The Rare Ingredient

The Rare Ingredient is a Mages Guild quest available during the events of. The Agent is sent into a dungeon to retrieve a rare ingredient.

Background
After completing several mundane tasks for the Mages Guild, and improved their magical skills, the Agent will be accepted as a member of the Guild. Guildmagisters will therefore begin to offer the Agent more difficult tasks, rewarding them with and a boost to their reputation, meaning they can climb further through the Guild's ranks.

Objectives

 * Speak with a Guildmagister from the Mages Guild.
 * Journey to and enter the dungeon specified.
 * Search for the ingredient.
 * Report back to the Guildmagister with the ingredient before the time limit expires.

Walkthrough
After joining the Mages Guild the Agent will be asked to find a rare ingredient, of which only a single specific will do to fill the Guild's requirements. According to a Guildmagister, the sample can be found in a nearby dungeon, and so the Agent is sent to go and find it for the benefit of the Guild.

Intriguing Ingredient
The dungeon, as is to be expected, will be populated by a random variety of creatures and enemies. The ingredient itself will be found lying somewhere within, not carried by a potential foe, and will be the only example of the sample in question. All the Agent has to do is pick it up, escape the dungeon, and return to the Guildmagister before the time limit expires.

Rewards
The Agent will receive a random amount of from the Guildmagister for retrieving the rare ingredient sample, alongside the boost to their reputation within the Guild. The penalties for failing the quest are relatively high by comparison, but will also see gains among some anti-Mage Guild factions:

Trivia

 * NPCs have a variety of comments to make referencing the quest when asked for any news:
 * Failure: "[Guildmagister's name] has been complaining about the quality of Mages Guild members."