The Great Convention (The Call) in Dune Awakening is the beginning of the new chain of contracts that arrived with Chapter 2.
Following on from the end of Searching for Answers, The Call begins the next phase of the Dune Awakening main story.
The quest will be in your Journal (J) by default, but will need to be triggered first. If you started the new patch with the Lost Harvest DLC purchased, note that this will auto-trigger first instead.
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Before You Start - Preparation Checklist
- You will need a Handheld Scanner for the 'From the Ashes' contract
- Ornithopter highly recommended as you will be travelling around a lot
The Call
To start The Call, you will need to head into the journal (J) and head to The Great Convention category, which is underneath The Assassin’s Handbook. To trigger the quest to start, head to any of the Tradeposts in Hagga Basin, which will start a cutscene which begins the quest.
From here, we are swiftly sent on the next part of the contract which will see us head to Harko Village for Called to a Count.
Called to a Count
Now it’s time to head to Harko Village. You can do so via the fast travel at the Tradepost you are at, or just fly there yourself. Once you arrive, the next step will trigger once you start heading into the main hub. When it does, it will tell you to speak to Elara Tuek at the Hannivar’s .
Proces-Verbal
Next up, we need to travel to Arrakeen. Same process as before, either fly or take the Fast Travel. Now we need to head into the Imperial Consulate (Tax Office) and speak to our contact.
Next, we need to head to the Salusan Bull (upper section) and speak with Osten Laithe. Once you arrive, you’ll need to speak to Ugo Firenze (shown above), who is at the top of the stairs of the Salusan Bull. Once that dialogue is over, head to the Private Room in the back left corner of the Salusan Bull. This is an instanced location.
Osten Laithe Investigation
Next, we need to search for clues as to what happened to Osten Laithe.
We have broken down the remaining steps of the contract into bite-size bullets for convenience, since it's a large number of small steps:
- Interact with Osten Laithe head, then mouth, then eyes
- Interact with the voice recorder on the table
- Head back outside the room and speak with his assistant, Hester Klimt (a lady outside the room with her arms folded)
- Next, head to the Clinic in Arrakeen (shown above) and speak with Dr Shaffat
- We then need to find a Poison Snooper, which can be purchased from two vendors in Arrakeen shown on your map for 100 Solari
- Head back to the private room to examine the body with the Poison Snooper
- Use the Poison Sooper on the following locations
- Book
- Osten Laithe’s Hand
- Speak with the following people to get the evidence
- Hester Klimt (Assistant)
- Ugo Firenze (Private Room owner)
- Ambrose Lucifera (South East in front of the fish picture)
- Alastair Christian Chim (bartender)
- Next, head back to our contact and give him the lowdown on what we’ve learnt
Doing this will trigger the next step of the quest: Touch of Evil.
Touch of Evil
It’s now time to leave Arrakeen and head back to the Hagga Basin once more. We need to head to the northern part of the Eastern Shield Wall. If you are using Fast Travel, go to Pinnacle Station, and if you are flying yourself, enter from the north of Hagga Basin.
Once you arrive, we’ll need to find Osten’s Workshop, which is on the lowest level of the base. However, you’ll need to find the security band, which you will find at the first top level of the base.
Once you unlock the door, head inside, loot the loot, listen to the recording and loot the two scrolls on the desk behind the recorder and on the northwestern desk.
Now it’s time to head back to Arrakeen and speak with Tors. He will then tell us to find Phaedra Vye, who is located within Arrakeen.
From the Ashes
Note: As mentioned at the start, this step requires the use of a Hand Scanner.
Enter the apartment of Phaedra Vye, who is located in the upstairs section of Arrakeen. Enter her apartment which will once again trigger an instance.
Here, we need to find clues as to where Phaedra is:
- Black Market Trade Receipt on the first table on the right as you enter; then
- Use the Handheld Life Scanner or Resource Scanner on the golden picture frame on the left, which will reveal a note hidden under the chairs.
Once that’s done, we need to head back to Tors. He will send us to the Deep Desert in Sector B-5, which will be the next destination of the quest.
Pro Tip: The Valet’s Body is outside the main cave entrance shown above and is very easy to miss.
Pick up the note from the Valet before heading into the cave. Clear out the enemies, and then you need to find the last item, which is in the area lit up in red. The note shown above is located on top of a small box with blue lights on. Once done, head back to Arrakeen and speak with Tors to complete the quest.
Head back to Phaedra Vye’s apartment once again. As you enter, hit a hard right and scan the first painting on the wall, which will reveal a secret button.
From The Ashes Puzzle Answer
You can see the code for the painting above, but the trick is to count up from 0 from the code you were given by Tor.
Once inside the room, examine the body, then scan the room to search for clues. Head down to Tidjii O'Garee (The Scrap Vendor), who sold us the Poison Sooper, who will give us more information.
The Janusian Faithful
To follow.
