Question the Scarred Naturalist

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ID: 4500

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From: Ambition: Bag a Legend! 3

He will confirm that it's "sort of leathery". He is vague about whether it has the power of flight. He does mention […] that it's been on or under the Earth for nearly four thousand years. He requires some assistance before he'll tell you anything else.

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Unlocked with 90 x Rat on a String

Success

You dump a substantial number of rats on his cellar floor.

[…] Finally, he talks a little about the Vake: about its leathery wings, with which it smothers its prey; about its teeth, which possess independent motion, and will break free to burrow into the hearts of those it bites, days later;

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Description summary:
The Scarred Naturalist talks some more about the Vake after you give him the rats, but when you ask how to find and kill it, he takes you into a conservatory and asks you to recapture the large, escaped sorrow-spider there without harming it or the conservatory.

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•  You've lost 90 x Rat on a String
•  You now have 1 x Scarred Naturalist's Conservatory Key