A Confounding Conundrum

A Confounding Conundrum is the first act of Faruzan's Hangout Event. In order to unlock this quest line, the player needs 2 Story Keys, must have reached Adventure Rank 40, and have completed the following quests:

• Archon Quest Chapter III: Act V - Akasha Pulses, the Kalpa Flame Rises
• Tighnari's Story Quest, Vulpes Zerda Chapter: Act I - The Unanswerable Problems

Summary

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Quests

Quests List

• A Mysterious Senior...?
  • Essential Classic
  • Early Learning Mechanism
  • Wanderings of a Lonesome Shadow

Quests Map

A Mysterious Senior...?	An Akademic Problem (A Mysterious Senior...?)	Doing Paperwork Sure Is Tough! (Essential Classic)	Finding Teaching Material Sure Is Tough! (Essential Classic)	Being a Classic Sure Is Tough! (Essential Classic)	Ending: Stories of the Past
		Toys and How to Play With Them (Early Learning Mechanism)	Question and Answer Time (Early Learning Mechanism)	A Failed Reference Book...? (Early Learning Mechanism)	Ending: Knowledge is Wealth!
				Potential Students...? (Early Learning Mechanism)	Ending: The Gardener and the Nursery
		A Greater Problem (Wanderings of a Lonesome Shadow)	The Ruin Wanderer (Wanderings of a Lonesome Shadow)	Suspicion Abounds (Wanderings of a Lonesome Shadow)	Thoughts That Wandered For a Century (Wanderings of a Lonesome Shadow)	Time to Decide (Wanderings of a Lonesome Shadow)	A Promise to the Future (Wanderings of a Lonesome Shadow)	Ending: Start Over
							Chat Under the Moonlight (Wanderings of a Lonesome Shadow)	Ending: "Welcome Back, Faruzan."

Characters

21 Characters appear in this Hangout Event:

• Alia
• Anis
• Bakr
• Bandak
• Collei
• Derafsh
• Farruq
• Faruzan
• Kamal
• Karkata
• Maddah
• Mamdouh
• Nadwah
• Nazenin
• Qasit
• Raed
• Ruhi
• Servan
• Tamimi
• Tighnari
• Traveler

Ending Rewards

Hangout Memories Unlocked	Rewards
1	100 20 3
2	100 5 3
3	100 20 5
4	100 5 3
5	100 20 3

Endings

Branch	Description	Hangout Memory
		Aether	Lumine
Stories of the Past	Tales of the past remain radiant even now.
Knowledge is Wealth!	All knowledge will find its use.
The Gardener and the Nursery	"So long as the pursuit of knowledge brings you joy, I'm fine with it... But won't you reconsider? Haravatat's classes are very interesting too!"
Start Over	New friends, a new life, a new beginning.
"Welcome Back, Faruzan."	Where once she was adrift on the sea of time, she has found her home shore once again.

Achievements

There are 3 Achievements obtainable from A Confounding Conundrum:

	Achievement	Category	Description	Requirements
	Optimal Solution	Memories of the Heart	Complete "A Confounding Conundrum" and unlock all endings.		20
	To You in a Hundred Years	Memories of the Heart	Read all the letters sent to Faruzan.	Read the three letters on the ground during Wanderings of a Lonesome Shadow — Thoughts That Wandered For a Century.	5
	Mechanics: From Beginner to...?	Memories of the Heart	Guess correctly the smallest number of moves it will take to solve a seven-layer Pagoda Stack.		5

Other Languages

Language	Official Name	Literal Meaning
English	A Confounding Conundrum	—
Chinese (Simplified)	难解之结 Nánjiě zhī Jié	An Inextricable Knot
Chinese (Traditional)	難解之結 Nánjiě zhī Jié
Japanese	ほどき難い結び目 Hodoki-gatai Musubime	An Inextricable Knot
Korean	풀기 어려운 매듭 Pulgi Eoryeoun Maedeup	A Knot That is Hard to Untie
Spanish	Un entramado inextricable	An Inextricable Network
French	Inextricabilité	Inextricability
Russian	Хитросплетения Khitrospleteniya	Intricacies
Thai	ปมที่แก้ยาก Pom Thi Kae Yak	A Confounding Conundrum
Vietnamese	Khúc Mắc Khó Gỡ
German	Schwer zu heilende Narben	Difficult to Heal Scars
Indonesian	Keruwetan Maksimal	Maximum Complexity
Portuguese	Nó Quase Indesatável
Turkish	En Zorlu Geçiş
Italian	Un dilemma intricato	An Intricate Dilemma

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