Hyboria? I don't even...

This quest begins the first time the player enters The Jungles of Ancient Loathing each ascension.

Description

• If you have not yet completed the Primordial Fear quest:

Your ancient ancestor, the mighty warrior Krakrox (and also, at the moment, yourself -- and I know that's confusing, but that's time-travel for you) is exploring the jungles of Loathing and an ancient city that has lain abandoned since even more ancient times. Sounds like good fun, eh?

• If you have completed the Primordial Fear quest:

Your ancient ancestor, the mighty warrior Krakrox (and also, at the moment, yourself -- and I know that's confusing, but that's time-travel for you) is exploring the jungles of Loathing and an ancient city that has lain abandoned since even more ancient times, to discover and hopefully eliminate the source of a mysterious and deadly plague that is affecting the Pork Elves before it spreads to Seaside Village.

Tasks

The following three steps can be completed in any order:

• Complete the Primordial Fear quest.
  Completing Primordial Fear will change some text in the jungle zone and cause evil cultists to appear there. However, it is not necessary to complete this step before either of the other two.
  • Adventure in The Jungles of Ancient Loathing until you encounter an evil cultist and defeat one to obtain the memory of a cultist's robe.
• Adventure in The Jungles of Ancient Loathing until you find the Cavern Entrance. Complete the mini-game to find a Wumpus and defeat him to collect the memory of a glowing crystal.
• Continue to adventure in The Jungles of Ancient Loathing until you find Entrance to the Forgotten City.
  Please note that you will be required to re-find the Entrance after completing a portion of each task. For example, killing an enemy and then checking what it was guarding will take 2 visits to complete. You will need to visit this adventure 14 times total.

		N
		N ⇕ S
		K1 K2 M
		N ⇕ S
B C	W ⇔ E	North Side		F G H
N ⇕ S		N ⇕ S		N ⇕ S
West Side	W ⇔ E	D E	W ⇔ E	East Side
N ⇕ S		N ⇕ S		N ⇕ S
A		Entrance		I J K3 L

• A: search for a memory of a grappling hook
• B: climb the tower and kill the giant bird-creature
• C: climb up again for a memory of half a stone circle
• D: climb down the well and kill the giant octopus
• E: retrieve the memory of a grappling hook from the well
• F: upstairs for a memory of an iron key
• G: downstairs and search the webs to kill the giant spider
• H: downstairs and search the webs again for a memory of a small stone block
• I: upstairs and search the vines to kill the giant jungle python
• J: upstairs and cut the python open for a memory of a little stone block
• K₁: put the stone blocks in place (does not return you to the Jungles of Ancient Loathing)
• K₂: pull the lever (does not return you to the Jungles of Ancient Loathing)
• K₃: downstairs, enter catacombs, west, south, open chest, smash chest at the dead end for a memory of a stone half-circle
• L: downstairs, enter catacombs, west, north, north to ponder the weights
• M: kick the gate down
• N: unlock the temple

Then:

• Equip the memory of a cultist's robe.
• Reach the Ancient Temple adventure and defeat high priest of Ki'rhuss.
• Go to the Wrong Side of the Tracks and dig up one of the Pork Elf outfit pieces in the Empty lot. The item you get is based on your current class.

Notes

• Finishing this quest makes the Future quest available in Memories of the Distant Future.

References

• The first part of the quest name partly references both Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean cycle, a branch of the Cthulhu Mythos, and Robert E. Howard's Hyboria, the setting for his Conan the Barbarian stories. As explained by Riff:
  • It's both, sort of. For a long time I misremembered CAS's setting as being called "Hyboria", not "Hyperborea", and thought they were the same place. It turned out I was sort of right, but the wrong way around -- there's a kingdom in Howard's Hyborea which is called Hyperborea, and evidence suggests it's meant to be the same place as CAS's Hyperborea. I tend to think of the Conan stories as being part of the Mythos anyway (despite the fact that technically you have to go through King Kull to get there).
• The second part of the quest name references an old joke ending with "I hardly know her."