Dereliction of Duty

Level 103HeritageSolo

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).

Original sources

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Quest information

Journal Category: Heritage (AA)
Introduced: Tears of Veeshan
Journal Level: 103
Journal Difficulty: Heroic
Starting Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
How to Start: Speak to Captain Boshinko at in {{Zone|High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)}}
Timeline: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion Timeline

Source: EQ2 Fandom (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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.

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).

Dereliction of Duty

Walkthrough

How to start

Notes & prerequisites

Steps

1. Find Captain Boshinko's service details

2. Find the Iron Maiden

3. Destroy 20 hounds

4. Go to the Captain in the Iron Maiden

5. Clean 12 bloodstains

6. Return to the Captain

Original sources

Quest information

Rewards

Walkthrough

How to start

Notes & prerequisites

Steps

1. Find Captain Boshinko's service details

2. Find the Iron Maiden

3. Destroy 20 hounds

4. Go to the Captain in the Iron Maiden

5. Clean 12 bloodstains

6. Return to the Captain

Original sources