Editing Follow the Convoy

'''Follow the Convoy''' is a sub-[[quest]] of [[Infiltrate Moonrise Towers]] in [[Act Two]] of Baldur's Gate 3. It can be started by speaking with Goblin near the entrance to the Shadowlands from aboveground in the [[Mountain Pass]].

[[File:Follow the Convoy Quest.jpg|thumb|The drider offers safe passage through the Shadow-Cursed Lands.]]

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==Objectives==
''Objectives and journal entries may vary pending player decisions and outcomes.''
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<div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Retrieve the instrument from the drow Minthara.</div>
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* We met a group of cultists preparing to travel to Moonrise Towers. They are waiting for a guide who must be summoned using an instrument the drow Minthara possessed.
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<div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Find the cultist camp.</div>
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* We reached the shadow-cursed lands. We can use Minthara's instrument to summon a creature to guide us to Moonrise Towers, but we need to find the right place to play it.
* We met a goblin who told us of a group of cultists up ahead. We should check out their camp.
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<div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Summon the guide.</div>
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* We met a group of cultists preparing to travel to Moonrise Towers. They are waiting for a guide. We should use Minthara's instrument to summon the guide.
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<div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Talk to the drider.</div>
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* We summoned the drider. We should speak to him.
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<div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Follow the drider.</div>
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* We need to stay close to the drider in order to reach Moonrise Towers.
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* Harpers are attacking the convoy - we must defend it.
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<div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Continue toward Moonrise Towers.</div>
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* We defeated the Harpers and should continue following the drider.
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* The drider can no longer aid us.
* The drider made it to Moonrise Towers.
* We turned against the drider and sided with the Harpers.
* We reached Moonrise Towers without help from the cultists.
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== Walkthrough ==
If the party chooses to use the [[Mountain Pass]] route, as part of [[Travel through the Mountain Pass]], then a goblin greets them and asks if they are the True Soul the goblin is expecting. The goblin tells the party to grab a torch, stick to the light as much as possible, and go to the rendezvous point to wait for the guide to Moonrise Towers. This starts the quest.

Approach the rendezvous point and an orc named [[Kansif]] asks if they have what is needed to summon the guide. To summon the Drider guide, Vez explains that a special lyre is needed - the [[Spider's Lyre]]. This lyre can be looted off [[Minthara|Minthara's]] corpse if she was killed during [[Defeat the Goblins]], gifted by Minthara if she was sided with during [[Raid the Grove]], or by rescuing [[Nere]] in [[Free True Soul Nere]] and siding with him. Once the lyre has been produced, a Performance check (DC 16) is prompted, but the result is the same whether it's passed or failed - the guide just makes a snide comment if it was played poorly. If the party does not have the lyre, then they can summon the guide using illithid powers (Wisdom DC 14). Additionally, Barbarians, Sorcerers, Bards, Clerics, and Paladins all have special dialogue to summon the guide.

The guide in question is a Drider named [[Kar'niss]]. He owns a functioning [[Moonlantern]] and has been tasked with shuttling cultist initiates to Moonrise Towers. When the party is ready, he'll ferry them to Moonrise. Once the party agrees, Kar'niss takes off and the party must remain in the glow of his Moonlantern to stave off the shadow curse.

During the trek, a group of Harpers ambush the convoy. The party has a chance to betray the convoy and help the Harpers, or fight alongside the convoy in the hopes of being more convincing at Moonrise. If the party allies with the Harpers, they take the drider's Moonlantern and refer the party to [[Last Light Inn]]. If the party avoids making [[Jaheira]] hostile at the Inn, then they can gain the Moonlantern by speaking with [[Isobel]]. If the party sticks with the convoy, then Kar'niss safely guides them to the front entrance to [[Moonrise Towers]].

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