Dereliction of Duty
Walkthrough
Continue Captain Boshinko's cover-up in High Keep by researching his service record, clearing hounds, and scrubbing bloodstains from the jail before setting up Higginsbot's return.
How to start
Speak with Captain Boshinko in High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested) after completing Paranoia.
- Captain Boshinko (quest start)
Notes & prerequisites
- Must have completed Paranoia.
- Adventure level 103+ (Heroic difficulty).
- High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion [Contested] was originally a Gold subscription zone.
Steps
1. Find Captain Boshinko's service details
Search the books and papers of High Keep for details of Captain Boshinko's service. Click the book in a chest in the room where you climb down to the bottom floor via a hole in the floor.
- Clicky book (service details)
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
2. Find the Iron Maiden
Locate the Iron Maiden in the jail room. You need a skeleton key from an undead warden (as in Paranoia) to enter — you will return to this area repeatedly.
- Iron Maiden (jail room)
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
3. Destroy 20 hounds
Kill 20 hounds found throughout High Keep.
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
4. Go to the Captain in the Iron Maiden
Captain Boshinko has moved into the Iron Maiden in the jail room.
- Captain Boshinko (Iron Maiden)
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
5. Clean 12 bloodstains
Clean 12 bloodstains from the floors. They are group updates visible only to players on the quest, scattered across all rooms in the jail area.
- Bloodstain
- Bloodstain
- Bloodstain
- Bloodstain
- Bloodstain
- Bloodstain
- Bloodstain
- Bloodstain
- Bloodstain
- Bloodstain
- Bloodstain
- Bloodstain
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
6. Return to the Captain
Return to Captain Boshinko in the Iron Maiden. He tells you to find something to spawn Higginsbot — a shiny book next to Thrott upstairs, explained in the next quest.
- Captain Boshinko (Iron Maiden)
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
Tips
- Keep killing undead wardens for skeleton keys — you will need jail access many times in this timeline.
- Bloodstains are quest-visible only and update for the whole group.
- The service-details book is in a chest in the room with the hole-in-floor descent to the bottom level.
Guide adapted from EQ2 Fandom (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Quest Text
There is something very wrong with Captain Boshinko. After indulging his bout of paranoia and destroying some of the dead walking the halls of High Keep, he restarted his initial conversation with me and asked that I go find that 'rat' for him. Instead of doing that, I think I should try to figure out what happened to Captain Boshinko, and break him out of this unending cycle.
Completion
Captain Boshinko remains trapped within the iron maiden he was placed in so many years ago. I attempted to put him at ease by removing some of the things causing him distress, but he remains trapped within an unending cycle of torment and pain. I will likely have to find another solution.
Stages
- Stage 1
With Captain Boshinko acting so strangely, I think it's in his best interests if I can locate information on what happened to him. High Keep has books and documentation everywhere - if it was anything like Freeport or Qeynos, there should be a file on Captain Boshinko's service somewhere.
Try to find details of Captain Boshinko's service
Zone: Exp10 Dun Highkeep Contested
In the vault, I found a logbook detailing some of the Captain's history.
- Stage 2
I've found a logbook documenting disciplinary action performed on the contingent stationed here. It describes a disturbing fall from grace on the part of the Captain. The last entry mentions him being locked within an iron maiden somewhere in the jail. I should see if there's anything left there.
Find the iron maiden
Zone: Exp10 Dun Highkeep Contested
I found the voice of Captain Boshinko, trapped within an iron maiden.
- Stage 3(2 objectives)
Captain Boshinko hears the baying of hounds in his unlife - they do not stop, though I cannot hear them. Perhaps if I destroy some of the undead hounds here in High Keep, he will regain his composure.
Destroy the hounds within High Keep
Required: 20Zone: Exp10 Dun Highkeep Contested
Rewards
Coin: 1,250,000
XP: 21,191
No item rewards listed in Census data.
Reward data may be incomplete for choice rewards and conditional items.