Level: 45+

This quest can only be done after the Interrogator's Badge Quest.

1. Find Vegalys Keldrane in South Qeynos again and Hail him. Say 'I wish to further advance' and 'I will help with his research'.

2 Find Velarte Selire who is standing in the courtyard near the slope to the "spaceship" at the Temple of Life.

Valarte near the spaceship.

3 .Hail Velarte Selire. Say, 'What research?' and 'I am interested'.

4. Give Velarte Selire the badge. He gives you a Research Briefing which tells you how curing diseased rats with enchanted rats work (more on that later).

Yet another Briefing

5. Say to Velarte Selire 'what problem', 'what test animals', 'how volatile?', 'place them in the container?', 'what gnome' and 'what test'.

6. Head to West Karana and to the female gnome called Oobnopterbevny (loc -2050, 3800 near a farm). When Oobnopterbevny is up, she will shout 'What a lovely diseased filled place! Tra la la.' she often wanders in a North East direction from the Farm House.

7. Kill Oobnopterbevny (she is around a level 50 Necro with pet (light blue to me at 58)) and loot 'Live Enchanted Rat: Jar 1', 'Live Enchanted Rat: Jar 2' and 'Live Enchanted Rat: Jar 3' off of her. Notice her amusing "Oh rats... tra la la".

8. Then return to North Qeynos. BEFORE you turn in the book to Velarte Selire read it well. If you have ever played Othello or Reversi, the rat game should be a piece of cake. All that is necessary is to place the 3 jars so that diseased rats are between the jar and a healthy rat and that after placing them there are NO diseased rats.

You can receive many different versus of the game. "Dropping" a jar in an empty space is just like handing something in to an NPC. A tile with a couple of letters (like 'tile BD') will float above the ground and you can give the jar to the letters. When you are giving a tile a jar MAKE SURE you are: a) Dropping it on the right tile b) You are giving it a FULL jar (not empty) and c) You are not giving it to a rat by mistake. If you make a mistake most of the time you will get the jar back, but not always. You only have six Norrathian Hours (10 minutes) to complete this game so know it well. Below are two versions so that you can better understand how it works.

For ease of use the "healthy rat"s are just "Rat".

EXAMPLE GAME 1

Placing Jar 1 turns the top row into healthy rats.
Placing Jar 2 turns the right column into healthy rats.
Placing Jar 3 turns the second row into healthy rats.

The rats after placing a jar at CA.

EXAMPLE GAME 2 (the one I did, picture above)

Placing Jar 1 turns the right column into healthy rats (this was tile CA for me).
Placing Jar 2 turns the third row into healthy rats and also the left column into healthy rats (this was tile BD for me).
Placing Jar 3 turns the second row into healthy rats (this was tile CC for me).

9. Turned in the Researchers Briefing he gave you, to spawn your version of the Rat Game behind you.

10. After all the rats are cured you should have "Empty enchanter jar 1 thru 3" these are also small items and will fit in yer bags. Now you can turn the 3 jars into Velarte Selire. After doing so he will despawn along with the rats.

Healthy Rats!

11. You receive the Researchers Badge Reward:

Continue to the Qeynos Badge of Honor

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