Delivering the Cold Medicine Quest Guide

At a glance
JobMagician line (including Blaze Wizard), in the Nautilus training tour
ChainFinding Chief Stan in Henesys, Ingredients for the Cold Medicine, Delivering the Cold Medicine, The Coughing Dark Lord, Virus Sample Research
PeopleChief Stan and Athena Pierce in Henesys, Dark Lord in the Thieves' Hideout (Kerning City)
Key itemCold Medicine: keep it between the two deliveries
RepeatOnce per character each

Delivering the Cold Medicine is a short relay: Chief Stan brews a cold remedy, you carry it to Athena Pierce, and then on to the Dark Lord in Kerning City. It is part of the Magician's Nautilus training tour. The reports were about the last step: the Dark Lord had no option to finish the quest.

The relay

Quest From To What to do Reward
Finding Chief Stan in Henesys Kyrin (Nautilus) Chief Stan Talk to Chief Stan 300 EXP
Ingredients for the Cold Medicine Chief Stan Chief Stan Bring 20 Orange Mushroom Cap, 10 Pig's Ribbon and 2 Slime Bubble 1,000 EXP
Delivering the Cold Medicine Chief Stan Athena Pierce Chief Stan gives you the Cold Medicine when you accept. Take it to Athena Pierce in the Bowman Instructional School, Henesys. 280 EXP
The Coughing Dark Lord Athena Pierce Dark Lord Carry the same Cold Medicine to the Dark Lord in the Thieves' Hideout, Kerning City 300 EXP
Virus Sample Research Dark Lord Dark Lord Defeat 30 Octopus and 30 Orange Mushrooms and bring an Orange Mushroom Sample and an Octopus Sample 1,200 EXP

The bottle is not used up on the first delivery

Athena Pierce looks at the Cold Medicine but does not keep it. She asks you to take it on to Kerning City, and the Dark Lord's quest is the one that finally takes the bottle. Do not throw it away, sell it or trade it between the two stops.

Earlier, every quest that merely asked you to carry something also took it away at the first hand-in, so the bottle vanished at Athena and the Dark Lord had nothing to accept. That is fixed for this quest and for the others like it. If you were already stuck, the game checks at login whether a finished quest should have left an item in your bag, and returns the Cold Medicine if you need it for the quest you are on.

Common problems

"The Dark Lord has no option to complete the quest."
You need the Cold Medicine in your bag. If it is gone, log out and in again so the game restores it.
"Warm Milk Delivery / To Kerning City is a different quest."
Yes. The Christmas quest Warm Milk Delivery (see Happyville Quest Guide) and the other Kerning City quests are unrelated to this relay.

See also