Abandoned Research is a Quest in New World MMORPG. Objective: Recover the research team's notes from Saircor Bridge and Saircor, and locate the expedition leader's relic.
As I'm sure you've seen, the Ancients left ruins spread across this island like a child's blocks on the floor. Researchers and relic hunters have gone out of their way to find and document these places across Aeternum, slowly building a map of where and how the Ancients lived.
One team was investigating the Saircor ruins to the east when the Tutelary Guardians woke. Luckily, the shock wore off quickly and most were able to escape. In their haste, however, most of their collected data was left behind... as was the expedition's leader. Reports say he ran into the site, desperate to recover a specific relic before leaving. As far as we know, he never came back.
If you're willing, I'd like you to recover the notes left behind by the research team, and find that relic.
Something must have been special about that relic for the expedition leader to risk himself like that... maybe it provides some answers about the Ancients. Even though it isn't a direct help to the settlement, it may provide another piece to the puzzle.
Please find it, along with any of the team's notes you come across.
What did you uncover at Saircor? Well done, both the notes and the relic! Shall we take a look at what so enthralled the researchers, then?
Hm... these notes are unclear. "The relic may be a piece of importance to the Ancients, a religious statuary of some kind?" I have seen many works of the Ancients, and this doesn't seem like a religious icon... more like a child's attempt to make a person from clay. I'm beginning to think that these researchers are no closer to understanding the Ancients than when we first arrived.
Be that as it may, you've done as I asked, and risked yourself in the process. Please, take this as a token of my thanks.