Astral travel quest

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Requirements

• 40th circle
• Moongate spell

Notes

• This quest is dangerous, it is helpful to have a moonmage to moongate/riftal summons you into Oshu’hhrsk Manor (step 4 below).
• The Planar Observatory is the area where the Planar Telescope (it's not an actual telescope) resides which you use to learn the ability of Astral Travel.

Walkthrough

1. Start the quest in the Imperial Palace Archives.
2. Ask the researcher the list of questions below. He wanders around in the palace.
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT RESEARCH
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT GOLDCAP
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT ASTRAL TRAVEL
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT RESEARCH
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT ASTRAL PLANE
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT SPACE
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT MANA
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT MICROCOSM
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT THE WAYS
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT NAMING RITUAL
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT QUEST
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT COSMOLOGY
   • ASK RESEARCHER ABOUT RESEARCH
3. He will give you a ring that is an Astral Guide.
4. Travel to Oshu’hhrsk Manor. The Asharshpar'i shard is located here as well.
   • If you can get a MM who knows the ways to moongate/rift you there.
   • Alternatively, have a S’kra dance in front of the door for it to open.
5. RAISE RING and you’ll be transported into the ways.
6. Wait for the ring to tell you which direction to go then move.
7. The ring will eventually bring you to the silvery-white shard Teloish. From that room there will be only one direction available to go.
8. Move to the next room and you will see a white door, when you find it GO DOOR
9. You’ll be in a room with a pool, a dial and a lever. You’ll need to manipulate these to find a soft grey sphere. Push or pull the lever to widen or narrow the focus. Turn the dial to control what object it’s focused on. After adjusting the lever or the dial, you must look pool in order to see what you're looking at. Once you find the sphere, tap the dial until you’re clearly focused with crystal clarity. (My strategy in finding the grey sphere was 1) Look pool, 2) pull lever, 3) look pool, 4) turn dial left, 5) look pool. Repeat steps 4 and 5. If you can't turn the dial any more, pull the lever and repeat. If you think you can no longer pull the lever, then push the lever and repeat. You will have to do this a lot. When you get the soft grey sphere looks fuzzy, try tapping the dial instead of turning it. Finally, finely adjust the focus by tapping until the blazing web of energy within the Astral Plane is focused in the pool with crystal clarity. This will probably slightly unfocus the soft grey sphere.
10. STUDY POOL until you get the messaging (You are confident that you have learned the secret of astral travel.) that you’ve learned the secret of astral travel.
11. GO DOOR
12. Go whichever direction you can and you will periodically receive messaging that you are hurt/attacked (these rooms and messages change based on sect affiliation) but you won't be physically hurt, though linger too long in these two outside rooms and you will receive stuns and vitality loss over time.
13. Inside the room with the silvery-white shard Teloish, RAISE RING again and follow the directions back to Asharshpar’i.

If you've successfully gained the knowledge to travel astrally, do not forget to Study Asharshpar'i to learn it's Naming Ritual upon exit of the Astral Plane.

To exit, go South, East, Turn Sconce, Go west, Go door. You're now in the germish'din filled catacombs below Oshu'ehhrsk Manor.