Phase II

1. Head southwest from the house, and continue west through the hedge, and take the second left turn
2. Take the twists and turns until you reach a hedge with pulsing waves beneath it at /loc 985, 8, -503
3. A message will also pop up stating that you could cut through it with something sharp enough
4. Approach the hedge, target it, then fight an animated hedge
5. Walk through the hedge and take a sharp left turn
6. Follow the twisting maze until you come to a house with a door /loc 995, 10, -547
7. Right click the door, and choose the Treat option
8. Kill Old Man Dave
9. Head back to the first walk-through hedge, return through it, and take a left a few steps beyond
10. Follow the twisting maze again until you come to an intersection at /loc 903, 8, -590
11. This splits west to the second walk-through hedge at /loc 931, 8, -598 or northeast toward the fog and a second graveyard at /loc 883, 8, -629. Take the NE path first.
    • Sometimes the second animated hedge aggros before you reach this intersection. If this happens, just slay the hedge and proceed NE as normal to the second graveyard.

Phase III

1. At the second graveyard, repeat what you did at the first by walking near the corpses
2. Fight the risen corpse at /loc 892, 8, -637 and loot it to obtain a grime covered hand holding a key
3. South-southeast of the second graveyard is a house at /loc 882, 10, -565 with a bag on the porch
4. Click the bag to spawn A Headless Knight for you to fight
   • You must kill the knight to open up the hedge beyond Raven, who you will encounter later in the maze
5. Head north to return to the second graveyard at /loc 883, 8, -629 and turn back southwest and again west at the intersection
6. Fight an animated hedge and walk through the hedge at /loc 931, 8, -598
7. Take a sharp right around the corner and you will reach a house at /loc 914, 10, -623 with a grime covered chest on the porch
8. You should be able to open the chest with the grime covered key from the second graveyard
9. Loot the Frictionless Piece of Eight from the chest and expect some… changes

Phase IV

1. Go back around the house and re-enter the maze by heading northwest
2. Follow the twists and turns again until you reach 1012, 8, -631, where you’ll find Raven and eight summoned bats
3. Slay Raven and the summoned bats will die upon her death
4. Head south from Raven’s location and continue follow the maze until you come across a house with some tasty tidbits in front of it at /loc 998, 8, -584
5. Slay all five tasty morsels and continue to the north through the maze

Phase V

1. After winding around the maze a short ways, you will reach an opening at /loc 1007, 8, -563 where you enter a cut scene
2. After the cut scene…
   • Turn west-northwest and head toward the small area behind the house you are next to at/loc 1019, 8, -570
   • Slay a trained entity (this mob will be in a different location between the hedge gap and behind the house if you exit the cut scene early)
   • At this point, if this is at least your second run (A Nightmarish Return) through the zone, you can speak to a terrified gnome and receive the quest, Train to Zone!
   • If it is your first run (A Nightmarish Illness), the gnome will attack you instead

Train to Zone!

• The journal is at /loc 915, 8, -639, behind the house where you found a grime covered chest
• The skull is at/loc 918, 8, -525, west, and around the hedge corner, from where you found a rusted chest
• The dagger is at/loc 875, 8, -503, south of the first graveyard, then tucked behind the building
• The dolly is at/loc 864, 8, -584, southeast of the second graveyard at an abrupt dead-end in the maze

Phase VI

• Return back to the opening where the cut scene occurred and continue east through the maze
• You will come to a dead end where you will find a statue at /loc 949, 8, -581
• Click the statue to warp into the center of the maze, where you will immediately enter another cut scene
• Inside the center of the maze at /loc 943, 8, -563, you’ll be confronted by the final boss
  • It is an even con, epic x2 mob that should be soloable by this point in the zone
  • After slaying the boss, he will have a body drop called a pair of gleaming lockpicks
  • The lockpicks are used to open A Gleaming Chest, reached by passing through a walk-through hedge (there are no pulsing waves beneath this one) at /loc 971, 8, -599
• Slaying the boss will cause A Nightmarish Return to auto-complete. For A Nightmarish Illness, you must return to Nektulos to speak to Setri Lur’eth.

A Gleaming Chest

There are certain requirements you must meet before you will be permitted to even see A Gleaming Chest. It is impossible to open the chest during your first trip to the maze.

• Complete the Haunted Mansion at Loping Plain’s Village of Somborn
• Complete the Hedge Hollow quest from a terrified gnome, Train to Zone!
• The Gleaming Chest hedge is located at /loc 971, 8, -599 and has have some cobblestones on the ground before it
• Walk south through the hedge, and loot A Gleaming Chest at /loc 971, 8, -579