The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Miscellaneous Quest

The Ghost Ship of Anvil

By: Superstyle4

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The Ghost Ship of Anvil

Ready for a short item-retrieval mission? On the deck of the Serpent's Wake, the northern of the two ships docked in Anvil harbor, awaits a fretful sorceress named Varulae. The ship has just returned from a trip to Summerset Isle to retrive a crystal ball that belonged to Varulae's mother... and the crew's been murdered. They are now "Spectral Sailors" - armed with cutlasses and adjusted to your level - and they haunt the ship. You're to get the crystal ball from a chest on the bottom deck and return it to Varulae.

Using the key provided, let yourself into the cabin, take the captain's key from his body, loot the chest (100 gold, a piece of leveled magic jewelry, and a jade necklace), beat on the thing here, and drop down the hatch to the mid-deck. Nothing much to see here - two baddies and two dead crew members behind closed doors - so trot to the hatch to the lower deck at the far end of the halland descend to the hold.

Kill two more ghosts, take the crystal ball from the chest near the ladder - and, if you like, some loot at the far end of the hold - and get topside again. The sorceress offers up the enchanted cutlass Redwave (which has a leveled Drain Health enchantment) and then makes her way to The Count's Arms in Anvil, where she'll hang out.

The murderer of the sailors? You're not given any direct clues on the ship, but in the Dark Brotherhood quest "Following a Lead" you retrive a traitor's diary from a macabre apartment beneath the Anvil Lighthouse. In the middle of that book, there's a story about sailors visiting the lighthouse and ridiculing the writer as a "human rat".

"So I snuck on board, later that night, and I slit their throats. Every last one of them... The Ghost Ship of Anvil they call it now!"

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- Superstyle4 (Happy Gaming =p)