Down in the Dumps

Down in the Dumps is the third quest of the World Quest Series In the Dwelling of Life.

Steps

Talk to Paimon
Find a way to get out of the sewer and back to the surface
Investigate the control room in the sewer
Talk to Paimon
Collect three keys
1. Find the Blue Key
2. Find the White Key
3. Find the Red Key
4. Defeat enemies:
  - Wave 1: Rugged Elder Leshy ×1
  - Wave 2: Rugged Elder Leshy ×2
  - Wave 3: Rugged Elder Leshy ×3
Return to the control room
Open the control room door
Explore up ahead
- Obtain the Sewer Lift Control Wheel
  - Defeat Klenova the Ascended — Once Peculiarly Altered...
- Install the control wheel and open the door
  - Unlocks a Luxurious Chest
Ride the elevator
Return to the surface

Gameplay Notes

Completing step 1 unlocks the Teleport Waypoint at the Snowmelt Drainage Channel in Okurov.
During step 3 the Firearm Accessory Blueprint for Shatanaya's Frostsilver: Gunstock can be found on a table to the left of the entrance.

Dialogue

Quest Description

You fall into a mysterious sewer. Now, you have to find a way to get back up as quickly as possible...

(Continues from previous quest)

(The Traveler opens their eyes and finds themselves in an underground ruin)

Eye of Graeae: ...I detect an energy reaction in the vicinity...

Paimon: Um... W—Where are we??? (‍‍), are you alright?

I'm okay. Don't worry.

Paimon: Paimon can't believe that scary giant bird attacked us just like that, with zero warning! Do you think that scary giant thing is that "Zhara" Nastya was talking about...?

Paimon: So Nastya lied to us!? Aw, come on! Paimon was really looking forward to this!

Maybe Nastya didn't lie to us...

Paimon: Oh! Wait, wait... Are you saying Zhara's only like this to us? Then maybe it's because... y'know... we don't have branches sticking out of our heads like Nastya?

It probably thinks we're Badbugs.

Paimon: But we didn't do anything wrong! If anything, we're the good guys here! We're helping Nastya get home, for crying out loud!

Eye of Graeae: But to that monster whose sole objective is to preserve the status quo here, our approaching is a form of danger.

Paimon: Huh? But why, though...? We're only here to get Goggles' body part back, that's all...

Paimon: Oh! Oh! Paimon gets it now! It's all because of Goggles' power! That's what's making this town feel so warm and weird!

Eye of Graeae: Yes, that is correct.

Eye of Graeae: That half-man, half-bird creature named Zhara... and the way the local residents have transformed in both body and mind... All of these feel extremely familiar to me.

Eye of Graeae: I can remember now... one of the four who created my body back then at some secret location... He was a leading figure of Snezhnaya's now-vanished school of bio-alchemy...

Eye of Graeae: ...Koshchei the Deathless.

Eye of Graeae: All these we are seeing are very much aligned with his approach to "life."

Paimon: Hmm... So the thing we're looking for is with this Koshchei person?

Paimon: Sheesh... This town feels even weirder now...

Paimon: So anyway... first we take Nastya home, then we look for Koshchei or whatever his name is, right?

Paimon: That's... gonna keep us busy for a while.

We should find a way to get back to the ground first.

Paimon: Yeah, there's no way we'll find anything just hanging around here... Come on! Let's get out of this dump, fast!

Paimon: Then we'll ask Nastya when we find her!

(Approach the gate behind the Teleport Waypoint): Paimon: Look at this huge space they've dug here underground...
(Pass through the gate): Paimon: The path here is completely falling apart. Looks like nobody's been down here in a long, long time...

(Continue onward)

(Approach the Rotary Mechanism at the next closed gate)

(A tutorial is unlocked)

Rotary Mechanism: A rather special mechanism that can only be opened with sustained manual rotation...

(Open the gate and continue to the next closed gate)

(Pick up the control wheel)

(Obtain Metal Control Wheel)

(Attempt to open the gate): The door seems stuck...; Paimon: Doors, doors, and more doors here... How is one even supposed to get out of here!?; Eye of Graeae: You can slide to navigate low spaces...

(Approach the flooded space): Paimon: We need to find a way across...; Paimon: Look, there's a wooden plank over there. Let's find some way to use it!; Paimon: Let's try using the Grappling Gun to move the platforms.

(Build a Grappling Gun on the water surface to pull the plank closer to the other Grappling Gun)
(Enter the control room): Paimon: So many mechanisms around here... If only there was an instruction manual here or something!

(Approach the Leshy inside of a glass tank): Paimon: Th—This tree-person isn't going to move anymore, right?

(Interact with the Furiosa Post-Op Observation Report (I), optional): Furiosa Post-Op Observation Report (I): "...The sutured wound on the right arm is healing well... The atrophied muscles are beginning to regain their vitality..."; Furiosa Post-Op Observation Report (I): "Trunk development stable... No abnormal reactions detected..."; Furiosa Post-Op Observation Report (I): "New branches and leaves have completely enveloped the existing body... Unnecessary memories and emotions are gradually fading away..."

(Read the Sewer Entrance/Exit Guide)

Sewer Entrance/Exit Guide

Okurov lies nestled within a valley, with a low-lying basin floor... Under the influence of ████, temperatures may rise and snowmelt may occur. If drainage within the valley proves insufficient, accumulated water could lead to severe flooding...
...
Thus, an underground channel system was constructed. First, for drainage. Second, for ████... From this, the tender sprout of ████ began to emerge. I have begun to discern the correct path forward...
...Must undergo three rounds of authentication... Obtain the Red, White, and Blue Keys... placed at three different locations... Insert all three simultaneously into the slots to activate the gate...
...
Inserting either the White or Blue Key into the control console will lower the water level. Inserting both the White and Blue Key Cards will fully drain it...
...
...The locations of the Red, White, and Blue Keys are shown above.
For me, who may one day return to this place... When the floodwaters of melted snow become nourishment for life... when useless memories fade into indistinct echoes of the past... when I make my way to ████ one day...

Paimon: ...Must undergo three rounds of authentication... Obtain the Red, White, and Blue Keys and place them at three different locations... Insert them into the slots to activate the gate...; Paimon: Hmm, this is written in such a complicated way... Looks like there's a name written on the cover of this tattered little book... "Doctor Moreau"? Uh, so these are the notes written by that kind doctor?; Paimon: Whatever. So all we have to do is go to these three spots and find the red, white, and blue keys...; Paimon: ...Then we insert them into the three places, and... and we should be able to get out, right?
(After the dialogue): Eye of Graeae: Blue Key detected...

(Remove the blue key from the marked terminal)

(Obtain Blue Key)

Paimon: Ooh, got it! This must be the Blue Key... Hang on, when did that door over there close?

(Open the marked terminal with the blue key)
(Remove the blue key and slide underneath the gate)
(Approach the two terminals): Paimon: Ooh, Paimon remembers. The operating manual says...; Paimon: Stuffing one key in can lower the water level, and sticking the blue and white key in at the same time will fully drain it!; Paimon: Ugh... What a pain. Seriously, why would anyone put such a complicated mechanism down here in the sewers...

(Insert the blue key in the right terminal)
(The water level drops and reveals a closed gate): Eye of Graeae: White Key detected...

(Approach the lower terminal without the blue key, optional): Paimon: And now we have to get the Blue Key again... Ugh! They're not making this easy for us, are they...

(Remove the blue key): Eye of Graeae: Before the water level rises, you must reach the lower device in time and insert the blue key into it...

(Insert the blue key in the lower terminal)

(Remove the white key)

(Obtain White Key)

Paimon: This must be the White Key. Now where's that red one...

(Use a Grappling Gun to open a path forward)
(Arrive at the next gate): Paimon: Ugh, it's like we're locked up in here or something...; Paimon: We fell right in here just like that, and now getting back out is a huge pain!

(Slide underneath the gate and insert the white key in the marked terminal)
(The water level drops again)
(Paimon gesticulates at the Traveler and flies to the lower terminal to pick up the blue key): Paimon: Ding ding ding! Paimon's got the blue key!; Paimon: But how did the people who built this even get around here? Did they have wings too or something???

(Reinsert the blue key in the right terminal)
(The water level drops all the way clearing another tunnel down below): Paimon: The water's been drained. Time to find that Red Key...; Eye of Graeae: Red Key detected...

(Pick up the red key)

(Obtain Red Key)

Paimon: Look at all these keys just... lying around here... Huh? There are Leshy here too!

(After defeating the enemies): Paimon: Gah, this is so tiring! Why's this sewer crawling with Leshies, anyway?

(Open the gate using the Rotary Mechanism)
(Approach a Precious Chest amidst incapacitated Leshies): Paimon: Th—This isn't gonna move again, right?

(Remove the white and blue keys): Paimon: Phew, that was close! But now we finally have all three keys!

(Interact with the control board)

Examine Control Board: Insert the three keys

(Opens item submission menu)

(Submit the tree keys): Paimon: We're finally getting out of here... This is all that Zhara's fault! That awful, awful bird!; Paimon: We wouldn't be stuck down here in this stinky sewer if that bird hadn't attacked us out of nowhere!

(Exlore the room behind the gate)
(Approach the Rotary Mechanism missing its control wheel): Paimon: We'll need a Control Wheel, looks like...
(Approach the Leshy inside the glass container): Paimon: Agh! Why's the Control Wheel on that Leshy's head!?

(Defeat the Leshy and pick up the control wheel)

(Obtain Sewer Lift Control Wheel)

(Open the gate): Paimon: Finally, we can get back to the surface...

Step Description

The control room door is open. You can now keep going.

(While riding the lift): Paimon: Besides, we have no idea where Nastya is now...
(Exit the lift and approach a stair leading to the surface): Paimon: We should go to that "town entrance" place she talked about. Hopefully we can find her there...

(Go up the stairs)

(Quest completes)

Other Languages

Language	Official Name	Literal Meaning
English	Down in the Dumps	—
Chinese (Simplified)	狭道底处 Xiádào Dǐchù	At the Bottom of the Narrow Path
Chinese (Traditional)	狹道底處 Xiádào Dǐchù	At the Bottom of the Narrow Path
Japanese	狭き道の果てに Semaki Michi no Hate ni	At the End of the Narrow Path
Korean	좁은 지하 통로 Jobeun Jiha Tongno
Spanish	A través del camino estrecho
French	Au fond du fond	At Rock Bottom
Russian	По узкому пути Po uzkomu puti
Thai	ลึกลงไปใต้ทางแคบ
Vietnamese	Phía Dưới Con Đường Hẹp
German	Unten in den Tiefen	Down in the Depths
Indonesian	Ujung Lorong yang Sempit
Portuguese	Nas Profundezas Imundas
Turkish	Çöplüğün En Dibinde
Italian	Toccare il fondo

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