There’s a lot of interesting and unique adventures that you can do in Sea of Thieves. Some of these adventures will let you get unique rewards and make you sail around the many islands of the game. One of these adventures is the one named “A Dark Deception” and it has a lot of objectives and optional missions as well.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to do this adventure as well as do all the optional deeds that come with it. Now let’s see what this adventure is all about!
A Dark Deception Adventure 12 Guide & Rat Locations
This adventure is one of the shorter quest chains out there in the game. It does require you to sail around a lot. In this guide we’ll be breezing through the more obvious and mundane parts of the quest, but rest assured that all information is here to complete it. This includes the other deeds that you might miss!
Here are the steps we’ll be taking to finish this adventure:
- Start the Adventure from Larinna.
- Go to the Uncharted Island and meet the Contact.
- Go to Plunder Outpost and talk to Madame Olivia about the Pocket Watch.
- Go to the back of the Drowned Rat Tavern and Knock on the door 3 times.
- Follow the rat to Madame Olivia and take the Pocket Watch.
- Go to Shipwreck Bay and go on top of the Burning Blade Wreck.
- Break Off a Fragment from the Burning Blade Dragon Figurehead.
- Go to the Blackwyche Captain’s Quarters and interact with the rat.
- Go to the Sanctuary Outpost and talk to Madame Olive to get the Enchanted Compass.
- Interact with the rat next to Madame Olive building.
- Using the Enchanted Compass go to Port Marrick and find the rat in the Tavern.
- Interact with the rat and follow it to a hole.
- Interact with the hole to open the secret door.
- Talk to the Pirate Lord to finish the Adventure!
This article continues with a detailed walkthrough down below!
Starting The Adventure
To start the adventure, just like most adventures, you’ll want to talk to Larinna. This NPC can be found in any active outpost just outside the tavern. There you’ll find the option to begin the adventure at the bottom of the choices. Something about a top-secret mission!
With the quest started you’ll get a note in your quest item wheel. Select it and read it, it’ll lead you to an Island in N-13.
The Pirate Lord
Head over to N-13 in the map, don’t worry if you don’t see any island on the map since it’s uncharted. Go there and you should see the small island with a bright pink plant. Go there and you’ll find the Pirate Lord!
Talk to the Pirate Lord to continue the quest. He’ll give you a book that has the instructions you’ll need to follow. The first mission is to retrieve the Pocket Watch from Madame Olivia at Plunder Outpost.
Getting The Pocketwatch
Next step is to go to Plunder Outpost, which is in the middle of J-18 and K-18. There you’ll need to dock and go to Madame Olivia.
Talk to her and ask her to borrow the Pocket Watch. Of course it’s not that easy and she’ll decline. Read the book the Pirate Lord gave you and you’ll see a plan B.
In the same island there’s a tavern called the Drowned Rat. Go to the back and there you’ll see the door shown below. Go up to it and you can interact with it to knock. You’ll need to knock on it 3 times before a rat appears below.
Follow the rat that appeared, and it’ll lead you back to Madame Olivia’s tent. The rat will distract her, and you can get the Pocket Watch from the table.
Getting The Gem Fragment
The next part of the adventure is to find the Burned Blade wreck which is in Shipwreck Bay. This island can be found in the map coordinates of M-10. Go there and look for the wreck.
You’ll need to go on top of the wreck. There’s a couple of ways you can do this, one is to jump from the island’s highest point. You can get to the wreck using a sword thrust, but you’ll want to be in full HP.
Another way is to use your Cannon to launch yourself onto the wreck as the book suggests. Either way, you’ll want to get on top of it.
Once on top you’ll need to shimmy your way down the front of the wreck to the dragon figurehead. It doesn’t matter which side, just go to the figurehead and try to break off a fragment. It’ll fail the first time and you’ll need to go to the other side and try again. You’ll succeed on the second try.
This point in the Adventure is where it makes a checkpoint. That’s because this is where you can start doing the optional deeds. If you missed these deeds, you can go back to Larinna and continue from this checkpoint.
Before going to the next mission, you’ll want to go to the wreck in front of the one you were just in. The ship is the Blackwyche, go inside the captain’s quarters.
There inside the Captain’s quarters you’ll find a rat in the corner. Interact with the rat to complete one of the deeds.
The Enchanted Compass
The next step of the Adventure is going to the Sanctuary outpost and talking to Madame Olive, not to be confused with Madame Olivia. The Sanctuary Outpost can be found in F-7.
Once you’re there talk to Madame Olive to continue the Adventure. Afterwards she’ll give you the Enchanted Compass.
Before you go running around with the Compass in hand go to the staircase of Madame Olive’s building. There you’ll find a rat to interact just below it. That’s another optional deed done!
Final Steps
Now that you have the Enchanted Compass you can then use it to go to the next objective. To save you some time you’ll need to go to Port Marrick which is found in D-10. Once there continue using the Compass until you go to the tavern where it’ll point you to a rat. Interact with the rat and follow it.
This will lead you to a hole on a stone wall where the rat will go inside. Interact with the hole and that will open the secret door next to it. There you’ll find the Pirate Lord, talk to him to finish the Adventure!
That’s how you do the adventure “A Dark Deception” along with all the rat locations in Sea of Thieves. There’s a lot of other interesting adventures out there so make sure to check them out! How about you go check out our guide on the Hoarder’s Hunt Final Voyage if you haven’t done that one yet!
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