Shivering:A Liquid Solution

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Contents 1 Quick Walkthrough 2 Detailed Walkthrough 2.1 Sickly Bernice 2.2 Knotty Bramble 2.3 Reward 3 Notes 4 Bugs 5 Journal Entries

Find the Ultimate Cure. edit Quest Giver: Sickly Bernice at Crucible Location(s): Crucible, Knotty Bramble Prerequisite Quest: None Next Quest: None Reward: Circlet of Verdure ID: SE41

Knotty Bramble, at night, in the dark.

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to Sickly Bernice in her Taphouse.
2. Retrieve her antidote from Knotty Bramble.
3. Return the miraculous "cure" to Bernice for your reward.

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

[edit] Sickly Bernice

In the southern section of Crucible there is an inn, not quite rumored around town for its cleanliness, called Sickly Bernice's Taphouse. Its proprietor of course being, Sickly Bernice, talk to her and she'll explain about her "deathly" condition. Fortunately, she has been graciously told where a cure is located. "A traveler came in one evening and said he would tell me where a cure was located, if I let him stay in one of the rooms for free", she says. She'll give you 'Bernice's Empty Flask' and explain you need to go to Knotty Bramble and find the pool of water with the Grummite altar in the middle which contains aquanostrum, the antidote she needs to be cured.

[edit] Knotty Bramble

Knotty Bramble is a cave southeast from the Gates of Madness, east of Fellmoor, slightly off Pinnacle Road. It consists of three zones all quite heavily guarded by Grummites, however, the pool of water with the altar is just located in the second zone 'Knotty Bramble Hatchery'. Following your quest marker, just wade into the pool toward the statue, and you'll receive a quest update confirming you have the antidote. The third zone contains a nice array of loot and a unique item needed for a separate quest, information on how to solve the mini-puzzle protecting it can be found at Knotty Bramble.

[edit] Reward

Make the trip back to New Sheoth to see Sickly Bernice. Once you give her the antidote, she'll reward you with the Circlet of Verdure.

[edit] Notes

• After a while, if you speak to her again, Bernice will ask for more of the stuff and give you another flask, but there is no new quest, and going back to the statue does not update that you've gotten the antidote. However, once you go back, she'll pay you with a leveled amount of gold (to a maximum of 450 gold coins).

[edit] Bugs

• If you return to the statue after completing the quest, you will receive an Aquanostrum flask even if you hadn't collected the empty flask from Bernice. This is marked as a quest item so it cannot be dropped. If you talk to Bernice and agree to help her again you can hand over the full flask only to be stuck with an empty one instead. The only fix is to use the console: player.removeitem 0006ea50 will remove the full flask from your inventory; player.removeitem 0006ea4f will remove the empty flask.
  • This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.

[edit] Journal Entries

A Liquid Solution (SE41)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
5		I've spoken to Sickly Bernice in New Sheoth. It seems she believes she is dying of some horrible malady, and only I can locate the cure. Strangely, she looks well to me, but she promises a reward for the cure's return. Perhaps I should hear her out.
10		Sickly Bernice has told me the cure for her mysterious malady is a sample of water from a pool at the bottom of Knotty Bramble that she calls aquanostrum. She's marked the location on my map. I should make my way there and recover this miraculous antidote.
20		I've entered Knotty Bramble. I should make my way carefully to the pool Sickly Bernice spoke of and recover a sample of aquanostrum.
25		I've arrived at the pool Sickly Bernice described. I should get as close as possible to the statue in its center to gather a sample of the aquanostrum.
30		I've recovered a sample of aquanostrum from the pool Sickly Bernice described. I should return to New Sheoth and present it to her for my well-deserved reward.
100	0	Sickly Bernice has rewarded me for recovering the cure to her ailment.

Notes

• Not all Journal Entries may appear in your journal; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the quest is done.
• Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with quests that have multiple possible outcomes or quests where certain tasks may be done in random order.
• If an entry is marked as "Finishes Quest" it means the quest disappears from the Active Quest list, but you may still receive new entries for that quest.
• On the PC, it is possible to use the console to advance through the quest by entering setstage quest stage. Where quest is the internal name of the quest, and stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) quest stages. See SetStage for more information.