The King Rat Must Die

The King Rat Must Die

Quest giver

Fousquenet

Location

Coerthas Central Highlands (X:12.8, Y:17.5)

Level

39

Required quest

Ye of Little Faith

Experience

 5,040

Gil

 1,624

Patch

2.0

“

They say trouble has wings and problems have teeth. Fighting the former but besieged by the latter, Fousquenet and his fellow dragoons of Whitebrim call on an adventurer.

— In-game description

Steps

• Search for signs of rats.

• Report to Fousquenet.

• Search for the rats nest.

• Report to Fousquenet.

Journal

• They say trouble has wings and problems have teeth. Fighting the former but besieged by the latter, Fousquenet and his fellow dragoons of Whitebrim call on an adventurer.

• Rats if unusual size are to be seen around the stronghold, feeding, scurrying, and baring their yellow teeth at all and sundry. Fousquenet asks that you search the courtyard and kill any rats you find.

• You find several rats and now they shall gnaw no more. Fousquenet will be glad to hear of it from your lips.

• Encouraged by your speed and aplomb, Fousquenet lays out a more ambitious plan. He believes there is a large nest underground that can be gotten at from outside the walls of the stronghold. Survey the rat's nest and kill the king rat.

• The lord of the midden is dead, and you can hear the pack beginning to turn on each other in the confusion. This would be a good time to go back inside, Kingslayer, and tell Fousquenet that his end has been achieved.

• The grain sacks of Whitebrim Front are safer tonight, and knights shall sleep without fear of rat bites. Fousquenet's foresight and your incomparable reflexes have saved the day.

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest

Fousquenet: We've got a rat problem, and if nothing's done about it now, we shall soon have a supply problem and a plague problem. They're no more content with the kitchen than the pot boy is, and have a run of the outpost.
Fousquenet: They feed off of our scraps—unwanted guests at a meager feast! See if you can't have a good look around and roust up a few to slay.

Speaking with Fousquenet

Fousquenet: Good and well, that's fewer of the vermin to get at our larder.
Fousquenet: They remain too numerous, however. There must be a large nest somewhere down below. Kill the king rat and the common rats will lose heart—something both we and the dragons know well!
Fousquenet: I've tracked the rats well as I can, and they look to slip outside as often as not. There must be an opening that leads to the nest, somewhere outside the stronghold.

Reporting to Fousquenet

Fousquenet: That's the end of the king, is it? Well struck! We'll see less of the foul little things, I expect.
Fousquenet: That said, sailors talk of rats abandoning a sinking ship, do they not? Perhaps I should more rightly take it as a good omen that the rats deign to stay in Whitebrim.