spell.[Needs Verification]
- [DROW][INTIMIDATION] You will give me that hand or I will grind you beneath my heel, you insufferable gnat.
- [SORCERER][DECEPTION] I'm actually a sorcerer working for Lucretious. I need that hand for a magic spell.
- [DRAGONBORN][INTIMIDATION]
- I'd rather take it from your cold, dead corpse.
- That's way too much - keep the hand.
Torso
Dribbles' Torso can be found during Solve the Open Hand Temple Murders, or simply when exploring the Open Hand Temple. To get to the torso's location, the player should use a hatch in the kitchen X: -62 Y: 3. There are pools of blood which can be followed to the actual murder site. However, bloody puddles abruptly stop in front of what appears to be a solid stone wall.
There are two ways to get past it and into the secret tunnels beyond. The first is to go into the adjoining room to the south and jump over the breach in the wall X: 16 Y: -1026. Still, the 'proper' way to enter the tunnels is by locating the secret buttons in the crypt. These buttons are obscured by heraldry X: 17 Y: -1000 and X: 18 Y: -1015 on the walls to the left and right of the stone wall.
Once inside the secret tunnels, three doppelgangers immediately become hostile. After defeating the doppelgangers, Dribbles's torso can be looted off the dead body of Penela Lumpensicks X: 63 Y: -1028, alongside with the first of Orin's Ritual Notes.
Arm
Dribbles' Arm is in the Lower City in the Peartree House X: 32 Y: -96 located southeast of Sorcerous Sundries. The Peartree House is a boarded-up building, so the barricade need to be destroyed before entering. It is declared a restricted area, so breaking into it will mke the nearest Flaming Fist patrol hostile.
After the boards have been destroyed, the party will find a hatch hidden under a Traveller's Chest. After moving the chest aside they may descend the hatch to find another murder scene. Looting the corpse of Courageous Little Kimmabeth grants the severed arm and another ritual note.
Leg
Dribbles' Leg is in Lavernica's Home X: -76 Y: -70 which hovers above Araj Oblodra's Crimson Draughts, southwest of the Lower City Central Wall waypoint in the Lower City. After lockpicking the front door, use the hatch to get inside the house basement. There are many dead spiders in the upper room and dead drow and duergar in the basement. Looting the corpse of the dead Drow named Incontinentia Figgin in the neighboring cave provides the leg and subsequent ritual note from Orin. A copy of this letter can be found on the body of a drow named Danfora of the Kingfish.
Foot
Dribbles' Foot is in the basement of the Rainforest's Home X: -93 Y: -109 located between Beehive General Goods and The Bibliophile shops, southeast of The Blushing Mermaid tavern. It can be entered by either lockpicking the front door, or taking in the rear: from the balcony or through the door under it, using Fly, Misty Step, Arrow of Transposition or simply jumping high enough. The front door is red-outlined, and the street patrolled by a group of Flaming Fist.
The hatch to the basement is under the stairs on the ground floor. In the basement, the foot is straight ahead on the corpse of a blue dragonborn Winslow Reginol, along with yet another Orin's note.
Pelvis
Dribbles' Pelvis is in the Lower City, in an empty lodging northwest of the Basilisk Gate X: 123 Y: 4, adjacent to the barracks' wall. Looting the body of Gohumberry Tresp grants the clown's pelvis and next note from Orin.
Head
Dribbles' Head is in the Undercity Ruins. To obtain the access to it, the party must first resolve the Impress the Murder Tribunal quest in any preferred way. A composition of chained together dead bodies can be found to the north of the Temple of Bhaal waypoint X: -65 Y: 1041Loot the corpse of Wilting Alex to find the head, and gain a final Orin's note.
The torso's location
The arm's location
The leg's location
The foot's location
The pelvis' location
The head's location
Returning the Body Parts
When the party returns to the Circus of Last Days, Lucretious is delighted to have all the parts of Dribbles back, even if those have been bitten by rats a little bit. She thanks the party and informs them that she's going to raise the corpse as one of her star performers.
Quest Rewards
Spellmight Gloves- If the Spellmight Gloves were already pickpocketed, a small stipend of gold will be rewarded instead.