Drudge Aviator

Difficulty:  Minimum to survive, 150+ to solo
Level Restriction:  80+ 
Timer:  Unknown
Can be Solo'd?  Yes
Rewards: Aviator's Cap and a MMD note

Somehow the Drudges have managed to construct a Hot Air Balloon!  Your job will be to investigate their staging grounds and bring down the Drudge Aviator before he gets off the ground.

*NOTE* - This quest is substantially easier if you bring along a lockpicker!

Step 1:  The Rumor.  Head to Ayan and find Aludi al-Jaladh at 60.7S, 88.0W.  He will tell you that he's seen a flying Drudge menace and ask you to investigate.  Talking to him flags you to enter the dungeon, so this is a necessary step.  Once you are flagged, it's time to buff up.  You will be fighting Drudges, so buff a fire weapon, put up all protects, and bane against everything if you don't have melee defense.  When you are set, run to 12.1S, 92.7W.  Here you will find a fortress and the Hot Air Balloon!  Head into the portal inside the fort ASAP. 

Step 2:   War Room.  This dungeon has four locked doors in it.  If you have lockpick, just pick them!  The most difficult has a difficulty of 360, well within the pickable reach of anyone high enough to go along on this quest.  If no one in your group has lockpick, your quest will take longer, as you will have to loot each dead Drudge for keys.  There are four keys, each colored differently and each randomly dropping on any Drudge.  The keys are (in the order you will use them) Black, Grey, Red, and Green.  If you get to a door and haven't found the right colored key yet, kill more Drudges!

The drop is right next to the first door.  Open it and follow the corridor.  After passing a couple small rooms, you see a path leading off to the east.  Take it and follow it to a large open room with a hole in the floor.  Kill the Drudges in the room, imperil the Drudges below, and then jump down.  The second door is to the west.  From this point on, hug the left wall.  Follow the corridor to another large room.  You will see 4 ramps leading down from the upper section of this room.  Take any of them, but when you are done fighting the Drudges, head north and take the exit to the northwest.  Continue north and you will come to the third door.  Continue to hug the left wall and you will come to the final door.  The rest of the rooms are VERY dangerous, as there are a lot of Drudges on a fast spawn and half of them are above you, raining down war magic.  Punch through the first shooting gallery room and you will come to a T intersection.  Both ways lead down into another large room.  Your group should run through this room to the far side (to the west), where there is a ramp leading back up.  Fight your way up and you will come to another hole in the ground.  The hole leads back down to a platform in the room you ran through and to the Drudge Aviator himself!  Unfortunately, he isn't alone and his friends spawn incredibly fast - at least every minute and maybe every 30 seconds.   Your group should jump down, kill the Aviator and his friends, and one person should quickly loot the 'Flying Machine Plans' and 'Flying Machine Instructions' from his corpse.  Then jump down, run west and back up to the pit again.  The Aviator has a slow spawn rate, so waiting on the platform is a bit suicidal.  When everyone has their two texts, take the exit portal right on the Aviator's platform.

Step 3:  Rewards.  The Exit portal leads to a small tower inside the Drudge Fort, right next to the Balloon.  Assign an order and have your group give your 'Flying Machine Instructions' to the Balloon.  Don't form a line because the Drudges can hit you with War Magic on the narrow gangplank!  Instead, hide inside the fort.  As soon as you give the Balloon the Instructions, you will be teleported back to Ayan (You actually steal the Balloon, fly back, and jump out, wrecking the balloon in the sea).  Now give the 'Flying Machine Plans' to Aludi and he will give you the Aviator's Cap and an MMD note.