Help for Father Brown

Questline

Required
level

96

To access this questline you must finish:

• Save the saloon, part 2

ID:860		A friend, a good friend
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Resolve: Showdown (Save the saloon, part 2)		700
Start Hello {PLAYER_NAME}, good to see you! I have just arrived from Potomac county where I was visiting my cousin, Archibald Brown. He is the priest in Carson Village, pretty busy old lad. The priest of the neighboring town Auburn has gone missing. Archibald has taken care of Auburn for two months now, but he gets more and more exhausted and needs some help. You are an honest man, {PLAYER_NAME}. Could you do me a favor and offer Archibald some help?	Finish I knew that you wouldn't let down a priest. Let me just finish a letter to my cousin. Oh and something else, please meet with him unarmed. The first impression is the most important!

ID:861		Arrival at Father Brown's
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: A friend, a good friend (Help for Father Brown)	1 1	900
Start Archibald Brown is a man in his forties, thickset with strong arms and a full beard. He greets you with a jolly smile.Father Brown: Hello {PLAYER_NAME}! You are the pious young man John told me about. I heard that you would like to help me ministering to Father Seaver's parish. Well well, I hope you have your song book with you?	Finish Very good. John speaks very highly of you in his letter. Let's get started...

ID:862		Welcome to Auburn
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Arrival at Father Brown's (Help for Father Brown)	15x 2h 4h	1250 650
Start Father Brown: John, I mean Sheriff Fitzburn has surely told you how difficult it was for me to minister to both parishes in Potomac County. Father Seavers' sudden disappearance was a shock to all of us, he was here with us for over 30 years and was also my mentor.Brown is silent during your ride from Carson Village to Auburn.Father Brown: Hmm, Seavers would not want me to hang my head in despair! When I came here from the coast, still wet behind my ears, one of the first lessons he taught me was that the work of a man of the faith does not end with holy words out here on the frontier. More often than not you have to help the people with worldly problems as well. I haven't been to Auburn for some days, I am sure we will find something to do.	Finish What a day! You worked a good bit and the people seem to like you. Don't mind them being a bit reserved at first, the residents of Auburn can be a bit peculiar sometimes. Come on, I will show you the vicarage and then I will return to Carson Village. I'll return here tomorrow.

ID:863		House call
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Welcome to Auburn (Help for Father Brown)	5 5 5 3 3	1200 800
Start Father Brown: Good Morning! Are you ready to see more of Auburn? Of course it is very important to take good care of the elderly members of the parish who can not walk so well anymore. Let's visit Ann Catherine Young, a good soul who lives a bit outside of Auburn.After a short ride you knock at Mrs. Young's door.Ann Catherine Young: Oh, hello Father. Is this the young gentleman that will assist you until Father Seaver is back with us?Father Brown: Umm, yes. May I introduce: {PLAYER_NAME}. I am afraid to say that we should prepare for the worst when it comes to Father Seaver. The marshal already cancelled the search for him.Ann Catherine Young: Hogwash! The good Father will come back. An old woman like myself should not be teaching you lessons about keeping your hopes up!Father Brown: You are right.What can {PLAYER_NAME} and I do for you today?Ann Catherine Young: Well, if you ask, I would be glad if you could help me with my garden. The produce has to be harvested soon so I can start making preserves.	Finish Ann Catherine Young: Oh my, what a good job you did! I'm sorry, but I have no money...Father Brown: Don't you worry, that is not necess...Ann Catherine Young: ...but I have this Bible for the newest member of our parish. It once belonged to my husband, I hope it will bring you good luck!

ID:864		Public Relations
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: House call (Help for Father Brown)	20x 2h 1h	1250 850
Start Father Brown: Well, Mrs. Young is quite unique. You should try and get to know the rest of the parish in the next few days. Talk to the people, listen to what they have to say and tell them that you will hold mass on Sunday. I have to go back to Carson Village now. Don't worry, you can do it!	Finish Gradually you get to know the people of Auburn. They are friendly towards you but still reserved. Most of them are not as open towards you as Mrs. Young.

ID:865		Glad tidings
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Public Relations (Help for Father Brown) Sunday 08:00 - 12:00	4h	1500 900
Start Saturday night and you hardly got any sleep because you were brooding over your first sermon. Once you step into the pulpit of the crowded church, your weariness is instantly gone. All eyes are set on you...	Finish After a while the initial skepticism in many faces start to change to friendly open-mindedness. Your words reach the people and after a last song and prayer together, you are standing in front of the church surrounded by lots of people that shake your hand or pat you on the shoulder.After the church has been cleaned and brushed, just as you open the door to the vicarage to finally get some rest, an unknown man approaches you.Stranger: {PLAYER_NAME}, right? There is a clerical emergency, so to speak. Could we talk for a minu...That was the last thing you heard before someone hits you on the back of the head with something heavy. You pass out.

ID:866		Scrap metal hunt
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Glad tidings (Help for Father Brown)	1 1 3 1	1500
Start You wake up with a terrible headache, your head is dripping wet, seemingly someone emptied a bucket of cold water over you. The man holding the bucket is called Craig and he is stepping aside to give room for another man. He seems to be the leader of the two. Peter Hirst: Hello Priest, my name is Peter Hirst, you have already met my brother Craig. "I beg your pardon for the discomfort but I think you have something that belongs to me. You know Father Seaver... No wait, how stupid of me, you never got to know him. He took something from me. It is of no value to you or him or anyone but me. I think I will kill you for that. Yes, killing sounds good. I won't tell you what it is, that's none of your business. Now get up and get me all metal items in this house. I am waiting, and don't try to pull something funny!	Finish While you turning the whole vicarage upside down looking for metal items, you find a small piece of paper in one of the pillows, it has a bible verse on it. You take it without attracting any attention before you bring Hirst what he asked for.Peter Hirst: Oh, that is a lot of junk. You should pray that it includes the thing I'm looking for. Otherwise you are in a lot of trouble. We'll hear from each other...

ID:867		Puzzle game
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Scrap metal hunt (Help for Father Brown)	1	900
Start It is already dark when you finally report your encounter to Father Brown.Father Brown: Terrible, just terrible! Peter Hirst and his goons are causing trouble for some time now, even before I came here. Please show me the piece of paper you found.	Finish Father Brown: 'For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.' Romans, 7:19. What could this mean? Sounds like an excuse to me. This piece of paper was so well hidden, it must have a meaning, but what is it? 'Wants to do good but doesn't', that can mean everything. Seaver seems to have been in some deep trouble but that doesn't help us any though.Romans... Romans... Some older parishioners told me about an Italian family that had been living around here. They came originally from Rome and were famous for their cooking, but that has been some time ago.Get some rest now, I will ask around tomorrow so please come back around noon.

ID:868		An eerie sight
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Puzzle game (Help for Father Brown)	2h	900
Start Father Brown: {PLAYER_NAME}, I have it! The family is still living in the area. We have to ride 20 miles to the east of here, we should find the Romans there. I couldn't get more information, the people here don't seem to like the family. At least they don't like to talk about them.	Finish You encounter a sad scenery: Nine tombstones in the middle of nowhere, someone crafted a little wooden sign: 'Here lies the Trevisano family'.Father Brown: We have to find out what happened here, it sure does look like a terrible crime. Let's consult with Mrs. Young, she knows everyone around here since decades. She can help us more than the silent villagers.

ID:869		Memories
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: An eerie sight (Help for Father Brown)		800
Start Father Brown: Hello Ann, can you tell us something about the Trevisanos?Mrs. Young looks really frightened after you mention the name. She hesitated a little but then started to talk.Ann Catherine Young: The Trevisanos? Why do you want to know about them? They were wonderful people, proud, friendly, godly. The father, a great baker, the mother a talented seamstress. They also had a little, well-running tavern. All children were doing well at school, very polite.Father Brown: But they are all dead, what happened?Ann Catherine Young: Nobody knows! Some say that they were taken by evil spirits while others say they made a pact with the devil. Stupid gossip! The family were religious like angels. One day the dead bodies of all 8 of them were found near a road 20 miles east of here. The cause of death was never discovered, there were no signs of wounds. They were buried right at that spot. The scariest stories were invented and spread. What an undeserved ending of a noble family. It has been 7 years now...	Finish Father Brown: You mentioned 8 family members, are you sure? I mean, it was a long time ago...Ann Catherine Young: I'm absolutely sure that it was 8 people. There were 8 tombstones the last time I was there, so I know that I can't be wrong. Father Brown: Thank you, Ann! {PLAYER_NAME}, you know what we have to do.

ID:870		Nine is one too many
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Memories (Help for Father Brown)	2 1h	1050 100
Start Father Brown: Blimey! All tombstones are arranged at the same distances, all but the sixth, seventh and eighth. That's it, Romans 7! Let's dig...	Finish You find a wooden chest with a letter and a small metal tin, richly ornamented. You read the letter in silence:'Dear Father Seaver,Yesterday's sermon has moved me greatly! The message of forgiveness has made me reconsider my life. I want to start anew and get rid of the guilt that I carry around for so long now: Being part in the murder of 8 innocent people. This metal tin is the key to their death. It belongs to the mastermind behind the gruesome crime. Please contact the marshal so I can reveal myself and help to convict all accomplices.- A lost son'Father Brown: There seems to be traces of a grey powder in the tin. Maybe arsenic? Slowly I start to understand what has happened here, but why?

ID:871		First contact
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Nine is one too many (Help for Father Brown)	2h	1200 800
Start Father Brown: We have to contact the 'lost son'. He is in grave danger. Let's write a coded newspaper and hope that he reads and understands it!	Finish The ad in the newspaper on the next day reads: „Get rid of your guilt by talking to our lord! Even lost souls will find salvation in our prayer group on Wednesday evening.“

ID:872		Counseling
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: First contact (Help for Father Brown)	1 1	900
Start Together with state marshal Garrett Rooney you wait in a side room of the church. Finally, the door opens and Father Brown brings in Craig Hirst. After Brown leaves you again, Craig turns to you.Craig Hirst: Good evening. I guess I owe you an explanation...	Finish Craig Hirst: This is the story of the events 7 years ago. The Trevisano family was well-liked and while their tavern was running better and better, my brother's saloon was bringing in less and less money. He then started to work as an arts dealer, or shall I say thief and smuggler?One day, Peter accepted an invitation from the Trevisanos. They wanted to reconcile and propose some business cooperation, but my brother only wanted the beautiful icons and relics the Trevisanos brought from Italy. Things like that are very rare in the West. Peter suggested a ridiculously low price to buy them. Of course they refused the offer but it was too late already. Peter poisoned a cake in the kitchen which was meant for a family picnic the next day. And while the Trevisano family died somewhere in the wilderness, we were robbing their house.Marshal Garret Rooney: And because of the eerie circumstances, no one was looking for the truth behind their deaths.Craig Hirst: Right. When I could not carry the guilt with me anymore, I sent the letter and the tin to Father Seaver. But instead of contacting the marshals, he confronted my brother. He wanted to convince him that a confession would ease his mind. He had no idea what my brother is capable of doing. Peter had him kidnapped and interrogated, but so far he has not said a word about me or the metal tin.Marshal Garret Rooney: Father Seaver is still alive?!Craig Hirst: Yes, he is in a cave, 40 miles east of here.Marshal Garret Rooney: Lead us there now! You are under arrest but I will make sure the judge hears of your cooperation.

ID:873		The hunt
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Counseling (Help for Father Brown)	2h	1050 2000
Start You immediately start riding to the cave Craig told you about. Can you trust him and will you find Father Seaver and the Hirst gang there?	Finish After a short shootout, Peter Hirst's goons have retreated back into the cave which is now surrounded by law enforcement officers. The situation is tense, it is very likely to escalate soon.Craig Hirst: This is useless! If we corner my brother like that, something bad is going to happen. Come on, {PLAYER_NAME}, I know a secret passage into the cave. Let's free the father and Peter won't have any ace up his sleeve anymore.

ID:874		In the lion's den
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: The hunt (Help for Father Brown)	Lose against Peter Hirst	1800 4000
Start Thanks to Craig, you sneak into the cave unnoticed. You find a tied up and crouched down person in one corner. It turns out to be Father Seaver! Just as you try to release him, you hear the clicking of a colt behind you:Peter Hirst: The priest! Haven't I told you that we will meet again? You didn't bring me my property? I don't care anymore. And you are armed with only a Bible at a shootout? How stupid of you, especially because I have a hostage.	Finish A shot rings out and a stinging pain hits you and leaves you gasping for air. Much to everyone's astonishment you are not bleeding! Instead you hear a sharp crack and Peter Hirst falls over like a log. His brother Craig is behind him, an improvised club, made from a chair's leg in hand.Craig Hirst: I am sorry brother, but no more killing anymore!

ID:875		Father Seaver
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: In the lion's den (Help for Father Brown)	1	800
Start Father Seaver: Whoever you are, I owe you my life! And it looks like you owe yours to a very special guardian angel.He points to your bible, which has now a smoking hole with Peter's bullet in the middle.Father Seaver: Mysterious ways, indeed, hehe!	Finish A short time later, the rest of the Hirst gang is overpowered as well. The completely exhausted Father is being transported into town.

ID:876		The Trevisano's memento
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Father Seaver (Help for Father Brown)	2h 4h	6000 5000 50
Start Father Brown: Good morning, {PLAYER_NAME}! You look rested. You will be happy to hear that Father Seaver is recovering fast. The Hirst gang will spend a lot of time in jail. Craig should get away with less time than the others and he already declared to pick up charity work after he gets out of prison. The last thing to do is to transport the remains of the Trevisanos to Auburn so they can get a proper burial. Would you help us with that?	Finish Father Brown: Thank you, {PLAYER_NAME}, you have helped the people of Potomac County a great deal with everything you've done. What is your next adventure? Whatever it is, may God guide you on your way.