The Passport Quest — Beholder: Conductor Walkthrough
The Passport Quest in Beholder: Conductor is a recurring challenge that often involves obtaining or forging travel documents for various characters seeking to escape the oppressive regime. This questline tests your resourcefulness, ability to navigate bureaucracy, and willingness to engage in illicit activities. Successfully completing it can save lives, earn you favors, or provide crucial information, but failure carries significant risks.
To complete a Passport Quest, you typically need to:
- Identify the Beneficiary: A character will approach you, or you will discover someone in need of a passport. This could be a political dissident, a family member trying to flee, or someone simply seeking a better life.
- Acquire a Blank Passport: Blank passports are not easily obtained. You may need to:
- Steal one: From a Ministry office, a careless official, or a secure location. This requires stealth and potentially lockpicking skills.
- Purchase one: From a black market dealer or a corrupt official. This will cost a significant amount of money.
- Find one: Occasionally, a blank passport might be found during a search or as a reward for another quest.
- Obtain Necessary Information: You will need personal details for the passport holder, such as their name, date of birth, and a photograph. This might involve:
- Interrogating the beneficiary: Directly asking for their details.
- Searching their apartment: Looking for personal documents or photographs.
- Creating a false identity: If the beneficiary needs to disappear completely.
- Forge the Passport: This is the most delicate step. You will need:
- Forgery Tools: Ink, stamps, and specialized paper. These can be purchased from black market contacts or found in specific locations.
- A Forger: If you lack the skills, you may need to find an NPC who can forge documents for a fee.
- Time and Secrecy: Forging takes time and must be done discreetly to avoid detection by the Ministry.
- Deliver the Passport: Once forged, the passport must be delivered to the beneficiary. This might involve a clandestine meeting or leaving it in a dead drop.
- Potential Complications:
- Ministry Detection: If caught acquiring, forging, or delivering a passport, you face severe penalties.
- Blackmail: The forger or seller might try to blackmail you.
- Beneficiary Betrayal: The person you help might betray you to the Ministry.