Scorched Desert is the first Egypt zone. You gain access to it after you have completed Drown of the Night main questline from Kingsmouth and completed the required mission for your faction. It is a very sunny place, which is a nice contrast from the dark and glommy zombie infested Solomon Islands. Mobs here drop QL6 stuff and can be a bit easier than Blue Mountain in some parts.
This is a Work in Progress, more quests will be added shortly but here is what I have so far.
Navigation
- Angels & Demons
- Black Sun, Red Sand
- Headhunter
- Live free, die hard
- The Big Terrible Picture
- The Traitor
- The Unburnt Bush
- Signal Effect
Quest picked up from Zhara inside al-Merayah (next to the Café)
Tier 1 – Find and examine a Plethron sign that offers more info about the firm
Not hard to find.. but if you need help to locate it, here it is!
Tier 1 – Locate and enter the Plethron office
As it is the case with many buildings in Egypt, the front door is always locked! Checked for a building nearby where you can get on the roof and its interconnected with the quest building!
Once you to get to the target building, the entrance is here..
Tier 2 Inspect the office to find out more about Plethron
Inside, you will find a body with this card..
The password hint given
My surname is common in classic literature. And my clearance level is the key.
Now this part is a bit convoluted. How about searching for the keyword Golden-bug in Google and see if it turns up anything?
Now that is really interesting.. Maybe you are given the key to the cipher and you just have to find which part of it to use..Hm.. what was the director’s name again?
Ok… hint not helping? Here is what you need to enter..
Tier 3 Access the surveillance footage
The surveillance box took me a while to find it.. so here it is for anyone running around mindlessly looking for it..
Now.. you are shown a cutscene.. pay extra attention to the beeping sound and know that you can play the cutscene over and over by just clicking on it.
Tier 3 – Access the crate
You are given a keypad, no hints.. just a keypad. Remember what I said about the cutscene? Try play around with the cutscene, notice anything unique?
The code has a maximum length of 4 digits.. and each button seems to produce a different sound?
You know what to do now?
Need a little help?
Still no go? here it’s the code!
Tier 2 – Search al-Merayah and its outskirts for the cultists’ hideout
I will give you a hint.. all the villagers in al-Merayah have different names.. some are called Apprehensive, others are called Suspicious…
You think following them will be a good idea?
Tier 2 Infiltrate the Atenist gathering
Check nearby mobs see if they have the thing you need to enter the temple..
Tier 2 Find a route to the inner sanctum
Once you are inside, you will find the door is locked! Maybe there is a side passage?
Tier 3 Follow the suited man | Find the suited man’s destination
This part is very misleading. The suited man enters a building that you can’t enter.
What you actually need to do is run around the entire town until a cutscene is triggered. The trigger appears to be random and I had to run all the way to here to get it triggered.
Tier 4 Continue Singh’s research to open the door
You will need to find four clues scattered around the site..
Make sure you use your in-game compass to determine where north and south is and don’t just assume directions!
You will see only 6 statues, don’t worry. Just work with the 6 you have. Here is a chart to help you locate them.
Have you figured out the sequence yet using the clues?
If not, here it is.
Now there are a couple of statues that are hard to reach.
Ma’at is one of them, you need to jump across. I fail at jumping so someone else that was nearby clicked it for me.
Bast is another, for Bast you don’t need to jump. Just climb up and position yourself at the very tip of the thingie in such a way that if you take another step, you would fall off. This allow you to get into clicking distance of Bast.
Tier 4 – Find the last statue, Anubis
Anubis is the god of Underworld.. maybe you will want to check and see where you are standing on top of..
Find Ibrahim Nagi
Hint.. who is burning on the stakes?
Quest can be picked up from Nassir at the SE corner of the map.
Tier 2 Neutralize the Sentry Points
Watch out for the mines, you can also use these mines against your enemies by kiting them into it. Just watch out that you don’t run into the mines while kiting!
Tier 3 – Set an explosive on the garage
There are cameras guarding the place where you need to place explosives.. how do you turn off cameras? Maybe look for a power circuit somewhere?
Tier 3 – Set an explosive on the primary pipe
Look for a something nearby that can distract the guards..
Tier 3 – Set an explosive atop the facility
Hint: Look for something to climb!
There is a spot where you can plant the explosive without taking environmental damage!
Tier 2 Perform the Ritual of the Sun
You get this jumbled text.
It is a cipher..
Here is a small spoiler
If that doesn’t ring any bells,
So if you were to translate this text.. Tip I use this website to do my dirty work!
cngu bs gurfha-eryngrf abg whfg gb gurfbyne obql, ohg gur geniry bs gur uhzna obql-ovegu gb orlbaq
rvtug synzrf-rvtug fgngvbaf ba gur cngu bs yvsr? nygubhtu gur beqre vf abg jung frrzrq vavgvnyyl boivbhf
It translates to..
7 of the 8 braziers have a note on them, which are ciphered like the previous messages. I have decipher them here for you.
You need to click 5 of the braziers in a specific sequence. The trick here is to not only look at the first word of each deciphered note, but also at the messages they contain. This will give you clues on the sequence to click. If you clicked them in the wrong sequence, you will hear a beep and need to start over. Use that beep to guide you.
If you need help, here is the sequence you need to click:
Once you got the right sequence, you will see a beam and you will need to jump down to your left and head for the beam. Keep in mind that there is a large gap you need to jump across, so don’t fall or you will need to run back!
Tier 3 – Find and Decipher Montgomery’s research notes
His notes are found close to the crystal radiating the beams.
There is another note you need to decipher, but it is not really essential to progressing the next tier.
The goal here is to use the beams from the large crystal and focus them on the smaller crystals so that the beams can reflect and enter the tunnel below. It involves a lot of trial and error but here is the completed sequence under the spoiler tags.
The goal here is to connect to the big stick in the middle, now for beam 4 the thingie on the wall is a bit hard to reach. You need to stand on the side of the stairs and turn it.
Tier 4: Perform the Ritual of Lineage
Here is the text you will get.
evghny bs yvarntr -n cenlre orsber eblnygl? pehqr qrcvpgvnaf bs nxurangra-gurfr jrer abg znqr gb ubabhe uvz
pbafvqre guranzrf-nxurangra’f anzr renfrq nsgre qrngu – ohg gung jnf abg uvf gehranzr n cenlre gb gehgu
Deciphered into..
For this one there are 3 statues on the left and 3 statues on the right, with one statue in the middle. You need to /pray to the right ones in order to advance the quest.
Given the clues, there is another hint that I will give you: Akhenaten… known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV.
Now you will see these hieroglyphs next to these statues. You can try to translate them by hand but these are not standard hieroglyphs. Instead, refer to this chart on Wikipedia.
I will let you figure out how to do it using the clues and the chart from Wikipedia. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to solve this puzzle as someone else in the room randomly using the statues advanced the quest for me even though I wasn’t grouped with them. Thankfully a reader (thank you Exaizul) was able to do it and he provided the following solution.
This stealth/sabotage mission can be picked up from Shani after you have finished the Siege of Al-Merayah
Tier 1 – Find a way Inside
Hint: Not all the buildings are accessed from the front entrance.. in Egypt you should always check the buildings from the back!
Tier 2 – Find a way inside
Hint: Check the sides of the building..
Having trouble with the laser beam blocking the door?
It is near a window…
Having trouble accessing the computer?
Don’t forget to turn something off!
Tier 3 Find a way to the roof.
There doesn’t seem to be an obvious path to the top of the roof.. what about checking the top of other buildings and see if any of their roof connect to it?
Having an issue with the bodyguards? See if there is a path that allow you to skip them maybe?
This is another investigation mission in the zone. It is picked up from Khalid near Scorched Flats
The biggest hint I can give you is that this mission can be done in two ways. The hard way is to translate Arabic numbers to numbers form you are familiar with and then look for the corresponding passages in the Bible.
The easy way is to use this page and look at your surroundings.
Also, remember that the scripts are written backwards!
This is what the staff looks like, the symbol at the bottom is the enter key.
Tier 1 – Examine the altar
The altar is located here if you have trouble finding it.
When you click it, you will see this symbol.
If you have trouble translating it.. it is passage
Look at your surroundings, what do you see?
You will need to enter the following in the staff. Remember you gotta do it backwards!
Tier 2 – Examine the altar
The altar is here.
Here is the Arabic symbol
It is passage
Here is the passage
Again, remember to enter it backwards.
Tier 3 – Examine the altar
The altar is located here
Arabic symbol
It is passage..
which says..
Tier 4 – Examine the altar
Altar located here
Symbol
It is passage
which says..
Now this one isa bit tricky as you may not seen the corresponding symbols on the staff, if you need help it is this one.
Tier 5
Altar here
It is the following passage
There is a surprise waiting for you… so click it fast!
Just in case
Signal effect is a side quest picked up from a laptop located here (beside the Council of Venice vendors)
Despite the fact that this is a side mission, don’t be fooled! It is actually a full blown investigation/puzzle mission.
Tier 1 Check the Laptop for more information
There are two entries in the laptop that are important to know
First Satellite Dish
The first dish is located here
Getting to it is going to be fun!
Remember that clue from the laptop?
Here is what we get..
Oh my! A bunch of letters and numbers!
Second Satellite Dish
Here is the second dish!
How do you get to it? Hint: Look at the back of the building
Third Satellite Dish
How to get up top?
Oh this one is ugly!
Fourth Dish
Getting to it..
Be very careful with this one – it is actually 4 pages of codes! (you see to scroll up to see the 3rd page)
Tier 2 – Find the source of the transmission
Ok that is a lot of codes.. Let me give you a hint, these are computer encoding systems.. what else is there other than binary?
Now you will probably want to translate them… issue is how to copy them down and how to translate them?
Let me help you out! You can just copy/paste them into a website like http://home.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/ and do translate, I will let you figure out which is which..
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23 20 68 24 21 29 20 24 23 3f 20 43 2b 3d 2a 28
25 20 40 2b 72 20 29 5e 78 20 24 21 79 24 20 40
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20 21 63 21 28 23 73 20 74 2b 24 20 25 5e 26 40
20 6f 2a 20 24 69 2b 40 2e 20 46 5f 24 2a 21 79
2d 28 5e 75 29 20 21 65 61 23 2b 23 20 5e 2b 5e
76 21 20 21 68 5f 25 20 2a 20 21 28 40 23 79 2c
20 62 40 25 20 2a 20 63 24 69 29 40 20 28 2b 20
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2b 7e 20 21 65 21 5f 24 21 20 48 25 2a 40 20 6d
2a 20 5f 6f 3d 24 40 21
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36 33 32 40 37 42 100 32 36 42 32 119 33 61 36
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00101010 00100000 01101111 01111110 00100000
00100001 00101010 00100001 01011111 01101000
00100001 00100000 00101000 01100101 00101010
01000000 00100000 00100100 00101010 00100000
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00100001
Got them translated?
For me personally, it was a lot easier to read them having align the four lines of translated text in notepad..
Figured it out yet? Let me give you a hint: 3 lies, 1 truth
Ok.. if you can’t figure it out.. here is the message!
Well.. that doesn’t really tell you where does it.. Now.. look at the clues mentioned
Where did you see pits of fire in your travel?
Does this place ring any bells?
Ever wondered what is the structure at the end of it?
Can’t find it?
Ohh but the box asks for a code.. remember that passage your deciphered? Don’t you think there was something odd there?
Tada!
