Chapter 10: Brisk in peril and the Wraith Island Solstice Shrine
Clearing the flooded port, then an optional key puzzle on Wraith Island. No boss, 3 chests.
- 3 items to collect
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Back in Brisk, the town is overrun with Strife Minions and its people are trapped all over the flooded streets. Your job is to sweep through, free the survivors and get them to the pirates, who shelter them. Before the story moves on, it’s worth sailing back to Wraith Island with Yolande: now that you have the Graplou, the Solstice Shrine there can finally be reached, and it holds two weapons and a piece of Solstice gear.
Checklist
| Chest | Where | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| Wraith Island Solstice Shrine chest 1 | East side of the shrine, on the platforms created by Solstice Key A. | Shimmering Staff |
| Wraith Island Solstice Shrine chest 2 | Summit of the shrine, a little to the left of the big chest. | Shimmering Sword |
| Wraith Island Solstice Shrine chest 3 | The large chest at the top, once the key puzzle is solved. | Solstice Sash |
Brisk: fighting the Strife Minions
- Every fight in town is against Strife Minions, and they have a lot of HP. Regular attacks barely dent them, while skills and boosted attacks do real damage: count on roughly two of those per minion, or fewer if you stack several boost orbs.
- Beat the first group and talk to the villager. He heads off to the right, where the pirate crew is protecting survivors while you search the town. A merchant is set up here as well:
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Scrimshawed Sword | 72 gold |
| Osseous Staff | 68 gold |
| Bone Armor | 43 gold |
| Spectral Cape | 39 gold |
| Tomato | 1 gold |
| Potato | 1 gold |
| Lettuce | 1 gold |
| Grains | 3 gold |
| Meat | 3 gold |
| Hearty Stew | 28 gold |
| Herbed Filet | 7 gold |
| Chaudree | 10 gold |
Rescuing the townsfolk
- Going right, you pass a woman stuck inside her house. Use the wind to blow the box on the right out of the way: freeing her earns a Basic Salad.
- Keep moving right and swim over to the inn. Inside, two minions are cornering a civilian; defeat them and she thanks you with a Tomato Club.
- Over the rooftops:
- Go deeper into the inn and take the ladder up to its roof, then grapple to the left.
- Climb onto the top of the next house and use the wind to push the block on the left off its spot.
- Keep pushing it along the path, then stand on it to climb north.
- A third group of minions waits up there. Afterwards, drop through the hole on that rooftop: a man is trapped underneath. Shift the block next to him with the wind and he gives you a Mushroom Soup.
- Further north, the next fight has three minions at once, so lean on skills and boosted attacks. Then climb the stairs to the northeast for a scene.
- Everyone regroups in the south with the pirates. Some survivors want to stay and rebuild, others want to sail off and start over — and that needs a ship. The answer is to take back the Vespertine, which the pirates wanted all along. The game tells you to talk to the captain when you’re ready.
Optional: the Wraith Island Solstice Shrine
- Before speaking to the captain, talk to Yolande to sail back to Wraith Island. With the Graplou you can now reach the Solstice Shrine east of the Cursed Woods. Grapple your way inside.
- The shrine is one big puzzle built around two keys and a set of linked platforms. On the right are three platforms at different heights; standing on one of them raises a platform on the left, which then locks in place.
- Solving it:
- Stand on the lowest right-hand platform. The left platform rises and locks; go left and take Solstice Key A.
- Insert Key A into the slot in the right wall. New platforms appear: climb them to the chest with the Shimmering Staff.
- Step on the upper and middle platforms to bring everything down. From the ground floor, take Key A back out, then press the switch to raise the right platform, which lowers the left one.
- Go left and put the key into the keyhole on that side. Return right and lower the lower platform: Solstice Key B is now within reach.
- Put Key B into the right-hand slot and take Key A out. Climb the right-side platforms to the very top and place Key A in the slot up there.
- Jump down, remove Key B and insert it on the left.
- Check that the lower right platform is fully down, then climb the left steps all the way to the top.
- At the summit are a chest with the Shimmering Sword and the main chest with the Solstice Sash. Taking the sash plays a short scene showing a door and its glyph — the first hint that there may be a whole set of Solstice equipment. You’ll walk past that glyph in Chapter 12.
- Sail back to Brisk with Yolande and talk to the captain when you want the story to continue: Chapter 11.