The Horutoto Ruins Experiment  

Wow, I've been going to the wrong tower this whole time...

We're all really making this a lot more complicated than it needs to be, especially for the first mission. For the last time, here's a full tutorial, sorry don't have the patience or skills to do a fancy map, i'll give you directions just use the in-game map you get from the Glyph Hanger quest. I did this mission easily at level 7 red mage. Though its reccommended to be level 8 or 9, 7 was just enough for me.

Talk to a guard and accept the mission. Go to the orastery. There are 2 tarutaru on a raised stage, talk to them. Go to EAST Sarutabaruta. Once you get there, look at the map. There are 3 towers, one on the far north end, one on the far south end, and one right in the middle. Go to the Middle one. inside the tower will be a set of descending stairs and an NPC, YOU MUST TALK TO THIS NPC, if you don't you cannot continue. Talk to her then head down the stairs. In the ruins, you will be in a hallway, follow this hallway east, then south, then west. When you reach the second room with 2 battue bats, you will turn south and enter a large, square room. From here, make your way around the room to the south end. At level 7, all the mobs in here are "easy prey" but they like to hang out in groups so be careful. When you reach the south side of the room, go to the southern wall. In the exact center of this wall you can select a "Cracked Wall" and open it. Can't open it you say? Did you talk to the NPC at the top of the stairs? If not, commence swearing then trek back and talk to her and redo everything. Anyway open the "Cracked Wall" and head into this new area. In here, the mobs will become "decent challenge" so have extra caution. Run forward to a fork and take the left path. In these halls will probably be a couple roaming Blade Bats so take them out one at a time, be careful not to attract both of them at once. At the end of the left fork is a room. I don't know if its the same all the time, but on my trip, this room had 1 Blade Bat, 1 Goblin Thug, and 1 Goblin Weaver. The thug was "easy prey" but the other two were decent challenges for me, tough to take on all at once. If you have patience, and I mean ALOT of patience, you can wait for them to wander apart and pull them one at a time with ranged attacks. Or, if you're careful, you can try the sneaky method. Wait for all 3 mobs to wander away from the door, which is to the right when you enter the room. Anyway, wait for them to wander away, then hug the right hand wall and enter the room. Just inside, turn south and move to the next wall then turn east, hugging the wall the whole time. You should be able to make it to the door and open it. Watch the long cutscene and talk to the minister. For the last part of this mission, head back out to the large square room. On your way in, you should've seen the Ancient Gizmos on the raised platforms on the east and west sides of this large room. At each of the corners of the room are tunnels leading to more Gizmos, 6 in all. You have to search each of these Gizmos until you find the broken Mana Orb, took me all 6, go figure. Once you find it, head all the way back to the orastery, turn in the orb and congratulate yourself on finishing the mission. Go to the guard and do the next mission now.

Sorry for the long post, but this is how to do it, no more questions.

Edited, Aug 20th 2006 at 9:29am EDT by Dfdestiny

Edited, Aug 20th 2006 at 9:39am EDT by Dfdestiny

I cant wait to play it.

I was trying for days to do this mission. It's very easy to get into thinking the cracked wall in the side rooms where the mana orbs are is where you are meant to go... I went in there and always got killed by the beetles down there. Well, they are NOT the cracked walls you want to be going through.

If you're STILL having troubles, I have just one thing to say: GET GLASSES. It's all written here, someone's even posted a map, exact directions on where to go and who to talk to...
And if you don't want to be flamed to a crisp for asking for more help, hopefully you'll have a friend you can ask for help.

Geezus.. some folks here really need to learn to read. After reading just the first few posts, I could have done this mission bound, gagged and blindfolded with my Mithra 6 BM..

No naughty ideas now. :P

Just completed this mission solo as a lvl 10 whm mithran. It was no problem at all. I just made sure that I rested frequently, and didnt pick fights I didnt need to. Blad and Battue bats dont aggro here, so no need to go after them. just make sure that you dont link gobs if you are going to attack them. At lvl 10, it was easy.

The Horutoto Ruins Experiment - This quest is pretty far out in East Saruta, it’s nice to have some friends on this one. It’s doable alone if you’re level 10, bring a potion or two.

Before you do this mission I would recommend doing the “Glyph Hanger” quest to get a map of the Horutoto Ruins.

Start by getting the quest from the guards at any gate, you have to go to Port Windurst anyway so you could just go to the gate there. The guard will tell you to go to talk to the Minister of the Orastery in Port Windurst (E-7).

Inside the Orastery there are two Tarutarus on the stage, talk to the one on the left. He will tell you to head to the Horutoto Ruins Inner in East Sarutabaruta. (Lower right corner of J-7)

When you get to Lily Tower, talk to the guard standing inside at the top of the stairs. She will tell you the Minister went ahead by himself and that you can go down there. You have to fight your way to the back of the main chamber. When you get to the main chamber, take a right, then a left, then another left. You are looking for a Crack in the wall that is directly opposite the entrance that you came in. (H-9)

Open the Crack in the wall and head down the tunnel, take a left at the fork and fight the Gobs and Bats all the way to the Magic door. Select the door and watch the cut scene.

When the cut scene is finished go back the way you came, to the Crack in the wall and into the main chamber. Fight your way to each pedestal to check each mana orb until you find the one that is broken. Fight your way back outside and head to Windurst. Go back the Orastery in Port Windurst and talk to the same Taru on the stage that you talked to before. He'll take the broken orb from you. This mission is now complete. The next time you visit the guard at the gate, you will receive rank 1.2


Edited, Tue Apr 5 11:48:06 2005

once i read this... key word guys READ!!!


I had this done in about 20 minutes.... it was so easy to do kinda sad I didnt try it sooner.

I spent a good 2-3 hours trying this mission. First I forgot to go to the Orastery, then I didn't talk to the guard. After doing that, I went through the cracked wall in H-9, went to I-9 like the book said to find nothing. This website said go find some gate. Well I found a mohogany door, nothing else. Went into a room full of gobs (I was lvl.25) went through another cracked door, got aggroed, died, ended up back in Jeuno. I've been everywhere beyond the cracked wall, clicked on every orb thing in the main room, went through the second cracked wall in the main room. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I don't see where I am going wrong.
I've put up my mission quest for now. ***** it. I'm going to Kazham...(which is why I was in Windurst, for the key)
I'll go back sometime and ask for help. How sad asking for help, but alas, I am not wasting any more time wandering around those forsaken ruins.
Also btw, I know I am in the right tower because the guard said the orastery minister or whatever was down there.

Oh what a waste of time. >_< I could have got rank 2 in Bastok in less time...
Complaint over.

If you can see my problem, feel free. (I did do the Orastery scene, talked to the guard, just can't find the minister prick)

I can't open the gate!It's firmly shut, what am i suppose to do?

If your having some problems doing this quest and around lvl 5-7, ill save you some time then reading this entire threadh. When the quest giver tells you to go to the eastren tower, they mean the middle eastren, not south eastren tower. I went to the south eastren tower, and found tons of even/decent con gobolins, and I figured I was in the wrong spot. I had very little trouble once I found the right tower. All the bats were easy con at lvl 7, and gobolins were mostly easy. I did run into a somewhat hard spot where a thug and weaver were both decent and linked, but nothing that was impossible. Ive noticed the beginning missions for windhurst to be considerably harder then bastok ones, so dont be discougraged if your having troubles.

Edited, Thu Apr 1 19:16:36 2004

This is a repost to bring it back up top. To everyone that is having problems -- READ BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH. *EVERY* NPC in the game that gives you a quest will *ALWAYS* point you in the proper direction. If you can not read and understand what is written in front of you, that is your fault and your fault alone.



"You start the mission from either of the guards at any of the gates (usually it's the guard in the center of each group). You are told to go to talk to the Minister of the Orastery (*NOT* the Opistery) in Port Windurst (E-7).

You'll know you have the right ministry when you open the door and see groups of Tarutarus casting magic, and two guardsmen on a stage-like elevation. Talk to the one on the left. He will refer you to head to the Horutoto Ruins Inner in *EAST* Sarutabaruta. (It may help if you have the map for the ruins. Refer to the Glyph Hanger quest to get it). The ruins you want will be in the bottom corner of J-7. You will know if you're in the correct place when you start seeing Giant Bees and Mandragoras (and maybe Spiny Spipi ^^).

When you get to the ruins, *TALK* the guard standing before the entrance. This is one of the major things everyone forgets to do and are confused as to why the door won't open. She will tell you the Minister went ahead by himself and for you to just go down there. Once inside head down the two flights of stairs until you're inside the main area of the ruins (it's straightforward with only one way to go). Since I don't see a map of the ruins on the site let me make one that should help.



|-|M|-|
| |-------------|
| |
|--------| |--------|
| |
| |
S | |
X---|----------|C|----------|---X
| |
| |
| |---------| |
| | | |
| X | | X |
| | | |
| |---------| |
| |
S | |
X---|----------|E|----------|---X



E is the entrance into main part of the ruins.
X are the pedestals on which the mana orbs are placed. You will need to literally check each one to see which has the broken orb.
S is the two entrances to the lower depths of Horutoto Ruins Inner. If you click on these and see dirt instead of a brick path, you're in the wrong place unless you're looking for a quick death.
C is the cracked entrance. Click on this to open the pathway to...
M is your destination. This is where the Minister is.

Double clicking on the black door at M will go to a cutscene. After it's over, head back to the cracked door (C) to be back into the main area. Start checking each mana orb until you get the one that is broke. Find your way outside and head back to Windurst. Head on over to Port Windurst and talk to same Tarutaru on the stage. He'll tell you his opinion of the minister and take the broken orb from you. This mission is now complete :)

~Russell "Russellius" Cox
23 Black Mage
10 White Mage
Carbuncle"