The Planks is the sixth storyline quests released with the Terror's Tide update on Diablo Immortal. It starts at the end of Find the Abducted, immediately after the player reaches the Cult of Terror's base in the Planks. It is immediately succeeded by What the Sea Owes.
Objectives[]
- Search for Clues.
(The cultists have taken over an area called the Planks, where Esmund's shortcut to Stormpoint Keep is supposed to be. Search it for survivors) - Kill the Cultists (0/1).
Search the altar (0/1).
Sever the ritual connections (0/4).
(To destroy the cultists' ritual in the Planks, first sever the four connections to the altar they've constructed) - Inspect the statue.
(You've driven the cult from the Planks. Look for clues to Esmund's shortcut in the area around the statue — he mentioned a cave, but there isn't one in sight) - Talk to Esmund.
(Esmund caught up with you at the Planks. Give him Fern's pendant) - Destroy the altar.(1)
(Destroy the cult's altar in the Planks — Esmund insists this will reveal his shortcut. He's probably keeping something back) - Dive into the cave.(2)
(Esmund's shortcut to the keep is a Tidal Cavern he suggests you swim to. He's way ahead of you)- Look for survivors
- Search for Fern
- Kill the Cultists (0/10)
- Kill Akinees (0/1)
- Follow Esmund and flee the Cave
- Talk to Esmund
- Descend the Cliff and wait for Esmund
- Talk to Esmund
Transcript[]
The Cult of Terror's base in the Planks
- Terror Zealot: We didn't get everyone. Tell Akinees.
- Kill the Cultists and head deeper into the base
- Defamer: This one's blood will paint volumes.
- After defeating the Cultists
Inspect the altar
- Class: The ritual is protecting the altar. Severing its ties should solve that.
- Ritual Instruction:
When the moon is nowhere in sight, bind them and take them to the ocean, and let their lifeblood commingle with the brine. Before they drown, fill your belly with seawater and the issue of their wounds. You will not find it pleasant, but one does not ascend Terror's throne in calm and certitude. The fear He wishes for others, He wishes for you. Keep it in your heart, and you will join me in the depths, and breathe them clear as mountain air. As you read, thus Akinees bids you. Thus you are commanded.
Destroy the ritual connections sustaining the altar's protection..
- And return to the altar
- Class: I hear you sneaking around, Esmund. You should work on that.
- Esmund: Why? You always distract them.
- Class: I met a man named Posho. He seemed to think the cultists were bringing their captives here — but I didn't find anyone alive.
- Esmund: They killed so many of us... these butchers.
- Class: Posho found this before he left here. He wanted you to have it. Listen... I'll get them alright?
Give Esmund his sister's pendant
- Esmund: It's... Fern's. She wouldn't leave it. And I don't see her anywhere.
- Class: If you don't want to go any further, you don't have to. Where's your shortcut?
- Esmund: I'm coming with you. Otherwise you'll probably drown. Smash the altar and I'll show you.
- Destroy the altar
- Esmund Nice work.
They can't hide from us anymore.
- The ritual pile behind it to collapse, revealing the sea below.
Esmund goes to the edge
- Class What are you doing? Where is the cave?
- Esmund: Down. Just hold your breath and kick your legs. Don't panic. The sea knows.
- Esmund jumps off the edge. Follow him
Inside the Tidal Cavern
- Esmund: Ugh...it stinks. Blood, I've never smelled so much all at once.
- Class: I have. Stay out of sight. They're here somewhere.
- The duo come across Cultists a little further into the cave
- Esmund: Bastards. They'll all pay.
- Deeper into the cave more Cultists are in supplication to their Lord after a sacrifice. Defeat them
- Esmund: That's... that's her necklace. She... she had to get away.
- Class: Fern?
- Esmund: Stupid. She should have listened.
The duo arrive at a room filled with cultists, and littered with numerous corpses
- Class: Unbelievable... look at all of them...
- Esmund: No, no, no! How... why would they do this?
- After defeating the Cultists
- Akinees: They were more in death than they ever were in life.
- After defeating Akinees
- Akinees I will not succumb. I promised it would be His.
May the depths claim you all.
- Akinees forms a spell with blood magic
- Akinees: My blood... leads the way to the Heart.
Akinees retreats after casting his spell
- Esmund: It's collapsing... we need to go, now! Follow me.
- Start following Esmund to the exit of the cave
- Esmund: The waves will bring us up. We're close to the keep.
The duo arrive at a dead end
- Class: A dead end.
- Esmund: Keep going down. Trust me. We just need to get to where the water's flowing fastest.
- Esmund climbs down. Follow him
At the bottom of the ledge
- Class: The tremors are getting worse. Hold on!
- Esmund: Behind us —
The duo are swept away by the tide
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Quest Rewards[]
- The following items are rewarded for completing specific objectives, denoted by the superscript numbers in curved brackets written at the end of the particular objective
- Recovered Heirloom
- The Supreme Hand