Paranoia
Walkthrough
Help Captain Boshinko cover his tracks in High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion by eliminating threats, destroying Committee evidence, and stashing proof in Higginsbot's old jail cell.
How to start
Speak with Captain Boshinko in High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested) to begin the High Keep heritage timeline.
- Captain Boshinko (quest start)
Notes & prerequisites
- Adventure level 103+ (Heroic difficulty).
- High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion [Contested] was originally a Gold subscription zone.
Steps
1. Kill Gnawbone in the larder
Captain Boshinko asks you to kill a 'rat' in the larder — actually the named hell-hound Gnawbone.
- Watch for red script messages during the fight — when the hell-hound is about to regurgitate, get behind crates or a counter and crouch (default Z). Failing to crouch in time is a one-shot death.
- Gnawbone
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
2. Return to Captain Boshinko
Return to Captain Boshinko after killing Gnawbone.
- Captain Boshinko
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
3. Kill Horrot the Horrific
Kill the guard in the shadows — Horrot the Horrific — then return to Captain Boshinko.
- Horrot the Horrific
- Captain Boshinko
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
4. Kill the Committee investigators
Kill Ryvast, Trysk, and Nymeer before they finish investigating Captain Boshinko.
- Ryvast, Trysk, and Nymeer
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
5. Destroy evidence pages
Destroy 12 clicky evidence pages on the floor of the Sanctum of the Shadowmancers (Globe room), on the stairs leading to the Bloodpack Hunting Grounds, and throughout that lower room.
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
6. Return to Captain Boshinko
Return to Captain Boshinko after destroying the evidence.
- Captain Boshinko
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
7. Place evidence in Higginsbot's jail cell
Kill an undead warden in the lower regions to loot a skeleton key (LORE TEMPORARY — despawns on use, zone, or camp). Use it to enter the jail and place the evidence in Higginsbot's old cell — the same cell Bigs the Big sends you to in High Keep: The Pickclaw Depths.
- Track is useful for finding the undead warden.
- The jail door is at the bottom of the stairs on the right when descending from the Casino area into the tunnels.
- Undead warden (skeleton key)
- Undead warden (alternate)
- Jail door
- Higginsbot's old jail cell
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
8. Complete the quest
Return to Captain Boshinko to finish and pick up Dereliction of Duty.
- Captain Boshinko
Zone: High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)
Tips
- You will need skeleton keys repeatedly in this timeline — plan to kill undead wardens each time you need jail access.
- The Gnawbone fight requires actual crouching, not sitting, when the regurgitate warning appears.
- Evidence pages are scattered across the Globe room and Bloodpack Hunting Grounds stairs — search thoroughly.
Guide adapted from EQ2 Fandom (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Quest Text
I met a ghostly captain of High Keep's guards. He wants me to find and kill a rat that has taken up residence in the keep's larder. I've dealt with many more terrifying things in Norrath - this should not be an issue.
Completion
The ghostly Captain Boshinko hired me to destroy several of the undead creatures living here in High Keep. He seems to be replaying something that happened to him in life - in my last conversation with him, he repeated word for word my first conversation with him. I can only suppose that in life he hired an assassin, and is reliving these decisions over and over... I wonder if I can break the cycle?
Stages
- Stage 1(2 objectives)
Captain Boshinko has asked that I kill a 'rat' in the larder. He seems to be insinuating I take care of something else, but I'll check it out anyway.
Find and kill a 'rat' that is raiding High Keep's larder
Zone: Exp10 Dun Highkeep ContestedDone: I have killed the 'rat' Captain Boshinko spoke of
Return to Captain Boshinko
Zone: Exp10 Dun Highkeep Contested
I found a creature by the name of Gnawbone raiding the larder. I wasn't sure that this is what Boshinko spoke of, but it did look a little... ratlike. In any case, he seems pleased, but a bit disturbed...
- Stage 2(2 objectives)
Captain Boshinko seems to be very concerned about a guard that may have seen me kill Gnawbone. He wants me to take care of him before he can tell anyone else about what he may or may not have seen. From what the Captain says, he likes to hide in the shadows...
Find and kill the guard who walks in shadows
Zone: Exp10 Dun Highkeep ContestedDone: I've killed Horrot, the Shadow Walker
Return to Captain Boshinko
Zone: Exp10 Dun Highkeep Contested
I've killed Horrot, the guard that Captain Boshinko spoke of, but his paranoia seems to be getting the better of him.
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.