Guide Off the Edge of the Map

Lv 180–205 · both worlds · Quill, Leafre · 5 chapters · optional

Quill is the old chartkeeper in Leafre, on the lower street between the Weapon Store and the market. He has kept Maren Varn's compass pointed at the same wall for sixty years, and today it turned. Maren was the last of the Wayfinders, and she walked off the edge of the map. This questline follows her to the Margin, where Meridian measures everything that comes near the line.

The level cap is 250 for everyone, so this questline is optional. It pays a lot of EXP, mesos and the Edgewalker medal. Chapters 1 to 4 are Quill's; the Five Measures belong to Meridian and Maren at the Margin.

The Margin, where the Five Measures take place.

1 · The Compass That Points Nowhere

Lv 180 · Quill, Leafre

• Quill gives you the Wayfinder's Compass. Keep it: chapters 2 and 3 need it too.
• The compass only stirs in Leafre. Double-click it there and a Waymark appears for you alone: "The needle swings toward a place she once stood."
  
• Walk to the Waymark and click it from within about 150 px. It tells you a memory of Maren, and the next Waymark appears on its own.
• There are five stops across Leafre: roughly the far west down low, the west up high, the middle down low, the east up high, and the far east at the top.
• When the needle says "The needle stopped for good. Go and tell Quill.", talk to Quill.

2 · Pages in the Wind

Lv 185 · Quill

• Quill gives you Maren's Journal (the binding) and a riddle. Each riddle names a town.
• Go to that town and use the compass. A Loose Journal Page drifts down next to you (only you can see it) and Maren's words appear. Pick it up.
• Talk to Quill for the next riddle; the compass also repeats it anywhere outside the right town. The pages come in order, and the compass only answers in the town of the next page.

Each page has one word in capitals: WALK, UNTIL, THE, LINE, MOVES. With all five pages, Quill asks what she wrote.

3 · The Borrowed Shapes

Lv 190 · Quill

• Go to a hunting ground with monsters of level 150 or higher (not a town, a boss map or an instance) and use the compass. It only borrows monsters that can actually be hurt, so event obstacles are skipped.
• The nearest normal monster of level 150+ shows what it really is: a borrowed shape with the same look and 20 times the HP. It says "...not what I seem."
• You have 60 seconds to kill it, and it has to be your own kill. It drops one Unwritten Ink, for you only. If it slips away, try again. After an unmasking, the compass rests for 30 seconds.
• Bring 3 Unwritten Ink to Quill.

4 · The Last Voyage

Lv 195 · Quill takes you out on his skiff

The Unwritten Sea.

• You sail to the Unwritten Sea, a private deck with a 4-minute clock.
• Borrowed shapes climb over the rail in three waves: 6, then 6, then 8. They wear the shapes of old beginner monsters: Slimes, Jr. Neckis, Stirges, Ribbon Pigs, Trixters and Green Trixters, each with 930,000 HP.
• After the third wave comes the biggest shape: a King Block Golem with 60,000,000 HP.
• Clear every wave and the Golem before the clock ends. Monsters here give no EXP or drops. Then you land at the Margin: talk to Meridian to finish the chapter. Maren is there too.
• If the clock runs out or you die, you're back in Leafre. Talk to Quill ("Cast off?") to try again. Later, his skiff can take you straight back to the Margin ("Back out to the Margin?").

5 · The Five Measures

Lv 200 · Meridian and Maren, the Margin

• Meridian keeps four Measures, and Maren keeps the last. Take Meridian's four in any order: pick one from its menu, and it tells you the rules and asks if you're ready. Heart (Maren) comes last.
• Failing a Measure costs nothing but the try, and there's no limit on retries.
• The Measure rooms are private copies of the Margin. You can't change channel or open the Cash Shop inside. Any portal takes you back to the Margin, and dying fails the room. Dying in a room costs nothing: no Chaos life and no EXP. (A death out on the Margin itself costs the usual EXP.)

Measure of Distance (90 seconds)

Meridian's five marks appear one at a time along the floor. Touch each in order by clicking it from within about 150 px.

Measure of Memory (8 statements)

Meridian says a statement over its head, and you have 10 seconds. Stand left of Meridian for true and right for false; where you stand when the 10 seconds end is your answer. You can miss two; the third miss sends you back. The 8 statements are drawn from these 16:

Measure of Wit (Omok against Meridian)

• The normal Omok window opens. You play black and go first. Exactly five in a row wins; six or more doesn't count. You can't make a double three (two open threes at once) unless that move makes five.
• Win one game to pass. If you lose, another game is set up. If your move clock runs out, the turn passes to Meridian.

Measure of Strength (5 minutes)

The same fight as the Last Voyage, in a Measure room: three waves of borrowed shapes (6, 6, 8) at 930,000 HP each, then the King Block Golem with 60,000,000 HP. Clear them all before the clock ends.

Measure of Heart (Maren, after the other four)

Talk to Maren on the Margin. She asks, "Will you take the last step with me?"

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