To begin this quest you need to speak to Brimstail who is in a cave west of the spirit tree in the Stronghold. Brimstail agrees to tell you about his knowledge of magic if you help him. He tells you to go look around in the room nextdoor.
Walk west through the cave and over to a hole in the ground. Inspect the singing bowl and go north and click on both parts of the machine(exchanger and machine)then go talk to Brimstail again.
Brimstail tells you to go talk to Hazelmere, which you DO NOT need any items to talk to Hazelmere. You just need level 46 magic to decifer what he says.
Hazelmere is located east of Yanille on a penninsula, up a ladder in his house. Speak to him and he will perform magic on you so that you can mind talk with him. Hazelmere tells you some stories and you see some cutscenes, after this is all done, Hazelmere will give you a disc. Return to Brimstail.
Speak with Brimstail to find out an invisible intruder has smashed up the machine! You need level 5 construction, a mud rune, a pestal and mortor, a saw, a hammer, maple logs, oak logs, and a bucket of sap. Use a pestal and mortor on the mud rune and then use it with the bucket of sap. Then click repair the machine.
Now you have reached the hardest part of the quest. You need to unlock the machine. The Machine Panel to the west of the machine will show you some colored blocks. The formula to unlock the machine is as follows: Number of blocks times sides on the same color shape equals a number. The number you get can be used to unlock the machine. For example if the number you have is the number 6 you will need an orange triangle because 3 times 2 is 6(3 sides times 2 blocks). There will be 4 numbers to unlock, so be ready to use your mind to decifer them! Here are the ones I got..
3 - red triangle
32 - blue pentagon, violet circle
46 - orange triangle, blue square x2
To get different shapes you need to click on the exchanger. Put in one shape at a time and up to 3 shapes. Then click on the arrow to the right of left to get new shapes you can exchange your current ones for. An example is a green square and a yellow triangle can be exchanged for a violet triangle and a green circle. I do not know if there is a special formula for this also, so if anyone could tell me to add it, thanks.
After you unlock the machine you find out that the "cute" creatures are actually evil spies! You must kill them all. Here are where they all are...
They are in the GENERAL AREA of where I took the pictures.
After you have killed all of them, you must speak to the King. After you are done speaking with him he gives you a small crystal seed. Congrats, quest complete.
Once you complete the quest, go talk to Brimstail again. He tells you to check out the singing bowl in the other room, they might be related. Walk across the newly made bridge and click sing glass. a small scence happens and the seed turns into a crystal saw. The saw is rumored to add 3 construction levels while in your house...
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