Mechanist Ninn

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Mechanist Ninn

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Mechanist Ninn is an asura who is working to build a device that can track the portals that Palawa Joko's Awakened forces are using to invade Tyria. He is seen defending various locations in Metrica Province from Awakened attackers alongside deployed Veteran Classic Golems in 1330 AE.

Locations[edit]

Ninn will only appear in the home instance of characters who have completed their first Awakened invasion and received a mail from him.

Ascalon
Far Shiverpeaks
Kryta
Maguuma Jungle
Shiverpeak Mountains

Story involvement[edit]

Living World Season 4[edit]

Items offered[edit]

Eye of the North Gate Links[edit]

Item Type Rarity Cost
Lion's Arch Gate Link.png Lion's Arch Gate Link Service Exotic Resonating Lodestone + 5 Master Tuning Crystal + 7,000 Karma
Black Citadel Gate Link.png Black Citadel Gate Link Service Exotic Resonating Lodestone + 5 Master Tuning Crystal + 7,000 Karma
Divinity's Reach Gate Link.png Divinity's Reach Gate Link Service Exotic Resonating Lodestone + 5 Master Tuning Crystal + 7,000 Karma
Grove Gate Link.png Grove Gate Link Service Exotic Resonating Lodestone + 5 Master Tuning Crystal + 7,000 Karma
Jeweled Broach.png Hoelbrak Gate Link Service Exotic Resonating Lodestone + 5 Master Tuning Crystal + 7,000 Karma
Rata Sum Gate Link.png Rata Sum Gate Link Service Exotic Resonating Lodestone + 5 Master Tuning Crystal + 7,000 Karma
Home Gate Link.png Home Gate Link Service Exotic Resonating Lodestone + 5 Master Tuning Crystal + 7,000 Karma
Sun's Refuge Gate Link.png Sun's Refuge Gate Link Service Exotic Resonating Lodestone + 5 Lump of Mistonium + 7,000 Karma
Special Forces Training Gate Link.png Special Forces Training Gate Link Service Exotic Resonating Lodestone + 5 Master Tuning Crystal + 7,000 Karma

Event involvement[edit]

Event star (tango icon).png [Group Event] Defeat the invading Awakened (30)

Dialogue[edit]

See also: Defeat the invading Awakened#Dialogue

In home instance[edit]

<Character specialization/profession> <Character name>, it's an honor to meet you. Let me be brief: I have a design to detect and forecast the portal attacks, but I need more raw material to construct it. (first conversation)
To complete a working prototype, I'll need 50 mithril ingots, 3 charged quartz crystals, a resonance tuner, an etheric tank, and a gate alchemeter.
Talk more option tango.png I have everything you need. (with all the materials)
Talk merchant tango.png I've got everything—here you go. (with all the materials, alternative)
Excellent, I knew you'd be able to handle it quickly. Now it's my turn—I'll have this assembled and calibrated within a day.
Dignity I know my way around machinery. Let me help. (If character is an Engineer, asura, or charr with an Iron Legion background)[verification requested]
Oh? Oh! Of course, let me show you the design. The premise is to use the resonance tuner to...
Talk more option tango.png (Listen carefully to Ninn's plan.)
I'll start the alchemeter sequencing go ahead and start slotting the other components into the chassis...
Talk more option tango.png (Continue working on Ninn's design.)
Connect the dampening wires, check for ether routing... Are you seeing a reaction on the tuner?
Talk end option tango.png Just a finishing touch here, and...
Work's complete! I've sent the plans to the Peacemakers for mass production. The original is all yours.
Talk end option tango.png Good job. This is going to save lives.
Talk more option tango.png I have some questions I'd like to ask you. (same as below)
Talk end option tango.png I'll get out of your way and check back later.
Talk more option tango.png Start work immediately, then. I'll get you what you need.
To complete a working prototype, I'll need 50 mithril ingots, 3 charged quartz crystals, a resonance tuner, an etheric tank, and a gate alchemeter.
Talk more option tango.png Where can I find those?
What are you looking for information on?
Talk more option tango.png Mithril ingots.
Mithril is an abundant metal, though most common outside of civilized areas. Many crafters can refine it into bars.
Talk more option tango.png Noted. I had another item I was wondering about... (returns to "What are you looking for information on?")
Talk end option tango.png Thanks. I'll see what I can do.
Talk more option tango.png Charged quartz crystals.
Quartz crystal itself is an uncommon material once only available from the Zephyrites. Now it's traded in many markets. Once you have a lot of it, it can be charged at any magically dense location.
Talk more option tango.png Noted. I had another item I was wondering about... (returns to "What are you looking for information on?")
Talk end option tango.png Thanks. I'll see what I can do.
Talk more option tango.png A resonance tuner.
Ulta Metamagicals in Brisban Wildlands was running a series of portal experiments. They should have several backups. Talk to Coordinator Glaxx.
Talk more option tango.png Noted. I had another item I was wondering about... (returns to "What are you looking for information on?")
Talk end option tango.png Thanks. I'll see what I can do.
Talk more option tango.png An etheric tank.
Portalist Danka at Valance Tutory in Timberline Falls runs a shop selling excess experimental devices. It'll probably come at a cost, but she should have one.
Talk more option tango.png Noted. I had another item I was wondering about... (returns to "What are you looking for information on?")
Talk end option tango.png Thanks. I'll see what I can do.
Talk more option tango.png A gate alchemeter.
It's an older part. Visit Gate Operator Stebben in Ebonhawke. They use similar devices there. Just don't tell him I sent you.
Talk more option tango.png Noted. I had another item I was wondering about... (returns to "What are you looking for information on?")
Talk end option tango.png Thanks. I'll see what I can do.
Talk end option tango.png I should be ready now.
Talk more option tango.png I have some questions I'd like to ask you. (same as below)
Talk end option tango.png I'm on it.
Talk more option tango.png I have some questions I'd like to ask you.
Umm, sure. What did you need to know?
Talk more option tango.png I destroyed the Inquest's portal hub. How are the Awakened still attacking? (if completed Daybreak story)
The Inquest's devices are like a series-3 thermal sink: you need a backup for when the first one detonates. The attacks did cease for a while though. You must have hampered them significantly.
Talk more option tango.png Interesting. I had another question. (returns to "Umm, sure. What did you need to know?")
Talk end option tango.png I'm going to break as many of their toys as it takes.
Talk more option tango.png These portals seem new. How do they work?
Well, long-range variable-exit portals aren't entirely new. The tech has existed for a few hundred years, but there were documented issues keeping it out of common use.
Talk more option tango.png What sorts of issues?
Transporting anything organic has a high rate of grisly accidents without at least an endpoint beacon. The higher the distance, the worse those issues become.
Talk more option tango.png I haven't seen beacons or "accidents" with these portals.
Yes, they seem to have made a breakthrough. Maybe Awakened physiology plays a role, but that's challenged by reports of living beings traversing the portals.
Talk more option tango.png Interesting. I had another question. (returns to "Umm, sure. What did you need to know?")
Talk end option tango.png Let's worry about that later and deal with the attacks for now.
Talk end option tango.png That sounds unpleasant. Let's not talk about that now.
Talk end option tango.png This is sounding academic. Let's move on.
Talk more option tango.png How do you know so much about the portals?
My domain of expertise is post-surface_era[sic] technology. Did you know that variable-exit portals were developed to deploy golems in the fight against the destroyers?
Talk more option tango.png Why isn't it more widespread if it's that old? (same as "What sorts of issues?")
Talk end option tango.png Thanks for the history lesson.
Talk more option tango.png I saw portals a lot like the Awakeneds' being used for a festival. Explain. (since Super Adventure Festival 2018)
I heard the Arcane Council has a renewed interest in quick-setup portals. The ones you've seen require an on-site beacon and specialist during setup, and are safe to use.
Talk more option tango.png Interesting. I had another question. (returns to "Umm, sure. What did you need to know?")
Talk end option tango.png Thanks, that's comforting to hear.
Talk more option tango.png Tell me about yourself.
Well, I'm with the Peacemakers who guard Rata Sum and the surrounding regions. I work on golem deployment, mostly.
Talk more option tango.png Right, I saw you in the field with older type golems.
Don't underestimate the early-series golems. When our forebears moved to the surface, it was those golems that held off the destroyers and built our cities.
Talk more option tango.png Interesting. I had another question.
Talk end option tango.png I'm surprised golems that old are still in service.
Talk more option tango.png What college did you attend? (asura only)
College of Statics, of course. I'd rather work with the golems than try to find loopholes in the laws of physics.
Talk more option tango.png Interesting. I had another question.
Talk end option tango.png Always good to meet a fellow Statics member. Your work's appreciated. (If a member of the College of Statics)
Talk end option tango.png Hmm, I suspected that. (if a member of the College of Dynamics or the College of Synergetics)
Talk more option tango.png Interesting. I had another question.
Talk end option tango.png Good to know, thanks.
Talk end option tango.png Never mind.
Talk end option tango.png I don't have time to run your errands.
After turning in materials, before the following reset
Excellent. I knew you'd be able to handle it quickly. Now it's my turn—I'll have this assembled and calibrated within a day.
Talk more option tango.png I have some questions I'd like to ask you. (same as above)
Talk end option tango.png I'll get out of your way and check back later.
After obtaining the Phasic Distortion Reader
Thank you for your aid again, <character profession> <Character name>. The Peacemakers will keep holding the line until this crisis is over.
Talk more option tango.png I have some questions I'd like to ask you. (same as above)
Talk end option tango.png I'll help where I can. And soon, I'm going to cut this off at the source.
After completing Reawakening Threat
<Character profession> <Character name>, have you noticed any unusual reading on the detection device? The Arcane Council has documented the destruction of the Awakened's portal system.
Talk more option tango.png Then the portal attacks have stopped, right?
Frequency of incursions has decreased dramatically, but some regions sill register activity and there are scattered reports of abnormal Awakened.
Talk more option tango.png How can they still be using the portals?
For a variable-point exit, the destruction of the entrance could cause any number of...malfunctions. A substantially deviated exit point would be likely—have you seen Awakened in new locations?
Talk more option tango.png Somewhere they didn't attack before? I could keep an eye on the detector.
If you find such a location, search it for any signs of useful debris—a collapsing portal would invert surrounding matter through to its exit.
Talk end option tango.png Got it. I'll investigate and get back to you.
Talk end option tango.png If they're not attacking cities, let them fight the wildlife all they want.
Talk end option tango.png I can live with "problem mostly solved."
Talk end option tango.png Not really.
Subsequent dialogue after completing Reawakening Threat
Well met, <Character profession> <Character name>. Were you able to locate any items of interest?
(if Salvaged Device Wreckage is in character's inventory)
Talk merchant tango.png I found Inquest wreckage in Southsun Cove. Here's a piece of it. (continues with "This came from Southsun Cove?..." from below)
Talk more option tango.png Remind me what I'm looking for.
In its violent collapse, the portal system used by the Awakened must have left debris in a new location. That may be the key to understanding the rarely reoccurring attacks.
Talk end option tango.png Got it. I'll look for a new invasion area and ask around.
Talk more option tango.png I have some questions I'd like to ask you. (same as above)
Talk end option tango.png Not yet, I'll keep searching.
After returning the Salvaged Device Wreckage
This came from Southsun Cove? I will begin a scan immediately to compare against the data gathered by the portal detector—I should have an initial analysis ready by tomorrow.
Talk more option tango.png I have some questions I'd like to ask you. (same as above)
Talk end option tango.png Good, I'll check back then.
After unlocking the Datapad
Oh, <Character profession> <Character name>. My report's on the table over there. Thanks to you, the Peacemakers can relegate this particular crisis to the documentation holos.
Talk more option tango.png Can you give me the simplified version?
Of course. Essentially, the Awakened forces caught in the portal destruction were destroyed but "finish" their arrival repeatedly, similar to fractal copies of themselves.
Talk more option tango.png So they'll show up forever?
Eventually the anomaly will stop and they'll be gone for good. The thread is effectively over already though. These remnants can't coordinate or surprise us.
Talk end option tango.png That's good to hear. Thanks for the explanation.
Talk end option tango.png That's still over my head.
Talk more option tango.png I have some questions I'd like to ask you. (same as above)
Talk end option tango.png Let's hope it stays historical.

In Eye of the North[edit]

Getting a new gate online takes some time, but trust me—it's worth the effort.
Talk more option tango.png Where can I go?
The Arcane Council has funded links to a number of Strike Missions for your convenience. But I can add additional destinations if you provide tuning materials. Convenience!
Talk merchant tango.png Show me what destinations you can add.
Talk end option tango.png Thanks.
Talk more option tango.png You look familiar. Did you...
Track Joko's Awakened invasions? Yes! When I heard about this project and that you were here, I pulled some strings to get reassigned. Thanks for putting a stop to that nuisance.
Talk end option tango.png We couldn't have done it without your help.
Talk end option tango.png I'm needed elsewhere.

Quotes[edit]

Greetings
Do you require my assistance?
Always be loyal to your krewe.
How interesting.

Mail[edit]

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Peacemaker Ninn

Awakened Invasions


I'm sure you're aware of the recent Awakened attacks near large cities in Tyria. I have a plan to track their portal aperture positions to allow Peacemakers to intercept them more easily, but I need assistance. Please meet me at your home at your earliest convenience.

—Ninn

Related achievements[edit]

Notes[edit]

  • Although the character receives mail from "Peacemaker Ninn," he's otherwise referred to as Mechanist Ninn.
  • The progress of the story and the related dialogues are character bound. Even if you have finished everything with one character, Ninn will want to start creating a Phasic Distortion Reader when you talk to him with another character.
  • His dialogue in the Hall of Monuments remains the same, even after having purchased all of the gate upgrades.