# Has anything been uncovered? **Quest Group**: 113064 **Steps**: 33 ## Summary Given the victim was a handmaiden, it's likely the culprit is within the palace, which we are currently investigating. The wounds on the body suggest a sharp object was used to pierce the victim. ## Walkthrough ### Step 1 - **Dialogue**: ### Step 2 - **Reward**: Reveal the names of those who conspired together with Jang Daeseung! It is the only way you can die peacefully! ### Step 3 - **Reward**: Grand Minister! You've arrived. ### Step 4 - **Objective**: Has anything been uncovered? - **Summary**: Given the victim was a handmaiden, it's likely the culprit is within the palace, which we are currently investigating. The wounds on the body suggest a sharp object was used to pierce the victim. ### Step 5 - **Reward**: We suspect the supplied weapons might have been used, so we were about to search the armory... ### Step 6 - **Objective**: I will see to it. - **Summary**: ...Your Excellency will personally address this? Understood. I will inform the armory as well. ### Step 7 - **Reward**: With Your Excellency's efforts, the culprit will surely be caught. ### Step 8 - **Reward**: You've arrived, Your Excellency! ### Step 9 - **Objective**: What happened to the culprit? - **Summary**: They are currently imprisoned and will soon face judgment. ### Step 10 - **Reward**: He served in the night guard at Sinmumun Gate, but apparently accepted bribes to allow the victim to leave the palace. ### Step 11 - **Objective**: Outside the palace? - **Summary**: The victim's brother accrued significant gambling debts, and their salary wasn't enough to pay for them all. Apparently the victim would send any valuables they acquired within the palace to their family. ### Step 12 - **Reward**: The culprit demanded increasingly larger payments each time the victim left the palace. ### Step 13 - **Objective**: Why was the victim killed? - **Reward**: That is the situation, Your Excellency. Thank you for your efforts in the investigation. - **Summary**: The victim resisted, claiming they could no longer endure, and the culprit threatened to reveal everything. Fearing for their life, the victim and culprit fell into a scuffle, where the victim was accidentally stabbed with a spear. ### Step 14 - **Reward**: How do you believe the criminal should be dealt with, Your Excellency? ### Step 15 - **Objective**: I believe in strict punishment. - **Summary**: Indeed, I agree as well! Criminals are a breed of people who must be dealt harshly with the rod. Only by doing so can we prevent the same crimes from occurring again in the future... ### Step 16 - **Objective**: Persuasion through words is better. - **Summary**: Perhaps Your Excellency's noble character influences this approach. I, for one, am a believer of the rod before carrots... ### Step 17 - **Reward**: If it pleases Your Excellency, could you inquire with other officials from the Three Bureaus? ### Step 18 - **Reward**: If Your Excellency intervenes, progress will be made on this task at hand. ### Step 19 - **Reward**: Ah, you've returned, Your Excellency? Thank you for your hard work. What are the opinions of others? ### Step 20 - **Objective**: The Chief of National Affairs seeks the rod, the Minister of Administration, words. - **Summary**: Understood. I remain of the same opinion as before, but, factoring in that of Your Excellency, I believe it's become somewhat easier to settle upon a decision. ### Step 21 - **Objective**: Alright. - **Summary**: Thank you, Your Excellency. It's challenging to consolidate differing opinions. ### Step 22 - **Reward**: Will Your Excellency be taking part in the "dasi?" ### Step 23 - **Objective**: What's a "dasi?" - **Summary**: Ah, "dasi" literally means tea time, but in the Inspection Bureau, it also refers to the daily meeting of inspectors to discuss important matters. So, we were about to brew some tea... Wait... we're out of tea leaves... ### Step 24 - **Reward**: Surely, I mentioned yesterday that we were nearly out of tea leaves! ### Step 25 - **Objective**: I will fetch the tea leaves. - **Summary**: Really..? If it pleases Your Excellency, I can provide directions. Tea leaves are available in the kitchen, but the Palace Apothecary also uses them as medicinal herbs. The Palace Apothecary is nearby, so you can ask the nurses there. ### Step 26 - **Reward**: I look forward to your return! ### Step 27 - **Reward**: You've returned, Your Excellency! Much obliged for your trouble. ### Step 28 - **Objective**: (Hand over tea leaves.) - **Summary**: Oh... that's a lot of tea leaves. Haha! Enough to last for at least half a month! ### Step 29 - **Reward**: Would Your Excellency care to undertake a simple task? ### Step 30 - **Objective**: Leave it to me. - **Summary**: Thank you. The task is merely to submit this document to the Royal Secretary's Office. This document is an appeal written by the criminal. The Inspection Bureau often deals with false accusations, so once we hand it over, His Majesty might consider pardoning the accused. ### Step 31 - **Reward**: Please deliver this to the Royal Secretary's Office, then inform me upon your return! ### Step 32 - **Reward**: You're here, Your Excellency! Have you delivered the document to the Royal Secretary's Office? ### Step 33 - **Objective**: I've delivered it. - **Summary**: Thank you, Your Excellency! Though the task may have felt simple, the Inspection Bureau also deal in various tasks such as overseeing officials and correcting traditional customs!