Guild Wars 2

I believe the only way to trigger the encounter is to beat the event or enter a recently created overflow, if it is even available anymore. However most of the information given by him is now available in the current LS chapter. The only information lost is about one of the engineers Junia Twistgear, I got the feeling that she will play some role later. She seems to be very knowledgeable about Scarlet’s technology.

BrunoBRS.5178:

Shiren.9532:

It makes me very happy to see that the big players in Tyria are involved in the story. It’s just not believable that everything revolves around the five lane NPCs. I wish this stuff was easier to see, I’ve sent a considerable amount of time in Bloodtide foraging between wurm runs and I’ve completed the Marionette several times and I haven’t seen either of these.

personally, i like that things happen whether you’re around or not. the story junkies will find out about these sooner or later, and they’re just extra fluff, not story critical things.

The problem with this encounter though is that it seems the event has to be completed to trigger it. As far as I know the wurm has been completed 4 times in 2 weeks. It was pure coincidence that i stumbled upon it.

SirMoogie.9263:

It says the coast is clear of jungle wurm attacks. Isn’t that the successful condition, not the failed one? I’ve failed a good number of jungle wurm attempts in my time and have never seen the coast clear =D

I think so as well, have never seen that event status before. I was in overflow so I have no idea what happened prior to my arrival. It seems like this overflow was on a different “timeline” than other servers since the event should just have started when i got there.

I stayed in bloodtide coast for 2 full hours after a failed attempt today and there was no sign of Rytlock. I had hoped to capture screens of the conversation with Rytlock, but it seems there is a slim chance of meeting him. Especially now that the patch is live:(

Karizee.8076:

Glestad.1670:

It is clearly stated that Scarlet is not looking for something physical, but something magical and huge.

The Bloodstones maybe?

This crossed my mind, but they are physical and made of something that resembles stone. It is indeed possible that the thing she is looking for is physical and that the probes are searching for magic because that is the main trait in whatever she is searching for. If she is looking for a bloodstone it would be practical to use search parameters that look for magic, but the wording “not physical” seems to indicate something that has no mass at all.
A wild guess is that she is looking for a portal to the mists since we know that she is going there, and as far as I know the only way in is trough the portal in LA. And we know that there were several entrances to the mists in older times. I am far from convinced that this is the answer though.

Kalarchis.8635:

So wait, dragons aren’t huge and magical? They don’t say it’s not physical, just that it’s huge and magical. Doesn’t “huge” imply physical anyway? She’s searching for something that’s physically large and also magical.

Far as I’m concerned this is another nail in the coffin. She’s looking for a dragon.

In the dialogue in the first screen i posted the engineer clearly specifies that these probes “weren’t designed to find something physical”. I did interpret “not physical” as something without mass. Although the emphasis during the entire encounter is clearly that she is looking for something magical and big/huge.

It is also indicated that she is looking for a specific location, since she is triangulating a position. If she is searching for something related to the ley lines it would be likely to assume that she is looking for a specific location with relations to ley lines, not mapping the entire network.

Rytlock can be talked to at each probe, he has a few dialogue options, but sadly I do not remember them all. You can ask him several questions about the chief engineer Junia Twistgear. He indicates that she is knowledgeable about Scarlet’s technology. During dialogue that i don’t have screens from Junia also expresses some admiration for Scarlet and her technology, but not in a creepy way like Taimi. I got the impression that Junia is a character that will be relevant at a later occasion.

I first encountered them just next to the Jelako waypoint, and since they visited all three of the sites after that i assume that is where they started, but I am not sure. I have been doing the wurm event a lot so I knew which waypoints were closest to each probe, I had to guess but luckily I got it right both times. The order in which they went was Jelako- cobalt wurm spawn -back to Jelako – Whisperwill (from there to crimson wurm spawn and back to whisperwill) – the waypoint just north of amber wurm spawn. At this point Rytlock ordered them to move out and I lost them. According to his assistant in the Black Citadel he is currently in LA, where he can be found in the story instance. There is some convo missing, I have more screens but they repeat themselves a lot, here are the screens from the crimson wurm probes.

Also, I am unsure what actually triggers this “event”, it seems the wurm event had failed during escort on this overflow only minutes before this started, but if this happens so soon after the event I am surprised it hasn’t already been brought up.

While trying to join the wurm event in Bloodtide Coast I ended up in a nearly empty overflow where the event had failed and I came upon Rytlock Brimstone and a team of charr engineers investigating the probes. They were traveling from probe to probe (using waypoints which I have never seen an NPC use before) and at each of the three probes there was some dialogue between Rytlock and the chief engineer. They give some insights about the purpose of these probes.

I took some screens of the dialogue which can be seen in the chat window. It is clearly stated that Scarlet is not looking for something physical, but something magical and huge. I still have no idea but this seems to imply that she is not looking for a dragon as many have proposed.